OH MY GOD IT'S FINALLY POSTED! *gasp* I am so sorry this chapter is like, a month delayed. First there was some family hatred (let's just say I'd rather be stuck on an island with 5 hungry vampires than in the same building as my mother), then we had to go to a funeral (the woman could have been Carlisle's grandma for all I care) then I got distracted with this other story I'm working on and I got a little writer's block with this and ugh! I hope this chapter didn't disappoint you after a long wait. :)
Storyline belongs to me. Stephenie Meyer owns everything else.
We've been on this island for about a week and a half now, I think. I stopped counting after a few days, only going by day and night as my mean of telling time. My sleep schedule was really just, go to bed when I was tired, and wake up when I naturally would have woken up. So I usually got between seven and eight hours of sleep. My diet didn't have much variety. It was just fruits from the island, (some of which are really good and sweet) and water from a small watering hole Edward found one day. The water wasn't salty, so that was good. A couple times I had some fish that I'd 'grill'. The grilling was mainly this: Putting the fish on a small piece of the airplane (that Edward bent to make something like a pan) and cooking it over a fire. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. Edward said I needed some protein so that was what I used.
Sometimes my thoughts drifted to back at home. My human friends, Charlie… Jacob… But Edward (and sometimes Jasper) helped me out of my sadness.
We've played more "games". Most of them involved me being the target. There was hide-and-seek (I had to find everyone), reverse hide-and-seek (everyone had to find me), tag (I was it), reverse tag (everyone was it and they had to get me, which turned into reverse hide-and-seek) and multiple other physical exercise activities. Some, were not so strenuous. Those were really just modified truth or dare games.
"Edward, Truth or Dare?" Jasper asked, after having to, unwillingly (but turned into willingly), make out with me in the hut. (A/N Check out the full story called Truth or Dare: Jasper's turn on my profile)
"Truth," he said while getting a firmer grip on my waist, still mad about the last dare. I heard Jasper and Emmett both mutter a "damn". I'm not sure how Jasper is thinking of a truth with Edward reading his mind.
"Okay then. Edward, did you have any other love interests before Bella?" Jasper winked at me; Edward growled at him; Alice smacked Jasper on the side of his head; Emmett and Rosalie were chuckling; and I just looked at the sand in the middle of our circle, trying to ignore it all.
"Well, there was Tanya, but she doesn't really count because I wasn't really interested in her. I never found anybody else quite as attractive as Bella before I met her,"
"Are you sure?" Jasper dragged out the last word, implying that he could tell Edward was lying. Alice stifled a giggle and Edward glared at her.
"Yes I am positive Jasper. I have had no other romantic interests in my life besides Bella," And just to prove his point he gave me a big kiss on the lips unexpectedly. His lips were so sweet with passion. I wove my fingers in his hair and he did the same. I didn't know we were moving until I felt the cool sand on my back, still distracted by his lips. I rubbed my other hand along his back, and he used his other hand to caress my face, like if he couldn't get enough of me, and missed me so much when I was with Jasper.
Emmett coughed loudly and Edward and I slowly got up and we broke our kiss. I looked at the sand, embarrassed, when we were rearranging ourselves so that the only body part I was touching was his hand. He gently made slow circles with his thumb on the back of my palm. My cheeks felt like they were on fire as I continued to look down, trying to make my hair hide my face. Edward, sensing my racing heart rate and embarrassment, gave me a small but slow kiss on my forehead.
"Well, that wasn't as juicy as I thought it'd be, now was it?" Emmett sounded disappointed and everyone laughed a little at him.
"So Bella, Truth or Dare?" Edward asked me.
"Um, truth," I said nervously.
"Did you have any other boyfriends before me?" He knew the answer, I know he did. I'm just not sure why he asked it.
"Nope, you were my first Edward," I smiled reassuringly at him.
"Did you kiss anyone else, that's not a vampire-" implying Jasper's dare and what just happened between Edward and I "-ever? Like, back in Phoenix or something?" Emmett asked, with a gooey tone to his voice. I looked straight into Edward's eyes. We both knew the answer. I had kissed Jacob once, no twice, before, and that didn't turn out so good. I looked straight back at Emmett.
"No I did not. Edward has been the only guy that I've kissed, and liked" I mumbled "and he's been my first and only boyfriend," Emmett looked even more disappointed, which made me giggle a little bit.
And that's how our days went. Breakfast, weird games, lunch, more weird games, dinner, then we got time alone with our lovers before I fell asleep in Edward's arms.
Later that day as I was sitting on the beach, watching the waves, a spiral notebook landed on my lap which made me jump half a foot in the air. I heard a mumbled 'sorry'. We managed to find some papers and pens that still worked from the crash. The notebooks only had a few burnt pages and the pens worked sometimes, but it was still good. I looked up to see Edward staring down at me with… embarrassment? He pointed towards the book and on one of the pages, in his elegant handwriting, was the line: We need to talk.
"But can't we just-" He put a finger on my lips, then replaced it with his lips for a brief second. He took the notebook away and quickly wrote something down.
-We can't talk out in the open, they will hear, and I don't want them to hear. I took it and wrote with my messy handwriting a small note under it.
-Okay, that's understandable. What do you need to talk about?
-About the truth or dare game… I wasn't exactly telling the truth about any previous girl- lovers. I figure that you would like to know these things, before we get married.
-I would. It's okay, I won't get jealous or anything.
He sighed as he wrote down some more. His response was delayed.
