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You Can't See Me
Monday morning came sooner than I thought it would.
Throughout the weekend, we all hung around Lizzy and she began warming up to each of us. She loved to go shopping with her Auntie Ali, she loved listening to the stories told by her Uncle Jazzy and she loved to play dress up with Jakey. I always laughed at his new nickname. Me and Edward? She loved coming to our house. She always played video games with her Uncle Ed and loved to watch her Auntie B cook. She also loved going to her grandparents' house, watching Grandma garden outside and Grandpa reading his huge books. But she was mostly happy when she was with her mommy and daddy. Emmett teaching her how to play football and Rose teaching her how to behave like a lady.
To say she was happy with our family was an understatement. That's why on Monday, she was kicking and screaming not to go to school.
"No!" she screamed as I dragged her out of her new house. Rose or Emmett would do it, but they are terrified of hurting her. They still have to get used to it.
"C'mon, Liz," yelled Jacob from the sidewalk. "The bus will be coming any minute. You don't want to be late for your first day of preschool."
"Daddy!" she whined. He quickly came to her side. She already knew how to get her way with Emmett. All she had to do was whine, pout and cry. He was such a softie. "I no wanna go. No one gonna like me…"
"Of course they will, Princess. You are too cute for no one not to like." Emmett got down on her level and she smiled up at him.
"You think so?" He nodded and she hugged him tightly. He laughed.
"Okay. We're going to put you on the bus and then we will leave to school. Mommy and me will pick you up." He kissed her on the cheek and she nodded.
Right then, the bus came around the corner and in front of Rose's house. The bus driver's eyes bulged out when he caught sight of Esme, Alice, Rosalie and me. We all laughed. Then the guys, including Carlisle, came forward and put their arms around us. We laughed again. We took turns kissing and hugging Lizzy goodbye before Rose took her onto the bus.
As soon as she came off and the bus drove away, with all of us waving enthusiastically, we loaded up our cars and headed to school. I wasn't really looking forward to going back to class. It was a full day. And that meant I would have to see Lucas again. I wasn't too worried about that though. I had yet another person to look after me.
Jacob decided to attend school with us as a freshman. We got his papers (from J. Jenks) and he even has a couple of classes with us. He's in my 2nd period Government class and my 3rd period Trigonometry class. He was taking engineering, just like Rosalie as his major. By the time I was finished mind rambling, we were already pulled into the school parking lot. We got out and not two second later, I spotted Lucas staring at me from across the lot.
"Is that him?" Jacob whispered in my ear. I nodded slowly. He laughed a little and I tuned on him.
"So not funny, Jake." I pouted at him as we walked to first period. "It's not funny that a boy is so infatuated with you, he won't take a hint."
"Sound a little like the old me," and we both laughed at the realization. Everyone walked to their classes and I stood close to Edward and Rose on our way to Chemistry. I didn't want to risk bumping into Lucas. But luck wasn't with me, whoever I was standing next to.
"Hey, Bella." I waved at him and walked faster as Edward growled. "Wait up!" he called and we just walked faster. I looked back to see him held back by a teacher. I sighed in relief. Maybe there was a little luck with me today.
Before I knew it, it was time for Trig. I knew I would see Lucas, but I was protected by all my family. We walked into class and took our regular seats along the back of the room. Jacob noticed he had nowhere to sit and there was only one more seat left. It was the seat right in front of me, right next to Lucas. He winked at me before he sat down and started speaking to Lucas. I strained my hearing and heard them talking to each other.
"Hey, man. I'm Jacob." He held out his hand to Lucas. Before he took it, he looked over Jacob and his eyes bulged at his size. I snickered a little and Jacob cracked a smile.
"Lucas. You hang with the Cullens right?" Jacob smiled wider.
"Yup. You know that girl, Bella?" I tried to write as I listened. Lucas nodded. "Well, me and her go way back. Like diaper times, and we were even romantic for a while…" he trailed off.
