Siren
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in Twilight.
Wish I did just to pull some strings.
The long awaited meeting with the Cullens. I will now be hopefully updating every week. I will devote my entire attention to this story after my exams meaning more updates.
Zee~
Stranger
As we finally approached her family's mansion, she parked the fierce motorcycle and allowed me to get off before following and she removed her helmet as I had done seconds before, waving her hair around.
"Well, this baby is sexy." she smirked and ran her finger along the body of my bike. I was jealous of my bike, I mean- if I didn't already love it and it was a person; I would be torturing it with deadly looks. Shit. I looked down, ashamed of myself for getting jealous of my own bike when my eyes finally trailed back to her it still shocked me as to how this woman could walk and ride in heels, had it been me; I could see it all going to hell. Accidents on highways. Quickly brushing away the thought of me in heels, I concluded I was better off in my boots or converse.
"You could have always gone faster." I replied amused as I knew that the speed was not enough for her. She longed for the thrill. She turned and looked at me with such intensity, I had to hold myself back. Fuck me. I looked away from her and took a shaky breath. Calm yourself. A familiar voice from within whispered. "Someone would think you were trying to break speeding laws to gain a reward." She mused, clearly carefree and much different from the character before. Her predatory grin had appeared yet again. She ran her hand through her hair, she was beyond beautiful. It was godly how her features were. I could just live by worshipping her long seemingly endless legs, her curves, her smile, and green eyes never failed to surprise me, whenever she stared deep into my eyes, I felt as if she could read my thoughts, feel what I felt and it filled me with so much fear that I would just have to look away to get my bearings right.
"It depends what reward you have to offer." I replied casually, looking up and down at her. Knowing fully well that it didn't faze her to have people undressing her with their eyes, I almost growled at the thought and her amused look was enough for me to realize she had already known what I was thinking of. She ignored the thought and simply continued.
"I'm sure I can think of something that would be...enjoyable." She replied fondly as I followed her towards the mansion. I could have sworn her voice was dripping with honey. My mind was buzzing, I hadn't thought things through, what exactly was I meant to explain to her family? That I was a harmless descendant of Sirens and I wasn't about to dance men to their deaths. That's what my ancestors had done which had resulted in a curse of our race. As warriors, we were fierce, powerful and couragious, Victoria had taken me to the forests in Lithuania and I witnessed them battle against each other in training. It was absolutely beyond my comprehension how one could be so graceful, something I had not been gifted with despite the blood running inside me. The veela in me had always cursed at my nature to fall victim of staircases. I snapped out of my daze, finally coming to my senses.
"Rose?" I whispered, looking deep in her eyes searching for something to ground me. This strange attachment to her was something that was already scaring me yet my creature had wanted me to embrace it. I didn't know her, where was the logic in submitting my heart to a beautiful stranger I was about to leave? Though, my veela had wanted me to claim her. To bond with her. I knew I needed and wanted her. My rationality of abandoning her went outside the window. The thought of even attempting caused my heart to painfully slam against my ribs. It was conflicting. How had my ancestors managed?
Her expression turned into a concerned one, I figured if she could hear my heart beat then they would hear it from inside the house. It didn't surprise me but I suddenly felt apprehensive as I came to absolute blindingrealization that I would be inside a house with Rosalie's vampire family and one of them would be trying to read my mind. How was it possible that I had not thought this through? I didn't have time to dig deep into my mind searching for an answer that I was only due to my incompetence.
The door opened revealing Alice and beside her, I assumed was Jasper Hale. Rosalie's 'twin' brother. Rosalie had held her hand in my own, squeezing it in reassurance, for her sake or mine? I wasn't sure. I relished the unfamiliar feeling of own conjoined hands. Strangely, her hand had not been ice cold like Victoria's but then again, she was different.
"Hey." I said as Alice opened the door even further to allow us in. I liked her from the moment I had met her. She seemed rather interesting and friendly. I could see us being friends but I would have to rethink that. I couldn't become a friend if I was going to leave her sister but something, call it intuition told me that she knew something I didn't know...yet.
