Ohhhh My Pretties!
I was so excited when I saw all the people who were hyped up about this, that I wrote this immediately!
So... you wonder, what was the secret?
Well...
They tried avoiding the issue, glaring at them like the sun on a hot day, but it reared its' head again.
"Surely this is only a phase?" Didyme asked, "you were able to love Edward as we women have loved men before our mates, surely you feel some connection to him!" She was worried, for her brother was so enraptured with this forever-unattainable woman.
Isabella's eyes turned defiant, "They are very true," she said, her voice on the verge of hissing, "do not patronize me! I love freely, as any woman should, and why should I marry him when I can never return his affections? How long is it that I can evade his questions, his persistent touch? When I hunger for another, much more than I could he?"
Didyme was adamant though, if it meant her brother's happiness, "Time will change this, when you are immortal you will feel this pull-"
"And what if I do not?" she shrieked, "what if that is who I am? How I can change something that is so much a part of me now?"
"If that is true," Sulpicia replied calmly, "then you make take lovers, as unhappy women have for all of time, and Caius will have to satisfy his yearning for you somehow. You will have to watch as he suffers, as he wanes from your lack of care!" All the women cocked their heads to the side; it was rather eerie to see, suddenly, there was a light rapping at the door.
"Come it," Sulpicia said serenely, her lips pursed despite the cool tone that flowed from them. Didyme had sprung from her chair, her gaze intense as she looked at the human, Sulpicia standing behind her. The door opened, and the three brothers enter, their guard obviously gone to pursue other activities.
"What has caused this row?" Aro questioned, reaching for his wife. She pivoted, drawing herself and Didyme away from him, his face looked hurt for a moment.
The two of them jutted out their chins, "As her," Sulpicia snarled. Aro looked at Isabella questioningly.
There was a long silence, Aro looked at her questioningly, Marcus worriedly, the women's faces both pleading with her to change her mind and angry she didn't, but... Caius.
His face was pulled into a mask, but behind that Isabella knew there laid many things, longing, love, devotion, desire, hope, a multitude of emotions pleading her to love him as he did her.
She slowly blinked, as if to hide from the world for a moment, "I cannot marry you," she said slowly, his mask falling apart as agony ripped through his face, "-I -I, I'm homosexual."