An Impossible Reality
Chapter 14- I'm Not Hungry
Disclaimer- still don't own twilight... sad, but I really AM over it now xx
Alix POV
Shit! Jess drove like a mad woman considering her parents and her well known perfect child status she had going right now. She was driving like a police car on the chase of the notorious speeder of their town and area. Me, and Angela were both entirely scared shitless and I think I would be much safer driving myself home but me, being the idiot I am managed to let the mad woman drive me there and back to her house. I can't wait to be in the safe capable hands of me myself and I- that was if I lasted till then.
Port Angeles was cute and a sweet tourist attraction when you first come here. It was like the centre of Manchester (or as close as you would get to it) of Forks. It was quaint and easy to find your way around until you walked into dark alleys and stuff, which to find my bookstore with the possibly very helpful book inside I would have to take. Bugger. Knowing my luck I will most likely get raped or some shit like that. Nah! No way, I may have bad luck but that is too far.
The dance was labelled as semiformal, not one of us quite understood what that meant. Not like it mattered to me, I wasn't going but it was always nice to have knowledge. Jess and Angela seemed really shocked that I ditched my high school prom back home.
"Seriously why? I mean, there must have been SOME cute boys-"
"That is where you are wrong. It was all girls and the girls were awful, minus my friends of course." The damn schools wouldn't mix for one stupid night so I skipped out. So sue me. "Anyway, even if we did have boys, no-one would have asked me." I said glumly.
"People ask you here." She said sceptically toward my negativity. "And you tell them no." She sounded a little happier about that last bit, the saying no. This is because she knew if I had a brain tumour and accepted Mike's various offers; she would be dateless and relentless to Lauren's evil doings.
"Except Tyler." Angela smirked whilst gazing intently at a blue beaded bodice floor length dress. Pretty, especially on her I could imagine it. But wait- I SAID WHAT TO TYLER?!
"Woah wait, I said what to Tyler?" I gasped, nearly choking on my breath. Wow I only thought Alice could do that.
"He is going around telling everyone he is taking you to the prom at the end of the year."
"WHAT!? I am NOT taking him to the prom, nor is it the other way around." I was fuming and I am sure that if I was Jacob I would be shaking like a leaf.
"I told you it wasn't true, and Lauren." Angela said smugly at her correct assumption.
Jess let out a giggle and began to paw through the clothes on the dress rack. "That is why Lauren doesn't like you. She thinks you stole her man." I scoffed and began to copy Jess, might as well look for something for me.
"Do you think maybe if the front of my car made friends with his face he would stop feeling so damn guilty and give up trying to make amends? Cos frankly I am getting tired of this." the girls laughed and I had realised I had never felt closer to these girls since I had gotten here.
"Maybe." Jess snickered. "IF that is why he is even doing this."
"Yeah, he might only like her accent!" Angela joked with Jess.
"So like, if I like, talked like this he would like, leave me like, alone?" I mocked a typical California surfer girl voice and they laughed.
"Maybe." I shook my head and carried on focusing on finding something.
Through the slim pickings Port Angeles had to offer the girls still managed to track down some pretty numbers, enough for a decent choice anyway. Jessica was debating between 2 choices; a simple black dress which would come down just above her knees and an electric blue spaghetti strap knee length flowing dress. It was really cute and I advised her to go for that one. Angela had decided on a pink floor-length dress and that complimented her skin tone nicely and even brought out the minimal natural blonde tints in her light brown hair. I was even helpful and took the rejects back to the racks.
I spotted this nice sparkly sequined dress with black and silver lightening strikes covering the whole dress. It was straight down to the knees on me and with my black suede ankle boots with the silver studs and my black and silver gemmed headband it would look rather cool, but I didn't have the money with me right now, shame.
Just I put it back on the rack 4 men walked past and wolf whistled at the window because of Jess and Angela in different kinds of dresses but one or two of them were staring at me.
