Rosalie was here with a stunning smile on her face. I would have to get used to this. I opened the door and came out of the car, returning the smile warmly. Just seeing Rosalie approve of me made me forget about the girl.
"Well, lets get to work." Rosalie said, opening the hood.
I then looked down to what she was wearing. She had her beautiful hair in a loose bun, and overalls with a red shirt with the long sleeves pulled up. Even in that outfit, she looked gorgeous. I went to sit on a little hilly area in front of the trees.
"Why didn't you go out to look for the new vampire?" I asked.
"I did, but then we caught up to her and explained who we were and that we weren't chasing her. That's when you called." Rosalie said, without looking up from the hood of the car.
"So you don't know anything about her yet?" I asked, trying to take in all this new information.
"Well, she's being chased by someone…" she paused and looked up thoughtfully from the hood, "or something, she's a 2 week-old vampire, with newly changed burgundy eyes, and her name is Mya."
"Hmm…" I said thoughtfully. "You don't think that she is dangerous is she?"
Surprisingly, Rosalie laughed at that one. I looked up at her shocked.
"Even if she was dangerous, do you really think that she, a new vampire who barely knows what she is capable of, would attack seven vampires successfully, even though they have all been around for at least 50 years, and can control their powers?" Rosalie said with humor in her eyes.
"You have a point there." I said.
Rosalie just nodded, and went back to fixing the truck. We both sat there for a minute lost in our thoughts. Then she surfaced from the hood, with a smile.
"I am all done." She said brushing her hands off of each other.
"Thanks, Rosalie. I should be getting home now. I still have to cook." I said.
"Can I come with you? It's getting uneventful at our house, and if anything comes up, I have my cell." She said with a look of doubt on her face.
"Of course!" I said with a little too much enthusiasm.
Rosalie was shocked at me saying yes at first, but then a smile broke onto her face. I motioned to the car, and went to sit in the driver's seat and Rosalie to the passenger seat, and of course she was in first. I started the car, and was surprised to hear that the car wasn't as loud as it was before.
"Wow, thanks Rosalie." I looked over at her in surprise.
"No problem. I just thought that when you lived with us, you might want to have a quieter car, since you're so intent on keeping this one." She said flashing me an inhumanly beautiful smile.
I was happy to hear that she used the phrase 'when you live with us' not 'if you live with us'. It seems that she had forgiven me for the comment that I had made when we voted that I would be one of the immortal beings, or had she…
"Hey, Rosalie?" I said unintentionally breaking her line of thought.
"Hmm?" She replied.
"Well…you know that night when you all came back; when we voted that I was to become a vampire?" I asked.
"Yes. What about it?" She said, as if she were pulling up an unpleasant memory.
"Well, you know how I said that I felt the same way about you all, and you had said that you did not want me to become a vampire? Well, you should know that it did not come out the way I wanted it to come out, an unintended pun. I am looking forward to becoming your sister." I said, looking over to see her expression.
I saw that her face had gone from conjuring an unpleasant memory, to an expression of sweet relief, as if this had been bugging her for a while.
"Well that's good to know. I am looking forward to being your sister, too." She said smiling at me. That smile was going to take time to get use to.
We then reached my house.
There was someone at my house. I had a gut feeling. Then there was that fact that Rosalie said: "There's someone in there. And it's not Charlie."
"Who is it? Is it safe to go in?" I asked, now worried.
"I don't know you decide. It's a werewolf." Rosalie said with a disgusted expression on her face.
"Oh." I said less worried now, "Well, I don't know if I should go in with you…He's not exactly fond of vampires. Or your family, for that matter." I said, looking at her with an apologetic expression.
"No I'm definitely going in with you. You don't mind do you?" Rosalie asked with a look that said 'even if you say no, I'm still going in', so that really left me no choice, though I did really want her to come in with me.
"No, I don't mind at all, let's go." I said getting out of the car, and grabbing my school bag.
She smiled at me and waited patiently for me to hurry up. We walked up to the door side by side. When I walked into the door, my mouth opened in shock.
In the hallway stood the last person I would have suspected to be here, Sam. First of all, I had assumed it was Jacob coming to apologize about getting me in more trouble with the bike. Second, of all the werewolves that I knew, the least likely to understand why I was back with the vampires was standing right in front of me, while I had a vampire with me.
Sam was shocked the same way I was, but I had a feeling that a little bit of it had to do with Rosalie's beauty. He was ogling at her like he wasn't engaged to be married. While Rosalie was doing the exact opposite, glaring at Sam.
I was the first to break out of the trance, and break the silence.
"So Sam, it looks like you decided to let yourself in, huh?" I said with a slight hint of venom.
"Yes, because I need to talk to you. Alone. But I can see that is not possible, with you surrounded by your bloodsuckers all the time." Wow, cold. I didn't expect that from Sam.
