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ARIA POV

Ari muttered herself, not paying attention to the direction she was going in. Okay, she had been raised under morals in which she did not seduce men for reasons like her survival. It was love or death. Okay, she changed her mind. 'Weirdo,' she muttered to herself, 'Why did she even think of seducing Aro?' It was probably because he was hot. That and undeniably, she did not want to be treated like Cassie. Caius was a meanie, in her opinion. She continued walking, frowning, her eyebrows, knitting together, not noticing that Aro had stopped. She bumped right into him. "Oof," she said naturally. "Who put a-" Then she stopped. She had walked into Aro.

Aro looked at her amused. She had the weirdest of thoughts sometimes. They had made it to the gardens, and she was still frowning to herself. Stopping, he purposely let her walk into him, hoping to catch a glimpse of her thoughts. So she was going to seduce him. Interesting. Then she had decided against it. He had to admit, it was slightly disappointing that she wasn't even going to try and more. It would have been interesting. 'Wait,' he said to himself, 'Did he want her to try because it would have been interesting to see her futile attempts or was it because he wanted to love her?' No, it couldn't be the second reason. He still loved Sulpicia. Sulpicia was blonde, red-eyed—though she used to be blue-eyed, tall, and…beautiful. Not that Aria was not attractive, but he couldn't move on. No, that would be betraying Sulpicia and their memory together. But then his inner person tormented him again, 'You know you're attracted to Aria and you know it well.' He internally disagreed. He was NOT attracted to Aria. He just noticed little details-that was all. Her dark brown hair that looked very soft like silk, green emerald colored big eyes, her average sized height that suited him just perfectly, the small smile with dimples she had given her friends, how her body curved in the right places—never mind. He was screwed. But there was still no way he'd ever betray Sulpicia. It was just lust. It had been so long since he had last slept with someone. 'Uhhh, correction, it's only been 10 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes, and 38 seconds since you had last slept with anyone—meaning, your wife, Sulpicia.' Aro's mind mentally correct himself.

"Umm. Aro?" a small voice piped up, interrupting his thoughts. "Where are we?"

"The gardens," he replied, taking his eyes off of her. He gestured with pride towards the garden, "This is was my wife, Sulpicia's favorite past-time."

She lowered her eyes, "Oh." she said softly, "I don't want to intrude on your wife and your private gardens."

He shook his head, "No, she wanted everyone to see her garden—human or vampire."

"No shape-shifters?" she teased.

He laughed, "No." he replied, eyes twinkling, "If they had come here, for the sake and safety of the Volturi, they would have been eliminated."

"Oh."

He shook his head at her, she was ridiculous. "Come and look at the garden." He went to her side and pushed her forward.

She looked and gasped, "Oh it's beautiful, Aro." She looked at the beautiful roses, tulips, poppies, hydrangeas, Colorado columbines, Calla Lily, Blue Bells, Bleeding Hearts, Poppies, Ixora, Dendrobiums, and millions of other flowers she was not familiar with. It was peaceful and quiet, with shady, huge trees overlooking the garden and wooden benches or seats under them. It was a perfect, beautiful haven. They say a person's hobbies reflect the person's true identity. The garden was beautiful and it reflected the true owner of the garden. Sulpicia Volturi. Wife of Aro Volturi. No wonder Aro loved her so much.

He gave a small smile, "I'm glad you like it. Like I said, it was Sulpicia's pride and joy."

She turned around, still in awe at the garden. "Aro!" she gasped, "You're in the sun! Oh my god! You're shining or sparkling or something! Quick! Hide! You'll be destroyed if you stay in the sun."

"We are in a private garden. It is fine. No humans are allowed to enter here without permission." He replied, cocked his head and continued, "Vampires do not get destroyed in the sun. We sparkle. Though there is a law that if a vampire reveals itself before the sun and the people, we will destroy the vampire to keep utmost secrecy of the vampire species."

"Oh…can I touch you? I mean like…you know…just to make sure you aren't fading like in True Blood?"

"True Blood?" he questioned, "What is that? A book about blood?"

She laughed, "Hahaha, nope. It's an American TV show about vampires. In the drama, people know vampires exist and you could, like, buy blood at restaurants. It's a really cool drama. Boy and girl love. It's kind of a long story, but all in all, the vampires will turn into dust if they come into contact with the sun. Same thing with Karin."

