Okay, so before I start this Chapter I want to warn you guys. This is were Twilight takes a turn. Everyone was curious how Genesis might have changed the story, if you guys know the movie by heart you will know the change because this is the first chapter were a change is obvious (beside the fact that Esme disappeared). In this chapter you'll also realize that Genesis is becoming strange. So, don't think that I lost the writing style of her character, it was intended that she is different now. Some who deal with feeling similar to Genesis's will know why she changed. Enjoy the new chapter and please comment. I love reading your guys reviews they give me a lot of motivation to continue this story.
Oh and i have an answer for the reviewer 'dobby' ...She is so slow because she is still a teen. She is not thinking about a comitted relationship with a man that already adopted a few children and has a career (not to mention that he is a vampire that is older than her whole family together). She is also in the opinion that she will return once this 'story' is over so she is not really searching for any strings that might hold her back (it is not clear yet what brought her into the world of twilight, she could return any second). Besides that...i wouldn't write this story if it didn't take a bit of time to build it up and to create some drama. She is scared that she might have changed things...what she surely did. Carlisle is currently not on her plate. Everything needs to become worse befor it get's better. so, be patient please :)
And now let's continue with the story...
I can't believe that Bella left me stranded…she had the car keys to the truck and she never made it out of the woods. Who knows if she's even still alive…?
I can't believe that the freaking Cullen's just brought me back to school and left me stranded as well. Now I'm beyond pissed. I'm so fucking angry that I could take on anyone that comes my way. Mike had to learn it the bad way.
As I finally reached home after walking for half an hour, I saw Charlies police car in the driveway.
I got in and threw my schoolbag nearly through the floor.
"Genny? You okay? You seem…stressed?!"
I gave him one of the meanest and most sarcastic smiles that I could bring up: "Really? What gave it away?!"
He looked at me for a second before furrowing his eyebrows: "Did you and Bella get into a fight?"
"No, but we sure as hell will as soon as she get's her skinny ass home!"
Charlie threw his hands up in a defence like manner: "I'm not going to get into this. You girls will solve this."
"As soon as I can I will make a spare key for the truck!"
Charlie walked over to the sideboard that stood in the hallway and grabbed some keys: "You just have to take them. I was already asking myself why you didn't. It's always better to have the spare keys with you."
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. As I exhaled, I was sure that fire was coming out of my nostrils: "You mean to tell me that we had spare keys all this time…"
I opened my eyes again to see Charlie uncomfortably looking everywhere but into my eyes as he answered with an unsure: "Yes...?"
The spare keys mockingly hanging from his finger. He was just about to say something, but I just grabbed them and threw them into my bag before walking into the kitchen seeing a half-eaten sandwich on a plate on the table.
"You want one?" Charlie asked me carefully as if I was a wild animal that needed to be fed.
"I'm cooking!" I fucking missed lunch because of the fucking Cullen's and I didn't eat anything for breakfast, a sandwich was the last thing I wanted to eat right now.
"How about ordering a Pizza? I didn't know when you girls will come back, so I settled for a sandwich…"
Defeated I sat down and just buried my face in my hands: "Yes, please."
This was a stupid day and I'm so done with it!
I felt Charlies hand on my shoulder as he squeezed it comfortably: "Go and wash up a bit and rest, I'll call you when the pizza is here."
I was about to stand up and follow his suggestion before he announced: "Genny, whatever it is, I'm sure that you will get through it. You were always the stronger one."
Maybe I'm close to my period…maybe I'm just hungry and my emotions are taking over, but something was the problem, because I felt my eyes getting wetter by any second that I was looking right into the fatherly and caring eyes of Charlies Swan. Before anything else could happen, I nodded and ran into 'my' room and closed the door.
Lavender…I liked lavender. It gave you a calming effect and things with the colour tend to look clean, but right now…at this very moment I hated it.
I just wanted to go home. I don't know why I was still here. Nothing is preventing Bella and Edward from happening. Everything goes as planned, so what was my mission in all this. If there is none than why am I even here?
I missed my parents! I missed my life! It was boring but uncomplicated and I loved it that way.
Slowly I walked over to my bed and sat down looking out of the window seeing the forest. Everything in this world seemed to be a reminder of being homesick.
When the tears finally stopped flowing down my cheeks, I wiped them away with my sleeves and got up from my bed and walked towards the bathroom. I locked the door and exhaled exhaustingly before turning to the mirror. I don't even look like myself anymore…
I tied my long hair up into a messy bun before washing my face with cool water.
