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NickyTwilight!
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--PREVIOUSLY!!--
"Isabella." I noticed he used my full name, trying to avoid me lashing out again. He jumped off the shelf and walked towards me. "Look closely at my eyes." I did as he said and what I saw shocked me.
It was so obvious, how could I never have noticed that?!
They were Red.
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"What the hell?!" I shouted. The music was blaring loud enough for no one to hear me, but I don't think I would have cared even if they could. "How the fuck did you hide that from me?! Im not an idiot Asher, and I looked at your eyes loads, and you had blue eyes!" I was right! I remembered when I looked at him on the night of the crash, his eyes were blue. Or was my mind playing tricks on me? Maybe along with being able to hear my thoughts, he had changed them too so all the obvious signs were blocked? That had to be it!
"It really wasn't that hard to hide, people believe what they want to believe. Or in this case, what I want them to believe."
I knew it!
"So you brainwashed me?! You brainwashed everyone?!" my voice was slowly becoming louder and louder, but I really didn't care.
"In a manner of speaking, yes. Its my gift." He smiled, looking as smug as ever, and as I looked at him I began to wonder something. How could I ever have thought he was cute?
"Your gift? Oh yeah, being brainwashed is what everyone wants for Christmas this year, cheers for that." Stupid sarcasm!
His smile dropped. "Not a gift for others smartass."
"So your gift is the ability to make people believe your human? Why wouldn't they think that though?"
"You thought that about Edward." He did have a very good point, it hadn't taken me long to put it all together. "You even thought that about me sometimes. But you would always kinda argue with yourself about it and decide you were being stupid. It was actually quite funny to listen to."
"I don't remember ever thinking you weren't human?" I was getting really confused now. What the hell was going on?!
Asher simply shrugged. "I wiped it from your memory, so you wouldn't work it out. You got pretty close, and I couldn't let you."
"But it still doesn't make any sense! Your not always cold, your not abnormally strong or fast, you actually sleep, and you don't drink blood!!"
"I am cold, and strong and fast. I just never let you see that, or anyone else. I don't sleep, I just waited until you were asleep to get on with things I needed to do, and yes I do."
My head was spinning again, I hated when that happened. "But…no. That makes no sense. I would have noticed you drinking blood." I stopped for a moment and looked up at him. "I think."
"Its one of the things I did while you were asleep, you're a heavy sleeper and usually you were out for a while."
Ok, so all that I could cope with, but the fact that he was so calm now make me nervous. There was still one thing I needed to know. "James?" Would he know what I wanted to know?
"Ah. My little rouge." There was a hint of a smile playing across his face, but I knew he was trying to hold it back in case I lashed out again. "What can I say? He went a bit crazy, and I lost track of him. I didn't bother trying to find him because I knew he would just cause trouble, like he always did. I heard a few rumours about what had happened, and that he was dead, and I needed to know for myself if it was all true. When I got here, Victoria informed me it was, and I planned to get my revenge but I couldn't do it."
Oh god, he's not gonna make some rubbish up is he? "Couldn't do what?"
"Kill you. You seemed too good to kill." I was seriously gonna be sick! What a load of rubbish! He didn't really expect me to believe that did he? "So is my interrogation over? I really should get back in there, Im a busy man."
"How can you be so calm about all this? Its insane. Your insane!"
He started laughing and I backed away as he walked towards me. "Im not insane, I just know when Ive lost." What? "Edward is alright I guess, and if he's won your heart then well done to him, its more than I could ever do." What?! "Goodbye Isabella. Take care, and don't be a stranger." Before I had the chance to catch up with everything he had said, he had walked back through to the bar. My head was reeling, and I tried to put my thoughts into some sort of order but nothing seemed to make sense. I stumbled back through the bar and looked up to the VIP area. Asher was nowhere in sight. I squeezed my way through the dancers and out to the front door. Carl wasn't there. Where the hell had they gone?
"Bella!" Alice's voice broke me out of my reverie and I made my way across the car to where she was waiting. "Are you ok? Did anything happen? What happened?" She said, her voice higher than normal - if that was possible!
She really needed to calm down. "Alice I…
"He didn't hurt you did he? What happened?
"Alice."
"Where is he? What happened?"
"Alice!" Finally she stopped talking. "Im fine. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. He didn't do anything to me. Nothing happened. He's inside. And once again, nothing happened. I think that's all the questions." I opened the passenger door and waited for her to climb into the car after me, she was still frozen in place, possibly thinking about what the questions were. She eventually got into the car and started it.
The drive home seemed longer than it should have been. I looked out of the window and everything looked as it should. Maybe I was just imagining it. After what felt like hours, the house came into view. I waited until Alice had stopped the car before I unclipped my seatbelt and reached to open the door. But it wouldn't open. I looked at Alice who looked back at me, her eyes shining as if she was about to cry.
"I just need to be sure about this, he really didn't hurt you?"
"He really didn't hurt me." The look on her face told me she didn't believe me. "We talked, ok? That's it. If anything had happened I would tell you." Still unbelieving. "Alice, I wouldn't lie to you, you know that. Can we go in now? If we don't Edward might think we're not coming back." I heard the small click of the lock and knew she was thinking the same.
I got out of the car and we started walking up towards the house, but all I could think about was my conversation with Asher. He had confused me so much with what he was saying, and how he said it too. I thought he would hate me for leaving him, but it was almost like he wasn't even bothered by it. There were so many things I now needed to ask him but Edward wouldn't let me go back again. I needed answers if I was going to work anything out in my head, but I definitely wasn't going to get any now.
Of all the things he said, two things stuck out the most.
"Take care, and don't be a stranger."
The second thing was possibly the weirdest thing. I don't know why, but when he had said it I felt so horrible, like the ground had fallen from beneath me.
"Goodbye Isabella."
Why did that make me feel so awful?
I guess it's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye.
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I had planned for Asher to be a bad guy, but then I had a few more ideas and decided he would be better as a good guy, so Bella has more people to turn to if she needs them. Makes sense? XD
And also, sorry this ends in a weird place. My sis is having a stress as usual about me being still online when its late (23:28 is not late to me!) so I have to go! But I will try to add more tomorrow...if I can actally get on the comp, took my ages to get it off her today! Not good!
Hope you liked the chapter anyway, apart from the abrupt ending of course!