The whole school is a basic super speed line of gossip. Within seconds the entire grade level would know. By then end of the next class the whole middle school would know and by the end of the day the whole upper school would know.
"People should whisper lower if they don't want to be over heard," I muttered to Matthew. We were on our way to our lockers. The end of school had arrived and we were weaving our way through the student body.
"Then what would be the point?" he teased. He had insisted on carrying my books, even though I told him I was capable of doing so myself. Something about it being traditional. I told him I wasn't a huge fan of tradition, but I let him do it anyway. Holding my hand we weaved in and out reaching our lockers in a record time. Spinning the dial to my locker I managed to hear what people were saying around me.
"I knew it was just a matter of time."
"Those two are so cute together."
"They'll defiantly go to the fall dance together."
"I feel really bad for Emily. Did you hear what Allie Newman did to here?"
"Yeah, she was a real bitch."
I couldn't help but give a small smile. Allie Newman was finally getting what she deserved. It helped that people weren't talking about me the way they where on Saturday. "What are you up to today?" Matthew asked me while I zipped up my bag.
"I'm off to Rebecca's house. We'll probably study and talk then someone, probably Edward, will come and pick me up. During the ride home I'll be trying to break them down and figure out what happened in the upper-secret meeting I wasn't aloud to go to."
"I wasn't aloud to go to that either. At least we know that both species are involved," he voice got lowly at the word species. It really didn't matter, with all the gossip going around they wouldn't have heard him. He was right, that's if they were the same meeting. I wonder what they discussed about and if it was still going on.
-Earlier. No Pov-
Six upper school students moved gracefully and quickly through the parking lot. Everybody was in class, except for them. They all used the same excuse; there was a family emergency to get too. Of course, they'd dazzled their teachers into believing so and earning the rest of the day off.
They stopped at two cars. A red BMW and a silver Volvo. "Do you think they'll wonder why we left Emily behind? It's supposed to be a family emergency after all," Bella asked, getting into the Volvo's passenger seat.
"Probably not. If they do I'm sure she's capable of lying," Edward assured her. They made their way through the empty road ways, heading toward the woods. They passed the Hospital, which laid at the out skirts of the town and drove onto a dirt road. Following the path deeper into the woods and stopped at the shadows of the grand house. Carlisle was already there waiting for them. They parked and quickly got out of the cars, following Carlisle into the house. All the windows and doors were opened for the convince of both present companies. The tables were already occupied by the wolves, leaving six remaining spaces for them.
Both species sat at the opposite ends of the tables, Carlisle at one end and Sam at the other, acting as leaders for the groups. No one said anything, for a long while. Eventually it was Jacob who spoke.
"It's getting worse, isn't it? We've been able to smell it all over the town." Carlisle nodded.
"It's gotten a lot worse. The encounter with Emmett and Jacob must have pressured it into start doing this a lot faster. He's been in and out of the house a couple times already, but we can't tell when or were he's heading. My daughter's room has been sabotaged as well of the rest of the house. As much as we can tell it's after us or her to be more specific and it's a newborn. Fortunately it's smart enough to know not to hunt in this perimeter." There was more silence as they thought about how the situation was.
"I think it's wrong that we're using Matthew to be Emily's protector," Bella said, "We don't mean to be ruining his life more than it already is."
"Oh, you don't need to worry about that. Matthew actually likes it. We offered him a switch, but he refused. And don't worry about ruining his social life or anything. He can't do sports because of the advantage he'd have and he's not in any clubs or anything," Quil assured everyone.
"I can tell you from fact that Emily like being with Matthew," Jasper said, a tiny smile on his face. Alice stifled a giggle, and got many looks.
"I'm not saying anything!" she said. Or thinking, so don't think you'll find out, Edward.
"Okay then. Anyway we should get back to the main reason this meeting was issued."
-Back to School: Still Emily's Pov-
"Well whatever they're talking about, I want to find out what it is," I told him, slamming the locker door closed. He nodded and we walked out the door. He held my hand as we maneuvered in and out through the very crowded hallways. It seemed that everyone was in a hurry to get out, I wonder why though.
Rebecca was waiting for me by the school benches. "I'll see you later then," I said to him. He sighed and unwillingly let go off my hand.
"See you," he said, and kissed my check before hurrying off to the car that was waiting for him. I watched him leave and walked, or it actually felt like floating, towards the way Rebecca was waiting for me.
"Hi," I said meekly as I sat down beside her. She giggled and through her arms around me in a hug.
"I'm so happy for you! I thought it would never happen," she said once she let go of me. "I was so sure that it was, but you wouldn't do anything about it, till now of course."
"You knew this was going to happen?" I asked her, "You should have warned me and I'd off worn a different shirt," I joked. Sometimes I thought that if Rebecca ever became a vampire, she'd be a vision person like Alice.
"Don't kid, Emily. I'm serious, remember that picture I sent you what, last week?" I remembered the picture and I finally got what it meant.
"So you're telling me that the birds were Matthew and me and the object we were both flying around was the flower?"
"Exactly! See, I knew you were smart!"
"Gee, thanks,"
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I remembered what Matthew had told me, what Rebecca had said to him outside the bathroom, and it some how bothered me. Not that I didn't want to tell her, I did, it's just that her knowing went against what we were doing, you know, the hiding part. But I wanted her to know, so badly. I wanted to be able to tell her that my boyfriend was a werewolf, and that my family was a vampire. I wanted to show her how fast we could go, the reasons we always went 'camping'. I didn't like living a lie of a life.
Currently, we were in her room, the door barricaded against her little sister Grace. On top of her bed were our books, a bowl of popcorn and ourselves. I swear that I was only thinking about telling her, I hadn't even made up my mind yet all I was doing was weighing pro and cons nothing else, when Alice called. I looked down at my phone and grimaced. I reluctantly picked it up and placed it to my ear. "Hello?"
"Don't do it."
"What am I not doing?" I asked her confused. I got off the bed and motioned to Rebecca that I was heading outside. She just nodded and went back to reading the magazine she'd been looking at.
"Don't tell her, I know how bad you want to, but don't."
"I wasn't going to tell her, I was just thinking about it," I insisted, walking outside to her backyard and sitting on her tree swing.
"Well don't even think about it, your indecisiveness is making my head hurt,"
"Well sorry. Besides even if I was going to tell her how would I? It's not like I just start up the conversation naturally or anything. How would it sound like if I went, 'Hey Rebecca? I just wanted you to know that my family and I are actual vampires, but not like the ones you see in the movies. Yeah, I just wanted you to know.' Gosh, Alice, have a little faith will ya?"
"Yeah, I guess your right. Good thing you're not in the same room as her, or else that would have defiantly blown our cover." I looked up, and saw Rebecca looking at her window at me. I gave her a smile and she smiled back.
"Well let's just hope she can't read lips Alice."