Alicia

6:50, Friday

"Hee-hee! The cookies are almost ready!" Belle announced. I giggled and bounced over to Sapphire and Belle. I wonder what Edward and Caroline were doing. Well, it doesn't matter I'm getting free cookies!

"Crap!" I heard Jack shout.

My head twisted around to see Edward fly out of the room and Jack right behind him.

Sapphire dropped the cookies, "What happened?" she whispered.

"Sapphire get Emeralda, Belle take Alicia to my car. They came for us," Jack ordered, his eyes the darkest blue I had ever seen them. Small specks of black were dotted over his eyes.

"No! Stop!" I heard Edward shout.

What's going on? Where is Caroline?

"Don't do anything to her! Take me instead! Deveron will want me!" Oh no, he must be talking about Caroline.

Belle directed me towards the car, but I pushed her off.

"Jack, who is that? That's Caroline isn't it?" I yelled.

"Just shut the crap up and get in the car!" Jack yelled at me while pushing me towards the car.

"But I can't leave Caroline! She's going to get hurt!" I yelled.

"Stop!" I heard Caroline plead this time.

"I can't leave…" I stopped short when Jack grabbed me.

For a second I was in the air then I was in his arms. I almost forgot about what was going on, and then I remembered Caroline screaming.

I twisted around, trying to escape Jack's arms; he shoved his hand over my mouth. I couldn't believe his impossible strength; my twisting was completely useless. I couldn't even move my mouth. I had to breathe through my nose; he held me stronger than anything I had ever felt.

I wanted to scream, but I couldn't because my mouth was held so tightly no sound could come out. He shoved me into the car between Belle and Emeralda.

He slid into the driver's seat. I shouldn't have felt like this, but I was kinda upset that he was sitting next to Sapphire and not me.

"Great, I should've known this was going to happen, but of course no one would listen to me. Great my piece of crap is the slowest thing in the universe!" Jack yelled; I didn't understand what he meant by that considering the fact he was racing out of the driveway at a hundred miles per hour. What did he think he was doing we would all get killed!

"What about Edward he's your brother are you just going to leave him?" I yelled hoping for any type of positive response.

"It was his choice to go back for Caroline, whether or not he meets us is his problem." Jack said coldly.

"Please calm down, you know we all hate to see you like this," Sapphire practically sang while putting her hand swiftly through his hair. I started trembling with anger who does she think she is. I thought they didn't like each other. I crossed my arms and started pouting.

"Listen Alicia, I understand that you're upset, but you must understand that Jack knows exactly what he's doing. If they make it out alright they will meet us at our hiding place. Belle why don't you call Chris and tell him where to meet us and what happened. Meanwhile Jack just calm down," Sapphire said soothingly.

I started to recognize where we were going. I always went this way to get to my house. I turned toward the window and jumped because I forgot Emeralda was there.

"Hey Chris," Belle said, "What! No, just leave her… What do you mean? Oh great... Okay, well listen to me meet us at the place we designated… Yes… Yes… Edward and Caroline… Yeah… Okay… Bye."

What was happening? My head was twisting. Why was all this happening to us?

"You live around here don't you?" Jack asked.

"Yes, why?" I asked sadly knowing the answer.

"Do one of your friends have a house closer?" Jack asked ignoring my question.

"Jane's house is only a few minutes away," I sighed.

"Good, I'll drop you off there," Jack said.

"No," I pleaded, "You can't do this to me!"

"I can and I will."

"Why?"

"For your own good and safety."

I was NOT leaving besides how could I trust this Sapphire girl?

"I'm not leaving," I said.

"Yes, you are completely right; you are staying at Jane's house." Jack retorted.

"No, I mean I'm staying with you."

"Sorry to break it to you, but I'm not letting you stay here."

"Jack, please go easier on her, she doesn't even know what's going on," Sapphire stroked his face while doing that.

I didn't know what disgusted me more the fact Sapphire was stroking his face or the fact that it seemed to calm him and he almost enjoyed it!

Emeralda snickered at the fact I was seemly jealous. I folded my arms and pouted—again.

"I refuse to move from this spot," I pouted.

Jack took a deep breath ignoring my comment… Which just got me madder.

"That's her house right?" Belle asked.

"How do you know?" I asked startled that she knew.

"She's standing in the window honey," Belle laughed.

"Yeah, I knew that," I blushed.

Jack shoved open the door, "Get out of the car," he said.

I gave up and got out of the car, I knew that Jane would back me up. I folded my arms and shuffled my feet towards the house.

"You know I'm only doing this because of your safety," Jack sighed.

He's not the only one who can ignore people.

"Come on, Alicia. Don't ignore me. I just don't want the same thing to happen to you that happened to Caroline."

What's going to happen?

"Will you at least tell me what's going on?" I asked desperate for any information.

"There's a man that's more evil than you will ever hope to realize he's after my family and Edward is the first they will come after. Once they realize, if not already, that he likes, to put it in a small way, Caroline she'll be the first they come after. Caroline is already in trouble you'll be the next if they find out about us," he said as if speaking to a three year old. I blushed when he said us though.

Caroline is in big trouble though, I have to stay focused. I rang the doorbell ready to tell Jane everything. Jane opened the door instantly glaring at Jack.

"Jane, Caroline's in huge trouble."

"What do you mean? Edward hurt her didn't he?" Jane's voice became furious already jumping to conclusions.

I was about to tell her what really happened, but Jack cut in, "Don't you dare blame this on my brother. He wouldn't hurt a hair on your friend's head. Don't go blaming my brother if there is anyone you need to worry about is you because Chris and I won't have anyone talk about my brother like that," Jack yelled furious.

I was shocked that Jack got so defensive about his brother. I had a feeling Edward was much more important to Jack than he liked to let on. Jane was in shock, I couldn't tell if it was because Jack was so angry or because she was wrong.

"S-Sorry," Jane stuttered taken aback.

"Please forgive Jack's rudeness," Sapphire said walking up to us, "We're very protective of Edward."

I wanted to gag at the thought that she had freely come up and draped her hands over Jack.

"Take me to Caroline," Jane said getting mad.

"Actually, I was going to drop Alicia off here, you two shouldn't get involved and Caroline's already gotten herself too much involved," Jack complained.

"No, I will follow you in my car if you insist to leave us here," Jane barked back.

"Fine," Jack gave up now having two people against him, "Get in the car, having you two just following us will just cause more problems."

I walked proud of myself towards the car.

"You two are stupid for wanting to come with us it's most likely that you'll die," Emeralda glared at us.

"Just because I'm coming with you doesn't mean I trust all of you, I know that you can't be trusted," Jane glared at everyone in the car except for me, of course.

"I can sense something," Sapphire mumbled, "They are in bigger trouble than we thought Jack. Caroline especially, Deveron will use the poor girl to get Edward to do what he wants."

"Will Caroline be okay?" Jane asked worried.

Sapphire paused before replying, "I…I don't know."

Friday, 7:10 PM