It had been about two weeks since I had been released from the hospital. My parents seemed to be getting suspicious of Aaron being around so much, so he wasn't around that often anymore.
But that didn't mean he wasn't there. Many times I had felt eyes on my back but when I had turned around no one, that I recognized or knew anyway, was there. But I knew it was Aaron, if only for the fact that no one had attacked me yet.
Then there were the times that some kid was running after me and then suddenly he was gone.
I also had the privilege (note the sarcasm) to see the boys that had beaten me up. Luckily from a distance. But what I saw surprised me.
For one, they each had a new scar over and around their right eye. It started above their eyebrow in the middle and wrapped around till it got to the bottom left corner of the eye. Then it looked like it slashed through the eye diagonally and out of the top right corner of the eye. And it all looked it had been done with a knife or some sharp object. As I was staring I suddenly remembered the boys with the bloody rags at the hospital. I had no doubt that it was these four I saw.
And I had a gut feeling Aaron did it.
Second, the boys spotted me across the street. I was sure they would come across the street at me, but instead they looked at me with terrified expressions and fled.
Aaron was all over this one. I could feel it. Who else would do it?
In a way I was sad, for the boys at least. But in others, I was giddy.
As long as Aaron kept watch over me, which I had a feeling he was going to be doing for a while, I really didn't have anything to fear.
I smiled as I turned the corner into Aaron's street. They could keep Aaron from outings but there was no way I would stay away from here. Not when it was only a couple streets down.
The door of his house opened and then Aaron was outside. A smile lit up my face as I broke into a sprint to get to him. When I was close enough, I jumped into his arms.
He laughed. "It's been, what? Three days and you're already anxious to see me?"
I attempted to scowl at him but it came out somewhere between a scowl and a smirk. "Of course."
I was in his arms and I was safe.
I was home.
As if reading my mind, he put me back on the ground and starting leading inside. As he shut the door he turned to me and smiled.
"Welcome miss Bella. Welcome to your second home."
I smiled.
Home.
When I first went to Aaron's house, with my parents of course, I thought that that it was rather simple yet refined. The wood had a nice look too it. It was new and old. His house had an old cabin and movie house type of feel. Everything was so light and open, the wood a nice deep chocolate color. Once inside the door, the dining room was off to the right and the kitchen diagonally right. To the left a section of the wall blocked the view of the main living room. There was a TV next to the window. Several feet in front of the TV was a coffee table-not that either of us drank coffee. Behind that was a couch. Against the wall to the left of the coach was a bookcase filled with photo albums and some type of educational books. And some books or something on family history.
Then I found out I was wrong. I was looking through the window- seeing how long it would take him to figure out I was here. He was weirder like that; he somehow just that I was there. Anyways. I was looking through the window, not really seeing anything. I was looking over in front of the stairs when a section of the floor fell away. It just FELL AWAY. I moved over next to the house at an angle- so that when
Aaron came up I could see him but he couldn't see me. After a few moments he did come up. He took a step onto the main floor and turned to press a button to bring the floor back up. When he did, I was able to see a set of stairs leading down. I had a sinking suspicion that this wasn't the only hidden passage. Before it had completely shut, I moved to the other side of the house to see if I could see onto the opening anymore. All I could see was a couple stairs. I ducked to in front of the door so he wouldn't see me after he turned around but because of his enhanced senses-that I now knew he had-he probably already knew I was here. So I was surprised to say the least when he walked away without a glance in my direction.
I was now waiting to see if he would notice me.
He didn't; he just kept going on into the kitchen.
I knocked on the door. He always told me I could just walk in but it was to weird for me.
In the next instant, I didn't even see him pass the window, the door was open. Aaron was standing there with a confused look on his face.
I looked over myself for a quick check. I wasn't dirty, I wasn't missing anything. I walked inside while looking at him.
"Am I missing something?"
His eyes widened briefly before he put his 'hide my emotions from Bella' mask on.
But he didn't get it on completely on. Something was bugging him.
"What's wrong?"
He smiled. "Nothing Bella. Don't worry about it."
I smiled and walked into the kitchen. Somehow, even though he was several room lengths away, I clearly heard him murmur: "but I couldn't hear or smell you. It's like you weren't even there. As if you didn't exist"
What the heck did THAT mean?
I didn't exactly want to have that kind of conversation today so I pretended I didn't hear. Of course, it was weird that I heard him I'm the first place.
