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Immortal: Chapter 2

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Chapter 2
High school. A jail-sentence that I was almost done with. I was ready to start jumping up and down as I walked into Forks High School that day, the last day of school before graduation to take the last high school test I would even need to take. Despite the fact that I was still exhausted from waking up at two in the morning from an awful nightmare and the fact that I had tossed and turned all night, I was quite elated – and only half of it had to do with my perfect Edward walking beside me, his hand in mine.

People still stared at us as we walked by, scandalous looks on their faces like we had broken some sort of small-town, unwritten rule.  Thou shalt not get married until after you graduate, unless you have knocked up your girlfriend. You’d think that after three months of us being married, people would stop looking at us like that but, alas, no. I was pretty sure that some people were still waiting for me to start showing even though I had made it utterly clear to one of my closest friends, Jessica, that I had married Edward for no other reason than the fact that I loved Edward with all my being. And of course, knowing Jessica, she had told the whole school. Obviously, that had been my goal by telling her, but still some people did not believe me.

I mean, sure, it was a little odd that we went and eloped just hours after Edward and his family moved back from their move to LA when Esme, my mother-in-law, decided that she liked the small-town life so much better. And, sure, Edward had broken up with me before the move but that was just because he didn’t want me to have to deal with a long-distance relationship – which, truth be told, I would not have been able to handle. Still, we were both distraught for those six long months that we were apart and he proposed to me the second he got back. I wanted to be with Edward forever so I didn’t care how old we were. Plus, with Edward’s insane morals – which, admittedly, I shared – had been another deciding factor, though only a small part of it. So we had gone and gotten married, taking only his sister and my best friend Alice with us. And, ok, Charlie hadn’t been so happy about it, but we were both eighteen so he couldn’t exactly do anything about it.

Edward and I parted at my classroom, his lips brushing softly against mine. The whispers and silent gawks that we got would have made you think that we had started fornicating in the middle of the hall. While I would be the first to admit that we were somewhat of an oddity for the little town of Forks, Washington, I really wished people would get over it.

I slid into my seat in class, praising God that it was the last time I would be forced to sit in this seat. Alice sat at the desk next to me, bouncing up and down in her usual, hyper way. Her short, black spikes bounced up and down slightly around her pale face. Jessica turned around in the seat in front of me, her big, frizzy mass of curls all over the place, already ready to give me the latest gossip. Angela was silent as always sitting on my other side, but she had a sweet smile for me as always.

“You and my brother are quite sickening sometimes, you know?” Alice said jokingly.

“Because you and Jasper aren’t enough to make someone with the strongest of stomachs vomit every single time he comes down to visit for the weekend,” I said.

“We’re no worse than Emmett and Rosalie,” Alice whined. “They’re the worst.”

I smiled. Alice and Emmett were both Edward’s adopted siblings, taken in when they were young by Carlisle and Esme. The Hale twins, Rosalie and Jasper, were dating Emmett and Alice respectively. Emmett and Rosalie, both having graduated last year, were like the older siblings I never had – Rosalie the snobbish sister and Emmett the huge teddy bear of a brother. They were both going to Washington State along with Jasper, who came down to visit Alice almost every weekend.

I groaned and put my head down on my desk, all of the sudden attacked with a  roaring headache.

“Are you ok?” Angela asked softly.

“I’m fine,” I told her at the same time as Jessica basically screamed, “Are you prego?!” Heads turned our way, all glaring at me disapprovingly. I fiddled with the gigantic ring on my finger, a hand-me-down from Edward’s birth mother. Of course that would be the first assumption Jessica would make.

I shook my head. “Just tired – though that’s the same thing Edward thought when I almost barfed into the toilet at two this the morning…”

“Are you sure it wasn’t morning sickness?” Alice asked eagerly. She wanted me pregnant almost as much as Esme did.

“Do you people still not get that I’m only eighteen?” I said. “Between you and Esme – well, it’s enough to make we want to get pregnant just so you guys stop bothering me. And I’m sure it wasn’t. I just had a really bad dream.”

“Must have been,” Jessica said. “If it’s a girl, name it after me, ok?”

I groaned again, thankful that the teacher had just came in the room and was passing out tests, telling us all to be quiet or else we would all get zeros. Only, he didn’t say it quite that kindly. All the teachers were as anxious for school to be over as we were. I was almost excited to take the test just because it had ended our overly awkward conversation.

It wasn’t until after my final test, five hours later, that I thought about the dream again. That was because I saw her as I stepped out into the cold air outside, icy rain hitting me in the face like cold daggers. My heart almost stopped when I saw her there.

She was just a few yards away from me, standing still in the middle of a jostling crowd of high school students, excited that the year was finally over. She seemed unfazed by them, just staring at me. Her skin was a pale white that wasn’t natural, a deathly pallor hanging over it. Her eyes were bright red and piercing, angry but creepily happy at the same time. Her dark, chocolate hair hung down to her waist, over the black gothic, sleeveless dress. In her arms was a something wrapped in a blood red blanket. She was beautiful, a beautiful that I could never be.

But she was me. Despite how gorgeous she was, she was me. There was something evil about her though, that chilled me. And her neck – just like the me in the dream I had last night, her neck was torn out and destroyed, bloody and wrecked. I took a few steps closer and realized that there was a baby in her arms, wrapped in the blanket.

“Alice,” I said, tugging on my sister-in-laws arm. “Alice, do you –“

Before I could finish my question, though, the girl – me, if that’s even possible – smirked at me and disappeared. Just like that, she was gone. My blood turned cold.

“Yes, Bella?” Alice said, sounding slightly worried. The expression on my face must have been horrible. “What’s wrong?”

“N-nothing,” I whispered, scared my voice would crack with fear if I talked any louder. “Let’s just go.”

Something was seriously wrong with me.
Wow, chapter 2. I am on a role. I'm actually really kinda excited to write this, especially since i pretty much know where this is going. It will be quite epic. Or maybe i just think it's going to be epic. :shrug: Either way, i'll have fun with this.

In case you haven't noticed, this is a bit OOC and AU (basically meaning Out Of Character and Alternate Universe for those of you who didn't catch onto that).

Advanced critique on this please, even though i can't officially ask for that cuz i have no subscription. Still, be brutally honest!

These characters belong to Stephenie Meyer.

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amassing im excited to read more