Chapter Twelve
Renesme's POV
"What's going on over there?" Zeke asked me, his boyish face not even registering in my mind when I had been staring at Jacob for most of the lunch period.
"Over where?" I heard my brother Edward ask when it seemed like I wasn't going to respond. Ed had always been super nosey about everyone's business, which was weird since we only stayed at a town for a few years before we had to move again so it wasn't like we remained friends with any of them.
"Ooh, that's my friend Maxalina, isn't that a pretty name? I wish my name was something exotic like that instead of 'Monique.' She has everybody call her Max though which reminds me of a guy…" Monique trailed on. "Who is that on top of her? I don't recognize the other girl, do you?"
"That's Leah. She was in my Algebra class first period." Seth admitted to his imprint. "The attention she got from the other boys was crazy. It was like she had a spell over them or something."
"Wait, Leah Nymph?" I asked, breaking away from staring at Jacob for two seconds to see Seth nod his head. That girl was the one the guys were all drooling over in the hallways and talking about in every class. I hated her for it.
I scanned to find the fight and was shocked to see that it was more of a physical fight than a typical girl fight would have been. Leah, who was indeed as gorgeous as everyone said, was lunging for Max's neck while Max fought her off with roundabout kicks and lucky punches.
Leah's family, which consisted of a group of also gorgeous teenagers, were starring frozen in shock. Along with the rest of the cafeteria, they didn't seem to be able to move to stop the fight.
Only the youngest girl, Angel, who Nudge had explained in length about, seemed to know what was going on. She was frowning intently at her sister. She seemed to be concentrating on her with more force than most people would in this situation.
Peter, tall, dark, and handsome, was glowing at his sister and trying to get in the middle of their fight to protect Max. If I didn't know better, I would say that they were fighting over him, but that was just crazy talk.
"Woah, did you see that?" Zeke asked, pointing wildly at the two girls. "That blonde chick just clear out swung at the dark ones face. That would hurt even me!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah, but it didn't even seem to hurt Leah." Monique rambled. "She must be screaming on the inside though. Her face is determined not to show her pain though."
"Maybe it isn't our business what they are." Edward said defensively.
"I don't see why….oh." I said, my mind registering on his subtle meaning. "They are vampires like the Volturi we're supposed to be fighting against, aren't they?"
My brother simply nodded. He looked ashamed that he held out the information, but that part wasn't as big a deal as everything else.
"Wait, so Leah could be trying to eat Max right now?" Seth asked, startling all of us.
"I didn't think of it like that…" Ed said.
"Do you think we should help Max?" Nudge asked. "I mean, I'm kinda friends with her and I would hate to loose one of my new friends on the first day of school. Not like I want to loose her on the second day of school either but I just think that it would be worse if I don't get to even go over to her house once. Hey, Ed, do you think that I could go to Max's house if she lives? I think she could invite me if she knew that I wanted to go…"
"Shh, babe. Why don't we just stay out of this?" Seth said soothingly to his imprint. "If Max needed help, her family would have stepped in."
Suddenly, a loud crash startled us and we followed the humans' eye line and saw that Peter had moved into a protective crouch in front of Max and Leah was taking a lunge at him now to get at her.
The loud crash was the sound of their bodies hitting each other. Yup. Definitely vampires.
Ed was the only one who had ever dealt with vampires (other than us coincidently meeting them today) and even that was briefly. He fought off a nomad years ago, but the fight was over before he even had enough time to signal us.
"Where are all the teachers?" Zeke whispered and I shrugged. Did it really matter? Like human faculty could stop the two vampires from fighting.
Suddenly, Leah just stopped. Her eyes looked hazy, but otherwise, she was normal. She walked like a robot out the cafeteria door. Peter growled at her retreating figure, but moved to stand up out of his crouch. He half smiled at Angel before he turned to Max.
She was hyperventilating and clutching her right arm in pain. That seemed to get Peter's attention. The two of them left the room, going in the opposite direction as Leah did and headed towards the parking lot.
"Should we go help them?" Monique asked quietly. "What about her family? Aren't they worried?"
I glanced at her family's table where I had been starring most of the time anyway. Jacob was growling at Peter, Max's twin Bella was frowning, Iggy was starring in shock, and Mary Alice, the eldest sister, was motioning for them not to get up. She must know something that the rest of us don't.
AN: So, who thinks Max should get changed? Let me know what you think.
