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I winced when the principal said Rileanna had detention for a month. Hopefully that would not ruin our plans for later today. It would suck if we did not get more information on the La Plush boys. But, I picked up my bag and headed to Biology.
Tam was in his usual seat, next to mine. I hesitated for one moment before sitting down next to him. I would push all doubt aside until he gave me a solid reason not to. Biology today was about the excretion system. Great. As the teacher blabbed on, I doodled on my notepaper and hummed the tune form my dream. I wondered if Tam would recognize it or not. Probably not, it was my dream after all, how would he know about whatever tune I was humming? Tam did not seem to notice, and I scribbled down what the homework was and stood in my seat. Tam caught my arm. I tried to keep my breathing steady and turned to face him. "Hey, do you want me to drive you and Riles home later?" He asked with a smile. I almost said yes but then remembered my previous plan. "Thanks Tam, but Riles and I have plans. Seth and Jacob are picking us up after school," I started, I wanted to come up with a good excuse for why the two wolves were picking Rileanna and me up. "Seth wanted to show Riles around and you know how inseparable the two of us are." I told him half the truth. Seth, in a way, was going to show Rileanna around. But not around La Plush, around how the whole werewolf thing worked. And the second part was completely true. Tam sighed, but let it go with a smile. P.E. was fun, it was dodge ball day. I loved dodge ball. I got hit twice in the head though and ended up sitting out the rest of the time because of a headache. I watched Tam from the sidelines. He never got hit. It was amazing. Tam was so agile. So fast. Moved so much like how a vampire would move..... I shook my head and only ended up with a worse headache. I had to at least try to convince myself that Tam was not a vampire. Then school was over. Rileanna and I waved good-bye to Renesme and Tam. They drove off and Rileanna and I waited on the curb for Jacob and Seth to show up. We only had to wait a few minutes. Jacob and Seth rolled on and motorcycles. Jacob had a shiny black one and Seth had a dark blue one. Seth handed Rileanna a helmet and helped her on behind him. I looked at Jacob and he looked back with a smile on his face and rolled his eyes at Seth and Rileanna as he gave me a helmet and helped me on to the back on his motorcycle. Then we headed down to La Plush. |
Seth and Jacob showed up on motercycles. "Sweet!" I exclaimed, even though my parents would kill me if they found out I was riding on a motercycle. That thought reminded me of Paul. "Hey, you never answered my question last night." I pointed out once we were in La Push. All three of them looked at me, confused. "On the subject of whether or not I could kill Paul." I said evenly and semi-calmly I was still furious that he was my dad anyway.
"Erm, I don't think that would be a good idea Riles." Jacob said, but sounding like he wouldn't really mind if I did. I pouted. "That's not fair. If I can't kill him can I atleast push into the fire? Pretty please?" Jacob looked like he was about to say no, so I reminded him that Paul had pushe me into the fier first and that I should get a turn. |
Rileanna and Jacob argued about what Rileanna could do to Paul for her many reasons as we walked down to the beach. "Does she always hold a grudge this bad?" Seth asked, a chuckle on the edge of his voice. I nodded. "Oooh yeah. I still thinks she dislikes the boy who was teasing me back at the adoption center. But this whole Paul thing, she's never going to let that go." I said, shaking my head. Yeah, Paul was a little young for a kid, but who knew what werewolves could do with their age if they transformed by anger and not the moon like legend said. And what made it worse was that Paul pushed Rileanna into the fire. Did he know that Rileanna was his daughter? Probably not.
Rileanna and Jacob were still talking, but not about Paul now. The topic was about something else now; being a werewolf I think. Seth and I sat down. I chose that moment to ask. "Hey Seth," I said, getting his attention. "Yeah, Icy?" he said, looking up at me. "What was that kiss about last night?" I asked him, nodding my head towards Rileanna. He blushed. " Well...." he scratched the back of his head. It took him a minute to respond but finally Seth spoke. "There's this thing called "imprinting" that we werewolves have. It's sorta like love at first sight but it's not always love. It's like you always have to be there for the person you imprinted on. They're the center of your world..." He looked dreamily at Rileanna. "Oooh." I said, looking to Rileanna as well. |
Jacob finally agreed to let me peg Paul in the head. He'd said no to everything else, but that didn't mean I wasn't going to do it. I definately had to push him into the fire, if nothing else. Then Jacob began telling me all the different wolf things. Even though I was wrapped up in what he was telling me, I still heard Icy ask about last nights kiss. "Icy!" I exclaimed, turning toward her I stuck my tongue out at her, and walked over to where she and Seth sat.
