Chapter 34- Why Are You here?

AJ's POV-

I watched as Masen ran out the door. I sighed and shook my head. I looked over at my Uncle who looked stunned along with the rest of my family except my mom who was glaring at Uncle Ed. Bella looked disappointed. I looked over at Nessie who was still laying on the couch. She started mumbling something and started rolling back and forth like she was having a nightmare. I caught her before she could roll of the couch.

"You alright, Nessie?" I asked. I set her on her feet.

"My head hurts, but other than that I'm fine. What'd I miss?" She asked. She was holding her head so my mom went into the kitchen and got her some Asprin. She took it, not saying a word.

"Let's see, Masen just told off your dad and took off." I said.

"Ok. First of all, that thing," She pointed to Uncle Ed, "Is not my dad. And Second, if she's gone, then why are you here?" She asked. I raised my eyebrows.

"What do you mean by that?" I was kind of offended. Both Mase and I hate when people just assume things that aren't true. She rolled her eyes and scoffed.

" Your supposed to be comforting her. Your AJ, that's your job! Whenever she's upset, sad, angry, depressed, troubled, or hurt, your always with her, and your always the one who makes her feel better." Bella smiled at me and my mom calmed down a bit. "I may be her twin sister but you know her ten times better than I do." She elbowed me and wiggled her eyebrows. I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not ALWAYS the one to make her feel better." I defended. I don't know why I was fighting Nessie, she always won.

"Her tripping over a rock and me helping her up doesn't count, nor does anytime before we met you guys." She crossed her arms. "Ever since our Uncle left and you promised to be her best friend, you've never let her down." As soon as she said that, I started thinking about the newborn nearly killing her.

"Never is a strong word Nessie." I said quietly. She looked confused but understood what I was saying immediately.

"No! You stop that right now! She's alive because of you, AJ. You know that she would have died if you hadn't…You know…killed him." She said, her voice trailing off at the end.

"She told you?" I asked.

"It's hard not to question her when she walks in the house wearing your shirt. And as everybody knows, when I want to know something, I will go to extremes to find out. In this case I didn't have to though, because she just told me. She was really upset, locked herself in her room, sobbi-…Nevermind." She said quickly.

"What? Why didn't you tell me?" I asked.

"I am so sorry to interrupt but what are you guys talking about?" My dad interrupted. "AJ, you killed somebody?" He looked mad but that was nothing compared to the look on Uncle Ed's face. Bella was trying to calm him down but he just kept glaring at me. "Alex…"

"When AJ and Masen went shopping, Masen wanted to go to the music store and AJ wanted to go to the bookstore, so they split up…" Nessie was saying.

"Nessie, stop." I warned but she continued to speak.

"Masen was walking back from the music store when a newborn vampire found her…"

"Nessie."

"She tried backing away from him but eventually, she ran into a wall and the newborn was only a foot away from her…" She continued.

"Nessie, shut up." She smirked.

"Then the newborn…um…Ripped off her sweatshirt. Masen tried to fight him but he snapped her good wrist." She looked sad but then her face lit up. "Then she remembers him flying through the air and seeing AJ crouched in front of her. And obviously AJ killed him." She turned to face me. "Then, if I am correct, you gave her your shirt and took her to the hospital so she could get her wrist fixed. How sweet…" She clasped her hands together, and batted her eyelashes."

"Wait! AJ told us a totally different story!" My mom exclaimed. I rolled my eyes.

"No, I didn't Mom."

"Yes you did! You said-"

"I said that Masen didn't have a shirt because we ran into a little incident and she lost it. Which is the truth, YOU just interrpreted it the wrong way." I said smugly.

"Why would you do that?" I shrugged and smiled.

"To make you angry. And so you would stop questioning me and looking into my future." I said matter-of-factly. She let out a 'humph' and marched upstairs with my dad following her. "Back to what I was saying before…Why didn't you tell me that she locked herself in her room, sobbing? I would've helped her."

"AJ, you know Masen. She's confident, energetic, and outgoing but the reason she is that way is because she feels strong inside. She hates it when ANYONE even you, AJ, sees her cry. She says it makes her feel weak and it was her that told me not to tell you." The last part came like a stab to the chest. She didn't want me there? I thought I was her best friend…

"Oh." I said. She rolled her eyes and groaned.

"You two are hopeless. Just go find her AJ." I stood there staring in confusion at her until she started pushing me toward the door. I could have easily stopped her from pushing me but I didn't. She pushed me out the door and closed it. I rolled my eyes and started running.