A/N from now: Sorry I didn't get this up. I wrote it at the beginning of my trip, and now I'm back at home. So, I am really sorry. Anyways, you can read the chapter I've kept from you now.

Disclaimer: Yeah, I still don't own Twilight, or any of the characters in this story except for Sam, Lily, and Scarlett.

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"Sorry 'bout that." I murmured, looking down at my feet as I began to shuffle past him.

"It's fine. Are you okay?" Marcus mumbled after a pause long enough for me to have assumed he wouldn't speak. I jumped a little at his words, surprised.

"Oh, yeah," I blinked, confused as to why he was being nice to me. "I'm good."

He opened his mouth slightly, as if he were going to speak again, but then closed his mouth, nodded, and walked away. I watched him leave, still blinking more than normal, before I shook my head a little and kept walking towards Lily and Scarlett's rooms.

"Saaammmmm…." Someone whispered from around the corner to Scarlett's room. I slowly walked around it, jumped, and screamed as I saw Scarlett staring at me from a shadow, eyes wide, head tilted to the left and forward a little, with a creepy grin on her face.

Scarlett burst out laughing, as Lily stepped out from farther in the shadow, also giggling.

"That wasn't funny!" I choked out between giggles, which had burst out despite my efforts to frown.

"Oh, you know it was," Lily said. Both of my friends had stopped laughing, but they were still grinning. "Anyways, what are we gonna do?"

There was silence for a moment, during which we all thought, before Scarlett spoke. "How about a board game?"

The three of us looked at each other, Lily and I shrugged, and we headed off to find a game.

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I was standing in a stone room, in front of a window, which was more of a rectangular lack of stone in the wall. Rays of sunshine fell through the window and I was staring at the garden below. The smallest creak of the door alerted me to the man entering the room. Turning around, I smiled.

"Oh, it's you." I said.

'Who is it?' I thought. 'I can't see anything. His face is blurred out.'

Although I smiled, I felt fear. This man was dangerous. The blur of his face seemed to vibrate, and there was a high squealing noise. As I stumbled sideways, away from the window, and the man, I realized he was talking. Looking at him, I noticed that only his face seemed blurry, and I could see the rest of him perfectly, with the exception of his hands. But he was holding something, and it wasn't good – not for me, anyways.

"W-what are you d-doing?" I stuttered, confused and scared. The man advanced towards me, and I knew that one of us would be dead soon. But I was unarmed, with no advantage over him, and I found myself unable to scream.

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I groaned as light shone brightly through the window behind Lily's bed, where I had slept after playing six board games and being to tired and lazy to walk back to my room. Grumpily opening my eyes, I saw Lily and Scarlett sitting on the floor playing cards.

"Good morning!" Scarlett greeted cheerfully, setting a card on top of a pile.

"G'mornin'." I grouchily replied.

"How'd you sleep?"

"Uh... Weird dreams."

"What about?" Lily piped up.

"We were in a go-cart trying to run over Felix because he stole Alec's pet fly." I lied quickly, and both my friends laughed.

"Okay then, Sam."

Scarlett and Lily talked as they finished their card game, and I pretended to listen, but I could only think about what I was going to do. I couldn't run from Aro, and I couldn't confront him, either.

If I wanted to be safe, there was only one thing I could do – I had to get someone else to believe me. It couldn't be Scarlett or Lily, it would have to be someone who people would trust. Someone with power.

Two names came to mind at that, and I was terrified at the thought of trying to convince either of them. If I didn't manage to do so, I would probably die. But if Aro killed Didyme, what would stop him from killing me? I would have to take a chance. But first, I would have to figure out who to ask, although neither of them would be easy to convince, and it wouldn't help that neither of them liked me much. But if either of them believed me, Marcus or Caius would be very helpful.