So, This is by far my new favorite chapter.
I felt like the story was missing some much needed fluff so, here ya go!
I'll keep this AN clean and simple:
Bella's POV at first and then towards the end we get a reoccurring surprise POV!
Lights! Camera! …Read!
I already knew what Edward had decided. I always tried to keep it at the back of my mind. But to watch it now first hand in Alice's visions tore more holes in my already broken heart. Her last vision just confirmed what I already had realized. As soon as I did realize my love for Edward I knew I would never leave his side. And now it kills me to remember that he wants to stay human.
If only he would still want to be a vampire…
No, I can't allow myself to think about that option anymore. He won't be a monster.
This is a good thing. He can have a real, normal life. He won't be condemned to this damned life of eternity.
Even if he would change his mind it's not like he would end up with me anyways. I'm only a friend. But I'll be a damn good friend. I can't abandon him. I won't. Alice's vision: I'll stay with him, be there for him until the very end.
That will be enough for me. It has to be enough. He'll be happier now. I'll make sure of it.
After that day, the happiest and the worst day of my existence; Alice, Jasper, and I went back to my apartment. The next day we had gone to Seattle to go shopping to get our minds off of what happened. I had asked Alice earlier not to mention it yet to the rest of the family, not even Jasper, about what she saw in her vision. It would be Edward who will announce to everyone about his decision to stay human. And it's his choice to decide when he will let everyone know.
I also asked her to not think about it as best as she could, so I would not be reminded of it and so that Jasper wouldn't pick up anymore of our unhappiness of the situation. Of course my true intention behind it was so that Edward would not read her mind. I'll tell him eventually that I told her, but right now I don't think I could handle the stress of it. He would be bound to read my mind and hear all of the thoughts I have of him if I were to tell him now. I don't want him to feel guilty about anything.
With me absorbing Jasper's gift now too, his guilt would just add to my own guilt. Not to mention his anger. He'll probably be pissed that I told Alice before he had the chance to explain himself to them. I already feel horrible about blurting it out. I didn't mean to tell her, my emotions were just all over the place. When I have better control dealing with my emotions I'll tell him.
I have to accept the fact that Edward has chosen mortal life.
It's been really hard to cope with the last couple of weeks, but it seems to be getting a bit easier, though the ease is minimal.
I still visit the Cullen's and sometimes still have my secret meetings with Edward. We have even gone a step up from the usual 'staying a mile away talking through our minds' conversations.
I sometimes go over and we do homework together. Recently we went to Port Angeles and bought cds and such.
I've cooked for him again, quite a bit actually. Apparently he really does love my cooking. Go figure, a vampire that can cook good food regardless of not being able to eat or try any of the food they make.
Today, I decided to come over and see what he was up to, giving him a surprise visit.
I drove off in my Audi towards the Cullen home. When I was almost there I got a text message.
Come right in. Door's Open.
Of course Alice would see me coming over.
I turned off at the hidden drive and started the three mile drive up to the house.
As I got closer I heard a soft melody playing. I wonder if Edward was playing a new CD or something.
I got out of my car and opened the unlocked front door.
The music intensified as I walked in. It was a piano playing.
I stepped in the living room and realized the music was coming from behind the door of the only room I had never been in. I walked towards the beautiful music and opened it carefully.
The room was very big with padded walls like a studio. The room was quite simple. Not much color or furniture but still quite beautiful. There's a white leather love seat at the very end of the room facing a white baby grand piano which was right in the middle of the room. The best thing about the room was the person sitting at the piano.
Edward sat at the piano completely lost in the music he was playing. I stood there just listening. His back was turned in the other direction so he hadn't noticed I was there. I had no idea Edward could play the piano, and he was amazing at it too! It was probably the best piano piece I've ever listen to, or was I just being bias? Either way, it has the perfect melody; soft, strong, beautiful. It sounded like a lullaby.
He seemed so passionate. His fingers glided over the ivory keys as the piano vibrated with sound. He had such grace. His body moved as his fingers danced. It was an incredible sight. I couldn't stop looking at him. I was dazzled.
