Alright Oprah. This is it. I am going to update like there is no freaking tomorrow. Now that it's summer, I'm going to focus on getting this story finished for both you and me. I'm going to be making major renovations to my stories page. I'm deleting Tower of Samhain and more than likely Jacob Black Must Die. I have a lot of ideas I want to get out, so here we go.
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Bella and Riley glanced at each other nervously. alexa simply stood there, her arms folded, waiting for an answer. Finally, after a few seconds, Riley gave a small cough.
"We were just talking about...these sleeping pills." he said with as much bravado as he could.
Alexa raised her eyebrows.
"Really? What about them?"
"Well, I was considering giving them to Bella without telling Victoria."
He expected her to look angry and march off to Victoria's office. Instead she looked at the bottle of sleeping pills, considering the idea.
"From what I hear, it might help." Alexa said. Then she shook her hair out of her face. "Well, I'd better get going to my room. Pray for me." she added.
"Why?" Bella asked.
Alexa smirked. "I'm a young attractive doctor in the middle of a murder mystery. The chances that I'm going to make it out of this are about is probable as vampires exisitng." she turned on her heel and walked out of the room.
Riley and Bella looked at each other once again, both feeling incredibly helpless at the moment.
After a minute, Bella said "What happens now? I mean, with Tina gone, there really aren't any options left are there?"
Riley clenched his jaw.
"I'll talk to Victoria about that." he said, getting up. "Are you going to be okay by yourself?"
Bella nodded.
Riley walked back to Victoria's office and knockec.
"Come in." she said.
Riley opened the door and took a seat.
"Ah, there you are." Victoria said. "I was just going to send for you."
"You were?"
"Yes, I wanted to know how you like Alexa."
"She's alright. I was expecting-"
"You were expecting a forty year old woman named Dolores who lives with a lot of cats?" Victoria joked.
Riley gaped at her.
"Yes, actually that's exactly what I said."
Victoria chuckled. "Alexa will be good for both you and Bella. She's incredibly helpful. Now," she sat forward a little, "what did you want to see me about?"
"With Tina gone, who's going to take care of Bella?" Riley asked.
Victoria frowned and then clicked around on her computer.
"How about Wade?" she said.
Riley raised his eyebrows.
"He's not that bad." Victoria said.
Riley sighed. "If you say so."
Victoria chuckled. "I'll make sure he behaves." she said. "Now, you'd better get some more sleep."
Riley nodded and walked out. He would have to tell Bella that she had to go back to her room.
An hour later, after Bella had gotten settled in her room on the fourth floor, Riley decided not to go to sleep. He was actually rather hungry. Passing the police, who were still investigating, he went down the elevator, said hello to Margie and went to the cafeteria.
Alexa was sitting at a table, reading "Hell House" by Richard Matheson.
Is she for real? he thought, going to the counter and getting a BLT and some Cola. Deciding that it was now or never, he went over to Alexa's table and sat next to her.
"Hi." he said.
Alexa, who had been so engrossed in the book, gave a yelp and looked up at him.
"Don't ever do that again." she gasped. Then, recovering, she smiled and said "what's up?"
"I was just wondering why you're reading a book like that under these circumstances." he said.
Alexa smiled. "These are the only kinds of books that I find entertaining. My mother was always freaked out by the fact that I was reading Dean Koontz instead of Harlequinn Romance."
Riley chuckled. " I love Dean Koontz. He's a little more realistic than Stephen King."
"I know." Alexa said. "There's a lot of science in his work."
Riley smiled to himself at how easy it was to talk to her.
"Victoria is assigning an intern to check in on Bella once in a while." he said.
"Who?" Alexa asked.
"His name's Wade. He's one of the young guys here. He's known for his tendency to take the temperature of the other female interns."
Alexa scoffed. "And Victoria's trusting him?"
Riley shrugged. "Her methods haven't always taken the best turn."
"I know." Alexa admitted. "Take me for example."
"What do you mean?" Riley asked.
Alexa set the book down and took a sip of her iced tea and stared out the window.
"I...I'm not exactly sure I'm mentally fit myself." she said with a wry laugh. "It's stupid, but I've been seeing this woman everywhere. She's dressed in dark red and black and she has a pale, pointed face. Everytime I look back...she's gone."
Alexa chuckled, unawarw that Riley was gaping at her.
"When...when did you start seeing this woman?" he asked.
"About a week ago. After my sister died, I tried to overdose on sleeping pills and...well, that's when it started happening."
She turned to face Riley and was shocked to see that he'd gone pale.
"What?" she asked in concern.
"What would you say if I told you that vampires were real?" Riley questioned hesitantly.
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Bella had been sleeping when she heard her door open. With her eyes squeezed shut, she prayed that it wasn't Nightmare Edward and Rosalie.
However, it was a pleasant voice that called her name.
"Bella? Are you awake?"
Bella sat up and looked around. A young man in a blue intern suit and curly black hair had entered.
"I am now." she said.
"My name's Wade." he said, "and I'm taking over for Tina."
Bella nodded and fell back into her pillows.
"Can I get you anything?" Wade asked.
Bella shook her head. She'd been dreaming about Edward.
Wade sat down on the chair at the end of Bella's bed and moved it a little closer.
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Lousy.'' Bella muttered, indicating that she wanted to try and get back to sleep.
Wade frowend. "Bella...I know what you're going through." Bella glared at him. "No seriously, I do. My older brother comitted suicide when I was fourteen. I really looked up to him and I was so upset that I slashed my wrists."
"Really?" Bella asked.
"Yeah." Wade looked away, evidentally overcome. "My mom freaked out and had me sent to a hospital for about a week."
"Oh Wade!" Bella cried, sitting up and giving him a hug. Unknown to her, Wade smirked.
Bella still had her arms around Wade when he moved his hand to her shirt and slid it up her back.
"What the hell!" she cried trying to pull away. Wade pushed her down and bent over her. Bella struggled and kicked, but he was too strong.
His face was inches from hers when he was tugged violently backward.
"Get out of here you asshole!" Alexa shouted. And without and preamble, she flung him out of the door so roughly that he slammed into the wall outside and hit the ground.
Alexa slammed the door shut and turned to Bella, who was lying on her bed with her eyes shut.
"Bella..." Alexa said tentativley.
Bella gave a snarl of rage and sat up.
"I've had it!" she screamed! "This is the final straw!! I'm getting out of her even if it kills me!"
"Which it probably will." Alexa said. "You're no vampire, so how the heck are you going to get back to Forks?"
Bella goggled at her.
"Riley told me everything." she said.
"And you believe him?" Belle whispered.
Alexa nodded. "I've heard worse from far older people. Besides, all the crap going on around here makes a little more sense now."
Bella sighed and leaned back.
"What am I supposed to do if they come back?" she asked.
Alexa handed her a small, round black object with a red button in the middle.
"What?" Bella asked in confusion.
"It's an automatic call button. I gave one to Riley. If you need anything or are in trouble, just press the red button."
Bella nodded.
"Thank you." she sighed.
"No problem. Now, go back to sleep." with that, Alexa walked out of the room and looked up and down the hall.
Wade was no where to be seen.
"Chicken shit." she muttered, walking to the elevator.
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There we go. I know these last two chapters have had no action, but believe me, it's going to pick up in the next one majorly.
I referenced Hell House by Richard Matheson because I think it's the most brilliant haunted house story ever written. It scared the crap out of me and I couldn't sleep for three days.
Please review and thank you to all those who have so far.
