Mute Emma

chapter Seven

Chapter Seven
Emma's Pov 

Getting into my truck I put on my sunglasses and started my drive to work which is only about five minutes from here. Knowing Cameron was home I didn't wanna be there anymore. After he slapped me last night I don't know if I can ever really be around him for very long. 

Realizing I didn't check for a bruise my eyes went wide and I pulled over to the side of the road. Looking in my rearview mirror I saw a yellowish colored bruise with a hint of purple in a faint shape of Cameron's hand on the side of my face. 

Grabbing my phone I texted my manager 'Hey Molly, I'm so sorry but I can't come in till after lunch today. Something happened to a family member and I need to take care of a few things' and I really didn't lie. I mean something did happen...to me. 

Putting my car in drive I pulled out of the driveway and drove to the store. I grabbed my phone again to see an email from Al and a text back from Molly. 

Deciding to read Al's email first I opened it up.

Emma,

I am so happy to hear from you. I know things get hard but everything will get better! And oh my goodness you stopped writing you were BORN to be a writer! 

I am also so glad to hear that you are talking again even if it's not very much, also how is school? Did you make any friends? Remember what I always told you never let anyone of them bring you down for who you are! If they don't like you for you, it's their loss.

As for Cameron, I'm sorry to hear. Maybe if you tried getting just ten minutes with him to talk things could be better between you two. 

Please message me back and update me! I miss you Em.

Al.

I don’t hesitate to email him right back...

Al,

Gosh, you couldn't have picked a better day to message me back! School is school. There is this group of kids and they are really nice to me. They let me eat lunch with them and everything. 

-Emma

I then read Molly’s message and she said 'Oh hon I understand I'll see you after lunch'. Lying has gotten easy for me so I'm not surprised she believed me. I mean she trusts me. 

Grabbing a ten-dollar bill from the driver's side floor I laughed knowing I was gonna get a lot of weird looks for this but I got out of the car anyway not bothering to lock it. 

I'm not even in the store yet and I'm getting weird looks. I hate when people stare at me but I have to do this or people will stare at me all day and maybe even ask what happened to me. I pass some teenagers. I could hear them talking about me. 

"Bro isn't that the girl who killed Mike?" A dude with blonde hair asked his friend, causing me to freeze. That may have been a long time ago but people still think I killed him because they never really found out what he did. 

I mean sure I know he was killed by a vampire but I couldn't tell the police that. I just answered the questions, they never once asked if I was the one to kill him.

But maybe that's because the guys who rescued me had been called into state what they had seen that day and they even found the body while I was still at the station. 

"I didn't kill Mike okay!" I yelled, turning around so I could face them and see them more clearly. They didn't go to the Forks High school that's for sure.

They were way too tan to even fit in at Forks so that means they are either new to La Push or they know what happened and go to the high school.

They stayed silent just staring at me "I was at the station when they found his body, he was away from the trails and his clothes were all ripped up like he had gotten attacked by something," I told them honestly my voice shaking a bit "and he was covered in blood." I continued, unable to make eye contact.

"Sorry," one of the boys mumbled as they got into the truck behind them not saying a word to each other. 

Feeling a bit more confident I continued my way into the store going directly for the makeup aisle and grabbed a foundation in my shade as well as some more mascara and lip gloss and went to the self-checkout. 

Putting my items into a plastic bag I walked out of the store and back over to my car only to see the word 'MURDER' in big bold black letters spray-painted on the driver side’. “So much for being honest" I whispered to myself. 

Getting into the car I pulled out my phone to check the time which read 10:30 AM, damn it I still had to drive to Billy's.

Quickly putting foundation on to cover up my bruise I thought about what I could do to my car.

I mean I do have two others so I could spray paint a cool design on this one since it's my truck and drive the others while I work on this one. 

I put my car in drive and pulled out of the parking lot taking a bunch of backroads because of the vandalism. 

Finally pulling up to Billys’  house I notice Bella's ugly ass orange truck is here. Just my luck huh. 

Stepping out of my now vandalized truck and onto their unpaved driveway I hear Bella and I assume Jake is working on something in the garage. So I walk up to the front door to avoid them. 

A/N: edited