A/N; Hey guys, I'm really, really sorry about not updating yesterday, but I had finals and a bunch of crap to do… And I hit a bit of a writer's block, but I will get the next on up on time I promise! Anyways R&R and as always enjoy!
Chapter 14
It was Saturday the 24 of December, Christmas Eve of 2028 when I realized Jared really liked me. Not that it mattered though, he was eventually going to imprint on Kim, and if we got into a relationship then we were only going to hurt like Sam and Leah, but I made my peace with it.
Jared asked me out for the day after Christmas and we were having a pack party on Christmas around three. He apparently wasn't afraid to have me as a girlfriend and as a pack family member; weirdo.
We were having a family Christmas Eve dinner and my grandma invited the Blacks to join us, our family friends are awesome. They came over and Jake immediately made his way over to me.
"So you've been hanging out with Cameron?" He asked slightly annoyed by this, showed by not using Jared's first name.
"Yeah a little; he and his friends are really nice." I said slightly timid. Jake did not like any aspect of Sam and his 'peace keepers' group.
"You should stay away from them; they're nothing but trouble Anne." He said darkly.
"Okay," I said sarcastically. Like that could ever happen, I was a part of the group, officially. "Whatever Jake, they're honestly not that bad okay? So take a chill pill and let's go play some games with everyone else." I said.
"Or we could go outside and talk." He said quietly. He was a talker; he loved talking to me especially, and a few other people, which would eventually include Bella.
"Okay," I said and we walked out to the porch swing. "You do realize that we are outside in the evening in late December, right?" I asked. I wasn't bothered; I ran a 108 degree fever at all times. Jake, on the other hand… He didn't have that yet.
"Y-yeah, s-so?" he got out between chattering teeth.
"No; we're not staying out here, c'mon let's go talk in the living room or something." I told him pulling on his arm to get him to follow me. We went to the living room and talked; just words, hanging out. Talking about school and problems and other crap before Jake had to leave a few hours later.
Jake left around ten thirty and I had patrol at eleven so I went up to my room, pretending to sleep. I started rereading twilight again, laughing about how everyday in biology I would get to hear Bella and Eddy's conversations. Except of course that Eddy is a retard and would hear everything I thought. Stupid mind reader! I screamed in my mind in the hopes that Ed would somehow hear me. A few moments later my phone rang.
"Hello?" I answered.
"You even call me stupid when I'm not around, huh?" Edward asked on the other line.
"Shut up. And yes I do, because sometimes I think things and realize if I thought these things at school I would die! Where are you by the way?" I asked.
"Well I just got done hunting and I ran near your house and you practically screamed at me; I thought you knew I was there, but I guessed not. So now I'm at my house in my room." He said with a chuckle.
"Weirdo, I have to go, see you… later, sometime? Yeah, well by." I said and ended the call. I looked at the clock and saw it was nearly eleven.
"I'm on patrol, I'm on patrol." I sung quietly as I jumped from my window and ran into the forest. I stripped and phased and noticed Jared out there singing Disney songs as loud as he could in his mind.
Dude, can you be quiet at all? I asked him with a barky chuckle.
Never! He sang to the rhythm of Yankee Doodle, not stopping his song.
Can you at least help me get some decent food before I go run around in circles for four hours straight? I inquired, I hadn't eaten.
Sure, my shift's over anyways. Plus, I'm frikkin hungry enough to eat a lion. He half joked; he was starving as far as I could tell.
Good. Now lead the way weirdo! I yelled while he started running towards his little 'buffet shop', as I thought of it. We got near it and we phased back, although I was a little ways away from him, to conceal myself. I walked over to the hidden building and walked through the camouflaged door.
"Jared, you get any new recipe ideas at all; anything fast and good, and healthy?" I asked as he walked in behind me and went to the fridge.
"Um, not that I know of… Do you want a sandwich? I have salami, pastrami, ham, and turkey meat and like twenty different cheeses and condiments if you want." He said leaning over to look through the whole fridge and freezer.
