I would like to apologise to all I haven´t been able to update neither this nor my Solitude story. Unfortunately, my left wrist was kind of...hurting and I was trying to prevent it from writing at home ( Enough I have to type all day at work which wasn´t possible without the cream...), now it´s fine again and I would like to continue with both stories...
have a nice weekend and please let me know if you like it :-)))
Ch 10
Irene woke up and stared. At first she didn´t know where she was. The room looked unfamiliar.
Then she felt incredible pain in the head. She slowly reminded the events of the previous day.
It still seemed like a dream. First it seemed as if nothing happened. She wished to return back to her dorm to her carefree life again.
Studying, going to dancing, visiting parents….having problems the normal teenagers have.
But she wasn´t normal teenager. And not after everything she learned.
She persuaded herself to open the eyes. She could see her blond husband giving her a glass of water: „ Drink this…."
She decided to do as he said and drank the water. He added: „ There is also a pill against the headache. You should be better soon."
She swallowed: „ Thanks…."
She hoped the pain would be over soon. He just remained silent and didn´t know how to start. She wasn´t just ready for a difficult talk, but they should make some rules….and explain some mistakes.
He coughed and began: „ Irene, I would like to talk to you…first about yesterday…."
She watched him and remained silent. He began slowly: „ Look, I know it wasn´t fair from me to snap at you …"
She shrugged: „ I assume you had the right to say that…it was so sudden….."
He asked: „ You knew before…?"
She looked down: „ Just few days before they told you, I was visiting my dad…..when Felix and one more man appeared in dad´s house….." „What did they say?"
She looked at her fingers again: „ That it was decided for me….and I have no choice…."
She knew she had to lie, she couldn´t tell the truth…..He nodded: „ They want to tie our coven to theirs…..it´s all about power again…."
She stayed silent again, she had no idea what he was talking about. She hoped that one day he would explain.
Now it wasn´t the right timing. She moved her knees and laid the hands around them. She felt secure like this.
He continued: „ Still, I would like to apologise…..I didn´t want to be rude….yesterday…."
She waved the hand: „ Don´t worry…..it´s been a hard day….."
She was still staring to the front and he asked: „ I suppose, you will move to my house…"
She shrugged again: „ I have no other choice, Felix claimed my dorm rent will be cancelled by the end of the week…."
„What year are you in?" She replied: „ The last one….I am finishing my degree in three months…I just need to finish my thesis…"
He nodded: „ I assume that Alice has already prepared us the room in the house. I hope you will like it, when we get home…"
She still hasn´t shown any sign of interest. He thought that she might still be in pain and asked: „ What about your head?"
„It´s getting better…." He stood up again and said: „ I also wanted to ask…..if…. you….you drank a bit too much yesterday…"
She reminded of the champagne and said: „ I would like to apologise for that….I don´t drink…just yesterday…"
He stopped her: „ We both made mistakes on the previous day…what about to start again with clean table? Nothing wrong happened and we should deal with the present situation as civilized as we can.."
She watched him: „ Alright….."
He stood up and said: „ here on the table is your breakfast….. you should already get up…. And change…..we have about an hour before leaving to the airport."
She agreed and got out of the bed.
When they got to the airport, Alice handed all of them the plane tickets she received at the check-in. They were sitting in couples because the plane was almost full. Irene didn´t talk much with anyone.
She was a bit ashamed for her drinking last night and now she was back again in her sad and regretful mood. She will have to live with people she doesn´t know at all. She will share the bedroom with man she doesn´t know, doesn´t love… it´s gonna be hard.
They only hope she had was that he was a vampire and vampires don´t sleep. So the worry they would share a bed was kind of useless. She sat down on the seat next to the window. Carlisle followed her and sat next to her. He was holding the newspapers in his hand and she hoped he would devote the attention to the papers. She was getting used to his company. Truly, it wasn´t the worst. He wasn´t a kind of person to make his presence hard to bear. Exactly the opposite. His presence was easy to get used to.
The flying attendant announced the beginning of the taking off and in few minutes they were leaving the Vegas. From the moment they moved in the air, she wasn´t feeling fine. She didn´t seem to enjoy flying. Actually on the previous day, it was her first flying experience. Before the flight he asked her: „ Do you have a chewing gum?"
She watched him and wondered why would a vampire need a gum.
Before she could reply, he handed her a small package: „ Take one or two before the plane is in the air. It will help your ears…"
She nodded and did as he said. He opened the newspaper again and before he devoted to reading he asked: „ Have you flown before?" She watched her palms again: „ No, yesterday was the first time….."
