I own a two pairs of silver earrings with diamonds and matching necklaces. My brother bought them for me for my Christmas present. They are sexy hot. I don't own this though and that isn't sexy hot. In fact it's kinda depressing. Gonna go slit my wrists now ...
Bella's starting primary schooooooool now!!! That would be year four to year six and Bella will be 8-11 years old. May involve violent scenes. No vampires or humans were hurt in the making of this ;)
Chapter 4 : New start
Edward's point of view:
Bella was eight in three months exactly and we'd moved house again so she could start primary school here. I pulled the boxes out of the back of my car and balanced about five in my arms. Bella got out the car and stretched.
'Where are we?' She asked and I smiled at her.
'Anchorage. It's nice here. I think you'll like the house,' I told her and she grabbed a box out the back of the car. She looked at the house in front of us. It had three stories and was brick with ivy growing over it. The porch had latticed wood around it instead of a fence or a bar and flowers were growing along that.
'I think I'll like it as well. It looks really pretty,' she said with a smile. The house was pretty big, it had five bedrooms on the first floor, all with en-suites, and three on the second floor, all with en-suites as well. Bella and I would each have a room on the top floor and everyone else would have a room on the first floor. Bella was perfectly accustomed to us not eating or sleeping and other things but she hadn't started asking questions. We'd all agreed that we wouldn't tell her about vampires until she asked and if she didn't ask we'd tell her when she got to sixteen but we'd looked after Bella for the past seven years and she would ask. The rest of our family were all taking boxes into the house, five or so at a time, and Bella walked in after them.
'Bella, seeing as it's the new house will you do me a favour and set the curtains in the lounge on fire? Please?' Emmett asked as soon as he saw Bella walking along. Bella glared at him.
'How about I set your curtains on fire, Emmett?' She retorted and Emmett's face grew worried. He knew she would do it if he gave her the chance.
'No! No, it's okay. Really,' he panicked and Rosalie laughed as she walked past him. Bella laughed and walked into the house. Only to scream and run back out. She hid behind me and everyone looked at her. A figure appeared in the doorway holding a meter long tribal mask in front of their face and we all tensed up. Then the figure dropped the mask and we all relaxed.
'Tanya!' Carlisle cried and he embraced her. Tanya was our friend from Denali but Bella had never met her before. 'Did everyone else come? Irina, Kate, Carmen and Eleazar?' He asked and Tanya shook her head.
'No. It's just me,' then she walked over to me and Bella walked to my side instead, clutching my hand in hers, no longer scared seeing as Tanya obviously wasn't a threat. Tanya crouched down in front of Bella and Bella squeezed my hand tighter. 'Hey, sweetie. I didn't mean to scare you. I was going to scare Emmett,' she said and as soon as Bella gathered she was victimising Emmett she smiled.
'Yeah, I like annoying or scaring Emmett too but it's not the easiest thing seeing as he's so big,' Bella replied and Tanya laughed.
'Haha! That's so true! I'm Tanya, who are you?' She asked and Bella dropped my hand totally.
'I'm Bella. You're hair is really pretty,' she said happily. Tanya had bouncing strawberry blonde curls that hung at shoulder length. She smiled at Bella.
'Thanks. But I think yours is prettier,' she said and Bella blushed happily. Her hair was waist length now and still in perfect soft ringlets. Everyone smiled at Bella and I grabbed her by her waist, swinging her over my shoulder.
'Come on then. Lets go inside,' I said and Bella squealed happily and beat my shoulder playfully as I carried her into the house.
Bella took an instant shine to Tanya and was disappointed when she had to leave the day before Bella started school again. I smiled as I took her upstairs at nine pm for bed. I let her get changed and when she shouted me to say that she was ready I walked in. She was curled up in her massive bed, clutching her teddy bear, the lights off, eyes half closed. I kissed her head softly and her eyes closed all the way.
'Night Edward, love you,' she whispered then yawned and rolled over.
'Night Bella, love you too,' I told her and she fell soundly asleep. I went back into my room and put my headphones on. At eleven pm a small knock came on the door and I opened it. Bella stood there with her teddy - it was old, I had bought it for her a week after we had found her and she had kept it ever since, even though Esme had had to sew various limbs back on for her several times - her eyes wide open.
