Tanya
"It's a painting," Bella responded.
"That's me in Slovakia, it's one of my favorite places. This was painted before you even met me," I responded as I saw the date that was written on the bottom of the painting.
"It's just imagination and through the Internet," Bella replied trying to take the drawing away from me.
"Bella, I'm not stupid. Now tell me the truth," I said as I kept the painting away from her reach.
"Look, it's complicated," she said sitting on her bed.
It seems she wasn't willing to talk about it.
"Just tell me, please," I pleaded with her.
"I don't know if you're going to believe me," she said as she gripped her hair.
"Bella I'll believe you, and I'm open-minded. So please tell me," I said this as I approached her where she sat on the bed.
She stayed quiet as she looked down at the floor.
"I'm not going to judge you Bella," I put my hand under Bella's chin, and raised her head so that she will look at me.
"Alright…this is going to sound really weird but I have been having dreams of you since I was fifteen," she said with all seriousness.
This is quite serious, she doesn't seem to be making this up.
"What am I doing in your dreams?" I asked desperate for some answers.
"I always find you in the forest, sometimes you let me chase you and other times you give me advise", she replied while nervously playing with her fingers. She seems to be worried about my reaction.
"What do we talk about in your dreams?"
"The last time I saw you in my dreams was a week ago, you told me to stay away from Edward because he is dangerous and his trying to ruin your plans. In my dream's you're always so mysterious…" Her face softened as she spoke those last words.
I kept quiet for a moment, as it was a lot to take in.
"Did she ever explain to you why I have yellow eyes and pale skin?" I asked, wondering if Bella has any knowledge about my kind.
"She said that you used to be human but now you're not," then this means that she still doesn't know about me being a vampire. If I want to be with Bella I will have to change her. I can't be with her if she stays human because she will grow old and eventually die, I can't fathom that. I want to be with my mate for as long as my immortal life will last.
"Do you want to know what I am?" I asked.
"If we are going to start a relationship, it's important for me to get to know you…" she murmured looking at her hands.
She can be so sweet sometimes. But I didn't know what to do, once I tell her the truth I have to turn her. After Sasha's death I am not willing to risk anything.
"Bella, do you think you'll be able to love me enough to accept what I am?"
"I think I will, since I've been having dreams of you and the Tanya in my dream's told me that her job was to bring us together and for me to get to know you,"
This really proves that Bella is my mate and Sasha said if she ever find's my mate she would give her the necklace. I really cannot see myself with Bella being a human. I don't want a relationship that probably won't last long and I might not survive the immense pain I will experience if Bella dies. For a vampire, it is extremely painful and sometimes impossible to live on, once your mate passes away after you have built a strong bond with them. However, if the bond was weak, it will not cause a strong influence on the other vampire.
"Do you want to live by a certain age forever?" I asked her.
"I've never really given it much thought. I think that I would want to be over twenty at least because I don't want to be a teenager forever…I don't know, tell me the benefits," she said after a moment.
"You will be able to experience many things in life. You won't have to worry about being physically ill, as you will become stronger and will not get physically hurt so easily. You'll be able to live more freely than you would as a human, but you will have to learn how to defend yourself in my world," I explained carefully to her.
"…And the only way I can be with you is, if I become like one of your kind?" she asked thoughtfully.
"Yes, I can't risked your life or my family if I tell you what I am and I don't turn you," I can't risk having the Volturi find out about this if I do not turn Bella or the consequences will be very grave.
"This is going to change my life forever, huh…" she murmured quietly.
"Yes it will, and if you agree with this I won't have to change you now but when you finally grow up to become a woman who makes her own decisions," I said to her.
"Tanya, if you want me to decide, you need to tell me what you are first,"
I don't know what to do, I can't make this decision by myself and I must ask my family first, I wonder how my sister's will react to this. "Look, the decision is not up to me but my family too, because if I tell you what we are, I am exposing them as well," I said.
"And the Cullen's too?" she asked.
"How did you know?" How much did little one know about us?
"The Tanya in my dreams confirmed my suspicion's that the Cullen's were like you," she admonished.
I was getting jealous of the 'me' in her dreams, how much did they talk about?
"In your dream's am I more likeable?" I asked her.