At that Rosalie hissed, and barred her teeth. I was filled with anger, but contained it, and responded calmly, but my voiced filled with more venom then I ever thought possible.
"These vampires," I hissed putting emphasis on the word vampires, "are my family. If you are going to insult them, then get out of my house. Now."
After a pause of silence and showing him how serious I was, he spoke carefully, choosing his words.
"Well, then let me get to the point then." He said looking offended, "well, like you know, Emily and I are engaged, and are having our wedding in a month. Emily says that she wants you to be there, even though I protested that you might not want to there, because of your vampire friends coming back.
"I would have mailed the card, but Emily wanted me to come up here, to make the invitation more…inviting.
"But will you come?" He said, looking at me earnestly, as if he wanted me to come, too.
That was not what I expected at all. My eyes and my tense position softened.
"When is it?" I asked, really wanting to know if this would be before or after I was changed.
"June 24." He replied.
"Hmm…" I said as if I was thinking it over. "I'll have to talk to Charlie."
As if he would say no.
"Ok, just call when you do, at the number in the card." He said, handing me an invitation card that he pulled out of his pocket.
I took it and nodded. Rosalie, who was still there believe it or not, just stared at the invitation. She was obviously waiting for Sam to leave, her being so uncomfortable in a werewolf's presence.
"Okay, then I'll show myself out now." Sam said.
"Goodbye." Rosalie said, speaking for the first time, with a wicked smile. That was the smile that I knew all too well, the only one that I would have gotten a year ago.
Sam shuddered slightly.
"Bye, Sam." I said.
He looked at me, nodded, and disappeared out the door.
"Oh no." I groaned, placing the invitation on the kitchen table, and setting myself on the living room couch, and dropping my face into my hands.
"What's wrong?" Rosalie asked me sincerely, coming out of her vicious character, sitting down next to me.
I looked up at her with troubled eyes. I felt like I was going to cry.
"Well, I can't go to the wedding as a vampire. And Carlisle said he would turn me as soon as school is out. So I'll have to wait another week until Carlisle turns me." I said in a rush, afraid that I would burst into tears. I dropped my head back into my arms.
"Is that it?" She said, sounding amused.
I looked up at her again with a confused look.
"You have waited a year and a half for this, I'm sure you can wait a week to be changed. It's not like you'll die in that one week. Even if you were going to die, we would just change you then, and it would make it a lot easier to get out of here, and go live some place where nobody knows you, and wouldn't notice your vampire abilities."
At the mention of my change, and realizing that I was actually going to be changed, it was a reality, not just some foolish dream that I had made up, I cheered up.
"You're right, Rosalie. Let's do something fun!" I said enthusiastically.
Rosalie stared at me in surprise for a second, mutter something that sounded like "humans", and smiled at me.
"I'm going to pretend like I didn't hear that." I said pursing my lips in mock-anger. I was too happy to be mad at her.
"Hear what?" She said, with an innocent look on her face.
"Ha-ha." I said pronouncing it like 2 separate words. "Well what do you want to do?"
"Well, what do you usually do at this time?" Rosalie asked.
I looked at the clock on the mantel, which read 5:01.
"Cooking I guess…or something with Edward, but seeing that is not possible at the moment thanks to Mya, let's do something new." I said with a smile on my face.
"Shopping!" Was the first thing out of her mouth when I let her choose, to which I shock my head 'no' with such a force, I got dizzy.
"Aww! Come one! You let Alice take you all the time!" She complained looking like a 5 year old that wanted a cookie.
"No I don't, Edward does. And he has no say in this, because, well quiet frankly, he's not here." I stated.
"How about we go catch a movie?"
"Or we could rent a movie, bring it back to my place and watch it here with Charlie and the rest your family." I suggested, knowing that if we even got close to Port Angeles, then we would end up going shopping, no matter how much a protested.
"Fine." Rosalie said, pouting. She knew that I wasn't going to change my mind.
"Okay, so let me go call Charlie, and tell him our plan, and you can call everyone else." I said, making my way to the kitchen phone, while Rosalie pulled out her phone.
I called Charlie at the station.
"This is Forks police station, how may I help you?" Deputy Steve said into the phone.
"Chief Swan, please, its Bella." I said.
"Hey, Bella. Hold on." Steve said.
"Bella?" Charlie asked urgently.
"Yeah it's me Dad. I was just wondering if it was okay if I invited the Cullen's over for a movie?" I asked sounding enthusiastic.
"Umm…sure, okay. Is that all?" He said.
"Yup, thanks Dad. See you when you get home." I said sounding ecstatic.
"Okay, bye Bella." He said.
"Bye." I said hanging up.
I then made my way back to the living room where Rosalie was still talking on the phone. I caught bits and pieces of the conversation.
"And what does this other one want? Mhmm…Oh! Really?" And basically things like that. Until it came to "Do you think he would let me bring her? Right. Okay, see you."