"Karin?" he repeated again, confused. Where were all these names coming from? Though he had to admit, the prospect of her talking even more and laughing appealed to him. She sounded like the beautiful chirping birds with the combination of bells. He felt a pull at his heart, and froze. Was this the pull? No, it couldn't be. His true mate had died. He had no reason to live, but like Carlisle had consoled him, Sulpicia wouldn't have wanted him to die alongside her. She would have wanted for him to live. Live and move on. Living he could agree, but moving on, never. Never would he betray Sulpicia.

"She's a vampire-born-child that for some reason doesn't go through the vampire puberty or something. And she spurts blood. So she injects her blood into people, err, humans and supposedly, they become more positive and confident. Later on in the manga, which is a Japanese art-thing, they find out her blood actually can get vampire pregnant."

"Vampires in reality can't get pregnant." Aro said sadly, wistful, "If they did, Sulpicia and I would have."

Ari felt her heart tug painfully. She hated Aro for speaking of another woman in her presence. She mentally slapped herself as soon as the thought formed in her head. Sulpicia was his wife. He had every right to talk about her. It was Ari who was being selfish. This was a taken man. There was no way around it. "I'm sure there are exceptions." She replied, focusing on the red roses before her.

"There are." He replied, "Sulpicia had wished for a child after she had laid her eyes upon Renesmee."

"Renesmee?"

"She is half-vampire, half-human. She belongs to the Olympic Coven. They call themselves the Cullen family. She is immortal, her mother, Bella, conceived her while still human since she had married Edward, a vampire."

"Wait, so they slept together while she was human?" she asked, shocked, "Did Bella live? It seems like vampires are stronger, so…?"

He chuckled, "Of course, after Renesmee's birth, she was immediately changed. She could not withstand the loss of blood after birthing the child."

"Oh." She said, "So Sulpicia wanted a child?"

"Yes, she even agreed to a surrogate mother," he replied, "But I could not betray her even with her wish. I did not agree to lay with another woman." Aro watched her reactions carefully, noting the little changes in her expression. Her disappointment. Her envy. So she was jealous of his wife.

"You could have done those fertilization treatment plans."

"I am a vampire." he said, "An old vampire, and my beliefs are a bit…old, we shall say. But it was too late anyways; Sulpicia and my sisters were killed by Romanians afterwards while shopping."

"I'm sorry." She hung her head. It seemed like he would do anything and everything for her. She almost cried. Sulpicia was so lucky. A handsome, loyal man even after her death. She was filled with envy. Aro was the perfect man.

"No need. Enjoy yourself in the gardens. You mentioned you like photography, so I had Felix go and get you a camera." He told her pulling out a camera from behind.

"Oh" she gasped, reaching for it, "It's a Hasselblad H4D-60 camera! They're super expensive. They cost like $42,000 US dollars! How did you—?"

He shrugged. "Felix got it. Vampires live forever, so we kind of stock up on money."

"Why are you acting so kind? I'm not special?" she whispered, lowering her eyes again, while tightly gripping the camera. "It confuses me."

"You amuse me." He replied. Lies. He had just lied. He wanted her to be happy. She could no longer go back to her original home. This was her home now. Even if she did not exhibit a power, her bond with her friends could prove to be useful later on. 'Besides,' he thought, 'Felix doesn't have any powers, and he's one of the best.'

"I amuse you?" she asked angrily, "That's why? I'm a toy? Is that it?" she looked at him, angry, her cheeks flushed with anger.

"No, of course not, my dear." He replied immediately, "I meant you amuse me with your antics with your friends." Oh god, how much of a lie was that. He could care less about her antics. Though he had to admit, that girl, Cassidy's bond with Aria and Mara was interesting. Cassidy and Mara both revolved around Aria. This 5"1 girl. Their loyalties to this girl were amusing. He had seen their memories. They reminded him of the Three Musketeers. He had met them before a long time ago. Weird people they were, but their loyalties were amazing. Their priorities always revolved around each other, but never mind that, he thought.

"Oh." Her anger immediately deflated, "Well, I'm going to go figure out this camera now then…" she stopped, "Wait, am I allowed to walk off? I mean like, you know…"

"I have business to do, but you are welcome in walk in the garden. Felix and Demetri will be with you." Immediately, the two vampires guarding the door before appeared. Nodding, Aro walked off at a human pace, lingering behind in the memories and because of Aria.

"Wait! Can I take pictures of the garden and of Demetri and Felix?" she shouted.

