Author's Note: Edited: 1/15/13 So this was my first story, and like all first tries, it had mistakes. This story is being edited and fixed(and rewritten into past tense), so if you see a mistake, don't hesitate to point it out. I'm doing the odd numbered chapters first, since they have to be changed the most. Enjoy and please review. :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight
Chapter Eleven
Adventures Outside
Isabella's POV
'Why do we have to use 'spoons'? It's easier to eat with my hands. And less messy.' Esme was the one that took me to the bathroom when I woke up. I wasn't completely sure why, but I had an idea. I could be pretty smart when I wanted.
Anyway, after that Esme gave me a bowl of 'yogurt with strawberries' and 'apple slices'. The 'yogurt' was just white stuff with red things like the ones we found outside. I liked it.
I was trying to feed myself. It was hard. I didn't like using the 'spoon'. Adriana was still sleeping, Melissa was awake. She was trying to tell the story we heard yesterday, but she's missing some of the words. I had to give her credit; she was trying. That was more than I could say about myself.
"The butterfwy flied away! Wook, a kitty. It's back and white. The kitty... the kitty... Wook a monkey!" Melissa said, continuing her story. She totally skipped a part! 'Melissa, the 'kitty walked away'. Don't you remember? You have a bad memory.'
"What did the monkey look like?" Rosalie asked. Melissa thought for a little. And took a bite out of her 'apple slice'.
"The monkey is bwown, and lives in a tree. Now... it's swinging away from me!" Melissa answered. I nodded. That was right. 'Yay Melissa!'
"Bella, can you continue the story," Rosalie asked. I understood 'story', but not 'continue'. 'I think she want me to tell the rest. I don't wanna.' I shook my head.
"Come on Bella. You can do it," Esme said. They were looking at me. I felt like I had to try, even though I didn't want to.
"Look a gog. It goes bark, bark. It bark at me, and ran away," I said, telling what I remembered came next. I liked the story, it had a lot of pictures of things I had never seen. I hoped I would dee them in real life one day.
"Good job Isabella," Alice said. I thought she was going to call me 'Bella' too. 'I like 'Bella'. It's easier to say the 'Isabella'. I should change it! Oh, I should tell them.'
"No! Bella," I told her, saying 'Bella' slowly. Alice laughed, so I did too.
"Sorry. Good job Bella," Alice said, smiling. I smiled and went back to my yogurt. I stabbed it with the spoon. The yogurt stuck to the spoon. How did it do that?
"Adri still sweep?" Melissa asked. She was really trying to use her new words. I should have tried harder.
"Yes, Adri is still asleep," Esme told her, saying the word 'asleep' slowly. Melissa said it wrong, I could hear that. Esme handed Melissa another apple slice.
"Why?" Melissa asked. She looked up at Esme.
"Because she just is," Esme told her. Melissa nodded and looked down. She was thinking.
"You sweep?" Melissa asked. I frowned. I had never seen any of them sleep.
"Uh... No, I don't sleep," Esme said. 'She doesn't sleep? Why? I like sleeping. I feel better when I wake up.'
"You eat?" I ask. I had never seen any of them, except Richard, eat either. They just gave us food. Weird. I wondered why.
"No, I don't eat." Esme said. 'Why?'
"Why?" I asked. I leaned in, I really wanted to hear the answer.
"Because... I don't get hungry," Esme said. I nodded my head slowly, while my mind worked that out. I guessed that made sense. I didn't eat if I wasn't hungry.
"Ever?" Melissa asked. Esme nodded her head.
"Ever," She said. Melissa finished her apple slice and went to play with the puzzle. She really liked it. It was fun at first, but then it got boring when I couldn't put together any of the pieces. I liked playing games with Emmett and Richard more. They came up with good games. They were like us, but bigger. Way bigger.
'Oh look, there's Richard! Why is he leaving? He can't leave, Adriana isn't up yet! She has to make him eat! That was funny; he didn't want to eat. His face was weird. And everyone else thought it was funny. No, I'm going to stop him. Richard, get back here!'