She smiled at me and said playfully, "Definitely she doesn't play difficult and doesn't accuse me of sleeping with someone else,"
I glared at her, this was a serious conversation and she's joking about that.
"You and her are the same person. She said that she is your soul," little one said.
I have a soul? Then this is proof that vampire's do have souls and when Carlisle hears of this he will want to do lot of research on little one, unless she wants to.
"You know the woman, Sasha, she was the one who raised me but she died before you were born," I decided to at least tell her some of the truth.
"What? Are you serious?" She exclaimed, as she looked at me.
"Yes, that necklace that she gave you was a gift that I gave to her. Sasha told me that when she finds my mate she will give it to her," I said watching her reaction as I revealed this to her.
"I am your…Wait a minute, what do you mean by mate?" She asked. I didn't expect this afternoon to be the time that I would reveal so much about my world to Bella.
"A mate is the one that you are devoted to in your entire life. The bond you will have with them will grow stronger in time when you are together. Sometimes it becomes so strong that for our kind, it is simply impossible to live without his or her mate if either one of them dies, and that is why if we want to begin with a relationship I will have to know how far you are willing to go," I explained to her.
Maybe I was selfish to want her to be a vampire for me, but she is my mate. If I want a happy ending with her this is the only way.
"I'm accepting the condition to be change in to your kind. There are so many signs like the dreams and Sasha, this can't just be a coincidence," Bella doesn't know what she's exactly getting herself into.
"Are you just doing this for pity?"
"No! I have feelings for you. I really like you. Everyday, I think of ways to bring you closer to me. We could make this work and if were meant to be then we can't stop it,"
"Even if you will have to abandoned your family?" I asked looking at her.
Her face saddened.
"This is a difficult decision, I will give you more time to think about this," I said standing up from the bed.
"Please stay! If you're planning to change me when will it be?" She asked as she reached for my hand, to tug me back.
"It depends, maybe after you finish high school or college," I replied, sitting back down again beside her.
"So I have time now to stay with my family," she said letting my hand go.
"Yes, the change will happen in a few years," I said.
"I
could live with that," after she said that I heard my sister's enter the house.
"Tanya! Alice said you needed us!" Kate shouted.
Of course Alice saw this.
"What the hell is she doing in my house?" She asked, standing up and headed towards her door.
When she opened the door, she jumps back in surprise to find Kate and Irina standing right in front of the door. Kate walked passed her and entered the room. She immediately noticed the drawing.
"I see you guys have been doing naughty things in the room," she said looking at the drawing more closely.
Kate turned back towards Irina, as she was still standing by the door, and noticed her staring at Bella's neck. Irina was staring at Bella's necklace, and Kate's eyes followed where she was looking at, and her eyes grew wide with surprise.
"What the hell…" Kate said the same time as Irina whispered, "Is that Sasha's necklace?"
"Bella, can you bring them the photo album?" I asked Bella, hoping that she will leave for a bit, giving me enough time to speak with my sister's alone.
"Why?" She asked trying to find a way to escape from Irina.
"I want to show them the picture," I replied.
"Alright," she walked passed Irina, and walked out of the room. I could hear her heading down the stairs.
"What the hell is going on?" Kate immediately asked as soon as Bella left.
I showed them the picture of Bella and Sasha on my phone. I told them about how Bella saw Sasha's ghost and me appearing in Bella's dreams. My sister's were quite shocked. I had to stop the conversation, as I heard Bella reaching the top of the stairs. Bella came in the room and handed the picture to me. Kate immediately reached for the photograph and took it out off my hands.
"We are going to keep this," Kate said.
"No, you can copy it but I don't want you to keep it," Bella said
"Kid you will learn someday what this photo means to us, when you will lose an important person…"Kate said. I understand where Kate was coming from since Sasha was like a mother to all of us. She was the one that showed us a new way of living our lives.
"So, is she going to become one of us?" Irina asked.
"She's my mate, its for her to decide," I said to them.
"What! She knows too much, I am not going to lose my sister for breaking the laws!" Kate exclaimed.
"I agree with Kate, we will have to turn her. It would mean something if Sasha appeared to her, she is your mate and is destined to be with you," Irina said.
"What are you guys?" Bella asked.
Kate walked up to her and little one took a step back away from her as she approached. I blocked Kate's path to stop her.
