Half Blind and Paralysed
When Happiness Doesn't Work
It was time. The only reason that I knew that this "battle" had started was because all of the girls became fidgety. Emily, nervously began to pace the kitchen floor, wringing a cloth in her hands after hearing an eerie howling. I wasn't sure what kind of signal that was, but it had to be bad. Now that I was in on this little secret I was a little more understanding as to why everyone else was nervous, there 'imprints' were fighting out there too I guess. I'm not one for tension, so of course, I tried to distract myself- bad idea.
"Anybody up for a game of cards?" I flashed a deck of cards up in the air, chuckling nervously.
I was a little upset when the only response I received was a few murderous glares, courtesy of Rachel, Kim, and even little Claire.
"Girls, go easy on her. She doesn't understand what's happening and we're all a little nervous right now," Emily instructed. She then proved her theory by pointing out all of our nervous tendencies: Rachel biting her nails, Kim biting the insides of her cheek, myself twirling my ring around my finger, and herself wringing a dish cloth repeatedly.
"I'm sorry, Brooke. This has to be hard on you too I suppose," Kim mumbled.
"Yeah, it is. I mean, at least you guys know the whole story..." I grunted, crossing my arms over my chest.
"What do you mean the 'whole' story?" Kim asked, raising an eyebrow.
Lucky for me, Rachel intervened as though Kim hadn't spoken at all.
"Well it's your sister's fault anyway. Our men wouldn't even be fighting if Bella would've just stopped leading on my brother. We all know that she'll end up with Edward, yet Jake still puts his life, and now others, on the line for her!" Rachel sneered.
I was speechless. Emily quickly removed Claire from the room, carrying her into the living room. Kim. her mouth hanging open a little bit, was staring at Rachel in shock.
"I'm going for a walk," I grunted.
"That's not the best idea, Brooke. We...we're suppose to stay in the house," Kim objected.
"Let her go," Rachel argued, pushing her chair back rudely, and storming out of the room.
I muttered out a curt apology to Kim, and bolted out the door. They didn't want me there, that much was clear. Why would Bella leave me with people that apparently hated her? It's not like there were any wolves around to protect me, they were all fighting apparently. I didn't care what was happening, I refused to sit there and listen to Rachel insult my family. I understood that Jake had feelings for my sister, and we were good friends too, but why would he risk his life for her? Was it a werewolf thing?
"Oh God, Bella. What have you gotten yourself into?" I questioned myself, looking up at the sky.
"Bella? Hm, just the girl we've been searching for," sneered a cold voice.
I immediately looked up in fear. What I saw was a nightmare. They weren't human, that was obvious. There were three ghastly pale figures standing in a loose, semi-circle around me. All three had eerie red eyes that were carefully examining me. My brain became a thick fog, I couldn't see any thoughts in my head. Then, out of nowhere, one word popped into my head: Vampire. And of course they weren't the good ones.
"Oh! Riley will be so proud of us! This is the human that we came for, for sure!" one of the figures cried.
I briefly examined the three figures, attempting calculate my chances of escaping.
All three were dressed in old, worn out clothes. The one that had first spoken out, was a tall man, with broad shoulders. He was dressed in a pair of ripped, brown khaki shorts, and a blue wife beater tank. His curly, black hair was trimmed just above his red eyes, and he kind of reminded me of Edward in an odd way. Actually, all three did.
The second man, who spoke of 'Riley' stepped forward, closer to me. I noticed then that he wore a pair of loose, black jeans that rode quite low on his hips. His navy green shirt, not quite meeting his pants, was missing its right sleeve. Long, blonde hair was pulled out of his face by a black bandana.
"I don't know who you are, but I don't know any Riley. Yo-you m-must have me mistaken for some b-body else," I stammered.
"Quiet now, girl. You're scent is the same as the human we search for. Moments ago, you spoke to yourself using her name. You will come with us to show Riley our prize. He will be so proud," the third figure, a female, bellowed.
She was dressed in, what I assumed, used to be a pure, white sun dress. The dress still reached her knees, although now it was stained by various patches of brown and green all over it. Her hair reminded me of Bella's, the way it almost had a red tint to it when she jerked her head quickly to one side. The long, brown locks of her hair flowed down to her mid back, and swung in every direction when she made any sudden movement, which she did quite a lot.
"My name's not Bella, it's Brooke!" I cried.
"Hush, you cannot fool us silly human. A scent doesn't lie, you also match the description we were given. I could never forget you're mouthwatering scent," she taunted.
"Julianne, stop fooling around with her and let's go! You know that Jack was the worst one with his control," the second figure, with the long, blonde hair, spoke.
