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Twilight: The new friend.	By : Solaris Category: Twilight Series > AU/AR > Het > Het Views: 2814 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Author's note: Here is the next chapter. I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter Four.

The next morning, Alice heard the sounds of tires pulling onto the road leading to the house. She got up and looked at the road waiting to see who it was. She saw two beams of light coming towards the house as she could see Edward and then Carlisle’s cars pulling up. She stepped from the house smiling. “She’s still asleep, I think as I had checked on her about ten minutes ago, dad.”
Carlisle nodded as they headed into the house. Edward staying downstairs tapping his foot as he waited for word that Tamia was cleared to have no more watchers for the day. He quickly rushed outside and listened to the wind blow. He smiled as he walked back inside as he knew who was coming.
Carlisle was sitting next to Tamia, who was still asleep. Needless to say, Carlisle could sneak up on anyone if he wanted to. He looked up at Edward as he entered the room. “Yes?”
“She should get up real soon. Her horses will be arriving here soon.” Edward whispered softly.
“Are they coming up the drive?” Carlisle asked, looking up from the bed.
“Not yet, they’re about two towns away right now.” Edward stated. He looked a bit at odd with what he heard.
“I see by your look you are not pleased by something.” Carlisle whispered, looking at him.
“They’re not happy.”
“And why would that be?”
“They’re very angry at the gelding. He didn’t want to get caught this morning at 4am and it took them an hour to catch him and then another ten minutes to load him. The mare was easy to catch and load.” Edward replied.
Carlisle shook his head. “They must have tried to do something to him to make him so spooked not to go to them, usually horses are friendly towards humans.”
“Probably. She’ll need to get up soon.” Edward whispered as he left her room.
Carlisle gently placed his hand against Tamia’s cheek and whispered softly. “Tamia, wake up, its time for you to wake up.”
It was a sudden wake up for Tamia when she felt the cold brush against her cheek. Her hands went right into a fist and she looked for who woke her in such a way for they deserved a punch in the face. But upon seeing Carlisle’s face looking at her, she loosened up. “Where’s Alice?”
“She’s downstairs getting ready for school. It’s about 6:30 in the morning, Tamia.” Carlisle spoke, with a soft smile on his lips.
“Ah, my horses should be getting here soon, if it is morning already.” She started to climb out of the bed.
Carlisle quickly headed for the door. “I’ll be downstairs.” And without another glance behind, he hurried from the room.
About half an hour later, Tamia came downstairs dressed in a long sleeve shirt and long pants. She was pulling her dried hair into a ponytail. “That feels better.”
Edward walked over and led her to the dining room where a plate of food was waiting for her. “Alice made you breakfast. Now hurry up and eat, your horses should be here in another half hour or so.”
Tamia glared at him. “I would rather eat in private, if you don’t mind.” As she grabbed her plate and her fork.
Edward glared at her as he stepped towards her. Jasper felt her anger and was mildly surprised by her emotions he felt. “Edward, let her go.”
“But why, she should be able to eat here.” Edward replied.
“You want to know why I do not like eating in front of people, Edward?” Tamia snarled.
“Yes,”
“I’ll show you and Carlisle will be pissed about it.” Tamia placed her plate down and within one minute the scrambled eggs and toast was history. “Now, do you see why I do not eat in front of people, Edward?”
Carlisle’s face was only mildly upset. “You bolt your food down?”
“Yes, ever since I was 14 years of age. I was forced into eating that way by my mom’s boyfriend.”
“Why?” Emmett asked, shocked.
“I didn’t eat my entire plate of food and the thing was he placed more food on it than I could realistically could finish in fifteen minutes. He treated us all like we were adults when it came to meals as giving us adult size servings, but other times as children.”
“Didn’t your mother serve you meals herself?” asked Rosalie. She was shocked that Tamia’s mother didn’t do anything.
Tamia shook her head. “She was at work. She was the only one who worked steady. ‘He’ didn’t work so he was dealing with every thing at home. But he was not what you would think as a good person he wasn’t.”
“Was he hard on you and your siblings?” asked Jasper. He could feel the hate radiate off of her.
“Extremely hard, he was a monster and a slave driver. He made us do everything from cleaning the house to everything else each day, while he sat around not doing anything, unless he had to fix one of the three vehicles he had at the house. I never really ate very good in my youth and he knew that I was not always very hungry.” Tamia replied.
