A/N: okay so here is the next one. I think it's important as you find something out I have been hinting at quite a bit, can you guess? And sorry about the French I will put up what each means as soon as I can.
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Isabella C
Look But Do Not Touch
Edward P.O.V.
It has been three weeks since Bella's birthday and I still wasn't really sure what had happened. Once Claudia had gotten of the phone Bella had pushed me away before running to her friend, wrapping her arms around just as Claudia's legs gave out, both of them falling to the floor.
They had stayed like that for at least ten minuets, every one just staring at them in confusion, before Claudia shot up, pulling Bella with her. The two exchanged a quick look before heading to the door muttering about directions. Out of no where Jacob was with them digging for his car keys and correcting there chosen rote. Before any one could ask what was going on the three of them where gone, the door clicking closed behind then.
Today was the first day I have seen Bella and to my dismay she wasn't alone. Now that Carlisle was back I didn't see the beauty that is Bella at work and it seemed like she never came home ether. I had stayed up every night waiting for her to come through those doors but she never did. Most nights I had fallen asleep on the sofa, others I had simply stayed awake hoping that that night would be the night she came back to me.
I hadn't realized till she was gone, how much her being close to me meant. For over a month now I had gotten close to her, so close that I felt I knew practically everything about her but I still couldn't take that step. I had tried on several occasions to tell her that I loved her and I wanted to be with her but I had ether backed out or something had happened.
I had planed to tell her on her birthday, after every one had gone. I was going to sit her down on the sofa, the lights dimmed down and give her, her birthday present whilst explaining what it meant and then I was going to lean into her and whisper that I loved her before kissing her sweetly on the lips. Naturally she would declare her love to me and we would shear a passionate kiss before spending the rest of our lives together.
Nothing ever goes how I want it to.
Now she was curled up on our sofa in the arms of another man. Well not really in his arms more like leaning against him but it's the same thing. It was another man. You couldn't deny that he was beautiful, I mean male model, sex god, pin up good looking. But I suppose its only right, after all his twin looked like she was the next Victoria Secrets model.
Yes Claudia and Louie where twins, both with electric blue eyes and milk chocolate colored hair. There skin was pail and both where quite tall and elegant. After they had left Jasper had told me that he thought she looked like she had stepped out of Hollywood's latest vampire flick and he was right. Both of them didn't look real. To inhuman to be real.
"Couldn't sleep?"
My head shot up and to the side, my eyes darting from Bella to the girl now standing next to me. Claudia. At first her thick English accent had startled me but like every one it seemed right now. She was leaning against the kitchen counter top, her arms folded, resting on the top, her eyes staring intensely into mine. Slowly she turned her head toward the sofa and I followed.
"Look but don't touch. Is that it?"
Her question caught me of guard and I spun around to look at her. She didn't move. She didn't even register that I had moved let alone not under what she was on about.
"You know we where her family before you Cullen's showed up. It's only brotherly love she has for him and visor verse. There is nothing in your way"
She stressed the you but her tone was light and playful, she didn't mean anything by it. Then it hit. She knew. Oh god I had only met her twice and she knew. Franticly I stuttered I could feel the blush creeping up my neck.
"I...I'm not…I mean we…What do you mean there's nothing in my way?"
I finally managed to get a question out and I couldn't hide the confusion in my voice. Once gain she never looked up, her eyes stuck on her brother, watching his every move just like a mother watching her new born childe.
"I mean there is nothing stopping you from going over there now and declaring your love"
"But Jacob"
It was all I could get out, all that my brain would let me say. Jacob was in my way. It was obvious that there was something there, the same with her and my father. There was something there but I couldn't quite place it.
"Oh trust me Jacob isn't a problem"
My eyes snapped back to her. I hadn't even realized I had turned my head to look at Bella's sleeping form. I couldn't get my mined around what she was saying. My eyes where wide a look of shock and confusion on my face. Slowly she turned her head toward me, strands of her hair falling in front of her eyes, she looked so innocent.
She smiled sweetly at me, razing a delicate eyebrow, her blue eyes sparkling in knowing. I could practically hear the click as everything fell into place.
"You and Jake…"
Her musical laughter filled the air and Louie groaned in his sleep. Both of our eyes darted over to him as he moved in his sleep, reacting to the sound of his sister, pulling Bella tighter against him and for once I wasn't angry.
"How long?"
It was the only thing I could think off to ask. How long had her and Jacob been together and why had Bella never said anything? Did she want me to think she was taken? I felt my heart crack at the thought.
"A few months before I came back we ran into each other when I came to see Louie. After that we spent a lot of time getting to know each other again and when I turned up the day before Bella's birthday we kinder just fell into it"
Anger flooded through me. How could that stupid, ungrateful, prat do this to Bella? My fists where clenched, my teeth grinding into each other. Sensing my anger Claudia spoke up, her voice still in the same tone, all business.
"Bella knows. They came to an understanding that it just wasn't meant to be. Seems they both had other people in mind"
I had started to relax at her words but the last bit had me tense once again. Bella had some one else in mind. My mind raced as all sorts of people ran through my head and then I settled on one person in particular.
"Carlisle"
I hadn't even noticed I had said it till she started to laugh. My eyes widened in horror. I hadn't told any one about my suspicions, not even Jasper, yet hear I had just blurted it out. Both Bella and Louie moved this time and Claudia instantly went silent her voice nothing but a whisper now. Her eyes roaming over me as she spoke.
