My brain was frantically trying to come up with a plan, a way to escape. Fight or flight was starting to kick in and my body was shaking as a natural reaction. It was making me look like a weak bitch. Stupid body.
Trying to stop the obvious shaking of my body, I stared at the cowboy who was full-on smirking at me. All the while, the other male was glaring and making a noise in the back of his throat, like growl but more intense and animalistic. The woman was still in the same pose, tapping her foot at Mr. Growly.
"Jasper, what the hell were you thinking?! You couldn't just wait? We had a plan, you were meant to wait!" She yelled at him, her hands flailing around her small form.
I was slowly starting to step out of the room as their argument erupted and I noticed even though I could see them moving, I couldn't hear the argument anymore. It was like someone had just pressed the mute button.
"Bells, don't try that, he'll be even more pissed than he is already." Mr cowboy was stood next to me now, hand on my shoulder stopping my steps.
"Urgh, who the hell are you people?! I'm going. I have a life, you know?! I'm not waiting around for you to kill me off and bury me deep in the woods for no one to find me until I'm nothing but bones! So back off!" I said shoving his hand off my shoulder and stomping through the room to try and find the nearest door to run out of.
Before I could blink, the really hot one, Jasper I think his name was, was in front of me. He held my arms to my sides in a steel grip while his black eyes penetrated mine, his nostrils flaring with every laboured breath and I couldn't help but squirm under his intense gaze.
"You aren't going anywhere!" He roared and I couldn't help the little jump my body did at the sound of his voice and the lump formed in my throat, but I was mesmerised by his eyes. I couldn't look away.
Swallowing hard, I nipped the skin of my thigh that was exposed to stop the tears from forming and glared at him as hard as I could.
"So this is kidnap then?! You can't just take me and hold me hostage! I have skills you know. I have mad skills! I can pick locks and I ran track in high school! I once got into a fight and knocked a bitch out with one punch. You really wanna kidnap me?! Try it! Worst thing you'll ever do! I will make it miserable for you." Okay, so my voice got a little hysterical and I had lied...a tiny bit. I didn't know how to pick locks and I did get into a fight with a girl but it lasted longer than one punch. It was an all out brawl.
Cowboy hat was nearly pissing himself at me again. I could've screamed in frustration. Jasper was smug and the girl looked just as frustrated as me, she sighed before walking away. It wasn't long before cowboy lifted his head as if hearing for something and was gone also.
What was with these creepy people?
In fact, I'd gotten so side tracked with trying to get away from these people, I forgot the strangeness of how I actually got here. The blurring and the alien abduction theory. Time to stop this freak show, get some answers, and come up with a plan.
I must've been standing and staring into space for a while, because when I came back down to earth, Jasper was pacing rapidly in front of me and he seemed very distracted. Maybe I didn't need answers or a plan. Maybe I needed a moment where he wasn't focused on me. Maybe that's now.
I tried to keep my breathing even and casually started walking around the room. He didn't seem to notice too much, so I decided to be brave and started opening doors and mumbling about the toilet, just in case he did hear and was watching me, which I was praying he wasn't.
"It's down the hall," he muttered as he kept pacing, he didn't give me any direction to which hall that was, so I accepted the invitation to investigate. For a guy trying to kidnap me, he isn't too smart now, is he? But, I can't complain since that'll help me in the long run.
After a couple of doors leading to the stairs and the cellar, I found a hallway that seemed long and dark, almost scary. I don't know why, but being kidnapped and in a strange house, I was expecting monsters to crawl out from shadowy corners and get me. I swallowed hard and shook off the fear rolling up my spine and strode down the hallway. There was only one door, which I found strange for such a long hallway. My hands scrambled on the wall to find the light switch and when it finally flicked on I couldn't help the loud and terrif-fucking-fied scream that left me and hung in the air.
Right next to my face was...Jasper. He was just staring at me, his face an inch from mine. My breathing was so heavy and my ears were ringing. I couldn't hear anything else but the blood rushing round my head. I wanted to scream at him and smack him for doing that, but really, what did I expect when I'm not paying attention? I mean come on Bella, how did you not hear him! I wanted to kick myself.
"You don't really need the toilet, do you?" He spoke so low and dangerously, that the fear I'd been fighting off earlier was back. His eyes were so dark that there was no white left. I'd never seen anything like it before.
While trying to think about what to say, I studied his face and how beautiful he was, but don't get me wrong his was still terrifying.
I slowly ran my finger along his jaw. "You have a jawline for days..." My voice had an edge of desire, but in my head tactics were rolling around. This could go very good or very bad.
His eyebrow cocked and before I could blink, I was pinned against the wall. I mean, it wasn't a bad position to be in, forced up against the wall with a very fuckable man between my legs, but then again, he was keeping me hostage.
Hostage...MONEY!
"So jawline, it's money your after, eh?" His head shot up, from looking at my cleavage, rude, with a confused look on his face.
"What?" His hands rested on my hips with his fingers drawing small circles around my hip bone, my anxiety instantly started to leave my body. I hated it.
