[Twilight] Vampire's Royal Engagement

"The car is nice." Winnie stroked Afra's green Chevrolet: "When did you get your driver's license?"

"3 months ago, I wanted a car of my own for a long time." Aphra looked at her car affectionately: "To be honest, this is a bit of a luxury for our family. But Dad satisfied me—— A new car - you can't imagine how surprised I was, it pissed off my mum. She threatened us with no meat for 10 years."

"You're lucky," Winnie commented.

"We are all lucky." Aphra looked at Winnie: "Isn't it?" Aphra is a sensitive girl, she knows that Winnie has always been on her mind, she has heard something about Winnie's family, But she is understanding and will not say it rashly.

"Indeed." Winnie nodded.

"Boys, I'm late again." Aphra greeted the three boys who had just arrived here, Robert and Buck were sitting in Jim's car: "I thought this was only for girls."

"You don't mind if we borrow it?" Buck opened his hands, as if waiting to hug someone, so that the girls could see his new jacket, but no one was smart enough to understand his cryptic words. intention.

"Let's go," said Robert, "before it's too late."

"You don't mind if I get in your car, Aphra?" Buck asked. "You know I've always liked your car."

"Whatever you want." Aphra glanced at Buck, and she could guess Buck's little thoughts with her toes.

"It's great." Buck excitedly sat on the back seat of the Chevrolet. He hesitated whether he should sit a little wider to give Winnie more space to look like a gentleman, or sit in the middle so that he can get closer to Winnie. Well, but before he could make up his mind, Winnie had already sat in the passenger seat.

"Okay." Buck gritted his teeth.He could hear Robert and Jim giggling in the car behind him, could they both keep their voices down?

"Olympic National Park, march toward it." Buck shouted, and they set off.

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"How is it here?" Jim, who led the team, stopped in a clearing in the forest: "Our old place."

"Go farther, go farther." Buck didn't seem to be shocked at all, excited as if he had just taken a drug: "Don't you find it boring to be in the same place every time?"

"This is a safe zone, Buck." Aphra said seriously: "We can't run around, this forest is huge, remember?"

"Oh my God. We are already 16 years old, who would listen to our mother obediently. 'Little Bucky, don't run around, wait for mom to come back', 'Little Bucky, don't talk to strangers'..." Buck spit all over the place: "Come on, you all want to go to the depths of the forest, admit it!" After Buck delivered an exciting speech, he glanced at Winnie. Winnie's eager expression made him very excited, so he looked at Winnie with confidence. The remaining three people.

"Impulse is the devil, Buck." Aphra said coldly, crossing her arms on her chest.

"Please, my friends," Buck begged.

"Let's vote." Jim had been silent before. When everyone was deadlocked, he suggested: "The minority obeys the majority."

"Hands up if you agree to go on an adventure." Jim glanced at the icy Aphra and said tentatively.

"Me!" Buck raised his hand to the sky, he looked at everyone except Aphra, hoping to see their raised arms.

Winnie hesitated, all the depression since she came to Forks welled up in her heart, she wanted something exciting. "Admit it!" as Buck said.So she raised her hand.

Buck was greatly encouraged: "Robert, Jim, please, be a man."

Robert glanced at Winnie almost imperceptibly, and he also raised his hand.

"Great! Guys! I love you so much!" Buck hugged Robert and Jim who didn't raise his hands. When he came to Winnie, he looked at her expectantly, as if he wanted some reward like.

"We'd better hurry up." Winnie pulled the stiff Aphra back into the car.

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"It's nice here." Jim almost drove and stopped.The deeper they went into the forest, the harder it was to find a road for cars to pass through. They set off early in the morning, and it was nearly noon and they still hadn't found a place to camp.

"Just here." Aphra was also tired, and she didn't want to play stunts like driving a car through the forest: "Let's pitch the tent first."

"I don't know how to pitch a tent." Winnie looked at the busy crowd with embarrassment.

"I can teach you." Buck raised his eyebrows at Winnie: "I'm a master."