'I had a nightmare. Can I sleep in your room tonight?' She asked timidly. She knew it would be okay - she slept in my room whenever she had a nightmare - but she always seemed nervous asking.
'Of course. Come on,' I said quietly and she took my hand as she walked over to my bed. She jumped under the covers and I lay down next to her. She snuggled into me and I lay next to her until she fell asleep again.
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I dropped her off at school the next day and she gave me a kiss through the open car door window.
'I'll pick you up later okay?' I said and she nodded.
'I'll wait for you at the school doors,' she said and ran off inside. I smiled briefly before driving off to school.
I couldn't focus at all, I always felt weird when I couldn't see Bella but I knew she was safe at school. I fidgeted through the entire last lesson, knowing Bella would have to wait ten minutes for me, and flew out the door as soon as the bell rang. I parked the car outside her school and looked around for Bella, she wasn't there anywhere. I kept my head straight and tried not to panic as I walked over to the lady I recognized as her form tutor.
'Excuse me, do you know where Bella Cullen is?' I asked and the lady smiled at me.
'Sorry, her father picked her up about five minutes ago,' she said with a confused little smile.
'What did he look like?' I asked. The lady looked even more confused at my rushed question.
'Ummm ... Tanned, about 5'8", dark brown hair, chocolate eyes. Bella didn't notice him until he took her away which I found slightly strange but I didn't pay any attention to it. Is there something wrong?' She asked.
'Of course not. That would be her former foster father. He takes her out sometimes because he still loves her like a daughter even though he can't look after any more,' I said, no need to involve the police. 'Did they leave in a car or did they walk?' I asked her. She looked confused by my question but answered anyway.
'They walked,' she told me. Of course. A car is easily identifiable. Number plate, make, model, colour. Walking is harder to track. Unless you're a vampire. I turned away from her and quickly picked up Bella's scent along with a man's. I followed it onto the main road as fast as I could without going above human speed. My phone rang in my pocket.
'Hello?' I said when I answered it, not slowing or stopping.
'Edward. Where are you?' Esme asked, relieved.
'I'm trying to find Bella. A man claiming to be her father took her from school. I've got her scent and I'll ring you back if they get in a car,' I told her and Esme gasped. She related the story to the others and I heard their vicious snarls. The phone was passed to someone else.
'Edward. When you find her don't kill the guy that took her. Bella can't see that and she can't be in the room when you do either, in case she gets hurt as well. Emmett and Jasper will follow your scent to wherever it is and one of them will take Bella home. You and the other can deal with the man,' Carlisle said and I heard sounds of running as the family started to move.
'Okay,' I replied curtly and hung up. Then the scent changed to down an alley way and led behind a door. I tried the door and it swung open silently. It was a large unused warehouse that looked like something out of a horror movie. Well, it was starting to turn into one - vampires, kidnappers, etc. Then I heard Bella crying - although it was muffled - and I ran at vampire speed to where I heard the sound. She was tied to a chair with duck tape around her hands, shoulders, feet and mouth. There was a man standing with his back to her leaning over a table. Bella relaxed when she saw me and I picked her chair up silently and moved it behind some crates where she couldn't be seen.
'Bella. You have to stay silent. I'm going to take the tape off now but no matter what do not make a sound. Okay?' I whispered. Bella nodded feverishly. I peeled back the tape from her mouth and she bit on her lip to keep herself silent. I removed the tape from her shoulders next, then her hands and finally her feet. 'Stay there. Jasper and Emmett will be here in a minute and one of them will take you home,' I told her and she nodded again. I walked out to where the man was and he was still leaning over the table still so he hadn't noticed Bella's absence.
'I suppose you thought you could just take her and get away with it,' I boomed, inserting as much power and aggression into my voice as I could. The man whirled around with a knife in his hand.
'Ah. So this is one of the Cullens. I've never actually seen you in person but I've heard about your reputable wealth,' he said and I could tell he smoked a lot because his voice wheezed slightly.
'Is that what this was about? Steal Bella and send us a ransom her?' I asked him, the hard edge to my voice still in place. He smiled evilly.
'Something like that. Now this is going to work twice as well because you see you're unarmed and I'm not. The little girl is still in here and I will find her, then I will send two ransoms back to your family,' I saw Emmett run past in my peripherals at a speed the human would not see and Jasper a moment after. Emmett turned up at my side in a move the man wouldn't see and he grinned boldly at me.
