Chapter 38
A/N: I lied last chapter. I took down the angry author's notes (LOL!) so this is only chapter 38. Anyway, I still want reviews! I hope y'all are enjoying the fic recs at the bottom of each chapter!
Aria's POV
Finding our way back to the dance was not as easy as it looked. We had to opt for running along the roads, and that did not go well with my shoes.
"This is such a bad idea," Katie grumbled.
"Well, it was yours in the first place," I reminded her.
Thankfully, the journey was made shorter by our above-average running skills, though, in that moment, I really wished I had the ability to run as fast as a vampire.
Back at the dance, though it was getting late, there were still a lot of people.
"Well, see y'all later," Katie sighed. "I gotta go find a random guy."
I snickered as I watched her walk up to the nearest average-looking freshman guy and immediately drag him to the nearest dark corner.
"Well, she works fast, doesn't she?" James noted.
"Of course she does. She's Katie. Shouldn't we go find a dark corner ourselves?" I suggested.
"Too late, Cullen alert," James muttered.
"There you are!" Rose yelled over the music from behind me.
"Hey, Rose," I grinned. "You and Emmett have fun?"
"Wouldn't you like you know!" Emmett said, winking at me. I shuddered at the brief mental picture that ran through my mind.
"Yeah, I don't want to know," I said hurriedly.
"Anyway, where's Katie?" Rose asked.
James and I looked at each other and shrugged at the same time.
"Last I checked, she was with some random guy," James said. "I dunno about after that."
"Oh, wait, isn't that her?" Rose noticed, pointing somewhere behind me.
I turned around and immediately felt the urge to gag. Katie was sitting happily on that random guy's lap, making out heavily with him.
Emmett whistled. "Wow, she moves fast."
I shook my head, wondering what damage her feminine wiles had done to the poor human. James grinned, catching my train of thought.
"So…Emmett, d'you wanna go extract her?" Rose asked.
"Um…no."
"Well, I'm not going," James said. Everyone looked at me.
"Oh, you big wussies. Fine, I'll go," I huffed. I walked away, muttering, "Cowards."
Katie didn't even notice me coming. At least, I don't think she did, because she never stopped kiss him. I stopped right in front of her and the guy and cleared my throat.
The poor human jumped back like his butt was on fire. Katie, always the polar opposite, merely scowled up at me.
"What, Aria?"
"We're leaving, Katie," I said, grinning. The poor guy rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly, wishing he could disappear.
"Well, I live on the other side of the country, so, it was nice knowing your mouth," Katie said, smirking.
I punched her arm. "Katie!"
She shrugged. "What? It's true!"
I shook my head and led her back to Rose. "We found the tramp, we can leave now," I announced dramatically.
Katie punched me in the arm in return. I smirked at her again. Suddenly, I heard a low buzzing noise, and was about to flip my shit when Katie claimed it was her phone.
"Hold up, I've got to take this," she said, disappearing again. In a minute, she had returned. "That was Apollo," she said. "He said to come home, and that you guys didn't need my help anymore." He also said that the rest of them would be watching, she added in her mind to me.
"Okay," I said, agreeing to both her spoken and unspoken statements. "How are you getting back?"
"Ticket's already in the safehouse," she said, hugging me quickly. "Bye!"
"Wait, hold up!" Emmett exclaimed.
"What?" Katie asked, freezing.
"You're just gonna leave like that?" he asked, confused.
"Well…yeah," Katie said, looking every bit as confused. "Is there an issue?"
"Emmett, demigods don't really stay in one place very long unless it's at home," I explained, seeing what he was questioning. "It's normal for us to come and go like this."
"Oh. I understand. Kind of?" he said, still unsure.
Rosalie rolled her eyes. "Come on, we still need to find Alice and Jasper."
"Okay," James said. I heard him tell Katie, Don't forget to break Bella's fever. She nodded in understanding and then disappeared.
"Can we just go?" I suggested. "I have the feeling Alice and Jasper want to be left alone."
Emmett snickered. "Damn right. Can you hear them?"
Instinctively, my ears honed in to the sound he was describing—"OH GOD!" I screeched, covering my ears.
Rose smacked Emmett upside the head. "Why?"
Emmett just grinned. I glared at him. "That was not funny, you big oaf," I growled. "Wait till I get you back for that."
His smirk faded just a little bit. James, in turn, gave me a glowing grin. The entire car ride home, we were silently plotting new pranks to pull – this meant war.
"I can feel you guys plotting," Emmett called from the front seat.
"You go right on ahead plotting, honey," Rose countered. "Get him back. He deserves it."
"Rosie!" Emmett complained, and then came the sound of a smack. I smiled.
By the time we got home, Bella was feeling a little better, due to Katie's absence. Edward, predictably, had worried himself sick, staying by her side all night. He'd convinced Charlie that Bella would be better taken care of here, since he was pulling a night shift.
"How is she?" I asked Edward, already knowing the answer.
"She's…better," he said, and inexplicable grin crossing his face. I wondered why for a brief moment, but instead was hit with thoughts from Bella's unguarded sleeping mind—
"HOLY SHIT!" James and I screeched at the same time, the thoughts having hit us both. I turned to Edward. "You slept with her!"
Emmett and Rose were by my side in a minute.
"What?" Emmett yelled.
"Seriously?" Rose exclaimed.
"Ew!" James yelled. "Get it out of my head!"
"Really, Aria, yell it to the whole world, won't you?" Edward said dryly. "And how the hell did you figure out?"
"Her sleeping mind is unguarded," I informed him.