"Bella!" Alice quirked in excitement as she pulled me into a friendly hug before stepping away, Jasper nodded and smiled in my direction but kept a distance in which I assume was because of my blood. I looked around in awe, their house was incredibly beautiful. Spacious. Elegant. Absolutely beautiful. It reminded me of Victoria's 'lair'. Though the colors were cream, white, biege and neutral whereas Victoria had charcoal black, red, chocolate with the odd bit of white. I studied the various paintings hung on the walls some historic and others modern each with a story to tell. I had forgotten I was in the company of three people which was rude. Embarrassment flushed through me when I turned and noticed Jasper's smirk which took me by surprise and Rosalie's amused look.
"What? I like art." I mumbled, confidence seeping out of me. Alice just re-appeared with another member of the vampiric family. It was Emmett. A sudden wave of unsettled anger filled me. Rosalie casually walked away from her place aside Jasper and stood beside me.
"Bella, that's my younger brother Emmett." she whispered but I was well aware the other three heard her. Brother. That calmed me down slightly. I still felt unnaturally threatened.
"Bella, so nice to meet you!" He picked me up in a bone crushing hug, completely unaware of my threatened nature, I relaxed then returned the bone crushing hug back with the same enthusiasm. It was like hugging Jake except Emmett was taller and seriously cold. If I didn't know any better, I would have thought I was hugging a moving stone statue during winter.
"Emmett." I replied calmly, pulling away from the hug and nodding towards him before standing next to Rosalie who was silently watching us. I felt the urge to hold her hand again but with her family around, I felt rather shy.
"Gotta admit Rose, she's hot and strong." He playfully stated and winked in my direction. I cracked a smile. However, he earned a glare that stated 'keep away' in addition to a punch on the arm from Rosalie.
"Aww, come on Rose, you know I'm only kidding." He rubbed his arm, she raised her eyebrow at him then continued glaring. He gave her a playful puppy eyed look which didn't cause her to softened in the slightest, she only glared harder.
"Okay- I'm not kidding, she's hot." with that said, he threw a cushion in her direction which she placed it back then picked me up at ran around the room at human pace. I giggled at the exchange between the siblings.
"We will see what Esme thinks of that." Her voice sounded dangerous as she motioned towards the cushion he had thrown, the threat causing him to stop dead on his tracks and place me back down. I could only assume that Esme was the mother.
She turned her attention back at me, smirking then winking at Emmett before taking my hand in hers and I eagerly followed her out the room.
"Well, that was cold." I murmured, turning to face her with a smile on my face. I thought it amusing to watch how the two siblings interacted. There was something about the way she looked at things, at her family, at humans, at me. Rosalie longed for something...something that I couldn't decipher.
"Well, he deserved it." her statement had a hint of amusement. The smile on her face never leaving, I just wanted to capture it, paste it in my head and keep it there to never forget.
"What is Esme to him?" My curiosity was getting the better of me. I couldn't remember Jessica telling me about her. I cringed hearing Jessica's voice.
"She's our mother." Her statement was one that had doubt in it. At that point, I decided to ask questions later.
"There are some people who'd like to meet you." She said quietly as we reached a door. I nodded as she opened the door, the aroma of pasta filled my senses.
"Are you hungry?" Rosalie asked and in that moment, my stomach growled in answer to her question. I tried to remember the last time I ate something. Lunch was forgotten at Forks when I focused my attention to Rosalie. I smiled sheepishly as she lead me towards what two more vampires.
"Esme, Carlisle...this is Isabella Swan, prefers to go by Bella." Were all of the members of her family attractive? Both Carlise and Esme had a parently aura about them. Esme, had just finished chopping coriander when her liquid golden eyes met mine with a smile and she wiped her hands clean to greet me.
