Third Person POV.
"I can't believe finals are starting tomorrow!" Sophie said excited
"I can't believe finals are starting tomorrow!" Cat complained
"Come on, after this, we don't need to worry about it!" Sophie reminded her twin, again,
"No, we just need to worry about the army of vampires threatening Seattle!" Cat remembered
"Hey, I've been wondering about that," Sophie began "Do you think we are missing something?"
"Like what?" Cat wondered
"I don't know. Just, with all that's happening, it seems like we're missing an important part of the puzzle." Sophie repeated
"Yeah, the creator" Cat nodded. Sophie gave her sister a look, annoyed. They walked through the halls and saw Bella, Edward and Alice up ahead.
"Ladies" Cat greeted, putting an arm over both Alice and Bella's shoulders "And Edward" she added, smirking at him. He just rolled his eyes at her. "Aww, did I upset you?" she teased. Sophie hit her sister on the back of the head
"Ow" Cat complained.
"How are we this morning?" Sophie wondered, linking her arm through Alice's
"Great. Oh. You have to tell me!" Alice suddenly changed the subject
"Tell you what?" Sophie wondered
"What you're getting me for a graduation present" Alice pouted. Sophie grinned
"I'm sorry, but this isn't your first time graduating, I don't think you need one" Cat teased. Alice looked horrified, obviously not seeing the joke.
"If we told you Alice. It wouldn't be a surprise" Sophie smiled
"This is so annoying. If only I could see your futures" Alice grumbled
"Can't you see your own future?" Cat wondered
"Well you obviously haven't decided when you're gonna give it to me" Alice scolded
"Or we haven't decided whether to give you anything" Cat shrugged. Alice actually glared at her.
"If I don't receive a gift then I'm giving yours back" Alice threatened
"You got us gifts?" Sophie asked surprised
"Of course. And they're perfect" Alice smiled
"Then you wont want to give them back" Cat smirked "Plus, I bet I could find it before you got rid of it"
"You'd have to decide to find it first" Alice said cockily
"Alice, you can't see our futures" Cat reminded her, Alice frowned in frustration.
"Do you know why?" Sophie wondered
"About your futures?" Alice asked, Sophie nodded
"Well, I can't see the wolves either." Alice admitted, the twins nodded, knowing that fact already
"We think it has to do with the fact that Alice has never been one, and that is why she can't see them" Edward answered
"So I can see humans, because I was one once. And I can see vampires because I am one" Alice said ultra quietly
"Guess that means we aren't gifted humans" Sophie realised
"That's one thing we can cross off the list" Cat nodded.
"I thought you already knew what you were?" Bella asked
"Well, in small contents. We just assumed we are elementals because we manipulate the elements. We don't actually know if it's true" Sophie shrugged
"But human's definitely out of the question now we know why Alice can't see us" Cat shrugged
"Why don't you talk to your parents about it?" Edward offered
"And tell them what? 'Hi mum, we just thought we'd let you know that your daughters are some sort of freaks. Would you happen to know why?' Yeah cause that sounds like a great conversation" Cat rolled her eyes.
"You never know they might know something. After all you had to have become like this somehow" Edward reminded them
"Might just be a random thing" Cat shrugged
"Plus, our parents have never done anything weird, or suspicious" Sophie thought
"Well they have had their whole lives to figure out how to not be suspicious" Alice admitted
"This actually sounds absurd" Cat said
"Well the wolves are how they are through their genes, they were born that way. Maybe you two are too" Bella suggested
"Yeah, but, don't you think they might have said something?" Sophie asked
"Billy didn't tell Jake till he first phased" Bella remembered "Maybe they don't want to tell you unless you show … what ever it is"
"Yeah but we're not gonna tell them unless they're already in on it" Cat confessed
"How does that help, they wont tell us unless we do something … odd. And we wont tell them unless they're the same." Sophie sighed
"You think that if they were expecting it they might have seen the changes in us. Going out in the pouring rain, my temperature rising, your's dropping. Things changing and breaking. Remember when I first got my electricity powers, I sent the whole house into a flickering frenzy. And you caused water to spurt everywhere whenever you passed a tap. Don't you think they might have noticed something?" Cat questioned
"Unless you two are completely different and can do things they didn't expect" Edward smirked, Cat scowled at him and Sophie rolled her eyes.
"That is a good point though" Alice sighed
"Especially seeing as they got electricians and plumbers to come and take a look at everything. It was all fine" Sophie shrugged
"If they were in on it all, don't you think they might have put two and two together?" Cat asked, everyone shrugged.
