Shadow
By Lily Orange
Summary: A shadow of fire walks amongst the trees - the same shadow which blights the forest. Can Edward, Bella and the Cullens figure out what's going on... before it's too late?
Disclaimer: I am definitely not Stephenie Meyer and admire her work a lot.
A/N: Merry Christmas! I hope you had a great day yesterday! Thanks to sarlovesoccer for the review :)
CHAPTER SEVEN
LIZZIE
As soon as the morning recreation bell sounded at half past ten, I was out of the classroom in a flash, before my English Lit teacher had even said to go – I simply grabbed my copies of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre and took the tingling bell as my cue to go and search for my boyfriend who was missing. Angela, Jess, Mike and the others would be waiting for me outside – Forks was cloudy, but surprisingly, not raining; any time when there wasn't enough water to fill a reservoir in three seconds was good enough for us to go outside.
But I had bigger things to worry about. I had to go and look for Jonas. Lessons didn't start for another, like, thirty minutes. Then I had French class, which he normally neighboured me during and we practised our speaking together.. Hopefully I would have found him by them. I quickly flipped open my phone as I walked to my car – a little green Mini. Old, of course, it used to be my mom's, but I preferred to call it 'vintage' whenever I was questioned about it's age.
I texted Bella, my best friend, to tell her I was going looking. God knows where she was too. Probably ill or something. And I had noticed that Edward, her boyfriend, wasn't in either. Neither were his family. I only really knew Edward, and maybe Alice a little, but I was quite surprised how readily Edward accepted me and Jonas. Jess had told me that he was renowned for being infamously hostile and unwelcoming, but that wasn't the case. I was friends with Bella before she even began to liaise with Edward, so I kind of had one up on him. Edward had had a hand in setting me up with Jonas, too; he had, according to Bella, convinced Jonas that I liked him back.
Jonas. My handsome young man. To be fair, Jonas and Edward talked quite a lot, and me and Bella. But at lunch, although we sat next to each other, me next to Bella, her opposite her Edward, and me opposite my Jonas, we didn't do much talking. Just gazing...
Anyway, the purpose of this unauthorised excursion was NOT to daydream about my lovely boyfriend, but to locate him. I thought I'd drive to his house first. Knowing him, he was probably still asleep.
As I drove out of the school driveway, nobody noticed me leave. I was pretty lucky; but I think if anybody had, they wouldn't have suspected thing. Lizzie, best friend of Bella Swan and friend of Angela, Mike, Jess and Eric was the ultimate good girl who would never do anything wrong.
My bag, a huge turquoise leather handbag, with a beautiful beaded charm attached to the handle, was slung in the back. A present from Jonas for my last birthday. I drove swiftly to Jonas' house. On the way, I was driving through one of the roads that cuts through the forest, and I saw a police tow truck with a car on the back. Upon close study, I recognised it;
Jonas' purple Jag!
Hurriedly, I stopped my car, got out and attracted the attention of the tow truck. It stopped, and Chief Swan, Bella's dad, got out. He raised an eyebrow quizzically at my presence.
"Lizzie, aren't you supposed to be in school?" he asked me sternly.
"Yeah, whatever, where did you find that car?" I questioned him.
"Just over the other side of those trees, on the road. Pretty mashed up. A bit of blood round it, but no-one in it," he told me. I clapped a sweaty, anxious hand to my mouth, so choked up with emotion that I couldn't cry.
"Hang on, Lizzie, what's the matter?" he asked.
"No, I'm fine," I replied. "Just – just out for a recreational walk. It's morning break."
"Oh, okay," he said. "I guess I'll see you sometime soon then."
I nodded. "Yes, I'm sure. See you soon!" I replied, a little too brightly. Oh well. I left Chief Swan to drive off with Jonas' Jag, and I locked my Mini, grabbed my bag, into which I stuffed my keys, zipped it up, and slung it over my shoulder. I began towards the trees, the dense, dark, uninviting trees.
After ten minutes' walking, I figured that I wasn't really dressed for hiking. Which is what a walk is through the woods in Forks, there's no casual way about it, you have to make your own way through the trees as there was a distinct absence of a path to follow. I was wearing patent red Mary Jane shoes, black skinny jeans, a cream long-sleeved jumper and a pile of red and gold bangles jingling on my wrist. Nevertheless, I wasn't about to let my supremely good outfit stop me from finding my dear Jonas, my handsome young man.
After walking for another twenty minutes (well surpassing the length of morning break) I knew I was lost. Not merely disorientated, but lost. Normally, in Forks and La Push, you don't go walking unless you are accompanied with a detailed map and compass, as well as a credited means of communication, or a guide. My phone was almost dead, the battery drained searching for a signal, and unfortunately, I had left my map and compass (ha!) at home. I stopped in a clearing. It looked as if it was about to rain. Rain! Just what I bloody well needed, as it was never just a light shower in Forks. Then my new Mary Janes would get ruined – but Jonas was worth it.
I was just about to break down in tears when I sensed another presence. "Hello?" I called out uncertainly. "Jonas?"
"Are you lost, dear?" I heard the voice – it wasn't Jonas' voice, but a very feminine, yet coarse, voice.
"Um, yeah," I said, craning my neck to see who it was. Literally in a flash, a woman was stood in front of me. She was dressed head to toe in black, her skin as pale as snow, her lips the colour of blood, and her hair – her unusual, long hair – was so red it was like fire surrounding her head.
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