I was still making out with Santiago on my bed when my phone rang, a couple minutes after we had laid down. We both froze, and I sighed against Santiago's lips.
"I think your boobs ringing." He said, and chuckled against my lips. I rolled my eyes, and pulled back. I rolled over to my back, and sat up when I saw who it was.
"You know, you have horrible timing." I said. Santiago chuckled quietly, and I reached over and hit him to get him to be quiet.
"Why? I didn't interrupt something, did I?" Alice asked.
"No, I was just…talking with someone." I said. Santiago started chuckling again, louder this time. I held the phone between my head, and shoulder, and shoved Santiago off my bed with both hands. He hit the ground with a thud. I held back a laugh.
"What was that?" Alice asked.
"Somebody just fell." I said.
"You pushed me." Santiago said.
"What?" Alice asked, sounding confused.
"Nothing Alice." I said, giggling. "So, what's up? Is everybody okay?"
"We're all fine Bella. Jazz, and I are actually hunting. I was juts wondering when you were going to come home." Alice said. "I really miss you."
"I miss you, too. I miss you all. But, I can't leave yet. I've only been here two days. And, something came up." I said, playing with the hem of my dress. "I'll explain when I get home."
"Okay, Bella. But, please, don't be too long. We all really want you to just come home."
"You didn't tell them, did you?" I asked.
"No, but I really want to." She said.
"Please, Alice. I'll come home when I can. I really miss you." I said.
"Miss you too, Bella. Bye." She said before hanging up. I sighed, and hung up. I was staring at my phone, which I was still holding in my hand, when Santiago wrapped his arms around me.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, I just really miss them, that's all." I said, standing up. I walked over to the open wardrobe, and started to put the rest of my clothes away.
"I'm gonna go, and give you some time to yourself, okay?" Santiago said, walking over to me.
"Santiago…" I started, but I let it trail off when he kissed me on the cheek, and flitted out through my door. I sighed, and turned back to my clothes.
Once I had finished putting them away, and stacked my bags up by the door, putting the clothes they had found me in in them, I walked over to the window seat, the one that looked over the city, and sat down. I watched as a few late night shoppers made their way through the square, and to the buildings, or sidewalks surrounding it.
I really did miss my family. Years had gone by since I had last seen them, but, for some reason, I couldn't make myself go back yet. Something, or somebody was holding me here, keeping from wanting to go. But, I wasn't sure who is was: Santiago, or Edward?
And why did Alice expect me to go back so quickly? I had only been here two days, and she already sounded worried that I wasn't going to come back to the family. Did she really think that I would come here, and tell them that I wasn't going to join them, and leave? I really though that Alice had known me better than to expect that I would just tell them no, and leave.
What if she had had a vision in the short period that I had had my shield down? Did she see something happening to me? Maybe she saw me not ever coming home, but joining the Volturi. I could be sure, though. Too many maybe's and what if's were floating around.
I would just have to wait to see what the future held for me…
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I sat there for about an hour, just thinking and watching the people in the city. I was guessing it was around two in the morning when I got up, and left the window, there not being any more people for me to watch. I walked over to my wardrobe, pulled out my clothes for the day, and stripped out of my dress, and wedges.
I pulled on black straight legs, and a black tank top. Over that I put on a red plaid button up shirt, and my red converse on my feet. I let my hair down, and brushed it out. Then, I got out one stick of the eyeliner Heidi got for me, and put a little of it on, using the mirror on the door inside door of the wardrobe.
Once I finished, I walked over to the window that looked over the garden, and opened it. I leaned out, and gazed down below me. There was a path I hadn't yet followed right below my window. I climbed up onto the edge of the window, then I pushed myself out, and let myself fall. I twisted in air as I fell so that I was facing the building. I hit the ground, my heels absorbing the impact. I was right in front of Santiago's window, just as I planned.
