Chapter 9: The truth about the Cullen's
I was still passed out but I was still
vaguely awake. I could tell that I was laying down on some soft
surface and I heard barely audible voices. "Jasper is she going to
be okay? How did you do that Edward?" The voice was familiar it
was…. Alice? What was she doing here? There was a long moment of
silence after Alice asked that question.
"We can discuss that
later…right now we need to worry about Bella, I think she is just
in shock." A sweet velvet voice murmured, it was Edward. "I have
a feeling that she is going to wake up very soon" Alice said in
excitement. My unconsciousness was beginning to subside and I slowly
opened my eyes. "Bella." Jasper, Edward, and Alice said at the
same time. My eyes quickly scanned the room, we were in the Cullen's
secret library, the place Edward took me on our first date was on a
smooth leather couch located in the middle of the room near the
family seal on the ground. Jasper, Edward, and Alice were all there.
I was so confused…. There were so many questions and thoughts
running through my mind, they were interrupted when Alice ran and
gave me a hug. "Bella, I knew that it wasn't just a nightmare,
you should have listened to me." Alice said in a I-told-you-so
voice. "Alice how did you and Jasper gets here." I said as my
eyes darted between her and the timid looking Jasper by her
side.
"Well we were talking in the café when you left and
everything was… great…. But then my eyes glazed over and I saw
you getting…attacked again…. It was so awful…. This time it was
even clearer and I saw what street you were on… I told Jasper and
he and I ran to where I saw you…. But by the time we got there
Edward had already gotten to them.. Jasper told me he knew where
Edward had taken you and… that's how I ended up in this place!"
Alice explained in one breath. I began shaking my head slowly as I
took it in. "Wait! Your nightmare wasn't a nightmare? So what…
was it?" I asked in confusion. Then Edward sat beside me and said,
"It was…a vision…. We believe Alice might have a gift." "What
gift?" I asked in confusion. "She is psychic." Jasper said
while looking at Alice in a loving manner. "Wow." Was all I could
manage to say? It made since. Alice had murmured in her nightmares
the other night the sentence 'No, No, don't hurt me….. Take my
money. No...please'. I hadn't realized why when I said those
words in the alley they seemed so familiar but now I realized that
Alice was seeing the whole thing before it happened…. She was
seeing it through my eyes. The thought of what had just occurred in
the alley brought shivers to my body. Then I remembered how I got out
of the situation…. Edward. He saved me…. But it was how he saved
me that confused me. The incredibly fast speed… the ease he had in
picking up the men that were twice even three times his size.
Something was definitely different about him.
"Edward?" I
asked as I looked into his eyes. It was so strange his eyes were back
to their beautiful gold tint and looked nothing like how they did
when we were at the restaurant.
"Yes Bella?" Edward asked in a
slightly relieved voice. "How… Did you know where I was? How did
you pick up those large men like they were weightless? How did you
move so…..fast?" I asked as I looked into his eyes. Edward didn't
answer me instead he kept looking into my eyes as if he was waiting
for me to run away. "What are you talking about Bella?" Edward
said as he still stared into my eyes. "Edward I saw it to, Jasper
and I came right when you picked up those men. I have never seen
anything like it, they were like 3 times your size and you lifted
them up like they were a piece of paper." Alice said in
astonishment as she looked at Edward. I looked from Edward to Alice;
I wasn't the only one who saw it, that means I didn't see
things.
Edward and Jasper looked as if they were having
some mental conversation, it appeared that Edward was nodding his
head in agreement but he was looking at Jasper. Edward then got up
and ran over to where Jasper was. They way he ran over to Jasper
was….not normal, it was inhumanly fast. It was so fast that if I
would have blinked I wouldn't even noticed that Edward had moved.
"Alice I think you need to sit down for this." Jasper said in
concern. Alice was shocked just like me, it was written all across
her face. Alice sat down on the couch beside me. Edward looked at
both of our faces and than said, "As you guys have just seen I have
incredible strength and I am fairly fast….. So is jasper…. So is
my whole family." I was completely shocked. "Are you guys like
superman?" I said in astonishment. Jasper laughed and said in a
quite tone, "Not exactly." Then Edward said, "We
are….vampires." My face lost a lot of color and so did Alice.
"You mean you guys drink the blood of humans." I said as fear
began to rise in my body. "No…no, my family and I are different
from the others….we are vegetarians." Edward said in reassurance.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "We… we should go." I
said as I nudged at Alice's arm with a dazed expression. Then
Edward's face began to look sad. "Bella don't go… I …need
you…. I am not dangerous… I have been extra careful around you;
remember how in the restaurant you said that my eyes looked black?
Well they why I couldn't pick you up at your house. I
was going hunting so that way I wouldn't be tempted by your scent.
That's what I was doing right before I saved you. I…. need you
Bella. Don't be scared. I have had many many years of practice to
know how to resist human blood." Edward said in a rushed voice. I
honestly had no idea of what to say. His words seemed so honest.
"What do you mean many years? How old are you?" I asked confused.
Edward looked in to my eyes measuring my reaction as he said, "I
have been 17 for….661 years." I shook my head in disbelief.
Edward than continued. " I was born in 1331, when I was 17 my
country, England was struck by the Black death, it was a vicious
plague that killed so many of my friends it killed both of my
parents… it would've killed me…. If it wouldn't have been for
Carlisle…. He was a doctor and he saved me by turning me into a
vampire." Edward said. I was about to say something when Alice
asked, "What about you Jasper? How long have you been 17?" Jasper
looked weary as he slowly said, "I have only been 17 for 8 years."
Then Edward said, " jasper was one of the victims of September 11
he was in one of the towers when it collapsed, Carlisle had been
working as a doctor in a hospital near by and saved him by turning
him into a vampire." There were a few minutes of silence as Alice
and I digested what had just been spoken. I was sure of two things
Edward and the rest of his family are vampires, there is no denying
that, it's the only thing that makes since. The second was that
Edward and his family would never her me or my sister. I made up my
mind at that point; I knew what had to be said. "I don't care. I
am not scared of you Edward; I know you would never hurt me." I
said with confidence. Edward's face lit up. "O Bella, I promise I
will never hurt you." Edward said as he pulled me into a tight hug.
Then Edward gave me a light kiss on the lips. We both sat down on the
couch together.
I saw Jasper look at Alice with hopeful eyes;
Alice appeared to be deliberating something in her head. "I just
met you jasper but I don't think that you would ever heart me."
Alice said slowly as a small smile formed on her lips. Than Jasper
ran up to Alice and gave her a hug. I didn't care if Edward was
human or not, there was something about him that made me want more. I
could tell Alice felt the same way by the way her and Jasper stared
at each other. I didn't expect that going to Paris would lead to
the discovery of inhumanly beautiful vampires but for some reason I
felt safer than ever in the arms of the statuesque Edward.
