send me an angel

by youwouldnt4

Bella Swan goes missing two days after her birthday. Her baby sister, Celeste, dreams about her disappearance for months. After Renee files for divorce with Charlie and moves away, disappearing herself. Charlie decides to move to La Push, a town he patrols for work, a town he doesn't know. Little does he know, that Celeste is going to be pulled into a world she never dreamed of.

3. bonfire

sund. 18 december, 2005

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I woke up screaming at the top of my lungs and sitting upright. I grabbed at my throat and neck, feeling, as I looked around my small bedroom, the dream was always the same, exactly like that. Sometimes I would wake up in a cold sweat and to the morning light or wake up in the disrespectful hours of the night. This time I was in a cold sweat and I woke up screaming at the morning light pouring through my sheer beige curtains. The walls of my room are covered in posters of my favorite movies and bands from the 80's and 90's along with my favorite TV Shows, it took me a while to calm down and get myself into the shower.

The water didn't help calming my nerves or the shaking of my limbs, but I did as I do every day. Refuse to go the fuck outside.

I sighed heavily to myself in disappointment reading Dad's note on the kitchen table.

-Went searching for Bella. Won't be back until late tonight.

So, I did everything I could do to keep myself distracted, I played music as I cleaned the house, I watched TV for most of the day while I finished up homework. It was pretty dry outside but when I opened the window for fresh air I immediately closed it, it was too frigid. Or tried to finish homework, Gilmore Girls pulled me in for three full episodes before I realized I wasn't doing any homework, I moved over to the dining room just to have the reruns playing as background noise. Around close to seven at night I honestly couldn't be alone anymore, I honestly couldn't be in the house, I packed up my finished homework and turned off the TV. I went upstairs to dress warmly, leggings under my current beige cargo pants, a long sleeve under my T-shirt, a hoodie and two pairs of socks. I left a note for Dad just in case he came home early, I grabbed the truck keys on the table in the hall, pulled on my parka over my hoodie and stepped into my boots. I climbed into the truck and slammed the door closed once I was in, I went down to the bonfire at the High School for the holidays and I'm pretty sure they switched the football game tonight as well.

I looked at the time on the stereo that had been a present from Emmett, they were lighting the bonfire by now and it was an indication for the busy streets, I wondered how long I would stay. I focused on the road and the music to continue thinking further about any of it. They left without a goodbye, oh well, maybe they took my sister with them and as a sick joke they wanted us to suffer. I could spend the next two hours or so watching the game and spending time around the bonfire, I wasn't really planning on talking to anybody. I didn't expect anyone I know to be here; they weren't really sporty people and by any chance they could be in Port Angeles catching movies or hanging out at the shops. Olympia was too far away to drive too and our parents certainly wouldn't approve, even if we were all together and licensed, Dad disagreed until I was eighteen.

I was technically supposed to be driving with a licensed driver since I'm still 15 until April but driving in Bella's truck was hardly ever a chance for collision. Maybe future dying of the truck all together but I couldn't drive over what 50 or 55, but either way the streets were busy enough for the slow acceleration to be necessary. I have a permit so I'm still technically learning but driving to school has been easy and that's the only time I drove alone, or to work twice a week. I turned on the radio as I waited at a red light with four other cars, I was somewhat in the middle, the heat was working sluggishly. Or maybe because my limbs were still shaking, I turned up the radio to distract myself from thinking further on that and chickening out. It's just a football game and a bonfire.

The red light from the single traffic light ahead finally flashed green and the traffic line began moving one again.

I don't except any of my friends to be here or Bella's friends, I have my pepper spray, or bear pepper spray, and I don't except anyone to mess with me anyways. Dad had made that clear with his inconsistent hunting and search parties for all of the missing victims, plus it was bears that have been sighted and my nightmares were just nightmares. Of the worst, out of grief, maybe the rumors were true that they ran away when they decided to move. I don't know what happened at the party, but Bella knew something was wrong since the party, she didn't tell me what happened.

I parked where I could easily remember where the truck was last, I stuffed my keys into my pocket with my pepper spray and slammed the truck door shut. I walked along the sidewalk towards the mass of people by the lit bonfire and I could hear the babble about the football game. I walked along the track lining the outside of the fenced area for the football field three times, I got cheese fries and a hot dog at the concession stand. I was wiggled into getting a second order of fries after a second unwanted cheese fry order was made. I walked slowly on that track again while eating that order of free fries, I sat at the bonfire for a little while surprised I was enjoying myself.

But I'm so glad that I was. It gave me hope that everything was going to be okay.