Attention all Readers (however few you may be): I write this chapter while humming "Canon" badly and oddly, in the house of my sickly Grandmother, after leaving our beach vacation early because of my Grandmother's health (our leaving early was also due to other ill omens: My brother throwing up he drank too much pool water, my diving certification being lost and then found again after an enticing game of dumpster diving, etc.) next to a dead, and so far unidentified bug. There's a possibility that I will later learn what type of bug it is, and I will be sure to keep you posted on the bug's progress.
Just thought you'd like to know all of that. Hope that it makes your day.
Brains
BPOV
"Good morning, Bella!" James enthusiastically greeted me. "What do you think of our new toy?"
"Wh-what?" I asked him, the perfect example of confusion. "What toy are you talking abo-James?!" ()
"Um…yes?" he said, the perfect example of confusion. "B-bella…?"
"Where did you bring me this time, James?" I asked, an innocent and playful smile spreading over my face, while a smile of cruelty and mischievousness threatened to take over. This would be fun. "France? I did tell you how much I loved the Eiffel Tower when we were there, didn't I? Oh—or maybe Iceland! I honestly don't believe you when you tell me that Iceland is the green one and Greenland is covered in ice. That just doesn't make any sense!" ()
"Ah—um—what?" James asked, completely blown away by whatever it was that I was throwing at him.
Alice, Alice, I've just got to keep thinking about Alice, and I can come up with things to say. Alice…
"Or maybe we're back at Forks!" I went on. Alice… "I can't believe that you would do that for me! You really do remember how much I liked it when I was a human. Or maybe we're back in that dance studio—James, I've missed you so much!" I suddenly shouted, thankful that vampires couldn't cry, because I might not have been able to cry on demand like that.
"Wow, James, what's up with these ropes? Are we playing another game? I really enjoyed our last one, you remember, right? The one where you were the pirate and I was the general's daughter—" ()
"I…um, don't know what you're talking about, but could we discuss this outside?" James asked me, looking bewildered and nervous, looking over his shoulder at Victoria.
The fool is playing right into my hands, I thought, thoroughly satisfied. This should go well.
"Ooo, do you have amnesia this time? I thought that you cutest "illness" was that one time when you were blind, and you kept hanging on me and I had to guide you around, and then you accidentally grabbed my—" ()
"James?" Victoria suddenly said, a serene look on her face, while her eyes where absolutely gleaming with hatred, jealousy and rage. "What exactly is she talking about?"
"I'm sure it's nothing, Victoria." Laurent said, taking over his apparent role of peacemaker.
"I have no idea!" James said, raising and lowering his shoulders in a quick, tense motion. "You're the only girl that I've ever—" ()
Before he could finish his sentence, Victoria punched him in the face. I squealed in "surprise." She then turned to me, her fist raised, and punched in my direction.
Her fist met with the iron bars of my confinement, and that mollified her for a bit, though it may not have hurt. Coming up with an actual plan (and technically it was a plan, no matter how unsuccessful it was) and opened the door to the cage.
And then I bolted.
She might have caught up with me, if she hadn't been so obviously stunned. I kept running until I was well out of the city limits, and then I concentrated to teleporting back to the library that I had left earlier.
Nothing happened.
Idiots. How could somebody so incompetent come up with something that actually affected vampires?
That's all that I can think of at the moment.
By the way, that dead bug was a brown grasshopper. It was confusing, though, because it's legs were curled up like a spider's, and I was looking at it from an odd direction.
Author's Notes
If you've been paying lots of attention, then you may have noticed that Bella was once gagged in her little cage, and now she's not. I can't come up with any good reason as to why (or how) this happened, so we may as well believe that divine forces interrupted.
Bella has in a split second decided to turn Victoria against James, because she figures that Victoria will eventually turn on her and then have to open the cage to beat Bella up thoroughly.
Now, I have three stars in at least three different places. That's because, whenever I put a line that signifies that the speaker is being interrupted, then tried to put this thing " after the line, it would go in the wrong direction. I don't think that anyone will notice, it was just really annoying me. I thought that you should know.
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