Carlisle's Decision

Gifts and Reactions

EPOV

"As do I," I said, "my ability is reading minds."

Tanya's mouth dropped and her thought became incoherent with embarrassment. She looked horrified. I laughed to myself and was glad I told them myself. The look on Tanya's face was priceless.

Her face flickered through several emotions, so fast even I couldn't read them, before it finally settled on one. Unfortunately, it was anger. Her face was livid, I was honestly frightened and it appeared everyone else was also. She finally composed herself enough to say something.

"OUT! GET OUT!" She screamed at us, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, YOU….. YOU…. YOU SPY!"

"Tanya calm down, please," Bella pleaded with her, "whatever he heard couldn't have been that bad if he didn't say anything."

"SHUT UP! It's ENOUGH that he is SPYING on my THOUGHTS, I don't need YOU to turn on me too." She screamed at Bella. Bella looked like she would be crying if she was human. I wanted to reach for her so bad and comfort her, but Tanya would probably kill me if I tried.

"Tanya, I don't care what you thought about I wasn't even listening most of the time," I tried to tell her. It was true though, I tuned her out after the dirty thoughts started coming.

"Sure you weren't," She replied icily.

"I wasn't really," I told her, "I stopped listening when you had….certain thoughts about me."

"Let me guess you're going to tell everyone in this room what I was thinking about aren't you," she retorted.

"No, I won't," I calmly replied, "You're mind is a personal place and even though it's difficult for me to ignore a person's thoughts, I still try to and what I do hear I don't tell anyone. Unless of course it could possibly bring harm to myself or the people I consider friends and family."

"It's true Tanya," Carlisle said helpfully, "Edward would never intentionally invade a person's privacy and then relay it to another unless the thoughts were about something that could cause misfortune to befall us." I smiled gratefully at him and looked at Tanya.

"Well, I guess we will put it up to a vote," she said reluctantly, "Carlisle, you can stay of course, but unless the majority agrees that Edward can, he will have to leave." With that said they walked into the other room. I politely blocked out their thoughts so that they could vote in privacy. A couple minutes later they walked back into the room. I could tell from Bella's smile and Tanya's petulant expression what the decision was. Bella came up to me and pulled me into her cool embrace and told me that I could stay. I smiled at her and whispered thank you to her. I looked at the piano and asked if I could go play it. Bella smiled and told me of course I could. I took her hand and sat her down next to me. I began to play and everything melted instantly. I was lost in my music. I thought about Bella sitting next to me and the music changed. I began playing a piece that I had never played before. It was beautiful even to me. I heard Bella gasp and looked at her.

"It's so beautiful," she whispered in awe, "and it's for me." I stopped playing and looked at her curiously.

"It's my gift," she explained, "It allows me to understand people's intentions, sometimes before they realize it themselves. When the music changed I used my gift to see your intentions and when I realized what they were I gasped. I couldn't help it; I was shocked that such a beautiful piece was written for me." I smiled at her and gently kissed her forehead.

"How can you be shocked?" I asked, "It's a beautiful piece for an even more beautiful girl."

TPOV (AN: We are going back in time to right when Tanya found out about Edward's gift.)

"My ability is reading minds."

As soon as the words left his mouth, I wanted to die. I was mortified. I couldn't even think straight. I had been thinking about him in ways I shouldn't since he got here. I felt my face quickly switching emotions. Finally, it settled on one: anger. I was furious. How could he be spying on my thoughts?

"OUT! GET OUT!" I screamed at them. I didn't care that I was making a fool out of myself, I just wanted him gone. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, YOU……YOU……YOU SPY!"

"Tanya calm down, please," said the one person I didn't want to hear right now, "whatever he heard couldn't have been that bad if he didn't say anything."

"SHUT UP! It's ENOUGH that he is SPYING on my THOUGHTS, I don't need YOU to turn on me too." Bella looked hurt after I said this but I didn't care she deserved it and I don't regret one word I said to her just now.

"Tanya, I don't care what you thought about I wasn't even listening most of the time," Edward tried to explain."

"Sure you weren't," I replied coldly. I knew I was acting like a child, but I was too embarrassed to care.

"I wasn't, really," he told me, "I stopped listening when you had….certain thoughts about me." Oh God, he heard the thoughts I didn't hear. But if he stopped listening early on he didn't hear the really bad thoughts.

"Let me guess you're going to tell everyone in this room what I was thinking about aren't you," I retorted. I wasn't about to lose this fight.

"No, I won't," he calmly replied. Why can't he just be angry like a normal person would be? "You're mind is a personal place and even though it's difficult for me to ignore a person's thoughts, I still try to and what I do hear I don't tell anyone. Unless of course it could possibly bring harm to myself or the people I consider friends and family."

"It's true Tanya," Carlisle said trying to help, "Edward would never intentionally invade a person's privacy and then relay it to another unless the thoughts were about something that could cause misfortune to befall us." Ugh, there's no way to win this fight is there. Hm, maybe there is a way.

"Well, I guess we will put it up to a vote," I said reluctantly, "Carlisle, you can stay of course, but unless the majority agrees that Edward can, he will have to leave." Oh yeah, this is a good idea. All I have to do is convince the others not to stay and he'll have to leave. We walked into another room and started talking (quietly enough that they couldn't hear us of course).

"I vote for him to leave, of course," I said immediately.

"Well I vote for him to stay," Bella said right after me.

"Why, so you can finally have a wittle boyfriend, is that it Bella." I said, starting to act like I was talking to a baby towards the end. I knew I was being cruel but it didn't matter as long as he had to leave.

"Ugh, why are you acting so bratty all of a sudden Tanya," Bella and Kate said at the same time.

"I vote for him to stay," Kate said, "they seem nice enough and it's not like it's his fault he can read minds."

"Well, I guess it's up to Irina then," I said icily looking at her.

"I don't see the harm in letting him stay, like Kate said it's not his fault he can read minds," she said calmly.

"Fine, whatever, he can stay," I said angrily, "but you'll see. One day he going to hear something you don't want to hear then you'll wish you would have voted for him to leave." With that we walked into the other room. Bella went up to Edward and told him the "good" news. He took her hand and they walked over to the piano. He started playing a song and even I had to admit it was beautiful. At the same time, I wanted to cry. The last person to play the piano was our mother. I still remember the last song she played before they came for her. I heard the song abruptly change and ran out of the room. It was too much for me. I couldn't handle it anymore. The last thing I heard was Bella explaining her gift to Edward, before I collapsed on the forest floor dry sobbing.


OK, I hate my computer!! I just had a really good AN typed out and my computer deleted it. So now I have to try and rewrite it. OK, let's see........ sorry about taking so long to update. Like I said before, I had alot going on. I liked this chapter. The end kinda wrote itself so if it seems different from the beginning that's why. I didn't plan on Bella's gift being different or on Tanya running out at the end. Or on their mother being the last one to play the piano. It just sorta happened. Sorry for the kinda cliffhanger. I felt like it was a good place to end the chapter and I'm going to update again over spring break anyway. Review my story please. Any kind of review helps even a flame. For example someone flamed my chapter and pointed out a mistake, which I was able to go fix. I don't care what the review says as long as it's not something stupid. (Example: I hate this story. It made me want to throw up.) Tell me WHY if you put something like that. Anyway reviews make me write faster. So............REVIEW!!!! (Wow this is way different than my first AN that my evil computer deleted. Oh well, I'll just have to deal with it. : D)