Well, I told you guys I'd do my best and I did!!!! Here is chapter five-probably the only one for a couple months, sorry!! This chapter is most definitely below par, so I apologize wholeheartedly. I'll try to write as often as I can but no promises. Okie?
Well, read!!!!
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Bella's POV (I feel the need to remind you which POV I'm on, just so you know.)
A strange energy resonated through the clearing with every piercing howl. Crackling energy that tapped every corner, every space. The temperature seemed to be dropping where I was standing, right next to the dark forest. The wolves ceased howling, an uneasy silence settling. Rosemary looked to her left, then to her right, then stalked off, toward the woods. Two wolves would join her on either side, two paces back, repeating, until every wolf was in a formation, shaped like an arrow, an arrow that would pierce the hearts of seven tonight. And for some inexplicable reason, I felt like crying.
And like those expected tears had clouded my vision, even though my eyes were dry, the world blurred to an extreme standard. I was trying to compare this feeling to something. Something that, deep in the recesses of my mind, I remembered. Earlier today…Edward had carried me like this, at this speed. My mind spun. Had all of that really happened only today? It was twilight now. (A/N: lol, when I typed twilight for the first time I instinctively capitalized the first letter. Go figure.) Had all of the events of today really happened in only one day? It seemed impossible. And as I thought of these things, and heard the sounds behind me, I knew what must have been happening.
He stopped and set me down on the ground, next to a tree, which I graciously leaned my weight against. He stood, unmoving, at least to what I could see. His outline was rimmed with purple, the result of an evening sky that darkened the world and lit up its sky. This wasn't Edward, and yet I knew him. His name escaped me, but he was one of them. Them.
Snarls and hisses echoed from the clearing that I had just exited. A battleground, an unexpected one. The heat derision that I had felt was from the four of them crowding around, just out of the wolves' sight line. One of them picked me up while the other three fought. Just who it was, I didn't know yet, but he would no doubt reveal his identity soon.
And despite the circumstances, an unnatural calmness settled over me. I no longer feared for the wolves or their attackers, for myself, or for my future. And for what reason, I didn't know.
And then, as quickly as the calm had seized me, an overwhelming tiredness caused my head to droop and my eyes to close gently, but I snapped them back open. It's only natural that I would be tired after so much….my mind blurred and then there was nothing.
"Is she awake yet?"
The voice barely registered in my head. My mind was in a fog. I tried to open my eyes, but they were glued shut. I tried to say something, but it came out sounding more like "mmlllp" than anything comprehensible. My throat was dry, burning in the back. And my stomach ached with hunger. This must be it, I thought. Rosemary was right… I wanted to sleep again, but I forced myself to resist.
"Edward. We need to leave." A calm, but piercing male voice rang out of the darkness I was living in.
"We can't endanger our own lives because of a human who randomly appeared in ours." If I would have been able to make any normal thought processes, I would have been indignant.
"Do you honestly think staying in a hotel is going to deter the wolves any more…?" His phrase was interrupted by a loud and rumbling growl. This time, my eyelids met no resistance in trying to open. I flushed subconsciously. Both of them were looking at me, the blond one and Edward, who turned his eyes away, looking at the wall. Another one walked in, this one big and burly.
"What was that?" He inquired, his voice full of confusion and humor.
They all looked at me.
"Nothing…" I murmured, sinking my head down under the blankets which I was under.
They continued staring.
I muttered to myself, too low for them to hear,
"Well, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast that morning however many days ago it was. What do they think it is?"
Or so I thought.
The blond one looked up, saying "Emmett, get Alice and have her order room service." He nodded and left the room. I sunk further down, my head almost submerged in the sea of silk. My cheeks burned with fire.
He turned the television on.
A picture of a reporter in a blue suit, holding a microphone came onto the screen. She finished her last sentence, coming upon a new story. As I read the headline, horror spread through me.
"A shocking incident, uncommon to our little town of Forks, has shook the town, leaving it confused and afraid. A tragic incident at Forks High has caused all of this ruckus. Here's Bill Chapman to explain." The screen flashed from the newsroom to the outside of the school, a man, Bill, apparently, standing in front of it.
"Indeed it is tragic, Charlene. Three days ago, an average school day started. But, sadly, sixteen students in a junior level biology class have been killed. Monday morning, at approximately 1:30, the police received a call from Forks High, a hysterical 11th grader who had stumbled upon this mass murder scene when simply trying to go to her next class. When police arrived on the scene, they saw a frightening thing; bodies strewn across the floor, coated with blood. The suspect fled the scene, the police expect, into the woods (A/N: One of my favorite musicals!!! Ahem…sorry for ruining the mood. Carry on) behind the school. Two students, curiously were missing." A picture flashed onto the screen, one of me nearly four years ago, my freshman year back in Phoenix. "Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen. Whether the two are still alive is unconfirmed. It is suspected that the suspect may have come to the school seeking these two, and has taken them with him on his wild dash for escape." The scene split, the man now sharing it with the woman back in the studio. "A shame it is. If you have any information, please contact the Forks Police Force for help with this case." The man began speaking again. "Now, why do you think, Charlene, that something like this could hap…." The blond shut off the TV.
"Whether the two are still alive is unconfirmed." He repeated in gently mocking tones.
"One of them shouldn't be." I knew they would hear me, even though I said it softly and into the blankets. And, as I expected, both their eyes flashed to me, Edward's filled with horror and agony. (A/N: Another great song from into the woods! Okay, no more interruptions. Sorry.) We sat in silence for a few minutes before a girl with black-pixie-like hair burst through the door, carrying a tray. This, I presumed, was Alice. She sauntered boldly over to where I way lying in bed, plopping the tray down on the bed. I looked over it hesitantly, then more surely as I found nothing wrong with it. Two slices of toast, a waffle and a glass of orange juice. And despite the fact that my stomach flipped when I saw it, I couldn't bring myself to touch or eat the food that they had supplied. I shook my head when I saw her eyes on mine. She cocked her head, narrowing her eyebrows, then got up and left the room, leaving the tray on my bed. I sorely wanted to throw the tray off the bed, letting the food and the drink splat on the floor, but one of them would probably catch it before it hit the ground, not a single thing broken. I cursed in my mind. The news story's facts had finally caught up to me. I'd been out for nearly three days, and I was presumed dead or kidnapped. Charlie is probably freaking out at home…
"We really do need to leave soon, Edward." The blond one (as he'd officially been dubbed in my mind) spoke again. "We can't stall forever. Get a grip!"
Edward looked up.
"Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night we'll leave. Okay, Jasper?" He was clearly exasperated with the situation he was in. I couldn't really blame him. I was getting a little frustrated myself. Just a little.
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There we go! A chapter! Semi-longish, decent, I suppose and I'm officially dropping my cliffhanger thing until I know for sure that the next chapter is coming soon. I hope to get the next one out sometime in the next month or two…sorry about the waits!! Please review?!?!