He turned, "The garden you may. Felix and Demetri, it is up to them. I give them permission to decide if they will allow their picture to be taken or not."

"Lovely." She grumbled as he walked off, "So, can I take pics of you guys?"

"Pics?" Felix said, his eyes twinkling. He was going to have fun with this human—as long as he didn't hurt her physically or mentally or somehow screwed her up, so she acted different, it was fine.

"Umm, pictures are also called pics." She explained impatiently, "Well, can I?"

"Fine with me." He said, "Demetri?"

"As long as the pictures are not shown to the humans, I am fine with it." Demetri replied, not really caring about what she photographed as long as humans did not see it.

"I'm a human…my friends Cassie and Mara are humans. So I can't show them?" she teased.

"You know what I mean, human." Demetri growled in return.

"Geez, you don't have to be so rude." Ari muttered in reply, walking off. She turned on the camera, turning the knob into different modes, testing to see which she liked best. She adjusted the modes to fit her perfectly. Automatic zoom and focus. Hmm, single shot. Yup, that was needed. Taking a couple of pictures of the roses, she was satisfied. "Perfect." She said happily. "Yo! Guys! Sit on the lawn for me, right here? Model pose!"

Felix laughed, "Right-y oh!" he sat down, one of his legs flat and the other bent. He rested one arm across his left bent knee and looked at her and gave a brilliant smile. "Demetri! Hurry up and sit down! I'm becoming a rock because of you."

Demetri shook his head exasperatedly and sat down, mimicking Felix, but he bent his right knee instead, doing the opposite of Felix, making it look like a reflection. "Remember what I said, human."

Ari rolled her eyes, "No one but the vampires and Cassie and Mara will see them." She grumbled, snapping a few pictures, "Okay! Change positions! Now I want you guys in the same pose, but this time, back to back, you'll still look at me though." They changed positions quickly before her eyes, allowing her to take a few more pictures. "Good!" she shouted. "Keep it up!" She shouted a few more encouragements like, "C'mon Felix, show me more of that smile! That's it!" or "Demetriii, come on! Where's the cute smile?" Felix laughed a lot of times, and Demetri even smiled. It was kind of funny. By the time the sun set, she had taken a billion of photos of Felix and Demetri. So she liked to exaggerate. It was only a couple hundred photos of them along with a few more hundred separate shots of each of them. After all, she did spend some time fiddling around with the camera, and she didn't exactly wake up early either. "Thanks guys!" she gave them a dimpled smile, and headed towards the palace again with them trailing along. After a couple of twists and turns, she was lost. "Uhh, guys? Where are we?"

Felix bursted out laughing, "Haha, you don't even know the way and you went around?" he teased her, laughing. She was just ridiculous. Her comments while photographing them were hilarious. He recalled at one point, she had told him to try to look like a sex god. He had grinned and replied that he was perfectly hot, and any girl wanted to lay with him. This resulted in her lowering the camera, blushing, and yelling at him for teasing her. "Gee, Ari, how much more ridiculous could you get?" Okay, so he had to admit, he was slowly warming up to the human. Okay, he was warming up fast. It wasn't his fault; she did remind him of his younger sister, Elizabeth. She had been changed like him, but she had fallen in love with the wrong vampire and when he died, she died along with him. He shook his head at the sad memory when he had found his sister's ashes. Besides, Master Aro liked Aria too, so it was okay, right? She was so amusing.

"It is this way, Aria," Demetri gestured and began walking. He too, had slightly warmed up to her. Though he kept his distance, he was more comfortable around her. He had begun to call her by her name instead of the common name, "human". It was an improvement. She was just too weird. Weird was good in his opinion, if she wanted to survive. As long as she held Aro or any of the Master's interest, she was to live.

After a few short minutes of silence, she reached Aro's room again. Turning, she kissed each of the shocked vampires on the cheek, "Thanks for today guys!" she smiled, while turning red, and went inside, shutting it before the shocked vampires.

"D-D-Did she just—?" Demetri stuttered out, unable to finish the sentence.

"Yessir she just did, Demetri," Felix replied, equally shocked, the warmth lingering on his cold cheek was like hot water on ice. Fire was painful. But hot water was nice in his opinion. "She thanked us. Demetri. I think she forgot we're her guards."

"I think so too."

"She's too brave." Felix commented, staring at the wooden door again.

"I think so too."

