IMPORTANT AN: (PS. I recently found out my little brother has been hacking into my ff account like, twice a day, and updating Opportunity like, twice a day for the past month! He's been like, deletin chp 5 and re-updatin it, JUST TO BOTHER ME! I swear I was pretty pissed, I'd been so confused before I found out as to why 2 emails a day have been showing up in my inbox saying that I'd updated…I was pretty damn frustrated! So sorry to the people who have this on alerts and all… I have changed my password!)
Just as my beta Disney101 warned me, some people didn't like the idea of the Cullen's separating. Neither do I, but unfortunately it is necessary for some of the plot, mostly with Rose, Emmet, and Jasper. On the good side though, in the end I plan on all the Cullen's coming together again! Some people were also curious about Jasper, and I will remind you all that I have given hints in each chapter except for the prologue that Jasper has been acting suspicious lately and even Alice knows he's hiding something, and that something is up with Jasper… Anyway I have BIG plans for Rose, and this chapter is with her and Emmet and a new kinda important character. Lastly, I still need to give out more explanation, about well, everything, so I will do that ALL in the next chapter. Review or PM me with any holes I forgot to tie up so I can make Edward tell Bella or Bella tell Edward them in the next chapter! ;P Enjoy!
I ran after Emmet, yelling at him to slow down. Being human was so strange… yet wonderful. I was trying to live all the human experiences I'd missed out on before I became a vampire, because sex as a vampire… just wasn't the same. As for being human… well Emmet and I could tell you a lot about that. Last night had been wonderful, each second thrilling. This was all I'd ever wanted.
I continued to chase Emmet through the streets of my hometown, the place I was born. Once we'd left Italy as humans, Emmet and I had decided to come here. It was so strange to see the place I'd grown up; now it was all different with newer stores and technology lining the streets, a new generation everywhere I looked.
Finally Emmet stopped and waited for me to catch up. He looked marvelous as a human, just like I remembered he looked like as I carried him to Carlisle to be changed all those decades ago. I mean, not the blood and guts part, because hey he'd just been injured at the time! When I say he looked marvelous... well hey, I'd just seen my Soul Mate, who I'd be with all eternity for the first time. I saw past all the blood.
We'd just been at Hot Topic, a few blocks down. While I'd made my purchases Emmet had ran out. He'd continued to run and I had to run after him. Oh Emmet, you and your immature games.
We both breathed heavily, a sensation which was new to me: Tire. Being worn out. Emmet bent down on his knees as he panted, and I leaned against a tree standing beside the sidewalk.
It had been so weird seeing Hot Topic here… it was almost like that store… didn't belong. What belonged was what was here when I was younger: Butcher shops, banks, bicycle stores, a bunch of old school stuff. When I'd been here as a human was in the 1930's, and everything was different now. It'd been about 70 years since that horrible day…
That horrible day when Royce ruined my wonderful existence.
I remembered I'd just left my friend Vera's house. It'd been so dark and late…
I shuddered, not wanting to think of that night as a human, where the experience was all wrong, but instead of last night with Emmet.
"Rose." Emmet stood up and wrapped his arm around me. "This is so great, everything, all of it. I can't believe this is where you were born… where you grew up."
"I know." I whispered. "It's all so different… I'm just so glad I had the opportunity to come back and… re- live." I dropped my packages to the ground and cupped my hands around his face, kissing him passionately. He turned to face me, wrapping his arms around my waist.
We made out for a while until some little kid walking by screamed, "Ew!"
His mother ushered him away as Emmet and I broke apart, startled.
It was also so weird to be startled… before I'd always known when someone was coming and nothing could startle me. It was such a wierd feeling!
My mind suddenly zoomed back to Vera's house, when I'd left. Vera had already had a husband and baby boy! She had only been 18! Now, in 2004 that sounds ridiculous, but back then having children so early had been perfectly normal. I mean, I'd been 18 and getting married.
I wondered if Vera was still alive now…if she was she would be nearly 80! I shivered at the thought.
