“Dad, how’s it him?” I asked. “How can he be alive?”
He didn’t answer but continued to stare at the broken pieces as if he could see Loren there.
“How is he alive?” I demanded. “I killed him! I put a bullet through his brain! I saw his dead eyes!”
The fear was back as it no longer needed to be squashed as my mother wasn’t here. I was panicking. The guy I had killed had called me to tell me he was coming to kill me. That did not happen!
“Kayla calm down,” Charlie said. “There’s no need to panic.”
“There’s every need,” I said. “I don’t know if anda noticed but Loren is alive!”
Charlie stared at the pieces again not talking to me. I wanted to know what he was thinking but that barrier was up again. Had he known about this? Was that why he had the barrier up?
“Do anda know how anda healed me?” he asked me.
“No.”
“Our abilities are in our blood. They run through our veins. Azdis have a kind of energy that, when practiced, they can manipulate into whatever they want. Your hands were covered in my blood and your hands were pressed to my stab wound and anda were desperate to save me. anda channelled your energy through to my blood which had my healing gift. That’s what healed me. If anda were older and lebih practiced anda wouldn’t have needed my blood but you’re young and anda needed extra help.”
“Has this something to do with Loren?” I asked.
“You didn’t control your energy,” he continued, looking at me. “It lingered in the air and healed Loren.”
My eyes widened and my jantung stopped again.
“It’s not your fault,” Charlie berkata quickly. “There was no way that anda could have anticipated using your own energy to save me. anda don’t how to use atau stop it. No Azdi does for sure. anda choose how to summon your own energy and how to banish it.”
“Dad, he’s alive,” I said, my breathing was quick as I began to hyperventilate. “I killed him and then brought him back to life and now he’s going to kill me!”
“Calm down,” Charlie put his hands on my shoulder, trying to steady me. “Breathe slowly and deeply.”
I did as he berkata and my breathing returned to normal. But my fear increased.
“I don’t want to go back there!” I cried. “I don’t want to!”
I could see the cell again with me chained there. I could see Loren coming towards me with a gun pointing at my head. I saw me dead.
“Sshh baby,” Charlie hugged me and stroked my hair. “You’re not going back there.”
“Promise?” I sniffed.
“Promise.”
I was sleeping when Edward came back. He was lying selanjutnya to me when I opened my eyes. It was still dark outside so it was early in the morning. He looked very worried and angry at the same time but when he noticed I was awake his face became completely smooth and he smiled at me.
“Hi,” he said, ciuman my forehead. “How are you?”
“He told you?” I asked, sitting up and pulling the scrunchie out of my hair.
“Who told me what?” he said, innocently.
I smoothed my hair down til I felt it looked reasonably ok.
“Charlie told anda Loren called today?” I played with the scrunchie in my hands. I twisted it around my fingers again and again, waiting on his answer.
“How did anda guess?” he asked.
“Your face is a complete blank,” I answered. “You’re never like that unless you’re disguising your emotions.”
He remained quiet.
“You came oleh the front door?” I said, smiling. “I thought anda didn’t know how to knock.”
He chuckled slightly. I sensed his mood lightening.
“I wanted to speak to Charlie,” he replied. “Ask him for the cover story so I could tell Carlisle and the others. He told me then and asked if I would pass the message on to the wolves. He couldn’t discuss anything with them himself because anda the phone and he didn’t want to leave you.” He raised an eyebrow. “You broke the phone?”
“It scared me,” I defended myself. “I had killed the guy and he phoned my up for a chat. I got scared and threw the phone. A little too hard.”
“From what Charlie told me, it was a little lebih than a chat.”
I shuffled closer to him and continued to play with my scrunchie. He lightly put an arm around my shoulders.
“Are anda still scared?” he asked me. “If anda are anda shouldn’t be. I’m here to protect you.”
“There are ways around your protection,” I replied.
“And Emmett’s and Jasper’s and Rosalie’s and Alice’s?”