"Wichard!" I said, stopping him. He looked over, so waved him over and smiled really big. He came over.
"Hi," I said, popping my spoon in my mouth. I took it out slowly. He smiled and messed up my hair. 'Hey! Don't do that.' I leaned away quickly.
"No!" I told him, hitting his hand away. 'Don't mess up my hair; Alice made it pretty.' She changed me into new 'clothes'. It was a 'dress'. It covered my arms and had this little hole that I can put things in. Alice called it a pocket. It had a string thing around my neck, with a 'knot' in the back. It was bothering me. The dress was a really light blue color, like Melissa's eyes.
"Okay, I won't touch your hair," he said. 'Does 'hair' mean hair? I guess so. 'Touch' means touch, because sometimes Esme says 'don't touch that' and then moves me away. When I try to go back, she does it again. But only when I try to touch it. She really doesn't want me to touch that. I wonder why. I going to try touching it again.'
"So, what do you want?" he asked. I just wanted you to stay here. 'Look! Adriana is awake.'
"Adri!" Melissa yelled. Adriana had her 'clothes' changed too, like me and Melissa. I wonder why. They don't change our 'clothes' until after our bath. And we haven't had our bath.
"Food!" Adriana yelled, running to the table. She was loud. Why did she have to be so loud? She needed to calm down.
"I gotta go," Richard said. 'No! You can't leave. Get back here, idiot!'
"Wichard! Where you going?" Adriana asked, running to him. Wow, she was fast. One second she was there, then she was here. I had never seen her move that fast before. She grabbed his hand and started pulling him to the table. He didn't look happy! Which was funny. Really funny. 'I shouldn't laugh. It's mean. I'll just laugh in my head. Ha, ha. He's upset..'
"Nowhere I guess," he said, sitting down on a chair. Adriana gave Richard a spoon. Richard looked at her.
"Do I have to?" He asked. 'Suck it up, you're not a baby.' I heard that phrase from Emmett. I wasn't sure what it meant, but I like it.
"Yes," Adriana said. He took a bite of the yogurt and made a face. I smiled and finished my yogurt. Then I went to go play with Melissa.
"Is this a good idea?" Eric asked, while Rosalie was putting on my 'shoes'. The were black. And shiny.
"We have to test them. We need an idea of how they're going to act in the airport. Plus, they need practice being human," Alice said. I didn't like my 'shoes'. I couldn't see my feet. And it felt weird. I tried to kick them off.
"What if they move too fast and a human sees?" Eric asked. The stupid shoes wouldn't come off! Rosalie stopped me from trying again.
"It's early, this hotel is pretty much vacant, and we have seven vampires keeping an eye on them," Alice said. Rosalie put me on my feet. I still didn't like my 'shoes'. It felt weird to walk in them. Melissa and Adriana already have theirs on. I tried walking in them.
"Seven?" Richard asked. I walked to Melissa and Adriana. 'Maybe they can help me get them off.'
"Esme and Carlisle are staying back. They need to make some calls and stuff," Alice said. Rosalie kept stopping me. 'I give up. This is too hard.'
"Come on, it's time to leave. We only have a few hours until the sun comes back," Alice said. Rosalie grabbed my hand and lead me to the door. 'Where are we going?'
"Come on girls, we're going outside," Alice said. 'Cool! We haven't been there in a while.'
"Why?" Melissa asked. She twirled around, never letting go of Eric's hand.
"So you can meet new people," Alice said. Melissa stopped twirling.
"Why?" Melissa asked. She let go of Eric's hand and walked over to Alice.
"Because," Alice said. Melissa was about to say something, but Alice stopped her.
"Because," Alice said. Melissa just grabbed Alice's hand and smiled. Richard was holding Adriana's hand. Rosalie opened the door.