"Genny! Pizza is here!" Charlies screamed up and my mood shifted in seconds. Well…food was and always will be the best way to drown your sorrows, right?!
After dinner I was sitting in my room doing homework. Well this world might be fictional, but I will still get in trouble if I don't do it. I realized that this school was way behind my school, maybe because this school is fictional after all…
My door flew open and an excited Bella ran into my room: "Genny, I need to tell you everything."
I didn't turn around and just kept ignoring her.
"Gen!"
Was I overreacting? No, I sure as hell wasn't!
She was all alone in the forest with a vampire that wanted nothing more but to drain her. I know that his love for her will prevent it but who knows if I changed anything in this story. I told her to call me to let me know that everything was fine but she didn't and on top of that she left me all alone at school, knowing that I didn't take the spare keys, even though I'm not sure if she even knew that we had some.
"Genesis? What's wrong?" That's when I finally looked at her.
"Oh, I'm glad you're still alive, I hope you brought the truck because I couldn't. Did you know that the way from home to school takes you half an hour by foot? I know it now. Funny right."
And I turned around again and continued with my math homework.
I heard her sighing before I could hear her sit down on my bed: "I'm sorry, I was just so…"
"I don't care Bella! You know I will help you with anything, and you know that I will always be there if you need me to. Don't fucking exploit it and forget me the second you achieve shit."
"Gen, it wasn't my intention to do it. Edward told me that the Cullen's were talking to you as well so I assumed that you know that I'm save, and I thought they will bring you home."
"If you had called, how I told you to, you would have known that they didn't. It doesn't matter anymore, it's not that I'm angry for walking home or that you didn't call…I'm fucking angry that you forget everything while chasing after something without a halt. You even forgot about your own safety."
She sighed while griping her head and propping up her elbows on her knees. She was lost in thoughts. She did that very often when she was conflicted. This was her way of waging decisions and opinions. By now I knew her so well that I didn't even have to look at her to know what she was doing.
"You're right…" She suddenly announced. I finally turned around and looked at her before she continued: "I was just…so excited and scared at the same time. I was scared that if I looked away even for a second that he will disappear and… I guess I was childish enough to forget anything else. I'm sorry…It was never my intention to make you feel like I was exploiting you. You are the most important person to me. You are the only constant thing in my life. When everyone else leaves you will be there, so please don't be angry right now."
She constantly looked to the floor while talking. As I already said, her and Charly have a hard time expressing their feelings. They usually don't and when they do, they have a really hard time not being awkward while doing so. This meant a lot to me. That she was saying it without being awkward.
I sighed annoyed because I suddenly felt guilty…maybe I was overreacting. Maybe it was this time of the month…
"So…I mean. The Cullen's told me some stuff but I didn't ask further. You guys dating now?"
She looked up at me with shiny eyes her mouth open in surprise before she gave me a shy smile: "You know, you are just 4 minutes older than me but those for minutes really make a difference."
So, I am the older one? Hell yes!
I gave her a smirk: "Yes, and don't forget it. Next time I tell you to call me you will do so."
She chuckled a bit: "I think I learned my lesson…so…yeah we kind of got closer I guess."
She continued talking about everything that happened, I gagged when she told me with her puppy eyes that Edward thought that she was his drug. Not gonna lie…I was close to puking.
Freaking romantic novel stuff!
Something happened to me after that day. I don't know what it was, but I felt like there was this huge hole inside of my chest that was sucking in my whole energy so the following few days things went well with Bella and Edward. I did my best to keep out of their romantic stuff. I felt like a preteen boy that was beyond disgusted by this shit.
Alice and the others occasionally talked to me, but I kept my distance from them as well.
I just wanted the story to finally come to an end, so I didn't interfere. I made sure that Bella and Edward got together and that's it, I'm done here…this weird ass dude with this fake ass blond wig on his head had to appear and kidnap her and then I will finally be able to go home. I never said that I'm a good person…
I was in the kitchen when suddenly a well-known native boy knocked on the doorway: "Need some help with that?" He asked me and pointed towards the potatoes that I was peeling.
I grinned: "You are asking me because you want to be polite and you hope that I will decline, or are you asking because you actually want to help me?"
His white teeth flashed as he grinned at me: "No, I really wanna help."
I moved over and let the knife down beside the half-peeled potato: "Well, then I'll take the extra help gladly."
He rolled up his sleeves after pulling his long hair back. He washed his hands before staring to peel them. To my surprise he looked rather professional doing so and he seemed to notice m staring.
"After Rachel and Rebecca moved out, dad and I were on our own. Sue sometimes brought us food or invited us for dinner but most of the time we had to cook ourselves. So, I kind of managed to get some skills."
