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Disclaimer: The Twilight Saga is the sole property of Stephanie Meyer. I simply changed the plot slightly and twisted her characters to fit mine.
******CHAPTER 6******
I let out a small wimper. I hated this! Why, oh why, did I have to loose control? Now of all times! I felt the cold tingle that I felt whenever I lost control.
I had two powers—well three, maybe—I had a physical and mental shield. I could protect my mind, which is why Ed—he couldn't read my thoughts as a human. My physical shield kept anyone at bay. My other power was the fifth element; spirit.
If anyone was severly injured I could cleanse their soul, and any wounds would heal instantly. Because of it I could also have human traits, if I wanted to have them. I could cry, I could eat, I could sleep, human things like that. I spread that to my family from time to time. We chose to be able to eat and cry, and on the occasional very boring day, I would put us to sleep. I could also blush. That, I could not control, unfortunately, but I could make it translucent on my alabaster skin so it wouldn't show.
Thanks to my spirit, I can absorb any power. I know have all my family's powers except the elemental ones, I just choose not to use them. I also have tons more from where we come across random nomadic vampires.
Also because of my spirit, whenever I experience extreme trauma, stress, or shock, my spirit will shut down, to keep away the pain. I would literally shut down. I couldn't move; couldn't talk. I could hear slightly, but it would sound as if the talking was taking part a mile away.
"There are humans present." A tinkling voice said. The kind of voice that was usualy paired with pixies and pink. The tone sounded much to far away, but I could detect something familiar about it.
"Of course. This isn't the time or place. Come on. Let's go." Randi. That had to be Randi. Her voice sounded far away, but closer than the first. I began to feel numb. I couldn't fell anything. I lost all connections to reality. I had shut down.
I was floating in a sea of darkness. An endless sea of despair. Then a comet of bright color shot through the gloomy heavens. Much too bright; my eyes tingled. I couldn't see, I was blinded.
I was greeted back into reality by a bleak, pale gray sky. It seemed too blurred. Where was I? The endless swirls of pearl gray seemed distorted. Then they vanished only to be replaced again with endless black.
Help! Where am I? I can't see! Please, someone help! I wanted to scream out, but the words caught in my throat. More color shot across the black.
I saw the blurred shape of a pale brown figure with shadowy hair above me. Can you help me? ran through my mind. Was this figure trying to hurt me?
The comet left as quickly as it had appeared.
In the distance of this wonderland I heard the calling of a name. "Bella? Bella, can you hear me?"
Even from far away, desperation leaked in the caller's voice. The distant chanting was soft at first, then louder, and louder...and louder. It began to increase in volume that I could imagine the caller right beside me.
"Bella!"
The screech was ear craking. I felt my body flinch. Couldn't this person look somewhere else?
I felt my body being rocked back and forth. Not the type of rocking that a mother would to her newborn child, but a violent rocking a desperate person would to a dead corpse. Sobbing shot through the air.
I didn't know who was crying, but their whimpers made my heart wrench. The numb feeling that had gripped my brain slowly retreated.
I began feeling my limbs. I forced my eyes open. I was met with a eggshell white ceiling and off white walls.
"Oh, Bella! Thank goodness!" A beautiful girl hugged me. She had amazing tan skin; full, plump lips, high cheekbones, and amazing liquid topaz eyes. I tenced. I didn't know this stranger, and she was hugging me.
I flipped backward, as I realized I was laid on a science lab table. I vicious growl escaped my lips. Next to the now startled woman stood an equally beautiful man. He too had amazing tanned skin, high cheekbones, his lips seemed well plumbed, and he too held topaz eyes. They held features that made me know they were hispanic in heritage.
"Bella? Oh, Bella." she sobbed. Bella? Who was this Bella?
"It's alright, Jackie. She just needs a few minutes to get...collected. This is only natural." The tenderness in his voice and the name triggered something in the depths of my mind.
Suddenly, in a flash of light, memories hit me. Of course I knew them! Eric and Jacqueline! Guilt gripped me, washing away the relief I had felt. How could I have forgotten my brother and sister? What kind of person was I?
"Don't worry about it Bella. It was only natural." Eric, once again, read my face like an open book.
"But I growled at you!" I exclaimed, repulsed at myself for being capable of such blasphemy. (sound familiar?*wink wink*)
"Again it was only natural Bella. It's our instinct." He triend to soothe me, and had failed, and he knew that.
"But I made Jackie cry!" My gaze snapped to Jackie's face. Her expression was a small, sad smile.
"Don't worry about it. That's just me. I always do that when you...lose yourself." she smiled a small reasuring smile.
"Fine." I grumbled. The white-on-white room made me feel consricted. I felt the sudden urge to jump out the window and run. To feel the wind on my face, to feel the soft dirt under my feet. To smell the musky scent of the forest, the smell of upcoming rain.