He nodded and returned back to the news. She was watching the seat in front of her all the time. She couldn´t relax. She opened the magazine from the flying company but it didn´t seem to distract her.
She still felt nervous. When they were in the middle of the journey, they flew to the storm. There were lightnings all around and she was scared. Suddenly the sign to fasten the seatbelts appeared and people were requested to stay at their places because of the turbulence. She finished the coke she had on the table and looked outside.
But this view scared her. She almost began shaking when she saw what´s going on outside. When the plane began moving from side to side, she just stared. She has never experienced anything like this. She heard about turbulence but this was kind of scaring. She had no idea that this is normal. She was holding the hand on the armrest and was almost shaking.
She tried to relax and breathe in and out but it didn´t help. When the plane moved to the side again, she began shaking. At the same moment she felt a light cold pressure on her hand. She could see her husband holding her hand whispering: „ don´t worry…. This happens almost everytime…"
She wanted to look and caught another lightning outside which made her look back. He smiled and with the other free hand he moved the window shade down. She whispered:
„ Thanks…..", his fingers were circling around her fingers and she had to admit she felt much better. It was weird to feel somebody´s hand on hers. She never held a man´s hand like this. It was not surprising concerning the fact that she didn´t have a boyfriend in her entire life. And now for more than 24 hours she had a husband.
He didn´t seem to be kind of curious about her, but at least he helped when needed. In the morning he gave her the pill and now he held her hand. She could say that to her surprise, he cared about her. It was still something new.
She couldn´t get used to the idea that he was holding her hand. But it wasn´t hard to accept that. Exactly the opposite, she enjoyed that. His hand didn´t left hers for the next 30 minutes and afterwards the plane was moving down to land on the Seattle airport. WHen they reached the ground, she breathed hard.
That made him chuckle: „ You survived….."
She managed to say just: „ Yeah…..thanks for help…"
„ you´re welcome…."
When the plane stopped, he took the bags and together with Irene they followed the rest of the family to the baggage claim. Alice and co. Travelled just with handbags but the remaining four had some more luggage. Fortunately, they didn´t have to wait for long. It was raining again and so they didn´t have to hide.
They split in two groups and Carlisle was driving his car sitting in the front with Edward and Irene was in the back with Esme. The named one was smiling all the time at her, touching her arm gently from time to time and whispering comforting words. It was exactly what Irene needed at the same moment.
An hour later they arrived to their house. Irene got out when Carlisle opened her the door. He was at the door before she even tried to open them. He led her to the house and began showing the rooms. Then he gently tapped her her back and moved her to the stairs. They got in the first floor and he pointed at one door on the right side: „ Here is the bedroom that you will sleep in, and next, there is my study….I have also a library there if you´d need anything for school or just for leisure time…"
She nodded, he followed her back to the bedroom and in a second he was back with her bag: „ I hope you like the room, it is ours now, so if you have any wish, we can change the wall color or carpets, or whatever…you just need to say…"
She nodded silently and looked down again. He checked the watch: „ I apologise, I should go back to the hospital to check on my patients….."
She didn´t say anything just moved her head in agreement. He continued: „ Edward promised me to take your bags and move them over here. When you are ready, just tell him…."
She nodded and wanted to say goodbye: „ I think, I will….start with the packing….."
He stopped her gently by touching her hand: „ Irene, you don´t have to do it now…..you can have some free time just for yourself….it´s been an exhausting weekend"
She disagreed: „ No, no, I mean, I am fine…I can start right now…."
He watched her dubiously: „ Ok, as you wish…..just….be careful….."
she agreed and he wanted to leave the room. Before he went away, he turned around and said silently: „ I am sorry, but I think it would be good if you could give me your phone number….."
She smiled: „ Sure…." And dictated him the combination of digits.
He smiled and dialled her number: „ Now you know mine…." She smiled when her phone began ringing. He smiled: „ Mirrors?"
She nodded: „ My favorite….."
„ I like that one too…."
That surprised her nicely, before she could say anything, he waved: „ see you later…"
And he closed the door behind. After a second the phone began beeping few times after. She got many text messages from Carlisle´s adopted kids with their mobile phone numbers. The last one was from Alice who added a PS notice: „ This happens when you live in a house full of vampires, we always hear everything."
She had to smile. They really began treating her like a part of the family. This is the feeling she never knew because she had no siblings, mum and dad always treated her like adult but she didn´ t know the feeling of having a big family and lots of siblings.
She couldn´t help it but she began taking about them as her siblings. Yes, she was more in the position of their mother-figure by marrying their father, but still she was much younger, less experienced. She believed that treating them as her brothers and sisters would help her to create some relationships among them.