hey guys, sorry for how long it took for me to update. I've been having a pretty bad depressive episode. I'm on the end of it and getting better and even just started a new online school. I really hope to get back to writing more as its a very calming thing for me. Can you guys leave comments and ideas!
Bella sat in Kate's classroom as Bella ate lunch, surrounded by Kate, Irina, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper and Alice. "So, you swore you would never see us again hmm?" Alice asked, leaning against Jasper who was sat on one of the desks. Bella just rolled her eyes as she took a bite of her salad.
"I was 18. I was hurt. Jake was comforting." She said as Kate shifted underneath her in her chair, placing her chin on Bella's shoulder. "I needed to vent, and you abandoned me." The human said non chalantly causing both the Cullen couples to flinch. Alice leaned her head farther back into Jasper closing her eyes.
The empath shifted, pulling Alice to be sitting on his lap. Jasper chuckled as he felt some emotions coming from Bella. "You put a real good wall up but you're opening up again Bells." Bella turned to look at the blonde Texan across the desk from her.
"You know you can talk to us about what happened right? We'll listen." Bella turned to face Irina then back at Alice.
"I don't need to talk about it though. I'm completely okay." The brunette muttered shoving the bun in her mouth taking a huge bite. She looked over at Irina who was just staring at her as if her head was on fire. "What?" She asked through the food in her mouth.
"Did Carlisle not tell you to stop eating gluten until the results of your bloodwork come in?" Bella looked down at the bun in her hand and groaned. She swallowed the bite she had taken and chucked the remaining bun at the blonde vampire's head.
"I really hope I don't have Celiac disease. I would miss buns and pasta to much."
"They have gluten free versions of those though." The math teacher pointed.
"But have you ever tasted them? They taste like cardboard." Bella said looking at the two students in the classroom. All three teachers simultaneously as the bell rang to start a new period. "I'll see you guys later." She muttered as she packed her lunch kit back up and shoved it into her bag.
Later that day, Bella found herself sitting in the Denali's living room on the floor squished between Emmett and Irina as the three of them played Call of Duty. She looked up when she heard the front door open and close and she heard Carlisle's voice calling her name.
"In here Carlisle!" She called beckoning the blonde doctor to the room. "What's up?" She asked chucking her remote to Kate to take over her place in the game.
"I have the results back. I'm sorry to say Bells but you do have celiac disease…" He said fading his sentence off making Bella tilt his head basically asking him 'and what?' with her eyes. "Due to your celiac disease… it looks like you may have lymphoma… it's a common type of cancer to get when you have undiagnosed celiac disease and spend your life eating gluten."
Bella's face went white and she felt her head spinning. When she finally got her sense back, she turned to face her mate and best friend who had sat beside her. "Cancer… I may have cancer…" She pulled her knees up to her chest and squeezed her eyes shut tightly trying to ward off a panic attack. The smell of vanilla and cinnamon beside her helped as she felt Esme wrap her arms around the human's shoulders and allowed the human to lean into her.
"You are going to be fi-"
"Change me." The human cut her mother off mid-sentence and looked around at her family. "It can't do anything if I'm changed! The venom will kill the cancer!" She looked at her mother with her eyes wide. "You promised!"
Esme looked down at her daughter then back over at Kate who looked a little apprehensive. "I did Kate… I will do it if you won't… but right now… in the middle of the year…"
"I can quit its fine! I'll say I'm quitting and moving for treatments!" Bella looked at Kate with her eyes wide, her voice full of panic. "It's so easy to find a replacement for PE teachers. I can just stay in the house! You live far enough away from everything no one will come looking for me!" Bella quickly whipped her head around to look at Esme then at Tanya. "Please!"
"NO!" Bella jumped in the caramel haired vampires' arms as she heard the front door break down and a tall wolf like creature entered the room growling.
"Jake you don't understand! I have to!" She pleaded with the wolf as she walked over to him. "I'm going to get changed anyways… there's no point in prolonging it… I'd rather be changed now then be changed when I'm dying from cancer…" With that the wolf stopped growling and tilted its head. He quickly left the room and came back in as a human again.
"Cancer…?" He asked looking at his former best friend in front of him.
"She may have Lymphoma… it's a side effect of her celiac disease…" Carlisle explained, placing his hand on Jake's shoulder. "Jacob, you and I need to go talk." The wolf looked over at the doctor and nodded briskly. The two men were outside talking right away.
Bella looked over at Carmen, Tanya and Eleazar who looked like they were in shock. "Can vampires go into shock?" She asked looking over at her siblings. They all shook their heads. "Then why do they look like they are? Guys snap out of it!" She snapped her fingers in front of the tree vampires faces. They quickly shook their heads and looked up at the human.
"You were so calm… that wolf was the same size as a horse, and you were so calm…"
Bella just rolled her eyes and sat back down on Esme's lap. "That was Jake. He's a shapeshifter. He has it under control except when he gets really angry." They all just looked around at the Cullen's who just laughed and shrugged their shoulders. Bella then turned back to Kate and raised her eyebrows at the blonde. "Any news on changing me? Because I know mum will do it for me." She felt Esme's body stiffen then realized what she had said. "I- I didn't- I'm sorry…" She muttered.
Esme just wrapped her arms around the human and hugged her tightly. "There is nothing to be sorry about Bells. I love hearing you call me that." She laughed slightly when Bella jokingly wiped her forehead off with her hand making a 'whew' sound. Kate took both of Bella's hands into her own with a small smile on her face.