“So why would he make you bolt your food down?” Carlisle asked.
“He gave me a time limit to finish my meal or he would force feed me.”
“And did you tell your mom about that?” Alice asked.
“Nope, she never asked and we learned to keep our mouths shut about it.”
“Why didn’t you?” Emmett asked. He didn’t like what he was hearing.
Tamia’s jaw moved back and forth like she was grinding her teeth. That was when Carlisle stepped between Emmett and Tamia. “Emmett . . . back down. Tamia, you do not have to say anything. That is information you should keep to yourself unless you wish to tell us?”
“I would rather not say what happened, Dr. Cullen.” Tamia turned to the plate and took it to the kitchen to clean it.
Carlisle glared at Emmett before looking at Edward who whispered several words very silently. Everyone was shocked by what Edward had said about what he learned from her stance and on top of things he told them, he couldn’t really hear her mind clearly, it was muddled.
By the time Tamia got back to the living room, the Cullens were standing outside watching the clouds hide the sun from view. Tamia glanced up at the cloudy sky. “That is a good thing.”
Esme looked at her. “Why is that?”
“I don’t like the sun very much. I tend to burn when I’m in the sun.” Tamia replied.
Rosalie smiled as she looked at her skin. “Well, you do have pale skin,”
“Rosalie, I burn if I am in the sun for only fifteen minutes . . . even with a cloudy sky like this.” Tamia stated hand waving towards the cloudy sky. “And my mom don’t know why I am such a night owl.”
“You . . . a night owl?” laughed Jasper.
“Yes, I’m a night owl, how would you like to find that out one night?” Tamia asked, with a slight growl to her voice.
“You mean it?”
“If I didn’t have Alice here last night, I would have gone to bed around 3 or 4am in the morning and got up at 7am, wide awake. There are nights when I barely sleep at all.” Tamia replied, looking at him and then turned towards the road, smiling.
Jasper was just about to say something about his sleep habits, when Alice spoke, “They’re here.”
The next sound they heard was a horse’s whinny and then suddenly two more were heard.
Emmett looked at Tamia. “How many horses do you really have? I thought I heard three whinnies?”
“You did. Theirs and my whinny.” Tamia replied, looking at him and then whinnied loudly in front of them. “I do that with them a lot. Nicker at them. I may not know what I am saying but they seem to respond to it.”
Jasper looked at her. “You are weird, Tamia.”
“You don’t know the half of it.” Tamia smiled, as she stepped from the porch as the truck came fully into view of them. She waved at them as they pulled up.
“We need to be able to turn around to get out of here when we’re done unloading them, Ms. Sanders.” The man said.
“Sure, my neighbors can move their cars before that time.” Tamia glanced behind her to see the slight nod coming from them as they started to head for their cars. “So how were they? No problems?”
The other man had climbed from the truck and started to walk towards the trailer. “The mare was fine. It was that gelding of yours that was the problem.”
“You removed his halter from his head right?” Tamia asked.
“Yes, how did you know?” He asked looking at her shocked after opening the back door.
“He is head shy and will not let you catch him if he does not have his halter on. That is why I told you not to remove his halter.” Tamia replied. “I have been working on that for years trying to get him to let me catch him without having him have his halter on his head all the time.”
The man grunted as he walked into the van and brought out a bay mare. “Jasmin del padre. Bay, correct?”
Tamia looked at the mare and checked the right rear hoof to see the white spot above her hoof. “Correct, she can be placed in the first stall on your right. It is marked with her name, please.”
He led the mare into the barn and removed her halter and closed the door placing the halter and the lead on the hook by the stall door. He walked out and entered the van and brought out another horse. “Adonis, red roan. Correct?”
Tamia examined the horse and looked at the forelock, pushed it aside to see the white star that he had and then checked his right front ankle for the small white streak of hairs running around the ankle. “Correct. I’ll take him into his stall.” And with that said, she took hold of his lead and led the gelding into the barn and into his stall.
She came out of the barn and walked to the two men. “Do I owe you anything more than what I had prepaid you?”
“Nope, that’s it. Now, if you do not mind, we need to get moving, we have another horse to drop off in another part of the state soon.” The man replied.
“Very well, drive carefully.” Tamia said.
