Chapter Twenty-Five
Eddie's PoV
We ran through the forest, the leaves brushing against my skin felt like feathers, I felt the heat of Tara as she sped up behind me. She was very warm. I heard her fast heart beat and smelt her strange scent. It was live hell to my parched throat but I would never harm her. I smelled a deer, I think it was a male because the odour was more musky than a female. I looked over at Tara who was also smelling the air.
"Mountain lion." She whispered and then she was off in the trees.
"No Tara!" I shouted. I thought she would get hurt, but as she plummeted down from a branch, I saw her mouth covered in blood and her Tshirt slightly ripped. She smiled at me and then the lion jumped down snarling at her. I jumped away, a little scared as I had never hunted a predator before.
She circled the beast, deadly in her dance, her dark tranclucent skin glowing in the faint sunlight. I cringed as the lion swiped at her. She lunged.
Her body was coiled around the lions neck as she gulped down the monsters blood, it made a gurgling sound and then dropped to the floor lifeless.
Eventually she got up and smiled at me. Her hair had twigs in, blood smeered on her lip and her T-shirt was hanging off, and knew she would need another. I took my shirt off and handed it to her. "Go behind the tree, change and come back out because yours is falling off." She grumbled and then took the shirt.
A second later she came out, the blood was off her face and she was in my shirt, but her hair was still looking like she was feral.
She smiled at me, her white teeth glinting. "Let's go hunt some bears!" She chanted.
"There too far Tara." I said shaking my head.
"Oh." She looked dissapointed.
"But we could still go... I mean, who's going to know?" I asked confidently.
She smiled as we began to run towards the part of the forest where bears roamed everywhere. I knew that this was Uncle Emmett's favorite thing to do, we should have invited him.
It took just over twenty minutes to get to the bears hibernating spot where they would all be from sleeping through te winter. They would be very irritated this time of year, and I was actually excited. We dashed past caves, following the smell of the bears, their heart beats grew closer and my mouth began to water. I lunged at the first bear I saw and I heard Tara shreik, "NO!"
"Why?" I said stopping mid jump.
"Because that's a pregnant female." You need to go for older females or males." She said looking like she wanted to roll her eyes. I sighed and approched another bear, this was a young male, his dark brown fur seemed to shine auburn in the sun and as I stepped out of the shadow of the trees, my body erupted into sparkles. Tara stared awestruck and I smiled mesmorised at the beautiful patturns it created. Only problem was it alerted the bears of our arrival. Three began to roar at us, I just laughed and lunged at he young male.
His cries were short lived as I drained his lifes blood. I was on my second bear and then as I went for my third I looked at Tara watching me.
"Why are you watching me?" I asked her.
"Your very graceful... but I think youve had enough blood, your eyes have no red in them and your dark circles have gone." She said quietly.
"Did I scare you Tara?" I asked.
"No!" SHe frowned. "I just remembered your dad can read our minds."
Dammit! I had forgotten about that... stupid mind reader. I walked over to Tara and frowned. "Hey, it was yoru idea to come here but I should have said no."
"You did." She stated.
"But then I said we could." I answered her.
"But you came because I wanted to."
"Yes but I'm older, I should know better than you." I frowned at her, she was very argumemtitive.
"No, I'm older. Your a month and a half old. I'm almost seven months old." She argued back.
"I look older and dad said I could take you because he trusted me. I will get in trouble, not you." I said, and my tone had a finallity to it. She sighed shaking her head.
"Edward Masen Cullen, your such a control freak." She muttered and then stood up.
"I'm not, I just like to get my own way."
"Exactly." She stated then laughed. I frowned at her, she winked and began to run back. "We may as well head back instead of prolonging it!" She yelled to me as I began to catch up.
We ran following our trail again, we got into the garden and I heard my father yell. "There back!"
"Dad-" I tried to explain.
"Taramina. Go to your room, Edward Masen Cullen, come here now!" He said. I saw Tara run upstairs and I knew she was scared.
"Explain what too far is." He said, his tone dangerous.
"The bear plains." Was all I replied looking anywhere but into his furious eyes.
"I trusted you son. Trusted you to go out on your own with Tara and you disobayed me. Why?" He asked. "Look at me when I talk to you."
I looked up to meet his black eyes. I shivered and opened my mouth like a goldfish then closed it, sound refused to come out.
"Son. Explain now."
"I wanted to go hunting in the bear teritory, and it's done now, we are fine so stop treating me like I'm two years old dad." I said, defending myself.
"Your not even two months old, let alone two years old!" He yelled.
"So? I look older than Tara and Renesmee, I'm growing up dad and you can't do anything about it." I said, I stood up and stormed off to my room. I layed my head on my pillow and grumbled something nasty about my dad.
About an hour later, i was supprised nobody had come to check on me, I knew Tara was down stairs because she was talking with Renesmee. I knew she was been let off, I wasn't so sure about myself. I sighed as I sat up off my pillow. I heard light foot steps as my door moved and my mother entered.
"Hi baby." She said to me.
"Mom..." I muttered.
"Eddie, you know he's only doing this because he loves you, right? He doesn't want you to get hurt." she said to me. I looked into her kind goolden eyes, no hint of anger at all.
"I'm sorry Mama." I said to her, she hugged me and held me there, playing with my long hair.
"You need a hair cut." She laughed.
"I know, why don' you cut it for me Mama?" I asked.
"Well I used to to Renee's all the time, so why not?!" She exclaimed and the began to root through my draws for scisors.
Later on as I emerged from my room with my mother, My hair was cropped short and I looked older. I liked the way it was now, the way I looked.
"OMG Eddie, I love your hair." Tara said smiling at me.
"It's great isn't it, do you think I look older?" I asked.
"I guess." She smiled.
My father came in the room from the kitchen, I hunched my sholders and walked over to him. "Dad?" I asked.
"What, Eddie?" His tone was nuteral.
"I'm sorry." I said. His arms were around me in seconds and I was lifted into his arms so I could cuddle him properly like he did when I was only a couple of days old.