The Shadow and The Seer (Jasper x Alice fanfic)

3. Volleyball and Bloodlust

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-rednight73
Chapter song- Same Love by Macklemore
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I leaned back in my chair while Bella looked at me tiredly. "See, not nearly as bad as the last school." Probably because a lot of them seemed to be hating on me too this time, but she didn't need to know that.

She nodded. "These guys are only slowly starting to hate me. Maybe if I skip classes every once in awhile, we can make it through the two years."

I frowned at her. "Maybe all that skipping doesn't really help." I took a bite out of an apple and kept talking. "After all, maybe it alienates you faster."

"I...could try it." Bella agreed slowly.

I mentally gave myself a fist bump over the small concession. There was no way Charlie would be as lenient as Renee about that kind of stuff. "What's your next class?" I asked through my apple.

She wrinkled her nose at me. "That's pretty gross. And it's gym..."

I tried not to laugh at her horrified tone. "Try not to face-plant while I'm not there, please. Maybe it'll be badminton." There was a tinkling in my gut that indicated that the small mercy was probably not going to happen.

"Fuck." Bella swore softly under breath. "People are staring." I followed her small nod to see eyes watching us.

Several pair of butterscotch golden eyes made my body go still. If there'd ever been a time that my innate weirdness went into hyperdrive, it was this moment. Instead of a feeling towards a particular outcome, I was overwhelmed by a infinite vacuum devoid of sensation.

I could no longer see, feel, or hear anything around me. Like the world had suddenly decided to turn its lights out along with its gravity. Life then rushed back to me like an avalanche synonymous to a punch in the gut.

In fact, it was a punch in the gut. I realized this as I saw a man's pale, white hand impact my stomach. Ruby blood eyes and blood-stained fangs assaulted my eyes. My body flew backward from the impact and back into a wall of nothingness.

I floated for some time as though the strange state of being was giving me a chance to recover from my wounds. A gentle pat on a face I had forgotten I had made me blink.

"Mary?" I shook my head in disbelief as Bella's concerned face tilted to the side. "What the hell was that?" She demanded.

I gave her a specific look and then purposely stretched in a tired motion. A huge yawn came out. It was an ancient joke between us that if trouble ever arose, we could just signal to each other by acting like each other.

I am always way too hyper to ever even consider yawning. Bella's eyes widened, but she didn't press.

Those eyes terrified me to the core... While I tended to follow my instincts, I was sorely tempted to look back at the strangers who had sent me into that trance.

"It's a day full of weirdness." Bella sighed. She rubbed her hands absentmindedly over her eyes.

"Why?"

A slight smile went over her face. "I haven't seen anything all day."

So my weirdness was full throttle into hyperdrive while hers wasn't? I supposed it was only fair since Bella was almost always the unlucky one.