Two minutes later he ended the piece, slowing the notes and ending in a strong chord. His fingers hovered over the keys as he took in the revolving echo sound the last note made.
"Beautiful."
He jumped up, startled.
"Oh," he blushed. "Hey Bella."
What does he have to be embarrassed about?
"That's a lovely composition. I don't think I've ever heard it before, who's it by?"
"Um, well." He combed his hand through his bronze hair as he spoke, blushing even more. "I wrote it."
I was shocked. Not only does he play, but he writes his own pieces.
Could he get even more unbelievably wonderful?
"Edward you have such a talent. Would you play it once more, for me?"
"Sure." He said nervously.
He sat back down and pat the bench for me to sit next to him. I obliged.
He played it from the beginning. Half way through it he spoke as he continued to play.
"You know…you inspired this one."
My mouth dropped open in awe.
"Wow, I'm honored."
"Well it's an early birthday gift."
I stiffened. I totally forgot that my birthday was in just a week. And Edward actually remembered…
He chucked. I don't know if it was because of my thoughts or my facial expression, which was a mix of embarrassment and surprise.
"WHAT?!" A screech came from upstairs. I cringed. My heightened hearing made the wretched sound bounce around loudly in my head.
Alice was next to me in a flash.
"Bella! Why didn't you tell me your birthday was next week?! I'll throw you the best party you've ever had!" My eyes narrowed at her.
"That's why I didn't tell you! I hate parties, Alice."
"Please, Please, Please, Bella!" she pouted and stared at me with wide glossy eyes. If I didn't know any better I would think she was about to cry.
My stomach tightened. I knew she was doing this on purpose to persuade me, but I couldn't deny her anything if it would make her happy.
"OH Thank You, Bella! Thank You! You won't regret this. It's going to be great!"
She tapped her temple with her finger and left a half a second later. I could hear her thoughts going a mile a minute making plans already for a huge party. I groaned. I hadn't had a birthday party in more than a century. I hate being the center of attention.
I turned back to Edward and he had a crooked grin on his face. My heart dropped into my stomach. If I were alive it would have skipped a beat. I rushed my thoughts to the back of my mind.
"You're too easy to convince." He said suddenly.
"No not really. You know, I can be quite stubborn. It just, all goes out the window. I can't deny anything when it comes to Alice." And you I added mentally.
His smile grew larger.
"Really?" he asked with a raised eyebrow. I turned away from him. I felt like blushing. I was relieved that I would never be able to do that again.
"So what do you want to do? Want to watch a movie or something?" he asked after I avoided his first question.
"Actually, I was wondering…If you could maybe teach me to play the piano…" He smiled.
"Anything for you."
He turned to the piano and started to show me what each note was. I mostly just listened to the sound of his voice, so smooth and velvet sounding. I did manage to pay attention and follow what he was saying though.
And that's how we spent most of the following week. I'd come after school and he'd teach me the piano. I was getting fairly good but he was a million times better than I was.
His lessons were a great distraction from the anxiety I was having about this big, well huge birthday bash Alice was throwing me.
Regardless of the fact that we rarely ever spoke to anyone at school, she invited practically the whole junior and senior classes. It was so Alice to do something like that. She said it was so we could become familiar with everyone and make some new friends. But we all knew that the only reason anyone would agree to come to the party is because no one from the school had ever been to the Cullen house. With the cars that the family drives around in, the humans were definitely curious to what their home would be like.
The day of the party Alice made me come over very early. She insisted on giving me another 'mini' makeover. As much as I hated being tortured with make up and what-not, the end result was always magical. Alice is extraordinary. The things she can do with some lipstick, a brush, and a hot iron was insanely good.
"Hold still, Bella!"
"Sorry." I mumbled as she tried to put my eyeliner on.
"You're going to look amazing, I've already seen it!"
"You always make me look amazing."
"True. But you'll look exceptionally amazing tonight."
