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Those Red Eyes
By Zephyr
My night turned out exactly how I thought it would—sleepless and neverending. It seemed like I'd only just fallen asleep when my mother's hands gently shook me awake. That woke me up fast; I was usually the one who woke her up, not the other way around. Maybe having Phil as a husband was teaching her some responsibility after all. "Bella, honey, wake up. Do you not feel good? You're not one to sleep so late. Come on, Bella, get up."
Her voice got to me slowly, but a sickening feeling in my gut didn't quite want to wait as long. Almost as soon as I opened my eyes, I rolled over onto my back, groaning then saw Renee's anxious face staring down at me.
Great.
"Ugh, I feel terrible." Okay, so what is I usually didn't admit stuff like that, but this was different. I've never felt so bad in my entire life and that's saying something after what happened between me and James. Oh, and there was also that pain that ripped through me when Edward claimed he didn't love me. Can't forget that.
"Bella, honey, you have a visitor. If you didn't I would let you sleep; you seem so stressed lately. Should I let her in, or do you want me to tell her to come back tomorrow?" I felt my mom's cool hands on my forehead in a comforting manner, but I pushed her away as kindly as I could. My stomach felt queasy, as if I'd eaten something bad.
"Let her in. I think I just got food poisoning or something. No big deal. It's not catchy. " Yup, I'm now completely insane. I just told my mother to let in a someone when I haven't even met anyone in Phoenix yet. The few friends I had before moving to Fork are gone or had long since forgotten I even exist. Well, I have met Alex...but Renee was talking like the visitor was female. And I seriously doubt Alex is a girl.
I waited until Renee was clearly out the door and most of the way down the hall before I rolled out of bed, rushed to my amazing private bathroom(something I really missed during my time in Forks), and promptly threw up everything I've eaten in the last three days. Gee, lucky me.
"Now that's one thing I cannot miss about being human." I'd been closing the door when I was so rudely interrupted. Being the total klutz I was, I manage to spin in a half-circle, then trip over my own two feet, and fall in a very awkward heap against the door. "Who are you?" I ground out, frustration apparent. I know I told my mother to let her in, but I was suddenly very crabby. If she was going to be here, she might as well not mock me straight away.
"So you are the Bella we're looking for. Brilliant! Fiery and fearless towards vampires."
At her words I immediately locked my eyes on her face, scolding myself for not noticing her inhuman paleness and beauty that could only belong to one of the undead. She had shoulder length blonde hair and red eyes, cut they were different, somehow, from the eyes of Victoria, James, Laurent, and the Volturi. Perhaps it was the lack of hatred and loathing I was receiving from them.
Okay, so there was a vampire in my room(bad), who was in an undetermined mood(really bad) and she was acting like she knew me(really, really bad). I could officially say I was having a bad day.
Just then. Another possibility entered my mind. Only yesterday the Volturi were at La Push, trying to find out my location. What if one of the Italian coven strayed away from the werewolves territory into Forks? One of them might have probed someone I knew. Someone who knew where I was. Someone like...Charlie. Did they hurt Charlie to find me? "Will you please tell me who you are? Who sent you? The Volturi?"
She snorted, making me blink rapidly in surprise. My first thought? For a vampire who'se had fifty years to practice, she sure does have a pathetic snort. My second thought? I'm sooooo dead. I just asked one too many questions. While thinking about my 'death' she said the one thing I wasn't expecting. "The Volturi? Me? A part of that coven? Seriously? Yeah, right. If the Volturi knew my brothers and I existed, we'd be ripped to shreds in an instant. Even the thought of us knowing them is ridiculous."
Not the Volturi then. Charlie was most likely safe. I'll email him at the police department later to make sure. "Why were you looking for me if you aren't the Volturi."
"Actually," the vampire corrected, smirking as her eyes danced. It was an odd sight. I'm not used to seeing a vampire with red eyes be so happy. They always seemed to symbolize anger. "I wasn't asked to look for you. Alex technically asked Jaxon, since he's much better at that kind of thing. He's really good at finding people. I just asked to come along."
Instantly upon hearing Alex's name, I relaxed. She could've been here to murder me anyway—say Alex changed his mind or something of that effect—and I would never see it coming. I really was a pathetic little human. But knowing she had a connection to Alex and Jaxon made everything fall into place. "You're the sister Alex mentioned—Cierra!"
