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After Breaking Dawn, the Cullen's live a life that now seems perfectly fit and normal to them. All except for Bella. She, in fact, finds all this extra boy attention quite amusing….
XX
I could feel every eye on the block turned my way.
The sun was just barely visible through the clouds, and I was sure, despite my best efforts, that my skin was sparkling. Naturally, boys would be entranced. But this…this staring thing was something I wasn't used to. Out of all the things that seemed to come naturally as a vampire, this was one thing I would never become accustomed to. I don't see how Rosalie ever got used to it.
But, then again, she likes the attention.
I tried to keep my pace at normal human speed, but it was so incredibly hard when I felt like running a million miles an hour. My brain was spiked to run, ready to kill, as all natural instincts went. I was smart, though, and I knew what it was I should ignore. So, I suppose it wouldn't be too incredibly hard to ignore all the staring.
I thought of my Edward. How wonderfully perfect he was, and we were now a true family. Everything was perfect in my life. I could not have asked for more. I regretted nothing, and even though Edward sometimes refused to believe it, I did not ever want to be human again. I had chosen right.
"Is she freaking real?"
"It's like she's purposely torturing us!"
"Have you ever seen anything like her?"
"I mean, what the hell?!"
I couldn't help but listen. Even though it scared me, the amount of attention I got, it was still amusing to listen to the boys slipping on their words and stumbling for a coherent thought. I was glorious to them. It was unnatural, my beauty, and I didn't blame them for staring. I know how it was for me with Edward.
"Bella?" one voice called, standing out from all the rest. It was familiar, even in my fuzzy human memories. "Isabella Swan?!"
This was one voice I wished I never had to hear again.
I turned around to face Mike, deeply praying that I wouldn't be too different in his eyes. "Mike!" I said with fake enthusiasm, my voice trilling like bells.
Who was I kidding? I was as different to him as fire was to ice.
"You're—not-not Bella….but you…have to be….Bella??" stuttered, his eyes wide with the fear his conscious mind failed to comprehend.
"I'm still Bella."
"How-what-what happened to you?" he asked. "I mean…well…not that the change was bad, or anything. It's just…you look so different."
I had worked out this conclusion with Edward. If anyone I knew as a human ever questioned my appearance, I would tell them the silliest story known to man.
"My grandfather's a cosmetic scientist. He just had this major breakthrough, and he used me as his experiment. I have loads of scars," I said lightly. He looked confused.
"But…your voice. Your eyes, your hair, you skin…." he continued.
"All under the cosmetic procedure."
He sighed, looking bemused. I was sure he was disbelieving, but he would have to believe something. It's not like he knew a vampire bit me.
"You look like your boyfriend, Edward," he said discouragingly. In his tone, I could tell he was hoping for information on Edward. "Or, you know, your husband."
"We're still together," I said to him, changing the subject.
"Oh," he said, looking down at his toes. I smiled, almost pitying him.
Just then, the wind blew in another direction. I braced myself for his scent, trying to block the instinctual part of my brain as much as possible. The wind hit my face, and I almost choked. He stunk.
I never thought it was possible for a human to smell bad. Sure, a werewolf could, but certainly not someone who was entirely human…. Unless Mike wasn't entirely human…. But I shook that thought from my head. I knew I didn't exactly like Mike, unlike most of the other humans. I had never enjoyed his company much. Still, all the other girls had envied the attention I had received from him.
"So, are you doing anything today?" he interrupted my thoughts. I almost giggled.
"Sorry, Mike. I've got to go home," I said.
"Oh," he looked down again. "Well, maybe I'll go say hi to Charlie sometime today, then."
This time, I couldn't stop my laughter. He blushed, probably feeling very small next to my radiant body. "Sorry, Mike. I live with Edward now."
His blush turned into a full-fledged red face. In that moment, I almost wished I could tell him about my beautiful daughter, about how my family and I had fought off the greatest group of vampires of earth, and that I had the most wonderfully perfect life possible. I would have said it all, just to see him blush, just to see that one thought cross his face: why isn't she mine?
This was the only advantage of all the attention. It was the most amusing thing on earth.
I laughed again, waving goodbye, and trying to turn on my charm. I hardly even battered my eyelashes, and he was immediately star struck. I turned around to walk away, throwing my scent back towards him. For once in his life, I think he found something he wanted desperately that he could never have.
No, no, no. For the second time in his life.
I suddenly realized just how vampire I was. I was born to be one, I swear. I was everything they were even as a human. Maybe not stunningly beautiful, but I was smart enough to know right and wrong like they did. Now I knew just why Edward always despised Mike. He thought he got what he wanted, he thought he knew.
And he stunk.
XX
I was bored as hell, so I just reread the Breaking Dawn book. For, like, the third time. I thought it would be a funny thing to see all the attention Bella got from her friends. Then, I thought, "What would Mike think of her?"
I tried to tie the connection that Bella was a natural vampire to the fact that she had always been an abnormal human.
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