The Cullens and she watched as the horse van backed up and slowly headed back down the road again. Alice bounced over to her and with bright eyes, she asked, “Can we meet your horses?”
Tamia glanced at her watch and looked up at them. “Tonight, for now all of you are going to be late for college and work . . . Dr. Cullen.”
Carlisle glanced at his pocket watch and saw that they were all running late. “Yes, you are correct. Children, you need to hurry. But stay to the speed limit now that you’re late.” As he looked at them rushing for their vehicles. “Kids, they just love to speed on the roads here.”
“Well, what can you do? Kids have this unknown ability to get out of big trouble when it comes to speeding.” Tamia replied, looking at Carlisle as the sounds of tires squealing as the Cullen kids sped off.
“Well, that is true.” Carlisle said. “And I best head off too. Take care, Tamia.” And with a smile, he headed for his car and drove off.
Tamia turned to the barn and headed to the feed stall to start feeding them. And after they finished their meals, Tamia allowed them to roam the paddock before she headed to the house to rest and to call her best friend in Florida.
“Hey sis. Yeah, I got my babies here and they’re doing fine. Yeah, I love this place so far. I think I might have an admirer in the Chief of Police here. Yeah, shocking, I know. But as you know it is something that can not happen. Okay, I’ll talk to you later. Love you, bye.” Tamia closed her cell phone up and walked away from her porch towards the fence line where she started to check the fence itself to see how many fence posts and boards she needed to get to secure the fences before letting her horses out. She spent the next several hours in the woods making sure that she was able to fix everything or shrink the pasture down to a smaller size if she had to. By late afternoon, she emerged from the woods to see a car sitting in the driveway. As she approached the vehicle, a dark haired man stepped from the car. “Tamia, it’s me, Captain Swan.”
“Hi Charlie. I hope I didn’t keep you waiting for long?” Tamia said, as she walked towards him.
“Nah, I just arrived.” Charlie replied. “I decided to come visit you and see how everything is going along.” He glanced over towards the barn to see two horses in the paddock grazing on some grass. “They arrived today or last night?”
“This morning actually, Charlie.”
“Ah, they are accepting of the area?”
“They like being close to the barn for now. It will be a few days before they go a bit further in the pasture and plus I won’t take them out on trail rides for a while longer.”
“So what do you have in mind for tonight?” asked Charlie.
“I’m not doing much anything beyond getting a few things finalized.” Tamia replied.
“Well, I could stay and help out?” Charlie offered.
“Well, I can handle it really, Charlie. It’s nothing too big for me to do.”
“So what do you have to do? Maybe I can help?” asked Charlie, as they walked up to the porch to sit on the steps.
“Well, you probably know of a good lumber yard.”
“Why do you need lumber for?”
“Well, I have a pasture fence that needs repaired in the back before the horses can go out. And plus, I’m thinking about getting some raised beds for a vegetable garden.” Tamia said, as she looked towards the barn.
“Have you figured out where these raised beds will be located at?” he asked.
“Not really. I’ll probably figure it out later.”
“So you will be a permanent resident here?” Charlie asked, with a smile on his face.
“For the time being. I may have to leave. I do have another job that may require me.”
“Yes, the bodyguard duties for those Italian millionaires who come to visit the States.”
“Yeah, them.”
“How long do you stay with them?”
“About a week but sometimes it will be a month of my time.”
“Who will look after your horses if that happens?”
“My sister Rhonda will come and tend to them after all she is a horse woman from Florida.”
“Sister? I didn’t know you had one.” Charlie looked shocked at her.
“Well, she’s not my sister by blood or adoption . . . I just consider her to be my sister-in-spirit.”
“Ah, I see.” Charlie glanced at his watch. “I better head home. See you on Tuesday, Tamia.”
“Alright,” Tamia watched as he got into his car and drove away. She went inside the house and grabbed the phone book and looked up the local lumber yard and called them up to find out when they closed.
Two hours later, Tamia was back with a trailer attached to her truck filled with lumber for her fence. She backed it up to the side of the barn and unhitched the trailer to move the truck back to where it would be at by the house.
She quickly went inside the house and made dinner for herself before she brought out her computer and started to spend her evening online talking to her friends. She decided to log into a chat room that her sister had recommended to her as it had some nice folks there.

Stay tuned, the next one is coming.
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