The Search Comes to an End

As I walked down the sidewalk I looked around and sighed. Every single person that was still awake and out at this time was staring at both of us. I’m not surprised, everyone looks at us. That’s probably because we are unnaturally gorgeous. Which is flattering most of the time, otherwise it’s just annoying. I looked up at Liam and poked his arm. He looked down at me with one eyebrow raised. I jerked my head toward an ally. He nodded his head and we turned to walk there. When we were out of hearing range of the closest human, I said, “Liam, we are never going to find them”

 

“Yes we are K” Ugh, is it too hard to say Karly? but I ignored him and said:

“We've been looking for them for three months, I think we would have found them by now”

“I was looking for you for five months before I found you” he said with a smirk. I sighed in exasperation.
 

“Yeah, but you knew where to look”

“That’s not the point, I can tell we're close”

“Well why didn’t you say anything before I have been worrying for the past four days!” I pratically screamed. He could have said something!
 

“Because you hide your worry very well...” he muttered. I wasn’t sure I was supposed to hear it. Liam - like some other vampires - has an extra ability. When he is looking for someone he can tell if he is close or not. Kind of like a mental ‘hotter or colder’ game. He's kind of like a Tracker, but different.

 

I was staring at the ground, so when I heard someone clear their throat my head snapped up. I winced, I had used my enhanced speed to lift my head. For a vampire I'm pretty human. Usually I would hear anyone coming towards us before they even could make out our faces, but when I'm distracted my vampire senses kind of fade back into human senses. I hoped they didn’t notice my break neck speed. I turned around and sighed. It was a policeman. His arms were crossed over his blue uniform and he had his head slightly raised. I could tell he was trying to look cool, with his pitch black sunglasses. Before Liam could do anything I said:
“Hello Officer” I smiled, trying to look as innocent as possible.

“Hello Miss, may I ask what you're doing?”

“We’re just talking business, Sir” I glanced at Liam. He looked confused.
 
“What business?” The officer lowered his arms and took off his sunglasses. I glanced at the distance between his hand and his gun.
 
“Our business”

“And what business is that?” he asked while raising one eyebrow.

“Like I said, our business” I smiled, grabbed Liam's arm and walked past the policeman onto the street.

When we were at the end of the sidewalk Liam stopped me and said:
“How did you do that?”

“Do what?” all I had done was talk to a policeman.

“That thing, with your eyes” He said, while pointing to his euyes.
 
“What are you talking about?” I raised an eyebrow. He sounded crazy.
 
“After you said “Like I said, our business” you smiled and your eyes turned yellow. The policeman's eyes faded into yellow, like you were controlling him or something. That's why he let us go without a fuss”

 

 But that didn't make sense, I smiled to be polite, not to hypnotize him. I know I am different because I've never have had human blood, only animal, but my eyes are still bright red, like when I was a newborn. Liam said that they would dull, then turn gold after time. But they haven’t. At all. I think there brighter actually. This thought only took about a fourth of a second. But I didn’t say anything. Liam stood up straight and looked over my head.

 

“Time to go” he whispered. I turned around and saw the policeman stumble out of the ally, like he was drunk or something. I turned back around and started to walk forward. But Liam grabbed my arm. I looked at him with confusion probably plastered all over my face. He pointed up. Oh, duh. We were going to travel by rooftop. I'm so human sometimes. I walked over to another ally, climbed up the wall and landed lightly on the rooftop. Liam at my heels. I let him pass and lead. We jumped from rooftop to rooftop. We were still jumping when the sun started to rise. I could tell it was rising because the air was slightly warmer, not because I could see it. I said to Liam; “Hey! lets go back to the ground”

“Why?” He asked. He's a little slow sometimes. I laughed on the inside.

“Because people will start to wonder why there are kids jumping on rooftops". He had a look of realization and embarassment.
 
We had gotten to the edge of town then and we could see the forest. It was close so we jumped to the ground and after checking for people, ran through the last few streets to the edge of the trees at a slow jog. Once we were under the cover of the trees, we really picked up the pace. The trees were flying by and I was enjoying the wind in my hair. Liam and I ran side by side when we could and smiled at each other as we raced through the woods. It never got very bright even though it was morning. You can trust that the sun won’t show in Forks, WA and we were really close.

When we got to town, Liam whispered to me “Go to the high school. I’ll check the houses.”