"Carlisle is like a dad to that girl. She's got her eyes set on a young attractive, bronze haired god"
My eyes widened in realization. She meant me. My heart was racing, a gigantic smile on my lips. Claudia laughed again but not as loud this time, shaking her head slightly. Her eyes where back on her brother again and curiosity to know more pushed my joy aside momentarily.
"What happened to him?"
Her head snapped back to me her eyes wide before she smiled at me in understanding. No one had taken the time to explain to me why Louie had been in a coma for the past seven years. All I knew was that there had been some for of accident. Her eyes turned back to her brother, her voice soft and tinted with sadness.
"Mine and Bella's family had all been over to England for Louie's piano recital. We where all supposed to come back at the same time but they had over booked and there where only two available seats and as me and Bella had to be back for school we took that flight and the rest would come back when they could. Mum, dad and Louie where on the plain that crashed just out side of Seattle seven years ago. My parents never made it but Louie did, just not awake"
Her voice trailed of. She looked so sad yet relived at the same time. She lost almost everything that night and the one thing she had got to keep was practically dead any way.
"Claud?"
Louie's voice cut through the silence that had settled between us. His voice was panicked and full of horror. As soon as he had opened his mouth Claudia was gone, pushing herself away from the counter and running to her brother's side.
"Hay I'm right here love"
Her voice was smooth and comforting, as she caressed his face. Just like a mother soothing a childe. Instantly Louie relaxed pulling his sister against his chest, she wrapped her arms around him lovingly as his body started to shake with his sobs.
I felt so wrong watching this display of affection yet I couldn't look away, transfixed on the show in front of me. My mind instantly switched to Bella. If something ever happened to me would she have that sad distant look on her face like Claudia did? The heart braking nothingness that had consumed her once she had found out that her brother was awake.
At least now I had a chance to make her feel that way about me and I knew exactly how to.
Jasper's P.O.V.
As much as I loved Alice I really didn't like being the guy she took shopping with her friends, just so she could see a guy's reaction. But today I wasn't alone. Louie sat next to me, fidgeting nervously as he kept glancing in the direction of the changing rooms.
Our annual Halloween party was only a few days away and the girls still hadn't managed to get outfits. So here I was, stuck with Alice, Bella, Rosalie and Claudia as they all frantically tried to find a suitable outfit.
This year's party was a fancy dress masked ball and like always Esme had invited too many people but it had been Carlisle that insisted that Claudia and her twin joined us, after all we couldn't leave them alone on such a joyous holiday, as Carlisle had put it. It's not like I didn't want her there, and if it got Bella there, that was even better.
"Hay Jasper what about this one?"
Alice's sweet voice cut through my thought and my head snapped up. I couldn't suppress the groan that escaped between my lips. This woman was too seductive for her own good. I knew we were in the middle of a shop but the urge to take her there and then was so strong that it was only the fact that I could feel Louie fidgeting next to me that I resisted. I knew my eyes where probably wide and my mouth hanging open but hell how could I not have that reaction to…that!
"I take it you like it then"
Like it, hell I loved it. My hungry eyes roamed over her PVC clad body. She had managed to squeeze into a skin tight cat suit, to tight to ware anything underneath. Her six inch PVC heals giving her that extra high she needed to finally see eye to eye with me. The cat suits neck was pulled down in a V the tip just stopping above her belly button. A black velvet looking tale was attached to the back of the costume and Alice swung it around, almost beckoning me to her.
My eye darted up past her exposed chest, I really didn't need a hard on if we where going to spend the next few hours here. A black mask covered the top half of her face and two black cat's ears that seemed to be pined in her hair.
She was breath takingly beautiful and stunningly sexy. I almost wanted to tell her to go back and pick something less revealing in fear that the guests wouldn't stop staring at her but then I wanted her to like that so they knew that I was marrying the sexy little vixen.
"Alice you look stun…"
"Oh Rose"
My words where cut of as Alice squealed, turning in the direction of the changing rooms. Rosalie appeared seconds later and I had to turn away. No one and I mean NO ONE would want to see there sister like that.
Wonder Women. Why couldn't she have picked a nun or something that involved a lot more fabric? Her outfit was practically identical to that of Lynda Carter's. From the white star covered shorts to the red and gold, strapless bodice, her only addition being the gold and red mask that she had picked to hide the top of her face.
"Rosalie please put on something that involves more"
I was pleading with her. Begging that she save me the misery of having to watch men other than my best friend ogle my sister. How could she expect me to willingly let her out in that?
"NON!"
Before I could really comprehend what was going on, Louie was up out of his seat, and heading toward the girls. My head snapped up in time to see him take his sisters hands attempting to pull her back toward the changing rooms shaking his head, muttering no again and again under his breath.
"Non, non, non"
French. I should have guessed. My eyes took in all of her, from the knee high black socks, with red bows on the front to the black edged red skirt that barely covered her ass. Two red straps help the red and white bodice in place, the black top underneath just covering his breasts. She didn't have a mask but a white ruffle around her neck and a black hat that sat slight of on her head.
"Svp. Plus. Vous devez mettre plus dessus"
Louie pleaded with his sister, his eyes full of worry and determination. It seems he felt the same way I did about her as I did Rose.
"C'est jute une robe Louie. Aucun mal n'est jamais venu de porter une robe"
As if answering her question, three men that were walking past the store taped on the window whistling at the girls. Before I could even act Louie pulled his sister behind him, sneering at the men out side.
"Porcs foutus"
Louie's crude remark had Claudia laugh as he pushed her back toward the changing rooms, passing Bella on there way.
My eyes widened as I took in the vision that stood before me. People say pretty in pink. I say beautiful in blue. Edward would never be able to resist. Finally the two of them could get there act together and I knew the perfect way how.