"B. I would love to change you." The humans face light up as she launched herself into the vampire's arms with an oomph. "We can do it this weekend. I'll make sure everything is completely set up. T come help?" The blonde looked up at their coven leader, the other blonde nodded and the two were off to work.
Bella looked over at her family, she felt a familiar bile rise up into her throat and before she could move, the vomit flew out of her mouth and on to the hardwood floor underneath her. She felt a hand on her back and then notice the chunks going into a bucket that magically appeared under her. By the time she was done, the floor under the bucket had been cleaned and there was a small glass of water beside her.
"The gluten is really hitting you hard huh babe?" Rosalie asked as she rubbed the humans back soothingly. The vampire didn't get a response except for a small grumble. Esme laughed as she watched the brunette lean into the blonde.
Carlisle walked back into the living a few minutes later to see Bella, Rosalie and Esme curled up on the couch watching a movie. The doctor smiled and sat beside his wife on the couch, the woman leaned into her husband as he wrapped his arms around her shoulders.
The four sat in the living room until the human started to drift off in the blonde vampires arms, before any of them could react, Kate was already in the living room gently taking the human into her arms and carrying her up into her room and tucking her into her bed. The vampire crawled in beside her and cuddled up, enjoying the warmth that the human still provided.
Kate stared down at her mate and tried to picture the sleeping human as a vampire like her. Unlike Edward, Kate had no hesitation of "stealing Bella's soul". Her hesitation more came from missing this. The cuddles while the human sleeps, the brunette's head buried into the blonde's neck, her warm breath on Kates neck. She would miss the human tripping over her own shoelaces during gym class. She would miss the husky voice Bella had when she first woke up in the morning.
Of course, Kate had a feeling that what Bella knew about vampires was a little off as she had heard some of the stuff Edward would say he had told Bella to keep her from wanting to join him. Kate couldn't even finish that thought as the idea made the vampire feel sick to her stomach for the first time since she had been turned. Kate heard some rustling about downstairs and felt the human stirring her arms. She glanced at the clock and groaned internally.
She stormed downstairs to see Emmett and Jasper holding Edward back. The bronze haired teen looking wild. Kate grabbed the teen by the arm and drug him outside, out of Bella's hearing range. "What the hell do you think you are doing Edward?" Kate hissed directly into Edwards face.
Edward growled deep in his chest. "Kate, let me see my mate. She will NOT be changed. Especially by you. It's disgusting. Girls belong to men. Not to other women. It's wrong." Kate took a deep breath, doing her best to not swing at the teen in front of her.
"Bella is upstairs sleeping Edward. I don't know if you know this or not, but humans need to sleep and they tend to sleep between 10 pm and 6 am and as its currently 2 am, I would rather you NOT wake Bella up right now. Also, I will not hear you talk about Bella and me that way. She is MY mate. She can even feel it as a human. All she felt with you was fear and oppression. I allow Bella to be open and be free. To hang out with people that are not me. She has gained a strong relationship with Rosalie because I don't try to hold her back and don't let her hang out with anyone."
"What Bella and I are is not up to you or your beliefs. We are happy and content. I will be changing her this weekend to keep her from getting and having to fight cancer. If she wants to be with me forever than I will give her that. If she wants to move on from me and be with you and grow old as you never age than I will give her that. What happens to Bella will be her choice. Not mine. Not yours. Do you understand me?" The blonde vampire hissed at the bronze haired teen who seemed to have shrunk about 6 sizes.
That is until, he got a sudden bout of courage and pounced on to the blonde in front of him. As Kate was not expecting it, she was flung backward, Edward landing on top of her. Before the boy could get a swing in, Carlisle, Emmett, Jasper, and Eleazar were holding the teen on the ground on his back while Tanya and Irina helped their sister to her feet. Before any words were spoken, Esme had stepped in front of the teen with a look of pure seething anger in her eyes.
"You will NEVER speak of Kate or Bella in that way again. Do you understand me?" Esme seethed, spitting venom into the teens face. Edward just let out a sharp bark of laughter at the mother figure.
"You're not my mother, Esme." He sneered staring at the woman in front of her. "In fact, you are no one's mother. You couldn't even keep your own son alive. What gives you the right to be a mother to anyone?!" Edward quickly regretted his words as he saw Esme stumble backwards, her eyes welling up with venom that would never fall. He started to sputter out an apology before he was slammed to the ground by a pissed of Jasper.
"You have no right Edward. You can leave. Now. NEVER come back around us again." Edward stared up at the Texan, who with the moonlight hitting his scars made him look even more menacing than before. The 17-year-old was quickly on his feet staring at Carlisle with a pleading look but got nothing but a cold hard stare back at him.
"Carlisle… you know I didn't mean it… come on… you're going to choose all of these people over me? Your longest companion?" But despite Edwards pleading he got nothing in return aside from Carlisle turning his back to the boy and walking over to his mate. The Cullen family all turned around to face Esme, leaving Edward seeing nothing but backs.
Esme meanwhile had taken to staring at the ground at her feet, her eyes dull. "Esme, love, look at me please?" Carlisle pleaded with his wife, taking her chin and lifting it up to face him, he got nothing from her eyes. He choked out a sob and pulled the woman into his arms and muttered small nothings to her.
Everyone, including Esme, looked up as they heard the front door open. Bella stood on the step of the house, wrapped in a blanket, her eyes trained to Esme, who quickly shook her head and put a small smile on her face. "Bella love… what are you doing up?" The normal soothing voice of the woman sounded dull and monotone.
