When I woke up in the morning, I felt something cool against my face and suddenly all of the memories from last night came flooding back. Finding out that vampires and werewolves exist, my fight with Jacob, Rosalie being nice to me and, to top it all off, staying up until 3 AM talking with Alice, Rosalie and Edward. Yesterday is not at all how I planned it go to. Of course, if everything had always gone as planned, I would still be in Charleston, my mom would still be alive and I would have never met these people. For all the bad, my goodness the good is just that, so good.
"I'm glad to see you are actually sill alive. I was beginning to worry about you." Edward said with laughter in his voice.
"You are just so funny. I've always been told I sleep like the dead. One time, when I was like ten or so, my parents and I were on vacation and they actually checked my pulse in the middle of the night to make sure that I was still alive." I responded. "Thank you for last night, by the way. I don't know what I would have done with out you and your family. It's not something that I can exactly take home to my dad and hash it out."
"Oh I would love to see that conversation!" Edward said. "I can see it now! 'Oh hi dad! I know that I said that I would be out for a while but, well, the Cullen's are all vampires and Jacob is a werewolf. What do you think I should do?' I really don't think he would take that well. I'm just glad that you trust us enough to stay here and spill out what you were thinking."
All of a sudden I hear a buzzing in the background. Oh yeah, my phone.
"Yeah, that's been going off all night. I finally got tired of the beeping sound so I turned on the vibrate setting." Edward said.
"I didn't ever hear it go off. I wonder who is calling me. I mean, I told my dad where I was going to be … oh yeah, Jacob. I bet its Jacob." I replied.
"I'm sorry that I looked but yes, it's Jacob that has been calling and texting you. Are you going to call him back?" Edward asked. He almost sounded hesitant and melancholy to ask.
"I don't know at this point. I mean, how everything went yesterday, I think I just need some time away from him to see if I can catch my breath and see how I feel about things. Yes, I am disappointed in him and how he was acting but I'm also disappointed in myself and how I acted. I'm not usually so possessive or jealous but with him, I am and that scares me. I don't want to become that clingy girlfriend. That is not who I am and it's not someone that I ever want to be."
"I can see that. But you have to trust what you are feeling and hope that you are making the right choice. Nothing in life is certain, not that I have to tell you that, but you just have to trust your heart and your instincts."
"What do I do if what I thought I felt is changing? What if what I thought was a crush at first was just me clinging to the hope of being accepted? What if I want something new now?"
Just as I finish my rambling, we hear a knock at the door and both Alice and Rosalie come barging in the room.
"Good morning, beautiful people!" Alice exclaimed with her usual singsong voice.
"Hi Alice. Please do come in. It's not like your are interrupting anything." Edward said with some annoyance in his voice. I think Edward was going to say something to be but it's not like he could anymore with his two sisters standing in the door.
"Oh! I am so sorry dear brother if I interrupted anything but you have had add night with little LK and Rosalie and I would like to have some time with her. You don't mind do you, LK?" Alice asked.
"No, I guess I don't mind." I said. Not that it would matter if I did care cause both of the girls were at my side and pulling me off of the chaise lounge that Edward and I were laying on. I really did want to stay with Edward and finish our conversation but I guess that will have to wait until later. I just really wish I knew what was going through his mind right now.
"See you later, Edward!" Rosalie yelled back at him and with that, we were out the door toward Alice's room.
Alice's room was totally different from Edward's. Where his was artsy and thoughtful and deep her room had clothes thrown all around it and was quirky and messy, but you could tell she knew where everything was, and just very Alice; I don't know how else to describe her room. It's just her but in a room.
"So tell me, my little human friend, what did you and Edward do last night?" Alice asked with no hesitation in her voice.
"Nothing much really. We stayed up and talked for a good long while but it was really just a lot of us getting to know each other more. He's really nothing like I thought that he would be. I mean, I don't really know what I thought he would be but this guy that I spent all last night with isn't it. In a good way it isn't what I thought he would be like." I responded. When I get nervous I have a tendency to ramble on a bit. I've been trying to work on that but with this last dialogue, I can tell that I still do it.
"I think he really likes you, Lily Katherine. I really do but I also think he is a bit conflicted with Bella." Rosalie said to me. "If I had my choice, he would be with you but I know that it's nothing that I can do about other than support him. Granted, with Bella, I have not been the most supportive sister but if you knew her and the way she acted, I really doubt that, even a sweet girl like you, would be able to like her."
"Trust me Rosalie, and I do say this with all 'sweetness' aside, I have had a hard time liking her since I got here. It's not like she has ever done anything to me but it's just the way that she treats the people around her. Like, for example, it was my first Friday in town and my friends for school wanted to go down to La Push, they invited her and the way she said no was like they weren't good enough for her. I mean, I really don't want to bash her and I really want to give her the benefit of the doubt but I'm just having a really hard time doing that right now."
"I'm sure that it is hard for you to look at her and see a friend, but she really does have good intentions but they just get lost in her actions sometimes." Alice responded.
"So, do you think that I should see if she wants to get coffee or something and try to get to know each other? I really don't want to be here and regret not giving someone a chance."
"Listen, LK, this is coming from someone who knows both of you," Rosalie started, "I think you are better off just being who you are and not getting mixed up into the Bella Swan drama. Edward really likes you but he's just feeling guilty about it since he's been with Bella for so long. Just give them time to figure this our."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! When did this become an Edward and me conversation and not a Bella and me conversation?" I exclaimed. "I've only just taken a step back from this whole thing with Jacob, I really don't think that I am ready to even begin thinking about starting something up with Edward. Yes, I really do like him but I hardly know him at this point."
"Again, I agree with Rosalie. Lily Katherine, I don't know what you are doing to me but I don't think that Rosalie and I have had the same opinion on so many things in the whole time that I have known her." Alice said. "I know that it is early and that you two don't really know each other, but I do see you two having some very good times a head."
"Alice? Rosalie? Lily Katherine? Where are you?" Esme called out.
"In here, mother!" Alice yelled back.
"Oh good, here you are! Lily Katherine, your father is here to take you home. I'm sorry that it isn't much warning but he just came here." Esme said.
After a brief ten minutes I said "see you later" to the Cullen's and left with my dad with more questions than what I came with and the looming question of what I was going to do with Jacob and Edward.