By then, all of us were laughing quietly, even Edward. We tried to keep quiet. Lucas' eyes bulged out again as he sneaked a peek at me. I pretended to be working again.
"Wow. Why did you guys fall out?" Jacob shook his head a little.
"I found my soul mate, and Bella found hers. I was there at her wedding. It was so beautiful." Jacob was stretching the truth a little, but we couldn't keep from laughing again.
"Oh." They were quiet for a little. "Do you think I have a chance with her?" Everyone was quiet and glared at Lucas. I just stared in shock, with Jacob. How could he even think that if he knew I was married? Gosh.
"Um, first, she's married, dude." Jacob gave him a crazy look. "Second, you don't want to get mixed up with her husband…." Jake trailed off again.
"Why not?" Lucas seemed genuinely interested. He even had a flash of suspicion in his eyes.
"Let's just say… he doesn't do well with blood." Edward kicked Jacob's chair. He just turned back to his notebook. Lucas stared at him for a second before looking at each of us. Then, he, too, went back to his work.
The rest of the period was uneventful, and so was lunch. Lucas ate with his friends and I ate with Jacob. Although the rest of our family was there with trays. They just let Jacob pick off their plates.
Spanish was uneventful as well. But Writing was the total opposite. Lucas didn't show up to class. As a matter of fact, I saw him walking to a car after lunch. I tried to see who was in it, but they drove off to quickly for me to see. I wrote the day's assignment about a misunderstood boy. One who was always trying, but never succeeding. I got an A on that paper.
Our ride home was silent, but comfortable. Rosalie drove in the opposite direction with Emmett to pick up Lizzy. Edward, Jacob and I went into the house. We ate the lunch Esme left for us and Edward said he needed to hunt. He was going with Jasper and said he would be back by six. When he left, I went upstairs to see what Jake was doing.
"Hey, Bells. I need another person to play on my team…" He walked out of his room with his headset on and two remote controls.
I laughed. "Sure, I'll play." I was pretty good at video games, and after I was in my headset, we worked on creaming the other team.
LPOV (oh man)
"What do you mean you won't do it?" Drew was obviously mad, but I couldn't do what he wanted me to do. It was too dangerous and I knew I could get hurt. I wasn't like him or Nancy.
"I won't do it," I repeated. "You know for a fact I could get hurt in less than a second. Why would you put me through that?"
"Because I know you won't get hurt." Drew continued to pace in front of my cot/bed in the corner of the huge room. The only other thing in the room was a refrigerator and a small television set.
"How are you so sure?" I gave him a glare and he snapped at me.
"Boys! Relax!" Nancy walked into the room wearing her running clothes. "They are leaving their house in a little while. We need to hurry if we are going to do this…" She trailed off, noticing I wasn't dressed to leave yet. "What's going on here?" she motioned to me as she spoke to Drew.
"He won't do it," he repeated. I nodded smugly.
"Nothing will happen," she said to me. "We've been over this already. I've been working overtime to perfect this day. I can cover your smell now."
My eyes bulged. I guess that did make it a little better. "But what if they find me? You'll be three miles out. How will you get to me in time?"
"They won't find you. I can cover up everything now. Even the sounds you make when you walk." Nancy put her hand on my shoulder. I leaned into her and nodded my head. I felt them both smile and I looked up. I stared at their faces and willed them to wipe their smirks off.
"Let's go," I said after I dressed in comfortable running clothes. Drew was staying behind, he was supposed to protect our place. Nancy and I walked out into the forest behind the old, abandoned house we stayed in. It was only one story and we knocked down all the walls to make a giant room. Only the bathroom was still intact.