"So, can I go see Paul now?" I asked, directing it more to Jacob since he seemed to be in charge. He sighed. "Your not going to drop this are you?" Jacob asked. I shook my head. "Fine, we'll go see Paul now." Jacob said, sighing again as he stood up. I smiled smugly, I couldn't wait to let Paul have it, and to find out that he pushed his own daughter into the fire. "Icy, you may want to stand back." Jacob told her, probably thinking that if Paul turned into a wolf she wouldn't really be able to defend herself, or something along those lines. Paul saw us then, and started walking toward us, glaring. I returned his glare. "What do you want?" He asked, looking at me. "Well, what I want is to kill you, or atleast push you into the fire. But Jacob won't let me, so...." I pulled the tennis ball out from behind my back and pegged him in the head. He started vibrating. "I wanted to do that, and inform you that I am your daughter, just thought you should know." I could see that he was about to transform, so I ran for the cover of the woods so I could take off my clothes before I transformed. |
We walked over to Paul's place. Jacob told me to keep my distance and I did. From what I had seen of Paul, he was not one of controlled temper. He came into sight and glared at Rileanna. "What do you want?" He asked, looking at her with hatred. "Well, what I want is to kill you, or at least push you into the fire. But Jacob won't let me, so...." Rileanna pegged him in the head with a tennis ball after she said that. Paul started vibrating. "I wanted to do that, and inform you that I am your daughter, just thought you should know." Rileanna finished. Paul started to shake more violently now. Rileanna and him raced into the forest. Jacob and Seth followed them.
I stayed put. I could hear loud and angered growls coming from the dense forest. I hoped Rileanna would be okay. Could werewolves get hurtn by other werewolves? Or were they impervious to attacks like vampires? My dream from last night came back into my head while I waited for the squabbling wolves to finish. I needed; no, wanted to know if he and the others were really vampires or not. |
Paul and I continued fighting until Seth and Jacob stepped in and broke it up. But not before I got a good chunk out of Paul.
After that, Paul ran off, and I phased back into human form. "Are you alright Riles?" Seth asked anxiously, I just rolled my eyes. "Well, that depends on your definition of right. If you meant, was I hurt then yes, i'm fine. But if you meant overall, then no, not really considering the fact that Paul is still alive." Seth just stared at me. About an hour later, I made the mistake of glancing at the clock. "We should probably head home, mom and dad are going to be wondering where we are." Seth frowned, so I suggested that he come over for dinner. I invited Jacob too, but he said he had other plans. I hoped my parents wouldn't mind. "Erm, if we show up the motercycle Icy and I will be grounded for a month." Seth contemplated this for a minute, then turned to Jacob. "Can I borrow your car?" |
Seth, Jacob, and then finally my sister walked out of the woods. Rileanna looked fine, I heaved a sigh of relief. We talked for a little while more and thenit was getting a little late to be out after school. Rileanna told Jacob ans Seth that she and I had to leave and what would happen if we were found on motorcycles.
After a few words, Jacob gave Seth the keys to his car. It was an awesome looking car. "You know that I put that thing together piece by piece and I will be oh-so-mad if it comes back hurt. Got that, Seth?" Jacob asked with mock sternness. Seth nodded and Rileanna hopped in the front seat. I settled in the back and let the wind blow through my long hair as Seth drove us home. Mom and Dad were a little antsy when we got back home, but Rileanna and I explained that we were just hanging with Jacob and Seth down at La Plush and lost track of time. They understood and herded us up to our room to do homework while dinner cooked. |
When Icy and I were upstairs, I flopped down on my bed and pulled out my homework. "Are you alright?" I asked Icy, I could tell that something was bothering her. I had lots of calculus homework, and it was extremely difficult, for one question I even had to surrended and ask Icy for help.
