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I had fallen asleep to the sound of my aunt's soft, even breathing from next to me on the couch, but when I woke up; I couldn't hear anything at all. Then a voice.
"Morning princess. You sure did sleep for a long time; guess humans are just funny like that."
I lifted my hands to my face, trying to rub the sleep out of my eyes, when I realized that they were bound together. "Yeah, I know, the rope is a little unnecessary, but try telling that to my mate, yeesh," the voice said.
I sat up and realized that it had been a woman speaking to me this whole time. A woman with short blonde hair and an inhumanly beautiful face. She had said something about humans… that must mean that she was a vampire.
"Good that you caught on, must not be a dumb as you look," she said, examining her nails.
"Who are you?" I asked, sitting up as best as I could without being able to use my hands.
"My name's Lily, and my mate Nathan went out to hunt a little while ago. I figured your pathetic vampire buddies might've told you about us."
My eyes went wide. She knew about the Cullens? "Yup, the Cullens—feeding on animals? Gosh, can you say desperate? Anyways, I'm almost a little disappointed that they didn't tell you about us. Of course that means that no one will be around to help you, will they?" there was a weird look in her eyes that made me realize, if I hadn't already figured out that she was a vampire, now it would've been obvious. She looked at me the way a predator would look at its prey.
"Why are you here?" I asked, trying to back up and get as far away from her as I could. Then I noticed that I was alone on the couch, and added, "And what have you done to my aunt?"
"Hm, a little rude, aren't you?" she said, not answering my questions. "Oh well, I guess nobody's perfect. Not necessarily perfect, but I must say that you smell amazing. Even with that hint of, hmm, I don't quite know what to call it… that little part of you that's not quite human—but definitely not vampire. The reason why you're able to read minds. It just makes your blood more delicious."
I looked at my wrists in horror, not sure what I would find, and not sure what I was looking for. Did I expect to see two little puncture marks there? Those would be on my neck of course, but I could see my neck—I felt so violated for some reason, afraid that this… thing had been in my blood stream.
"Oh don't worry, princess, I haven't had any. Of course, it was tempting, but I'm full right now. I'd rather wait so that I can savour it," she said, smirking.
That was about when the rest of her little speech from earlier made sense to me. She knew that I could read minds, and that was why it had been so quiet. I hadn't known she was here, because I couldn't hear anyone's thoughts other than my own. I couldn't tell where my aunt was, or what Lily was going to do to me. For the first time in my life, I felt myself wishing I had my gift back.
"So you've finally noticed, huh? Took you long enough. That's my gift, I guess you could say. I can block out other people's powers, and stop them from working—so your freaky future friend Alice won't be able to tell what we're going to do to you, and that hunky human-loving Edward won't be able to read my mind either! Convenient or what?" she asked, and for once this seemed like a question that she wanted an answer to. I refused give her the satisfaction of hearing my voice shake though, so I stayed quiet.
She looked a little put out, almost like a little girl, until I finally said, "What if I'm a werewolf?"
"What?" she asked, and I was glad that for once I had caught her somewhat off guard.
"You said I my blood wasn't quite human or vampire, so what if I'm a werewolf?" I asked, trying to formulate a plan in my head as I spoke.
"Hate to break it to you, princess, but if you were a werewolf, then you'd stink. It doesn't help much that your house reeks of them, though. What did you do, invite them over for a party or something?" she asked, wrinkling her nose in disgust. Why would it smell like werewolves? Seth was the only one who'd come to the house recently—or was he? I mentally crossed my fingers, that someone out there would know that I was gone, and have at least some idea who had taken me.
"No," I said, quietly, before adding, "where's my aunt? Can you please just tell me that?"
"Hmm, terribly sorry princess, but that would ruin the fun," she said, flashing me a smile.
Before I could come up with some way to get information about my aunt out of her, there was a light tapping at one of the windows, and Lily said, "Ah, Nathan's here. It's about time. Hanging around humans makes my skin feel dirty."
"Where are you taking me?" I asked while she grabbed me up by my hands. I knew that it was a pretty pointless question, and I knew that there was no way I was going to be able to get away from her even if I tried, because she was a vampire, but I asked and struggled anyways.
Instead of answering me Lily started humming a song, while she grabbed me and tossed me over her shoulder. She continued humming as she walked through the living room and into the kitchen, and then she stopped mid-step and put me down. I thought for a moment that maybe she'd had a sudden change of heart and now wanted to let me go—and of course, I was wrong.
"I almost forgot," she said, lifting some papers off of the table until she found what she was looking for. "I need you to write me a note."
I raised my eyebrows, but said nothing. It was weird how I was so at-ease with a vampire. "What do you want me to say?" I asked rather than screaming in terror like I probably should have as soon as I saw her.
"Hmm… something along the lines of; Dearest family and friends, I've finally found how positively meaningless this pathetic excuse for a life that I've been leading is, and so I've decided to kill myself. Sorry if this is of any inconvenience. Oh, and you're not invited to my funeral. Good, huh?" she said.
