Annoyed? That stage passed me hours ago!
"That stupid, little, evil! Gah! Why didn't he tell me that rotten, little, sneak of a vampire?" I muttered under my breath in the huge courtyard. Natalia in her cloak had followed me and now was standing there still while I paced up and down.
I turned on her.
"Agh! Why didn't you tell me this?" I almost shrieked.
"Renesmee I..."
I cut her off. "You had plenty of time to tell me this! Why didn't you tell me this! It's as if the whole world connects to me and I'm telling you now it is not nice! This is about me and the only person who didn't know was me! Why didn't you tell me? I mean..."
"Renesmee!" Natalia grabbed my wrists. "Listen to me, I only found out about this the same time you did and so did Kieran you heard how shocked he was when he found out. He was completely devastated when he realised the enormity of the subject and how you never knew it was there. I am truthfully sorry but I honestly didn't know." her tone of voice turned sympathetic in an attempted to calm me down. It worked.
"It still would have been nice to know. It's bugging me."
"I know but there was nothing we can do. You know now so it doesn't matter."
"It's not that that was bugging me. There's something else, something I need to ask."
"What?"
I realised. I remembered it half way through her word. Natalia saw it too she saw the glint in my eye and I saw hers.
"You know it dont you?" she asked.
"Yup. Only a bit though. I know the question but I need the answer. I need to ask Aro something, something I missed. I need to ask him about..."
That second we heard the doors open of the hotel and Aro's voice came pouring out.
"Walk slowly into the court yard he's in." Natalia whispered. I gave her a quizzical look. "Just do it." She added and I did.
"Aro! I've been meaning to see you. I need a word. Inside your lair." I came out with words so brave, was that even me speaking?
"It's not a lair, it's a palace." Kieran uttered quite nastily for a fake growl.
"Call it what you like but it's still a lair." I retorted.
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Inside the main room of the Volturi's palace is grand but totally un-modern. It looks like it was built in the fourteenth century, and-for all I know-probably was.
The walk over here was quiet and tense apart from when Aro told Natalia and Kieran to go. I nodded at Natalia and told her to wait outside the gates and tell my family where I am and how I am. When they arrive.
"What did you need to ask me Renesme?"Aro asked me bringing me out of my daze.
"You're gonna hate yourself for bringing that up. Aro," I began quite cockily for the nerves that I felt. "I'd like to know about the solstice? What does it have to do with this whole thing?"
I watch as he raised his eyebrow with confusion then his lips curled into an icy smile.
"We can never trust our own privacy with our little friend Alice hanging around." He said as though wishing, his eyes which were looking out of a window turned to me absent mindedly tapping my foot waiting for an appropriate answer which I knew I would get.
He drew in a breath and said, "I do suppose you'd be, wanting an answer?" I raised my eyebrows questioning his sanity, "The summer solstice for the northern hemisphere is the longest day of the year as you may know. As you may not know it is also a very important day for us, the Volturi as this is the day that we overthrew the Romanians thousands of years ago. As it just so happens this year the actual date is the same and so the Romanians want to over throw us on that day which is in three days."
I stood there in the middle of the room arms limp against my sides, speechless among other things not being able to move as my brain stops working instead of working over time.
At least for a second that is.
My brain kick starts at maximum capacity as I say, "Brilliant! You know I was always a fan of confusing plots. So where to begin..." I stand there piecing it all together trying to find the smallest piece of information that I am missing.
I didn't have to go far.
"Nahuel, why did you kill him and not the rest of us?" I say bravely, tears threatening to take over my eyes, hate filling up inside me.
"He was a risk to our mission nothing more." I glared at Jane who was being glared at by Aro "He was useless to us but important to you. We needed a piece of sadness in your life to make it easier to catch you. From my point of view it did a pretty good job." She smiled, evil smothering her lips like the most disgusting lip-gloss.
I turned to Aro trying to get the image of Jane's smile out of my head and trying to change the subject as quickly as possible, "Look here Aro, I worked out half your plan by myself without help, I have pieced things together in this jigsaw better than any of you ancients. Aro you've practically bent down on your knees and begged for my help. Face it Aro you need me."
He smiled at me with relief. I laughed.
"I'll come, if I want to, and therefore you can't do anything to be mean to me or show hatred against me. Anything during my stay counts nothing else so dont worry... Oh but you see you do have to worry. Talking about people behind their backs is very rude. Manners again! Oh yes, I heard every little evil word that popped out of your mouth. Oh and by the way I'm not helping you, oh no, but I am going to stop the fight. See you later!"
I waved, winked and as everybody in the room shifted in that split second I jumped up and perched on an open window. I jumped out of the window landing on my feet and ran so fast no one could see me, knowing that I was being followed by them, knowing that I had to get out of this place fast. I ran down side streets, main roads and alley ways until I lost them. I turned a corner I could see the exit. I looked over my shoulder checking if they had caught up to me noticing that the main road was empty. I turned my head.
I ran right into something, something warm, something fluffy, something familiar.