"It's nice to finally put a face to the name." The tall male vampire known as Carlisle said as we shook hands, his hands were cold, he was as pale as Rosalie but his eyes were gold. I smiled as Esme pulled me into a motherly hug.
"Alice hasn't been able to stop talking about you." She pulled away gracefully and smiled.
"As long as it's good things that she's saying, I don't mind."
"She mentioned you would be hungry so we are making lasagne-"
"Oh no, it's fine really." I sat down at the kitchen counter watching Carlisle and Esme cook. If I hadn't known any better, I would have thought they were professionals.
"So, Bella when did you move to Forks?" Esme interrogated, looking up at me as she poured two glasses of juice and handed one to me and the other to Rose.
"Yesterday, actually. Thank you." I looked up at Rosalie, clearly confused as she took a drink of the juice. This was definitely something unexpected.
"That's rather quick. Moving here and starting school the next day."
"Charlie was prepared..." I took a sip of my drink in place of a pause, Esme watched me waiting. "And...I wouldn't have know what to do with my myself for the day." I did. I would have spent the day at the reservation with Leah and Jacob.
"Rose, seems like you've now got your hands full." Carlisle said as he placed the layered dish inside the oven. Rosalie scoffed which made me laugh.
"If you don't mind my asking- what are you considering you are not human?" The serious question drew the room to silence.
"I'm a veela- a reminiscent of Sirens." Carlisle nodded, taking in the information. He leaned in further to show interest in the subject.
"That must have an interesting story behind it." Esme commented. There was something she was thinking about, a look that I knew all too well. A question that was yet to be asked and yet she didn't. Almost as if waiting for an explanation.
"It does, a story for another day. I've met a lot of different creatures. Shifters, Vampires, Succubi, you name it." Rosalie stared at me with curiosity.
"That must mean- you've been around quite alot-" Emmett commented as he walked into the kitchen. Earning a glare from Rosalie when he realized he had worded the sentence wrong.
"I wasn't implying that you've been around in that sense." He tried to defend himself, Carlisle chuckled before playfully punching Emmett's arm. I laughed.
"Emmett- shut up before you attempt to dig yourself out of a huge hole." Alice snickered as she danced past him with a smiling Jasper aside her.
"Seems like you like to bully Emmett."I directed it toward Rosalie who gave me a mock disappointed look. I smiled in return as she pouted.
"So Bella, why did you move away from Arizona?" The question caused me to pause. I was not expecting that. I turned to find that it was Emmett who asked the question, figuring he wanted to change the subject.
"I just wanted a chance to start again where no one knows me but seems though some people already know me and there are some things that I needed to escape and let go of. I was also searching for someone but I found her now." with consequences to deal with. A voice finished off. I wanted to regret meeting her, I wanted to regret getting myself into this vicious circle of emotions and decisions but I couldn't. Not even for a moment. Something inside me fluttered, I looked at Rosalie sheepishly. All it took was one day and I was beginning to get attached.
"We hope you get that chance to start again, you are always welcome to come visit us." Carlisle added in, massaging Esme's shoulders.
"We have got to discuss the trea-" Before Alice could finish her sentence, the bronze haired brother cut in. I immediately knew things were going to take a hard bad turn.
"You've got to be kidding me. Lets play house guests with some creature who could be a danger to us all." Edward commented as he walked into the kitchen, glaring at me. I glared back with just as much distaste ignoring the tense atmosphere.
"What is your problem?" Rosalie glared at him, defending me from him.
"That thing is." He spat as if I was the most horrendous person he had laid eyes on. I had done nothing to him and yet he hated me like I was his mortal enemy.
"Edward!" Carlisle raised his voice, causing the rest of the family to look at him surprised. I would have guessed he was never the one to shout.
"She is not a thing." Rosalie stood beside me. I felt almost guilty, dragging her away from her brother but I turned to him, ignoring his comment.
"How am I a problem to you?" His golden eyes bored into my changing eyes. He wants to read your mind. The deadly voice uttered again, I shook my head trying to clear it.
