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Chapter 12: What's the Story?
Bella Pov
The Cullen's house was beautiful. It was a place where our kind could be free to be ourselves, without interruption from humans. Surrounded by dense green forest, it was a paradise for vampires like myself and the Cullens; I could see why they liked to live here.
After they let me settle down after they rescued me, the Cullens and I went hunting. Vanita had starved me so much and with the strain of my singer, I was very thirsty. After I drained many deer, I felt myself gain control and went to look for Edward. I loved to watch him hunt. There was something about watching him hunt, the way he looked like a predator, the way he perfectly took down his prey. I made sure not to get to close. It is dangerous to be too close to a vampire hunting. Our animalistic and possessive side takes over and that can be dangerous for anyone, even someone as important to someone as a mate.
Suddenly Edward's golden gaze locked on mine as I registered a twig snapping under my foot. He growled at me stalked forward. I tried to remember what Demetri taught me to do in situations like this. I had to be submissive, show no threat to Edward. I stood very still. Edward took a deep breath. His stance then faltered. A look of distraught and horror marred his perfect face.
"Oh Bella, I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me!" he said rushing forwards. I met him half way and he hugged me tight. I breathed in his scent and all my fear vanished.
It's my fault, I should have known better than to watch you hunt. I thought, opening my mind to him. I was comforted by his thoughts of love while he kissed my forehead. With Edward and I, we didn't need words to express our feelings, I felt attuned to him, and his every look and thought meant something to me. I loved him, we were soul mates. We stood there in the forest until Edward sighed and whispered,
"Love, Carlisle is calling a family meeting, we need to work out your story before you go shopping with Alice and Rosalie and you don't want to keep Alice waiting, she is a scary little pixie at times." I sighed a laugh and nodded my head in his chest. We slowly broke our embrace and I looked in his liquid topaz eyes. I love you. I thought. His beautiful chuckle filled the silence of the forest.
His, I know was all I needed to hear to know that he felt the same way.
We made our way to the house to see everyone in what Edward dubbed 'The Meeting Room', which in actual fact is the dining room. Carlisle was seated at the head of the grand oval mahogany table in the middle of the room, Esme sitting at his right and the family sitting along the table. Edward pulled a chair out for me and I sat down and he sat next to me.
"Okay everyone," Carlisle said, "we are here to discuss Bella's human story while she stays with us, now does anyone have any ideas?" he asked. I looked around; everyone was quiet while thinking and Alice was searching the future. Edward just looked at his brother.
"Emmett, that sounds like a good idea." He said and Emmett raised his head.
"Um," Emmett started, "why don't we just tell the truth, just humanise it." He said, looking around, pride on his face. From the looks on everyone's faces, we knew it was the idea to go on, all having similar ideas. Emmett looked satisfied with himself. He turned to his wife.
"See, I can have a smart idea!" he bragged, poking his tongue at her. Rosalie rolled her eyes.
"Idiot" she muttered.
"Emmett's idea will work." Alice piped in, "we say that she is the daughter of one of Carlisle's friends in Italy, who is in Australia on business and because Bella's step mother didn't want to look after her, we offered for her to stay with us!" Alice explained, "She can keep her name and age."
"That sounds believable; I mean I don't even have to lie." I said.
"Everyone in agreement?" he asked, looking around for any sign of objection from us.
"Okay that ends our family meeting," Carlisle said and Esme smiled.
"Can we go shopping now?" Alice asked bouncing in her seat. I groaned, feeling dread and Jasper laughed at me. I then got an idea. Nobody laughs at Bella Volturi's pain and gets away with it.
"Hey Ali, can the boys come with us, I mean, we need people to carry our bags don't we?" I asked the pixie, innocence painting my face. I looked at Jasper, whose face was filled with terror, and then at Emmett, who was staring at Rosalie with pleading eyes, begging her not to take him with us. Edward laughed; he knew something that the rest of us didn't.
Alice pulled a face, "No, absolutely not, Lauren and Jessica will be there- part of the reason we had to have your story before we left- and I don't want them fawning over my husband and brothers or else they will never leave us alone." She exclaimed. Jasper, with a sigh of relief, patted his wife's shoulder while Emmett got on his knees and looked up to the ceiling while holding his hands together like he was praying exclaiming "Thank you, Thank you!" Rosalie just slapped him on the back of his head. I was crushed, my plan to get back at Jasper failed, oh well, I'll get him back later.
"Come on, we have to go." Alice said jumping up out of her seat. Carlisle was in his study with Esme and the boys were making their way to the TV to play PS3. I turned to face Edward who whispered "Have fun love" and kissed me. It took a yelling Alice to pry us apart after his lips touched mine.
We arrived at the shops of Port Angeles in less than an hour, thanks to Rosalie's fast driving. All vampires were the same in wanting to be fast when they drove. Alice made us go in a variety of stores, getting essentials of what I needed and a few extra things that Alice said we might need, like for a date of something. We also got outfits for school tomorrow. We were heading towards the car when Alice and Rose turned into a shop full of lingerie. I inwardly groaned. Shops like these were Heidi's favourite; she always wanted to surprise Demetri with special things. I guess that because I had no mate, I didn't really care, but now I had Edward, so maybe I would by some sexy underwear.
We were looking at something Rose picked out when two humans headed in our direction, fake smiles plastered on their faces. I had a feeling that these humans, a brunette and a blond, where Jessica and Lauren.
"Hi Rosalie, Alice and …um…" the blond trailed off, internally rolling my eyes I smiled.
"Bella Volturi." I said and she seemed to glare at me. Alice seemed to see their glares.
"Bella is my dad's friend from Italy's daughter; she is staying with us because her dad is away on business." She explained. Rosalie gave them a smug smile.
"She is also Edward's girlfriend." She said and the brunette could have killed me with her glare while the blond huffed.
"Well anyways, I'm Lauren and this is Jessica." She said, her smile seemed to say 'we hate you'
"Well I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow." I said kindly. They huffed and walked away.
"Sluts" Rose coughed. Alice giggled and I couldn't help but crack a smile. We headed to the car and back to the Cullen's house. The boys were waiting to carry our bags in and we made our way to the living room. I felt two strong arms slide around my waist and lips at my ear.
"How was your day love?" Edward asked. I opened my mind to him and let him see how today was.
Don't worry, he thought, they seem to have a crush on me, quite annoyingly so actually.
I laughed with him, those girls were going to be a pain in my backside, but they will soon find out that no one messes with the Volturi.
And more importantly, no one messes with me!
Okay, that is the end of chapter 12. I should have the next chapter up by next week if all goes well but I am not making any promises.
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Until next time,
D.
