Back To Forks
In this chapter, Edward goes back to Forks with the two girls. Bella flies back to Forks to find Charlie waiting for her. Charlie won't let this one go. What will Charlie say? What happens when the girls wake up? Read this chapter to find out!
Edward's POV
It had been a very long night. Alice and I knew that we couldn't be seen, and we couldn't run too fast because we didn't want to risk injuring Julia and Carlie. At seven in the morning, Alice and I had finally reached the house, where Carlisle stood waiting for us.
"Bring them inside. I have prepared a room for them." Carlisle instructed us. We followed Carlisle upstairs and into...my room?
"Why my room?"
"Your room has more empty space." Inside my room, Carlisle had stuffed two hospital beds side by side. Alice and I placed the girls on the beds and stood beside Carlisle. "They should wake up anytime in the next fifty-one hours. Edward...I know that this wasn't your fault. They snuck into the hotel room, and when they wake up...we're going to find out why."
Guilt flooded through my veins, and I ran to find somewhere peaceful to think. I ended up on a patch of grass where Bella and I had spent so many hours before. I thought about the girls, and what I had done to them when something in my mind clicked. What would their parents think when they found out that their kids didn't come home last night? I snatched my cell-phone from my pocket and called Bella.
"Bella," I said as soon as she picked up, "I think we forgot one important detail! What about their parents?"
"Their parents are on a cruise. It doesn't end for another three weeks. I have their address, and I got a house key from one of their purses. I will take a bus to their house tomorrow to check their voicemail. In fact, there is a bus leaving at noon. It stops right across from their house."
"But Bella, what about when the parents come home? We have no explanation to give them!"
"We will figure out something! Don't worry! Besides, I have more to worry about than you. We're flying home tomorrow and Charlie will be waiting for me. He's never been so mad before. It was one thing when we started seeing each-other after Charlie forbid us to...but what happened next went about a billion light-years past the line that keeps Charlie happy. I won't be seeing you again until I turn eighteen. I love you, and I will keep you updated."
"Are you sure that you're up to breaking into their house?"
"It's not breaking in if I have a key!" I hung up the phone and calmly waited for noon to come around the corner. When the clock struck noon, I bolted to the bus stop and a minute later stepped onto bus 96. From my purse, I extracted three dollars and fed it to the fare machine. I had never been on a public bus like this one before, so I was feeling a little nervous. It made no sense though. Vampires on their way to massacre me barely made me cringe, but a bus could make my heart skip a beat. On a map that I had downloaded, I followed the route we were taking. When the bus stopped on Delamere Drive, I thanked the driver and stepped off of the bus. It was a short walk from the bus stop to Julia and Carlie's house. I unlocked the front door and slipped inside before locking the door behind me. The walls of the room that I assumed to be their living room were a periwinkle blue. The kitchen was through a doorway connected to the living room. The Kitchen walls were a pale yellow that looked very nice next to the blue of the living room walls. I walked over to the answering machine that lay on the counter, next to the fridge and pressed the button labelled messages.
"Message one of four," the machine read out, "yesterday, 6:12 pm. Hey girls, It's your mother. I know that you're out with your new friend, so call us back soon. We can be reached at 555-8259. We love you so much, bye."
"Call us back soon?" I groaned as the machine continued to read aloud the messages.
"Message two of four. Yesterday, 9:54 pm. You girls haven't responded to our message yet. Is everything ok? I guess you just forgot to check the machine before you went to bed. Please call us later. We love you lots Julia and Carlie. Bye!...Message three of four. Today, 7:19 am. Hi, it's mom, just calling to remind you to change the litter in Mickey's litter box. Call us back soon, bye!"
"Change Mickey's litter box litter," I asked myself before checking under the counter. Sure enough, there was a box of cat food and a big bag of kitty litter. I searched for the litter box and food bowl while I listened to the fourth message.
"Message four of four. Today, 11:23 am. Hi girls, you still haven't responded and I'm getting worried. Call me back as soon as you get this message. Bye." By the end of the last message, I had found what I was looking for. I grabbed a scoop and put the litter from the litter box into the now open garbage can. Balancing the litter bag in my hands, I re-filled the litter box, and afterwards poured a reasonable amount of food into a dish. A beautiful Siamese cat ran from the living room and lowered his head to the food dish as I flipped open my phone and dialled Edwards number.
"Edward," I said as soon as I heard him pick up, "There were a bunch of messages left of the answering machine at Julia and Carlie's house. All of them said to call the girls parents when they got the messages. What do I do?"
"You're going to have to phone the parents and pretend that you're either Julia or Carlie. There is no other way. Call me when you're at the airport tomorrow. I love you, bye." Edward had never hung up on my so quickly before, but I knew that he was probably on watch duty for Julia and Carlie. Until one o'clock, I practised my Julia voice. By one fifteen, I had conjured enough mental strength to call the parents. I slowly punched in the number 555-8259 and waited as the phone rang. On the fifth ring, someone picked up.
"Hello," said the pleasant voice that I had heard on the answering machine.
"Hi mom," I said slowly in a vice that mimicked Julia's very nicely.
"Julia, I'm so glad that you decided to call me back."
"I'm sorry mom. Last night, Carlie and I were really tired. We went straight to bed and slept in this morning."
"It's ok honey. How are you doing, and when does Bella fly back to Washington?"
"We're great. Bella's leaving tomorrow morning." It felt so weird to talk about myself like this with someone that I didn't know. "Hey mom, is it ok if Carlie and I sleep over at a friends house tonight?"
"Sure honey. Just to let you know, you can check the messages on your cell phone, or even at a friends house. You just dial our home number and when the answering machine comes on, you dial 1234. So please check the messages every day."
