Ohmigod, the sex, it's a surprise chapter
LOL SUPER LATE CHAPTER.
GUYZ I PHAIL AT UPDATING.
BUT YOU STILL LOVE ME, RIGHT?
After irresistible sweet talk on Br'Candi's and Alice's part, we were driving Tsuki's mustang Port Angeles. Tsuki was riding shotgun because Alice had insisted on driving, bent both on the fact that we were leaving a cop's house and Tsuki was underage, and also that the mustang could reach two-fifty with ease and Alice claimed Tsuki didn't go 'fast enough'.
So we sped down the free way, which Alice appeared to think was the Daytona, while Br'Candi tried to make conversation with me. She failed. Miserably.
"Sooo…How's hanging with vampires doing for you?" she asked, nudging me.
"So-so," I answered dryly. Tsuki was staring at the window, visibly upset. Br'Candi nudged me again.
"Who is cooler, us or them?" She asked. I shrugged. At this moment, Tsuki took something out of the glove compartment and plugged it into the radio. Music blared over the speakers. It took me a moment to realize Br'Candi could no longer talk, and I mouthed the words 'thank you'. Tsuki, watching me in the mirror, nodded. Was it just me, or did she look paler?
We pulled into Port Angeles in about half the time it usually took us to drive there. Br'Candi and Alice hopped out, enthusiasm radiating from both of them. Tsuki just looked bored, and I groaned as I slid out of the flamboyant mustang.
The shopping went on. Alice led Br'Candi to the nearest store, half-leading and half-dragging me. The store was a large franchise called Girl's World, and almost every article of clothing in it was pink, yellow, or blue. Although this was definitely not her ally, Tsuki brightened up almost immediately.
She grabbed my shoulder, and spoke loudly over the blaring music. "Come on, let's go get you a—" She cut off, staring over my shoulder. I felt her hand clench on my shoulder, and winced under her intense grip. Br'Candi turned around and looked at Tsuki. She followed the shapeshifter's gaze and narrowed her eyes before expertly tangling her claw-like fingers in Tsuki's hair and yanking it. Tsuki snapped out of her reverie with a snarl, releasing my shoulder to bat at Br'Candi's face. Alice stomped her foot impatiently, and Br'Candi dragged Tsuki off. I tried to look where Tsuki had been staring and saw only a young mother pushing along a toddler in a stroller.
The rest of the day went without accident. Alice was genuinely happy to have a shopping partner, and Tsuki seemed perfectly fine but, sometimes, the smile would be forced and it wouldn't reach her eyes. Br'Candi kept looking over her shoulder at the shapeshifter.
At last the day ended, and not a moment too soon. The mustang was full of shopping bags as we drove back home. Tsuki played more music this time too, forcing Br'Candi to, with much annoyance, stay quiet.
When we at last pulled into the Cullen driveway, I didn't even have time to unbuckle my seatbelt before Edward had opened the door and lifted me out of the car. He smiled and kissed me softly on the lips, but when he pulled away, his eyes were worried.
A soft growl came. It took me a second to pinpoint it, but at last I noticed Tsukiko was leaning against her car. Br'Candi had already turned into a tiger, and Alice's face was blank with a vision.
Alice frowned and looked at Tsuki. "I can't see anything at all."
The wolf snorted. "If Pierre's right—he usually is—we have three days. Bella," she said, turning to look at me. "If it's possible, I'd like you to spend the night here."
I looked at my watch. It was almost four-thirty. I nodded at her.
"I'll talk her dad into letting her stay with us." Alice piped up. Tsuki shook her head.
"Too much of a bother," she growled. "I'll just make him think he already gave you permission to stay."
Suddenly, Tsuki's form was replaced by that of a wolf, who loped around Edward and I in the direction of the road. Br'Candi shrugged.
"We're going to want some reinforcements. I need to go to HQ. I'll leave Pierre with you."
Edward and Alice raced back to the house, with me in the former's arms. Once we were inside, Edward dropped, gently, on the love seat and sat next to me, wrapping one arm around my waist.
Pierre rushed into the room, eyes darting back and forth. He cursed under his breath, crossing in five quick strides to pick up some electronic device sitting on a side table by the television. He turned it on and cursed again loudly before throwing it against the table so hard that it collapsed on the ground in a pile of splinters. Edward growled.
"What's wrong?" Edward snarled, staring at once was a side table.
Pierre spun around, as if just now noticing there were other people in the room. His voice was dangerous, deadly, a completely different person from the laid-back guy I'd met the week before.
"Tsuki and Br'Candi. Where are they?"
Alice answered him cautiously. "Tsuki went to go trick Charlie. Br'Candi went to get reinforcements. Reinforcements for what? I can't see anything."
Pierre rocked back on his heels, apparently not hearing anything after Alice's first sentence. "Damnit." He muttered, running his hands through tangled blonde hair. "DAMNIT!" he shouted, swinging his arm wildly and knocking over another table. The noise startled Edward and Alice to their feet and brought the remainder of the Cullen household to the living room.
"What's going on?" asked Carlisle, his usually gentle voice holding a level of authority to it.
"Damnit, I can't believe this!" Pierre moaned, rocking back on his feet once more.
"Can't believe what?" asked Emmett, confused. Jasper was staring intently at Pierre's face. I suddenly felt calm, but Pierre seemed unaffected.
"He planned the damn thing out! He's got an ambush coming!" At everyone's confused looks, Pierre raised his hands, exasperated, and shouted. "Knight ambushed Tsuki! He captured her!"
Before anybody could respond, the door slammed open with such a force the top hinge snapped. A pale-skinned girl of about twenty stormed in, wringing her fingers through dark hair. Br'Candi trailed behind her with four other unfamiliar faces and Hikodomo.
The pale-skinned girl kicked the pile of splinters that Pierre had made previously.
"Can anybody here tell me why my top highest ranking officer just fell off the friggin' map?"
CLIFFHANGER.
I'm thinking there are gonna be ten chapters total. This is the first chapter with a plot though. Wooo!