"Yeah, money. You can't take a poor girl from a poor family and expect money. You need to get a better target for your next million dollar baby plan, coz dis baby ain't got parents willing to pay a dime. What's plan B?" I was lying again. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, so why did I feel bad looking into his eyes and lying to him?
"Jeez, you're all over the place. Literally. Let's go talk since I know that you didn't and still don't need the toilet, which I haven't forgotten about by the way. Come on." He started to pull me by the hand but I yanked myself free and followed behind like a sulking child.
I was surprised how calm I was being. Brave, even. These people could kill me, rape me, burn me alive, and I wouldn't be able to do a thing about it. I would probably give some serious attitude, but otherwise I wouldn't be able to do shit and here I am just being a shady bitch about everything. Since when did I become this bad ass that didn't take no crap, even from criminals?
Once we were seated on the sofa he started to talk, slowly, as if I were deaf. Where had the caged lunatic gone from earlier?
Too many questions in my brain. Talk abut overload.
"So, me taking you isn't at all what you think it is. I've been following you for awhile..."
"You've been stalking me too?!" I screamed before starting to get up. Panic, for the first time, was starting overwhelm me.
"No! No, it's not what you think. Seriously, just listen. Fuck. I found you the other day and...well I connected with you. You won't feel it yet because you're human, but it's meant to be and it's happening." He sighed before leaning back as if that was the end of the story.
Was he crazy? Seriously Bella, stop with the questions.
Stupid, stupid men! I need details.
Wait...human?
"Human? What the fuck does that mean?" I wanted to cry, my panic and frustration was starting t bubble into this horrible mess. I just wanted to go home, not to Charlie's but to my mums.
I just really wanted my mum, as pathetic as that was. I wanted her to hold me and tell me everything was going to be okay. That she would protect me no matter what and that this was some horrible nightmare.
I pulled my knees up to my chest and cuddled myself tightly. I looked over at him and he looked uncomfortable. Probably not as uncomfortable as me, but I was shocked to see doubt in his eyes.
"Isabella, we aren't human. From the beginning of time, there's been a food chain. We're vampires. We've been put of this earth to keep the population of humans down. It's the natural order of things." He sighed and ran a hand through his hair before turning to look at me with a small smile on his face.
"Enough of that, though. We need to plan when your change will take place. I'm thinking within the next week or so." His demeanour changed when he mentioned this 'change'. He became, only slightly, excited and hopeful.
I needed to clock out of reality for a while, I needed to not talk and not think and not speak. I wanted to sleep. Sleep away all this horribleness. Sleep away my stress and questions. Instead of answering, I simply decided to lay back on the couch and close my eyes, tight.
I waited for what felt like hours for the black waves of unconsciousness to roll over me, but they never came. Instead, I was drowning in mind numbing frustration and anger.
I wanted to leave. I wanted to have the power to go. I wanted to be able to have some sort of power over myself. I wanted to feel safe and comfortable.
"How long has she been sleeping?" the woman asked. I couldn't see where they were in the room but she wasn't far from me.
"She isn't." Jasper, who apparently hasn't moved from my side answered. So he knew I wasn't sleeping, but how? I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of saying anything. I would pretend all I like.
"Hmmmm...what if I.." Cowboy said from somewhere in the room and then-
"Ow, what the fuck?!" I shouted. He literally just flicked me on the forehead and then was smirking at me. If looks could kill.
"What you get when your being a child," he said smugly. Charlotte walked up behind him and whacked him in the back of the head with her hand.
"What you get when your act like a child," she quipped and winked at me, I couldn't help the giggle that left me, it turned into a full belly laughter at Peter's sulking face.
"Enough of this childishness. We need to leave now. We need to get her changed as soon as possible. Go pack." Jasper ordered sternly, standing and looking down at me.
In a panic, I scrambled for a plan. Anything to bide me some time.
"Wait, I want to negotiate this. This is my life, I deserve to have some say." I said rising from my place and looking him dead in the eye, I wasn't budging on this. My determination increased when his eyes started to slowly blur to black.
"There will be no negotiating. You're my mate and that's that. We're sticking with what I've planned." His voice rose louder and louder after each word.
"Oh really? Because from what blonde lady said, you already screwed your plan. I'm not scared of you and you have yet to explain Mayes to me, so none of those rules apply. I'm not asking for much. I want time. Time to do all the stuff I need to do before I just disappear. Plus, I would like to know the ins and outs of what I'm getting myself into. He doesn't explain very well." I said shoving my finger into Jasper's very hard chest.
"He is your mate and deserves respect." Jasper's hand was gripping my finger and slowly pushing it back to my chest. It wasn't painful, but was definitely made to make an impression.
"He is being a jackass if he didn't explain in the time he had what being mates is all about and how the whole change shit goes," Blondie said, glaring daggers at Jasper.
"Can we all just say who we're talking about...? Jasper, it's you by the way. Everyone's pissed at you," Cowboy's cockiness was out and I couldn't help but laugh.
"That's enough. Let's negotiate."