“Okay, see you later.”

“See ya” and he was gone. I started on my way, but I didn't know where the school was. I saw a girl who looked about seventeen and I walked over to her. She had brown hair and was pretty. I probaly would have wanted to be her friend when I was still human.
 
“Hi" I said quietly. I used to be really shy, but Liam and becoming a vampire has really helped with that.
 
“Hey” she looked shocked, but then she composed her features into neutral.

“My name is Karly and I was wondering if you could tell me were the high school is?” I didn't want to sound to desprate, but I was. She explained how to get to the school from where we were.
 
“Thank you....?” I wanted to know her name.

“Oh! I’m Jess” She said with a big smile.
 
“Thank you Jess I’ll see you around” I smiled and walked past her. I walked for about ten minutes and saw the street I was supposed to take. It seemed a little run down. I could see a couple of guys scattered around the whole street.

 

I started down the street hunched over. I didn't want to attract any attetion. I let my hair fall into my face and I shoved my hands into my pocket. I started walking faster. I didn't want to deal with anyone, I just wanted to get to the school. A older guy, around nineteen or twenty wlaked up to me. He grinned at me, his lip ring glinting in the light form a house. His hair was black and spiked. He had a stud in his nose and two rings in his left eyebrow. He had on a band shirt and black jeans.  
“So, you single?” He asked in a raspy voice.
 
“Yeah” I said quietly. I glanced at him than stared at his shoes.
 
“Do you want to stay single?” He leaned forward, snaking his arm around my waist. He pulled me close to his body and smelled my hair, laughing quietly.
 
“If we were the last two people in the world, I still wouldn't date you” I twirled out of his arm and gracefully walked away. As I was walking away I flipped him off over my shoulder.
 
When I saw the high school I jogged at human pace to get to the little office. I walked in and saw a lady sitting behind a desk. The little name card said "Ms. Cope". I walked up and cleared my throat to get her attention. She looked startled, but then composed her features into a welcoming smile.
“Well hello. How can I help you?” she smiled at me even more.

“Hi. My name is Karly, and I was wondering if the Cullen family went to this school” I have asked that question about fifty times all over the world. I hoped I didn't sound as creepy as I felt. I sounded like a stalker or something.
 
“Well, yes actually”. She said with slight hesitation. I grinned with excitment.
 
“Really?” I asked. This was great news. I didn't want to have false hope.
 
“Yes really” She said easier. She senesed my hapiness.
 
“That's great! Is it okay if I come tomorrow with a friend to tour the school?” I was actually going to
find the Cullens with Liam! 
 
“Sure, what time would you like to come and leave?” She started to type on her keyboard.

“Can we be here the whole day?” I wnated as much time as possible to find the Cullens.
 
“Sure, I’ll have a different kid for each period give you a tour” She wrote something down on a post-it note and stuck to her moniter.
 
“Thank you so much”

“Would you like it if I had someone pick you up for school?”

“That would be wonderful” It was a strange idea, but it seemed like a good idea.
 
“Okay, so don’t be surprised if someone comes up to your house to take you to school”

“Thank you again, here is my address” I handed her a piece of paper with me and Liam's 
“address”.

 

I thanked her again and walked out of the little office. I ran to our rented house not caring who saw me. I burst through the door to find Liam sitting on the couch with a sad expression on his face. I ran and sat next to him, bouncing on my seat.

“Guess what?” I said with a huge grin.
 
“You found them?” His face lit up.

“Yes! and we have a tour of the school tomorrow so we will have to keep our eyes open to find them”.We were finally going to meet the Cullens. I was going to get answers.
 

The Cullens

The next day I couldn't stop moving! I ran around the house, but when I saw the clock, I ran into the bathroom and grabbed my hair brush. I didn't actually need to brush my hair because it’s always perfect, but I have been in the human act for so long it seemed normal. I grabbed my brush but realized my hands were shaking. Not the little “I’m-kinda-nervous” shaking. Nope. It was the “Holy-crap-I’m-going-to-die” shaking. Were my entire frame won’t stop moving. I was acting a little too human for my taste but I couldn't stop trembling no matter how hard I tried. Liam came into the bathroom, grabbed the brush and lightly pulled it through my hair. Then he lead me out of the bathroom and down the stairs.

 

“Look Karly, it’s going to be fine” He smiled at me warmly.

 

“I know, I just-” But then the doorbell rang and I thought: saved by the bell.