"Wonderful," Winnie said, "You're showing it."

Winnie took out compressed biscuits and strawberry jam from her backpack, and many things prepared for this camping. This was the first time she prepared these things by herself. Rona is ready for everything.

"I brought a beef sandwich, let's eat this first, lest it go bad tomorrow." Robert also took out food from his backpack.

"Mrs. Maudsley is so kind." Jim and Buck rushed forward, and even Aphra was happy.

"What's that?" There was a sound somewhere among the thickets, and Winnie couldn't understand the meaning of it, but Buck was clearly interested. "Do you think it's a deer?" Putting the sandwich on the wrapping paper, he stood up, squinted his eyes and scanned the distance, obviously thinking that there must be something incredible there.

"This isn't a taiga, Buck." Aphra said. "There won't be deer." But Buck had already run across.

"Buck, don't run around, you will get lost." Aphra chased after him.

"Should we go after it?" Winnie asked Robert, who seemed more reliable than Jim.

"No, don't do that." Robert also hesitated a little: "Everyone will get separated. Don't worry, Aphra will bring Baccar back."

"Buck is like taking a stimulant today." Taking advantage of Buck's absence, Jim commented.

"There must be a reason for that." Robert glanced at Winnie.

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"Ah—" Not far from the forest, there was a scream, followed by more heart-piercing screams, without a doubt.Winnie, Robert and Jim all jumped up.They stared at the shade of trees that they couldn't see clearly, feeling the dangerous aura approaching them.

"No, Aphra." It was Buck.Even Winnie, who had only known Buck for a few weeks, could tell, though she wasn't sure if she should run away or go to the rescue of her friend.

"Aphra!" Robert and Jim rushed out almost at the same time, and Winnie had to keep up.

Robert and Jim were running like champion sprinters, and Winnie stumbled in the bushes before catching up to them.Buck was lying on a small open space, moaning in pain, with blood flowing all over the ground, Robert and Jim shook him in a hurry: "Be strong, Buck."

"Call 911, Winnie." Robert yelled, "Hurry up and call the police."

"My phone is in my backpack." Winnie yelled uncontrollably, she swore she was shaking like a sieve.

"Use mine." Robert took his cell phone out of his jeans pocket and threw it to Winnie, completely forgetting that he could make this call: "Call 911."

Winnie dialed the number with trembling hands, and almost dropped the phone to the ground several times. The third time she finally dialed the number: "A friend of mine is seriously injured, please help us." Winnie completely put herself I forgot the lesson on how to call the police when I was a child. Who can keep calm at this time and remember the lesson he learned 10 years ago.

"Where are we?" Winnie repeated the question on the other end of the phone: "Oh. We are...in the Olympic National Park...in a deep place...God!" Winnie was about to cry, what did she do? I know exactly where I am.

"Give me the phone." Robert had the veins on his forehead exposed. He answered the phone and described their general location in detail in an almost calm manner. Obviously, he was familiar with this forest.

"They'll be here soon." Robert threw the phone to the ground, comforting Jim, who was worse than Winnie, even though he knew how difficult it would be for the police to find them deep in the forest.

"She's gone, she's gone—" Buck, who was lying in a pool of blood, desperately controlled his trembling lips, and squeezed out a few words.

"What did you say?" Robert posted, trying to catch Buck's words.

"She's gone—" Buck repeated with difficulty: "She's gone—Aphra is gone—"

"What does that mean?" Jim was sweating profusely.

But Buck passed out.

While Winnie was desperately searching for first aid knowledge that might come in handy in her mind, she suddenly felt someone watching them somewhere in the forest. She turned her head, and a figure was exposed in the midday sun , a malicious figure.

"Run! Run!" Winnie shouted heartbreakingly.Robert and Jim ran wildly with her.

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Winnie ran desperately. She lost her direction and herself. She didn't know whether Robert and Jim were following her, let alone whether the stranger had caught up with her. She didn't dare to look back. She could only Keep running forward.

