Disclaimer- Don't own Twilight
Claimer- Do own the plot and Artemis
APOV
I was now at the Cullen's house. Remember how hard it was for Edward to get me to go see Carlisle at the hospital. Well I got smarter. I figured out that it's not hard to trick a vampire who relies on his ability to read minds and he cant read yours. This is how it went.
Flashback:
I had just gotten up from bed. Yesterday Edward found out that I 'Loooved him' as he said I said in my sleep. So this time I decided that I wasn't going to talk in my sleep tonight. That didn't go so well.
"I love you too." Edward teased me.
"Stop it." I growled at him as I got out of bed. "Why are you here? Its Saturday."
"I want you to meet my mom."
"No."
"I want her to see your birthmark. Besides, I got a bet going with Emmett and Jasper. They say you don't have it and since I saw it I know you have it. They need proof that its real and I win." He smiled at me.
"No."
"We can always do it the hard way." He smiled evilly.
"We can always not do it." I gave him the same smile.
I ran out the door and headed for the stairs. I felt a slight wind go passed me and I knew he took the bait. He thought I was going down stairs. Nope. Since the bathroom was right next to the stairs I just kept running and closed the door.
"Not funny." Edward said from the other side of the door.
"Too funny." I laughed.
"I can break down the door." He sounded like he was smiling.
"You wont 'cuz I'm naked and Charlie would be pissed." I called back. i wasn't really naked. "Plus I know your secret."
"You wouldn't." He had no trace of a smile in his voice now.
"I would. Your just going to have to wait till the water turns cold." I turned on the shower and heard him –yes, I heard him- go down the stairs.
I then hopped out of the bathroom window that was just big enough for my to fit threw and jumped down. it wasn't that big of a fall seeing as there was a little roof thing that covered our deck. I jumped off that and ran into the forest.
I knew he would be looking for me right about now and that he was right on my heels. I did one of my-oh so fantastic falls. I was actually grateful for this one seeing as Edward totally missed me and sped to a stop crashing into and breaking a tree.
"Ha!" I laughed at him.
Then he was in front of me. I backed up and he moved forward. Soon my back was against a tree and we were in the same position as last time.
"Where did we leave off last time?" He asked.
"Ummm…" Was my-oh so great comeback.
"I remember now." He smiled and leaned into my body. He then started kissing my neck.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. I said over and over in my head.
Then he trailed kisses up my neck. He was soon at the corner of my lips.
"You ready to go now?" He whispered against my lips.
"Uh-huh." I whispered back.
He dropped me and it took awhile for me to realize what just happened. I was now in his car and I had no idea how I got there.
"No!" I shouted. "I thought that didn't work on me!" I pouted.
"I got better." He smiled.
"I hate you."
"No. You loooove me."
"Shut up and let's go."
Flashback end:
So not only did I get smarter, I got un-immune to his dazzling. That is how I got to the Cullen's house.
"Well… let's see it." Rosalie said crossing her arms.
"She doesn't believe either?" I asked.
"Nope." Edward said.
"You could have told me that in the first place. Then we wouldn't have had to go though that whole episode earlier. I would have been here yesterday."
I walked up to the Cullen's. Edward didn't give me time to change so guess what I was in. that really pretty lingerie that my mom got me. This time, it was black. At least he gave me some of his sweats for the time being.
I lifted my nightdress and pulled down the sweats a little bit to show my Scarlet Moon –as Edward told me it was called.
"Wow." Alice said.
"Don't act like you didn't know." Rosalie hissed.
"I knew, but it looks much prettier in person." She gawked at my birthmark.
"Huh? How did you know that I had it?" I asked. "Did Carlisle or Edward tell you?"
"No. I can see the future. But it's not set in stone. It changes with the decisions that people make." She smiled at me.
"Sweet." I smiled back.
"Pay up." Edward said to Emmett and Jasper.
I looked over at them to see them throwing Edward some keys.
"What did they give him?" I asked.
"Jasper won Edward S60R and he wanted it back." Alice told me.
I noticed a women looking at me. I didn't know who she was, but she was beautiful. I walked up to her.
"Hi. I'm Artemis." I smiled at her and held out my hand.
"Esme." She took my hand and smiled back at me.
"Nice to meet you."
Then a gust of wind sent shivers down my spine. Goose bumps appeared up and down my arms and I rubbed them trying to create friction.
"Shall we go inside?" Edward asked materializing next to me.
"P…p…p…please." I stuttered because of the cold.
We got inside and it was amazing. There was a staircase that lead to the second floor and it was huge. The furniture was all white and the carpet was beige. There was a grand piano in the corner.
"Who plays?" I asked.
"Edward." Esme told me.
"Really?" I asked.
"Uh-huh. He never told you?" She asked.
"Not a lot of our conversations have been really pleasant." I smiled at her.
"Oh." She smiled back.
"May I?" I asked Edward.
"Go ahead." He smiled at me.
I walked over to the piano and sat down. I let my fingers run over the keys.
