AN: Okay so I posted this, and realized after I had already uploaded it that I changed Rosalie's story a little bit, but the year is still the same. I made sure of that. Hopefully you all won't get that mad at me. Read and Review, it would be very much appreciated. lovepuppet
I was woken by a light bouncing on my bed. My eyelids slowly rose, and before my eyes could fully open, a bucket of ice-water was poured onto me. The result of this act was me screaming at the top of my lungs. The next thing that I was conscious of was apologizing coming from none other than Alice. I couldn't make it out, but I saw the look on her face. "Alice" her mumbling was still heard through my water-filled ears. "ALICE!" I shouted, just enough so then I could actually hear myself. She looked up at me with sorrow filled eyes. "That was mega cold, and kind of awesome. I know you are sorry, but right now I can't really hear anything…seeing as the water somehow got in my ear…so…I can't really hear you." I smiled at her and lifted myself into my waiting wheelchair. I was about to turn to go towards the bathroom when I remembered that I forgot something. "Oh and Alice?" I asked and she turned around. "Don't ever do it again, or else I will sick Emmy on you." I smiled at her before I turned around and headed towards the bathroom.
It took me about ten minutes to get the water fully out of my ears, and it felt wonderful when the warm liquid came out of my ear! I smiled and brushed my teeth before I slid into a bubble bath that I had been preparing. The lavender scent was surrounding me when a knock was heard on the door. "Ah Bella, you might want to hurry…" came Jasper's worried voice through the door, "Alice is starting to get anxious and she is jumping around at vampire speed looking at stuff for you to wear. Please hurry before we all suffer for your slowness." I laughed lightly and I heard his voice only one more time, "I guess that means she is taking it slow…" I laughed again and slowly got out of the tub.
Right after I wrapped my towel around myself, Alice was beside me before I could register it. "You ready?" I didn't respond because we were already in my room and she was throwing clothes at me. "Good." She said simply before running off somewhere to get something that I didn't even want to see. I closed my eyes and glanced slowly down at the pile of clothes in my lap. I gasped, that's right I gasped. The clothes were my favorite clothes, nothing fancy. My favorite pair of black skinny jeans were there with the white belt that always went with them. The shirt was a low-cut blue top, with a heart necklace that I had seen on one of the famous 'Alice shopping trips' which took us two days. She was sneaky; I didn't even know that she bought it. I smiled as she walked back in slowly, cautiously. She let out a sigh of relief, for what reason I do not know, and continued onto what she was planning on doing before she got in here.
"Thank you…for everything Alice. And I'm not just talking about the clothes." I paused and she looked at me curiously. "For talking to me on my first day here, when I thought I was going to be alone because Emmett had his own life, and dealing with my emotions when Jasper isn't around." I snickered as I heard a huge laugh come from somewhere in the house. I stared into her golden eyes and continued, "For throwing that surprise 'welcome to town' party, well it wasn't a surprise, but it's the thought that counts. For explaining to me where Edward went when he disappeared the day of the said party. You, and all the Cullen's, treat me like I am part of your family. I love you all. Thank you Alice, Jasper, Mom, Dad, Rose, Emmy, and most importantly Edward; I don't where I would be without you guys, and yes I know that you all are listening, just get in here already." I chuckled and everyone was lined up at once in front of me like we were in the army and I was the command officer. "Come over here and hug me, you know you want to…" I said in a teasing voice and one by one everyone hugged me. I looked at Alice's face before she could fully get away, and it looked like if she could cry, that she would be right now. Edward was the last in line and I smiled as he lifted me in his arms before pulling me close and crushing his lips up against mine. "I love you Edward" I stated with all the emotions that were based around him.
He smiled his crooked smile at me and hugged me gently. He whispered into my ear, "I will love you for the rest of forever," and placed me gently back into my wheelchair. "Now," he said loud enough so then the other six would stop pretending not to listen in, "we should leave you and Alice, maybe Rosalie too, so then they can make you even more beautiful then you already are. Let's go everybody." I chuckled as he literally pushed everyone except Rosalie and Alice out of my room.