"If they do have something to do with it all, there would be some evidence somewhere, have you looked around your house?" Alice wondered
"We did only just move here. I think all the evidence would have been left behind in Miami" Cat muttered
"We could take a trip down there for you?" Alice shrugged
"Really, you want to go down to lovely, warm, sunny Miami so that you can sparkle it up and expose yourself?" Cat raised an eyebrow
"We'll go at night" Alice shrugged
"That's alright Alice, but so far we don't have any reason to research them. Plus it sounds… strange" Sophie admitted
"Well, lets at least take a look" Alice pouted
"Why are you so interested in our parents Alice?" Cat smirked
"I want to know what else exists out there. Your parents might be the key to finding out what you are. Plus I want to know why I can't see you, you're basically just gifted humans so…" Alice rambled
"The fact that you can't see us means we're not humans" Cat reminded her
"So we need to find out what you are" Alice was getting excited now
"Can we wait till after the angry vampire army is dealt with" Sophie reminded them, Bella frowned. The bell rang and the five of them scattered to their first class. Though they all met back up at lunch.
"So, what's happening with the army thing?" Cat asked as she, Sophie and Bella ate their lunches.
"Well we still need to get a few things in order, and that's going to take a little time. So as long as we're sitting here waiting, I've been planning a graduation party" Alice grinned
"Serious?" Bella, Sophie and Cat chorused
"Where was my invite?" Cat questioned, annoyed
"What are you talking about? I sent you both an invite through the mail" Alice admitted, Cat looked confused before her expression turned sour and she turned to her twin. Sophie was looking very absorbed in her food
"Why the hell did you tell me about this?" she raged at Sophie
"Because then you would have been worrying about what to wear and would have dragged me to Seattle or Port Angeles to go shopping" Sophie sighed
"So?"
"So I didn't really feel like taking a trip to a vampire infested city, nor did I feel like going shopping. Plus we had finals to study for, we don't have time to be worrying about such a thing" Sophie admitted
"Were you going to tell me?" Cat grumbled
"Yeah. The day of the party" Sophie admitted
"That isn't nice, she needs time to prepare" Alice argued
"That's alright Alice, you and I can go on a shopping spree later" Cat grinned, Alice began bouncing up and down in her seat.
"That sounds awesome" she grinned.
"Alice. You can't be serious!?" Bella said disappointed "You've completely lost you mind"
"Say what you want about me." Alice answered "The party is still on" Bella stared at her in disbelief "Oh, calm down, Bella! There's no reason not to go through with it. Besides, the invitations are already sent."
"But...the...you...I...insane!" Bella spluttered.
"You've already bought my present," Alice reminded Bella. "You don't have to do anything but show up." Bella made an effort to calm herself.
"With everything that is going on right now, a party is hardly appropriate."
"Graduation is what's going on right now, and a party is so appropriate it's almost passé."
"Alice!"
"As long as we're sitting here waiting, we might as well commemorate the good stuff. You're only going to graduate from high school — for the first time — once. You don't get to be human again, Bella. This is a once-in-a-lifetime shot." Alice tried to convince her. Edward, silent through their little argument, flashed her a warning look. Alice stuck out her tongue at him. She was right — her soft voice would never carry over the babble of the cafeteria. And no one would understand the meaning behind her words in any case.
"Alice, shouldn't you be worrying about other things? Don't you have other planning to do instead?" Sophie sighed. Alice gave her a look
"I can multitask" she convinced
"Just don't get the two plans mixed up" Cat smirked.
"What few things do we need to get in order?" Bella asked, remembering Alice's words. Edward answered in a low voice.
"Jasper thinks we could use some help. Tanya's family isn't the only choice we have. Carlisle's trying to track down a few old friends, and Jasper is looking up Peter and Charlotte. He's considering talking to Maria . . . but no one really wants to involve the southerners." Alice shuddered delicately.
"What about Tanya's family?" Sophie wondered
"Irena does not like the wolves, after they killed Laurent. They'd only help us in exchange for letting them kill the pack" Edward explained. The twins looked at him horrified "Carlisle would never allow that. So don't worry"
"Is that why you're looking for other people to help?" Cat asked, Edward nodded
"It shouldn't be too hard to convince them to help," he continued. "Nobody wants a visit from Italy."
"But these friends — they're not going to be . . .vegetarians, right?" Bella protested, using the Cullens' tongue-in-cheek nickname for themselves.
"No," Edward answered, suddenly expressionless.
"Here? In Forks?"
"They're friends," Alice reassured Bella. "Everything's going to be fine. Don't worry. And then, Jasper has to teach us a few courses on newborn elimination. . . ." Edward's eyes brightened at that, and a brief smile flashed across his face.