"You're a danger to my family."
"I don't see how I've endangered your family."
"You wouldn't understand."
"And what's that meant to mean?" At this point, anger was pouring out of me. My nails were claws. I was prepared to rip him to pieces regardless of his family being present. There was a ringing in my head and that was enough for me to lunge at him, Rosalie's arms kept me held in position.
"Keep out of my head, Parasite." with that said, Rosalie let go and I turned leaving the kitchen and walking past Alice, Jasper and Emmett towards the front door as I was about to reach for the door knob. Alice stood in front of me, blocking my exit. I could hear him in kitchen, demanding to know what he had not been told I would be coming.
"You shouldn't leave, you just got here." I sighed, I wanted to get the hell away from Edward. It was one thing having to endure him at school but it was another dealing with him elsewhere. I turned around to face the full audience of the Cullens.
"It was a bad idea to come, I will not be bothering you any longer. If you have any more questions or information, I assume you already have my number." I turned towards Alice knowing full well it would be her who provided them with my number. Esme and Carlisle nodded towards my direction accepting my response.
"And what of your relationship with Rosalie?" Edward questioned, snarling and his eyes black with hunger. I had to give it to him, he had a lot of restraint. Relationship? It was hardly a relationship. We didn't know anything about each other.
"Edward." Esme warned, anger was present in her features. I had not been expecting that. Carlisle looked conflicted between warning Edward again and apologizing for him.
"Well, that is between me and her. It has nothing to do with you." Jasper and Emmett stood in between us, preventing what could happen if we act out on our anger. I was clearly going to have to be the mature one in this situation despite him having lived longer than I had.
"With all due respect, that does involve us. You are endangering us to the Volturi" I took a deep breath, calming the veela in me. I looked towards Rosalie who said nothing but her eyes were searching for something in my features.
"I do not understand how seeing Rosalie, endangers everyone else in this room to them." I answered calmly, the veela inside fought to come out. I had to think rationally. He had no right in getting involved in what happens between Rosalie and myself. I would understand if he meant that the thirst for human blood was something that may cause casuality. I trusted Rosalie not to harm me. The veela in me, trusted her. He wasn't acting like a brother but a self-righteous prat. I would also understand if he was just overprotective, it was natural of family to want to protect each other but each time we were in the same room; he would just irritate me, he was rude, he pried in things that were not his business and that made veela inside want to come out to rip him apart and burn him alive or dead.
"Maybe that should be the reason for you not to interfere." The internal battle inside of me was something that could only be seen and felt by Rosalie. Her green eyes met mine again and slowly she began to walk towards me, the silence being shattered by her heels hitting the floor.
"You can't really comment on anything involving me and Rosalie. " with that said, I nodded a farewell to the rest of the Cullens. She shut the door behind us and we stopped beside my bike.
"I'm sorry-"
"It's not-" I paused allowing her to continue, it was not how I had imagined the evening to go. Something about Edward seemed to clash with me. I did not trust him.
"He is not normally like that. I apologize for his behaviour." Her eyes were lowered to the ground which was unlike her. She usually glowed with confidence. I lifted her chin so I could see her eyes.
"It's fine. He is probably just acting as a protective brother besides, you shouldn't be the one to apologize." Her arms slowly snaked around my waist, pulling me closer to her, our noses were touching, I could feel her breath on my lips and just as we were about to kiss, I turned away. Placing a kiss on her cheek. The hurt in her eyes made me regret my actions. Her arms reluctantly slid away, I stepped away from her and toyed with my helmet.
"I have to go but I presume I will see you soon."
"Is that an invitation?" She smirked, I smiled and nodded.
"I'll leave my window open or...you could always try coming in through the door." She raised her eyebrow.
"Now, now, where would the fun be in that?" I didn't reply, just pulled on the helmet and climbed the bike.