"Don't. We gotta get to class. You can run later. Plus, we kinda got a big problem on our hands. Un grande problema." Jackie ended with spanish, which ment it was serious.
I sighed. They had miraculous appeared, in Forks!
"I know. It's like kismet from the past came and bit you in the as—in the butt." I threw her a confused look.
"He's back."
"Who?"
"No one important. At any cost we must keep Bastard #1 away from you, and Bastard #2 away from Jackie." Eric spoke harsh and dark.
"Who's Bastard #2?" I asked, my curiousity sparked. Who was this person, and why did Eric's voice go hard as stone when metioning him? Jackie sighed and glanced at Eric's face before looking at me.
"Israel is with them, Bella. He's alive." Her voice came out in a death whisper I almost had to strain to hear. Israel? The boy Jackie left in her human life?
"Yes, that boy."
"What? How? We helped you look for him years ago and nothing! The newspaper said he was mauled by a...by a bear! We even saw the gravestone, for God's sake!" I exclaimed.
"Well, apparently it wasn't a bear attack. Vampire attack." her face was sad.
"Enough! Look, you left him Jackie. Quit acting like it was the other way around! You know if you would have had more courage and guts we wouldn't be here! You're pathetic! Here you are willowing in you pathetic pain, when you LEFT HIM!" Eric screamed, his words freezing me to the core. He never dared to talk to her like that.
Jackie's jaw tightened and her eyes turned hard and cold. She glared at him with pure loathing. Then, abruptedly, her jaw slackened and her eyes melted. Her head dropped, she stared at her shoes, not saying anything. I heard her tear before I saw it. The tiny droplet rolled of her smooth cheek before splatting against the tile floor. Her body vibrated as she let the sobs take over.
"I c...c...can't be..believe...you...j...j...just said...th..that..to..me." One second I was standing unhumanly erect and still 8 feet away from her, and in the other I was wrapping my arms around her. Her tears mixed with mine splatted against the floor.
I cried for her. I cried for Edward. Most importantly I cried for me. Through my blurry vision I saw Eric stare horrified at Jackie. My tears began to run dry. I had no more to cry. Edward had taken those too. Jackie was shaking under my arms. The swoosh! of a door opening interrupted the dreary silence.
"How could you?" Charlisa screamed at Eric.
"Stop. Please, stop." Jackie moaned.
"No! She has every right to scream at him, Jackie!" Randi's hands shook with anger. James and Jason looked down right pissed at Eric.
"STOP!" Jackie exploded. They stared at her, surprised, as I did. Jackie usually never exploded like that.
"We keep Edward away from Bella. And if we can, all the Cullens." She spoke in a deadly monotone.
"Actually Jackie, Is...Israel asked to have both covens meet and...talk."Jason explained in a tone that seemed to be asking permission.
"Then we go. We must tell them to stay away from us. If they ask for a coven leader, it's anyone that comes to mind first, not Bella. Anyone but Bella." She spoke in that same deadly monotone while glaring at Eric. Her tanned face was streaked with dry tears and her eyes seemed tinted with slight pink.
"I have your schedules. Here." Charlisa handed Jackie and me our schedules.
First Period-AP Algebra, Richard Walker
Second Period-English, Donna Hughes
Third Period-Music, Robert Karg
Fourth Period-AP Science, Kelia Cox
Free Period
Lunch
Sixth Period-Biology, Frank Burner
Seventh Period-Gym, Coach Newton
Jackie looked at her schedule then peeked at mine. Her tried tears were now gone and the pink in her eyes had disolved.
"We have every class together except for Music, Biology, and Free Period. I have Biology during your Free Period, I have Band while you have Biology, and while you're in Music I have a Free Period."
"I only have you guys for Lunch and Gym." Jason pouted. He,James, and Randi were passing as Seniors while Charlisa, Jackie, Eric and I were juniors.
"Same here." James and Randi said in perfect harmony.
"I have you guys for English, Lunch, and Gym. I have you Jackie for Band, too." Chalisa said with merth dripping in her voice.
"I have you for AP Algebra, Lunch, and Gym." Eric said miserably staring at Jackie with apologies in his eyes. Jackie ingnored him.
"Let's get going! We don't want to be late." Charlisa said. We filed out of the classroom we were in.
Jackie looked at her schedule and map of the school. "Follow me. I have gone here before." I said as I took the lead. Eric and Jackie followed silently. I could feel the tension in the air between them. As we came to a stop in front of the door to the Algebra, I heard Eric grit his teeth together.
"What?" I inquired. I knew he hated going to school, but not at the extreme that he would wear a murderous look on his face. Jackie wore a perplexed expression.
