1Ping Ok, so this chapter took a little bit longer to write then planned. Due to school, a sick friend, and it being Christmas time, well things have been busy. I hope you enjoy it, and review. Really people review! Monologue by Ava Lindt. I do not own the monologue. I do own the band The Goodbye Escape and all the boys in it.
Disclaimer: If I owned Twilight I would be the happiest person in the world, as it is, I do not own Twilight, and that makes me sad.
We left off: I sighed in content as we drove. I didn't like the fast speed of the car but it was a smooth ride. For once since I was eleven I was truly at ease. No fear of rejection of other kids. No mother to watch after. My best friend was here to hang out with me. Maybe coming to Forks was just what I needed for my life.
Chapter 4: All I Have
Riley dragged me from store to store for 3 and half hours before I was allowed to rest and get food. Finally it was my turn to drag her to the food court. The mall at Port Angeles was tiny compared to the ones in Phoenix and Richmond, Rhode Island, and yet Riley still managed to spend around three hundred dollars. The food court, thankfully, had many places to sit and rest. Dropping all the bags at a table, I ran to go get food. Of course, me being me, I tripped mid step. Riley was sitting at the table and when she saw me land not so gracefully on my face she jumped up to help me. People around us laughed as I stood up. I blushed and felt horrible, cursing my klutz nature. Riley always hated it when people laughed at me. She knew I couldn't help it. Anytime she saw me embarrass myself she would try to outdo me so that people stopped looking at me. I was always grateful.
Rileys' face took on a angry look while the people around me laughed. She gave me a pointed look and let go of my hand. I knew she was about to embarrass herself for me.
"Riley no don't!" I whispered to her, "You don't have to, really. It's fine."
She just shook her head at me and smiled. Walking slowly to the middle of the food court she turned and opened her mouth. And out she belted the worst monologue ever.
"I was outside weeding the tomato bed, and all of a sudden I see this weird speck of light on my shed. You know, the kind of light that happens when things reflect off the sun and stuff. Well, I get distracted. You know me, hah! I get really distracted by THAT kind of stuff. Well other kinds of stuff, like when my cat is cleaning herself. I stop whatever I am doing and watch this miracle. I wish I could do that." At this point Riley pretended to lick her "paw" and rub it against her forehead like she was a cat.
"I mean cats are reeeeeaaaly cool in that respect. Dogs don't do that, they just lick. They don't have the style or the grace that our little feline snugglepoofs have." While Riley said this she had been walking in between tables and talking to the people like they were children.
"Grace! Oh my god I almost forgot. It's secretaries day! What am I doing here. Oh yeah, I came to this big building today to tell all these men about my UFO experience with the flashing light! I didn't know what it was! I was so freaked out. I mean could be one of those people who go on those shows with that UNSOLVED MYSTERIES guy and oh my god! I would be such a hit. Those kinds of things never happen in daylight. If you want them to happen in daylight, well they won't. They happen at night. And people don't see so well at night, so ya know, you have to be a cat to really get the vision right. You all know that cats have night vision, right? Well they do. They really do. I mean they can see their paws and know exactly where to clean! That's amazing to me. If it were pitch dark I would probably end up whacking off my nose. My nose is so big. It has exactly three warts and a bunch of blackheads. You know I thought blackheads would disappear when you turned 30, but they don't. Ha! When you're thirty you are just about balding! You know maybe my warts have something to do with this UFO experience!I oh my god! there is another flash! Do you see that! Oh my goodness! It moves whenever I move my head. This is ridiculous, they are after me. I have to get my cat here to go chase after this space-tinkerbell. I really do have to go unsolved mysteries now. You guys even have this on film! Uh.. hey, what are you laughing at?" A few girls at one of the tables laughed at Riley, who turned on the girls and questioned them as to why they would laugh.
