Meetings

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Lyn woke up to find a strange boy sitting on the bed near her. Who is he?

Chapter 8

I saw all of them tense up and led them into my room. I hadn't touched anything so everything was like it had been when I became fully cognizant of my surroundings. The window-doors were still open and Edward and Jasper went toward them. Bella, Alice, and Rose followed me over to the bed. I heard two more sets of feet approaching and a moment later Carlisle and Esme were in the room with us.

"What's happened?" Esme asked concerned.

Emmett was looking around the rest of the windows, sniffing them. "Someone got in." he stated, continuing to do what he was.

I heard Esme's sharp intake of breath, and I saw an enraged look pass over her face. "Someone came into my house!?" she asked angrily. All of the boys nodded their heads and she turned around, stomping down the stairs angrily. Carlisle nodded at the three boys with a stern expression on his face, and then followed after his wife.

"I just panicked when I woke up and saw him sitting there." I stated, looking at the floor. I felt their eyes on me in an instant and I felt their gazes boring into my head.

I heard a shuffle of feet so I raised my head. Jasper was standing in front of me. "He? As in a male?" I nodded my head and his expression became dark. "Was it the same person you saw outside of Charlie's house?"

I shook my head quickly. "No, it wasn't the man. This was a boy… my age, maybe." Bella looked at me, as Edward and Emmett joined around us. "I saw him a couple days ago, though. It was the day mom left dad's house. He was standing in the trees like the man had."

Silence engulfed the room for a moment and I felt a sensation of dread starting to fill the pit of my stomach. "Will someone please say something? I'm not comfortable with silence like this… especially when it's my safety on the line!" they all looked at me at the same time.

"Lyn, that boy could probably be the one who killed your step-dad. He could've been trying to get your scent." Bella told me. I knew what that meant; Bella had told me all about the newborn vampire army that had come after her and the Cullens. "We'll take turns keeping guard when you go to sleep from now on." I nodded and walked over to the bed. They talked amongst themselves while I climbed back into bed and under the sheets. Everyone left the room a moment later except for Alice; which meant she got first watch. She walked to the window-doors and shut them.

She flipped the lock on one of them, and I shut my eyes. Moments later, I was fast asleep.

For the next two weeks I immersed myself in filling out college applications. Bella helped me of course and not long after that, about three weeks later, I started getting letters. I had no more encounters with the strange boy who had somehow gotten into the house. Esme had installed burglar alarms, and boy did they work! Despite all the commotion going on around me, I felt oddly at peace. It was like the possible vampire attackers didn't exist; but I knew I couldn't be ignorant of this forever.

It's been almost four months since I moved in with the Cullens; Carlisle had informed Charlie of the situation, and he had demanded that I live with the Cullens temporarily. When I asked Charlie where he was staying he merely told me that he had someone on the Quileute reservation that was letting him stay there. I didn't argue any further with him about wanting to leave, I was beginning to feel like this place was my home. Esme didn't mind another mouth to feed; in fact, if anything she seemed more enthusiastic about making my stay permanent.

I sat on the couch watching Monster Garage with Rose when Alice danced into the living room with a handful of letters. Emmett and Jasper were in the middle of another complicated chess game with their multiple boards and pieces; Carlisle and Esme were upstairs; and Edward and Bella were at their cottage with Renesemee and Jake. It had taken Nessie some time to warm to me, but eventually we became close. She had declared that it was fun having another aunt like Auntie Alice; I had laughed and we'd gone off to watch movies.

I didn't pay any attention to Alice, keeping my focus on the program on the TV. She stopped near the couch and I watched the mechanic take a carburetor out of the mustang he was working on. I felt a heavy weight on my lap and looked down to see all the letters she'd been holding, scattered on my lap. "They're all for you!" she stated happily and skipped out of the room. Rose snorted and grabbed a couple of them off my lap.

It had taken Rose a while to warm up to the idea of a human living in the household, but now they all considered me an official Cullen family member. Emmett had even jokingly suggested I change my last name to Cullen, making me and him burst into hysterics together. I grabbed a couple and looked at the envelopes; USC, Duke, and Tulane University in Louisiana. "Wow. You're a genius." Rose joked, holding the three envelopes up to me so I could see their senders; Dartmouth, UCLA, and UWF. "Which one are you gonna choose?" she asked. I grabbed a couple more and looked at their senders, finally finding one close to Forks.

Alice entered the room a second later. "Oh, this one just came." She dropped a big manila envelope on my lap and then sat down.

