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Chapter 2:
Walking On Eggshells
For the last twenty-seven days, Bella was walking on eggshells. And yes, she was keeping the count of it. How could she not- it was the most terrible thing that had happened to her and miraculously she had survived it, against all odds.
Bella had no idea why Victoria let her go and she could not even pretend to understand the reasons of doing so. Bella was, by no means a psychologist and she could not read people just by looking at their face, but Bella could clearly remember seeing one thing that was etched prominently on Victoria's face- pain.
She was flabbergasted and still even after one month she was no closer to understanding why Victoria behaved the way she did. It would have been too easy for her- a little more pressure and Bella's neck would have snapped. Victoria could have either feasted on her or just dispose her body, either way there was no reason for Victoria to not kill her. Bella was not as naïve to think that her pleading had melted the feral vampire's heart and she had decided to let her go.
No matter how much her actions spoke so, Bella was not suicidal. She did not want to die and she did not want an early, painful death. So, she did not even try to do something insane. Moreover, the little fact that Edward had not made his appearance during what she thought was her last time, made her even more reluctant to do something like this ever again.
Hence, she decided to stay put. She stopped doing anything reckless, stopping going out of the house unless absolutely necessary and stopped interacting too much with her friends. The pepper spray and the baseball bat once again made an appearance on her bed and Bella easily fell back into the previous routine what she was into those last four months. Only this time, Bella was not depressed and heartbroken. She was paranoid.
She tried to act as calmly as possible in front of Charlie and she was damn sure that her acting skills had suddenly grown to the point where she could seriously consider auditioning for some big role.
Her friends once again shunned her, she had nobody to talk to and she was acting strange. Her eyes darted everywhere expecting Victoria to jump out from the shadows and sink her fangs in her throat. She was too jumpy and any sudden action made her jump and scream.
Bella was not so ignorant to think that Victoria had decided to skip the town after leaving her alive. She knew that Victoria was out there, waiting for the opportunity to get over whatever was stopping her from draining her dry. She also knew that once the redhead got that into her control, that would be her very last day on the planet.
Her nightmares had once again returned and Bella often saw herself getting killed in some strange way which she did not even think was possible. Though, thankfully, she kept that under control and did not let anybody know what she was going through. Not even Charlie.
The strangulation marks on her neck had now faded to a purplish-yellow and it did not hurt her anymore. The first few days were painful. It was a good thing that the weather was cold and she had an excuse to wear thick clothes that covered her neck or else it would have been hard to keep that away from Charlie.
It was a good thing too. Charlie would have taken it upon himself to find out who did it and Bella was not sure she could keep it in. She would definitely crack some day and it could lead to both her and Charlie getting killed.
She was never that glad that Charlie did not seem to notice anything wrong with her.
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Victoria slowly walked up to Bella who was rapidly backing up in the room. She knew that Victoria was just toying with her, playing with her food and it was nothing more than a little fun to the vampire whose eyes had gone dark, black and void with bloodlust.
Bella's back collided with the wall and she knew that was it. Her time to die had come. Victoria was still walking towards her sensually, her mouth wide open in a huge grin with two long fangs poking out from the both the set of jaws. She opened her mouth to reveal all of her teeth and Bella gasped. They were all sharp and pointed.
Victoria came very close to Bella and braced her hands beside her head on the wall, effectively trapping her. Victoria did not have much height advantage on Bella, maybe just a couple of inches, but in that moment, Victoria looked so tall and imposing. The vampire grinned at her amusedly.
"We are once again here, Miss Swan. What do you propose we do next?" Victoria asked looking down at Bella.
Bella tried to speak but not a single word came out.
"Hmm, tell me?" Victoria asked softly, tucking a long strand of Bella's hair behind her ear.
The vampire leaned forward and Bella felt warm. How did it get so hot in here? Vampires were inherently cold creatures, but it seemed like Victoria's body was oozing out torrents of heat.
Victoria leaned forward, a single hand resting on the wall, the second one tracing a finger down Bella's cheek.
"I told you that when I would find you, I would kill you slowly. Well, I don't want to kill you anymore, I want to eat you. Slowly." Victoria said in a sensual voice and Bella felt growing hotter. That meaning could be taken into two different ways.