"Be careful." She whispered as my bike roared to life. I blew a kiss towards her and smiled. I rode out of their driveway towards the main road, the more I thought about what to do, the more I dreaded everything. You will grow to love the stranger if you stay... the voice inside whispered, there was truth in that statement. How would I even began to explain myself to her? I could always call Leah or Victoria for pointers on how to go about the situation. Sometimes, I just wish Renee had told Charlie what she is. Shit! Charlie, I hadn't even called him to let him know that I would be at the Cullens. Well, I didn't stay there long so I hopefully would not have worried him. Finally after reaching the driveway home and parking my precious bike, I discovered Charlie wasn't home judging by the cruiser not being present. He had left a note explaining that he was with Billy having a couple of beers and watching the game.
I tiredly climbed up to my room, shrugging off my jacket and placing it neatly into the closet. After rummaging through, I found some nightwear whilst removing my current clothing. I decided it was best to call Victoria now considering the circumstances. I pulled on an oversized grey t-shirt and shoved on a pair of shorts before grabbing my phone and dialling a familiar number.
"I've been waiting for you to call." a calm voice revealed though Victoria did sound rather motherly over the phone. She was a great friend nonetheless. I pulled the window open, not wanting to forget about Rosalie in case she chose the window.
"Well, I've been busy. Listen- something happened." Knowing fully well that I may as well tell her about Rosalie before anything else happens.
"With you, it wouldn't surprise me. So what happened?" I knew exactly what she meant. Something was always bound to happen especially when it came to accidents. She sounded rather amused and I took it as she thought she would tease me like she always did. Once, I had managed to fall over the barrier down the stairs in the early hours of the morning and she had found me sprawled all over the floor and instead of helping me; she amused herself further by taking pictures and by the end of the week, pictures of me were ever so neatly placed on the fridge door for me to find. She never let me live the experience down.
"It's not anything like that. I found my mate." There was a pause on the other end of the phone and a disappointed sigh. I silently waited to hear what she would have to say about my predicament but her response almost knocked the air out of me.
"So what are you going to do?" her voice changed from it's playful banter to unusually serious. Normally, she would suggest something such as 'leave now' but for her to ask me something like that was what scared me.
"Honestly. I don't know what I am going to do." It was the truth, I hadn't thought about leaving since reaching the front door of the Cullen's home. She knew about my curse.
"Are you going to leave?" She sounded somewhat hopeful but sad at the same time. She was the one who be-friended me in school when we both noticed the unwanted attention we were recieving but in many ways, Victoria liked it. It made her feel different. We talked a lot and finally, I ended up explaining my nature and we shared mutual understanding considering we were both supposedly mythical creatures.
"I only just arrived but I'm going to stay for awhile until I figure out something." I was determined to find out what I could do to stop the curse or at least change it. A couple of months in Forks couldn't hurt...or could it? A voice added on for the first time since arriving in Forks. I had gotten used to the veela inside speaking to me, it was like we were two differently identical people. It was complicated.
"I'll do some research to see what we could do." Relief flooded my body, I was thankful to have Victoria by my side at a time like this.
"Thanks V. It really means a lot." I was grateful, actually beyond it. Renee had told me to just move on and forget about it if I ever found my chosen.
"Is your mate aware of the consequences of getting involved with you?" Her voice was still serious, she wanted to make sure that I had already made things clear. We weren't even involved yet.
"No, she doesn't. I will tell her but I'm not sure how to." I felt ashamed. I knew it was my duty to tell her yet I was neglecting it. I knew she wasn't fully aware of what it meant when I told her I was a veela.
"Just be sure that you do." She sighed then quickly changed the subject knowing the disappointment, shame and self-pity would swallow me whole had the conversation finished there.
"So it's a she then?" Victoria teased, I could hear the joy in her voice. She had tried to convince me that I rolled the fairer sex way which I didn't deny nor admit. However, being a veela it was possible for your chosen to be either male or female; gender was not a choice. Love was love either way.
"Yes. My mate is female." She laughed, I could almost hear her mouthing, I told you so. She didn't agree with labels and I loved that about her.
