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Chapter 19
When we got off the train it was about mid-day and it was overcast. I smiled as I looked up into the sky. We dropped off all of our things at the beautiful hotel and changed. We got in a car and we drove out of Paris town limits. Eventually the car stopped and Edward helped me out.
"This is Versailles." He said gesturing to the huge palace. He led me inside of it and we followed a tour guide around. I was pretty sure that we didn't need a guide but they wouldn't let us in without one. As he guide explained things around the palace, Edward whispered bits of unknown history to me.
"Carlisle came here when the king lived here." He said and then told me stories about his visit. After walking around behind the guide, he finally led us into a long hall. I gasped as I looked down it. It was lined with mirrors in golden frames. There were huge diamond-looking chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.
"Edward, look at the frames!" I said as I stared into one of the many mirrors. He laughed at my reaction. "It's beautiful. I would have loved to live here." I said.
"That could be arranged." He said thoughtfully.
"Edward, I was kidding. We can't actually live here." I said in disbelief. He began to laugh.
"As was I, love. I just wanted to see your reaction." He told me pulling me close to his perfect body. I tilted my head up and reached his lips. We finally broke away from each other and I let out a ragged breath. He wrapped his arm around me and we continued to walk. I looked in each mirror. I stopped suddenly as I looked into an aged mirror.
"Edward…" I whispered. I could feel myself get tense as I stared into the mirror. When I looked into it I could only see Edward. He had is arm in mid air wrapped around something nonexistent.
"Bella? What's wrong?" he asked, suddenly concerned as he searched my face. I pointed into the mirror and his eyes looked into the mirror. I looked over at him and I could see him pat his arm in disbelief.
"But I'm standing next to you." He whispered.
"I know… why am I not there?" I asked. He turned towards me with his eyes wide.
"But, Bella, you are there. I'm the one that disappeared in the mirror." He said taking my hand. I looked back in the mirror and Edward was there holding my invisible hand. I knew that we were not invisible to other people because we were both receiving strange looks.
"No. I can see you but I'm not there." I said staring in to the mirror. I heard a chuckle and I turned around with Edward.
"Ahh, I see that you have found the mirror." said a man with a thick French accent. He was pale and had topaz colored eyes with purple bruise like marks under his eyes. He was a vampire and Edward knew this too. I felt him pull me tighter to the side of his body. The man could tell that we were both
confused and he held out his hand. "I'm David." He said shaking Edward's hand. David then turned towards me and held out his hand. I looked up at Edward and he nodded briefly.
"This is my wife, Bella." He said proudly as David kissed the top of my hand. I blushed as his cold lips touched my skin and David stiffened.
"You're a human." He said with a confused look on his face as he dropped my hand. Edward nodded at him. "This is curious." He said looking between Edward and me.
"Not really." Edward said.
"No, no, no!" David said worried that he offended Edward. "I didn't mean it like that. I've just never seen anything like this in all of my existence." He said. I smiled at him and he smiled warmly back. I hoped that he was a vegetarian but I was pretty sure that he was because of his eye color.
"So what is the mirror?" Edward asked directing all of our attention back to the mirror. I could see Edward but I couldn't see David or myself. David turned towards me.
"What do you see, Bella?" He asked me.
"Well, I see Edward but I can't see me or you." David nodded his head.
"And what about you?" He asked looking at Edward.
"I see Bella. But only her." He said kissing the top of my head. I giggled as I watched the Edward in the mirror kiss the air.
"That's right. This mirror lets you see what you love the most. And it's obvious that each of you love the other more than you love your own self." He said placing a hand on each of our shoulders.
"Where did it come from?" Edward asked, looking carefully at the frame of it for markings or some clue to what it was.
"No one knows. It was brought to the king as a gift. He loved himself more than everything so he couldn't see the real magic in it. He could only see himself." he told us in his accent.
"But who brought it?" I could tell that he was really curious about it. David leaned in close to Edward and me.
"You have heard of the Volturi, haven't you?" I cringed as he said the name and Edward held me tighter. I nodded and waited for him to continue.
"Well somehow they acquired it and then it became no use to them, so when they came to visit they gave it to the king."
"This hardly makes sense." Edward said and David frowned but then smiled slyly.
"In our world, nothing really makes sense, now does it?" he said, still whispering and then winking at both of us. "The giving of the mirror occurred long ago. Back when The Great Carlisle lived with them." He said with a wondered look on his face. I stifled my laugh and I could feel Edwards body shaking as he tried to hold in his laughter. David glared at us. "You think that The Great Carlisle was funny? He was a great vampire. How he managed to do the things he does boggles my mind." He whispered furiously.
Edward finally succeeded in holding in his laughs and David still looked at us angrily. "Why you've never even met anyone as great as him, I'm sure." He said quietly.
