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Chapter 11 – Monster

At home I couldn't stop thinking about Caleb mouthing the words "I love you" when I was looking out of the window of Edward's Volvo. He seemed so sincere, he even thought it. Like purely and only thinking "I love you." The phone rang, I could see Alice dance toward it and she picked it up, I wondered if she already knew who it was.

"Alice Cullen speaking." Her voice sounded.

"Oh."

"Well she's home but I don't really know if she's interested in speaking with you." Alice whispered, she knew I could hear her, so why bother? Alice looked at me with questioning eyes, wondering if I wanted to talk to Caleb. I took a shot.

"Hello." I said, my voice sounded a little depressing, not as strong as I wanted it to sound.

"Jules, thank god." He exclaimed. "Please, don't hang up on me. I know I've hurt you. And I know you're probably scared to death but.."

"Damn right I am."

"But I love you."

"If you do, than please stay away from my family, and tell the same to your family."

"Okay. If you want me to." He said depressing and sincere.

"I do." I realized I was crying again.

"I'll never bother you again, but please know that I love you, and I always will." He almost whispered the words. Somewhere inside of me I didn't want him to give up on me, I wanted him to tell me that it was all a lie and that we could live happily ever after. I couldn't think of anything to say so I just hung up the phone feeling completely numb.

Everyday when it was dinner time at the Swan residence Edward came home for a little while. This time he walked into the living room with the biggest grin I had ever seen.

"What's the matter?" I asked when I put my copy of a book of poetry by Lord Byron aside.

"I'm going to ask Bella over this weekend." He said.

"What did she think of it?" I asked.

"Oh, she doesn't know yet. But she'll be thrilled. Knowing Bella she won't even be scared the littlest bit."

"That's nice." I could afford to smile a little.

"It sure is." He sat down in a chair besides mine and picked a book from the closet.

"I haven't read this one yet." He said, I could see he was surprised.

"That's because that one's knew. Caleb gave it to me ironically."

"I think I'm going to read it." Edward said quite seriously and I acted like I didn't care.

I managed to go to school the entire week, without one sign of me getting sick or anything. It was Saturday, the day Bella would come over and I could feel I was excited. Everyone was really. Carlisle had met her once in the hospital, when she almost got killed by a car accident at school. But Edward saved her, of course. Our hero. Everyone in our family supported Edward's and Bella's relationship, well except for Rosalie. She was having a hard time seeing Bella, all human and stuff and still wanting to be in the company of vampires. I found it somewhat ridiculous, but I could understand why she felt this way. Rosalie was special. Of course, neither of us liked to be turned into what we are know, or what they are and what I fail to be. The day quickly passed and I was upstairs in my room, singing along with a CD when I heard someone knock on my door.

"She's here." I heard the excited voice of Alice, I opened the door and found Jasper shaking his head because of Alice's adorable enthusiasm. Well, that's what he thought. Alice went downstairs and kissed Bella on the cheek. I didn't know what she had seen yet, but I would find out soon. There must be a reason why she was acting this way. Jasper kept his distance and he was kind of ashamed it was necessary. Bella was delighted to be at our home and things all went like it was completely normal. I got upstairs when Edward wanted to play the piano for Bella –Esme tricked him into it- and I could feel I was getting sick. I felt a fever coming up but I tried to ignore it. I was way too excited to let a fever ruin it.

We decided to play baseball that night. Well not me actually, I wasn't talented enough to play along but I liked looking. Bella would be there as well, and Esme wouldn't play along either, so I wouldn't get lonely.

"God Juliette, you're looking pale." Esme said when I walked by.

"Do I?" I knew very well I wasn't looking that great. Esme walked up to me and put her hand against my forehead.

"Are you feeling okay? You've got a fever. Should I ask Carlisle to take a look at you?" Esme, always worried and taking care of me.

"I'm fine. It's nothing really."

"You should stay in tonight."

"No! Please Esme, I want to come." I pleaded. I knew if she didn't want me to go, I wouldn't. She looked at me for a moment, then came to the conclusion as long as I could stand up straight by myself I could go and look at the game.

"Okay. But stay close to me, and tell me when it gets worse."

"I will."