"I'll take a turkey and ham on toasted flat bread with jalapenos and American and Swiss cheese with mustard, and mayo. Oh, and some… wait, never mind. Yeah, got all that?" I asked and looked over at him to see a fully made sandwich, a foot long I may add.
"Um, yeah I think so, you sure that's it?" He asked with a smirk.
"Yeah, I'll take that now." I said and took it over to the small table and took a bite. I melted; it was the best food I had ever had.
I looked up when Jared started on his way over here too, another foot long sandwich in hand. "You are the fastest most efficient sandwich maker that I have ever met…" I paused, looking for the right words to describe his cooking. "Damn kid!" I managed to get out after another slight pause where I was shoving my face in.
"Yeah, I know. Just like some people can garden, I can cook. Ya, know? Anyways, I've got to get going, I have Christmas tomorrow, right; can't be late for family time. See you tomorrow Anne." He said and smiled at me before shoving the four inches left of his sandwich, down his gullet.
"Ya, now get out of my face crazy kid!" I yelled in the best irritated grandpa voice I could muster. He laughed at that and was gone. I finished my food, finished cleaning his mess and went out to patrol until two to three am.
I paroled until my eyes wouldn't stay strait and Sam came out to save me before I went off to my house. I climbed up the exterior wall to my house and flew through the window and onto my bed.
What felt like only three seconds later there was a knocking at my door, and Quaythrine came running in. "Anne, c'mon, gran made a special Christmas breakfast and we're all waiting for you to start eating!" She squealed as she jumped on my bed like a toddler jumping on her parent's bed to get them to come down stairs with her so she could open all the presents Santa brought.
"Yeah, okay." I called grumpily up to her. I perked up at the smell of crapes and jumped down the stairs, slightly faster than human. Before Quay even noticed I was missing I was downstairs standing, plate in hand ready to be fed.
"Gosh girl calm down!" My mother yelled at my enthusiasm. "You seem like you haven't eaten for a month!" She laughed. She came over to me and gave me a big hug. "Merry Christmas, Anne." She said and squashed me tighter for a moment before releasing me.
"Merry Christmas to you too, mom!" I enthused. I waited for everyone to be sitting at the table with the food in the middle before starting to eat.
We chatted for about an hour then we went and opened presents. Quay got a new dress and some earrings from her friend and a fifty dollar gift card to Amazon from mom. She also got a movie from gran. I gave her a nice warm blanket from someone I found online.
I got a new laptop computer with built in wifi and portable mouse from my mom and gran together. Quay got me three different cover cases and a carrying case that was decorated with a white to black shading. I was so happy for all of it; I jumped up and ran to give them all a hug, much like how Quaythrine did.
"Alright, alright!" Quay said after a moment. "Gran, your next." She laughed at Quay and started opening one. She ended up getting a bunch of novels and kitchen stuff. My mom also got a book, but she also got a nice new business outfit.
The presents were done and we all went to our rooms to do who knows what. I went to mine and started setting up the laptop stuff on my desk. The three different cases were a forest green with the side of a dark looking animal's face, which I loved. The second one was a bunch of jumbled up circles of different shapes and sizes and colors, this one also loved my brain. The third bag was a white backdrop covered in every popular website known to man jumbled all over it. The bag to carry it just made me think about myself, and that filled me with pride; I was a famous design.
The clock told me it was 10:30ish so I decided to go over to the Cullen's, since I would have a whole truckload of crap to bring home then. I jumped out my window with my computer and since it was faster, ran over there in human-form.
"Anne!" Eddy called from the front yard, but was suddenly in front of me.
Hey leech, you know about chief's daughter moving here? I asked curiously.
"Yeah, what about her?" He asked almost dismissively as we started walking slowly towards the house.
Well she used to go to my school in Phoenix and… Well you're not going to like her much. I let out carefully.
"Why don't you talk out loud?" He wondered confused.
Well then my mind would wander and you would hear it all anyways, ya know? Don't want all that stuff getting out. I said with a maniacal grin.
