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Chapter 4 - Understanding

It rained hard as my dad drove to twin falls to our relatives and - my grandma. I gloomily stared out the window watching as the rain crawled down the window.

I thought about her, my grandma. How she always loved to talk about history, how my dad was when he was little, the little stories that would make you think were lies, but I believed everything. I was really close to my grandma. I always enjoyed everything she would tell me, I would take it to heart. Now it was hard to believe her life had come to this.

I ended up falling asleep this time not even caring if it was uncomfortable or not.

In my dreams, fear took hold and before I knew it my dad was shaking me awake. "Hey, it's just a nightmare." his voice soothed as he rubbed my back now, while I coughed. "You okay now? Want to talk about it."

I just shook my head in response, I didn't feel like talking right now and we were almost there.

The sun was barley coming up when we arrived, it felt weird to have such bright light in the day. I guess I had gotten use to Forks already.

We got off and I went over to my dads side as we walked towards my uncle Richards house. I felt like a little kid hiding behind their dad, but I never got along with my dad's side of the family. They never cared about what they said or did.

"It'll be fine okay. They probably changed by now." my dad assured putting his hand around me.

"Curty the little rascal." my uncle Richie chimed opening the door as we came up. "Oh no their the same, hide." my dad said low enough for only me to hear, making me laugh. "Yes. It's the little rascal. You just won't let that go will you?" he sighed.

"Never. Ah, now lets see, how have you been treating my niece. Come on lets see." he said pulling me away from my dad. How rude I thought crossing my arms as best I could and looked up at him. "Hello, uncle Richie. Nice to see you again." I said trying my best not to show how much it bothered me that he had pulled me away.

"Nice to see you to, Angie. Modeling casts now I see and you have gotten bigger too."

Before my dad or I could say anything in response to that my uncle Claymore came out. "Her names Rae not Angie and you've been letting yourself go quite a bit to." he said smacking my uncle upside the head a big grin on his face. "Hey!"

"You should go get your manners." my uncle C shook his head. My dad and I just stood surprised. Wow my uncle had changed a lot. "Thanks Clay." my dad smiled in a cool, relaxed tone as he hugged him.

That kept uncle Richie quiet for a bit until my aunt Mary came over bringing the kids.

She was much nicer than my uncle, but the kids, I was afraid, took on my uncles side. They just waved to me with a fake smile plastered on their faces and trotted back inside.

"I thought you weren't coming like the rest of our family so I was planning on having her cremated and we were planning to go down to Shoshone Falls to spread her ashes…" he said smiling. I could see how upset this made my dad feel and it bugged me to. "But I came and I stopped him from doing that. Mom wouldn't have liked that anyways and Janice and Olive are the ones not making it. They have work and it was too long a trip for them." my uncle sighed shaking his head at my uncle Richie.

We spent the night at my uncle C's house it had a much nicer atmosphere than my uncle Richie's.

The next day my uncle left early to set up the arrangements and I finally got to eat some of my dads hand made foods. "Delicious." I said rubbing my tummy. "I told you I had perfected my cooking." he boasted.

The next two days were a little more serious as we went to the funeral and then the burial. The only people that went were my uncle Richie and his family, my uncle C, my dad and I, and a couple of her friends.

On the last day we were there my uncle C took us down to see Shoshone Falls. When we got there I could see, picture my grandma standing there looking down at the waterfalls. "This was her favorite place, but I know she wouldn't have liked Richie's plans." my uncle C frowned.

My dad and uncle started a conversation and I wondered off away from them.

Suddenly I could feel a funny tingling sensation in my head and I froze, watching as a little girl probably as old as five fell into the river. In my minds eye I saw everything, the cause of the accident. Even though we were following a path with railing for security one of the bars broke when the girl crashed into it.

I shut my eyes, my head hurting now and when I opened them I spotted her. She was up ahead almost disappearing from my view. She was a stranger to me, yet I felt like I had to get to her. I felt the tug, the urge, something pulling me to run to her and I was off running after this little girl.

I slid to a halt as I reached her. I was on my knees when I grabbed her and pulled her to me as a couple of kids came racing by, one of them circled around and accidentally pushed me into the railing where the girl would have been. The bar snapped, but nobody fell. Instead the metal cut through my pants and pierced my leg. I winced as I let go of the girl, glad nothing serious happened.

I could hear my dad and uncle coming up from behind. Then a man came and pulled me up with one swift move. His skin was a nice dark, tan color smooth to the touch, his hair was long and dark. He had it pulled back in a ponytail that fell on the nape of his neck, his eyes were a dark chocolate in them I could see gratitude.

Before my dad and uncle reached me in a very serious tone he said "Beware of the monsters. They are coming. Nice ones are with you and others, but fear what is to come." He spoke so fast I didn't know how I was able to hear him so clearly. I stood there confused, "was he talking to the right person" I thought.