"So is your mate really hot?" I smiled in response not that she could see it but I somehow knew that she knew I was smiling. It was like her to say something like that.
"You could say that, absolutely goddessly gorgeous" Victoria scoffed over the phone and I smirked getting an image of her scowl.
"Well- she can't be as gorgeous as me?" I could hear jealousy over the phone. I could have sworn my bestfriend was the vainest woman on Earth.
"I'm not going to comment on two gorgeous women."
"Woman? She's that old I see." I could just feel her satisfication. She had to be insane. Absolutely crackers.
"I assume she has lived just as long as you."
"So if she is not human, what is she?" Curiousity built up in her mind. I actually wasn't fully aware of what kind of vampire she was and to think about it, I hadn't asked her to confirm her full nature but she must have figured I already knew.
"I'm assuming she is a vampire of some sort. Her family are also vampires but they all vary despite that...they are really nice and welcoming." I wouldn't mention Edward since I knew Victoria would grab her shit and get over here to kick ass. She was extremely fast and brutal.
"Typical Bella, always going for non-human friends." I giggled in response, it was true. Well, Angela was human. My two bestfriends Leah and Victoria. I just knew they weren't human.
"You can't blame me, I'm not exactly human either. How is Renee?" I asked about my mother, I hadn't spoken to her since I left for Forks which was rather neglectant of me but I had decided that she needed to live her life and be happy with Phil. My main reason for leaving.
"She's doing fine actually. She called me yesterday to check on how you are; misses you as much as I do. How is Charlie?" she inquired.
"I miss you too. Charlie is doing fine. He let me keep a bike V. I don't mean a bicycle...I mean- an actual Norton Rotary Cafe Racer." I could hear her laughter over the phone, I image it was because she had a mental image of me on a bicycle. Death trap.
"Gettin' spoilt already, aye?" Her usual playfulness had returned.
"Yeah, I am. Jealous?"
"Nope, I have my cars. My lovely sweet babies."
"Those things are death traps." I would never get into a car with Victoria after the amount of incidents we had shared together. The almost accidents and killer cars.
"I can only assume you are still prone to injuring yourself?" It wasn't like I could suddenly switch to being graceful though since arriving in Forks, I hadn't managed to break a bone or majorly injure myself. I turned around and almost shrieked in fear when I noticed Rosalie casually leaning against the wall, staring at me in pure amusement.
"Yep, you could say that. Listen, I'll talk to you tomorrow. " My heart was uncontrollably racing, I could have had a heart attack because of her. You'd think I would notice she had arrived due to my heightened senses.
"I'm guessing your mate is in the room then. I love you and have a great long night." It was creepy how she knew such things at time even though she wasn't present. I could just see her winking and making sexual gestures. I was well aware Rosalie could hear the conversation and my face flushed in heat.
"Yeah, I love you too V. Night." I ended the call and attempted to avoid her gaze. I could just see her and Victoria getting along and teasing me.
Rosalie approached me, my eyes still on the floor, it was funny how we switched confidence, she gently pulled my chin up to face her, her features were soft, her eyes were deeper green Sweet mother of Mary. This woman was stunning. There was always something about the way she looked at me, it was like she was trying to read me, my eyes wondered to her soft, rosy lips and back up to her eyes, using the same hand, she tucked some of my hair behind my ear before placing a cool kiss on my forehead.
"I've got a question..." I blurted, possibly even ruining the moment. She took my hand, sat on the bed then allowed me to position myself in between her legs so we were both facing the same direction. Her arms slithered around my waist and I leaned back into her.
"Ask away." She purred into my ear. My stomach muscles jerked, I almost moaned but remembered to get back to the land of the living or undead.
"Why are your eyes green yet your family have different colored eyes mainly gold?" I was curious. I hadn't really asked her anything about her nature.
"I figure it is because my parents had the same color eyes. " That was the obvious response but left me even more curious.
"So are your parents also vampires?"