Later that night, I lay in bed, thinking about all that had happened in the past two days. I was also thinking about what Icy had told me, was it actually true? I had a dream that night. I was wandering through the forest, wolf form, and saw Paul. I raced toward him, but he dissapeared and in his place stood Bella. Because I was already in motion, I attacked. But Bella was hard, and, as I realized my mistake, I stopped. But why was she so hard? I slowly backed away, but suddenly Renesmee was in Bella's place, and she was holding Jacob's hand. Then it was Seth and he was running toward me, but some invisible force was holding him back. Then I saw what it was, it was Icy. But it wasn't Icy. Because she had red eyes, and she was pale. And she was glaring at me. I woke up screaming. I stopped quickly, but not before mom and dad came rushing in, asking what was wrong. And i'd woken up Icy too. I glanced at the clock, five am. Ugh. "It was just a bad dream." I explained. "Sorry for waking you guys up." |
I sat down at my drawing desk and pulled out my homework. I tried to concentrait on the numbers that danced across the pages, but on the car ride back, I had been thinking about Tam again. Rileanna asked me if I was alright. I shrugged. "Just a little...." I pause, looking for the right word. "... Conflicted." I finished. It was accurate to how I was feeling.
After I had helped Rileanna with her math, I wrapped up my own and got ready for bed. I lay down in my soft bed and stared at the ceiling. I wished that I could build up the curage to ask Tam the questions I wanted to ask him. But what would happen if I did? Would he look at me like I was mad? Or..... Or would he smile and bite me? "God, Icy. You need to unwind." I told myself, barely above a whisper. The tune was different this time. And I was in a giant ballroom. Candles lit the gigantic chandelier above and the full moon did the rest. The north side of the ballroom was all windows. It was a beautiful night outside and I stepped out. I was wearing a fancy ball gown. Almost like Sarah's gown from Labyrinth, except it was a dark purple instead of white. Tam wrapped his arms around my waist. "You look rather tasty tonight, love." He said sweetly in my ear. The music became more romantic. Tam's head moved slowly from my ear to my throat. Then there was pain. A burning pain that engulfed my entire body in seconds. My dress was white and blood-stained now. I lay there on the floor rithing as Tam looked down on me. "Don't worry, love. It'll go away soon. Then you'll be able to stand by my side forever as one of the cold ones." he said in a voice dripping with honey. I was awakened with a start by Rileanna's screams. Mom and Dad rushed into the room just seconds after I was upright in bed. Rileanna said it was just a bad dream and was sorry for waking us. We both went back to bed then, seemingly both with horrid images on our minds. |
I was never able to fall back asleep, that image of Icy was still stuck in my mind. I knew there was more that Icy wasn't telling me. Maybe she was embarassed about it or something. Oh well, she would tell me eventually. After about an hour of laying in bed, I decided to just get up. It was six am anyway, I would only be getting up at seven on a normal day. I got dressed, showered and went downstairs to eat and talk to myself. I ussually did that when I was having a hard time figuring something out.
After I finished breakfast, and had a conversation with myself, I walked outside and into the woods, laying my clothes on a log. Once a wolf, I started running. And damn, I was fast! So that took my mind of the dream for a little while, but I knew I had to go back, because mom and dad would go berserk if they woke up and I was gone. |
I fell back onto my bed. I fell back asleep eventually, but it was a light sleep, light then usual. I heard Rileanna get up and leave. She probably thought it best to just get up now instead of havin got do it later. I thought of doing the same, but my tiered body was glued to the bed.
I woke up to the horrid sound of the alarm clock. "Ugh..." I groaned. I wanted to be able to curl back up and just lay there. Even I made no effort to remember my dream, it stayed with me. "I need to tell Riles about this...." I muttered. Telling Rileanna always helped me. I walked downstairs and heading to the back porch. I assumed that she was out in the woods, exploring her werewolf side, so I waited for her. I was not hungry, not after that dream. My bag was pre-packed, I did that last night before bed and I had nothing to do but wait for Rileanna. |
I continued to think about my dream while I put on my clothes. What could it possibly mean? That Icy was going to become one of the Cullens? Okay, but then why were her eyes red? After I finished getting dressed, I started walking inthe general direction of the house, not quite sure if I wanted to go back yet or not.