"Sue?" I asked him confused and he looked at me for a second before he smiled gently.
"Yeah, sorry…you just fit in so well that I sometimes forget that you moved here a month ago. Sue is the wife of my fathers' friend, yours as well. They grew up together just like we did. Our dads often go fishing with Sues husband, Harry."
I nodded finally having a name to put a face to it: "Ah yes I met Harry before my father went off with him fishing but it was a very brief meeting. He just told me to meet his daughter Leah and that's about it."
Jacob shook his head: "Leah is not someone that you would get along with."
I raised one of my eyebrows: "Really, and you know that why?"
He chuckled awkwardly: "She is…a complicated person. Rachel was best friends with her, but I actually never got along with her."
"And I'm not complicated?"
He chuckled: "No, you are the most uncomplicated person that I ever met."
I started to cut the beef into similar parts: "Really? We met a few times…what makes you think that?"
He was nearly done with the potatoes as he peeled the last one: "You didn't change at all. Even when we were still kids and we joked around…you were always the one that could take a joke or that would wrestle with me. You also were the one that told the truth at any given time. That didn't change."
The truth? My smile disappeared as I looked at the meat in front of me. I stopped cutting it and this deep hole in my chest just expended.
He described me just fine. It was like he knew me from my world. I never lied because I didn't see
the use in it. I never pretended to be someone else because… how could you know if people liked you because of who you really are. Ever since I came here, I felt like I was losing myself. I had to start lying and pretending. Him saying that gave me a bit of hope that I was still me.
"Gen? you okay? Did I say something wrong?"
I shook myself off from the thoughts and gave him a smile: "No, quite the opposite. It is nice to hear that I'm still the same. I'm sorry that I can barely remember our playdates."
His cheeks suddenly went red and I could see how the redness spread through his whole face down his throat and to the point of his ears. He immediately looked away with a shy smile: "It's alright, maybe it's better that you can't remember, and we can make knew memories where I'm not a weird boy that eats mutt-pies."
I laughed with him feeling the first time since I fell this dark hole down remotely happy.
"What are you two laughing at?" Charlie suddenly entered the kitchen and went over to the fridge to get out two bottles of beer. He turned towards us with a smile before I answered.
"It's nothing, just talking…"
Charlie raised an eyebrow: "Talking, huh?"
"Yes, and now get out so we can finish dinner."
Charlie nodded before giving me and Jacob one last stare and making his way out of the kitchen.
"that was weird…" I announced before turning to the meat again and Jake just chuckled.
"Yeah, that was definitely weird."
"Is Bella not coming home for dinner?" Charlie asked me as we finally digged into the plate of country potatoes and beef.
"No, she was invited by the Cullen's for dinner. She'll be home a bit later."
Charlie nodded, satisfied with the answer. He liked the Cullen's. Who didn't like them? They never were in any trouble and had marvellous manners, not to mention that their father was a very good doctor. She could have done worse…for example…Mike.
"She and the Cullen's, are they close?" Everyone was satisfied by the answer but not Billie Black.
I looked up at him seeing his intense stare. He was way too serious about this, making me think that he new something about the Cullen's that he shouldn't. I gulped down the potato before answering: "Yea, she and Edward started dating recently."
Jacob looked at me as well and I could tell that he had a bit of a disappointed look on his face. Yeah…I already guessed that he had a crush on her…
"Since when?" Billie digged deeper and I had to come up with a plan to somehow brush this conversation off, so I chuckled before reaching for the glass of water: "You sound like, dad…" I took a gulp of water and continued "…no, scratch that…not even dad is that curious."
Billie looked at me for a second before giving me his smile. It was that smile that you get from wiser people when they want to show you that they know exactly what you're trying to do but they will go along with it because they know that it has no use to dig deeper.
"I'm just concerned. Your father really missed you guys and I hope that nothing will take you and your sister away from him."
Charlie nearly chocked on his food as he couched a bit: "Sooner or later they will meet someone and they have to leave, I rather have it be a doctor's son with manners than a guy that plays with her."
Billie finally shifted his stare towards my father and his eyes took over the any emotion that he plastered on his face: "Of course. Dinner is by the way very delicious. Jake and I will probably intrude more often if we get treated with food like this." Jake gave a pearl white smile with a nod: "Definitely, thanks Gen."
"I'm glad that you like it."
Charlie gave me an appreciating squeeze on my shoulder before continuing to eat.
After dinner Jake helped me with the dishes and they left. It was very nice to have Jacob over. He was like this ray of sunshine that you need when you feel very down.
