Chapter 4: Finding the truth about Lestat
"Lyrik Montgomery, for the umpteenth time. I can walk by myself." Cassie exclaimed angrily.
It was almost a week after, and her first day of school in Forks High school. Of course, her aunt had talked to her mom, and seeing she was not going to go back to Ireland for now, they had decided to put her in school with her cousin. She loved the idea of a public school.
But not so much the fact that Lyrik was following her like a hawk from the very beginning of the day. First, it was her clothing; not good enough. Second, her bag; too fashion and flashy for rainy Forks. Then, her car. And after that, the boys wanting her like a shiny new toy.
And Cassie was starting to be annoyed by it.
"Symphonie Danglars, for the umpteenth time. I don´t give a fuck!" Lyrik exclaimed louder. He was getting tired of his cousin. It was so hard to understand he was not going to leave her alone with Mike Newton's claws on the loose now that Jessica was not with him?
"Lyrik!" She squealed when he used her first name, and stormed off to her next class.
As soon as she was gone, Alice almost materialized next to him.
"We're in troubles." She said, looking worried. Lyrik knew, somehow, that it had something to do with what she really was. But he wasn´t going to press it on her. He could wait.
"What can I do for help?" He offered.
Edward appeared next to Alice just that fast. "I think it's time he knows." He commented, with the same worried expression than his sister. But Lyrik wasn't worried, at all. If something really bad was about to happened, Alice would have a different look on her golden eyes.
"I know. But we should wait until we take Jasper out of here." Alice said, starting to walk fast toward the same path that Cassie had gone. Now Lyrik was worried.
"It's something going to happened to my cousin?" He demanded to know. Alice and Edward exchanged glances before answering. "No." They said at the same time.
"She's going to be ok. Jasper, on the other hand…" Alice looked hurt, and Lyrik decided he wouldn´t mind give her space to talk to her ex boyfriend. He couldn´t be jealous when it was about Alice. He knew.
Deep down inside, he knew how deep it was their bond.
"Fuck." Alice and Edward muttered at the same time, and speeded up toward the lab. Lyrik followed them worried.
"What happened?"
"He just smelled her."
"Lynk, you need to get away of here. Now."
It put in danger his masculinity, but he did as he was told for once in his life. It was Alice, and he would do anything Alice asked him. He couldn´t help it. Just as he was about to enter his own classroom, he caught a glimpse of a frenetic Jasper with black eyes, and Alice and Edward holding him forcefully. And then, they disappeared.
It didn´t surprised him much, actually. He had seen them disappeared before, even when they thought he hadn´t.
Lyrik went to classes, and survived the next three hours until lunch without seeing any of the Cullens. When he arrived at the cafeteria, he found Alice and Cassie on the same table. If that wasn´t strange enough, the fact they were chatting in whispers was more than a give-away.
They stopped when he approached them.
"Hey." Lyrik said slowly. Alice smiled widely and kissed him once he was sitting next to her on the table.
"Hi." Cassie said frowning, but clearly not at him. She then turned back at Alice, continuing the conversation they were having when Lyrik arrived. "I still don´t get it. What? He's like allergic to me?"
Alice smirked. "You could say so. It's not that you have something wrong, Cassie."
"I know that." The redhead snorted.
"Are you talking about Jasper?" Lyrik interrupted.
"Yeah. The boy saw me and almost flight away of class. It seems he's allergic to me. Can you believe it?"
"I think I can believe almost everything." The boy said with a loving glance at Alice. She smiled sweetly at him.
"Oh, yeah. The loving couple. Well, if you don´t mind…" Cassie started, but the other girl stopped.
"No, wait! How against are you to cut classes now?" she asked, but her knowing smirk was enough to know she already knew the answer. As weird as that was.
"Completely pro." Cassie nodded.
Lyrik didn´t have much choice. "What for?"
"I'm going to take you two to my house. You have to know what you're dealing with." Alice stated, standing up.
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Cassie opened her eyes completely when she saw the house. It was a wonderful state, something anyone would like to have as a Barbie's house. And the Cullens lived there. Well… if she thought about it, maybe Alice was more than ok.
The pixie girl guided them inside, and introduced them to her adoptive father, his wife, and Jasper. The boy looked a little ashamed, but Cassie noticed more on his eyes. Sadness and… hurt. She felt sympathetic toward him and she decided she liked him.
"I think it would be better if you two take a sit." Offered Esme with a wide smile, guiding them to a sofa in front of a table full with food.
Weird… Cassie thought, not daring to eat anything. Hell, if they killed her, no one would hear her. And they could, because there was no other reason to Alice's mocking smirk and for Edward's reproach on his eyes.
"Lynk." Alice started. "You have probably noticed it already… Some weird things about us. And you're probably wondering what we really are…" She said. Lyrik nodded. Cassie on the other hand, wondered why they were all there. Yeah, they were weird people, but what could be so bad as to need the presence of their parents? Of course, she took that as another proof they were trying to kill them and started to check for exits.
Edward chuckled. "We're not a sect, Cassie." He offered. The redhead almost fell off the chair when she heard him.
"How do you know?!" She demanded to know.
"That was what I wanted to say." Alice pouted.
"I can read minds." Edward said smirking.
"You're saying that as if it's such a shock…" Cassie muttered. It was quite obvious, actually. The way he laughed every time they were together following Lyrik and Alice whenever she thought something funny was a clear give-away.
"And you can see the future." Lyrik said slowly, looking at Alice. She nodded.
"But that's not all." Carlisle interrupted, but Jasper interrupted them.