My will to have a girl's night out was wearing off scarily fast because of stupid Tyler and his high annoyance levels even without his damn presence. "Angela?" I asked, ready to quiz her about her limited knowledge on the Cullen's.
"Yeah?" she said in response before turning her head to look at me.
I chickened out. "I think you should get those, they match really well." What a wimp!
"Maybe, but they will only match the one outfit." She pouted, considering her options.
"Yeah but look, they are 25% off so maybe you should just go for it." I said whilst pointing to the rest of the shoes with a neon green sign plastered onto it with a big '25% OFF' written on in unattractive scrawl which was most likely comparable to my quick scruffy chicken scratch writing.
Round two. "Um... Angela?" she looked up at me curiously. "Is it normal for the Cullen's to... skip out- a lot?" my attempt at sounding nonchalant had failed epically and she smiled knowing I had asked what I had wanted to ask.
"Yeah, it is when the weathers good." Hmm, interesting. "They all go camping when it's like this, I was actually really surprised to see Edward Cullen in school for five minutes yesterday and especially dressed so heavily but, he must have noticed you from his car or something." I was starting to like Angela. If that was Jess, she would have asked questions upon questions and then reported to Lauren for her to tell to the rest of school.
"Oh." I let the subject drop as Jess returned with some rhinestone jewellery for Angela's silver shoes. This was going at rather a fast pace.
We were planning to go to an Italian restaurant but it was too early to go eat dinner so Angela and Jess were going to track down the car and put their stuff in there before going for a walk down the bay. I decided then to tell them I was going to check out the book stores and they nodded giving me directions to the local bookstore.
The bookstore was fine for regular stuff but in all honesty, I was being let down by the selections they had in the store. It was all fictional and scientific things, nothing honestly related to what I was looking for.
I decided to explore and noticed the end of work day traffic was beginning to file through the busy and tight streets of main stream port Angeles and I decided soon enough I would have to head back but I was sure I had enough time to get to the supernatural book store I had asked the shopkeeper about and it was up an alley way.
I took a gulp and gripped my bag closer to my side. I didn't want to get mugged by looking easy. After 10 minutes of wandering through the back streets I found the store. I looked inside and noticed a guy snoozing away at the counter, making it clear that business was a once every blue moon kind of moment but he seemed content with it with the peaceful look on his face as he slept.
I decided I honestly didn't need to wake him to look for something that he might not even have in stock. I turned on my heels and walked back down the hill I trekked up to get there and sighed to myself as I kicked pebbles down the slope.
Once I was at the bottom I looked both ways and listened for traffic. The way to my left sounded louder and once on the main street it was so much easier to find your way. I was halfway down the path and I felt a lot better and more hopeful but at that exact moment when the thought crept into my mind two men walked past and spotted me. Shit!
I turned around to go the other way which would most likely lead to the road at some point and some way but not to my surprise I spotted the other half of their little 'shepherding' pack and turned back past the hill and onto a parking lot behind a warehouse and to my horror there were two more awaiting my arrival.
I tried to just walk on through and ignore their presence but they began to call out to me. "Hey girly, aren't you that girl from the dress shop?" one guy jeered at me. I cringed as the tone of his voice just oozed 'I want to rape you'. It made me want to cry inside but I couldn't, then they would definitely win.
"She is." Another one joined in. "You're hot." He purred at me and I walked a little bit faster. "Where you going?!" one began to yell.
"Home." I stated in a much quieter voice than usually used by me. I was shit scared.
"Ooh she is British." One man cooed in my ear. "Even better." He grabbed my hand and I yanked it out of his grasp.
"Don't touch me." I demanded and this made the guy in front of me stand close and looked me square in the eye. I avoided his gaze and this forced him to pull my face up by grabbing my chin.
Flash Back
He stepped down to me and looked me in the eyes by grabbing my chin. "Aww, so beautiful, perfect to kill." He smirked, I tried to pull my chin out of his grasp but instead he broke my jaw.
