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Chapter Four: Of Meetings and Mind Reading Part One
From the Point Of View of Ian
Beautiful.
I was in the information building, and Ellie was doing the talking. But I was still thinking of the girl. The word kept punching me in the mind as I thought of her.
"Hello, dear. May I ask who you are?" The lady behind the desk was smiling at Ellie.
"The Dawsons," Ellie said simply, waiting while the lady got the paper work out and the schedules.
"Dear, I believe you don't live with any parents?" She asked looking closely at Ellie. She was trying to seem concerned, but I could tell, and hear, that that wasn't the case.
Another little sob story...wonder what happened now. I'm sure Kate next door would be interested-
I cut her out. Listening to Ellie tell the lady our 'sob' story.
"Well, I'm eighteen, so I watch them, and have legal custody for the time being. When they turn eighteen we plan on staying together, but then they'll have custody of themselves. We did have adoptive parents, but they died not too long ago."
"Oh, that's so sad."
The truth was that we never did have parents. None of us remember anything behind our tenth birthdays. For Ellie, the oldest, she says she doesn't even remember us then.
We think it was the Volturi. But since the Volturi were the ones helping us out when we needed it, we didn't bother trying to ask them. It wasn't worth it.
I let the conversation finally pass over me as it started about the school days, and schedules, and then where things were. Ellie was as polite as she could be, even if we were being treated like five year olds.
Beautiful.
I was thinking of the girl again.
Of course, she was terribly skinny...and her thoughts told me she didn't think she was beautiful...but that didn't mean she wasn't.
Her blonde hair was straight, but it looked straightened...and her bangs covered one of her eyes. Her eyes were a bright green...she face oval, and her lips were full.
Beautiful.
I had no idea why I was thinking about her like that. But it was the truth, Kris had even talked about how goog looking the girl looked.
"Screw comparing her to us, she could be a full blood vampire like Ellie right now with those looks!"
I smiled a little at Kris' entusiasm, but then frowned a little at remembering about Ellie. I looked closer at her, she was paler, the bruises under her eyes I only used to see every two months were permantly there, as was her un-usual self. Ellie was now not what we were, anymore. Jamie, Kris, and I. No, she was now a full vampire.
I sighed a little, getting a look from Ellie as she turned around, all the information and schedules in her right hand.
As her eyes looked at mine, I saw them flash from curiosity, to sadness, then to understanding.
She smiled a little, sadly, and I knew, that if Ellie were still Ellie, the human Ellie that she used to be able to be, she would wrap me in her arms and hug me, like the sister she was to me, but she couldn't, not now, not with her thirst.
I smiled back, just as sadly, knowing that if she could at the moment, she'd be crying.
From the Point Of View of Ellie
Classes were boring they always were for me.
But now they were boring and torture. The boy next to me kept trying to touch me, accidental, in his mind. Hoping I'd notice him probably.
I'd have played along, if not to make him happy, but just to have something to do, but I couldn't. The thirst was burning at the back of my throat. I was used to having the thirst...but I wasn't liking having it so much. I couldn't stand it.
He reached over my arms to get one of the papers the teacher had passed out, that I forgot to hand to him, as his skin touched mine and I flinched. His face looked confused as he looked at me, and I smiled apologetically at him. His face changed back to normal as he turned to the teacher, and I noticed that he was figiting.
He wasn't trying to touch me, he was being normal. That, or he was as bored as I was.
I looked at the paper, a three week long research project involving something about Shakespeare. I sighed, a little happy, a little bored. Ian could help me with this, that and I already did something close to this back in the accelerated English program in Indiana.
I looked over to the boy, excuse me, young man, next to me. He was reading the paper with interest, then, he sighed, smiling leaning back.
"You look happy," he looked as surprised as I was that I said something, but he recovered quickly.
"Nah, it's just that my sister is kinda big on Shakespeare, she always tells me stuff about him, so I already have most of what we need here."
"Ah, I see. Same with my brother...the biggest english person in the house...he's good at almost everything though." He cracked a smile,
"Let's just hope they don't meet each other."
I laughed, nodding, "For sure."
Then as the teacher went back to the head of the classroom, we had to be quiet. He spent the rest of class, going over the paper, I eventually lost interest, and stared off into space, I was shaken out of it when the boy next to me nudged my arm,
"You know, the bell just rang."
"Oh, sorry." I got my stuff together, and headed for the door, he was still by me.
"Nah, not really, I find myself doing that too, after all, no time to do it at the house, hey, I've got Spanish next, what about you?"
I looked at my schedule, "Gym. Then Lunch though..."
"Yeah, Lunch after that, meet ya there?" I smiled,
"Eh, how could it hurt? Alright, uh...what's your name?" He laughed,
"Houston, Houston Doyle. And you?"
"Ellie Dawson."
"Hey, new person right?"
"Um, yeah, how'd you know?"
"We're the talk of the town at the moment, 'The parentless Dawsons, and Doyles, they're gonna bring up trouble!' " He laughed,
"Wow, small town?"
"No kidding, now, we're in front of the gym, I have to make it to Spanish, see ya." He waved going off.
It wasn't until I was in the changing room, surrounded by girls, and the scent of blood when I realised two things.
One, I just had an entire conversation with a boy, and I didn't screw it up. I don't like to admit, but I have terrible conversational skills with the opposite gender...I never, ever, have been able to carry on a conversation.
The second would be, that I just spent the best part of thirty minutes talking and sitting next to a human, and I didn't smell blood, at all.
From the Point of View of Ian
I can honestly say, that I had never liked anything involving science much.
And it didn't change for this class.
This was a movie day though, so it wasn't that terrible.
I was dozing off through the whole entire class, until a girl came in late.
The girl.
It was the beautiful, and probably bulemic girl.
And she was coming towards my seat.
I smiled at her as she sat down, she just glanced at me, and then to the movie, paying really close attention to it.
Her mind was drifting off into other places, I could tell, so, keeping my eyes on the movie, I tried to see what she was thinking about.
It was easy getting into her mind, understanding what was in it was harder.
I eventually was able to link thoughts, this one to that, this one to another, and eventually, I was able to see what she was thinking about.
She was thinking of many things.
When the class would end.
When she'd be able to eat.
And then when she'd throw it all up before Gym next period.
I shook my head, sighing. When I opened my eyes she was staring right at me.
A/N: Okok, I'm not one for cliffy's a lot, so you won't see a million gagillion of them in this. But I had to put one here. To make all of you readers who are waiting for my story to move on happy. At least that's what I like to think. Heh. For heads up, as of July First 2007 I won't update at all much. I'm going to be all over the east side of the country. Philidalphia, New York, Plymouth, Niagra Falls, Michigan, and Florida. I might be able to update in Florida, since I'll have acces to a computer. Until then, if I don't update before I leave, I love my reviewers, wish me luck on my trips, and I hope you liked this chapter.