If I'd never run into Royce that night, we might have grown old together, happy. And Royce was so nice looking… just like Emmet. I saw Emmet differently now that we were both human, but I still loved him all the same. But did I love him as much as before? This question had been bothering me a lot over the past week, something in the back of my human mind was telling me there was something needed to do… anyway, if that one horrible night had never happened, I would have never became a vampire in the first place, and now I would be 80. I'd lived about that long for sure.
I thought more and more of Vera. Was Vera still here? Maybe I could find her… but that would be so awkward, wouldn't it? I mean she'd be 80, and I'd still look exactly the same way I looked the last time I saw her nearly 60 years ago, an 18 year old teenager. Still…
"Emmet." I breathed. "There's something I want to do."
"Yeah?" he asked me.
"I've told you before about the friend I had as a human, Vera, right?"
"Yeah." Emmet nodded as I admired my reflection through store window, trying to memorize my face. "We all know. What about her?"
"Well…" I began. "What if she's still here, Emmet?"
"I doubt that." Emmet snorted. "It's been like a million years since you were turned to a vampire. There's no way."
"Well… maybe she can be here. There is a possibility." I mumbled as I turned to face him while applying lip gloss to my soft, human lips. Everything seemed so perfect now that I was human… but I wanted more. "We have to at least try to find her…" I trailed of as someone who was clearly in a rush, running hurriedly through the streets and reminding me of that bunny from Alice in Wonderland, bumped into me. I fell over with all my Hot Topic stuff, as well as the bunny guy.
Now that was surprising! If I was still a vampire I would not have been taken by surprise when he burst through, but he also would not have been able to knock me down and make me fall like this! I would have known he was coming and simply take one step back so he wouldn't slam into me. To you know, save him the pain of running into a rock hard vampire.
Except I wasn't a vampire. I was human. So I was knocked into and I fell to the ground, and let me tell you, the un familiar sensation felt great!
"Sorry," the guy who bumped into me murmured, collecting his stuff. I didn't see his face as I looked around the ground for the tiny custom pen I'd bought. We both stood up and I could sense Emmet patiently waiting for me from behind me.
"My name's Jayson." The guy said, holding out his hand. I was still glancing down at the ground for any sighs of my pen so I didn't see him, but he sounded to be about 18 or 19, just like Emmet and I.
"Rosalie." I said, shaking his hand distractedly. "Rosalie Hale."
When all hope of finding my pen was lost, I heard him gasp. I finally looked up at him.
My mouth opened, and then closed. Then opened again. My whole body went frigid in shock and I didn't feel as if I was in my own body, I didn't feel anything. Just confusion… and well happiness.
"Jayson…" I whispered, staring at him in shock. My mind flashed back to what Royce had looked like all those years ago… and now Jayson. They looked exactly the same. And to be honest, it really creeped me out.
"You look like someone I used to know a long time ago. I used to live here a while ago before I…moved, and you remind me of someone I used to know." I said, blushing. Who was this guy?
Emmet 'mph-mphed' from behind me. "Oh!" I said, jumping. "And this is my boyfriend Emmet… umm, McCarty."
Jayson still stared at me, until finally he squeaked out, "Hale? Your last name is Hale?"
"Um, yeah. Why?"
"What are you doing here?!" He hissed. "You're telling me your family owns the biggest banking company in the state?! Well, in these areas anyway, but no one in the north would have heard of your family…" He mused to himself.
I was kinda confused now. When I was changed my father did own a bank, but so did Royce's. Both our father's were rich. And now the Jayson guy was telling me that my father had become even more successful?! And well, newer members of my family that were born after I changed. The Hale's now owned a whole chain of successful banks? What else had happened while I was away as a vampire…?
"Jayson. What's your last name?" I asked.
"Belchou. And if you're a Hale what are you doing here? You're not supposed to be on public streets! Your family's, like, royalty! Well rich enough anyway…"
"Jayson." I interrupted him. "I can't help but wonder… do you have a relative who died a long time ago, in like, the 1930's, named Royce?"
Jayson suddenly froze and stared at me. "How do you know about that guy…"
"Just answer her, please." Emmet snorted from behind me. He was growing impatient.
