In front of me sat the most fabulous piece of man meat I have ever come across. He had the most perfect features with a chiseled jaw, bronze sex hair, and his body, oh god his body!
He slowly stood and turned to face us but froze suddenly, his golden eyes growing wide as he focused at me. We stared at one another for what seemed both like an eternity and a nanosecond all rolled into one before Alice broke me out of my reverie.
"Bella, Rosalie, I would like you to meet my brother Edward" she said throwing her arm around his waist, "and Edward I would like you to meet Bella and Rosalie Cullen."
With that Edward seemed to snap out of his daze and flashed us the most heartbreakingly gorgeous grin I have ever seen.
It was at that moment that I was thankful to be a vampire because had I been human, I would have begun to hyperventilate and then proceeded to dropped dead from my heart suddenly exploding out of my chest.
I shook my head to clear my thoughts. Never in all my years have I encountered such a fine specimen of man and here I am, making myself look like an idiot with my mouth hanging wide open drooling no doubt. Luckily no one else seemed to notice.
Rosalie just nodded her head stiffly in Edward's direction. I knew she was being cautious and rightly so. We knew nothing about these vampires and they seemed to know a lot about us. We needed to find out as much as we could about them and what they know but it would have to wait until we reached Forks. Carlisle would surely have many questions for our visitors.
The only greeting I seemed to be able to muster was a shy hello at which Edward's entire face seemed to light up, odd.
"Well" interrupted Rosalie stepping in front of me slightly, "I suppose we had best be on our way. It is a bit of a ride to Forks and I am sure our family is anxious to meet you both. Do you have transportation or will you be needing a ride from us?"
"Actually" began Edward in the sexiest, most velvety voice I had ever heard, "we have a car. If you wouldn't mind waiting for us to retrieve it we would be happy to follow you to Forks."
"Of course" said Rosalie with a nod.
With that Alice and Edward dashed off to retrieve their car while Rosalie and I got her M3 out of the parking lot. It wasn't long before we saw them behind us and began our drive to Forks.
I was glad they had a car of their own because Rosalie and I needed this time to figure out what was going on as well to call Carlisle and update him on the situation. I also needed a private moment to process what had just happened.
"So" I said slowly, not knowing exactly how to begin this conversation, "what do you think of our new 'friends' Rose?"
Rosalie put her hand to her forehead for a moment, collecting her thoughts, before beginning.
"Well for starters the little one, Alice, scares the bejesus out of me. I mean seriously who comes up to a couple of strangers in a club and begins spouting off random crap about them, their families, and how they can't wait to marry your brother? A stalker that's who!" said Rose without pause while waving her arms wildly around her head.
I couldn't help but laugh, Rosalie almost never gets this worked up by anyone other than Emmett and then she usually just smacks him upside the head and calls him an idiot not dwelling on whatever stupid thing he had just done or said.
"Bella" Rosalie huffed, "don't laugh, this isn't funny! You heard that nut job, she thinks you're going to be her new best friend and that she's going to marry poor innocent Jasper!"
"Yeah well" I began but was quickly cut off by Rosalie's continued ramblings.
"I'm just thankful she doesn't have her sights set on my Emmy Bear or I would have to tear her limb from limb and burn the pieces and I'm really not dressed for it. And oh god did you see her outfit? It was amazing it would really be a shame to ruin it…"
I allowed Rosalie to continue her monologue until we hit the highway before I pulled out my cell phone and quickly dialed Carlisle's number. The phone was picked up after the first ring but not by Carlisle, instead it was Emmett who answered, lucky me.
"Texas state pen, you try 'em we fry 'em! This is Emmett speaking, what can I do you for?" he shouted happily into the phone.
"Oh. My. God Emmett! Could you be any more callous? Of all the ways to answer a phone!" I snapped.
"Sorry Belly" Emmett said remorsefully, "what's up?"
"Well Emmy" I retorted sarcastically, knowing he hates to be called Emmy by anyone other than Rose, "I need to speak to Carlisle about these new vamps if you can handle that."
"Now Bella boo" Emmett began condescendingly, "is that really anyway to talk to your favorite brother? I'm sure you could be a little nicer to me than that, otherwise we might just need to see an encore presentation of Christmas '45. You remember that Christmas don't you sissy? That 's the year you…"
Emmett was suddenly cut off and I heard some scuffling in the background followed by the sound of something shattering and Esme's angry shouts before Carlisle managed to wrestle the phone away from Emmett.