"I will mom! Love you."
"Bye honey!"
"Bye," I hung up the phone and sighed in relief. I didn't even have to come here to check the messages after all. But the good thing was that Carlie and Julia's whereabouts could be covered up for the next twenty-four hours thanks to my quick thinking. I walked out of their house and locked the front door behind me. For now, all was well.
Julia's POV
I had no idea where I was, what time it was, or even what day it was. Since being attacked by Bella's boyfriend, I had felt nothing but pain. As time lingered on however, the pain grew less intense and I was now able to hear what was going on around me. I could hear footsteps thudding up and down a flight of stairs, and two voices.
"Carlisle," a female voice said quickly.
"Alice, what's the matter," a concerned, male voice asked.
"I saw that they will awake at five thirteen tomorrow morning. Also, I know why they were in Bella's hotel room. They suspected that Edward was a vampire. They put two and two together, and they wanted proof of it." Alice sounded upset. "Now, we can prove that curiosity kills. Because of curiosity, Carlie and Julia will never live a normal life. They have parents who care about them, and expect to see their children when they come home! What do we do about the parents Carlisle?"
"We will figure something out Alice, but for now...all we can do is wait." One of the two walked away, light footsteps echoing behind them. Curiosity kills? I thought to myself. I must no longer be human.
Bella's POV
The flight back to Forks was long, but the look that Charlie gave me when he picked me up at the airport was murderous. Charlie glared at me all the way to my truck, and got into the drivers seat as I loaded my bag in the back. Once we were on the road, Charlie interrogated me.
"Bella," he said harshly, "You have disappointed me greatly. I thought that you of all people would be sensible! I thought...well, other parents have to worry about their teenage girls making bad decisions, but I don't have to! Silly me, I should have known! You're not the quiet, sensible girl that moved to Forks a while ago to live with her old man. Now, you're an untrustworthy, insensible girl who does exactly what I tell you not to do! I tell you you're not aloud to see that Cullen boy, and you go behind my back and sleep with him! I read a little further in your diary, and you say that you and he are unofficially engaged?"
"Dad, I love Edward! I can't live without him! He saved me! He saved me from living my life alone! When Edward showed up...I knew that I could never be with anyone else!" Tears streamed down my cheeks, landing on the blue t-shirt that I had decided to wear today. "I want to marry Edward, and be with him for all eternity! I want to live forever with him, only him, nobody but him!"
"Nobody can live forever, and I thought that you didn't want to end up like your mother and I did! Stuck here in Forks, and separated!"
"As long as I am with Edward, I will not be stuck here! I would much rather die than be without him!"
"Well, until the thirteenth of September you will live with my rules! Now, give me your phone!" I handed him my cell phone and silently thanked Edward for having given me a backup phone in case something happened to mine. The rest of the drive home was silent, and as soon as Charlie opened the front door, I ran up to my room.
Julia's POV...Earlier that day
My eyelids fluttered open, and I saw three women and four men crowded around me in a large room. The back of my throat burned, and I leaped off of the bed that I was laying on. I found myself in a defensive crouching position next a hospital bed that I noticed my sister was crouched upon.
"Julia...Carlie, we won't hurt you. You must be a little confused right now, but you need to know that you're not what you used to be. My name is Carlisle Cullen."
"I heard you and the Alice woman talking. I know that when you're bit by a vampire...you turn into one," I said slowly.
"You two look different than you used to look," a pixie-like woman added. She motioned to a mirror, and my jaw dropped as I saw my reflection. My usually straight hair due to a straightening iron had resumed its natural curly state, and shone a beautiful golden blonde. My skin was pale, and my eyes were crimson red. What really made me gasp was the knee length dress that I was wearing. It was sky blue with spaghetti straps, and a sweetheart neckline. It was made of a chiffon-like material that swirled around me with every step. Carlie had now climbed off her hospital bed to look at herself in the mirror. The dress that she wore was made of emerald green chiffon-like material. It was also knee-length, but with inch-wide shoulder straps and a plunging neckline that showed off some of her best features. Carlie's curly red hair that I had always thought to be orange was now a truly beautiful shade of red. Both Carlie and I could now easily pass for eighteen.
"Why are we dressed like we're going to prom?" I asked.
"Alice couldn't stand to see you two in such a mess," Carlisle explained simply.
"My throat burns," Carlie complained in a whisper.
"Mine too," I added.
"Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, can you take the girls hunting?" Carlisle asked the pixie-like woman, a tall blonde, and an extremely buff male. It took a millisecond to figure out who was who. "Jasper, Esme, Edward, can you help clean up these hospital beds? I have to get back to work." The remaining vampires nodded and picked up the two beds. Since I already knew which one of them was Edward, I concluded that the friendly looking lady beside Carlisle was Esme, and the cute male who looked as if he was in pain had to be Jasper.
"Julia, Carlie, do you want to take the more, or less fun route?" Alice asked.
"The more fun the better...my throat feels as though it's on fire!" Carlie replied. Alice motioned for Carlie and I to follow her, Rosalie, and Emmett. She brought us to the large, open window across the room. "Watch us, and do exactly as we do." The three of them sprung from the window sill, and landed softly on the ground.
"Are you nuts," Carlie asked. I knew how she felt.
"What's life without a little bit of adventure?" I said simply before jumping of the window sill as the other three had done. Amazingly, once I started to fall, I instinctively bent my knees and then landed on the balls of my feet. It was then that I realized that my feet were bare. Naturally, that would have really hurt I thought to myself. I could smell and hear everything around me. I heard the crunching sound that my feet made as I moved on the forest floor, the rushing water of a stream nearby, and about a million other things. I was now a vampire...no turning back.
