A/N : I am so sorry it has taken so long to write this, but they're state testing this week, so it has taken a while. Plus I have been in a writers coma. I am iffy about this, so…. Please review!
With love, Chloe
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Chapter 4- Moving
I could finally speak, after drinking from 3 little deer. I felt so much better, the fire gone. But I also loathed that I had just ended the lives of 3 innocent little creatures. Emmett and Jasper had just finished throwing my truck and old clothes over a cliff in to the ocean when we got back to the house. I raced Edward to his room, and for about 5 seconds, I thought I had won until something grabbed me around the waist and pulled me deep into a dark room.
"Helpppp, Edward, Help m…" was all I got out before his lips were on mine. I was in an awkward position. His arms were still wound tightly around my waist, but he had shifted me so that he was more or less hugging me. Our lips didn't move a fraction of an inch as I tried to pull my arms out from under his hands. He saw what I was after and loosened his grip and slid his hands to the small on my back. I rested my hands on his chest, and let my mind wander to his.
Bella, were moving. He thought, how had he known I would be on his mind? He must be paying attention to mine I concluded.
Yes I have, you are amazing. I would have flushed if I could. I let him take my hands in his, he looked down at me.
"Where to?" I asked casually.
"Carlisle thought that we should try Italy. He thinks that I would enjoy a new medical facility they have there." He smiled.
"But first, we need to pack, were going to make a quick stop at your house though so you can grab a few things that you would like to keep."
"Until then, how can I help?" I was in a good mood, I usually am after being with Edward.
"I guess you could help Carlisle with his office, he needs help taking down his paintings." Edward said with a tight grin. He was keeping something from me, and I knew it. I decided to let it slide.
"Is there anything I can do to help you in particular?" I smiled at him. Edward smiled back.
"Well, no that you mention it, I think I could use some help packing my CD collection." He laughed, his collection was enormous. It took up almost an entire wall.
"All right then. How can I sort them?" Edward dragged me to his collection, then vanished and appeared seconds later with a ladder.
"So that you can get the top ones." He shrugged.
"Ok, I have moved enough times that I still have a collection of cases that are labeled according to year, and then some by personal reference. Your job is to get the CD's and put them in the appropriate case. Got it?" I nodded. He pecked me on the cheek and then quickly disappeared. I was terrified; he had vanished quickly, too quickly.
"Edward?" I hissed. And he was beside me. I let out a sigh. He looked at me questionably.
"What?" he asked curiously.
"I thought that James, or some one like him had gotten you and was going to come back for me." I had gotten so worked up over nothing.
"Ohh, Bella, I'm sorry. I'm used to just being able to move around the house freely with out need of warning. I was in my closet packing some clothes, and that is where I will be if you need me." He gave me a reassuring hug and, this time, walked slowly to the closet and disappeared.
I started working on my job, to pack the CD's. I had started at the bottom of the shelf, the more resent era of music. There were many CD's I had never even heard of. I was heading my way up the shelf slowly. When I reached the early 1900's, I was at the top of the ladder. I was almost done, 1 more CD at the way end of the shelf. I knew I should have just gone down and moved the ladder so I wouldn't have to stretch a dangerous amount of space to barely even touch the CD. But I was so glad to be almost finished so I reached my arm out before me and grabbed the CD after a tremendous amount of stretching, I lost my balance and started to plummet to the ground. As I fell, I tried to catch on to a shelf for support, but every time I got a hold of it, my fingers would slip.
Edward, I thought desperately. Hopefully he would be paying attention to my mind at this very moment.
Something hard hit my back and supported me. I looked up into the face of my angel.
"Nice save." I coughed. My lungs had gotten a thorough jumping around and they slightly stung.
Edward set me up right and hopped up to the top shelf, 4 feet above my head. His hands came down with the CD I had failed to retrieve.
"Good work," He kissed me lightly on my lips. He put the last CD in its case and neatly stacked the 10 cardboard boxes into a leaning tower of CD's.
"Where exactly in Italy are we going?" I asked.
"Well, Carlisle is thinking about Venice because it rains all the time. Florence is also a possibility. We are most likely going to go to Volterra though." He shrugged. He had caught my interest, I had never gone any where. I smiled and urged him to go on.
"What is so special about Volterra? "I asked.
" Well for one thing, in Volterra, a huge group of vampires named the Volturi rule. They are like royalty, Aro, Caius, and Marcus.
They make up the original family, 2 females have joined over time. Along with the 5 in the family, they have a guard. Last time I heard, there were 9 main guards, with lower rank guards around the country. Aro has been friends with Carlisle for awhile, so we may go there." I was speech less. Vampires had royalty? I had imagined that they didn't just run around with no one to enforce the rules but, royalty. And a guard. Wow.
"Bella?" Edward said attentively. He was worried, no doubt. I wandered to his head.
I hope I didn't scare her, well, it's a long flight. He eyed me tenderly, and then his thoughts abruptly stopped and turned in a different direction.
You look beautiful. I wonder?
"What!" I hated it when he stopped thinking mid sentence. I couldn't tell if it was something I did, or didn't want to know. Was it something bad? I thought of him leaving for 1 second to check his bags and then James appearing from thin air. Edward pulled me into a huge hug. It must have been something in my mind.
"I'm not going anywhere. Not now, or without you." He kissed me lightly.
"We should finish packing you know, Carlisle booked the plane for 5 and it is 3:25 right now." I smiled.
What can I do now? I didn't want another 'dangerous' or 'life threatening' job. He saw my concern.
"How about you help me zipper my suitcase" he said. "If you ask me, it doesn't sound too 'life threatening' to me." He laughed. I ran to the couch and threw a pillow at him. Only, it didn't go like I threw it, but more or less sluggishly floated mid air before it started pounding Edward on the head. I quickly thought of it falling to the ground, and it did.
"Holy" was all I could get out before I fell back wards, and let an unconscious surround me.
A/N : I didn't know how to lead into my next chapter, so, here, and………
Tada!
-Chloe
