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TERRIBLY SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT. I've been a lot busier than I thought I was going to be lol. Hope you have really been enjoying these past few weeks.
Here's chapter 33!
Much love,
~Dazzler 916~
Chapter 33
Reunited
(Chloe's P.O.V.)
"Are we there yet?" Ella asked half asleep while leaning on Seth's shoulder.
"Almost." I told her.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" She asked me this time.
"Well it's not like we're gonna turn back now and go home. The sooner I have Nora back the better." I said.
We had been on the road for a good six or seven hours and it was almost midnight. It didn't take it long for my parents to realize I was gone. I have voice messages from them and Ella's parents and the majority of them involve my parents yelling.
Ella's phone has been ringing off the hook too so either way we know that we're in trouble, but we're choosing not to deal with all of the yelling right now cause there's no point of turning around when we're only a few hours away from San Francisco.
Then there's Gabe.
He's done so much for me in the short time it took me to realize how much I really do love this guy. What was I thinking? No matter how hard I try to avoid him he's always there. He's just there and there's not much I can do about that.
He really does care about me and I feel so stupid for overreacting about the whole "wolf thing" with him and the rest of my friends...well the friends that knew about it.
Okay so the whole Gabe and the majority of all the other Quileute guys being "wolves" doesn't really bother me anymore. It did at first only because I thought it was just flat out creepy cause I have never heard of such things being real.
And then the vampires? What the hell?
The world just keeps getting weirder and weirder yet people still manage to live their lives like it's nobody's business.
"Ella?" I said from the passenger's seat.
"Yea?"
"Can I ask you something?" I whispered.
"Go ahead I'm listening." Ella yawned.
"Have you seen any vampires?" I asked her.
"Chloe, I'm friends with vampires." She chuckled.
"Like who. Do I know them? Or have I only met them at night time? Oh wait does garlic scare them off—"
"No. All of that sleeping in a coffin, coming out during night time and the whole garlic thing is a bunch of crap. Vampires can come out during the day time, they just avoid the sunlight—it's not harmful to them at all—it's just something they avoid cause the sun does this really freaky trick to their skin and it's not normal—it's cool—still not normal." She explained.
"What does it do?"
"You're gonna have to see it for yourself." Ella said.
"Oh. It's not scary right?"
"No." Seth and Gabe said at the same time.
"Trust me they know." Ella reassured me.
"So vampires just go out walking around and then someone randomly gets the life sucked out of them?" I asked.
"Well that's what most vampires do, but the Cullen's—they're on our side—they're the good guys. They don't drink human blood. They drink animal blood." Gabe explained.
"Oh...well that's interesting." I shrugged.
"You know Dr. Carlisle Cullen right?" Seth asked me.
"No, I have know idea who the hell that is." I mumbled sarcastically.
"He's a vampire." Ella said.
"Are you serious? Is that why he looks so perfect? Seriously I've always wondered what he does to look so young."
"He may look young, but he's really old. I think he's almost three hundred and fifty years old..." Ella trailed off.
"Jeez. That's hella old." I realized.
I would get so bored if I lived for that long. Who knows what I would be doing with my time.
"Does she know about Sasha yet?" Seth asked Ella.
"Shut up...i'm getting to that." Ella said through her teeth.
"What about Sasha? And what does she have to do with all of this? You haven't talked about her in so long. " I said.
"Well that's because she's sort of a secret—"
"Okay I'm confused." I shook my head.
"I wasn't finished! Anyway—I mean she's still alive—no one else in my family knows about this except for me since I'm the only person who's probably ever going to know...and now you're gonna know about it too. This all stays between us and by us, I mean anyone associated with wolves or vampires and no one else." Ella clarified.
"My lips are sealed." I held up two crossed fingers.
"So you know how Sasha went seven years ago right?"
"Yea." I nodded.
"And remember how shortly after that happened a lot of people started to go missing in Seattle which isn't to far from Puget Sound?" She reminded me.
"Uh huh,"
"That's all because of a vampire. A vampire was creating an army." Ella told me.
"O...kay, and exactly what does this have to do with your sister again?" This just keeps getting even more confusing.
