• Chapter 4: Control

    Edward returned about three days later anew with everyone, Kira never changed though. She remained cold-hearted, harsh toned, and what I couldn’t stand…sad. Though through it all her eyes remained the safe, brilliant color of green that I adored, I had no intention of looking at the horrifying wounded eyes she has when infuriated. I was never told why she was easily angered, and I was eager to know why.
    As history class came, the teacher began speaking of Fork’s personal history. Constantly eyeing the drifting Kira at multiple moments, he continued and stopped at the mention of a devastating fire that killed a family suddenly.
    “Kira…since you seem completely fascinated,” which she wasn’t, she was half-dead and barely paying attention, “why don’t you predict what happened during this time?”
    “A girl and both her parents were killed by a fire starting in their living room. They were all sleeping, then once the wife smelt smoke, the parents escaped, leaving the child. The fire though surround the entire bottom floor and suffocated all of them,” Kira answered obediently filled with growing anger. He was speechless.
    “You nearly answer it all, except for one part. A boy came somewhere in a saved the girl, but was unable to save the parents. The girl though ended up dieing anyway.” I was immediately sympathetic about the entire incident; Kira continued her increasing fury ready to kill on cue.
    The bell rang and gave sanctuary to Kira’s emotions.
    At lunch, Edward tried to keep me far from her at the table. They frequently eyed each other, like they hated each other, but I couldn’t tell. Eventually he grabbed my arm and took me out outside, no one noticed us however.
    “Stay away from her,” he said crashing onto a nearby bench.
    “Why?” his attitude caught me off guard and I lowered myself carefully into bench beside him.
    “She didn’t hunt…” I gasped a bit. “When we went she refused to eat anything, she sat and watched. Carlisle tried to force her, but it didn’t work. Be careful around her,” he said with his golden eyes directly in mine.
    “Did you get to hear why? Did you read her thoughts!” this is probably the only time I would ever want him to.
    “She shields them so carefully, I can get only glimpses of truth. It’s like she hiding something. I don’t trust her at all.”
    “Okay then…but I still want to know why she’s like that. It’s not natural.”
    “Why say that,”
    “We had a discussion about a fire here in Forks, she became instantly upset,” this peaked his interest.
    “Ah, The Fire of Luna eh?” he acted like he was knowledgeable. I became a little more confused; I never heard that the fire had a name.
    “Confused again Bella? Well…it happened about ten years ago. I was friends with the person who started it, never seen or spoken to him ever since,” my reaction was solid, I was definitely concerned now. “He started that pointless fire in the first place,” he laughed a bit, I wasn’t amused at all.
    “Why!”
    “That I don’t know actually…he wanted to protect the only thing he had or some nonsense like that. He was always like that…crazy and idiotic…”
    “What happened!” I was nearly screaming now I didn’t care who was around me.
    The bell rang.
    “Another time Bella, another time,” he was smiling again; he was holding what he could back from me.

    That night Edward’s family invited me to have dinner then play another game of baseball, which is odd since they don’t eat dinner exactly. Kira still had the glare that she had from a couple weeks ago, but the bags under eyes seem to become darker from each time I’ve seen her like she was restless and wild. I guess it still isn’t my problem what’s going on with Kira I was only uneasy, but she controlled herself well and managed to prove me wrong in everything.
    Baseball was interesting tonight. It wasn’t windy this time. Edward played in the outfield like usual, Alice pitched, Jasper was one of the baseman, and everyone else took their usual spots. Kira was placed on Edward’s team and played in the outfield. Like normal, I sat on the sidelines cheering for everyone with Esme umpiring the game. Everything went quite quick I lost count on what inning they were at many times, Edward and the others had to remind me regularly on what’s going on. Everyone included me was having fun, except Kira and her ever present glares.