What we found waiting for us when we landed changed everything.
Elie and Victor, two elder vampires who were helping with the newborns, stood under the shade of a tree not far off. When they saw Riley and me, they smiled and beckoned us forward.
We obeyed. When one lived there first few, and most likely only,weeks as a newborn surrounded by blood and death you never disobeyed.
"There has been a change in plans children." Victor said as we neared him and Elie. I tensed automatically; I quite dislike surprises.
"How so?" Riley asked when we were close to them.
Victor ignored Riley and turned to me with a twisted smile on his face. It wasn't really a smile, but for Victor it was as close as you were ever going to see to a smile on his face. Not exactly a happy smile; it was the smile he wore when he disciplined us and the smile he wore as he enjoyed the sound of, both vampire and human, flesh being torn apart. It was a very frightening smile and I didn't need to use my gift to see I couldn't trust it.
"Elie." He said as he gestured his hand to me.
It all happened very quickly after that. Faster than Riley and I could react, Elie had moved to restrain me. He had one hand at my neck and the other around my waist. Riley moved to release me but Victor quickly restrained him, this all happened in less than a second and, despite Riley and I being newborns, Victor and Elie were much stronger then we could ever hope to be.
"What are you doing?!" Riley snarled, as he struggled wildly in Victor's unbreakable grasp.
"Like I said, there has been a change in plans." Victor laughed as he watched Riley writhe in his arms. I growled and tried to break Elie's hold. his hand only tightened around my neck. "We're leaving your sister here." He said.
Riley snarled even louder and put more effort into his squirming.
"You thought we didn't know?" Victor chuckled. "I know you're still a newborn Riley but I thought you were smarter than this."
"How'd you find out? Who told you?" Riley asked in a snarl.
This time Elie chuckled and even though I couldn't see his face, I knew he was smiling.
"Your friend Missy told us." I froze.
Missy! I looked back to the weeks Missy and I spent together, and I never once told her I was related to Riley. Not even a hint. I barley talked to him while we were at the camp. I though she was my friend. I thought I could trust her. I saw that I could trust her.
I looked at Victor, looked him straight in the eye. I saw my reflection in it. I could see Elie, I could see him.
"You're lying." I choked out, and winced. I had been trying so hard not to breathe again while we were this close to humans, but nevertheless the intense burn returned to my throat once more.
Elie really was lying, but why would he lie about that. What did he gain?
He only laughed again which only provoked Riley more.
"So are you." He said. "You told your dear older brother here you didn't have a gift. That you saw no differently with your eyes." He held me tighter. "Tell us, how is it that you knew I was lying." Riley stopped his struggles and looked at me with hurt curiosity in his eyes.
"Gwen?" Riley asked.
What was I supposed to say?! I lied to the one person I could trust right now and if I tell him the truth then what? Will he trust me again? Trust was such a big thing with Riley; he has never forgiven anyone who's proven untrustworthy. Will he forgive me? What would I do if he didn't? I was the only person Riley could trust back at the warehouse. What would I do without him? Did it even matter? Elie and Victor were going to kill me any way right?
I felt so lost, so alone. The walls I built were starting to fall forward and I felt extremely claustrophobic.
"I-I," I couldn't say it! It broke my heart just imagining Riley's face if he knew the truth. "Riley, I'm so sorry." I blurted out. "Please you've got to understand, I-I couldn't tell you." I said as his face twisted up in frustration and anger.
"Why not?!" he almost yelled "I thought we didn't have any secrets Gwen… You always told me everything." He went on."What changed?"
"You did!" I yelled.
Victor released Riley, but he stayed where he was. He made no move to come help me, only looked at me like I was a stranger.
"I'm sorry." I said.
"Me too." Was all he said. "Good bye Gwen." He said it with no love, no feeling, and no emotion at all.
Good bye Riley.
"Well this was enough drama for one day." Victor said. "Let's go Riley. Elie will you please take care of the little fledgling." He said waving us off.
Elie carried me effortlessly though the forest as Victor and Riley ran to the car. Where was Elie taking me? If he was going to kill me I wish he'd get on with it. The second he put me down I wasn't going to waste any time with escaping. Elie was a big guy, lots of muscles, he didn't look like a fast runner; which I was. If he tried to attack me I think I could take him on. It would not be easy. He's good at fighting newborns, we general didn't have many fighting skills, but I did. I would fight the way I was taught as a human. How to fight was the only clear memory from my human life.
We came to a clearing. It was very small. Not at all enough space to fight.
"Why are we here?" I asked my voice tense.
"This is where I'm leaving you," I sighed in relief. He wasn't going to kill me! "So," He continued. "The Cullen's can find you." I tensed all over again.
"No! Wait, hold on." I pleaded. "You can't leave me here!" I whimpered. "They'll kill me!"
"That's the point." He sneered. "Now hold still."
He shifted me till he was holding me up by my neck.
"Elie!" A voice called. "Wait!" Riley came bounding into view. He didn't even look at me… "I wanted to leave this here." He said lifting up the old battered case that had brought so many smiles to my face over the years as a human; our mother's violin case. "Might as well cut all the ties, right?" He said before he dropped my dear violin in the dirt.
"Oh grow up." I bit out. He didn't even register my existence.
"You do you man." Eile mumbled. "Let me just-" My body suddenly went limp. Well there go my plans at escape... I didn't know Elie was gifted. "Don't worry it'll ware off eventually." He told me.
Elie let me fall with a low thud to the ground. Riley, the one who changed me, the one who dragged me into all this in the first place, the one who killed my best friend, just stood there.
If I could cry I would be sobbing now. How could I have been so stupid? I should have known he would find out and hate me.
"Can we go now?" Riley asked.
I watch unable to move, or speck, as my brother left me for dead. Why was this happening to me?! I wish none of this was real! I hope this is all some sick joke or twisted dream I was having, that I'd wake up in my room with Rye sleeping down the hall.
I remember the afternoons we would spend together, just hanging out in the living room. Playing video games or going bike riding. I would play the violin my mother gave me or my grand piano and Riley would just watch, throwing out some random comment on how I reminded him so much of our mother. We would go on for hours about everything.
Brooke was always with us. She'd become part of the family and we treated her as such. Brooke and I would have sleepovers every day in the summer. We would all walk down to the stream and catch crawfish and tad poles. We would go camping in the summer and roast marshmallows and hot dogs. Oh how I miss it! How did this all happen? This can't be real… It couldn't, because good things like that just didn't end like this.
I went on thinking like this for hours. Whatever Elie did to me was beginning to ware off; unfortunately not quick enough.
"Jasper over here!" The person sounded excited, like he found a hundred dollar bill on the side walk. "I found it." 'It!' I was not an IT!
I could barely move, but I was able to move my head enough to see a very big guy.
"Aw, Damn it." Whisper in a hoarse voice.
Well there you go. No one commented so I'm going to assume no one likes the story, but I want to get to a certain part in the story before I call it quits. If any one dose like the story comment and I'll update faster. Bye.