This meant I only had a 50 percent chance of being sucked dry rather than the previous 99.9 percent.
"Yes, and you're Bella the odd human who had the vampire fiancé and was miraculously not changed during any part of their relationship? Oh and also lived in a town named after silverware?"
"Umm...well...yeah, that has to be me." No doubt about it, Alex's sister was a little weird. And a little too informed for my taste. She still sounded nice...for a vampire. Albeit odd, but nice. So far. Now if she goes for my neck, I'll take that back.
"Cierra, you're scaring her." A smooth, confident voice came out of nowhere and I finally managed to stumble to my feet, feeling faint. A boy, or vampire obviously, emerged from the shadows. Huh, I didn't even know I had shadows in my room until now. I supposed you really do learn something new everyday.
"I'M SCARING HER. I'M SCARING HER? AT LEAST I'M NOT THE ONE LURKING IN THE CORNER LIKE SOME KIND OF STALKER!" They sounded like they had some serious sibling rivalry going on.
Have you ever heard a vampire yell? Don't answer—that was a rhetorical question Trust me when I say you don't want to. Especially not an enraged female one who seems like she needs to take some sort of anger management class. And I thought Emmett's occasional fits were bad.
"Shut Up, Cierra! Haven't you noticed Alex's human has an abnormal number of heartbeats coming from her?" Both the vampire were quiet, their heads tilted slightly towards me. I wasn't able to reprimand them for calling me 'Alex's human' and say I wasn't anyone's property. Too many memories rushed through my head as I realised what more than one heartbeat in a human means... A normal human has only one heartbeat—just one. If I had more than that one that meant...NO! I wouldn't believe it. The vampire was just having hearing problems or something. He had heard wrong. Cierra was going to look up in a minute and laugh at him, saying he was hearing things. I cannot be...nope. I will not believe it. It can't be true.
"Oh!" Cierra snapped from her trance, followed by a no-longer-confused Jaxon. The expression on their faces told me my hopes were no use. "So how far along are you with the triplets?"
It all came crashing down. I wasn't pregnant with one kid. I had three vampire-babies to take care of. Edward Cullen's vampire-babies.
I'm not weak, but I couldn't help it. All the information, the lies I'd been telling myself these last few months came crashing down. I wasn't missing my periods because of stress; I was pregnant. I fainted.
The last thing I heard before the darkness overtook me was Jaxon. "I don't think she knew."
I'm not sure how long I was unconscious, but it couldn't have been too long because when I pried my eyes open, both Cierra and Jaxon were standing over me, whispering at a volume so low, not even I could hear it and I was pretty close to both of them. They must have been talking at the exclusive vampires-only level.
A few more seconds went by and my annoyance increased by the tenfold as they continued to talk silently as if I wasn't even there. So I did what my brain's been telling me to do ever since I saw Cierra standing in my room. I screamed. Loud.
Really, it wasn't that loud, but they both managed to jump back several feet—a distance impossible for humans. When they settled back into their original posions, they both glared meaningfully as they realised a little too late I was awake. "Sorry." I mumbled, not sorry at all. I hate being excluded from important conversations. If they were around long enough, they would learn.
"Human alert." The words barely passed Jaxon's lips before he and his sister roughly grabbed my arms and yanked me to my feet at a such a speed that I was sure my arms would have bruises. I groaned, lightheaded.
"Ouch." The two of the so oh-so-kindly ignored me.
"Bella?" My mom opened, looking a bit worried as she poked her head in. Renee saw me standing and smiled, relieved. "I heard a scream. Did something happen?"
"It's nothing mom." I tried my hardest not to slur my words. Sounding relatively normal and convincing was important. It was really hard; I could feel a bump beginning to form on the back of my head. I must have hit it when I fell. "I just got startled by something and I fell down. It's all okay. Just me being my klutzy-self. No mass-murderers." The last words fell from my lips before I could even think to stop it. Lying was not a habit I wanted to get into. That would be very bad. There's also that one little flaw where I'm the worst liar in all of Phoenix. My expressions tend to play across my face, thus giving me away.
Or so I'm told.
Renee left, leaving the door open a few inches. I really couldn't care less—I was too numb to notice anyway—but Cierra obviously did. As I sat down I was immersed in my old memories. Memories I'd been trying too forget because I didn't have the tolerance to deal with all the pain. Even as Cierra locked the door, I still couldn't bring myself to care. I was too deep to be able to care.