"Well I'll have Sasha explain all of that to you sometime—but as far as the whole vampire thing goes, Sasha went missing because a vampire took Sasha and bit her which it was made her a vampire." She said.
"So you're older sister is a vampire...wow...this just keeps getting weirder." I shook my head.
"Welcome to my world." Ella chuckled under her breath.
"And how long have you known about this?" I asked her.
"Just found out about a month after you came to La Push." She shrugged.
"Wait—then who told you that Sasha was a vampire and how did they find out in the first place?" I asked her.
"Seth, you're turn." Ella elbowed him.
I looked over at Seth to see that he had this guilty look on his face.
"What did you do?" I asked him.
"I kept her sister a secret from her...for a while." Seth mumbled.
"For how long—" I began to say before Ella opened her mouth and shut me up.
"Three years." She said right away.
"That's why she's was really pissed off at you." I realized.
"Yeaaaaa, but it's old news so we're over it now—"
My phone started ringing before Ella got the chance to finish what she's saying. So glad my parents bought me a replacement so I wouldn't be phone-less in case someone tried to reach me about Nora. My eyes opened as far as I could after seeing who's number it was trying to get a hold of me.
"It's him." I said still keeping my eyes locked on the phone screen.
"Answer it." Gabe told me.
For once I was actually afraid to answer it. I'm afraid of what he's gonna say. Right now I don't think I want to hear his voice. Either way no matter how hard I would beg he was still going to say no.
"I can't do it." I shook my head.
"Give me the phone." Gabe said sternly.
"You're driving—"
"I don't care just give me the phone before it stops ringing. Just trust me." He said still holding out his hand. The phone was still ringing when I finally handed it over to him and he answered.
"You're not going to get away with this." He hissed into the phone.
Everyone in the car was dead silent. I mouthed to Gabe to put the phone on speaker so we could all hear what Cody was saying.
"Just cut the crap alright? We all know this isn't going to end the way you want it to. The police are looking for you." Gabe told him.
"Put him on speaker." I whispered.
"It's not like they're going to find us—" Cody's voice got five times louder after Gabe hit the speaker button. "—you don't know where I'm going and this isn't any of your damn business so why don't you just give the phone the beat up girl whose sitting right next to you and let me talk to her."
"Just give me my baby back. That's all I want." I pleaded.
"Welcome to my world Chloe. Now you know how I feel—no now you know how I felt for these past three years when you wouldn't let me see my daughter. I apologized to you in person and it still wasn't enough to convince your sorry ass that I wanted to be apart of Nora's life. I've been sober ever since our daughter was born and I got myself cleaned up just so she would not have to grow and say that her father was a worthless drunk. I did this for her!"
"So now you want our daughter to grow up and say that her father is a complete idiot— let alone a compulsive psycho path that physically abused her mother right in front of her innocent eyes? You'd be surprised as to how much a child remembers at a very young age Cody cause you're definitely not setting a good example for our daughter by doing this." I snapped.
Cody didn't say anything this time. All we could hear was his heavy breathing and the sound of my daughter crying in the background which immediately got my attention.
"WHAT ARE DOING TO HER?" I yelled.
"Bye Chloe—"
"Cody James don't you dare hang up on me. Let me talk to her!" He hung up the phone before I could say another word and suddenly I could feel pain of this whole situation pulsing through my body.
I'm sick of this.
I can't take it anymore.
(Sasha's P.O.V.)
I really hope that once this is all said and done with their won't be any drama involved in my sisters' lives for a while.
Chloe may not be related to me but I treat like she's little sister as much as I do Ella.
I swear those girls have been through way to much. And I thought my senior year was full of drama. Actually now that I think about it my senior was full of drama but it was no where near as bad as my sisters' has been.
Being the overly protective sister that I am, I followed them to San Francisco at Ella's request and I pretty much beat them there. It was already 9 am and they're pretty close to getting here.
Gabe gave me something of Nora's to help pick up her scent...it wreaked of werewolf stench (eww) but there was a good mixture of cotton candy mixed in with it. No wonder people say some kids are as sweet as candy.
Nora smells like it big time.
