Chapter 5

Bella POV:

Running was amazing! We ran all the way to Manhattan. We got there in like a half hour. Thankfully James knew which way to go, so we didn't get totally lost. We slowed to a walk when we could see the bright lights of New York City, and I prepared myself for the irresistible scent this time, so it was not as strong as the last time. But it was still almost overpowering.

"What are we going to do? We just hunted, and we can't stay here forever." I whispered into James' ear.

"That's why we check into a hotel, so that we can just stay inside during the day."

"What happens to us in the sun?"

"We shrivel up and die."

"Oh my god, that's horrible!" I must have had a funny look on my face, because he started laughing at me, once again.

"Oh, god. You crack me up, you're hilarious."

"You know what? I'm just going to stop asking you questions. Every time I do, you end up laughing at me."

"It's kinda hard not to, you're so gullible. You actually believe that we'll shrivel up and die in the sun?"

"Well that's how it is in all the vampire books and movies. I'm sorry I didn't know any better." I ripped my hand out of his, and crossed my arms walking ahead of him.

"Where you gonna go?"

"To a hotel to stay in for the day, then I'm going to Washington."

"Where are you gonna get any money from?" He was still walking behind me.

"Where are you gonna get money from?"

"My debit card." I turned around and saw him holding a blue Chase debit card.

"Where'd you steal that from?"

"What makes you think I stole it?"

"Where else would you get it?"

"It's a thing called a bank."

"How'd you get money? Did you sneak into the vault of that 'bank' of yours?"

"After 10 years, money builds up when you don't eat anything."

"You never told me what happens to us in the sun." I looked into his eyes and saw that he was trying to hold back laughter. I turned on my heel and started walking away again.

"What would you do without me?"

"Live."

"How? You don't know what happens to you in the sun, you don't have any money. I have all the answers that you need."

"Well how am I supposed to get those answers if you laugh every time I ask a question?

"Get a sense of humor."

"A sense of humor? Seriously? It's kinda hard when you don't tell me the answer anyways; you just keep laughing at me." I was facing him again."

"I'm sorry ok? It's just really weird having to tell you everything. I'm not used to it, your face is just so cute it's funny." I walked away again, and all of a sudden I was walking into hi chest.

"What?" I spit out. He pulled my chin up so that I was looking at him.

"I'll try not to laugh anymore." He said with a serious look on his face.

"Ok, let's go find a hotel before the sun rises." I tried to pull my face out of his hands, but he held his hands firm. He leaned his face down towards mine until his lips were almost touching mine.

"If you let me kiss you." Great, there was a catch.

"And if I don't?"

"Well the position you're in right now, I don't think you have much of a choice."

"But what's the point if I won't enjoy it, too?"

"You never know until we try."

"Yeah we will becau-" It was useless, he had already leaned his head closer to mine and pushed his lips to mine. His lips were nice and tender and he pushed my lips open with his tongue. I tried to pull away, but he held me close to him with his arms. He got my lips open, but I kept my teeth shut tight. He finally pulled away and looked at me with a little bit of sadness in his eyes. It was gone in a second, but I had seen it for a second.

"Ok, no more laughing." He plastered a fake smile on his face and held out his hand once again, and I took it once again.

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We ended up checking into the Belvedere hotel. We could hear all the taxis honking from our room. I don't how I'd be able to get to sleep if I had still been human. I could sleep through a lot, but it had to be completely silent when I was trying to get to sleep.

Our room thankfully had two beds, and we ordered cable on our TV. I watched the news for an hour before getting bored and going down to the girt shop and getting a book to read. I got Wuthering Heights, my all time favorite book, and went back up to the hotel room. James wasn't there, and there was a note on his bed.

I threw the book on my bed and went to go look at the note:

Bella,

I went for a run in the woods, I'll be back before sunrise.

-J.

Great, now things were going to be really weird between us. It was his fault, he was supposed to wait until I was ready. But no, he has to go and 'try things out'. How did I know he was coming back? He was right, what would I do without him? He never did tell me what happens if I go in the sun.

I'd be able to find him in the forest, right? He'd have to have left a scent trail for me to follow. I'll go looking for him; it was better than waiting for him to come back cooped up in this little hotel room.

I left a note on my bed saying that I went to go look for him, incase he came back before we met up. Plus he couldn't have gotten that far, I wasn't at the gift shop for longer than 5 minutes.

I got to the forest in 10 minutes, after I left the hotel room, and started looking for his scent. I found it after about 2 minutes, and I started to follow it. I started to run, since that's what I figured he was doing. It got stronger as I got farther, and then I sensed another scent along with it. I had never recognized this one before.

After a while, I heard whispers. I could hear James' voice and the voice of another girl. I got as close as I could without being heard or seen and so I could still hear them talking.

"Victoria, I tried! She didn't fall for any of my tricks!" I heard him say in fast whisper that I wouldn't have been able to understand as a human.

"Have you at least figured out if she has a power yet?" The girl said in an annoyed voice.

"No, I need more time. I can figure this out soon enough. She doesn't even know what happens to us in the sun. I haven't told her because I'm think she's thinking of running off on me."

"I think she'll figure out that all we do is sparkle in the sun. Do I have to do everything for you? Can't you do anything? Is it really that hard to make a gullible little girl fall for you and do anything you want? It has worked on just about every other girl!"

"Yes, I know, just give me some more time. She can run faster than the other newbies could at least."

"That'll come in handy for what we have in store for her… She might be of some use. Keep her satisfied, don't let her think of running off. If we are to be successful, we'll need all the resources possible." I didn't hear the rest of their conversation. I just took off running, I needed to get as far away from them as possible. I had thought there was something weird about James, that's why he would always avoid my questions a little bit. So I would need him to give me the answers eventually.

Maybe I would get the chance to go to Washington after all…

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