"This is impossible." I broke past my own barriers, whispering my thoughts out loud. The only ones there to hear me were a couple vampires who didn't want to help the overemotional teenager they were sent out to find.
There was a silence, but Cierra felt the intense need to break it. "Obviously when you don't use any protection, this sort of thing does happen. Is your cheating on him with a human the reason why your fiancé left you?"
Was she trying to find a reason to hate me? Was I really that horrible?
But I could see where she was coming from. Vampire's can't have kids. The oldest legends say that. For that reason I must have cheated. Oh, but how could I possibly cheat on my Edward? He's the only one I've ever loved and ever will love with my entire being. Gosh, that sounded so corny.
"That's the whole problem," I shot back at Alex's sister. I couldn't contain my anger. "Edward's the only one I've ever been with!" One memory flashed before my eyes; it was the night before he left me for the second time. The night he lowered all his set boundaries and truly expressed his love for me. Or was that all a lie too? Either way, it was probably the best night of my entire life. "He told me vampire's couldn't have children!"
Jaxon shook his head slightly, narrowing his eyes. "They can't. It's never happened before—I think. We'll do some research, but right now we really must go before too many humans are out and about. We can't chance being seen sparkling. The hoodies don't always do the trick. It was nice meeting you, Bella. You're alright for a human. We'll be in touch." I watched as he pulled the hood up over his face as he jumped out the window into the blinding sunlight.
"I'd wait to call a doctor, Bella." Cierra smiled, talking to me civilly for the first time. I wasn't about to complain. "They might be panicked by the extra slow heartbeats." She surveyed the room once again before jumping out the room after her brother.
I couldn't help it; I had to get the next sentence out. "What's with you vampire's and jumping out windows?"
It was hard to believe they were the biological sibling of Alex. They had strikingly blonde hair whereas Alex was a dark brown, almost black. Alex must have inherited an odd gene, I decided quickly without dwelling on it. Their looks were hardly the important thing.
I was alone. Sure, Renee was just down the hall in the living room or her bedroom, but I couldn't tell her my deepest secret. She always wanted so much more from me, her responsible daughter. I couldn't tell Charlie either; he was a police chief. He would disown me the minute he heard; he already had so much hatred towards Edward. Having his kids wasn't going to make Charlie happy. My family would never understand—I didn't even understand half the time. This was my problem. Someway, somehow, I would fix this.
Life has to go on. Maybe not normally, but the world would continue to turn. One person's trouble won't stop anyone else from living their lives and dreaming their dreams. I have to find some sort of solution. It's the only way.
"Oh, I never heard your friends leave." I mentally rolled my eyes at my mother while scoffing at my 'friends' for not walking out a door. At least Renee could be clueless at times. That might be why I love her so much. "They seemed so nice. Were they related?Both of them seemed so--" She began to ramble. I would have smiled and answered her gossipy questions if things were normal. But their not normal. Not now.
Now I have triplets to take care of. Three children. All who would never know their father. Life is so cruel.
I was determined to make the best out of this. For now, my mom gossiped pleasantly and I listened because one day I'll miss this. One day, this life will be in the past. One day, the only way I'll be able to see Renee is when I visit a cemetery. Right now, I'll enjoy my time here.
My mom stayed there an entire hour, pleading for information on my new 'friends. I just shook my head to her questions, watching her, letting every detail sink in. If my plan worked, my time here would be severely limited. I took in every detail of her face—her brown hair, brown eyes. Her whole face was an older, carbon copy of mine, but with laugh lines. A face I would never have. Even if I did live as long as she has, I would never be so happy—so carefree.
My mother was something I could never be.
By the time Renee left, it was nearly two p.m., meaning I still had an entire day to get through with no help. With Renee gone shopping, and Phil out doing some training, it meant I was alone for real this time.
My heart had a large hole drilled through it, a hole only Edward could fill. I wanted him there right then, wrapping his cold arms around me, whispering words of comfort, saying we'll get through this whole thing together.
As the memories and jumbled thoughts filled the gaps in my mind, I stood at the open window, tears rolling down my cheeks. "No Edward," I whispered to myself, lips barely moving, "we won't, but I will. I will get through this by myself."
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