Hey! Chapter 3 is finally here! I'm going to try to update every other day and I'm defnately going to finish it.
Edward
"Reunion party!!!" screamed Alice, beaming with excitement. I turned to see Bella frozen to the spot.
"P-party?" she managed to say through her teeth. Alice ignored that and nodded enthusiastically at her.
"Alice is it really necessary?" I tried to put a damper on the whirlwind that was Alice, but yet again she refused to be put down, she just bobbed her head again. If Bella wasn't holding my hand so tightly I would have pounced on the little pixie right there and then. I loved her as a sister and everything, but she could also be annoying like a sister.
"Alice? Why do we need a party? It's not as if anyone knows us" Rose piped up, oh look little miss beam of sunshine has come out to play.
I'm trying to help, so stop scoffing and try to stop her, I can see it on Bella's face she doesn't want this to happen, I wouldn't wish Alice's wrath on anybody unprepared. I heard Rosalie's thoughts inform me. I smiled gratefully at her, and quickly tried to think of something that would stop Alice, but it was useless, anything thrown at her would come spinning painfully back like a boomerang.
I gave up after ten minutes of arguing with her. I grabbed Bella's hand and led her to Carlisle's office. He had known about Bella, but only through Esme. When we walked through the door Carlisle was busy reading one of his many books, I think he's read each book about a hundred times. I unnecessarily cleared my throat to let him know that we were here- he could get locked in a book like it would disappear if he stopped reading- and he reluctantly put the book down to see what I wanted, then he noticed Bella, I looked at him with a huge grin on my face. After about half a second later I realised that Carlisle was looking at me grinning and holding a complete stranger's hand.
"Oh! Carlisle, this is Bella" I almost choked on the words. I was introducing Bella. It was only five hours ago I would have almost cried (if I could) at the word bell.
"Hello Bella, nice to meet you, this is quite the surprise." He said, shaking Bella's hand. I understood what he meant by that, and Bella did too.
"Hello, it's lovely to meet you too" Bella replied, returning the handshake with a smile.
"Actually Carlisle, Bella didn't come here for me, I just happened to meet her at school. She came here to find you. Bella needs your help" I told him, I wanted to help Bella as quickly as possible. Going to school every day when you can't stop thinking about the blood running through the students' veins couldn't be easy.
"Why of course, what is it Bella? I'd be glad to help"
"Well... I want...I want to stop drinking human blood, I don't want to hurt people anymore"
Carlisle's face lit up. He was always delighted when someone wanted to become "vegetarian". Bella bit her lip, waiting for an answer, but Carlisle just sat there smiling at her.
"I think that means of course he'll help you" I mumbled. Carlisle quickly snapped out of it.
"Of course, of course I'll help. When do you want to get started?" he replied, his eyes flickering towards our interlocked hands. Bella looked up at me.
Give me tonight to be with you. I've been waiting for one hundred and fifty years for you to come back to me. I'm not prepared to let you go away from me yet.
I looked down at her and nodded back, a grin spreading across my face. I felt the exact same way.
"Carlisle, can we start tomorrow? I'm sure Bella won't hurt anyone tonight, it's just--"
"I understand"
Bella
We went back downstairs after talking to Carlisle. Alice tackled us again with party plans and themes. It was no use trying to argue with her, so we decided to just go along with her plans. The party was going to be the day after tomorrow and she was going to invite "a few friends" but she wouldn't explain any further.
"Alice if you let us go now we will let you plan a party. A very small, lightly decorated party" Edward warned her, squeezing my hand at the same time, he knew I hated attention. It startled me when a pair of arms flew around both mine and Edwards necks, then a shrill of delight erupted in my ears. She then took a few steps back and tilted her head to the side slightly. I wondered what she was doing, but before I could ask Edward was pulling me to the door and into his garage. He wrapped his arms around my waist and pressed his lips against mine. It was only when a cough came from the door of the garage that I unwillingly stopped our embrace. I looked at the intruder, who was a huge, he looked like he did body building. Edward, knowing that I didn't know his name, introduced us.
"Bella this is Emmett" He said, a wide spread grin on his face.
"Hey, looks like your already fitting in really well" Emmett teased with a raised eyebrow. Edwards grin turned to a grimace and a snarl broke through his teeth. I would have blushed if I could.
"Calm down Ed I'm just kidding around! It's great to meet you Bella" he said, shaking my hand.
"What are you doing in here anyway?" Edward snapped, still not forgiving Emmett for his previous jibe, it wasn't that bad to me.
"I came to tell you that Alice had a vision. It's going to be sunny all day tomorrow, so Carlisle says it would be the perfect opportunity for Bella to get accustomed to our... diet.... and I wanted to see the look on your face when I interrupted your gooey time with your girlfriend" he sniggered. Edward growled and grabbed Emmett's shirt, chucking him out of the door. I spent the rest of the night at the Cullens' house. It was only before sunrise I pried myself away from Edward for twenty minutes to go to my house to go and change, Alice said she would give me some of her clothes, but I felt more comfortable in my own.
