Bella, The Vanderbilt Vampire:
Recap: Bella's POV: "We best be off then to prepare for the bonfire. Be sure to be at First Beach around eight tonight." Sam said. "Oh and thanks again Bella for accepting this responsibility." Then they all left the house and phased once they were off the porch. I watched them all take off into the woods. It wasn't until I couldn't hear the thud of their paws in the distance any longer did the family start all talking at once. If I were still human I would've had an instant headache because of their disharmonious outbursts.
"One at a time, please!" I said after I whistled at a really high pitch.
Chapter 13: Responsibility
Bella's POV:
It was seven thirty now and my mind is plagued with the obstacles I will have to face. What is expected of me? I understand the eventual outcome but how do these wolves expect me to achieve it? I can't run all over the world and kill all of the bad supernatural creatures. No true utopia can truly exist. Where there is good there will be bad.
My job I suppose will be to try and make the world better. I can't kill the bad people in life because there are no bad people, just people who make bad choices. I will admit there are certainly people who are evil and completely demolish this philosophy. However, I am an optimist. Unknowingly thoughts of how to change the awful world started to pop and develop in my mind. Now I feel like I am able and worthy to be the savior.
"Are you ready to go love?" Edward asked as he slipped his arms around my waist from behind. We were in his room, relaxing before we needed to leave for the bonfire.
"Of course, now don't forget we need to pick up some last minute treats." I told him as I turned around in his arms.
"I can't help but to find it funny about how you just phrased that sentence." He told me.
"Shut up, that's mean." I told him.
"Make me," he said and smiled a crooked smirk.
"Gladly," I said and pulled his head down and slowly crashed my lips to his. We continued our make-out session until Emmett started knocking on the door.
"Come on you two! Quit sucking each other's faces off and let's go dance with wolves!" he cackled from outside the door.
"Shut up Emmett." We both said as we pulled away from each other.
"You can't make-" he started but then we heard a loud smack resound from outside the door. "Ow! Rosie, baby! What was that for?" He whined.
"For teasing them and the terrible pun you used to do so. Now come on and leave them alone!" Rose said then we heard their footsteps lead downstairs.
"Well, as much as I hate to admit that Emmett is right and inflate his ego, we do need to get going." I said and pulled away from Edward to grab my purse off the bed.
"Not so fast!" Edward yelled and tackled me to the bed.
"Edward! What in the world is wrong with you?" I asked as I rolled over so I could look up into his eyes.
"Nothing, I am just happy. We haven't really been at peace since we've been reunited." He said and gave me a chaste kiss on my lips.
"Well, I am happy too. However, we need to go and you are not only wrinkling my clothes but you are ruining my hair as well." I told him and pushed him off me and started down the stairs with him hot on my tail.
"Alright, so Emmett and Rose are headed to Ron's Food Mart while the rest of us head on out to Sam's house for the feast before the bonfire?" I asked.
"That's the plan." Rose said.
"Let's move people! Time is of the essence and I am going into this thing blind so the sooner we are done the better I will feel about this whole thing." Alice said while clapping her pixie hands. Everyone moved to the garage and we got into our respective vehicles. Emmett and Rose got into the Jeep, Alice and Jasper got into Carlisle's Mercedes with Carlisle and Esme, while Edward and I climbed into his Volvo. Edward was the first down the long driveway and onto the highway. We sat in comfortable silence as Edward drove to the Indian Reservation. This is the first time that they will be able to set foot on La Push land since before the treaty was made all those decades ago.
Before I knew it I saw the 'Welcome To La Push' sign and we were passing little gift shop stores and the La Push Police Department. Then we drove further and towards the coast until we reached their house. Several of the muscled shifters were already here. We got out of his car and went to knock on the front door. Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, and Alice pulled up next to us as we got out of Edward's Volvo. I knocked and Sam answered the door with his arm around a woman who had three long scars going down her face.
"Hello, my name is Bella." I held my hand out to her.
"I'm Emily, Sam's fiancée." She said and shook my hand. "He talks about you all of the time. All of the boys do actually. They love reading about the adventures that you've been on throughout your life. Come on in and make yourselves comfortable." She said. We followed her in and Edward and I sat on the love seat across from where she and Sam sat together.
"Well technically, I have only been on adventures once I died. My mother and father never really let Cornelia and me off of the estate much. They were worried for Cornelia's safety and making sure that I didn't get into any trouble." I told the couple. Emily giggled at the last bit.
"I can't imagine little you getting into a lot of trouble." A boy named Paul said as he pushed off the doorway he was leaning on.
