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Chapter 13
JPOV
My phone buzzed bringing us out of the silence that followed the bomb that is waiting to fall.
"Done already?" I answered
"Oh he made it way to easy! I might have to find a bear or something. It will at least put up a fight." My love's voice sweetly said. I started to walk back with Carlisle who smiled at her comment.
"Darlin' you shouldn't play with your food"
"That's what Demetri just told me," she pouted. "But it was soooo boring! I couldn't really concentrate so it was probably a good thing they didn't fight or run, I may have lost my meal"
I rolled my eyes
"Don't roll your eyes at me Mr. Whitlock!"
"I did no such thing!"
"You did too! I saw you"
Confused, "How…" and there she was, lounging against the last tree on the line.
As she closed her phone she answered, "Like I said, I saw you" she smirked. I walked up to her and wrapped my arms around her waist pulling her tight to me and buried my face in her neck and hair and inhaled her sweet scent.
"Hello to you too" she hummed. "And hello Carlisle, how are you tonight?"
"I am fine. How are you doing?"
Pulling away a bit to answer him, "Very good"
"Ridding the world of evil?"
"Haha, yes I guess you could say that" She pulled back some more to take my hand to head back to the house. "So what did I miss?" She asked me.
"Not very much, Carlisle spoke with Edward and Carlisle and I were just having a chat."
"Away from the house in this weather?" she asked suspiciously stopping without me noticing
"We needed some privacy" I stopped walking a few yards away
Her jaw clenched, "You told him?"
"I'm sorry, I did." She sighed, she wasn't happy with my answer from the emotions she was throwing out there. "I'm sorry darlin', but he could tell something was bothering me. I know it wasn't my place to tell." His voice dropped to a whisper since Carlisle had entered the house but with our distance the whisper still wouldn't carry. "But I only told him that you collect information, nothing about Edward, Alice, and Tony."
She was quiet and still for a few minutes. I waited for the fury to hit me and her screaming to start but I felt nothing as she slid her shield up. She finally nodded.
"It would have come out eventually. God, Carlisle must be so disappointed in me. I am glad he does not know the rest."
BPOV
"I am glad he does not know the rest," I finally said.
Though Jasper doesn't either. What I have to do if Aro desires someone badly enough. The force I am to use.
We entered to house and joined Em, Rose and Tony in the living room. Rose was flipping through a car magazine while Em and Tony were playing Halo, clearly on opposing teams.
"MOTHA FUCKA!" Em yelled at Tony as he destroyed Tony's character
"Payback is a bitch, bro" Tony replied through gritted teeth.
"No one beats the video-game king! Bow peasant!" Rose rolled her eyes as I laughed. "What? Think you can bring me down baby sis? We can make a little wager!"
"What are the stakes big brother?"
"Hmmmm, If I win you have to fail the semester" I rolled my eyes, big deal…. not!
"And if I win, you have to run all over campus, grounds and buildings, in nothing but a tutu and fairy wings screaming 'I am Tinkerbelle' "
"DEAL!" Oh my brother was an idiot. Tony handed me the controller with an apologetic look that said, "You're doomed"
"First to 50 kills or most kills by time runs out wins" Em declared
"Bring it!" I was red and Em was blue. Right off the bat I killed him.
"First Strike" the game informed, "Red team takes the lead"
Emmett proceeded to get me a couple of times but for every kill he got I doubled or tripled back.
"Game over. Red team wins"
That's my 50 kills to your… 19, dear brother"
He just stood there, mouth hanging open in disbelief. "You…. What... I… oh fuck me!"
"That's your wife's job. And I think tomorrow at 1:30 at the end of common hour would be a great time, don't you think? And don't forget, you have to run at a human pace" I sat back down next to Jasper with a big shit eating grin on my face
Alice and Edward walked in and took a look at my elated face and Emmett's of complete shock.
"I will make sure the camera is charged by Emmett's look. What was the bet and who beat him?"
"I did and he has to run all over campus in only a tutu and fairy wings yelling that he is Tinkerbelle." I told her
"Very nice, he has needed to be knocked down for sometime. Isabella…." Alice hesitated
"Yes?" I asked my old best friend
"Can we talk for a minute?"
"Sure" I followed Alice to her and Tony's room. She closed the door behind us, like that would make any difference. She didn't say anything for a few minutes so I spoke up. "So you wanted to talk?"
"Bel… Isabella, I just want to say I am so, so sorry for leaving you like that back in Forks. If I had seen how hurt you'd be I would not have left. You were and I hope you still will be my best friend. I don't care that you are a guard member or that you feed on humans. I… I just want my best friend back"
I took a breath, "Alice, I appreciate the apology and I do accept it but right now I can only offer a new beginning for a friendship. I can't go right back to us being best friends again like nothing happened. I trusted you and you hurt me, all of you did."
And it will hurt less for you in the end if it comes to that
"I will do whatever it takes to win and build your trust back"
I nodded, "Okay. Alice…"
"Yes?" She asked a little more like her usual perky self I remembered
"Have you apologized to Jasper?"
