Storming Sky

WAITING

WAITING

I woke up some time later in a hotel room. Bella was in the bed beside me, otherwise I would have guessed that we were kidnapped. Although, maybe we did get kidnapped with everything that has been happening.

The ride was long and tough. I fell asleep a few times, but I don't think Bella fell asleep at all.

She did cry at one point, and that's when Alice ended up in the back seat with us. That, and the weather got significantly warmer. I was happy to see the sun.

I fell asleep again right before we hit Phoenix, and I didn't wake up until now.

"What time is it?" I asked, walking out to the main living area of the suite. Jasper and Alice smiled when they saw me awake. My eyes were red and puffy from the stress and tears of the past few days.

"A little after midnight," Alice said softly, so she didn't wake Bella. "Do you want to come lay down with us?"

"Sure. I guess there's nothing better to do than sleep right now," I mumbled. "How is everything going back home?" I added tentatively. Did I really want to know?

"So far, everything is going according to plan," she said.

"You'd tell me, right? If something doesn't go according to plan?" I challenged her.

"Of course," she said, and patted the space in between her and Jasper.

"Are you hungry?" He asked as I lay down.

"Not really," I said.

"You haven't eaten anything since before the baseball game," Alice pointed out. "You must be starving."

"I guess I could nibble on something," I said. Alice got up to find a place where we could order food at 12:30 in the morning.

We ended up ordering Pizza from some 24 hour pizza place. It wasn't bad, I just wasn't in the mood for eating. I was still kind of in shock from the past days.

"Bella's up, I'm going to go talk to her," Alice announced around 3:00, getting up and walking to our room. I still hadn't fallen back asleep after watching a movie with her and Jasper.

"Are you okay?" Jasper asked me. I hadn't realized I started crying again. I shook my head no. I wasn't okay. Nothing about this was okay.

"I know," Jasper said, pulling me up and rubbing my back. He tried to send me waves of different emotions to help me cope, but I shook my head.

"Please don't," I choked out. "I need this." And it was true. I blocked most of it out after the baseball game. I shut down after leaving home. I never really let myself feel anything.

"Then talk to me," Jasper bargained. "Tell me what you're feeling."

"Scared. Hopeless. Homesick."

"Why those feelings?" Jasper asked.

"It has never been more prominent that I don't belong in this world. I heard Edward apologizing to Bella in the clearing and it's just, it's like nobody expected Bella to be put in this situation, but nobody apologized to me, and that makes it feel like you all expected me to get hunted at some point. That you expected me to be in danger like this, and don't care. Edward scared me with the way he was acting, but he just being a vampire." You weren't meant to be housecats, you were created to be tigers, I added in my head, remembering how the strangers walked.

"You would have died," Jasper said, and I didn't really know what he was talking about anymore.

"What?" I asked him.