Chapter 12: Tracker!
APOV:
"Alice, please just go to bed." I shook my head now and tried to get off the bed again, with no prevail, Jasper had his arms securing me to the bed. I glanced at the clock . . . its not even late. It was only 11ish. I was trying everything in my power not to think about tomorrow to leave my worries behind me. He sighed heavily and let me up. I smiled at him and jumped off the bed and ran downstairs to the living room TV where Emmet and Carlisle were watching some sports game. Jasper followed me from behind.
Jazzy sat down on the couch and I followed him. Eventually, well almost five minutes, I go bored of watching the nonsense of a sports game on the TV and decided to lie down on top of Jazzy. He played mindlessly with my hair. I felt very comfortable here, and I trusted him, he would never hurt me.
"See," I told him randomly, "If you hadn't made me sleep all by myself upstairs, maybe I would have been asleep faster."
Carlisle found this somewhat amusing; I noticed a small laugh coming from that side of the room. I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Hey!" Jazzy scolded me, "You know, he's about 20 times your age."
"Don't make me seem so old Jasper." Carlisle was obviously amused by this.
I felt tired for once, so I decided juts to give into the sleep. I didn't want tomorrow to come, but I suppose everyday will have to have its end. I was ever so slightly aware of Jazzy still playing with my hair, and Emmet cheering on some random team.
It's another one of those dreams, I thought to myself.
There was a huge forest and I noticed a pair of red eyes following someone. I couldn't quite tell who it was. He ended up leaving her though, and heading back through the woods in an opposite direction.
The next dream started just as this one finished.
It had to be the same red pair of eyes; he was at the school, digging up some school paper work. He had the office lady convinced that he was for some scholarship committee, doing some research on a few students that had just moved there. She didn't know what to say, but she accepted his story in the end.
He had his eyes on two files and quickly swapped through the pages. I saw the names and pictured of two very similar faces, Edward's and mine. He shoved the copies of the files into his backpack and thanked the office lady and left. He headed strait for my house, but inside I saw Edward and Bella still talking, he was watching them.
I really wanted to see who this was, or at least have a name. He obviously was not human, his red eyes proved that much. I saw Bella leave as Charlie got home, Edward sulked around the living room for a moment and Charlie entered.
"Edward, still up so late!" Charlie said hanging his coat on the wall hanger in the entrance.
"It's a weekend you know." Edward said, as politely as he could manage, which in his case would make any parent feel proud.
Charlie looked at the clock then back to Edward. "Well, not too late, I have to work tomorrow, and your sister'll be at the Cullen's place, shopping with Bella or something. I will need someone to mind the fort in case she needs anything."
"That reminds me." Edward spoke up, "Why you home so early?"
Charlie sighed. "Some kid at La Push got sick or something, I think he was Quill or something, wasn't really paying attention to the name , there was a game on, Billy being all high and mighty had to help out, I told him I'll take a rain date. So here I am. Have a good night, not too late. Night." He made his way up the stairs and went o bed.
Edward stayed downstairs the headed out the back door of the house. I don't know what he was looking for but then someone came out of the woods, then it ended.
My eyes snapped open, and I realized I was curled up into a ball gripping Jasper's pant leg to save my life. Everyone was around me, staring down concerned. Carlisle even had his doctor's bag out.
"Alice, you okay?" Esme asked, worried. Of course, I realized the pain in my head had gotten worse than earlier. I sat up slowly putting my hands on my temples, trying to get it to stop pounding.
"Mhm." I nodded, she wasn't convinced. "I think, it was a dream." I said unsure, I hated being asleep, I never knew what was real or not. "But I want to call Bella or Edward just in case."
"You can use my phone." Carlisle said, handing me a thin black cell, I dialed Edward's number and then waited three rings before he picked up.
"EDWARD!" I said out of pure happiness.
"Alice," He sighed. "Please tell me you are still human."
"Of course silly!" Not for long, but, "I was just checking to see if Bella was still there, I didn't want you to stay alone, you looked pretty shaken up."
"Alice," Edward sighed, "'Maybe you should consider re-thinking that." Stupid mind reading brother!
I smiled, to make sure none of the other suspect any foul play, on my mortality or anything. "Edward, later, just tell me that Charlie is still at Billy's."
