Solar Eclipse - Book 5

Who?

My eyes flickered to Jamie who was sitting with her knees to her chest and her arms wrapped around them. She looked ashamed of herself.

"I killed her. I killed the girl." She wept dryly.

"Honey," Anne began. "It's happened to the best of us. Don't be so hard on yourself." She said as she wrapped her arms around Jamie and pulled her into an embrace.

"But I could have killed Matthew!" She wailed.

I gasped. Matthew.... The hybrid in the forest was my cousin Matthew. But then who was the girl he was with and why did he have her alone with himself in the forest.

"Who was the girl he was with?" I looked to Jamie.

She shrugged her shoulders before burrying her head in Anne's chest.

"He didn't say a name but before he left our house I overheard him and Charles talking about the girl claiming that she was carrying his child." Anne replied. 

I rose quickly to my feet and began pacing back and forth in front of the sofa that I had vacated.

This girl, this unknown girl, was with my cousin in the forest claiming to be with his child. But it didn't make sense, atleast without knowing who the girl was.

Turning, I stopped right before Jamie and got down on my knees. "Do you remember anything about the girl?"

Jamie didn't move her face from Anne's chest but she shook her head. "I wasn't seeing anything but red. It was all red, everything around me."

Sighing in defeat I rose to my feet and returned to my seat beside Nic who was pondering on his thoughts, or so he looked to be.

Then his eyes came back to life and his head snapped up. "Mom," he called and she looked at him. ",did you retrieve the body of the young girl?" he asked.

A hopeful smile crossed my face. 

"No, we were going to leave it there for the animals to dispose of naturally." she replied.

"This was yesterday right?" 

Anne nodded her head. 

"Where exactly in the forest did this happen?"

"Pugent Sound, just north east of Elliot Bay."

Nic got to his feet and took my hand before leading me out the side door that led to the wrap around porch. "We are going to go and see if it is still there."

"No need to do that, she isn't there." A different yet familar voice called out.

I turned my head towards the door that led into the hall only to see Matthew standing there, his arms crossed and his face severe.

I manuevered out of Nic's arms and crossed the room to stand before my cousin.

"Matthew, are you going to tell us what is going on?"

His brow furrowed as he began chewing on his lip.

Taking a step forward I rose my hand to touch his face but he quickly stepped back, holding his hands up before him. 

"Okay, okay, I will explain." he took a deep breath. "Before I begin, Renesmee, I want you to know that I never meant to hurt you or betray you."

I held my breath.

"What did you do?" I asked, my voice bitter.

"One day after football practice I went to the locker room to change and she was there. She was naked and I was weak. Then her hands were all over me and her lips on mine. Then her lips were not on mine but all over my body and I couldn't help it. We had sex and then she left. It was just a one time thing and it meant nothing."

I crossed my arms.

"Then she came to me a month later in the locker room and threw the stick in my face. She kept crying and saying she made a mistake and that she needed money to fix it. So I asked her what she was talking about and she told me she was pregnant and I was the father."

"Why were you in the forest with her?"

Matthew burried his face in his hands. "I knew that she couldn't go to any doctor to have the problem fixed and I didn't want my parents finding out so I went into Carlisle's office and began reading up on abortions with the intent of doing it myself. I didn't know anywhere else to go so I had her meet me in the forest where I told her I'd give her the money."

"Which you had no intent to."

He shook his head.

"I had a syringe of sedatives that I was going to use on her to knock her out so I could do the procedure and I was about to put her to sleep when Tyler came out of no where. I freaked and dropped the syringe and knocked her out of the way only to land on top of her as she hit the ground."

Tears of guilt were pouring from his eyes and his breathing began to pick up. He groaned in agony before he side-stepped me and ran through the sliding doors that led outside. Before I could even blink he was gone.

I was trapped in the memories of what Matt had just told me. 

He confessed to us everything, only I was pretty sure we were the only ones that knew.

After twenty minutes of silence Charles and Tyler rejoined us. Charles took his seat beside Anne and Tyler beside Jamie.

Then it hit me. The girl, the unknown girl, that was pregnant with Matthew's child still had no name. I didn't know who she was. 

Suddenly I heard something Matt had told me ring in my ears.

"Before I begin, Renesmee, I want you to know that I never meant to hurt you or betray you."

The fact that he felt as if he betrayed meant something towards who the girl was. Only I couldn't place a finger on it.

Who was this girl?

AUTHORS NOTE: Who do you think the mystery girl is?