"You're so mean." He laughed.
"Okay, now shut up and let's go inside, I bet Alice got me something!" I said with a grin and ran up the steps to the house and into the living room where everyone was doing something different with their new stuff. "Guys, the wolf is in the house!" I said and laughed as Emmet turned and stared me in the eyes and came closer to me like a dog would. One of my fingers accidentally flipped up at that.
"Aww, your no fun!" He whined. I rolled my eyes and went to sit at one of the empty couch cushions near the tree.
"Anne! When did you get here? I have to tell you something, so get over here. We don't want Ed hearing any of it." Alice said from the doorway.
"Fair enough, let's go outside then." I said lightly.
We made our way outside and into the woods about a mile."I think we're good now." She said not completely convinced.
"Good; so what do you have to talk to me about?" I asked.
"You know how you were talking to Edward about chief's daughter?" She asked, and without pausing, she kept talking. "Well I had a vision about a girl making Ed happy a little while ago… Or that's a possible future; he could both be happy with her and stay with her 'till he's old, or turn her. That is unless he kills her first… But the reason I'm telling you is because if I didn't know about her moving here I wouldn't know who or when she would get here. The thing is the vision was blurred, almost as if someone had taken their hand over a still drying painting and smeared it with their fingers. It was blurred to where I knew it would happen one of those ways, but something was trying to intervene. I saw an indistinct face that looked almost like yours, Anne." She rambled at a pace that I almost couldn't keep up with.
"Alice, I know her from Phoenix, we both went to South Mountain High." I explained slowly. "If you had a vision that she was coming here and I was in it that's because we're good friend from school in Arizona." I told her dumbly, if she heard my first sentence she would already be on this.
"But, Anne how are you so calm about this? Your best friend could die because of Edward; did I not say that already?" She asked, thoroughly confused, as I would be, considering she hadn't read the 'Twilight Saga'.
"Listen Alice, those books that I told you all about that one day I met you, right?" I asked and waited for her to show recognition; she quickly nodded remembering the conversation that day. "They're about this girl's life, chief's daughter, in Forks with the Cullen's, wolves and Volturi, okay. None of you can read them. I'm smearing the lines of a placed fate just by existing, okay? She is meant to live as a vampire, and you can't stop that. I plan to let Edward and the rest of you read the books after… A certain something happens… Okay? I know this is sudden and, probably pretty crazy, but its reality." I said and took a big breath; that wasn't easy to say right out to a Cullen.
Alice paused for a few minutes and there was silence in the noon sky filled forest. "So… These books you won't let us read… They tell of the girl and her interactions with us, the wolves, others like you I would suppose, and… the Volturi? How does she get involved with them, I've never even met them?" She clarified while also asking more questions.
"She's insane, okay. And yes all of the above. I didn't want to tell any of you, but apparently, I have no further choice." I said and sat down on one of the tree roots at my feet.
"Wow, so I guess you know a lot more than any of us, don't you?" She asked almost bitterly, as if she was jealous.
"Yeah, it's kind of a curse too though, you would know. Everything is already planned out and recorded; you don't have anything to make for yourself, and even if you do, the path of future still remains the same. I love knowing, yet at the same time I know it'll get boring. But I can change so many minor things that it's not even funny… And yet I still feel pretty useless." I explained with a half sob.
"I get that sometimes too, except for the fact that my future is ever changing on people's decisions and I can change it all." She said with an awed smile.
"Yeah, and if you ever, ever… ever, touch those books I will murder you! And I'm not bluffing; you know enough of the future already, got that?" I asked with a pointed look. She looked at me with a very serious expression and held out her hand for a shake.
"I won't think of any of it, or talk of it or anything of the sort, if you promise not to remind me of it or tell me what to do; it's my job to order people around according to what I see. We in agreement?" She asked putting her hand closer to me as she did.
"Yes, I believe, we do." I said and closed the space between our hands and shook it.
"Good, now that that's settled, let's get your presents opened!" She said and raced me back to the big house.
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~Lamb-Cow~