"Honey, why did you start running?" my dad breathed catching his breath. My uncle just stayed quiet unable to talk after the run.

"I thank you for helping my daughter." the man smiled before he walked off holding the little girls hand.

"I thought the girl was lost." I said getting chills from what the man had told me. "Okay. Now you see she isn't. I think we should go now." my uncle C sighed he was still catching his breath. "Yes. This was enough entertainment for one day and I see you can't escape your accidents anywhere." my dad said.

"Sorry and I really tried to avoid them here, but to no avail." I pouted. "You need a shot now." my dad smiled as we walked back to the car. "No, but I already got all my shots."

"We'll just see and today I came prepared I have a first aid kit." my dad said laughing at my displeasure.

We went back to my uncle's house for a bit after I got patched up and then my dad called it a day and we left back to Forks.

It was a nice little family reunion even if one of my uncles was no different from before. I know I wouldn't forget what the man had told me at the falls and it would be hard to forget either way.

My dad took a quick glance towards me at the same time I turned to him and suddenly we were both laughing. "I think this was one of the best visits ever." he smiled wiping the tears away. "Yup it was." I smiled "Thank you for the adventure. Please no more after this one." He just nodded agreeing.

It was in the afternoon on Friday when we got back to Forks. We had arrived faster than when we went to Twin Falls. My dad speeding only to slow down when he thought there was a cop around or when I would trick him.

Before we got off my dad put his head down and turned to me. "Honey, I know you were close to your grandma, but I also know wherever she is now, she will always be here." he said pulling me into a hug. "I know. I know dad." I mumbled into his chest.

For my first year going to school instead of being home schooled it went by pretty quick. It even came to a surprise to me when I got my mail only to see an invitation for Bella, Edward, and Alice's graduation party. I had barely even seen them, but it was nice….I guess. I wasn't planning on going, but Charlene kept pushing so she wouldn't go alone and she did a pretty good job of convincing.

The day of the party came and when I came into my room I found a navy blue dress with small white designs delicately sewed on, the texture was soft and smooth and on top of it was a black little coat and some black leather high boots that would cover the bandage on my leg. I knew my dad was responsible for the outfit. How he knew how to pick it out I don't know, but he did a good job.

I got dressed and ready before Charlene came over so we could head to the party.

When I finished I looked at myself in my mirror closet and in it I saw a girl with eyes that were gentle and sea green with specs of caramel brown and slightly wavy auburn colored hair that fell just barely below her shoulder. A nice slender, curvy figure with natural light colored skin. I no longer had my cast and the bandage from my burn was off. Now all that remained were the mismatched patches of skin on my hand from the burn.

It felt weird to look at myself like this, strange. Nice and dressed up it sort of reminded me of my mom as I sat on my bed and just stared into the mirror.

"Honey you ready? Charlene's here." my dad said as he came in my room. When his eyes fell on me he was amazed, his mouth almost fell open.

"Wow it's been such a long time since I've seen you in one of these. I should take a picture." he smiled, I just shook my head as I laughed at him. "They're called dresses." I laughed "No. No pictures. We. Are. Good. Okay, lets go then."

He just shook his head. "Fine, no pictures."

My dad dropped us both off at the party. We were both excited and nervous, I'd say I was more nervous than excited. It was the first time I had ever gone to anything like this and for me it was very frightening.

Alice greeted us at the door a big smile on her face. "Hello, welcome to the party."

"Hi." Charlene smiled back. "Congratulations on your graduation and I'm Rae." I added.

"Thank you and nice to meet you." she said in a bright happy voice as she let us in. Then she went back to her guests.

The house was decorated perfectly and it looked amazing I thought as we walked around. We left our presents at a table full of them. "This is so great." Charlene gushed as we caught up to a couple of friends.

Then the girl with the chestnut hair came over and introduced herself, Bella. She only stayed for a bit and the little while she was there she seemed too preoccupied with her thoughts. Even if nobody else noticed it was hard to miss.

Bella left and everyone else continued chatting, I looked around instead staring at everybody's faces until I saw his.

The guy with the beautiful silky, russet-colored skin. I stared as he came in through the front door followed by two others. It was sort of hard to spot over everybody's heads, but it was all clear to me.

I could see as Bella ran into him, she was uninterested, upset, distracted with something else. I could see it bugged him, hurt him to have her do that to him.

It bothered me to see her hurt him, but maybe she had her reason's. It still hurt none the less. I didn't want him to feel like that.

"Oooo, so that's who your looking at." Charlene smiled, standing right beside me now; interrupting my thoughts. "He is good looking. I think I heard his name was Jacob."

"What? No it's nothing." I said my cheeks burning. How embarrassing I thought. "No too late." she smiled laughing. "Fine. I'm guilty."

