Chapter Four – Superfluous
A/N: I'm sorry, I meant to update this 2 days ago but I was at Sound Relief ( the bush fire fundraiser concert in Sydney) all Saturday and I came home to find that I couldn't access any of my uploads or upload any more pieces to replace them! So anyway, please forgive me - I mean, its not everyday you get to see one of your political front benchers dance around on stage like someone's mad old uncle...
I just double checked the copyright of twilight, and unfortunately it still all belongs to Stephenie Meyer
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EPOV
Over the course of the next month, Carlisle managed to gather enough data to make fairly accurate predictions with regards to Bella's development – even going so far as writing a complex logarithmic equation to extrapolate her future growth. I know he was worried of what would happen if her growth rate didn't slow fast enough, if she were to live out her entire life in only a few short years, but Aro seemed confident that a simple bite would fix everything.
His arrogance angered me, although Sulpicia seemed content to go along with her husband's opinion, I worried that they would blame Carlisle if things failed to go as planned.
All in all however, our presence was becoming more and more superfluous. Bella wouldn't need Carlisle's medical attentions for at least another six months. So it came as no surprise when Carlisle told us it was time to leave..
'and about time too' muttered Rose. Rosalie professed to hate Bella, claiming that the girl should never have existed. She might even have fooled the Volturi, but I - like the rest of my family – knew better. Rosalie adored Isabella, but the jealousy ate at her. Unlike Sulpicia, Rose would never condemn an innocent child to this life, - much as I hated to admit it, my sister was a good person - but still the jealousy persisted.
Esme reacted only slightly differently. Bella simply broke her heart.
That said, none of us were happy to be going. Even Emmet was wrapped around her little finger, and they'd only met once!
We didn't want to leave, but we knew we must. Much as we loved Bella, there was a great amount of trouble surrounding her. If anything happened to her, the Volturi would become an even more volatile force and if anyone ever found out about her, the rest of the vampire world might revolt. According to Carlisle, that was something we could not afford to get caught in the middle of. He'd warned us over and over to avoid getting to attached to Bella, but that was a task which even he struggled with. The girl was simply too adorable. We would do whatever we could to help her, but it was safest to avoid becoming more involved. We had to leave.
Late that night, as we left the castle, I saw a small hand peek out from one of the windows to wave. I waved back quickly, and turned away. My heart was breaking too.