I looked at it, picking it up with my right hand which had the Duke envelope in it. "How about this local college? I only have to attend it for the first two years and then I can transfer out." They nodded their heads and I dropped all the envelopes I'd been holding. I saw Jasper, Emmett, Carlisle, and Esme enter the room and sit down near me.

"Which college is it from?" Esme asked.

"A local college, probably in Port Angeles. She said she'll transfer out after two years and go to a university." Alice answered. I saw them nod simultaneously. I ripped at the top flap and reached inside. I felt a bunch of papers and pulled a stack out, skimming through them. The top sheet of paper was a letter of acceptance and I went to the next page. My mouth dropped open and I felt my heart stop beating; and apparently everyone else did too because I felt a ton of hands on me at once.

"Oh.. my… god…" I choked out, staring at the paper.

Rose tried to look at the paper. "What's wrong?" she asked.

I couldn't keep my eyes off of the paper in front of me. "OH… MY… GOD!!" I squealed happily. Emmett looked at me like I'd gone crazy, while everyone else looked at me amused. I showed the paper to Rose and her eyes widened in surprise.

"Really?" she asked, shocked.

I squealed again and showed it to Alice and Jasper. Jasper's eyes widened like Rose's, but Alice just looked smug. It was at that moment that I realized she'd had a vision about this, but I was too ecstatic at the moment to let her rain on my parade. I showed the letter to Emmett next to let it sink in as to why I was so happy. He laughed and hugged me tightly, and I moved on to show Carlisle and Esme. They smiled at me and I squealed like a delighted little child.

The local college was accepting my application and offering me a full-time scholarship! My mind was reeling, everything was happening so fast! I was jumping off the walls by the time Edward, Bella, Nessie, and Jake entered. I ran over to them and showed them my acceptance letter and the scholarship award they'd sent. Edward, Jake, and Nessie congratulated me and hugged me. Bella jumped up and down with me while I kept my squealing up.

I excused myself for a moment, grabbing my phone, and went outside to call Charlie and let him know the good news. Once I told him, he congratulated me and told me that he'd take me out to celebrate on his next day off and I agreed. After I hung up with him, I called my mom's cell and let her know. As I was hanging up my phone I looked to the driveway that led to this house; I saw the boy standing in the driveway.

Fear and panic slammed into me, but then it dissipated and was replaced by wonder and curiosity. I walked toward him and he began to walk into the forest, so I followed. "Wait!" I called. He stopped for a moment, as if he was listening to me, but then continued to walk in deeper. Soon I began to realize where we were, the boulder was a few feet from us and he stopped at the edge of the first one, where I'd fallen three months ago. I stopped behind him and waited for him.

A couple moments passed before he turned to look at me. "You're beautiful…" he spoke. I was taken aback for a moment, but was suddenly reminded of the night he'd broken into my bedroom.

"Who are you?" I asked him.

He chuckled, "I guess you wouldn't remember me. It's been almost four years since we last saw each other." He pushed a piece of his blonde hair behind his left ear. I saw the glint of the silver hoop hanging from it, and I felt like I was floating away from myself.

"I'll never let anyone hurt you." The soft gaze in his green eyes told me that he was being sincere. He was my best friend, but now he was more than that; now I could call him my boyfriend. "I promise, Lyn. I won't let anyone lay a finger on you!" I smiled at him as we leaned forward and our lips met.

"I know. You'd never let anyone touch me, and I'm glad that I've got you." I told him. He tucked a piece of his blonde hair behind his left ear and looked at me with a loving expression written in his eyes. His silver hoop earring glinted in the sunlight, "I love you."

"I love you, too, Lyn."

I slowly remembered where I was and snapped back to reality. The teenager standing in front of me was the boy I had loved more than anything in the world. When we were fourteen we'd promised to be each other's everything; and he had fulfilled his promise until his parents had chosen to move across seas to Greece for his dad's new job at a hospital there. My eyes began to fill with tears as I stood there looking at the boy who had been my guard since elementary school; each time I'd been picked on, he'd gotten into a fight with whoever had said something to me.

During our eighth grade year of middle school, he had asked me out and he'd gotten my step-dad's permission; something about him being able to protect me when the time presented itself. My heart fluttered as I looked into his eyes; they were no longer a beautiful green, they were the golden brown color that my sister and family had.

"Riley?" I choked out.

Lyn has a full scholarship to a local college! And now she knows who the boy who broke into her bedroom is? But what could his presence mean? Find out in the next chapter! Reviews are always welcome!