Chapter 3: Nightmares & Secrets

"Tell me what you want to hear.
Something that were like those years.
Sick of all the insincere.
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away.
This time, don't need another perfect line.
Don't care if critics never jump in line,
I'm gonna give all my secrets away."

Secrets - One Republic

"Wake up, little Rosie." I heard Chelsea's sweet voice next to me, taking me out of my horrible nightmare. I was all wet and breathing fast like if I had been running all the way from Rome to Volterra.

She had a glass of water in her hand which she placed in my lips immediately and I cuddled in her lap, drinking from it. Almost too low for me to hear she sighed. It was not the first time this happened to me, it was almost every week now and it was always the same. I was happy with both of my mothers, Cynthia and Chelsea and Alec, Demetri, Afton, Felix and Heidi where there too. Suddenly a dark and cold mist absorbed them all and I stood there, vulnerable and alone while each of them was brutally killed by the phenomena.

Five long years had passed since I first came into the Volturi's castle. Since them lots of things had happened. It was difficult to adjust to my new life, very difficult. But since then Afton and Chelsea had become the closest thing to parents I ever had, Demetri was my role model, he was so patient and knew so much! Felix and Heidi were so funny, they always knew how to make me smile and laugh and Alec... well, he was everything to me now. He was my overprotective, funny and handsome big brother. I was finally home.

But ohh... how I hated this nightmares! At first everyone was worried about them, but now... it just became normal to them, or they talk about them when I'm not there. I started sobbing while mom tried to calm me down. It took a lot of effort, but now I was so used to call Chelsea 'mom'.

"Where's Alec?" I managed to say. Don't ask me why, but being with him always calmed me down, specially in this moments. Our relationship had changed so much since the day we met that it was unbelievable. As if he was hearing from he other side of the door he entered to the room and I ran to hug him.

"Shh, what happens Rose? The same nightmare again?" He took me and sited me on my bed. I just nodded.

"I want them to stop. Please make them stop!" I panted.

"You are safe now, don't worry."

We stood for a long time like that, occasionally chatting, for almost an hour until I calmed down and my stomach started making noises. He slowly got up and I realized mom wasn't there. When had she left?

"Want to go and have breakfast at Vittoria?"

"Yeah!" I smiled and jumped from the bed. I loved that restaurant. Alec always took me outside from the castle which he knew I enjoyed because I was not allowed to get out of the castle on my own, just in case.

There was not to many people when we got there. All girls were staring at Alec like usually. He knew I didn't liked that, so he enjoyed it more. We sat in our usual places and waited for the waitress.

"You know Rosie... in six months will be your fifteen birthday." He said.

"Yes, I know." I answered, playing with a table napkin.

"Well... Aro would like to know..." he looked at me "...what are you going to decide? I guess you will be beaten, am I right?" I sighed.

"I thought I could think about it until then."

"It would be good if you decided know what you want."

"I want to be a vampire, Alec. I don't want to die." I looked at him directly in the eyes and there was a long silence.

The waitress, dressed with a slutty version of her uniform, came next to Alec and placed her chest right next to him, so if he wanted to see her he would have to look at them before. What a hoe, seriously. He didn't look older than a fifteen years old boy and she looked over her twenties.

"What are you going to order?" She asked, her seductive tone of voice annoying for me.

"I want coffee and some biscuits." I told her, coldly.

"And you dear?"

"Nothing, thank you." he replied polite but winked at her before she left. She smiled and god, I just wanted to punch her in the face.

"What are you doing?" I tried to keep it as low as I could.

"What? Can't I play with my food?"

"No!" I spat at him, annoyed. I felt so... argh, I hated when he flirted with other girls but he just laughed at me, as usual. He found it funny. What an idiot.

"Anyways, have you thought about who you would like to transform you?"

"Not you." I stared outside of the window, annoyed. After a few minutes of silence which he gave me to calm my anger and jealousy a bit, he continued.

"I am one of the vampires with better auto-control of the whole guard. Are you sure you don't want me to do it?"

"Hmm.. fine, do it. But wait until my birthday."

"It's not like you are going to grow too much until then." he laughed. He was true, I was petite. I was about 5.1 ft when he was around 5.3 ft., and I was fifteen and he had been thirteen when he was transformed. Secretly I was wishing to wake up and that I magically had grown up a little... well... seems it wasn't so secretly as I thought.

"Very funny" sarcasm, my friends.

When the waitress brought my food she handed a little paper to Alec, but he was not interested in her anymore, I could see it in his eyes. He had already made me jealous, so she wasn't useful anymore. Anyways he took the paper, without even looking at her, and placed it on the table.

"Thank you, Giannina." he read the paper, fastly.

When she left I asked him more calmly. "Are you going to kill her?"

With almost the same calm he looked at me and replied. "It would be a waste of time."

"Oh..." I drunk from my coffee "And... em... Alec?"

"Yes Rose?"

"Could you explain to me what's happening with the Rumanians?"

He sighed. "Why do you want to know?"

"Because... I don't know, I guess I have the right to know, so..."

"Fine." He took my hand, my god, he was so cold. I would never get used to it. "Rumanians had been forming a guard for themselves lately as they found someone with a gift similar to Chelsea's that can make people to be forever loyal to the ones they want. So, they are looking for more people with gifts to add to the guard, transforming lots of humans per week and killing the ones who doesn't have a gift. They are five guards, three gifted, right now. And the number is increasing. We have to stop them or they will be..." I thought he was never going to complete that sentence "a great danger for us."

"And what does this have to do with me?"

"Well, we are trying to look for new additions too. We observed you for quite a long time and found out that you may have an important ability. But they somewhat found out about you (we think they are following us or may have an spy) and you where in great danger so we took you here."

"I see..." I looked at my hands, quite confused.

"You are not supposed to know anything Rosie, so don't say anything about it. Ok? It's going to be our secret."

"Fine, I'll keep it a secret." I tried to smile, probably much paler than usual. I felt like I was going to pass out any moment. He took my hand between his, noticing my fears.

"Don't worry Rosie, I will always protect you. No one, absolutely no one, will ever hurt you if I can stop it.", he added "And I will."