"Bella?"he asked.
""Yeah Dad it's me."
"Oh good. Honey are you and Rosalie okay?" he asked obviously worried.
"Yes Dad we're fine" I said rolling my eyes.
Carlisle and I have always had a very special relationship. He was the one who found and changed me in 1753 as I was dying from Smallpox at the London Smallpox hospital in Coldbath Fields where he was working as a doctor.
At that time, Carlisle had been a vampire for almost a century but was only just beginning to practice medicine. He had been studying at night for many years but hadn't trusted his self control enough until then.
I was an orphan at the time, having been raised by my great-uncle Phillip after my parents had died during the first wave of the 1732 Influenza epidemic when I was only six years old. Soon after turning seventeen I had contracted an aggressive strain of smallpox and was slowly and painfully succumbing to the disease.
While my uncle Phillip had always been kind, he was distant and rarely home, instead leaving me to be raised by a parade of nannies, never really giving me a sense of having a family. Over the course of my stay at the hospital, Carlisle became my protector and I had begun to see him as the father figure I never had.
Unfortunately, even under Carlisle's close supervision, I reached a point that I was beyond the help of medicine. When I was on my deathbed, Carlisle realized that he couldn't bear to stand by and watch me die when he had the power to save me, so in an act of compassion, and in his mind selfishness, he changed me.
After my transformation, I felt only natural to begin calling him my father and he admitted that he always thought of me like his own daughter. So to me he will always be my dad and I will always be his little girl. To everyone else in our family, he is Carlisle, a father figure, or in Esme's case a husband, but he will never be their dad.
"Alright Bella, if you're sure" he continued ignoring my tone, "please tell me what you know about our guests."
"Well there are two of them. Alice is the one I'm sure Rosalie told you about. She is the one who approached us in the club. She appears to be a vegetarian based on our eye color and comes off as very friendly but well, odd."
"Other vegetarians, outside of our family and the Denali coven, how exciting" he exclaimed, " but you said she is odd, how so?"
"Well…" I paused searching for the right words, "when she approached us in the club she was incredibly energetic, even more so than Emmett if you can believe it, she already knew our names and well… sheclaimsshesgoingtomarryJasper" I blurted out in a rush.
I heard Carlisle make a choking sound before responding. "I'm sorry Bells, I thought you said she thinks she's going to marry Jasper."
"Yeah about that, um that's exactly what I said."
I was met with a stunned silence followed by a loud guffaw from Carlisle. I could hear Emmett's uncontrollable laughter in the background and I knew immediately that everyone else had been listening in and that poor Jasper had heard what psychotic Alice had in mind for him.
After Carlisle managed to regain some composure I continued. "So like I said before, she's a little odd."
"Apparently so" said Carlisle with a chuckle. "What about this brother she mentioned, have you and Rose met him yet?"
With that I suddenly had the phone wrenched out of my hands by Rosalie.
"Carlisle, it's Rose. Yeah we met Alice's brother, Edward's his name. He seems to be vegetarian as well and doesn't come off as crazy like his sister but Carlisle, I think we may have a problem."
A problem? I thought to myself. What could possibly be wrong with this living god, this Adonis, who had done nothing but smile his gorgeous smile and nod his perfect head? I gave Rosalie a confused look while she continued. Apparently Carlisle had begun asking questions while I was distracted.
"No Carlisle, he appears to be in control of his blood lust. The problem my dear man is the way in which he looks at your dear, sweet, innocent Bella. " Rosalie paused allowing Carlisle to ask a question, "No he doesn't appear to be aggressive just very, very interested if you catch my drift" she finished.
"What do you mean by interested?" Carlisle growled.
"I mean he was looking at her in the same way that Emmett looks at me and you look at Esme, you know, interested."
"Rosalie you had better put the pedal to the metal and bring my little girl home NOW!" Carlisle shouted, "I don't want that degenerate bastard anywhere near my Bella without me! Do you hear me Rosalie? Nowhere near her!" he almost screamed.
With that the phone cut off. Rosalie gave me a funny look and a wink before following orders and 'putting the pedal to the metal'.
What the hell just happened?
