I know i promised for a super long chapter this update but honestly i'm really not doing great mentally and trying to put my mental health first which isnt working very well. I hope you guys enjoy this short chapter for now as i try and finish my final project for my teaching assistant degree. Thanks for all the kind comments and concerns. Ill keep you guys posted.
Burning. That was it. That was all she could feel. A small trickle of ease started in her toes. An almost numbness to the pain coursing through her whole body. The numbness slowly making its way up her body more and more, now starting in her finger tips and making its way up her arms. The pain almost stopped, just in her chest now. She felt a stronger burn in her heart as she heard her heart pounding, sounding like it might take off at any moment.
Then silence.
She felt a hand laying in hers, a small weight she just realized did not move at all while she was out. She opened her eyes, noting every small detail she could all of a sudden see. The dust particles flying through the air. Every grain of wood in the ceiling. The cracks in corner of the walls where they met the roof.
She could smell a strong scent of cinnamon and orange. Her head whipped around, much faster than she meant to do so, to face her left where she saw Kate, sitting beside her, her now amber eyes focused directly on her. She saw a small line of worry on her mates forehead as she looked her newly born mate up and down. Bella quickly sat up, her hand ripping from Kates as she grinned.
"Bella… you look… wow…" Her blonde mate managed to stutter out before Bella had launched herself into her arms causing the blonde to stumble backwards laughing. "Love… youre a little stronger than me at the moment." The only reply she got was Bella loosening her arms slightly.
It took about 15 minutes for Bella to finally release her mate and look her up and down. "Kate… wow… you look beyond amazing…" Kate chuckled and pushed a brown curl out of Bella's face. She looked into her mates red eyes and smiled as she saw the little sparkle that was so much like her. Bella quickly had her hand on her neck. "Woah… my throat…" Kate just smiled and took her mates hand in hers.
The two made their way downstairs and out the door before Bella could even process it. She followed the love of her life into the forest. As they ran, Isabella looked around and realized she could see every little detail in the forest. She saw each little strand of spiders webs, the minute details in a knot in the tree. She also realized how flawlessly she could run through a dense forest without tripping, her old klutzy self would for sure have fallen and cracked her head open 30 KM ago.
Bella noticed Kate had come to a stop so she quickly stopped, narrowly missing crashing into the blonde. "Why did we stop K?" Kate just raised her hand to silence her, that's when Bella noticed she could hear a heartbeat, or rather 2. One much stronger than the other. She followed the sound to a clearing where she saw a deer however that's not what caught her attention.
In the middle of the clearing, Bella caught a glimpse of bright blue hair, upon further inspection she recognized the girl as one her students in the highschool. She was sitting against a rock reading a book. That's when the smell hit her. The smell that made her feel a thirst she had never felt before in her life. A burning in her throat that could only be fixed by the most amazing smelling ambrosia in her life.
She noticed that she was sort of floating towards the girl and suddenly stopped herself causing her to step on a branch. The student whipped her head around and met eyes with the bright red eyes of her gym teacher. "Miss Swan? Why are your eyes so red?!" Bella closed her eyes, took a deep breath and looked at the student again.
"I'm wearing contacts for a costume…" The brunette murmured looking over her shoulder noticing her girlfriend who was stood right outside the clearing, her eyes wide in disbelief as she watched her newly born mate talk to a human. "You should get home Maddison… its getting late and im sure your parents are wondering where you are." The teen just nodded and quickly shoved her book in her bag and made her way out of the clearing on a well marked path.
Kate whipped over to the brunette who turned to look at her blond mate. She then heard the heartbeat of what she believed to be that of a deer and carefully stalked the sound. She pounced on the animal and quickly finished it off. When she finished, she looked up at the blond, her mouth covered in blood, her shirt now bearing a large rip down the side. "Better."
Bella cocked her head to the side as she watched her mate process everything that had just happened. Kate slowly walked up to Bella and took her hand. "That was beyond amazing love… you just accidently walked to a human, stopped from feeding on her, had a conversation with her, let her leave than drank a deer." Bella smiled and wiped her mouth clean then leaned in and kissed Kate lightly.