"I don't know. I never had the chance to meet them but I assume they were human."
"You weren't born a vampire?" I listened intently, was that even possible? To be born a vampire.
"Yes and no. I am what they call a mutation. A hybrid of a vampire and something else that I have yet to identify." I could hear the disappointment and anger in her tone. It must be hard not knowing what you are. I took in the information. Renee had explained to me what I was when the effect of my thrall came into effect. Victoria had been there to help when I tried to control my thrall. I tensed when I remembered the conversation we had just shared.
"So how much of the conversation did you hear?" I chanted in my head hoping that she had not heard the discussion of our predicament.
"Is your mate aware of the consequences of getting involved with you..." Shit! My heart slammed hard against my ribs and slowly sank. This was not avoidable at all. Sadness rippled inside me, I took a deep breath, I changed position to face her but because of her grip; I ended up straddling her. She smirked, her smile slowly faded and before I could question her, a door shut in the distance and I figured it was Charlie returning back from Billy Black's. Rosalie disattached herself from me and kissed my forehead before turning to leave.
"I'll be back later?" It wasn't a question but a statement and I simply nodded.
The front door opened and closed before I heard Charlie calling me from the stairs, I turned to the door and when I looked back, she was gone. I walked carefully down the stairs to find Charlie in the living room nursing a beer.
"Sorry, did I wake you?" He asked looking at my attire, I shook my head.
"I was just preparing for bed actually." Well, it was kind of close to the truth. I couldn't exactly tell him I was getting up close and personal with a vampire.
"How was school?" The question caught me off guard. I was not expecting him to ask about the one thing I thought the least about.
"It was good. I made friends." I thought back to Angela and the group with Mike. It gave me shivers when I thought of the looks he gave me. Jessica hated me. There was no question about it. The Cullens. Edward hated me.
"That's really good, kiddo." He ruffled my hair which made me smile. I missed it. The father-daughter relationship. It made me feel like a child again. Sweet nostalgia.
"How was work and Billy?"
"It was fine. Long day. Billy's good. Jake told me to let you know he's visiting in a couple of days with Leah."
"There is some food I brought from Billy's if you'd like me to heat it up." He smiled and shook his head when I nodded. I hadn't eaten at the Cullen's. My stomach growled loudly. He laughed.
"Are you going to have something to eat too?"
"No, I already ate."
"It's good to have you back." He gave me a hug, it wasn't awkward this time round, just really comforting.
"It's good to be back." With that, I pulled away from him to see him turned to go heat up the food, I was definitely spoilt. Within, 15 minutes he had a plate of egg fried rice with prawns. I couldn't say no to food. He had gotten himself a fresh bottle of beer from the fridge and we sat in comfortable silence whilst I slowly ate, both watching the game. I wasn't as interested as he was but I liked to follow up on this.
Charlie turned to look at me, "Well, you certainly enjoyed that." he motioned at the empty plate, I blushed but it was good food.
"I'm going to get myself a drink and head up to bed."
"Okay, kiddo."
Whilst washing the dishes, I wondered if I could ever do what Renee did to Charlie despite it being necessary. She followed tradition and left him, I visited him over the years when I was younger but always felt as though he was missing out on the things that came. He never forgot to send a birthday gift and card. I was grateful that I had that much. I pulled out a soda from the fridge and headed up the stairs.
"Good night Char- I mean Dad." I said as I made my way upstairs, it was different calling him dad, I'd always known him as Charlie but guess it was time to really get used to it.
"Good night kiddo."
Rosalie wasn't there when I arrived so I got into bed and waited, reading a book to calm the upcoming dreadful conversation we were about to have, after an hour of waiting, I assumed she had forgotten, I placed the book aside and stared at the ceiling before drifting off to sleep, the dream that invaded me this night was not of Rosalie but of nightmares I had experienced when living with Victoria.