"Alice, Charlie just got home, he went upstairs, I was just going to go out to see if Bella was still around, I think I might owe her an apologize, kinda." Edward sighed, Aww! That is so cute; Eddie-poo wants to apologize for being a random jerk. That's nice of him to finally feel some guilt for making her feel all emo. Wait. If Charlie just got home then, that means that someone really is following us. "Edward – do me a huge favor and stay inside kay?"
"Sure, but why?"
"Just promise!"
"Promise."
I shut the phone, before Edward could say anything else. The room was swirling ever so slightly, I leaned back into Jazzy's chest.
"Alice." He said, his voice ever so strained, he looked down at me. "What did you see?"
"I think someone is following Edward and I, I saw him going through some old school files and then I saw him outside of my house. I just wanted to make sure someone was with him." I sighed.
I noticed that all the vampires in the room just got slightly stiff.
"I think I better call Bella." I said, and then I saw the phone vibrate. I got off the couch and answered it, it was Bella.
Then I heard the phone ring again. Déjà vu, something quite common when it comes to my mind. "It's Bella." I told them as I got off the couch to answer it. "Hey Bells." I tried to sound as nonchalant as I possibly could.
"Alice? I thought you were going to bed?" She did the same, though she was a bit more impatient with the slight formalities.
"Couldn't sleep, are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine, I just need to talk to Carlisle, I think that we might have a slight problem on our hands." Her voice trailed off at the end, and I mindlessly handed Carlisle the phone, he was standing right next to me by this time.
"Hello?" Carlisle answered. The rest of the conversation happened to low and too quick for my stupid human ears to pick up. He clicked the phone shut and placed it back on the coffee table.
He turned to Jazzy, who was now standing by Esme and I.
"You don't think that this could be the Nomads, do you? I thought they would be just passing through, that's what Kate told us, when she found out that they were heading this way." Jasper asked.
"I believe that they are, but of what interest could Alice and Edward have for them, they know enough not to hunt on our grounds." Carlisle sighed. "It could be the interesting sent. A vampire and a human, together is unique."
"It's probably a tracker." Jasper added. "You don't think that it would go to far do you?"
"I would hope not," he said looking at me now. "For now, let's just let the weekend plays out."
"We could all ways bash their head in," Emmet smiled, Esme glared, "Or not. Sorry mom."
She relaxed a little, then gave me a light hug. It was still weird for them to be so hard against my skin. I looked over and saw Bella was back here at last. She smiled at me before heading upstairs followed by Carlisle. I felt as if I was missing something. Of course, it could be the half hour of sleep I got, or the fact the room was still slightly spinning, or the fact that I can't hear half the conversation.
"So what shall we do now?" Bella said smiling at me; she was at my side nearly instantly.
"Well, I don't know. Jazzy want to watch a movie?" I said looking over at him. He smiled and led me back to the living room's closet, I would never have noticed it, and it was filled with every movie, and DVD possibly ever made!
"You may pick." Jazzy said to me. I searched the shelves and found a stupid movie, mean girls; this would be a fun one to watch!
I heard Bells laugh when she found out what movie I wanted. Jazzy sighed, but didn't want to ruin my fun so we all watched it. All the while I thought about what it could possibly be that I was missing.
So I finally decided just to ask while the credits were rolling.
"What's a tracker?" I saw Bella and Jazzy exchange a quick look.
Jasper answered me first. "It's a vampire who literally tracks humans for fun. Many of the good ones have abilities to help them, and they choose their food carefully, they want to make sure it's actually fun, before they kill them."
Bella added, "It's nothing to worry about, I doubt that they would come and attack you," Even though she said this I still could tell that there was something in that sentence that wasn't true, because Jasper and she exchanged yet another knowing glance. My eyes drifted back to the red eyes that I saw in my dream, they were not as friendly as the Cullen's warm golden color.
One thing was for sure, despite Bella's words, the tracker had his eyes set on Edward and myself.
Author's Notes: Look at that, I updated again! ^_^ Anywho, I don't have much to say, just review! Please, please, please, review! Thanks to y'all who reviewed last time!
Random other note: OMGOSH! It's my last week of school! Ever! Not counting college of course! But I'm still excited, and my birthday is Saturday! YAY!
