Aila's POV
I stood in my room, staring out the window.
Had I made a mistake? Was it really that bad for the Cullens to hate me?
"Is there something you need ot talk about?" a timid voice said from behind me.
Maddi.
I'd become fond of Maddi. She wasn't all that bad.
"Well..." I moved over to my bed and sat, gesturing that she join me. "What exactly happened that gave the Cullens their
bad reputation? I mean, obviously your mother doesn't know, but everyone at school is terrified of them."
She stared off into space for a while before answering.
"Not much... but it didn't take much.... For one they're all together... like, together. Rosalie and Emmet, then Alice and Jasper. But They were all
adopted, you see."
"How would that make someone fear you?"
"About a year ago, another brave soul like you started flirting with Rosalie's man... That girl is now at a mental hospital in Seattle."
"Why?"
"We don't know what Rosalie did to her.... We just know it messed her up really bad."
I began shaking as the truth sank in.
She continued, "Then not long before that, this boy, loved the water, loved to surf, kept hitting on Alice, and touched her.... inappropriately. Edward and
Jasper didn't like that too much. He won't go near the ocean anymore. He'd go into hysterics at just the mention of it... His parents transfered him to
a private school."
I took deep breaths trying to keep the room still.
"Wouldn't they have gotten caught?" I asked, hoping for at least that.
"There was no proof that it was the Cullens, but the victoms and everyone else at Forks High know that it was."
I gripped my sheets.
"Thanks, Maddi. Do you mind..."
"Not at all."
And then she left.
I knew at that instant that this was not a normal family. And even though I was a scourcerer, something in the pit of my stoumach told me to be afraid.
Be very afraid.
