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Ally's POV
One moment, I'm in Paul's truck waiting for him to come in so we can get on the road, and the next, my vision was starting to get blurry. Before I knew it, I couldn't see a thing. Everything was white.
I could hear Paul calling my name from somewhere, but it felt like there was a bubble between us, keeping us apart. And I was being sucked more and more into the core.
And my vision was gone. I couldn't even see white anymore. All there was was darkness.
"UHHHHHH!" I heard a woman's scream.
I was being sucked into the bubble at full speed. I closed my eyes. While that was happening, I felt something brushing against my shirt.
CLICK!
When I felt the world had stopped moving, I cautiously opened my eyes.
I was sitting in the middle of a dark room. There was nothing in there. Not even a window. There was only one wooden door, with light leaking from the edges.
It scared me. I didn't like the room. Not at all…
And something was nagging me. It felt like my heart was tied to a rope and it was being pulled from the beyond the door. I leaned on the door, trying to loosen the pull, but that didn't do any good.
"Okay, Ally," I talked to myself. "Nothing good will happen if I don't do anything."
I touched the door knob and tried turning it. It turned, but even if I pulled, it wouldn't budge. I looked around for something I could use, but of course there was nothing.
"Might as well do this!" I rolled up my sleeves, (I forgot whither she was wearing a short sleeve or a long sleeve, so let's just make it a long sleeve…) getting ready to brace myself.
I stared pulling, not intending to stop until the door opened…
Bella's POV
I was finally free from the dark room. I was back with Edward again. That made all my effort to get out of the dark room worth it.
Edward was carrying me bridal style. "Bella? Honey?" Edward nuzzled my neck. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine…" I said, staring at the truck rolling away. "Was that Paul?"
Edward's handsome face tensed. "Yeah," He didn't add any details though.
I guess I'm going to have to just ask. "What happened?"
He looked down at me with worry filled eyes. "Do you remember anything, honey?"
"Is there something I should remember?" I was confused.
He took an unneeded breath. 'Oh uh… This is not going to be good…' I thought. "Has anything… happened?"
I cocked my head. "What do you mean by that?"
"Honey…" Edward closed his eyes. "You've been… technically gone for a day."
"What…" I stared up at him in confusion. "Gone? What do you mean 'gone'?" I was started to get irritated.
"You were replaced by a girl named Ally…" Edward said cautiously. "Do you know anyone named Ally…?"
I nodded. "I know one Ally." I explained. "She's my cousin's cousin. I only met her when she was a baby. I think I was eight or nine and she was…" I thought back. "Maybe about two or three?"
Edward's eyes widened. "Really?" He asked in shock.
"Yeah,"
I smiled up at him. I cupped Edward's cold cheek in my palm. "What does this have to do with me being gone?"
His whole body was tense. "We need to talk to Carlisle."
He still carried me, but he was so concentrated in his thoughts that I was afraid he would drop me, even with his vampire reflexes. The feeling he would drop me became the strongest when he started running at full vampire speed.
When the Cullen mansion became visible, Edward slowed his pace to a normal human jog. "Carlisle!" He shouted. The volume of his voice made me flinch. "Carlisle!"
A very concerned Carlisle came out of the house. "What happened?" He looked at me and gave me a smile. "Hello," A little more polite than usual.
"Hi Carlisle," I smiled. Edward set me back on my two wobbly feet.
Edward entwined our fingers, and smiled down at me. "She's back, Carlisle. Bella's back."
Suddenly, I was jumped by a small pixie. "Bella! We were so worried about you!" Alice squealed. "I'm so glad you're back,"
I saw Jasper standing away a little. I smiled at him from over Alice's shoulder. He nodded his head with a small smile.
"Alice, you'll get to talk to Bella later," I heard Edward say. "We need to talk to Carlisle."
Alice pulled away from me with a small pout on her lips. I chuckled at her cute response. Typical Alice.
Edward took my hand in his, and leaded us into the house. "Where're Rosalie and Emmett?" I asked.
"They went hunting. They should be back by the day after tomorrow," He explained.
"I guess I'll see them on Monday," I shrugged.
Edward looked worriedly at me, but just leaded us into Carlisle's study. Carlisle was following from behind us.
Carlisle took a seat on the chair behind the desk. Edward closed the door and sat next to me on the small sofa Carlisle had in his study.
"Have you explained her condition to her yet?" Carlisle asked Edward.
The question just popped out of my mouth. "What condition?"
"We might have got it wrong. I haven't heard the whole story yet, but a lot things aren't clicking, and I have a feeling it has something to do with the green light." Edward and Carlisle went on with their conversation, ignoring my small questions. At one point, when I thought I would explode, Carlisle reassured me that they would answer as much as possible later.
After five minutes of them debating about the unknown, they're conversation stopped and they both turned to me.
