Right guys, I know I've been shit at updates... I'm sorry. I honestly have been so busy that I simply did not have the time... I will do my best to upload the next chapter, which will be quite an exciting one (unlike this one, which I'm pretty much just updating because I feel really bad and I hate to make you wait.) and I promise I will post it in two weeks, and then I pretty much have quite a few chapters ready after that one, so the updates will get faster, promise!
I'm going through a writer's block at the moment, and my writing just hasn't been good either, so the good stuff just isn't coming out. But I refuse to give up, and will keep on writing until I get it out just right. A Beta would be so nice... but after three people refused/dropped it, I kinda gave up. But if you'd like a shot at it, would be lovelyyy!
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IVORY POV
"One day, I'm going to be a pirate." Dan said randomly halfway through lesson.
He was a weird kid. I had only known him for a couple of weeks, but we had gotten really close since I started school.
"Well, you do smell like one." I conceded. He scowled playfully at me and then resumed note taking. Dan and I had pretty much every lesson together, something which scared me at first. I only saw Sarah for a couple of lessons, and the twins. I saw Kieran and Kayne quite often, and I only had Trig with Luke.
"Why would you choose to come to school? It's such a sad place." Dan said again, shaking his head in disapproval of his surroundings. When I first told him it had been my choice to come to school, he had looked at me like I was mad, and hadn't stopped telling me how stupid I was ever since. In all honesty, I pretty much regretted it now. Only the lesson part sucked - hanging out with a bunch of different people was nice.
"Why didn't you stop me before I committed such insanity? My parents aren't letting me go back to being home schooled now!" I complained, and he shook his head. I laughed.
Dan was tall and quite lean for a werewolf, yet he had the muscles. The girls at this school hated me - probably because my eight friends were both tall and muscled (the boys.) and the girls were drop dead beautiful. The only friend I had in this school who actually wasn't a werewolf was a shy girl called Hannah, who had recently fallen out with her bitch of a best friend and had no one to hang around with. At first, Sarah didn't like her. Hannah and her friends hadn't been very nice to her when she had first came to La Push, but now they got along perfectly, and even Christie and Trisha became friends with her.
A part of me was happy I started school; it took my mind off the Volturi.
I had training after school for one hour with Jasper, and I pretty much had to take everyone back and forth to Olympia. Kieran and Sarah still knew nothing more about the Volturi - they saw very little and it was never anything new. Christie was still depressed, and everyone knew why now. She had imprinted on that sick half-vampire who had been standing in the trees when I was fighting. He was a teleporter, but unlike me he wasn't super fast - he simply vanished and appeared somewhere else.
I sighed, and Dan shifted his eyes to me and raised his eyebrows in concern, but I just shrugged it off.
"Sup Ivy?" he asked worriedly.
"Same old, same old…" I chanted, smiling. He rolled his eyes and then took out his phone and started playing games. Luckily, Mr Ghand, our Art teacher didn't really care.
The bell rang, and even though Dan and I were the first out Kieran and Luke managed to be by the door, awaiting us.
"How do you do that?" I finally blurted. It was impressive how they managed to be here right as the bell rang.
"Do what?" Kieran said innocently, smiling. He and I had become best friends effortlessly since the beginning of school. I had discovered that being with him was as effortless as breathing. It felt right. I shook my head to clear it as we all made our way to the cafeteria. Hannah and Trisha were sitting at our table, but I couldn't see anyone else. I wasn't hungry so I joined them whilst the boys went to get food.
"Where are the others?" I asked them once I reached the table.
"Christie didn't come in today, she wasn't feeling well." Trisha said sadly. Hannah didn't know about werewolves or vampires, so we always had to use codes. I couldn't help but feel sad for Christie. "And Sarah and Kayne should be here… Oh there they are." Trisha pointed towards the end of the queue.
"No way is it better! Kieran tell him!" Luke complained to Dan, who shook his head. Kieran looked at them both with an exasperated face.
"Sorry but I never watched either Mean Girls or Cinderella Story!" he almost yelled at them. "They're for girls and they're old!"
"You, my friend, have no class. They were legendary." Dan said, and Luke nodded in approval. Kieran sat beside me, eating away. He looked at me and smiled, before he responded and a full blown argument about what sort of movie should boys watch erupted.
"Ivory, guess who I found out is absolutely head over heels for you." Hannah said excitedly, almost dropping her fork. I looked at her expectantly, but then I heard Kieran almost choking. She didn't even acknowledge him. "Jason Sayers."
Luke and Dan laughed, and both Kayne and Sarah laughed just as they neared out table.