Rosalie stared at me before she shook her head and wandered off into the never-ending closet. I gave Alice a curious look, but she ignored the look and talked instead. "Bella, I need you to put those clothes on, and your welcome." She smiled sweetly at me before running out of the room.
I slowly slid on the jeans and put on the belt. The shirt was the next to go on, and then finally the heart necklace. As I was trying to clip the necklace, a pair of cold hands, without an electric shock, took the clasp out of my hands and clipped it for me. "Thanks" I whispered. The vampire turned me around, and was shocked when it was Rosalie instead of Alice. The look on Rosalie's face wasn't one I was expecting; she looked scared and vulnerable. "What is it Rose?" I asked quietly hoping that she would tell me. See even though she is going out with Emmy, we haven't really talked or connected on any level.
She sighed before she started what I felt was going to be a long conversation. "You know I love you like family right?" She asked. I shook my head no, and her eyes suddenly filled with sorrow. "I'm a stand-off person, I don't really let people in because of the reason I got changed into what I am today, and what you will be changing into. It was 1933 when I got changed. I was walking home from a friend's house when suddenly I got pulled over by someone who I didn't know into an alley way. Snow started falling as I was getting deflowered in a dark alley way. There was no way that I could escape while he was raping me, in fact I tried, and in turn he stabbed my stomach before continuing his actions." She paused as my eyes grew. Who know that Rosalie would have ever had to go through a horrible experience like that? "Well it eventually stopped, and he ran off before I could see his face or register what was happening. I was dropped to the dirty filth of the alley and I black out. The next thing I knew someone was carrying me to a place unknown and I tried hard to stay awake, but I had lost so much blood from the stab wound and other injuries that I was unaware of that I slipped into unconsciousness. The next time I woke up, I was this." She looked into my eyes with her golden eyes swirling with many emotions that I couldn't recognize. "I just want to be closer to you. I know that we haven't really talked all that much, but I just need you to know that I truly do care for you and that I understand if you don't like me right away…" she let the last part of the sentence linger in the air.
"Rose, didn't you hear me before? I think of all of you as family, and I know each and everyone one, besides Edward, thinks that way about me too. I couldn't ever not like you because of Emmy. I love you Rose, whether you like it or not." I smiled warmly at her, and looked into her eyes with my brown eyes to find hers brimmed with happiness and joy. "And we graduated yesterday! This means that I can spend forever getting to know you better Rose." I smiled and pushed my arms out so then she would notice that I wanted a hug. "Thank you for sharing your story with me Rose" I whispered as we hugged each other gently.
As the embrace ended, Alice burst through the door with a ton of makeup. "Well I hope that you all are done with the 'heart-felt' conversation because it's time for 'Bella Barbie'! Now Rosalie I need you to-" and that is where I decided that I didn't need to know about the torture I was about to go through. I thought about the party that was going to be going on tonight. Angela and Ben were going to be there which was a plus, but the only minus about this entire thing is that this is going to be the last time that I will ever see them, ever. I'm happy that I'm going to become a vampire, don't get me wrong. I get to be with Edward for the rest of forever, but I just am afraid about the future. What if Edward decides after the change that I'm not good enough for him? What if he thinks that I won't have any control of my thirst? What if he doesn't like me, because I don't act like me? What if-
Alice interrupted my thoughts with a high-pitched scream. "OUCH! That hurt Alice, what the heck were you trying to do?" She smiled at me once she noticed that I was paying attention to her and walked slowly over to me. "What are you planning on doing to me Alice?" I asked in a scared voice.
The sinister smile was placed onto Alice's face as she finished her walk over to me. "See Isabella," oh no, the full first name, this isn't something good. ABORT! "We really want to put makeup on you, but I don't want you to freak out. So you have to close your eyes. Is that okay Isabella?" Her voice was laced with innocence, what was she planning that I would freak out over? She saw the questioning look in my eye, and she pulled the only line that would suck me into the makeover, "Isabella, I thought you thought of me as family…and I never did get to dress up my sister…" she sighed longingly.