"Can we discuss this? Remember if we expose ourselves, we are exposing the Cullen's as well,"
"I still don't see the problem of telling her that we are-" Irina thankfully interrupted Kate.
"You cannot just tell it to her like that, you don't know how she is going to react,"
"I will accept you guys no matter what you are, even if your vampires or zombies," little one said jokingly.
My sister's and me stood frozen, as we looked at her with wide eyes.
"Why are you looking me like that?" She asked as she noticed our expressions.
"She already knows, we can't do anything about it," Kate said. Seriously, whatever she thinks is right she'll find a way to make it happen.
"You guys are zombies," Bella murmured, shocked registering on her face and we can hear her heart beating faster.
"This isn't what I really had in mind, when we were going to reveal what we are to her," Irina said.
"I hope you're happy your mate is like Emmett, just in a version of a woman," Kate said jokingly, a smirk plastered on her face.
"But you guys are clearly not like the zombies I see on television," she said with her hand through her hair. My sister's and me just rolled our eyes, seriously, is she for real?
"That's because we're not zombies you domass we're Vampire's," Kate said seriously.
Bella began to pace across the little space there was in the room. I stayed frozen where I stood, watching and waiting for her to calm down.
"Vampire's drink human blood, right?" She asked, fear showing in her eyes.
This was the consequence of revealing ourselves to her. I slowly approached her, reaching for her hand and pulled her with me so that we are sitting side by side on her bed.
"Look, you have nothing to be scared of, we are not going to hurt you. You can trust us, okay?" She slowly relaxed as I gently told her this. We all stayed in her room, trying to explain to her everything about us. Like the fact that we hunt animals, and of course, Kate had to say that we used drink human blood. I told her our abilities as Vampire but I didn't tell her about the Cullen's gifts.
She didn't say much but she reassured me she was okay with this, and she promised me she wasn't going to leave me and that was all what I needed to hear. We had stayed for a few hours and we had to leave before Charlie came home. I wanted to give her space and let her process what she found out today.
While were driving Alice called us. Apparently, Edward read her mind and saw the vision of us telling Bella what we are and is not acting outrage about it. They are calling a family meeting and were requesting our presence.
When we entered the Cullen house, it was Edward that we find first, "How can you reveal her to about us just like that!"
"She is my mate, I have every right to tell her," I defended myself.
"You know you are putting her and yourselves in danger. Or did you not learn your lesson of what happened to Sasha," He went too far once he mentioned Sasha.
"Boy, you better watch your mouth and for your information were planning to change her that is why we told her," Kate growled out angrily.
These two can never stand each other.
"What! I am not going to let that happen!" He exclaimed loudly.
"I think you have the wrong idea here Edward, we're not asking for you permission," Irina said sarcastically, I'm thankful that I have my sister's full support.
"Son, calm down let's go to the living room and talk," Carlisle said, appearing behind Edward.
Edward listened to Carlisle and walked to the living room, we followed behind them. As we entered the living room, we find the entire clan waiting for us.
Alice was the first to hug me, "I am happy that you found your mate," she then let me go.
"You got yourself a good partner, I see us going on a double date already," Emmett said right after Alice walked away.
"Congratulation's Tanya," Jasper said to me.
Esme approached and hugged me as well, "I told you didn't I, that to not give up in finding your mate,"
"Yeah, yeah, my sister finally got her mate. We're all happy for her but can we get started, I don't want to stay her the entire day and I have places to go," she said.
"We're home watching your favorite novel," Rose said smirking.
Apparently Kate like the novels
"Shut up…" was Kate's only response.
"Can we focus on the situation," Carlisle said getting back on track.
"Why didn't you warn us before exposing us to Bella?" Rose asked.
I then told them what happened at Bella's house, about the drawing I found and showing them the picture of Sasha.
"I have never heard this happening. I don't have any explanation for this," Carlisle said looking at the picture.
"There is an explanation, its simple that the kid is Tanya's mate," Kate wanted this conversation to end as soon as possible, since she didn't want to stay any longer.
"Bella is lying, a vampire doesn't have a soul," of course that was Edward.
"She drew Tanya in the woods of Slovakia with golden eyes before even meeting her, what explanation do you have for that professor Edward?" Kate said sarcastically. She wasn't giving me any opportunities to defend little one.
