The next day went-like no one would have expected it to. Bella stayed in my room all day. She came out for food and went back upstairs. She wouldn't talk to anyone and if you tried to talk to her she would not say anything, she would not even look at me. I feel like the worse boyfriend ever. I can not get her to do anything. Alice tried to cheer Bella up by asking her to go shopping with her and Rosalie. When Alice asked her, Bella did not acknowledge Alice when she asked, she just kept staring at the floor as she sat on the edge of the bed. Tonight we decided to try something else.
'Hey Bells?" Emmet asks. Bella froze, ran to a corner, and balled herself in a ball, wrapping her arms around her legs and hiding her face in her knees. Emmet, Jasper and I looked at each other in confusion.
"I hate seeing her like this. She has never acted this way toward us." I say too low for human ears.
"Yeah, this is terrible." Emmet says sounding serious. I walk to Bella holding my hand out to her.
"Bella, love, you are safe, everything is alright." I say kneeled down in front of her.
"Edward, she is terrified right now. You have to do better than that." Jasper says encouraging.
"It is me, Edward. I will not harm you, I promise. Come back to me please." I say to her. I grabbed her hands to free them from her legs as her nails dug in her legs. She let got willingly and took my hand in hers. "That's it, you are safe, it is just me." I say gently. She peeks out one eye at me than jumps in my arms. We stayed that way for hours and she soon later went to sleep in my arms. I carried her to my room, placing her gently on the bed and tucked the comforter around her. I walked downstairs with my family. Alice and Rosalie were out hunting but the rest of the family was present.
"I have never seen her act this way." Emmet says softly.
"We should not have let her go back to Charlie." I say sadly.
"I just wish there is something we can do to make her feel better." Esme says.
"Does anyone of you know if her actions have anything to do with what Charlie did or the dead girl?" Carlisle asks.
"I think the majority of her actions are caused around the dead girl but I think her actions a few hours ago had to do with Charlie." I stated.
"Would you like to elaborate, son?" Carlisle asks.
"When she: does not talk, does not eat, always want to be alone. I believe all that revolves around the dead girl. The panic attacks I believe revolve around Charlie. Am I the only one who realizes that she hates being called 'Bells'?" I put out there. "The panic attacks only happen when someone calls her 'Bells'." I state.
"That makes perfect since." Carlisle says.
"But why does she hate being called that?" Emmet asks me directly. I shrug.
"I don't know. I'm not her, it's just something I realized." I say kind of annoyed. Everyone sat in silence after that. I blocked out all thoughts around me and focused myself on hearing Bella's breathing upstairs, it sooths me. If she is ever changed into a vampire I will seriously miss her breathing and heartbeat but if it means we can be together for all eternity, I will have to live without it. I love how she fits perfectly into my family. Rose has come to love the girl as well and that means a lot to me. Rose and I have not been very close but it means a lot to me that everyone in my family gets along with Bella. I love the way she interacted with everyone, when she laughed or played games with Emmet but now she is a train wreck. It kills me that I can't do anything to help her. I will do and be anything for her but I feel helpless in this situation. At that moment Alice and Rose came running through the door. Jasper was by Alice's side in an instant, same for Emmet with Rosalie.
"What happened, darling?" Jasper asked worried but still calm.
"There is another vampire…on our property." Rose said. Emmet and I looked at the girls like they were crazy. It's just vampires. Carlisle gave Esme a curious look as well, wondering why their daughters are acting this way toward vampires.
"Did something go wrong, girls?" Esme asked in a motherly and confused tone.
"No, it's just that when we came across the scent we tried to follow the scent to see who it is. As we kept running we were stopped in Canada." Alice says.
"So, what is the problem?" Emmet asks confused like everyone else. Alice sighed annoyingly.
"The scent, it disappeared." Rose yells. "It was there then it was gone."
"We looked above us to see if the person was in a tree above us but we didn't see anyone." Alice says confused.
"Alice and I went into the tree where the vampire's scent was strongest, it was like he was there but we couldn't see him." Rose says frustrated. Carlisle and Esme shared a worried look between them two as everyone else stared in shock.
"Girls are you sure?" Carlisle asks calmly.
"Yes, we're positive." Alice says.
"You want to go back out and look for him?" Jasper finally asks after a few moments of silence. Everyone looks at Alice and Rosalie.
