Remedy

The Volunteers

"I mean I'm seriously having second thoughts about it." Cheri mused.

"What?" Monica yelled. "You're being ridiculous, you look great in it."

"That's what I thought and then I showed it to Cory and he said that it looks like a disco ball." Cheri spoke with a frown.

Monica rolled her eyes. "And this is why we don't show our dates our prom dresses. Right Sophie?"

My heard jerked up at the mention of my name. I looked away from the piece of paper I was studying and turned to look at my two friends who were walking beside me. "I'm sorry, what?" I asked.

Cheri rolled her eyes. "And here I was thinking a few weeks in Italy would make you more focused."

I sighed as I stuffed the piece of paper in my bag. "It's just that there's still so much to be done about prom and it's only in a few weeks."

"You are working way too hard." Monica spoke.

I shrugged. "It's our senior prom. Probably the last social event we'll all have together before graduation. I just want to make it special."

They had no idea how true my words were. I hadn't made up my decision about joining the Volturi yet. But I was leaning towards going to Italy more and more by the hour. I considered what Nina had told me about them but I just refused to believe her. I didn't want to offend Nina in any way but she wanted to be part of the volturi so bad and I didn't really see her above saying bad things about them so that I wouldn't get that opportunity myself and maybe she'd have the chance

I hadn't been with the Volturi long but I saw what they were. They were a family. Not a conventional one, but still.
And being part of that family felt like a great opportunity.

"I still really don't get how they got back in." Cheri muttered. I realised that her and Monica were looking at something behind me.

I turned around and immediately regretted it when I saw the three Cullens; Alice, Jasper and... Emmett. They were standing by one of the lockers in all their beauty and elegance, looking like they were posing for a trendy magazine cover. I had been trying to avoid and dodge seeing them all day. Whenever I would see them, even a glimpse, I would turn away and head the other direction.

I had slipped out on most of my classes today with the excuse that I needed to work on prom or some other project that was incomplete all because I didn't want to run into any of them.
Why did they have to do this? I thought the confrontation at Montepulciano would be the end of all of it. Why did they have to come back and make things harder.

Why did he have to come back and make things harder.

Alice and Jasper chatted animatedly... well Alice chatted in her sweet fairy like voice as she fiddled around with Jasper's hand. He seemed to be listening to her and finding whatever she was saying amusing.

Then there was him. He stood by his open locker but his eyes were fixed on me. He stood next to Alice and Jasper but he seemed so distant from them.
And in spite of myself, I looked right back into those golden eyes.
Studying them, trying to find emotions that I don't know if I should've been looking for. Not in the way you might think. Because the truth is, I didn't feel any pain when his name was mentioned or when I saw him. I had gotten my closure. I had moved on. I was fine but I couldn't help but wonder... and worry, was he?

"I know right." Monica spoke. "What is the point of coming back to school when graduation is only weeks away?"

"I heard that Dr Carlisle got a job on this really expensive cruise ship and that's where they had been this entire time." Cheri gushed.