"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure, David." Edward said.
"What do you mean? Meeting him would be an honor. Have you met him?" he asked as his face relaxed into a glare that wasn't quite as angry looking.
"You could say that Carlisle and us are pretty close." I said.
"How close?" he asked in disbelief.
"Close enough that he changed me, and now I live with him and the rest of my family." Edward told him. I could tell that he was upset by David's reaction but was still amused about 'The Great Carlisle.'
David's jaw dropped and he stared at Edward and me. "I'm so sorry." He said bowing his head. "I didn't know." He took my hand and kissed it again. "It is really a pleasure to meet you, someone so close to The Great Carlisle." He said between kisses on my hand. I just smiled but I really wanted him to stop kissing my hand. Edward, sensing my distress, cleared his throat.
"Well we better be on our way." Edward said as David dropped my hand. "Nice to meet you." Edward said pulling me out of the hall with him. I looked back and I saw that David was still waving as we left the hall of mirrors. We toured the gardens and then got back into the car.
"I better call 'The Great Carlisle' and ask him about this mirror." He said as we drove back into Paris and to the hotel. I laughed with him until Carlisle picked up and they spoke about it. Carlisle said that he never really knew much about it and laughed when Edward told him about David and his reaction to Carlisle. By the time Edward had finished talking to Carlisle we were back in the hotel room.
"So I love you more than myself…" Edward said as I wrapped my arms around his neck.
In between kisses I said, "That's what the mirror said, Edward."
"Then it must be true," he mumbled as he played with the bottom of my shirt. "But I think that you already knew that." He said as he kissed down my neck and to my collarbone. I just nodded and concentrated on breathing as he slid my shirt over my head. I unbuttoned his shirt quickly and tossed it on the ground with my shirt. He flipped over so that I was under him and he hovered over me. Once we finished, I feel asleep in his arms and woke a few hours later.
"Bella, love. You have to get up." I heard his velvety voice say softly. I opened my eyes and smiled at him.
"That was nice." I mumbled as I sat up and stretched. I heard him chuckle as he got out of the bed and began to get dressed. "Where are you going?"
"We are going out tonight. And as nice as staying in the hotel is, we have to make a reservation." He added.
"Oh all right." I said, sighing dramatically and he laughed. I loved to hear his sweet sounding laugh and I smiled every time that I did. He pulled out a long blue dress and a matching pair of strappy high heels. I gasped as I saw it.
"Where are we going that I am going to have to wear this?" I asked, taking the dress from him.
"It's a surprise." He once again reminded me. I rolled my eyes and slipped the dress on. It was the perfect length and it wasn't too long so that I wouldn't trip on it. I would have to thank Alice for this. I did my hair and applied some make up. It looked decent but I didn't have Alice to give me a full makeover. I put my shoes on and I was better at walking in these after the last time. Edward let out a huge grin when I walked back out and he led me down to the car.
As we walked I noticed that he was wearing a black suit that went well with his pale skin. His tie matched the color of my dress and I smiled as we walked past people. He helped me into the car and we drove into the traffic of Paris. The driver of this car went slower than Edward drove and I could tell that he was getting impatient. His hand was tapping on his knee and I grabbed on to it and traced circles with my finger. He smiled gratefully and continued to watch out of the window.
Finally I saw what we were most likely headed to; the Eiffel Tower. I gasped as I saw it and Edward smiled at me. We pulled up under it and Edward helped me out. He led me to an elevator and we got in with two other couples. They were all dressed extremely nice, like Edward and I. One wall of the elevator was glass and I watched as we climbed into the air. The city of Paris was beautiful and especially at night with the lights and their reflections on the buildings. Once the elevator stopped, the doors opened leading into a large dining room. It was surrounded by glass and you could see almost the entire city of Paris from here. Almost immediately a waiter came and led us to a table. It was in a corner so that we had privacy and could look in both directions. Edward held out the chair for me and I sat.
"Edward! I can't believe that we get to eat here!" I said excitedly.
"I'm glad that you are excited." He said reaching across the table and taking my hand.
"How did you ever get reservations here? Doesn't it take years?" I asked. I had only known him for a little over a year so there was no way that he had planned this that far in advance. He smiled guilty and I knew what he had done so that we could spend part of our honeymoon here. He had paid his way into the reservations list. I shook my head at him but I smiled because I knew he did it because he loved me.
We opened the menus and Edward explained what each item was since I couldn't speak French. He helped me pick some kind of French dinner that he heard was good.
"I think that I'm going to get this." He said pointing to something on the menu that I couldn't read. I looked at him slyly.
"Edward, dear, you don't need to eat." I said looking up into his eyes.
"I know. But I have to order something and at least taste it." He said. "It would be as waste to come all the way to Paris, get dinner at one of the finest restaurants, and then not eat anything."
