Chapter Seven

It was a sunny day in Forks, which was unusually. People were tanning, the guys were walking about shirtless and the girls were wearing short skirts. The Cullen's were on another "camping trip", which everyone else found totally unfair. The only thing that made the pupils of Forks High feel better was the fact that they got to celebrate the death of the head master. It was a glorious day for everyone except Annie.

"I don't need therapy," Annie told the therapist, Doctor Goldberg.

"You went through a great trauma so I think you need to talk about it so you can move on with your life," Doctor Goldberg said and Annie had to restrain herself from laughing out loud.

"Doctor, I'm fine so you can sign the sheet to say that I'm fine so I can get the bloody hell out here," Annie said.

"Miss Hackland, saying "bloody hell" may have been fine in England but we do not tolerate it over in the U.S of A," Doctor Goldberg told her.

"But I'm fine! The only thing that's driving me insane is sitting here talking to you!" Annie told her.

"And how do you feel about that?" Doctor Goldberg asked with growing curiosity.

"That's it," Annie said and stood up. "I don't need you to sign the bloody sheet 'cause I know I'm not crazy."

Annie walked out of the therapist's office, ignoring Doctor Goldberg telling her to stay. She didn't have any time for doctors. They were all about examining you mentally and physically. It seemed like an invasion of privacy.

Annie started to walk towards the exit of the hospital. She was walking quickly and with purpose until she heard a scream that set off the bad feeling but the feeling didn't make her weak this time. It made her stronger like it was trying to help her do something.

The screaming continued so Annie started to run to the source of the screaming. She ran for about two minutes before reaching where the screaming was coming from. It was coming from Doctor Carlise Cullen's office. Annie rammed the door open with her shoulder. Annie had rammed the door open with so much force that she landed on the floor of the doctor's office. When Annie took a look around the room she found a girl, about her age, cowering in the corner. The girl had startling blonde hair, blue eyes and the look of a scared child. She looked terrified so Annie stood up slowly and walked towards her, as if she was approaching a deer.

"Who are you?" Annie asked as she took a step closer to her.

"I'm Charlotte. Who are you?" Charlotte asked and tucked her legs into her chest.

"I'm Annie," Annie told her and crouched down beside Charlotte. "Why were you screaming?"

"She was attacked," Carlise said as he entered his office.

Annie swiftly turned her head round and looked at Carlise suspiciously. She knew that he knew something she didn't and Annie didn't like that one bit. Carlise was just standing in the doorway, wondering what Annie would do next.

"Are you just going to stand there or are you going to do your bloody job and help her?" Annie asked sounding more English than ever.

"I'll help her but I also need to talk to you," Carlise said as he walked towards Charlotte.

"Me?" Annie asked in disbelief. "Is it about me going back to the therapist cause if is, I really don't need one."

"No, nothing like that but it is related to Joslin's death."

"Who the hell is Joslin?" Annie asked.

"The, now diseased, head master."

Annie let out a long sigh. She didn't like talking about the head masters death. She wasn't traumatized; she just didn't like people asking the same questions about it, over and over again.

"So, I'll need you and this young lady," Carlise said and motioned towards Charlotte. "To speak to my son, Edward."

"Why?" Annie asked quickly. "Why do I have to talk specifically to Edward?"

"Do you believe in vampires?" Carlise asked and Annie looked at him as if he was a mad person who escaped from the cicatrix ward.

"Hell no! Are you crazy?!" Annie asked.

"Just look at the side of this young lady's neck," Carlise told her.

Charlotte helpfully lifted up her hair on the left side of her head. Annie looked at the left side of her neck and gasped. It wasn't the horror of the fact that vampires were probably real, it was the pure shock that Doctor Carlise Cullen new about vampires.

"O…k, I'm officially weirded out," Annie said and looked straight into Carlise eyes.

His eyes were amber and that made Annie tense up. Peoples eyes weren't normally amber so he had to be a….

"Annie, I don't drink humans blood. I promise you. But there is a vampire out there who is killing people and I think you know when it's going to attack," Carlise said calmly. "Please, come to my home tonight with Chief Swan and we can talk in greater detail."

"What about Charlotte?" Annie asked.

"She's lucky to be alive so I will treat her wounds and let her see Doctor Goldberg, the top therapist in this hospital," Carlise said and stood up, lifting Charlotte up with him.

Annie didn't or have time to object to what Carlise was saying because he was already out of his office. Annie was scared. She wasn't scared of Carlise; she wasn't scared of the vampire killing the people of Forks. It was the fact that she knew when the vampire was going to attack. Now that terrified Annie so much that she forgot about the math test tomorrow.