"What's the point? There is no way we will be able to find him. Like we said, his scent disappeared." Rosalie says clearly annoyed that the person got away.
"If we all go I am sure we will be able to find the vampire." Alice says.
"Someone has to stay here with Bella just in case she wakes up." I say.
"I will stay. You guys go ahead." Carlisle offers.
"Are you sure sweetie?" Esme asks him. He nods and kisses her forehead.
"Go ahead." He says. I want to stay here with Bella but I should go so I could keep the vampire away from her. I am not sure if he is vegetarian or not. We leave out the house with Alice and Rose leading the way of where they found the vampire's scent. Once we caught his scent we took off full speed in the direction it is going. We ran for 30 minutes till the scent start fading away.
"I am confused.' Esme says. "There isn't anything right here. The scent disappears but where did he go?" Esme asks confused.
"Why did I just get a feeling that we are being ambushed?" Alice asks.
"Well did you see anything?" Rose asked her. Alice shook her head. We all stood there looking around the dark forest, the darkness doesn't bother our eye sight. We looked around us and above us and found nothing. I realized when I looked up I heard something move in the tree above us. I look at my family wondering if they heard it but they were still looking around so I don't think they heard it. I jump on the top of the tree and the scent is extremely strong but I do not see anything here. Jasper jumps on top of the tree, sensing confusion from me. What the heck, Jasper thought.
"You smell it too?" I asked him. He nod.
"For the first time in my life as a vampire, I am actually frightened." He says as we jump off the tree. Esme and Emmet goes on top of the tree when Jasper and I get down. Esme and Emmet froze as soon as they smelt how strong the scent is.
"Kids, let's go." Emse says immediately. The six of us take of running the fastest we have ever ran. When we reached the creek by the house Carlisle was running toward us.
"What is wrong, beloved?" He asks concerned. Esme still being in shock, ignores him and walks the rest of the way to the house.
When we got inside I walk to my room to check on Bella and find her soundlessly sleeping. I kissed her forehead and told her I loved her. As I was leaving the room Bella says "I love you more, Edward." I froze staring at her. I have never heard her say that. We have been in a relationship for a few months and I have loved her dearly since the day I laid eyes on her. I was never sure that she felt the same way. I smiled as I walked downstairs. Everyone besides Carlisle was looking frightened. The smile on my face went away as I sat on the couch next to Emmet.
"Can someone please tell me what happened, you are starting to freak me out." Carlisle says honestly. If this wasn't a serious and frightening situation we would all be laughing. No one said anything. "Did you find the vampire?" He asked. Again no one said anything. "Was it not a vampire?" He asked trying to get information out of us. He sighs, leaning back in the chair and threw his arm around Emse's shoulder. If it was possible for vampires to cry, Emse would be in tears from being scared.
How is this possible? I would never admit it but I am actually scared right now. Of course Jasper would know but I am not about to say it to anyone else. There is no way that that just happened.
"Come one, this is getting crazy. Will someone please tell me what happened out there?" Carlisle says calm but you can hear the worry in the back of his voice.
"How was that even possible?" Jasper says clearly confused and frightened.
"I am trying to figure out the same thing." I reply to him.
"What happened, beloved?" Carlisle asks Esme.
"She was there but she wasn't there." Esme says looking at the floor and shaking her head in disbelief.
"Who?" He asks.
"The vampire. We told you he was there, than he disappeared." Alice says.
"From the smell of the vampire, I think it is a she." Esme says to Alice.
"Whatever it is, it scared the shit out of me!" Emmet says.
"Emmet, language please but if I was to be honest, it scared me as well." Esme says calmly as she laid her head on Carlisle's shoulder.
"How is it there at one moment than it's gone?" I say shaking my head in confusion.
"And if it ran off, where is the scent that follows it?" Jasper asks.
"Okay. Let me get this straight. You followed the scent, the scent stopped but you didn't see anyone there. Correct?" Carlisle said. Everyone nod slowly. "So, where is the vampire?" No one said anything as we were still in shock and frightened about the whole situation. "Alice ,do you think you can try to keep your visions on the place where you last smelled her scent? That way we will be able to see if she stops hiding." Carlisle says after a few moments of thinking.
"That's not a bad idea." Esme says staring in space.
"I will try." Alice almost whispers.
