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Chap. Five "Secrets in the look"

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Maureen smiled shyly; He was at the Cullen's' table with his brother aside, although he was more interested in Alice. Instead, she was looking at the notes in Jasper's notebook, the blond with adorable curls had taken notes for her, had skipped three classes somewhat worryingly due to the simple fact that her beloved father was a teacher. In gratitude Maureen had repeatedly kissed the blonde's cheek, even if that meant a blush and the look of envy from the female population and the determined look from the male population that this relationship did not progress further.

Maureen sighed loudly before raising her gaze and blushing even more; the blond had such an intense way of looking at her, as if she were ... a beautiful flower that instead of wanting to pluck it he wanted to keep and care for.

—Another incident in Port Angeles - Rosalie reported looking at her cell phone - Those damn things should be dead ...

Morgan averted his gaze from the beautiful fairy and looked at the blonde with curiosity; there was a kind of old rage ingrained in his voice. Something that Morgan simply couldn't understand. There was a kind of old grudge in his voice.

- Who...?

Rosalie sighed trying to calm her resentment; trying to appear human, although her anger made it impossible —In Port Angeles there is a group of men who harass and abuse minors; the police have not found them because the victims do not want to testify, the villagers point their fingers at the victims who are innocent. I hate taboos!

Maureen lost her breath; her heart raced and her face lost color. With fear stuck in her throat, Maureen turned to see her brother; who only had death and revenge in his eyes. Morgan was overly protective of his people, what happened with Thomas was the perfect example.

- Innocent to those who declare something totally unjust guilty, don't you think so? - Morgan never looked away from his sister - Women should be pampered and pampered; not harassed and abused.

Maureen was breathing heavily; Jasper Hale didn't understand the reason for the heated staring battle between the twins. The blonde with curls felt the fear of the owner of his eternity and the thirst for revenge of the older of the twins. But why? What had happened in the lives of those two brothers?

- Perhaps we women are to blame for something. - A judgment that had been nailed to the heart of the minor; being the dagger that created a scar on a daily basis - Knowing the risk we ventured abroad in the hope of finding formidable and kind people being victims of a story without a happy ending.

Jasper frowned along with everyone else Cullen's; But apparently it was Rosalie who had the courage to speak up - It's not our fault Maureen; It is not our responsibility that pigs without brains are created with the right to rule over us, nobody has the right to decide for us.

Morgan didn't look away from his sister; Because guilt was an opponent her sister struggled with on a daily basis and being a hothouse flower suddenly exposed to the wind and rain, Maureen increasingly believed what the ignorant people of Hawaii said.

>> She ... she's the culprit! She seduced him! She was dressed provocatively! <<

- I have to go - Announcement Maureen gathered her things and left without looking at anyone else; shame an improper feeling in her, Maureen should never lower her head, but she did it under the destructive force of the supposedly moral judgments of those who were supposed to be good people.

Jasper Hale understood immediately that someone had damaged that hothouse flower that was Maureen; anger consumed him like fire to dry wood. Who had been able to damage something as beautiful as Maureen was? Who dared to fill their eyes with fear and terror? What had happened in Maureen's life?

- What was that? - Asked Rosalie; her maternal instinct guiding her to follow Maureen, Jasper wasn't surprised. Maureen had such a sweet and tender way of looking at people that it just made you want to hold her forever, her gaze full of warm blue waters and calm breeze just made you want to protect her. It was that which made Rosalie look at her as a daughter; like a little bird with broken wings.

Morgan simply shook his head; her sister's struggle was hers; her story was hers. He didn't even have the right to mention anything, it was something of honor. He would not disappoint his sister by revealing what had happened. He would not betray her by speaking of what was his and only his to tell.

- Nothing important. - Edward who often ignored the twins to turn his attention to Bella turned to see the oldest of the Atlantis duo. He couldn't read their minds; only glimpsed flashes of memories that were very diffuse as if they were covered in mist. That his gift was failing? He couldn't read Bella's thoughts, but at least he heard confusing thoughts from the twins' Swan, he only saw distorted images.

- Was that nothing important? - Emmett muttered - Fuck with the tension between you and your sister! Did they eat each other's chocolate?

Morgan grunted; Disgusted by the playful statement, what happened to his sister was not a game and although they did not know anything, none of the Cullen's had the right to question them. His sister was part of him; part of your heart and soul. No one would make her feel less while Morgan breathed, and that was a promise she intended to keep.

- Nothing happened - Morgan growled looking at each of the Cullen's and pausing momentarily on Jasper; who looked at his sister as if she were the most beautiful jewel he had ever found, did not look at her with carnal desire, no. He looked at her like the shining star that was his pretty eyes - My pretty eyes just aren't in the mood today.

His wounds were still open and bleeding constantly; perhaps the fact that she returned to play and sing had been a great step for her to regain what had been taken from her. But the way to go was still very long and it was not always smooth terrain.