Now I had a name to put to his face. Inside I thanked Charlene for giving me his name, but when I turned back to see him again, he was gone. I searched the room for anything but nothing. I couldn't even spot Bella, Alice or Edward.

I didn't know why I had such strong feelings for the stranger. I was confused maybe I lost brain cells or something was wrong with me. Yes something had definitely gone wrong with me for sure, I wasn't just feeling like this for no reason at all.

Then my head started hurting "A vision" I thought as images splashed into my mind. "I'm going to get something to drink." Charlene smiled leaving me alone. I half smiled and shook my head in response unable to speak and she was gone. I could feel my heart pounding inside my ribcage. I looked around franticly trying to see if I could avoid what I saw, but I knew it was too late now.

Something took hold of me, guiding me gracefully through the crowd as to not touch anybody. Before I knew it I was standing outside, a cold hard body pressed up behind me.

It's cold hand clamped over my mouth as it spoke into my ear while his other hand held me against his body, the whole time he remained behind me.

"We know what you can do and the others. See that's why I avoided any contact with them and…" he paused a low grumble in his throat "restraining myself to get you or…the other humans here. I have an ability to- and I just wanted to test yours- out for myself." The words sounded fast hurried, how I could hear him so clearly I didn't know.

I fought to get free, but to no avail. I could feel my body bruising where he held me and I had to stop fighting. "ugh I'll get you. I'll come back for all of you.- You'll see." he growled upset, "I'll be more in control then, but I won't have to be." he said through gritted teeth, I could sense the venom in his face, but he remained hidden from my view.

Then he let go and disappeared into the darkness of the trees as he left mad. I fell to my knees, my heart pounding madly in my chest, the fear constricting me.

How did he know? Who was he? Were the thoughts running through my head. I couldn't get myself to calm down so I wiped the tears away and mustered everything I had in me as I walked back in pretending nothing had happened.

I wanted to run, escape, try to find somewhere safe, but I didn't know where that would be. I knew if I did I would leave Charlene here alone when I promised we wouldn't.

"Where did you go? I was looking for you everywhere." she sighed her voice scaring me, but in the dark I was able to hide it. "Sorry, I sort of got lost." I said nervously, thanks to the music Charlene couldn't hear the sound of the puny little voice that answered.

"I know, this place is big. I like it, good to know your not lost anymore." she smiled.

"Oh look their's Edward's and Alice's family. See standing at the top of the stairs is Emmett and Rosalie, they're together and then almost close to them there's Carlisle and Esme. Then there's Alice's partner Jasper." she gushed pointing them out. I tried to distract myself from my thoughts so I paid very close attention and saw everyone she meant. "Good looks run in the family." I sighed.

When I looked at Jasper I could see a puzzled expression on his face almost as if he were confused. What was he looking at I wondered but not too much.

I turned away from Jasper as I saw Jacob passing. Even though he was just a few feet away I felt him so close. I could almost feel the warmness of his skin. It made me feel a bit more calm, at ease, even if he never really saw me. It didn't matter to me I got to see his face, his smile. Everything about him was, perfect.

"Hello, Rae." I could hear Charlene laughing beside me. I shook my head and turned to her. "What?" I asked surprised I could feel my face burning. Oh no, I thought maybe she noticed me staring again. She was sitting on the floor laughing. "I fell."

"How did this happen?" I asked joining in as I helped her up, glad she wasn't laughing for some other reason. "I slipped." she said. I noticed I wasn't so scared anymore it was as if seeing Jacob had calmed me and it did a great job at distracting me.

We stayed there for a bit and finally Charlene's mom came and picked us up. I got dropped off at home. The front lights were on and I knew my dad was home. He was probably asleep now. I went up to my room and dressed into my pajamas. Without even thinking it I walked to my dad's bedroom and stood at the doorframe.

"Dad?" I asked I felt so childish as I did. "Hmm?" came his sleepy reply. "Umm, would it be okay if I sleep here today? Only today." then I heard him patting the bed and I scurried over in the dark. I slid under the blanket and got next to my daddy. "Did you have fun?" he croaked. "Yeah." I answered shaking my head and shut my eyes.

After what happened today I didn't want to be brave and sleep on my own. I wanted comfort and protection from all the monsters. Even if some of them didn't exist, my dad had always done the job of getting rid of them. So why couldn't he now? He gave me that security at least.

Before I could fall asleep my head started pounding so painfully, I jumped. It felt like forever, but in reality it just took a few seconds. Images showered my thoughts and then they were gone.

"Hey, you okay?" my dad asked. "Yeah, just a nightmare." I gasped "You know those where you think your falling but your not." I lied.

"Hmm okay." he mumbled putting his hand around me. "Night daddy." I whispered.

I knew I had a vision of something that was to come it was big and I got what the man had told me now. The man from the Shoshone Falls wanted me to know.

"I had to understand."

Okay that was Chapter 4 for you guys.

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