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The radio in Bella's truck was annoying me. It had horrible reception. I smiled to myself, thinking of the presents my family had gotten her.
"You want a nice stereo? Drive your own car." Bella said, grumpily.
I tried not to smile at her tone. I was in Bella's Chevy, reluctantly letting her drive; on the grounds that it was her birthday.
She parked in front of her father's house, her mouth still slightly turned down. It bothered me to see her distressed, so I took her delicate face in my hands, carefully as she was so breakable.
"You should be in a good mood, today of all days." I whispered, letting my breath fan over her face.
Her breathing turned uneven and I smiled to myself.
"And if I don't want to be in a good mood?" She asked breathlessly.
"Too bad." I leaned forward and pressed my lips to hers, relishing in the softness and warmth of her perfect lips.
I let myself sink into pure pleasure, keeping just enough control to pull away when she responded with a bit to much enthusiasm.
"Be good, please." I said.
I couldn't stop myself kissing her again. I pulled away much too soon, folding her arms across her stomach. Bella's heart was beating irregularly and she put a hand on her chest.
"Do you think I'll ever get better at this?" She asked, quietly. "That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?"
I grinned slightly. "I really hope not."
She rolled her eyes. "Let's go watch the Catapults and Montagues hack each other up, all right?"
"Your wish, my command."
We went into the house and I lay on the couch watching Bella start the movie. She sat next to me and I wrapped my arms around her slender figure and pulled her to my chest.
I was always happiest with Bella in my arms. Unfortunately, my cold, hard chest was probably extremely uncomfortable to her.
I pulled a blanket off the couch and draped it over her.
"You know, I've never had much patience with Romeo." I said, as the movie started.
"What's wrong with Romeo?" She asked, looking incredulous.
"Well, first of all, he's in love with Rosaline- don't you think that makes him a little fickle? And then, a few minutes after their wedding, he kills Juliet's cousin. That's not very brilliant. Mistake after mistake. Could he have destroyed his own happiness any more thoroughly?"
"Do you want me to watch this alone?"
"No, I'll mostly be watching you, anyway." I said, happy I got a few extra hours to be with Bella. "Will you cry?" I asked, hoping she would, so I would get to comfort her.
"Probably, if I'm paying attention."
"I won't distract you then." I whispered, and pressed my lips to her head.
I spent the movie taking in every part of Bella and whispering the actors lines into her ear. I knew all the words thanks to my many years of studying the movie in school.
At the scene where Juliet found her husband dead, Bella started to cry, to my amusement. I hugged her and dried her tears with a lock of her silky hair.
"I'll admit, I do sort of envy him here." I said, thinking of how uncomplicated it was for humans to kill themselves.
"She's very pretty." Bella said, seriously.
I was disgusted. The actor playing Juliet couldn't even compare to Bella's beauty.
"I don't envy the girl- just the easy of suicide." I said, teasingly. "You humans have it so easy! All you have to do is throw down one vial of plant extracts..."
"What!" She cried.
"It's something I had to think about once, and I knew from Carlisle's experience it wouldn't be simple. I'm not even sure how many ways Carlisle tried to kill himself in the beginning...after he realized what he had become... And he's clearly in excellent health."
Bella turned around and faced me, her chocolate eyes boring into mine.
"What are you talking about? What do you mean, this something you had to think about once?" She demanded.
"Last spring, when you were..." The thought still pained me to no end. "...Nearly killed...Of course I was trying to find you alive, but part of my mind was making contingency plans. Like I said, it's not as easy for me as it is for a human."
Absent-mindedly, she traced the scar on her hand, the scar from James. Not for the first time, I was extremely curious to know what she was thinking.
"Contingency plans?" She said, bringing me back from the terrible memories of that day that still haunt me.
"Well, I wasn't going to live without you." I said, stating the obvious. "But I wasn't sure how to do it- I knew Emmett and Jasper would never help...so I was thinking maybe I would go to Italy and do something to provoke the Volturi."
"What is a Volturi?" She asked, sounding angry.
I explained to her about the Volturi, a family of vampires that Carlisle had once lived with.
"Anyway, you don't irritate the Volturi." I said, calmly. "Not unless you want to die- or whatever it is that we do."
Bella took her warm hands and held my hard face.
"You must never, never think of anything like that again!" She said, furiously. "No matter what might ever happen to me, you are not allowed to hurt yourself!"
Pain shot through me again at the idea of anything happening to her.
"I'll never put you in danger again, so it's a moot point." I said, matter of factly.
"Put me in danger!" Bella said, angrily. "I thought we'd established that all the bad luck is my fault? How dare you even think that?"
Bella did seem to have a knack for getting in trouble.
"What would you do, if the situation was reversed?" I asked.
"That's not the same thing."
I chuckled. It was okay for me to end my life- I wasn't even properly alive- but not for her to end her life when she was so young. Her logic was absurd.
"What if something did happen to you? Would you want me to go off myself?"
I worked to keep the pain off my face, but only half succeeded.
"I guess I see your point... a little, but what would I do without you?"
"Whatever you were doing before I came along and complicated your existence."
I sighed. Didn't she know I could never live without her? Didn't she know she was all that mattered in my life?
"You make it sound so easy."
"It should be. I'm not really that interesting."
Not interesting? I opened my mouth to argue when I heard Charlie's cruiser around the corner.
"Moot point" I reminded her, and pulled her up so we weren't touching.
"Charlie?" She guessed.
I smiled. Bella reached over and took my hand.
Charlie came in with a box of pizza, and he and Bella had their supper.
"Do you mind if I borrow Bella for the evening?" I asked when they were finished,
Charlie granted his permission, as there was a game on television, and threw Bella her new camera, which she promptly dropped. I scooped it up and a few minutes later, we were in the truck.
On the way to my house, Bella insisted about being stubborn about her truck and birthday presents. Wasn't my job to spoil her? She wasn't making things easy.
Before we got to my house, Bella brought up the subject I hated most- the idea of her becoming a vampire.
She had a whole life to live and I wasn't taking that away from her.
I helped her out of the car, and as I tried to calm myself down, Bella eased the tension perfectly by asking if I would show up in the pictures.
I was still laughing as I opened the door to my excited family, ready to celebrate the first birthday since 1935.
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