CHAPTER 11
AN: Warning! Readers of this chapter may experience major twists! Side effects may include: Confusion, Headaches, and an urge to review! Please note that these symptoms are NOT life threatening –not to you at least-!
Brooke was running in the forest desperately trying to get away from a shadowed figure in the cloudy forest of Washington. He had blonde hair with hazel eyes. He caught her and smiled deviously and hit her on the side of her temple knocking her unconscious. He then picked her up and pulled out a knife- faced the point downward- and thrusted it in her direction-.
"What. Oh man! I just killed an innocent human! Oh no, no, no!" I crumpled on my knees and pulled uselessly at my hair. Alice put her hand under my chin to lift it up.
"Hey. It isn't your fault. Come on, let's head back before Jack wakes up. I have an idea."
I got up and dusted my pants off. Alice took my hand and we ran into the direction of the house…
"I'm glad you're back." Carlisle said after we walked in. Jack was on the couch whimpering in his sleep. I also smelled sleeping drugs. Carlisle must've put him to sleep minutes before we came in. He pulled his eyebrows together. My mind took on a kind of numbish feeling like I wasn't thinking right. My stomache also started to get nervous.
"Where's Brooke?" I laughed and both Carlisle and Alice looked at me like I had lost my mind. Maybe I did.
"Honestly? I don't know." Alice took Carlisle by the hand and pulled him away into the other room so that I wouldn't have to explain everything.
I changed my mind quickly. Maybe going away for a little while wouldn't be a bad thing. Alice, I'm going for a walk. Don't follow. Please stay here. I thought, trying very hard to not think about what I was going to do. Uh, okay. She was a little shocked by my wording. I stood up from the chair I was sitting in, walked out the front door and sprinted south. I was heading toward the one place I found peace when I was human. My bond with Alice and the rest of my immortal family wasn't as strong as a bond between a mated pair or even as strong as their family bond. I didn't completely like leaving them behind but I need change. Any kind of change. This whole situation with Brooke and Jack was too much and I thought that maybe a different change in scenery would help.
I ran until I came upon a small city that I didn't know of. I slowly walked into the town limits. I didn't pay much attention to buildings. I had hunted a two days ago so I wouldn't have to worry too much about humans. My clothes were still intact so I wouldn't have to worry about them either for a little bit.
Maybe I can have some fun while I'm taking a vacation…
"Hey, mister!" I turned around to find a little girl jog up to me. She had light blond hair with hazel eyes, a thin body, looked to be about 10 or 11 and also soaking wet from head to toe. She grabbed my hand and pulled me to a pool in a hurry. Maybe she wanted to show me something.
"It's my little brother! He can't swim. I tried to tell him no but he jumped in anyways. I can't swim as good in the deep end! Please get him!" She pleaded. I took my shirt off without thinking and jumped in. He was at the very bottom with a very weak heartbeat. I grabbed him and brought him up to the surface. I was NOT going to do mouth to mouth... hopefully.
"Is he going to be ok?" She asked.
"I don't know. Hang on." I started to do chest compressions on him. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four-
He coughed up some water and his sister, who was nervously watching close-by, ran up to me as soon as he sat up, hugged him tightly, and then hugged me after him.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She yelled.
"Your very welcome. Where are your parents?" I asked.
"Chelsea! Where have you been?" A lady, I assumed was her mom, yelled. As soon as she saw me still holding Chelsea and the little boy still on the ground trying to catch his breath she flew into a fury.
"Who the hell are you? Why are you touching my daughter? Get away from her you CREEP!" She screamed. I got up and walked to the other side of the pool away from her fury. If she hit me then that would be hard to explain why my head was so hard.
"Ma' am, I merely was walking on the sidewalk when this little girl-" I said acting like I still didn't know her name.
"Her name is Chelsea." She corrected sternly.
"Sorry, when Chelsea came up to me and asked me to help save her brother from drowning I couldn't just stand there and let him die. She was thanking me for saving him when you showed up and," I stopped to smile a little bit. "I can see where you might get the wrong impression. Again, I'm sorry." She looked convinced but as she looked up and down at my clothes her eyebrows pulled together.
" Where are your parents?" She asked me suddenly.
"I, uh," I honestly didn't know how to answer her question because it caught me off guard. "Am out of the house for right now." She looked morbidly curious. What is it about me that humans just can't seem to stay away? It's like I'm hardly even really a vampire!
"Well, why don't you come in and we can talk about it." Where did the sudden hospitality come from? Well I guess it was a good thing I hunted last night. She walked into her house and I followed closing the door behind me.
