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I let out a deep sigh, as I fall on my back onto my small bed, thinking back to the disaster that was this evening. I was supposed to go and watch Edward and his family play baseball, show them my comfort in them using their vampire 'abilities', trying to get Rosalie and Emmett to warm up to me because I know that, even though Edward evades the question, they, or shall I say, Rosalie, dislikes me. Make even get snuggle into Edward's cold arms, in his car, before he brought me back home.
Instead, I spent my evening in the company of a very annoying Billy Black, an unusually unperceptive Charlie, and lastly and most awkwardly, Jacob Black who seemed just as embarrassed as me, if not more, after being introduced to Edward. I mean even he had to see Edward's perfectness; who wouldn't? I had forced Edward to go play Baseball with the rest of his family, he had insisted on staying in the woods and listening in case I needed his help with Billy, but I managed to send him on his way after much convincing. Billy had, as I had suspected, spent the entire meal throwing around comments about how I was, and I quote, 'still young and naïve' and how I shouldn't 'trust people too easily, because they can be more manipulative than you'd ever know'.
I felt my anger return, as my hands clench into small fists and feel heat rise to my face. A cool breeze blew through the window and I felt goosebumps rise on my arms and legs. I shiver and wonder why I had thought wearing boys shorts and a vest top to bed, in Forks, was a good idea. This contributes to my anger and frustration and I, suddenly, turn onto my stomach and bury my face into my pillow as I scream into it, kicking legs and punch the pillow-in-question with my dainty fists. When I'm all out of energy, which was a few good screams later, I let my half risen legs fall simultaneously flattening my fists into the poor pillow I had just assaulted. Sigh.
My heart beat picks up almost instantly when I hear a deep, velvety, amused chuckle from near the window, and a smile graces my lips – for the first time, since I had since Edward earlier – even though he's laughing at me. I feel a dip in the bed as Edward lays down need to me, on his stomach also, and reaches his hand out to stroke my hair, since I had yet to lift my head. I instantly felt my anger lift and my frustration disappear, replaced with comfort and love, as I always felt near Edward. I turn on my side and cuddle into him, as he was on his side quickly following my lead albeit surprised, blushing as my hand went to his waist and vice versa. This was new territory, but I like it. No, I love it.
"Hi." I mutter. Wow. I'm a genius.
Smiling, clearly amused, he replies "Hello," and pulls the cover up to create a cocoon around us. At least he wasn't insisting on being outside the covers.
"Did you have fun?" I ask. Again, wow. Freakin' genius.
His brows furrowed and his smile disappeared, just for a second, but I noticed and quickly questioned "What? Did you guy and your siblings fight or something?"
"No, well, not really,"
"Not really?" I press on, wanting to know what had him worried, besides me that is.
"I'm not sure if I should tell you or not," he says completely serious and I could see him debating what the right thing to do would be,
"Edward if we're going to do this," I pause indicating between us with my right index finger "then we need to be completely and truly honest with each other. About everything." I look into his golden eyes, and will myself not to get lost in their depth, to show him how much I meant those words.
I knew he had understood, when he smiled – knowing he'd tell me know – and nodded, and I think he needed me to say the words to assure him I could handle it. For him.
He tucked me into his chest and rest his chin on the top of my head and dove into his story instantly, "When we got there, everything was normal, we had everything set up and started playing at the first crackle of thunder." I bite my tongue to hold back asking what the hell that meant, as not to interrupt his flow, "We played for a while and then, like always, Emmett and Jasper started calling each other out on their cheating and when I tried to break it up, they both accused me of taking the others' side and got me involved, too, and…"
I ask quickly, unable to hold back, "Wait, it got physical?" unable to think of Edward up against Emmett. I shudder.
Edward found my question and reaction amusing as he shakes his head, kissing my forehead, "It always does, but it's only in good fun," he assures me and dives back into the recount.
"After Esme broke it up, we got back to playing, when suddenly Alice had a vision. She saw…" he glances down at me hesitating, and I flash him a smile, a few seconds later he continues. "Alice saw three vampire; two males, and a female. Nomads. They had heard us playing and wanted to come talk to us. You see, nomads don't come across our kind often, because they feed and move, never staying in one place, so you can understand when these three nomads came across a coven of seven vegetarian vampire, with three gifted members." I briefly nod, even though his statement was rhetorical. "We made introductions, but abstained from telling them of our gifts, and I heard one of their minds – James', the leader. He knew Alice, but couldn't understand why she wasn't using the name from her human life, Mary Alice Brandon, but understood when we explained how to consider each other family and therefore share Carlisle' last name. I couldn't help but want to give Alice the opportunity to uncover her past, so I revealed my gift to the nomads, and straight out asked him what he knows. Alice finally found out her past." He says with a sigh, and I could see that Alice knowing her past didn't just relief her but also Edward.