It was silent for a couple moments. The shrill of the phone broke the silence and made me jump. Aaron chuckled from directly behind me and I realized with a start that somehow I had already known he was there.
Without turning around or anything.
To keep myself from panicking, I tuned into what Aaron was saying on the phone.
"-Think so. She's normal lez. It's not gonna happen and it's not right."
Pause.
"Absolutely not! Leslie enough she's not-. Well yeah, but lez. I don't know I'll ask."
He pulled the phone away from his mouth and turned to me.
"Bells, has the occurrences been only with air?"
I frowned. This was NOT helping my panic.
"No, it's been with water too."
It was his turn to frown. "What happened?"
I fidgeted. "Well, I was really mad at this boy and I wanted something to happen to him and I was trying to get the air to push him slightly but it wasn't working. So I concentrated harder and then the water in the bottle he was holding kinda whooshed up and exploded kinda."
"Was he hurt?"
"No just really wet and surprised." I smiled slightly at the memory.
Aaron wasn't happy as he got back to the phone. "Did you hear that? Yes but-."
The longer he was on the phone the more stressed he became. Whoever Leslie was, Aaron either didn't like her much or what she was saying he didn't want to hear. I was guessing it was the later.
He dropped his voice-and yet again I could hear him clear as ever- to whisper anxiously to the girl on the phone.
"Leslie, she's not one of them. She can't be. She's normal lez. She's an 8-year-old human girl. Yes I know...only HALF of the signs are there... Wait till all of them are here...Leslie..."
Human girl? Does that mean he wasn't human then?
There was a longer pause as he listened. Whatever she was saying he didn't like because abruptly he was angry.
"Fine. Yeah, I know lez...I told you I'll look it up and test it but you'll see, it will do more harm than good. Love you too. Bye."
He hung up and tried to put a smile on, but he was too stressed.
"Sorry bout that Bella. Where were we?"
I ignored his pretence and jumped straight to the questions. I had no doubt he had been talking about me. I also had no doubt that I wasn't supposed to be able to hear the last part of the conversation.
"Who was that? What signs are you talking about? What can't I be? What tests?"
Shocked crossed his face. "You heard that? You were-are-on the other side of the room. I was whispering. How did you hear me?"
"One of the occurrences maybe, I don't know. It doesn't really matter. What were you talking about? What can't I be? What tests?"
"Bella, please, calm down. Just-"
I cut him off. "What is wrong with me Aaron!?"
I was close to tears. I was tired of not knowing what was going on.
"Bella, please. Girl I need time. I will tell you. I promise. But I don't want you to be scared if it's true or disappointed if not all of it happens."
His eyes were begging me to understand.
Stupid golden, too persuasive eyes.
"The tests?"
"Are to see if our theories are right. It won't hurt, it might be mentally exhausting, but it won't hurt. And it might give you some control with the occurrences."
"I thought you said they were test."
"Well, they are more like observation or control tests. We see if you can learn to master them."
"And if I can?"
He gave me a sad half-smile. "It means that something is a bit more than the usual abnormal…if that makes sense."
I sighed as I turned back to my soup. I hated being out of the loop.
I felt Aaron move to come up behind me and hug me from behind.
"It'll be over soon."
"You'll tell me when you know something?"
"As soon as I can."
I turned into his chest and let myself feel safe and be comforted.
I was not looking forward to tomorrow. Heavens, not fun at all.
Tomorrow would be different.
Tomorrow, the confusion and frustration would begin.
okay, i KNOW it's been such a long time. My excuse is my biology teacher is insane and my calculus teacher gives out too many quizzes. Did i mention this was in college?
So i tried to compensate by making it a little longer than normal. Finals are in a couple weeks and i'm hoping i'll be able to do better with updates afterwards.
PLEASE review. i'm starting to wonder if i have anyone still with me.
Alice Vampire-your reviews make me smile. thank you :) i hope you're still with me.
Nervous Laugh-You are an encouragment. We started our stories at the same time, and you're still going :) wonderful, BTW.
Big thanks to anyone who reviews, even if it's just to say "cool"
Also, some people are wondering about the cullens. Well, they're not going to be in THIS one. This is before them, although Rosalie and Emmett will be mentioned. That's for later in the series. Don't believe me? I have the first chapter of a slightly altered twilight written up. If you need proof i can send it to you. Not all will make sense, but it's proof :)
Hopefully next update will not take too long!