End Flash Back
That wasn't going to happen again. My eyes narrowed involuntarily and I shrugged my face out of this man's greasy grip before clenched my right fist and swinging it at the man on my left. I did the same with my left hand to the man on my right and grabbed a fistful on the man in front hair before bringing his face down to meet my knee cap.
At that moment I chose to acknowledge my scene. There was one guy with a bloody nose, clutching it as he rolled on the ground. The other my right was crying because his eye was stinging and the one in front of me was out cold.
It was only then that I notice why I couldn't look up, or feel why I didn't have two men restraining me while to other had his way with me before taking it in turns. There were car headlights igniting the fear in them and the blindness in me. The car was silver. It was familiar it was... EDWARD!
Never have I been so happy to see him in my life. My fear even died down when he stepped out of the car. "Get in." He ordered in a voice I had never heard him use before. It was dark, menacing and full blown scary. I did as told without a second's hesitation. He can taunt me about obeying him later but for now, I honestly couldn't care less.
I heard one guy attempt to scare off Edward but I could have sworn I heard him growl and they backed up so fast it was like a car going backwards in a car chase. It was then that Edward got back in the car and swirled out of the car park. I took one last look at the boys and sighed, Edward had once again saved my life. "Are you alright?" I asked him and he simply shook his head.
"No."
"PLEASE put your seatbelt on you nutcracker!"I ranted and he chuckled. Then he began to laugh a little more freely and looked at me, eyeing my seatbelt-less torso.
"You put your seatbelt on." He counteracted.
"Fine." I slowly pulled my seatbelt over the connector and looked over to him smugly. "Your turn." He huffed and put his seatbelt on in a second and began to continue to drive a little further before pulling over perfectly into a spot on the side of the road. He turned to look at me with those smouldering golden eyes.
"Alix." I heard him speak in a tight controlled voice. "Are you okay?" he asked and I nodded.
"Yeah I am fine." My throat had got unnaturally croaky and dry after that encounter.
"Distract me please." He ordered. Even with the please added it was no form of question I had ever heard.
"I'm sorry what?" I asked, totally confused.
"Just prattle on about something unimportant to me so I don't go back there and rip those guys' heads off. Even though I should." He added that last bit and I shook my head. This really was a different Edward, rational regular (if you can call him that) Edward would never have wanted to 'rip someone head off', never. This must be what angry Edward can be like.
"Okay, a few things. One, you should NEVER rip those guys' heads off. Not your job and certainly not intelligent and two, everything I say has some form of importance somewhere in the world!" that didn't even get a smile out of him. So much for lightening the mood. "Oh one more thing, I am going to run over Tyler Crowley tomorrow." There we. His eyes closed and the corners of his mouth twitched a little.
"Why?" I could hear the restrain in his voice stopping him from laughing like Looney Tune at the thought of one of my notorious stalker-type people getting totally smushed by my orange beetle.
"Because he is telling everybody, but me I might add, that I am his date to the prom. Like I would ever say yes, I told him 'no' like everybody else. He was the only one that didn't seem to get the message. So here is my logic, before school, I will wait in my car and 'spin out of control' and fly into him by total accident of course. I may have to kill his Sentra but he shouldn't tell silly lies. Then when I apologise we can call it even and he can stop trying to make amends. And if all that goes to plan, then Lauren may just put her surgically enhanced nose into other people's business rather than mine and if he doesn't leave me alone, he can't take anyone to prom if he doesn't have a ride." I rushed but I assumed he got it from the amused look on his face.
"I heard about that." And then I glared.
"YOU knew!?" I looked out of the window at the gleaming lights through the recently covered in condensation windows. They blurred into a wonderful pattern but once again, the boys in town and country succeed in pissing me off. "Maybe if he is paralysed from the neck down he would DEFINITELY not be able to go." I heard Edward sigh so I turned in my seat to look at him again.
"Any better?" I asked. Surely it would have been enough.
"Not much." I decided to wait for him to talk again; hoping he would elaborate. Not. He just leaned his head back so it rested on the seat and stared at the ceiling of the car.
