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Chapter 17: Unexpected

Bella's Pov

I woke to a disturbing feeling in my stomach. Oh no. Not now. I rushed to the bathroom and practically spewed my guts out in the toilet. Uh, it was horrible. The taste of my vomit stained my mouth with a revolting taste, making me spew even more. Once I finished I rinsed my mouth out and looked at my reflection. My eyes widened.

My face was so pale at first I thought I was a ghost. My lips had barely any colour in the. My cheeks weren't the light spade on pink that they always were and my eyes were bloodshot. I could be mistaken for a vampire.

And what's with my stomach? It's gotten a bit larger. I must be putting on weight. But this was different. I was vomiting, eating too much food. Well, this was my daily routine. Recently Aro has come to and idea. Instead of the queens standing up all day, he has installed three new thrones. One for Sulpicia, who sat between Marcus and Aro. Didyme's throne was situated on Marcus's other side. Mine was next to Aro's and to my dismay; Aro also installed another throne beside me for one purpose. Incase I have a new mate. This will never happen. No one can replace Caius. Anyway, my daily routine consisted of me staying in the throne room all morning watching what the Volturi do, have lunch, watch again, eat dinner, go to sleep then wake up in the middle of the night spewing my guts out. What a life. Not.

I sighed. Maybe it's nothing at all. Maybe I was just overstressing myself. I had a shower, got changed into my dress that Sulpicia bought for me, grabbed my black robe and left my room. I slipped it on and made my way towards the thrown room. Once in, I was confronted by Didyme and Sulpicia. I raised an eyebrow at the.

"We know what you're up to, Missy," Sulpicia circled me.

"Uh huh," said Didyme.

I gulped. "What are you two talking about?"

"I'm talking about something that you've wanted for a long time," said Sulpicia.

"Since you met a certain vampire," teased Didyme. Aro clapped his hands when he reached us.

"Good morning ladies," he was in a happy mood. Again.

"Good-," Sulpicia started.

"-Morning-," said Didyme.

"-Aro," I finished. That's how us three usually greeted people.

"Excited today, are we?" he noticed Sulpicia giving me a mischief look. I looked from her to Aro.

"Aro, my dear brother, would you care to tell me why my sisters are giving me the 'I know what you've been doing' treatment?" I asked, very, very seriously. Sulpicia chocked on a chuckle. If that's possible.

Aro looked nervous.

"I couldn't help it," he admitted. I narrowed my eyes.

"What?"

"It sort of slipped out," he threw his hands up in the air. I narrowed my eyes even further.

"What?"

"And just when I couldn't help myself I-," I broke.

"ARO, IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHAT YOU SAID TO THEM, I'LL TELL MARCUS WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT HIM!!!," I yelled. And that caused everyone to look at me and Aro. I could see Sulpicia and Didyme cover their laughing with their hands. Aro was gaping at me and Marcus flowed over to us.

"Brother, I think Bella is in a dangerous mood," said Marcus, who was clearly amused by my outburst. Then he rounded up on Aro.

"And what's this I hear Bella saying you said something about me," Marcus gave Aro the evil eye. Aro gulped. Then held his hands up.

"One at a time. First Bella. Okay I told them that I'll be changing you tonight. They went ballistic! They have already booked a trip to places where the coven can go," Aro looked nervously at them. Ofcourse, Sulpicia and Didyme looked like perfect little angels.

"May I just say that you're brave," Sulpicia put in.

"Yes, extremely brave," Didyme winked at me.

Aro sighed.

"Thank you ladies. Now for you Marcus. I didn't say anything about you to Bella."

"Uh huh, yeah, sure. Explain the fact that Bella just said that-," Aro interrupted him.

"Ask her yourself," Aro held an arm out in my direction. Marcus turned to me.

"Bella?"

I gave Marcus my puppy dog eyes. He scoffed.

"You've completely hurt my feelings Bella," then he gave me a hug.

"If I hurt your feelings then why are you hugging me?" I asked. I swear Vampires are the strangest species.

"I felt like hugging my sister," he shrugged.

Aro clapped his hands to regain attention.

"Places everyone, we have a guest," he gave Marcus a look. Great, they were going to kill someone.

I sat on my thrown and turned towards Aro when he sat down.

(A/N: THIS IS LIKE WHAT I SAID TO MY FRIEND. SHE HATES SPIDERS AND KILLED ONE THE OTHER DAY AND I SAID, "YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN'T REALLY BE MEAN TO SPIDERS, THEY COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE ONE DAY," AND SHE JUST LAUGHED!)

"You know, you really shouldn't be mean to humans. They could save your life one day," I informed him proudly. He laughed.

"When that day comes, I'll laugh my head off," he continued to laugh.

I shook my head at him, enabling to hide my smile.

My smile faltered when Felix chucked a human into the room. My eyes widened.

