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Bella POV
I looked up from my book as Christian walked into the room. I stayed still, but mentally, as always, I was screaming at myself to move. He took a quick glance around the room then his eyes landed on mine. He sneered at me, "Get up, Isabella. We are going hunting."
"But I just went yesterday." I said, looking down at my book again; Wuthering Heights. I had read it a hundred times but it still fascinated me each time. The book was ripped from my hands and I looked up at Christian in agony.
"You will look at me when I speak to you!" he said angrily, flashing me his teeth. I subconsciously sank away from him, pushing myself against the wall against the bed. "It does not matter if you just went yesterday, you are going again. Do you really think that I would leave you here when you can run away? No. Get up, we are leaving now." He stalked out of the room, hissing.
I sighed and stood up, going to the closet and pulling out jeans and a hoodie. These were the times that I wished I had someone who would actually care about me; where I could go hunting with someone, instead of because of someone.
Running through the woods, I was allowed to think freely. Christian stopped, me next to him. I smelt the poor helpless hiker that would soon become Christian's meal. He ran towards the hiker and I heard the sounds of muffled screams along with sucking sounds.
After a few minutes, Christian came running back to me, carrying the dead man. "Here." He said, holding the man out towards me. "Drink." I shook my head, averting my gaze from the blood oozing from the man's neck.
Christian stepped dangerously close to me, his face an inch from mine. He snarled, his top lip curling over his teeth. "You will drink the human blood."
"No, I don't…" Christian knew very well that I didn't like taking human life and so fed on animals instead. I know that taking an animals life is close to taking human life, but it made me feel less like a murderer… less like a monster.
Christian growled at me and lifted his hand, I flinched my face away, waiting for him to slap me. I opened my eyes when his hand never met my cheek. His arm was still raised, but he was looking past me, into the woods.
I sniffed the air and went rigid when I smelt what he had smelt. Vampires.
We both stared towards the woods, waiting for the others to walk through. Eventually, after much waiting, the most beautiful group of vampires walked through the clearing. I stared at them in awe.
It looked as though they were a family, they all walked with such grace. There were seven of them, and it seemed as though the one with blond hair was the leader of the group for he walked in front of everyone with a respectable stride.
He stopped a bit in front of us, the rest of his family behind him. Christian was still standing an inch in front of me and now stepped back, watching the leader.
"Hello. My name is Carlisle Cullen. Are you new to Forks?" he smiled politely at us, and I couldn't help but to feel safe in his presence. "Yes, we're…" I trailed off when Christian's head snapped towards me. I looked down, my hiar falling in front of my face.
Christian's nostrils were flared and his breathing was hard. I already knew that I would be in trouble for speaking out of term tonight, plus when I refused to drink the human. I cringed mentally, hoping that he would forget about it.
"Hello. My name is Christian and this is Bella, and yes, we are new to Forks. Are you?" Carlisle shook his head no, "We just moved here about a month ago, but we've been here about twenty years ago."
I smiled as Christian nodded his head. "Let me introduce you to my family," Carlisle said, smiling. He turned to his right and held his hand out to a woman who looked his age. She took his hand, and after sharing a moment that made me feel like it was too personal to watch, said "this is my wife Esme."
"Hello," I said, shaking her hand. "It's very nice to meet you and your boyfriend." I cocked my head to the side. "We never told you we were together…" Christian said, confused. "Yes, but my daughter Alice can see the future, and so she saw you two coming." Carlisle explained.
Alice had stepped forward and bounded up to me. She was smiling hugely and shaking slightly. I leaned back a bit, into Christian. He must have been distracted by Alice because he didn't move me away from him.
"Alice." I heard Carlisle warn and instantly became frightened. What was he warning her from doing? Instantly, my shield came over me and I covered Christian too, hoping that if she was going to do something, it had to do with a power.
I felt something pushing at my shield and wrapped it tighter around us, still watching Alice. I realized after a while that the push wasn't coming from Alice, but the other blond haired boy standing farthest away.
He had a concentrated look on his face and I heard him say, "It's not working…" All of the Cullen's looked at me, and I looked at Christian. "What's going on?" he asked Carlisle gravely, looking towards Jasper.
"My son, Jasper can effect and feel people's emotions… but for some reason he can't change or feel yours, Bella." I sighed with relief, glad that the pushing wasn't something bad. "I'm a shield." I murmured.
"Ah, I see." Said Carlisle. Jasper looked impressed. "You've met my wife, Esme; my daughter, Alice; and my son, Jasper. This is my other daughter, Rosalie; and her husband Emmet." They both smiled at us and said there hello's and nice to meet you's.
"And this is my other son, Edward." The last boy stepped forward and I saw him clearly for the first time. He was breathtaking with his bronze hair and butterscotch colored eyes. He looked younger than his brothers, smaller than the muscular one but still muscular all the same.
He smiled courteously at me and Christian. "Hello." He said, looking at me intently. I started feeling subconscious under my gaze, and it probably showed on my face. "Edward here can read minds. I am sure he is trying to read yours and failing since you've already told us that you have a shield."
I nodded, averting my eyes from his intent one by looking at the ground. "Do you have a power, too?" Esme asked Christian. He shook his head yes, "I can pinpoint someone's exact location…" The Cullen's looked impressed.
"Would you like to come back to our house? We would love the company." Esme said, smiling sweetly. I looked up at Christian, hoping he would say yes. "Sure… I guess we could come back for a little while…" he said, not noticing that I wanted to go.
I was glad he didn't notice though, because he surely would have said no. He gave me a stern look and I knew that it meant he hadn't forgotten about early. I looked down, trying not to look into his ferocious eyes, but looked back up when I felt someone else's eyes on me.
I looked up into Edward's eyes and he had an expression of confusion and wonderment on his face. He looked between Christian and me for a second and I hoped he hadn't realized that Christian beat me.
I was grateful that I wore a long sleeve shirt today so they had no chance of seeing the bite marks left by him.
We followed them through the forest until we came up to a huge, but cozy looking, house. I gaped at it with my mouth open in shock. I heard someone chuckle and looked to my right to see Edward standing next to me.
"Do you like it?" he asked, looking at me. I nodded my head, too distracted by his beauty to speak. "Esme decorated it… she really likes to go… over the top." He said, looking at the house now. "No, it's beautiful." I said, finally finding my voice and averting my gaze from his God-like features.
"Bella." My head snapped up at Christian's voice and I followed him into the house. He didn't look very happy that I was talking to Edward. Bella, you're killing yourself today! I thought to myself.
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