I didn't like 'meet new people'. The people here were boring. They wouldn't play with me, they just walked by. And every time I tried to run, Edward or Jasper stopped me. They said I have to be 'slow'. Like the new people. They walked slow. Why did I have to walk slow? I didn't wanna.
"Bella, you can't move that fast," Edward said, when I tried to run back to Adriana and Melissa. Melissa bounced a ball, and I went to get it. I went slow, because I was tried of them telling me that. I didn't want to, but I did. I wished they would cut me some slack.
"Why!" I shouted. Edward shushed me. 'No!I don't wanna be quiet!'
"No!" I yelled. I would stop yelling, so Edward picked me up and took me outside. 'No! No! No! No! No! I hate you!'
"Isabella," Edward said.
"No! No! No! No!" I yelled. He tried to hold me, but I struggled and push him away. Then I fell, but I didn't care. I just turned over on my tummy and started hitting the floor.
"No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!" I shouted. I was really upset. At some point I started crying. After a couple of seconds, I stopped.
"No... No!" I yelled, calming down a little. I rubbed my eyes. I turned over on my back and reached out my hands for Edward to pick me up. He did and I leaned my head on his shoulder.
"Better?" he asked. I nodded my head.
"What's wrong? You don't like going slow," he asked. I nodded my head.
"I know, sweetie. I don't like going slow. But we have to around other people, okay?" he said. 'Everyone?'
"Evewyone?" I asked. 'I don't wanna be slow all the time.'
"Only when we say you have to be," he said. I nodded my head. Edward took me back inside. It was a large room. Alice was taking to a person(and he didn't look happy). Jasper was with Adriana and Melissa. Rosalie and Emmett were with Alice. Richard went somewhere, and Eric was reading a book. Edward put me down near Melissa and Adriana.
"Feeling better," Jasper asked. I nodded my head. Edward gave me the ball, and I went back to playing with my sisters.
Jasper carried Adriana out of the room. She started crying and yelling like I did. Melissa hasn't. She has been doing a good job staying slow.
"You're it!" Melissa said, hitting me on the shoulder. 'No fair! I was distracted.' I chase her(slowly) and when I couldn't catch up to her, I hit Eric.
"Eric's it," I said, running away. He started chasing me. But he wasn't even slow running. He was slow walking. Eric got Adriana. Then she started chasing me. It was fun.
"Food?" I asked Jasper. He brought Melissa back a while ago and we kept playing the game Richard showed us. But I stopped, because I was hungry.
"You're hungry?" He asked. I nodded my head. Edward and Richard looked over. Eric grabbed Adriana's and Melissa's hands and brought them over.
"Esme left sandwiches to give them," Edward said. Oh, sandwiches. That sounds cool.
"Okay. Come on girls," Eric said, pulling them to the 'stairs'. Jasper and I started to go too. When we got to the 'stairs', Adriana looked back.
"Wichard!" She yelled. I looked back. Richard wasn't leaving with us. 'Bad Richard!'
"Oh, come on!" He said. He sounded angry. He came over.
"I wonder how long she'll keep this up," Edward said. Jasper and I started up the stairs.
"Hopefully, not long." Richard said.
The 'sandwiches' were yummy. When we finished, they let us play for a while without having to go slow. It was fun seeing new people(they smelled weird), but they were not very fun. And why did they have to walk so slow? I didn't get it...
Anyway, Eric put on some music. Adriana started dancing. She just jumped all over the place, like a bouncy ball. She grabbed me and made me dance with her. Melissa got away and went to play with her puzzle again.
Then music stopped.
"More! More!" Adriana shouted. Really, did she have to be so loud? We could hear you, sissy. No need to yell.
"Okay, okay," Eric said. He pressed something and new music started. Adriana kept dancing, but I didn't. I got away. I was kinda tired. I walked over to Edward and reached out my hands. He picked me up and I loosely wrapped my arms around his neck.
"Tired?" He asked. I nodded my head. He carried me into one of the rooms.
"Want to hear a story?" he asked. I nodded my head again. He set me down and went to get a book. I wondered which one it will be.