"I give up" I muttered. I wheeled over to her and nudged her with my elbow. When she lifted her head, I pushed out my arms and put my wrists out in front of me. "I'm prisoner to your 'makeover' and don't even dare pull that line again. You're sn-" there was something being put over my eyes. "Alice, what's going over my eyes?" I asked in a scared voice. I tried to lift my hands, but they wouldn't move…wait a second… "ALICE!" I screamed before I started thrashing around. "Did you seriously handcuff me? I didn't mean the prisoner thing literally." My voice sounded too high-pitched and squeaky to be my own.
I heard two giggles, and then two voices say at the same exact time, "Izzy, we have to take precautions, and the thing over your eyes is a blindfold. Have fun only listening!" More giggling was heard, and I thought I heard heavy footsteps, like Emmy's, coming into wherever we were.
"Don't worry Bella, no one's going to bite, right Emmett Bear?" So I did hear Emmy enter! Ha, my hearing is getting better and better everyday. I couldn't see and all I could rely on was my sense of touch, smell, and hearing. Too bad I couldn't feel anything, smell anything other than Alice's perfume, and everyone was quiet all at once. That was just totally unfair. "Good Emmett." Rose's voice had a happy tone to it, and there were two sets of footsteps walking out of the room.
"Okay Izzy, now try to relax okay? I'm just going to do a few things. Imagine Edward for all I care." Alice said softly into my ear. I took her advice; I imagined that I was with Edward right this second. He was sitting next to me, softly rubbing my hand. A crooked smile lit up his face when I turned towards him. He mouthed 'I love you' before the daydream was shattered by Alice pushing my shoulders. "Are you here Izzy?" She asked impatiently. I merely nodded my head so then I would have my ear drums to hear at the party. "Good. Now you may look at yourself in the mirror and give me a huge hug after you see yourself." She smiled down at me before shoving me in front of the floor length mirror.
I think my eyes bugged out of my head when I saw my reflection. I had already seen the outfit, but I looked closely at my arms and saw that they were radiating, glowing if you will. I was scared to look at my face, but I braved it. My face had only a little but of blush on it, seeing as my blush is natural already. There was a light blue eye shadow on my eye, and I wondered how it got there seeing as the blindfold was there the entire time, unless she removed it when I was in my daydream. I shook my head and went back to staring at the beautiful person in the mirror. There wasn't anything on my lips because Edward and I were most likely going to be kissing a whole lot tonight, and I smiled to see some fabulously white teeth, which weren't that white after I brushed them this morning. I spun my wheelchair around towards Alice, and my smile grew. "I look amazing! Thank you Alice!" I tried to say calmly. I stretched my arms out all the way, and she hugged me.
There was a knock on the door. "Can I see my girlfriend now Alice?" came a velvet whining. I giggled and Alice quietly opened the door while Edward was mumbling something quietly. The door was open, and there was Edward with his hair less messy than usual, black button up shirt with the sleeves rolled neatly up to his elbows, tan dress pants, and finally brown shoes. I smiled at him while he full on stared at me. "Wow, Bella you look…" he paused for a minute; I'm guessing trying to come up with the perfect word for my appearance, "exquisite." I blushed and silently rolled towards him.
He took my hand, brought it up to his mouth, and put a light kiss on it, before going behind me to push me to the living room where the party was mainly taking place. When I was pushed into the living room, my mouth flew open with shock. The living room had transformed from casual tan couches and bookcases to club dance floor with a huge stereo system. I laughed as I saw Jasper and Emmett trying to dance to the beat, I wouldn't be successful either, seeing as Edward has to carry me to dance, but it was funny to say the least.
