2-Breaking Barriers
Here we go with number 2 revised!
APOV
It was harder getting used to this new life then the Cullens made it look. I would have never made it if it wasn't for Jasper and Alice. The rest of the family was supportive, but if Jasper and Alice hadn't been there I probably would have flipped out and started killing people. Jasper and Alice were there whenever I called, no matter where they were or what I called for. Even though I knew I was a pain and that I burdened them, I liked knowing that there was always someone there for me.
Everyone was fussing to see if I could do anything "special" but after a few questions and pointless experiments I think they concluded that I didn't have anything 'special' about me. I thought differently though. I could hear, smell and feel better. I think drinking blood is pretty special too but they just said it was all normal. I tried to tell them that normal people couldn't lift up a house, but they just shrugged it off and said they could all do that.
The one thing I could do and they couldn't was I had a full memory. I could remember EVERYTHING about my human life. Even Bella couldnt do that, she just remembered some things in her human life and even then they were just the things she could remember while still human. Also she said hers was like looking through mud. But I could remember everything. Even the things that I couldn't remember when I was human. All those things that, while your human, you don't remember and try really hard to. But they didn't consider that a special talent. They said that it was fascinating.
Later in the day there was arm wrestling going on and I watched with the girls on the side while the boys did their thing. Soon I challenged Edward in an arm wrestle competition. I know, it was a crazy move for me. A lady arm wrestling? But I was starting to think 'to hell with being a proper lady!'. I heard the cheers as I won. I won? What? How is that even possible? I challenged Jasper and won him also. Now feeling a strange high I challenged Emmett. This is where I'm starting the next part of the story. Emmett and I are arm wrestling. I'm winning. Everyone yelled, "3, 2, 1!" I won.
"Good game Emmett." I said, they had threatened me that if I called them Sir and Ma'am again they would do something terrible to me and I didn't want to find out what they could do. But sometimes old habbits die hard. I still held out my hand for him to shake becuase that isn't proper lady, it's just being a good sport.
"Ugh! You didn't even have to try!" He yelled, but shook my hand. "That's twice!" He murmured.
"What?" I asked.
"Bella won me 2 weeks ago also. This is not good for my self esteem." He mumbled as he walked away. Bella beat him to? I couldn't resist.
"Bella?" I said. She looked over toward me, for she had been talking to Edward, who had taken his defeat rather well compared to Emmett, and smiled.
"Yes?" She asked.
"Do YOU want to try?" I asked feeling a little embarrassed. She smiled and nodded.
"This is going to be good. The two nube's!" Emmett said.
Ah that is why. For some reason you are stronger as a newborn then later... hmm.. questions for later.
When we started I could feel that her grip was tighter then the others but I continued anyway.
"3, 2, 1!" Everyone yelled and we started. She was strong. Very strong. We stayed in the middle position for a long time. Both expecting this to be an easy match. After about an hour or so I gained a little, then a little more, and finally almost had her pinned.
"Uhhh!" she let out a big breath as I pinned her and everyone shouted. I smiled, that was a hard match. When we lifted up our arms to shake each others hands there were big dents in the table.
"Woops. Sorry Ma'a- Esme. I didn't mean to." I bowed my head to show I was sorry.
"It's fine." She said with a smile. Then I grabbed Bella's hand and something strange happened.
"Whoa!" I yelled and pulled my hand away.
"What?" asked Bella sounding a little frantic. Everyone gathered around.
"I-I-I-I don't know." I admitted. It was the truth. I didn't know what just happened.
-Next day-
"Wake up sleepy head!" Emmett came crashing into my room smiling, it was our privet joke that anytime we were alone in our rooms we would burst in and tell them to get out of bed. We dont sleep.
"Go away Sir- umm I mean Emmett!" I yelled. I just wanted to gather my thoughts by myself without Emmett's not needed comments. It's not like we aren't already acting like brother and sister. In fact Emmett is the only one who doesn't act so controlling over me that they should be a parent.
His face fell. "Did you just call me 'Sir'?" He asked. I guessed it was a rhetorical question. He slowly started to walk toward me.
"Emmett don't you dare!" He smiled. "Whatever you were planning on doing don't!" His smile got wider. "I swear Emmett if you touch me I will kill you!" At this he snickered and waved me off like I was nothing. He turned away and I thought I was safe. How wrong I was. I should have known that as soon as I let my guard down and wasn't tensed for Emmett's attack he would turn and jump.
"Ahhh!" I started to scream but he covered my mouth.
"Emmett! Let go!" I yelled but all that came out was, "Mmmfph! Mmtahhff!" He smiled.
He bent towards me and said quietly, "I'm sorry sis could you repeat that? I must need hearing aids because I didn't hear you."
I glared at him and tried again. "What the hell Emmett let me go!" He paused and bent closer but let go.
"Say again?" He asked. That's when I realized what I had just said.
"Sorry Si- Emmett. I meant… Actually that is what I meant." I didn't want to admit it. Also it felt…. good. But I most defiantly wasn't going to admit that to Emmett. I have to bring him one step at a time to my 'i'm not really that proper of a lady' plan.
"Don't try to hide it. You liked it!" How can all of these guys tell what I am thinking? I had found out why Edward did but I ment the others.
I nodded. "Christ Emmett. You're such a child. You really thought I was always proper? Really? Haha!" I didn't see the point in lying to him. He knew already. Although in the smallest part of my stomache I heard a voice screaming at me that it was wrong, which I quickly ignored.
He smiled and said. "Yup! We are corrupting you! Yes! Now, that wasn't so hard now was it?" All I could do was role my eyes. He didn't listen to anything. He brought me out off my thoughts then, "Now, where were we?" He laughed.
"Emmett don't touch me!" I yelled as he started tickling me."Oh, are you ticklish here?" He asked as he tickled my side. "Or here?" He moved his hand up to my neck.