It's my socks right? They are too normal for you. Not in style enough for you. That's it right? White equals not right, not bright, that is what Fab Fashion's February 1986th edition is saying. I subscribe to that. I have six issues. One even talks about what to wear when you are gardening. And for authentic purposes, I wore it. Just so maybe the UFO would come back. And it did, look! LOOK! LOOK! My acre of tomatoes is going to grow, grow grow! I bet that.. I bet that the space-tinkerbell blessed it! I bet that the space tinkerbell blessed ME! Now I will never age, never grow bald, never be out of style! I will be so hip!" With that Riley did a hair flip and winked at her crowd.
Everyone starred at her until one lone guy in the corner burst out laughing. Slowly everyone followed. The entire food court was in hysterics and Riley just smiled and walked back over to me. "It's a matter of attitude Bella. Make other people respect your freakish nature. Not saying anything personal to you, your boringly normal. But come on Bella who cares what these people think. You'll probably never see them again anyway."
I sighed. I knew I needed to live more. I was always afraid to talk to people and to participate in anything, I didn't have much self confidence. I tried to get off the subject. "Can we get some food now?"
She knew what I was trying to do, but didn't say anything. "Well you can eat. Remember I don't have to. I'll sort through the bags and find all your stuff."
"What do you mean my stuff? I didn't get anything," I said confused. I really hadn't. Riley had tried on clothes and dresses and bought a pile of CDs, the only thing I had bought was a pair of converses.
"You didn't think all that stuff was just for me? Come on Bella we're about the same size, you'll fit into everything perfectly!" She told me happily.
I starred at her in horror. No no no no no... "Riley, please tell me your joking. I can't nor do I want to accept all that. I have all my own clothes already. Giving me all that would be way too expansive anyway."
"Bella your taking my gifts!" Riley got a dangerous glint in her eye, one that said I will have so much fun making you do what I want. "Your resistance will be futile!"
For the moment I let her win. I would find a way to give everything back to her later. I huffed and walked to one of the food serving venues. I was standing behind a group of guys that were talking about Riley's performance. One of the guys turned to me. Sandy blonde hair, and brown eyes, he asked "What's your friends name?" nodding his head towards Riley.
I loved Riley, I really did, but it was hard to be around her and not feel bad about myself. Everyone always starred at her, and guys were always flirting with her. She never seemed to notice any of it. I noticed all of it. Sometimes I hated being around Riley, but most times I loved it. She kept the attention on herself which means that not many people noticed when I tripped or stammered.
The guy was still looking at me, awaiting an answer. I just shook my head at him, "She's not interested. Trust me."
He looked disappointed and turned back around to get his food.
As we walked back to the car Riley asked me the question I had been hoping to avoid. "So how's school? Anyone cool there?"
I didn't want to tell her about the Cullens; I still didn't know if they were good guys or bad guys, and I hate to think what would happen if they were bad guys. "Oh erm...it's fine I guess I've only been there one day so I don't really know anyone too well."
Getting into the car, she raised an eyebrow at me, "What aren't you telling me Bells?"
I blushed, I was such a bad liar. "A met a guy named Edward," I confessed to her.
She squealed and threw her hands together and clapped. "RILEY! Watch the road! Both hands on the wheel."
She put her hands back on the wheel and turned to me, "A guy? Oh my god, please tell me he's at least cute! What's he like? What kind of music does he like?"
"Riley! It's not like that. While he is drop dead gorgeous, I think there's a reason for it. And that reason could be fatal." I was trying to prolong telling her as long as possible.
"Fatal? Bella, what could possibly be fatal? Please just tell me already," Riley pleaded with me, concern filling her eyes.
"I think I'm going to school with a vampire clan," I said in a rushed breathe.
Riley nearly swerved of the road as I said it. Her shinny Viper slide across dirt and gravel sidewalks. She hit the brake and we stopped. For two minutes no one moved. It was like time had frozen. All of a sudden Riley threw the car in reverse, and then shifted to drive quickly. She took of down the road at nearly ninety miles per hour. "What the hell were you thinking waiting to tell me this? Did you even plan on telling me at all?! Jesus Christ Bella, they could have killed you today! Real vampires are not like me and the boys! I've told you this before Isabella Mia Swan! Half vampires are safer then real vampires!"