I twirled away from Liam and opened the door. A boy with dark brown hair and a pimply face was smiling at me warmly. When he really saw me, his face light up and his eyes got brighter. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Liam head up the stairs.

 

“Hi, my name is Eric” the boy beamed.

 

“Hi Eric, one moment please” I turned around and yelled into the house:

 

“Liam! Time to go!” Liam ran down the stairs. 
 
     “Okay Eric, lets go” I walked out of the house and past Eric with Liam at my heels.

 

I turned around and give Eric that “Aren't you coming?” look. He seemed to re-enter reality and hurried up to us. He reminded me of Liam the first time I met him. It was in 1920, and I was sixteen. I had no friends, but all the guys wanted me. Every day when I came home my brother would say: “It’s all in your room”. What he meant were all the letters, gifts and flowers from guys were piled up in my room. About a week before I was going to turn seventeen, a group of guys who were eighteen literally backed me up into a corner and tried to, do things with me. I made the mistake of fighting back, so they beat me up. Liam found me laying on the street in a pool of blood. Later he told me that he had come to find and protect me but he came a day to late. He turned me into a vampire and has been taking care of me ever since.

When we got to the school everyone looked at us. Some guys patted Eric on the back and some girls scowled at me then smiled at Liam. I couldn't help it. I started to laugh. Just a giggle at first, but by the time we were inside I was bursting with laughter. Liam jabbed me in the ribs with his elbow. I pretended to be hurt by rubbing my side with my hand. I glared at him and he snickered. We went to first period and I couldn't help but answer every question correctly. Before we knew it, it was lunchtime. I grabbed Liam’s arm and whispered in his ear:

 

“Keep your eyes open, this is where we will find them”

 

He just nodded and pulled me into the lunchroom. We got our food and picked a table. We are different from other vampires because first of all we’re “vegetarian” and second, because we actually eat human food. Sometimes. Like in the lunchroom we actually ate most of our food. We didn't get a chance to finish the rest. Because the next people that walked into the lunchroom were the people we had been looking for for the the past three months. The Cullens.

First, Alice and Jasper walked in. Then Rosalie and Emmett. Finally the last Cullen, Edward walked in. But to our surprise he wasn't alone. A girl with wavy brown hair and brown eyes was with him. She was also human. And they were holding hands. I couldn't believe how good she smelled. But she wasn't in any danger because no humans blood is that appetizing to me. Sure humans smell good but not in a food sense. At least not to me anyways.

Alice, Jasper, the human and Edward walked over to a table with Mike (tour guide), Ben (tour guide) and some other girl. Rosalie and Emmett walked to a table in the corner. I turned to Liam.
“What do we do now?” I asked.
“Um, We go and, Uh you say, Oh I don’t know!” He said, exasperated.
“Okay, I'll go do something”. I stood up and turned around. I watched Emmett stand up and walk to the garbage, I quickly walked over and “accidentally” bumped into him. I fell onto my butt.
“Oh, sorry! I didn’t see you” He reached down to help me up.
“Most people don’t” I said with a chuckle. When I looked up into his eyes I saw shock plastered on his face. He looked over at Edward and I looked too. I only saw him nod once when suddenly I’m yanked by the arm out of the lunchroom and into the hallway. Emmett pulled me down the hallway. I looked behind us and saw Jasper and Co. behind us. Emmett pulled me outside and let go of my arm.

“What do you want and why are you here?” He asked taking a step closer. I looked around to see that I was surrounded. With the exception of Edward and the human girl still standing in the door of the school. I heard her whisper to him: “Who is she?” he looked at me and I thought of a really cute dress I saw in the window of Macy's on the way there. Then he looked down at her and whispered:
“She knows that I can hear her thoughts, she won’t think of anything about herself or her companion.” I looked back at Emmett and was about to answer his question when Edward said: “How do you know our names?”
“I know a lot of things”
“Who are you?” Like you don’t know

I think as loudly as possible at him

“My name is Karly and I am here with my friend Liam” I looked at the door and saw Liam burst onto the lawn. Edward picked up the girl and moved her a second before Liam came so they didn’t get slammed. He pushed past Alice and Jasper so he could next to me, tense.
“Like I said, My name is Karly and this is Liam”

“What do you want” Edward asked, moving closer, with the girl behind him. I could see that he was protecting her.

