Perfectly Arranged chapter two. Really quick I would like to ask if anyone has seen Dear John and if so how was it? Just wondering.
PLT!
~AliceSwift
"Well ," I started off still sitting on the ground trying to clam myself in this wave of emotion. I not only was angered with Jacob, but I felt terrible about my sister and I also had pressure from everybody in my father's kingdom to be perfect and marry this man who didn't care at all about me, lastly, I was awed by the person in front of me. He was outstandingly beautiful. I knew that I hadn't seen him before, or that I had lost my mind, anyone who forgot a face with this amount of flawlessness had to be lost mentally. "I'm sorry to disturb you. Please excuse me" I stood up and began to walk away with any pride I had left.
"Please, call me Edward." I stopped for a minute and thought about looking over my shoulder.
"Bella." he called form closer behind than he had been. "Wait." I stood still and he came in front of me.
"It's almost twilight I must get going." I tried to get around him but he put his hand on my shoulder, I went to face him, he clearly had something to say.
"Then promise me something."
"Yes?" I assumed that it was something he wanted me to tell my father.
"Meet me here early tomorrow morning at dawn? I would love to see you again." I felt the same way but I knew I couldn't trust him.
"Of course." I said looking at the ground. He took my hand and lifted it to his lips. The marble, cold texture graced my skin for only seconds then ended all to soon.
"Tomorrow then." he said, still holding my hand. I stood there in awe as he glided away. I watched him dissapear into the woods and made my way back to the palace.
I made an effort of getting to bed early that night. I knew that I would need sleep if I didn't want to look like a complete disaster tomorrow morning. I had asked Leah to wake me up early so that I wouldn't miss him.
"Bella." he said to me. We were in the middle of a crowded room, many dancing couples around. He was in a suit and my dress was gorgeous.
"Edward." I said as he lifted my hand and kissed it gently, his lips lingering.
"May I have this dance?"
"Of course you may." I stood up from the table I was sitting at with Angela, she smiled as we walked towards the center of the room. He placed his one hand in mine, and the other on my waist. I put mine on his shoulder.
We gazed into eachother's eyes as we swayed to the music.
"I love you." he said in his smooth, velvet, quiet tone.
"I love you too.' a few more moments and the room began to stand still. His eyes turned from the topaz they once were to cold black stones.
"Edward?" he looked angry. "Are you alright?"
His teeth were clenched and stared at my neck. The room went black and the people vanished.
"Where are you?" I held out my hand in the darkness to find him. His cold palm held mine for a moment before moving to my wrist. He lifted it up to his nose and pressed it against his face. The look that he gave me next made me sure that I should run.
I turned around and tried to escape the room, I was almost to the door when he caught my arm with more force than Jacob had this afternoon. He pulled me into him and tilted my head so my neck hurt. He held his cold lips there for one moment before his teeth poked through my skin. I was sent into a shock and then felt as I was falling.
I gasped as I set up in my bed. Just a dream. I told myself, wiping my forehead and becoming jittery.
There was a whooshing sound outside of my window. I stood up and walked over to look out. Nothing was there.
I took a deep breath and made my way back my bed.
Just a dream. I told myself on final time before letting my eyelids take over.
"Princess, Princess, Princess" I felt someone shaking my shoulder and whispering for me. Leah.
"Yes?" I asked in a small voice.
"You asked me to wake you."
"Oh, of course, yes I'll be up in a minute thank you" I tried to be polite despite what terrible sleep I had gotten. I layed in bed and before unconsciousness could take me under again I stood up and went over to my closet. I picked out a long printed red dress, in my opinion it was still very over-done but it was the most casual of what I had.
"Isabella?" My sister asked in nothing but a mumble from her bed.
"Yes it's me." I responded, shuffling around for shoes.
"What are you doing up this early?"
"I just need to run some errands" I told her. She sniffled and stood up walking over to her closet, she pulled something out hten shut the doors. She handed me my black flats and I put them on.
"I borrowed them the other day, I hoped that you wouldn't mind."
"I don't." I ensured her before walking over to my vanity to brush my hair.
"Listen," she walked over to stand behind me and took the brush out of my hands. "I know I was wrong yesterday. I shouldn't have taken out my anger on you. I'm just feeling alot of different emotions right now and I'm not quite sure how to express them." As I comprehended her words her hands ran through my hair. The curls were still fairly tight from yesterday and she wound the different strands around her finger. She picked up a pin from a pile on the table and repeated this each time she put a different piece on my head. She let the pieces that weren't long enough to hang down, which were two behind both of my ears and then two from my hair line.
"I won't stay bitter though, not for long. Who knows, maybe I'll find someone who really cares about me for me instead of judging me by the things that I can't do" I thought about that. How did she feel right now? She didn't know if she would ever find herself a prince and she didn't know if she would ever be anything more than what she was now. Didn't know if she would have the fairy tale wedding that she had always spoke of. Maybe she would, maybe she wouldn't.
"Of course you will Rosalie. Why wouldn't you."
"You know why Isabella." she let my almost straight bangs swoop to the side and pinned them back. She picked up a gold ribbon that haid laid near the pile of pins. She wrapped it around my head and tied the loose ends of it in a bow.
"Yes, and I also know what a wonderful, beautiful, amazing person you are. Someone out there will love you for you like you said. I know it."
She bit her lip and walked over to her Jewry box. She pulled something out and then came back over to me.
"Here," she put it around my neck. It was a necklace that hung down right below my collar bone. It reminded me of a chandelier. It had different layers that were all gold. Three loops in the top, then two, and the last had a black jewl hanging from it with grace. "Grandmother Swan gave this to me before she passed. Wear this every time you see him and he'll love you even more."
"How do you know that I'm seeing a 'him'? I told you that I was running errands."
