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"I'm scared. I don't want to fall asleep tonight. I'm scared I'm going to have one tonight again. I hate it."
"I know. I wish I can help you somehow but I can't. I'm always here though for comfort."
"Thanks Alice."
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
Well, it was the next day at school. I'm just hoping Alice can keep my flashes a secret. I don't really want the word to get out. I-I-I just don't want to go through another flash like that. I don't. I don't like the pain.
I went to my classes like nothing had happened. Although some eyes were wary of me. Since the Cullen's and I were absent yesterday, well, some people jump to the conclusion that we're best buddies; which technically we almost were.
I talked to Edward some in Biology. We had to watch a movie on God knows what, which we weren't allowed to talk. If we barely made a whisper, everyone in the class could hear.
When school was over, I went home in my rusty pick-up truck and started to heat up left-overs from last night's dinner. I went upstairs to my room to turn on my computer to check my mail while my food heated up. Damn, my computer is ancient. It's going to take a while for it to get all set up. Just then, I heard the microwave beep indicating that my lasagna was done heating up. I took one last look at the screen. It was about half-way through turning on. I sprinted downstairs (well, I walked down the stairs but ran once my feet was off the stairs.), retrieved my lasagna, and walked back upstairs. I took a bite out of the lasagna with my fork and shoved it into my mouth when I got to the doorway of my room. I looked up towards my bed and my eyes went wide. My plate made a thud sound and my fork made a clink sound as they hit the floor, five feet down.
"Hello." I just kept on staring at the spirit on my bed. This is the first one I've seen in three years, of course I'm shocked! I regained my posture once that word was out of her mouth and bent down to pick up my plate and fork.
"Hold on a sec, I have to get a napkin to clean up my spill." I dashed downstairs then back up with a couple napkins clutched in my hands. I bent back down and wiped the mess the lasagna made when it fell off the plate when it landed on the floor.
"Okay," I stated as I walked towards the trashcan and threw away the napkins. "What do you need?"
"I want you out of my house." What? She's a fucking ghost and she wants to kick me out of my house? No way in hell I'm going to let her do that. Just because I can see her that means that I have to do whatever she says.
"What?" I said, giving the word more anger than I meant to.
"You heard me. Get. Out. Of. My. House."
"Screw you, bitch."
All of a sudden, I was pushed, four feet in the air, by the spirit, by my neck. Fuck, I forgot ghost could do whatever they wanted to me, just not other objects.
"I want you out of my house. You got that little girl?"
I shook my head. The pressure in my neck got stronger. Shit, how strong is this ghost?
Edward. Genius! I'll whisper Edward's name! He said he was coming over right after school! It's been ten minutes, he should be here soon.
"Edward." I whispered so low that the bitch couldn't hear. Oh great, I didn't think this through! He doesn't know about my secret! Shit!
"I will have to kill you if you don't move out. I have no problem with your father since he cannot see me and bother me. You on the other hand can, and will be a danger to live with. So I'm going to repeat myself one more time. Get out of my house!"
"Nev…er…bit...ch" I gasped out as best as I could since my oxygen supply was getting low.
"Edward!" I tried my best to scream out so he could hurry up. I bet he would. I could even tell that from the tone of my voice that something was wrong, which is so true.
"Your little boyfriend won't be able to help you, sweetie." What?! That bitch has been spying on me since I've been here?!
"Bella?!" oh shit, Edward's here. I know he must be shocked. I mean, of course to anyone's eyes, vampire or not, I looked weird. I was suspending four feet of the ground by nothing grasping at my throat.
The ghost turned her head and saw Edward. She immediately disappeared, making me fall four feet to the floor, gasping for air.
I scrambled up quickly and ran towards Edward. I jumped on him and hugged him to death. He cradled me while I started sobbing uncontrollably.
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise we know that there's
Always tomorrow
"Bella?" his voice sounded off. Crap… I'm in trouble.
I snuggled my faced more into his chest while I kept on crying. He kept rubbing a soothing hand in circles on the small of my back.
"Bella?" he said in the same tone again.
"Hm?" I said as best as I could in a regular tone.
"What was that?" he said.
"I-I-I don't want to talk about it." I said stuttering in a scared tone.
"Bella, that wasn't nothing. What happened?" he said worried.
"I'm scared, Edward, so very scared…" I whispered in a scared voice. Tears kept on falling out of my eyes uncontrollably.
Lean on me when you're not strong and
I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
"Don't leave me tonight, Edward, don't leave me." I kept on sobbing.
"I-I-I" this is the first I've heard him stutter.
"Please, Edward? Please? Don't let that happen tonight! I'll be dead by the morning!" I whispered-yelled to him with tears clouding my vision.
