Edward was coming? Why? He had nothing here. But in the end it was true, he was coming up to our cold little cottage for a visit. But why? Damn, I wish my mind reading worked over the phone. I clicked the phone shut, and put it back it my pocket, they would be here tomorrow, just enough to make them not show up unannounced, but little enough that, even with my mind, I could not come up with an excuse for them not to come. Would Edward hate me for that last time I saw him, for what I was thinking? He left so quickly I was unable to achieve his thoughts on my stupid remark about his dead girlfriend. I mean, it is not like it wasn't true, he was a little mad over a human girl. From what I saw in his thoughts, she wasn't even pretty. How could he want her more than me? I was the one that knew him; there were no barriers between him and me, because of our abilities. How could he not see that we would be perfect, even Rose seemed to think so, Rose the vamp that was made for him Rose. She would never voice that opinion herself, but she did believe us to be a perfect match.
What's up with you? You look down. Beth's thoughts came to me out of the blue, her long black hair was tied back for running, and she was standing over me. There was no one else for miles, so I could see her thoughts clearly.
"Edward just called." I said, looking back at the ice I had been using to daydream.
"Oh, how is he? Last we heard, he was in planning a stunt with the Volturi, but I never expected him to go through with it in the end." It would have been romantic though, asking for death, because the one you loved, and yourself would never be able to be together. The barriers between our races are so strong.
"Stop it!" I could not hold my temper in now, "will you ever put down those romance novels and read a horror, or an action? Something with a little more blood, and a little less of stupid human emotions." I stomped away, trying to rid myself of my temper, I tried my best to block out her thoughts, but since I had nothing else to concentrate on what was I supposed to do?
What's wrong with human emotions? Last time I checked love was one, and I thought you loved Edward.
I ran faster, her absurd logic would get to me soon; she would get me to feel sorry for the Isabella girl if I stayed on the topic to long. I needed my hate of her to win Ed. To think, I even heard Alice mention once on the phone that she would become one of us. That was not going to happen now though, I smiled at the thought; she threw herself over a cliff, how pitiful.
I got back to the cottage, and tidied, it was all I really could do, they didn't even tell me how long they would be here, Ed just said that he was coming up with the family tomorrow with a surprise. What surprise?
The phone rang again, it was Rose, she would tell me what the big surprise was, I hated having to be surprised, I liked to know exactly what a person was thinking. I was always on good terms with Rose, though she could never give up her vanity.
"Hey Rose." I said, lounging on the couch.
"Mary, hi."
"So Rose, what's up with the surprise drop in tomorrow? None of you have really been in contact since we heard about Ed going to Italy, but I guess he's still alive if he called me today, well, alive as any of us can be." I gave a snicker then sighed, after 200 years at this it was very easy to make jokes.
"Look, that's kind of why I called, you see, Edward wanted to surprise the two of you when we got up there, but," she sighed, "he's gonna kill me when I tell you this, but I think you should know who he is bringing to visit tomorrow."
"Who Rose?" my mind was racing trying to think of anyone that he could bring, Tanya's family called yesterday, for all I knew they were all staying up there for the next year or so.
"Well, she's just stopping by, Edward got her and him a room at an inn in the town near by, so she won't be staying with you. He's just bringing her by on our way up to Tanya's."
"WHAT!" no, it can't be, not her, she was supposed to be dead, he almost killed himself over her, how can he all of the sudden bring a dead girl here? …Unless, "Rose, is she still human?" that had to be it, Carlisle must have saved her at the point of death like he had with the rest of the Cullens.