Chapter 1:
I was sitting in my bedroom waiting for my „beloved" boyfriend – please note the sarcasm – Edward, just when an Iris – Message appeared. At first I was surprised. Who was calling me? Everybody knew that it was kinda risky. You never knew if one of THEM was around me before calling. The astonishment faded as I realized the calling person was my father. "Hi dad. What´s up?", I could see him smile. One of the biggest smiles possible. Right from one ear to the other. He loved it when is children called him dad, or daddy, or father, or… I think you got the point. The thing was: everybody knew how important these little words were to him and it was a pleasure for me and my siblings to call him that.
"Hello sweetheart. How´s my little girl doing?" I couldn´t stop myself from rolling my eyes when he said that. I´m not little anymore, I mean, I´m 18 years old now. Far much older than most people like me ever get. But I think since I´m his youngest daughter right now he still sees me as his little baby and probably always will even when he gets other kids. "I´m fine dad.", I said out loud but under my breath I mumbled: "Could be a lot more fine if I wouldn´t have to waste my time here and pretend to love someone I totally dislike…" I stopped my self-pity when I saw the pain in fathers' eyes. I immediately paled. Oh my goddess. He wasn´t supposed to hear that. How could I be stupid enough to forget that as a god he could hear me very well?! Stupid, stupid, stupid! "I know how much you hate it there Bella but -." He got not the possibility to finish his sentence ´cause I interrupted him. I know, I know it´s harsh and more than risky to interrupt a god but hey, what shall I say? I´ve got his temper. "Don´t call me that! You know what I think about this stupid name. It´s disgusting!" Lucky me dad decided to ignore my interruption and the input as well. He continued as if nothing happened: "- but I actually called you to tell you that it´s time. It is time to get THEM to camp. –"
Again I interrupted before he could even think about finishing. "Does that mean that I can go home? That I can finally come home? That I can leave this dammed place, see my soul mate and can be the real me again?" `Cause of the IM it seemed as if dad was standing right in front of me gapping like a fish. I think he always guessed that I´ll be happy when the time to finally leave this place came but didn´t knew that I´d be that excited about it. "Well yes, that does it mean." His voice showed that he still was irritated. "The car that´ll bring you and the Cullens to camp will get you all tomorrow evening. Shouldn´t be much trouble to get them to come with you, now should it? Just tell them that you are going to visit some family and they invited all of them to come, too. I could see him wink at me when he said that.
"Ok dad, I´ll try my best but I can´t promise anything." "I know. Anyways I have to go now. Good by Bella and I hope to see you soon. I love you." With this words he put his hands up and waved through the IM before I could say bye, too. Urgh how I hate that stupid name. But glad fully I only had to listen to it till tomorrow. Then I would be back to my real self. Who I am? I´m so sorry. Did I forget to introduce myself? Where are my manners? Anyways…
My name is Helena Grace. Sister of Thalia and Jason Grace and daughter of Zeus lord of the sky, Olympian and king of the gods.
Now your probably asking yourself a lot of questions like "Why does your father call you Bella then?", "Why don´t you love Edward?" etc. etc. Well, beginning first. As I already told you, my father is Zeus. The Cullens are like you probably know vampires. Now my father had the brilliant (note the sarcasm again, sorry dad) idea to send me to Forks, pretend to fall in love with Edward (the only one without a mate – auntie Aphrodite would have killed me if I broke up one of the couples) and play to be the clumsy and inconspicuous Isabella Marie Swan daughter of the local Chief and a woman in Phoenix. (Their real daughter does actually still live in Phoenix with her mother but neither Charlie nor anyone else here in Forks knew and the Mist will do the rest so that nobody will ever remember about Bella living in Forks after I left.) After all the Cullens trusted me enough and saw me as a member of their "family" it was my job (and the only reason Zeus send me here) to get them to camp.
The moment they crossed camp boarders I wouldn´t have to keep this stupid act up. The gods will try to get them as an alliance, if they disagreed they could leave but would neither remember ´bout the gods nor me. Isn´t the Mist great? Right now I was sitting on my bad and waited for the arrival of Edward. No doubt Alice had one of her visions where she saw me planning to leave. Edward being the controlling and overprotective "boyfriend" he is surly panicked and was now on his way to ask me what the matter of my journey was.
Right after me finishing my thoughts Edward arrived through my window and landed elegant on his feed. Couldn´t he just come through the door? Oh right my "father" Charlie hated him. Wise man, don´t you think? Thank the gods Edward couldn´t read my mind ´cause of my godly blood. "Hello my love." Luckily he didn´t notice me clinching my teeth at this nickname. There is only one person in the whole universe that is allowed to call me such romantic names. And this person is definitely NOT HIM! "Alice had a vision and saw you leave. Can you please explain that?" Who does he think he is talking to me like that. Calm down Helena. Remember your still Bella. Act like you love him. Act without an own intention and pretend to do everything he asks you for.
"I got a call a few minutes' before and now I´m going to visit some family. They said that they invited you and your family as well. You guys should really come. It is a honor that they invited you, too ´cause they don´t do that very often." Hey the last part wasn´t even lied. "It would be a pleasure to me and my family to meet yours my love. When do you leave?" I decided to ignore the "my love" part and to answer instead. "The car will pick us up tomorrow evening meaning we have to catch the plain very early tomorrow morning. Then –" "We have to take a plain? Where does your family live?" Why did he always have to interrupt me? I knew I interrupted people as well but I´m ADHD and my father's daughter. What was his excuse? I decided to ignore his interruption just like father did before." They live somewhere in Long Island and Manhattan. So yes, we have to take the plain ´cause I think my family will get suspicious if you guys ran all the way."
As if. My family was used to things ways stranger than that. But it made sense to him even if there was a puzzled look on his face ´cause of the distance. "Ok, I´m going home and tell my family about everything. Besides I´m sure you want some time by yourself while our packing your things. I´ll book the plane and will get you tomorrow morning." Of course he did. He always had to control everything. Just like I told you. "Sure." Now I had to be strong These words were important. "I love you Edward." "You are my live", he said. Then he kissed me on my lips and left.
Why was it necessary to kiss me? Couldn´t he just give me a high five or something like that? I know that I sound ridiculous. He thought that I loved him and well I WAS pretending to be his girlfriend after all. Glad fully there wasn´t more than kissing between us. He thought that more than kissing would be too dangerous for ME. If he´d only knew that I if he would ever tried to do the next step, would have killed him without hesitation. Well time to pack my things and then, sooner than I can even hope I´ll be on my way back home.