Chapter 36: Everyone is someone
KELSEY POV
As night settled over the town once more, I went back to my house. My old house. I crept in the same way I had before, vampire speed.
The shrine was still there, but things had been added. I took them in silently, gazing at the old house. Moments later, I climbed the stairs silently, and walked into my parents' room.
Both were asleep, although neither looked very happy. I crouched beside my mom's side of the bed. Her face had changed drastically. Worry lines and wrinkles covered her face, and her mouth was turned down in a solid frown.
Slowly, carefully, I rested my hand lightly on her forehead. "It's not your fault. I'm in a happier place." I whispered as loud as I could. Then I darted smoothly towards the window as she stirred. I stayed perfectly still just under the sill.
I heard her sit bolt upright. She got up, and walked downstairs. I silently scaled down the house and peeked through the living room window. She was staring at my shrine. Then, she slowly leaned over and blew out the candles.
Feeling tears prick at my eyes, I jumped to the ground and ran away, like a silent ghost. When I entered my house through the window again, I got a text. Cautiously, I opened my phone.
I'm sorry. Was Alice's message. I stared at the message, then slowly closed my phone.
As the sun rose I was already ready for school. I downed the last packet of blood in my secret stash and headed out.
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The weeks passed. I wasn't happy, but I wasn't sad either. My job was ok, the girls I helped taught were really starting to like me. I could tell that was going to be a problem already.
But it was about to get much, much worse. It all started the day Eric Bradshaw transferred into my class.
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Sasha waved a hand in front of my face to get my attention. I snapped out of it and smiled apologetically. I had been 'watching' the news that had announced the closing of my case.
"Do you know about that?" Sasha asked, pointing at the screen. I shook my head. She sighed and motioned me over to her office, and closed the door.
"A student here started acting strangely a few months ago, even though it only lasted about a week. Students who knew her said the day it started she complained of a sore throat." Sasha paused, and assembled her thoughts while I sat, frozen.
"She missed school, but when she came back, she was different. Even teachers noticed something was odd. Then, she disappeared. Nobody has seen her since, they just closed her case today." I felt Sasha's gaze on me, so I looked up.
"Her name was Kelsey, and you look kind of like her. That's why you have been getting some stares I suppose." I realized I didn't have to fake my emotion this time, my face was a mask of shock. I didn't think that anyone would have noticed.
The door opening scared us both. The woman from the front desk ushered a boy in and closed the door. Sasha was the first to respond. "Eric, welcome." She signed. The boy huffed angrily and nodded at her.
Then she turned to me. 'Sorry to spring this on you, I totally forgot. This is Eric Bradshaw. He has transferred here from Seattle." I nodded politely to him, wiping my face clean of all emotion. His eyes narrowed.
"So, would you like to give him a tour Ms. Brooks?" Sasha asked, breaking my gaze from him. I nodded and rose fluidly, put a hand on his shoulder and steered him out the door.
As soon as we where out of Sasha's sight, he tugged free from me, and I let him. He scowled angrily at me and stopped. I raised my eyebrows at him, and he scowled deeper.
"Listen, I don't know what your problem is, but I'm here to make sure you don't end up as a crazy bum on the street you understand? Now follow me." I signed. Something in my expression must have convinced him, because he followed.
I showed him around the school, and he didn't complain again. I then showed him to the cafeteria and over to the deaf kids table. He sat as far away from the girls as possible and scowled at me.
I resisted the urge to scowl back and walked back to Sasha's office. She gave me a big hug which sent my thirst spinning. I needed to hunt. "You did a excellent job! I'm assigning him to you, he's had a history of bad behavior but you seemed to handle him well." I accepted her compliment, and the rest of the day flew by.
It wasn't until the end of the day, and I was walking to the car that I knew something was wrong. As I got in and looked in the rearview mirror, I saw Eric standing a couple feet away from the girls.
He looked bored out of his mind. But chills went down my spine as he frowned and rubbed his throat.
My phone buzzed. I read the message, and my fingers flew over the keypad as I told Alice: I think it's happening again. But to one of my students.
She texted back. Carlisle says to hunt him down, see if he does anything similar to what you did before you started evolving. He also says to wait and monitor him. When it gets bad, I'll probably see it, but call us. We can't risk anything happening that would attract the Volturi again.
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