"Edward, what's wrong?" I asked. It made me upset when he was, angry when he was and happy when he was. It was like our emotions reflected and absorbed into the other so that our pain was split between two. Surreal was a word to cover that.
"I have trouble with my temper at times, Alix." He began. He turned to look out of my window, revealing hard face. The next thing I knew his eyes turned into slits and I wasn't sure whether he was angry with me or whether he was thinking about a past experience. "But it wouldn't be helpful if I turned back and hunted down those..." he paused and couldn't call whatever profanities he was going to match to those guys' actions. His fist clenched and released. "At least that is what I am trying to convince myself."
"Oh." I was stunned to say the least. Edward Cullen being violent was a sight I never thought I would see and oddly it wasn't scaring me right at this moment. He was just mad at those other guys and though I was my regular irritating self he didn't take it out on me. Did he like me? Hah! Don't be stupid Alix; like that Greek god would want to date you. Sometimes I hate my brain.
We sat there in silence for what felt like 30 minutes but I couldn't be sure since I didn't actually remember what time it was when I got in the car. I looked over to the clock in the dashboard and noticed it was 6:30. Shit.
"Jess and Angela were supposed to meet me at 5." I said to myself, recapping, but it was too quiet for Edward to hear. "They will be most likely worried they lost me on my first trip here." I said a little louder and then the car purred to life and shot off back under street lamps in no time.
Before I knew it I spotted the La Bella Italia restaurant and Edward swerving the steering wheel with ease sliding us neatly into a spot in front of the place. The spot at first looked way too small to fit the Volvo but first appearance can be misleading, clearly, as the Volvo fit in quite nicely.
"How did you know... you know what never mind. Sometimes I think it best if I don't know with you." I laughed and he did too. I looked to door to see Jess and Angela just leaving with a rather anxious pace. Yep, definitely scared they lost me. I turned to look at Edward and he was getting out of the car. "What are you doing?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
He smiled lightly but his eyes were hard and cold. "I am taking you to dinner." He slammed the car door and I got out of my seatbelt as fast as I could. I wasn't one for doing things like this but if his mood got any worse I didn't honestly know what he would do. When I closed the door I saw him leaning against a lamppost and pointing to Jess and Angela. "You should go stop them so I don't have to go tracking them down too, I don't think I can control myself if I run into your 'friends' again." I took that as my chance to save four sick guys lives.
"Jess! Angela!" I called out whilst waving so they noticed where I was. They rushed over with the worried looks changing to relived ones, then to shocked ones when they spotted who I was stood next to.
"Where have you been?" Jessica asked me eyeing the close proximity of Edward and me.
"I got lost." I admitted sheepishly whilst blushing a little. Technically I did have no idea where I was going I just wanted to get away from them guys but it wasn't working to my favour. "And then I ran into Edward." I gestured toward him and he nodded to the girls.
"Would it be alright if I joined you?" Edward asked politely with that velvety tone he used to get what he wanted with teenage girls. From the expressions on their faces, they had yet to have been dazzled by Edward Cullen.
"Err... sure." Jessica breathed. She was totally enthralled in him.
"Um, actually Alix, we already ate. We figured you would show up half way through." Angela stumbled through her explanation like she was expecting to me to erupt like a volcano on her. That only happens when there is reason too, there was none in this case.
"Oh its fine. I'm not that hungry anyway." I excused. Truth was, I was starving but I didn't want to make them wait.
"I think you should eat." He ordered slightly, in a deep restricting voice but I was dead set on ignoring his request. It reminded me of a teacher, low and full of authority when they told you to do something. He looked up at Jess and spoke slightly louder and more relaxed. "Do you mind if I drive Alix home? That way you don't have to wait for her to finish eating." He explained.
"Uh no problem I guess..." she trailed whilst moving her eyes to examine my expression, so as to check whether I wanted it or not. I winked, I would get to grill Edward on his own and maybe get him to admit it, if I didn't then I would have to admit yet another theory and one was bad enough.