"She was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1901, and her only sibling was her sister 9 years younger than herself. Alice had visions of the future as a human as well, but of course they weren't as strong, and they often got her into trouble. She would share her visions with people if she saw danger or what not in them and people changed their decisions once they had heard what she saw, and that of course changed the entire future; Alice was labelled a 'Liar'. One day she had a vision late at night of her father killing her mother in the woods near their house and even if none of her visions had come true, she just knew they were the future, and so ran into woods bare footed, in her night dress, and saw her mother's body with shards of glass lying around her, just as she had seen. The one vision she didn't want coming true, did. Anyways, she tried convincing the townspeople that her father had killed her mother so that he could spin a tale of her having an affair and blame her 'lover' of killing her when she wanted to end things with him, all so that his own affair won't be discovered."
"That's horrible!" I cried softly, Edward nods in agreement.
"They didn't believe her, but her father had been shocked out of his wits and dragged her off to the nearest mental facility to have her 'treated', because if he killed her, he knew suspicion would fall on him and he would be exposed. At the mental facility, there was a nomad who had taken an 'interest' in Alice and was waiting for a good time to take her and make her a meal, he eventually got her out and was going to attack her, when James – who was running up north through the woods – heard and instantly saw something in her that compelled him to help her. Not in a romantic way, of course, he was already happily mated. But Alice is so small and must've looked even more fragile as a human, how could he not want to save her? So, he fought the much younger vampire and got her away, and that's when she told him all of this about herself. She also revealed that she knew what he was but wasn't afraid as he had been the first person to ever believe her and even save her. He was going to take her up north with him, where he and Victoria – his mate – were going to set up for her to live, but on their way up they came across the same nomad who wanted to hurt Alice again. James tried to fight him off but in a moment of weakness, the nomad managed to bite James and then Alice. James provoked him enough to get him to run after him and not entirely drain Alice. James met with Victoria and they both killed the vampire but when he returned Alice was not there and yeah….here we are." He finally concludes.
I was silent for a moment taking it all in. Alice had been through so much in her human life, she must've been what a year or so older than me when she turned into a vampire; I couldn't' imagine my life like that. Poor Alice. But then I look at how she'll only know her life, instead having memories of it, for which I was glad – Edward was right, Alice was so small, I didn't know her but already felt protective of her – and now she has a 'Father' who loves her and 'Mother' who dotes on her, and two amazing 'Brothers' and even Rosalie in the form of 'Sister'. But also she had Jasper, and if he meant even the fraction of what Edward now means to me – which I don't doubt he does, I mean they must've spent at least decades together, then I'm glad things worked for the best.
"What are you thinking?" Edward asks softly, reminding me of his presence, not that I would ever forget.
"Lots of things. Like how horrible that all must've been to live through. Like how I'm glad she'll only ever be able to hear about her life, not remember it. Like how I'm glad things worked out so that you all became a family. And like how you were right – I don't even know Alice, yet, but already love her." I tried my best to summarise my thoughts because I knew he wanted to know, but would also be frustrated at the lack of detail, though he won't say anything.
He laughs his beautiful, velvety, laugh, and finishes it with his crooked smile, when he hears my accelerating heart, "That's funny, because Alice has been saying the same thing now, for weeks actually – about loving you already – and she's probably seen you saying that. She'll enjoy rubbing it in my face immensely later." I smile at his light heartedness after everything.
"What about James and Victoria? Have they already left forks?" I ask suddenly remembering that he'd never told me what happened with them.
"They went back to the house with everyone, with Laurent, the other male, and are going to stay the night – mainly because Alice wants to show off how 'cool' her gift is and has amplified. They all be gone before you wake in the morning, they plan on leaving around six o'clock, so they can get into Seattle soon."
"Okay." I reply simply, so they're only going to be here tonight. For some reason that made me calmer, it's not like I have anything against them or anything but I'm a bit nervous to be around vampires who feast on humans that could care less about me – even if one of them did save Alice's life.
"How was your evening, love?" he whispers softly into my ear and my eyes instantly drooping as his cool breath his the top my ear. I shiver.
"Crappy!" I managed to get out before yawning, twice. He kisses my forehead and rub circles into the small of my back, lulling me to sleep.
"Sleep, my love, we can talk in the morning." Those words command me to give into sleep and I willing do it, feeling completely tired to the bone wanting nothing more as I drift into unconsciousness into Edwards stone cold arms.
"I love you," I hear his velvety voice, in the dark
"I love you," I echo his words, finally falling asleep.
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