Alice and I drove to Seattle yesterday and we spend hours looking for the perfect dress for her and I. Well, she found hers within the first hour. The rest of the time she made me try on an endless amount of clothing. But we finally settled for a knee length, strapless royal blue dress. *** It's has a ribbon tied into a bow at mid-thigh and under it, the dress was fringed into five layers of blue lace. The fabric clung perfectly to every curve of my body. It was beautiful; simple, but definitely me. It wasn't too expensive either. Alice would have probably rather a ten thousand dollar dress, but she agreed that this one looked perfect on me and let me buy it.
"Wow Alice, I look incredible." I said as I turned too look in the full length mirror in her room.
If the person in the mirror wasn't mimicking my movements I would have convinced myself it was someone else.
"Told ya!"
"Of course, Alice. I'd never bet against you." I said and then winked at her.
She slipped away into her closet and came out a few seconds later in her dress for the evening.
Her dress was too damn cute. It was perfect for her. It was mid-thigh length, made of white silk. It had pieces of floral type black lace laid over the stomach area of the dress and around the bottom part. It had a second layer of free hanging lace with the same patterns under the first layer. ***
"You look beautiful, sis."
She gave me a warm smile just as Rosalie came through the door.
"Come on girls, the guests are starting to arrive." She said in an unusual friendly tone.
She wore a Dulce & Gabbana couture dress. *** It was an ivory color that was definitely a bit too short. It stopped just enough to not reveal her underwear. It was a corset type dress. The sides of the dress had the woven corset part from the bottom of the dress up to the top hugging the curves of her body. She was breath taking, one of the most beautiful female vampires I have ever seen. I guess that really must have been her heightened human characteristic she brought over through her change. My looks could never compare to her.
"You look nice Bella." I came out of my admiration to the sound of her compliment.
"Um, Thanks." I said. She gave me a half smile.
That was weird. Rosalie was always so hostile with me, yet now she was complimenting me?
She took a glance at Alice and then disappeared down the stairs. As I was about to turn to Alice, she whispered in my ear.
"I told her to try to be nice and be on her best behavior tonight for the sake of Edward's happiness."
I guess it made sense now. Every time Rosalie gets all pissy with me, Edward lashes out at her. He doesn't like that she hates me so much.
I appreciated that she's trying to be nice to me, but in the back of my mind I really didn't like that underneath it all she still hated me.
I made a mental note to thank her again and compliment her on her dress. I'm sure she'd enjoy the compliment much more than I would.
I secretly even hoped that tonight more eyes would be on her beauty than on me because of it being my birthday. I really did hate the attention. But knowing Alice, I was sure to be under the spotlight today.
We walked down the stairs at human pace. Since I practically spent the whole day in Alice's room getting ready I didn't have time to look and see what Alice had planed out for the party. It defiantly wasn't simple.
The whole room looked like it was the hottest club in New York. Apparently that was the theme Alice was going for. There was a DJ at the very end of the once known to be the Cullen living room. The room was dark but not too dark so that the humans could still get around easy. Neon lights and strobe lights were everywhere. There was actually road and subway signs up as decorations and there was a huge, theater type, screen on the far wall with a video of the night life in New York City. When the music would change so would the scenery on the screen.
By now there was a hell of a lot of people in the house. There were a couple of groups forming around the room hung up in their own little conversations. But no one was out on the makeshift dance floor. Alice cleared her throat and all eyes turned to us at the foot of the stairs. I gave a quick glare at her before some of the recognizable faces started walking up to us.
"Hey Bella! You look hot!" said one the girls, I believe named Jessica. She was in my PE class. I didn't like her much. She thought she was better than everyone else. She was only trying to kiss my ass since she probably thought that we'd become popular after this party.
"Um, Hi." I said timidly.
"Happy Birthday Bella. Your party is amazing." another girl said, Angela from my art class. She was very sweet. I could see me being friends with this girl.
"Thank you." I said giving her a genuine smile.
She smiled back and tugged on Jessica's arm pulling her away.
"Ugh…what…ok, see you later Be-" Jessica got out as Angela pushed her through the crowd back to their other friends.
Alice and I giggled.
"Come on Bella! Let's have some fun!" she said as she grabbed my hand and led me to the dance floor.
I hated being the center of attention but that's what we were, being the only ones out on the dance floor. But I loved to dance and dancing with Alice brought back so many memories of when we used to when we were little.