Ella already gave me the okay to go ahead and start looking knowing it wont take me long to pick up the scent. I got a text message from her as soon as I got towards Pier 39.
~Just got off the
Golden Gate Bridge
-Ella ~
I forgot how annoying it can be when I'm in a public place. It's like everyone is screaming in my head, but when I'm looking for someone specific all I have to do is focus in to hear their thoughts. Being in a public place like this is what makes it hard to concentrate.
To be honest I have no idea where to start looking, so this just might take a while.
Shit.
(Chloe's P.O.V.)
We've decided to split up so it would be easier to cover more area.
I was literally asking people "Have you seen this little girl?" with a picture of Nora in my hand. The majority of replies I got were no, and it just made me even more anxious to find her.
After looking for a good two hours I was ready to give up.
"Chloe." I heard someone yell my name.
I turned around to see Ella approach me and I ran up to her.
"Ella did you—"
"Wait hold on a sec." She said.
"Please don't tell me you went shopping and just bought that outfit. I packed your stuff and it's in the car remember—"
"Chloe I'm not Ella."
"Everything okay?" Now Gabe had stepped right into the awkward moment.
Either I'm going crazy or Ella is playing games with me. I don't have time for games right now.
"There you are, we tried calling you but you wouldn't pick up." Now Ella and Seth had joined us...only now i'm not so sure which is which.
"Please don't tell me you don't see this girl standing right next you." I said.
"Yes Chloe I do." The Ella next to Seth told me.
"Did you tell her yet?" The girl who looked just like Ella whispered to the Ella holding Seth's hand.
"Well we sort of did, I just forgot to mention the part that we sort of look a alike." Ella raised her eyebrows.
"Okay someone please tell me who this is and why she looks like Ella before I start freaking out—" I stopped in the middle of my sentence to try and figure this all out on my own.
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks and my jaw dropped.
"Sasha?" I tilted my head sideways.
"Long time no see." She smiled.
Ay dios mio...somebody please pinch me.
"Oh my god you look like you could be twins...except your eyes are yellow—wait why are you eyes yellow—and you look different, like freakishly perfect porcelain different." I said looking her up and down.
"Well she is a blood suck—I mean vampire...sorry that sort of slipped." Gabe muttered.
"Oh don't worry about it. It's not like I've heard it before." Sasha chuckled.
"Aren't you supposed to be like twenty five?" I asked.
"Oh no, I'm stuck like this forever. I don't age at all, same thing goes for wolf boy one and two over here...sort of." Sasha said pointing at Gabe and Seth.
I closed my eyes and shook my head for a moment. "You're not aging?" I whispered loudly to Gabe.
"Nope." He said emphasizing the p.
"What the hell? Ella what the heck did we get ourselves into. By the time we're forty years old and have wrinkles these guys are still gonna look like this." I told her.
"No they won't. By then they'll stop phasing. They're gonna grow old with us." Ella Explained.
"Oh—okay no i'm getting side tracked. Can we get back to finding me daughter—"
"Actually I already found out where she is." Sasha told me.
"WHERE!" I said right away.
"I made an anonymous call to the local police station and gave them the exact location. I found his car parked at that Motel 6 down by the San Francisco China town. The police are on their way over there now so don't go over there and interfere. I'm pretty you should be getting a call any—"
My phone started ringing before Sasha could finished. It was my Mom.
"Si Mama?" I said into the phone.
"I've been trying to reach you for the past several hours and you're just now choosing to pick up the phone? What were you thinking? I know Gabe, Ella and Seth went with you—" There goes my mother with her rambling.
"Mom—"
"You should have stayed here! You know that the police are doing everything they can—
"Mom can you listen to me for a sec—" I tried telling her.
"Chloe Estrella Maresol Lupe De La Melena—"
"Mom I found her!" I said before she could interrupt me again.
Hopefully that would shut her up and get her to listen.
"Oh thank god." My mother sighed.
"I'll try and be home by tonight I promise. Just let me take care of this okay? I'm sorry for not telling you and papá but I as soon as I found out where she was I had to go get her. Please don't be mad." I begged.
"We'll talk about this later. You just bring my gran daughter back to me safely okay?"
