I stormed angrily out the room and down the hall.

Dad! Edward Cullen! If you can hear me, do not freak out! Don't come up here either, I'm coming back! You can wait for me out in the car!

Honestly! I spent all that time trying to convince my parents to let me visit Jacob, and, (Wouldn't you know it?) when I get there he's totally ungrateful! I thought he'd be ecstatic at my visit. If he'd been worried, he'd have -

"Excuse me miss,"

I snapped out of my mental fuming.

A good-looking guy of about thirty years old was looking at me with an odd expression on his face.

"Hmm?"

"Would you come with me for a minute?"

I was instantly suspicious. Who was this guy? Was he a doctor? He didn't look like it. So he couldn't be suspicious about my human-ness, right? Then, was he weirdo that preyed on teenagers? Well, it wasn't like he could do anything to me. Not if he got me alone with him...

"Um... why?"

The man smiled, "I'm hospital security and-"

"There's a hospital security?"

"Someone's got to make sure people don't bust in here with guns to finish off the people they originally tried to kill."

He was smirking.

"That's real pleasent. Nice mental image there, thanks."

His smirk was very pronounced now, and it was annoying me.

"You're not wearing a uniform or anything."

"No. Usually the guy with guns is going to avoid someone in a uniform trying to catch them, whereas they may be oblivious to a normal bystander trying to catch them."

"Mmm hmm, because I'm sure you get all kinds of drug lords and people with guns busting in here all the time, right?"

"Maybe not, but, just the same, I have reason to believe that you visited someone, to whom, visitors were not allowed."

He knew about that did he? How?

"I don't see how that's any of your business. Hmm. Let's say, hypothetically, that I did. Just how would you find out about that?"

"Connie, the woman at the front desk that is, informed me, apparently out of guilt, that she illegally gave a red, curly-haired, perfect looking teenage girl the number to a patient's room. "

Well. I wasn't sure that that was illegal. Just the same, I didn't think my little friend from the desk was going to spill on me.

"And you thought that that girl was me?"

His little smirk was still overly pronounced, and I was still very annoyed by it.

"Obviously. You're the best-looking girl I've ever seen. You've got red, curly hair. You're a teenager. I'm pretty sure that no one else on the planet has all those qualities."

How embarrassing.

I didn't think it was possible, but his smirk got more pronounced at my blush.

"So, would you come with me please?"

Well, I wasn't sure that this guy actually was who he said he was, but if he wasn't, I could get rid of him easily if he tried anything. Of course, I would try everything before using my full-blown strength, because I really didn't want to kill him.

At any rate, I could deal with this quickly. If I just tried to influence him here and be on my way, it might seem suspicious. So, I'd go, and if he brought me to some other guy in charge of something, I'd influence them both at the same time.

He started walking. I fell into step beside him and walked only a couple of inches from him, so that I could insert thoughts if I had to.

He moved aside a step seemingly without realization of what he was doing. Obviously he was reacting to the heat that was probably unexpected from being in close proximity to me. That could get annoying.

We started up a flight of stairs. I sort of wondered why we didn't take the elevator, but I guess he must have wanted to save it for people who needed it. Or maybe he wanted to try to tire me out before he attacked me... ha! He'd tire way before me.

"So where are we going, exactly?"

"To the owner of the hospital."

"Really? I wasn't aware that such a simple infraction of the rules involved such drastic measures as to get the owner involved."

He smirked again.

Ugh!

"The owner of this hospital takes the rules very seriously."

"Apparently."

We'd reached the end of the staircase. He opened the door and stepped aside to let me in first.

I obliged.

I instantly regretted this decision.

I was so stupid.

Edward was probably reading the minds of these guys and trying to bolt up here to my rescue, never mind keeping the secret.

Edward! Edward Cullen! I'll take care of this myself! Do NOT come up here. I'll be fine and I'll find a way out of this! Trust me!

I kept repeating the thought as loud as I could. I let it fill up my entire brain and I imagined screaming it.

Edward would ruin everything if he came up here. The secret would either be let out and we'd be all killed by the Volturi, or all these unsuspecting humans would have to die. If Edward came up here, lots of people would die.

You see, when I stepped through the door, about ten other men were on the other side. They were all dressed in average clothes, and wouldn't be suspicious except that they all were staring at me.

The other guy came in behind me. Obviously, I had walked right into a trap. Why had I not seen, or at least suspected this before? I should have dealt with the guy then, but I didn't. I was so overwhelmingly stupid, it was mind-boggling.

I was close to crying. The anger and the guilt and the sadness were the only things present in my mind for a second. The only thing I could think was:

It's my fault. I'll be a murder. There's a 99% chance that because of my stupidity, people are going to die. It might even be my family. Everyone I love, dead. Even if it wasn't my family, all these men would have to die.

No. I couldn't let that happen. I would find a way to make sure that the secret didn't get out, that nobody would die because of me.

I couldn't live with myself if that happened.

So I couldn't let it happen.

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