Okay usually we update on Thursdays, but us not updating is my (Trish's) fault. I was busy with Real Life and the chap had to wait *sigh... Sorry Guys.
Yeah! Blame it on, Pat. :p Just kidding, but here you go. Have fun reading this filler chapter sorta, but it does have a good twist. :)
And...on we go.
* * *Previously on Child's play* * *
She looked at me sharply. The pain of the look made me visibly wince, "You don't need to know about that. It doesn't make a difference." She sighed once again. "It never made a difference. To anyone."
I didn't want to anger her more then she was, by what? I don't know. So I kept my mouth shut the rest of the way home and tried to keep up with her as best I could.
"Where are we going?" I asked again. We sat down on some wooden bench in the middle of an abandoned park, the sky a creamy pink with the setting sun.
"We're going to get us some actual clothes." She said, slipping little blue sunglasses over my eyes. Yes, we just went hunting. And no, I won't explain. It's not as bad as it was before, I didn't feel as bad about it. It's just as simple as eating animals. Just like Mother says. You eat food like beef and pork, right? Well, I eat human just like that.
Oh, that didn't sound too nice, now did it?
She held out her hand and smiled, and I took it as we entered a small plaza near a tiny town. There was two dress shops, and a Chinese food restaurant that had good smells blowing our way. Eek. And a couple of dollar stores, one obviously having better business than the other.
The owner waved us to come in, a smile on his fat faced telling us we were more than welcome to pick what we wanted. My eyes went straight to a little green dress, one that contrasted with my brown hair, but looked oh- so- pretty. Me. Want. That. Dress.
"Can I have that one?" I pointed at it, the color echoing the grinch like grin that spread across my face. Oh yeah, I'm gettin' it.
"You, my dear, can have anything you want. Do you want to go try it on?" I nodded, and Mother went to go tell the owner I was going to try the dress on. He smiled, but hasn't pulled his eyes away from my bare feet, which was covered in dirt but without a scratch.
"The shoes are over there." He pointed to a little section in the corner of the room. And oh, how those little black shoes shined. Who would have thought I liked buying things so much? Whoa! Look at those red ones! And those sneakers!
"I want them all." I say, and Mother frowns at me.
"Sorry, one dress, and one pair. That is if you like shoes. Truly? I don't see the use." Her brown penny-loafer covered feet wiggled, and I smiled.
"The black ones, please." We went to the dressing room in the back, and she helped me slip on the little green dress, and small black shoes. I paid no attention to size, she said it didn't matter. We'd fit anything. The sun in the east came through the little window at the top of the ceiling, and glistened over my skin and through my effortlessly curled hair making me sparkle momentarily. I bought my finger to the corner of my lip as if I were thinking hard.
"What do you think?" I asked, and she pulled a bit at the skirt bottom.
"I like it. Want to get it?" She asks, and I smile.
Mother has been acting a bit different since we got back from Kate and Eleazar. She's been nicer, less aggressive, and hasn't used her gift as much. Mother said that we were never to return, and to run away if she ever came to me. She called it "Stranger Danger."
We walked up to the cash register, and found the old chubby man reading a news paper.
"It's a shame what happens around here," He said, gesturing at the picture on the cover. It read:
Man KILLED in Own Home. Investigators Find Nothing.
On a simple after noon, Greg Franklin life was viciously taken in the living room of his own house, found by his neighbor who happened to live acres away. His son who was currently on a trip to Europe is devastated and seems to be traumatized. Most evidence was burnt from a fire, started from what was suspect was a pipe. This wasn't arson, or an animal attack. Sheriff Swan says: "We've had animal attacks before. This shows no sign of knives or weapons. This could have been done by anything. He was clawed to death, and is what appears to be...bitten. We have no leads." Officers on the scene are advised not to touch a thing, but noticed a gun missing from his mantel piece....
"Imagine being killed in your own house, and nobody knowin' you gone days and days later. Ain't that a shame..." He kept going on.
I looked up at Mother who seemed the same, who just glanced at the newspaper, and back at the man. I looked at the cover page. There showed a huge tree, a tree that reminded me of a dinosaur...
"We'd like this dress please." Mother said kindly.
"That'll be thirty dollars. How would you like to pay?" The man started up a receipt, and raised an eyebrow at Mother.
She chuckled. "I don't plan on paying at all. In fact, you just offered to give everything to us free, and all the money in that little cash register." She stuck her hand out, and the man stacked the bills onto her hand. She smiled, and gestured me along.
"Oh, and if anybody asks, you didn't have any customers today." She finished, and we walked out of the store.