The human was a girl, a little older than me. I gasped when she spat blood out and looked up at Sulpicia. The look was of pure hatred.

Sulpicia grasped my attention. When I looked at her, I could tell what she wanted. Lately, Sulpicia and Didyme have given me lessons on human behavior.

"Whenever someone glares at Didyme or any other member of the coven, I step in and say something nasty back," Sulpicia had said. Didyme nodded.

"We do the threats and Aro and Marcus usually do the physical stuff. But that doesn't mean we ladies don't do a bit of neck-cracking ourselves," Didyme had informed me.

Now it was my turn.

"Glare at my sister any longer and I'll have your head decapitated," I said, no practically growled. Yes, they also taught me to growl my words too.

The girl's glare closed on me. I could see her fear through her eyes and I knew what Aro is about was completely wrong. But in this case, she did break the rules. And when the rules are broken, the punishment is death.

Aro shifted into his seat.

"What is your name?"

"Lisa," she whispered. Marcus sighed.

"You do realize what you have done, haven't you?"

"Not really, no," she whispered.

"You told the police that there are vampires in Volterra, am I correct?"

"Yes and there is," her volume increased.

"Where's your proof?"

"I'm looking at one now. With your red eyes and pale skin, I'm surprised the police didn't catch on yet," she said.

"What do you mean by that? No police have stepped foot in this castle." She shook her head.

"Well they're coming."

"Are you threatening me?" he asked. She narrowed her eyes at him.

"Maybe. Maybe not. What's the difference anyway? You're going to kill me now aren't you?"

Aro turned to me and I nodded. I stood up and walked over to Lisa. She edged away from me by a couple of steps. I circled her. Aro wanted me to get more involved with our captives. I don't mind, but I told him that I do not intend on hurting anyone, unless they piss me off to a great level.

"I wouldn't be surprised if my brother killed you," I said.

"Why is that?" she asked, narrowing her eyes at me when I came to face her again.

"Tell her Marcus," I said, never taking my eyes off her.

"You have no idea how much in trouble you are in, Lisa," he said. Lisa's bottom lip trembled slightly.

"So what? I only told the police, what's so bad about that?" she asked, looking at Marcus now.

"What's so bad about that? Let's see, uh well for starters we have to keep hidden because-," Lisa interrupted him.

"Because you'll burn if you go into the sun, blah blah."

"Myth," I said.

"What?"

"Don't you what her!" roared Didyme.

"You kick ass, Didyme," I said, making a couple of members laugh.

"Huh, what do you know anyway? You're a human just like me. But you're hanging out with vampires. You sure know how to keep safe," Lisa smirked. The laughing stopped. I looked at her, blankly.

"It's not me they want dead, Lisa," I said. I started to circle her again.

"Well at least they'll kill you slowly and painfully," Lisa smirked.

"Ladies, we are getting off-," I interrupted Aro.

"I could order Aro to kill you right now because you know what? I'm part of the Volturi. I'm considered as a sister here and they are changing me into a vampire tonight," I spat. Lisa stood up.

"Why would they want to change you, you pathetic piece of-," she abruptly gasped in pain. I looked over at Jane, who was smiling sweetly. She looked at me and waved.

I smiled and winked at her. She let Lisa go. She crumbled to the ground and sighed with relief that the pain had disappeared.

She stood up again, careful not to hurt herself again. She looked warily around her, and then faced me.

I smiled innocently at her.

"Dare you to finish that sentence," she shook her head and backed away.

"I hope they kill you, I hope you burn with pain and I hope in the process of you changing you die," she said crazily, as if she lost her mind.

I looked down.

I couldn't look as Demetri ripped her head off.

I couldn't bear hearing her screams.

I couldn't bear to remember what Caius had done to that man.

If I were a vampire, I would have done the exact same thing that Caius did. And even though I've minimally convince Caius he wasn't a monster, when I put myself in his place, I considered myself as one.
So I ran. I ran out of the room for two reasons.

1. Because I couldn't stand the fact that my new family was in there drinking a human.

2. Because I am still a human too. They could take a nip out of me, thinking that I was a piece of Lisa, when I'm not.

So I ran to my room and plopped myself on my bed.

What the heck am I supposed to do while they 'feed'?

I sighed and rolled onto my side.

That's when it happened.

A bump. Something just bumped me. And I think it came from inside my stomach. What the? Well that was extremely strange. I thought nothing of it at first and went to take a shower, even thought I had one this morning.

I quickly jumped in and turned to handle to release the water. I quickly undressed and stepped into the shower.

After that I quickly changed into my bathrobe. It was dark purple and absolutely gorgeous. I love it.

My hands felt extremely rough. I sighed. Great, now I got to go to Sulpicia's room a.k.a Aro's room as well, and sneak out the hand cream. Nice.

