Chapter 5

Awkward

Gliding effortlessly across the fields, we arrived swiftly at the Cullen's residence; I cringed at the remembrance of the atrocious scent surrounding the exterior of the house, it was positively disgusting – though I was a little nervous when spotting in the distance, in the surrounding woods, were two monstrous creatures... prowling close like two monster within a fairytale.

Inside the three story house very little movement could be heard; mainly the sound of little feet and two heartbeats pacing at a fast rhythmic rate. I swallowed heavily as my throat began to twitch, the tip of my tongue soothed out my lips, as I tried to control my breathing when the scent of pulsating blood carried into my lungs; but at all time my nervous gaze constantly returned to the giant wolves hovering on the edge of the forest.

Carlisle held his arm in front of me. "Alice, tell Jacob to take Renesmee home."

My eyes immediately flickered to Alice, whom I watched entertainingly, as she danced up the stairs in such grace and lightness; with her husband, Jasper, travelling instantaneously behind her, I heard Alice's voice ring and then out jumped a young man with cropped black hair and russet toned skin, and a somewhat small child clinging around his neck.

Inhaling deeply, my eyes opened wide, "Renesmee." I whispered to myself as I gazed at the angel.

Though I was unable to see her face as she buried it at the base of the young man's neck; and I noticed that she had grown since out last meeting, though not by much – she was now the size of a five-year-old child. Alec and Jane responded, naturally, with faint growls and hisses lashing through their teeth; I sensed that they must have tried using their gifts, but when nothing happened I knew that the boy was being protected by Bella's remarkable mental shield.

"Be still… be still, dear ones." Raising my hand to the twins, they automatically obeyed.

After the young man was out of our sight, my gaze swept through the forest – and the two large wolves had disappeared. We entered the house, and still it had the unhygienic smell of wet-dog; but I managed to cope as I purposely sort out the scent of Renesmee's blood, and miraculously it managed to challenge it.

When we entered the living room and the parted couples began to regroup, Alice was sitting with Jasper standing straight at her side; standing behind the white lounge suite was the beautiful blond haired Rosalie with Emmett's arm around her hips, and near the kitchen was Carlisle's loving wife, Esme. But was only Esme who wore a mask to seem polite, I perfectly understood why – the reason for their attitude – but hopefully in time they would come to forgive me.

The young children stormed out of the house without a word, thankfully only Edward remained; I had a strong feeling that Bella was going to reunite with her daughter, as it would be the only reason I could think of why she would leave him.

"Welcome back, Aro, and to your guard." Spoke Esme, sweetly. "You'll have to excuse my children, their um…"

"No, no, no, it's perfectly fine. I understand completely. I just hope they may forgive me for the despicable behaviour we displayed earlier, but they would have to understand that we were only doing what we thought was necessary at the time." I replied.

"You were only doing what you thought was right, Aro." Carlisle's words seemed slightly forgiving but not completely.

I looked around the room fascinated, other than the wet-dog smell, the house was actually quite homey; it was so light and open, I actually felt that I had been drawn into the twenty-first century.

"You have a beautiful home here, Carlisle." I commented.

"Thank you, though it's obviously not as grand as the palace back in Volterra." He replied.

"That's true. But it still has some form of elegance in its self."

"Well, my dear Esme designed most of it herself." Placing his arm over her shoulder; she then smiled graciously at her husband's remark.

"You have a fine eye for detail, Esme." I smiled.

But then at that moment I froze and the smell fresh blood washed clean over the atmosphere; a human was getting closer. The burning sensation began to spike in my throat, and my head snapped towards the back window; as I came to the glass wall and saw a police vehicle pull into the drive way.

"It seems you brought us a welcoming present." Jane's voice rang dangerously with innocence.

Edward gasped. "Oh god, it's Charlie. Carlisle you have to get them out of here, now!"

Carlisle immediately came to my side and grabbed my arm. "Aro, follow me out the back."

But twins and I hesitated as the human got out of his vehicle; I grabbed Alec's shoulder as we edged forward to the glass window.

"Aro, please come!" called Carlisle, in its plea his voice seemed so distant.

Breathing deeply, I told them, "Go now... Go!" The twins followed Carlisle, and I right behind them.

Carlisle led us to Edward's old room and we jumped out the window; soon came the brothers, Emmett and Jasper, as we headed into the forest.

"Carlisle! Alice said she saw a vision of Charlie being killed by them." Said Jasper.

As we ran further away; the urge to go back only grew, knowing that Alice saw a vision of the human sustaining us.

"There's nothing we can do about that now, Jasper. We just have to get them away from here!" Replied Carlisle.