CHAPTER SIX - UNFORGETTABLE
I'm in too deep now to ever swim against the current.
Vindicated, by Dashboard Confessional
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The game went by a bit slowly for me today, seeing as Angela really was starting to get annoyed at Edward, it looked like. And kept pausing in the middle of innings to ask the others questions that they wouldn't let me hear. I let out an exasperated sigh as I watched Angela hold up a hand and look at Edward, obviously thinking something to him. Then her face turned sour as he simply turned away and gave no answer.
Alright, I did see his point that day in the hospital, when he said he didn't want me to go near her, since she was a newborn. But that didn't explain anything in how he wouldn't even let me hug her without being in the near vicinity. Like earliar tonight when Angela had just gotten here. I saw him lurking by the tree as I was hugging him, and didn't move from his spot until I had left to find my spot to watch the game. It made my blood boil.
My thoughts were momentarily inturrupted as I started to feel the rain on top of my head, and the vampires let out a groan in unison. I smiled a little at that, then suddenly Angela was right in front of me, holding her hand out to me to help me up. I smiled gratefully and took her hand, gasping a little as I felt the cold. I was still getting used to the fact that Angela was a vampire. I had always imagined her more beautiful than I, so the only thing that really gave her away anymore was her cold body and her speed. I couldn't even count her strength, as she was always so gentle around me.
I realized that I had been staring, and blushed. She let out a laugh that would put a bird to shame, and pulled me into a quick hug.
"You're wet." I complained.
"So are you." She told me, and we both laughed. Then she stepped back and I saw Edward making his way over to me. Hey, at least he waited until our moment was done. I thought bitterly, and watched as he continued forward. I was still brooding a little as he came to a stop, and I made the wrong decision as to look at his face. A flash of lightening hit the air, showing his perfect face to me in exact light, a grin spreading over his mouth. His hair was wet and pasted to his pale forehead, the bronze dimmed to a brown. His eyes were tawny, not my favorite topaz but still incredibly handsome.
I watched as this Greek god crossover closed the distance between us, and all the reasons I was angry at him left me in the moment he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me close.
He turned and sent a look at all the others, who chuckled lightly and then were gone, their speed untraceable in the darkness.
Then he raised his hands, his fingers trailing over my now soaked shirt, and a gave an involuntary shiver as I felt him trace slowly up my spine and rest on the back of my skull, lightly grabbing a couple fistfulls of my hair. "You're soaking, Bella." He said, then playfully wrung out my hair.
"Right now I could care less." I breathed, realizing that I was holding onto his shirt with all my strength, trying to hold myself up as my knees went weak.
"I was hoping you'd say that." He told me, kissing the corner of my mouth with such lightness that I wasn't sure if I had imagined it. My heartbeat sped erratically as he quietly laughed, and his cold breath shook over my face, tickling my nose. I raised one of my trembling hands and wiped some of the hair off of his forehead, then let the back of my hand run down the side of his face until it came to rest on his neck as I held him still and kissed him lightly. I did my best to stay as still as Edward, even with the extra inflence of the rain that made this kiss so unbelieveably romantic. I realized that we were both completely soaked by now, and wondered just how much I'll dislike the rain anymore after this.
Then his eyes turned brooding, and he turned away from me. I sighed, and moved so I was standing in front of him again.
"What is it, Edward?" I asked him, grabbing his face in my hands as he turned to look away. He paused a moment, his face softening, but in a flash his godly face was ripped from me and he was standing ten feet away, extremely interested in a random group of trees. I sighed, and found a seat on the now soaking rock I had occupied during the game. Stupid vampire.
"I really wish I had the guts to tell you." I heard his quiet voice, barely loud enough for me from that distance. Pain was scratching at his velvety voice. I sat for a moment while I pieced two and two together.
"This is about what happened the other day with Jasper, and Angela, isn't it?" I asked him. I saw him shaking his head.
"No... Well, yes. I'm thinking about what caused that to happen... all the pain." Pain? What weren't the Cullens telling me? I screamed in my head.
I stood and slowly made my way over to Edward, wrapping my arms around him from behind. "What pain?" I asked bluntly.
Another sigh escaped his chest, as he removed my arms from around him and turned around, searching my eyes. Whatever he saw there must have made his mind, because he pulled me into a tight hug, before setting me delicately on the ground.
"The pain three of us had to experience. That night. Remember Jane, from Volterra?" I heard him ask.
"Yes...?"
He took my hands and kissed each one lightly, searching for whatever it was inside him that cared to share this with me.
"It was like that. Just... pain. All caused mentally like she was there, but the stupid d-" He cut off, and shook his head. "Except not caused by her."
I wanted to scream at Edward for not being completely honest with me. "Well, I know you felt the pain. What happened after you ordered all emotional people out of the house?" I asked, attempting desperately to see a smile on Edward's face again. Needless to say, it didn't work.
