Ellie shuddered as cold air pressed her. Ellie's eyes fluttered open to darkness. Suddenly the cold was gone. And she could see gold eyes looking at her.
"Zeph-" She was too tired to say anymore.
"Shhh" He whispered. "Just a question, would you like to spend the day with me tomorrow? Yes or no, if you don't want to you don't have to."
Ellie nodded. He smiled. "I'll pick you up at ten. Okay?" She nodded again. "Sweet dreams" he muttered. His lips brushed across her cheek, her eyes closed as she fell into the world of dreams.
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Bright sunshine morning light lit up the kitchen. Ellie sat at the table eating cereal, her Maw Maw Bell sat at the end.
Ellie sat silently. She couldn't figure out if Zephen visiting her that night was a dream or not.
"Aren't you hungry?" Her mother asked, she just stared at her Cherrios.
"Ellie?" Her mother asked again.
Ellie shook her head and looked at her mother. "Just trying to remember a dream."
"I had the strangest dream last night." Her mother started to ramble on. "You were there, Jordon was there...and Maw Maw Bell was there...and I was there...And Jordon was mad at Maw Maw Bell about something...and was going to fight her...? When suddenly she grew wings out of her back, picked you up and flew away..." Ellie barely listened to her rambles. "Did you hear me."
Ellie did hear though..."Yes mom...Maw Maw Bell had wings and she flew away..."
"It was so wierd! And then Legolas appeared out of no where and started asking me how to spell Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious..."
Ellie sighed. Her mother had idolized Legolas when she was younger. As her mother rambled on a random small, but thick cloud drifted below the sun, blocking it.
"What kind of wings did I have?" Maw Maw Bell asked. Ellie hid a smirk.
"They were black...and brown...just a pair of bird wings..."
"Oh..." Maw Maw Bell went back to her toast.
"Did you remember it yet?" Her mother asked again.
"No..."
But at that moment the door bell rang.
"Ellie, go answer the door."
Ellie sighed, but got up and did as she was told. "Alice?" Ellie gasped to see Alice.
"Hi ya! Wanna go shopping?" Ellie's eyes got big.
She whispered, "I hate shopping." Alice's eyes got wide then.
"Ellie who's at the door?" Her mother asked from the kitchen. Ellie looked back to Alice.
"Who should I say?"
"I'm Alice Cullen, Zephen's sister..."
"Right.." Ellie whispered. "It's just Zephen's sister."
"Zephen has a sister?" Her mom asked. She came to the door. "Hello, I'm Sara Black, Ellie's mom"
"Hi Mrs. Black. I'm Alice Cullen."
"Not a Jude?"
"Techinically our whole family was adopted, I've taken up Cullen, he kept his being Jude."
"Oh."
"Well, I just wanted to know if Ellie wanted to go shopping with me..."
"Where to?" Her mom asked.
"Edmundston..."
"We were just up there yesterday..." Her mother mused.
"Well you see it's Zephen's birthday tomorrow and I have been left with the duty of arranging everything...And I have a list of presents to buy...And then everyone else decided to go and leave me to see a movie...I'm all alone..." ALice made a devastated face.
"Oh well, if she wants to go, it's fine with me...when do you think you'll get back?"
"'Bout five...is that alright?"
"Sure...Have fun Ellie..."
"Let me get my purse" Ellie told her. She nodded. Ellie ran to grab her purse and toss on her shoes and jacket...(she had already showered and dressed herself...)
"'kay, I'm ready" Ellie said running back.
"Well, see you Ellie"
"Bye mom, BYE MAW MAW BELL!"
"Bye sweetie" Maw Maw Bell's voice came.
"Bye Ellie." Her mom waved as Ellie got in the car.
"Wait a minute, who's driving?" She suddenly asked.
"I am!" Alice said, she held up her drivers license.
"Oh...uh, okay...have fun!" Her Mom said. Watching them carefully as Alice pulled away.
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"Zephen's birthday is tomorrow?" Ellie asked.
"No, actually we thought it would be better if your mom didn't know that you were going to spend the day with a boy..."
"What? I thought we were going shopping?"
Alice laughed... "Don't you remember last night?"
"So that wasn't a dream!" Ellie exclaimed.
"Nope..."
"So where am I meeting Zephen?"
"Right here" Alice pulled to the side of the road. A forest stretched out before her. A small cloud had settled over head, just thick enough to block out the bright light. "See you at five!" Alice told her.
"Um..."
Then her door opened and Zephen was there. "You alright with this?" He asked.
Ellie nodded, butterflies in her stomach.
"C'mon"
Ellie unbuckled herself and got out. Zephen helped. He waved to Alice, and she drove away. Zephen pulled her into the forest.
"Back when Edward had fallen in love with Bella and just after she found out what he was he took her to a meadow deep in a forest. I sort of found the same thing here, though it's quite different." Ellie nodded. "I hope you don't mind a long hike?" He asked.
"No" Ellie told him. She was grateful she had worn blue jeans and her green sweater. If Ellie had known about Bella and Edward's meadow, she would have noticed the trail wasn't as difficult. But it did take time, and she stumbled, just like her great grandmother. And just like Edward, Zephen helped her up and he was very, very patient. As they neared, Ellie not knowing, she asked a question.
"So Why are we going to this 'meadow'?"
"I figured it was time you learned everything."
"Everything?"
"You knew only the small things from me, and from Bella, its time that you know everything...and what you're getting yourself into. You still have the choice to wish me away, you don't have to be a part of the vampire world." Ellie was about to answer when he interrupted, "Don't worry, you don't have to choose now. And, I'm sure you are wondering what we look like in the sunlight."
As Ellie walked Ellie thought on that. "You don't burn?"
"That's just a myth. And I don't sleep in coffins and garlic doesn't bother me."
Ellie almost asked about the blood, but she remembered Mordacai. She didn't ask about that. She knew, already, about that.
Then Ellie saw a light area, where trees weren't as thick. She went right to it and gasped, it was beautiful. She didn't know what the Bella and Edward's meadow looked like, but she couldn't even think that it was more beautiful than what lay before her. Green grass and wildflowers scattered the meadow, it was a small open space in the shape of an oval, with scarce, but grand trees, they looked great for climbing...for someone else, not Ellie...One of them was a great old willow. There was a little creek on the furthest side of the meadow some of the willow's leaves hovered over the creak. Blackberrie bushes laid just on the other side of that. It was absoulutely picturesque. Ellie ran into the center, tempted to go under the veiled leaves and branches of the grand willow.
But she stopped, Zephen not at her side, she hadn't realized that the small cloud had been gone for quite a while. And Exactly as her great grandmother had once done, she turned to Zephen, who stood in the shadows of the trees, she motioned her hand for him to come. He sighed, his gold eyes never leaving hers, as he walked into the path of the bright golden sun.
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And just like in Twilight, I am going to end this chapter here, just like Stephenie Meyer did. And next chapter you will get to see the familiar reaction from Ellie as from Bella. Only Ellie's time in this meadow will be more intense, than Bella's...
I hope you've enjoyed this. Please review...and see you all later!