When I came back out from the woods, I saw that Icy was waiting for me. "Morning." I said, stepping on to the porch. "What's up?" I asked, cuz it seemed like something was bothering her. My mouth dropped open, and I swear my eyes almost popped out of their sockets. But the thing that disturbed me the most, was that if Icy was right, then I'd seen her as a vampire in my dream. I had to bite down on my lip hard to keep from screaming. |
"I've been having really odd dreams..." I told Rileanna. "It's about Tam.... I think that he..." I bit down on my lip. I was looking down at the ground the entire time. "I think that Tam's a......" I paused once again. "....vampire...." I said, hardly able to hear myself. All of my dream were shoving me in that directions. Well, my two dreams. But they were so vivid. More vivid than any other dream I ever had before. And the way he looked at me, the way he himself looked; so unearthly, so pale, so beautiful. I could not get him off my mind. Not after this dream. "Riles," I said, finally looking to meet her gaze. "Do you know who or what the "cold ones" are?" I asked. Maybe Jacob and Seth knew something more about all this, and maybe they told Rileanna.
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I felt my eyes go even wider when Icy metioned the cold ones. I nodded. "The cold ones are the only enemy that a werewolf has. The stories that Paul was telling me, he sort of implied that the Cullens were cold ones, but I had so many other things on my mind I never gave it a second thought." I bit down on my lip again, so hard that I started bleeding. "Oops." I muttered. "We really ought to go back inside, if mom and dad find us out here they'll wonder what we're up to."
"Are you going to ask him?" I asked Icy as we walked to school, she knew I was refering to Tam. "I will if you want me to. The only thing is, well, what is Nessie?" I'd spent all morning trying to figure out what Nessie was, I was pretty sure she wasn't a vampire, but I also didn't really think that she was human either. |
I stopped breathing when Rileanna told me about the "cold ones". So Tam and the rest of the Cullens were vampires. For what other enemy would the werewolves have? We headed back inside after that and left for school.
"Are you going to ask him?" Rileanna asked me. I did not reply at first. She continued with saying that she would ask if I wanted her too. She also mentioned Renesmee, who I had been thinking about on a side note. "I'll ask him. I just need to find a place too ask him. Somewhere we can be alone, unheard...." I mumbled, trying to think of a place that Tam and I could talk. I was preoccupied with that on the rest of the way to school that I hardly registered everything else Rileanna said. I had not ever been like this before. I had never felt so conflicted about a boy before! But Tam was not just any "boy". He was a vampire. A beautiful pale vampire who I had a mad crush on. And it seemed like he liked me back. I wonder if he fed on humans. But no one had disappeared in the two and a half years that we had lived in Forks, so they had to not be feeding on humans. Maybe they go out to eat. I chuckled half-heartedly at my own twisted joke. But they might not feed off of humans at all. Maybe they fed off of animals... Vegetarian vampires. I wish. I found myself in English. I did not even remember how I got here. Damn, I was totally preoccupied. I bet I looked sick to the outside world. I felt that way. How the hell was I supposed to ask Tam if he was a vampire!? Yeah, I had Rileanna to ask him if I felt to chicken too, but I wanted, needed, to ask him myself. |
The rest of the way to school, Icy seemed very preoccupied, so I shut up. At school, I was sort of in a daze. I even had a teacher ask me what was wrong. I had smiled evilly and said, "Just trying to be good." But that wasn't it, it was because I had so much to think about. Between Tam and Nessie, and the whole werewolf thing too. Icy seemed to be the same way, not really here. In fact, she was even more out of it than me. Lunch time came around, and I saw that Icy had an oppurtunity to ask Tam. As we waited in the lunch line, I nudged her. "You go sit with Tam, i'll hang with Nessie."
"Hey Nessie!" I called when I spotted Renesmee. "Over here." I said, for she had been heading toward Icy, having not yet seen me. I sat back down and started nibbling on the pizza, too nervous to have much of an appetite. |
Rileanna gave me a window to ask Tam. I smiled my thanks to her as she walked away with Renesmee. Tam was heading to the table that Rileanna and Renesmee were sitting at. I nodding with my head for him to follow me. He looked confused, but followed me to a table in the corner of the cafeteria, away from everyone else.