-I hope you don't. The truth is, I've had one other companion before you.
-Who, Rosalie? It's fine if you tried to make her your mate. She has Emmett now and you have me.
Another long sigh.
-No, not Rosalie. But you do know the person, and I hope you won't get mad at them.
-I won't. I put a little happy face next to it, to help him understand that I won't run off in jealousy or anger. When I gave it to him he let out a sigh that showed guilt and he took his time writing his response.
-It was…Carlisle.
"What?!" I stood up and looked at him and he looked ashamed and guilty. He quickly got up and put his hands on my face.
"Look, after I was fully changed, I was confused and scared the first two years and he helped me through it. It wasn't like what we have today, our love is much much stronger and it was only a little romantic and-" I cut off his rambling by placing a kiss on his lips, showing him that it didn't matter about his prior… companion and his previous sexual orientation.
"That doesn't matter," I whispered in between kisses. "It's over now," "You have me," "It's in the past,"
After awhile we just stood there and hugged. He hugged me a little tighter than usual, which was fine by me, because he needed my support.
"So… you aren't mad?" he whispered to my ear, sending shivers down my spine.
"No, just a little shocked is all. I probably won't look at Carlisle the same way again though." I whispered back. He laughed quietly as I let go of the hug and grabbed the fallen notebook and pen. I didn't know that you swung both ways. He read it and sighed and chuckled a little. He took the pen and wrote something down.
-I don't… anymore. He wrote 'anymore' smaller than the rest. I laughed a little and kissed him some more.
The next day, Edward and I lay on the beach shore, looking into the sunset. I know that sounds very cheesy and a cliché way to end a romance movie, but it was very romantic and relaxing.
"Edward, I was thinking…" I said as I snuggled into his chest, with him tightening his grip on my torso.
"Mm?" was his reply.
"What if we…" I wasn't sure how to put something so simple into plain terms without sounding desperate. "What if we had children?" His body stiffened beside me and I heard his breathing hitch.
"Bella, I gave you that option in my attempt to keep you human. If you stayed human, you'd be able to conceive, but you didn't want that. Are you changing your mind now?" It was obvious he wanted me to change my mind about my humanity.
"No, no. I still want to be a vampire. I'm just saying that, if we had children, what would we name them?" He relaxed, slightly.
"A half human, half vampire child… hmm…" he mused. Then an idea struck my head.
"What about Claudia for a girl, or at least her middle name?" Edward looked down at me and chuckled.
"I thought you weren't into those kinds of movies." I blushed as I looked down at my feet.
"Well, I'm not, it's just…" I couldn't come up with a reasonable answer.
"How did you come up with the name then?" he asked, ruffling my hair a bit then smoothing it back out.
"Well, when you said 'vampire child' the idea just came to me…" I mumbled.
"So what made you watch Interview with the Vampire?"
I sighed as I began my story. "In freshman year, a couple of friends wanted to have a scary movie night right before Halloween. They invited me, so I went because I had nothing better to do. It was one of the first movies that we watched and it scared the heck out of me, but I stayed, not wanting to look bad. I haven't thought about it much since meeting you and your family, but when you said vampire child, the character Claudia just came to me," I blushed even more as I looked at my feet. He took two strong fingers and lifted my chin up so that I would meet his gaze.
"Did you like it?" he asked slowly.
"Well, no. I'm not one for scary movies and I just did it so that I'd have something to do that night instead of homework," I tried to pull my head back down so I wouldn't meet his stare, but it was no use, so I just stared right past his ear.
"That's good. We watched it for kicks when it came out in '94 and were a little insulted," He gave me a slow, tender kiss on my lips. "Any other names?" he whispered. I was somewhat dazed when he blew his cool breath into my face.
"Uhh" I stammered a bit. "W-what about," I racked my name for a tolerable name. "Zoey?" He thought about it for a moment.
"It seems too… casual. I mean, if it's a half vampire, half human child, most likely the only one in existence, shouldn't it have a more unique name?" He nuzzled his face in my hair, taking in a deep breath.
"What about Loren for a boy. Like, L-O-R-E-N, not L-A-U-R-E-N," I asked timidly.
"That's a nice name," he responded "But again, something unique, exquisite," He leaned down to my ear and slowly kissed my earlobe and whispered "Something like Isabella Marie," He made a trail of kisses from my ear to my cheek then finally my lips.
After I recovered from a mini heart attack, I suggested Aphrodite.
"The goddess of love, hmm? Well, I've never heard it as a modern day name, but it's still lovely," he replied. "Any other boy names?" he whispered with that seductive tone of his.
"Jacob?" I asked playfully.
"Only if you have some brother or uncle that I've never heard of who is really close to you named Jacob would I even consider that name-"
"Aww, come on now. I know after the battle you think of him less as an enemy and more as a… an acquaintance," He was silent for a few minutes, so I took that as an agreement to my last statement.
"Damien?"
"Maybe as a middle name…" he responded.
"Louis?" He looked down at me and laughed.
"I wouldn't want our son named after a fictional character," he said.
"Well, neither would I," I sighed as I relaxed into his arms, watching the sun set into the ocean sky.
LOTS OF VAMPIRE REFERENCES IN THE SECOND PART!! They all belong to their rightful owners.
Yeah… I put Interview with the Vampirein here because, well, I couldn't get it out of my mind. It is a really good movie and … lets just say I have a thing for blonde vampires now ha ha ha.
I hope this was worth the wait, more coming soon(er than this time!)
