Emily's Nightmare_33
I knew I couldn't go to school in a trance that day so I tried to pull myself together. The pictures were still playing over and over again, the words scratched into my memory. It'd been early in the morning when I went to retrieve what was left of the computer. It wasn't in working condition and no way was I going to fix it. I didn't want anything to do with it anymore, incase the pictures came back. I ended up throwing it away, making sure to push it deep down into the can so no one would see it.
They knew something was up the moment I walked down the stairs. I have no idea how they even knew something was wrong, I'd made sure to think of happy thoughts because of Edward's power, thought up realistic lies for Bella, made sure my feelings were in check because of Jasper and I even practiced my smile for Esme. Yet the moment my feet touched the bottom stair all eyes were on me. "Um, hi" I said nervously and made my way to the kitchen. Rosalie and Jasper got up from the couch and followed me.
"What's wrong?" Rosalie asked immediately. I shrugged and moved to the counter were last night's homework still waited to be finished.
"Nothings wrong, why? Is something supposed to be wrong?" I asked her innocently.
"If nothing's wrong, then why are you so tired?" Jasper asked. Shoot! I'd forgotten about that, it wasn't like I could hide how tired I was from not sleeping last night.
"I stayed up reading Narnia last night," I lied.
"All night?"
"I read the entire chronicle, okay." I turned back to the Algebra homework and tired hard to ignore their stares.
When we finally left for school, Edward made me sit in the passenger sit next to him. The entire ride to school I could tell he was reading my mind, searching for what he needed. Edward couldn't get anything, which surprised me since it was the only thing I could think about. Rebecca was at the front doors when we got there. She didn't ask me what was wrong, but she had that look that they all had so I knew I was going to be asked later. I moved passed her and was able to hear the whispers going on between Bella and her. She was asking to keep an eye on me, things like that. Make sure not to go astray. I bet they asked Matthew the same thing, because he never stopped looking at me.
When it came to lunch, I really didn't want to go, but I knew I had to, to prove that nothing was wrong. It wasn't like I was even going to be able to leave unsuspected. I have no idea how I would have, since Matthew was always holding my hand, probably to make sure I didn't run off. I needed air, fresh air. Non-school air. But no, I had to go to lunch and sit in a room for half an hour that was packed with hundreds of students eating food.
All contact was defiantly avoided once I walked into the fluorescent light space. Well, no contact with any Cullens that is. I wouldn't know if it was an advantage or a disadvantage to having a boyfriend was that when it came to lunch, both tables naturally surged. It meant I didn't have to look at my family all lunch. All of Matthews' friends sat at the same table with all my friends. I noticed that Marco made sure he got to sit next to Liana, and she didn't object to it. It made me smile those two had secretly liked each other for like an eternity! Matthew noticed my smile, and smiled back. "What are you smiling about?" he asked. I shook my head.
"Nothing,"
"Well I'm thankful for nothing. I haven't seen you smile all day. Will you tell me what's wrong now?" he asked for the billionth time.
"Nothing is wrong, not anymore."
-Edward's Pov-
It was bothering me. All day it bothered me. I couldn't tell what was bothering Emily and it was bothering me, a lot. Not a lot of things bother me, well most things don't bother me. But this, this was really bugging me. Ever since I'd gone to tell her to get ready, I'd known something was wrong. You couldn't automatically tell, and you didn't need Jasper's power to know that.
I made her sit in the car with me, trying to get her to talk, but I got nothing. Jasper got nothing, Bella and Alice got nothing, Rosalie got a sigh, and Emmett, he got a leave-me-alone glare, which was pretty much all that we were going to get. Immediately on our arrival at school, Bella got Rebecca's help and Alice seemed to enlist everyone of her other friends, including Matthew, to help at once.
Through out the day I could only get glimpses of her, and the times I did see her, I could tell she was trying to show everyone she was okay, but she wasn't succeeding.
When lunch arrived I didn't need to have Alice's power to know that she wasn't going to sit with us. She was going to try and get away from Matthew, who'd been holding her hand all day, and leave. He wasn't going to let that happen, he knew that if he did, something bad would happen to him. That was Emmett's threat, not mine.
Then out of no where she was laughing. Her laugh could be heard through the entire cafeteria. Through the thoughts of other I could tell what it sounded like to others. Clear as a bell someone thought. Most beautiful sound ever made, some boy thought. He seemed to have had a secret crush on Emily for a while. "He did it," Emmett said, outstand.
"Of course he did," Alice told him confidently.
"Oh. Like you saw it was going to happen,"
"No, I just guessed. You know I can't see when they're involved."
"Whatever, I still can't believe he did it and not me," Emmett pouted.
"You've done it a million times before, it's time he got a chance," Bella said. Rosalie snuggled up against him and he felt better. Emmett was easily contented. Just because he made her laugh doesn't mean everything is fine, Jasper thought, more directly to me. I gave a simple nod, letting him know that I too would work on it.
-Emily's Pov-
School day had ended and I walked happily next to Matthew. Together we made our way to the parking lot. "Oh shoot. I forgot my math book in my locker," I said, looking at my backpack. "I'll have to go back and get it."
"I'll go with you, Clara is doing some after school thing so I have to stay anyway," Matthew said, accompanying me. The school was empty. It was Monday and even the teachers wanted to get out. When we got to my locker, I had to double check the number. "Who did this?" Matthew asked, angry. My locker door was opened and the inside of it was trashed. My books were thrown and pages were missing, they lay still at the bottom of my locker. My markers seemed to have broken and ink ran from the top shelf down the locker wall to the ground. My pictures were torn and there seemed to be scribbles all over them.
"I don't know." I told him sincerely. "All we can do is clean it up," I said. Nothing was going to get me off my positivity. "Go get some towels of something." He left grudgidly. I looked closer at the pictures, if you squinted the lines seemed to connect, make a phrase. You're next the phrase said. I sucked in my breath. This was related to last night's incident, it was a mistake. Someone was out to get me. I ripped the pictures down before Matthew could see.
It took us a while to get it all cleaned up. I ended up calling Edward and telling him I was going to get a ride with Matthew since I had stuff to do after school. Which wasn't a lie. "Don't tell them, okay?" I asked him when we were done.
"Not tell them? Emily you have to tell someone!" he said fiercely. He knew who them meant.
"If it happens again I will." I promised him. He glared at me. I remembered what Bella did to get Edward to do something he didn't want to do. I looked up at him and gave him the most sweetest and sincere smile I could. "Please?" I asked him again, leaning against his chest. I could feel him melt under me.
"Fine," he said at last, making me feel extremely guilty. "Next time I'm telling them." I smiled at him and gave him a kiss, which he of course returned.
"Thanks so much,"
"I'll probably regret it later…" he mumbled.
A/N: Sorry it took me a while to get this up. I've been way to busy with school to even think about doing non-school related writing. But here it is. You know you want to review! q:
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