twenty-three

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE


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"Can I just tell you again how incredibly stupid this is?" Jay says as she follows behind Bella as they trek through the undergrowth of the forest.

"You didn't have to come with me." The older girl tells her.

"I was supposed to let you come out here all alone when there have been multiple bear sightings, and people have been killed?" She questions. "Think again, muchacha."

"And what are you gonna do if we find a bear?" Bella asks as they cross over a stream.

"Trip you, run home, tell Charlie that you died saving my life." She says. "Isabella Marie Swan — my hero, may she rest in peace."

"That's nice." She says sarcastically.

"We will never forget her. She sucked at singing, had suicidal tendencies, made bonehead decisions that threatened the safety of herself and her friends, crashed her motorcycle the one and only time she ever drove it; but she was my Ohana, and we will never forget her."

"What a riot."

"Hey, that'd be a killer eulogy." She defends.

"And that's dark, even for you." Bella shakes her head as she leads the way over rocks and fallen tree branches.

"What? The death joke about your funeral?" She chuckles. "Too soon?"

"Well, seeing as I'm not dead yet..."

"Yet being the operative word." Jay says as she ducks under a low-hanging branch. "You keep making decisions like this one, and your funeral will be sooner than later."

"Says the girl who followed me out here." She glances at the younger girl over her shoulder.

"Fair point. Maybe it'll be Kim giving the eulogy at our funeral." She says as they enter a large clearing in the woods. "Aw, we could have a joint funeral, be buried together. We'll be together forever in the afterlife too. What a beautifully tragic story." She continues as she walks past Bella into the field that's full of brown grass. "I hate to break it to you, Bell, but this place is kinda ug— Bella?" Her eyebrows furrow when she turns back around and sees her distraught friend on one knee with two fist-fulls of the dormant blades.

The older girl straightens up again, but instead of returning her attention to Jay, she stares at something over her best friend's shoulder. The little brunette turns and finds a man that hadn't been standing there a few moments ago. He has black skin and long dark brown dreadlocks, and in truth the man is beautiful. But even at this distance, Jay can see his crimson red eyes.

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