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Destiny

Chapter 14

I was home at last. It took the hospital long enough to realise the blood transfusion had worked and bed rest was not going to help someone like me.

Once home the family bled into their different activities. Renee and Charlie commenced making dinner, the twins went about being noisy and as annoying as ever, though kindly staying out of my way for once- if that continues then falling and slicing my brachial may be the best thing I've ever done.

I trudged upstairs, still feeling hazy from exhaustion which didn't make sense after sending the past couple of days in bed. Wandering into the bathroom I closed the door and locked it, revelling in the privacy that had been impossible in the hospital. I ran a bath and sat on the closed toilet, waiting for the tub to fill. I felt like I was numb, just going through the motions. I stared at the mosaic patterns on the walls, contemplating what I was going to have to do.

The bath filled so I stripped off my clothes, admiring my healing scar in the bathroom mirror as I tentatively peeled back the bandages and re-wrapping them, I climbed into the bath. I hadn't run any cold water but I could barely feel the water around me as I sat down, despite its high temperature. I lay back, careful not to get my arm wet. I rested it on the cold lip of the bath and it sat like a word: wanting to be spoken but without the ability to make a noise.

The steam rose and soon the glass screen around the bath was as cloudy as my head. I held my good arm up and watched the steam roll up it onto my palm and then into the air. It looked like I had the power to control heat and I imagined what it would be like to have the ability to control something beyond myself, like me own life.

My skin glowed red and the ends of my hair were soaked as they swirled he waters smooth surface like blood. I could feel my face being beaded with perspiration and the heat radiating from my skin. I felt like I was falling...

I landed with a thud in the school playground. Confusion swept over me but then I saw Jacob. He was leaning against the wall, half in shadow: the half of him that was in the light looked so amazing. I could see one of his pale blue eyes, glinting in the sunlight. His brown hair shone copper and brass and I could see he was smiling.

I started walking towards him, feeling the smile on my face as I knew each step I took was drawing closer to him. But then I felt my smile slipping as the sun beat down on top of me, burning my face and I started sweating... melting?

And then Edward appeared out of nowhere and started dragging me back, away from Jacob. I cried out for him to stop but despite my struggling and flailing he kept pulling me towards him. He was twice his normal size and much too strong for me to resist.

I could feel the tears pour town my face onto the ground where they evaporated in the heat. It was so hot! I tried to break free from Edward again but he was choking me and I couldn't breathe. I grabbed at his wrists in an attempt to release myself but could find no slacking in his tight grip. I ripped off some of his shirt and threw it down and kicked it away before realising I'd just wrenched out his heart which had been on his sleeve. He fell down. Dead.

I fell forwards because Edward was no longer holding me. I crawled to his side but he'd turned into me, with blood pouring out his arm and drying on the sweltering concrete. A shadow fell across us and offered small comfort in the rancid heat. Jacob covered the former Edward in a blanket and held his hand out to me. I couldn't move though I longed to get out of the heat. I was somehow anchored to Edward, unable to leave his covered form even though he was now me...

I cried harder, tears pouring out my eyes in unmerciful torrents and into my mouth and nose. I was sinking... drowning... dying...

I opened my eyes and they were met with a wall of watery heat. I couldn't breathe.

My senses were still numb from the dream but I realised something was wrong. I sat up to find myself still in the bath, still in the intense heat and still not able to breathe.

My head was swimming and I could feel the burning temperature of the bath afresh. I coughed and spluttered, trying to empty my lungs of the burning water. Liquid poured out of my mouth and nose and I could feel I was crying though I didn't know whether it was because of the pain or the dream.

I hauled myself out of the bath, splashing water all over the floor. I picked up a towel and scrubbed every inch of my skin, except the area around my scar, in an attempt to scrub the feeling of blood off myself. It wasn't even my blood, it was Edwards. His pain covered me from head to toe and I wept as my kin got redder and redder before crumpling onto the cold tiled floor and letting the confusion consume me.

"Destiny? Destiny, Jacob is here."

My heart skipped a beat and I felt myself withdraw a bit more into my curled up self. I chose to ignore her just a bit longer.

"Destiny?" My mum called louder now, outside the door.

I sighed. "Coming. I'll be down in five minutes."

"OK."She replied through the door. I could hear her hovering on the landing, waiting for an audible action on my part. I plunged my arm into the tub and swirled the water around till it made the slapping noises associated with getting out the bath. The creaking noise on the stair told me mum had gone down to tell Jacob of my delay.

I wrapped the towel around my body- still rubbed raw, yet shivering out of the baths temperature- and hastily escaped from the bathroom to my bedroom. I hated getting changed when a guest is in my house. Don't know why, I just don't like the idea of being vulnerable in my own home.

I threw on some skinny jeans and a tight long sleeved top. My hair was sodden so I tied it back into a messy bun. I couldn't find any thick bobbles so my hair fought against the thin band and some curly strands escaped and flowed down my neck. I decided I didn't look too bad and after I flicked some mascara on I checked myself over in the mirror. My skin was red and blotchy from crying but I could blame that on the bath temperature.

I was just about to go downstairs when I heard a tentative knock on the door. "Destiny, darling?" I heard Jacob call.

I took a deep breath and opened the door.

Crunch time.

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