"How?" It seemed that Bella's voice had returned back only to ask that stupid question.
Victoria gave a full belly laugh. The voice sounded like music to Bella's ears who was standing very close to the vampire.
"Well, I cannot tell you that." Victoria said licking her lips, "So instead, let me just show you."
The redheaded vampire slowly extended all four of her fangs and brought her mouth closer to Bella's throat.
But at the last moment, Victoria changed her target and attacked Bella's lips and… kissed her hard.
Bella felt a strange sensation pass through her body when Victoria's lips found hers. She felt herself melt into the kiss. There was no human way possible that she could not respond to the kiss. It was like air, she needed it.
About half a minute later, when the need to breathe arose, Bella tried to peel herself off the kiss but Victoria gripped the back of her neck tightly and pulled her forward molding their lips tightly.
About another half a minute later, Bella was having trouble breathing and started feeling like her heart would burst out of her chest. She was feeling dizzy and about to fall down but Victoria pushed her more towards the wall, breaking her fall. Bella was about to burst with the lack of oxygen.
However, amidst all of this, Bella could fell Victoria's hand that was now massaging her breast and the other that was inching down slowly. Bella was now full on wrestling to get Victoria off of her and failing. The hand kept inching lower and was resting on her abdomen.
Victoria kept on kissing her, one hand kept kneading her breast and the other kept inching downwards. It was now below her belly button, just above her…
Bella felt out of her body. Her lungs were about to burst and her heart was slowing down like a helicopter blade. All she could see was darkness and pins and needles were attacking all parts of her body.
Suddenly Victoria broke the kiss and spoke in her ears with a husky voice, "This is how I will eat you."
The hand inched downward and…
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Bella woke up with a gasp. Her body was tangled in the sheets and somehow her pillow had landed on her face making it difficult to breathe.
She threw the pillow and the quilt off of her body and landed on the floor with a thump. She was breathing hard, gasping. She knew she was going into panic attack and her vision was blurry.
Bella quickly took off her shirt and laid down on the floor. The cold seeping into her body was a much welcome relief from what she was just feeling. After some time, her heart slowed down and her breathing returned to normal. She laid on the floor shirtless for a very long time until she started to feel chilly.
She got up on her bed and noticed that her shirt was completely drenched in her sweat and the quilt was a little damp too. How much was she sweating? Bella quickly threw her shirt away and laid down on her bed thinking what had happened in the dream.
One thing she could not understand was how had her dream turned into that? It was preposterous. Bella knew that it was not what she wanted to do with Victoria. She groaned when she realized that she was so obsessed with thinking about Victoria that all the dreams she had, now rotated around the vampire.
Bella was aware that she was attracted to Victoria. How could she not be? The vampire was perfect- inhuman beauty, inhuman grace and power and sparkling in the sunlight and a body fit for angels. She was deeply attracted to the redheaded vampire.
No, it was not Victoria that she was attracted to; it was the vampire in Victoria she was attracted to. That did not mean that she wanted to get close and intimate with the vampire. But Victoria was not getting intimate to her. She was killing her. Although the method of killing was questionable, Bella could say that it was fit for Victoria.
Kill her with a kiss. Kiss her until she could not breathe and dies painfully. Bella had to commend the way Victoria wanted to kill her. It was ingenious and deadly.
But would Victoria really want to kill her that way or Bella's paranoid mind was making that all up?
Bella groaned when the cold became too much to bear and she put on the quilt once again. She knew that her mind was playing tricks on her by making her dream of things that were not possible, at least not in this world.
She realized that it was getting out of hands. She could not spend her whole life in fear that someday Victoria was going to come kill her. She could not put her life on hold for Victoria to come kill her or either leave her alone.
Bella decided that it was enough. The very next day she was going to march up to the Cullen residence and give Victoria an ultimatum- either kill her then and there the way she wanted to or else leave her the hell alone so could spend the rest of her life in peace without worrying about getting killed by a sadistic, vengeful vampire.
Bella decided that she would go meet the vampire the next day, consequences be damned. Throughout that time, it did not occur to Bella even once that though she was high on adrenaline, Edward had not made an appearance once.
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Bella got up early in the morning and spent her whole morning trying to make herself courageous enough to take the tour to the Cullen mansion. Her brain and heart were at a conflict. Every few moments she would agree to go there and then the next she would start reconsidering her options.