"Honestly, I don't understand you sometimes." I said with a grin. He laughed quietly as I remembered Edward and the rest of the Cullens eating s'mores and then having to throw them back up later.
A waiter came up to our table and spoke to us in rapid French. I looked at Edward in confusion and he chuckled. "What would you like to drink?"
"Whatever you're having." I told him. He spoke back to the waiter and then he nodded and left. "So what did you order us?" I asked.
"Two glasses of champagne. I thought that the night we went on the Eye was nice so why not carry it into Pairs with us." Edward was so sweet and my heart melted as I remembered drinking champagne, together, over the city of London.
Soon the waiter came back with a tray and two glasses of champagne. I took a small sip of mine and I watched as Edward did the same. He then came back and I assumed that Edward ordered the food. Later, the waiter came back with a tray of delicious smelling food and placed a plate in front of each of us. I picked up my fork and took a bite of it. It was really good and I smiled at Edward encouragingly. He cautiously took a bite and he grimaced as he chewed and swallowed.
"How's your food?" I asked teasingly. He smiled but forced another bite down. "You really don't have to eat that." I told him as he winced.
"No, Bella. I want to." He said stubbornly but with a smile. I couldn't understand why he wanted to eat so badly but I didn't argue with him about it. I continued to eat my delicious dinner and when I was halfway done, he had finished his entire plate.
"I really can't believe that you just ate all of that. You're going to be so sick." I said taking the last bite that I wanted and I put my fork down.
"Bella, I only do most of the things I do for you." He said.
"You are going to get sick for me?" I asked questioningly.
"No," he said shaking his head. "You see, if I didn't eat this or order anything, and then someone was going to notice and then questions us. And I don't want to ruin our honeymoon with noisy people that can't mind their own business."
"Seriously, Edward." I said shaking my head slightly. "It would have been fine either way." I said smiling. He smiled back and leaned across the table and kissed me lightly.
"I love you, Bella." He said.
"I love you, too, Edward." I said as Edward paid the check. He helped me up and we went down the elevator and walked around the city of Paris. Once we got back to the hotel, he rushed into the bathroom and stayed in there for awhile.
"Are you ok?" I called, as i sat waiting on the bed for him.
"Yeah, I'll be out soon." he called back. As I waited I leaned my head back on the pillow and slowly I drifted into a dreamless sleep.
The next morning, I woke up alone in the bed.
"Edward?" I called out softly getting out of the bed. I was worried because I didn't remember if he had gotten in bed after I had fallen asleep. I found a note of the table written in his perfect handwriting.
My dear Bella,
I needed to go hunting after eating that dinner last night. I intend to be back around 9. We will be doing some walking today so make sure that you are ready for that. Once I get back we can leave. Breakfast will be sent up to the room at 8:30. Don't worry, the waiter this time will not try to make you go out with him.
Love you,
EC
I smiled as I read the note and I looked at the clock and it read 8:00. I decided to get ready and took a shower. I got dressed and got ready for the day. My breakfast arrived at exactly 8:30 and I ate it in silence. I didn't turn the TV on because all of the channels would most likely be in French and I wanted to just think and remember parts of the honeymoon. Five minutes before 9 Edward walked back in the door. By this time I was done eating and I jumped up and ran to him.
"Edward! I missed you!" I said kissing his lips softly. He chuckled.
"Love, I was gone for an hour." I laughed.
"I know, but I hate it when you aren't near me."
"I hate that too." He said and a slight frown crossed his beautiful face.
"But we're together now. And soon we can always be together and you'll never have to leave me." I said smiling and kissing his smooth cheek. He took a deep unnecessary breath.
"Yes, I know." He looked at my clothing. "I see that you're ready. Let's go."
He took me to the Notre Dame. I was amazed at the beautiful church and the stained glass. Even though the sun wasn't out, the glass's reflections made patterns on the floor. We could tour this by ourselves and Edward told me different stories for each piece of stained glass. We stayed her for awhile walking around the church and in the area surrounding the Notre Dame.
Next, we went to the Sainte Chapelle. It wasn't as crowed because the sun still hadn't come out and most tourists wanted to see the color effects of the stained glass. I walked through the Church looking up at the designs on the ceiling. I tripped over an uneven tile on the floor and I went sprawling to the ground but Edward caught me quickly and stood me up.
"Are you ok?" he asked. His topaz eyes bore into mine.
"Yes, thanks. I tripped over this tile." I said looking down at it and breaking away from his gaze. He smiled with relief and we spent the rest of the day walking around Paris in the daylight.
As we packed up to go on to Greece, my stomach fluttered as I thought of my transformation. I was excited and scared all at the same time. I couldn't wait to become his mate and live with him for an eternity.
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