[N/A: sorry for not uploading before, this Chapter may be weird, but I had to keep it this way. Thanks again for the reviews… **Paula]
FOUR
The house was a chaos when Alice finally informed us about her vision.
My mind was flying with confusion.
María is coming? Here, to Denali?
Why? For Jasper? But, why? Revenge, maybe?
When? Too soon, always too soon.
Peace inundated me and I looked at Jasper and mouthed "Thanks" before seeing he was looking at Alice, who looked just like she was having another vision.
Change of plans? Hopefully.
Until now, Alice had just said she had seen María coming; María was with a boy and a girl, barely older than me.
What was making Alice and all of us nervous was that we didn't know why she was coming, and it drove us mad for some hours.
When the day was ending, it was Tanya who finally couldn't stand it anymore.
"That's it! I need to get my mind out of this… María girl and her coven, I mean, what are we going to get out of this?" she sighed and got up from the couch she had been sitting for the last three ours, "Let me see, Alice? When is María coming?"
"In a month, maybe?" Alice was on the floor, next to Jasper.
"Do you see her attacking?" Tanya was all business now.
"No, I already told you! I just catch glimpses of her, she is not sure yet."
Alice was miserable, she felt like she was no use. I could tell.
"Then why are we all here like a bunch of idiots?"
"Yeah, maybe we should go… Rose, what do you think about a race to Forks? The winner has to hunt for the other" Emmett said grinning "Alice, Jazz, you can join if you want," they both murmured no's "Edward? Kate? Tanya? Irina?" everyone said no so Emmett frowned and said:
"You guys don't know how to have fun!" and left running.
"Shit! That's cheating Emmett!" Rosalie shouted before storming off laughing.
Eleazar, Carlisle, Carmen and Esme were still working.
They knew nothing about Alice's vision.
"Bella, I am bored" Tanya said.
I smiled and looked at Edward, who just shrugged.
"Okay, what do you want me to do?" I said looking at Alice who was now bouncing happily "I already know it is not going to be lovely."
"Let's play dressing up… but with my old dresses, the really old ones" she said smiling manically.
"Okay, I'm in" Kate said getting up.
"Irina?" Kate asked hopeful.
"Okay, count me in" she said smiling a bit.
It was the first time I had seen her smile and it was amazing how the smile lightened up her face.
We went to Tanya's room which was the biggest, but since the entire house was extra-large it didn't matter, it was just this room was like an apartment and not a room.
It was not what I expected, and it embarrassed me how I had jumped to conclusions even when I shouldn't have.
I had imagined a brilliant pink room — Barbie-like — full of glitter and shiny things, and I was surprised to find calm white walls, soft lavender carpet, a king size white and lavender bed, it was a very light room and it had purple tulips in a vase on a corner.
Practically it was my dream room.
"Wow" I said when I got it.
Alice was all business, already sorting through all the dressers in Tanya's big walk-in closet.
"Alice" I said.
"Yes?" she said absently touching a red, Victorian style gown with gold designs all over.
"I like it, why don't you prove it on?" I didn't say what was on my mind.
"Too red" she said passing to a white simple dress that looked like it was Egyptian.
"Alice?" I took a deep breath "What exactly happened in the ballet studio?" I said it all together and fast.
Alice gasped and the dress fell on the floor. Tanya quickly grabbed it and Kate, Irina and her got further in the closet, far from us.
"You want to know why we were late, right?"
"Yes, I mean, I wasn't expecting you to come, you know? I was ready to die, but then he bit me on the shoulder and I had a blackout and… then you were there and it is all really confusing…"
"We didn't make it because Victoria joined James and she distracted us for a minute… when we got to the ballet studio, it was too late to save you from the transformation, Edward was barely able to separate James from you so he wouldn't drain you completely and you could change… he wasn't even sure you weren't dead at first.
"I hadn't seen Victoria coming, I— saw you dying, but it didn't know why… it was… I don't know… I — I am sorry Bella, I am sorry we couldn't save you, I am sorry we failed you…"
"You didn't fail me; I tend to have accidents all the time! If there is someone to blame it is me and my clumsiness that, I have to say, disappeared with my vampire-ness," I smiled, "I always felt like I didn't belong, even with my mother I felt weird and out of place… and now? Now I feel like I belong here, with the Cullens, with all of you…"
"Can you stop with the pep-talk?" Kate interrupted us "I just found the most perfect dress of all times for Bella and let's face it, it rocks!"
I laughed and Tanya handed me the dress.
It was light blue; it looked like a wedding gown, an old wedding gown, with full skirt and a tight corset, maybe Elizabethan or some other kind of old pretty dress people used in their weddings or some party years ago.
"I won't use a dress if you don't use one" I stated.
Alice wore the Egyptian white dress; she straightened her hair and put on a thick line with the eyeliner.
"You just look perfect, Alice!" I told her.
Kate had a red tight dress that looked uncomfortable, it was short but it was just right for her.
The dress sterilized her figure, making her more beautiful than what she already was. She put red lipstick and her hair was thick with blond — almost silver — curls.
Irina had gone for a black dress with a skirt of layers and layers of black clothe. The top was made of a bright fabric that shone every time she moved, and her hair — even more pale and silvery than Kate's — was tied in a high ponytail.
Tanya, obviously wore a Cinderella-when-the-faerie-made-her-a-dress kind of dress, all bulbous and sweet and princess-like.
It made her look younger and even more like a Barbie. One thing I hadn't noticed before? Barbie stuff suited her.
She braider her hair in a complicated low bun, leaving strands of her strawberry-blond hair loose, her lips were a strong shade of pink — almost fuchsia and her long eyelashes were darker and thicker with mascara.
They had made me use my hair down with a blue tiara (the same blue as the dress), they had put make up on me!
A weird pale lipstick covered my lips and they had put heavy mascara on my eye lashes.
"You are dazzling, Bella" Tanya said.
"I wouldn't say that if you are present" I muttered.
"Bella! You are beautiful, when are you going to realize it?"
It was Irina who had said it, and it shut us all up.
"What?" she said "Kate, Tanya? You hear me talk all the time!" she said and then laughed.
"Yeah, every once in a while, and I mean every ten years!" Kate joked.
"Aw, c'mon!"
"shut up, shut up, shut up" said Alice "I am now going to show my man what I am made of, so I want you to enjoy it with me ladies!"
We laughed and went downstairs.
Edward was playing the white piano and Jasper was watching the TV on mute.
Both looked at us when we walked down the stairs.
I was behind Tanya and when Edward looked at our direction, I thought he was looking at her, until she moved and his eyes didn't even waver.
He was looking at me.
I smiled and ran to him and hugged him tight.
"You look…" he sighed "God! There are no words for you" he said sweetly on my ear.
"I think this idea sucked, shame on you Tanya!" Kate said.
I looked at her confused. Alice, who was in Jasper arms smiled playfully at her.
"Hey, sisters, we've got to control ourselves, let's go somewhere and have fun with some men" said Tanya winking at her sisters.
Irina was smiling broadly. What had changed in her? What had made her happier?
And then, just then, I knew.
Laurent. He had found a way and talked to her, made her love him.
Why hadn't I thought about it before? There was a loose end in the story, Laurent had said he would come to Denali, so he could try and change his lifestyle, but I hadn't heard of him since… I was human.
"Succubus" Kate murmured.
"The very first one" Tanya said proudly.
"Then I was the second"
"Third" Irina said.
Before they left, I went to Irina and said in her ear "Did you met Laurent?"
She just smiled and left.
[N/A: hey, i need names, one male and two female, you'll see why...]