"Okay." Angela responded faster than Jess. "We will see you tomorrow Alix... Edward." She then proceeded to yank Jess down the road so she would just gawp at Edward and me all day. They got to their car and I just hear muffled animated voices, they were excited for the details later that I would have to lie about.
When they were driving away I turned to Edward. "Honestly I am not hungry." I looked up to scrutinize his expression but there was none, him and that damn mask!
"Humour me!" he said before opening the door to the restaurant for me. I didn't want to but it seemed fairly obvious he wasn't going to take no for an answer and just drive me home so we could just talk so I just walked in sighing.
The place was kind of bare except the odd couple or group that were eating. We were stood waiting for literally a few seconds before some fake blonde really tall woman walked up to us. She had clearly pushed up her bra before leaving the kitchen because news of Edward Cullen, as I had learnt the hard way, travelled fast.
"A table for two please?" he asked, his voice becoming alluring and even I was sucked and I wasn't even looking at him, or had it directed to me at least.
The lady frowned for a second before looking down at me and seeing the reasonable space for just friends. Who knows? We could have had an awkward moment in the car or on the way here where we had gotten too close for friends and now didn't know what to do. We hadn't, but that wasn't the point, the point was that she assumed stuff. The frown died and was replaced with a 'sexy' smile? Ha-ha, more like utterly and desperately skanky.
She led us to a table big enough to seat four in the near centre of the joint. I was fine with and even pulled out my chair, disappointed as I had half expected Edward to pull it out for me and just as I was about to sit down Edward grabbed my hand and pulled me up and back into my standing position.
"Can we get somewhere a little more private?" she nodded dazed and instead led us to a small booth at the back of the restaurant which would only seat Edward and I.
"H-how's this?" she stuttered.
"Perfect." He smiled and she let out a breathy sigh and even let her hand that was nervously gripping her neck in hope for approval drop to cover her fluttering heart rate. Of course if I was right about Edward, he heard every sputter in the rhythm.
"Um, your server will be, be um... right out!" She stumbled back into the kitchen and I tutted and shook my head at him.
"You really shouldn't do that to people." I criticized. "It is hardly fair on them."
"Do what?" he asked innocently.
"Dazzle people. That, as much as I hate to say it, poor girl is most likely hyperventilating by the grill in there right now!" I almost scolded him for not realising it sooner. "Oh come on! You have to know the effect you have on others." I glanced at every woman gazing at him. "Especially those of the female persuasion."
He tilted his head to the side and his eyes were totally curious. "I dazzle people?"
"You haven't noticed? Did you think everybody got their own way like you do?"
He totally ignored my question. "Do I dazzle you?" he asked, looking smug as he saw the shock on my face.
"Frequently." I admitted and I am sure he looked proud of himself but I could have been mistaken.
The server then made her appearance having the same preparation but it was clear she had recently applied some cheap lipstick that had gone over the outlines of her lips more than she bargained for. "Hi I am Amber and I will be your server for this evening. What can I get you to drink?" I didn't miss the fact that the question was directed to only him.
Edward looked to me and I smiled at the disappointed look on her face when he didn't answer her. "I will have a coke please." I smiled at her and she rolled her eyes before looking back to Edward.
"Two cokes then." She wrote it down and glanced longingly at Edward sending a surge of jealousy through me. I shouldn't feel that since he isn't mine but I wanted him to be.
"I will be right back with that." She assured with another 'sexy' smile but he missed it completely as he was watching me intently.
"What?" I asked him whilst I checked around me to make sure no one was here that shouldn't be. But there was no one so he was staring at me.
"How are you feeling?" he asked softly and soothingly, practically picking through my head and extracting the answer himself.
"I'm fine." I answered, a little surprised by how intense he was. I mean nothing had happened to make my answer to the last time he asked me this question change.
"You don't feel dizzy, sick, cold...?" well I was walking like usual so I wasn't any dizzier than my regular self. I wasn't sick, although I was sick of the interrogations. I wasn't chilly really either, I had always been a naturally warm person. My nana used to call me her walking hot water bottle.