“I’m not going to hurt her, humans don’t smell appetizing to me” I said with irritation leaking into my voice. He looked shocked. So did the girl. Actually, they all looked shocked.

"What?" I asked.

"Humans don't smell appetizing to you?" Jasper asked with doubt and shock in his voice.

"Nope, I won't deny that they smell good. Just not in the food sense. To me, anyways"

"We are both vegetarians" Liam explained.

"You might be but the girl isn't" Said Jasper, moving closer to Alice.

"My name is Karly, I thought we were clear on that, and I am a vegetarian, just ask Edward" I said, gesturing to Edward. He looked surprised. But just for a second, then he looked at me. I thought of the past ninety eight years and how I have never had human blood. But I left out the reason Me and Liam were there in the first place.
"She is telling the truth, but, then why are your eyes red?” He challenged. I looked at Liam.
“Um... I actually have no idea...” I say truthfully. Alice stepped out from behind Jasper and walked a little closer to me and Liam. She looked at my face and squinted her eyes.

“Bella...” She said slowly. I saw Edward tense out of the corner of my eye. She continued:

“Don’t you recognize her?” Bella

. I thought. So the human's name is Bella. Short for Isabella no doubt. But why would she recognize me?

Liam looked at me with that “What did you do?” look on his face.
Bella walked around Edward and stood next to Alice. I swear that Edward was going to grab her and run. She leaned closer to me and looked at my face. Then she smiled and straightened up.

“I do Alice. She’s the girl from that Cover Girl magazine”

“Yeah... I was actually thinking that she was form that Macy’s magazine”

“You’re right! She is from both of them!” Crap. Busted. Liam didn’t know about my two week modeling job. Liam looked at me with his eyebrows raised.

“Kay, What are they talking about?’ He said through his teeth.

“Well, Liam. Do you remember that time you went to that place for two weeks?” He glared at me.

“Right, well when you left I was offered a modeling job so I took it. That would also explain why I had so many guys calling me the next month, apparently someone got my number” I confessed. Liam looked like he was about to explode. I looked at Jasper desperately, he noticed and did his emotion controlling trick.

I hoped that the rest of our time with the Cullens is that easy...

Carlisle and Esme

After convincing Edward and Jasper to let us talk with Carlisle and Esme, we went into the forest. It was weird, I assumed that Edward would leave Bella at school but he reached toward her, picked her up, and put her on his back like a 5 year old with there father. Then he ran into the trees. I looked at Liam and grabbed his hand. Okay, let's get some things strait. There is NOTHING romantic between the two of us. At least not for me. Sure, Liam is cute, with dirty blond hair and dark brown eyes. He is pretty tall, but I'm only 5'3'' so everyone is tall to me. But he is like my brother or something. We're just really close. Anyway, while we're holding hands I looked at Edward and Bella. Her eyes were squeezed shut. I bet she got nauseous. I saw Edward give at me strange look. Then pull ahead of us. I looked at Liam but he didn't notice. We ran through the last trees and ended up on their lawn. I let go of Liam's hand and followed the back of Alice's little elven head. Out of nowhere my entire body felt like it was lit on fire, dunked in acid, run over by an eighteen wheeler and kicked in the stomach by a karate master a million times. I fell to the ground and could barley hear my self scream over the ringing in my ears. I saw Jasper's face before I blacked out.

What? wait, where was I? I couldn't feel anything. Wait.... I could feel myself laying on a mattress. I could smell medicine. I could taste animal blood. I could hear someone breathing. I tried to make my eyes open but they just fluttered. I could hear the person in the chair next to me move.

"Karly?" It was Liam. I forced my eyes open and looked at his face. He looked paler and had bruise like shadows under his eyes.

"When was the last time you went hunting?" I asked, shifting myself into a sitting position.

"Seriously. You just wake up from a three day coma thing and the first thing you do is worry about me? You have some issues Kay"

"Wait, back up a sec. A three day coma thing? What does that mean?"

"Well when you blacked out you wouldn't move or anything. So Carlisle said that you were in a coma stage thing"

"Very helpful Liam. Where is everyone?" I asked, looking around.

"Bella, Alice and Edward are downstairs doing something, Jasper, Rosalie and Esme are hunting and Emmett and Carlisle are in the hallway listening to our conversation"

"Of course they are" I muttered.

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Texte: Lora C
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 29.05.2012

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