"Everything will be alright, you guys have nothing to worry about." Carlisle says gently and compassionate.
"You are only saying that because you were not there." I reply back.
"If you were there you would be acting the same way." Rosalie said to him.
"Like we said, she is there but she isn't there." Alice says.
"What do you mean?" Carlisle asks.
"She was standing right in front of us but it was like we were blind and couldn't see her." I say. Carlisle sat back in his seat as he tapped his chin, trying to figure out an explanation of what could have happened.
"How is that possible? We have amazing eye sight." He says. "But however, you didn't see this person." Carlisle's statement almost came out as a question. "Do you mind if one of you go with me so I can do a little bit of research to figure out what happened?" He asks us all directly. I look to the wall as the rest of my sibling look around them, like they did not hear his question.
"Let me go check on Bella." Esme says as she gets up from the chair and walk upstairs. Standing at the top of the stairs was an angry Bella with her arms folded around her chest. How did we not hear her coming? Bella walks down the stairs as Esme stands by Carlisle waiting for what is to come. Once Bella hit the landing her face went back to normal and a smile appeared on her face as her and I locked eyes with one another.
"So, vampires huh? That's pretty cool." She says looking at all of us as she stood in front of the stairs. Rosalie and my mouth feel open. Did she really just say being a vampire is cool?
"Bella, why don't you come in and sit down?" Carlisle asks politely. She walked over toward me and sat beside me. I put my arm around her shoulder and she snuggled into my embrace. I smiled knowing I have my Bella back.
"I think it's kind of cool that you guys are vampires. I was almost killed by one a few years ago but he had red eyes, so it made me kind of confused when I realized you guys have yellowish/orange eyes." Bella says like this is a casual conversation. My family and I looked at each other with the same confusion. "I'm guessing you are wearing contacts so no one will be able to realize what you really are and don't worry, you secret is safe with me." She says again casual. "Just to put something out there, since you act like they are adopted, maybe everyone should have different color contacts because people would become suspicious that a whole family of adopted children have the same eye color." Everyone laughed at her.
"Love, we drink off the blood of animals instead of humans. That is why we have gold eyes." I tell her. "We don't like the idea of putting humans in danger."
"I like that." She says sympathetically.
"You aren't afraid?" I ask. She looks at me as if I just asked a stupid question.
"Why should I be? You aren't dangerous and I will never judge you for what you are. You are amazingly sweet and caring people. I wouldn't care if you were vampire or not. I have lived with all of you twice already and I have never been in danger." She says. Esme smiles at her.
"We are touched that you feel that way." Carlisle says. "Bella?" He asks. I shake my head at him, informing that he shouldn't ask right now. He sighs but continues. "Are you feeling better?" He asks hesitantly. Bella froze. I have never seen a human so still before. She shakes her head a few times.
"Yes, thank you Carlisle. I am better." She replies.
"If you ever want to talk about it, we are all here for you." He says fatherly. She gives him a weak smile.
"Thank you." She says. Everyone sat in silence and I held on to Bella. I wish I could read her mind. I want to know what she is thinking. Then something hit me. Should we tell Bella about the vampire we were looking for in the forest?
"So did you guys find the girl?" Bella asks. We all look at her in shock and confusion.
"What girl?" I ask completely confused.
"You were talking about a girl that you saw in the woods." She replies. Great she hears that part but she doesn't hear the part about us not seeing the girl.
"No, she got away." Esme replies lightly.
"Is she one of your kind?" Bella ask lightly.
"Yes." Carlisle says.
"Oh." Bella replies staring in space for a few moments. My family and I exchanged questioning looks.
"Do you know this person?" Carlisle asks Bella directly.
"I don't think so. I don't know many vampires. I know you guys and the one that almost killed me but that is it." She says.
"Why did he leave you? I'm not saying he should have drunk from you but vampires never leave without finishing their meal." Jasper say and I growl at him. Bella looks in to space. Listening to Jasper's thoughts, Bella just became upset again.
"Someone helped get him away from me." She whispers.
"Who?" Carlisle asks genuinely. She continued to stare in space. After minutes and minutes of waiting for an answer, she finally speaks.
"It doesn't matter. She's dead now."