"No. Should I...?" He chuckled at my puzzled expression.
"Well I am actually waiting for you to go into shock." He admitted, with his mouth turning up into that perfectly crooked smile of his. The smile I loved him having on his face.
"Sorry to disappoint but I don't think that will happen." He raised an eyebrow at me and I continued. "I handle things that are dangerous surprisingly well."
"Just the same, I'll feel a lot better when you have some sugar and some food in you." He persisted so I was going to have to totally cave and now I come to think about it, I am actually getting kind of peckish. And mum knows I am supposed to be eating out so I guess what harm would it do?
And as if on cue she appeared with our drinks and a basket of bread sticks. Keeping up this rude attitude towards me she faced Edward only and she placed the things on the table. "So what can I get you to eat?" she asked him.
"Alix?" he asked and she almost oozed with greenness as she reluctantly turned around to face me.
I looked at the menu and decided on something I couldn't spill down myself easily and stain my nice blue button up blouse, I never wore blouses but I was okay with it today. "I will have the spaghetti carbonara thank you." She scribbled it down and then looked to Edward.
"And you?" she asked getting her pen ready so to get his order perfect.
"Nothing for me." She looked disappointed but of course he didn't. If my theory was right the only things he would eat, or drink in this case would be me, her or the whole buggering restaurant.
"Let me know if you change your mind." That idiotic smile was back on her face but he yet again blanked her completely so she walked away dissatisfied.
"Drink." He ordered so I picked up my glass and tentatively took a sip and then began to drink more deeply. It surprised me how thirsty I was and the next thing I knew and I had placed the glass on the table and again, staring at the condensation running down the side. Edward pushed his towards me and I smiled. "Thanks." It was then that the coldness of the drink hit my chest and made me shiver.
"Are you cold?" he asked and he looked really worried.
"What? No, it's just the coke." And then I shivered again.
"Do you have a jacket?" he asked and I nodded. I looked to my side and I remembered that I hadn't taken it out of the car with me.
"I left it in Jess' car." I realised and then I saw movement across from in my peripheral vision and spotted Edward shrugging out of his jacket. I didn't even notice he was wearing one. I never noticed what he was wearing... ever.
He handed to me and stopped my thoughts. "Thanks Eddie." He glared and I laughed a little whilst sliding my arm into the hole, to find it was as cold as when I put my own jacket on to go out this afternoon. Ch-illy. Weird.
But the smell was AMAZING! It was like he bathed it in a bath of lavender which would be rather weird. The sleeves were ridiculously long compared to my short arms so I shoved them back to reveal my hands, freeing them to be used.
"The colour blue looks good on you." He randomly came out with and I blushed. I didn't think he noticed me since I didn't push my bra up to the point where I looked like Katie Price, I didn't wear extremely short skirts and I didn't talk like I had a cough when I was around him but he shouldn't notice colours of things I wear. I really am not that interesting. But this didn't mean I didn't look down flustered.
He pushed the breadsticks towards me and rolled my eyes. "Honestly I'm really not going into shock Edward." I protested.
"You should be- any normal person would be. You don't even look shaken." I wasn't, I felt safer around him. He was staring deep into my eyes, probably trying to see if I was hiding successfully for a change. I noticed his eyes were a lighter colour, golden butterscotch.
"Well I'm not normal. I guess I just feel very safe around you." I said as he mesmerised me to tell him, I wouldn't ever tell him that in a non mesmerising moment.
This didn't make him happy like it would to a normal guy. Damn it why are my good burns always internal!? He furrowed his brow and shook his head whilst muttering, "This is more complicated than I'd planned."
I picked up a bread stick and nibbled on the end trying to measure how bad his expression was. It didn't seem to be too awful so I was just trying to figure out when I would be able to start questioning him.
"Hmm." I said. "You are usually in a better mood when your eyes are so light." I did this because I knew it would redirect his thoughts. I wouldn't have told him otherwise but it just makes things awkward when he is like this.
