Revamping of Twilight
Will Bella overcome her fear of Vampire or give up on her love Edward?
I am promptly following Bella as she is walking towards the woods. A gust tickling my face as I am chasing Bella. She is still a meter ahead of me. Being a vampire it wouldn't take even a second for me to reach besides her, but I don't want my presence to possess her mind. I completely understand that she needs her time to figure out and digest what she realized.
The sun is hiding above the tall trees and their widely open branches seeking sunlight just like me seeking Bella. Bella looks up at the unseen sky, her fists tightly wrapped against her elbows.
The grass is moist enough to slightly pull my shoe inside the ground as I take a step ahead. The racing beat of my heart pulsating inside my chest when I stand straight. I took one more step closer to Bella. Her fragrance had dissolved with the scent of damp soil.
The birds chirping tree to tree, singing at their own rhythm. Their whistles would have sounded like lovely music if I was normal, if I was a human.
Bella slowly touched her palms together, rubbing them against each other, her shoulders slightly raised, as she took a deep breath.
"You are impossibly fast and strong. (she paused). Your skin is pale white and ice cold. Your eyes - e - eyes change co- color. Sometimes you - you speak like - huh- like you belong to a different t - t - time. You never - never dh - drink anything. You don't go - go out in - in su - sunlight, " Bella's soft voice stammered as my heart started thudding with every word she spoke. Her body language is unusual and she looks lost. My heart yet cannot stop falling for her. "How old are you? " she continued after a little pause, her firm words altered my mind from her beauty to my actual age.
"Seventeen." I quickly answered, losing my patience to see her pretty fair face.
"How long have you been seventeen?" her tone seems to be doubtful.
"A while," my heart is thumping when I reply.
"Edward you - you're…" she shut her lips tight.
"Say it," I started forcing her to speak up what's in her thoughts. "Out loud… Just say it Bella. "
"Huuuhh," she took a breath.
I can't hold on my patience anymore,
"C'mon Bella."
" Vampire," she said quickly.
"Are you afraid?"
She turned, "Ye - yeah - yess." She backs away from me.
Bella's move brought a twinge of pain to my beating chest. I swiftly began darting towards my chamber into my room. Banging hard on the door, sliding down to the floor. I am weeping. I am screaming. I slap the floor.
The next morning Bella trudged near the campus gate, frequently noticing the watch on her wrist. After a couple of moments I see Jacob walking toward Bella. She quickly takes a glimpse of him. When he reached on the spot they shook hands.
I close my fingers together forming a tight fist. My nerves are visible through my pale white skin. 'I wish Bella was not here. This bloody werewolf does not have any right to touch my girl,' I muttered to myself. My nails poke my palm when I see my love with the person I hate.
Racing behind a tree I reach closer to them. My eyes forced on the quiet conversation that both of them are having. I press my palm against the tree trunk while staring at their palms holding each other. My wrath grew more intense.
"Jake," Bella begins ."I want to marry you." Her shaky voice and bowed head satisfies me that she is not sure of this decision.
' As far I know, Bella would never avoid eye contact when she means her words. I won't ever forget that day when Bella had confessed her love to me. I couldn't blink and continuously stared back at her amorous eyes. Her beauty was, and is, beyond the beauty of the moon and the stars, the ocean and the sky, the trees and the grass. She held my hand and came closer to my heart. Finally, she spoke her heart out with the three magic words. This is what the world called these words. "I LOVE YOU."
Jacob's eyes wide open and his ears are surprised when he tries to digest what Bella just said, " Really?"
"ye - yeah," Bella exclaimes with no smile.
"Oh my god! I don't believe this Bella!" His broad smile provokes me. "Wa - wait, are you sure you're not joking?" his one eye brow hinches.
"No I'm not," Bella looks around when she assures him.
Listening to this talk my brain is almost shut. My hands deadly fall rubbing the wood and letting my shoulders bump on the hard surface of the tree. 'My dear, I know that you are surely making a wrong decision. I can see you hesitate, your words are breaking when you're talking with a man who you don't know is a werewolf. You are ending our beginning.' People walking around were gawking at me, and passed by as, I lonely blew my thoughts out loud to myself. Uncountable thoughts and feelings circulating from my brain to heart and my heart to brain.
Finally Jacob unholds Bell's hand and lets her go on her way. Suddenly a question pops in my mind, pausing all other thoughts. 'Is Bella aware of Jacob's real identity,' I wonder. 'I can't let my Bella be betrayed by someone who doesn't deserve her. I must tell her the truth. Maybe she will change her decision and come back to me! '
I instantly rush into the campus searching for Bella. I find her uncomfortably settled on a bench in the corridor. While my eyes peer at Bella, I force my power, trying to read her mind and heart. I realize that Jacob is following me. Meanwhile , I take a few strides towards Bella, Jacob runs and stands next to her. He grabs her wrist and scuttle in a room in front of the bench that Bella was sitting on. Without wasting a second I rush into the room. I pushed the door that banged on the wall and returned to my face as I protected myself by stopping it.
Both of them shockingly take a look at me. Jacob steps back and clasps Bella's shoulder.
"Did you divulge your real identity to Bella?" I ask, showing him my red eyes.
"It's none of your business Mr Vampire," Jacob glares at my eyes.
I indignantly clench his non - collar T-shirt, "Dare you betray Bella by hiding who you really are."
"Edward, please leave him," Bella's voice sounds disturbing. She endeavors removing my grip on Jacob's T-shirt.
"He is a werewolf Bella," I blow the gaff. Bella immediately bangs on the wall and slides down recalling what I have just revealed.
"I - I am extremely so - sorry Bella," Jacob sits down on his knees, waiting for Bella to say something.
"Do you still wanna marry him, Bella?" I hope she will say no.
"Whom do you plump for? Is our love conditional? Don't vampires deserve to love someone and get loved back?" I am making sure Bella thinks deeply about my love.
"Bella, I love you. I can give you all the happiness that you deserve. You wouldn't have to change yourself if you marry me. Do you want to change yourself for a vampire? Or live how you are with a werewolf? Think about it Bella." Jacob tries assuring Bella.
Bella's eyes are closed all this while. She was ruminating on our words.
My heart throbbed and mind became restless, my ears holding-on to hear Bella's decision, 'Will Bella realize that our love is unconditional?'
-By Shruti Gunda