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Chapter Five, No more stress!
Doctor Cullen told me that I had a black out because of some kind of stress. Rosalie looked as if she had been petrified when he told the room. Everyone had some sort of determination in their eyes as they looked at me. Rose (She keeps insisting that I call her Rose not Rosalie) said she was going to pick me up for work, and the day's Rose and I both aren't working, Emmett or Edward are going to take me and pick me up. No more walking to and from work alone. After everyone decided, without even listening to me that it was unnecessary, they all went home.
After the left, "Uncle" Todd told Esme and me that he was afraid that I might have PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder.) and told Doctor Cullen it was probably from the scare I had the other night when I tripped. I didn't want the others worrying about this and he promised that only the four of us would know. I felt bad keeping it from them, but they flipped out over me simply being stressed, I don't know how they would react to PTSD. Todd thinks that when he accidently snuck up on me that it caused me to remember all the fear and trauma from Ohio.
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It's Thursday, and everything has changed so much. After being able to come Monday, Rose picked me up Tuesday, Emmett drove me yesterday, and Edward is driving me today. I don't have work till noon, but Edward was picking me up at nine for breakfast. We never had the chance before today to talk about our abilities fully. I was looking forward to it.
On the drive there, I decided to ask the question I have been wondering about all week.
"Hey Edward, what happened Sunday after I passed out? I mean both times." I asked curiously. Edward laughed, "You really want to know is why and how did Jasper get there, and why wasn't he there at the hospital, right?" I sighed, "Yes."
He is such a know it all. He was smirking,
*Swerving, the Semi was coming fast towards the right side, my side of the car. The driver was on the phone, not paying attention to the light, just as Edward was going across.*
I opened my eyes to a worried looking Edward, and saw we were coming up to the traffic light.
"Edward! Stop! You need to stop right now!" Edward looked at me in panic, "STOP!" He slammed on the breaks, halfway through the light, a semi went whizzing by in front of us. Luckily there was no one behind us; actually the road was rather deserted.
"Mary." His voice was strained, "That…that would have crushed us." I shivered at the thought.
I've only ever been so close to death one other time. So much for no stress. I laughed shakily, "So that's how that works." Edward looked at me and laughed, "That's so weird." He chuckled a little then continued, he was grinning at me "Seems were both freaks."
"So, let me get this straight. You can hear people thoughts? But it's faint, like almost your own thought? And it seems like the more intense the thoughts the louder they get? " I asked in awe.
Edward smiled, "Yep. And you, little miss fortune teller, get random and sudden visions. Sometimes things are very blurry, and you think that means it's a possibility it will happen, and sometimes things are crystal clear and that means that it is set to happen?" I nodded my head.
We were eating our breakfast in a little café sharing our freak stories. The food here is really good, and the Chai tea here was delicious. I think this might become a regular thing, the two of us coming here for breakfast. I smiled at the thought.
"It is nice, being around someone who understands you." He said quietly, looking down at his French toast. He looked up at me, a hesitant expression on his face.
* "Mary, wake up." There was someone standing in front of me but I couldn't see them. "We need to leave." *
I blinked and the vision was gone. My eyes focused and I saw Edward looking at me, his jaw dropped and eyes wide. He looked speechless. I laughed at him.
"Y-you, your eyes, they blur. Mary, you just had a vision right?" He said excitedly, and I nodded. "Your eyes, they just blurred. They didn't move or anything, they just got blurry. Was your vision blurry?" I laughed at the strange excitement he said oozing from his voice. "Yes part of it was blurry." I said, amused at him. He had a triumphant look on his face, "Can you tell me what it was exactly?" I raised my eye brows at him, "Thought you could read my mind?" He rolled his eyes, "Actually that was so quick that I didn't catch anything but your eyes blurring. So please tell me!" He smiled widely. I thought about it, then suddenly remembering his facial expression before my vision; but I quickly banished the thought from my mind so he couldn't figure it out. "Haha okay! Only if you answer a question for me first." He grinned, "Sure." I grinned back, "Okay what where you going to say, or ask before I had my vision?" He frowned, "You're observant." He mumbled before continuing. "I was going to tell you that I could read everyone's minds except for one person." I thought about who that could be, and guessed. "Bella?" He grimaced, "Yes. And it drives me insane. I never know what she is thinking, or how she taking what I am saying." He sounded frustrated, "Maybe you should learn to read facial expressions." He looked like he was about to scoff at me, but then looked thoughtful. "I've never had to before. I always can tell without any effort in reading them. But I guess that's what makes Bella so special." He smiled down at his now empty plate. "Okay your turn." He looked up at me, curiosity burning behind his eyes. I laughed, "Okay. It was just someone telling me to wake up, and that we needed to go. But I didn't see who it was, they were fuzzy." He looked thoughtful at what I said. "Strange. You'll have to tell me when it happens. I'm curious to see how it turns out." I smiled at him, "We're so weird." He grinned back at me, "Agreed."