"You're having fight lessons?" Cat asked, Alice nodded "Oh please let me join" she asked, Bella looked at her horrified while the two vampires looked worried
"That wouldn't be smart, you might end up burning them" Sophie reminded her sister, bitting into an apple. Cat frowned
"I'd be careful"
"They could kill you" Bella said worried
"No they wouldn't. I'm tougher than I look Bella, it would take more than Emmett to break me" Cat grinned. Bella didn't look convinced.
"Don't worry Bells, she'll be right" Sophie assured her
"Soph, you should come too. It'll be fun" Cat shook her sisters arm
"Maybe"
"It'll be after finals so you wont need to worry" Cat continued. Sophie just sighed and Cat grinned, having won her over.
"When are you going?" Bella asked in a hollow voice. You could tell she was worried, worried about the idea that someone might not come back. What if it was Emmett, so brave and thoughtless that he was never the least bit cautious? Or Esme, so sweet and motherly that you couldn't even imagine her in a fight? Or Alice, so tiny, so fragile-looking? Or . . . Bella couldn't even think the name, consider the possibility.
"A week," Edward said casually. "That ought to give us enough time."
"And Alice would have her party off her mind" Cat smirked causing Alice to roll her eyes
"You look kind of green, Bella," Alice commented. Everyone looked at her, she did look a little nauseated. Edward put his arm around her and pulled her tightly against his side.
"It's going to be fine, Bella. Trust me."
"Yeah, I'm sure Alice would have seen if something bad was gonna happen" Cat assured her
"Unless it's one of you two" Bella muttered, Cat shrugged
"A vampires's weakness is fire, I'll be fine"
"What about Sophie?" Bella questioned looking at her
"Even a vampire will shatter if frozen hard enough" Sophie grinned. Bella sighed but, then her face showed a sign of realisation
"You're looking for help," she said slowly.
"Yes." Alice's head cocked to the side as she processed the change in Bella's tone. Bella looked only at her as she answered. Her voice was just slightly louder than a whisper.
"I could help." Edward's body was suddenly rigid, his arm too tight around Bella. He exhaled, and the sound was a hiss. But it was Alice, still calm, who answered.
"That really wouldn't be helpful."
"Why not?" Bella argued; you could hear the desperation in her voice. "Eight is better than seven. There's more than enough time."
"There's not enough time to make you helpful, Bella," Alice disagreed coolly. "Do you remember how Jasper described the young ones? You'd be no good in a fight. You wouldn't be able to control your instincts, and that would make you an easy target. And then Edward would get hurt trying to protect you." She folded her arms across her chest, pleased with her unassailable logic.
"Sounds like you'd cause more damage than you'd prevent" Sophie agreed with her. Bella slumped in her seat, realising Alice was right with her sudden hope defeated. Beside her, Edward relaxed. He whispered the reminder in her ear.
"Not because you're afraid.". The twins shared a look confused but brushed the thought off
"Oh," Alice said, and a blank look crossed her face. Then her expression became surly. "I hate last-minute cancellations. So that puts the party attendance list down to sixty-seven. . . ."
"Sixty-seven!" Bella's eyes bulged.
"Who canceled?" Edward wondered, ignoring Bella.
"Renée."
"What?" Bella gasped.
"She was going to surprise you for your graduation, but something went wrong. You'll have a message when you get home."
"She's your mother right?" Cat asked, Bella nodded
"Must be difficult being away from her" Sophie muttered
"It is, but it's also safer" Bella admitted
"Makes sense" Cat smirked causing everyone to roll their eyes.
The time for their last period flew by and the twins said good bye to Bella and the two Cullens' before heading home.
"You're gonna make me study aren't you" Cat mumbled
"Yep" Sophie grinned, Cat slumped in the passenger seat of her sisters car, dreading the quickly approaching afternoon. Sophie parked the car and basically dragged Cat into the dinning room. The house was empty and both Cat and Sophie's laptops came floating down the stairs along with their school books as Sophie manipulated the gravity around them. They set up everything on the dinning table and sat down. Cat had some music playing through her computer and they otherwise sat and crammed in silence. They heard thumping from upstairs and both of them looked at the celling before looking at one another. They sighed and continued on, it didn't take long for Embry and Jacob to come down the stairs and find them
"Hey, what you two doing?" Embry asked
"Studying" the twins chorused
"Why?"
"Well unlike you lot, who are already on summer break, we have finals to study for" Cat reminded them
"Right. Guess you don't want us here than" Jacob smirked
"You can stay, just as long as you let us work" Sophie smiled "Go what some TV or something" she offered
"Can I go sleep?" Jacob asked, Cat looked at him confused, she than noticed the bags under his eyes
"Dude, what happened?" she questioned, standing up
"I'm just tired" he shrugged
"Why? Haven't you been sleeping?"
