Fanfiction: Invisibility Chapter 6

-Insanity's Partner

Rated T

Edward:

I arrived in first period, early. Few students were already sitting at their desks. I pulled the sheet of music from my bag and waited anxiously for her to arrive. The tardy bell rang, students filed in, but not the one I was waiting for.

Five minutes passed.

Then ten.

Finally, after thirty minutes had passed I assumed she wasn't coming.

But it wasn't until the bell signaling the end of first hour rang that I realized I was still hoping, waiting, for her to show up. I waited until lunch, to see if she was in the practice room before skipping classes and going home.

My family looked at me questioningly. I'm sure they noticed my change in behavior. How I'm not a zombie anymore. But they don't dare to say anything. I could tell we were going to have a family meeting later. I did not look forward to it.

I left the keys to the Volvo in the front seat, knowing no one would dare steal it.

I was glad we're in a darkness cycle. I used to love the sunlight, but now the sunlight only reminds me of her. Her smile, her beautiful face, her blushes, her laughter… I couldn't take it. I didn't want the constant reminder of what I'd been too stupid to… to…

I stopped thinking. The train of thought was far too painful.

I waited until I was in the woods before I took off running.

Bella:

I thought about what I might do, where I might go. I could rent an apartment… But I always hated apartments. So I guess I could buy a house, since I have the money. But where? I thought about all of the places I'd always wanted to go when I was younger. London, Paris, Sydney, Japan, Italy… (A/N Irony, anyone?) There were so many places!

I thought about the pros and cons of each before Jalin opened the door and plopped down on my couch.

"Hey." She said. I guess that means school is over.

"Hey." I said back. I wondered idly if she was going to try to pull a prank. I read her mind. She was innocent enough today.

"Dani told you me you're going to try to leave." She said, trying to sound uninterested. I wondered idly why she cared. I thought a little more about Japan.

"Yeah," I said, distracted. But Paris is so romantic. Wait, ew. Never mind then. Sydney? No, it's too sunny. I'd always wanted to go to London, maybe live a wicked nightlife… But then I thought I was fairly certain I didn't want any kind of life. I just wanted to sulk for a while.

"Why?" she asked. And my visions of a flat somewhere on a main street in London went POOF!, in a cloud of smoke. 'Why?' I repeated incredulously in my mind. Why does she care?

"Because," I said simply, knowing that that would never pass as a reasonable excuse.

"If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to." She said, and I stared at her in surprise.

"Okay, thanks." I said, unsure. Jalin was never someone I was close to either. But she seemed nice now that I looked at her closely. I stared at her for a minute. I didn't bother reading her thoughts, but I was wondering what she was thinking. I didn't much like reading anyone's thoughts anymore, and after I found Edward in my French class, I just wanted the power to leave. Soon.

Then Jalin surprised me. She threw her arms around me and hugged herself to me.

"Please don't leave!" She begged. "You're the closest thing I have to a big sister!" She sobbed out the last sentence. I didn't know what to do. I patted her back softly.

"Shh…" I said. "Don't cry. It'll be fine, I won't leave; don't worry." I said, consoling her. I frowned. Now what was I going to do? She gradually stopped sobbing.

"I'm sorry." She said, looking embarrassed. I looked at her for a minute.

"It's okay." I said. "I won't leave."

"Promise?" she asked, unsure. I thought about it for a minute.

"Um, sure. Yeah. I promise." I said, surprising myself. What am I doing? How am I supposed to get away now?

We kind of sat there for a few hours, just doing nothing, and we had a kind of understanding that we both needed time to just cool down and think.

I tried to find a lock on Jalin's emotions, but they were totally crazy. What was going on? Did I miss something?

"Jalin?" I asked, unsure.

"Yeah?" she replied.

"What's going on?" I asked her, still unsure. She laid her head back, staring at the popcorn on the ceiling.