I could almost hear the gears working in his mind as he wondered how much to tell me. "Okay. Angela was trying to get something out of me- what Jacob and I were talking about when you left. It was a... difficult conversation. Then back at the house, when Angela was trying to get me to talk, all the feelings that ran through me threw Jasper off, and his mind went berserk. His power was increased way past it's breaking point, and all the pity and shock in the room was just too much for him to handle. Especially Alice, who kept insisting that she stay with him, when her feelings had to be the strongest out of all of us. Anyway, Angela had the idea that maybe she could control her emotions, so she literally just... turned them off. Of course Jasper instantly felt that and was clinging to her... It was even harder to see Jasper in such pain, clinging for dear life to the empty shell of Angela..." He drifted off, his body shivering. I hugged him as tightly as I could until he returned to his normal stillness.
"Then I told her that maybe she should try to enter Jasper's mind and prevent it from driving him insane... And she did it! I was reading her thoughts, and all was going well. But somewhere in my own mind, I realized that it was taking too long to be healthy. Then I saw her shaking, and she was still in Jasper. I don't know how long she was shaking, but when she came back... The pain, it was horrible. Her emotions came back to her in a rush, and she was just shaking so hard..." He let out a sob, and his knees buckled beneath him.
This time he pulled me to him, and clung to me helplessly, gasping and sobbing tearless cries. After an undefined amount of time, his cries ceased and he just continued clinging to me, just as I imagined Jasper and Angela. Then suddenly he let out a happier sigh, and nuzzled his cheek into the crook of my neck. "Thank you." He whispered to me lightly.
"Anytime." I told him, and another unmesurable amount of time passed.
"You smell far too good in the rain." He told me suddenly, pulling away for a moment to kiss the top of my nose, before resting his cheek against mine. He was saying something against my skin, and I felt goosebumps rise up my arms at his touch. His arms were around my waist again, and I gasped as I felt the cold against the small of my back, as he lifted my shirt up slightly. "And you're far too warm." He added, kissing my jaw.
"Alice never said rain." I managed to chatter, wondering at his sudden mood change, as hard as it was to speak when Edward was kissing me like this.
"I told her not to mention it." He told me, my heartbeat raising as I felt his mouth moving over my lips, singing an unknown tune. I couldn't handle it anymore. I closed whatever space was left between us, and felt him stiffen for a moment before he returned the affection.
"Why aren't you being so careful?" I asked him, needing to break the connection to breath anyway.
"Angela did me a little favor." He said, waiting patiently as he watched me click the pieces together. It took me a moment, but I finally got it.
"Angela? But I thought that it hurt her to do that!" I was shocked that he had Angela turn down his scent to me, but I knew that this would be our time to fully enjoy being engaged.
Edward nodded. "She knew what to do this time, so she got it done quickly, and it didn't hurt her nearly as bad once she got back in her own mind. Nothing more than falling down, she said. She seemed to want to put it in terms you would understand." He smirked at me, and my breathing stopped for what seemed to be a long amount of time, despite my slight annoyance.
He kissed me again, and I allowed the blood to rush through me as I realized what this meant. I clutched at the back of his head, pulling him to me. He chuckled, and I felt his hands on my waist and he ran his fingers over me, causing the trails they took to burn like fire after, and I realized for a moment how cold I was.
But frankly, right now I could care less. He kissed my lower lip, and I gasped as I felt his tongue trace along it. His body shook a bit with laughter, but then he stopped, as if he was fighting some sort of internal dilemma. Then my heart skipped about ten beats as I felt his tongue enter my mouth, softly and tentatively, wondering of my reaction.
I hugged him close to me, and I kissed him back, trying to show him through this kiss just how much he meant to me, how to show him that the last years of my life had been the best of them. His hands rubbed my back, and I gasped at the warmth that lingered after his cold hands had passed, and it took me a moment to realize that he had raised my shirt up, the soaking material clinging to me much higher than I thought reasonable for any reason other than this.
"And what made you think I would do this with you in the rain?" I asked, raising an eyebrow slightly, and he let out a chuckle.
"It seems you've forgotton that I have a sister named Alice." He chuckled, kissing my nose lightly.
I smiled against his neck, and an idea came to me. "Did Alice see me doing this?" I asked him quietly, unbuttoning his shirt slowly and kissing the skin as it was exosed, and I felt his muscles tightening under my lips.
"No," his breath hitched as I undid the last button, and kissed him right above the line of his jeans. "But I think I like surprises." He gasped out, and pulled me up to his height with more enthusiasm. He kissed me lightly, and pulled me close, feeling him tremble as he felt the warmth of my stomach against him.
"You're so warm." He told me, as we tumbled lightly to the ground. I laughed and I felt him smile against my hair.
"And did Alice see this?" I asked, motioning to my shirt. He grinned sheepishly at me, and I couldn't help but smile back.
"More or less?" I inquired again, and his eyes flashed full of mischief as he remembered what Alice had seen.
"I guess you'll have to find out." He told me, and before I fully realized what he was doing, he had lifted my shirt up off of me.
I gasped as it seemed that I felt his cold chest completely around me, and I saw him watching me quietly. I closed my eyes and leaned against him, kissing his skin lightly.
"I love you Bella." He told me quietly, before the world turned upside down and Edward was now on top of me.
"I love you too." I said, before he kissed me again and what would be the most unforgettable night of my life began.
AN- I'm sure you all know what happened next, and if you don't know, I'm glad that this story isn't going to be the way you find out. Remember to review, and remember that I OWN NOTHING.
