"Thank you esme" I say sitting down at the island in the cullens kitchen. I look down at the breakfast esme prepared for me. An omelet, sausage, toast, and a cup full of apple juice.
"It's was no problem dear" Esme smiles sweetly at me and goes back to washing dishes. I smile back and dig into the delicious food. I had decided to stay home today because I'm still not ready to face bella she might tell jacob she's seen me.
After I finish my food I bring my dishes to the sink about to wash my dishes when esme shows up and takes them from me.
"You don't have to. I got it" I oppose.
"Just let me. I like doing small things like this for others whenever I can. Since I've never had the chance to raise a child so things like this make me happy. I know how sad that soun-"
"It's doesn't sound sad at all. Uh here you can go ahead." I hand esme my dishes "I'm just so used to doing dishes and cleaning up after myself and sometimes jacob. I understand where you're coming from, gives us something to do." I say giving her a side smile and shrugging it off.
Esme looks kindly at me and pulls me into a hug much to my surprise. On one hand it's weird cause all I did was let her clean up after me, but on the other hand I know that it goes deeper then what it is from what she tells me. So i just hug her back for a while and we let go of one another simultaneously.
Thanking her one last time, I walk out the kitchen and walk around aimlessly getting used to my surroundings. It was a habit of mine to map out the places I stay. Instinct I guess you could call it. When I first arrived I found a small cave and scouted the area around it to make sure it was safe. Since I didn't know anyone I often hid when people would come to the beach cause I'd feel unsafe, and plus it was usually teens so naturally I was scared cause they were bigger then I was.
When people would come to close to my home I'd run out a back exit I found during my exploration. It came in handy alot of times during my stay there but I had always yearned to stay in a house preferably with my Sofubo. I'd often miss being home and playing with the other children. It got lonely quick thinking about what I'd unwillingly left behind.
Untill I lost hoshi in the woods one night when we were out hunting for food. I like hunting at night cause it meant less people out to see me. There'd be a person or two but it was still less and they were easy to avoid. Anyways our supply of food ran out so me and hoshi went out and gathered anything we could find like berries, nuts, small animals, and herbs.
Anyways I'd went back to the cave with what I gathered and wasn't surprised hoshi wasn't there. She usually got there after me since she went after bigger pray and often came home as some predator with a deer or something clutched in her jaws. But it started getting late so I went out to look for her. After hours of looking I came across a house and knew I'd gone to far but I wasn't gonna leave untill I looked for hoshi. I was close to tears when I heard a sound and looked over to see a boy staring daggers into me and the rest is history.
My sight becomes blurry when the memory of the night I met my best friend only seemed to sadden me deeply. I take in a breath before letting it out slowly. No, its been a little less then two days and I miss him far to much already. I won't be weak.
I come across a room with a door slightly ajar. I walk over and push it open to be met with a room just as beautiful as the rest of the house, but what grabbed my attention was the black piano in the center of the room. I sniff the air and smell all the cullens but edwards scent is the strongest. I walk closer to the piano and smell it again the only smell coming off it was edwards and... bellas.
Seeing as bella doesn't live here... or play piano I decide that edward is the owner of this piano. I don't wanna touch it and he's not here so I opted for just looking at it. It reminds me of that sweet but crazy woman who would play her piano even day in the evening. She'd lost her mate and music helped ease the pain if only a little. Well that's what she told me.
I'd visit her alot when I was five and she would teach me things on the piano. Saying I'd never remember it anyway, but she was wrong i remembered every single lesson. Including the one on feeling, it was the first time I seen her cry. Even though the tune wasn't sad but happy. It was for her mates birthday. And she'd play it for her every year and it'd make her smile.
Without knowing it I had reached out a hand and placed a finger on one of the keys about to press when I stopped myself. I wanted to play it so bad. I really do. But it was edwards and he probably wouldn't want someone touching without him knowing. Or maybe even at all.
So before I could throw caution to the wind and played it I turned and walked to the door looking back before closing the door completely.
I look around the house some more before I get bored and head to the living room to watch TV. I walk past esme and nod my head her way and she smiles sweetly. I walk into the living room and sit on the couch sitting back and switching on the tv.
\(⊙●⊙)/ timey skippy \(°•°)/
I jolt awake when I hear the sounds of cars pulling up. When did I fall asleep?.
I sit up with a small groan and stretch while I yawn quietly. My arms flop back down and look down when my hands touch something soft. I smile softly when I see that covers had been draped over me. Esme.
