Bella, The Vanderbilt Vampire:
Recap: Bella'sPOV:Lastly I saw the one face I wasn't expecting to ever see in this life time sitting at the grand piano in the corner of the room. His bronze, tousled hair and lean, muscular figure. His eyes changed from emerald green to a molten gold color swimming around with intense emotions shining through. I saw my Edward.
Chapter 8: Reunited & It Feels So Good!
Bella's POV:
"Edward?" I asked with a lump in my throat. I must be dreaming, but I can not. I lost the ability to escape into the recesses of my mind while unconscious for ,give or take, eight hours. So, this is real. Am I seeing the only one that I have loved for a little more than a hundred years?
"Bella?" he asked standing up. "Is it really you?" he came over to me and tucked a stray hair behind my ear. To answer I pulled out the necklace he gave me all those years ago from underneath my shirt where it tends to go.
"Yes, Edward." I said. He pulled me quickly to him and buried his face in my hair and let out a dry sob.
"I thought I had lost you forever my Bella."
"I thought that I had lost you as well." I whimpered against his chest. "I never stopped thinking about you."
"Neither have I my love. I am forever plagued by your beautiful face in behind my closed eyelids. Your essence is in everything I look. Now, you are here. I can't believe it. It's almost-"
"Too good to be true." I finished.
"Yes," he breathed out. "This is far too good to be true. How are you here? I thought that you were killed by that dreaded stable boy Black." he said.
"No, Black is the one who helped me. Do you remember the three creepy people that I was unnerved by?" I asked him.
"Yes, you told me that they were liars and no one believed you. Well, I did. But why do you ask?"
"The James, blonde one, is the one that turned me. Remember your mother interrupted our dance and you left me there alone while you went to check on her. It was the scariest moment in my life. When he attacked me I prayed you would not come out yet. I was afraid he would attack you as well. However, a small selfish part of me wanted you to be my knight in shining armor. But, I was extremely grateful when I heard that you had gone home. I was worried though, when I woke up and realized what you must have thought about my sudden disappearance. You must have hated me, thinking that I had left you. I hope that now you know that I didn't voluntarily leave you. If I could, I would've stayed in that part of the garden with you forever. Just you and me in our own little world out there by the statues in our place." I told him.
"Bella, my sweet sweet Bella. I was never angry with you. I knew you wouldn't have left without a reasonable reason as to why. After I left you James and his companions admitted to killing you to our families in front of the entire party. I have never felt more heartbroken than I have in that moment when he smirked and detailed your death to us. I felt my heart shatter and the earth stand still when he said you were dead. Your body mangled and buried in a deep, dark, cold ditch somewhere we would never find you." He said. I gasped so why would my parents say I was missing?
"I don't understand." I paused. "I have seen the flyers about my disappearance and heard of the bounties that were put on my head just so that my parents could find me."
"Your parents believed James words Bella. When he produced some of your bloody ball gown, they immediately believed you to be dead and were never coming back to them." He said.
"But who then?" I questioned.
"Me, Bella.. I was so desperate in my search to find you. I never accepted his words to be truth. If you were truly gone, then that sick man would've shown us your body and utterly destroyed me. Yet he refused to show us or tell us the whereabouts of your body. I never believed you were truly dead after that. I kept hope that you were alive. I never imagined that you were turned though."
"Yeah after you left he attempted to drain me, he even thought he did. Jonathan saved me though and taught me about the supernatural world for the little time I was with him. He was a werewolf and I was a vampire. I learned more from experience though." I told him.
"I'm so sorry that you had to go through this alone. I was heart broken but at least I had these band of misfits," he said motioning to the other familiar vampires around the room.
"I kind of had them to. When I moved around I met them, along with several others." I told him.
"How small is this world we live on?" he asked rhetorically.
"Technically we are all dead, so it would be more appropriate to say the world that we exist on." I corrected him. Darn those tutors from my human years. Mother wanted us to be the smartest. Edward only laughed though.
"Yes, I believe you are correct there love." he said the tapped my nose.
"Okay grandpa and grandma, you've been talking for long enough. Let's see a little action!" Emmett hollered.
"Emmett, you haven't changed at all have you?" I chuckled.
"Nope. Now Eddie, kiss Bellsy-Boo before I come over there and make you." he said to Edward. I couldn't help but laugh. Emmett never changes, he wouldn't be Emmett without his childish charm. I'm so glad Rosalie found him, she needs laughter in her life.
"Well, we better appease Emmett." I dramatically sighed to Edward.
"You sure?" he asked.
"Naw, let's make him wait some more." I joked.
"Sorry, I can't do that." he said seriously.
"And why not?" I asked.
"Because it's over a hundred years, and I can't wait any longer," he said then crashed his lips over mine. Our love sparked once again when the feel of his lips came into contact with my own. Our love never lost its spark it was just hidden and denied to us by time and nature. His kiss was passionate and fueled with white hot need and desire. I was soon lost in his kisses as Emmett whooped. After a couple more minutes Emmett stopped as we continued.
"Okay you two, either find a bedroom or stop and talk to the other people in the room." Alice said. We pulled apart and sheepishly looked around the room at the others.
"Oops, sorry everyone." I said embarrassed. My face would be so red if I was still alive and had blood pumping in my veins.
"Well, I'm not." Edward said kissing my cheek soundly.
"You're terrible," I giggled.
"I'm terrible? If I'm so terrible, how could you kiss the likes of me?" he asked teasingly.