She counted the money and gave it to me. I looked at her and she shrugged, telling me she just wanted to take it. I looked at our surrounding, still curious to exactly where we are. I voiced the thought.
"Where are we now?"
"Why? Does it matter?" Mother said, sitting on the bench with me.
Yes "No." I squirmed impatiently in my seat, and she noticed. Mother sighed.
"What is it?" She asked, and I shook my head, she nudged me. "Do tell."
"Ah, I wanna go back to Forks to see Nessie." I blurted out, unable to control it. I burrowed my head behind my hair and hands.
"Oh that girl I have yet to meet. What's she like?" Mother placed her chin on her flattened palm.
"She's funny. She talks a lot..." I shrugged, wanting to drop the conversation. "Did you know Kate, and her mate?"
Her red eyes darkened when she looked at me. I flinched a bit, but stayed quiet knowing she won't exactly answer me. So instead, I thought.
That man in the newspaper was my doing. I know it. It's vague, but I know it. Imagine being killed in your own house, and nobody knowin', you gone days and days later. Wow, that's a way to make a person feel guilty.
But then again. I'm not a person. I'm a vampire. And it's not like he knew I was the one that killed him, so I guess he deserves some slack, but still.
"Yes, I do." Mother says suddenly, and I jump, momentarily freezing her. She snarls and I apologize, telling her I can't help it. I should be practicing everyday. That's what Kate told me to do. But I won't tell Mother that. "I did."
"I did know her. And Eleazar's not her mate. His mate's name is Carmen. Okay? Are we done with this? Let's go home." She roughly grabbed my hand and pulled me up, and we started to walk slowing in, what I hope was, the direction of home.
I really wanted to know what made Mary-Ann act like that towards them.
"Oh My God, Ashley!" Nessie ran toward me and threw her arms around my waist. "I thought you went missing! I asked my family to help, but they did a search around the house and all they found was a pile of barbies that I meant to loose. So now they think I'm a waster and a liar 'cause they still don't beweeve you exist!" She breathed hard, still hugging me.
"It's good to see you too." I laughed, and sat down in our usual spots.
"I thought you got kidnapped! I swear, I was gonna go look for you myself. And I did! But Jakey caught me." She pouted then smiles.
"Is that a new dress!? And you're wearing shoes! Oh, you go missing for a few days and get a compweet makeover and I'm here worried sick!" Renesmee placed her hands on her chest and sighs dramatically.
"I'm fine, okay? And who's Jakey?" I pick up a rock and weigh it in my hand.
"Jakey? He's my home-dog." She looks at me, and I shrug, confused. "When will you ever get a chance to meet my family?"
"I don't know." I say honestly. "Do you think they'll like me?" The rock in my hand was crushed to dust when I squeezed. I blew it out if my hands and picked up another.
She shook her head a bit just to brush the hair out her face. "I suppose so. I don't see why not. Well, you're a vampire girl living in the middle of the woods with your mother...but, I think you'd be okay."
I threw the stone into the air, let it twirl in between us for a minute, and drop it onto the ground. Renesmee clapped and picked up the rock again.
"How'd you do that?!" She screeched, and pushed the stone at me. "Do it again."
"Ness..." I start. "You know I have a gift. I haven't shown you yet?" I ask, and throw the rock up in the air.
Concentrate. Focus.
The rock was still a foot or two off the ground, as we both stared at it. I pointed my finger out, and twirled it in a circle. And the rock did just that. Renesmee and I sat there as the rock rotated around both our heads like we were the moon and the sun. I, pale and monterous, was the moon, and Renesmee, tan and innocent, was the Sun.
"That's so cool. All I can do is cweeate 'images'. " She flung her hair out her face. "I need a haircut."
Hmmm..."How can your hair grow?" I ask. "I mean, my hair can't."
"I'll grow up, 'cause I just can." She was still for a moment. "You get taller?" She ask me, but she shook her head before I could answer. "That was a stupid question. If you can get taller, Aunt Alice could. And that's not gonna happen. Nahah. Never."
After a rather awkward moment of silence, Renesmee jumped up, grabbing the floating rock.
"Are you hungry? I am! Wanna hunt with me? I'm not allowed to go alone." Before I could answer, she started running.
I've noticed it's very hard to say no to Ness.
"Yea...yea, I guess I could eat." I stand up, and sniff around. Nothing's appealing.
I follow Ness and notice she's got a little bunny in her hands, and she sickly sucks the life out of it. Gross.
Her skin looks like it got 10 times warmer, and her cheeks start to color.
"That's better." She sighs. "But I prefer human food. It's good."
I raise an eyebrow. "You eat human food?"
