Half Brother

I was half relief that only one of the two had managed to find me here, or rather, tracked me down. My only concern wasn't my life though when it should be. Alice was my main concern. If it wasn't because of me then I wouldn't have to worry about her safety. I felt as if my presence around her would cost her, her life. Wait…that did actually happen before. I could live without her and she could live without me, but there wasn't a chance that we would actually do that.

"I'll trap her when she comes outside. Your job is to find her and find out what she wants." Jacob said before he silently left my side and merged into the crowd.

Well, it wasn't James so I could be at ease. However, Victoria wasn't really a reasonable person. As soon as she got an assignment, she'd do anything to complete it. It would be hard to even negotiate with her. Then again, I haven't properly talked to her so I had no idea what my chance of asking her not to create a mess would be. So I needed to find her in this crowd of people…such joyous task.

I sighed inwardly and set off to find Alice. As long as Alice was fine then I could relax. But weaving through this crowd for five minutes with no sign of Alice was beginning to worry me. She wasn't the type to not be on the dance floor. She also wasn't the type to not be talking with people at her own party. So her not being anywhere where the party was at was a worry. I even checked in with the friends she usually interacted with, and even interrupting Emmett's and Rosalie's make-out session and they didn't know where she was. It had been more than five minutes and there was no sign of her. No one had even seen her as well. This wasn't looking good and I was getting more worried. I haven't spotted Victoria's red curly hair as well. Now that I thought about it I couldn't stop thinking about the negatives. There was one more person I haven't checked in yet; Jasper. I found him chatting idly with a girl. From where I was looking it was obvious that he wasn't paying attention to her. The girl, however, was either stupid or was too attached to him that she didn't mind trying her best to get him to focus on her. Jasper, being the gentleman that he was, was too kind to leave her in the middle of the conversation. He obviously needed saving.

When he saw me walking towards him, he smiled in relief. Even the emotion in his eyes matched his smile. So I held in my giggle and cut in their conversation, and from the sound of it the conversation wasn't going anywhere. "Hi Jasper, do you have a minute?" I asked before turning to the girl that was glaring daggers into my head. "Sorry, it's a bit urgent."

She waved her hand at me in a dismissive manner. "Whatever." She responded and walked off with a bit of an attitude in her walk.

I shrugged and turned back to Jasper to see him chuckling in amusement. I ignored the reason and went straight to why I approached him. "Do you know where Alice is? Or have you seen her anywhere?"

He nodded and pointed upstairs. "I saw her walking with a girl up the stairs."

"Girl?" Oh shit! "What girl? Do you know what she looks like?"

"Umm…Tall, red head, pretty, not Alice's type?"

He was trying to lighten up the tension and I appreciated it, but he just described Victoria, or someone with red hair. I couldn't be sure if it was Victoria, and I didn't want to rush up there and make a big deal out of it.

"Hey, are you alright?" Jasper asked as he gently placed his hand on my upper arm.

"Yea, I'm fine." I answered quietly. "I'll just go and check up on Alice."

He nodded in understanding and withdrew his hand. By the look in his eyes I knew that he was curious but didn't want to pry. In all honesty, I wanted him to pry into my business. I could trust Jasper. No, I trusted Jasper. If anything was to happen to me, Jasper would be the first person I'd go and entrust Alice's safety to.

I quickly walked up the stairs and checked every single room that Alice might be in until her room came to view. Okay, everything was so quiet from the inside and the silence did nothing to assure me she was OK. There was a soft mew that escaped the room when I put my hand on the doorknob. What in the world was going on in there? At that point I wasn't sure if I was concerned for her safety. At that point I was more curious on what she and the other girl were doing! So I opened the door only to see Alice laying on her bed, half asleep, half awake with a red head on top of her. I was fuming and it didn't seem like Alice was focusing on anything but the drowsiness under her heavy eyelids. It was like she had been drugged!

"What the fuck?" I said sharply, my voice wasn't raising enough for it to turn into a shout.

The red head paused and lifted herself up from Alice, then turned around to look at me over her shoulder. Victoria's face came into view and I couldn't be more furious at that moment. Seriously. Victoria. On. My. Subconscious and most likely drugged. Girlfriend! I should have walked straight up to her, grab at her hair, yank her backward, off of my girlfriend and literally just get rid of her! however, I was taught better than letting my rage get the best out of me. The last time I did that…letting my rage tae over, yeah, that wasn't pretty. So I closed my eyes, inhaled and slowly exhaling, trying my best to calm my nerves before opening my eyes.

Victoria had crawled off of Alice and was now looking at me with amusement in her eyes. I glowered at her before letting myself inside and shutting the door. She moved a little away from the bed, but that movement was only pushy her toward me. I frowned and moved over to the bed, then checked to see if Alice was really okay. Well, the girl had fallen asleep so that was a good thing. She wasn't going to wake up any time soon too. So I turned my attention fully toward Victoria, trying my best not to seethe at her.

"What the fuck were you trying to do to her? Rape her?" I asked, my hands were starting to shake in fury once more.

"No, I was testing you on how fast you'd realize that your girlfriend isn't engaging herself with the party crowd." She responded, flipping her hair casually behind her shoulders.

"What do you want, Victoria?"

She gave me a surprise look but it was soon washed away by her smile. "Wow, you remember my name! And here I thought you'd forget all about me."

"I did, actually." I commented and was able to catch a small glimpse of disappointment adorning her features until it disappeared. "You look quite upset there. Did I say something wrong? Like the fact I did forget about you?"

That disappointment look came back to her face with an additional anger. "Not that it matters." She waved a hand at me dismissively. "You're just another Swan."

I raised an eyebrow at her. "Was there another Swan that didn't care about your existence?"

If she could growl, she would be doing that right now. She settled with frowning at me with her teeth clenched, but that didn't last long when a smirk appeared on her lips. It was as if she knew that whatever she was going to say will shock me. "Oh? You don't know about Riley?"

Riley? I've never heard of that name before. In fact, Charlie never did mention anyone name Riley. So why would this person be related to me? Unless he was my cousin? Possibly a long lost cousin that I've never heard of, possibly.

"Who's Riley?" I asked.

"Your half brother."

A/N

Apologies for the late update. I've had this written on paper for weeks but was lazy to type it all up. Facebook keeps telling me to check it and I just can't resist Facebook!