I stopped playing with the scrunchie and glared at him.
“You have all of your family looking after me?” He was enough but everyone else?
“No, Carlisle and Esme aren’t protecting you,” he replied. “Not that they don’t cinta anda atau anything. It’s just Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie and Alice is enough.”
“I also have Charlie and the serigala protecting me,” I said. “I don’t need an entourage of vampire too. I think one atau two people will be enough.”
“We need everyone we can get. We weren’t enough last time.”
“Loren didn’t sound in a fit enough state to come after me,” I scoffed. “He couldn’t even laugh without nearly dying. Again.”
“You sound very confident,” Edward said, eyeing me suspiciously. “Could this be an act?”
The barrier went up. Edward wouldn’t know how scared I really was. If he did then he wouldn’t leave me ever. I know that I was scared and I know that this was the wrong way to act if you’re scared but Edward had a life. He needed to see his family and hunt. How could he do that if he was constantly soothing me?
“This is an act!” His golden eyes widened when he heard silence from my mind knowing a barrier was up. “Why are anda hiding your fear from me?”
I sighed.
“I’m scared. I’m really scared. Loren is coming after me to kill me. He promised that. But I don’t want anda to be constantly at my side because I’m scared. It isn’t right. anda have a life, Edward. I don’t want to ruin it.”
“You are my life,” he said, cupping my cheek in one hand.
I smiled. He was so sweet it was unbelievable.
“I want to protect you,” he said, ciuman my lips. “I want to keep anda from harm. I want anda to feel safe. Why is that hard to understand?”
“It isn’t,” I replied. “I understand completely. It’s just I don’t want it to take over you.”
He tilted his head to the side.
“You fear for me when your life is in danger?”
“I just don’t want anda to become so protective that anda forget to hunt and I end up wrapped in bubble membungkus, bungkus shoved in a bubble locked in a kubah, vault with a two feet thick steel door and all sharp objects are disposed of.”
He laughed.
“You really think I would do that?”
“I know anda would.”
He sighed.
“Kayla, I just want anda to be safe,” he said.
“I know, but an entourage of vampire when I already have serigala is unnecessary.”
He contemplated for a second.
“Fine, no entourage,” he agreed. “But Alice is allowed to watch out for anda and she and Jasper take anda if I have to leave.”
That seemed reasonable.
“Agreed.”
He smiled and I lay against his chest. I played with my scrunchie again, twisting it around my fingers and into circles and squares.
“Amazing how humans can be fascinated oleh such small objects,” Edward chuckled.
“Hey, scrunchies are amazing,” I said. “They have like, a hundred and one uses.”
“Like what?” Edward asked.
“One: To tie my hair back.” I took both of Edward’s hands and slipped the scrunchie over his wrists. “Two: Handcuffs.”
He smiled wickedly and leaned in to ciuman me.
“Three: A useful device to strangle someone with,” a rasping voice in the darkness said.
Edward snarled and I screamed. Edward snapped the scrunchie with a quick simple movement and jumped at the person who had suddenly appeared in my room. I knew who was here. I recognised his rasping voice. I just didn’t think his promise would come true so soon.
He didn’t answer but continued to stare at the broken pieces as if he could see Loren there.
“How is he alive?” I demanded. “I killed him! I put a bullet through his brain! I saw his dead eyes!”
The fear was back as it no longer needed to be squashed as my mother wasn’t here. I was panicking. The guy I had killed had called me to tell me he was coming to kill me. That did not happen!
“Kayla calm down,” Charlie said. “There’s no need to panic.”
“There’s every need,” I said. “I don’t know if anda noticed but Loren is alive!”
Charlie stared at the pieces again not talking to me. I wanted to know what he was thinking but that barrier was up again. Had he known about this? Was that why he had the barrier up?
“Do anda know how anda healed me?” he asked me.
“No.”
