Arranged Marriage
Previously:
"So if Charlie and Renee are not my real parents and you are my real mom then who is my real dad?"
NOW
"Okay what is going on?" I ask. Right now me and my real mom, Van, we were in one of the billion bathrooms of the mansion. The Cullen's haven't talked to me much after the big discovery of me being a Blue Bird but I always here them whispering around the house and when I try to read their minds they are thinking of some annoying song. Anyways back to the bathroom situation. There was a tub filled with water that had ice cubes floating at the top and a silver bucket.
"Well, I'm making Lorenzo lower the shield he has over you." Van said nervously. She was biting her lip a trait that I got from her and looking at the marbled tiles on the floor.
"What?"
"Look you got the mind reading, empath, and future seeing because you were around people who could do that so Lorenzo couldn't shield you from absorbing the powers. Since you now know about your past I'm making him lower the shield and you get the powers that have been kept out. So you can control them of course."
"So what's with the ice bath?" I ask walking over to it. I dip my fingers in it before jerking them back out. The North Pole is warmer than the temperature of this water.
"You remember the first time you were able to break Lorenzo's shield and finally got the use of the powers you have now."
I grimaced at the memory. "Exactly now strip and get in."
"You are not serious?" No way was I getting in that tub.
"Isabella." She said in a stern voice. Unwillingly I striped and got in the tub. My teeth started to chatter instantly. I am going to die of hypothermia. Van muttered something into a phone.
I waited and waited but nothing ever came. I was about to get out when I felt the familiar rush of pain and heat course through my body. Suddenly the water was to warm and the bucket to small. This wasn't like the first time it was worse. Way worse. The heat seemed to get hotter and hotter and hell seemed like a cool vacation to go to at the moment. My body still retched but nothing came out and I wasn't surprised I couldn't have anything left in my digestive system after this. After an eternity and a day the pain lessened and the water started to get frigid again. When the water was back at its freezing temperature I jumped out shivering.
"Hey what was all that noise?" Edward asked opening the door. Oh my god I was naked! My god could this get any more embarrassing? Yep it could because Edward looked right over at me. "Where's Bella?" I'm right here. What the. I lift up my arm only to see the tiled floor below. Oh my god I'm invisible.
"I don't know she was here a second ago. Bella!" Van called out. Instead of answering her I went to the side of the bathroom and put on a bathrobe quickly.
"Why did that robe just move?" Edward asked confused.
"Because I'm invisible and not wearing anything but this." I say simply.
"Bella?"
"Yeah. Hey Van how do I become visible again?"
"Um I don't know this isn't my power. Um think about being visible." Okay visible? I closed my eyes and heard a gasp. My eyes shot open and I was glad to see my hand this time instead of the floor.
"That was weird." I look up to see Edward gone and Van looking sadly at the door. "So what do we do now?"
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3 months later. My powers were finally under control and I learned that my father was a man named Richard. Marcus Volturi killed him for being the father of a monster like me. Van took me and hid me in the small town of Forks and gave me to Charlie and Renee who learned that they could never have kids. I learned I got his stubbornness and his ability to speak our mind. Of course when Van told me this there was a huge thunderstorm that hurt many. I was upset that I could never meet my father unless I died.
But that wasn't why I was sad today. Today the Cullen's were packing for their departure tomorrow, they would be leaving very early in the morning so this is my last day with them. Our relationship got better, seeing as they could finally come to terms of what I am and I came to terms with what they are. But Edward still seemed uncomfortable and his emotions showed me that he is regretful. For what I don't know but I didn't pry.
"Bella!" Van screams. I go into the living room where I see her pacing frantically.
"Yes Van." She stops mid pace and looks at me. Her eyes filled with sorrow and her emotions with worry.
"I'm sorry, I'm so, so, so sorry." Her eyes turn glassy.
"What is going on?" Before she can answer two people walk in.
"Isabella dear1" A women screams and kisses both of my cheeks. "How are you?" The woman is very obese and is wearing too much blush and blue eyes shadow. She is wearing tight flashy clothes that looks like she is trying to recapture her youth but failing immensely.
"Uh fine?" I say it as more of a question.
"Oh where are my manners, Isabella dear this is my son Kyle." She pushes forward a very hot guy. He is about 6'3 brown almost black hair, ocean blue eyes, and a muscular build. He smiles his ultra white teeth and I cannot find one imperfection. But he was just too perfect, I smiled anyways and shook his hand.
"Actually it's just Bella." I say.
"A beautiful name for a beautiful girl." I blush slightly. "I will be very happy with you as my wife." Oh his voice is like honey.
"Wife?" I scream and rip my hand out of his and look back to Van. "What is going on?"
"Did you not tell her?" Kyle asks looking at Van then back to me. "The Blue Birds are very short so we have to marry one another to keep the race going. You and I were destined to be married once you were born and now that we have found you we are at the proper age to be married."
"But I can't marry you, I don't even know you." I say struggling to keep my voice down. "I can't marry you, I won't!" I run out of the room at vampire speed and race to my meadow tears streaming down my face. Once I get there I stop. Edward is lying down in the middle but looks up upon my arrival. Seeing my tear-streaked face he comes over to me and wraps me in his embrace. My knees crumple and we fall to the ground with me still crying my eyes out.
"Bella what's wrong? Please you are scaring me." Edward says in a concerned voice. I stop crying but still keep my head down not looking in his eyes.
"I'm getting married." I whisper. I feel his arms tense around me and his emotions turn to hatred and jealousy.
"Oh really." His teeth are clenched.
"I don't want to marry him. It's some stupid arranged marriage that I can't get out of." His arms relax slightly.
"Then don't marry him."
"But I have to." Edward grabs my face and forces me to look up at him. His expression is fierce.
"No you don't."
"Yes I do!" I try to get out of his iron grip to no avail. "Don't you see my race is dying I have to do it to keep it alive!"
"Does it make you happy? Being with him." I look deeper into his topaz eyes.
"No. It's just I don't know him. I just met him today." He lets go of my face and starts pacing around the meadow.
"You met him today and yet you are going to marry him."
"I have to. I have no choice." I mutter in a quiet voice but his vampire hearing caught it.
"No choice! Everyone has a choice Bella!" He stops then comes back and looks at me at eye level. "Choose to be with me."
"What?"
"Choose me not him. I'll take you away from this place. You can come live with me and my family."
"Are you insane I can't do that! I can't just leave." I stand up and start heading back to the house but Edward keeps up with me easily.
"You can't or you won't." He blocks my path.
"Edward I have a life here."
"You won't once you marry him." Edward says cutting me off.
"And I'll have a life if I marry you?" I said sarcastically.
"Yes."
"How can I know?" I start to move to the side to get past him but he grabs my arms pins me to the side and leans his face very close to mine. I stop breathing and my heart races. I start to lean forward to close the gap between us, my eyes close but Edward holds me back.
"You see, you already want me so why want him?" My eyes snap open and I use vampire strength and rip away from him.
"You are an ass Cullen. I can't wait for you and your family to leave." With those last hateful words I teleport back to the living room. "Sorry I needed a moment to collect my thoughts."
"Oh that's okay deary." Kyle's mom gushes. "Now will you were out we found the perfect date."
"Date?" I ask in monotone.
"For the wedding of course."
"Right um when is it?"
"Next week Friday at the chapel a few blocks down from your school. Oh it will just be fabulous!" Kyle comes over and puts his arm around my shoulders.
"One week."
"Don't worry everything will be set by then baby."
One week until my life turns into a living hell.