A chuckle was sounded behind me and I smiled, Edward's laugh was always a wonderful cure to anything that I was feeling. I leaned my head back and smiled at him when I spotted a car pulling up the driveway…that must be Angela and Ben. Edward noticed that my smile had gotten wider and looked out the window curious. His own smile brightened as he saw the car that Angela and Ben were arriving in. "They're here." He stated simply and pushed me towards the door knowing that I wanted to greet them both when the knocked on the door.
I smiled once again up at him, no tears will be shed today, at least not right now. He noticed that look in my eyes, of determination, and smiled at the emotion. The knock broke us of the moment, making reality come fluttering back, and Edward slowly reached and opened the door.
Angela was in a green dress with her black hair curled. She was blushing lightly and her black rimmed glasses were gone, and instead she was wearing some contacts. She smiled at me with tears in her eyes, maybe from the contacts or the realization that we indeed we not in high school anymore, but either way she looked beautiful. Ben was standing next to her, only slightly taller than her, in a nice blue dress shirt and some black pants. He smiled towards both Edward and I for both him and Ang. "Thanks for inviting us, it means a lot to be able to hang out one last time before you all leave for Alaska. I wish you all didn't have to leave."
Edward side glanced at me giving me the option still to go to Washington for college instead of Alaska, so I had to speak for both of us. "I think I will like Alaska, and don't worry guys, I'll write." I smiled as they both tried to absorb this information. "And Edward will too, won't you Edward?" I nudged him with my elbow knowing fully well that he barely felt it, but played along anyways.
He made a show of hanging his head and slowly saying, "I will Bella" like he was in big trouble or defeated. I giggled and then I realized that we were still making them stand in the doorway. As Ang and Ben were laughing at the show Edward put on, I nudged him and pointed to the doorway. "Guys, why don't you come in." He said after they stopped laughing. A look of realization came upon their faces like they had too forgotten about being in the doorway.
They quickly ran off into the living room where the music was pounding the walls, good thing Mom wasn't home or else she would be throwing a fit. I rolled into the living to see Ang and Ben on the floor laughing while Jasper and Emmett were still trying to dance to the beat which had sped up. "What…are you…guys doing?" Ang managed to breathe out between giggles.
I looked up in order to see Jasper and Emmy's reaction, and it was just enough for me to let a giggle out before they looked at Edward. Edward leaned towards my ear and whispered "Emmett and Jasper didn't even notice that Ang and Ben were even here. They're trying to get me to rescue them with some excuse, should I do it love?" His cool breath tickled my ear before I could answer with a shake of my head.
I kissed Edward on the cheek before he could fully pull away and then I looked at Emmy and Jazz and saw their expressions of hurt, and I laughed lightly. "Can you explain yourselves guys?" I asked while trying to hide the amusement in my voice although I knew that he could feel the amusement rolling off me in waves.
"Well guys there is an explanation to our dancing" Emmy started to say and he looked over at Jasper for some help who just shrugged. "We were just testing out the, ah, dance floor. Yeah." He chuckled nervously before looking at me with pleading eyes, saying that he would love me forever and ever if I didn't say he was actually dancing. I looked over to Jasper who was testing my mood, but nodding in agreement with what Emmett said.
I smiled kindly at both of them, letting them know that I would answer, "Well Em, I guess that it's well enough if you two were being baboons on it and it didn't fall apart." I chuckled out, "Let's do this thing!" I shouted so then it would seem like I was calling everyone else in the house to the dance floor, for show.
All the couples, except for Edward and I who stayed behind and talked on the sidelines, and the couples were dancing with goofy smiles on their faces while songs changed to each of their favorites. My favorite song came on which is 'Supermassive Black Hole' by Muse (my favorite on the Twilight Soundtrack), and I so badly wanted to be able to walk let alone dance right now, so then I could be close to Edward, and visa versa. Edward read the longing in my eyes, and gazed into my eyes before doing something unexpected, he reached his hand forward while standing up. "You want to dance?" He asked with a fire burning deep in his hypnotic golden eyes.