"Well believe it. I was in my deceased mother's own words, "a trouble making brat, who is not educated enough to know how to be a lady". I was extremely rebellious and most of the time did the opposite of whatever the tutor taught us in front of mother just to make her angry. One time I even painted our indoor swimming pool neon green for pure spite." I told them.
"That doesn't sound so rebellious to me Vamp girl." Paul said.
"Oh, I left out the part where once the paint dried I invited the neighborhood kids over and we all poured my mother's private collection of exotic perfumes into the pool. My mother's collection had been at a record high of seventy three bottles. Then we took my mother's prized dog and had her swim in the pool of perfume. Afterwards we found a mutt and bred my mother's prized dog to the mutt. That little yappy dog produced nine ugly pups. Not to mention her dog reeked for weeks." I finished the rebellious tale. That was one of my favorites. The look in mother's face was priceless.
"Okay so maybe you are devious. Deceitfully so, but I will give ya your props." Paul said laughing slightly. A knock was heard after he was finished talking. That must be Emmett and Rose.
"Come in!" Sam shouted. I saw Rose come in and sit down beside Alice while Emmett waited by the doorway to the living room with tons of grocery bags in his hands.
"Where should I put these?" he asked.
"Just put them in the kitchen please. It is on the right down the hallway." Emily said. Emmett nodded and ambled on down through the house. Emily then turned to look at us and said, "You guys didn't have to buy anything, especially since you all can't even eat any of it."
"Of course we didn't have to but we wanted to do it for you," Esme said kindly.
"Also in the different journals that I have read about you shifters, it details your body's high metabolism and how everything is heightened for you." Carlisle explained.
"The boys do eat a lot." Emily said.
"I bet if Emmett were human he would eat as much as one of you do." I said.
"There is no doubt about that." Jasper said.
"The way he plays with his prey before he eats, suggests that he would be prone to eating large amounts as well. People with high metabolisms are susceptible to this as well as the need for physical exertion." Carlisle said.
"Enough diagnosing" Emmett said, "let's get this party started!"
"Alright, boys go set up our bonfire spot and gather firewood, while us girls go cook." Emily said. The boys immediately went outside after, of course, giving their mates or imprints a quick kiss.
"Actually, Emily, Alice and I have no clue on how to cook." Rose said sheepishly.
"That's alright, you can keep us company while we work. Kim doesn't know how to cook either." Emily told them.
"It's true, I can burn everything, including water." Kim, I assume, said. Then we all headed into the kitchen and started to work. Well, except for Alice, Rose, Kim, Rachel, and little Claire.
"So, I am unaware of who is whose imprint. Would you mind telling us?" I asked the wolf girls.
"Oh, I am sorry. I didn't even realize. As you know Emily is Sam's girl, I'm Jared's, Rachel is Paul's, and once Claire is old enough she will be Quill's. But for now he is her protector. Now, which vamp girl is mated to which extremely handsome undead guy?" She asked.
"Esme is with Carlisle, Rose is with Emmett, Bella is with Edward, and I am with Jasper." Alice said. "Now, does this imprinting thing not happen to all of the wolves?"
"Nope not all of us are that lucky," Leah said with bitterness laced within her words.
"Have faith Leah, you will find someone one day." Emily told her cousin.
"I had someone but you came and stole him!" She shouted before dropping some tuber ware and stomping out the backdoor to avoid the boys. I wiped my hands on a towel.
"I will go talk to her." Then I followed her scent until I found her sulking on the cliff's edge. I sat down next to her.
"You're not going to convince me to go back and apologize." She said.
"I wouldn't dream of it." I told her. She turned to face me then, her face colored with confusion.
"Then why are you here, talking to me?" She asked.
"Because I have been where you are. I don't want to see you go down the same path I once took." I said.
"I seriously doubt that Ms. Goody Two Shoes Vamp Girl." Leah sneered.
"Alright, so Leah, can I tell you a story? It might help." I asked her.
"Do whatever you want." She said and turned back to watch the waves crash along the shore. Along down the coast was where our bonfire party will be held in a few short hours. I watched the boys put up tents to cover the tables where the food will be placed while other boys gathered driftwood along the shore.
"I will only tell you this story Leah if you truly want to hear it and desire to be happy again. I don't want to waste my time telling a painful story if you're going to be ungrateful." I said and stood up. I started to walk away.
"Wait," she said. "Bella can you tell me the story?" she asked.
"Of course." I said and sat back down next to her and began my tale, "It was the nineteen-thirties."
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