Okay, so this is probably the last chapter for today. I hope you all enjoy and please, please, please go vote on my poll. This story is far from over, but I still want to know what you all think about a sequel. I already have a plot for it, I just need you to go and vote on my poll about it. So here chapter 9. R&R:
Chapter 10: First Experience
Bella Pov:
Once we got inside the house I thanked Carlisle and Esme for letting me go. Emmett peaked his head out of the door just as Edward put me down at the top of the steps. One look at me and he burst into laughter. I smiled at him and ran downstairs retrieving the play station and came back with a huge grin glued on my face.
"You wouldn't dare." he said as I held his precious video game over the railing. His face turned whiter than it usually was if that was even possible.
"Try me." I said. I still had the grin glued to my face. He stopped laughing and froze. It was our turn to laugh. Edward and I burst into laughter at Emmett's frozen place. "Here take it." I said as I tossed it to him, he barely caught it but once he had it in his arms he cradled it as if it were a baby. This made us laugh even harder. Rosalie appeared in the doorway then, she looked at her husband who was holding onto his game for dear life and then at Edward who was trying to hide the smirk on his face. Not me, I was still grinning at Emmett. Then my eyes met Rosalie's and she glared at me. Sending cold hard eyes right at me. She growled and I felt a stabbing pain. The same one from when I was first transforming. I gasped and cried out in pain, falling to the floor. Edward's arms caught me. He tried to lift me into his arms, but as I cried out again, he laid me back on the floor, trying to harm me further. He sat beside me, scared and confused. I clamped my mouth shut and tried not to scream again, but I writhed on the floor as pain shot through me again.
"Bella? What's wrong?" Edward asked. I didn't answer, I knew that if I opened my mouth I would scream again. "Carlisle!" he called as if it were even necessary, Carlisle was already coming up the stairs to see what was wrong. I took in quick shallow breaths, it sounded as if I were panting, and laid still. The pain was still hard to deal with.
"Bella? Can you hear me?" it was Carlisle. I felt his hands on my face. He picked up my arms, the movement only brought on more pain. I clamped my eyes shut.
"Bella? Bella?1" Edward called. I reopened my eyes to show him I was still conscious. The last wall of pain was the worst. I screamed and curled up into a tense little ball on the floor, yanking my arms from Carlisle's hands. I clamped my eyes shut, and waited it off. Edward's hands traveled over me, trying to find some way to help.
And then it was over.
I relaxed and uncurled myself from the ball I was laying in on the floor. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Rosalie was snickering next to Emmett. He was ignoring her and staring at me with an unknown expression on his face. He was concerned for his little sister.
Edward and I both growled at Rosalie who stopped her laughing, but still wore a smug little smile on her face.
Bella, love. What happened? Edward asked. He was watching me worriedly.
I don't know, the pain was just there. I replied as I stretched out. No pain, it was like nothing had ever happened.
Is this the first time it's happened? Edward was really worried now.
I shook my head. Only once before, when I was transforming. At the very end. I started to get up. Edward took me into his arms and hugged me close.
"Bella? Are you okay now?" Emmett asked for both Carlisle and himself. Rosalie scowled at him and then me. She was getting really ticked off that everyone was still paying attention to me.
"I think so." I replied.
"Let me know if you need me. I'm going to try and figure out what's going on with you." Carlisle said as he reluctantly left to go to his study. Emmett went back into his room. Edward took me back into ours. He sat me on the bed and checked me over several more times. I sat still, knowing that this would go faster if I just waited.
"Edward, I'm fine. Really." I said, as the twentieth check over came and went. He lifted his searching eyes to meet mine. His face was a hard mask of no emotion. I could feel the fear and pain rolling off of him and quickly worked to make him calm again. It was harder than I thought, but I eventually did it. I tried to make my eyes change by feeling love and compassion, then I intensified it. When he stopped breathing and his face went blank, I knew I'd succeeded in dazzling him. I smiled.
'I know, but I'm still worried." he replied. I rolled my eyes.
"I've been through a lot worse you know. I'll live." I whispered. He took my arm and kissed the silver crescent on my wrist-the bite mark James had left on me-and then intertwined our fingers. He lifted our held hands to my face and brushed his hand over my cheek. I smiled again, his eyes scorched into mine and I stopped breathing. "Touché." I replied. He chuckled and ran to his closet, back in mere seconds and handed me a t-shirt and brown sweats.