"Everywhere!" I managed to gasp out. It was true. I was ticklish all over. Carlisle also thought that was kind of strange. "Emmett!..." I gasped. "Stop!" You don't realize how hard it is to breathe while being tickled unless you're the person being tickled.
When he finally stopped I was barely breathing. "You know.." He laughed, "Us, being vampires, don't even have to breathe! try it. Seriously! If you pass out you can have whatever you want." He smiled at me while I stopped gasping for breath to tried and hold it. At first it was weird to not be able to smell anything. I had gotten used to the smells of things and I felt naked without them.
I don't know how long I sat there holding my breath, it felt like hours, until Emmett got bored and stood up dropping me on the floor.
"Emmett!" I yelled. He just gave this come and get me grin so I stood up and chased him around the house. I was faster then him and got him on the stairs. We toppled down them all the time wresting for the best position. By time we hit the bottom I was to weak from laughing that I couldn't hold a position for very long. We hit into the table breaking the leg of it.
Then Esme walked through the door with something in her hands and screamed. "My house!" She yelled. Crap! I stood up.
"Sorry Esme. We were just having fun. I- umm…" I helped Emmett up and he burst in.
"She was trying to kill me! She hit me down the stairs and was attacking me!" Oh no you didn't Emmett!
"That is not true!" I yelled. "Emmett was being an ass and I was… just… sitting…" Everyone was staring at me. "What?" I asked.
Edward who was standing behind Esme with Bella spoke up first.
"Did you just say ass?" He asked with a lot of surprise in his voice.
"Umm…." I couldn't even finish the thought before Emmett burst in.
"YES! She did! She also said hell and Christ!" He spat at his family.
Alice, who was the only one that wasn't frozen in place starring at me, well, besides Emmett, shoved passed the rest of her family.
"Wow Emmett. Hell? Christ? I can not believe that after spending at least an hour with YOU she didn't say worse then that!" She came and stood by me. I tried to tell her how grateful I was with my eyes. She nodded slightly so I guess she understood. Then she smiled the 'Alice-is-now-going-to-flip-the-situation-and-embarrass-you-further' smile.
"Besides," She continued. "I bet she could say a lot worse then that if she felt like it." She glanced at me smiling mischievously. Oh crap! What was she doing? What was going on in that little pixy brain of hers?
"Alice?" I asked.
"Adia?" She said.
"Yah?" I said cautiously.
"Say…" Edward laughed. That wasn't good.
"Say what Alice?" I asked. Of course she is dragging this on.
"Shit." She said and smiled.
"Uh, Alice why would I want to say…." She smiled more and the others were whispering so I couldn't hear, even with my advanced hearing, and it made my mad. Fine! I will just throw them all in the middle of my no-longer gradual desent to their non-proper lady plan.
"What?" I exploded. "SHIT! Ok? SHIT. Shit. Shit!" It was a good thing that my face couldn't blush anymore because as I sat there fuming everyone but Esme and Carlisle. Emmett started cheering.
"Told you I could make her do it." Alice whispered to Emmett as he and Jasper exchanged something. I had gotten used to them betting now so it didn't bother. Of course Alice and Emmett had devised this stupid plan. This whole family is to crafty for their own good.
"Oh you guys are so good... it's not like I would never have done this by myself."
She smiled. "Actually surprisingly Edward came up with this-"
"Crafty, as you call it, plan." Edward smile. Edward? Okay out of everyone in my family I did not see THAT coming.
"You?" I asked. "YOU did it?" I mean Edward of all people. "Why?"
"Well I guess it wasn't needed really anymore. When I came up with it you hadn't been devising your own 'crafty' plan." He said. I forgot he could read my mind.
'Get out of my head Edward!' He just smiled. "But why?" I asked again to change the subject back.
"I just wanted to see if you COULD. You needed, to be in this family, to get past the mental barriers you put up toward some things." He looked so innocent.
"Heyy now, I bet you had to put up barriers at one time in your life that were hard to break but you did." Then I noticed a hush fall over the family while Edward and Bella exchanged a slide long glance.
"Oh. Well that's not exactly what I meant but I guess it's the same concept." They had told me about Bella and Edward once while we were hunting.
"Yeah I guess so." He said. The awkward silence that followed made me so I wanted to change the subject.
"Um… Esme!" I was grateful that I had found another topic.
"Huh? Yeah?" She looked at me confused.
"What's in your hands?" I asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah I almost forgot. We are all invited to Jakes wedding!" She said it with a lot of enthusiasm in her voice. I had only heard a little bit about Bella's werewolf want-to-be lover/ best friend and from what I have heard he wasn't that bad of a guy.
"He… he's getting MARRIED?" Bella asked. She looked like she was about to cry and glanced up at Edward.
"We knew this was comming love. They don't want to live in sin. Or they better not be living in sin!" Edward got quiet.
"Oh you know them better then that Edward." Bella slapped him on the chest.
"That is of course if everyone wants to go." Esme finished with a strange look at Edward. Then she glanced at me. "And if you can go around people." Everyone turned to look at Edward and he nodded and said, "Duh! Of course! That was a stupid question." Then they all turned and looked at me. I don't know. I haven't been around humans in a while.
"Well, I don't know but I could try." I said hopefully. They all looked at the floor except for Jasper. He walked toward me.
"You can." He said. "It's hard… I mean you of all people know that I have challenges with it but we can all go out together and nothing will happen. Please trust me."
And I did.
Sorry I know the chapter is cheesy but she had to get past a few barriers for the book. Uhh Jake was gunna be in this chapter but I changed it. so maybe the next one. And yes she has a power if you couldn't tell with the grabbing Bella's hand. ;) hope it made sence it took a while. Sorry!
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