Not Stephanie Meyer.
I had a routine. Sleep during the day, drive at night. I missed all the traffic, but it was hard to find food places that were open all hours of the night. I was stuck with Taco Bell most of the time.
If only I had to eat once every few weeks. A memory of a time when I had gone a month without food threatened to creep up. I dropped the thought.
"Welcome to Taco Bell. May I take your order please?" The mechanical voice asked.
"Yes, I'd like a number seven with extra sour cream please."
"That'd be nine fifty at the first window."
"Yah, yah. Whatever." I said as I rolled up the window, then realized that I still needed to pay and get my food. I rolled it back down and got a ten dollar bill out of my wallet.
Fifty dollars left. My old job didn't pay enough. That would get me through another day at the most. Then I'd be stuck wherever that landed me or I'd have to hitchhike and last time I tried that, I was picked up by some rapist and his gang. I was lucky that time.
My mom found out where I was. But mom wasn't here! No. Mom was no longer part of my life. I had move to Elko to ensure that. Ever since Garrett died they hadn't looked at me the same. It was as though they thought it was my fault.
Ah, well.
"Fifty cents is your change." As I handed over my precious ten, then, "Thank you have a great day!" As they gave me my food... without the extra sour cream.
Ah, well. I pulled back onto the highway and took the ramp onto whatever interstate I was on. North something.
I drove along for a while, looking tiredly at the horizon. It was boringly dark. The reflectors between the white lines on the middle of the highway created a perfect line that disappeared as soon as I passed.
There were no cars on the highway tonight. The only sound I heard was the soft hum of my tires against the pavement and the angry roar of my old engine.
I unwrapped my taco and started to eat and drive at the same time. I set it down from a minute and looked around.
To my right, about a hundred yards away was a forest. As I watched, a gigantic wolf ran, uncannily fast, out of the dark trees and in front of my car. I slammed on the brakes, but still hit the wolf. It went flying. When the car stopped, I got out at ran over to the dog.
I looked at where he had come out of the woods. In front of the forestry, seven hooded figures stood, motionless. By what was visible of them, I could tell that their skin was ghostly white. Their eyes glowed red in the moonlight.
A new kind of numbness came over me. I stepped between the wolf and the pale creatures and crouched, poised for a fight.
Surprise radiated from them. One of the smaller ones ran up the the one in front, who was the smallest of them all, and whispered in her ear. They conversed quietly and quickly.
"Colin?" The girl in front asked loud enough for me to hear. Her voice held hesitant surprise and a bit of fear.
"Yes," I said. She stepped back as though I had hit her. Then turned and fled into the forest. The others followed quickly.
The wolf stirred. I turned.
The wolf was gone. In its place was a man laying face down, completely nude on the blacktop.
I jumped in surprised, then shook my head and looked again. He was still there. Okay. So...
I need something to cover him up with.
I ran back to my car and grabbed my blanket. I threw it over his nakedness and felt much better now that he wasn't so... revealed.
He sighed, opened his eyes, saw me, and jumped up. Luckily, the blanket stayed with him. He grabbed it just as it was about to fall away from him and wrapped it around his waist. His eyes darted to the forest.
"They're gone." I said. He looked at me.
"What do you mean?" His skin was darker than mine, his hair was darker than the night as were his eyes. He looked to be about six inches taller than me. I stood and found that assumption to be fact.
"You ran out of the forest, I hit you," I explained, skipping over the part where he was a wolf when that happened, "I got out of my car and went to see if you were all right and they came out of the forest."
I tried to explain what had happened next, "There were seven of them. All of them were hooded and deathly white. They looked at you like they wanted to kill you, so I got in their way."
His eyes widened when I said this. He looked at me as though I were insane and shouldn't be alive.
"To make a long story short, they ran away. From what I don't know." I was just as confused as he looked.
"I would offer you a ride to wherever it is you're going, but my car was just hit by a gigantic wolf and I doubt that it will run. It only had a day's worth of driving left to it anyways, so I didn't lose much."
"Why?" he said, looking back at the trees.
"Because I don't have enough money to fill it up much longer." I said. He looked at me as though that wasn't what he was asking about, but shrugged and said.
"If I can fix it and fill it up with gas, will you take me to wherever you're going?" he asked.
"Sure," I said. If he was going to pay for my useless wanderings, I'd do whatever he said, "But I have to warn you," he looked at me suspiciously, "I don't really have a destination in mind."
He smiled, "Then how about we go to my old hometown?"
"Where would that be."
"Forks." the air was knocked out of my lungs. I fell to the ground. Everything went black.
Forks. The perfect place.
A meadow, where I met a pale female with yellow eyes. We talked about her family.
A clearing where I was surrounded by gigantic wolves. Werewolves. I knelt before them, hoping they wouldn't kill me. I knew they desperately wanted to.
One of them hated me more than the others. Jacob. He attacked me. Bella. We fought. The Cullens. I ran. The Volturi. I was captured. Maire.
When I woke up, shaking, in a cold sweat, in the grass next to my car, the sun was rising. I looked up and saw a guy bent over my car's engine.
He lifted his head and looked at me. It looked as though he had done so frequently for a while now.
"Good," He said walking over to me, "You awake." I shivered and looked at him. He was wearing a pair of my too-big shorts and one of my black undershirts.
"I wouldn't call that good." I said, then pointed at my clothes.
"I borrowed them," he said, looking down at them, "I figured it'd look weird if I were working on your car with a blanket wrapped around my waist and you laying on the ground. So I put on some clothes. I hope you don't mind."
"Nope." I shivered, "Right now I'm cool with anything you do as long as you get that car started and get me warm." He laughed. He seemed like a happy guy. I don't know why, but I felt oddly suspicious of him. Oh, wait. He was the dude who had turned into a wolf.
"The name's Colin," I said. I looked at me oddly.
"Jacob." One who hated me more than the others.
"No way," I laughed, slaphappy, "Oh my goodness, is this not ironic." I walked over to my car.
"So you're from Forks."
"Yes," he said hesitantly.
"And you're name's Jacob."
"Yes," he answered slowly.
"Tell me, Jacob," I said smiling. I don't know why I was smiling, I didn't feel happy. I guess I was just laughing to keep myself from going crazy, "are you acquainted with someone named Bella?"
His eyes hardened, "I knew her."
"And would you happen to know a family called the Cullens?" His eyes got even harder and angry.
"We've met."
I laughed. Then started crying. Not bawling. Silent tears crept down my cheeks and I fell to the ground and put my head in my hands.
"How do I know this?" I whispered to myself, "How many other things do I know?" I looked up at Jacob.
"Dearest werewolf, I believe I am starting to question my sanity." I shook my head and looked up at the pink sky. After an awkward silence, Jacob started working on the engine again.
He occasionally tried to start it. When it didn't he went back to his work. Finally, the engine roared to life. I stood from my patch of wet grass and got into the passenger's side.
Jacob shut the hood and climbed in the drivers side. We were off. To a place I had never been, but knew none the less.
Oh! What now!! Third chapter in a day! (does little dance)
Well. I must admit that this chapter did not turn out exactly as I had originally planned it to, but it will work.
Man, are you shocked or what? I know I am. I had absolutely no idea that vampires were after Jacob, and there they are!!
No. I seriously didn't know that vampires were after Jacob. Originally... Colin's car broke down on a side road and Jacob came to the rescue. Wow this was much more exciting.
I also didn't know that Colin was going to have that flashback. Complete surprise.
Have you figured it out yet? Why is Colin having these flashbacks? Review with your best guess!!