I noticed after awhile some of the other people started to join us on the dance floor. I guess they just needed someone to break the ice and dance first before they started. But I'm sure Alice already knew that…
It seems that the party was a real hit. Everyone was dancing, laughing, and having a good time.
Emmett came over to me and Alice and we all started dancing together. Alice wandered off to be with Jasper and then it was just me and Emmett.
Over the last couple of weeks Emmett and I became pretty close. He was practically a brother to me now. And he also became my hunting buddy. We traveled to Canada last weekend and hunted some grizzly. It's his favorite prey. It was actually my first time to ever have grizzly and it was surprisingly satisfying. Emmett says that it's because they're so much like humans, in a sense, so they taste quite similar.
"You're not going to trip and fall in those heals while we dance, are you Bella?" Emmett laughed and I could feel the floor boards vibrate from the booming laugh.
I glared at him. When we had gone hunting last weekend one of the grizzlies took me by surprise and I tripped over my own feet and I lost concentration from my kill. The grizzly got away. Emmett was still not letting it go. Every chance he got he would joke about my balance.
"Emmett…now lets not forget who won the bet." His laughter and grin fell almost instantly.
We had placed a little wager after my tripping incident. We hunted for 4 hours and bet to see who would get the most grizzlies. I won of course; 5 to 3.
I heard a small growl form in his chest that I'm sure only the vampires in the room would hear.
"Now, now Emmett. It was all in good fun. Hm…I still have to think of what you should give me for my win. I'll think of something soon enough." I said with an evil grin.
Emmett playfully glared at me and took me in his huge arms and spun me around as we continued to dance.
"We'll have a rematch soon!"
"And I'll beat you again." I winked at him.
Just then Rosalie came from behind me and stood next to Emmett.
"Mind if I steal my husband away for awhile? His dancing is making me....well hot and bothered." She said.
Lust was seeping from her every pore. Emmett grabbed Rosalie and pulled her over his shoulder. As he ran off he called back to me.
"Happy Birthday, Bella!"
I shuddered. I made sure that I would push away and not absorb mind reading and empathy for awhile, or until they were done doing…whatever. Yeah.
Alice laughed from the other side of the room.
I turned around and came face to face with the last person I'd thought I'd see tonight.
Newton.
"Hey there, Bella." He said in a deep voice, was he trying to sound 'sexy'?
"So…I think my invitation got lost in the mail. Everyone told me about the party so I figured I wouldn't disappoint you and show up anyways. I didn't want a stupid mail mix up have me miss the party."
Wow, this guy is an idiot. Did he really think his invitation got misplaced? None of us would ever invite this lowlife.
"Yeah, I'll have to call the post office and have the mail man fired." I said with strong sarcasm in every word.
"Good. That bastard deserves it for losing my invite." He sneered. This guy is an idiot. He really thinks we invited him…
"So…Wanna dan-"
All of a sudden I had an arm wrapped around my waist pulling me away. The contact sent a warm shiver up my spine.
"Sorry, Newton. But she's preoccupied at the moment." The owner of the arm said. His velvet voice pulled my attention from every other noise in the room.
He pulled me out to the dance floor and the music slowed. He gave me his crooked grin and took my hand in his and kept his arm wrapped around my waist. I instinctively pulled my free hand over his shoulder.
"Hi." I said in barely a whisper.
"Hello." he said chuckling.
"Thanks for the save back there."
"No problem. It was my pleasure. Can you believe he actually thought any of us would actually invite him?"
We laughed together.
"He's completely oblivious." I said.
"He thinks you want him. He takes your words and twists them around in his mind creating a fantasy in his thoughts with them." He looked over my shoulder to where Newton was standing, staring at me. Edward jaw clenched and he looked back towards me with anger in his expression.
"He's envisioning undressing you right now. Please distract me before I go over there and punch the shit out of him."
Gross. Newton is such a creeper.
"So, I guess this means I owe you for saving me from having to dance with that sick pervert."
A smile played on his lips. "I guess it does."
"Oh! I know."
"What?"