We sat down and I tried to wrap my head around how to ask Tam what I needed to ask him. "Whats up, Icy? You feelin' alright?" he asked me, obviously worried. I bit my lip. "Tam...." I started. I seriously had no idea how to ask him. When in doubt, get to the point. I told myself. I took a deep breath and whispered "Tam, are you a.... vampire?" Tam looked at me like I was mad. I knew it. I knew I was crazy, with Rileanna's being a werewof and all, it would not have been impossible. His answer though, that really was different. "H-how did you....?" he looked at me, like we were speaking of something taboo. "How did you find out?" he whispered to me. I almost asked him to repeat himself. So I was not mad. Tam was a vampire. "It's a long story. Not one to be told here, really. I just needed to know if you were...." I waved my hand at him to implicate what I meant. He understood. I felt so relived after Tam answered me. I was strange. He did seem worried though. I wondered what the rules were for who could know about vampires. Was it like the werewolf rules? How did the La Plush wolves, given that they all were not boys now, and the Cullens get along? Did they fight, or was their a truce? Lunch was over and we went to Biology in silence. Tam seemed to have picked up my worry, and I almost wished I had not asked him. Biology passed with me staring worriedly at Tam. Same thing happened at P.E. After school, Tam pulled me aside. "Do you think you could come over to my place, so we can talk?" he asked. I nodded. "But what about Riles and Nessie?" I asked. "We'll figure soemthing out." Tam said. He looked like he was in a hurry. I tried not to slow him down. Rileanna and Renesmee were by Tam's silver Volvo waiting for us. "Whats up?" Renesmee asked Tam, picking up on his urgency. "I'll tell you once we get home." He said. When Tam came near Rileanna, he wrinkled up his nose. "She's worse than Jacob..." He mumbled to his sister. I wonder what he meant. |
Even though I wasn't really sure whether or not I was invited, I hopped into the back seat of Tam's car. And just about died from the smell. He smelled horrid! But Nessie didn't. Why hadn't I noticed this before? And why had he said that I was worse than Jacob? I was almost positive that Icy had asked him whether or not he was a vampire. Tam started to say something, and I was pretty sure that he was going to say that I couldn't come or something along those lines, so I cut him off. "If your worried about me finding out that you're a vampire, it's okay, I already know." He stared at me, surprised, but didn't say anything, he just got into the car, and started driving us all to the Cullen's. Or, I assumed that that was where we were going.
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I felt so out of place in the huge spacious living room. I was surrounded my supernatural creatures and was all alone in the "normal" department. Rileanna sat on one side of me, and Renesmee sat on the other, both girls held my hands. Tam walked over to Carlise and they seemed to speak so fast that not a sound escaped their lips. Carlise's face became grave. Everyone's face, except Rileanna's and mine became grave. Carlise turned to Rileanna and I. "How did you two girls find out?" he asked, kind but stern. Rileanna was about to explain, but I motioned for her to keep quiet. "Dr. Cullen, we found out my a series of events," I sounded much braver than I felt. I tried to calm myself down. All of a sudden, I was calm. That was odd. But I continued. "First, we found out about the Quileute were werewolves. Rileanna and I explored the options of other "fictional" creatures existing. Then we found out that Rileanna is a werewolf. And Tam told me in a dream that you all were "cold ones" and Rileanna told me that "cold ones" were the enemy of the werewolf, which I assumed were the vampires. Then you all," I paused for breath. "Y'all are just much to beautiful to be human. So I asked Tam if he was a vampire, and thats how I found out...." I finished. Everyone in the room took this in.
"Edward?" Carlise asked, looking over to the bronze-haired vampire. Edward nodded. "She's telling the truth." he said, looking over to Rileanna and me. Carlise rubbed his temples. "The Voltri probably don't know yet, and we need to keep it that way." He said. Who were the Voltri. "The Voltri enforce the "rules" of vampiric life, basically." Edward answered me. So he could read minds. "Yes, I can." He responded once again. Tam looked over to me with a worried expression. "I told you about us?" he asked. I nodded. "In a dream. You...." I paused, remembering. "You bit me and told me that I would stand forever by your side as a cold one." I said, remembering the music that had played in the air. Tam seemed taken aback by this. Bella stepped forth. "Well at least I'm not the only one who had strange dreams." she said, winking at me. I looked at her my head cocked. Bella just smiled and then stepped back to stand next to her mind-reader. "So what are we going to do this time?" Rosalie asked Carlise. "This has happened before?" I asked. I looked over to Bella. "You...?" had she gone through a similar situation? Edward nodded, answering my unspoken question. I lay my head in my hands. God, this was giving me a headache. My crush was a vampire, my sister was a werewolf, and I was caught in the middle with no idea what to do next. What if they decided to eat me? Edward snorted. "We don't "eat" humans." he said, seemingly disgusted by the thought. My wish came true. They were vegetarians. |
"So, if the Volturi found out that we knew, then what?" They would have us for breakfast or something? Edward nodded grimly. "They would kill you. Or, if they saw potential, which is unlikely, they would turn you into a vampire." The blond one said, I was pretty sure that her name was Rosalie. Edward nodded again, ever so slightly. Stay out of my head! I thought, somewhat annoyed. It was enough that I had to hsrae my thoughts as a wolf, but whenever I was around Edward too. I sighed. "Sorry, it's kind of hard to ignore thoughts when they're being screamed at you." I glanced up, I hadn't realized I was screaming them. Sorry, I thought sarcastically, I'll try to keep it down. And I really did try to quiet my thoughts, but I wasn't exactly sure how to go about doing that.