He came back holding a red book. There was a 'dog' on it. 'Oo, I like that story.'
"Is this one okay?" He asked, sitting next to me. I sat closer so I could see the book. Then nodded my head.
"Alright. Once there was a dog named rover..."
'What was that?' I sat up, then opened my eyes. I looked around the room. Edward wasn't here anymore. 'What happened? Oh, yeah. I fell asleep. What woke me up?'
"Hey honey," Carlisle said, walking into the room. I smiled at him.
"Sorry about the noise. We had someone else in here," he said. I looked at him, then reached out my hands. 'If I have to be awake, then someone's carrying me.' He picked me up.
"Who?" I asked. He said 'somebody', but I didn't think that was a name.
"The man from downstairs. The one who was talking to Alice," he said. 'What man... Oh, that guy! Now I remember. Well, it was mean of him to wake me up. I was having a nice dream, that I can't remember.'
"Gone?" I ask. 'If he's here, does that mean I have to go slow?'
"He's gone." Carlisle said, carrying me out of the room. 'Good.' Carlisle set me down on the floor. I looked around. Adriana and Melissa weren't here. They must have still been asleep.
"Hey Bella," Alice said. She was sitting down on the sofa. I walked over to her.
"So, I was going to go outside for a little bit. Do you want to come?" Alice said. 'I guess that could be fun. I don't have anything else to do.. wait.'
"Go slow?" I asked. She nodded. I pouted and shook my head. I didn't want to go slow.
"Please. It'll be fun, even if you have to go slow," Alice said. 'Well, I did have fun earlier. Fine.'
"Okay," I said. Alice sat me on the sofa and put on my 'shoes'. I forgot about those.
"There, let's go," Alice said. She set me on the floor and held my hands. Jasper came over. I guessed he wanted to come too.
'Wow. This thing can go almost as fast as I can!' Alice took me outside, then Jasper, Alice, and me got into this 'car'. It had doors and a place to sit. But that was it. You couldn't stand up or play in here. But I could watch stuff go by really fast.
'Why do I have to go slow, but this 'car' can go fast? It isn't fair. Oo, what's that! There's a lot of stuff out there. And a lot of people. And a lot of colors. It's cool.'
"Like the car ride?" Jasper asked. I nodded my head. It was cool. I smiled and looked outside a little more. This was almost as good as running. The only thing was that I couldn't feel the wind, and I wasn't actually running. That was the really fun part.
'I'm bored! This isn't fun. I wanna go back! How much longer do we have to do this? Alice lied! I hate her and this. I wanna leave!' Alice went into a bunch of 'stores' and I couldn't do anything in them. They were like giant rooms, with one see-through wall. I didn't like them. I couldn't run, I couldn't touch the stuff because someone would yell at me, I couldn't do anything. I was bored.
"Alice, I'm going to take Bella somewhere else," Jasper said, taking my hand. 'Where are we going? Is it a fun place? Can I run? Is it going to be boring?'
"Alright! And don't buy her candy," Alice said. 'What's 'candy'?'
"I thought you can't see things involving the girls," Jasper said. ' Doesn't 'see' mean see? Alice can see. What is he talking about?'
"I was able to make out a candy shop before the vision got blurry," Alice said. 'What are they talking about?'
"Fine, I won't take her to a candy shop," Jasper said. He took my hand and we left. I heard Alice say 'liar' before we left.
We passed a lot of people. And I mean a lot. There was a lot of smells and colors and things there. Jasper and I kept walking, until we passed a store that had toys. I(of course) stopped and pointed. And jumped. And yelled:
"There! There! There! There! There! There! There! There! There!" I kept it up until Jasper finally walked into the store with me.
'Whoa..'
'Toys. A lot of toys.'
'A LOT of toys. I want.'
"Bella-" I didn't hear the rest. I ran toward the toys. 'Oo look, teddy bears! They're weird colors.' Jasper came up to me.