"You can change in there." he said as he showed me his bathroom. I smiled as I took the brown sweats and t-shirt into the bathroom and kissed him lightly before closing and locking the door behind me-not that if he did want to enter a lock would stop him. I blocked him out of my head as I quickly changed into his clothes. I sighed as I recognized his wonderful scent that lingered on his clothes. I breathed it in and then picked up my ripped up tank and bloody jeans off of the floor. As soon as I walked out of the bathroom I was met y his arms. They encircled me and when I pushed away his face fell.
"Give me five seconds." I replied as I ran into Alice's bathroom and tied up the t-shirt with a hair tie. I brushed my shiny hair back and threw that up too. Then I threw my clothes into the hamper and trotted back into his room-all in less than 5 seconds I might add. He was going through a collection of cds on his wall. He pulled one off of the shelf and popped it into the stereo. Automatically, beats began playing and I recognized the cd as the same one Phil had given me. Linkn Park? I asked as he turned.
Yeah. He came over and joined me on his couch. I curled up next to him and listened to the drum and guitar.
Letting my thoughts wander to Charlie, Renee, and Phil. As soon as I thought about Charlie, I saw the funeral tonight. He was lying in the coffin, cold and pale. I shivered at the thought, my dad was dead, and I didn't know who did it or why. But I would find out. Then another vision smacked into me this time I dove into it:
Renee was sitting in her house in Florida, she was really big. Pregnant. Phil stood right next to her and laid his hands on her stomach, he laughed and so did she. They were both happy, and there thoughts were about everything that had to do with this baby. My mom's were about the daughter she'd already "lost" and the husband who was murdered.
The vision faded away then. And I took a deep breath. Edward was still beside me. I looked up at him and finally he smiled down at me.
"Renee's pregnant, congratulations sister." he said. I smiled, but knew that I would never get to see my baby brother or sister in person and for the first time, longed for my human life back. He put an arm around my waist and I laid my head on his shoulder.
"Is this really what you do every single day?" I asked getting a little bored.
"No, we go to school usually, but no one went today." he said. I nodded.
"We're going to have to leave now aren't we?" I asked. Finally realizing that the only way for me to live my "normal as normal could be for vampires" life was for us to move.
"Yes, we're going to go to Denali, maybe live with Tanya and them for a while." Edward replied stiffly. His mood changed from compassionate to annoyance and I had to work to keep it under control. Sending out new waves of calm every few minutes.
You don't like them I take it? I asked.
Not really, I mean as a whole they're alright, but Tanya is a handful sometimes. And that was all he would say on the topic. No explanations, no details, just him and his cryptic little remarks that he knew would drive me up the wall until I figured them out.
Edward Pov:
Thankfully I was skilled at hiding thoughts from people. I really didn't want Bella to know too much about Tanya. Bella was a stressed out newborn who did not need to know about Tanya's attraction to me. She liked me from the day when we'd first met, and ever since then she's been trying to get with me. The thing was, I just didn't like her in that way, as a friend yes. Mate, no. That's just how it worked. If Bella even thought about this, she'd rip Tanya's little strawberry blonde head off-not that I would mind because Tanya did not give up too easily when she wanted something and couldn't have it-but still. Bella's mind kept working over everything I'd said, trying to decipher every word. She was getting ready to bombard me with all of these other questions when I heard a car pull into the drive. Bella did too because she became alert. I heard footsteps, but they weren't the light graceful steps of Alice they were louder and more profound. Human.
"Bella, I think you should-" I began, but she was already at the window, peering out into the sheeting rain. She breathed in the heavy scent of human blood and I prepared myself to restrain her at anytime.
"Angela." she breathed. I nodded.
"She's human Bella, I don' think you should-" I began again, but her thoughts cut me off.
Edward, I'll see you later. She leaned up and kissed me quickly and then took off downstairs. Jasper was with her. Her thoughts were fighting with her. Yelling at her to attack, but she ran right for the back door and into the woods. Picking up speed and agility as she moved farther away from the house. I breathed out and kept a watch out for her thoughts. I felt a small burn in my throat, but it was minimal and I pushed it aside.
Bella Pov:
Sitting there, curled into Edward's side I was trying to figure out what he'd said earlier about Tanya. He'd never said anything about her before except they were just like the Cullens-animal blood only. I was getting frustrated as I picked through memories and words repeatedly. Then Edward stiffened beside me, I heard it then. The crunching of gravel under shoes. Human footsteps. Then scent of candy filled my nose and set my throat on fire. I stood and skitted to the window.
"Bella I think you should-" Edward started, but then he came beside me and rested his hands on my shoulders.
"Angela." I breathed. I recognized my best friend from when I was human. Edward nodded beside me, confirming my statement.
