Emily's Nightmare_43

Emily's POV

So I ended up not leaving like I had planned. Mostly because 1) if I made the quick choice to do so Alice would have found out and I would have been ambushed by my family within minutes and 2) I couldn't leave without at least saying goodbye to Matthew and then he would have either tried to stop me or hold me hostage until some sense was knocked into me. But most importantly, I got a phone.

And it wasn't just a normal phone call from Matt either, because this one made me forget all about my plans. I was still talking to Liana about it when my family came back from their hunt a couple hours later.

"I know!" I squealed into the receiver. "I don't know! Probably whatever Alice picks. Oh you know I hardly ever get a choice. Oh my gosh! That would be a really good idea! No way! I know!" I heard the footsteps of someone even though Liana's loud voice was right next to my ear. "Hold on, they're home."

I turned around to see Jasper leaning against the wall in a nonchalant way, his arms crossed against his chest and a smile on his face. "Sup?" I asked, holding the phone to my chest so Liana wouldn't be able to hear. "How'd the hunt go?"

"Same ol', same ol'" Jasper shrugged. "Ran across the Pack, but nothing else. I see your evening was much different though."

"It totally was! Guess what?" I said, sitting up excited. "Matthew asked me to the Fall Dance! I'm so excited! Liana wants to go shopping soon because it's in three weeks. We're not going anywhere, right Jazz?"

"Not that I'm aware," He responded and my mood grew even better. I laughed in joy and went back to my phone call with Liana, forgetting all about Jasper.

Jasper's POV

We'd gotten back from the hunt and knew something was wrong. We couldn't hear Emily and there was an odd sense in the air. Emmett had been ready to tear through something when we heard that distinct squeal. "It was a squeal, not a yell," Edward said, placing a hand on Emmett. "Calm down."

"So who's going to do the checking?" Rosalie asked, already heading towards the living room with my Alice in tow. "I presume that's what you boys are going to want."

"I think," Bella said as she grasped onto Edward's hand "Jasper should go. Because if you two go, we all know you'll end up butting heads with the tempers you both have." She directed the last end of her comment to Edward, who had an annoyed look but nodded. I sighed, but nodded anyway. There was really one reason as to why I was going, and it was because I would be the only able to calm anyone down in case the situation got sticky.

As I walked up the stairs, I wondered how things had changed so quickly. Before, we never worried or even had the thought to check up on Emily. And if we did, anyone went because anyone could. Now things were different, and there was always a constant worry that something wrong had either happened or was going.

Emily had changed, as much as we did not like to accept this. Though she had the right to change. She no longer need us by her side all the time, we weren't the only ones she could confide in. Which was bound to happen sooner or later; either with the Were Matthew, or some other vampire out there. But that was not the only thing that had changed about her. She was keeping secrets, we all knew it. Emily at times acted irrational and secretive. She lashed out at things that she used to not lash out to. Slowly, she had started withdrawing into herself.

Carlisle wasn't worried too much though. He said it was something everyone went through, during their teenage years. That all we could was to continue to be supportive and just wait till things went back to normal. I disagreed with him. I thought something was wrong, something we just didn't know about yet. Edward agrees with me, though even he can't figure out what it is.

But maybe Carlisle was right. As I leaned against her doorframe, watching her talk on the phone, a smile on her face it reminded me of how things were before anything had started to go wrong. And for that moment, I thought maybe things were going to get better.

-Time Skip A Month. Current Date: October 28-

Things weren't going better; things were getting worse, much worse.

In the last month, I'm thinking I've only seen Emily twice a day, not including lunch. I see her in the morning when we go to school, and that may only be because she needs a ride. And sometimes I see her in the evening, depending if she was over at a friend's.

We've confronted Matthew about it, seeing as to how he sees her more than we do. But he doesn't know either. He knows something is wrong, but he doesn't know what it is either. It worries me that this might be bigger than we all think it is. Another thing that worries me is the boy. On the hunts we've been on where we run into the Pack, he's never there. Jacob told us that he doesn't run with the Pack anymore, doesn't really shift as far as he could tell. I wonder what that's from, if it's dangerous not only to himself but to Emily as well. I've felt it, I know how he truly does care about her, love even, but I wonder if he takes his task of watching over her too seriously. If it's hurting him as well.

Emily's POV

"It's horrible! It's a complete disaster," I moaned as I flopped down on to the bed, my arm shielding my eyes.