I looked in, but didn't see him. I leaned across the small rose bushes that were below the window, and tapped on it. No answer. I sighed, and ran my fingers along the window, grabbing at the small line where they met. To my luck they were unlocked and I could easily pull them open without breaking anything. I jumped up onto the window ledge, then into his room,. I pulled the windows shut before looking around the room, conforming that he wasn't in here.
I left his room, deciding to just walk around the castle, maybe see if I could find him, or Aro, or somebody. I left the hallway that the guard's rooms were in, and made my way towards the throne room. I had just reached where the corridor splits, one way leading to where I was going, another a path I hadn't ever gone down, when I could hear his voice.
"… could have gotten in if I didn't catch him. Do you know what that would have meant? Somebody could have died because of you! We all know that you don't deserve to be a member of the guard, but that doesn't mean you have to let others know too." He said. I froze, listening.
Apparently, I had just caught the end of the conversation for I heard footsteps, one pair coming my way, and another going away from me, and through a door. The red headed girl I had seen on my first night here flew around the corner, running away from there. I assumed that Edward had been the one to go the other way, and through the door.
I decided to go the way that the girl had come from. I turned around the corner, and walked up to a door on the left hand side. I could heard quiet murmurs from inside, but I couldn't make them out. I pushed the door open, and entered a room I had never seen before. All of the guard, except for that girl, Felix, and Santiago were in there. They were standing around the walls, Caius, and Marcus standing near another wall. In the middle of the room was Aro, and a vampire down on his knees before him. The door had just shut when Aro reached out, and grabbed the mans head. Then, he twisted it, and with a sickening screeching noise it came off in his hands. He let the head fall from his hands to the floor, and Demetri, and Edward came forward. They tore the rest of the body apart, and piled it up in the middle of the room. Edward lit a match, and dropped it on the pile of body parts. The quickly caught, sending up purple smoke.
Aro, Marcus, Caius, Renata, and two females who I assumed were the wives headed towards a door on the opposite side of the room. Mot of the others made towards the door I was still standing in front of. I stepped out of their way. Some others, including Edward, stayed to watch the body burn, and watch the smoke go up, and out through a skylight.
Aro, who was the last of the six to leave the room saw me standing by the door. "Bella, dear, why don't you come with us, and have a chat? I would love to talk with you some more." He said, smiling. I smiled back at him, and made my way across the room. As I passed Edward, I could feel his eyes on me, but I refused to look at him. Not after what I had just heard from him outside the room.
I followed Aro, and the others down several halls into a room that reminded me of the throne room, but was smaller, and had several more chairs. There was also a couple of tables around the edge of the room. Caius and one of the female sat a little farther away from us. Marcus went to a door on the other side of the room, and left, seeming to be in no hurry like the others around here. Aro, and the other wife took seats near the center of the room, and I sat close by them. Renata had been standing close behind, but Aro dismissed her.
"Bella, this is Sulpicia." Aro said, introducing me to his wife.
I smiled politely at her. "Hello." I said. She simply nodded her head, not bothering to say anything in return to me.
"Athenodora is there with Caius." He said, pointing to the female who Caius was talking to. She smiled at me, and I returned it.
"What of Marcus?" I asked. "Does he not have a wife?"
A strange look came over Aro's face. He seemed sad, yet satisfied at the same time. "Didyme, his wife, and my sister perished some time ago, when we were still young." Aro said to me. Sulpicia looked away quickly. I got the feeling that Didyme's death wasn't what it seemed to others.
"That's horrible." I said. They both looked at me.
"Yes, I know. She was such a joy to us all." Aro said. Sulpicia reached over and took his hand. He looked at her, giving her a small smile, and she returned it.
I felt a pang in my chest at their show of compassion. It had reminded me of how Edward, and I use dot be, before he left me. I was happy with Santiago, but it just wasn't the same as when I was with Edward. My heart wasn't completely his. I always feel guilty after kissing Santiago, thinking that I'm cheating Edward. But, I have to remind myself that he has Heidi, that he's happy, without me. I have to remind myself that it's okay to be happy with somebody else.
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