My musing are interrupted when I hear the cullen 'kids' enter the house. I stand up and fold the blanket before setting it aside. I walk to where they now excitedly talk well mostly just Alice. I walk in to see them all with smiles as they give Alice their attention.
"Aidzuki, come on I have some exciting news" Alice gestures for me to join them, which I do.
"OK so to catch you up on what the big occasion is, well, it's bella's birthday!" At the name alone I already feel exasperated. But I'm a bit surprised at the birthday announcement. Usually people talk about their 'special day' weeks before it comes around. But bella never once said anything about hers.
"Anyways I invited her over during school and her and Edward should be here soon. So jazz and I have brought a gift in advanced so we're set. What about all of you" immediate silence falls over the room.
It should be known that I don't have a gift for bella, but can you blame. No. No you can not. She hadn't said her birthday was coming up so of course I didn't get or make her something to prepare. Which at the moment is causing a little panic. It's not like I could buy her something I don't have money!
just as my mind was about to implode with panic Alice taps my shoulder.
" It's OK. I got you covered." She holds out a tiny box to me with a smile. I take a breath of relief and give Alice a grateful look and then hug.
"Thanks" She nods and dashes away to prepare something small for bella. I look around me to see the rest of the cullens have left and that I'm alone in the kitchen. I go to the fridge and open it. I'm confused to see it full of food.
It could be just for me? But esme also loves cooking for no reason and some of the food looks like it's been here longer then I have so i guess it's a little bit of both. I shrug and look for some juice. Oh brisk. Even better.
I take it and go back to the living room. Sigh, we were supposed to go hunting today. Alice had it planned and everything. Maybe we still were but later on. I hope so i was kinda looking forward to it. It's been so long since I went hunting. Months!
I enjoy the part where I eat, but the hunting is even better. Which I chuck up to my animal DNA. running free in the forest so fast it's as if I'm floating. I could run around all day if I wanted to. Well untill I get tired.
Anyways everything in hunting I love. Except the part where I kill the unlucky catch. More often than not I would let the animal go, I'd only kill it if I were hungry and didn't have a choice.
But thanks to jacob It didn't have to come to that. He was... is a good friend. He's always there for me whether I need him or not. I wonder if he misses me as much as I miss him.
I smile and sit back on the couch.
^skip again^
Everyone was gathered in one place waiting for bella to come down stairs gifts in hand. I stood beside jasper and watched Alice rush upstairs stating that bella was taking so long.
"Little to exited for someone else's birthday right?" I ask elbowing jasper. He looks at me and smiles fondly when his mate comes back down holding bella's hand.
"She is a little... eccentric" he says moving towards the birthday girl with the rest of the family. She smiles and gives hugs to whoever wants them. I smile at her as she approaches me and gives me a tight hug then holds me at arms length.
"I've missed you at school aidzuki. I'm kinda surprised to see you HERE though of all places. I didn't even know you guys were friends. You said they freaked you out-" I cut her off.
"Yes bella we've put that aside and made nice. Or who knows i could be here against my will" I shrug and she smiles at me while dropping her hands to her sides. She was about to turn around but remembers something and pokes me in the chest giving a meaningful look.
"You, dear aidzuki, need to go see jacob. He hasn't been doing well since you left. He came to our school to give me a birthday present and he didn't seem... all there. He told me he's been looking everywhere for you. He's checked twice in some places. Ask edward he was hell bent on finding you. Maybe if he sees you're doing okay then he'd stop, whatever it is he's doing to himself" She says with a worried look to which I just purse my lips and nod.
Was I really effecting him that much. I know he cares about me and all, but the guy is looking for me when I thought he'd be waiting at home for me to return. That he wouldn't care where I was as long as I came back. Or not even then. I was so emotional that i had forgotten who jacob black was. He's a very caring person when it comes to the ones he cares about and very self sacrificing.
Now I feel like an ass for leaving, thinking about what was good for me at the time and what I thought would be good for him. Maybe I should go see him and see if he's okay. I'll see him tomorrow after school. No point in hiding out from bella if she knows where i am.
"Aidzuki, it's your turn to give bella a gift" Alice says from beside me i hand the present and she opens it to reveal a hair pin with three giant sapphires and little black Crystals sparkled around them. It was beautiful and by the look on her face she thought so to.
It's a shame I didn't buy it for her.
She continues opening gifts that are handed to her untill she gets to the present from Carlisle and esme. She struggles to open it and her finger slips causing a paper cut.
