Hello again my faithful readers! I come to you with gifts! Chapter 4!
I wasn't planning on posting this until Saturday but I got Chapter 6 written in record time.
This will be the last chapter I post until after New Moon is in cinemas, if I do write another few chapters, I'll take a day off from writing. So to everyone who will be celebrating the films release - be safe, have fun and enjoy yourselves!
- Billie. xox.
ps. 185 hits on this story! it still amazes me!
The Time For Tears Has Passed - Chapter 4 - Routines - KPOV
I woke up to the Italian sun pouring in my window. It made me feel warm. Maybe staying in Italy wouldn't be as bad as we thought.
Memories of what happened yesterday flooded my mind.
The fountain, the castle, the tourists and the smiling man.
There was something off about it all. Something was not right.
I ran my hands through my bedhair. Meh. I glanced at the clock on my bedside table. 10:31AM. Whilst sighing, I picked myself up, found my toiletries bag and made my way to the bathroom on the middle floor.
Jude's bedroom door was left open slightly, so I poked my head in. He was face down in his bed, snoring. I chuckled quietly. I'd have to wake him up after I got changed.
I nipped the stairs and came to the bathroom. Addie was awake in her room, on her phone by the sounds of it. I guess Jude caved and gave it back to her. He'll hide it again, I can tell. Jude Jensen has no fear.
Smiling softly, I looked in the bathroom mirror. I swear I looked different already. I looked less pale, my eyes stood out. Italy would be good for me, I decided.
I washed quickly and combed out my hair. My hair was getting long again, as were my bangs. I always preferred my hair to be just past my shoulders, it was easier to manage and it suited my heart-shaped face better than long hair.
Make-up came next. I wasn't a big fan but I always wore a little mascara and some cherry chapstick. Lip gloss was just goopy and disgusting. Chapstick tastes yummy.
Addie was pounding on the door.
"I need the bathroom! Hurry up!" she near enough growled. Wow. PMS or what?
"I'm just coming out, for God's sake" I said whilst rolling my eyes. She couldn't see, but who cares? I picked up my bag and unlocked the door. Addie did not look impressed, but does she ever? No.
She merely pushed past me and nudged me outside. She's as charming as ever, I see.
Not bothering with a comeback, I just walked back up to my room. The sun was still shining outside, so I decided to dress nicely. I picked a light, cream-coloured playsuit and my worn, brown gladiator sandals. I also slipped on a couple of my woven friendship bracelets that Misha made for me.
Content with my outfit, I dashed to Jude's bedroom. He was still asleep. I wanted to wake him up so we could go out and see Italy on our own.
I launched myself on his bed.
"Waaaaaaake up! We need to go outside" He just groaned. I poked him in the ribs, each time harder than the previous.
"Stoooooop" He whined and tried to slap my hand away. I huffed and stood up on his bed and starting jumping up and down.
"Get up!" He sat up. His blonde hair stuck up in places. One of his eyes were still closed. He grabbed my calves and pulled me down.
I yelped. Jude looked content with himself.
"Fine, I'll get up. You can buy me breakfast" He grinned. I rolled my eyes but agreed to buy him food. Jude rolled out of his bed, picked up some clothes and left for the bathroom. I took this time to look through his music collection. It hadn't taken him long to unpack his CD's, guitar's, his amp and music posters, which already covered most of his walls. The room just screamed Jude.
My room, I hadn't changed much. My walls were a pale green and the floors were wooden. I was planning on painting my walls either baby blue or purple. My walls weren't as covered as Jude's. I had a couple of French movie posters that our mother collected and a small collection of photo's.
There was no TV in my room. I've never had one in my room, but by choice. Whenever I wanted to watch DVDs or watch some TV, I normally used my laptop. My collection of DVDs were large, as were my collection of books. My room wasn't too filled, it only had my bed, a desk, a chest of drawers and shelves. It wasn't cramped, which I was glad for. I tend to suffer from claustrophobia.
Jude's voice snapped my from my thoughts.
"Alright, I'm up, I'm hungry and I'm ready to roll" I chuckled and lead my twin downstairs.
We came to the living room. Danny was in the living room, typing away on his laptop. From the kitchen, I saw that Misha was sitting outside on the patio furniture, reading a book like always. I'm guessing that Addie was still in her room. Either that or she was in town, chatting to some Italian guys. That day will come.
After informing Dan that were were leaving, we were on our way.