"Is this the same young lady you were crying about, dear?" Esme asks sympathetically. Bella nods holding back tears. Esme wraps a loving arm around her, telling her everything will be okay. "I lost someone very dear to me as well. Many years ago I lost my son." Esme says as Bella begins to cry. "It's okay." She says rocking Bella.
Later that day, Alice and Rosalie took Bella shopping to cheer her up. I tried playing games with my brothers to let time pass but after half an hour I became bored and anxious for my Bella. Later after I quit playing Jasper did too. We decided to go hunting instead. Emmet tagged along. We caught a few deer. Jasper decided we should go a little farther out since the girls will be gone all day we can catch something real to eat. We found a few lions, bears, antelopes, gorillas, and tigers.
"Do you smell that?" Emmet asked me. I paused looking for the scent that Emmet is talking about. I search through his thoughts and realize he smells the scent of the girl vampire we were looking for last night. Jasper finishes his meal and we head toward the direction the scent is going. As we continued to run, the scent changed and is overpowered by pine. We stop in our track, looking around.
"I am becoming pissed off. I am not even scared anymore, just pissed." Emmet said annoyed. Jasper and I looked at each other knowing he was lying. He is pissed off but he is still scared. I never understood why Emmet says things like that when he knows he has an empath and telepath as a brother. Jasper sighed and we decided to go back home. Once we were home we told Esme and Carlisle what happened. Esme and Carlisle shared a look between one another.
"Your mother and I have been talking and we do not think this girl is one of our kind." Carlisle says. My brothers and I sat there in shock for many minutes.
"Are you sure?" Emmet asks.
"Yes, we are almost positive." Carlisle says.
"Which means you aren't positive?" Emmet asks.
"We need to think a little more, yes, but I believe this girl is not one of our kind." Carlisle says.
"How, she smells like a vampire?" Jasper says.
"Your father and I think it is a disguise. We think she is covering up her true identity." Esme says.
"What do you think her real identity is? And how is she covering up her real scent?" I ask. Carlisle sighs.
"We aren't sure, yet." He answers. My brothers and I looked at each other in confusion. As Jasper was about to speak, the girls walked through the door, laughing with one another. Bella dropped the few bags she held in her hand and jumped into my arms. I kissed her forehead, telling her how much I have missed her.
"I missed you too." She replies. Jasper spun Alice around, making contact with her lips. Emmet and Rose ran out the house toward the forest. "Hey, what's wrong?" Bella ask.
"We will talk about it later. Why don't you tell me about your day?" I suggest.
"It was actually fun. I want to show you what I got." She says as she pulls on my arm. She picks up the bags and pulls me upstairs. "I want to try everything on for you. Go sit down." She says pushing me to the bed.
I sat on the bed eagerly. She walked into the bathroom, talking to me about her day as she changed. She walked out in dark washed skinny jeans, brown booties, gray flow tank top, hair lying by her shoulder, and a few necklaces and bracelets. I smiled at her and she smiled back. I continued to stare at her body. The way the jeans lay on her is perfect. She smiles, pleased that I like the outfit and returns back to the bathroom to change for the next outfit. She talked more about her day as she put on the next pair of clothing. When she was dressed she came out in a brown skirt that contained ruffles and a black elastic band around the top of the skirt. She wore a back tank top with a brown jacket that stopped right under her breast, with black stitching and topped it off with brown sandals. She wore brown bracelets and necklace and has on brown feather earrings. Her legs look fantastic! She smiled at my facial expression and waltz back into the bathroom. As she changes she tells me how Rose and Alice were complaining about the smell of her food and she even made Alice taste it. She walked out the bathroom with a high-wasted jeaned skirt that comes to the middle of her thigh with a brown belt around her waist and a cream colored flow top. She didn't put shoes on this time.
"I like this one." I say smiling to her. She struts to me and kiss my lips gently and walks back into the bathroom. She doesn't talk as she gets ready for the next outfit. Maybe their aren't anymore, I think to myself. I lay back on the bed as Bella walks out the room and throws the bag of clothes next to the bathroom door. I sit up and see she is wearing black lace lingerie. I am completely frozen. I stare at her body, not able to say anything. She smiles at me.
"I knew you wouldn't like it. I will just go take it off." She teases. I pull her to me kissing her passionately. She straddles me as we kiss. We kiss with so much love and passion. I am over powered with the loving idea that I have my Bella back.
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