"Yup." She says, picking a poor dead rabbit. "I can eat anything I want. It's 'cause I'm special."
"Do you have human food with you?" I ask, curious. She picks through the pockets of her little pink shorts and pulls out a cheerio. She hands the little thing to me, and I snatch it.
"What do you think it'll taste like?" I questioned, eying the little round hoop.
Ness shrugs. "I don't know...a cheerio?" When I don't eat it, she tells me to go on, and do it already.
So I pop it in, and then spit it out. To think I used to like those things!
"Plauuh! That's nasty!" I yell, disgusted.
"No it's not. You just don't have any milk."
"I don't understand! How can you do human things and vampire things at the same time?"
She looks up at the mid-day sky and back at me and helplessly shrugs again.
"We can go ask my daddy!" She said.
"I don't know..." I stood, looked in the other direction. " I don't know what Mother might say."
"She'll be fine!" Ness grabbed my hand. "We can show all of them your gift!" She pulled me along with her, and I hesitated, pulling away from her.
"Renesmee, let go of me!" I try to get out of her grasp, but she grabbed me tighter. I'm not going to hurt her.
"Nah. C'mon, you'll finally meet my family!" She exclaimed, pulling me and making me run with her.
What will mother think!? She'll think I was trying to get away again, and punish me. Probably starve me for weeks!
"Renesmee..." I started to shake my arm, trying to get her to let go of me so I didn't have to follow. I mean, I really do want to meet her family but I don't want Mary-Ann to punish me. I know that might sound selfish, but I'm serious. You don't know what it's like to starve for a week. Been there, done that.
What will mother think...how much trouble will I get? I'm a rouge vampire. Her family will hurt me!
"Renesmee let go!" I push her off of me, and she tumbles on to the ground, grunting when she doesn't land on her feet.
She get back up, with tears and a little scratch on her arm.
And blood.
"Renesmee?" I ask, confused. She has blood. Blood that was dripping out of her cut arm, the one I cut. I could feel my eyes darken, and my hands twitch. Man, how that stuff smelt good. Maybe I could...
No. I couldn't.
"Renesmee, get back!" Her lip starts to wobbled and she opens her mouth. Don't do it...
Ah, but she did. Ness screams at the top of her lungs as the tasty red liquid dripped on the ground. I heard familiar steps behind me, as I stood still looking at Ness.
"Ashley?" She asked, falling on the ground, tears running freely. I wanted so bad to help her, but I know what will happen. Let's just say, I would do the exact opposite.
She got up to come to me, but I couldn't find the strength to go to her. Oh God, I gotta get away!
But before I could, something big, like a bear, shot out of the woods and neared Ness, growing. Renesmee yelped, and stood and backed away from the brown haired giant wolf. I looked at it, and it's shiny golden eyes looked back at me, as if he understood what I was, what I was doing.
It snarled at me, and got ready to pounce, and when it did, I put out my hands, in front of my face, and looked up. The huge thing was still, in the air, not moving, but floating. I stepped back, and looked at Ness. She wasn't moving either. Leaves that were falling from trees were still. Everything around us was still, as if time had froze.
What's going on?
I looked at my hands that were still up in the air, then looked back up at the wolf. No, this isn't happening. I could never move anything bigger then a table, but a horse sized wolf? No, it's just a dream. I looked at my hands again and I swore I saw an invisible ray of my power, or something. I don't know what you would call it, but I saw it.
Nothing moved. The breeze even stopped. I breathed hard and everything came back to life, the air feeling like it was moving again. I looked up at the wolf that looked as if it was drained of energy, fall to the ground, and quickly got back up after I dropped it from my force.
"Renesme --"
"Ashley!" Mother, who I heard coming, snatch me up at the waist as the bear-thing growled and howled. It attacked Ness, throwing her on its back, probably taking her away, forever.
Mother continued to run in the other direction, away from them and the bear thing knocked down everything in its path. I was scared, and I was shaking.
"Mother! We have to go back for her!" I clawed at her hands so she'd let me go, but she only held on tighter.
"Ashley. Stop. Relax, love." She told me soothingly.
And with all my might I tried to ignore the feeling, but I couldn't. I ran over my body, and I relaxed myself with a sigh. You couldn't fight Mother that way.
"We have to go back for her..." I pleaded, still over Mother's shoulder. "Please..."
If only I could cry. If only, if only.
And before we made our way back to the house, I searched the woods a final time in hope to find Ness.
I didn't and I started sobbing on Mothers shoulder as she ran through the woods. I lost my best friend today.
So....if you don't know what the bear thing is...FAIL
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