Fanfiction: Invisibility Chapter 3

-Insanity's Partner

Rated T

EPOV

I stared at the stranger. She was vampire, this I was sure of, and there was a slight air of familiarity. She reminded me of her, but it would be foolish to hope, or even think that this…Gothic Vampire could possibly be my Bella.

I noticed with sick humor, that I was sitting next to the only open seat.

The stranger handed a slip of paper to the instructor, who signed it and handed it back, but being the easily distracted human she was, forgot about our argument.

The stranger sighed impatiently and glided over to where I sat, sliding her chair as far away in the limited space as was possible, and tried her best to ignore me.

"Hello," I greeted the girl. "My name is E—"

"I know who you are." She hissed.

That surprised me. I tried to read her mind, but she was a void… My stomach twisted.

"Oh, and don't try having your sister see my future, because it won't work. And your brother has as good a chance at manipulating my emotions as you do of reading my mind. Oh, and tell your other brother that he's nothing but a weakling, and that his wife is a bitch." She practically snarled at me. I was almost astonished… But for the most part I was too numb to really care.

"How do you know who we are?" I asked.

"I… Know someone." She said reluctantly.

"Who," I asked, already knowing the answer, and waking up slowly as she tried to not tell me. She kept silent. "Tell me, or so help me God, I will kill you."

"Calm down, Eddie." She purred, and I almost jumped out of my seat to strangle her. "I'm sure you already know. But it doesn't matter anyway. She's already gone."

"What did you do to her?" I growled quietly. I hoped no one was paying attention.

"Nothing," Said the girl. "I did not touch her."

"Where is she?" I demanded, getting a little louder.

"Oh, wouldn't you like to know?" she purred. A growl built up in the back of my throat, but I could feel my anger dissipating little by little. It can't be possible for Jasper to be doing this; he's much too far away. There's no way he should even be able to sense my emotions from where I am.

"Oh, it's not sweet Jasper, dear, it's me." She whispered in my ear. "I can't have you jumping up and hurting anyone, now can I?"

"Don't mess with my nerves, child!" I snarled.

"Ah, temper, temper, Edward. What would Bella think?" she continued to whisper. "Ah, but I guess you wouldn't care what Bella thinks, seeing as how you left the little bitch all those years ago."

"DON'T TALK ABOUT BELLA THAT WAY!" I continued to snarl, but I found myself unable to stay angry. I felt strangely helpless. Like I couldn't defend her safety, or her honor.

"And why should you care?" she asked, strangely curious.

I didn't say anything, because at that moment the bell rang, and I stood up and ran away, desperate to put as much distance between me and this red-eyed fiend as possible.

I stared at the gorgeous red-eyed vampire sitting in the other end of the cafeteria. She was very, very beautiful, but Bella would still be the most beautiful creature in my entire existence.

I tried to hear what song she had playing in her iPod through the medium of her thoughts, but it was no use; her mind was a void… My stomach twisted in pain. Just like Bella.

Of course she wasn't Bella. It was downright stupid to hope or even think such things. Her power was probably just blocking out other people's powers. I shifted nervously in my seat.

Suddenly, her eyes flickered over to mine, and she glared; cold and hard for a fraction of a second, and she lifted her food tray and dumped it in the trash as she left the sticky, stuffy cafeteria.

I wanted my Bella and this… This… odious child was keeping something from me, and so help me God, I WOULD find out.

But there was something about her… she… confounded me. She drew me in. I don't know why I was so desperate to hear the music on her iPod, I just was. I don't know why I was so desperate to have another class with her, I just was. There was something distinctly familiar… And it drew me in. And it scared me. It deeply scared me.

So I followed her. I left my food behind, and followed her as quietly as I could manage. I wasn't sure where she was going, but I just kept after her. She seemed to be looking for the music room, looking at the map, and then at the numbers on the wall. When she finally found it, I waited outside, listening as she greeted herself to the instructor, and asked if there was a piano in the practice room she could use. After a little bit of goading, he agreed to let her use one if she promised to handle it gently.

I groaned internally; the practice rooms were sound-proof. Not to a vampire, obviously, but I wouldn't be able to hear her from where I was, and I wasn't sure how I could get in without her noticing me.

I pressed my ear to the door. Nothing. I quietly opened the door and made an extra effort to shut it silently behind me.

"Ahem," she cleared her voice behind me. I spun around, embarrassed at being caught in the act. "Why are you following me?" She demanded.

"I'm not following you. I just wanted to use a practice room." I lied confidently. "Liar." She hissed. I narrowed my eyes to glare at her. "Go away." She hissed again.