"We're vampires." He declared angrily.
The silence took possession of the room as soon as those words left his mouth. Both cousins were shocked but that statement. Who wouldn´t, actually? Your cousin's girl admitting to be a vampire? Fuck's sake, that was mental.
"That means Lestat exist?" Cassie asked with sparkling eyes.
Yeah, she was mental too.
The Cullens look at her with surprised expressions, but Lyrik was the one that reacted, hitting her in the neck.
"You're stupid." He stated. "That's seriously the first thing that crosses your mind?"
Cassie nodded, but that was the only proof she had listened to him. After that, she started interrogating the Cullens about them with an almost sickening interest in the medical part. Edward fought hard down his laughter, because he could see her thoughts. The redheaded was thinking about open up a vampire to see how it worked, it was something that fascinated her. The girl was weird. Even weirder than Bella. His Bella hadn´t being so completely positive about vampires in general. This girl didn´t even was scared of human-blood-drinking vampires.
"So you're… vegetarians." Lyrik stated, having a completely different way of dealing with the fact his almost girlfriend was a vampire. It wasn´t like he was scared or anything, but… it was something strange. It gave sense to a lot of things, but still.
"And that's why you ran away, right?" Cassie asked to Jasper, and he nodded, feeling too ashamed to speak. If it was for him, he would have gone away. Far far away. Japan away.
"You're blood smells particularly… good for us. And he's the one of us with… less experience in dealing with human blood." Alice explained, careful with her words.
"Oh." Cassie said, sitting still again. Good, Carlisle thought, we don´t need another scare-less Bella.
Edward chuckled. You should know better. She's not scared. He answered in his mind. She's wondering how it would be if she got her blood suck, if it will be like Anne Rice, whoever that is, write it.
"Ok, you stay away." Lyrik ordered his cousin.
"Oh, shut it! I'm sure your blood it's like mine! We have almost the same, stupid." Cassie complained.
Alice laughed. "In fact… He's my singer." She said, explaining what exactly a singer was. Both humans heard her in silence, absorbed with her musical voice. She smiled, Alice didn´t have as much problems with telling them as Edward had had with telling Bella. She knew they were going to find out sooner or later, because…
She's Emmett's singer. Alice thought with a smirk.
Edward chuckled at that.
"So…" Cassie started after a while, when Edward, Esme, Carlisle and Alice had explained as much as they could or thought about vampires. She was sitting with her legs crossed in the floor, in front of Lyrik. Everyone looked at her. "Does Lestat exits? Yes or no?"
"I don´t think so." Esme laughed sweetly; she was the only one who understood what she was talking about. "We don´t have actual proof, but I think he's just a character in a book."
Cassie pouted. But if vampires exists… maybe dragons too! She thought existed, ignoring Edward's snickered. Hey, you! Leave my thought alone… Wait! Do they exist too?
It's not enough with one mythical creature for you? You want dragons too? He said mockingly.
Fine, fine. But… what about werewolves?
Edward stopped.
Cassie stood up immediately.
Alice, Esme, Carlisle and Lyrik watched her surprised.
She opened her eyes, and pointed at Edward.
He thought maybe he was spending too much time with humans and he was getting his reflex down. He hadn´t seen that one coming.
"They do!" Cassie announced, and then fell on the coach with her eyes unfocused.
"Yes." Edward nodded. Alice understood. "Werewolves exist."
"What?!" Lyrik exclaimed. "Werewolves and vampires. What, dragons too?"
"No." Cassie pouted.
"In fact…" Alice started, looking at Carlisle for help.
"She has the right to know." Esme said, sitting next to the scared-looking Cassie.
"Cassie, Jacob Black is a werewolf." Carlisle said slowly. The redheaded looked at him not really expecting it. Lyrik shook his head.
"See? When I tell you not to get near a boy it's for something!" He complained.
"Hey! You're dating a vampire and no one says a thing. Besides, werewolves don´t drink blood." Cassie said, sticking her tongue out at him.
"They kill people if they lose control." Jasper corrected. He was getting more and more annoyed, and it was hard to get his feelings just to himself and not starting to push away.
"I'm sure I could kill someone too if I lose control." Cassie offered smiling.
"You're not going to see anything bad in all of this?" Alice asked with curiosity.
"Nope. It's cool. I mean, I always wanted dragons to exist, but vampires and werewolves where right behind on my list." She laughed.
Carlisle leaved them there; he had an emergency on the hospital. Esme did the same, asking Cassie and Lyrik to stay for dinner, and she went to cook. Jasper took that opportunity and stormed off. Alice smirk widened.
"I'm going to see Bella now. I promised I…" Edward started, standing up, at the same time Cassie asked her cousin in low voice if Jasper was Alice's ex or something like that.
Alice interrupted him. "Don´t go. You're not going to want to miss this."
Just as Alice finished her phrase, Edward understood. He could hear now what was coming, and decided to follow Alice's advice. Who would want to miss something like that?
"Aw, poor Lynk." Cassie murmured, kissing his cheek. "You really like her."
"You know they can hear you, right?" Lyrik said, blushing.
His cousin shrugged. "And Eddie can read minds." Cassie smirked. "Now you can double-dated with the vampires." She snickered, but she didn´t have more time to say anything else.
The door burst open with too violence, surprising her so much she ended up on the floor. There stood the most beautiful man she had ever seen, with dark short hair, taller than anyone in the room, muscular and with… black eyes.
But that wasn´t all.
No.
The man was staring right at her, with his eyes wide open.
As if he was… eating her with his eyes.
Oh, fuck.