Alice is humming to herself as she looks around Ruby's closet. Her sister and Garrett left the house a while ago to go hunting. Ruby was going to need a bigger space for her closet. She was shaken from her thoughts when she heard Esme's voice from the bedroom door
"What are you doing Alice?" Esme asked the short vampire. "Going to reorganize Ruby's clothes again?"
Alice just grinned at her and closed the closet door. She skipped out of bedroom, with Esme walking beside her. "You're going to make her closet bigger. Not as big as mine and Jasper's. Around the same size as Rosalie and Emmett's."
Esme let out a soft gasp. "Did you see-?"
"You and Carlisle can stop worrying about Ruby's love life," Alice interrupting her mother, as they walked down the wooden staircase to the second floor of the house.
Esme smiles gently, at the thought of her first daughter finally finding a mate. "I presume that it's Garrett?"
"I saw them cuddling outside, looking up at the stars," Alice explained her vision with a small giggle. "His eyes were golden like ours."
"I can't wait to tell Carlisle," Esme sighed. They had began to worry about Ruby and whether she would find someone to be her life partner just like they did with Edward before he met Bella. "He will be glad once we break the news to him."
"I will need to take Garrett shopping after this whole mess with the loose newborn has been dealt with," Alice frowned. "I will give him some of Jasper's clothes for him to wear in the meantime."
"Try not to tire him too much in your shopping spree," Esme chuckled. "Rosalie and I are the only ones that have the patience for it."
"When was the last time you tasted human blood?" Garrett curiously asked her. They had been walking in the forest in silence since they left the house. He wanted to break the silence somehow but he was also curious on her last human feeding.
Ruby stopped walking. Her eyebrows creased in a frown. After a moment of silence, she answered, "In 1931."
Garrett's eye widen slightly. "I'm impressed."
She sighed before continuing to walk. "I thought I had it under control...my thirst," Ruby shook her head. "I'll never forget that young man's face before I took his life."
"How old—?"
"He was 18," she glanced at Garrett and grimaced. "We moved after the incident. We met Rosalie not long after, when she was still human."
Garrett could still see the sadness in her eyes. "Hey," he gently grasped her wrist. He waited until she turned to look at him to give her wrist a light comforting squeeze. "At least you regret what you did. I never felt bad for draining humans dry from their blood."
Ruby raised an eyebrow. "And you said you were nice."
Garrett let out a laugh. "Not to the British."
"Oh my god," she let out a snort and shook her head.
"Well at least I made you laugh," he grinned at her before letting go of her wrist. Although, that took a lot of inner strength to do.
Ruby smiled softly at him. "That you did."
They both heard soft paws quickly hitting the dirt of the forest. By the sounds of it, Ruby guessed it was a mountain lion, probably stalking another animal.
Garrett and Ruby shared a smirk. She tilted her head towards the direction of the sound and asked, "You think you can take down a mountain lion? Or do you want to start with something more tame like a deer?"
"Let's go feed on some mountain lion," Garrett's smirk widen as they took off towards the animal.
"...I took them all by surprised," Garrett shrugged. "I may have been turned but that didn't stopped me from taking down the redcoats."
"I'm not surprised," Ruby shook her head, upon hearing how the brown haired vampire was turned.
They were walking back to the house after their little hunting trip. After Garrett took down two mountain lions-getting his shirt and jacket ripped in the process-Ruby had showed him the area. Especially the 'line' that had been formed when her and the rest of the Cullens made with the pack. Garrett had found it amusing but didn't dared to cross it.
"That was not the only time I helped during a battle," he winked at her.
She let out a hum as they approached the house. "Will you tell me some of them?"
"I'll tell you all of them in time."
Alice was the first to greet them, after their hunt. The smile that the pixie haired vampire had quickly turned to a frown, when she noticed the tears on the nomad's shirt and jacket. She let out a huff before turning around and marching up the stairs.
"What was that all about?" Garrett raised an eyebrow towards Ruby.
She shrugged and went to up the stairs, heading towards her room. "No idea."
"Should I be scared?" He followed her to her bedroom.
Once they entered her bedroom, Ruby got comfortable in the black sofa bed. Garrett on the other hand, stood in the middle of the bedroom, under the pendant lights. He took noticed of the glassed wall across from him, having a beautiful view of the forest. On his left side, Ruby was laying down on her stomach on the sofa bed, with the bed already pulled out. On the right side of the bed, was a small black nightstand that had a lamo, a sketchbook and colored pencils laying on top. There was three wall shelves above the bed that had books on them with a trinket at the beginning and end of each shelve. On the other side of the bed was a tall cube bookshelf that contain cds and a stereo with speakers.