With that she hung up, and turned to me. Of course, she could tell when I came into the room.
"What happened?" I asked.
"There is another one. He is a new one, too. They can't come; they're trying to sort this problem out. But still, I can stay here." She said smiling.
"Oh, okay, then we'll watch the movie by ourselves. But why aren't you going over there? Not that I don't want you here." I added when I saw her face.
"Well, Edward wants someone to stay here with you. He doesn't want a repeat of last year, with James." Rosalie said, as if that was the one question that she didn't want to answer.
"I'm getting in the way again, aren't I?" I asked, knowing that no matter what she said, I was getting in the way.
"No, not at all! I'm actually glad to be here instead of over there with the newbie's. Newbie's are no fun anyway." She lied. I could tell that she wanted to see the new vampire. "Plus, we have time to make up for." She said, truthfully.
"Okay, so let's go get the movie." I said, jumping up and making my way to the door.
Rosalie followed, reaching the door before me, and jumping in the front seat of the truck.
"Hey that's not fair!" I said climbing into the passenger seat, "You cheated."
"Has Edward ever told you how slow you drive?" She said.
"Multiple times."
"Well I agree with him." She said staring the car and pulling out of the driveway.
We got to the movie store in a flash. When it came to deciding what movie we wanted to watch, it came down to 'A Beautiful Mind' and 'Million Dollar Baby'. Rosalie wanted to watch the former and me the latter.
When we couldn't decide, we stood in the middle of the store, and I shut my eyes, and spun around, with my finger pointed. Whichever movie it landed on, that would be the one we got.
It was a pretty stupid process, but it landed on a movie I hadn't seen in the store, just noticing it now. 'A Walk to Remember', it was a movie I had really enjoyed.
I looked to Rosalie, and she shrugged, and I went to go pick it up. There was a male at counter, who couldn't stop staring at Rosalie, even when I placed a 20 dollar bill on the counter. Rosalie picked it up, and shoved back into my hand, and pulled out her clear credit card, and gave it to the man.
When I protested, she glared at me, but not like she would a year before. This was friendlier, but it still shut me up.
It was then that she looked up at the man behind the counter, who looked about 40, and raised her eyebrow at him. She was still was holding the credit card out, while he just stared at her.
He seemed to come back to his senses when she looked at him. He took the card and slid it through, and handed it back to Rosalie, with the movie put into a plastic bag.
"Have a nice day." He said in the most seducible voice he could muster, which wasn't that impressive, only talking to Rosalie. Rosalie just nodded and walked away.
As soon as we were out of the store, she mutter "men" , and we both broke out laughing, not doubting for a second that the man inside could hear and see us, and knew that we were laughing at him. By now, it was twilight. The whole drive home, Rosalie and I just stared up at the sky, mesmerized by our own thoughts. Neither of us tried to start a conversation.
We got home and I went into the kitchen to cook, Charlie was not home yet, but was going to be any minute.
I made baked potatoes and steak, of course, only for two. Charlie came home just as I finished making the food, and started setting the table. I set the table for two, as well. Rosalie helped set the table, so we were done by the time Charlie called out, which was his habit now.
"Bella?"
"In here Dad. Dinner's ready." I called out.
He came into the kitchen and smelled the food. He sat down at the table, with Rosalie and I. He didn't question why Rosalie wasn't eating.
"So, you are another of the Carlisle's kids?" He asked looking up at Rosalie. He wasn't shocked by her beauty as the man in the movie store was. He treated like she was just another one of my friends. Rosalie seemed surprised by that, too.
"Yes, Mr. Swan. I'm Rosalie Cullen." She said.
"Call me Charlie, please." He said.
"Okay, Charlie." She said with a dazzling smile that Charlie was not effected by.
"Well, where's the rest of your family?" He asked, but really, we all knew he was asking about one particular person.
"They couldn't make it. They send their apologies." Rosalie said.
"It's okay, at least you came." He said, brushing it aside.
We finished eating, and went to the living room for the movie. The movie started, and the whole time I was wishing I had Edward sitting next to me. Charlie fell asleep after the first five minutes. Five minutes later, he woke up, apologized to us, and went upstairs to sleep.
We finished the movie, I was water eyed, or so I told Rosalie, not wanting to admit I was really crying. Rosalie enjoyed it, too. I was reminded of Edward through out the movie, thinking of our love. Unconditional.
"Okay, now-" Rosalie was cut off by the ringing of her cell. We both went deadly silent. She picked it up, to the voice of my one true love, Edward.
I waited patiently for her to hang up to bombard her with the questions bubbling up in my head.
"We have to go to my house now. Yes, you too." She said when she hung up. She had a deadly serious look on her face.
I nodded, and wrote a quick note to Charlie, and grabbed my jacket and we left for the Cullen house.