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Chapter 60: Altered Perception.
// The writing style will change, since I just started with 'Third Person Omniscient', but don't worry, because drastic is for the better. //
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The owls sang louder, interrupted only by two figures who cut through the woods at an unusual pace. One of them wore a large black sweater that covered her from the clouds and their passing cold, while the other wore a short-sleeved shirt.
"She made me dinner." Bella sent a small rock rolling with a kick. "She hates me."
Vlad chuckled. "Rosalie hates everyone."
"Not you," Bella said, running behind him to climb on his back. But he dodged to the side. "Come on, it's faster if we run."
"We?" Vlad laughed. "You mean me? And what makes you think I can run?"
"Edward."
Vlad shook his head. "He was lying."
"He literally put me on his back, sped up, then jumped from tree to tree."
"That doesn't even make sense." Vlad's ears twitched because of a car speeding miles from their location. "And Rosalie only hates you because you didn't wanna eat. I mean, who goes to dinner with a full stomach?"
"I don't know; maybe a dinner full of freaking vampires."
Then above them, rain started falling from the clouds, and soon after, thunder followed.
Bella turned to him with a smile, eyes showing a spark of glimmer.
"What?!"
She lifted her hands in prayer. "Please, it's raining."
"No."
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{Minutes later}
"Ahhh!"
Their figures ripped through the trees, blares following from behind; even the ground below Vlad's every step dried off its moisture with each touch.
And when he stopped, when they came to a halt right next to Bella's house, Vlad let go of her legs, sending her falling, her hair now covered in twigs and branches.
"Why… why didn't you avoid the trees?"
Vlad held his gut in laughter. "I did."
"Bella?" Charlie said after opening the door. But what he saw was way too far from the truth.
Because right where he was meant to see a shoeless Vlad, laughing at Bella, whose clothes and hair lay in complete ruin, he saw something else. In fact, it was a completely different scenario.
"What happened to your shoes?" he asked, staring directly at Vlad. Vlad didn't reply, but Charlie nodded as though he had spoken. "Huh. That makes sense, but…"
He finally turned to Bella. "Vlad, try not to bring Bella home this late next time."
'Vlad?' Her brows narrowed at his words.
Then, his eyes trailed back to Vlad. "Dinner's in the oven, or you can take some money from the nightstand and buy yourselves pizza if Vlad wants to join. I'm going to sleep."
Bella's eyes widened when he closed the door behind him.
"Tada!" Vlad raised his hands dramatically. "Now that, my friend, is the power of witchcraft."
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{HOURS LATER}
"Can you teach me?" Bella pointed at Vlad with a pizza.
And he laughed when a fly landed on it. "Well, not unless you want to sell your soul to the devil."
"I'm being serious." She swatted the fly away, grabbed a piece of toilet paper, and ripped a chunk where it landed. "The Devil doesn't exist, and even if he did, wouldn't that mean you sold yours?"
"Nope," Vlad said, taking a bite. "I don't have one… so, for me, it's a loophole."
"Then how did you do it?" She finished her slice. "He called you Bella."
Vlad opened a can of Coke, then in an instant, chugged it down to the last drop. "I switched his reality."
"You can warp reality?!"
"When did I say the word 'warp'?!"
And she laughed, stood up, then threw herself on the bed, her eyes turning sideward toward Vlad's direction.
Vlad grabbed another slice.
"That's five," she said, smiling and shaking her head when Vlad ran his tongue over its cheese.
Then he held it forward. "I wasn't counting, so you can have it. Take your slice."
He shoved it in his mouth the second she denied the offer.
"So…" Her brows raised, expecting him to answer.
"Like I said, I switched his reality." Vlad's eyes turned to the ceiling. "For him, I became you, and you became me."
"So he thinks I was you?"
Vlad shook his head. "No. You became me the moment he opened the door. The world literally switched for him. To him, that shit was as real as gravity."
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{ELSEWHERE}
On the edge of a large, mountain-like rock.
"Why are you sitting alone?" Edward muttered, walking forward and taking a seat beside Alice, whose feet aimlessly swung back and forth on the cliff.
She turned her head to him, her lips switching between a frown and a smile.
"He's with Bella," she said, but Edward's eyes drifted to the woods.
"You?"
"She's with Vlad."
And they laughed after his words.
Alice nudged Edward with her shoulder, which caused him to do the same.
"Now what?" Her question was a whisper.
"Well, there's a thunderstorm on Saturday."
Her eyes widened with recognition.
Completely oblivious to the truth.
Because on that specific day, the reaper was set to come, and Death would follow.
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