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I was in the clearing again, finishing my walk. I tugged on the zipper of my jacket and put the hood up as a few drops of rain splattered my head. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw two people crouched in a fighting stance. After a minute, it registered in my mind that they were vampires. When I took a closer look, I realized that one of them was Emmett. My breath caught in my throat. I turned my attention to the vampire on the left. She was female and had beautiful, flowing blonde hair that hung below her shoulders. I knew her from somewhere, but I couldn't place the name with the face. The answer came to me so sudden that I gasped and staggered back a few steps: Rosalie. Why was Emmett fighting his own girlfriend?
Without any further hesitation, she lunged at him, sending him flying through the air. He could have blocked her. He could have fought back, but he didn't. Standing up, he tried to talk to her. "Rose," he said calmy. Before he could say anything else, she pounced on him.
She put one hand on each side of his head. "She's going to be next, and you won't be able to protect her." She hissed. Turning his head to the right, she prepared for her next move.
Knowing what she was about to do, I collapsed to the ground in pure emotional agony. "NO!" I wailed. Streams ran down my cheeks as the rain picked up and mixed with my tears. "NO! NO! NO!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, frantically pounding at the ground with clenched fists. They couldn't hear me; it was no use. Emmett closed his eyes, and then she-
"Emmett!" I yelled out, shooting bolt upright in bed. Strands of hair were plastered to my forehead with sweat. My heart pounded in my chest, and my breathing was hitched. My nose was stuffy, and I felt the tears running down my face.
I heard a rush of air, and then somebody was beside me. I gasped, preparing to scream, when an icy hand was laid over my mouth. "Malady, it's me." I heard his voice whisper out of the darkness. My eyes gradually adjusted, and I saw his radiant face.
I untangled myself from the mess of blankets and threw my arms around his neck without any intention of letting go any time soon. For an unknown period of time, he held me like that, neither of us saying anything. I was finally able to stop the flood of tears and get my breathing under control. After a while, I pushed myself back a bit using his shoulders, and I cupped his perfect face in my hands. Staring into his seemingly glowing eyes, I slid my hands down the length of his cheeks, over his neck, and down to his shoulders. I wrapped my arms back around his neck and pulled myself in for another embrace. "You're okay." I quietly spoke to Emmett.
"Of course I'm okay. Are you?" Emmett replied, confused. He gently placed one hand on the back of my head, pulling me closer, and the other hand went to my back.
"I'm okay. I will always end up being okay. It- it's everybody else that ends up not being okay." I said all in one breath.
"What are you talking about?" Emmett asked calmly.
"Nothing" I breathed, shaking my head. I gently eased out of the embrace. "What are you still doing here?" I asked when I saw that it was seven past two.
"I didn't want to leave you here by yourself. I was waiting for your aunt to get home, but she hasn't yet." Emmett replied, taking a seat on the edge of the bed.
"Sometimes she doesn't." I answered indifferently. When I saw Emmett's expression, I explained. "If she feels that she has had too much to drink, she stays with one of her friends. I spend many nights alone. It's no big deal."
"You didn't mention that. You said that she came home late."
"I don't know why I didn't just say that. Maybe I thought it didn't matter. Maybe I don't want people to know that I basically live by myself. Maybe it was because I made her sound like a horrible guardian already, and I didn't want to make it worse." I sighed.
"Malady, you already take care of everything around the house. You take care of youself. You shouldn't go around the city announcing it to everybody, but if you want to tell somebody, tell somebody. You don't owe her any more."
"The truth is, I haven't had anyone to tell. Blythe and I don't talk about things like that, and I like it that way." I shrugged.
"Oh" was all Emmett said.
"Yeah, so being home alone isn't an issue for me. You can go home if you like; your family is probably wondering where you are."
"They know where I am." Emmett simply said.
"They know you are still at my house?" I asked.
"You can't really keep things from vampires, especially a mind-reader and a psychic."
"Oh yeah" was all I said. We sat in silence for a minute when I blurted out, "Why do you care?" Tact wasn't my strong suit at two in the morning.
"What do you mean?" Emmett asked, though I'm pretty sure he knew what I was saying.
"Why does it matter if I am here by myself? Why does it matter whether or not I have a decent meal? Why do I matter? You saved my life, you don't owe me anything else. Are you trying to make sure I don't tell anyone? Trust me; I won't. You are jeopardizing your relationship with your girlfriend to spend time with a stupid human girl that you only met the other day because she was about to be killed!" I yelled.
"You aren't the only one who wants to know why!" Emmett shouted back. His words hit me like a slap in the face.
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