"Though it was nice."

"I thought—" Demetri stopped, and gave him a look, "We're getting too attached."

Felix rolled his eyes, "Demetri, I think we're all getting attached." He muttered, repositioning himself to guard the door. "It was nice though. To thank us. I mean I had fun too. Being a model that is."

"Sure you did." Demetri replied, repositioning himself as well. "Okay, it was kind of fun."

"Kind of?"

"Fine, it was really fun to be a model instead of a guard even just for a little bit," he growled out, "But I'm still a guard at heart."

"Of course you are Demetri, of course you are…" Felix finished, allowing the silence to envelop them.

!~ARIA TIME~!

Aria sped into her room, after kissing Demetri and Felix on the cheek. 'Oh my god,' she thought to herself, 'They must think of me as crazy or something now.' Walking towards the bed, she sat down. She couldn't sleep. 'I mean,' she thought, 'Who could sleep in their jeans? Not me.' "Ughh," she said out loud, "I don't care anymore." She laid down, on the covers, and rolled around, lost in her thoughts. What was she to do in this, err, Aro's room? Explore the room of course! She took a moment to look around. There was a painting of Aro. A huge painting. Of him in his royal garb or whatever it was he wore. Old men clothes, she liked to call it. Though, undeniably, he looked hot. The suit fitted him well—that or the artist was just extremely talented. His red eyes in the painting stood out so well, that the picture looked real. "God, he looks hot." She muttered, turning away from embarrassment. 'Oh my god Ari! He's in love with his WIFE. You know, the married, loyal type. Hotties are always taken. Get use to it.' She refocused her eyes on the rest of room, noting that there were two other doors beside the door that allowed her into the room. Bingo. Bathroom and…closet? Opening the first door, she noted it was made of heavy, durable wood that looked like one of those antique doors from the old times. Opening it, she found a closet. Filled with old man clothes. She groaned. Though undeniably, old men clothes on Aro made him look hot, he didn't have to fill it up with the same type of clothing. Opening a drawer, she found a couple of t-shirts, sweatpants, and a couple of tank tops. She snorted. Cassie liked to call them wife beaters and they had gotten into an argument over it. Turns out, they were both correct. Tank tops were the more friendly term of the two, and wife beaters were modeled after the idea of a drunk guy wearing a tank-top and beating his wife, hence, the title wife-beater. Shaking her head, she exited the closet, and turn towards the bathroom. She knew before where the bathroom was as Aro had directed her on her first night here, but nevertheless, it was interesting. She took a quick peek in again, noting nothing had changed since she had last been in there. The Jacuzzi was still as big as ever, a shower was next to it, double sinks, etc. It was like a huge, way bigger than how she remembered it last night and this morning. "Urgh. I just wanna sleep."

"Then why haven't you, my dear?" Aro asked, appearing out of nowhere. He was slightly curious at her weird behavior. He had touched Felix's and Demetri's hands previously and knew what they had done. Models, huh. He knew his guards were "warming" up the girls, but he ignored that. No matter how great the affection, he knew his guard's loyalties came first.

"I kind of need pjs." She muttered.

He raised an eyebrow, "Help yourself to your luggage." He told her, gesturing to the luggage laying at his feet. "It's been there the whole time."

"Huh." She said, staring at her red luggage bag. "Where did that come from?"

"It's been here the whole time." He repeated.

"I didn't see it." She muttered, "Did you just bring it in?" She walked over to Aro, kneeling to reach for her luggage. She zipped it open, and peered inside. All of her toiletries and clothes were packed. Flawlessly. Usually, she just stuffed her clothes into her luggage and then it was done. She picked up one of her old shirts and sniffed it, it smelled new. 'The clothes must have been washed before being brought here.' She thought, "Umm, thanks." She pulled out her favorite yellow-ducky pjs, and walked into the bathroom. Quickly, she changed and exited, looking for her teddy bear, Kiki. "Have you seen Kiki?" she asked, moving around the room to look for her. She checked her luggage. Nope.

"I beg your pardon?" he asked, "What is a Kiki?"

"My teddy bear," she rolled her eyes.

"Oh." He said, "That thing? It was old, so…"

"WHAT?!" she shrieked, lunging over to grab his coat, "What did you do to Kiki?!"

He angrily ripped her hands off his coat, smoothing it as she stared at him angrily. "Do not touch me like that." He said sharply. "You are merely a guest. Do not over-step your boundaries."