"Oh calm down, you're over reacting," Liana said from her closet. "It's not like your parent's haven't chaperoned a school dance before. I don't know what you're being so melodramatic about."

"Easy for you to say," I responded, leaning up on my elbows to see what she was doing. "You're parents aren't the ones chaperoning. They've been so uptight lately. Everyone has and it's totally getting on my nerves. I swear they're strangling me with their sudden rules and restrictions." It was totally true too. It wasn't even things like curfew (which I never had until a couple weeks ago). They were trying to control my life: dictating when I could and couldn't see Matt, how long I was allowed over at someone's house, having to call in when I was leaving and arriving to my destination. It was insane. They were keeping me in the dark too. I noticed the way they hush when I walk into the room and wait a couple seconds before starting up their whispers again once I leave.

Christopher had been coming around the house more often since the first time I saw him. He always stopped by when everyone was out or I was alone in the woods, which at first I found weird but then I found thrilling. Nobody had told me that he'd meet up with them in the woods that day, or that he was even around, which meant that me talking to him was probably out of bounds. So it made me feel rebellious to do exactly that. If they don't think they can trust me, well then I'll break as many rules as I please.

"So, what do you think?" Liana asked, stepping out of her closet and hold out her Fall Dance dress in front of her. The dance was in two days, and it was all Liana and I could talk about. She, of course, was going with Marco. Those two were finally officially going out and I couldn't be more thrilled for them.

"It's beautiful," I told her, loving the way the sea blue looked against her.

"But not as pretty as yours! I'm so jealous that didn't have a budget! I wish my dad were a doctor," she huffed, flopping down on the bed next to me after she'd hung her dress back up. "It's to die for. Let me wear it next year?" I laughed and nodded. "Excellent. See, this is why we're best friends." She laughed along with me. Then my phone buzzed, breaking up our laughter. I looked at the screen and rolled my eyes, making a disgusted noise sound.

"God, why can't they leave me alone?" I asked, pressing the silent button on Edward's call.

"Jeez, I swear, you went to jail or something," Liana said, sitting up. "It's the only reason your family would be so uptight and you would be so not worshipping them anymore."

I gawped at her. "I never worshipped them," I told her, hitting her with a stuffed bear. She took him away and threw it at me, missing.

"Yeah you did. You lived to impress your siblings. You'd always have something to say about them or were looking for them in the hall. It was actually a bit cute and a bit annoying. What happened?" I shrugged, as if I didn't know. But I did. I'd changed. I knew things now that I didn't know back then. Like how I was only being tolerated because they found me back when I was just a kid. How me knowing things was a liability and that's why I never got to move around. That I'm the reason we moved so many times when I was a kid, and that they could never have any real fun till I was around. Deep inside, I was kind of surprised they hadn't killed me off already. I mean I probably would have.

Christopher's POV

I snickered, listening to the way that the Golden Eyed ones talked. I laugh, quietly, because me know that they not hear me. Master is very happy with what I have done and soon I will get prize for me work. It easy too. Not hard keeping Mistake and Gold Eyes not together. She too stupid. She do what I tell her. Soon, me go home, back at Master home. When Master helpers come soon, I go home too. Me so glad. Me go home soon and Mistake die soon.

Emily's POV

It was dark when I got Liana to drive me home. There'd been a time when I wouldn't have dared to take anyone home, because it was the one place where we could be ourselves, but now I had Liana take me home all the time, just so I could avoid the lectures in the car. After ignoring three of Edward's calls, I had finally picked up his fourth one. Of course, he was upset that I'd ignored his calls, but I really didn't care anymore. All he said was that I had to get home to make curfew, which I did. I got a lecture when I made it into the house, but I really didn't pay attention to it much since it started out the same way the others had. Something about being responsible and listening to the brothers.

Brothers. I hadn't called them that in a long time. I hadn't called the girls sisters either. I hadn't called Esme mom or Carlisle dad since then too. It didn't feel right anymore, and I just got in the habit of not associating them as family. They were exactly what they really were, just people I lived with.

I'm sure somewhere, deep deep deep deep inside of me, there was a part of me that was wtf are you doing? I know, because there were seconds were I just felt this deep guilty and regret for what I was doing before I shoved it down and was angry at them. It was easier to be angry.