"Don't laugh. I haven't played since my mom died." I took a breath and started to play. The tune was an original. I wrote it the day I came to Forks. I still wrote, I just didn't play. (it's really not but it is in the story. i do ont own this song. i dont know who does though.)
I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house, that don't bother me
I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out
I'm not afraid to cry
Every once in a while even though going on with you gone still upsets me
There are days
Every now and again I pretend I'm OK but that's not what gets me
What hurts the most, was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
Never knowing, what could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do
It's hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere I go
But I'm doing it
It's hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I'm alone
Still harder getting up, getting dressed, living with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart that I left unspoken
What hurts the most, was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
Never knowing, what could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do
I'm not afraid to cry
Every once in a while even though going on with you gone still upsets me
There are days
Every now and again I pretend I'm OK but that's not what gets me (I know this song is about getting over the one you lave walking out on you, but just pretend that its about Artemis pretending to get over her moms death… like in the song it says 'going on with you gone still upsets me there are day every now and again I pretend I'm ok but that's not what gets me' that sums up how Artemis is feeling and stuff so I thought it was a good one. If you have a better one please tell me and I will change it.)
A single tear roll down my cheek. I didn't know that the song would be that powerful to me. I wrote it, but I never heard it like that.
"Your voice is amazing." Edward said flashing to my side.
"The way you play the piano is breath taking." Esme said.
"I can also play the guitar, the drums, and the chello. I got bored so I had Angela teach me how to play the chello and my mom made me take piano lessons while I secretly took guitar and drum lessons from my ex-ex-ex-boyfriend." I smiled.
"You've had a lot of boyfriends?" Alice asked.
"Not really. They just asked me out and I said yes. I didn't really love them, but I was pressured into saying yes by my friends. I was a popular and I needed to do what I had to do to stay that way."
"Sounds like you were a bitch." Rosalie stated.
"You think Lauren and Jessica are bad, you should have seen me. I was always bubbly and enthusiastic. Everyone loved me and wanted to be me. I hated it, but I wanted to stay at the top no matter what. I took down any one who tried to take away my thrown."
"Yup… you were a total bitch." Alice agreed.
"Oh and she's not now." Rosalie huffed.
"You are officially the bitch III." I declared.
"Huh?" Everyone in the room asked.
"Lauren is the bitch I, Jessica is the bitch II, and you have just earned the right to call yourself the bitch III. You shouldn't be proud."
"Imma kick-" She was cut off before she could finish.
"Why don't I give you a tour around the house?" Edward asked gabbing my arm and pulling me out of the room.
He pulled me up some stair and into a hallway.
"That is Rose and Emmett's bedroom." He said pointing to the first door on the right. "That is Carlisle study." He pointed to the door on our left. "Esme and Carlisle's room." The second door on the right. "Alice and Jasper's." The second on the left.
"Do you guys like sleep in coffins?" I asked.
"No." He chuckled. "We don't sleep at all.
"What about blood. You said you didn't drink human blood?"
"We don't, we drink animal blood. We like to call our selves vegetarians. That is why our eyes are gold." He led me up a small flight of stairs and opened a door. "And this Is my room."
"Wow." I said. there was a lot of record and CD's every where. "You really like music don't you?" I asked.
"Yeah. Don't you?" He asked.
"Yeah."
"What's your favorite song?" He asked.
"Check yes Juliet by We the kings." I said walking over to is oddly assorted music collection.
"Never heard it."
"What!" I whipped around to look at him. "You are so music deprived. I got to get you listening to some cool songs. All you have are The Beetles and other classics. I have nothing against them but you have to come out and join the new century sometime Vampire boy." I shook my head in mock pity. "Tomorrow we have a day off so you will be with me all day listening to We the Kings, Saving Abel, Muse, Cold play, and many more. Prepare yourself, its going to be a long and hard battle."
"Yes ma'am." He saluted me.
After I was done laughing at his collection of music I went over to sit on the single couch in his room.
"What do you want to do now?" He asked me.
"You never said anything about it." I said ignoring his question.
"What?" He asked.
"When you found out that I loved you." I looked out his absurdly large window.
"…"
"You can say 'No' and get it over with. I'm not the type to beg or be stuck to a guy who has turned me down."
"I don't know." He said looking down.
"How can you not know?"
"I should say 'No'. I want to say 'Yes'. The problem is that I can hurt you. Touch in some way and accidentally break all your bones. Go to hug you and crush you. Kiss you and smash your head. You're a little lamb and I am a fearsome lion."
"What a stupid little lamb." I muttered.
"What I sick and twisted lion." He whispered.
"I think I like you selfish side. It also gives me what I want." I smiled at him.
"We can't. Not-" Before he could finish my lips found his.
"You were saying?" I asked him.
"That I love you so much." He whispered.
"Now you now what it feels like to be dazzled." I smiled against his lips.
"Uh-huh." He kissed me and I wrapped my arms around hi neck.
"I still hate you though." I said pulling away.
"I can fix that." He smiled and kissed me some more.
I didn't really hate hi, but I'm not going to tell him that.
A/N: I don't really like this chapter too much, but if the readersl like it then it stays. if you would think a change would be better then i will change the chapter,