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Chapter 12

I hardly got a wink of sleep last night. My mind was filled with wolves, eyes and the colour of blood. So yeah, not one of my better nights. I woke up tangled in my bed sheets breathing heavily, my eyed flicked over to the clock on the wall. 6:00 AM!! Oh no way!! I did not just get up at 6 O'clock in the morning on a Sunday! I rubbed my eyes and shook my head but the time didn't changed. A groan escaped my mouth and I flopped down onto my bed. Emotionally I was exhausted but I couldn't get back to sleep. The freaking sun wasn't even up yet.

After a couple of minutes of trying and failing to sleep I pushed myself off the bed. Maybe coming here was a bad idea. NO. El Swan does not do depression. I'm a very happy person. I'll just repeat that to myself every minute of today and I'll be fine. I'm not less happier then when I was with a certain arrogant, rude, mean and admittedly handsome vampire (come on I'd have to blind not to think that). It almost sounded believable.

Well no point in wasting time. I'd agreed for Alice to come around 12pm so I had 6 hours to kill. Looking at my wardrobe I was glad that we were going shopping I needed some new clothes. Eventually I decided on wearing a long sleeved purple shirt with a pentagram in the middle and black jeans. I scraped my hair into a pony tail and went down to have some cereal. I absent-mindedly chewed on the cornflakes while my mind tried to solve the big secret of Forks. I felt like it was staring at me in the face and that made me feel stupid.

I missed Bella. If she were here I'd have someone to talk to. Amy was nice and could possibly become a good friend but my sister was the one I told everything to. She was smarter than me maybe she could figure it out. A thought occurred to me and I dropped the spoon I was holding. Maybe she did. My eyes turned to the staircase. Dad hadn't fully cleaned out Bella's room yet. It would be a huge invasion of privacy but it was so frustrating to be on the outside of this "thing" which apparently concerned almost everyone I knew here. There was a slightly more selfish reason for wanting to find out; this secret may be the reason that Caius has been avoiding me.

Steeling my nerves, I made my way back upstairs. Dads room was at the end of the corridor. Mine was next to his, then there was a bathroom and finally her room. It was way too early for dad to be up but I didn't want to wake him up. Carefully I edged towards the door and , as silently as I could manage, opened the door. I shut it behind me and turned to see what I could find.

The room was pretty neat and it was clear that almost all her stuff had been removed which was a little disappointing. The few things that had been left were useless to me. What a waste of time. Dad would probably be up soon so I had to get out of here. Turning to leave I saw her old desk in a corner of the room. The computer was on it. Maybe...

I plopped myself down on the seat and turned it on but thing was a little old and made a few whirring noises which I tried to muffle. The monitor flicked on and I took hold of the mouse. Nothing useful in her documents, just some old school homework. I opened up her browser and clicked to see which web pages she had on favourites. Let's see, nothing, nothing, nothing. I clicked on the final one on the list. It was a book website with a page on a book about "Quileute legends". That looked promising. Quileute was the name of the tribe who lived on the reservation. Before I could investigate further I heard dad starting to move about in his room.

Quickly, I printed off a copy of the page and turned the computer off before running back downstairs and back to my breakfast. I tried to act as normal as possible when dad came down, we did the normal small talk but I think he was surprised to see me up so early. That made two of us. He was going out to see Billy, I considered asking Jacob about the wolf I saw last night but decided against it. I would need more pieces of the puzzle first. I took out the page I had printed off. What did the Quileutes have to do with this and why do I think it ties in with that wolf I saw last night, the one with human eyes?

Ring!! The phone went off and I nearly jumped off the couch. I picked it up, who calls this early on a Sunday? Nobody is or should be awake.

Hello this is El Swan. There was a long pause and I was getting a little ticked off when.

El. I froze. I knew that voice

Bella is that you?

Yeah it's me El.

I thought you were ill

I am...ill, but I wanted to see how Charlie was doing and I wanted to hear how you were doing.

Bells, you're going to get better right. I mean that Doctor is supposed to be really good.

Carlisle is the best. Hopefully I'll be better soon. Something didn't feel right about the way she said that.

Well I've met your husband. I smiled as I heard her giggle on the other end

Yeah he told me about it. You two don't exactly see eye to eye do you.

I sighed. Do you want the truthful answer or the "make you feel good" answer?

Truth please El.

OK now don't bite my head off but I can't see why you married him. He's controlling, has a temper and I don't like him. There was a silence at the end and I winced maybe I had overstepped my mark.

Ha Ha Ha. Do you know he said almost the exact same thing about you. "Bella I don't see why you like your sister. She is nosy, pushy and loud. I'm sorry but I don't like her". She then preceded to laugh some more.

