CHAPTER 9

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BELLA

In moments where it feels like time stops, you can always run your mind just as slowly.

Grasp the tiny details unfolding in front of you, while the faces around you become engraved into your mind. Their facial expressions looking at you like it's your entire fault, like you did this. And when time stops you get that extra moment to turn your head away from those taunting faces, and you look down to what is laying in your hands.

Maybe it's metaphorically speaking, or maybe, like me right now, your looking down to something to good to be true, too good to give up or let go. Because the one thing my eyes cannot tear away from is the beautiful boys face being cradled in my hands.

"What have you done?" I viciously whispered still holding Edward head in my lap.

His eyes were still closed and I was too scared to think of what that could mean. Carlisle was hovering over us trying to help Edward's lifeless form in any way possible. The petit blonde giggled a shrilly laugh, but her eyes were those of a snakes, so deadly and cold, she was just toying with us.

"I did everything I promised dear Edward I would…" She smiled, but her faux cheerful smile slowly vanished as she walked closer to me. "…I told him I could do things no one else could."

"What do you mean?" I almost shouted. The smile on Emily's face returned and she backed a few steps away.

"I told Edward I was special Bella, I told him but he didn't believe me. I don't know why he didn't, when I first met him he was still moping around not even making eye contact with anyone…" I sharply inhaled a breathe trying my hardest to not let the hiss escape my lips.

"He was such a miserable boy, and I wanted so much as to wipe that frown from his beautiful face….The wonderful and respecting Cullen's welcomed me with open arms into their family…" She smiled at Carlisle, and he looked away, Alice on the other side of the room let out a growl and Emmett stood up and clenched his fists at his side. "So I got used to living their ways, it wasn't too difficult actually; but Edward still stayed locked in his bedroom and I always wondered why…"

"And then I got talking to the rest of the family, asking them whatever happened to Edward. Well you see, they described a young girl to me. Apparently she was a young human girl, with long mahogany hair, and chocolate brown eyes. Apparently this little insignificant, clumsy, innocent 18-year-old girl stole dear Edward's heart."

I heard something like a painful scream echo through the large room, and then I realized it was me, sobs desperately escaping my chest.

"And when I heard about this human girl, who was oh-so-special to Edward, I couldn't help but remember a year before, when I first encountered this small town. The scent, the large surprised brown chocolate brown eyes watering with tears and shock, the scream that escaped her pale lips and her falling to the ground with 2 red wounds in her neck…"

Everyone in the room froze.

"But some thing stopped me that day from sucking this delicious girl dry. I don't know what it was, or what had happened, but I left, and I ran away leaving her screaming in the woods."

"I hate you! I hate you!" Alice screamed, thrashing against the men who were still holding her arms behind her back.

" Why would Edward ever want to marry you!?" Emmett demanded, I could tell by the way he stood that he was wondering if he should run up to Emily and smack her, Emily could see it too.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you Emmett." Emily said in a sing-song voice.

"What?!" He shouted back.

"Think about hurting me. You will end up like poor little Edward over here." She said walking towards me and nudging Edwards lifeless body with the toe of her shoe.

I didn't realize what I was doing until I was actually up on my feet, face to face with her, snarls ripping from my throat.

"DON'T TOUCH HIM!" I screamed in her face, she flinch back a bit.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM?! TELL ME NOW BEFORE I KILL YOU RIGHT THIS SECOND!" I screamed as loud as I ever had ever before, the stone walls shook and trembled.

Emily smiled and I looked deeper into her midnight black eyes. They were like a tunnel, something I could fallow, or a hole something I could fall through and at that moment it felt like I was falling to the depths of her mind, bracing myself for the bottom.

All was blurry and at some part in the back of my mind I knew what was happening, the only thing I could hear was her voice.

"I told you Bella I can do things no one else can." Emily whispered.

"I know all your fears and nightmares Bella. I know what you want and I know what you can do."

Everything then changed and we were in a memory of Emily's now. We were inside the Cullen house as I watched from afar as Edward opened his bedroom door for her. I gasped when I saw his face. Of course it was beautiful, but never before have I seen him so worn-out, broken looking. He didn't smile.

"Hello Edward." Emily said cheerfully. Once again he didn't smile.

"Hi Emily."

"I have a question for you Edward." She said in a sing-song voice, her eyes were bright and focused only on him. I watched aimlessly as his expression changed to confusion.

"Um ok? What is your question?"

"When are you going to ask me to marry you?"
Edward stood frozen in shock, but she continued smiling in his doorway. Quickly he composed his features and tried to answer her question with a reasonable answer.

"Well you see Emily—"

But he didn't finish his sentence. I could only see the back of her blonde bobbling head but something on her face had Edward mesmerized. His eyes grew heavy looking and he smiled a goofy grin.

"Emily?"

"Yes?" She purred stroking his face with her index finger.

"Will you marry me?" he asked dazed.

"What are you doing to him!?" I desperately shouted. Emily's soprano voice spoke softly.

"I told you both. I told him and I told you, I have the best power of all."

"What's your power?!" I shouted again, searching for her voice.

Suddenly the memory vanished and I was still sitting on the stone floor in the Volturi castle with Edwards head in my lap.

Emily was facing the other way, but then slowly turned around to answer my question.

"The power of manipulation."

At her words Carlisle looked up from Edward in shock.

"You mean…you… you manipulated Edward into marrying you?" Carlisle stuttered.

I sat there frozen, the many conclusions were still running through my head.

She had used her power against Edward the whole time, he never loved her. She could do so many things; her skill was extremely dangerous and was in the wrong hands. Carlisle noticed it too.

"So… You did this to Edward?!" Emmett growled. Alice on the other side of the room sank to her knees.

"Yes." She simply said smiling. "I have done lots of things too, and I can do lots of things. Manipulating other people's powers is fun, and also manipulating their thoughts and secrets and all thoughts on their own existence!" She gushed, but then composed her face.

"Making Edward marry me was the best idea though. He was just so cute, but he doesn't seem so cute anymore he's just lying there doing nothing." She giggled in her girly voice. I finally lifted Edwards head and laid it gently on the floor, and stood up.

I walked as close as I dared towards Emily and looked straight into her eyes.

"Why did you do this?" Even though it was a simple question, the words escaped my lips sounding as if it were a threat.

She looked back just as boldly and said,

"Because we all know what happens to Juliet after she looses her Romeo."

And with one slick movement, my hand snapped back and I slapped her across the face.

The force behind it was so hard Emily went tumbling back into the stone wall causing parts of it to crumble.

I only had seconds to think about what I had done before I saw her look back at me, her hand on her cheek and her eyes turning a deadly electric blue before everything faded to black and found myself slowly drifting into it.

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