On his right side, was wooden drafting desk that had two desk lamps. It has drawings scattered around it. On each side of the table were asymmetrical cube bookcases that contained art books. Mostly were in English. But he noticed there were some in Spanish, French and Italian. He noticed a door on close to the left bookcase but guessed that it led to the closet. On each wall, minus the glassed one, had art deco hanging on them. Whether they be paintings or drawings. What he really likes about the room was the red burgundy color coating the walls. It made the room feel more peaceful and intimate.
Curiously, he made his way to the cd collection. He could feel Ruby's eyes on him but he continued to walk towards the cds. His eyes roamed on the spine of each cd case. His eyes widen in surprise and turned to look at her. Garrett made a choking sound from the back of this throat. "You like British rock?"
"They had good music back in the day," Ruby smirked at him, turning from her stomach to her back. "The British have some of the best rock bands ever."
"I will neither agree or disagree on that," The tall vampire grumbled at the dark haired beauty laying down on the sofa bed.
Ruby let out a chuckle, turning her attention to the ceiling. "You might find my brother's music collection more interesting then. He only likes to listen to classical music and from the fifties."
"From England?"
"Some is."
Garrett wrinkled his nose. "No thank you. I'll pass." He glanced around room again. His red eyes landing on the drawings on top of the drafting desk. "You like to draw?"
"I love sketching and painting," she smiled at him before glancing up at the ceiling again. "I have degrees on fine art."
"Are these all your work?" He gestured to the art decor hanging around the bedroom.
She shrugged. "Only two. The rest I have bought from different artists thru the years. Esme, on the other hand, insist I show her every work I make," she smiled softly at her mother's antics. "I have noticed some of my sketches missing and seen at least four of them hanging in her study. I don't know where she has kept the others."
"Have you sold some of them?"
"I have."
"Here!" Alice interrupted the two as she barged in her sister's bedroom, not bothering to knock. She threw the clothes that she was holding in her hands to the tall vampire, who caught them swiftly in the air. "You are around Jasper's size, but I do need you to get fitted to know your precise measurements."
Garrett inspected the black long sleeve shirt and the dark jeans in his grasp. He looked towards the small vampire by the doorway, raising a questioning eyebrow.
Alice rolled her eyes and pointed to his ruin shirt and jacket. "Try no to rip your new borrowed clothes in the meantime. Bella will arrive in an hour and you have to look at least presentable," she cliply said before walking away.
He turned to look at Ruby with slightly wide eyes, looking a bit intimidated by Alice. She raised her hands in a surrender gesture as she got up from the sofa bed. "I would listen to her if I were you."
"So you are not going to stop her from using me a dressing mannequin?"
Ruby let out a snort. "We all went thru it once." The smile that she threw might have come out innocent, if it wasn't for the mischievous gleam in her eyes. "Now it's your turn to suffer."
He grumbled under his breath as she left him to change in private. She let out a peal of laughter after she closed the door behind her, making her way to kitchen to help Esme with dinner for Bella.
Riley ignored the whimpering from the teenager lying on the cold concrete floor. He had carried the girl to their secret hideout after he bite her. He was thankful that her yelling had stopped. He crouched close to her, brushing the strands of hair away from her face.
"The pain you are feeling is changes your body is going thru," he explained, not knowing whether she could hear him or not. He didn't care either way. He stood from his crouching position. "It will go away eventually."
He left the girl to continue her whimpering in the darkness of the room. Riley needed to check on the others and continue with their training. He had to replace the one he personally disposed of. Victoria was right, he had to make the army stronger no matter what.
"Some of us are getting thirsty again," a redhead vampire coldly said to Riley, when the blonde entered the room. The others quieted down, sensing a tension growing.
"You have fed not too long ago. Wait another night," Riley frowned at him, crossing his arms in front of his chest. "You are getting sloppy in getting rid of the bodies after your feeding."
The boy growled at Riley and took a fighting stand.
"I have beat you multiple times. What makes you think it won't happen again?" Riley narrowed his eyes. Out of everyone in the group, he was the fastest. No one has been able to beat him during training. "You can try but you won't be successful."
The redhead glared at him in silence for another moment. He let out a frustrated growled before stomping away, cursing Riley as two other vampires followed quickly behind him.
"Bree," Riley called the young girl, who had watched the entire event with wide frighten eyes. The small girl quickly stood up. She met his eyes hesitantly. He nodded towards the room he came from, where the other girl was still whimpering during her change. "Keep an eye on her until her transformation is done. Then bring her to me. I will teach her how to hunt and start her training as soon as possible."
"Y-yes Riley," Bree timidly mumbled before walking towards the direction of the crying girl.
In case that I don't update before New's Years, I just want to say...Happy New Year's! I will try to update at least once every month or two.