"Hop on," Nancy said. I noticed we were already at the side of the road, still hidden by the trees. I did as she said and climbed onto her back. She took off, going deeper into the forest Oh, I'm sorry. Did I forget to tell you? Drew and Nancy are both vampires. I live with them, because they are vegetarians. Drew had tanned skin and black hair, spiking up in every direction, with a body full of huge muscles. Only he was a little short, only a couple inches taller than me. He was changed in the 1900s when he was 21. He lived in Puerto Rico at the time.
He met Nancy when he traveled to New Hampshire. They were mates, of course. Nancy had long, bright red hair, with a body all the guys her age would die for. She was changed in the 1800s when she was only 18. And she had a really special power.
"This is where I leave you," said Nancy as she left me at a clearing. "Stay close to the trees in case you need to run." Then she got into her signature stance.
She stood with her feet planted firmly on the ground. Her head was bent down, looking at my feet. She outstretched her hands and closed her eyes. Slowly, she moved her hands up, gesturing to my body. She was done in a matter of seconds. I looked down at myself and smiled. I couldn't see my hands, or my feet, or the rest of my body. She really was working overtime, she had gotten so much better.
"Now I can't hear you or see you, but listen to me carefully. I don't know what kind of powers this coven has so you must be careful. Even if you talk or move, they won't be able to hear it. They won't see you either, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be cautious. I will be three miles out, by the road we stopped at before. That is the direction you should run in if anything bad happens." She sniffed deeply. "I can't even smell your scent. It disappeared, even your trail. This is terrific. Now we will be unstoppable. They will be coming in through those trees in 10 minutes. After you find out what you must, leave immediately. I'll see you soon." Then she walked off.
Yes, Nancy's power was invisibility. For many years, she could only turn herself invisible. Then, she upgraded to making people she touched invisible. She continued working on it until she learned how to turn others invisible without touching them. Then recently, she learned how to cover up scents, sounds, and trails. Amazing, wasn't she.
After, 10 minutes, they walked into the clearing as Nancy said. They were walking and laughing together. They thought they were all high and mighty… Well, when they proved to me I was correct in my assumption about them, I knew we could eliminate them. Just as I finished that thought, a heard of deer walked into the clearing, oblivious to the others.
They both positioned themselves in hunter stances. Then they lunged, killing the entire heard. My eyes widened. Wow, they were good. Not even Nancy and Drew could kill an entire heard in one shot. These hunters jumped from deer to deer, biting each one quickly. The deer would fall unconscious until they were all down.
"Nice, Jazz!" I heard the other say. They high fived each other.
"Same to you, Edward." I grumbled at the name. Why did he have to have the girl I've been waiting for. I hated him.
Both settled down to drink from the deer and I knew my assumption was correct. The Cullens were vampires and they had Bella. I was smug.
I was about to turn and leave as Nancy ordered, but Jasper's head shot up. He looked over in my direction and narrowed his eyes. He stood up slowly, facing my general direction and growling loudly.
"What's wrong, Jazz?" He didn't even answer Edward before he, too, was crouched in my direction. I gulped and started to move backwards slowly. Jasper lunged forward, obviously thinking he could catch something he couldn't see. Edward grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back. "We need more time to think it over before we react. Let's go warn the others." Then they left the clearing.
I let out a big gust of air and walked in the direction of the road. It took me thirty minutes and my super fast running, for a human, to reach Nancy. Even then, I needed to find a way to catch her attention so she could lift her spell. I looked around and saw a rock big enough to make Nancy notice there was someone there. I picked it up and saw it disappear in contact with me. I snickered a little at the face Nancy would make. I threw the rock right at her forehead and it hit her with a small thunk!
She whipped her entire body around. She was crouched low in her hunter's stance. Her hair was blowing wildly behind her, looking like flames, and her eyes turned black even though she hunted that morning. She growled lowly. When she heard nothing, she slowly disappeared from sight turning invisible. I laughed a little. Lucas? She asked.
Yup I said. When Nancy was invisible, she could communicate with anything she turned invisible. Only she never spoke. We communicated with our minds.