The town was just was busy as it was yesterday. There were still many people rushing around wearing red. So much red that it made my eyes hurt. It made me never want to wear red again. I told Jude this and he let out a large, loud laugh. This earned us a few stares. We didn't care, they'd have to get used to it. Jude and I weren't going anywhere for a while.
We were walking past the castle, at a fair distance, and we both noticed the woman from yesterday was again, standing with the tourists. The woman that made me want the floor to just cave in and eat me. She was so beautiful it made me sad. The Jensen's weren't a bunch of bad-looking people but even with all of us combined, could not measure to this woman.
I sighed.
I noticed she had only one figure standing behind her today. It was the man who was staring at my twin and I yesterday. Jude must have noticed too, because he shooed me along to a small cafe, that was out of the man's eye line. I silently thanked him.
We ordered our breakfast and took a seat on some patio furniture outside the cafe. It was the perfect day to eat outside. The food soon arrived and we dug in to our salads. Jude moaned whilst eating.
"Man, the food here is awesome." His voice went up an octave on the last word. I chuckled.
"Yeah, one of the many perks of living it Italy, eh?"
After a few minutes of eating in silence, Jude was paying more attention to something over my shoulder.
My eyebrows furrowed. I turned to look behind me. I just saw two rather bulky guys sitting a few tables over, in the shade.
I turned back to Jude.
"What the hell are you glaring at?" He's probably just being an idiot.
"Those damn guys over there keep looking at you. I don't like it. I don't care if they're what you call 'hot Italian men'" My eyes shot up at the mention of 'hot Italian men'. Naturally.
I turned back toward the two men. I never really got a good look at them in my first glance.
The man on the left was tall. Really tall. Taller than my Uncle. He had to be at least 6"8. I can only imagine the height difference that would occur between us if I stood next to him. He had short, black hair that was cropped short. His head was bowed down, but I could see that he was extremely good-looking. His expression looked rather bored.
The guy sitting next to him was a completelydifferent story. He was noticeably shorter. His hair was a beautiful golden brown shade. It wasn't cropped short like the guy next to him, it was a few inches long, but still cut off his face.
He was looking straight at me. His violet eyes were scanning my face.
This guy was hands down the most beautiful person I'd ever seen. The woman from the podium couldn't compare to this guy. Peter friggin' Petrelli couldn't compare to him!
His skin was pale, with the tiniest hint of olive in his complexion. There were purple circles under his eyes. They reminded me of the stunning woman on the podium.
The man's facial features amazed me. His eye's were almond-shaped. They were so striking. Violet eyes were rare, and dare I say, beautiful. I was usually attracted to brown eyes but now? I think not!
His nose was straight and a perfect fit for his face. My attention wavered to his lips. They were full and shaped to perfection.
I'd never seen lips so kissable. They were literally screaming to me.
He had a fine, strong jaw that brought all his features together. The shadows under his jaw made me want to trail endless amounts of kisses across it.
My eyes couldn't tear themselves away. I couldn't even blink.
The man stared back at me, his eyes shone with interest. He did not smile but that didn't effect me. I wasn't even sure if I was smiling. I'm pretty sure I looked like a gaping idiot.
Jude's cough snapped me back to reality. I turned towards him and he had an eyebrow raised. Crap. I hope he didn't hear what I was thinking. I just looked down at my plate and rubbed the back of my neck.
"Uuhhh, are you ready to leave? We can go look at more of the city?" I really didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay and look at the God that was sitting less than 10ft away. Knowing Jude, he would ask me about this later, at least leaving would distract him for a while.
"Sure, lets go see if I can find some of the opposite sex to ogle at" he teased. I rolled my eyes, stood up and smacked him on boths sides of his head. I couldn't care less if people were looking.
Jude feigned being hurt and stood up. Damn his height.
I picked up my purse and my twin turned to leave. This was the perfect opportunity to sneak a glance back at the man.
His glorious face showed a slight sign of hurt and longing. I gulped. Then Jude grabbed my arm and dragged me away.
DPOV
I felt restless.
It had been so long since I'd seen her.
Well, 12 or so hours but it felt like forever.
I remembered her face. Her beautiful, stunning face that hadn't left my thoughts since I'd first set eyes on her.
My fingers were just aching to stroke her cheek. To run through her hair and see if it was as smooth as it looked.
The more I thought about it, my entire body was aching more her. My soul was aching for her.
That's if vampires even have souls. It's a matter of opinion, I guess.
