Song of the day: vaccines- all in white

I awoke the next day to the bright sunshine and squealed uncontrollably into my pillow as I pressed it to my face. Images of yesterday filtered back into my conscious mind and I couldn't contain my happiness as I began to kick my legs in the air.

I found myself jumping straight out of bed to throw open the curtains, fully. The magnificent white light flooded my room with warmth and I had never felt so cheerful before. I was pretty sure that I had been smiling in my sleep. Drifting down to breakfast I tried to force my lips down but they just remained curved up.

It was an unexpected sight but both my mum and dad were in the kitchen along with Dan and Jamie.

They all looked up as I entered. "Hi." I hoped that my voice wasn't sounding any higher than normal as I grabbed a chocolate chip muffin from a nearby cupboard.

When I turned around though my brothers were grinning at me. That's never a good sign.

"Oh you woke up late today Olly," Dan feigned concern. "Did you have an exciting night?"

I scowled at him as I stood opposite the breakfast bar where he sat, along with Jamie who I knew would butt in at any moment.

He did. "Guess you enjoyed your date too much." Jamie added as he high-fived Dan. The mention of a date is what caused my parents to both stop talking.

My mothers eyes went round. "You were on a date?"

My dad choked on his orange juice at the very idea.

I stumbled to get my words out. "N…no.. no I just went out with a friend."

"A kissing friend maybe," Dan gibed suddeny.

Jamie clapped his hand together. "Oh that was a good one." They both high-fived each other again.

I paled straight away. Oh no! They must have seen the goodbye kiss on the porch. Embry and I had gotten a little bit carried away but it was becoming quite evident that it was Impossible for us to just have a short kiss. It was odd but as soon as our lips connected that was it.

I fought back my yawn as I tried to explain to my parents, who were just staring at me.

However Dan seized the opportunity for another witty remark. "Oh Olivia were you kept up all night thinking about Embry."

My jaw cracked as I yawned for a whole minute. My brothers comment may have been true but there was no way In hell that I was going to admit it. I shook away my head and glowered at Dan.

See I wasn't going to use the leverage I had over him but he asked for it.

I smiled, sweetly. "No actually I was kept up by your gushing phone call to Violet at 2 o'clock in the morning saying how much you missed her." .

Jamie was loving this. "Oooooo," he mimicked a sports commentator. "Ding ding ding. The score is currently 2 to Dan and 1 to Olivia."

It was Dan's turn to scowl whilst I smirked. Violet was Dan's first ever long term girlfriend and they had been dating since high school, had even received scholarships to the same university and were now working for the same law company.

My parents both stood up as they got ready to leave for work. I couldn't help but notice the smiles on their faces. I knew that they enjoyed watching us fight like this since we were just really like one big happy family. I'm sure they were annoyed that they missed most of these small moments whilst at work…but the rest of the world needed them too.

"Alight alight kids that's enough," My dad said as he grabbed his white coat. "Olivia come with me I'll give you back your car keys."

I punched Dan in the arm quickly before racing out of the house with my parents. I was half expecting a lecture of some sort or an awkward moment were my mum was going to give me some advice about dating but nothing. Eh?… There was still nothing as my mum took her seat in the car and my dad pulled out my car keys from the glove box.

My dad handed me the over the keys. "Er..thanks." I stood on the driveway watching them as they disappeared around the bend in the street. Okay… what the hell just happened. A full five minutes passed and I still couldn't understand why my parents had been so calm about me going on a date…after all this was my first boyfriend. I just shook my head. Maybe their using reverse physiology on me.

I was about to make my way back into the house when I noticed a stack of files in the passenger seat of my car. Hmm…. Clambering into the driver seat I stretched over the hand brake to snatch up the pile of papers. "Property of Forks hospital and possession of Dr Johnson" Is what the front cover read. My fingers began to itch as I saw the words Private and Confidential in block capital letter. I could feel myself begin to open the document. Olivia this is wrong! Yet despite telling myself this the file magically opened by itself.

The first page though sent me reeling. OH MY GOD! It was a horrific image of a post-mortem but luckily the picture was from the neck up of the patient so I didn't have a complete heart attack. I can't believe this! Either I was an idiot or terribly nosy because I started to flick through, page after page showed the same image and the only thing that changed were the faces. The photos were haunting. The people with their eyes closed and their lifeless faces looking paler than normal, in death.

Worryingly though the names were starting to set off a light bulb in my head. Alexis... Steven... Alf…SHIT! The Eric family! My hands literally began to tremble.

A series of notes caught my attention. Subjects all suffered from the same identical puncture wounds to the neck. No sign of brute force or any physical damage. Complete blood loss evident. Post-mortem inconclusive.

"OLIVIA!"

I jumped ten feet in the air as the files flew from my hands, the papers scattering all over the car.

Jamie was standing on the porch. Furious at him for scaring me I shouted back. "You idiot! What do you want?"

He seemed hurt by my words but I was still recovering from the sudden spike in my blood pressure to feel bad.

"Dads on the phone he wants you." Jamie said wounded, before he disappeared.

Without a second thought my hands frantically gathered up all the papers and I hurriedly stuffed them into the appropriate files before placing them back on the passenger seat. I didn't see anything. I didn't see anything.

I slammed my car door shut as I locked away my new found knowledge. I don't mind being blissfully ignorant.

Suddenly the trees began to rustle opposite me. I sucked in a breath. The air was still and there wasn't even a hint of a breeze so why were the trees moving. Then I felt it. Those pair of eyes that I always thought were watching me through the forest. Why is this place so weird!" I shrieked internally as I bolted back into the house. Olivia stop being crazy.

I grabbed the receiver from Jamie but not before I apologized to him. "Hi dad."

I could literally hear the busy hospital In the background. "Hi honey sorry to bother you but I left some important work things in your car. Can you put them in my room. If you don't mind?"

"Sure no problem." I managed to squeak out.

Once the goodbyes were exchanged I raced up the stairs as I really needed to get into the shelter of my bedroom. The one place where I could always feel safe.

However just as I breathed a sigh of relief against my shut bedroom door my blackberry went off.

Scooping the mobile off my bed I looked at the screen to see that it was Embry. Thank god. If anyone could relax me it was him.

"Hi." That's all Embry said in that deep voice of his. Now is it weird that I got goosebumps straight away.

I breathed in deeply as I walked onto the balcony, maybe the fresh air would do me some good. "Hi Embry What's up?"

The line crackled before he answered. "I was just wondering if you were okay?.." I opened my mouth about to ask him how he knew that I wasn't but Embry got there first. "I was driving past your house when I saw you run inside."

My eyes bulged for a moment before I giggled nervously. "Oh no no I'm fine." What could I have said no I actually I got frightened to death by images of post mortems that I shouldn't have been looking at in the first place. I decided that changing the subject was the best course of action. "You seem to be driving past my house quite a lot."

His deep laugh sent shivers don't my spine. "I just like to make sure your alright."

After such a sweet response all I could do was cover the mouth piece on my mobile. "Awwwww!" I cooed before bringing the mobile swiftly back to my ear.

It was as if Embry had known that I had returned because he started to speak. "If your not doing anything today I was wondering if you wanted to go cliff diving with me and the guys."

His proposition left me confused. "Embry weren't you there last night when I said that cliff diving is a ridiculously dangerous thing to do."

Embry's chuckle filtered into my ear and I could practically see his grin. "Don't worry I was just inviting you to watch."

Leaning against the railings of the balcony I faced the forest, smiling. "Well In that case I would love to."

"Great I'll be at your house in 10 minutes," Embry said and before I could argue and tell him that I had my car back he hung up.