I almost died four years ago. A ghost didn't like me since I looked like someone he hated in a past life. He said that the person was cruel to him and killed him, so he wanted to kill me to make it even. It was half an hour until my mom woke up. It came into my house and started choking me. When he saw it wouldn't be fast, he got a knife from the kitchen and stabbed the point where my arm connects to my shoulder. I remember going downstairs making it look like I was going to prepare something for breakfast and that I slipped and the knife stabbed me. My first scream ended up waking up my mom, but she ended up falling back asleep. That's what scared the ghost away. My second scream woke up my mom (a fake one to make the "accident" look real). I still have a scar there. It's pretty big since the knife sliced me four inches across my shoulder.
I took off my sweater and then my shirt. NO! Don't think wrong! I had a tank-top underneath my shirt! You could see the scar very clearly. My scars from cutting aren't that noticeable.
"You see this scar right here?" I said pointing to it.
"Yes. How is this related to you being suspended five feet off the floor?"
"Well, don't think I'm crazy or anything."
"Okay, I won't. Continue."
"It was caused by a knife. A ghost was holding a knife trying to kill me." His face didn't look serious. He looked at me like if I was a mental patient.
"Told you it was going to make me look like I'm crazy!" I said, fresh tears coming out of my eyes.
He just stayed frozen in the same spot.
"Do you want me to tell you the rest of the story or do you want to tell my dad that I belong in the loony bin?" I said, with my voice cracking.
"Continue. I promise I won't say anything else." He said in a sincere voice.
"Okay, but you cannot interrupt me while I'm telling my story." He nodded. "Well, like I said, a ghost was holding a knife trying to kill me. It all started when I went to the park.
"I saw this ghost. I didn't know how, but I felt as if I had already seen him before somewhere in my life. Well, it so happens I have. He hates me. I looked liked someone he knew while he was alive. He said that the person I was in my past life, ended up killing him. He never told me how or why. He just said that he wanted revenge for his murder.
"So, one day, he followed me home after-school. Of course he acted all nicey-nice to me at first so he could get closer to me. He didn't seem like a threat so I let him come home with me after school to keep me company since my mom worked until six in the afternoon.
"Well, he decided that on the evening, or should I say early morning, before my mom wakes up at 5:30 in the morning to go to work at 6, he woke me up. I told him to leave me alone but he wouldn't listen. Instead, he got angry and started choking me. He told me all the info about him hating me and all that while he was choking me.
"So, when he let go, I thought that it was over," I looked over to Edward. I think he knew what was coming up next. "He was gone for a minute so I tried to catch my breath. I thought that he wasn't going to come back. But, he ended up coming back with a knife. And not just any ordinary knife, no sir, he came back with a chef's knife. You know, those big-ass knives that professional chefs use that are like five inches long? Yeah, those.
"So he started telling me more on the story but I couldn't pay attention since I was too busy trying to think of a way for him not to stab me. Well, sometime while I was thinking of a plan, he lunged towards me with the knife in hand.
"He ended up stabbing me on the connection where my shoulder and arm meet. I ended up screaming in pain. My mom woke up, but she thought nothing of it and fell back asleep. The ghost ended up getting scared that my mom woke up.
"I went to the kitchen and took out some food to make it look like the knife slipped and ended up stabbing me. I screamed again, without meaning it because the pain was becoming unbearable, and my mom woke up noticing something was wrong. Ever since then, that was my last experience with a ghost."
I looked at Edward and he looked mad. No wait, not mad, but pissed.
"Why would someone do that to you?" he said, his voice filled with concern.
"I-I-I-I don't know. He just didn't like the person I was that he knew and he wanted to kill me." I didn't notice my tears had stopped, but repeating that the tears started gushing out of my eyes again.
For it won't be long till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
"Edward?" I said looking up at him with my blood-shot eyes.
"Yes, Bella?"
"Please don't leave me tonight. Leave when my dad comes home but come back when I finish dinner. I don't want the front page of the newspaper to read "CHIEF OF POLICE DAUGHTER FOUND DEAD IN ROOM; CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN"
"That'll never happen, Bella. That ghost won't come back. I promise."
"Don't make promises you know won't come true."
"Bella, it-" I cut him off.
"No! You don't understand! Think back to the night I woke up screaming! What part of 'It'll never end; It'll keep coming back until the day I die' don't you get?!" I ended up jumping away from him and pointing an accusing finger at him.
"Bella-" I cut him off with my yelling again.
"Edward! Just shut up and listen to me! I know that you and your family are vampires! I've known since that night! I woke up screaming because I felt the pain that you felt while being changed into a vampire! The time I fell asleep on you was because I saw you hunting for the first time! Why do you think I woke up and ran to the restroom? Food poisoning? Fuck no, I felt sick for killing a deer and seeing myself suck it dry! When I heard Emmett talking about hunting that brought on the thought of the fucking deer! That's why I was sick yesterday!" I screamed out all of that to him. I don't feel guilty for yelling at him. I don't. He has to know the truth; even if it kills me. Literally.
