Chapter SEVEN : Rosalie's visit
-----Bella's POV -------
"Come in", I called,
and then the door opened and a beautiful vampire entered the house; my best friend looked at me smiling, then I saw her noise twitching, and the smile decreased a little bit.
I knew why; even I found his smell amazing; for Rosalie it must be harder. But she drank a few hours ago; I could tell by her eyes and the rest of blood smell.
"Hey, Bella.", she came to me, then nodded to the human.
A greeting to him would be too much for her; she accepts them and did not kill them, but she would never say 'hey' to this human stranger.
In her way it was politely enough for her to just nod towards him; most vampires would never do such a gesture. Not my aunt, not the parents of Rosalie, the Hales, no one.
"Well, I'm surprised you did not kill him yet" she said to me, and I starred at her.
Was she crazy?
Of course I knew that she was joking, but I could tell what the human man must thought; and from the corner of my eye I saw him getting paler then he usually was. Oh, Rosalie, as if there excist not enough problems between me and the human.
Great. 'As if he isn't already scared like hell of me yet – now he is it for sure.'
"Oh, come on, Bella! Your face! You must've seen your face! Incredible!", Rosalie laughed.
I threw another glaring look to her, and then asked her of which emblazonment she thought of – the emblazonment I promised her when she swapped our lots, so that I got the human.
"Well...You know those wonderful necklaces, and the associated bangle? With the silver diamonds in it and in the necklace the red ruby? Oh, and you're earring with the crystal? I loved those – and I wonder why you did not wear anything of this. And in additon to not wearing it you will give it to me? I'm not sure if you really want this, Bella."
Well, I knew that she was wondering about me not loving those things – we discussed that theme a lot...
"Yeah, I know...And I will not miss them, Rosalie, certainly. I'll get them...There must be in some of those boxes in my room.", I said, already moving, when Rosalie said something else:
"Oh...Bella?"
"Hmmh?" my answer was as creative as her question.
"Do you mind if I'll cut this human his hair while you search the emblazonment?"
Yeah, Rosalie knew me good enough to know that I did not 'get' those things in seconds, I needed to search them first. I knew definitenessly where each of my book where in the shelves – but emblazonment? Nope.
But a hair cut? I looked to his hair, again noticing how long it was...
"Well....If you really want...And if he wants it...And Rosalie?!"
I answered, unsure what the man wanted – secretly he surely wanted a new haircut, doesn't he? I mean, I could easily see that this wasn't the way it used to be; and it would be comfortable for him to have a new haircut...
By my 'and Rosalie' saying, I told her silently that she she should behave in his presence.
She got it; knowing what I wanted to say with just her name, she nodded smiling her head.
So, I went the few stairs up to my room...Looking for the things for Rosalie. I knew that they were in a red box; I could see the box in front of my eyes as an imagaintion. Knowing myself I had probably put the bpx in any corner, or elsewhere I did not see it often, and where I would search for it. Where the hell where the box?
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Ha! I found it!
I congratulated myself in my thoughts. I was right; it was in a red, squarish box...and the box had been in one corner of my armoire, behind some dresses I usually not wear – ony if my aunt forces me to, when we are going to a party, or something horrible as a party with vampires who were all scared of my aunt, and who all hated me.
I took the box for Rosalie and left my own room, went the stairs down, walked along the small corridor, to the door of the living room.
But before I could get in the room, Rosalie called "NO" out, and then, in a voice only for vampire ears to hear,
"Don't you dare, Bella and enter this room now! This is a surprise, and I'm not yet finished. In a few seconds..."
Aha. Luckily she told me; you won't want an angry Rosalie in your house, for your own sake. I wondered why this should be a surprise, but if she wanted it to be, what could I then do? Rushing into the room, telling her I hate surprises? Yeah, right.
"You can come in, Bella", she called after a few minutes, and of course I went in;
Standing in the corridor without to do something isn't one of my favourite things to do.
To my left side stood Rosalie, putting her pair of scissors aside, and went straight to me – making the look free for me to see the siting human. What a show effect, Rosalie, I thought.
He looked like always to the ground.
But I was able enough to see his now shorter hair; it was still a mess, like the days before, but not so extrem; and now, with the shorter length...
He looked not only a little beautiful; he was handsome. If his body wasn't so thin because of the little food he got while he was in the prison cell...
"Ha. I knew that you'll like it!",
Rosalie said happily to me, and then she looked to my hands.
