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Jake and I froze. I was on top of him, my legs had been squeezing his together so he couldn't move. His eyes seemed as though they were going to pop out of his head. He practically threw me off of him and whispered "Get under the bed! Now!" Terrified, I crawled under my bed, which was the closest and pressed my back against the wall. I could hear Jake quietly walking towards the door.
He paused at what I assumed to be every window. Then I heard the door open. "Can I help you?" He asked in a surprisingly formal manner. There was no response. A little while later, but what seemed like an eternity a thought suddenly popped into my head. What if he said that and then whoever was there grabbed him and he needed my help right now? I pressed myself even close to the wall, if that was even possible and listened intently. "Can I help you?" I heard Jacob ask again. My speeding heart rate slowed slightly. I heard foot falls and held my breath.
"Excuse me, but you can't just-" Jake stopped talking. There was a moment of silence. I knew they were in the room. I couldn't hold my breath much longer. And I didn't want to breath in with a gush. "Who are you?" He asked.
What was going on? Why weren't they talking? Finally I took a breath in. I tried to make it quiet but it wasn't quiet enough. The bed skirt swished up and I saw a middle-aged woman staring at me. Her beady eyes bore a hole in mine. Then she disappeared. Jacob must have grabbed her because I could hear her yelling in some strange tongue. Since she saw me I crawled out from under the bed, shaking but alright.
I pulled myself off the floor and just saw Jake bringing the woman outside and slamming the door shut behind her. "Who the hell was that?" I said, sitting on my bed, hands shaking violently in my lap. "I have no idea Ness." Jake said walking back into the bedroom and sitting next to me. "Maybe we should call Dad." I said, staring at my hands, willing them to stop shaking.
Jake saw and cupped them in his own warm hands. It made my hands stop but my whole body started shaking, I couldn't get rid of that image of the woman staring at me under the bed. Jake hugged me. He rocked me back and forth until I stopped shaking. Then he stood up and closed the blinds and curtains in all the rooms in the house, as well as bolting the front door. "Thanks." I said quietly. I didn't want her to have a chance to get back into this house. "She seemed human." I mentioned as Jacob came back into the bedroom with a board game and two chocolate milks. "She was." Jake said back.
"But she could have been sent by the Volturi" Jacob said. "They may have wanted to send a messenger and not come here as themselves. You know to check if you were here." I drank some chocolate milk. "I'm going to call Dad." I said, since Jake hadn't answered when I'd asked. He groaned slightly but handed me a phone. I dialed Dad's cell phone number and he picked up on the first ring.
"Did you get there? Are you safe? Is there food in the fridge and cupboards?"
"Yes Daddy." I said, making a crazy sign with my finger around my head. "We are here, safe and drinking chocolate milk."
I could hear a sigh of relief from the other end. "Now I don't want to freak you out but I just think you should know that a person came to the house tonight-" "Can I talk to him?" Jake interrupted. Since I knew he could tell the story better I handed the phone to him while I could hear Dad freaking out on the other end,
"Alice? Did you see something coming towards them? Why didn't you see this?" "Hello?" Jake said calmly walking out of the bedroom. After that I could only hear Jake's side. "We're fine." "yes." "I carried her outside." "What did she look like? Well, she was slightly short, I think she was a native to the other islands or something and she did not speak english."
There was a long pause.
"Yes… she had black hair." "It was in a ponytail. And she had brown eyes." "She never told me her name." There was another pause. "Okay. Yes, you can call us in the morning." "Sure no problem." "You too, bye."
Jake wandered back and plopped himself on the floor. "He said to call back in the morning if she comes back. But he was pretty sure he knew who it was." "Who was it?" I asked eagerly leaning towards him as if it were a secret. "He wouldn't tell me, he just said she was probably okay." "You didn't ask for more information?" "No Nessie. He's Edward. Do you think he would have gave it to me?"
"No." I said sitting back, defeated. "Want to play?" He asked pointing to the board game in front of us.
"Monopoly?" I said, staring at Jake with my eyebrows raise. "Do you want to play chess instead?" "Yes please!" I said as I jumped up and ran into the living room to grab the game. "Okay. You know you could have brought Monopoly back with you!" Shouted Jacob from the other room. Whoops. I grabbed chess and walked back into the room. "I really want to know who that woman was." I said as we set up the pieces.
"You think I don't?" Jake said, laughing. "Why don't I call Dad back?" I said leaning towards Jacob to grab the phone from where it lay next to him. "Edward has enough to worry about. He doesn't need another phone call for him to get worried about." "He already is worried about what happened." I groaned sitting back down across from Jake, leaning against my bed. We played one game, I won, of course and then we got ready for bed.
Alice packed me ridiculous pink pajamas with little stripes of lighter pink on them.
As I fell asleep I dreamed of the woman finding me under the bed, again and again and again. I woke up in the middle of the night to find her standing above my bed. I screamed and Jacob phased.