Authors Note:
Hey everyone! So first of all, I'd just like to say that I am exceedingly sorry for my lack of updates on this story. I know it has been forever, since I last posted anything but I hope you enjoy this chapter. Admittedly, it is a bit shorter then I had intended but I wanted to give you guys something.
Thank you to anyone who still finds interest in my story/stories.
On with the story!
Mwahz
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Previously:
"What?" she said innocently. "I just gave them one of my death glare Belly-Boo. They were annoying my." She continued as she pouted at me, using the old nickname she gave me back when she actually was the innocent little girl and not just playing one. I just smiled at her and doodle in the margin of my book as the teacher droned on. This is going to be an interesting few years. I bet ten bucks on it.
JPOV
I clenched my fists tightly on the top of my desk, my shoulder stiff and rigid, brought closer to my neck. My eyes hardened into a taut glare, the colour no doubt turning blacker then the night skies. To the beholder I probably appeared to be in immense pain, and in a certain way, I guess you could say that I was. It was all to over-whelming. I needed to get out of there before it became too much. Slowly and tensely I raised my hand into the air to gain attention.
"Yes Mr Hale?" I was asked. That's not my name. It will never be my name. It is my name. My glare hardened, my jaw set and spoke in a slightly strained voice.
"May I go to the bathroom, Ma'am?" This is all too unbearable. Edward you are not exactly making this any easier for me with all your damn problems either. I don't say it. I don't need too. He can hear it. He's only in the next classroom over. My bag is already in my hand, she can't see it, my impatiently waiting for my escape, my get away.
"Go ahead." She sighs and turns back to the board, her emotions slightly annoyed at being interrupted. I don't care. I needed to get out of there and was already out of the door, heading towards the back of the gym building, where the forest first meets the grounds. Why did the emotions have to climb higher today? Why not on a day of sun and warmth, when I'm not here? Why do they look so familiar to me? To Edward? To Rosalie and Emmett? To my dear Alice? Why must so many emotions come all at once and only intensify as the day wears on?
I walk, and keep walking at a fast human pace as the feel of a great emotion hits me. I have to take a step back and then I'm moving forward again. It's frustration, it's stress and annoyance. I smell vanilla and strawberry bubble gum. It smells nice. But I'm not hungry. It smells good but I'm not hungry? What's suddenly wrong with me? I keep walking and the emotions get stronger. Someone is here, standing in my spot. It must be one of the freshman cutting classes again. But I'm wrong. I turn the corner as I heard the faint click of a lighter and a draw of a breath. I saw a mope of wild curly hair, black leather and grey wash jeans. A tall and yet short frame. Stress, frustration, agony and annoyance. Wave after wave, after wave of the same emotions. I could feel myself start to spread the emotions throughout the school. I stared; I just stood there and stared. That is too much emotion for a single person's lifetime. A giggle, a girlish little giggle and a smirk was shown. The second sound of a breath being drawn. And then, total calmness. Total peace tranquillity. It was the calmest feeling I had ever felt before. I had to commit it to memory for a later date. I have never in my entire lifetime felt this calm, particularly around a young human. And yet, it felt so familiar, so natural.
"Fancy seeing you here little Whitlock." Her voice was like lilacs and tulips in the summer breeze. How it is that it sound like flowers, I did not know. But it did. She breathed out a white cloud and lowered her hand as she turned her face towards me with a knowing smile on her face. She knows things, I know it, can feel it. Like the calm, I can feel it. My tense demeanour had noticeably vanished since that first intake of breath, since that first wave of calmness. I have never been this calm. I couldn't say anything. Words seemed to be too much of an effort to be expressed or expelled from my lips, my body too lazy to utter a single sound or syllable. Another draw, another breath adds an extra wave to the calmness. I mimic her stance and lean against the gyms exterior walls. It's easier to stand that way, easier to balance. My body feels close to being asleep. I haven't felt that feeling for centuries; I had forgotten what it had felt like, to sleep. She looks away again, towards the forest's skies.
"Intelligence doesn't count as an excuse for truancy you know?" she breaths again, another cloud, another wave of calm. She says it so lightly, like it was an everyday conversation that we share. My mind starts to empty.
"What… What are you doing…?" to me. What are you doing to me? That was what I was trying to say, but I couldn't. What was she doing to me! But I couldn't say it. It was such a struggle to speak and my voice, so low, under a whisper. She wouldn't, couldn't have heard me. She did.
"I'm smoking Major. And action not unknown to you I am sure." Again she has another draw, another breath, another cloud and another wave of calm. The both of us, still looking forward, slid down to the mildew grass covered floor. Our legs had become weak, unable to continue supporting our weight a moment longer.
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Authors Note:
Hey everyone! I am exceedingly sorry for my lack of updates on this story. I know it has been forever, since I last posted anything but I hope you enjoy this chapter. Admittedly it is a bit shorter then intended but I wanted to give you guys something. Thank you to anyone who still finds interest in my story/stories.