"Ow, paper cut" She says lowly as if it was no big deal. She was way to comfortably with them. And from there it's like time slowed down as i heard several intakes of breath. Bellas face slowly registered what had just happened, her eyes widen as she looks directly at jasper. I look at him to and see him giving bella a look like he wanted to devour her. And i'm sure I'm not to far off.
Edward see this to as he swings out a arm and pushes bella back causing her to fly backwards towards the candles causing a few to shatter on impact some inbedding in her skin causing the scent of blood to thicken.
While all that was happening jasper had charged just as bella was pushed back and Edward reacts quick and pushes him a away to the other side of the room. Jasper recovers quickly, hissing slightly and charges again ducks under Emmett arm and around Carlisles grab.
I gasp when he throws edward away when he tried to grab him. Edward collides with the wall and stands up in a flash literally. But even with his speed he wouldn't reach bella in time to save her. But I could. So with no time to think I move in front of bella who looks at me like I'm crazy (she doesn't know he's not human) and when jasper reaches me he snarls and swings his fist at me intent on getting me out the way.
What happens next confused me greatly.
I catch the fist in my hand and pull him towards me and kick the back of his knee and he falls to the ground. Before he gets up, I don't know how I knew to do it, I put my hands on his forehead and it began to glow orange and i whisper "sleep" and to my surprise he becomes motionless under me. I stand up and take a step back with wide eyes not knowing what just happened.
When Alice sees he's no longer moving she runs to him and puts his head in her lap. She panics at the site of her mate actually... sleeping. She looks at me, with no anger but there is accusation in her eye, and places a hand on her mates chest.
"What did you do?" She asks calmly. I can't seem to answer so i just shake my head and shrug my shoulders. She alerts her eyes back to him eyes panicked.
I can't imagine how she feels with no indications that I didn't just kill her with my new... ability. Holy crap! I'm fucking starting puberty. Well the other half of it. I don't know whether to be happy to finally be getting my abilities or terrified. I only said sleep so maybe that's what happened to him, he's sleep. Or maybe I killed him. I sure hope it's the former.
I turn around to see Carlisle leading edward and bella away. Bella, who was being carried, was looking at me untill they turned a corner. The rest of the cullens were no longer around probably do to the blood. I kneel down on the other side of jasper.
"We should get out of here In case he wakes up and smells the blood again. Let's go outside with rosalie and emmet, I can carry him if you don't wanna" She sniffles tearlessly and nods her head. We stand and I pick jasper up and throw him over my shoulders. Fuck he so damn heavy!
We walk outside with Alice in the lead. She turns to me and tells me where to set him down and I do. I sigh and roll my shoulders. Geeze are they all that fucking heavy!
"Can't you reverse this" She whispers. It's obvious she's in distress and i can't blame her. I did this after all.
"I-I-I don't even kn-know how I did this it really just happened! I've never done that before!" I breath to calm down but it does very little "I'm sure he'll wake up, and he'll be fi-" I jump a mile in the air when, right on cue, jasper sit up looking around him, his head swiveling rapidly. I could see the moment everything catches up to him. His face takes on a guilty look.
Alice takes his hand and he looks at her taking her other hand in his.
"What happened, please tell me bella's ok. Did I hurt her? How about aidzuki? He's the last thing I remember before... before..I ... I uh.. don't know" he says sounding confused.
Alice and I share a look and she puts her small hands on his shoulder and turn him so that he was facing her.
"We don't know either, but if we had to guess aidzuki put you to sleep somehow" She finishes by kissing his forehead.
"It's was puberty" I say casually gaining weird looks from them both. I blush and crouch down ready to explain myself.
"After I start my physical puberty which is the same as a humans I start my other puberty. Yes twice I have to suffer. I get my special abilities along with my normal abilities that my whole race has. Which is just our animal form. I'm guessing that the ordeal in the house triggered the beginning stages of development in one of three of my abilities." I explain awkwardly and they nod taking in the information I just gave them.
Emmet and rosalie come from the forest and walks towards us upon spoting us. Once they flash over to us Emmet lifts jasper up in a bear hug.
"Jesus dude you had us worried man. We didn't know what happened when you just. I don't. Fell asleep. Or whatever. Glad that it didn't last long or you're not dead. And bella's fine thanks to night quill over here" he laughs at his own joke as he puts jasper down and jerks a thumb in my direction.
"Yeah I know. He says it was puberty. I mean a second puberty. If you wanna know ask him" Jasper says a smile on his face as he throws up his hands when Emmet opens his mouth to ask.
