Chapter 4

Limbo

I woke up that morning trying to recall the moments from yesterday. Well, there were the pancakes that Sue made, then the newspaper and the Jacobs place. A sharp jolt of pain shocked through my entire body. Sam. What had happened to him after he left, I hope he wasn't hurt, man; Emily is going to kill me when she sees me next.

Oh well I deserve it, but now the only person I really wanted, no needed to see was Chris. I knew that he would kiss me on the forehead and tell me that it wasn't my fault even though it clearly was. How would he react when I told him what Sam had said. There was no need to tell him, he would search my memories and find out for himself. That reminded me, I had to go find him early.

I dashed down the hall and banged on Seth's bedroom door loud enough to wake him up before barging in.

Seth looked up wearily, his hair crazily disheveled from sleep. He smiled despite being woken up.

"What's up?" He asked in a soft sleepy voice

"Im going out, tell Sue I will be back later on today"

"Oh… um ok" he said lowering his head back into his pillow.

I shut the door softly and went back into my room.

I grabbed my pair of denim shorts and a blue T-shirt and strapped them securely to my leg. As I ran out the back door I began to think about all the places that Sam would go if he was having a bad day. The beach, the pine tree in the forest, the cliff over first beach.

Ripping off my pajamas I quickly phased and leapt into the dense woods.

Oh hi Leah Jacob thought, he seemed even more tired than Seth.

What are you doing up this early? I asked with true concern

Chris told me to stay outside the Cullen's place just in case the fight with Terah accidently got carried over here, well that's if there was a fight, no way I was turning down the possibility of a good fight although nothing happened. He sounded disappointed why are you up?

I'm looking for Chris I admitted

Oh by the way there is something that you should know Jacob though the morning that we found Chris in the woods Carlisle tried to take a blood sample from him, even the Vampire needle couldn't penetrate his skin so he had to settle for the blood on his jeans.

Where you going with this Jacob? I asked

Well it turns out that Chris had about as many chromosomes as a human and could be confused for human blood if you didn't know better although as soon as the full moon rose the chromosomes tripled before his eyes, pretty cool hu? Jacob yawned

Interesting I said did he happen to tell you where he was?

Last I heard he was only just outside of Forks Jacob yawned again well I'm going inside, Renesmee has been begging me to come inside, she has been awake with me I bet she is tired too.

Night Jacob, I answered while wheeling around to where Jacob had said.

I felt Jacob leave my mind as I continued to run into the woods.

Nothing but the plain blankness of the woods. Chris must have traveled more then just outside of Forks if I couldn't smell his delicious scent from where I was then he was bound to be very far away.

Something tickled my nose as that similar scent buzzed in my head like a swarm of wasps just looking for a way out. I followed the yummy scent far past the place Jacob had said.

Chris wasn't hurt this time, well at least not seriously. Probably the reason for this was because he wasn't alone; his floral scent was smothered in another delicious scent that smelled like honey.

My nose pressed to the ground, my ears flat on my head and my teeth slightly bared. I knew who the other scent was. Lira.

I didn't like it, the way it almost fully covered Chris's scent made me feel uneasy.

I broke into a clearing. I didn't understand why Chris was covered in her scent since they where sleeping on opposite sides of the clearing.

Then it came to me, there was a massive bruise on Chris's left shoulder. I whimpered. Lira lay with her ribbons of golden strawberry blonde hair colored hair spread over her face although I already knew she was beautiful, how could someone like her cause something so big and painful of my boyfriends shoulder.

I nudged Chris awake. I whimpered being unable to speak and nudged his shoulder very gently.

His eyes lit up and he smiled.

"Don't worry about it, it's only a bruise. Lira got annoyed about the newspaper" Chris shrugged "so what did you do yesterday?"

This was it, the moment he found out about Sam.

Suddenly I remembered every single detail about what happened yesterday, Chris was searching my memories.

Chris's sparkle in his eyes disappeared and his teeth bore slightly.

"Don't feel bad about what you said to Sam, he deserved it" he snarled thought grinding teeth. I had never seen Chris so mad.

Suddenly I heard a moan from the other side of the clearing. Chris's face was suddenly shot with worry.

"Phase back and hide in those trees" he urged glancing over to look at Lira who had just been woken up "please" he begged. I couldn't refuse his pleading green eyes.

Reluctantly I sprang behind a tree and phased back, put on my cloths and jumped into a tree.

I watched silently as Lira lifted her head. She was even more beautiful then I imagined. Her eyes where duller then Chris's, her skin was flawless and her hair looked like the finished product after hours at the hairdressers instead of night out in the bush.

It was safe to say that she could pass as a vampire aside from the accelerated heart beat. She was smaller then Alice, quite small for anyone her age.

She walked gracefully over to Chris.

"What was with you last night?" She grumbled in a glorious voice

"Nothing" Chris defended himself but I heard his voice fail, I knew that Lira had picked up on that as well.

She sniffed the air then her eyes locked on Chris, they blazed over with frustration and anger although she didn't say anything.

I shuffled back into the tree covering my scent more. She had added up the likeliness of her winning a fight against Chris. Although he looked a lot weaker then he actually was because of his lack of visible muscle he was still 17 and, seeing that she was tiny for her age, Chris was a lot taller than she was.

I was so far back in the tree now that I could no longer see what was happening. I heard Liras light footsteps and felt her eyes staring up into my tree. She looked deadly for her size and age.

Considering what she did to Chris's shoulder when she was annoyed, who knows what she could do when she was really mad. I didn't want to take any chances so I stayed in my safe nest in the tree. I had a minute to think about how I felt at that moment.

I was devastated because of what had happened with Sam although overjoyed that Chris was safe from last night's battle and aside from the bruise, wasn't hurt at all. Technically I was no longer in my own personal heaven although not completely in the hell I used to dwell in.

Even though Sam was trying to pull me back down into that hell, Chris was gripping my other hand with amazing strength causing me to float around in a sort of limbo of emotions.

And as I finished my emotion analysis I began to actually notice how much I had grown in just two weeks. I could now tolerate so much more pain then I used to be able to. I was comforted by this fact. I sat in my nest that was surprisingly comfortable and waited and listened to hear Chris's beautiful voice call me and tell me to come down.