"What?" he asked, totally stunned by my attention to detail. He just stared in amazement and most likely fear.
"You are always crabbier when your eyes are black. I expect it then." I went on. "I have theories about that and I know I am right this time." I said smugly.
His eyes narrowed. "More theories?"
"Yep!" I said popping the 'p' before eating some more breadstick. I tried to look indifferent but I don't think it worked well for me.
"I hope you were more creative this time... or are you still stealing from comic books?" He smirked mocking me slightly; his eyes were still tight.
"Ha. Ha. NO! I didn't take this from a comic book but I didn't exactly do it on my own either." I blabbered.
"And?" he prompted.
"Still pushy I see." But at that moment the waitress strode confidently over to our table and it was only then we realised we had both subconsciously leant in towards each other. We both straightened up noticeably. The food looked pretty good as she placed it down but her back to me as soon as possible and she was facing Edward.
"Are you sure there isn't anything I can get you?" the double meaning was so obvious she must be desperate.
"No thanks but some more soda would be nice." He smiled whilst gesturing his pianist hands towards the empty glasses. She nodded and picked them up making sure to reveal as much cleavage as possible to Edward.
"Sure." She smiled in a sickly sweet voice. Jesus she could be Lauren's fraternal twin sister. Then she walked away but I couldn't help but laugh at the toilet paper stuck to her shoe. I calmed down relatively fast and looked back to Edward.
"You were saying?" he pressed.
"Never mind, I will tell you in the car if..."
"There are conditions?" he raised an eyebrow at this.
"I will have questions of course." I said in a matter of fact tone and he bought it without protest.
"Of course." The waitress came back with two more cokes and left without a word. I guess she finally got the picture.
"Go ahead." Edward pushed after I took a sip of the coke.
I decided to start with the less demanding of my questions. "Why are you in Port Angeles?" he looked down and slowly clasped his hands together on the table. He looked up from under his lashes with a hint of a smirk on his face.
"Next."
"Oh come on, that was the easiest one!" I laughed.
"Next."
"Oh fine!" I used my spoon and my fork to swirl up some of the creamy cheesy goodness and placed it in my mouth. I swallowed and sighed in satisfaction before contemplating my next question. "So let's say... hypothetically that someone could... know what people are thinking, like reading minds, you know with some exceptions."
"Just one exception," he corrected. "Hypothetically."
"All right, with one exception, then." I was ecstatic that he was playing along and I was trying very hard to keep it neutral. "How does that work? What are the limitations? How would... that someone... find someone else at exactly the right moment? How would he know she was in trouble?" I wondered if I made sense at all.
"Hypothetically?" he asked.
"Sure."
"Well if that... someone..."
"Let's call him 'Cedric'," I suggested.
He smiled wryly. "Cedric then. If Cedric had been paying attention, the timing wouldn't have needed to be quite so exact." He shook his head and rolled his eyes. "Only you could get into trouble in a town this small. You would have devastated the crime rate statistics for the decade, you know."
"Need I remind you we are talking in a hypothetical case?" I mocked at his slip up. This caused him to laugh at me with eyes beautiful and warm, rather than the cold front I was so used to being around.
"No you don't." He agreed with me. "Shall we call you 'Jane'?"
"Sure it's my middle name." I shrugged. "How did you know?" I joked. I couldn't help but notice that I once again subconsciously leant forward. He looked like he was torn by some internal issue. His eyes locked with mine and I guessed he was making a decision to either be deceiving or just straight up tell me the truth. "You can trust me you know." I moved my hand forward and touched his and he slid his back minutely so I pulled mine back in.
"I don't know if I have a choice anymore." His voice was almost a whisper. "I was wrong- you are much more observant than I gave you credit for."
"I thought you were never wrong."
"I used to be." He shook his head again and by now my brain would be totally rattled with the amount of shaking he did. "I was wrong about one other thing. You are not a danger magnet, that isn't a broad enough classification- you are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius it will inevitably find you." It was going well- and then he insulted me again. Joys!