"Yes Mom. I'll call you later...love you too," I hung up my phone.
~~~Fifteen minutes later~~~
"Are you sure this is the place?" I asked Sasha as I good look around the deserted parking lot of the crappy motel.
"That's his car right there isn't it?" She pointed to a car only a few feet away from us.
"Oh," I said in realization.
"Well this is where I leave, the sun's coming out and I don't want anyone getting suspicious about me. I'm still a missing person case, within a few decades i'll be able to go an try to live my life again. But until then, I guess i'll see you guys when you get back home." Sasha vanished right out of thin air and was gone in the blink of an eye.
"Damn..." I paused. "She's fast."
"Yea...but we're faster." Seth bluffed.
"Oh hush. You sound like Jared." Ella teased him.
"Whatever." Seth rolled his eyes.
"Hey hey hey..." Ella's voice got extremely quiet as she turned her head in the direction of the motel.
"What?" All of us except for her looked in the same direction trying to see what she was staring at. Before another word was said Ella moved very quickly and hid behind a car every time she got closer.
"What are doing?" I said in a loud whisper right behind her.
"Shh! Just follow me!" Ella continued to move and we followed her around the corner and into another part of the motel complex. Then she stopped and looked at me.
"That door right over there. I just saw him walk in." She said pointing to a a few feet away from us.
"Are you sure?" I asked her.
"Yes. It's that one. You and Gabe go. We'll keep a look out for the cops. Now go!" Ella pushed me to get moving and Gabe was right next to me.
"So exactly how should I do this?" I whispered to him.
Instead of answering my question, he just knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" Yep, that was definitely Cody's voice.
"Uh, house keeping." I said in a thick Spanish accent so he would recognize my voice.
"We don't need anything right now." Cody said right away.
"Okay. I'll come back later to clean?" I said, then I turned to back to Gabe and shrugged. "Now what?" I whispered loud enough for him to hear.
"Just stay back for a second. I got this." He assured me. I did exactly what he told me to do, knowing that he was probably going to kick the door down and that was exactly what he did do.
I just flinched at the loud sound it made when the door slammed open and hit the wall. Cody walked out seconds later and Gabe pushed him back into the room and pinned him up to the wall by his shirt.
"Didn't think we were going to find you? Think again." He spat in his face before looking back over at me.
"Would you look at that, your injuries suit you well Chloe—" Before Cody could finish what he was saying, Gabe punched him in the face.
"How dare you put your filthy hands on her!" Gabe hit him again and for a few seconds I got distracted as Gabe continued to beat the shit out of Cody and it felt so good watch him go through I had to experience Saturday night.
Suddenly I felt something tugging at my sweatpants and I looked down to see my baby girl looking up at me with tears about to fall down her face. Nora held out her little arms for me to pick her.
"Oh my sweet baby girl." I scooped her up and held her close, kissing away her tears and then all over her face. Words cannot describe how good it felt to have her back in my embrace.
"Mama!" She cried.
"Shhhhh, don't cry you're okay." I cooed.
"San Francisco Police!" Someone yelled. Two police officers had walked in pointing guns. I backed away protectively holding my daughter. Gabe let go of Cody's shirt and both of stood their as the police handcuffed him.
"You're under arrest for breaking an entering, kidnapping and for assault. Anything you do or say will be held against you." One of the officers said to him.
Suddenly I was happy again. It was like a breath of fresh air had filled the room...now there's only thing that need I to take care of but it wasn't going to happen until later.
After spending an hour at the police station answering questions and what we were finally able to go home. LONGEST TWO DAYS OF MY LIFE :P. So glad it's all over with.
(Ella's P.O.V.)
Feels so good to finally be back in my own bed with a certain someone sitting next me. This is all seemed to work out. Chloe and I sort of got yelled out as soon as we got home and the boys dropped us off. In the end we didn't get grounded and they're letting us have the day of Tuesday to sleep which means NO SCHOOL...I guess you could say we sort of skipped school Monday too either way everything is back to normal now.
"So glad to be home." I yawned laying down on Seth's chest.
"Hopefully the next few months will be chill. Cause we've already had a enough happen so far this year." Seth let out a heavy sigh.
