A/N You guys review really fast! This is the longest chapter so far for this story. So enjoy!
BPOV
Alice hadn't been seen in 3 days. In the meantime Edward and I had come to an agreement.
As long as Edward gave me a new book each day, I wouldn't talk anymore than necessary. This suited me fine. It's not like I wanted to talk to Edward anyway.
Well, maybe a little, but only because he's the only person I can talk to.
I was reading Jane Eyre for the hundredth time and Edward was lying on his couch, his eyes closed. I knew he wasn't sleep though. It wasn't possible for him, just like it wasn't for me.
I closed the book page by page. Stupid hardbacks. They were too heavy.
I walked over to Edward and sat down on the floor in front of him.
He opened his eyes and stared at me. "What do you want Carrie?"
I nodded. I'd learned to accept his little names for me. That just showed he cared enough about me to come up with a new name each time.
"I've got a question for you." I said.
He looked at me for a second. "What?"
I was happy to finally be getting the answer to the question that had been bothering me since I came to this house. I was pretty sure I knew the answer, but it might have been just another owner thing.
"Can you read my mind?" He shook his head no. I suspected as much.
I was relieved. My mind was my mind only and I didn't want someone peeking into it.
He broke into my thoughts. "Do you even have a mind to read?"
I rolled my eyes. "Of course I have a mind. I'm just a smaller, harder version of the way I was before."
He was nodding but then he stopped. "Of the way you were before? What do you mean? Were you…human?"
I nodded.
"Alice never told you my story?" I asked.
He shook his head.
"Do you want to hear it? It's kind of long and kind of weird. But you're the owner of a talking doll, how much weirder can you get?"
He laughed, nodding. "I want to hear it."
I smiled and took a deep breath before beginning.
"I'm almost as old as you, you know? 102 in a month." He looked shocked.
"I know I look great, huh? But anyway, it was the day before my 18th birthday. I was going to have a huge masquerade party. The biggest my small town had ever had. I was extremely popular, and my parents pretty much gave me anything I wanted. When I was 12 I told my father I wanted a house of my own because my mother was bothering me. He only tried to discourage me for a second before taking me out house hunting.
I settled on a mansion set on 20 acres of land. No matter that I still had trouble telling my left from my right, and that my mother was just a lowly seamstress and my father just a messenger for a local company. I was their princess and would be treated like one. I only stayed at the house a couple of times. I was never one for solitude. But it was in this house that the party would be held. It was fair to say that I had a lot of friends, but only because of what I had. They really all hated me and they had reason enough. I was cruel, spoiled, selfish and all in all just a horrible person.
I was going through my house to make sure everything was the way it should be for the party the next day, when I heard a knock on the door. This is where it gets kind of weird. I opened the door and a woman was there. I'd seen her before. She wasn't really social in the town, so it surprised me that she would come to my home.
She motioned for me to cup my hands and told me to close my eyes, because it was a gift for my birthday. I complied easily, excited to get something new. But when I opened my eyes it was just an apple. (Twilight cover) I rolled my eyes at her and was going to slam the door in her face but she stuck her foot in.
'Just try it.' She said. 'It's the best and worst apple you will ever eat. This apple will change your life forever. Trust me.' She was starting to annoy me.
I took a bite out of the apple to appease her so she could leave. But something happened when I took that bite. The woman began to get taller, the ground came closer, and my skin felt like it was being covered with cement. I looked at the woman finally realizing what had been done to me and she just laughed and said, 'Tell Aviv when you're better.' and she stuck a piece of paper in my pocket and then I blacked out.
I woke up in the clutches of the police chief's daughter. I was passed on from daughter to daughter until one of them gave me to a friend and then that friends' daughter put me in the garage sale that Alice found me in. And that's my story." I concluded.
I'd forgotten about Edward, getting lost in my own story. I looked at him waiting for him to say something.
He was silent for what felt like hours, which it very well could have been. Time meant nothing to me anymore.
"Wow." He said finally.
I laughed. "That's it?"
He just shook his head in disbelief. "Wait so was the woman like a…a witch?"
I nodded.
"What did the paper say? The one she put in your pocket?"
I pulled it out. "It's a letter and my rules. There are only 3 but if I break them…" I broke off.
I didn't like thinking about it. I handed him the worn paper. He read it aloud. I knew it by heart.
Dear Bella,
By now you know what you have become and I'm sure that you blame me, but the blame is on you and your selfish ways and the way you've treated other people. See what it's like two be treated like nothing but a little toy instead of the self proclaimed queen that you've become. When you are ready, come see me, but not a second before, because if you come before your time you'll be turned to dust at once. Only two more things you need to know and then I'll let you go: 1) No one but your owner may know that you are alive and 2) do not break! If any part of you breaks or chips. You will be no more. Learn from this experience and I hope two see you soon.
1654,
Aviv
"Wow." He said. "Do you think you'll ever go find her?"
I shook my head immediately. I'd thought about finding her so many times, but I didn't want to risk it.
"I wouldn't and even if I wanted to, I wouldn't know how to find her."
He looked back down at the letter, his eyebrows scrunching together in thought. "I'm sure there are clues in here and in what she said to you that day."
I sighed. I'd stared at that letter for years and thought about what she'd said to me before I blacked out and there was nothing.
"Forget about it Edward. They don't mean anything. She wasn't serious about me being changed back I just have to face it. I'm a doll now." I took the paper from him and sat down turning the page in my book one by one.
A/N I'm really proud of this chapter, but I think it's kind of confusing. If you have any questions I'll answer them. The ones I can answer at least. You can send them in a PM or in a review. 10 reviews, that's all I need.
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