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I was humming tunelessly while wiping a table down. The bus boy was sick, so we were cleaning our own tables off; luckily it was an extremely slow day. I've been here six hours and only served four tables. I only had an hour of work left. I heard the bells chime as someone else walked in. Praying they would be placed in my section because both Seth and Irina had a table. I turned around to see four girls; I gulped as I recognized one of them. Maria; I shivered at the thought. This girl has already knocked a drink into me, hit me in the head with a door, (I've been getting hit in the head a lot since moving here!) and is currently dating the man I am in love with…did I really just think that? I sighed as they sat down in my section. I took a deep breath and walked over towards them. There was a short girl with blonde hair and dark hazel eyes…that made you wish you could hide from her sight, a girl with white blonde hair and green eyes, and another blonde girl with blue eyes.
"Hello my name is Ma-" I was interrupted by Maria. "Yes, yes; the little girl that stares at my boyfriend all weird." The blonde girl with the evil eyes snorted, "You mean ex-boyfriend." Maria scowled, "Shut up Jane!" Jane just laughed. But my heart leapt when she said 'ex'. I was trying not to smile, even though it is probably hopeless. Maria glared at me, "Don't even think you have a chance with him. We'll be back together in a couple of days." The girl with blue eyes rolled her eyes,
"Maria you said that Saturday." The girl with green eyes sitting next to her tried to suppress a giggle. But isn't Saturday when Jasper punched Edward? Hmm, I wonder…
"Hey! Marsee" Maria interrupted my thoughts. She always seems to be doing that. "Quite day dreaming. I want a house salad with ranch and a coke please." I nodded my head, "Okay. And my name is Mary." I said pointing to my nametag. "We don't care." Said the girl with green eyes.
By the time the girls had left, I had learned that the girl with the evil stare was named Jane, the girl with the green eyes was Lucy, and the girl with blue eyes was Nettie. I had heard Jasper's name enough times in their annoying voices. I just wanted to go home. I thought about walking, but everyone would kill me, and then kill Edward for not picking me. I sighed,
"Why so gloom?" A strangely familiar voice asked.
I turned around to see none other than Jasper standing beside me in the parking lot. I am waiting for Edward, and he was the last person I expected to see.
"I'm not." I said quietly. He laughed a beautiful quiet laugh. "Is that so?" He whispered. "Yes" I whispered back. He frowned slightly, "You're lying."
I was startled by his words. "Uhm what?" Still frowning he said, "Your eyes. They give you away." I laughed at him, "You can't possible tell that by looking into my eyes." He shrugged, "Maybe I can, maybe I can't." Then he smiled, "Waiting on someone to come and get you? Rose told me about their 'no stressing' plan." I sighed, "Yes. I am driving to and fro everywhere. But I am lucky to have such a great group of friends." He made a strange face, "It's been awhile since I've seen Rose so happy." He said so softly I almost didn't hear him; almost. "What do you mean?" Curious, and also worried about her. "She just seems happier." He smiled at his words, and then laughed. "She is so worried about you right now that she hasn't the time to scold me about mine." I immediately apologized with a smile, "I'm sorry I've been stealing away your sister's mothering." He laughed, "Rose is very mother-like isn't she?" I laughed too, "Yes, she yelled at me the other day at lunch for having my glass so close to the edge, saying I was going to spill it. And she is constantly telling Emmett to wipe his face while eating. But the person she gets on the most is Edward; she says he's too moody." Jasper looked strained for a second but the look disappeared. "You four have gotten rather close this past week." I thought that was a strange thing to say, "Yes?" He shrugged, "They always say when you find your soul mate that you just know, and I think the same goes for those special friends. When you find them, you just know." I smiled at his words, "I think you're right." He looked away from me and then sighed.