The atmosphere had changed from really fun to gloomy in what seemed just seconds. Alice had announced that there were visitors coming. Vampire visitors, and not the vegetarian kind. They were curious as to how we lived and who we were she told us. They heard us play and wanted to join. Normally this would not have been the problem it was now. Edward quietly freaked out about the situation. Bella was here, her human scent was all around us, and it was good. Her scent would definitely catch their attention, and if they were hungry it couldn't be a good sign. I couldn't deny that Bella's scent was particularly good. Although I had trained myself over all these years not to crave human blood as much as I once did, some scents were more attractive than others, like Bella and Caleb's. I didn't realize for even one second that there lingered a hint of human scent around me. My scent. But that couldn't catch their attention could it?

Not much later the three strangers approached us, it was a strange situation. Edward tried to remind me to keep away from them as well, so they wouldn't mistake me for human. Carlisle walked towards the strangers and did the talking. He told them about his family and how we lived. Asking them to respect our way of living, and not to hunt in our territory. After that everything went really fast. It was all a blur to me because the fever did get worse, and I couldn't quite handle it any longer. We all got home and we all started to panic a little.

"He's a tracker, he won't let Bella go that easily. I could hear what his intentions where Carlisle! And they were far from good." Edward hissed at Carlisle, he didn't want to scare Bella but she was already scared although she would probably found out when she got out of Jasper's created calm atmosphere.

"I'm just gonna go…" I felt dizzy and could barely stand on my feet "upstairs.." nobody did really mind me. And I didn't want them to. They had to get Bella safe immediately. Esme followed me upstairs and got me into bed where the fever made me half unconscious and rattling about nothing. I didn't know what happened after that, but I hoped they could get Bella safe. Soon it turned darker and silent in the house.

It was not much later when I heard footsteps on the hallway. They made the wooden floor squeak and I could hear a click when someone opened the door of my room. I looked towards the strange figure standing at the other side of my room and I started to panic when I recognized him. It was a him. James to be exact. The one who was supposed to be tracking Bella. The one everyone tried to distract right now. He was here in my room. Probably for a snack before getting Bella. To make himself stronger before tracking Bella. He was convinced that he would get her anyway. This wouldn't take long he was thinking. He looked at me, I was gasping for air as the fever made it hard for me to respond to anything that was going on right now. He was wondering what I was, I smelled human like, but he could sense I wasn't totally human. It confused him. I was crying in panic. He walked towards my bed, the bed I couldn't get out of because of my weak body.

"So you're the boy's sister?" he grinned. "They won't be happy to find you after I'm done with you."

"No, please.." I was sure he was strong enough to kill me. There was no way I could survive what he was planning on doing to me.

"What are you anyway? A half-breed? I didn't know they existed. Or are you just covered by their scents and human after all? You sure smell good to me. And you know what, I'm hungry, I can't go tracking on an empty stomach can I?" My body didn't react to what my brains told it to do. I wanted to get out of bed and run. Finally my legs moved and I got out of bed. He stood in front of the door before I could open it. My legs weren't strong enough to stand any longer and it wasn't necessary as James walked towards me and threw me to the bed. I tried to struggle but he was too strong, his grip tightened around my wrist and I could hear the disgusting breaking sound. I cried in pain and I hoped that he would get it over with soon. I was scared to never see my family again. Then it happened I could feel his teeth in my neck. It hurt even more than when Carlisle bit me. This time it was too violent, to hard, to rough. I could hear him make strange, aggressive sounds when the wound started to burn and hurt so much I almost passed out. It was nice to pass out, I had a wonderful dream where James disappeared all of a sudden and I could feel a warm hand stroking my cheek. Then I realized, my heart was still beating and my eyes were open. Although my sight was blurred by the tears in my eyes I started to realize James had not killed me and that someone else, for some strange reason, had driven him away.

"It's okay. You're safe now. He's gone.." a familiar voice said. I looked to where the voice came from and saw to almost black eyes and dark brown hair in front of them. The gentle handsome face of Caleb hung over me.

"Caleb.." I cried and the pain took over me.

"Please don't kill me." I begged in a whisper.

"Take this.." he said holding a tiny bottle against my lips.

"What is it?"

"Antidote..hopefully it will work." He stroked my face and kissed my forehead, or so it seemed.

"The venom is already in my system. Twice as much.." I said hoarsely, I had to try my hardest to speak.

"I can at least try.." he said desperately. I couldn't believe he was here, when I needed him most he came to rescue me. He was my hero, was he not?

"Please Caleb, don't kill me.." I said not totally conscious anymore. And then all I could feel was burning pain all through my body. Again, like I had more than a hundred years ago, I had to go through the agonizing pain that the venom caused.