"My legs." Jim screamed.The strange figure chased after him, and he fell on the ground, biting Jim's right leg tightly like a beast: "Help me." Jim made more heart-piercing shouts.

Winnie faltered. She knew she should go back and help Jim, but she also knew there was nothing she could do.But it seemed too cruel to leave her friend like this, and Winnie would turn her head away, and the stranger howled like a beast, and bit Jim's thigh so hard that Winnie ran away in fright.

"What's wrong?" Winnie crashed into a police car, and Charlie Swan and Taylor Crowley jumped out of the police car: "What happened here?"

"Thank goodness." Winnie finally caught the straw, her feet went limp and she fell to the ground.

"You're Winnie White, the 'new girl' in town," Taylor said. "You called the police. Who else?"

"There was a man just now... a man was chasing us..." Winnie was almost incoherent: "—oh, Jim, he's hurting Jim."

"Stay here." Charlie and Taylor rushed into the forest together.

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When Charlie and Taylor found Jim and Robert, they were still wrestling with the man, even though Jim was dying and Robert's arms were covered in bruises.

"Police!" Taylor fired a shot into the air, and the man obviously froze for a moment before running away.

"Robert, how are you?" Charlie tried to lift him up.

"I'm fine." Robert checked the wound on his arm. He felt that the flesh and blood had turned over in some places, which made him sick for a while, but he still suppressed the discomfort: "Go and see Jim, I think his leg is fast Bitten off. And Buck, Buck is bleeding a lot, just ahead." Robert pointed in the direction they were running from.

"Buck!" Taylor called his only son's name and rushed over.

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The ambulance finally joined them after a difficult journey.Winnie sat in a chair, wrapped in a warm blanket, and watched as they carried Buck, covered in white cloth, into the car.

he died.

Winnie could hardly believe the fact.In such a short few minutes, a vivid life disappeared before her eyes. They had known each other for less than a month.He'd tried so clumsily to woo her, flaunted his new jacket, his manhood, even his tent-building skills to her...but he died...never coming back...winnie didn't even have time Tell him the mean things she's good at: you're too dark for me...you're clumsy and knock things over, I don't think I'd like a boy like that...you don't smile enough ...

God!

Winnie hugged her head, she felt like she was going to explode.

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"You're awake." The head nurse, Shad Lawrence, looked at Winnie with a smile: "Do you want to drink some water? Or something to eat?"

"Water. Thank you." Winnie took the glass. Although she spilled a little on the quilt, she still drank the glass of water clean.

"You're alright," said Shad. "You're just overly scared. Get some rest and sleep. Maybe some pills. I promise it won't be too bitter."

"Buck! Jim! Aphra!" Winnie suddenly remembered, and the glass tumbled to the floor: "Where are they?"

"You shouldn't be thinking about these things now, Winnie," said Sand. "Your grandma was here last night, but she couldn't keep up and went away, she's getting too old, and it's really worn her out. "

"Aphra!" said Winnie. "Aphra! Buck said Aphra 'gone.' What did that mean, and why did Aphra go?"

"Winnie!" Shad threatened: "If you do this again, I'll give you a tranquilizer—alright——" Shad looked at Charlie who pushed the door in: "I'll let you talk to the sheriff. talk."

"Jim and Robert are fine." Charlie explained to Winnie without waiting for her to ask. "Jim's leg is badly hurt, and he may be disabled...ahem...but he's alive...Anyway, Robert's arm is hurt , but he'll be fine...totally fine..." Charlie comforted Winnie, and comforted himself.

"Robert has told me what he knows, maybe you want to talk to me," Charlie coughed, looking uncomfortable: "Maybe you still need to take a break."

"Buck said that Aphra 'gone', what does that mean?" Winnie didn't know why she was so entangled in this sentence: "Why did she 'gone'?"

"We don't know yet," said Charlie. "Robert told me what Buck said, before he...er..."

"He's dead." The fact came back to Winnie, and suddenly nothing mattered, she couldn't hold anything in her mind but Buck's death.Winnie pulled the pillow towel and wiped the corners of her eyes. She didn't know when the tears came.