"Why are you all laughing! He's hot!" Hannah said, outraged. I shrugged and stole Sarah's drink (who looked at me like I had just punched her.) so I could pretend to be busy with something.
"Yeah, Ivy. He's hot." Trisha said in a serious tone, an idiotic smile plastered on her face.
Dan decided to save me.
"Who's that? I never heard of him." he said, and Hannah looked him up and down and grimaced.
"In the football team!" she said, and Dan just furrowed his brown in confusion. "The one that shagged Fiona Foz at Rott's party?"
"Ahh!" Dan said. "You mean the blonde weird one. Not a chance." Dan said, and Hannah looked horrified.
"Weird? That guy is one of the fittest in school!"
"I'm hotter." Dan said, and Hannah scoffed.
"Whatever, you're not blonde. He's got a cute face."
"What you trying to say!" Dan said, horrified.
"That you're butters, mate." Luke decided to answer, and Dan frowned at him.
"Who asked you dog?" Dan replied icily, and Luke chose to ignore him so he could eat.
"So, Ivy?" shit, topic is back to me.
"So what?" I asked, innocently.
"What do you think of him?" she asked, her grey eyes staring right into mine.
"He's nice." I shrugged. Hannah smiled.
"But you have better offers right?" she said cheekily, and I just froze. I didn't even dare look at Kieran. Why do people always have to say awkward things?
I just drank my juice and said nothing.
The last bell rang, and I walked out as fast as I could.
Like always, he was there already. I didn't say anything about it this time, and he just smiled.
"Ready to go?" he said, his eyes never leaving mine.
"Yeah." Sarah said from behind me, and Kieran placed a warm arm around my shoulders and led us out. I noticed Fiona and Hayley (school bitches.) look at me funny, and I couldn't help but feel proud.
"Hey, William left early so we're going to have to walk." Sarah said, and I nodded. Kieran didn't ride with us anyways, so I would just drop her off and then head home.
"Don't you have patrol?" Kieran asked Sarah, who frowned at him.
"Damn." Sarah said, and I laughed. "I'll see you two later!" she took off into the woods, smiling at random people.
"Guess it's just you and me." Kieran said with a smile, and my heart immediately froze. And of course, he must have heard it. "What do you want to do?" he asked, a wide smile plastered across his face.
"Can we go cliff diving? I haven't been for like… 8 months and 16 days!" I said, and he laughed. Then he looked at me questioningly.
"Are you sure you won't get hurt?"
I sighed.
"I killed a grizzly bear three days ago, and then got smacked across the back of the head by Alice for ruining my dress. I think I'm pretty tough." I said, and he grimaced.
"She's always doing that to me." he stated. "You did get hurt when you jumped down the river though…" I grimaced, and he winked, making my heart melt.
"I wasn't as strong, or as indestructible as I am now. My vampire qualities seem to be strengthening with time." I said, casually, walking towards his bike. Was I finally going to get the chance to ride it?
"Yeah, that's what Carlisle said." he nodded. "How's training going?"
I noticed his voice got slightly colder when he asked this, and I guessed it was because he didn't want me fighting. Sarah had said Kieran wasn't happy that I was now practicing to fight.
"It's great, I've learned so much already. With my speed, I can easily rip vampires apart and make it practically impossible for anyone to catch me." I said proudly, and when he turned around I noticed his eyes were glistening too, and I sensed some pride despite everything. "Plus, I got much stronger this year according to Carlisle."
"Wow, all I do is run around as a wolf. I want to have vampire training too." he said, handing me the helmet, and taking my books from my hands. He smiled mischievously like always, and then froze.
I stopped breathing, just looking at him. His eyes were staring at mine, but I could tell he was looking into his mind - using his gift to see the past. He didn't move for a very long time, and people sort of stared when they went past.
I was worried. Was he seeing something new?
I placed a hand on his arm, trying to get him to talk to me. Finally, he blinked.
"What?" he whispered.
"Kieran. What did you see?"
"It's that guy… the one the Volturi are chasing. The half-vampire who used to be with Tobias?" he was waiting for my response, so I nodded. "He's coming, heading our way. Not to harm us, but he wants to talk to us. The Cullens I mean. I saw him talking to Alistair, which is strange… I guess it explains how the Volturi didn't find him though…" Kieran trailed off, an adorable, curious expression on his face. A part of me was concerned with this information, but I had hoped tonight would have been all about me and Kieran…
"When is he coming?" I asked.
"Well, I don't know. But this conversation happened in Mexico, and it was sunset there. He can't be too far…" he trailed off, once again lost in thought. "How does he know Alistair? And why would Alistair even consider helping him? That guy is shit scared off the Volturi." Kieran said in an adorable, curious tone.
