BPOV

Chapter 2

I woke up from my trance from a knock on the door to my huge bedroom that Aro had sorted out for me.

"Come In." I was bored and, you could tell so in my voice I knew who it would be before he even opened the door.

"Good Day Princess, Aro would like to see you in the… erm… dining room." Ah the feeding room how lovely. I guess Aro was waiting for Heidi to come back with 'dinner' although personally I will always prefer the animals that we order from the zoo. I feel kinda bad about it but not as bad as I would if I was eating humans.

"Thankyou Alec, Tell my father I'll be right down. And for the hundredth time STOP CALLING ME PRINCESS!" He just laughed and walked out, as usual. It's a lot like a family here Aro is my father and, Marcus and, Caius are my uncles. Then my 'siblings' are Jane, Heidi and, Chelsea which are my sisters then my brothers are Felix, Alec and, Demetri. The others that are in the main guard are more like friends. Me and Reneta are like best friends because of how close we are with our 'bond'. We're not exactly sisters because we're nothing alike in both personality and looks but hey they do say opposites attract. Which is why we are good friends though she seems to keep me out of trouble, which is a good thing I have Jane we're complete trouble makers and have the Volturi eating out of our hand. Well not literally cause that would be really disgusting. Then there's Corin she's neither a good nor a bad girl but, she normally keeps to herself so even though I've been here for thirty-odd years I still don't know her that well. The last of the main guard is a pain in my ass. Santiago who somehow manages to convince himself I'm his mate even though whenever he comes near me I either tell him we're not mates and to go to hell or I punch him. See, simple.

I got up off my double four-poster bed that I never slept in cause, duh, we don't sleep and started walking down to the feeding room where Aro and my uncles would be waiting. When I got to the end of the hall I turned right into a short corridor and opened the door at the end. Now like the rest of the castle the feeding room was huge but, instead of having lots of fancy furniture it just had the four thrones belonging to Aro, Marcus, Caius and, yours truly. Then the rest of the room was just, well, empty. I guess they do it because they know that 1) the blood would ruin the furniture if they made a mess and 2) the humans would probably destroy it trying to escape. I walked up to the four thrones at the end of the room and sat in mine then turned to look at my father.

"Good day father."

"Good morning, princess." Aro's the only one who can say that without making it sound kind of corny, he actually says it with respect even though he is higher up than me the others make it a joke because they know I prefer just being called Bella. I smiled up at my father.

"So… Alec tells me you wanted to speak to me about something." I was really hoping there was a fight somewhere I could do with a power workout.

"Yes I did. The main thing is that we are going to be having some guests come to stay at the castle for a little while and, I was wondering if you would be willing to play hostess."

"Sure. You mean like seeing they get fed, showing them there rooms etc?"

"Yep. I know you've done it before but this might be slightly different and, they're going to be staying in your part of the castle so you can get to them quicker if they need you." He sounded really excited about this visit so I'm guessing they have some pretty strong powers on their side which I'm guessing he wants to join the Volturi.

"Yep. Sure thing father. But if you don't mind I'm going to leave before Heidi gets here. You know how that sort of thing creeps me out."

"Of course dear. I forget that the only vampires you used to ever know never drank human blood." I just nodded and walked out. Yes he knew about the Cullens and so did the rest of the main guard but any others didn't it was only the ones that stayed put. Just incase. Jane was absolutely furious when she found out how he left me but, well I'm probably going to see him again one day but I'm hoping not for a very long time. Pity luck isn't on my side.