"Bella!" He said, sounding mad. I looked at him, surprised. Was he going to make me leave? 'What did I do?'
"You can't move that fast, remember," he said. 'Oh, right. I forgot. I'm sorry.' I looked down and kicked
my feet.
"And you can't run off like that. There's people who might hurt you," Jasper said. 'Wait, people like them? Like the red eyed them. No! I don't wanna meet people like that!' I hugged Jasper's leg.
"It's okay. Nothing is going to happen to you, as long as you don't run away," Jasper said. 'I can do that.' I nodded my head.
"Now that that's over. Do you want a toy?" He asked. 'Yes! What kinda question is that?'
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" I said. He laughed, and I look back at the toys, this time making sure I move slow. 'Oh, these bears look cute! What's that?' I started walking away, making sure Jasper was coming too. 'What is this?'
"That's a tricycle," Jasper said. 'Weird word. What does it do? What's that? Oh, look a bunch of trains! These are cool. Oh, look little 'cars'. What's this?' I put my finger in one of the little holes. It moved. In a circle.
"That's a dial phone." Jasper said. Round and round it went. I picked up the part on top. 'What do you do with this?'
"See, you use a phone to talk to people who weren't there," Jasper said. 'How can you do that?'
"You use this," he points to the black turny thing, "to mark a number." I did not understand that.
"And you use this," he points to the top part, "to talk and listen." 'How?' Jasper grabbed the top part and put it to my ear.
"You just hold this to your mouth, and this to your ear," Jasper said. I held the toy part. It didn't work.
"This is a toy, so it doesn't really work. But you can pretend," Jasper said. 'Pretend?'
"Do you want it?" Jasper asked.'I don't know. Well, I like the spinny thing. But it doesn't seem very fun. No, I don't want it.' I shook my head. Jasper took my hand and pulled me somewhere.
While we were walking away, I saw a really cute white and red toy. It looked so soft. It looked like Adriana's teddy. But better. 'Want it! Want it! Want it!' I poked Jasper and pointed to the toy. I smiled and tried to look as cute as possible.
"Okay," Jasper said, walking me over. There was a lot of pretty bears, but I liked the white and red one the best. Jasper got it for me. He gave me my toy.
"Come on," Jasper said. We started walking toward a table and a person.
"Bella, I need to hold that for a little while, okay?" Jasper said, getting my bear. 'He better give it back; it's mine.'
"Hello, sir. Having a good day?" the man said. He looked nice. He looked at my toy. I lost interest, so I look around. 'What's that? It looks weird.'
"Yes. You?" Jasper said. 'How do you play with that? It doesn't look very fun. When can I get my toys back?'
"Business has been a bit slow lately. So, who is this little girl?" the man said. 'Oo, what's that? That looks cool. Complicated, but cool.'
"This is my little sister, Bella," Jasper said. I heard my name. 'What's a 'sister'? Where's my toy!'
"Well, she is just adorable. That will be $0.65," the man said. Jasper handed him something. 'Give me my toy.'
"Have a great day," the man said, while we were leaving. Jasper gave me the teddy bear. 'Yay!' It was soft. I hugged it hard with one arm, since Jasper was holding one of my hands. We started walking away from the 'store'.
I looked around. 'What's that? That 'store' is colorful. I wonder what's in there. Ow, hey!' Someone bumped into me and I almost fell. That wasn't nice. 'Meany!' Jasper pulled on my arm, so we kept moving.
"Hey Bella," Jasper said. I looked up. He had a weird look in his eyes. 'Alice isn't going to like this...'
"Want to try some candy?" He asked. I didn't know what it was, but sure! I'll try anything once.
"Okay," I told him. Jasper walked me to another store.
"I thought I said no candy," Alice said, when we met up with her. Mm-mm... Candy was sweet. Jasper shrugged. Alice didn't look angry, so it had to be okay.
"Did you at least get some for Adri and Melissa?" Alice said. Jasper held up a bag, that had more candy in it.