"You'd better take a break." Charlie regretted saying so much: "I'll call the doctor." In fact, he thought Winnie needed the most comprehensive treatment.How cruel it is for a 16-year-old child to witness the death of his little friend.

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"Oh, you're awake." Eliza moved in tremblingly on crutches. Mrs. Maudsley accompanied her and helped her put the apples in the bag on the bedside table.

"Green apples, 1 dollar per kilogram, what a robbery." Eliza smacked her lips and said dissatisfied.

"How are you?" Mrs. Maudsley ignored Elisa, she stepped forward and kissed Winnie's cheek: "Shad said you are recovering well."

"I'm all right, Mrs. Maudsley," Winnie said. "Thank you."

"It's not a good time these days—" Eliza tried to continue reading her abacus, but Mrs. Maudsley interrupted her again: "Do you want your parents to come and stay with you, child?" Maudsley said. Madam almost whispered, "Mrs. White told me your parents are in Seattle."

"No!" Winnie regained her energy: "No need at all! I'm fine!" She turned her head to look at Eliza: "Have you already told them?"

"Of course not." Eliza shrugged. "I haven't found the time yet—I have to buy apples, and they're still green apples, and they cost $1 a kilo—that's a hell of a price—"

"Then don't tell them." Winnie said firmly: "Don't waste your phone bill."

"If you insist." Eliza avoided Winnie's gaze.

"Can I go and see Robert?" In order to prove to Mrs. Maudsley that she was alive and well, she jumped out of bed and found her shoes.

"Of course." Mrs. Maudsley tried to support Winnie, although Winnie insisted that she didn't need it at all: "Robert is recovering quickly, and he is eating, poor boy, he still likes my beef sandwich so much. "

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Robert was in the next ward, and his arms were bandaged but not secured, so he ate happily, and put down his things when Winnie and Mrs. Maudsley entered.

"Hey Winnie, are you okay?" Robert stood up to greet them.

"I've already left the ward, what do you think?" Winnie forced a smile, "It's you, it's miserable?" She looked at the bandages on his arms.

"The doctor said there was nothing serious." Robert shook his arm. "It's all skin trauma. It may take a while, but I'll be fine."

"That would be great," said Winnie absent-mindedly.

"Sit down and talk, children." Mrs. Mozley moved a chair to the side of the bed and let Winnie sit down. "I'll get your lunch, and I've prepared something delicious for you."

"You were brave that day." Mrs. Maudsley left, and Winnie was more willing to talk to Robert about what happened that day, after all, they went through it together: "You called... wrestled with that man... if it wasn't for you If so, Jim will also..." Winnie lowered her head, can she say that she has begun to recognize the good qualities of the people in the small town?

"You're brave," Winnie repeated.She looked into Robert's clear green eyes, almost as lovely as her own blue eyes, and she felt that she got some strength out of them, and she couldn't help shaking without bringing up the whole thing.

"It's all our fault." Robert lowered his head and said inexplicably, "It's all our fault."

"I'm sorry," Winnie said. "What did you say?"

"The whole thing is our fault." Robert looked up sharply, his sad eyes frightened Winnie: "Buck suggested taking risks to show you his manhood...and I raised my hand to please You...I thought I liked you...In the end, we killed Buck and Aphra disappeared..."

"Robert Maudsley!" Winnie stood up abruptly, pulling away from Robert: "How dare you say that? How dare you...? You are such a great saint, aren't you? Continue to splash on you Sewage, leave me alone, Saint Robert!" Winnie rushed out without looking back.

The author has something to say:

Tips in this chapter: 1. Buck's last words "she is gone", seems to say that Aphra left by herself, why?

2. Who attacked them?Or what kind of monster?

3. Pay attention to the surnames of some of the children. Jim Newton is the son of Mike Newton; Buck Crowley is the son of Taylor who hit Bella with a car, and Taylor is now Charlie's subordinate; How long has it been since the "Double Murder" chapter?