"So when are you going to change her?" Rose asked with curiosity.
"I don't know, maybe when she is ready. She is still processing
"I don't know, maybe when she is ready. She is still processing what we told her and I could not ask her to make a decision today," I answered her.
"Look, I am not going to let you change Bella because I know there is no such thing as a love between two women!" Edward exclaimed, always with his strong beliefs. He still thinks that we live in the 18th century.
"Edward, I am not going to waste my time discussing this with you. Whether you accept Bella as my mate or not, I don't care," I said with all seriousness, looking right at him.
"Can we go now?" Kate asked.
Irina rolled her eyes at her.
"So, Bella is going to be part of the family now?" Esme asked.
"Yes, I see her become one of us in my visions, its more clearer now. It is apparent that she has made the decision to be one of us," Alice interrupted before I can say anything.
"Of course, me and Jasper are going to talk with her first. Just so we know that she is ready for a commitment for life," Emmett said. Well this isn't going good.
"Emmett don't scare her, she has enough to deal with after learning we are vampires," I said.
I felt happy knowing what Alice said about her vision. Irina came to stand next to me and grabbed my hand as she smiled at me. Showing that she was really happy for me.
"Are you happy that your mate is going to be a monster like us? Do you want her drinking blood from a human just so she can be your mate?!" Edward asked, anger apparent in his voice.
"She knows to much about us already, if the Volturi find's out they will kill her, including everyone else here and this wasn't up to Tanya, it was the universe. Do you really think Tanya has the power to make Bella have those dreams!" Irina said, becoming increasingly irritated with Edward behaviour.
"We can prevent a way for the Volturi to find out. With the dream I have an explanation maybe, she's just hallucinating or there something wrong with her head. That's probably why I can read her mind. Carlisle has medicine to stop these hallucinations," Edward said, as though it was a great solution.
"What the hell is wrong with you for thinking that?! If you still think that vampire's don't have a soul or that same sexes can't love each other, that your to puzzled to figure, I don't care, but if I see you messing with Bella, I will kill you before you know it," I spoke directly to Edward, my anger surfacing from his idiotic comments.
"Look, Tanya calm down. Edward, I am not going to do any test on her. She is Tanya's mate, you will respect that!" Carlisle looking at Edward but he didn't say anything.
The next day, I went to pick up Bella with my sister's, to see if she has decided. Alice told me that I didn't have anything to worry about but I still have a little doubt about Bella's decision. Irina reminded me that I needed to be more optimistic.
When my sister and me were almost near her house. I smelled Leah's scent, the werewolves scent. Werewolves are known to be dangerous and aggressive. I didn't want her to alone with Leah. Look at what happened last time. I hope I can convince her to not be near Leah.
When we drove up the driveway, I saw Leah talking to little one, and noticed that Bella had flowers in her hand and she was laughing with Leah.
"Tanya, don't go into any conclusion without asking her about it first. Remember what happened last time," Irina said to me, as she was watching for my reaction.
"Yeah, especially since she just found out yesterday that we're vampire," Kate said.
They were right. I am an adult and have to act like one. If I want my relationship to work with little one, we will have to deal with things maturely and build our trust with each other. I got out of the car, and walked in a human pace as I decided to head towards were Leah and Bella were standing at. I could hear my sister's following suit behind me.
"Tanya, I know she's your mate and you might be feeling possessive right now but please fight it for now," Irina whispered quickly, low enough that only we could hear it.
When little one noticed us approaching, she quickly hid the flowers behind her back. I can see that she was nervous about my reaction. I just smiled at her. Leah turned towards me, and glared. Maybe she knows about us now. I stood next to little one and she put her arm around my waist and smiled at me. She did it as though nothing had changed between us. This means that really has accepted me as a vampire. I don't know why she accepted it so quickly but I was glad.
I turned and looked at Leah, "What are you doing here Leah?" I asked.
Author Note :This chapter is Thank to the work of the Beta ChiiSC
Next chapter you will get Bella pov .You will get to know how she dealt with Tanya being a vampire and what let her decide that she want to be a vampire .Leah is not going to be a mean in this story .Thank you for the one who review who follow and favorite this story and please review this chapter .