I stayed in my room, just looking at the ceiling for an hour or so before I snuck out of the house towards the lake. The stars were out and it was the perfect place to look at them, not to mention that Rosalie was the only one at home. Carlisle was on call at the hospital; Esme had gone out to the store. Bella and Alice were at school, heading the Fall Dance set up and decorations. Edward, Jasper and Emmett had left almost as soon as I'd gotten home -they'd been doing that a lot, being secretive about where they were going- which made it easy to sneak out.

I think that's where it started to all go downhill.

I hadn't been at the lake long before Christopher showed up. This strange feeling crept up in me; the way he was walking and looking at me, the sounds of rustling leaves when there was no wind. I should have gotten up, I should have run away, but I didn't. Being here was being rebellious and showing everyone that I could make my own choices and that I wasn't a kid anymore.

"Hey Christopher," I said normally. "I didn't know you were still around. No one's home right now, except for Rosalie." I stopped talking when he put his hand into his pocket. I watched as he slowly pulled a silver chain out and gasped when I recognized the cross on the end. "Where did you find that?" I asked, standing up and reaching out for it.

"You're so easy," a voice said behind me and turned around quickly to see to figures emerging from the trees. They were both tall with black hair, only the one who spoke had black hair cropped short while the silent one had hair that waved to his shoulders. I couldn't see much about them, except for the pale complexions and their burgundy eyes when they stepped into the moonlight. I took a step away from them, straight into Christopher's grip. I looked up at him, scared, and saw this almost hungry expression that made me even more scared. What had I gotten myself into? "Easy to find, easy to trick, easy to manipulate," he continued, stepping even closer and closer and I was unable to move or escape in anyway. "You'd think a child of the Cullen clan would more cautious, considering the past it's had with the Volturi."

"Volturi?" I asked, trying to remember if I had ever heard that name before. It seemed familiar, but from a distant memory that was too far back to remember. "I-I don't know what you mean. My family is back at the house," I lied, knowing that I just had to get back to the house and I would be safe.

"No they aren't," the other one said. "You told us yourself that no one was home but Rosalie. But Felix is right, it was too easy. I was waiting for a challenge, but I see that won't be necessary. You'll do as we say. History won't be repeating itself this time." They kept referring to a different time, but I didn't know what they were talking about. I'd never seen them, so I could only guess it was something before my time. "So little Halfling, are you going to cooperate?"

"How do you know about me? How did you find me?" I asked my voice dry and I was feeling so small and stupid at that moment.

"Christopher of course," And I felt even stupider. They'd always told me not to talk to strangers. "And this," he pointed to my cross, which was in his hands. I never saw Christopher hand it over to him. "Christopher took it one day, and it was enough for him to find you and where you live. The stuff he took from your house was more than enough proof of what you are. You smell neither human nor vampire. It helped that in his dying breaths, a friend of yours gave you away. You remember Dean right?"

My breath stopped half way and my eyes widened. Of course I knew Dean; he was a family friend since I was young. He'd been there they day I'd been attacked; he had been the one to explain things afterwards. But I hadn't heard from him in years, and I guess I know knew why. But I couldn't believe he would tell them, he swore he would keep it a secret.

"Now, let's see if we can be civilized, yes?" He asked me. I still didn't know his name, but I didn't want to stick around to find out. If I ran, really hard, I could make it. Probably. At least I could get close enough to yell for Rosalie, and if I was lucky, Esme would be home with Alice and Bella. Why wasn't Alice here? Hadn't she seen this happen? A fearful thought passed through my head and I began to worry that maybe she had but they were letting it happen. Have others deal with me so they wouldn't have to.

No. You can't think like that, I thought to myself as I felt Christopher's grip lessen on my arms after I nodded my consent. The second he stepped back, I took off running. I knew these woods like the back of my hand and I was confident I could lose them.

I didn't even have time to catch my breath and yell for help before I was snatched from behind. "Where do you think you're going?" Felix asked in my ear as I struggled against his arm. "You can't run. Not from us. Even if you managed to out run me, Demetri would track you. It's what he does. Now, get back there and listen," he spun around and pushed me hard in front of him. I tripped and landed hard on the ground in front of the other two. It was then that I saw it was useless. Three against one were never good odds.

What had I gotten myself into?

A/N: Oh look. It's me. Yes I know. Long time. But look how long this is! So the excitement has finally started and I wonder what's in store for everyone.

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