She didn't look at me once while she ranted. I felt horrible for scaring her. I knew she just wanted to protect me, but my sudden infatuation with Edward clouded my judgement. I still wasn't afraid of Edward, even knowing what that he could easily kill me.
"Who are they?" She growled at me, "What are their names?"
"Edward, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, and Alice Cullen, they're all adopted as Cullens, but Jasper and Rosalie are supposable twins and can also be known as Hales, or so I was told." I told her. That was pretty much all I knew about them besides that Edward acted aloof near me.
"What color are their eyes?" She asked. I knew this was the most important question. Riley once told me that vegetarian vampires has different color eyes from other vampires.
"Their dark black, maybe topaz if I had to guess," I told her honestly.
Her grip on the wheel weakened and she let out a deep breathe. "Ok well that makes things a tiny bit better. They're vegetarian vampires. I mean they can still snap and leap out at you while your bending over to pick up your number two pencil, and then what happens? Young Bella has all of her blood sucked out of her cute little body. POOF no more Bella! I lose my best friend and the Cullens have a nice lunch."
"Riley don't make it sound that bad. I sat next to Edward Cullen the entire Biology period and he didn't try anything. If they were really that dangerous would they be trying so hard to fit in? I've never heard of vampires going to school before. How bad can they be?" Perhaps it was my humanity, but I couldn't fathom Riley's panic.
"How bad can it be? Bella! They are blood sucking full fledged vampires!" Riley yelled. She was still starring straight ahead but she had slowed down to about seventy miles.
"So are you Riley!" I shouted back at her. I regretted it immediately. I knew that like the Cullens, Riley and her family couldn't help who, or what they were.
Riley's face didn't show any bad feelings, but I knew she was probably deeply hurt. I had never said anything like that to her before. The entire time I had known her I had always been supportive of what she was. I felt horrible. "Riley, no no that's not what I meant. I just meant that I don't understand why your so panicked, I mean how different can you and the Cullens be? Please don't be upset."
She sighed, "I'm not mad. A little shocked, but not mad. Bella in all your years of knowing me you still haven't figured out the difference between dimidium (Latin for half) universus (Latin for whole) vampires. Half vampires can actually be hurt. We cut and bleed, whole vampires don't do that. Half vampires don't crave human blood, well not nearly as much as whole vampires do. Even if they are vegetarians Bella you don't know how long they can resist Bella. I dunno if anyone in our family has told you, but your blood smells amazing. I know that sounds weird. Bella you take a lot of practice to resist. I don't mean that in the 'I'm going to stalk you and rape you sense' but understand that things are going to be complicated with the Cullens." As she talked she slowly started to relax her posture. Slowly things were calming down. "Ok Bella we'll see how well the Cullens react to having you around for the next few days, in the meantime I want Dad and the boys up here to see what can be done to protect you."
"Riley! No!" I yelled at her. "No need to drag them up from whatever they're doing to come try to help me. It'll just draw more attention to me." The last thing I need is more gorgeous half vampires coming up and drawing more attention. Riley and the boys don't exactly blend in.
"Bella," Riley whispered and turned her eyes on me, pleading. "Just let us do this. For your own good, if everything goes alright then we'll leave ok?"
I sighed. I would never win. "Only for a few days."
Things went back to a semi-normal after that. The music flowed from the radio as Riley went back to her fun loving self. I usually preferred to listen to the older music, but Riley had forced me into some of the punk indie stuff, I liked the piano punk indie best though. Almost as though the stereo knew, soft piano notes filled the card. It was the beginning to the song, "High Life Scenery" came on. (Song is really by the band The Rocket Summer. Amazing, check him/them out. Do not own song.) Riley laughed as it played. I smiled. It was still so weird to hear the boys I had grown up with blaring through the speakers. The band, The Goodbye Escape, was the composed of my childhood friends.