"But if they didn't find out, then it would be okay?" I asked, maybe it would be safer for us to become vampires. "You can't become a vampire Rileanna, it's not possible." Edward again, that was going to really get on my nerves. "Why?" Alice spoke up then. "Riles, you're a werewolf. If one of us were to bite you, you would die. Icy would be fine though." So there bite was like poison to me then, but since Icy was human... "She would be fine." I glared at Edward, his mind-reading thing was getting old fast. |
This was going much to fast for me, but I sat silently until I could pitch in my toughts. "So, If I were to become a.... vampire, y'all would be safe from there Volturi people?" I asked. Everyone nodded. I took that in. "What is involved in that process? What would I tell my parents?" Carlise sighed. "It involves a burning sensation as your body changes, and we would have to improvise about your parents. But I think that we should avoid that option until we have non others. We don't want to re-intimidate the Volturi." Carlise said. "Icvearna, for now, until we can figure out what exactly to do, can you keep this secret?" he asked. I nodded gravely.
A few moments of silence passed and then Alice gasped. Jasper was by her side in a flash. Literally. Alice looked like she was in a trance. Everyone waited, holding their breath. I dared not speak. Then Alice seemed to "come back to earth". "Ciaus, Icy..." she said before collapsing on the floor. Edward hissed at the name "Ciaus" louder than everyone else. Tam bit his lip. "Isn't he..." he started. Edward nodded. I assumed Ciaus was an unwelcome person in this household. Possibly a rival vampire? Edward nodded again. "What about Ciaus and Icy, Alice?" Jasper asked, urgently. "I-I don't know. I just saw Ciaus with a smug look on his face, then I saw Icy, scared to death." Alice said, looking over to me. Carlise looked to Rileanna then. "You know what we smell like. Make sure you familiarize yourself with our scents and then be on guard for anything new. We don't know when this will happen, but you have to be ready to protect your sister." he said, urgently. Again I felt out of place. So out of place. I felt like I did not belong. It was so strange, all this..... whatever it was, it was everywhere now. I was engulfed into one of my fantasies in no time at all and I was thrown head-first into danger. Great. |
I was confused as Alice seemed to go into a trance. I nodded when Carlisle told me what I had to do. "Who's Caius?" I finally asked, no longer able to restrain myself from asking, and Edward seemed to be ignoring it anway. "Caius is a member of the Volturi, he's probably the meanest one too." Alice said, leaning against the back of the couch now. "I'm not letting you out of my sight." I told Icy, attemting to hide my worry. Alice seemed to go into that trance like thing for a few seconds, but then she smiled. "Icy's future just dissapeared." She annoucned, making in sound like a good thing. "It is a good thing," Edward said, once again answering my unspoken question. "Alice can't 'see' werewolves, so that means you're involved. And that means Icy will probably be fine."
"Do vampires not age?" I asked suddenly, just thinking of it, and blurting it out before Edward could answer. Jasper, or I think that was what his name was anyway, shook his head. I figured that I would go ahead and continue my questioning. "Nessie? You're not a vampire. Do you mind my asking what you are?" She looked a little surprised, but answered after a moment anyway. "I'm half-human and half-vampire." I was confused, "How did you manage that? Like, the transformation stopped halfway or something?" |
I listened agian as everyone around swapped questions and answers. I smiled at Rileanna as she swore to protect me. "Thanks, sis." I said, hugging her. Just hen Alice went into a trace again, but this time it looked more controlled. "Icy's future just disappeared." she said. Edward explained what that meant. That seemed like both a blessing and curse. But being able to see the future at all was a blessing in itself.