“Our abilities are in our blood. They run through our veins. Azdis have a kind of energy that, when practiced, they can manipulate into whatever they want. Your hands were covered in my blood and your hands were pressed to my stab wound and anda were desperate to save me. anda channelled your energy through to my blood which had my healing gift. That’s what healed me. If anda were older and lebih practiced anda wouldn’t have needed my blood but you’re young and anda needed extra help.”
“Has this something to do with Loren?” I asked.
“You didn’t control your energy,” he continued, looking at me. “It lingered in the air and healed Loren.”
My eyes widened and my jantung stopped again.
“It’s not your fault,” Charlie berkata quickly. “There was no way that anda could have anticipated using your own energy to save me. anda don’t how to use atau stop it. No Azdi does for sure. anda choose how to summon your own energy and how to banish it.”
“Dad, he’s alive,” I said, my breathing was quick as I began to hyperventilate. “I killed him and then brought him back to life and now he’s going to kill me!”
“Calm down,” Charlie put his hands on my shoulder, trying to steady me. “Breathe slowly and deeply.”
I did as he berkata and my breathing returned to normal. But my fear increased.
“I don’t want to go back there!” I cried. “I don’t want to!”
I could see the cell again with me chained there. I could see Loren coming towards me with a gun pointing at my head. I saw me dead.
“Sshh baby,” Charlie hugged me and stroked my hair. “You’re not going back there.”
“Promise?” I sniffed.
“Promise.”
I was sleeping when Edward came back. He was lying selanjutnya to me when I opened my eyes. It was still dark outside so it was early in the morning. He looked very worried and angry at the same time but when he noticed I was awake his face became completely smooth and he smiled at me.
“Hi,” he said, ciuman my forehead. “How are you?”
“He told you?” I asked, sitting up and pulling the scrunchie out of my hair.
“Who told me what?” he said, innocently.
I smoothed my hair down til I felt it looked reasonably ok.
“Charlie told anda Loren called today?” I played with the scrunchie in my hands. I twisted it around my fingers again and again, waiting on his answer.
“How did anda guess?” he asked.
“Your face is a complete blank,” I answered. “You’re never like that unless you’re disguising your emotions.”
He remained quiet.
“You came oleh the front door?” I said, smiling. “I thought anda didn’t know how to knock.”
He chuckled slightly. I sensed his mood lightening.
“I wanted to speak to Charlie,” he replied. “Ask him for the cover story so I could tell Carlisle and the others. He told me then and asked if I would pass the message on to the wolves. He couldn’t discuss anything with them himself because anda the phone and he didn’t want to leave you.” He raised an eyebrow. “You broke the phone?”
“It scared me,” I defended myself. “I had killed the guy and he phoned my up for a chat. I got scared and threw the phone. A little too hard.”
“From what Charlie told me, it was a little lebih than a chat.”
I shuffled closer to him and continued to play with my scrunchie. He lightly put an arm around my shoulders.
“Are anda still scared?” he asked me. “If anda are anda shouldn’t be. I’m here to protect you.”
“There are ways around your protection,” I replied.
“And Emmett’s and Jasper’s and Rosalie’s and Alice’s?”
I stopped playing with the scrunchie and glared at him.
“You have all of your family looking after me?” He was enough but everyone else?
“No, Carlisle and Esme aren’t protecting you,” he replied. “Not that they don’t cinta anda atau anything. It’s just Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie and Alice is enough.”
“I also have Charlie and the serigala protecting me,” I said. “I don’t need an entourage of vampire too. I think one atau two people will be enough.”
“We need everyone we can get. We weren’t enough last time.”
“Loren didn’t sound in a fit enough state to come after me,” I scoffed. “He couldn’t even laugh without nearly dying. Again.”
“You sound very confident,” Edward said, eyeing me suspiciously. “Could this be an act?”
The barrier went up. Edward wouldn’t know how scared I really was. If he did then he wouldn’t leave me ever. I know that I was scared and I know that this was the wrong way to act if you’re scared but Edward had a life. He needed to see his family and hunt. How could he do that if he was constantly soothing me?