The two ventured back to the house at a human pace talking. When Bella pushed open the front door she was tackled into a hug by Esme who had a giant grin plastered on her face. "Bella! I'm so glad you're back! Wow! You look amazing love!" Bella smiled and hugged the mother back.
"Thanks Esme… im kind of a mess from hunting though…" She admitted quietly.
"It was amazing! We ran into one of our students in the clearing and Bella had a conversation with her then went and drank a deer without a single thought of attacking the girl!" Kate flew into a conversation with Carlisle and Eleazar about the whole situation. Bella just sat on the couch sinking into hoping to be swallowed by it. Just because she was a vampire now did not mean she liked the attention.
Esme sat beside her brunette daughter and wrapped an arm around her. "That is amazing Bells…" She muttered quietly. Had Isabella still been human, she would for sure be bright red. Alice plopped down on the other side of Bella and just drapped her legs over the brunette's lap.
"So I was thinking that tomorrow you and I could do some online shopping? I mean we could all use a wardrobe upgrade anyways." She said non-chalantly while scrolling through her phone. "OH! Or we could finally binge watch all those hallmark Christmas movies!" Bella stared at Kate for a few minutes before shaking herself out of her shocked state and laughed at the little pixie.
"Sure Alice. The corny Christmas movie binges sound amazing." Alice just nodded and laid her head down in Jaspers lap who had sat beside her. Bela glanced at Jasper and winced when she noticed all the bite marks on his arms. She then internally slapped herself and glanced up at the Texan through her eyelashes. "Sorry Jazz… didn't mean to stare…"
The blonde man just laughed and shook his head. "It's fine Bells. That's most peoples reactions to the scars for the first time. At least you apologized." He said in his southern drawl. Bella just smiled and leaned back into Esme's arm.
The whole family acted as if it was just another day. Esme and Carmen had made a decision together and told everyone else as this was the best way to do it for Bella. They knew that she didn't like attention or felt comfortable with everyone asking her a bunch of questions.
It was a few days later when Bella received a call she never thought she would. A call from her mother who hadn't contacted her in years. She answered the call tentatively. "Hello?"
"Bella? Its mom!" Bella just hummed in response as she already knew that. "I wanted to call and check up on you… I know I haven't been in touch the last few years. Life has been kind of hectic here with Phils injury and everything." Bella barely paid attention to a thing her mom said as she focused in on the sound of grounding teeth coming from Rosalies direction.
"Yeah mom. Its nice to talk to you too… things are fine… no I don't have a boyfriend…" That's when Bella got up and made her way outside. "Mom… im never going to have a boyfriend… no not because I don't want one… because I'm gay mom… I have an amazing girlfriend." There was silence on the phone line.
"Oh… well it was nice speaking to you Isabella. I hope you and your… partner are happy." The stiffness in her tone made Bella flinch.
"Mom… do you… why…"
"I will not have my daughter being a dyke and ruining her own life. If you choose to be that way then fine but don't expect anything from me. No phone calls. No Christmas cards and I will for sure not be at your wedding." Then all bella heard was a deafining silence coming from her phone.
The brunette looked down at her hands as the phone tumbled out of them and on to the grass. She fell to her knees and let her face fall into her hands as she felt tearless sobs wrack through her body. She then felt two strong arms around her carrying her inside the house away from what was slowly becoming a snowy day. She took a big whiff and noted the smell of cinnamon and orange and allowed herself to relax fully into her mates arms. She felt at peace, like she could finally breath again as Kate just sat on their bed and held a still shaking Bella.
After about an hour of silence, Isabella was finally able to sit up and look at her mate in the eyes. She was able to take a deep breath. "Are you alright Bells?" She asked pushing curls out of her pale face. Her now dull Amber eyes just blinked back at the warm honey ones. "Are you alright? What happened on the phone with your mother?" Bella just shook her head and looked down at their hand intertwined on her lap.
She was silent as she made her downstairs and curled up in between Carlisle and Esme on the couch. The couple, shocked, looked down at her then up at Kate before pulling the brunette into their arms. Kate stood at the doorway, her head tilted staring at her mate curled up in the couples arms. Carlisle looked up her.
"What happened?"
"I'm not to sure…"
