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Chapter 11

Thoughts

The next day

(Allie POV)

Another day, another dream filled night and another rude awakening by the twins. This time they went with noise and I woke up to the sound of an explosion coming from a tape recorder next to my head and I woke up screaming. Needless to say the two culprits stayed well away from me that morning. School passed without incident, although the whole cafeteria saw an amusing break up between Lauren and Tyler, though from what I had seen from those two they would be back together by tomorrow.

After school I had to work which wasn't so bad except every 10 minutes Carol would tell me how great Seth is, and how kind and polite he can be. I swear if I had to stay even a minute longer I would either gag her or stuff napkins in my ears. Inwardly though I was so glad for Carol she seemed really happy and I knew that Seth would never hurt her. As I was leaving the café, I saw a girl standing outside of the local garage. Mara Delgad.

Mara Delgad was a strange girl. She wasn't bad but she wasn't close to anyone, she kept to herself and was quite tough as well. She had moved here about 1 year before I did. She was tall about 6ft 2, her hair was straight, black and ran down to her waist, she had a very pale face and dark green eyes. Everyone seemed to avoid her and if you listened to the Forks high school gossip machine it was because she was a criminal who was part of a vicious biker gang that she lead on rampages around other towns. I had had almost no contact with her but right now I needed her help. She worked at the garage and my parents had surprised me after the bonfire by buying a car a second hand Jeep. Unfortunately the car wouldn't start and my family and myself included knew absolutely nothing about cars.

I had no money left as the Jeep had been bought using the money I had earned. I prayed that I would be able to convince her to fix my car as I crossed the street.

"Hi, erm your Mara Delgad right" I asked, I then wanted to kick myself how lame did that sound! She slowly turned to me and nodded without saying anything. One of those strange awkward silences filled the air. I just kept reminding myself what I had to do car car car fix fix fix.

"Well my name's Allie Brooks. Listen I know this out of the blue but could you help me with something?" this time she answered me.

"What do you need from me?" she asked in an incredulous voice. Seeing as she hadn't flat out said no I felt a bit of hope.

"Well my car won't start and I don't have any money to pay the garage so I was hoping you could do it instead and I could pay you back later" I said quickly without taking a breath. She stared at me for a while as she considered it and I waited anxiously for her answer.

(Mara POV)

I looked at the girl in front of me, at first I was surprised that she had even come over considering what the good teenagers of Forks had to say about me. The freaky bad girl loner with a gang, I snorted inwardly no matter where I seemed to go peoples opinion of me stayed the same. I wondered if this was just another trick by one of the "cool" kids. I shut my eyes and breathed deep. I called up memories of my grandmothers teaching and I opened my senses. My people were strongly connected to the earth and the spirits and I used the skills I had to read the girls aura. It was unlike most of the kids here auras. She wasn't lying I sensed a lot of warmth and kindness coming from her and not a lot of selfishness or meanness just friendliness and hope.

My mind turned back to her question, I loved working on cars it was the reason I had a job at the garage, bless old Johns heart, he had heard what everyone said about me yet he had still offered me a job. Then inspiration stuck I had to get to my grandmothers home up in the mountains on the weekend and my bike was in no shape to do it. I could ask her to take me up or at least lend me her car but with my reputation that was highly unlikely.

"Allright" I answered and I saw a look of relief pass her face " I'll work on your car but you have to take me up to the mountains this weekend , or you could just lend me your car" she looked a little stunned but she quickly snapped out of it .

"Sure, but I'd prefer it if I drove" I smiled typical she seemed to see this and carried on quickly "it's just that I only got the car and I don't feel comfortable lending it out just yet, it's a weird thing of mine" I nodded feeling a little unsure. This hadn't happened to me before people didn't interact with me. I lived by myself in an apartment, my only living relative was my grandma who lived in the middle of nowhere. I had been taught the ways of my people by my mother and father but they had died in a car crash, I had had to fight after that the only comfort was my grandmother, she was skilled in our ways and I had developed well under her tutelage. The problem was being around nature all the time meant my people skills were non-existent. This friendliness was new and unexpected.

"OK" I agreed and we shook hands. I arranged to come over tomorrow and see if I could fix the car. She walked away and my mind once again turned to my dream and that glowing green symbol.

(Allie POV)

I waited till I was around the corner before I started to jump up and down with delight. I smiled before I checked out my watch. Oh. No. I was very very late. I sped off down the street how could I forget. It was mum and dads anniversary and I had agreed to babysit the twins. They were supposed to have left 15 minutes ago. I finally turned onto our street and it had started to rain. Something stopped me. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw something in the trees behind our street. I stopped oblivious to the rain trickling down my face. I edged closer to the woods curiosity getting the better of me.

I reached the trees and bent down and saw something red on the tree. It was the symbol from my dream. The red symbol that glowed. I felt that strange sensation I had in that dream and my fingers began to reach down to touch it only this time nothing was stopping me. As my fingers made contact I was filled with a powerful feeling of release as if something inside of me had opened. The symbol felt smooth against the tree bark. The release feeling faded but I felt changed, different. I felt a warm glow inside of me and I closed my eyes it felt like a part of me that had been empty was filled, it was amazing. I opened my eyes and jumped back in shock.

It was gone. The symbol was gone. My breathing was laboured as I stared at the tree trunk. What the hell was happening. I then remembered why I had been running and decided to worry over this later. I got up and pelted down the road trying to ignore my wet clothes plastered to my skin.

Great. Just great. I was going to be in trouble for being late and I was probably going to ill tomorrow. Except I didn't feel cold. I still felt that warmth. My house came into view and I smiled. My shoes squelched as I approached and I could just imagine what mum was going to say. I came up to the door and got out my keys.

(?? POV)

So it has begun the first has been awakened and the other three will follow. I watched her reach her house and I turned to leave. Preparations had to be made. I felt sorry for the girl she had no idea how dangerous her life was going to get. I sighed before starting to head up to Salem, where the second girl resided, why did I have always have to do everything?

(Allie POV)

I jumbled with the key in the lock, it was hard fitting a wet key into an even wetter lock. Then I noticed the car parked a few houses down. My blood froze and I dropped the key as a wave of panic descended on me. The car was a silver Volvo.

AN: I'm back! Sorry you had to wait so long I hope it was worth it. I promised I would include the Cullens so here it is please tell me what you think