"I have, like two hours a night, not even" he admitted yawning. Cat put her hands on her hips
"Go upstairs and sleep right now!" she ordered. Cat knew he was getting lack of sleep because he was running double shifts looking after Bella. It didn't matter how much Cat convinced him that she was watching out for her, Jacob still insisted on patrolling. Jacob gave Cat a kiss before he obeyed her order and slumped his way back up the stairs.
"Dude, why can't you help him?" Cat asked Embry
"Alpha's orders. Plus he insisted he was fine" Embry rolled his eyes. Cat huffed
"Idiot" she sat back down while Embry sat next to Sophie and began to play with her hair while she scribbled down all sorts of things she decided she needed to remember. About an hour later Cat's phone rang
"My saviour! I almost died of boredom!" she said relieved
"Wow, what's wrong?" Bella asked
"Sophie has me studying" Cat blamed
"That's good" Bella thought
"But boring" Cat complained
"Well, your welcome for distracting you" Bella grinned
"Yes, I am in your eternal debt" Cat joked "So what's up, no doubt you should be studying too"
"I was, I'm taking a well needed break" Bella admitted
"Huh… got bored?" Cat wondered
"Just a little"
"Well, at least you have an all-knowing boyfriend to help you out" Cat sighed
"Speaking of boyfriends, you wouldn't happen to know where your's is do you?" Bella asked
"As a matter of fact I do" Cat nodded
"He's not on patrol is he?" Bella worried down the phone
"No, he's not."
"Where is he? He didn't pick up his phone" Bella explained
"Upstairs, sleeping on my bed" Cat grinned
"Really?" Bella sounded surprised
"That boy's out of it, he looked like a zombie" Cat sighed
"Why?"
"He hasn't been sleeping well" Cat confessed
"Don't wake him, please" Bella asked
"Alright. Want me to pass a message on?" Cat wondered
"Yeah, I was wondering if I could come round tomorrow, Edward's going hunting so…" Bella explained
"Well, you could come here if you wanted. Not like it's out of our way, plus Jake will turn up, at some point. He always does" Cat offered, she looked at Sophie who nodded in agreement
"Well…"
"You're just as safe here as you are anywhere else. Soph and I will be home, plus both the wolves and vampires can get to our house, plus Embry and Jake are here any chance they get. Actually if you think about it, my house is the safest place, nothing can get within a ten mile radius without Soph or I knowing about it." Cat convinced
"Well…" Bella began
"I know it's not you I need to convince, I need to convince an over protective vampire. As soon as he realises that he is completely underestimating us he will totally stop worrying. It's not like Soph or I are dangerous" Cat continued
"Huh" Sophie huffed
"Don't do that, he can hear you" Cat scolded, Sophie shrugged.
"Alright." Bella agreed
"Yes!" Cat cheered.
"So she coming?" Sophie asked
"Yep"
"Edward wants to talk to you" Bella said
"Jesus christ" Cat muttered rolling her eyes. Sophie looked at her as Cat sat with her head leaning in the palm of her hand, while the other held the phone to her ear. She nodded her head and rolled her eyes several times while listening to Edward. Sophie studied her sister's facial expression, pausing in her studies, she glanced at Embry who raised an eyebrow. Sophie shrugged
"Jeez Edward, I swear you just said more words in the last five minutes than in your entire lifetime" Cat cut him off "She's my friend too, you really think we're gonna let anything happen to her. Plus, there's so much wolf smell around here I doubt they'll even think of coming to our house to look for her. Of all places"
"I know…" Edward sighed
"Good, then calm down, take a deep, unneeded breath and relax" Cat convinced "We'll be fine, and you can come to our house to pick her up instead of picking her up at the boarder"
"Alright" Edward finally agreed
"Jeez, when you talk like that it makes me want to punch you" Cat confessed, Edward chuckled on the other end
"I don't think I need to tell you what it's like to care about someone so much that you'd give your life for them" Edward reminded her
"Yeah, but I only know what it's like to be the one being protected. I've never been protective enough to cage a person, especially seeing as my world can protect himself" Cat explained
"Well mine can't" Edward admitted
"Not yet. But as I remember, she has heaps of friends who can protect her, not just you. I find it insulting that you think no one but yourself has the means to look after her" Cat confessed "And, this is gonna be mean but, you're kind of the one, that I've heard of so far, that couldn't protect her. James, the Volturi, and now she's had some intruder in her house, I know this is the reason why you left her before, but aren't you the one who couldn't look after her?" Cat stopped, letting him think about her words. Edward sighed on the other end of the phone
"Will you look after her for me, please?" he asked
"No, she doesn't need a baby sitter, we will watch movies and I will drag Jake down here and they can have some fun at some point" Cat said "I'll look after her in the sense that she's my house guest, that's about it. If she gets into trouble then you can count on me… and Sophie" she assured him
"Thank you" Edward said
"Don't thank me yet" Cat rolled her eyes before hanging up. "He better not get all protective around me, drives me nuts"
"No arguments here" Sophie muttered as she went back to studying again. The twins stayed up till about ten studying, their parents had made them stop and clean up while they were eating. Sophie wouldn't let them stay awake past ten as she believed they needed a goods night sleep. Embry had crashed on Sophie's bed earlier and Jacob had been out since he first got to the house. The twins climbed into bed with their wolves before drifting off.
