Chapter Seven: Feeding time
"I would like to try the mountain lion?" I asked timidly. Alice smiled and said "Of course, you would want to try Edwards favorite..." She then launched into a rant about how stupid Edward was and how could he push that kind of love away, and how clearly in love and obsessed we both were with each other, and again what an idiot Edward was. But Felix unlocked the cage and pulled me off my feet and tossed me into the cage with the now enraged mountain lion.
I gulped. I know how he was not a threat to me but there was still part of me that was freaking out. I was in a cage with an angry lion! "Alice! What do I do!?" Alice came over to the cage. "What do you smell Bella?" I looked at the lion and sniffed the air. That was all it took aparently. As soon as I smelled the blood, I heard his heart and could taste his blood in the air and it burned. I was on him and bit into his neck snapping his spine and draining him like a juice box. I let out a chuckle at my momentary horror. I knew what I was getting myself into, but like the pain, only experience was reality. To think something and to do something were two different things entirely.
I let the carcass drop to the floor of the cage and rose from my crouch. Looking at Alice and Jane "So, what's for desert?" Alice laughed, and Jane smiled and shook her head. "That was gross, Bella, your Cullen diet is just gross!" Alice elbowed her "Are you still thirsty Bella?" I took stock, I had drank like a gallon of blood from that lion, as a human a gallon of anything and my stomach would have ruptured, but this was different. I felt good, calmer somehow. "No.... I suppose I am fine, but what would I know?" Alice smiled and said, "You would know. If after letting the blood lust have free reign, if you needed more you would know."
We started back at a slower pace to my room. I turned to Jane as Felix and Demetri fell in behind us. "So what's next?" Jane replied "Well, nothing is going on, as a newborn you really are going to just hang back and adjust maybe in a few months when Aro feels you are in control you will start venturing out on errands with Felix, or Demetri. Normally myself or Alex would take a new member out, but since our gifts are no use controling you because of your shield, it needs to be someone physically strong enough to handle you. So back to your room, where you Alice and I will plot your wardrobe!"
Oh, no! Two fashionistas! How was I going to survive!?! As my shoulders slumped I saw Alice do her thousand mile stare, she was seeing something "Alice what is it?" She broke from her trance. "Everyone is coming for a visit, when Jasper told them all he was leaving to join me, they all decided to come see you as well." I swallowed "Everyone?" she took my hand "Yes even Edward! So now you see why we have to shop! You have to make his eyes pop!"
I then remembered what she had said earlier about us being obsessed with each other "Uh, Alice? I think you are mistaken. Edward told me he does not want me anymore....." Saying that out loud brought the pain back. Which bothered me. I guess the physical strength was all I got emotionally I still felt the pain Edward left.
"Liar, stupid self righteous liar, that is what he is! And hell hath no fury! Bella, paybacks time! Edward never stopped loving you, he loves you with everything he is, but he cornered the market on stupid, he used all the stupid in the world the day he told you he didn't want you and left you in the forest alone. And now we are not going to give him the choice, when he sees you we are going to make him give you what YOU want!"
I was stunned for a second, then it clicked, of course. He loved me, but Alice was wrong. It was me that used all the stupid that day. How did I believe he didn't love me. After all the pain he endured to be with me, the thirst he denied to be close to me, to kiss me time and time again, I was a first class idiot!
"No Alice, it was me that was the dummy! But you are right. He cannot be trusted, I am going to have to take control!" "Atta Girl!" Jane said taking my other hand. We took off running, I heard Felix and Demetri say something faint behind us, I didn't catch it, but Alice gave an evil little laugh, and shouted back to them "Later boys, later!"
"What did you mean by that Alice?" "You'll see!" Was all she said in reply as we arrived back at my room.