03/16
I awoke from a strange dream last night. I saw Edward sparkling and Bella running to him, screaming, as three vampires in cloaks approached. One just glared at him, and he writhed as another lit a fire, and he was torn apart and burned. The girl turned, and with a malicious glare, and Bella screamed.
I had a bad feeling, and I slipped down to where Alice and Bella were talking.
"Alice, why did you come back?" I asked.
She looked up at me, her expression serious. "I had a vision, that Bella drowned cliff-jumping. I accidentally mentioned it to Edward, and he wanted me to check."
I realized that she hadn't used the phone at all since she'd gotten here. With a panic in my chest because I was scared of the phone. The phone would attract monsters. If I didn't call, Edward would kill himself, if I heard the conversation the night before he left correctly. As much as I hate Edward, Bella will kill herself if he dies. I love my sister too much.
I watched as Alice went back into telling Bella her backstory and she didn't pick up her phone at all.
"Alice?" I asked again, tentatively.
"What?" She snapped, annoyed for me interrupting.
"Can I borrow your cellphone?" I asked.
"Don't you have on of your own?"
I shook my head, and she sighed, and gave me the sleek model. I gave a quick nod as a gesture of thanks, and I quickly ran upstairs, and grabbed my dagger's handle and stood at the window, watching for monsters as I scrolled through the contacts. I couldn't find Edward's, so I grabbed the next best thing in my mind-Jasper.
I held the phone to my ear awkwardly as I watched for monsters to appear.
"Hurry up, pick up, pick up," I muttered as the phone rang.
"Alice?" A lilting Texas accent came out the other end.
"Jasper, is that you?" I asked in a frantic voice.
"Who is this?"
"It's Mara, Bella's sister," I said quickly. "I'm using Alice's phone."
"Daughter of Apollo, I remember," he replied in warmer tones.
"Yeah, listen, I'd better-"
"You shouldn't be using this," Jasper suddenly said.
"What?" I asked, thrown off-guard by the interruption.
"Cellphones attract monsters," he warned.
"I know, but this is an emergency," I said. "Tell Edward that Bella's alive."
"Mara, I-"
I screamed and dropped the phone as a hellhound leapt through my window. I started to hack at it with my dagger and tried to activate my broadsword, as I backed to the door. I was going to die soon if I didn't have any help.
I heard a gun go off, and I jumped. The hellhound was melting to a puddle of shadow, only leaving behind the Celestial bronze bullet. I picked it up, and looked to see Patton give me a thumb's up and smiling in the window.
I smiled gratefully at him and gave him a thumb's up. I took Alice's cellphone, and I took it downstairs, and didn't interrupt her. I pulled on my rain boots, and ran over to Patton's house. I hugged Patton, who'd just come out.
"Thank you," I murmured, my heart beating fast.
"My pleasure. I just hope that I'll always be around to save you," he muttered.
03/17
Well, this is great. Charlie went to the funeral today, and he wanted us to stay at his house. Jacob has been over, and today was no different. He just picked up the phone when it rang today, and guess what? Jasper did not forward my message. Edward's going to kill himself in Volterra and Alice and Bella are racing the clock to save him.
Patton, Jacob, and I decided to stay here. I didn't know what I was supposed to tell Charlie, honestly, so I told him the truth. Bella and Edward will hate that, Charlie doesn't like it, but the star-crossed twits can suck it.
03/20
"So, why do you dislike Edward so much?" I'd asked Patton today. I was just curious, since he seemed more venomous towards him.
He hesitated, and breathed in deeply. "I never did tell you what happened to my mom, did I?"
I shook my head.
"Well, I- I was six. This was toward the end of one of their last stints. I knew that he was a mind-reader, but he looked different from how he was before, had a pseudonym," he began. "I was in the car with my mom. It was my birthday, and we were going somewhere."
His eyes darkened and were glistening with tears building up.
"I remember how excited my mom was, and how she couldn't wait to spend some time with me. She loved the song, 'Maria' the one we first danced to in the gym, remember?" He asked.
I nodded, wondering where this was going.
He closed his eyes. "She told me that if I found a girl like that, she was one worth chasing, no matter the cost. That was the last thing she ever said to me. It was as if she knew, and that was the last thing she wanted me to know."
He laughed bitterly, and re-opened his eyes to look at me. "Cullen, well, he was Masen then, he was going at his normal breakneck speeds, not caring about humanity all that much. He wasn't paying attention, and he-"
Tears started to crawl down his cheeks. "I was told later that the only reason
I lived through the whole crash, as injured as I was, was that my mom was right in front of me and her body acted as a shield."
I hugged him close as his body shook with sobs.
"Oh gods, I'm sorry, Patton. I wouldn't have asked if I'd known," I said.
"I wanted you to know," he said hoarsely. "We're close enough..."
"I'm sorry," I muttered. "I'm sorry."
Bella came home late tonight, and Edward secretly spent the night. Charlie is not happy. He hates Cullen to death.