Bella knew full well that this could be her last day on the planet and thus obviously, she was apprehensive about it. But she could not just let the matter be anymore. It would give her an early heart attack with the way she was worrying over things.
Bella decided to give Charlie a heads up in case she did not return home.
"Dad, I am going for a trek today. Might return home late. Don't worry, okay?" Bella said calmly while they were having the breakfast.
"Where are you going?" Charlie asked looking at her curiously.
"Well, there's a meadow I found out just beyond the Rogers Hill. I haven't been to there in a long while. Thought I should go." Bella said trying not to let Charlie show how anxious she was.
"Rogers Hill?" Charlie asked surprised, "That's about twenty miles from here. You planning on going that far?"
"No, I will take my truck there. I just wanted to visit that place there." Bella said trying to make Charlie give her his permission. She did not want to die knowing that she defied her father.
"But that's too far. There's wild animals there." Charlie said concerned.
"I will be safe Dad. I have been there a couple of times. There's no wild animals there- only squirrels, foxes and rabbits." Bella said smiling too brightly, "Please Dad. I have been coped up here for too long. I just want to feel the air once again." Bella almost begged.
Charlie looked at her for a long time, then sighed, "Okay. But you better be safe." Bella nodded vigorously, "And you will return home by four." At this Bella faltered a little.
She might not return home back alive. However, she nodded a little hesitant not to show Charlie her fears.
An hour later, Bella was in her truck driving towards the Cullen residence. Her heart was beating loudly and she could feel blood pounding in her ears.
Bella did not know if she could drive the vehicle in such a condition, so she parked her truck off the road and began breathing deeply to calm her nerves.
Suddenly, Edward appeared like a mist beside her making Bella jump in fright. Her heart was once again beating rapidly, "Why are you so insistent on getting yourself killed Bella?" He asked in a disappointed tone.
"Because I cannot live like this anymore. Even if she does not kill me, I will die soon with the amount of stress I am taking lately. I am just asking her to make it quick or leave me alone." Bella snapped.
"You should not do this Bella. She almost killed you last time." Edward said frowning.
"Yes. And it was you who decided to leave me alone, unprotected." Bella said loudly.
Edward looked down in shame, "I am sorry Bella. I should not have brought you into our world." His voice was full of sorrow and shame.
"Well, it's too late for it now," Bella retorted in a dark tone.
"Please don't do this Bella." Edward said in a pleading tone. "You'll die."
"Yeah? Well, newsflash Edward, I'm already dead." Bella shouted in a loud voice and her façade cracked for the first time in months. A lone tear slipped out. "I was dead the moment you decided to let me go, crushing my heart in pieces. Did you not even care that I loved you?"
"I did it to keep you safe Bella." Edward said monotonously.
"I would have been safer with you." Bella said in a broken voice. "Did you not love me enough to take me with you?"
"We were a danger to your life Bella. Anyone of us could have hurt you. I wanted to keep you safe," Edward said looking at her.
"Look how it turned out." Bella muttered sarcastically. "Now I am being hunted by a psychopathic vampire and nobody is there to save me." Bella gave an emotionless laugh.
"But why Bella?" Edward asked with a hint of desperation in his voice, "Why would you do something like this Bella? Why would you risk your life Bella?"
"Because I love you." Bella shouted with all the passion she had, "I love you and risking my life gives me the hope that you will come back to save me." She then began sobbing, "Risking my life gives me hope that you still love me enough not to let me fall into harm's way. But I think I was wrong. You don't love me enough to save me."
Edward had nothing to say.
"Just go away, Edward." Bella muttered brokenly and for once, Edward listened to her and disappeared in a swirl of mist.
Bella sat in the truck, sobbing for a very long time, admitting for the very first time that maybe Edward had left her for good and not coming back.
However, her altercation with Edward made her chicken out and she lost all the courage to go to the Cullen residence. She started her truck and turned back to the direction of her home without looking back.
Bella failed to notice the redheaded feline beauty sitting atop a tree branch, looking after her expressionlessly and had heard all the conversation that happened in the truck.