She sighed and made herself visible again. "You scared the crap out of me, Lucas." Her eyes were back to normal and she smiled a little. The she went back into her stance and moved her hands in the opposite direction. I slowly appeared again. "What did you find out?"
"They are vampires," I stated simply. "Only Jasper and Edward were out hunting, but it still proved that all of them are vampires."
"And you still think Bella is not a vampire?" She stared at me with that look that said I know you like her, but this is business.
"Positive. She's not cold, or has golden eyes like the rest of them…" I trailed off when Nancy gave me a quizzical look. We had already started walking back to our house.
"It could be her power…" I shook my head even before she finished.
"I know she isn't. I just have a feeling." Nancy nodded and I scrambled onto her back to quicken our journey.
I repeated the same news to Drew and he dismissed me, saying he needed to speak with Nancy about the plans. I knew that they wanted to eliminate the Cullens, but would that be such a good idea? That meant I would have to hurt Bella in the process. I don't know what to do. I fell asleep quickly, knowing I had school in the morning.
Back to BPOV
"That was awesome, Jake!" I gave him a huge hug. "We are officially the best." We had won the tournament in the video game and we were celebrating by having a snack in the dinig room. The sun was already down and we were waiting for Edward to come home. Then the door burst open and Edward ran in.
"Bella! Jacob! We need to get to the big house." He grabbed my hand and I grabbed Jacob's. We walked across the street to the big house where everyone was already waiting. Jasper was standing rigidly at the corner of the room.
"What's going on?" Jacob and I asked at the same time. Everyone was in alarmed states and Jacob and I were beyond confused. I looked around anxiously to find a little someone. I didn't know if Llizzy should be here or not, but her parents were here.
"She's upstairs," said Jasper, obviously feeling my discomfort. I nodded my head and went to sit next to Alice. She grabbed my hands and I looked at her worried face. She smiled weakly and then, Jasper and Edward called our attention.
"We went hunting, as you all know, in the clearing a couple of miles away from here," Jasper began. He looked tense and maybe a little mad. "When we sat down to drink, I felt someone's emotions stirring behind us. I didn't know who it was or what it wanted. So when I looked, I didn't see anything. I couldn't hear anything, and I couldn't even smell a scent." Jasper shooko his head. He was frustrated.
"I saw Jasper get into his crouch, Edward continued, "so I asked what was wrong. He replayed the whole thing in his mind for me to see and I gasped. You know I don't pay attention to voices in my head while I'm hunting, so I didn't notice anything. But I also got in a crouch and looked in the direction Jasper was looking in. I couldn't see, hear or smell anything either. But I knew there was someone there. I could hear their thoughts. The Cullens are vampires and they have Bella, was the last thing I heard."
Everyone gasped and looked at me. "Who could it be?" I wondered out loud.
"I had a vision," Alice spoke up. "I didn't understand it, but I knew something didn't feel right. I had a vision of a plan being stirred up about us, but when I tried looking more into it, I got a major headache, as if someone put up an invisible wall or something. I couldn't see anything after that. I only remember seeing," she was cut off by Edward's gasp.
"I had a feeling," he said menacingly. "It was Lucas. That's who Alice saw in her vision. Along with two other vampires we don't know. I knew he smelled wrong, he has their scent all over him."
I shook my head repeatedly, not willing to believe this. Lucas was after my family and he had backup.
"Don't worry, Bella," said Rosalie. She leaned over Alice to touch my hand.
"We won't let anything happen to you," said Emmett. He ruffled my hair.
I could hardly hear them, though. I was frozen in shock staring into Edward's eyes. I couldn't loose him. I was dreading the day the Volturi would return. I would have never guessed there was danger closer to us.
"And plus," added Esme.
"We have a secret weapon…" Carlisle said.
"Yeah, Bells. They won't see me coming." Jacob flexed his muscles and I smiled slightly. I still didn't move my eyes from Edward's face.