Sophie walked into Cat's room fully dressed the next morning, a book in her hand as she tried to get in some final revision before the finals. Her lips were moving as she read the words. Sophie looked up to see Cat walk out of her on suit dressed and ready, Sophie raised an eyebrow, her sister was wearing glasses, but they didn't have any lenses in them.
"What are those?" Sophie asked
"They make me feel smarter" Cat shrugged
"They're a distraction" Sophie disagreed
"So, not like they're distracting you" Cat argued
"No they'll distracting you and I'll have to hear about how you failed because you were to busy playing with your glasses" Sophie said, her arms crossed. They twins had a stare off for a few minutes before Cat sighed and took the glasses of, placing them on her dresser
"Fine" she grumbled. Sophie grinned in accomplishment, but they were distracted when Jacob jumped in through the door
"Where have you been?" Cat questioned
"Patrolling" Jacob shrugged with a yawn
"Dude! You need to stop!" Cat said worried
"I'm fine" Jacob shrugged her off
"No, you're not" Cat disagreed, she took a deep breath "You're not leaving my room until you've had like 15 hours worth of sleep"
"I can't…" Jacob began
"I am making you!" Cat cut him off "I'm gonna go and rage to Sam. I'm gonna watch Bella, she's coming here this afternoon. You are going to sleep" Cat said seriously
"Cat…"
"Don't you 'Cat' me!" Cat disagreed "I have the means to trap you in my room you know so don't bother trying to argue with me" Cat's hair was turning fire orange, and her eyes were a purple colour as the red mixed with the blue. Jacob walked up to her while Sophie let out a small sigh
"I'm ok" he told her
"How can you look after Bella if you're not looking after yourself?" Cat questioned
"I'm…"
"Stop saying you're fine" Cat hissed. She pushed passed him and left the room, Jacob sighed and looked at Sophie
"She's just worried about you" Sophie admitted
"I know" Jacob sighed
"At least stay here for a while, it will make her better, plus she doesn't need to be worrying about you during her finals today" Sophie reminded him, Jacob nodded
"Alright" he muttered, Sophie smiled and left the room after her sister, grabbing the school bag Cat had left behind.
"Make sure you don't miss our finals" Sophie warned, she didn't get a reply as she walked down to her car. Sophie threw her sister's bag on the back seat with her own before driving down to school. Cat turned up to school just before her finals began, grabbing her things from Sophie's convertible. The day passed and so did the finals, Cat let out a huge sigh while Sophie stretched her arms
"It' over!" Cat cheered, Sophie rolled her eyes but grinned, also glad
"How do you think you did?" Bella asked appearing
"Alright" Sophie nodded
"I'm glad you made me study" Cat admitted
"You're welcome" Sophie nudged her, Cat rolled her eyes but smiled "What about you Bella?" Sophie wondered as Edward come out of the school behind her
"So how do you feel you did on your exams?" he asked them
"I just asked Bella" Sophie said turning back to her
"History was easy, but I don't know about the calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed" Bella admitted
"Where did you get that logic from?" Cat wondered "If it made sense than you probably did well"
"This is calculus we're talking about" Bella disagreed, Cat rolled her eyes. Edward laughed "I'm sure you did fine. Or, if you're really worried, I could bride Mr Varner to give you an A" he offered, Sophie raised her eyebrows while Cat looked at him annoyed
"Er, thanks, but no thanks" Bella answered
"That's cheating Edward" Sophie scolded, he shrugged
"Maybe you can let her cheat next time but not the first time she does it" Cat grinned, Sophie rolled her eyes "What? Eventually she'll be smart enough to not even need it. Which isn't fair" she grumbled, causing Bella to smile and Sophie to sigh.
"So, shall we go?" Sophie offered
"Sure" Bella turned to Edward to kiss him goodbye as the twins headed off to Sophie's car before she followed them. Sophie raced down the road
"You drive really fast" Bella admitted
"Than be glad we're not in Cat's car, it goes faster" Sophie grinned, looking at her through the rearview mirror. Cat smirked. They reached the house and Bella looked up at it amazed, the only other house that she'd seen this grand around here was the Cullens'. Though the twins house looked bigger from the front.