His eyes lit up. "Really? What's she thinking?"
"Never mind that," James insisted. "Why? I thought you were waiting until marriage…and change?"
"Well…she was too warm…" Edward trailed off. "And she needed my coolness… and then one thing led to another and—"
"Stop right there!" I said quickly. "I really don't need to hear another word."
"Aww, my little bro's all grown up!" Emmett exclaimed, tackling Edward. Edward rolled over and pushed him away.
"Go away, Emmett," he grumbled.
"Oh, we are so having a girls' night after this," Rose gushed to me. "Alice, Bella, you, and me—"
"Wait, what?" I protested. "No. I don't do girls' nights."
"You better, because Alice is going to make you."
"Um, no."
James laughed. "I knew this day would come."
"Shut up, wine head."
He just smiled at me. Little idiot.
"I'd ask you how it was, Edward, but I don't really want to know the answer to that," Rose said. "But I think it's amazing that you finally got over your ancient morals and let her have what she wanted."
Edward scowled at her. "You're so helpful."
"Just stating the truth," Rose said. She turned to me. "What else is Bella thinking?"
I delved into her mind for a moment. "Right now, well…sex."
Emmett started clapping, startling poor Bella awake.
"Oh, see now you woke her up," Edward complained.
I immediately rushed to Bella's side. "You and Edward had sex?"
She blushed. "How—"
"Hon, your thoughts are quite explicit."
She was about as red as a tomato. I'm pretty sure we could have fried hamburgers on her face and they would have come out fine. Bella quickly covered herself with the comforter.
"Aww, it's okay, love," Edward said, scooting to her side. "You don't need to be embarrassed."
Emmett and James both chuckled at the exact same time. Rose and I glared at both of them.
"Come on, everyone out," I decided. "I think they need some private time." I herded James out of the room, and tried to push Emmett, but gave up after about a millisecond. It was like pushing a damned rock wall.
"So…" James said, once we'd reached our room. "They slept together."
"Sixteen," I reminded him. "Not before, and not a second after."
"Do both of us have to be sixteen?" His eyes glinted with mischief.
I mirrored his grin. "I don't know, but if we don't ask, we can't get a negative answer."
"Well, I turn sixteen first, in a…year and a half." His shoulders sunk with disappointment.
"Don't worry, a year and a half will be over before we know it," I said, climbing into bed with him. Changing the subject, I asked, "Did the four humans get to Arizona?"
"Yeah," he said, responding in Ancient Greek. "Our friend at the airline made sure of that."
"Good," I said, snuggling up to his chest. "Now…all we need to do is take down Chaos."
"You know, maybe this is just a misunderstanding," James suggested. "I mean, she's the universe. The divine entity. Why would she want to kill her own kin?"
"Kronos swallowed his children," I reminded him. "Gaea wanted us all dead. Kronos killed his own father. Family treachery is not uncommon here."
"You've got a point. But maybe she can be talked out of this? I mean, what does she gain from killing us all?"
I sighed. "We'd need to find one of her minions to understand that. You wanna try Banner?"
"What's the best bet of getting him to say something?"
I sighed again. "Well…we'd need Jasper to control his mood. And Edward to read his mind, so that I can block my own. And we'd need both of us, of course."
"So…in short, we need to tell them what's going on?"
"Unfortunately, yes."
A/N: So, a kind of fluffy, kind of important chapter. Let's just call it a regular chapter, huh? Anyway, review, please!
Fic Rec: The Angel Series by drotuno.
It's a series of four books, with a Vampire Bella and Vampire Edward beginning in the first half of the first book. It's a twist on New Moon, basically, where Jake is not the sweet boy that everyone thinks he is. I started it four days ago, and I'm already on the third book. That's how good it is. Go check it out!
Review Replies:
HuntressofArtemis192: I'm flattered that you can't find a better word to type…. :) As to your answer, I like that better. I have a feeling Edward will explode :D
Sitshakov: Yeah, well, had to get the story moving, right? I didn't really feel the need to bust out the big guns. Besides, Sean's only human, and he's scared of Aria. He can't fight, and he was only briefly trained in resisting mind-readers. An all-in-all lose-lose situation for him, right?
Scarlettstones: MAH BFFL! Lol I will keep it up…. Luvs u!
Katie: Lol, that sounds exactly like me. Duh, all girls are like that at one point. Just say the first random thing that comes out of your mouth. My weirdest was when my phone was in my back pocket and it vibrated all of a sudden, and I screamed, "My butt is vibrating!" We were in a co-ed group. I still haven't lived it down.
Greenafied: Thanks! I kind of like the mother-daughter between Rose and Aria too, but I wasn't really sure about my reviewers. Thanks for your opinion! Any other suggestions?
I LUVS NATURE: Lol…they deserve a good job too for ramping up the sexual tension. A difficult job, no? Um, to your question…I don't know? I just write? Sufficient enough of an answer? **winks**
Guest: I know, right? Demigods always have bad luck. I found out this interesting fact yesterday: in some small countries, the word for demigods is connoted with 'bad luck.' It's so ironic, isn't it?
Anna M. Banana: Darnit…for a minute I hoped you were like Bella, getting hit by softballs all the time, and everyone could fangirl….meh. D'you think you share any characteristics with either Aria or Bella?
OMG: Hahah…still love your name :D I'm happy you liked Complicated! Did you review?
Twilightedfan: Yeah, sorry about the whole 'not being able to send guest readers outtakes' thing. Promise they'll be up when the story finishes.
Katie: Why, thank you, my darling. This is more, isn't it?