"Yep," he said. We got into another car. I put my teddy bear in my lap and looked outside. I was happy. I got a pretty bear and really really sweet candy! I liked candy!
"So, is that your teddy bear Bella?" Alice asked. I nodded my head and hugged it close. 'Mine. Don't touch it.'
"It's very cute. So she picked it out?" Alice said, to Jasper this time.
"Yep. And this," Jasper said, pointing to the candy. I picked out all the candy; I only picked things that were colorful. But Jasper put some of it back.
"They are going to grow up so spoiled," Alice said. 'What's 'spoiled'?'
"No doubt," Jasper said. 'Oo, was that a dog? It is! Yay!'
"Mine!" I yelled, when Adriana tried to get my teddy bear. It was mine. Mine. Adriana tried to get it again, so I ran away. The grown ups were talking, but I wasn't paying attention. I was trying to make sure Adri didn't get my toy.
After a while, Eric picked me up. I was confused, but then I saw the table. It was time to eat! Yay. 'No Adri, its my toy! Stop it! Stop it! Stupid sister!' Richard grabbed Adriana, so she had to stop trying to get my toy. Mine.
So I started eating. I didn't really like my food, but I was hungry, so I ate it. The green stuff was really gross. But I ate it all.
"Good job Bella. You ate all your food. How about some candy?" Esme said. 'Yes! I knew that eating that yucky stuff would pay off. Candy! Give me. I nod my head. Give me! Give me! Give me! Give me!
"She shouldn't be so excited over candy. So what do you want?" Esme asked, opening the bag of candy. I looked and picked this one with a sliver and brown outside. Esme took of the outside part, and gave me the candy part.
"What that?" Adriana asked. She only ate half of her food. Even Richard ate all his food. Adriana was still making him eat first. It was getting old.
"Candy!" I answered, eating more of it. 'Mm-mm... I love candy!'
"I want!" Adriana said. She didn't look happy.
"Finish your food first," Esme said, pointing to her food. 'Ha.'
"Me candy?" Melissa asked. She ate all her food too.
"Sure, you can have some candy." Esme said. She showed Melissa the candy, and Melissa picked something. I was distracted by my candy. Adriana went back to her food. 'If you don't eat it, you don't get candy.'
"Come on Bella. Time to pick out your pajamas,"Alice said. 'Yay! Pajamas!' I jumpped down from my chair, and walked with Alice to pick something out. And I was still holding my teddy bear.
'Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles. I like bubbles. Bubbles, bubble, bubbles. I like bubbles.'
"Okay, Bella. Time to get out," Alice said. 'Do I have to? I like my bath.' The water went away, and Alice wrapped something around me and carried me to one of the rooms. She dried me and helped me put on my pajamas. They were blue.
"Okay. Time to get in bed," Alice said. She put me on the 'bed'. And gave me back my teddy bear. Then she grabbed her 'brush' and moved it through my hair. I liked it when she does that. It calmed me.
"Oh Bella, you have very pretty hair," Alice said. I smiled. 'Thank you Alice.' I played with my teddy.
"Alice, where's the lavender bubble bath?" Rosalie asked. Melissa was with her. I guessed she was going to have a bath now.
"Bella knocked it over and it all spilled out. You have to use the other one," Alice said. She moved me near the pillows. I laid down and she covered me with something.
"What?" I asked, pointing to the thing covering me.
"That's a blanket," Alice said. 'Oh, blankets. They're warm. And soft.' I snuggled into the bed and waited for someone to read me my story.
"Okay Bella. Which story do you want to hear?" Alice said, holding up a bunch of books. I liked that one with the kitty. I pointed to that one. Alice put the other ones down, and sat next to me. I moved a little so I could see the pictures.
"Casey the cat had a little problem," Alice started.
AN: So, did you like this chapter? BTW remember Bella is two years old. Most Two-year-old's are selfish most of the time. Their favorite words are 'mine' and 'no'. Bella is no different. She is not an exception here. She's a normal half-vampire two year old.