''Sup, bro,' he said and I grinned. He stuck his fist out and I smacked mine against it loudly, making a thundering crash go around the room.
''Sup. Jasper has Bella right?' I asked him and he nodded.
'Yeah. They'll be back in the car by now,' he said and I grinned.
'Good. Ready to start?' I asked him and he nodded. I walked over to the man and tilted my head back. 'Go on. Kill me. Slit my throat,' I told the man. He looked at me like I was crazy. 'Do it or I will,' I told him. The man ran the knife across my throat and the blade snapped in half. 'Looks like that was a bad one. Gonna try again? Because it won't work. None of them will. See, there's something you should no about the Cullens. We're vampires. And that means you can't kill us. Still glad you chose Bella for your sick game?' I asked him and his eyes filled with scepticism.
'Vampires don't exist. You just have some kind of body armour,' he said and Emmett started to laugh loudly.
'Stop playing, Edward! Funny as it is Esme will be annoyed with us. Just kill him and get it over with,' Emmett laughed from behind me. I grinned at him and then turned back the man. I grabbed his arm and snapped it. He wailed. I broke his other arm and then his legs before snapping his neck. I kicked his dead body a few more times, smiling as I heard loud snaps. Then I turned back to Emmett.
'Come on, man. Lets go.'
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As soon as Emmett and I got home after school Bella through herself into my arms, her face displaying no other emotion other than relief for me. I kissed her on the head and asked her what she wanted to do that night and she replied with "sleep". I led her up to her bedroom and stood outside her door as usual while she got changed. Then the door swung open and Bella appeared in her pyjamas, teddy bear in hand.
'I can't sleep in my room tonight. I'm scared,' she whispered. I nodded and led her back into my room. It was a month before she would sleep in her own room again and she still quite frequently came into my room complaining of nightmares.
At school we gave Bella new rules about being dropped off and picked up. I had to take her inside the building and not drop her off outside. At the end of school she couldn't leave with anyone except me or one of the other Cullens and if someone tried to take her and it wasn't one of us she had to scream bloody murder. Bella didn't have anymore trouble after that.
As she grew she developed into a beautiful girl. She had always been thin and tall but when she hit eleven it really started to show. Her long mahogany hair fell in loose silky ringlets and was always glossy and smooth. Rosalie and Alice had straightened it once and Bella had jumped straight into the shower and washed it so it went back to it's normal ringlets. That made everyone laugh.
Bella started acting differently as well. She was no longer the cute cheeky child who, no matter how well she spoke, was obviously quite young. If you didn't know how old Bella was and you heard her speak she could easily have passed for fifteen or sixteen.
Esme soon found herself without a job as Bella started to cook for herself as well. She had cookery lessons at school and as soon as she knew what she was doing there was no stopping her. Then some fool had the idea of teaching them about sex at school. She wouldn't go downstairs after ten pm after that for the first month or so because she was convinced that the noise she could hear from downstairs was them having a massive gangbang or something. It made me laugh excessively.
The one thing Bella didn't loose though was her love for me. I was still always the person she ran to first, still the person she held hands with while she walked with, still the person she kissed goodbye when I dropped her off at school. The others didn't understand it because they stopped getting kisses ages ago.
'Edward!' Bella sang, snapping her fingers in front of my face. I shook my head and she laughed. 'I said, do we have any ice?' She asked with a smile still on her face.
'Ummm ... Maybe, why?' I asked and she held up her hand. Her palm was bright red and blistered.
'Put my hand on the hob and it was still hot,' she said. I went and got her some ice and wrapped it in a tea towel. She took it off me and wrapped it around her hand.
'And it didn't hurt?' She shook her head. 'No way. Go tell Emmett and see if he tries it,' I told her and she laughed evilly and ran off. A few minutes later I heard a load of cursing from the kitchen and Bella's laugh again. A minute or so later Bella reappeared.
'Apparently it hurts when Emmett does it,' she told me and we both collapsed laughing.
Tada! Next chapter will either be totally in Bella's point of view or just part in Bella's point of view. Either way we will get to know what she thinks at some point in the next chapter. Woohoo!
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