"I feel like my emotional demons are coming back to haunt me." She finally said. I wasn't sure what she meant by that, but I felt like I could identify with that on some level. I mean, my demon is back to haunt me. I wondered what hers was like.

"Oh. Do you want to talk about it?" I asked, carefully.

"Not really." She said truthfully.

"Okay." I said, understanding.

"Um, can you do me a favor?" she asked me, her voice wavering a bit.

"…Sure…" I said, warily.

"Can you give me a ride?" she asked. I nodded. This, at least, was easy to do.

We strolled slowly to the Porsche, I unsure as to where we were going, and she jumped in the passenger seat.

"Where to?" I asked.

"Old Time Pottery." She said; her voice steady.

Edward:

I slammed the door, again startling Carlisle and Esme, who were practically eating each other's faces, while Carlisle tried to unbutton Esme's shirt.

I pretended not to notice them as I stormed upstairs. Why couldn't they do that in their own room? I slammed my door loudly as I plopped on my couch, unsure as to whether or not to laugh or cry. I had no idea what I was going to do. What were the odds she would go to school tomorrow? What were the odds she was even still in town?

I thought about it. If she left, then that would be my last connection to Bella. Poof! Gone.

So then, I could try to find her home, see if she's still here. Maybe confront her. So I'd either have to go to the school and weasel the information out of the receptionist, or I could hack it from Jasper's computer.

After skipping class twice, going to the front office probably wasn't a good idea. From what I'd picked out of some teenagers' minds, it usually took a full day for the school work to catch up to your for skipping, so if I went back, I'd get nailed, and I didn't have time to deal with that.

So hacking it was.

I got up and crept into Jasper's office. It was a very comfortable room. I could feel Jasper's calming effects, even if he wasn't there. I sighed as I booted up the superfast computer, unsure as to how long this might take. Or even really how to do this. Jasper was the information superhighway hacking master; he knew this much better than I did. I know he tried to show me once after he got tired of me constantly asking him to do a global scan for Isabella Marie Swam. But it fell through. I knew the basics, but that was it.

I did a Google search for the government webpage that would most likely hold the files in it.

Once I finally found it, and was prompted to log-in, I was unsure what to do. I stared at the screen for a minute. Am I supposed to guess?

I tried to think back to what Jasper told me. I'd blocked all of my old memories, so that made it harder…

"So what am I supposed to do? Guess?" I asked him angrily. Jasper scoffed at me."Guessing could take years to get the correct combination. I have software that cracks the code for us."

I smiled. Bingo. I lowered the window and scanned his desktop for something that looked like it might have been connected to some form of information hacking software. Bingo. I clicked it open.

After I correctly inserted all of the info, I sat and waited for the computer to finish its work. This was too easy. I leaned back a little and shut my eyes. I was startled when a hand landed on my shoulder and spun me around in my chair.

"What do you think you're doing?" Jasper snarled, angry that I was touching his computer in his office, without his permission.

"Hacking into the school system so I can find where the Callen girl lives." I said, calmly.

"On MY computer?" he asked, fuming. "Did you at least bother trying to cover your tracks?"

"You have to cover your tracks?" I asked, immediately grasping that that was a bad question to ask.

"Yes, Edward. You're supposed to cover your tracks." He snarled, enraged. "Otherwise they can track our movements back to us, and you can go to prison for up to 20 years for attempted identity theft."

Obviously, it was the idea of the hassle that bothered us. There was no such thing as a prison that could hold a vampire, if the vampire wished to leave. It was the attention we didn't want.

"Crap." I muttered.

"That's about the biggest understatement of the year." He seethed while the computer finished hacking in. After it binged to signal it's completion, I swiveled, read her address and then bolted around Jasper and from the room, snatching my bag and running as fast as I could from the house.

"HEY!" he yelled after me, but giving up as he knew there was no way he'd ever be able to catch up. I could feel myself becoming more and more anxious as I grew closer and closer to her house.

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