Chapter Four: Track Five
BelPOV
It was embarrassing enough to live in the same house with someone you like. It's even more embarrassing to live in house with two guys you like. Cedward and Jacob were mean to each other. I wished they'd stop. I wanted to enjoy the quiet peace of the vacation.
The next night, someone knocked at the door, and I went to go answer it. "Hi," I said as I opened it. A pretty Asian girl stood outside the door, wearing a chic white fur jacket. It was much more practical than the strapless ensemble Alice had packed for me. And the only type of shoes were heels, so there I was, standing there in a royal purple gown with purple and onyx stilettos… "I'm Cho Chang," she said, holding out her hand. "I'm Bella, Harry's sister," I said, shaking her hand.
Harry appeared around the corner. "Hi, Cho," he said, beckoning her inside. "Come in, dinner's almost ready," he said. Why all the fancy dinners? Not that I was complaining…
Cedward emerged next from the chess table chair. His mouth hung open when he saw Cho. "H-hi," he stuttered. I pierced my hand with my thumbnail to keep from shrieking in anger. Cedward was nervous around this girl? Instead of me? Jealousy tore through my veins and stopped at my heart, which pumped the envy through my system. I came to a resolution.
I'll keep fighting jealousy, until it's gone.
CedPOV
Vampires can have powers, some do, and some don't. Carlisle, Esme, Emmett and Rosalie don't have powers, but they're vampires. Alice… she can read the future, and Jasper can change others' moods. Don't get me wrong, though, Carlisle is a splendid doctor and he has great restraint. In that, he restrains himself from drinking his patients' blood, even though he only drinks the blood from animals. Human blood is very tempting, still. Esme is loving and she'll care for anyone. She is the most consistent mother that any of us could have. Emmett is funny, I guess, and stronger than any of us, though I'm faster. Rosalie is a royal… um… fiend.
I heard Bella's thoughts, the only thought that had ever, ever gotten through to me from her. I'll keep fighting jealousy, until it's gone… I repeated it in my mind over and over….
Now there's something you should know. First, I can hear people's thoughts, except for Bella's for some weird reason. And secondly, people's thoughts sound a lot different than their voices. Bella's voice is deeper than her thought-voice. I committed it to memory, but then I thought about this thought's meaning.
I'll keep fighting jealousy, until it's gone…
I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I narrowed my eyes in thought, while Bella invited Cho to a game of chess with a smirk she thought no one saw, probably hoping to dominate Cho and make her cry. She was jealous of Cho? Well, Cho was pretty, of course, and I had dated her as a human. but maybe Bella saw that I thought Cho attractive… It wasn't really that, just sort of, but I liked Bella better.
Then it came to me, in a wave of epiphany.
Bella was going to fight the fact that she liked me until she didn't any longer. And that thought-voice had sounded so determined, so unguarded…
There was nothing I could do about it.
Nothing.