"I don't want you to leave because that fucking asshole of a ghost will come back and fucking try to kill me like-"
"Bella!" That's a first I've heard him yell at me, at anyone, period.
"What?!"
"Just be quiet!"
Please swallow your pride if I have things
You need to borrow
"Fine." Then my tears started coming out again.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you. I'm sorry. Just stop crying." He said sincere wiping away the falling tears from my cheeks.
"J-J-J-Just don't leave me Edward, don't. I promise you that I'll be dead if you don't stay with me." I said quietly.
"I promise. Now, can you answer a question for me?" I nodded. "How did you know we were vampires?"
I took a quick, shaky breath.
"I-I-I have these types of flashes. You know, like Alice is physic and can see flashes of the future?" he nodded. "Well, I have flashes of people that are dead. Since, well I don't know how, my mind felt someone was dead and near me, most of the times a ghost, it gave me a flash of how that person died. I know that you died of the Spanish Influenza back in the late 1910's. It gave me a flash of how you were changed, I'm sorry for the excruciating pain you went through, and how you can read minds. The second flash, when I fell asleep on you, it gave me a flash of you hunting. Since I'm not used to that, it made my stomach feel sick and made me up-chuck my food from my dinner. I am almost certain that I might have flashes of the rest of your family."
"How?"
"I don't know. I can also see ghosts. Did you just see me floating in the middle of the air, struggling to claw at an invisible thing at my neck when you came in?"
"Yes."
"A ghost did that." I started talking again before he could interrupt me. "The ghost was mad that I was 'living in her house.' She said she had no problem with my dad living here since he couldn't disturb her. But since I could feel and see her, she thought that I will be a threat to her." I snorted at my own comment. "Yeah, right, more like the other way around. She could kill me but I can't kill her."
"So, she was mad that you were living in her used to be house?"
"Wait! I left out something…" I said getting quiet at the end.
"What?"
"I kinda said 'Screw you, bitch' to her." I said all innocent.
"Kinda?" he said as if he didn't believe me.
"Fine, I said 'Screw you, bitch' to her. Happy?"
"Very. Now, why would you tell her that?"
"She wanted to kick me out of my house!"
For no one can fill those of your needs
that you won't let show
_=_=_
Edward ended up staying until my dad came home. He told me all the cool shit that vampires could do. I was excited. When I asked him if he ever considered on turning me into a vampire he said 'Absolutely not!' as if he was repulsed.
I actually ate some lasagna with my dad since I wasn't able to eat after the incident with the gho-sorry, I mean bitch from early.
"So, how was school?" Dad asked. (I wanted to put some dialogue between Charlie and Bella since I don't have him talking to her in the story a lot. Don't worry! I think that probably in the next chapter I might put some more dialogue with the Cullens and Bella.)
"School was cool. Hehe… I made a rhyme, Daddy!" I said laughing at my stupidity. Dad just looked awed that I called him 'Daddy'. I haven't called him that since I was 10.
"Did you just call me 'daddy'?"
"Why, don't you like it when I call you daddy, daddy?"
"No, no! it's okay. I just haven't heard you say in a long time. I was just surprised, that's all."
"Okay, daddy."
"So, 'school was cool' huh?"
"Yeah. Do you know the Cullens?"
"Yes, why do you ask?" he sounded more curious now.
"Oh, it's nothing bad! I sat with them at lunch today. I sat with Jessica and Angela and their friends on Monday. I'm just trying to make my way around the school and get to know other people." I explained quickly, not wanting to get my dad mad.
"Oh, that's good. I'm happy that you're getting to know people around the school." He said in a proud tone. "So, have you made friends with them?"
"Yup!" I exclaimed happy. "They're really nice. I like them. Also Jessica and Angela and them people."
"That's nice. I hope you have a good high-school experience here, Bells."
"Me too." I muttered under my breath for another reason. Yeah, I hope I don't die here because of a freaking ghost.
_=_=_
"Edward?" I whispered when I got to my room after dinner.
"Yes?" I heard from my bed.
"Hi." He chuckled.
"Hi." He responded like I did.
He ended up spending the night with me. It was better than others. At least the bitch didn't make an appearance tonight.
"Edward?"
"Yes, Bella?"
"Will you always be here to protect me or help me with this fucking curse that I have?"I whispered half-asleep.
Just call on me brother when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on
Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long till 'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
"If you want me, I will be there for you. No matter when you need me, I'll be there. Just call me and I'll be there."
"Okay. Goodnight, Edward."
"Sweet dream, Bella." Was the last thing I heard before I drifted off to sleep.
Just call on me brother when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on
If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road, I'll share your load
if you just call me
Song: Lean On Me by Bill Withers
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