Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.
"Now that we're alone, let's have some fun." Ms. Denali said with a smirk that I'm beginning to really hate.
"Okay, um, so…what do you have in mind?" I asked nervously, trying not to take a step back from the predatory stare she's giving me.
"Oh, I have lots of things we can do in mind. But we only have so much time and there's only so much we can do in a public setting." Ms. Denali must not have been kidding about making me constantly blush because my face is bright red right now. "We can skip teaching you how to bowl; the best way for that is to simply practice." Ms. Denali said, giving me a way out of this situation.
"Then I'll just get back to my lane then." I said as I took a step to try and walk around her to get to the door.
"Well, I was hoping we could still do something together. I can teach you more than just math and bowling you know." Ms. Denali said while taking a diagonal step to, not only block me from the door, but she also closed the distance between us.
I took an involuntary step back to keep the distance between us. I guess I'll have to talk my way out of this room; it's not like I would have been able to move faster than her in the first place. If she wants me to stay in this room, I pretty much have no choice.
"W-what did you, um, have in mind?" I stuttered as I continued to back up; but the woman is annoyingly matching my steps.
My mind is starting to get jumbled from Ms. Denali obviously wanting to keep the distance between us small. I don't know what she intends on doing, but I don't think it can be good. Maybe my blood smells too good for her to control herself?
"Well, there are lots of things; but again, we have…limitations…for now." Ms. Denali said, her eyes gradually darkening with each step.
"Where did you hear about me?" Was the only thing my jumbled mind could think to say/ask as she continued her advancement. I have to be running out of room to move backwards.
"I think you mean 'who told me about you'. To answer your question though, I first heard about you when I was at home." Ms. Denali answered.
When she finished answering my stupid question, my back was completely against the wall and Ms. Denali threw all regards to my personal bubble out the window. Though I'm pretty sure, with her, it was never there to begin with.
"W-who told you?" I asked, trying to calm down from her being so close.
Ms. Denali placed her hands on the wall, on either side of my head; then leaned down and literally just started sniffing my neck. The whole time she did not touch me once, almost like she would let herself do anything but actually touch me. I guess even though she obviously likes the way I smell, maybe she does have control and doesn't want to eat me?
"You know who." Ms. Denali finally said after she sniffed me a few times. "Who do we both know that knows, and would care to say, you prefer to be called Bella?" She asked.
She kept her face as close as possible without actually touching me. Her cool breath is causing small shivers to run through my body; it's all very distracting.
Who do we both know? We both lived so far away from each for most of both our lives. I know she wouldn't have known my mom or anyone from Phoenix. I wouldn't even be surprised if she's never been to Phoenix because of the weather. I know she doesn't know my dad; all he knew were his cop buddies and the reservation people. No one else in Forks would kn-…oh…crap.
How could I have forgotten? Now I feel like a retard. The Cullen family, or more precisely Edward would have talked about me. When Edward left for a full week when I first met him, he said he had gone to visit his family that week. The Denali's, now that I think about it more; Edward mentioned them once or twice as cousins…of sorts since they're 'vegetarians' also.
"Edward." I whispered.
Ms. Denali let out a soft growl when I said his name. She finally pulled her head back so that I could see her darkened eyes. They weren't completely black and she could just barely still pass them for human colored eyes, but it's still a little concerning.
"Yes; I first heard about you from him. I was instantly intrigued about the human that blocked Edwards ability. But it wasn't until a few months ago when they all came to visit; Alice shared an interesting vision of hers with me." Ms. Denali said.
Ms. Denali lowered her head down to mine so that our noses were just barely not touching. This closeness is causing my heart to beat erratically in my chest and her insanely nice smelling scent is making my head spin slightly in its amazingness.
"W-what did she um…see?" I asked, barely containing my sadness of losing my once best friend.
I don't know how, but Ms. Denali leaned in even closer, I can feel her unneeded breath on my lips. Her eyes held such an intensity in them that made me believe what she was about to tell me is very important. I can even feel the coldness seeping from her body, causing my body to get goose bumps from the cold.
"She told me –" Ms. Denali started but was interrupted when someone slammed opened the door.
"Oh Tanya." A female vampire voice sang from behind Ms. Denali.
Ms. Denali lowered her head to almost rest on my shoulder, giving me a view to see an amused looking blonde vampire in the doorway. Ms. Denali growled just loud enough for me to barely hear it.
"What Kate?" Ms. Denali asked, clearly upset about Kate's sudden appearance.
"I was just wondering when you were planning on coming back." Kate said in an innocent voice, sounding just as amused as she looks which is betraying her innocent tone.