Jayson looked at me funnily. "He's my grandpa." Jayson said. "I mean, he would be my grandpa if he was still alive… but when he was our age, 18 or 19, in the 1930's, his wife died. Well not his wife, but his fiancé. Her name was… I can't remember now, but it started with an R. Anyway, a few years after she died, apparently run over by a car and left on the street from what my dad told me Royce had said, he died to. No one knows how, he just left the house to run errands one day or something and never came back. It's freaky."
Yeaaah. I though, sooo freaky…
"So if he died so young how are you his grandson?" I asked.
"After his first fiancé died, he got another one, who he had a child with a few months before he died. This child was my dad."
"Ohhh. So after Royce had your dad with this- other girl, he died."
"Yep. When my dad was just a few months old."
Royce had been beautiful and rich, one of the reasons I had been engaged to him as a human. And now here, seeing Jayson, who was an exact duplicate of Royce except even BETTER looking, I felt mournful.
"Jayson, in the 1930's my family, as well as your family, were both very wealthy considering it had been the great depression. Our families had been rich."
"Yeah." Jayson grumbled. "And now, after 70 years, your family is even more successful."
"What about your family? In the 30's you guys were even richer than us!"
"Listen pretty girl." Jayson said. "And pretty girl's big bodyguard. My family is still just as rich as the Hale's today. We've adopted a new name since the 30's though, which is 'Belchou.' The thing is, our families are archenemies in the banking business Rosalie, and you know it to. I dunno why you're making me tell you all this stuff only a retarded dumb blonde bitch wouldn't know."
"You're calling me a bitch?" I asked angrily. I opened my mouth to say something, but I had no defense, I should have known all these things considering I'd told him I was a Hale.
"No" Jayson said. "I just think we can't be seen talking, if my mom found out I was talking to a Hale…" I pretended to slit his through. "Anyway, the deal is both our families are even richer now than we were in the 30's, and enemies in the business. Now my question is, how do you know about Royce, my grandpa?"
"I just-" I tried to think up something to say, but my lazy human mind wasn't working with me here. After all, the truth was not an option… Well you see, I am that girl whose name started with an R who was Royce's first fiancé who according to him was hit by a car…? Except I wasn't! He raped me and left me to die on the street all those 70 years ago, then I became a vampire and stayed 18 forever, but now I'm human again and on a roll! Oh and by the way, I am the one who killed Royce… That was definitely not an option. So instead I said,
"Well, Royce. I mean, um, Jayson, there's something I kinda want to do, and I would be thrilled if you joined Emmet and I. We could do it in secret, so none of our families sees us."
Emmet stiffened from behind me like, 'I don't want that relative of the person who nearly killed you hanging around us!'
"It's okay." I said, turning around to look up in Emmet's eyes. "I'm sure of it."
"Exactly what do you wanna do?" Jayson asked, narrowing his eyes at us. "And you also avoided my question."
"Well what I want you to help Emmet and I with will answer your question." I said curtly, smiling warmly at Royce's grandson, who I already knew I would come to befriend.
"Well then, let's get it going. In secret of course." Jayson said, clapping his hands together, looking all pumped up. "What exactly are am I helping you and your bodyguard with?"
"Well." Emmet cut in, annoyed. "My girlfriend wants our help to find an old friend of hers, I think."
I wondered what was with Emmet's girlfriend crap. I mean sure Jayson thought Emmmet was a bodyguard but hey, we all make mistakes.
"Yeah." I said to Jayson. "I have an old friend who may live here. She's really nice from what I remember… I want to find a woman named Vera. Care to help?"
Beta: Disney101
Bad endin I know, please tell me if it was confusing and what so I can fix it… the next chapter Is back with Edward and Bella, where I will patch up some more confusing holes, such as Edwards 'week long hold ups' and stuff. Tell me if Rose was a little OOC, I seem to think so, but maybe that's just how I will write her in this story… who knows. Anyway thanks for reading this far and please review! I have BIG ideas for these three that involve really exciting stuff. In the end, it will probably be canon between Rose and Emmet though, you'll see… OOHH I'm sooo excited now for Rose the more I think about it the more jumpy I get… I just hurt my leg on my dresser and laptop charger. Owieee! Anyway REVIEW! Frankiegirl61