"Hey Mar-mar! Eddie was busy, he told me to say 'sorry lil freak!' but that you might know why he was busy. Whatever that means! Do you to have secrets?" Emmett came bounding up to us, a wide grin on his face; that is until he saw Jasper. "Whitlock." He said curtly. Jasper nodded, and then stuck his hand out to Emmett. "Cullen. I'm sorry. But I hope we can be friends." At this Emmett smiled, and shook his hand. "Sure." Then Jasper smiled, "And also, don't hurt my sister. You may be twice my size, but I am willing to take you down if you hurt her."
Jasper and Emmett were about the same height, and both very muscular, but Jasper looked lean while Emmett looked like a body builder. Emmett grinned broadly at Jasper.
"I wouldn't expect anything else." Jasper turned to walk into the diner, but then turned back towards me. "See you around Mary." I couldn't stop the little giggle that escaped my lips, his words melted my heart. "Hehe, Okay." I turned towards Emmett, who was trying, unsuccessfully, to hide and control his laughter. I dropped my face into my palms. "I'm so stupid!" Emmett patted my shoulder, "It's okay little pixie, it was cute." I smacked Emmett in the arm, "UGH!" Emmett just laughed and teased me the whole way home.
When we pulled my drive way he was calming down some, but still amused. I rolled my eyes at him as he helped me get out of the jeep, but that's when I noticed the black BMW that was usually parked on the opposite side of the road.
"Uh Em? Why is your dad here?" Emmett looked around, he looked confused, but then his face contorted. He looked like he was going to get sick and fell to the ground.
"Emmett!? Are you okay?" I shrieked.
Emmett started to shake; I dropped to the ground trying to figure out what was wrong with him, when he broke out into a fit of giggles, actually girly giggles. What is wrong with him?
"Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!" Emmett rolled around looking at me, "Pixie! Don't you see?!" He said between giggles. "What are you talking about Em?" Emmett started to control himself. "Dad has been acting weird all week!" I shrugged, "Okay, so wha-" Suddenly it clicked and I burst into my own fit of giggles. We just laid in my driveway giggles like crazy people until Esme and Carlisle walked out of my house. They both stopped when they saw us, looking at us with strange faces. Em and I tried composing ourselves, and stood up.
"Be good you two!" Emmett said wiggling his eyebrows, Carlisle flushed, "Emmett!" He said in a scolding tone. Esme only laughed, "We will Emmett, do me a favor dear and keep an eye on Mary tonight?" Emmett saluted her, "Yes ma'am." Then Em grinned, "Be safe!" Carlisle frowned at his words, and Esme was trying to keep her face serious. Emmett winked at them as they got into Carlisle's BMW.
Em and I looked at each other and began laughing again. "HA! Who knew?! Your sister and my father!" Emmett bellowed, "Oh but hey I know where Eddie is tonight." He said with a mischievous grin. "Oh ya where?" Emmett dropped his voice to a whisper, "Casually going to Newton's store to buy new shoes for this weekend. Somehow he found Bella is working tonight." He grinned evilly, "I think you, Mary, need some good hiking clothes for this weekend! Wouldn't you agree?"
Fifteen minutes later we were pulling into Newton's parking lot. Emmett makes being mischievous rather fun. We decided to dress up in all black, pretending to spy on Edward until he caught us, than use our cover of me buying things for the hiking trip Saturday. I actually needed clothes for it anyway. I would have never done this on my own, but Emmett brought out the sneaky fun side in me.
"Em, I don't want to upset Edward…" I had stopped in front of the doors of the store. Emmett looked at me, "Come on, Ed will get over it. And plus, being silly is the best way to deal with stress." I sighed, but smiled. "Alright let's go!" Emmett pumped his fists, "YES!"
We found Edward and Bella talking in an aisle, we were currently in the aisle beside them listening in on their conversation. Hands over our mouths trying to suppress any noises.
"I'm not sure if I should really go to this weekend hiking trip anyway. My dad's going to be out of town, and he wouldn't be too happy with the idea of me breaking my leg without him here." Bella said, laughing self-consciously. "Well, I could make sure you don't fall. I've gotten really good at taking care of people of late." Edward said, and I could just imagine him running his fingers through his hair as he said that. "Oh with Mary and everything, how is she? She seemed so nice." Bella asked curiously. I keep forgetting Bella and I aren't friends yet. Edward laughed, "Yeah, she is doing good. I think she is annoyed with us hovering over us though." It was silent for a moment, but then he added, "She is going this weekend too."