"I just heard from Edward that you know someone with the name of Ally?" Carlisle asked.
"Yeah," I nodded. "My cousin's cousin is Ally."
Carlisle leaned into his chair. "Do you remember her full name?"
I cocked my head side ways, thinking hard. "Um," I stuttered. I wracked through my brain, trying to remember what my parents said her name was. "I think it was Ally Take…" I stopped.
"Takeyama?" Edward helped.
I thought a little more, than nodded. "I think it was something like that."
"Does she live in Tokyo?" Edward asked me.
"Um," I stuttered again. "When I saw her the last time, she used to live in Seattle. But that was over a decade ago."
"I could call my mom sometimes and ask?" I offered.
Carlisle nodded. "That would be really helpful."
I nodded. "Now can I ask some questions?"
"Of course,"
"When Edward said I was gone for a day, what does that mean?" I looked from between Carlisle and Edward.
Edward explained for me. "On Saturday morning,"
"Which is supposed to be yesterday, right?" I asked, trying to get the basics down.
"Yeah," He nodded. "So yesterday, I heard movement from outside and I went to check it but nothing was there," He took my hand in his and started to massage it. "But when was on my way back to your room, there was this green light illuminating your whole room while a woman was chanting."
"Green light?" I questioned.
He nodded, staring at my hand. "I ran back into your room, and I could still smell the scent of the person by your bed. But the scent wasn't left anywhere else. Not in hallway, not by any windows, only your room."
"How is that possible?" Everything was just getting more and more confusing.
"I don't know Bella." Edward continued massaging my palm. "When I got back, you started to wake up. But the person who woke up, wasn't you, but Ally,"
That had me really confused. That didn't make sense. That wasn't logically possible. "Ally? As in Japanese Ally?" I asked in shock.
"So Ally's Japanese," Carlisle said. "If Ally's 100% Japanese, how can you two be related in anyway?"
I sighed. "This is going to get complicated. Do you really want to hear it?" I asked, hoping he'll refuse.
"We'll keep up," Carlisle said, encouragingly.
I took a deep breath and started. "So from my mom's side, I have two uncles. They're both married and have kids, which mean I have a lot of cousins. And a lot cousin's cousins…" I chuckled. "So one of my uncles, Uncle Fred, he married with a Japanese woman, Minako, and had one child, Aya. And Uncle Fred's wife, Minako has three other brothers and sisters.
"And that's where Ally comes from. Ally's mom is Minako's sister. Ally's parents went to college in Seattle, so that's why they lived there, but I think they moved back once they graduated."
"What you mean is, that Aya is half American, half Japanese. Ally is Aya's Japanese sides relative." Carlisle summed it.
I nodded. "So is it that Ally?"
Carlisle nodded. "It may be. This Ally was saying that she was from Seattle but moved to Tokyo."
"But how could that happen?" I was wracking through my brain, searching for an explanation. "That's impossible."
"That's what we're wondering too, honey." Edward said, pulling me onto his lap. I snuggled into him. I buried my head in his neck. He wrapped an arm around my stomach, kissing the top of my head.
A bone chilling thought came into my mind. "Am I becoming crazy?" I looked up into Edward's eyes, hoping to hear two opposite things. Part of me wanted to hear him say that I wasn't. That it was normal. But another part of me wanted him to tell me I was crazy, because if he did, it would make more sense.
He just shook his head, not giving me a black or white answer.
"This is confusing for all of us Bella," Carlisle caught my attention. "We just have to hope we'll find out on the way,"
I sighed. "Okay, I just hope this Ally thing would go away. It's just making our lives another notch harder."
"There's one more thing you should know," Edward hesitated.
"There's more?" I felt like my brain was going to explode.
Edward leaned in and kissed my lips, making shivers run up my spine. "Should I tell you later?"
I kissed his lips lightly and pulled back. "No, I just want everything laid out before me,"
"You remember Paul Lahote?" He asked me.
I nodded. I remembered Paul. He was part of Sam's pack, a big boy, like all the others. And I remembered he had a temper problem. I never really liked him. He was always so cocky and self-confident, and I don't think he ever liked me either.
"From the look on your face, I don't think you're going to like this." Edward sighed. "Paul imprinted on Ally,"
"WHAT?!"
?'s POV
Everything was going as planned. Well, a few things were off, but nothing is perfect…
What I worried about is Ally's will power. If she's too weak, she would be stuck there for the rest of her life. Not being able to go back to her real body, or Bella's body.
I may be the one who set up the waiting room, but that doesn't mean I can control it. It's all up to Ally.
A lot of pressure is on Ally's shoulders.
More than she can imagine…
Who is this weird person who talks in ?'s POV...? Tell me what you think! I just might slip some information about the coming chapters... :)
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