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Bella had decided that she could not keep her life on hold just because some vampire had decided to kill her. She needed to get out of the house more and she needed some social contact. If she had to let go of Edward she needed to find somebody else. A vampire would be preferable, but she would not say no to any other supernatural creature, though she would make do with humans if she had to.
One day Bella overheard Angela and Jessica talking amongst each other about another movie and shopping trip to Los Angeles and Bella decided to invite herself in.
"What? You out of your funk again?" Jessica looked at her with an irritated scowl on her face.
"Yes. I am sorry. I was not acting like myself." Bella muttered sheepishly, a faint blush on her cheeks.
Both Angela and Jessica gave her a no-kidding look.
"We cannot do this anymore Bella." Jessica said in an irritated voice. "You are pathetic." She spoke without any shame in her voice.
"Jess." Angela hissed nudging her with her elbow.
"No, Angela. She needs to hear this." Jessica said rounding on Bella. "You are so hung up on this Edward dude. I mean we all have breakups and find another person but you are like your soulmate died." Jessica said with anger in her voice.
Bella said nothing. She just hung her head lower.
"You are not the only one who has gone through heartbreak, but it's like the whole world has stopped moving for you." Jessica said scowling. Bella let her. She needed to vent her frustrations.
"Earlier you were so depressed that you barely talked to us for four months and now after that stunt of yours, you are plain paranoid. You keep looking all around acting as if he will jump out of the shadows. Why are you behaving like this?" Jessica had not yet lost her anger.
Just a moment later, she continued, "If you want to be some depressed lovesick fool over a boy who may not have loved you, so be it. But don't blow us off and then come back to us. You need to find other friends for that." She stopped for a long breath after everything she had.
"I am sorry." Bella knew that she did not have anything else to say except for that. "I know that I am not a good friend to you" Bella said softly and Jessica snorted.
"I know that I have nothing to say about that. I was hung up on him for so long that I forgot that I had other friends too. I am sorry for that." Bella muttered sincerely. "But now I want to change. I want to let the past go. I want to experience new things. I am sorry that it took me so long to come out of my depression."
"You are forgiven Bella." Angela muttered softly and Bella smiled but Jessica was still scowling at her.
She decided to come forward with the truth. However, she could not tell them exactly what happened. She had no idea that her friends noticed her strange behavior as of late. She knew that she had to give them something to trust. A good story likely.
"But this time, this was not the reason." Bella said softly but in a somber voice. "I was being followed by somebody." Both Angela and Jessica gasped at that.
"They threatened me and told me that if I told somebody about them. I would suffer badly." Bella looked up and saw that both of them had matching concerns in their eyes.
"Why didn't you tell your Dad Bella?" Angela asked in a serious voice, "He could have helped you."
"I was afraid." Bella said. She was not lying about that. She truly was afraid. Though, she could not tell anybody about it. "I was afraid they would harm either me or my Dad."
"Are you okay now? Are they gone?" Jessica asked with concern in her voice.
"I don't know. But I think so." Bella said shrugging. She honestly was not sure about that. "I have not been contacted by them in over a month. So, I think that they are gone now."
Both her friends relaxed. "I am sorry Bella for assuming something." Jessica apologized sincerely and Bella smiled nodding her head.
After some time, Jessica asked Bella, "So will you come with us to the movie?" Bella smiled and replied. "Yes. I would love to. It's been too long I've been myself. I want to change that."
Jessica smiled, "We'll pick you up at six."
Then the bell rang and they went to their classes.
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The movie was hardly romantic at all. Bella did not peg Angela to be the kind of person who would be interested in Sci-Fi. However, there were a lot of things now that Bella had no idea could ever exist.
The movie was something about aliens attacking other aliens and the humans getting in the crossfire and a lot of actions. Bella honestly forgot the title of the movie as soon as the movie began. It was boring.
They three were the only person in the movie hall along with just one person who was sitting in the very back seat all covered in hoodie and dark clothes. Bella could not even identify if the person was male or female.
"I'll go get the popcorn." Bella said and the other two girls nodded, seemingly enjoying the movie.
Bella went of the hall and went to the bathroom. While she was washing her hands, her eyes moved towards the mirror and what she saw made her rooted to the spot.
A pair of golden-red eyes were boring into her own from behind her. A mane of flaming orange-red hair was neatly pulled into the hoodie and only a few strands were falling out. The woman was tall and imposing and stood still like a statue. Bella's breath got caught in her throat.