I didn't know, but now I was just as curious as he was too.
"Right, tell me exactly what you saw. From the beginning, please." I said, smiling and sitting down on the motorbike.
We were sat at the house in Olympia, awaiting the arrival of our new guest. Sarah had seen him arrive not long from now, and both Kieran and I had came to the Cullen house in Olympia using my gift.
I sat beside Kieran, who didn't seem to be able to keep his eyes off me. And Emmett couldn't keep his eyes off us either. The phrase 'if looks could kill' suddenly made a lot of sense…
"Is that guy coming or not?" Kieran asked, slightly annoyed.
"You're the psychic." I told him, shrugging. He shoved me lightly and then chuckled. As I looked around I noticed that the vampires were all standing in pairs. Edward and Bella were sitting on the couch, frozen. Rosalie and Emmett stood right behind Kieran and I. Alice and Jasper, as well as Carlisle and Esme sat at the dining table.
"He's here." Alice said, making me freeze in anticipation.
Three seconds after there was some light knocking on the door, and Esme opened it to find a boy, not much older looking than me. He was beautiful of course, with light green eyes and light brown hair. He wasn't as big as any of the wolves, or Emmett - he resembled Edward physically.
I couldn't help but notice how Kieran inched closer towards me involuntarily, his eyes permanently glued on Matteo.
"Hello." the strange boy said with a British accent. "You are the Cullens." he stated.
"You must be Matteo. We were expecting you." Esme said with a polite smile, to which Matt returned. She motioned him in, and with a very quick breath he made his way into the living room.
"You're well informed." he said. His eyes scanned the entire room, resting on me and Kieran. "I suspect you know more or less the reasons as to which I am here?" he aimed the question at Carlisle, who was the closest to him.
"Not precisely, but yes, we are aware of you circumstances. Tell me though, what is it that you want from us exactly?" Carlisle said in a soft, harmless tone. I couldn't help but look at Edward, whose face was unreadable.
"I came to help and to ask for help." he said after a moment of silence. "I don't agree with the Volturi, and you have to understand that I had no choice but to work for them, they were my family for the longest time. Some still are." he exhaled. "I don't want any harm to come to your family, but I need you to spare some of mine when the Volturi attack you. I am willing to share all the information I have, but please… Aro, he's gone mad. There are vampires there who have done nothing wrong, some who are too young to know any other way." he seemed to have planed what to say, and his tone was pleading with Carlisle.
I wasn't expecting the boy to be so desperate. He didn't seem to be thinking of himself when he said this, and almost instantly I noticed Kieran was off in a world of his own, probably searching through Matteo's past.
"What information can you give us?" Bella asked when the silence prolonged itself.
"All that I know. I can also fight with you - I'm a fire thrower." Matteo said, and I immediately noticed there was a slight change in the air. I saw Jasper twitch with what seemed like fear.
"You would be willing to fight with us?" Carlisle asked.
"For the safety of my siblings, yes." he responded.
Carlisle sighed, and Esme took his hand. I could tell Matteo felt uncomfortable, and I couldn't help but feel bad for the boy. He must have had it rough, living with a bunch of sadistic vamps.
"Are those the only four you think need protecting?" Edward suddenly asked, and Matteo did not look taken aback by this question.
"The others are old enough to take care of themselves." he said curtly.
"The little girl - is she Aro's biological child?" Edward asked, and Matt nodded. "Interesting." Edward added.
"Who are these people which he wishes be spared?" Esme asked.
"A little girl who edits memories, a very young hybrid, a young female vampire and… the blond half-vampire who can teleport - the one who led the newborns." Edward said the last one with a questioning look towards Kieran. Christie had imprinted on that hybrid.
"We wouldn't have harmed most of them anyway, if any. We don't wish to go into war with the Volturi." Carlisle spoke to Matteo.
"I know, which is why I'm here. I don't agree with what they're doing… killing innocent vampires and people simply for their own good - so that they can possess more power. I am here to help you stop them, because regardless of whether or not you want to fight, an attack from them is inevitable." Matteo said with a slightly disappointed grimace.
No one said anything, and I merely looked at Kieran.
"He should stay." Kieran said, and Bella nodded. "He needs sleep, Alistair has kept him up for four days. Sarah will warn you if something happens."
"I'm fine." Matteo said, defending himself and shaking his head. "We need to start discussing tactics, preferably now. The Volturi aren't kidding... we've got a long battle ahead of us." he added in a cold, hard tone.
Kieran didn't reply, and neither did anyone else.
We are all so, so screwed.
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