"Woah" she muttered after Sophie turned off the ignition
"That's the reaction we get a lot" Sophie grinned
"You guys must be loaded" Bella smirked, the twins shrugged before leading her inside. They gave a quick tour of the bottom and middle floors before heading upstairs and showing Bella their rooms. Jacob met them halfway down the stairs
"Hey" Bella greeted
"Hey" Jacob gave her hug
"How long did you sleep for?" Cat wondered, Jacob shrugged
"Few hours"
"Why? What's wrong?" Bella questioned
"He's not getting enough sleep that's what's wrong" Cat explained before they walked up the rest of the stairs.
"Why not?" Bella wondered. Jacob made a face.
"Sam's being difficult. He doesn't trust your bloodsuckers. I've been running double shifts for two weeks and nobody's touched me yet, but he still doesn't buy it. So I'm on my own for now."
"Double shifts? Is this because you're trying to watch out for me? Jake, that's wrong! You need to sleep. I'll be fine."
"That's what I said, I'm watching your house too and yet I'm not loosing my sleeping hours. I also told him that he can't look after you when he's half dead but he still wont listen." Cat agreed
"You're watching my house too?" Bella asked
"Yeah, I thought I told you that?" Cat looked at her confused
"How?" Bella wondered
"Remember what she said about the vibrations?" Sophie asked, Bella thought then nodded "She's watching the vibrations around your house" Sophie shrugged
"Hey, did you ever find out who was in your room? Is there anything new?" Jacob wondered
"No, we didn't find anything out about my, um, visitor." Bella answered
"Not yet anyway" Cat sighed, they walked into Sophie's room
"Woah, nice room" Bella muttered
"Thanks" Sophie smiled, she slumped down on her bed "I'm so glad" she muttered
"That's right, how did your finals go?" Jacob wondered
"Alright" all three girls answered, they grinned at one another
"More specific?" Jacob asked
"Not bad" Cat shrugged
"Studying last night certainly helped" Sophie admitted, Jacob looked at Cat with a raised eyebrow who nodded seriously
"Well, good thing I didn't distract you" he smirked
"I'm glad you were sleeping instead, you needed it" Cat murmured, Jacob rolled his eyes.
"Where's Embry by the way? He patrolling?" Sophie wondered
"Yeah, he'll be off in about an hour or so" Jacob answered, Sophie nodded
"So Bells what you wanna do? We have a games room downstairs" Sophie wondered
"Or we could watch movies" Cat suggested
"Or go out for a walk" Jacob said, everyone looked at him
"Edward would kill us" Cat sighed "He already gave me a lecture on looking after her" she rolled her eyes
"Sorry" Bella apologised
"It's not your fault" Cat shrugged
"We could go to the beach" Sophie thought, Cat and Jacob sighed "What?" Sophie questioned
"Bells would freeze?" Jacob reminded her
"Oh yeah" Sophie muttered
"Well, I've decided I'm ordering pizza" Cat piped up before running off downstairs
"That wasn't random" Sophie admitted, Jacob nodded. Bella grinned. Sophie then turned to Jacob
"Did you actually get any sleep?" she asked quietly, Jacob sighed and shook his head, Sophie exhaled "You realise she can sometimes hear your thoughts right?", Jacob looked up and thought but shook his head
"We did tell you" Sophie mumbled
"What?" Bella wondered sitting next to Sophie
"Cat and I can hear each others thoughts right? Well sometimes we can head the thoughts of others. People we're standing close to, people we're close to emotionally wise. Cat's heard Jacob's thoughts before, I've heard Embry's, we've heard a few other thoughts when walking through the corridors at school. It's not like Edward who hears everything, we only hear quick snippets, and not all the time either." Sophie explained
"She's heard my thoughts?" Jacob asked, Sophie nodded
"The very first time was when you imprinted on her" she admitted "You really confused her with those thoughts all this 'how can I tell her? I can't.' and thinking about how 'you physically couldn't disobey Sam.' She came back home after that really confused" Sophie explained. Jacob sighed "Don't worry, we can't always control it" she assured him
"What do you mean always?" Bella wondered
"Well sometimes when we really want to or really try to listen to a person's thoughts it works but otherwise it's completely random" Sophie shrugged
"You guys can really do a lot" Bella muttered
"You should have seen what happened the first time an animal spoke to one of us" Sophie laughed "It was hilarious. It happened to Cat first, this dog came up to her and barked but Cat heard it tell her to stroke it and pet it and play with it. You should have seen her face" Sophie giggled "She looked horrified and then when she told me I couldn't help but think she was mad, that didn't really help her but…" Sophie was snickering away at the memory
"Well what about the time you first spoke to a dolphin?" Cat said appearing at he door, three pizza boxes in her hands "Now that was funny. We were at a dolphin park and you full on freaked out, saying 'it talked, did you hear that? It talked' hilarious!" Cat laughed as Jacob took one of the pizza boxes
"Well it was weird. It was a little easier once we tested it and figured out it was connected to our elements" Sophie explained, still grinning
"What about us?" Jacob asked Cat
"Well, you guys aren't exactly normal animals. I think because you're supernatural I can't understand you guys" Cat shrugged
"Good thing too, that would be weird" Sophie thought, Cat nodded in agreement
"I can't believe you can understand animals though, that doesn't really have anything to do with the elements" Bella confessed
"That's exactly what we thought" Cat nodded with a shrug
"That same with being able to read one another's minds" Sophie added
"That could just be a twin thing though" Cat admitted
"Not exactly a normal twin thing" Sophie raised an eyebrow
"Alright, because of us being twins" Cat rephrased
"Better" Sophie nodded. Cat handed Sophie one of the boxes of pizza she had left in her hands and the twins and Bella shared the two pizzas, Jacob eventually began pigging out on the last two boxes because he'd finished the first.