"No, actually that was what Grandmother Swan told me. She said that it would make whoever it was fall even more in love with you, than they already were." she smiled. Our Grandmother had been a bit loonie when she passed. She always was saying the weirdest things. She always was calling herself a witch as well. Part of the reason she went insane. She had to spend so much time in her house so that she wouldn't 'expose' herself to others, they would have her hunted.
"Thank you." I stood up and gave her a hug.
"Go to him Isabella." she whispered to me and I felt tears in the corners of my eyes. I pulled away from her and flew out the door, down the steps and out of the palace. I ran all the way to where he was yesterday.
The cold air whipped and stung on my face. It was freezing outside, I could see my breath even in the dark. The sun would be rising soon which I hoped would warm things up but until then I could only hope that he would be there waiting.
I picked up my dress higher in hope of that helping me run faster. I did a little, but I slowed back down in fear of tripping, falling on the dewy ground and ruining my dress.
I breathed in cold air deeply as I was out of breath from running. I tried to swallow back the lump in my throat but it wouldn't go down. I sat down on the stone bench and folded my hands in my lap, looking down at them.
"Bella." I heard from behind me and smiled.
"Edward." I turned over my shoulder and faced him, he was standing there as if he had been there the whole time.
"I Hope you haven't been waiting long. I didn't mean to"
"No, only a few seconds. Come sit with me."
"Alright then." he walked over and took his seat.
"So what did you want to see me about?" I asked staring at his perfect face.
"I just wanted to know more about you. I wanted to know the real you instead of what people said about you."
"Well you first." I said and he smiled crookedly which made my heart pick up pace.
"Fine." he staredoff into the distance and then closed his eyes for a long second, he took a deep breath in and then opened his eyes.
"I was born just north of here in 1872. My mother and father are very middle class. I have a brother and a sister, Jasper and Alice, they're all wonderful." he smiled. "Your turn."
"That's really what your tell people when they ask you to tell them about yourself?" he nodded. "Then...tell me what you want to be when you get older and why." he raised an eyebrow and I smiled.
"Well, I would like to be a poet. I've always been inspired by words and how people expressed them. I'm in love with our language and hope that it keeps expanding. I think that if you work hard enough to educate yourself then you could be anything you want to be, even if the odds are against you." I heard the words and knew what he was talking about, I watched his emotions change in his eyes when he spoke next.
"Your turn?"
"Not quite." I said and he laughed. The sound made my heart thud in my chest and I resisted to urge to place my hand over it, check to see if it was okay.
"What next?"
"How do I know that I can trust you, that you're not just someone that's working through me to get to my dad."
He leaned closer to me and looked me in my eyes. I searched his for any sign of lies.
"I would never, ever do that to you Bella. I have spoke to people that have used someone in your family to better their situation and they disgust me. It's sick and twisted that they will break as many hearts as it takes to get what they want to get what they want. It's idiotic of them since they know they will only get crushed in the end, but they go back again and again anyway. It is truly impossible for me to fathom their thinking through the series of events but they do not understand that it is not alright for them to push past people to get to the king." I was stunned by his answer and smiled. I looked down at my hands and shook my head, I felt guilty for ever doubting him. However there was still a small voice in the back of my mind hat told me this was wrong, told me that I shouldn't trust him no matter what he told me for it could be a lie. I could lie to him just as easy, neither of us knowing better of the other.
"Your turn." He said and I watched his pale hand slide into mine. I looked up at him and his faec was calm. He seemed very at ease with our being together right now which was something that I was unable to comprehend.
"I suppose."; I thought about what to say. "I'm the daugther of King and Queen Swan. I was born in 1873 and I have one sister Rosalie."
"And what do you want to be when you get older?" he smiled, repeating my question from earlier.
"I want to be a teacher." I said.
"Why is that?"he asked and I couldn't help but smiling halfheartedly.
"Because I think that the worst thing you can take from a person is their education. If you don't receive one then you become doomed to one straight and narrow path of regret when you get older. I would also like to inspire those who see things from a different perspective. I think that you can do whatever you want in live. You can do what you love if you believe in it. I just wish that I could do as I say."
"Why can't you?"
I thought of a way to word this before I opened my mouth. "I'm a princess, everyone expects me to be Queen, and my husband to be King. I'm supposed to marry the one who I am told to and except that fate. If I try to stray from that now, our kingdom will be doomed. My sister cannot bear children, that would make her the last generation. The last of our regin. I cannot let my father down in such a harsh way. Even if that's what I want."
"I'm sorry that you feel that way." he said.
"Thank you."
"Look the sun's rising." he pointed out in the distance and I turned to watch.
After a few minutes, his arms were wrapped around me. My head was leaning against his chest and he kissed my head.
"Bella, what would you say about coming into town with me tomorrow afternoon?" I thought about it and knew how I would sneak away from everyone to go see him.
"Why would I do that?" I teased.
"Well I want you to see things that you don't normally see, meet the people. I could even introduce you to my family. They would love you."
"That depends, what would you say about coming over to the palace sometime?"
"I would love to, but I don't see how I would be able too."
"You'll figure it out. I know you will. Besides I want you to meet my sister."
"Okay, I'll ask my family if I can see you, what their plans are."
"Wonderful." I said with a sigh.
"What is it?" he asked. "It's almost complete daylight. I'll have to be getting back soon."
"Me too." he said, his tone worried.
"What's wrong?" I asked trying to turn around to see his expression.
"I'll see you tomorrow Bella."with that last statement he was gone. I almost fell over from having been against him.
"Edward?" I asked with no response. I shook my head but stood up to walk back. No use in getting upset now, I would save that for after Jacob stopped by.
There it is, let me know what you think and I'll get back to you ASAP.
Thanks for reading I love you lots.
PLT!
~AlieSwift