"He's in there. His scent leads to the inside." The way he said he made me automatically know he was talking about E...Edward.
"Come on. Just don't talk to him. Ignore him." Jackie pushed open the door. The teacher blinked in surprise then saw the note in our hands. I looked at the small group of students and sure enough, there he was. He stared out the window, not even acknowledging us.
His topaz eyes stared unfocased out the window. His array of bronze hair was messier than I remembered. The dark bruise-like mark under his eyes seemed more pronounced. Like he had been restless for years. The teacher—cleared his throat, grabbing the class's attention. In fear, I dropped my head and stared at my feet. I could not look into his eyes.
" Class, these are our newest students. Jacqueline and Eric Gonzalez and Bella Swan. Ms. and Mr. Gonzalez there's an empty table back there in the corner. Ms. Swan, there's only one other available sit here next to Mr. Cullen."
I snapped my head up rapidly and widen my eyes. What? No, no, no, No! I couldn't sit next to him. I stared at Eric and Jackie. Eric wore the same murderous look her wore coming in. Jackie had replaced her's with a concerned expression. Her eyes widen slightly before she turned back to the teacher.
"Actually, Mr. Walker, I prefer to sit away from my dear brother. He usually distracts me from my studies and I don't like failing." She finished with a small smile that sent the poor teacher's heart speeding.
"Alright, Ms. Gonzalez. Mr. Gonzalez and Ms. Swan, you two will take the table in the back and you, Ms. Gonzalez, can sit next to Mr. Cullen." There was the tiniest bit of lust in his voice that made Jackie grimace slightly.
"That'll be fine. Thank you." She gave another small smile, then her face became bleak. She practically dragged herself to her new table.
As Eric and I made our way to our table in the back, I felt myself wear a stunned expression. Jackie threw Eric a dark glare and gave me a sympathetic glance. She stared at the front, acting as if the person next to her was just another meaningless person, not the person that had broken my heart.
When we were situated, the teacher began to drone on and on.
"Why do you think she did it?" Eric whispered so quietly that I had to strain to hear him.
"Do what?" I whispered at the same volume.
"Trade seats."
"For two reasons, I think. I don't know." I said.
"What are your two reasons?" he asked curiously.
"Reason number 1. So I wouldn't have to sit next to him. She knows better than anyone what it feels like to have to be close to somebody that brought you heart ache." My voice began to turn slightly hard at the end. Eric noticed that I'm sure, but he ignored it.
"And Reason number 2?" he asked significantly, like he knew the answer.
"She didn't want to sit next to you." He sighed.
"How could you say that? You know how much it hurt her to leave, but she had no other choice! Her father, Eric." I replied sullenly.
"I know that was uncalled for but—" I cut him off.
"That was completely uncalled for! And it will never be called for! You really hurt her, Eric. In the worst way possible."
"Look, I let my temper get the best of me, okay I admit that but...She acted like we expect you to act like. The bastard left you, so you were left broken-hearted. Jackie is Israel's Edward. She left him and she's acting like it's the other way around." He explained.
"Yeah, but that's your opinion. Still you had no right to burst at her like that. She is in pain."
We stayed silent for a while. I listen to the teacher continue his lecture when I heard Eric whisper again.
"Have you ever...Naw, never mind."
"What? What were you about to say?" I inquired. Had I ever, what?
"Nothing, forget I even said anything." He suddently looked uncomfortable.
"What? What were you going to ask?" I pressed. What could he possible have wanted to ask but was afraid to?
"Fine," he sighed, "Have you ever considered that maybe...Edward left for the same reason that Jackie left Israel. To protect you." I felt stupified.
"I mean," Eric spoke nervously, "you even told Jackie and I that he never wanted you to be in danger, and that he considered himself dangerous for you. You told us he said that it would have been better if he left. Than there was that thing with the papercut on your 18 birthday."
Of course, Edward always told me it was better if he didn't excist. That I didn't belong in his world. He always blamed himself and his kind whenever I was in danger. James for one. Edward had said for me to leave with my mother so he couldn't hurt me anymore. Then when his own brother had tried to eat me, I could only imagine what went through his head.
Ding!
The bella rang and I ran out the door, not once meeting his gaze. I walked to my next class in a daze, with Jackie next to me in silence.
What if Edward really did leave me to protect me?
A/N: Hope you like this one. I was kind of a filler chapter but it holds some serious events that will come into play later on. Once again, I am in need of a beta. My best friend proofread some of my chapters but recently she hasn't gotten them through my e-mails. Plus, currently she's away at camp, so unfortunately, this chapter has not been proofread or edited. I am sorry for the inconvenience. If anyone is intrested in betaing Moonlite Tears, please PM me or you could just send in a review. Either works. Thank-you.
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