"Harold, I will do whatever I please. Do not forget that we never would have never escaped that stupid battle if not for the fact that I hid our scents," the female, Julianne, argued. "Jack, are you in control?" She directed this question towards the first male.
"For now. Make sure you hide her scent, I don't want to have to share her with the others," Jack replied.
"Of course my dear. Let's find Riley so we can have her already," Julianne ordered.
Harold quickly made a grab for me, and my attempts of escape all went down the drain. I was hopeless once I saw the speed at which he moved. Maybe they should have put that in bold print in the legend book, CAUTION: TRAVEL AT EXTREMLY HIGH SPEEDS.
"Before you kill me, just tell me one thing," I begged.
"Make it quick, girl," Julianne urged.
"Why are you here?" I asked timidly.
"As if you don't know already know. We aren't easily fooled, your stupid innocent act won't work on us..." Julianne sneered. "...you have those foul smelling dogs, and a coven of gold eyed vampires attempting to defend you as we speak silly human," she continued.
"B-but why are you all here after Be-me again?" I continued.
"Well if you asked Riley, he'd say that it's because the gold-eyes are evil, but Harold can see peoples pasts and we really know that it's because your mate killed Victoria, our real leader's, mate James. It's an eye for an eye, and whoever found you first gets to keep you. Either way, James is dead, you're dead, revenge is complete."
My mate? But she thinks I'm Bella...so she must be talking about Edward. Edward killed this Victoria's 'mate' and so she created a huge ass army to kill Bella, a human? Wow, obviously she has a lot of built up frustration. We were travelling at a neck breaking speed through the woods. I didn't know where we were heading, but I was scared to death. We stopped abruptly, Harold drooping me to the ground.
"I thought you were hiding our scents!" Harold cried out.
"I was too busy hiding the humans to hide all of ours, you try controlling yourself and hiding everybody's scent at once!" Julianne argued back.
"Well keep hiding the girl's scent! I'll go hide her over here, they can't know we have her, or they'll take her from us!" Jack commanded.
Jack was suddenly in front of me.
"Oh, but you smell so good!" he yelled in frustration, pulling at his hair.
"They won't have to know," Jack mumbled to himself, moving closer to me.
"Please! No!" I screamed, thrashing my arms and legs around.
My screams went unnoticed by the now preoccupied Harold and Julianne. In the distance, I could clearly see them fighting... huge bears? No, they were wolves! If only I could scream loud enough to get their attention, they would save me, right? My train of thought was interrupted by a searing pain in my neck. I looked up only to be met with the side of Jack's face, his mouth now attached to the side of my neck.
Trying once again to save myself, I screamed as loud as I could. This seemed to catch one of the wolves attention. He howled out, and sprung forward in a leap towards me. Please! I cried out in my head.
Death is painful, why is death so painful? My mother always said that it would be peaceful, and that the angels come down and escort you to heaven. Well were the hell were my angels now?
The largest wolf, who was all black, tackled Jack, sending me rolling into the bushes with the action. I screamed out in pain again, but not from the bushes. I lifted my head as much as I could, in an attempt to search for the fire that was consuming my body, but was met with nothing. It burnt! It burnt oh so bad. I couldn't scream though, or else those monsters would find me again and finish me off. After thinking about it though, death might be better than this pain. No, I had to do this for Bella. She would be so upset if I died, and she would blame herself, I knew she would.
So I quietly endured the spreading pain. In an effort to distract myself, I watched the fight take place before me. There were three huge wolves. One was all black, the biggest. The other, had a smaller frame but seemed to be the fastest, it was all grey. The last, was a russet brown, almost as large, if not larger, than the all black one. All three were concentrating on fighting the three vampires. I hoped that they could handle them, Rachel already hated me enough as is and one of them could be Paul. Or Jake, or Seth...
Jack made a run for it into the woods, Julianne, and Harold quickly using the distraction to bolt after him. The wolves did not hesitate and followed hot on their trail. I could barely see the fight now. Quite a few trees blocked my view. I did see Jack climb the tree. I wished that I could have warned the small grey wolf that she was about to be crushed, as Jack went to wrap his arms around her. Suddenly, the russet brown one appeared out of no where, pushing the small grey one aside, and taking the hit for her. I cried with the wolf, I knew how much pain he was in, I was in the same amount if not more at the moment. Distracted by the wolf's howling, the grey wolf quickly ripped Jack to shreds, turning on Harold and giving him the same fate. Julianne seemed to surrender, as she stood still while the black one tore her to shreds too.
I couldn't watch anymore, the pain was getting worse. The fire burning brighter. I knew now that death was coming. There was no way that God would allow someone to be put through all of this pain, and not be met with death soon. I silently prayed to any God that would listen, as silent tears streamed down my face.