Chapter 134
"Why… I thought… I thought that you would, y'know… I thought that we were getting closer, are you sure about this Alan? You'll be all alone by yourself in a city that you dont even know anything about? No friends, no way to get help if something happens… and I wont be close like I am in Forks to just come as fast as possible." Alice spoke softly as she looked at Alan with that soft expression on her face as she took another step closer, a step that caused Carlisle to slightly raise his guard up even further as he looked at this adopted daughter with a narrowed gaze, his hands looked ready to snap up and stop her at a moments notice.
Alan's eyes caught the entire scene in detail, the look on Alice's face, the guard that Carlisle had put up around him and how the rest of the Cullens were reacting in a eerily similar manner to Carlisle himself.
'What the fuck is happening? Is this… Is she actually about to attack me right now? Just because im refusing to take her with me? No… I think I know her well enough to know that she wouldn't intentionally harm me in any way, however what if she thinks that I can only be safe if I am around her, what then?' Alan thought to himself as he slowly felt a shiver slowly start to being running through his entire body before he forcible calmed his body down, something that he had unfortunately gotten very good at from how many eerie and unsettling situations he had been in recently.
"Yeah, I want to go alone, I… I can't say much, I can't even really tell you the reason as to why, but I want you to understand that this is for my own good, please respect my choice. I'll still keep in touch as much as I can, I'll call you on the phone as much as possible and you'll be the first person I turn to if something does happen and I do need to seek help. But this is a step that I want to take alone, even if I can't tell you the reason as to why." Alan spoke, his voice slowly turning clearer and clearer and more steady as he spoke the words out loud, his mind turning firmer as he finally finished his thoughts and what he could do to get out of this situation.
"For your own good, even though it really is hard to believe that Alan… I… I'll trust you, thats something that I should be able to do as your friend… okay." Alice responded after a few moment of silence that had placed the entire area into a tense standoff, after finishing said words, the vampiric woman took a step beck and then another until she was a dozen meters away from Alan, before giving one last nod and turning around and running away into the forest, her figure turning into a blur of speed as she disappeared.
Carlisle who was next to Alan released a sigh of relief before he turned towards the boy once more, his shoulders slightly less tense then earlier.
'That was anticlimactic.' Alan thought to himself as he wondered if his mind had over-reacted to Alice's expression changes and how she had been standing, maybe she truly was more understanding than he thought she was.
'Yeah right… don't let your guard down, I'm done letting my guard down, guard up at all times, around every single person. I don't have family in the first place, I can't even begin to trust these people with my life or anything else at this point, even thought they have helped me… I should always have backup plans in mind starting forth.' Alan thought as his eyes lifted up slightly and he turned his gaze away from where Alice had disappeared into the forest and back towards Carlisle who was standing next to him and now looking directly at him.
"With that sorted out, you said that you wanted to leave Forks tonight, I'll help you or rather I'll get Edward to drive you out to an apartment in Port Angeles, It's one that we own, you can stay there for as long as you wish, we will also give you enough funds to last you an entire year on your own before you have to even think about getting a job. I suggest that you use that year to get more onto your feet and then proceed to travel even further away from Forks and Port Angeles as the Quiluete young members could always come back for some kind of trouble." Carlisle spoke as he turned his gaze away from Alan at the end of his words and towards the direction where the Quileute had vanished, his eyes narrowing for a moment at the darkness inbetween the treeline before those same amber eyes turned towards Alan once more, awaiting his reply.
Alan's own eyes had widened considerably, he had thought that he would just get sent to Port Angeles and left to fend for himself however it seemed that the generosity of the Cullens was something that he had once more underestimated, and at the same time, it was one thing that kept getting more and more baffling, why would they be helping some random kid that just happened to be their daughters friend so much, the apartment and the sum of money were certainly suspicious.
'I still dont get it… all of this for just a mere friend? Someone that hasn't even really become best friends with Alice, heck it hasn't even been an entire month since I started talking to her… what exactly is happening here?' Alan thought inwardly however he knew that he had no choice but to accept the generosity given to him, it would make his life a lot easier atleast at the beginning and he could use the entire basically free year to train as much as he could.
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