I rolled my eyes, but grabbed the paper and pen anyways. I sat down and started writing, and continued while Lily stood there, tapping her foot. She made me write five different drafts until she was satisfied with it. Aside from the whole creepy-vampire thing, she reminded me a lot of one of my old English teachers, Mrs Sikes, from back in Australia. Oh how proud Mrs Sikes would've been if she could see my much improved penmanship today, I thought as I signed the note.
"Alright, well, that's all done. Where did Nathan…? Oh, he's outside. What a gentleman," Lily said, reading over my letter again and smiling with approval.
I didn't really see how waiting outside a human girl who you're most likely going to kill's house was at all gentlemanly, but I didn't want to question Lily's logic, so I just nodded.
"Ok, awesome!" she exclaimed seeing me agree to her. Again, she reminded me a lot of a five year old girl. A five year old girl who was capable of killing me without much effort. Go figure. "So, we'd better be going."
Without waiting for a reply she pulled me from my chair, lifted me up off the ground, and carried me out of the house. I probably should've done more to resist. If this were a normal 'kidnapping' then I would've scratched her to get some of her DNA under my fingernails for the police. Yeah, I watch too much CSI, but I was pretty sure that in this case scratching her would just make her angry.
Instead I just fell as limp as I could in her death-tight grip, and—this is going to sound crazy—tried to fall asleep. For some reason all that I could think of right then wasn't about my safety, or how much I was going to miss everyone or what was going to happen to me. I was focussed entirely on how tired I felt as soon as I saw the dark figure of a man standing just outside the door, who I assumed was 'Nathan'.
***
"And so I guess that means that x equals…2.5?" Seth said as more of a question than a statement, looking over his messy calculations writing on the chalkboard.
"Nice work, Mr Clearwater, except for the fact that in this case, x actually equals nine hundred and eighty two," his math teacher, Ms James, said dryly.
"Oh," Seth said, looking down while a couple people laughed. Especially one particularly loud person at the back of the classroom.
"Well, Mr Black, since you seem so vocal on the subject, why don't you come up here and try your luck at the infamous quadratic equation?" Ms James said with a small smile on her face—basically the most emotion she ever showed.
"I'd love to, Ms James, I really would, but, uh, see, I think I have a doctor's note about that somewhere," Jacob said, pretending to look through his backpack.
Ms James sighed, before waving her hand in the air to show that he could stop. "Alright then. Mr Ateara, would you mind shedding some light on the matter for us?"
Before Quil had the chance to come up with some excuse, the bell rang, and everyone was out of their seats in an instant. "Alright, everyone, remember your homework. Pages 116 and 118, due Monday!" Ms James tried to call over the sounds of chairs scraping and her students talking.
"Wow, nice job Seth, you were only about nine hundred and seventy nine point five off. New record," Jacob said, in a completely serious voice as he, Quil, and Seth starting walking away from the classroom together.
"What was that? Was that Jacob Black, the Jacob Black, performing a mathematical equation?!" Seth exclaimed in mock incredulity.
"Nah, can't have been," Quil said, looking up as he almost walked into a boy who was almost three feet shorter than him. "No one's melting, and I don't see any girls interested in Seth, so we know that the world isn't ending."
"Hey, where's Jared?" Seth asked, changing the subject.
"I don't know. Probably off somewhere being comatose with Kim," Quil said, and Seth smiled a little to himself, knowing that their friend was undoubtedly thinking about Claire. He glanced at Jacob, and saw that his eyes were on the ground.
"So… uh… how about that history test?" Seth asked, laughing, trying to switch to a lighter subject.
"What?" Jacob said, looking up at Seth, while Quil gave him a weird look.
"The history test. It was really hard, wasn't it? What did you put for that question about what you would've suggested to Napoleon if you could?" Seth continued, thinking about Juliet, oddly, and trying not to bring her up. Oh great, just wait until I have to change for patrol. Embry's going to have a field day. He thought.
"Free Bird," Quil said, grinning.
"I need to talk to you," came a new voice from in front of them. Seth looked up and saw Edward standing there, with Alice next to him. They both looked so out of place with their extremely pale skin and Alice's weird taste in clothes, Seth almost laughed.
"What about?" Jacob asked roughly as he and Quil instantly fell into the usual defensive, rude roles they took up whenever the vampires were around.
"Juliet," Alice said, not looking at all awkward about being in the middle of the La Push high school cafeteria, or all the weird stares she was getting, but rather staring intently at Jacob's face.
"We believe that she may have been… taken, by… one of us," Edward said, glancing carefully around at the people walking near them, before hissing, "Can we talk somewhere else?"
Quil and Seth both immediately turned to Jacob, who looked for a moment as though he was seriously considering turning them down, before he nodded and said, "Yeah, okay. You can come to my house."
I'm sorry for the POV change! It doesn't really make sense, especially because it's the first time I've ever done it... Oh well, I hope you can understand it! Thanks for reading. ***And, quadratic equation, I don't really know what that is... But it sounds complicated! So I hope I didn't screw that up too much.