Chapter Eight (CHARLOTTE'S POV)

The way Bella had talked to me, I was so stunned. She was so different than the Bella I had met this morning. It was like that shady guy, her boyfriend, had changed her the instant she saw him. She was more pronounced. She was different person.

When they left everyone was quiet for a couple of minutes before than everyone was talking at once.

" What was that about?"

" Have you ever seen Bella look so terrifying?"

" What's wrong with the Cullen's?"

Everyone's voices were melted together and it was hard to hear any individual voice, but there were multiple questions that were heard repeated. I looked around angrily. How could Bella do that to me? I thought we were becoming friends.

" Charlotte." I heard someone call my name. I looked around, only to find those stupid girls from Physics class coming toward me.

" What do you want?" I hissed at them. I really wasn't in the mood for their taunting.

" I just wanted to say one thing." She paused, a creepy smile playing around her lips. " I. Told. You. So." She said slowly. I smiled evilly before making my hand into a fist and pounding it into her face.

" And I told you, don't make fun of my friends." I hissed in her face. I had kneeled down next to her, since she had fell to the floor.

" And Bella is my friend." I got up from beside her, gave her a good kick in the stomach and high tailed it out of there. When I made it to my car I got in and drove to the gas station down the road from the school. I went to the pay phone and looked up Bella's address in the phone book.

It wasn't hard to find it. There was only one Swan residence, and it wasn't too far from where I was. I thought about it for a minute before deciding to look up her boyfriends address also.

It took me longer though, because I had forgotten his last name. At first I thought it was Clullen, but there was nobody listed under that name. There was a Cullen, so I assumed it was him. Cullen, Carlisle, was the name it was under.

I didn't recognize the address, so I didn't bother trying to find it. I got back in my car and went to Bella's house. It was small, but homey. There were no cars in the driveway, so I parked my car and waited. I'd wait all day and night if I had to.

I didn't like that Edward guy. He was so cryptic, and my whole body and my mind, were screaming to stay away from him. But Bella was in trouble. I just knew she was. How could she not be? If I was terrified of someone I just met, then how was she not terrified of him?

How does she go out with him? I didn't even like being in the same room as him. He didn't seem safe.

It was around five o'clock when someone in a silver car pulled into the driveway. I didn't know who it was, at least not until Cullen got out of the drivers side, and rushed to the passenger side, where he opened the door and helped Bella out.

They both looked troubled, Bella had a dead serious look on her face, and Cullen was looking around. It looked like he was making sure the coast was clear. Bella asked him a question and he nodded his head, and then took her hand and they walked up to Bella's house. She pulled something down from the eaves, she opened the door and they went inside.

As Cullen closed the door he looked directly at me, and shook his head disapprovingly. I just glared at him. I didn't want to show any fear of him… to his face that is. When he finally closed the door, I decided I was going to march right over there and knock on the door.

I quickly got out of my car and crossed the street, and cut through her small lawn and up to the door. Before I could even knock I heard something shatter then I heard someone, most likely Bella since it was female, scream. I burst through the door; I didn't pause as I went through the small house, looking for Bella, or even her boyfriend. I went to the kitchen expecting to find a broken vase or something.

But what I found wasn't what I was expecting.

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Blood. There was blood everywhere. On the floors, on the walls, even on the ceiling. The massive amounts of blood aren't what disturbed me the most. No. The blood was nothing compared to all of the limbs that were strewn around the small kitchen.

There were hands, and legs, full naked torsos, and even a couple of heads. They were gray, and withered, old by the look and smell that was coming from them. My nose was attacked with the rancid smell of rotting flesh.

" Oh, God." I cried out. What was even more disturbing than the body parts was Edward Cullen, bent over a young girls body, lips attached to her inner elbow, sucking her blood. A blood-curdling scream erupted from my chest, escaping by my mouth. The scream only last for a second or two because someone's hand clamped over my mouth. That caused me to scream for another second before I turned and saw that it was Bella. She had a terrified look to her face.

She removed her hand and pursing her lips and shushed me silently. I was about to ask her why but she shook her head vigorously. She motioned with her eyes to follow her, I did.

We moved through the house trying to be as silent as wee could. We finally made it to the front door, I wanted to ask her what was with that boyfriend of hers, but she again, shook her head and mouthed 'not here'. We continued to walk, outside into the woods. Finally after a long walk, she talked.

" What are you doing here?" She asked me in a disdainful voice.

" I came to see what was wrong with you. At school you said we were friends then you ditched me for God knows what. I just wanted to check up on you." I added the latter for good measure.

" I'm perfectly fine." Bella muttered angrily. " I wish everyone would just leave me alone about being fine."

" Sorry." I said half-heartedly. I didn't care that she disliked me worrying about her. She was my friend after all. " Bella." I started out hesitantly. " What was that, in your house." I was know shaking with fear. Just thinking about Edward Cullen draining that poor girl of all her blood made me quiver with fear.

" That was… an accident." Bella said smoothly. It was obvious she was lieing.

" Don't lie to me Bella." I said. " Tell med the truth."

"I can't." She whispered. " It's none of your business. Now, if you don't mind I have to go back to my house and control Edward." She walked away, but not before pausing and turning back to me. " Bye, Charlotte." She said. " Don't come looking for me again." Then she was gone.

" Bella!" I called after her, but it was fruitless. She was gone.