"So, any special plans next week? You're all graduating. Wow. That's big." Jacob glanced at Bella and his voice turned flat, his face, looked downright haggard as his eyes closed in denial. The twins glanced at one another than at Bella, realising that graduation still had a horrible significance for him, it was Bella's 'human deadline'.
"No special plans," Bella said carefully, looking at the twins as she hoped he would hear the reassurance in her words without a more detailed explanation. Bella didn't want to get into it now. For one thing, Jacob didn't look up for any difficult conversations. For another, he would read too much into Bella's qualms. "Well, I do have to go to a graduation party. Mine." Bella made a disgusted sound.
"I'm a little annoyed that Alice it just throwing it for you, I mean we're graduating for the first time too" Cat complained
"Good point" Bella muttered thinking
"Graduation party?" Jacob wondered
"Alice loves parties, and she's invited the whole town to her place the night of. It's going to be horrible."
"It's not gonna be that bad" Cat rolled her eyes, Sophie sighed
"I don't know" she muttered
"You like parties"
"Some parties" Sophie corrected her twin. Jacob looked at them all and grinned
"I didn't get an invitation. I'm hurt," he teased. He looked at Cat
"I didn't even know there was one till this morning because some people -" Cat shot Bella and Sophie a look "- didn't tell me."
"Consider yourself invited. It's supposedly my party, so I should be able to ask who I want." Bella said
"Thanks," Jacob said sarcastically.
"I wish you would come," Bella said without any hope. "It would be more fun. For me, I mean."
"Sure, sure," he mumbled. "That would be very . . . wise . . ." His voice trailed off.
"I think it'd be fun. Sophie have you invited Embry?" Cat wondered
"Really?" Sophie asked "Invite werewolves to a vampires party?"
"What? It could be fun" Cat shrugged
"Or a catastrophe" Sophie muttered
"Thanks" Jacob said sarcastically
"You're welcome" Sophie grinned causing Jacob to roll his eyes. They all turned their heads as Embry jumped in through the doors
"Lucky you guys have doors, all I get is a window" Bella complained
"Good thing Edward can get through it quickly than" Cat grinned
"Though because of these two we're more vulnerable then you, these doors never shut, not even when know one's home" Sophie admitted
"Ever?" Bella asked
"Ever" the twins nodded.
"Hey" Embry grinned kissing Sophie
"Hey" she grinned when they broke apart
"How was your patrol?" Cat wondered
"Good" Embry shrugged
"Nothing interesting then" Cat sighed, Embry shook his head his nose sniffed
"Did you guys eat pizza without me?" he asked horrified
"You can order some more if you'd like" Cat offered as she pulled some money out of her pocket. The money was out of her hand and Embry was out of the room before anyone could catch him leaving
"You're welcome" Cat muttered
"Thanks Blaze" Embry called, Cat grinned but rolled her eyes
"Blaze?" Bella wondered
"Leah gave me the nickname, than Jared began using it, than Embry and Quil and Paul and Seth. Only Sam and Jacob call me my real name anymore" Cat explained with a shrug
"Does that mean you have one?" Bella asked Sophie
"Leah doesn't like me, and no one else has thought of one" Sophie shrugged
"You know, you tell Emmett about that and he'll start calling you by it too" Bella warned
"Narr, I think the vampires need a different name" Cat thought "Just not really sure what it should be" she admitted. They all thought for a minute
"Hot stuff" Sophie offered
"Not really awesome" Cat muttered
"Crimson?" Jacob offered "Cause you're eyes turn crimson when you're mad" he remembered, Cat wriggled her nose
"Rouge" Bella said suddenly
"Rouge?" everyone asked
"It's some red powder used for coloured your cheeks or lips" Bella shrugged
"Not bad" Cat nodded "I don't mind that one. But we need some for Sophie too"
"I don't need one" Sophie disagreed
"To bad" Cat grinned before going into a thinking state. They heard the door bell ring and Embry soon emerged with about six more pizzas. The girls looked at them all with their mouths wide open. The two wolves immediately began digging in, Cat had a few more slices, the smell tempting her to much.