"She's human Bella, I don't think you should-" Edward began again, but everyone's thoughts filled my mind at once.
Who's that? Carlisle thought and then he smelled it too, because everyone's thoughts became alarmed.
Edward, restrain Bella, don't let her get loose- Emmett.
Hold onto her Edward, she won't be happy if she kills her best friend. Esme.
Everyone seemed to be "talking" to Edward, everyone except Jasper who spoke specifically to me.
Bella, hold your breath, and try not to speak. Come on. Jasper began, he came into the room and took my hand.
Edward, I'll see you later. I thought and then as I kissed him lightly, took off with Jasper right beside me.
Bella? You okay? You're pretty calm for a first experience with a human. Jasper asked as we hit the tree line. I nodded and pushed myself faster. Edward was right, it does get uncomfortable to loose the one sense we use the most. I needed to breathe again, and I needed to be far away from the house.
I took a deep breath again and was relieved when the air smelled like the damp woods and nothing else. "I see what you mean about the whole not breathing gets uncomfortable thing." I said.
"You okay? You need to hunt?" Jasper asked. He was worried about my thirst. Well yeah I was a newborn, but I wasn't thirsty at all.
"No, I'm not thirsty." I muttered. Edward, what's going on? I called out to him in my thoughts. But I was alone besides Jasper. I must've moved out of range.
"Really? You did great Bella. Most newborns don't even think twice about what they're doing before they do it." Jasper whispered.
"It was Angela, she was one of my best friends. I wouldn't hurt her." I muttered.
"Yes, and you were Edward's girlfriend, but he still had to keep from hurting you. For a newborn you did amazing." Jasper said proving his point. I smiled and then stepped forward a few steps, trying to see where I could reconnect with Edward in his thoughts. I couldn't seem to find him at all.
I closed my eyes trying to concentrate, and then I heard the beating of a heart. I breathed in the air, it was different then the scent I'd caught this morning. Not grizzly bear, but something a bit different, it smelled like deer, but it wasn't exactly the same, maybe elk. I opened my eyes and turned to Jasper, zoning in behind him. He froze, as if I were going to attack him. Before I even thought about it I was stalking forward, towards a solitary deer who had detached itself from the heard. I crouching and sprung. Without thinking I snapped it's neck and drained it of it's blood. My thirst wasn't unbearable, but it did help a little I'll admit.
"Thirsty huh?" Jasper asked as I buried the pale body.
"Not really, but I might as well feed as much as possible if I'm going to the funeral tonight." I said.
"Your going?" he asked in disbelief. I nodded.
"Carlisle said I could and I want to." I felt anxiety roll off of him and while I worked to calm him I muttered, "I'll be fine, Alice saw me there and I wasn't attacking anyone so she told Carlisle who let me go. I'll be hiding out in the woods. It's my own father's funeral, and I think I have a right to go."
Jasper shrugged, "Do you mind if I watch you though?"
I scowled, "I won't hurt anyone. But if you insist, fine." I wasn't happy at all, but if it helped out then fine.
"Do you think Angela's gone yet?" I wondered aloud. He stared at me in confusion.
"You can't "hear" Edward?" he asked. I shook my head.
"Too far away." I said. He nodded and we began to run back to the house.
Bella? Edward called out to me.
Edward, is Angela gone? I asked.
Yes, she just wanted to give me something. It's safe to come back now. He said. I smiled and started off again with Jasper.
"Got him." I announced proudly as we began moving again. "Angela's gone."
"Okay." he said.
A few minutes later I was in the living room sitting next to Edward. He had his arms wrapped around me, and we were discussing different things. Carlisle mainly just asking me about my reactions towards Angela, making sure I wasn't thirsty at all, and making sure I was fine with Jasper being there with me to help me if I needed to be restrained.
And then we hear tires pulling up the driving. The car pulled up and parked into the garage, Alice was home, and I was clueless as to what she would unleash on me next. I inwardly moaned as Alice walked in the door with at least ten shopping bags lined up on her arms. I gasped and wondered why I'd agreed to this.
This was a longer chapter to make up for not updating. I have to read 2 more books for school, write 3 book reports, and a creative writing assignment for my Honors Language Arts class. It doesn't help that the books are retarded though. Anyway, sorry for not updating sooner, I am trying. This weekend my parents had off of work so I really didn't get a chance, but I promise to try and get another chapter in tonight, and if not at least three up tomorrow. So review please.
Oh and I edited chapter 9 since alittlefaithinme2 mentioned that Charlie was dead and I realized that I made a mistake and wrote Charlie instead of Renee so I fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out. So Review please?