He would accompany his sister all the way; would remedy his mistake. The mistake of leaving his sister in the hands of whom Morgan once trusted blindly. In the hands of someone who had once considered family. That day I had come to understand that the people we trust the most were often the ones who did us the most harm.

Maureen walked to the exit at a leisurely pace; there was no rush when she and Morgan had to wait for their father who of course did not entrust the car to them. And being brutally honest, Ian's mistrust was well cemented by the fact that Morgan sometimes exceeded the speed limits, the greatest of the Atlantis argued that in his mind he was in a race and to increase the feeling of realism it was necessary to exceed some limits.

- Maureen! - The seawater eyes turned to see how the shadowy daughter of Chief Swan ran towards her stumbling. Her walk something totally gruesome, lacking the elegance that she had expected from someone who once practiced ballet - Can I ask you a question?

Maureen nodded in confusion; because the youngest of the Atlantis wasn't very close to Bella, it wasn't that she disliked her. It was simply that Bella's gloomy demeanor was too much of a contrast to Maureen's lightness of spirit.

-Sure, tell me...

Bella inhaled before asking the question - How did you and your brother get the Cullen's to adore you?

Maureen sighed heavily; Of course, everything had to revolve around the Cullen's in Bella's mind, not that Maureen disliked the Cullen's, on the contrary, she considered them part of her family, part of her heart. But Bella Swan went to extremes wanting to be loved by all the Cullen's, wanting to be part of them. And although that bothered her a bit because of the obsessive attitude of the chief's daughter, she was nobody to judge the Swan's feelings.

- I didn't do anything to win the love of the Cullen Bella - Maureen muttered. - It was just me ...

- Only that? - Disappointment bathed the expression of the Swan - Nothing else?

Maureen smiled - Yes, nothing more. You don't have to be someone you're not to be liked by someone Bella. We are not gold coins to please everyone. Bella nodded before saying goodbye totally disappointed by his answer; What did Bella think? Who had bewitched the Cullen's with some spell or potion?

- What did the shadowy Swan want? - Maureen smiled at her brother; who snatched the backpack from her shoulders and who offered her some sweet enchilados that he had bought by the box before moving to Forks - Did they leave their differences and become friends?

Maureen shook her head. - She and I will never be friends; We are totally and absolutely different, we just do not hit it off, but there is no reason to treat her badly and answering your question she wanted to know how we made it so that the Cullen's adored us.

Morgan snorted - What does she think? What do we spell them with some potion?

Maureen laughed because she had thought herself; they were mere mortals, there was no magic, nor something divine running through their blood. His parents were human, adding the fact that the supernatural did not exist.

- Do you think Father takes too long? - Asked Morgan; Maureen shrugged as her gaze fell on the Cullen family that was far away. All of them talking to each other except Jasper who was looking at her with a smile - Maureen are you paying attention to me?

Maureen blushed looking at her brother who was watching her with a raised eyebrow - I'm sorry brother, I'm very distracted ...

Morgan frowned - What do you have cute eyes? Is it because of what happened at lunch?

Maureen shook her head - No ... well not only that ... I feel weird

- Did you get your period? - Asked his cheeky brother - Do we have to go to the supermarket for your towels?

Maureen blushed - I don't have my period! Still, if that were the case, you wouldn't know.

Morgan rolled his eyes before putting his huge arm around her. – So, if it's not the rule, what's wrong with you?

- I don't know Morgan; I feel like something bad is going to happen - Morgan tensed; The last time Maureen had had such a feeling was that moonless, starless night where she had been cornered in the darkness of an alley - The last time I felt this was ...

Morgan tightened his sister even more to his constable - I'm going to take care of you, you know, that right?

-I know brother...

But simply wanting someone safe wasn't enough; Morgan, despite himself, understood and understood that he could not protect his sister from everything, he could not lock her in a glass box and neither keep her prisoner in a tower, although it was what Morgan wanted most was to do that he could not. Maureen would have to learn by herself and empirically how to take care of herself; That didn't mean Morgan couldn't intervene, he would soften the blow before it reached his sister. But as Ian had once said; he couldn't always be his sister's protective shield.

Screaming and skidding tires; Morgan acted on instinct and covered Maureen with his much larger body, the two twins taking numerous steps back before the truck struck the shadowy Swan's. The twins were saved from a great blow; thanks to fear and panic not paralyzing them as it did in Bella. Maureen who had approached the accident area to help noticed something that shook her.

Edward Cullen had one of his hands stopping the impact of the truck as he looked at Bella; the car had a dent where Edward had stopped the impact ... and that was simply impossible for a human. Maureen gasped in surprise and that seemed to bring Cullen out of his reverie, he just ran off to his family who covered him.

Maureen and Morgan who were close to the accident realized one thing.

The Cullen's were hiding something; they had secrets in their eyes.