hearts of fire and ice book 2 colder weather

Chapter 4 an interesting test result!

Awaking with Alice's tiny bodie wrapped around mine was always a welcomed warm feeling. Not this morning I could smell her morning breath a mile away and I was too hot to be comfortable with another next to me. Ever if my dear vampire was technically room temperature I gently seperated from her sleepy embrace. Making my way into the hall I checked out the thermostat and there was thankfully an explanation as to why I was covered in sweat without having been to the gym for three hours.

The Cullens bless their hearts they were worried I'd catch cold in their house. So they turned the heater on and their home was now the temperature of a tropical Isle at ninety five degrees. I switched over the setting to air and made my way downstairs and into the kitchen for something cold to drink and noticed not only had they been shopping but managed to buy enough to stock the entire double door fridge.

I settled on some orange juice and sat down on one of the barstools in front of the island. I thought about what to do if I turned into a wolf would that mean Alice and I would be through. Sure you see love stories about vampire's and werewolves just never one about a vampire and a werewolf. Okay honey it's a full moon you've got two choices I can chain you up or you and I can spar.

I didn't foresee any of those scenarios playing out well even in my imagination. I looked at the granfather clock in the living room it was barely even two why wasn't I sleepy. I'm one of those people that has to have her eight hours or I'm a total grouch all day.

"Trouble sleeping Bella?" A male voice said from behind me. I turned around and came face to face with Edward. "Yeah, you could say that apparently my pharamones make Alice sleep like a human baby. But they don't do a damn thing for me where's my sleep aid?" I complained in a joking manor.

Edward smiled and looked embaressed but he always did. If he had bloodflow I think he would be blushing all the time. "Have you tried warm milk?" He offered as a suggestion. "I don't remember alot from being human though I do seem to recall getting warm milk as a boy whenever I couldn't sleep. I can make you some if you want?"

I thought for a minute these were people who didn't even know that about fifteen minutes ago. Their home was the same temp as Florida during hurricane season. "Um...maybe later I'm not sure how well warm milk tastes with orange juice." I replied not wanting to hurt his feelings.

"Not that I know but I can't imagine that tasting too well together." He replied understandingly.

"Mmm...No." I laughed nervously there was always an awkwardness between Edward and I. It was perfectly harmless on my end that is of course I knew he was still harboring a crush on me. That wasn't really my problem to deal with though. "Well I should go back up there and try to sleep before morning well the sunrise part of morning anway 'night Eddie."

"Sleep well Bella." He said in his honey toned voice. That boy really needed to get some and quick or he was going to impload.

I entered mine and Alice's room once more finished my juice and sat the glass on the nightstand. I was still too sweaty to snuggle so I grabbed a small square pillow out the chair in the corner and the throw from the end of the bed. Positioning myself to the nearest air vent I lay my stressed out body down and closed my eyes.

Soon I was asleep once more except I felt like I wasn't alone. There was a long unbeaten path before me lush greens everywhere adding a coolness to the color tones of the enviroment. The sky was completely un-viewable for tall trees I could hear things that I had never heard before.

A creek was flowing in the background. Birds chirped, raccoons hissed, I could even hear the leaves brustling on their wimpy hanging branches which bent to the will of the summer wind. I atleast could tell what season it was. I felt thirsty so I followed my ears to the sound of the creek once there I drank and drank then I looked up at my reflection in the clear mirror like water. What I saaw wasn't me it couldn't be I was a furr covered beast a monster! I panicked internally for all the good it did me.

I tried to scream when reality came to welcome me in the form of my love's voice. "Bella baby wake up you're having a nightmare." Alice said gently shaking my shoulder til I was out of my nightmare realm and back in reality.

"Hey." I mumbled tiredly nothing like a night of nightmares to make you feel like you weren't even sleeping. I ran my hand from my forehead and through my hair I'm sure I looked as bad if not worse than I felt.

Alice looked at me uneasily and I reached out a hand to hers imagine my surprise when I saw that it was covered in hair and my fingernails had grown into claws that looked more like razors. Suddenly clarity hit me and shot up looking at my hands and feet walking over to the mirror in Alice's room to make sure I was still human. Upon finding nothing among the odd and unordinary I made my way into the bathroom to run a shower.

Meanwhile in other parts of Forkes Dr. Cullen was analyzing Bella's blood sample he had taken the night before. He put the slide under the microscope and took a look. "Alright let's see what's going on Bella." He stood with his eye over the occular magnifier and stood straight removing his fake glasses to better see. Still he could not believe what was before him. "Extraordinary her blood is like nothing I've ever seen." He said to himself in the private lab reserved for rushed blood work.

Back at the Cullen house Alice came bursting through the door Bella honey Jake's here and he's got an elder with him. I came down the stair hair still wet from my shower I ran up and hugged him as old friends do.

"So I guess it's stupid to ask what's up isn't it?" Bella inquired with a knowing look on her features.

" I think we're past it at this point I brought an elder with me. He refused to go any further than the edge of the driveway I ran all the way up here to get you. He has somethings to tell you about your problem." Jacob explained in his most serious, mature voice which I was sure had deepened since that last time I saw him.

"Alright so let's go for a walk to the end of the drive. I'll be back in a while Alice don't send anyone to watch me I'm perfectly safe with Jacob. I'm guessing this guy isn't too comfortable with vampires love you." I said and kissed my girl on the cheek before heading off with a werewolf. Atleast there was no such thing as zombies I mean this is reality.

As we walked we caught up on current events other than the obvious. I felt this sudden burst of energy and I grinned at Jake. "You wanna race the rest of the way?"

"Are loco loca? You know I'm gonna win you got nothin' on all this." Jake said with cocky voice flexing his muscles and grinning in a white muscle shirt and black running shorts. I laughed "I'm serious on three."

One, two, three...And we were off racing and to my disbelief I was keeping up with him. Matching a werewolf step per muscle bound step until we were at our destination. "Bella this is Joe Running-Bull one the Quileute Elders. Joe this is Bella Swan."

"Nice to meet the famous friend of both vampires and werewolves." The older man about sixty with long grey hair shook my hand with his thick rough hand. "Nice to meet you too I'm guessing Jake here has filled you in on the current circumstances surrounding my need for your help?" Bella replied.

"Yes he has. I can tell you that once the transformation begins death or the curse of a tribal ancestor are the only things that can keep you from completely turning." Joe explained very clearly.

"That's it so either I die or I'm fixed up with a curse for the rest of my life. There is really no third option hell I'd settle for anything you got that doesn't involve dying I'm kind of in the middle of finals and death isn't an option." Bella stated with insistance.

"There was talk when I was a boy of a mark that counteracts the effects of our gift. However I fear that information was destroyed so that our people wouldn't put their own interests ahead of the other members of this town. So I'm afraid it's impossible to help you that way." Joe finished and in typical Quil-u fashion he maintained his silence and got back in the truck.

"I guess that's my queu." Jake said aloud then pulled me into a goodbye hug or so it seemed. "I'll find it for you just keep your phone close by." He whispered in my ear before getting in the old truck and starting the engine.

"Maybe there is hope." I said to myself as I ran back to the towering treehouse in the woods that was my home.