I run through the dark forest, hair disarray and matted with sweat. My face streaming in what seemed to be a mixture of sweat and tears. Fear paced through my body as blood, adrenaline heightening towards a dangerous dosage within my blood vessels. I could faintly hear their heavy boots, pounding behind me, the myogenic organ inside my body seemed louder, racing out of control. My body ached for rest, I had been running for hours, exhaustion threatened to fall upon me, to embrace me into the darknesss of sleep I longed for. Coming to the conclusion that I had lost them somewhere along the way when I couldn't hear their boots, I halted; briefly catching my breath, my lungs felt inflamed, a burning thirst devoured my throat. I licked my dry, rough lips, hoping to restore moisture into them. Before I could move any further, a rustle of trees regenerated my need to escape.
They can't find me now, I chanted in my head, a leaf crunched behind me and something warm, soft and smooth engulfed me, warm hands covered my lips as my initial reaction was to scream.
It's over...
I said to myself as blackness engulfed me. I woke with pain searing through me, my skin sizzling with a fire inside. I groaned in pain when my head began to throb. My mouth tasted metallic, the smells of the putrefied bodies staggered towards my nostrils. It was the sharp smell of death. My surroundings flickered, when the blur had cleared up, I had become aware I was strapped down, there was a mirror above me. I was cold, carved in strange symbols I still couldn't decipher and naked. Something sharp penetrated my skin.
I looked up to see a strange man holding a vial containing a thick red liquid. It was my blood. The creature inside me snarled, pushing itself outside my skin, claws became of my nails, a scream erupted from my throat as my beak forced out, the wings were the most painful peeling open my skin to escape confinement, my base of my spine began to tingle before snapping to elongate, my eyes must have been closed as when they opened, the carvings on my skin which was beginning to fur had began to heal. I tried to rip at my restraints but like a bird in a cage, I couldn't escape. I couldn't use my power unless I wanted to fry myself alive.
"Tu esi labai grazi." the way my name rolled out of his mouth made me shiver with disgust. The strange man picked up a scalpal and dug it into my furred abdomen causing me to arch out, snarling in pain. He made a mutilating deep incision which made me roar in pain and angry, I weakly looked up to the mirror to see the unfamiliar carving, he dug his finger into the incision he had created, moaning in pleasure as he relished the feeling of my insides.
Screaming out loud, I woke to a dark empty room, the breeze from the open window cooled my heated body. I could still feel the pain in my abdomen where he had poked his finger around. I quickly lifted the shirt to search for the wound but found no such thing but to even further fear, the carving was fading away. I heard a creak and immediately panicked remembering Charlie. I assumed he was still asleep from the lack of sound around the house.
"Rose?" My voice sounded raw and thick with empty tears. I felt something move against me. When the hell had she entered my bed? The nightmare or whatever it was made me feel paranoid. Whilst I wanted to slither out of her arms, I also felt safe.
"Mmmm." Her strong arms snaked around me, pulling me back down to rest on her chest. It was strange, waiting to hear her heartbeat but only silence hollowed out. She brought up her free hand to join mine. Sleep slowly invaded my body, paralysing me as I fell into the darkness with one thing in mind; How long would it be that I would just be able to enjoy this?
Author's Note:
You all may think that this is too quick, that Bella has attached herself to someone she doesn't even know. It's quite difficult knowing that your mate is there but you can't do anything about it. Maybe she just wants to see how it goes before everything changes. Edward could be acting as an overprotective brother or just someone who really has 'beef' with Bella.
So what do you think about the stranger from the dream? Could it be someone we know?
I was listening to Rammstein - Ich tu dir weh on repeat when I wrote this and running low on caffeine so I apologize in advance for mistakes. I know I missed the important conversation again but it will come soon enough. I hope you enjoyed and shoot me a review if there is something you want to know or ask or just comment on. :) Sorry about the delay, exams therefore late updates. 3 more Japanese exams to go, wish me luck. :)
Translation:
Tu esi labai grazi - Lithuanian for 'You are beautiful'
Thankies ~