"Who would have thought that our senior year would have so much drama?" I asked him.
"Babe, it's high school, what more is there to say?"
"True," I chuckled.
"Did Gabe and Chloe get back together yet?" He said out of the blue.
"By tomorrow morning, i'm pretty sure they will be. I think she's over everything now so it's all good..." Now I can barely keep my eyes open. I barely got enough sleep this entire weekend as it is. Lord knows how lazy i'm going to be tomorrow.
"Goodnight Ella," Seth leaned down and kissed me on my forehead and I dozed right off to sleep.
(Chloe's P.O.V.)
Getting yelled at probably wasn't the best part of coming home, either way my parents completely forgot why they were yelling at me once they saw Nora which covered up for all of that. My parents weren't even upset with Gabe as soon as he walked inside, they just assumed I dragged him into this and they thanked him for looking out for me.
Looks like Gabe earned some major bonus points for that. My parents went back to bed, I put Nora up in her room so she could sleep, and then I went back outside on the front porch where Gabe was waiting for me.
"I finally got Nora to sleep," I gave out an exasperated sigh.
"Well I'm glad she's back," Gabe said with a smile on my face.
"Me too," I bit lip looking away from him.
"You okay?" He raised his eyebrows in concern as to why I probably have a nervous look on my face.
"Yea," I lied. "Why wouldn't I be, Nora is back safe and sound so what more could I ask for?" Okay maybe there is one thing...
"Oh, well you just seem like you have something on your mind that you want to get out. Anything you wanna tell me—"
"No—I mean yes—I mean—shit I'm confusing myself." I smacked my hand to my forehead only to hiss in response to hitting myself because of the stitches I had right above my eyebrow.
"Well these past few days have been rough and you're just tired that's all. Go get a good nights rest. I'll stop by in the morning." He said before walking back to his car.
My shoulders drooped a little. I wasn't finished...
"Gabe wait!" I started running after him only to realize that I didn't have to run just to get to him, all I needed to do was walk down the steps.
"Yea—"
I kissed him before another word was said. At first he seemed a little startled and then he just went with it. His warms lips continued to touch mine and it made me go crazy.
This is how it's supposed to be and I missed this, I really missed this. Suddenly I didn't care anymore. This past week of not being with him was absolutely horrible and I can't believe I even bothered torturing myself like that. Things aren't the same when he's away, it didn't feel right when I pushed him away. I was unhappy. I was more unhappy with myself for breaking up with than I was after he told me everything.
"I miss you," I said right after we parted. "I miss this—no I miss us, together. I don't why but I felt like shit this past week because you weren't with me. You sort of threw the whole werewolf situation at me and I panicked. I nearly packed my bags and was ready to go back to Spain because I thought was making the same mistake like I did with Cody...only it wasn't until now that I realized that you are not a mistake. I need you." I confessed.
Phew. So glad I got that out of my system.
"Well...aren't you gonna say something?" I asked him nervously waiting for him to respond. Judging by contemplating look on his face and how he's looking at me right now, I have no idea what could happen next.
Then he kissed me this time. It was sweet, yet he still didn't answer my question.
"So does this mean we're getting back together n—" Gabe nearly squished me into his chest, hugging me so tight I could hardly breathe. Okay now this sort of answers my question only I'm still waiting for him to actually say it. He put me back down after realizing that I couldn't breathe but he still had his hands on my waist and pulled me back to him. He looked into my eyes for about a minute and I didn't see him blink once. Right when I thought he was leaning into to kiss me he whispered,
"Sometime in the very near distant future...I plan on asking you to marry me. And I hope you say yes." He murmured.
"Oh Gabe," I sighed as the tears started running down my face.
This time I want it all. I'm giving him all my heart. This time...
It's all of me.
REVIEW! So sorry for taking SO LONG to update. This month has been a lot busier than I thought it would be : P. I starting writing this chapter during the first week of august and I didn't I was going to take so long to get this chapter finished lol. School starts back up on August 31st for me and I can promise you I will update again before the end of the month. Thanks for being patient! Love u guys :)
~Dazzler 916~