Oh, yeah, I had the box for her in the hands – and anxious as she was, she could not wait to get her things.
I opened the box, hold the things out, to show her, and turned the things to her.
" again. And you know that I won't miss those emblazonment much.", I told her, smiling.
She laughed, and took the things.
"And I'll never understand why you don't love emblazonment. Instead of wearing them you hand it to me, only for one human. You know how silly this would sound to any other one?"
I just shook my head, amused that she couldn't understand it; but also happy have her.
Rosalie tied her bangle around her left arm, and then looked at it with pride.
"Bella...To put it bluntly....I mean ; alone this diamond is more worth then 10 sl....humans. Not to mention this ruby in 're sure I can have them?", her voice had a slight touch of worrying in it.
Luckily for her, she did not said 'slave' or I would be angry with her; and I knew that she was only worrying of me, because I gave her those things, things that belonged the vampire 'mother'of my father. Why should I care for those things? I lived by my vampire aunt – the vampire mother of Charlie hated me more then anyone else. And even if she liked me – those things were just...things. He was a human, more worth then any emblazonment could ever be.
"Of course I'm sure, Rosalie. You know me, don't you? It belonged to my 'grandmother', who cares? She did not cared for me, and I don't even know how she looked like. So, no, I'll never be sorry to gave you the emblazonment of my 'grandmother'. Never. Now stop worrying, okay?"
I meant every word I said, and from the look on her face I could tell that she believed me. Not really understanding, but believing.
Gradually I was getting hungry; it was already afternoon, I did not eat anything. (I do not need to eat so much like a human do, but I do need to eat more often then the vampires need to drink blood.)
"Say, Rosalie...Would you bother if I say to you that I'm hungry and want to eat right now?", I asked;
she could not eat while I was eating, and it was kind of unpolitly. But still, she was my friend, I had hunger, and maybe the human man was hungry, too.
She grinned a little bit, but shook her head.
"Nope. Eat how much you want. I'll not join you."
Haha, of course she wouldn't. Just as well as I would never join her.
I was about to ask him if he wanted something to eat, too (the question of what he wanted to eat was useless; without him speaking to me) when I observed that the beating of his heart was much faster then faster. Fast as if he was panicked....But afraid of what?
"Do you want to eat something, too?"
I asked him with a soft, friendly voice, not wanting to scare him more than he was right now. I knew that he was scared of vampires; but when I was alone, even if he was scared- his heart beat did not beat so fast...
I saw that his body tensed up, biting on his lips.
What was with him?
He looked scared as hell...As if...
All at once I realised what he was afraid of, so afraid that he tensed up, his heartbeat not calming down; he thought that he would be the meal!
How can he think that?
But on the other hand, how not, when I exclaimed that I was hungry!
I felt sorry for him, to think such a thought, knowing that from his point of view it was the only way for me to eat – and then, at the same time, I felt a little bit sad, that I did not know anything about him, and he just nothing about me; to think that I would ask him to eat something, when he was going to be killed – this was so ignorant cruel, I did not want to think about it.
"I'm sorry. I did not mean...I do not drink human blood, if you suppose this. With eating I meant human food. And I'll make something for you, too. And...I would never let it happen that you get killed."
I needed him to understand, so that he would not have every time a heart attack when I spoke about eating, so I said it, while I left the living room, and went to the kitchen. Why I hadn't told him that earlier, me not drinking human blood thing? Well, because I did not wanted too;
If he thinks about this too long, he'll discover that I'm only a half vampire – and that the other half is human. And then he would even hate me more then he did right now, like all the other humans I met. He would not only hate me – he would despise me with every thought he had.
Rosalie was left in the living room; she didn't like it, watching me preparing my human food. Like all vampires she hates the smell of human food. But if she had the choice, if she could - she would do everything to be human again – and to be able to get children; her only really important wish – which would never become true...being a vampire. And if she'd see me preparing such a food for human, she would get jealous, too.
I thought about what to cook – Rosalie was still here, so it should not take too long – and I was now really hungry, so I did not want it to take to much time, too.
I then decided for a tomato soup with little noodles in it, and a petite salad and bread, too.
I was about to reach for the tomatoes when I perceived that something wasn't right. Not at all right.
Seconds after my thoughts,I smelled it; human blood. +
Human.
Blood.
Rosalie.
He...
Once this thought were in my mind, I ran to the living room, where I left the both: the human and my best friend.
'She would never...'
I thought while I got there, able to see what had happened.