She knew that Victoria was aware that she knew of her presence. Bella's heart started beating loudly in her chest. The person sitting behind her in the hall was nobody other than Victoria. Though she had no idea why she had not made a move on them.
Bella kept on soaking her hands and the vampire got out of the bathroom. Maybe she did not do anything as there were other ladies present too.
Bella took her time getting the popcorn and went into the cinema hall once again. She sat in her seat between both the girls when she turned her head, she saw that the person in the hoody was back there. Only this time, the hoody was lowered and Bella could see the mane of red hair.
The whole time Bella kept on looking back subtly and all the time Victoria did not even move. Not even when Bella was looking at her. Bella was sure that all of Victoria's attention was on her and not the movie, just like her attention was on the vampire.
After the movie was over., Bella slowly walked out the hall along with her friends. When she looked back, the hooded vampire was gone. Suddenly she bumped into somebody and tumbled to the ground. But before Bella could fall on the ground, a pair of strong arms gripped her, "I am sorry. I did not see where I was going." A soft feminine voice spoke.
The silky voice made her heart lurch. The vampire was standing just beside her holding her in her arms. Victoria made sure to show Bella her now soulless-black eyes and opened her mouth showcasing her pointy teeth.
The vampire steadied Bella on her feet and made a show of dusting off invisible dirt off her clothes, "Are you okay? I did not hurt you, did I?" The vampire asked in an innocent and honestly apologetic tone. "I am really sorry. Are you okay?"
Bella could only nod and Victoria grinned wildly, "Alright then. Hope we will meet again." She grinned in a feral manner and went away.
"What was that?" Angela asked coming from behind. "Who was that woman?"
"I don't know." Bella muttered a little shaken with her interaction with the redheaded vampire.
"Her reflexes were like crazy. One second she was there and the next she was stopping you from falling down." Angela muttered impressed, "I wish I had that woman's reflex. Man, what should I do to get a body like that?" Angela was talking to herself.
Bella swallowed back her answer which would have been like, 'Trust me, you don't want to.'
Jessica broke Angela out of her daydream, "Come on, we have to go shopping." And dragged both her and Angela to the nearest mall.
Bella was brooding the whole time she was shopping with her friends. She was not giving a lot of input and stared all around.
"Hey, Earth to Bella?" Bella flinched hard when a hand came into her vision and she almost jumped from the stool she was sitting on.
"What happened?" Jessica asked Bella, "You not enjoying the trip?"
"No, it's not that." Bella said looking around, "Just that there's a lot on my mind."
"What? That guy is still bothering you?" Angela sked concerned, "Did you see him anywhere?"
It took Bella a moment to get who Angela was talking about.
"No, nothing like that. Just I am thinking about that woman I met in the cinema hall." Bella muttered without thinking. It was a good thing that she did not say anything worth causing damage. For all she knew, Victoria was still stalking her.
Jessica snorted unladylike, "What? You are so off Edward now that you decide to turn lesbian?"
Bella blushed, "No!" she protested loudly but could not give a reason for her outburst. It was not like she had anything to say.
After a long time, when all of their shopping was done and it was getting late, they decided to get an early dinner and head home. While walking on the street to the car, Bella saw a hooded figure standing by the lamppost leaning on it slightly. A little of the wild red hair could be seen and Bella was sure that Victoria was analyzing her moves.
"You go ahead and have your dinner, I'll meet you by the car." Bella said and before any of the girls could say anything, walked off to meet the tall vampire.
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Victoria was leaning on the lamppost when she saw Bella talking to her friends after something. She had been stalking the human the whole time she was in the city. She had even sat with her in the cinema hall and decided to show her face to her in the bathroom.
She also decided on the split second to make a show of colliding with her and helping her not to fall. The warm smell of the girl was too overwhelming and she wanted nothing more than to sink her fangs in the girl's throat and to bleed her dry.
Victoria had no idea why she just did not do that. It would have been easy, nobody could have stopped her and she could have gotten her revenge on the vampires. But no, something in her told her to stay put and not to harm the girl. Victoria was almost sure that the part of her brain that told her not to hunt the woman had stopped working.