Rileanna asked about Renesmee, and I turned to face her. "I'm half-human and half-vampire." she said. Rileanna got to the question before I could. "How did you manage that? Like, the transformation stopped halfway or something?" she asked. Renesmee shook her head and then looked to Edward and Bella. They nodded and Renesmee turned back to us. "Bella and Edward are my mom and dad, not my sister and brother. I was born when Bella was a human, therefore making me half human, half vampire." she explained. One more thing that made a little more sense than before. It was my turn to ask a random question. "What powers do y'all have? I mean, Edward obviously can read minds and Alice can see the future, what can the rest of you do?" I asked. Jasper spoke up, it was odd, for he spoke very little. "I can change people's moods, like I did before, calming you. Bella is a walking, talking, shield, and Tam can control music." he stated, simple and clear. Tam can control music. That would explain the music from my dreams... I thought. We talked over what Rileanna were allowed and not allowed to do. It was getting late and I pointed that out. "Riles and I need to get home. Our parents are going to freak if we stay out much longer..." I said, getting a episode of deja vu. Carlise nodded. "True, true. Tam, would you take the Zalen sisters home, please?" he asked the red-bronze haired boy who I was madly crushing on. More than ever now that I knew that he was not going to eat me, no matter what my dreams said. |
Tam nodded when Carlisle asked him to drive Icy and I home. He was pretty quiet, probably thinking about all that had happened. Once we were home, mom sent us upstairs to do our homework, same as yesterday. I wondered what she would think if she knew I was a werewolf. Since I didn't have any calculus I was able to finish pretty quickly and decided to go into the woods and run as a wolf for a bit. So I headed downstairs, telling mom that I was just going to go for a walk.
Once a wolf, I ran as fats as I could for about fifteen minutes, then turned around and headed back. On the way I crossed an unfamiliar scent, and it smelled horrid. Just like the Cullens, but it didn't smell like any of them. My first thought was Caius, so I started running even faster. It couldn't possibly be him. Could it? After I phased back and put on my clothes, I ran inside and upstairs. The scent was really strong here. And it was even stronger in Me and Icy's room. Which was empty. "Icy?" I called, hoping against all hope that she was still alive. I felt tears well up and roll down my cheek. "ICY?" I screamed out our bedroom window. "Rileanna, what are you screaming for?" I whirled around, mom was standing in the doorway. "Icy...gone." Was all that I managed to get out. "I'm gonna go outside and look for her." I tried to stop the tears, but I wasn't able to. I was vibrating, and I definately didn't want to phase this close to my mom. "I'm going outside to look for her." I mumbled as I hurried past my mom. |
Rileanna finished her homework, and said she was going outside as a wolf for a bit. I assumed she was watching the territory, so I continued my homework. I felt much better now that I knew what was going on, what was happening around me. Well, I mostly knew. But that was enough for me. I knew that Rileanna would watch over me and that comforted me to no end.
The room got really cold really fast. "Dad, did you turn the heat off?" I yelled from my room. "No. Why?" he called back. I shrugged. I got cold easily. "Just checking." I yelled back. I continued my work. But the cold did not go away like it usually did. In fact, it got worse. "Maybe mom turned the heat off." I said, getting up. "Holy shit." I found myself standing face to face with a robed stranger with blood-red eyes. He was creepy as hell. "What the hell are you doing in my house?!" I snapped at him. He just smiled and looked me up and down. "Perv. MO-!" I was cut of my his cold hand over my mouth. "Now, now. No need to bring attention to yourself, Icvearna dear." He said in my ear. His voice stung. How the hell did he know my name?! Oh no! This could not be Ciaus! No, no, no, no, no, no! "Rimghs!" I tried to yell for Riles through the stranger's stone hands. He chuckled. "Yelling will get you nowhere." he said. I could almost see the sneer on his face. I tried biting him with no avail. "Tsk, tsk. Thats no way to behave, miss Zalen." he said, fake disappointment in his voice. Then we were flying. No, not flying, running. Running really fast, and really high. How the heck did we get up here? The stranger, who I now named Ciaus, was running on the tops of the dark pines of Forks. He now had me in the damsel position in his arms. His right arm held my arms in place while his left arms took care of my legs. I knew why he did not bother with my mouth; who was going to hear me from this height? Plus, we were moving so fast that I doubted that I would be able to say anything anyway. It got even colder now. It did not help me any to cuddle up to my captor, for he was just as cold as the air around me, if not colder. We kept on going higher and higher. I could tell because it got harder for me to breath. What did he want with me?! |
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