Riley Swan has no idea what was coming for her in this new town with her sister, she just knew that Bella has made a promise to protect her, and then they ended up surrounded by the supernatural...
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"Bella?" Riley had to do a double take when she spotted her sister inside Jake's garage, before her eyes shift even further to the motorcycles that Jacob seemed to be looking over. "Bikes?!"
Riley's tone squeaked as she recognised the death machines, bad memories coming back to her as a shiver seemed to pass down her spine and to her very soul.
"Why are there bikes?" Riley questioned the pair, and Jake let out a sigh as Bella went to open her mouth up as an excuse. "Oh my God, Jessica was right! You've become an adrenaline junkie"
"Where did you hear that?" Bella furrowed her eyebrows at the familiar sentence that Jessica had spit out to her when they had went to the movies and Bella got into that strangers bike.
Riley scoffed at Jessica's constant drama, "she practically painted it on the walls, everyone thinks you've gone mad, and here you are with...those...death machines"
"It wasn't the bad!" Jake defended against Riley, who sent him a small glare, he had traumatised her when she had first gotten on the a bike.
"You won't tell anyone will you? I promise I'll be safe! Jake will be with me every time I'm even near them" Bella started to ramble on, trying to make sure her sister wouldn't call her out to their father, and Riley knew that if she told her dad, Bella would be on the first flight back to Phoenix.
"Fine, Bells" Riley finally sighed, cutting Bella off from her sentence. "But Jake has to be there with you, and you have to be safe"
"Yes, of course, thank you"
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Riley had decided to have a break from Bella and Jacob's sudden fascination with each other, deciding to go to her cousins instead since she knew the girl would most likely be tending to the herbs and plants in her garden, seeing as it seemed to be a growing hobby.
"I just felt like I was intruding there, and I have been going there for months, it was my second home and I somehow felt like I was the one out of place" Riley frowned as she explained the situation to Athena, who would nod every so often so Riley knew she was listening.
"Seems to me that Jake has a crush on Bella, and she seems to be relishing in the attention, not forgetting about how he is literally doing up a bike for her...for free" Athena expressed her thoughts and Riley's eyes widened slightly.
"It just...it just isn't Bella, not the Bella I know anyway. Edward broke her and now I don't know how is best to help" Riley stated sadly, watching her cousin pull a purple plant out with a slightly straining sound, Athena checking that the roots were still on and smiling when they were. "What are you doing with all this anyway?"
"My mother's mom had left behind a bunch of journals about these weird recipes and stuff, half of it is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, but most of them work...like the one for headaches, sleep, tiredness, pain and so on...I shrink she was a herbalist of some sort" Athena explained quickly and Riley's eyes widened before she took out the book about the legends.
She flipped through the pages until she found the story about the third wife and a 'helper' who had enchanted the blade that helped her sacrifice for the clan, and she reread the scene over and over again just to try and find similarities.
"Did your grandmother happen to own a Emerson green necklace?" Riley questioned, closing her book and looking at her cousin again, who shrugged before she went back to harvesting the herbs and plants.
