False Alarm

"Bella, honey?"

The sound of his voice woke me up.

It was the happiest sound of my life when I realized that Embry and I was soulmates. He became my hero, my everything. He was always there for me and protecting me. I love him so much.

But why now? It seems like a part of my heart aches for something more. Aches for someone else's?

This is wrong. Everything is wrong. My heart's supposed to be complete. It was utterly impossible to ache for someone else that's not my everything! Who would a mere and complete human like me, would dare to like someone else that is not the one I love?

I looked at him for a long time, dumbfounded of what I was thinking. It was his beautiful face that entered me, that invited me in. His fair-skin so close to my pale ones, and his gorgeous face looking at me incredulously.

It was not long when I took his face in my hands and held his mouth on mine. His lips are so warm and soft that glued me to him. I could feel his arms snaking around my waist, taping me to him. I begin to pull away, my cheeks burning with embarrassment. It felt like I needed him. I needed him so much.

As I pulled away, I realized that I was close to his face, his dark eyes burning mine. He was smiling and I was bleeding with awkwardness. So, so stupid. Finally, after looking at him, spell bounded by his beauty, he chuckled softly that the sound came out as a lullaby.

"Dreaming again?" he chanted. I pulled away and set my back to the comfy mattress. I sighed and covered my face in my hands.

I felt his warm hand touched my hand, holding it softly, taking it away from my face. I was unfamiliar of the look of my burning face, it was flaming red-hot, and I could sense that my color changed from dull white to cherry red.

I saw his face, towering over mine, with a look of happiness mixed with confusion. I swear I could sense the feeling of 'teasing' in his eyes. I pulled my hand back from his gentle grasp and began covering my face with the same humiliation.

I breathed deeply before exposing my face once again. As I did it, Embry's face brightened.

"A very, terrible dream." I finally said, pouting my lips.

He looked quite surprised, "Terrible? I thought it was a nice dream. A very nice dream…" he chuckled, I couldn't help but join him. It was utterly stupid acting like a wild teenager who seemed like a kiss-starved maniac.

I sat up but he still dazed through my pillow, placing his head above it when I was already done. He placed one hand on my hand and another on the back of his head.

I looked at him sadly in the eye and said the words slowly, "I'm so sorry,"

He immediately got up from where he was lying to look at my not so rich as his, Hershey-chocolate eyes.

Just as I expected, he began telling me how much it was not my fault, that he liked it (very much) and how sweet it is for him. I cut him off before my brain drowned in his apologies, and began to remind him that we were almost late to school. He began to apologize more as I ate my cereal. I had to cut him off several times.

Car…

He stopped talking in his Volkswagen, holding my hand tight with his, the electricity radiating through my body. I knew he wanted some quiet time, especially when he kept bugging me how it's not my fault being a kiss-starved maniac.

It was a moment when I thought about the dream, the last part of my dream…

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"Alice!"

I tried to run toward her, to feel the cold of my former sister. It was like she had died and lived once more. It almost seems impossible to believe that I'm seeing her – them, -- now. I remembered the last time they left without goodbyes… Only one vampire did the whole job.

Edward.

Although the goodbye was hurtful, my heart so sore from the last goodbye, I felt the urge of forgiveness creeping on my veins.

Only one question stood put in my mind, a question that caused to make a second thought. A thought that was entirely expected, all enough to fit a human brain like mine:

"Why would I want to forgive someone who left me?"

Not to mention that I was almost set to rehab.

But Embry was here, Embry is here.

"Consider the message delivered, your father already told the news and details. Consider all of this done and sealed," Embry ordered in a voice that was so frightful, it caused the hair on my arms to stand. Tension was in the air. I couldn't see it, but it almost touched everything. Nothing was uncovered.

"Then Bella must be informed that we would be having the same ordinary lives again, right? Like nothing happened?" Alice said, a smile breaking through her lips. Or the every first time, she looked like a… vampire. It wasn't the same sweet Alice that I considered my sister, she was like a demon, tending to plant a dangerous plot. Her eyes told me that. It was pitch black, almost like all of her eyeball could be possibly black.

"Wh- what's that? Embry," I said, grasping Embry's semi-shaking, tensed arm. He turned around to look at me fully, kissed my forehead and… it felt like a tear dropped to my cheek. A single, crystal-clear tear.

"Nothing, honey. Just stay behind me, everything's fine Bella." He added calmly.

Then he turned to face Alice, who was still smiling so demonic.

"She'll know about this, I'll do it myself." He looked away. "So she won't be hurt," he added.

Alice laughed. It was no longer imitating a wind chime, it was like imitating a gong. "Oh. Be sure she'll know. You wouldn't want her to be hurt seeing us right?" she darkly said.

I was confused, it felt like my mind was about to blow up. What did she mean that Embry should make sure that he'll tell me; that he needed to make sure that I won't be frightened?

"I'll tell her.." Embry whispered.

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We reached the school in a small amount of time. People wearing striped jackets and skinny jeans were obviously the modern-day fashion. I didn't pay attention to these, it was all practically stupid. I opened the door and breathed the cool breeze. I could feel the cold wind tickling my nose, filling my lungs and it was good. It was so peaceful.

Embry held my hand tightly, it almost hurt. I let him tow me because I knew that he'd take me to somewhere else because there's plentiful of time left and I'm beginning to sense that he did it in purpose. He looked different when we're in the car. I could almost see his veins sticking out of his arms.

It was until we reached the edge of the school forest that I realized he needed to communicate with the other wolves.

"Wait here," he commanded as he released my hand. I nodded and he ran through the forest.

At exactly 10 breaths, he returned and caught my hand.

He placed me beside the school, with my back resting on the bricks, his arms beside each side of my face. "Bella, I need to you to cooperate with me now, okay? When you saw someone familiar, please tell me."

I shuddered. It was different when Embry says these things. He often says this in times of emergencies, not here. No. This is beginning to feel a lot like bleeding. Did it meant… Impossible. Was my dream the truth? No. Impossible. He was acting so ordinary a while ago. How come he says these things now? Impossible. I nodded and a minute when it felt like I could collapse, like my body's going to explode in any minute.

He kissed my forehead while wrapping both of his arms around my arms, around my body. I breathed heavily, getting ready to cry.

"Relax, Bella. Breathe." Embry said soothingly.

He again began towing me to school, stopping by to our lockers to get the things we both need. This isn't important. What is important is that he's secretly hiding a secret that he wasn't ready to tell me. I got my biology book and breathed heavily, looking to the ceiling with my eyes closed. A second had passed when Embry asked if I was doing fine.

"I'm fine," I lied and looked away.

Embry hesitated as he grasped my hand and lead me to biology.

Notes passed during biology.

Okay. Spill.

What should I spill?

Why are you acting so weird?

Nothing.

(I could tell if he's lying. His jaw was tensed and his eyes are obviously lying.)

I deserve to know.

No. There's nothing to tell, anyway.

Please.

You really want to know?

Yes.

The Cullens are back in town.

End

The moment I read that, I collapsed and all I could here is the screaming of my classmates and Embry.

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