Well at least the feeling is mutual. Listen Bella is it really unsafe for me to visit you.

Yeah El it's still a little dangerous but you should be able to come over soon. By the way well done on breaking in. Jasper got a real shock when you appeared.

I was worried about you!

I'm fine here El. The Cullens are like family to me. I fell silent a bit put out. So I hear you're going shopping with Alice today.

Yeah, we're going to Port Angelas tomorrow.

Have fun, but be warned Alice could shop for America if she wanted to. I'll call soon. Tell Charlie I said hi. Bye

Bye Bells.

I hung up and put the phone down. At least I knew she was still alive but something was different. There was something false about the conversation. She hadn't been telling me the truth or at least all of the truth. That hurt. The feeling in my stomach hadn't gone away as I thought it would if anything it felt worse. I thought I had wanted to speak to Bella but I had and I didn't feel any different. Who did I want to talk to? A memory of red eyes and an infuriating smirk came to mind. I shook my head and lay back on the couch. It felt like my whole world was changing and I had nothing to grab onto, no rock to hold on to.

The rest of the morning I spent catching up on some school work and cleaning the house. My room was still a mess but you needed one messy place in a home, then it felt lived in. 12pm drew closer and closer until someone banged on the door. I slipped on some trainers and opened the door. Sure enough Alice was standing there beaming at me.

"Hi El you ready to go?"

"Sure Alice just let me grab my purse." I scribbled down a quick note for my dad if he came back early and grabbed my bag.

"OK I'm ready now." Alice grinned and dragged me outside. I almost had a heart attack at the sight of her car. Just how rich were they? I'm not that into cars but even I could tell that hers was expensive.

After I was practically shoved into the car she pulled out of the drive and off we went. Now I'm not one to be scared of cars but when Alice started going over 100 mph I began to feel a little nervous.

"Ugh Alice, don't you think you should slow down a bit?" I asked gripping onto the seat. She took her eyes off the road to look at me and I almost had a heart attack.

"Nope." She turned back to the road and I tried to relax. Sooner than I thought we would we arrived at Port Angelas and I soon discovered what Bella meant. Alice was like a lightning bolt and I found myself pushed into changing rooms with her flinging clothes at me. I exited the shop a few bags heavier than when I had entered. This happened for a couple of more shops.

Alice grabbed my hand and dragged me out onto the street. I was weighed down by shopping bags so she belted off into another store. I turned towards the book store and froze. I couldn't believe who was standing there. I walked across the road to get a better look. Yes it was him. Anger coursed through me and before I knew it I was stomping over to him.

"Well nice to see you again Caius!" I spat, he turned towards me and his own eyes widened slightly.

"What are you doing here?" I scowled. As if he had any right to ask me.

"Well if you hadn't avoided me for the past week maybe you would have known I was going shopping with Alice Cullen today." His eyes narrowed at the mention of Alice.

"If she's involved this meeting looks very suspicious." he said to himself looking around, I presume for Alice. Not good to ignore a girl when she's spitting mad at you buddy.

"What the hell are you about now?" he turned back to me and I so wanted to punch him.

"Nothing just go away I have some business to attend to." My mouth dropped open. Oh no he did not just do that. I stepped in front of him and jabbed a finger at him.

"You listen here-" I was about to tell him off (as I should) when Alice popped out of nowhere.

"There you are El, listen I just got a call from Edward and I'm needed back at the house." I stepped back a little thrown by the conversation.

"Erm OK Alice we'll head back to Forks then." She began to shake her head.

"No way El. Bella made me promise to show you a good time and you haven't even had lunch yet. You must be starving. You have to stay." I blinked.

"But I have no-one with me and we came in your car. How do I get home?" A very evil smirk crossed her face and I wished I hadn't asked. The good for nothing, mean, rude jerk i.e. Caius was watching her too.

"Weeellllll, Caius is an acquaintance of mine and I'm sure he'd love to look after you for a day." My mouth dropped open and the jerk looked furious.

"What!" but before he could throw a tantrum Alice whispered something in his ear and he stiffened. She bounced backwards grinning like some mischievous pixie.

"Well that settles it have fun you two." and with that she ran back down the street. I turned to face the man next to me and gulped he looked murderous.

AN: Heh heh please don't kill me. So I've had a really busy summer and I'm sorry for the delay. But I'm in a very happy mood because my exam results came back! Anyway Caius is back and Alice is being an evil plotter. Sorry for being evil. Please tell me what you think and I hope you enjoyed this chap

Sneak Peak

I checked my watch, it was getting late and the sky was darkening. I spun around to thank Caius for the day and everything within me stilled. There was a look in his eye that was slightly crazed and totally focused on me. Growling he began to lower his face to mine.