"And you put yourself in that category?" I guessed.
His face turned cold and expressionless. "Unequivocally."
I stretched my hand out across the table again- ignoring the fact that he pulled back a little again- to touch the back of his hand shyly with my fingertips. His skin was cold and hard and a little spark flew through my fingertips. "Thank you." My voice was full of gratitude. "That is twice already." I smiled and he nodded.
"Let's try not to make three, agreed?" I scowled but nodded. He moved his hand out from under mine, placing both hands under the table. But then he leaned in toward me.
"I followed you to Port Angeles." He admitted, speaking low and fast. "I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and I now know why. It is much more troublesome than I would have believed. But then again, it might just be because it's you. Ordinary people seem to manage going a whole day without a catastrophe or two." He paused.
I wasn't sure whether I should feel violated or ecstatic by his stalking. I was oddly ecstatic but wondered if that was all he did. Jesus, if he fucking peeped I would tear him to SHREDS! He looked at me funny since I was probably looking enraged but then I spotted my reflection on the glass, I smiling infectiously.
"Did you ever think maybe my number was up with the van? And that now, you are just playing with fire (I love that song- N-dubz. Not my usual but you know, I'm weird.) and interfering with fate?" I speculated.
"That wasn't the first time." He said, and he sounded in pain almost. "Your number was up the first time I met you." The safety feeling I had begun to feel around him wavered a bit but in the end still stood strong. Those black eyes filled my mind. He looked up to read my eyes and the tiny bit of fear I felt had died now. "You remember?"
"Kind of hard not to."
"And yet here you sit." There was disbelief in his voice as he gestured to me.
"Yeah, here I sit... because of you!" I paused. "Because somehow you knew how to find me today...?" I prompted him to tell me at that moment.
"You eat and I'll talk." I took my time since it was piping and listened closely to what he told me. (I am not writing out his explanation I can't be arsed sorry peoples (woody) lol) He told me it was hard to track me- why was simpler than I thought. He couldn't read my mind so he kept tabs on Jess' mind and didn't notice I was gone till she started to think about the bookstore. He said he knew I didn't go in so he followed me south he said he was waiting for me to turn around onto the street. He shouldn't have been worried but told me he was anxious.
He resorted to driving around in circles and he got to the point where he was about to get out and look for me on foot when he heard their thoughts. Their dirty, perverted thoughts far worse than any wet dream Mike could come up with and they could get it too. He told me of the difficulty he went through to not kill those jerk offs but he managed it. "I was afraid that if I let you go with Angela and Jessica, I would have gone back looking for them." He ended with that.
He was sat still, like a statue to match his cold skin and he looked up to look into my eyes. "You ready to go home?" he asked and I nodded getting up.
The waitress made an appearance like he had sung to her like a siren (mermaid). "How are we doing?" she asked, sounding like a TGI Friday's waitress.
"We are ready for the check now." Edward said not taking his eyes off of me.
"S-sure." She pulled out a leather book with our order on and he slipped her the bill he had gotten out without me noticing while I was eating I supposed.
"No change." I sighed. If this was where we were then Jess and Mike must be going like bunny rabbits with theirs, they were already close to the first kiss stage. He looked down at me curiously but let it slide I thanked the heavens he couldn't read my mind.
When we were both safely inside the car and he was driving, the hour had begun and it was my time to explain my theory. Willingly I might add. "Your turn now." Edward smirked, probably awaiting something hilarious he can laugh about with his family. Fuck that! I was going to hand his arse to him so much he will be crying to his family.
YESSSSS! I AM FUCKING DONE! Alice will be happy and I know it is long and you honestly don't have to read all the blah but I threw that in there for me. I have been writing this for like a week or something and I cannot wait. I have so many ideas for when I know he is a vamp and he knows it too but it takes time and some ideas were Alice too so she shall be credited xxx
--Alix-09
Next chapter coming SOON!