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Solar Midnight: Midnight Sun Reimagined (Life and Death, Book I) by beyondthedawn

 Books » Twilight Rated: T, English, Supernatural & Romance, Beau S., Edythe C., Words: 224k+, Favs: 59, Follows: 36, Published: Dec 26, 2020 15Chapter 4: VISIONS

I went back to school. This was the right thing to do, the most inconspicuous way to behave.

By the end of the day, almost all the other students had returned to class, too. Just Taylor and Beau and a few others—who were probably using the accident as a chance to ditch—remained absent.

It shouldn't have been so hard for me to do the right thing. But all afternoon, I was gritting my teeth against the urge that had me yearning to ditch, too—in order to go find the boy again.

Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed vampire stalker.

School today was—somehow, impossibly—even more boring than it had seemed just a week ago. Coma-like. It was as if the color had drained from the bricks, the trees, the sky, the faces around me... I stared at the cracks in the walls.

There was another right thing I should be doing... that I was not. Of course, it was also a wrong thing. It all depended on one's perspective.

From the perspective of a Cullen—not just a vampire, but a Cullen, someone who belonged to a family, such a rare state in our world—the right thing would have gone something like this:

"I'm surprised to see you in class, Edythe. I heard you were involved in that awful accident this morning."

"Yes, I was, Mrs. Banner, but I was the lucky one." A friendly smile. "I didn't get hurt at all. I wish I could say the same for Taylor and Beau."

"How are they?"

"I think Taylor is fine... just some superficial scrapes from the windshield glass. I'm not sure about Beau, though." A worried frown. "He might have a concussion. I heard he was pretty incoherent for a while—seeing things, even. I know the doctors were worried..."

That's how it should have gone. That's what I owed my family.

"I'm surprised to see you in class, Edythe. I heard you were involved in that awful accident this morning."

No smile. "I wasn't hurt."

Mrs. Banner shifted her weight from foot to foot, uncomfortable.

"Do you have any idea how Taylor Crowley and Beau Swan are? I heard there were some injuries..."

I shrugged. "I wouldn't know."

Mrs. Banner cleared her throat. "Er, right...," she said, my cold stare making her voice sound a bit strained.

She walked quickly back to the front of the classroom and began her lecture.

It was the wrong thing to do. Unless you looked at it from a more obscure point of view.

It just seemed so... so unchivalrous to slander the boy behind his back, especially when he was proving more trustworthy than I could have dreamed. He hadn't said anything to betray me, despite having good reason to do so. Would I betray him when he had done nothing but keep my secret?

I had a nearly identical conversation with Mr. Goff—just in Spanish rather than in English—and Eleanor gave me a long look.

I hope you have a good explanation for what happened today. Roy is on the warpath.