Chapter Twenty: The Hunt

~Forest~ Tuesday

EJ's PoV

I was running as fast as I could, pushing myself farther and farther away. I could hear Jasper and Emmett following after me, and behind them two others. I was surprised when someone suddenly grabbed me. This cause me and whoever to fall backwards.

I got up as everyone else gathered around us, it was Edward that grabbed me. "Don't come near me," I growled at him.

"You were the one that wanted to know us better," he said as he stood up.

"I think I may regret that now," I said, glaring at him.

"Why?" asked Carlisle.

"He doesn't even care about Maddi so how do I know that he'll care about me?" I asked feeling myself get angry.

"Edward's always been there for Maddi, it may of never looked like it, but he has," said Jasper, from behind me.

"Your not leaving EJ," said Emmett.

I looked around taking in my surroundings, I could escape easily. I felt a hand grab my shoulder. It was Edward's. "Your not going to runaway EJ," he told me, his eyes burned into mine and I looked away.

"Who says that I'm running away?" I asked him.

"That's what your planning to do," he said.

I grabbed his arm and easily pushed him away from me. "I can get away easily, so your no match for me."

I jumped up and grabbed onto a branch as Emmett tried to attack me, Jasper jumped up and grabbed my legs pulling me down. I fell landed on top of him, I pushed myself away, but he had a better hold.

I thought back to what Peter had taught me, but I knew I was stuck so I let them think I had given up.

"Keep a good eye on him," said Edward, I glared up at him.

Jasper pulled me to my feet and said, "nothing that Peter taught you will help you now."

"I've been in worst, with humans, at least four times more," I growled.

"This isn't you EJ," said Edward, as Jasper let me go.

I closed my eyes, I had never felt so defeated in my life. I could tell that my eyes were dark. I opened them and noticed that the rest of them had dark eyes too.

I jumped up and pulled myself into a tree and then started running from one to another searching.

I came to the edge of a small meadow seeing a few small deer. I watched as they attacked them, I jumped out an attacked the one Edward was about to, a smirk on my face as I broke its neck.

When I was finished my thoughts turned back to the scene that happened before, replaying it in my mind. The few mistakes I had made, were I knew good. I knew this is just what I needed to hunt, but it was weird to think of the hunter to be hunted.

"You have very…interesting thoughts, EJ," said Edward coming and sitting in the tree I was in.

"I get distracted very fast, as I can replay an thought or image that I have seen or have. It gets hard when I can't concentrate, it makes me mess up and slip," I explained.

"Maddi will mess up when she's not concentrating enough, the only thing that seems to be easy for her is to play music," he told me.

"Maddi just looks at the world in a different way, I do too because if I didn't then something will just slip through the cracks. I don't like to backtrack it takes up to much time," I said.

The rest of them finished hunting and looked over at me, as if waiting. I jumped down and landed clumsily, almost falling on my face, this made Emmett laugh. I started to run back and the others followed, making sure that I didn't runaway.

I jumped across the river and heard laughter from inside the house, a small smile graced my lips.