I chuckled nervously and extended my hand towards his, "Are you sure they won't notice?" I asked just loud enough for myself to hear it, luckily that didn't involve screaming. He nodded his head, and picked me up not at vampire speed, but at a faster human rate, making a show of him picking me up. "Are you having fun Edward?" I chuckled lightly into his ear once I was fully in his arms. He nodded, and I kissed his cheek, "Well I am having fun to, I love you."
"I will always love you." He replied simply before we started twirling around, making sure to avoid the couples. The dancing went on, and no one seemed to notice that I was dancing with Edward, but that was okay, no questions to answer. Being so close to Edward was thrilling, I was pressed flush against his cold body, which I was thankful for the temperature; the room was starting to get kind of warm. After about three songs, Edward had to put me back into my wheelchair so then he would still look human. I sighed lightly and rolled my way into the kitchen. I grabbed a soda and I felt a cool pressure on my cheek. I smiled as Edward asked, "So did you enjoy dancing with me love?" His voice was tender, loving.
I turned to look at him, and his eyes were swimming with many emotions: love, hope, lust, excitement, joy, anxiousness, desire, and more that I couldn't read. I wonder why he was anxious. I'm not going to ask, just let it past, and answer his question. I nodded my head slowly, "I loved it so much Edward, but not as much as I love you. Thank you." I smiled at him tenderly before he leaned down and kiss me swiftly.
"I love you too my little lamb." Oh I forgot that was another nickname he gave me. He gave that to me briefly after we had that crazy weekend with my father's death and our wonderful date. He smiled fondly down towards me before asking, "Are you sure, that you want to become one of us?" He asked seriously, and I was shocked that he had asked that here, at the party I mean.
My voice was caught in my throat, and I saw the disappointment in his eyes, he was assuming that I was going to say no. I was telling myself to breathe, but I couldn't. How could he think that I didn't want to be one of them, let alone be with him forever? I started to feel dizzy and couldn't concentrate on anything in the room, not even his eyes. Before I knew what was happening, my soda that I had was slipping out of my hands and onto the floor, and Edward was reaching for me. "Love?" he asked in a rushed voice. "Alice" he hissed under his breath just loud enough for me to hear.
I heard her enter, but never saw her in the room, I wonder why. "Yes Ed-" she must have noticed my state because suddenly I felt a hand rubbing my back. "Izzy, you need to breathe." She stated while rubbing soothing circles onto my back. "Can you open your eyes?" She asked, and to be honest I hadn't noticed that I had closed my eyes. I tried to pry my eyes open, but they wouldn't budge. I shook my head no and felt a tear slip down my face. I had no clue what was happening, and Dad wasn't even near the house, but I knew he was a phone call away. "Maybe I should call Carlisle…" Alice mumbled under her breath, and I nodded in agreement.
There was a squeeze of my hand before his velvet voice spoke softly to me. "Is it something I asked, or said?" He questioned. I nodded my head once, curtly. "Was it the question about being one of us?" He asked again, trying to hide the worried tone in his voice. I nodded again, but he didn't reply this time.
I tried to open my eyes again, and this time it worked. "Edward" I sighed softly, grabbing his attention, he turned and looked into my silently open eyes and urged me to continue, "I don't have a problem with being turned, it's just that I was kind of shocked that you asked the question, and then I saw the assumption in your eyes, it just killed me. You thought I was going to say no, and then I couldn't breathe or move at all." I sighed with a worried tone lacing my voice. I didn't want him to be worried about me, because I was worried about him. Stupid I know, seeing as I am the one who is sick, but I was worried that he thought I was weak.
Jasper must have tested my mood after hearing Alice's worried tone because Edward suddenly leaned in and whispered gently in my ear, "You don't have to be worried about me or anything love," and pecked my cheek before taking the place that he was at in the first place. "Are you feeling a little better?"
I nodded and smiled a small smile. "I don't know what happened to me." I laughed breathlessly. "I think you should call-" Alice walked back inside, "never mind. Let's get back to the party." I smiled before wheeling myself back into the living room where Rose, Emmy, Ang, and Ben were all still dancing, not noticing the confusion of the four of us not dancing. Alice zoomed past me dragging Jasper into the living room, but he had a smile plastered on his face, he was happy that everything was alright.