Emmett smirked at me, and whispered, "He's trying really hard to get her to come!"
Bella laughed, "Alright, I can see that everyone is going to force me to go! First Mike, then Angela, then you." Bella laughed again, "But it does truly sound like fun." Edward sighed quietly in relief, "Alright, well awesome then! You could always ride with Em, Mary, Rose, and I. Angela can come along too." It was quiet, but I think Bella was nodding because she said, "Alright, I'll talk to Ang about it."
Emmett and I were actually shopping when Edward found us. After their conversation ended we ran to the other side of the store. Edward was just walking by when he stopped dead in his tracks.
"You two look awful suspicious." Edward said a little irritated. Em and I exchanged innocent looks, but I thought of an idea. "Yeah, well Em said you were here and we came to get you. Your dad and my sister are on a date right now." Emmett caught on to what I was saying, "Yeah, so when we couldn't find you Mar-Mar decided to get some clothes for this weekend." Edward nodded, but I could tell he didn't exactly believe us, but then a look of shock crossed his face, "Wait Anne and dad are on a date?" Emmett laughed, "Yep! So Mar-Mar and I decided to get dressed in some spy clothes and go see how it goes; but Mary here thought you would like to join us." I smiled brightly at Edward, "Yeah, and I thought since everyone keeps telling me to relax and keep from getting too stressed again, that this would be great for the three of us!" Edward sighed, although I knew he didn't believe that was why we were here exactly.
We were driving around town looking at all of the restaurants, searching for Carlisle's BMW. We were driving around, desperate, when we drove past the hospital and it was there.
"Oh my gosh! I hope they are both okay!" I said panicked, the guys exchanged worried looks, and we hurried into the parking lot after Em parked.
Edward walked over to the receptionist, "Hey Carmen, where's my dad?" He asked calmly. Carmen pointed down the hall. "In his office with a young lady." We all exchanged panicked looks, and I followed the boys to the office.
"Charles inflicted all of these?" Carlisle said in a strained voice. Then a familiar spoke up, "I really didn't want to involve anyone in this, but I am afraid if either Esme or Alice has any pain or trauma, we need a doctor to be able to take care of it. I cleared you, since Alice seems to have a good relationship with your boys. Although I do not want to involve them in this." I felt a sinking feeling in my heart as Todd spoke. "It's so strange, I know your actual name but I have to call you something different." Carlisle said in a quiet voice. "I hope this doesn't change anything. I am the sa-" Esme was interrupted by Carlisle, "You are a very brave, and loving woman. That's what I saw in you, and that's what I still see in you. I'd like to get to know you, and the real you." Esme laughed self-consciously, "Well for starters, my middle name is Anne, and Alice's middle name was Mary. It was easier for us that way to get used to be called something familiar." Todd spoke up, "Well as long as you are okay, Anne, I can go. I am glad you live across the street from the doctor." Esme sighed, "I'm sorry for causing trouble tonight, and ruining our date." Carlisle laughed, "No, I would say it just made things a little interesting, but definitely not ruined." I heard someone get up, and Todd opened the door to see us. All of the adult's faces fell, and I looked over at the boys who looked like they were in a permanent state of shock.
A/N This chapter is a little short, sorry! With this school semester almost ending for me (1 week!) I will have a lot more free time for writing! So the goal is to post once or twice a week. ALSO I am planning on posting chapter one of Jasper's story here in the next couple of weeks. (:
Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed the slight cliff hanger! (:
Here is a little preview of chapter six:
Chapter Six Explaining.
"Uhm, er…well. I guess I should start off with my real name is Alice, and I moved here with my cousin after her abusive husband killed a man and tried to kill me." Then I heard the door slam shut.
"Don't you dare think that we can be friends!" I cowered away from the screaming.
"Poor Mary! All alone, with none of your friend's to save you or to even care!" Jane sneered at me, glaring at me, her eyes boring into mine. Someone pushed me from my side causing me to connect with the gravel with a loud smack. I heard laughter, but it slowly turned to a dull pounding sound echoing in my mind.