Four boys, all related, and all half vampires. Of course no one else knew that besides close friends and family. Cale, Roman, Aiden, and Beau Ryner were one of the most popular punk bands around. Aiden and Beau (pronounced Boh or Bo) were twins and each of them had silky mahogany hair that almost gleamed purple and red in the right light. They had smokey blue eyes that had flecks of grey in them. They had an unnatural ability to know each others thoughts and "talk" without speaking. This made them the quietest boys of the group. The only difference between them was that Aiden had a faint scar on his temple, in the shape of half a heart. It was only about 2 inches, but it was enough for most people to tell the two boys apart. Aid and Bo (as they were called by Riley and Bella) were the oldest of the group being 21 years old. Aid and Bo were Riley's cousins. Roman, another cousins of her's was the tallest of the group. He was roughly 6'5" with shinny black hair that glinted blue. It was always styled in a fohawk ( A fake mohawk - sides are not shaved. The fohawk appears like a mohawk when it is spiked with hair gel, but because the hair on the side of your head is longer, a person can wear it down as well). His eyes were the most uncanny shade of brown. They seemed to reflect blues, greys, and greens around the brown. His eyes lit up when he was happy and darkened when he was angry. He was the daredevil of the group and drove around on a motorcycle. He was the youngest of the group though, being only just a little over 18 years old. And the last of the group, Cale. He was Riley's older brother and was the middle man of the group. He didn't look anything like Riley which is why people tended to think that Roman was Riley's retaliative. Cale was the shortest of the group at 5'11" and was 19 years old. He had sandy blonde that fell into his face softly. If his hair had been black he would been called an "emo" however his glossy hair looked beautiful with natural brown highlights. His eyes were a stunning green grey color. I'll admit when I was younger I went through stages where I had crushes on all of them. Now they were some of my closet friends. All of them were like big brother to Riley and me (though Cale really was Riley's brother).
I came out of my thoughts as the radio DJ said, "...Goodbye Escape working there way up the charts steadily."
I smiled until I realized that one of the hottest bands in America would be visiting me in the small town of Forks. I'm here one day and look at everything that's happened. Oh yeah I blend in so well. I'm going to throw this town into chaos. I sighed. Might as well have fun while doing it.
The rest of the ride was filled with light talk and laughter until we pulled into my driveway. Oh crap! Charlie! I didn't tell him I was going out! He's probably freaking out. Riley hopped out of the car and waited for me impatiently. I got out of the car not looking forward to the yelling Charlie was going to do. Riley pulled me to the house. She opened the door and yelled a "Hi!" at Charlie.
"Hello Riley, Hi Bells. How was shopping?" Charlie asked standing at he counter making himself a sandwich. My jaw dropped, he knew?
"Good sir, thanks for letting me kidnap your daughter," Riley laughed as she set the bags down at the table.
"Thanks for telling me you were kidnaping her. It made things less stressful," He laughed back.
Oh my god, my dad and my best friend were acting like buddies. This is so wrong. "Well if you don't mind Dad, we'd should probably put everything away." I said.
"Ok Bells. We'll talk about your first day tomorrow. Riley, I set up the cot in Bella's room for you," Charlie said walking into the living room to watch the Cowboys game.
I turned on Riley. "What are you? My dad's best buddy or something? Your not going to tell me you're my new step mother are you?"
Riley laughed, "Oh god Bella no. I got here earlier today and talked to him about taking you shopping. I was bored so we talked and he told me to stay here rather then at a hotel. Now come on we need sleep if were going to call in the recruits and go against the Cullen clan."
I laughed and followed her upstairs. Dumping my bags on the floor, I kicked my shoes off. Riley's cot was really an air mattress with a thick comforter on it. Riley crashed onto it and sighed, "It's been weeks since I've slept maybe I'll sleep for a few hours tonight."
"M'k," I replied and collapsed on my own bed. I fell asleep thinking of the angelic face of Edward Cullen and what adventures would arise tomorrow.
Hope you like it. God I just realized how many pages it took to go through a few hours. I really need to speed things up. Next Chapter will have more days passing. Review or else! I swear I will find some way to torture you if you don't, lol joking. Tell me what you think though!