Chapter 4

Three Days

My long white skirts swung around my feet as I swiftly rushed into the small room that we held meetings in. There were newspaper clippings hung tacked on the wall behind my desk. Huge headlines said things like "Sink Your Teeth Into This" or "Alex Captures Vampire" all a bunch of junk.

All the rest were pictures of our group. Everyone, not just the majors. How someone managed to snatch a camera but they did. The girls and I had a picture to ourselves, everyone else separate. Then a group picture. The picture with me and the girls had us on the roof watching the sunrise. I looked like if I wanted to enough I could fly into the east and never turn back. Blythe looked like she was just happy to have made it this far. Jade was in her bliss state watching the stars dissolve into light. Emily seemed just satisfied to have us all together.

"Hello everyone," I said stiffly. It was Him.

Edward Cullen.

My personal demon from hell sent out to ruin me. Why, oh why did fate have to be so freaking predictable? I tried my best to ignore his presence, but it was like a mob of protesters screaming at you through a blow-horn. Yeah, impossible.

So I suppose the cats out of the bag. Oh, hell, that cat was never in the bag. As much as I deny it, I can't help but go back to Edward. It's like that annoying voice in the back of your head that always works against you. It does, I swear. Call me when it doesn't. When I lie on the roof, watching the beautiful sunset the voice just shrieks like angels in hell.

Why couldn't that hole just heal up already? Why couldn't it go the crap away? What did I do to deserve it? But that was just it, what did I ever do to wind up in Alex's remix of a Concentration camp either? Fate may be predictable but it's cruel too.

"Okay, what have I missed?"

"Nothing," Emily sighed, glancing back at the rest of our group to check. They shrugged in response.

I was forgetting something, I knew I was but what…. It had to have been about a month ago when I had overheard Alex and his little minions. What was it?

"Will you shut up already?" Alex asked demanded to a small man, I think his name was Tom.

"B-b-but, Master, sir-" Tom stuttered as usual to Alex. Bella rolled her eyes, that man needed to sort out his priorities.

"No buts, you little idiot, you don't even have any power. You're a weakling, that's what you are! You have to feed off my powers of wizardry, it's almost sad. But once I step foot out of this castle those vampires could eat you in half a heartbeat," Alex sneered.

So, wait- that meant all of the minions, the torturers- didn't have one ounce of magick? Was she hearing right? All of the spells and charms and hexes- that was all Alex? So, it was sorta like a biliptical cord (I didn't spell that right, but you know how a baby gets food from it's mother during the pregnancy? That little cord from the belly-button to the mother and it later falls off the baby blah, blah, blah, you get it right?), that strings his power to the others so they aren't completely hopeless.

Tom just kinda mumbled incoherent sentences that I couldn't make out until Alex laughed at him. Cruel much?

"And the best part is, that they're wrapped around our fingers, when I leave next July, they'll never know the difference," Alex laughed.

"Where are you going?"

"Oh, the next part of my army, werewolves, of course."

"When?" Tom whimpered. My God….

"Oh, J-"

"July 11!" I screamed with joy, bouncing up. "Oh my gosh, that's three days away! We're not even prepared! This opportunity may never come up again, oh shit," I was now talking to myself. Everyone looking at me like I had just escaped the insane asylum. And maybe I had, who knew by that point?

"Bella, what are you talking about?" Jade demanded, lounging on a chair.

"I had heard Alex and Tom talking about a month ago, I can't believe I forgot! Get this, he's leaving on the eleventh," I squealed in excitement. We were finally getting out of here!

"What about the other wizards?" Blythe asked, her tone questioned my sanity.

"That's the best part, they're not real wizards," I said, happiness radiating from me, you didn't need Jasper to know that one. I was glowing.

"What about all the tortures and spells and curses?" Emily questioned.

"It's all feeding off the main source, which is ultimately Alex. And once those Italian shoes step off this damned old place the feed drops," I explained.

Blythe grabbed Jade, Emily and I into a hug and started jumping up and down. We were going to be free. Forever and eternity.

"Well, I say, let's go show them what we're made of!" I said to our group. I thought Aro was going to cry for sec.

But, really freedom was three days away. Sqee.

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