A/N: Okay, I like cliff hangers! So I left the last chapter with a cliffhanger! SO I hope you like this next one! Oh I just figured out why my best friend calls me Bella. My friends and I were going to make a video in a cemetery (don't ask long story) and as I was walking down the stairs to my front door… I fell. I slipped on a pant leg, went forward towards the wall in front of my grandfathers door, and I put my arm out to break my fall… the entire right side of my body is now in pain!

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or New Moon. They are the property of Stephenie Meyer.

Everlasting Life

By: Alunamai

Chapter Two:

Nocturnia Regina Stephania Armonzia

1901 was a fabulous year for the Armonzia family. My parents were the king and queen of the vampire world, and my mother was thought to of lied about her background. A vampire changed is a vampire barren, a vampire born is a vampire with child.

My parents were married in 1563 by non other than Marcus of the Volturi My parents tried for almost 340 years. And then poof… like magic… my mother found out she was pregnant. That was about two weeks after they moved to Chicago… right next door to the most annoying, completely spoiled, Edward Anthony Masen jr. Oh, he may not be that way now, but he still is selfish.

Now I remember my tenth birthday quite vividly. I'm opening my gifts and I came to the last two. Edwards parents made him give a very nice locket with a picture of him and myself inside. (We were pretty good friends… since he was the only other child in a half mile radius) What Edward thought would be a great present was a toad he found near the lake.

"EWWWW!" I squealed as I threw the box at the bronze haired freak boy. "How could you?"

"I found it, and I thought to myself… why, it looks just like her… so then I caught the poor toad and put it in the box and wrapped it up and gave it to you." He answered.

"Just be lucky there are people here."

"Oh, I'm shaking in my shoes."

Lets just say that two weeks later, I broke one the large windows in his house… right where he and his friends played baseball… and he was grounded for about two months. Revenge was so sweet. But as we grew older, we became close friends. In high school we did homework together and were considered to be boyfriend and girlfriend… hence why neither one of us had a love life. But we were more like siblings.

So when I saw him going to the hospital that fateful September day… I knew we would be separated. Not many people were living past three days of contracting the disease. That's what Carlisle had told my parents as he stopped by from time to time to chat with them. Funny thing was… three days after Edward was pronounced dead by the good Doctor… Carlisle disappeared. My parents knew where he had gone too. He had gone up north to Wisconsin or something. He took Edward with him… and that's when I knew that my best friend had survived. Even if he was changed into a vampire.

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"Now, you must listen to me, Regina, be on your best behavior until after February. The last thing I need is for Marcus to lose his temper and destroy you… like he did my brother." My mother said quickly as we finished gathering our things as our ship made dock in Rome.

"Yes mother." I answered politly. Personally, I could care less.

Over the next few months I did as I was told and I learned what I needed to learn in order to take over as queen upon my parents decision to retire. Which would never happen, considering they had become the rulers about one hundred years ago… at the age of six hundred. I was only eighteen, I was not going to wait that long.

I was nineteen when I first fell in love. His name was Lorenzo Medici. He was a descendent of that great philosopher. (I think that's what he was.) I first met him during the Festival of St. Marcus. And we met during the fireworks. I was not only attracted to him… but also he blood. About three weeks into the relationship, he disappeared and I was in serious trouble.

"I can not believe you could be so careless!" Caius yelled. My parents were in Asia, and I was left to deal with Dumb, Dumber, and Dumberer. "What if you had been seen?"

"But I wasn't. I got away with it. That's all that matters. I am the princess here! Your just one of the pawns that I can play with. I am the one who made the decision. But you just wouldn't understand, that I loved him and would have changed him! But you forbade me form doing so."

"You are nothing but a child in a world of evils that just don't concern you! You are not supposed to take the life of the innocent!"

"Excuse me… what do you call that tower? Where you bring poor innocent lives to be drained of blood! It's so barbaric."

"Sounds like a lecture I heard back in the 1850's, from a Carlisle Cullen." Aro had just floated into the room.

"Aro, tell him to leave me be! I can't stand his constant badgering of what I do wrong. He acts like he never killed anyone before."

"Caius, stop badgering the poor girl. She has done nothing wrong, she has only followed her instincts. Just like you did when you were first changed. If following your instincts is a crime, then I don't want to be right." Funny how sayings like that turn into songs like 'If Loving You Is Wrong, Then I Don't Want to Be Right".

"Your all crazy!" Caius stormed out of the room and slammed a door in the process. "I am not going to stand for this… wait until your parents come home… the what will you…" his voice disapperead down a corridor, lost to the walls that surrounded him.

I heard later that he had broken a few mundane objects and some priceless heirlooms that were… well… priceless. I highly doubted that my mother was going to be quite happy about that, since most of those priceless heirlooms… had been wedding gifts from all the royal families that had been invited. Yes, humans had attended their wedding. How unfortunate to about a third of them that came. If you catch my drift.

The only thing was… my parents never found out about the boy I loved or the priceless heirlooms that had been destroyed. I will never forget what happened about three weeks later, a month prior to their return.