She froze, "O-oh…sorry," she said, scared, "I just wanted to know where Kiki is, I've had her since I was a kid."

His eyes softened. Slightly, but it still contained fury from her action earlier. He reached into another bag hanging by the door, pulling out her Kiki, her teddy bear. "Here you go."

"Kiki!" she shouted with joy, grabbing it and pulling the bear into a warm hug, "Oh! I missed you last night! She stared at her bear some more, noticing its intricate designs. It was a one of a kind since it was homemade. The fabric use to have pretty little flowers, but after so many years of adventures with Ari, it had rips and tears everywhere. It's beady black eyes still were the same. But this bear was different. Slightly. It was still Kiki, the bear, but…fixed up. "Y-You fixed her up?"

"I had one of my Guards fix it up." He replied, not taking his eyes off of her. He was so jealous of the bear. It received hugs and kisses from Aria, and was very precious to her, judging by the way she reacted when she had thought that her bear was thrown out. "I hope you don't mind."

She smile at him, holding the bear to her chest happily, "I don't mind. Thank you." She said, jumping and sprinting towards the bed. "Well. Time to go to sleep. Good night." She laid down, closed her eyes, and tried to sleep. "Browwrrreerwwwwwg" Ari opened her eyes, "whoops. Guess I forgot to eat."

Aro frowned, "How does a human forget to eat? Humans need food to survive, no?"

Ari rolled her eyes, "Yeah, but I'm special. I forget things all the time." She hopped off the bed, "Where can I get food?"

"What do you want?"

"hmm, I really want some Mac n' Cheese right now." She held a finger up to her mouth, thinking, "But I kind of want mashed potatoes too."

Aro sighed and reached for his phone, "Gianna. Make some food. Something called Mac n' Cheese and Mashed potatoes." He ended the called and continued, "I have told Gianna to make food. Don't worry about it now."

"You guys have a kitchen?"

"Well, we've got to feed our humans."

"Wait, so you like breed humans to drink?" she asked shocked, "Ewww, that's weird!"

He chuckled, "No, it is for our humans who work for us. We need humans for a few things you know."

"Oh."

A knock interrupted their conversation, and a beautiful human person came in. Ari got a whiff of the food. "OH MY GOD! YESS! MASH POTATS and MAC!" she lunged towards the cart, taking off the cover of the food thing, "Thanks Gianna!" Without waiting for a reply, she pulled the cart over towards the bed, jumped onto the bed and began eating quickly. "So Aro tez me abut uselz 'cau seim currryious. Abut z Vutorrri." She tried to say with her mouth food of mash potatoes and macaroni and cheese.

"What?" he asked, trying to decipher her words.

She swallowed, "Tell me about yourself. About the Volturi." She lifted more food into her mouth and sighed, this was heaven. The macaroni was just dripping in cheese—just the way she liked it. And the mash potatoes? So creamy, so delicious. So buttery. She moaned in delight.

Aro swallowed hard at her moan. So humans could make moaning sounds at food. "Slow down, you don't want what those humans called heart-burn."

"Toooo late." She said, gasping as she clutched her chest, "Urghhh. Waiiitttt, I'm fineeee. Don't worry." She sat there for a couple of more minutes before letting her hand fall from her chest. "Yup, I'm fine. Back to eating." She picked up her spoon again and began shoveling food into her mouth.

He sighed, he didn't even have time to react, he just watched her eat that disgusting, vile food. So she liked that yellow-y, golden food. It smelled disgusting. And that, what was it? Mashed potatoes? It didn't even look edible. It looked like baby food or something. He waited for her to finish before instructing Heidi to take it out. "You are done?" he asked, staring at her. Her stomach had slightly swollen from her food consumption. She was rubbing it with her hand.

"Yup." She let out a burp. "Night."

He gave her a smile before leave, "Good night, little one." He closed the door, leaving with slight hesitation.

A/N: So was it long enough lol?! (this was like 8.5-9 pages?) I felt so bad when I realized how short chapter 2 was so I promised that I would update by Wednesday (PST)! Expect another update by Sunday night or so—I'm not breaking that decision of mine to update every Sunday….yet. Now…I have to get back to writing and homework! See you guys! Leave nice reviews. Don't be mean, and like before I warn you ahead of time if my story characters seem Mary Sue…I am sorry if you don't like them, but I like the cheesiness of them!