"Fine," I said, and turned around to leave. But then turned back around. "What's your name?" I asked.

"None of your business!" she hissed again, and I wanted nothing more than to hit her, as childish as it sounded. But I reluctantly turned around and left through the door.

Bella:

I watched him turn around and stalk away, my heart breaking with every step. Jeez, and he'd called himself masochistic.

I just have to hide from the world that I'm Bella Swan for year or so, and then I can leave. I sighed, and walked over to the practice room in the back hallway, knowing full well he was probably still following me. I stopped caring.

I sat down on the bench and pulled out my notebook of self-written sheet music.

I'd been writing this song for seven years now. I was only halfway though. The rest I was still tinkering away at notes. I decided to play the first half, and improvise.

I took a deep calming breath and let the music flow from my fingertips, gliding smoothly over the ivory keys, the notes flowing freely in the 'soundproof' room.

It was Edward's Lullaby.

Finally, my song was nearing an end, but I didn't stop… I inserted my current emotions. Anger, hate, fear… And let it all out… And I'm not sure, but gradually, the tone of the song changed until it became the melody Edward had written for me, so many years ago.

I played the whole song through, the whole of the melody, adding notes here and there as I felt necessary, until I heard a gasp from behind me, startling me, I jumped, my hands banging on the keys unintentionally. It wasn't easy to sneak up on me, seeing as how I can sense and edit your emotions, read your mind, and a number of other things that make me the world's greatest predator, but I was really distracted by my music, I spun around to glare at Edward through the Glass of the door.

He turned the handle and walked in.

"How did you know her?" he demanded of me. I didn't answer. I clenched my hands into fists and tried not to punch something.

"ANSWER ME!" he yelled.

"Leave." I said quietly. I just wanted him to leave me with my music. I turned my head away, and he reached forward to grab my face in his strong hand and move my eyes to his. I slapped his hand away.

"Don't touch me!" I yelled. "Don't ever touch me!"

I could feel the burning behind my eyes that meant they were changing color to black, for my anger, and I could feel him staring at me with intrigued disgust.

Finally, after staring at me for several long hard minutes; I, clenching and unclenching my hands in an effort to calm down, the bell rang.

Neither of us moved. Finally, I grabbed my music, cramming it all into my folder and leaving the close proximity of the room, bashing my shoulder into his on the way out.

I skipped classes for the rest of the day. It wasn't until I had gotten all the way home that I realized I was missing something.

The sheet music for Edward's Lullaby.

Edward:

I felt ridiculous as I pressed my ear to the wall of the soundproof booth, eager to hear what she would play, and what I heard almost made me break and sob.

It sounded like… Me. When I'd been with her. It was happy, light, breezy, cheerful… It was everything I'd ever felt about Bella in the months I'd spent with her. It was so unbelievably beautiful; I had trouble believing anyone, even a vampire, could compose it. I felt my dead heart shatter into three million pieces as I listened on…

And gradually, the tone began to change, it became angry, disgusted, fearful, and then it slowed down into the unbearably sweet song I'd refused to play for the last twenty-seven years.

It was Bella's Lullaby. I gasped, and threw open the door, surprising the girl whose name I still did not know, and closed it roughly behind me.

"How did you know her?" he demanded of me. I didn't answer. I clenched my hands into fists and tried not to punch something.

"ANSWER ME!" I yelled, knowing no humans could hear us while we were encased in this tiny room.

"Leave." She whispered, as she turned her face away from me. But I didn't let her; I reached out and cupped her chin as I brought her eyes up to meet mine again.

"Don't touch me!" she suddenly screeched, pushing my hand away. "Don't ever touch me!" and as I stared at her, her eyes became black with fury, and it both amazed and disgusted me. What was wrong with this child? What had happened to her to make her this way?

The bell rang, but it didn't stop either of us from the staring contest we'd engaged in. I refused to as much as look away from the girl before me.

But eventually she shoved all of her music into her folder and fled from the tiny room, making sure to ram her shoulder into mine, hard to enough to cause physical pain, something I hadn't felt in so long it surprised me. I'd felt plenty of emotional pain… But no physical pain in over twenty years.

I stared after her in amazement. It was difficult to cause any vampire pain, even if the other is a vampire. I wondered what, exactly, was I dealing with. Then my eyes caught sight of the yellowed paper in the sheet holder on the piano.

I read the title, and snatched it up, crumbling it into a tight paper ball and shoving it into my pocket, and leaving the room as quickly as I could.

It read 'Edward's Lullaby'.

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