He knew how to make you laugh very easily and it was comfortable. I hate to admit it, but I needed it. Talking to someone that I actually enjoyed talking to. Not that I hated to talk to Bella, but she was currently just talking about the Cullen's and I felt myself being reminded of the time when I was at my real home and my friends started to talk about twilight all the time.
I was lying in my bed, a bit exhausted. Even though I liked Jake…I kind of didn't like Billies accusing stare all the time. Even if I didn't know about the Cullen's he had no right to interrogate me like this and to indirectly accuse me of leaving Charlie.
I turned away from my window and gripped the sheets a bit closer to my chin.
"I can't believe that you didn't come to dinner even though my father invited you." A high voice suddenly announced angrily, and I jumped up and screamed. Alice freaking Cullen stood in the middle of my room with her arms angrily crossed in front of her.
As soon as I screamed Charlie threw my door open: "Genny? What the hell is going on?"
I looked towards the place where Alice was seconds ago only to find the spot empty. Was I imagining it? Charlie came closer and tapped my shoulder a bit: "Gen?"
I gulped down my fear and collected myself again before nodding: "Yeah…the forest is just playing tricks on me I thought I saw something, but it was just shadows of the trees." Charlie looked over to my window before grunting. He seemed satisfied with my explanation: "alright, close the curtains if the forest scares you." I nodded again.
"Yeah sure. Good night dad." He nodded as he walked towards the door.
"Yeah, good night." With that he closed it and was gone.
"So?" The same voice appeared, and I looked towards the spot were Alice was before to see her standing there again.
"What the hell Alice?" I whispered out angrily.
"Don't get angry at me when you rudely ignored the invitation."
I threw my hands up in the air, being done with this I sat on my bed again and pulled the blanket over me.
My bed tipped down as Alice sat down: "I thought you knew…considering that you can see the future?"
"Yes, but…your future is currently very hazy…I don't know why but your future is like…there are no decisions at all."
I sat up and looked at her confused: "No decisions?" Her eyes clouded over with something like concern before she looked at me. Suddenly the concern was gone, and an angry gleam was directed at me again: "That's not the point. Why didn't you come? Carlisle was very disappointed. He cooked for you guys…even Rosalie and Emmett were helping. In the end you didn't come, and Bella didn't eat…"
"I'm sorry, I didn't think that it was such a big deal."
"Of course, it was. We never truly had human friends. It is such a relieve to not have to pretend in front of you guys. And Carlisle was so happy to finally have…"
She suddenly stopped herself from talking and a shocked expression was on her face.
Confused I furrowed my eyebrows: "What? What happened? What did you want to say?"
She shook her head: "Nothing, just…don't ignore us. You were ignoring us in school and now you didn't come to dinner."
I sighed and wiped my face with my hand. I have to admit that I was annoyed. Why was everything suddenly so complicated and why was everyone suddenly so demanding.
"Alright, I'm sorry…I wasn't really thinking…"
She sighed herself before her arms fell into her lap. The anger seemed to diminish: "It's just that I'm concerned about you. Not seeing your future is usually not a good sign. If I could, I would stay in your reach until I can see your future all clear again."
"Why? What does it mean that it's hazy?"
She looked away as if contemplating if she should tell me or not before she turned towards me with a smile: "don't worry about it, whatever it is, it won't happen as long as you have us."
With a bounce she stood up again: "So…baseball! Ever played it?"
What the fuck?! One second she was emotional and the next she played it cool and came up with the most random question ever: "uhm…I know the rules?" I told her confused.
She clapped her hands with an exciting smile: "Good! This weekend is some thunderstorm and we will go and play baseball…"
"Hold on…a thunderstorm and you decide to play baseball."
She chuckled before skipping over to the bed and taking my arm excitingly: "Thunderstorms in Forks sometimes don't bring any rain at all and during those storms no one will hear the impact of the baseball bat and the ball. When we hit the ball it pretty much sounds like the thunder."
Confused I thought about what she said…yes, it kind of made sense. They had super strength after all…they could never play baseball to its full extend…
"Makes sense I guess." I told her and she stood up again while letting go of my arm.
"Yes, so you will come this time and I won't take a 'no' for an answer."
I sighed and threw my hand up in a defeating manner: "Alright, anything to make you happy Alice."
She hugged me tightly while giggling: "Great see you tomorrow at school. Don't ignore us Genny." She announced one last time with an accusing finger pointed at me before she was gone for good.
I turned away from the window and pulled my blanket over my head, so I didn't have to see the lavender anymore.