Rosalie was staring into the eyes of the human, not moving. Her whole body was tensed up, frozen; then the human looked away, to the ground as usually.
I was angry; whatever had happened I had worried myself for the both of them; and now it seemed that Rosalie just talked to him, and he, unable like every human man, could not resist her beauty – he even looked into her eyes, damnit! He never even looked at me for a second – was he so frightened by me? Or am I just not pretty engouh?
Was I ama horrible person? I never considered myself as one, but when he thought so of me...
Rosalie stopped my damnit thoughts by jumping towards me, dragging me to her, away from the human, groaning with anger.
"Rose!"
I shouted; the name she did not like, the name she hated like I my full name.
What was with her?
I looked at her, shocked when I saw her face.
I had thought there would be a smile; that she got the human to look at her, but there wasn't a smile. There was hate; and some sort of fear in her eyes.
I couldn't believe myself what I saw – I fastly looked to the human, who were stumbled a few steps away from us, now a white pale face as if he would be dead, a tensed up body, light trembling hands.
What the hell happened?
"He must leave, Bella. NOW"
She shouted like she never did before; in her voice fear.
I was perplexed, could not thought of an explanation of this behaviour; the behaviour for both of them.
"Rosalie? What is?"
I looked into her face, and she rejoined my look.
"He must leave, better kill him right now. He's too damnit dangerous, Bella! If you didn't come in this room right now I'd be deat! You could be right now dead considering the DAYS you were here with him!" her voice trembled for fear.
I frowned.
I wasn't dead and I would never be dead because of him; he did nothing to me – and he could not kill a vampire so easily, even if it was just a half vampire.
And I would certainly not kill him.
"Rosalie", I said, more angrier then before. She always understood me, killing humans was more then wrong, and now? What happend?
"Bella. There isn't another way. If the Volturi will find out about his ability, they will kill him and you, too, for not killing him in the first time! And, damnit – he must be really intelligent; to be able to hide this abillity for the months he was a prisoner in the cell."
Why did everyone speak to me as if I knew all the details?
"I'm sorry, but I do not understand you Rosalie. What is his ability?", my voice was enough for her to know that killing wasn't a possibility.
Fear came again into her eyes, while she tried to explain it to me.
"I heard that some humans have abilities, but this isn't a fact, only some legends...And this human...He has the ability to kill anyone who looks right into his eyes! If you weren't walked in this room, I would be now dead – he tried to kill me!"
With every word her voice got angrier, and before I got the chance to say anything she moved...jumped...
away from me, direction towards the human.
No, no, noo, my mind screamed at me – she would not kill him, it wouldn't happen! I wouldn't let it happen!
I knocked her in the moment down when she had reached the human, and we both, Rosalie and I, landed on the ground.
"Bella! You can't think right now; he is too fucking dangerous!", she shouted, while trying to get rid of me.
"NO, Rosalie. He won't. And you won't kill him, do you understand?"
I looked angry into her face.
To be honest, I did not know if he wouldn't kill us, or me, when Rosalie left. But my feelings told me that he won't; if he had wished to kill me, he could have done it already. And, thinking about it, he had always his eyes to the ground – even when we met the first time in this house, he had not looked up for once. So, this must mean that he wasn't bad, or? It must mean that he tried everything to have no contact with my eyes, wich would have killed me; that he did not want to kill someone.
I believed it.
There wasn't another possibility.
She was about to answer something I would not like to hear, I could tell from her face.
But I did not let her being able to say it – I was this time faster with talking.
"No, Rosalie, no. You can leave now, I think this would be the best...Think about it a few days, and come then here again, for apologizing – to us both. You're my only and best friend, Rosalie, and will not destroy our friendship, understand? But this human won't die just because he could be dangerous to us! Don't you see? What I am? How much I heard such words from everyone?! This whole thing; they behaved like you did right know, only worse when they saw me! And they were wrong; and you are wrong, now, too!"
My angriness was disappeared, and my voice was only sad in this moment; I remembered how the humans and vampires had reacted when I had told them the truth about me, being a half of both of them. Killing was a nice word then, to tell it short. Both thought of me as a danger; the humans didn't believe I would not kill them, and the vampires hated me for not being a whole vampire. Both hated me and were afraid of what I was.
My words reached her mind; her face became sad too, and then she nodded.
"Hope you know what you do", she said quiter, and then left the room and the house in a very fast human speed.
Now I was alone.
With him.