Ms. Denali dropped her hands off the wall, took a step away from me and turned to face Kate. Ms. Denali placed her hands on her hips and even though I can't see her face I can tell she's annoyed and pissed. I'm sure she looks like the perfect teacher that just caught a kid doing something stupid and is about to scold them.
"You interrupted me to ask me that?" Yup, she's really mad.
Ms. Denali's tone and question only made Kate's grin grow.
"Yup." Kate answered. She then moved into a 'thinking' pose, finger on her chin and all, then spoke again. "But of course there's always the fact that you've been in here; a private room, with your student, alone, for ten minutes while her friends have been wondering when she's coming back. But I'm sure you heard them talking about that right? And you were just about to come back right? Or were you two having too much fun to notice how long you've been gone?" Kate asked in a teasing tone, making me blush at what she was insinuating.
"Crap, I forgot about them." Ms. Denali said, not sounding as annoyed or mad anymore. "I guess you should go back to them Bella. We'll have plenty of time, eventually, to have more fun alone together." Ms. Denali said after turning to face me.
The way she said 'fun' made me blush even harder because clearly she wasn't talking about us bowling together.
"Um, ya…I'll just go now." I said quickly and practically ran out of the room.
But of course two steps into my escape run I tripped over thin air. I felt cold arms wrap around me, stopping me from meeting the floor before I was even half way there. Instantly, almost instinctively, I knew it was Ms. Denali that stopped me from possibly getting hurt, not Kate.
"Thank you." I said when she let me go, blushing slightly from the embarrassment of falling.
"It's no problem; I'll always be there to catch you." Ms. Denali said; her voice full of sincerity.
I didn't waste any more time to even give her a weird look at her words and their possible double meaning before I left…a little slower this time though. I rushed, but not fast enough to trip again, to get back to my lane. I am so ready for this night to be over.
"Hey Bella, we were starting to think you weren't coming back." Zach teased when I got back.
"How long was I actually gone for?" I asked, blushing slightly from thinking about what would have happened if Kate hadn't interrupted.
I know Kate said we were in there for about ten minutes, but was she actually telling the truth or exaggerating? It didn't seem like I was gone for that long; at least I don't think I was.
"Not long enough." Lindsay muttered as she stood and started to take her turn to bowl.
"Only for about ten minutes, if that, so really not that long at all. Was Ms. Denali able help you at all with bowling?" Grace asked, after shooting Lindsay's back a mini-glare from her rude comment.
From the corner of my eye I saw Ms. Denali and Kate come back. Kate still looked really amused and Ms. Denali looked annoyed. I ignored the vampires though and focused entirely on my group.
"Not really; all she said was I needed to practice to get any better." I answered, not bothering to hide my annoyance about it. "So if you guys don't mind, I'll just sit out from bowling tonight. I don't really feel like trying to dodge any more bowling balls tonight." I said with a forced chuckle.
"I'll bowl for ya Bella. I've got more than enough skills for us both." Zach said, poking fun about my obvious lack of skills.
The rest of the night pretty much went on like this: Sarah and Lindsay making random rude remarks, Grace telling them to shut up, Zach making stupid yet funny comments and Matt hitting on me. Well, he was hitting on me, Lindsay and Sarah; but either way it was really annoying. The boy needs to stop when he's behind.
Two hours after I got back from my…talk with Ms. Denali we all paid for the food we ate and they paid for the games they played. We all said our goodbyes and Matt and I left together since he was my ride. Fortunately, Matt took the regular way home and I was walking through my front door less than ten minutes later.
"I'm home!" I yelled out to Charlie who was probably in the living room.
"Did you have fun?" Charlie shouted from the living room, see I was right.
"Ya, it was fun." I lied. The night wasn't horrible; but it wasn't good either. It was really just something to pass the time; although the part with Ms. Denali would have been nice to skip.
"Good. See, I told ya you would have friends in no time." Charlie said as I came into the living room.
"Ya, you were right." I said with a sigh, it's a good thing he's too focused on some random sports game on the T.V. to see me roll my eyes at my own remark. "I'm going to bed since I have school tomorrow." I said, faking a yawn.
"Sure, night Bells."
It took me about a half hour to take a shower, dry my hair so it wasn't soaked, get completely ready for bed and then to actually crawl into bed. Even though it really wasn't that late, I'm still exhausted from Matts' persistence and everything Ms. Denali did. I'm afraid to put too much thought into her actions, but I can't get her out of my head.
Right before I slipped off into sleep, I heard a very feint, yet familiar voice say: 'Sweet dreams my Bella'. The voice was accompanied with a small gust of wind that came from what I thought was a closed window.