The night was becoming day again, and a sense of hope overcame me. I'll see her soon.
My heart swelled at the thought.
I closed my eyes and focused on her tenor, I couldn't wait any longer to see her.
Her location came to me in an instant. She was at a cafe in the heart of the city. Some would say the castle is the heart of the city, but to me it was just home. A home that now felt empty. It felt more like a workspace. If Keira was here, it would be home. I began to think. Would she feel the same? Would she feel this connection?
I started daydreaming slightly.
Then I remembered, I was to go find her. I'm guessing she would either be with just her twin or with all her siblings.
I informed Felix and we made our way to the cafe at normal human speed. That really annoyed me. With my vampire speed I could get to her a million times faster. I growled slightly, whilst keeping my head down. This was not the time to sparkle in the sun.
I always used to think the fact that vampire sparkle to be a little, well, sissy.
I say 'used' because I imagined Keiran sparkling in the sun. As a vampire. Never again will I think of it as sissy.
We made our way through the crowds quickly. Mainly due to everyone being scared on Felix's massive form. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Heidi and Eleazar dealing with the tourists. I didn't bother acknowledging them. I just wanted to get to Keiran.
I picked up my speed.
I could smell her now.
This was my chance to make her aware of me. Of my existence. That's all I wanted.
Felix and I were soon at the cafe. Keiran was there with Jude. Her beauty never failed to take my breath away. I took a full look at her. Her small arms were on show, as were her short but nicely-shaped legs. I could practically feel Felix's eyes on her. I growled possesively. Felix just looked at me and rolled his eyes. I had made the mistake of telling him. I didn't tell him all about it, obviously. He'd just explode with excitement. He acted more like a child than either Alec or Jane.
We sat at a table in the shade, so we wouldn't have to sit with our cloaks on. I was 10ft away from her. I wanted to be closer. So much closer. At least I could look at her. I wanted to much to talk to her, to have her entire attention on me. I craved for it. I craved for her.
My eyes were locked on her.
Her brother must have noticed because I heard her ask "What the hell are you glaring at?"
"Those damn guys over there keep looking at you. I don't like it. I don't care if they're what you call 'hot Italian men'" he replied. He was lying. Felix was not looking at her. I made damn sure of that. My eyes still never moved off her.
She turned her head towards us. If I was human, my heart would be beating at super speed.
At first, she looked at Felix. My heart broke. Was she more attracted to him? Or was she just amazed by his height? I pinned every ounce of hope I had on the second option. She would be a hell of a lot smaller than him if she stood next to him.
Then she looked at me. Straight in the eye. It was as if her gaze had fixed my broken heart and caused it to explode in joy. She looked amazed. Interested. In awe. She was much more interested in me, than Felix. I fought back a grin.
The forests in her eyes were shining. I never wanted them to break their gaze towards me. Her eyes felt like home. They were penetrating. I felt exposed, in the most magnificent way imaginable.
I scanned her face. I never got tired of looking at her, and I swore I never would. I silently swore I'd look after her, love her for as long as I lived.
It felt like forever had passed when her gaze finally broke. Her brother had gotten her attention. Why did he get her attention? I've never been more envious of anything that I did in that moment.
Keiran dropped her head and rubbed her neck. Her neck of which I longed to caress. She began to stutter. I'd never seen anything quite so adorable.
"Uuhhh, are you ready to leave? We can go look at more of the city?"
No! I didn't want her to leave. I wanted her to stay and look me in the eyes again. Without her, I felt cold and out of touch with the rest of the world.
"Sure, lets go see if I can find some of the opposite sex to ogle at" her twin teased. So he'd noticed her looking at me too. for some odd reason, I felt proud.
Keira just stood up and slapped him on each side of his head. I chuckled quietly. In turn, her brother pretended to be hurt and stood up also. She picked up her purse and Jude turned to leave. Keira looked like she was contemplating something.
Please look at me again. Just once again, petite.
To my complete joy, she did.
It was the best feeling in the world. She wanted to look at me again.
Then, her stupid twin came along and dragged her away. He dragged my heart away with him..
So there's chappy 4!
I hope you guys like it.
Chapter 5 is called 'Understandings' and will be published on Saturday, hopefully. It's split into Keiran's POV & Demetri's POV.
Thank you to everyone who's reviewed so far! Feel free to ask questions - I'll do my best to answer as soon as I can.
- Billie. xox.