I quickly got dressed and just I was about to leave the room, Renata comes in. She was one of the Volturi guards.

"Oh, hello Renata," I said, politely. She sat on my bed.

"Hello. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I….," she sighed, "Well I'd just thought that since you've already lost some… that I could talk to you and you'd understand," she said. I frowned, and made my way towards the bed and sat next to her.

"What's wrong?"

It was awhile until she answered. I swear if vampires could cry, she'd be boiling her eyes out by now.

"A week ago I was happy and excited about seeing my mate, Daren. He lives in an apartment that is a bit further from here. I usually go there to him on the weekends. Well, since you have joined this coven and the ceremony was going to be held on Saturday, instead it was on Sunday, I told him I couldn't make it that weekend. He seemed fine with it. Just after I called him, Aro said the ceremony was on Sunday instead on Saturday. So on Saturday I went down to Daren without telling him to you know, surprise him. Just as I was about to go into his room, I heard a woman's voice scream his name but not in anger," she stopped and started to sob without tears. I guess you could call it dry sobbing. I hugged her tightly and she did the same to me, without hurting me.

"I walked in on them. He was completely naked and he had an erection. Once he saw me he got up and started getting changed. He knew I was a vampire and even though he was a human, our relationship was pretty good. I looked at the woman and recognized her," she stopped again, in control and sat up a bit. I let go slowly.

"Who was it?" I asked gently.

"My sister," she said, hatred dripping from her mouth. I put a hand over my mouth.

"Bitch," I said, and Renata nodded.

"I thought he loved me. Ha, I thought she loved me! She was my favorite sister. Not now. Anyway, I looked at him than at her. She wasn't a vampire even though I haven't even seen her since I got changed. I took a step in the room and closed the door. Outside his apartment, the ocean was just there. He had the best view. Anyway, I grabbed her by the hair and did something that I will never regret no matter how much I loved her," she shook her head.

"Did you kill her?"

"I don't know," she said. My eyes widened.

"You don't know?"

"No, all I know is that I threw her out the window. Literally. He screamed and started shouting at me that I was a freak. Then I chucked him out the window as well," she chuckled. I joined in.

"What a jerk. You deserve so much better," I said. She grinned at me.

"I already got my eyes on someone," I gasped and smiley widely.

"Who?"

"You'll laugh."

"It can't be that bad," I said. She sighed.

"Okay, its Felix," she squeezed her eyes shut. Then slowly opened one eye when I didn't reply straight away.

"That's really sweet," I said smiling.

"You think so?"

"I think you should tell him."

"No way!"

"Is he single?"

"Yes," she said, grinning her head off.

"And do you know that I actually seen him look dreamily at you," I giggled.

"Fine, I'll tell him after dinner. Thanks Bella," she said, hugging me.

"Any time. Even thought I never experienced a relationship where someone has cheated on you, I do know what it's like to loose someone," I said. She got up and headed for the door.

"I'll see you soon, Bella," she waved then left my room.

Poor Renata. I hope that jerk gets what he deserves!

I walked to my window and gazed out. The view was so beautiful. The city went on forever. I looked down and saw two lovers kiss behind a building. I sighed.

"Caius, I wish you were here," a tear fell down. An unexpected thing came next.

"Someone kicked me in the stomach. Really hard. I double over from the pain. I searched my room for an intruder. No one. Then who the hell kicked me?!

Wait. What about that sudden bump that I felt in my stomach? It felt exactly the same. Just harder. Much, much harder.

I placed a hand over my stomach and rubbed it. I hissed from the pain it caused me. I sat like that for a minute not knowing what in the world it is. Then it struck me. It was a completely impossible thing to come true. Victoria said so herself. Vampires can't have children.

But I'm a human… so if Caius and I had sex, which we did, then is there a possibility that I could be pregnant?

Oh no. Oh no no no no no no no no!

This can't be right! How could it be possible? I was stressing out and I knew it. But I couldn't help it. The fact that I might be having a baby… a baby that will be half Caius and half me… seemed scary. I wasn't ready to be a mother. I don't even have any experience in that category!

Wait that was only a possibility and it's possible that my rambling on the topic could be pointless. I should go to Aro now and ask him myself.

But I couldn't. Because whatever was inside of my just gave me a soft kick. My breath caught in my throat. I didn't imagine the kick. And my hand was resting on the same place before it kicked me.

I started to panic. How can this be possible? To carry a vampire child in me? Impossible.

And to made matters worse, it kick me again. But this time it didn't stop. I screamed and shrieked in pain.

I screamed the first thing that came to my mind.

"ARO!!!!" I screamed, and then collapsed from pain.

I think this chapter is the longest so far. Sorry I haven't updated in awhile everybody. I've been at my nana's house and she doesn't have a comp there. HOW SHE LIVE WITHOUT ONE! I can't. Anyway, it gets better in the next chapter!!!

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