"Splash?" Cat offered, Sophie shook her head
"Frost" Bella offered, Sophie nodded but still not completely in for it
"What are we doing?" Embry wondered
"Thinking of a nickname for Sophie, one for the wolves to use and one for the bloodsuckers" Jacob explained, Cat hit him "Ow" he muttered
"Glaze" Bella said, Sophie shook her head
"Crystal" Cat offered, everyone looked at her confused "Ice crystals" Cat explained
"Freeze" Embry suggested
"That's not obvious" Cat sighed, Embry shrugged
"Chime" Bella said, earning a confused look "Well, wind blows through chimes and make nice noises" everyone sighed and Bella scowled at them all.
"Frost was the only good one" Sophie muttered
"We need two" Cat reminded her
"Storm" Embry said
"That's only the rain" Sophie reminded her, Embry shrugged
"So?"
"A storm could be a windstorm" Cat admitted, Sophie smiled, she did like that one
"Can we find another one other then 'Frost'?" she asked
"There are heaps of words, I'm sure we can find something" Bella grinned
"Steam?" Cat shrugged
"To much like Storm" Sophie shook her head
"Beat?" Bella said
"Beat?" Cat wondered
"Well, hail makes a beating noise" Bella shrugged
"Huh" Cat muttered
"Myst" Embry thought
"That's cool" Sophie grinned
"Fog" Cat grinned, Sophie made a face
"Let's stick with Myst" she decided
"Myst and Storm"
"You know, shouldn't someone else be choosing them?" Jacob wondered
"Well no one else did" Sophie shrugged
"So who get's which?" Cat wondered
"Doesn't matter" Sophie admitted
"I wish I had a nickname" Bella sighed
"You do" Cat grinned, Bella looked at her confused "Vampire girl" Bella rolled her eyes
"That's not a cool one though" Bella muttered
"Hey" Embry complained
"Well when you change maybe we'll call you crimson" Cat smirked, earning a shake of the head from Bella. She then frowned and the twins followed her gaze to Jacob's face, he was frowning also, Bella had told him her deadline was graduation, in only a weeks time.
"By the way," Bella began trying to change the subject "Before the… my, graduation party, why don't you two come to my house first?" she offered
"Sounds awesome!" Cat grinned
"I'll finally get to see your house" Sophie smiled
"It's not that special" Bella shrugged
"Still" Sophie mumbled
"Which reminds me, I need to go shopping and get something to wear!" Cat worried
"You probably already have something" Sophie sighed
"But I need something else! Something new" Cat complained
"No you don't, you have an entire wardrobe full of clothes" Jacob reminded her
"Yeah, your closets almost as big as Alice's" Sophie sighed
"Serious?" Bella asked, Sophie nodded seriously and Bella gave Cat an 'are you serious?' look.
"What? I needed them, they were essential!" Cat shrugged
"Essential? Half of them you've only worn once" Sophie sighed
"So?" Cat questioned, Sophie sighed, knowing she couldn't get through to her sister about such a topic.
"You don't really have much time to go" Bella said
"I have the weekend, that's enough time" Cat shrugged "I'll call Alice and we'll go together seeing as you two are boring"
"If Alice could see your future, she'd be ringing round right now to say yes" Bella smiled
"I know" Cat nodded confidently "Oh but if Alice comes I can't get her a graduation gift" she remembered
"We don't have to go all the way to Port Angeles for that, just order one online, you have a week" Sophie reminded her
"True" Cat grinned. They all ended up watching a movie after that before the boys had to leave for patrol, the girls found it convenient that the wolves left just before Edward turned up to pick up Bella that evening.
"I wish we could just make things appear out of thin air" Cat sighed
"Why? So you can have an unlimited collection of clothes?" Sophie rolled her eyes
"No, an unlimited collection of anything" Cat shrugged grinning "Come on Soph, wouldn't you like to have an unlimited amount of something?"
"Dunno, depends on what it is" Sophie thought
"Well pick something and answer" Cat ordered, Sophie gave her a look
"It's not that easy, you know"
"Could be, if you knew what you wanted" Cat admitted
"Well, currently, I don't" Sophie shrugged.
"Obviously, Storm" Cat smirked, Sophie grinned back.