"You kissed me!" I feigned disgust at his words.
"Ah, ah, ah. You kissed back." He tsked. "So I can't be too terrible."
"You are Edward, you have got to be the most-"I started but he cut me off with a tender, but chaste kiss on my lips, "affectionate, loving, and sexy guy that has ever walked the planet."
"Thank you, thank you very much." He said Elvis Presley style, and wiggled his eyebrows. Darn him. He knows I love when he does that. Oh, how he just love to tease me so. I can't think straight when he teases me.
"Oh stop that! I would like to talk to the other people in the room." I told him sternly.
"I'm a person in this room, and I don't mind if we don't talk." he said.
"Oh you're horrible!" I said and made myself leave the comfort of his arms to go hug everyone in the room. "I have missed all of you."
"I would've never have guessed that you were a vampire Bella," Emmett said.
"Well here I am, I was when we first met though." I said, "Emmett, how did you become a vampire?" I asked.
"Rosie saved me and had Dr. Dad here bite me." he said.
"Saved you from what exactly Emmett McCarthy?" I asked with narrowed eyes.
"Don't get mad but I was in the woods hunting bears." he said sheepishly.
"What did I tell you about going into the woods to begin with? I told you that it was dangerous! Apparently you didn't listen!" I fussed.
"Oh give me a break woman! I wouldn't be here if I hadn't" he said.
"I guess, but why did you have to be so stubborn?" I hid my smile.
"Don't you mean why is he still so stubborn? His pigheadedness was enhanced as he was turned." Rose said from his side lovingly.
"Oh Lord save us all if his pranks have gotten worse!" I mockingly cried out.
"Shut up granny!" Emmett huffed with his arms crossed like a little kid while everyone laughed at us.
"Hasn't anyone ever told you to respect your elders?" I shook my finger at him, imitating a granny. "How in the world did my favorite acquaintances and friends become a family?"
"Well sit down for the story, make yourself comfortable." Alice said. "I can see this taking quite a while, what with everyone's lengthy stories."
"Alright," I said. My Denali family made themselves comfortable as well. Even though we don't necessarily have to, we like playing human.
"Bella, come sit with me," Edward said from the corner of the room. I did not notice but I reason he must have made his way to his piano while I was hugging everyone. Wow, his piano is fantastic. I remember hearing him play for the first time. It was also the first time we met. He was such a prodigy.
1912; Vanderbilt Home; Georgia:
I simply can not believe the nerve! Mother wants me to be vain and self centered all the time. She even had father hire some highly strung instructor. I decided to give the woman my parents hired a chance today. All the woman did today was insult me and hit me with her ruler! That thing smarted! I did not let that woman finish her lesson. I just ran out of the room and was about to go outside when beautiful music reached my ears. Who is that? I changed my course of direction and followed the sound of the sweet, luring music. I finally found the person responsible for the awe-inspiring music. It was a boy, he could not have been too much older than myself. He had a lanky build to him and the oddest color of hair I had ever seen on one's head. It looked like the color a penny is. He is wonderful. The music he is creating is flowing through me and calming me down from the anger and resentment I had earlier been feeling. I need to know who this boy is, I thought as he finished and turned around to face me. He seemed to be in a little shock. I suppose he had not expected anyone to be in here.
"Oh, I am sorry miss. I did not know of your presence or I would have stopped sooner." he said embarrassed.
"No need for apology," I said coming to sit beside him on the bench. "I loved hearing you play. You have quite the talent for it."
"I suppose so, mother has had my tutor teaching me this for a couple years now."
"You must have had an excellent tutor."
"He was," he paused. "Oh, I am being awfully rude. I did not introduce myself. My name is Edward Mason junior." he said.
"My name is Isabella Vanderbilt." I said and held out my hand for him to shake. He grasped my hand firmly in his and brought it to his lips.
"It is quite the pleasure meeting you Isabella." he said.
"The pleasure is all mine Edward." I said "Can you play anything else?" I asked and he nodded and began another song.
1912; Vanderbilt Home; Georgia:
After that he played a few songs for me and we were called to dinner. Where my father formally announced the Masons arrival into our home. They were there for my parents. Apparently our fathers knew each other from collage. They were the only visitors brought into our home that I ever actually enjoyed the company of. "Bella? You coming?" Edward asked.
"Oh, of course. I was just lost in a memory." I told him while sitting down next to him.
"Was it a good one?" he asked stroking my hair.
"One of the best." I said and laid my head on his shoulder, getting ready for the explanations that will sure come from everyone.
(AN: Hey peoples! How you awesome readers doing? I am not doing so good. My dog died Thursday. She was fourteen and will be missed dearly. But Friday was really hard for me. She is normally waiting there for me when I get off the bus, but she wasn't. And one of my acquaintances wasn't very sympathetic, my ex-boyfriend's brother. I said I was sad, he said why. I told him she died and her age. He said and I quote, "oh that's nothing to be sad about, she earned her death." I saw red. He is just so glad that I have great self control. Who says that to someone who is grieving the loss of their dog. I had burst into tears when I got home though. It's still hard. I looked outside for her this morning and sadly remembered. Ugh, it's just terrible. But she was a very loyal dog, and sadly her time to go. But anywho, I really hope you enjoyed this chapter! I know some people have been waiting for it. Please review! Keep reading. I hope you all have a good day! I don't own Twilight. I will own my own book though, I have it a quarter of the way done! Woo hoo! Wish me luck! Love ya'll!)
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