"You go ahead and have your dinner, I'll meet you by the car." She heard the girl say to her friends and to her utmost surprise started walking towards her. She sniffed the air once lightly, there was nothing about the girl's scent that told her that she was afraid or even nervous. However, there was determination in her eyes.
The girl marched straight to her and told her in a no-nonsense voice, "We need to talk. Come with me." And to her amazement walked into a nearby restaurant.
Victoria was amazed at the girl's audacity to do such a thing without even flinching. Her mind told her to slay the girl at that moment and that possible, but she thought better of it. The place was full of people and killing them would be messy and would surely land her on Volturi's radar. She did not want something like that to happen.
Victoria followed the girl silently. She could silently agree that the girl had a natural sway to her hips that was enticing. She would even call her cute if she did not want to kill the girl.
They entered into the restaurant together and had just sat down when the waitress was beside them handing Bella the menu.
"Mushroom ravioli with breadsticks and a bottle of cola for me." She spoke without even looking at the menu.
The waitress turned towards Victoria, "Anything for you Miss?"
Victoria shook her head, "No, thank you." It was not like she could have anything.
The waitress spoke again, "You sure Miss?"
"I am." Victoria spoke curtly.
"Please do try something here. We offer the best vegan dish in Port Angeles. You would not be disappointed." The waitress said flirtatiously, inching closer to the vampire.
"No, thanks." Victoria replied curtly without even looking at the girl.
The waitress nodded disappointed and went to get Bella's order.
"So, how are you?" Bella asked looking at her pointedly.
"That is what you wanted to talk to me about, Miss Swan? How am I?" Victoria was amused. The girl had no idea of small talks.
"Well, I could also start by asking whether or not you want to kill me but I don't think that it is the appropriate first-time question for my guest, so answer me. How are you?" Bella was still looking at her as if she honestly expected her to answer that.
"What makes you think I am your guest?" Victoria asked raising her eyebrows.
"Well, you are sitting with me in this restaurant about to have a talk. I think that qualifies you enough to be called a guest. Or do you prefer murderess? Now answer my question." Bella spoke simply without any hint of rudeness or impatience in her voice.
"I am fine, thank you." Victoria said coolly, "What about you?"
"Well, apart from the fact that I could get killed by a deranged vampire, I am mostly fine. Taking a lot of stress in a healthy dosage, but fine." Bella said casually as if she was discussing weather.
Bella took a complete minute to ask her next question, "Had any meal anytime soon?"
Victoria snorted the moment that question left Bella's lips and it made the said girl blush. It caused a lot of pheromones to be thrown at Victoria in heavy amount causing her to stiffen slightly. "What if I did?" she asked showing her teeth to the girl. Well, no fear. It amazed Victoria.
"Oh, it's okay." Bella was taken aback by the question it seemed.
"Why? Would it bother you if I did?" Victoria asked the question in order to see how Bella responds to it.
"No, everybody's got to eat. Just because you eat something different should not bother me." Bella said casually. The girl still did not show any sign of fear.
"What if I were to eat you?" Victoria asked Bella to gauze her reaction and what she got was pretty incredulous one.
Bella flushed heavily. It caused more of her pheromone to be discharged into the air and it made the vampire drool with venom. However, there was still no sign of fear. Odd.
"Please don't talk about eating me." Bella said bushing heavily.
"What are you…" Victoria bean to speak but was cut off by Bella.
"Please don't. Talk about anything else but that. Please." Bella begged her, red surrounding her cheeks and neck. What was that about?
"Alright. Ask me what you want to ask." Victoria said still not understanding the girl.
"Why? Why should I ask all the questions?" Bella asked confused.
"Well, you are the one who invited me, so ask." Victoria rolled her eyes at the girl's stupidity. She was sitting with her murderess-to-be to have a talk and not knew anything to ask.
A minute later, Bella was still thinking and then she sighed heavily. "Okay. I am out of questions to build the setup. Tell me, why did you let me go?" Bella asked looing serious.
Five minutes passed before Victoria said anything. All that time Bella was just looking at her patiently, not a line of impatience etched on her face.
"I don't know." Victoria said finally, not knowing what to say. She really had no idea.
The girl was about to say something else when the waitress arrived with the girl's order. She carefully put the plates on the table and turned towards Victoria, "Are you sure that you don't want anything Miss?" the girl asked standing very close to her.
