Daylight

BellaPOV

Chapter 10

It was a miserable Friday, late into the third week of our presence in Forks. And I was doing an excellent job at ignoring Edward. Forgetting about him? Not so much.

He made it impossible, he was always there, if not actually in front of me, I was constantly thinking of him, but even that got annoying, I wanted to speak to him. I didn't. Jasper was going through the same ordeal, only with Alice.

That family . . .they would be the death of us.

I was doing a great job at ignoring him, I swear, I really was.

But that all changed that Friday, the day the weather changed, when a slight storm tumbled its way into the boring town of Forks, bringing with it sloshing snow, icy rain and thunder and lightning. The humans were blue and wrapped up, we of course wrapped up too, just for appearances, but still.

It started out normal, a three week routine. I got out of bed, out of my fake but very much wishful slumber, put on my blush and got dressed in a hoodie and jeans, my usual outfit-I'll be damned if I ever got dressed into anything else- and wrapped up in a jacket, gloves, and a scarf.

Emmett had boomed down the stairs, laughing and pulling the hood of my jacket up. ''Oh my god you look like a furby.''

My eyes blazed. ''I do not look like a furby you frog.'' I growled while taking down my hood.

The car journey to school was spent debating my resemblance to a furby and Emmett's frog face. I was losing my argument, because according to Rose, Emmett was more like a giant teddy bear, and if I had the pointy ears, I would be a god dammed black furby. But the day had just started, and none of us actually knew if furbys could be black, so I was kind of winning, not really.

And for me, three minutes after we arrived to school, it felt like the day was about to end.

As I said, there was thunder and lightning, the forks of lightning illuminated the whole sky, it was distracting, the sound of the thunder following closely behind. There was a strong breeze in the air, I had a suspicion they might send us home from school if the weather got any worse.

''Hey, why do you think the thunder comes after the lightning?'' My idiotic brother asked, I couldn't believe he did, and he didn't expect me to laugh at him for it.

''How many times have you been through high school?'' I asked him. ''No, seriously, how many times have you sat through a physics class and not listened? Emmett, the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound, how do you not know that?''

''Don't be so mean Furb, not all of us are science nuts!'' I laughed one again, because I hated science, I really did, but okay, maybe I didn't have to be so mean about that fact, but I had limited memory and I remembered, but he didn't.

''At least it's not raining.''

''It might have already started,'' Emmett grinned art me, mocking. ''How fast is gravity?''

I left him standing there, I couldn't even answer that, it was just an insult to the knowledge of, well, anyone. I knew Emmett was smart, I knew it. Though he never showed it, he really didn't.

People had left their houses early today, no doubt expecting traffic and things, but there wasn't any, so classes didn't start for another forty minutes, and most of the schools population was already here.

I knew for sure Edward and Alice were here.

A few of the people were outside, standing sheltered from the slight drizzle. Most of them were to one side, it was more sheltered, apparently thunder and lightning mixed with lethal sludge was amusing to teenagers these days.

Edward and Alice were there, but they were at the other end of the roof overhang, it was less sheltered, but held more privacy for them to talk to each other. They were both standing at the edge of the roof, not caring about the cold wetness landing on their skin.

I was getting worried of the lightning; it seemed to be getting closer, thicker, more frequent, and heavier. I didn't like it, I felt like stone, and not only because I was, but because something bad was going to happen, I could feel it.

Jasper, Rose, Emmett and I stayed outside, not because light, loud noises and slosh had us transfixed, but because inside the school was full of humans flushed from the cold, blood coursing throughout their body, everywhere. So we were outside in the open, the air helped.

And though I had the least self-control out of all of us, which was nowhere near the reason why I was here right now.

I didn't let my eyes drift once away from him, I couldn't; it was like my now amber eyes were glued to him, I could vaguely see Alice, a little speck compared to Edward.

You wouldn't be able to see it if you didn't look at him every day, if you didn't know. He tried to hide it with his hair, I'm sure Alice helped, but I noticed. I had perfect eye sight, I could see through the thin hairs, past the cover, all the way to the perfectly circle, scalding red mark, right behind his ear, near the scalp line.

It looked like a burn mark, I knew form experience. That was a disturbing sentence to say in that context, but it was true. I knew cigarette burns when I saw them, at least his father didn't smoke cigars. . . .

It was then I knew I couldn't ignore them any longer, I couldn't sit by and wait for something to happen, wait for someone to check up on the stupid call Carlisle made, suggesting that their welfare be examined under their parents care.

Their care wouldn't be reviewed soon, not by a long shot. Edward was eighteen, and Alice would be soon. I had to take action, before it was too late. . .

And right then, in that second. It almost was.

I could hear Jasper's unnecessary breath hitch behind me, but I barely registered it, I was closer, I was faster, but would I be fast enough? There was only one way to find out.

I ran.

Sorry I didn't update! My internet was down and so I just got it fixed . . .lol, then left you on a sort of cliffie, anyway, review please! I'll see you Monday!