Her face fell a bit, "What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. Have you apologized for lying to him or suddenly divorcing him? Not that I'm not happy you did since we can be together. But it wasn't just me you hurt, but Jasper too."
"But I did. When I gave him the papers…"
"Alice, please, you didn't mean it then. Are you even really sorry for what you did?" I started to think she wasn't
"OF COURSE I AM! How can you think that I'm not"?
"Because of what he told me in his letters. If you truly are then you need to tell him. He loved you unconditionally for what 60, 70 years? Then you just divorce him and tell him you've lied to him the whole time. He hurt for so long. It took so much to convince him to come back to the family. I don't think he had ever planned on coming back if I didn't keep telling him to."
"I… I didn't realize."
"Alice you never do. I'm sorry that I seem like I'm being cruel but I'm not I'm being honest. But sometimes you can be quite selfish, and sometimes take your visions for granted. So as a start down the path of earning my trust back, you can start by truly apologizing to Jasper."
"I will"
"Good" I gave her a hug, "Lets head back downstairs." When we joined everyone else again I plopped myself back on Jaspers lap as Alice danced her way back to the couch behind where Tony was standing with the Guitar hero guitar. Jasper gave me a look asking about what just happened.
I smiled and shook my head, "You'll see later," which he quirked his eyebrow at. "So what did we miss"?
"Well Emmett is all cranky now over you beating him at Halo so he smashed the Xbox so now him and Tony are battling in Guitar Hero and again its not looking good for Em." Rose caught me up
"He seems to forget that I was in a band before a groupie changed me, so I knew all of these songs by heart and probably forwards and backwards. I can even probably play with my eyes closed and still get a perfect score," Tony said
"What band?" I asked
"Oh you never would have heard of us. We were a local band in Trenton and never got our chance to travel."
"Nice, Local bands are better anyways. If they don't travel then don't get all, "Look at me I'm a big time band" then go down the toilet a year later." I said as I picked up Rose's magazine she discarded on the floor and started flipping through it. It was time for a new car, here at least.
"Interested in cars?" She asked
"Kind of. Heidi and Felix educated me a bit and I can fix basic stuff on a car but nothing crazy. But I am due for a new car but I'm not sure what I want"
"What are you driving?"
"In Italy my Porsche 911 turbo that is a prototype. But here I just have a CRV to blend in as a normal student."
"A prototype? I'd love to get my hands on that"
"Yea its not even going to be released, I had it custom made" I pulled out my phone to show her some pictures of it
"Damn! Okay now I really want to get my hands on it that is one fine piece of machinery. So what ever happened to the rust bucket you called a truck?"
"Hey now, be nice to my baby! He is forever parked behind Charlie's old house surrounded by a nice garden."
"How long did it take for it to finally die on you?"
"Don't know. I left for Volterra a week after graduation, and when I went to visit Charlie I always rented a car."
Carlisle had entered the room putting on his coat to leave for the hospital. "You were able to see him?" he asked
"Not for a few years after I left and was turned. I had still emailed him and called after I left. And since my eyes were the easiest to change and keep changed, visiting him was no issue. My thirst was never really an issue. Aro was amazed."
"What do you mean?"
"When I woke up, I didn't notice the burning in my throat. Even after being asked it only felt like a scratchy throat, nothing I couldn't have managed."
"Impressive" Carlisle said. "Well it was very generous of Aro to let you stay in contact with Charlie."
"He trusted me since I came over so willing. And the whole I could change my eye color was helpful. But he knew how much I missed and cared about Charlie."
"How did you discover the appearance changing ability?"
"It was right after talking to Charlie on the phone. It was almost Christmas and I hadn't seen him in 3 years I think at that point. I missed him terribly and all I wanted nothing more than to see him. But with my eyes there was no way I could. Next thing I knew my eyes were back to brown again. They always have the slightest bit of red around the pupils that is only noticeable to vampires or a human that gets right in my face. But they don't.
"So Aro let me go since I could hide my eyes. We got contacts for Heidi and she joined me. It was really nice. We chalked up my absence to not long holiday breaks and expensive airfare that wouldn't be worth the trip with the little amount of time I would have been able to spend with him. And my even more paleness to being cooped in a library all day. It was almost too easy"
"I am so happy you were able to stay in contact with Charlie. I know how much you loved him. Did you get to see Renee at all dear?" Esme asked
"Not as much as I got to see Charlie. I would try to schedule a layover in Jacksonville when it wasn't going to be sunny for a couple days but it wasn't very often. But I did get lucky a few times. But she had Phil and my baby brother Nathan."
"Her and Phil had a little boy? How lovely!"
"He was a cutie. I just hope that Renee was more grounded by the time he was a teenager." I smiled at the blurry memory.
We hung out for the rest of the night talking and watching movies until 9am rolled around when Jasper and I had to leave for class. We walked in hand in hand and I changed my appearance back to what it was on the first day, not like anyone especially my professor would notice, and took my seat while Jasper took the seat Heidi would have occupied.