I rolled over towards Ang and started yelling because the music was so loud. "Hey Ang!" I laughed at her while she was dancing with Ben, who was about a foot shorter than her.
She responded with, "What's up Izzy?" she asked, but I could tell that she didn't really care because she was in Ben's arms.
"Nothing, just wanted to say hi. Have a good night." I sighed and rolled off of the dance floor and into the corner of the living room. Tonight, it's been a good night, minus the whole getting sick and not knowing what to do. Edward was acting kind of out of sorts tonight, but I didn't want to bring it up seeing as this would be one of the last times that I was going to be human, and I didn't want him to worry about me knowing something was up with him.
I was so zoned out that I didn't even hear Edward walk over in front of my chair, or see him. He spoke softly into my ear saying, "Hey love; I was wondering if you wanted to dance? This would be the last time that I get to show off my fantastic human girlfriend." His voice like velvet made the words sound sincere.
"And how would you be able to explain that you can carry me without a grunt or anything?" I questioned him back seeing as everyone was now interacting.
His light chuckle caught me off guard as he answered my question, "That's easy. I am just going to tell them that I have been working out more because I wanted to be able to dance with you in my arms. If they don't believe it then I don't care." He smiled lovingly down towards me, with a sparkle in his eye that I didn't recognize.
I sighed, "Fine you get your wish." I just let him pick me up as I placed my arms around his neck.
There were limited songs left, but all of them were slow songs. Edward swayed us from left to right, moving us in a tiny circle, making sure that we both wouldn't hit another couple. The entire time I stared into his eyes, which still held all of those emotions from before in the kitchen. I smiled slowly, knowing that it was about to go into a huge grin. He leaned down and kissed me gently, lovingly, before the song 'Flightless Bird, American Mouth' by Iron and Wine came to an end. Everyone, including Jasper and Alice, left the house. "Edward, why are Alice and Jasper leaving?" I asked curiously. They did live here, so why would they need to leave?
Edward shrugged and answered with, "I guess they want some 'alone time' and I don't even want to look in their minds." He chuckled, but it sounded off, not the normal light-hearted laugh that I had gotten used to, it was nervous, on edge.
"Well that party was amazing!" I shouted, for vampires it was a shout at least, and smiled up towards him.
He kneeled down in front of me and kissed my neck a few times with his loving lips. He knew the places to hit that drove me crazy, and he loved tormenting me for it. My heart starting going wild as he was kissing my neck slowly, passionately. He smiled as he leaned away because he had heard my hearts reaction just as much as I had, probably better, but then his face turned serious. "I have something to ask you Bella." He paused and waited for me to nod before he continued. He slid down to one knee in front of my wheelchair with hope gleaming in his eyes. I registered what he was doing, he was proposing to me, and I couldn't help getting teary-eyed. He spoke like he was out of breath, "Isabella Marie Swan, I have loved you ever since I saw you. Your scent, personality, and looks draw me into you. I would like to ask you for your hand in marriage. Will you marry me?"
My answer was almost instant, right behind his words, "Oh Edward! I-I will! YES I WILL BECOME MRS. EDWARD CULLEN!" I started laughing for no reason, and eventually they did calm down. Once my laughs were just small giggles, then he slid the ring slowly onto my ring finger on my left hand. I looked down at the ring to see a single silver band and then a small diamond on the top. Nothing fancy, just as I liked my things, not too fancy. "I love it Edward!"
A smile played upon his lips and he whispered to me, "That was my mother's. She told me to give it to the girl that I felt deserved it. That was over 90 years ago, but I think I found it."
(AN: Sorry that it took me so long to post this guys. I was having some difficulties trying to get everything down onto the document. So I hope you enjoy this chapter. It was nine pages on Word, so please R&R like I said before. Love you all. lovepuppet)