Well, I haven´t changed it yet, but in the last chapter, it´s revealed that Jamie is soon seventeen. Let me change that a bit… She´s almost fifteen and her mum have been like she is for three years instead off two.
I had been right, I was late for school. Usually I hated coming late, but right now I just had too much in my head, so coming late for school was my least problem.
I had always tried to think about that time as little as possible, to not end up like mum and dad; I smiled and pretended that it was all ok. And everyone believed me, so why would I quit, and actually show myself, and everyone else, that it wasn´t as ok as it looked.
At lunch time I walked into the eating hall on my own, as usual. Usually, I just sat down by a table on my own, but this time I looked around the hall, and found what I was looking for, when I saw the Cullen- siblings by a table in the corner. I walked over to them.
"W-w-would you mind i- if I sit here?" I stuttered, a bit nervously.
"No not at all," Alice moved her bag from a chair so I could sit down. I sat and started to go through my backpack, and my pockets after lunch money.
"Oh, crap." I almost whispered. "I forgot money for lunch again. Could I lend some money from you, I´ll pay it back later."
"Yes, of course." Alice felt her pockets and pulled out a tenner. I went to buy a sandwich and something to drink, and when I sat back down, I reached Alice the change.
"Oh, just keep the change," she said. "I don´t need it."
"O….kay." I said and put the money in my pocket.
"This is Jasper by the way." Alice pointed to a boy I hadn´t seen before. "He wasn´t at home yesterday."
"I guess you´re Jamie," Jasper said.
"Yes…" I said. "I´m… Jamie" there was something about that boy that made me really nervous.
"You´re ok Jamie?" Alice asked. "You look a bit tired."
"Yeah, yeah I´m fine, just… just didn´t sleep very well tonight." Without thinking, I pulled my sleeve down and scratched my face, around my eye. When I dropped my hand back down, all of the Cullens were staring at me, and I started to realize what I had done.
"I wiped away the make- up did I?" I almost whispered.
"Aha," Alice answered me. "Jamie what on earth have happened to your face?"
"I… I… I ran into a pole."
" Jamie?"
"I did!"
"Yeah, well whatever you did it looks bad," Rosalie that sat next to me. Held one of her hands around my head, and wiped away the rest of the make- up. "We should let Carlisle take a look at that."
"It´s just a black eye," I said and pushed away her hand from my face. "I don´t need a doctor. Did I forget my skates at yours by the way?"
"Don´t change the subject."
" Well fine." I started to get a bit frustrated. "We´ll do it this way. Why are you guys in foster care at Esme´s and Carlisle´s instead of living with your biological parents?" I leaned back.
"That´s private." Emmett looked at me.
"And so is how I got this black I. Can I change subject now? Did I for…"
"Yes," Alice nodded. "You did, they´re in our car. Do you want to go with me there, and we´ll get them for you."
"Sure." I stood up, and threw the plastic from the sandwich in the dumpster, then I followed Alice out to the parking lot.
"Carlisle asked me to tell you…" Alice began, when we were on our way to the car. "… that if you ever need someone to talk to, or need somewhere to stay for a while. Then you´re always welcome at ours."
"I don´t wanna be a waste of time." I mumbled.
"Don´t worry, you´re never a waste of time, and Carlisle´s not the only one thinking that you could come over some time. We all do."
Carlisle´s pov, a few hours later.
I was checking a few X-ray pictures, of a child with a broken arm when Alice and Jasper came walking into my office.
"Hi dad." Alice said, and sat down on a chair on the opposite side of my desk, Jasper stood behind her.
"Hi guys, had a good day at school today?"
"It was good, we met Jamie again." I lifted my head and looked at Alice, who looked a bit worried, and she continued.
"You were right, there really is something going on with her." I laid down the picture on my desktop, and leaned back in the chair. "The first thing I noticed about her today, was that she looked very, very tired. She said she didn´t sleep very well, which, could be true. But then she started scratching her face, by a mistake. She wiped away some make- up, that she had put around her eye, to cover a big black eye." I knew I had now gotten what Nessie used to call. When grandpa´s worried- look. Jasper continued the story.
"Rosie wiped away the rest of the make- up. She told Jamie, that it looked bad, and that we should probably let you take a look at it. But Jamie didn´t want to. Then Jamie changed subject, and asked about her skates."
"We told her not to change the subject, but then she asked us why we´re living with you and mum, instead of living with our real parents. Emmett was the one telling her that that´s private, her asnwer was that so is how she was injured. That´s kind of weird because earlier she told us that she had just walked into a pole."
"And you didn´t believe her because…" I asked.
"She´s not a very good liar, but she´s really good at keeping secrets. She refused to tell us anything, and also, when I told her about what you told me. She said that she didn´t wanna be a waste of time."
"But she´s not…" I began.
"That´s what I told her. She said she would think about it. I really don´t know what more we can do." Alice sighed.
"Well, I´m not giving up," I put on the computer on my desk. "You go home, and see if you can find something out. I´m gonna start with checking her files" I searched for "Jamie Dylan" in our files, and found the right what I found, well, it was definitely not the least tragic story I´d ever heard of.