“This is an act!” His golden eyes widened when he heard silence from my mind knowing a barrier was up. “Why are anda hiding your fear from me?”
I sighed.
“I’m scared. I’m really scared. Loren is coming after me to kill me. He promised that. But I don’t want anda to be constantly at my side because I’m scared. It isn’t right. anda have a life, Edward. I don’t want to ruin it.”
“You are my life,” he said, cupping my cheek in one hand.
I smiled. He was so sweet it was unbelievable.
“I want to protect you,” he said, ciuman my lips. “I want to keep anda from harm. I want anda to feel safe. Why is that hard to understand?”
“It isn’t,” I replied. “I understand completely. It’s just I don’t want it to take over you.”
He tilted his head to the side.
“You fear for me when your life is in danger?”
“I just don’t want anda to become so protective that anda forget to hunt and I end up wrapped in bubble membungkus, bungkus shoved in a bubble locked in a kubah, vault with a two feet thick steel door and all sharp objects are disposed of.”
He laughed.
“You really think I would do that?”
“I know anda would.”
He sighed.
“Kayla, I just want anda to be safe,” he said.
“I know, but an entourage of vampire when I already have serigala is unnecessary.”
He contemplated for a second.
“Fine, no entourage,” he agreed. “But Alice is allowed to watch out for anda and she and Jasper take anda if I have to leave.”
That seemed reasonable.
“Agreed.”
He smiled and I lay against his chest. I played with my scrunchie again, twisting it around my fingers and into circles and squares.
“Amazing how humans can be fascinated oleh such small objects,” Edward chuckled.
“Hey, scrunchies are amazing,” I said. “They have like, a hundred and one uses.”
“Like what?” Edward asked.
“One: To tie my hair back.” I took both of Edward’s hands and slipped the scrunchie over his wrists. “Two: Handcuffs.”
He smiled wickedly and leaned in to ciuman me.
“Three: A useful device to strangle someone with,” a rasping voice in the darkness said.
Edward snarled and I screamed. Edward snapped the scrunchie with a quick simple movement and jumped at the person who had suddenly appeared in my room. I knew who was here. I recognised his rasping voice. I just didn’t think his promise would come true so soon.
Have anda gotten used to the Twilight fans?
Peter Facinelli: "I don't know if anda ever get used to them. They're not weird. I cinta them. I cinta each and every one of them. No, they're great. They're the best fan that anda can have. They're so loyal. We've had people camping out all night long on the sets."
For this one, too?
Peter Facinelli: "Yeah, oh yeah. People are like literally in sleeping bags. We shot all night - anda know, night shoots - because vampire like to shoot at night. And then we'd come out at 5 in the morning and they'd be in sleeping bags."
And having Chris [Weitz] as the director this time?
Peter Facinelli: "Fantastic. anda know, the detik time around it's a little easier. anda feel like anda have like a little bit lebih money it feels like. The atmosphere is calmer. I think it's going to be good. It's kind of nice having different perspectives, anda know, film to film. They just announced the third director too."
Peter Facinelli: "I don't know if anda ever get used to them. They're not weird. I cinta them. I cinta each and every one of them. No, they're great. They're the best fan that anda can have. They're so loyal. We've had people camping out all night long on the sets."
For this one, too?
Peter Facinelli: "Yeah, oh yeah. People are like literally in sleeping bags. We shot all night - anda know, night shoots - because vampire like to shoot at night. And then we'd come out at 5 in the morning and they'd be in sleeping bags."
And having Chris [Weitz] as the director this time?
Peter Facinelli: "Fantastic. anda know, the detik time around it's a little easier. anda feel like anda have like a little bit lebih money it feels like. The atmosphere is calmer. I think it's going to be good. It's kind of nice having different perspectives, anda know, film to film. They just announced the third director too."