The Twilight Saga is the rightful property of Stephenie Meyer, not me.
Chapter Twenty
The smell of cinnamon and ginger wafted through the air of the Bauer's home. Since Seth and Keely's date got postponed because the Bauers aren't leaving their house, Seth suggested they stay in and make gingerbread men. Marjorie was more than happy to help, trying to get the rest of her pack and me to join in. August joined in, but that was only because he wanted to eat the gingerbread men. I declined, because gingerbread men were meant to be made during the holidays and the holidays had passed.
Unfortunately, my will was crumbling as I smelt their first batch of cookies cook in the oven, my stomach growling in anticipation.
"Are you sure you don't want to make any?" Seth asked as he walked in the living room, covered in icing. I raised an eyebrow questioningly and he shrugged it off with a chuckle. "August and I got into a little icing war. No biggie."
"No biggie?" Marjorie questioned as she walked in, some icing in her hair as she glared at my pack-mate. "You've dirtied up my kitchen! Now you and Keely are going to have to wait for the second batch so I can clean."
Seth scratched the back of his head as he smiled apologetically to her. "Sorry…we just got carried away, is all. I'll help you with it later."
"Mmm," Marjorie said as she pursed her lips, her son walking in, icing all over his shirt. He took it off and tossed it on the floor as he smirked at me.
"Bet you never seen these," he pointed to his chest, his grin growing more defined.
I pointed at Seth. "I've seen his…and I've seen the rest of my pack. And, as much as you might not want to admit it, yours are not as impressive as his."
He crossed his arms and pouted. "Ruin my fun, why don't you."
"August," Frank said as he walked in, eyeing his son. "A word?"
"Aww man," August groaned as he followed his dad out. "I didn't do anything this time!"
I snorted as I looked at Seth. "I think I'm going to tell your mom that you got into a fight so you'll get in trouble too."
His eyes shrank as he glared at me. "You wouldn't."
"I so would and you know it."
"Stop acting like children," Marjorie said with a roll of her eyes. "Seth, please come with me into the kitchen. I need your assistance in cleaning the kitchen."
Seth sighed as he followed Marjorie into the kitchen, apologizing profusely about the mess.
As they left, both Nadia and August walked in, August grinning from ear to ear. I raised an eyebrow as he grinned at me even more, trying to hold back a laugh.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
August shrugged as he turned to Nadia. "Dad just wants you to accompany us when we gather food for the pack, and considering your alpha is under the Brother's Oath, you can't say no."
Nadia rolled her eyes. "August, I don't see why you're so excited to go hunt. We do it twice a month. You should have it out of your system."
"Wait, isn't it the New Moon?" I glanced out of the window and noticed that there was no moon shining in the clear night sky. "Don't you need the Full Moon to shift?"
Nadia sighed as she shook her head. "No, we don't. It's just a whole lot easier for us to shift when the moon is full. I thought you heard all of this stuff when you found out about us?"
"Guess I wasn't paying attention," I murmured. Ever since I've stayed with the Bauers, since Seth didn't want to be left alone in case Victor decided to act as the protective brother again, I've grown more and more uncomfortable with Nadia. It wasn't that I didn't like her, but I knew that her eyes were on me wherever I went. Her eyes would linger at my cleavage or at my stomach as she spoke to me, and whenever I left the room I could feel her eyes boring into my lower back.
Needless to say, my patience was growing thin with her.
"That's because you were too busy holding Alice's hand," August snickered. "Anyway, Dad asked me because it doesn't hurt me when I shift, and he asked Nadia because she's the second oldest."
"The older you are, the less it hurts," she explained. "I think Frank should go, since he's older than me, but he's my alpha and I have to obey him."
"And he wants you to go to disguise our scent."
I nodded as I stood up from their couch. "Okay, let's go."
"But, we can't communicate when we're together, so we need to tell you what needs to happen." Nadia then went into detail about hunting and whatnot, and I learned that I was going to have to carry their food for them. They'd eat their share, but then I'd have to have three or four animals on my back to feed their pack-mates.
With a nod I watched them as they shed their clothing, averting my eyes as they shed their undergarments. I ran out of the house first and into the cover of the trees, taking off my clothes and tying them around my leg before I shifted. I turned around to find two wolves walking towards me, one blonde and the other brown.
We ran through the forest and found a herd of deer grazing in a small field. August and Nadia zoomed passed me as they tackled a buck, taking him down to the ground. I looked away and charged after another buck, biting him hard enough so that he'd bleed out before I ran to find another one.
After I had given a fatal bite to a third deer, I stopped and bit his back before twisting my neck around and placing him on my back. I turned around to find Nadia and August dragging a deer I had defeated, so I bent down to their level and they placed him on my back as well. We had to sniff out the first deer I tackled, he had managed to run quite far from the place I had bit him, but we followed his blood trail and found him lying in the grass.
Once all three of them were dangling off of my back, we made our way back to their house; I was walking slowly so that our kills wouldn't fall. After about five minutes I spotted their house, so I dumped the bodies in the trees before I phased back and put on my clothes, grabbing two of the deer and throwing them over my shoulder.
I walked in the house and dumped them on the ground before I told Seth that I had to leave and ran home. Once there, I could smell a certain strawberry-like scent that made the corners of my lips tug upwards.
"Alice?" I asked into the air with a smile as I closed my door, staring into the house. I heard a giggle come from upstairs and I knew that my intruder was somewhere in my room. Thankful that my parents weren't home, I ran up the steps and found Alice laying across my bed with a grin on her face, wearing a revealing ensemble that left little to the imagination.
I swallowed a lump in the back of my throat as my eyes trailed down her body, starting with her kissable lips and ending with her legs that hid my prized possession. "Wh-what are you doing?"
She let out another giggle as she sat up and looked at me with an innocent expression. "I figured I'd treat my girlfriend to a nice surprise. You like?"
"I love," I said as I shut my door, locking the handle before I walked over to my bed and pressed my lips to hers. "You don't know how badly I want to eat you up right now," I whispered hoarsely into her ears as our lips separated.
"Maybe that's what I want you to do?" she asked with a whisper as her hands trailed up my body and under my shirt. "After all, I want to show you how much I love you, and I want you to show me how much you love me."
"Hmm," I said thoughtfully as I shivered under her touch. "That's going to take awhile."
"I have awhile," she whispered before our lips connected once more.
As we made love I could feel that Alice was worrying and that there was something off about her. I shrugged it off, however, because I knew that the Volturi were probably stressing her and her family out right now.
Regardless, it was one of the best nights of my life.
A/N: Something is off about Alice. Anyone care to take a wager?
Some of you are really, really clever with your guesses. Some of you guessed a male while the majority guessed females. I'm not pulling a Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer and saying "Oh, Bella thinks it's a boy," so in turn it'll be a girl. Nope. The Volturi know who the rogue is because they've seen the rogue, and since they use masculine terms, it's a guy.
Anyway, rant over. I do, however, want to direct your attention to a link to a teaser trailer for a story of mine that I've just started writing. It is another Bellice story, but with a twist. Bella isn't human, nor is she Quileute. Copy the link into a new tab/browser, remove the parentheses, and enjoy: http(:/)www(.)youtube(.)com(/)watch?v=4oDmb0Pin3c