When I returned, Edward, Emmett, Alice, and Carlisle were waiting for me near the edge of the trees surrounding the house. Edward immediately joined me and put his arm around my waist, we continued walking towards the others.
"Are you ready?" Carlisle asked, it confused me, what were we doing? I nodded. I knew they were helping me, and I was definitely ready for that.
"We are going to start off by telling you what to do, and how to control your thirst. Then we are going to put it into practice" Edward told me. Butterflies suddenly rose in my stomach. What would happen if I couldn't control my thirst without holding my breath? What if yesterday was just a fluke?
"Don't worry love, nothing is going to happen" Edward replied to my thoughts. His velvet smooth voice soothed me, I smiled at him.
"Okay dudes, dudettes, let's get this party started!" I grimaced at Emmett's words. A "party" wasn't the word for what these kind, generous vampires were about to help me with. Alice's cell phone rang, the ringtone only played for half a second as Alice flipped the phone up to see the caller.
"Speaking of parties" her tinkling voice rang like bells. She smiled at me and went off to answer the phone.
"Okay, so Bella, you want to stop drinking human blood, correct?"
"Correct"
"And you don't know how to control your thirst, correct?"
"Cor—"
"Incorrect" Edward's voice interrupted "she managed to go a whole day at school without biting anyone, not one single person"
Carlisle looked at me, shocked. "How? I mean, that's very good, but even I found it difficult to be around human blood to start with"
"Well, it was just a fluke, I held my breath almost all day, I only had to breath to talk, and I found Edward at lunch, so that gave me something to concentrate on"
"Are you thirsty now?" Emmett asked me and now I thought about it, the burning in my throat had increased quite a bit. His face was no longer mocking and teasing, but serious and concerned.
"A little, yeah"
"Right well, as soon as Alice has finished on her cell, we'll go hunting. We're meeting Rosalie, Jasper and Esme in a clearing; they didn't want to put you under too much pressure"
After a minute, Alice came back, and we made our way to the clearing where the others would be waiting for us. When we reached our destination, all of my nervousness and stress melted away as a feeling of calm and cool washed over me. I knew it was Jasper, and I smiled at him gratefully, I didn't feel entirely comfortable with somebody being able to manipulate my emotions, but I hated the nerves that had taken over me before entering the clearing.
"Okay, so Bella, we'll start by introducing you to our way of survival on animals" Esme told me. It shocked me at first that they could survive like this, but it would work for me if it worked for Edward.
Edward hand moved from holding my hand, to being around my shoulders. He squeezed one in encouragement. I looked up and smiled at him, letting him know there was nothing to worry about. Alice grabbed my hand and led me into the trees, Edwards arm still around my shoulders. Once we had gotten into some deep wood, Emmett and Rosalie, Alice and Jasper, and Esme all went off in their groups wishing me luck as they went their separate ways. Carlisle and Edward stayed behind.
"Okay Bella. Can you smell any deer or cougars?" Carlisle asked me. I closed my eyes and concentrated.
"Deer herd, two hundred yards" the smell wasn't very appetising, but it was better than drinking from humans' blood.
"Very good, now, shall we?"
We got to the herd in a matter of seconds. Carlisle took the first deer to demonstrate, going for the largest male. Edward went next, going for the second largest male. Then it was time for me to go, I wasn't used to actually hunting, I normally just seduced humans to a hotel room, then the rest was my instincts. I jumped and gracefully landed next to the largest female deer. I grabbed it, and bit into its soft, warm, neck, for a few minutes I wasn't so thirsty, but as the flow of the balmy liquid stopped, I wanted more, I wasn't completely satisfied, but it would do. This time Carlisle went to find Esme, it was Edward's turn to find our food this time. His eyes lit up and he looked at me, a huge grin on his face.
"Two mountain lions, just a couple of miles away, up there" he informed me, pointing to the mountain up ahead just out of the forest. We set off and within a few minutes we were up on the mountain stalking the two mountain lions.
"May I?" I asked teasingly.
"Of course" he held out is hand, signalling for me to go ahead. I leaped and landed next to the smaller of the two and sank my teeth yet again into the hollow of the animal's neck. I felt more content that time, the lion tasted more inviting than the deer, and it put up more a challenge than the limp doe. I decided that the mountain lion was my favourite.
"How was that?" Edward asked me, a grin on his face. I smiled back and took his hand in mine.
"Better than the deer, I think I prefer lion"
"It's my favourite too"
Just then, we could hear a roar from near the river about three miles away. It was Emmett and Rosalie wrestling a giant grizzly bear to the floor.
"I'm ready to go back now if you are, unless you want more" I asked Edward after laughing.
"I think we can meet Carlisle at the clearing if you're ready"
Edward called Carlisle on his cell and within five minutes everyone had met up in the clearing and was making their way back to the house.
Okay so the reunion party is next chapter I promise. I decided that it would be best to get her diet difficulties sorted first. Review! -does puppy eyes-
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