"Yes. I am." Victoria said shortly wanting to get the waitress off of her hair, who was secreting too much pheromones.
"You should really taste the dishes around here, Miss. Such a beautiful lady should not go without having anything. I would really like it if you did." The waitress said in a flirtatious voice. It looked like the disappointment from earlier had once again given way to courage.
"No, I am okay." Victoria spoke in hard tone and the waitress scurried off.
Victoria's attention was drawn towards the girl sitting opposite of her who was laughing softly.
"What's funny?" Victoria asked irritated.
Bella kept on laughing, "You know, this is the second time that I have been on a dinner with a vampire and the waitress has flirted with them." Bella said chuckling. "Man, why can't they focus on me?"
"No need to get so jealous, Miss Swan, I am not your date." Victoria said scowling.
"Oh, no. It's just rude, you know." Bella said.
Victoria just shrugged. Bella took the fork and spoon and started eating her dinner. Victoria decided to give her some time to eat in silence.
"You want some? It's good." Bella asked politely and Victoria just gazed at her sharply. Bella got into eating and it was full ten minutes before she spoke, "Do you want to?" She asked softly.
"Do I want to what, Miss Swan?" Victoria asked confused.
"You know, kill me?" Bella asked in a whispering voice.
"Do you want me to kill you?" Victoria asked raising her eyebrows.
"No of course not." Bella said vehemently. "But it would be nice, you know to have some warning before I am killed." Bella said softly, accepting defeat.
"What difference would that make?" Victoria asked confused by Bella's words.
"It would give me some time to dispose of some things that I don't want Charlie to find about." Bella said a little red in her cheeks, "And I would very much like not to spend my every day thinking it'd be last. I at least deserve that much." Bella said, her head ducked shyly. It stuck as odd to the vampire as the girl was sitting there calmly discussing her death.
"I guess you do," Victoria said shrugging.
"It's not good for humans- too much stress and I am taking that in heavy amount. If I have to die, I would at least like to spend my last days in peace." Bella said with a sad expression on her face.
"Tell me, Miss Swan, what brought this all up?" Victoria had no idea what was going through that brain of the girl sitting in front of her. "How come you have accepted your fate?"
"I am not a fool, Victoria." Bella said in a hard voice, "I know that you want to kill me and if you really did can you at-least tell me that in advance? Don't I deserve that much?" Her voice was hard.
Victoria shrugged, not knowing what to say.
She instead asked, "Why should I tell you all in advance and risk seeing you escape?" Victoria sneered at Bella, "For all I know, you could be hatching some plan to run away."
Bella laughed mirthlessly, "I know that you are not that stupid Victoria. Both of us are aware that if you want to kill me, nowhere I go, no matter what I do, you will find me. I am not safe. I have been close to vampires and I know how formidable you all are."
Victoria just looked at Bella. It seemed that the girl had accepted her fate that she had to die by her hands someday or other and was truly asking for a forewarning. Moreover, there were no physical signs attached with the girl that told Victoria she could be lying.
"Tell me." Bella's tone was hard, "Do you want to kill me? If yes, then tell me when or else get out of my life and don't hurt me anymore." This time there was no friendliness in Bella's eyes.
"I want to kill you." Victoria mirrored the same tone Bella had used, "And I will kill you. I just have not decided when." Then after a moment she said again, "But I will tell you when I plan to kill you. For now, you can relax, Miss Swan. You have some time left."
Bella nodded, relieved. The small smile on her face returned. She took a piece of napkin and wrote something on it.
She handed the napkin to Victoria and spoke in a chipper tone. "That's my number. You can call me anytime. Please do call me when you decide about it. Well, other than that, you can call me if you need anything."
Bella stood up, put the money on the table and got out of the restaurant towards her friends, leaving Victoria sitting with the napkin in her hands.
The vampire could not put a finger to what had just happened.
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Hope you liked the chapter. Now, my exams have commenced so, I won;t get time to update. But, in a week when they are over, I will get back into writing the story.
One thing I want to say is that I am not really comfortable writing sex scenes so there will not be any such chapters. I want my story to contain good romance, angst, comedy and drama and I think I will stick to to this. However, I do believe that this story has earned its M rating.
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