As I was about to explain again bella comes out the house followed by edward. She walk to us but is stopped by edward when he sees jasper's awake. Jasper turn their way but doesn't make a move towards.
"Bella, edward I can't tell you how sorry I am that I lost control like that, forgive me?" He asks his guilt showing In his voice and on his face.
Bella purses her lips and stands awkwardly as she speaks "It's OK jasper. It was an accident" She says to which jasper nods and says nothing.
"I'm taking bella home now" Edward announces. He let's go of bella and they walk to her truck.
I think I should leave to and go see jacob I feel as if the cullens need time for themselves. Sighing I walk towards the wood turning back back and waving "I'm gonna go home for a while and see what jakes up to" Alice steps forward to stop me but jasper puts a hand on her arm to stop her.
"It's fine I'll visit you guys alice. But Jacob's gonna go crazy looking for me. And I really do miss him alot I thought I could stay away from my best friend it seems impossible." With that i began running disappearing into the forest in seconds.
When I hear crunching beside me i look over to see a cheetah with a star on her forehead.
Glaring at her I ask "and where the hell have you been?! I've been looking for you all day, well not really. But I was wondering when you'd be back." She doesn't look at me just stares straight ahead as she makes a sound in her chest.
"Hunting! You went hunting without me! It doesn't matter never mind." I wave it.
We run untill the familiar scents of la push wafts over us and I speed up.
I hope he'll be happy when I see him and not angry with me. I do expect at least a little bit of both. So as I break out the treeline I slow down to a jog as I make my way to Jacob's house.
Upon seeing most of the lights off in the house I go around to see if Jacob's awake. As I approach his window I see his light's on so creep up to it and peer inside.
I see jacob laying curled up in a ball on his bed but unsure if he's sleeping. He seems fine from where I'm standing, though I'm guessing I'd have to actually see his face to deduct that.
I wait for him to shift so that I could get a better view of his face. When he does I can say that, yes, he's sleeping. My browser furrow when I see the dark circles under his eyes and the way he seems to be restless. I wanna reach out and reassure him but I can't just break into his window.
I think of a plan but come up with nothing and just decide to knock on his window to wake him up. I swallow thickly and raise my hand to the window. I hesitate to knock just standing there with my hand in the air not knowing if I'm ready this.
What do I got to be scared of. He'll be happy to see me right? What if he becomes so mad that he wants me to leave? Jake wouldn't do that to me. Like bella did say he was searching for me almost everywhere. I retract my hand and lean against the wall beside his window sliding down untill I was sitting on the ground.
I look at hoshi who is staring at me with open judgment. "What are you staring at hoshi. You'd be scared to if you were in my shoes" She just snorts and shakes her head at me. She makes a rumbling sound and looks at me then the window. I put my head down and huff quietly "no. I just can't, he's so unpredictable at times. His father has known him his whole life and sometimes can't predict his next move he'll make".
Hoshi narrows her eyes at me and just lays down not gonna wait all night for me to gain some courage. She closes her eyes intent on going to sleep.
OK so maybe I'm over reacting a bit. I just need to suck it up and face him it's the only way to get rid of this feeling on the pit of my stomach. Jacob couldn't possibly throw away a friendship so important to us, or maybe just me. Oh man this was a bad idea maybe I should have just stayed with the cullens and came over in the morning. It's not like I was gone for weeks, he could wait a little longer. I'll just lea-
Stop it, don't be pussy just knock. Knock and... kami what do I say. Oh I got it I'll just say 'oh hello jake, I was just sitting outside your window wondering if I should tell you that I ran away cause I'm pretty sure I'm in love with you and was hurt you and bella were having a moment so i used my otherworldly speed to get away and ended up in a house of vampires, you know the one with the guy dating bella. Yeah and she was nearly attacked and killed by one so I decided to give them some space cause I could of hurt someone with my second puberty while protecting her.' Yeah jacob would be the one running away if he found out I was in love with him. And that his girl best friend was dating a 109 year old vampire. Or he would flip out and think I was crazy and never want to see me again.
You know what nevermind. Maybe I'll tell him all that later, the vampire part, and leave out the puberty and secret love confession. Yup. But for now I should really just knock on the window to get things going.
So with little hesitation I stand up tall and walk two steps to his window and raise my hand to knock. I sigh, not going back now. And then I'm knocking...
A/N: Thank you to those who like my story and continue to read it. And also I've been working on some other stories that I might publish on here later. So look out for them.