"You can have my Audi for the weekend. I've seen you eyeing it for awhile now. And from what I hear you love fast cars. I'm sure you'd love to give it a test drive."
His face lit up. I knew he would really like that idea.
I never let anyone touch my car. Emmett and Jasper would definitely be jealous that I would trust Edward with it. They've been asking me to let them drive it for weeks now. But I love that car too much to have them come anywhere near it. I had heard stories of Emmett crashing some of his previous cars. And Jasper has a tendency to get caught up in the thrill of the speed and fuck up the family car's engines.
Edward laughed at my thoughts.
"Hey I thought you said you'd ease up on reading my thoughts!" I said playfully pushing his shoulder with the hand he held.
Instead of placing my hand back in his I put it over his shoulder along with the other that was already there. He placed his other arm around my waist and pulled a little closer.
"Sorry love, I'll try and stay out." He said with a smile. "I've actually been getting better at suppressing people's thoughts and making them merely background noise."
My stomach sank. Did he just call me love?
"That's impressive. I'm glad you've been able to control it. I've noticed it could get quite annoying at times. Especially at school…"
"Yeah, the school's male population have sick minds."
"May I remind you that you're part of that male population." I said trying to sound serious.
He frowned.
"Oh come on, I'm only joking. Edward, you're always a perfect gentleman."
"Thanks." He said bringing the beautiful smile back to his face.
"Bella…I can't read your thoughts for some reason anymore." he said a bit confused.
"Weird. It might be because I forcing myself not to use your gift. Maybe that's the side affect?"
"Maybe, Though I like reading your thoughts." He said sheepishly.
I stuck my tongue out at him.
He opened his mouth to say something else but closed it before he said anything. He did this about two more times before my curiosity got the best of me.
"Edward, what's on your mind?" I grinned. "The time that I decided not to read your mind and you're at lost for words. Speak or you'll force me to have to use your gift!" I said playfully.
"I just wanted to let you know, you look stunning. Blue complements you very well."
My breathing caught. I'd heard quite a few times tonight from the guests that I looked really nice, but his complement somehow was the only one that made me feel like blushing. He made me truly feel beautiful.
I just smiled back at him not trusting my voice to answer him.
He opened his mouth once more but before he could speak a word a vision hit me and my vision clouded over.
A cloud of dust in a big clearing, the dust clears a bit, out steps a hooded figure. All you could see from the hood was red glowing eyes. He was running at vampire speed ending up at the Cullen house front door.
"What the hell…" Edward said, obviously he had seen the vision as well.
With my vampire hearing I heard Alice's voice.
Everyone upstairs, my room.
"Come on." I said grabbing his hand and started towards the stairs.
We stopped at Alice and Jasper's room to find everyone already there.
"Carlisle, I had a vision, we're going to have a visitor. He'll be coming through the clearing and will then show up on our doorstep. He was wearing a long black hood, and is not a vegetarian."
"Volturi." I said. "I absorbed Alice's vision as she was having it. It's definitely a Volturi but it doesn't make any sense. There was only one."
"That's unusual, they normally would send three or more, they never travel alone." Carlisle added.
"Yeah, that is a bit out of character. But why would the Volturi come here?" I asked.
Perhaps for Edward…Bella do you think they may have found out about him?
I had thought about this before. I know the Volturi doesn't allow our secret to be known by any human. I didn't want to think of what would happen if they actually found out.
I only nodded at Carlisle, but was hoping that it wasn't true.
"If that's why, then we'll have to speak with them and explain the situation" Carlisle said.
"Huh, did I miss something?" Emmett asked.
"We don't know why for sure of why the Volturi is coming, but there's a possibility that they might know about Edward."
I'm confused. Why would they be here for Edward? He hasn't done anything wrong…
"Emmett, He's human. He knows about us. The number one Volturi law is that no human may know our secret."
"Oh, right." He said. I can't believe I didn't think of that. You have to get Edward out of here…I'll kick anyone's ass that tries to hurt him.
"No Emmett. We can't do that. If we hide him, and they find out we are, it would be inexcusable. They'd kill us all without a second thought." I said.
"What are we going to do?" Esme asked concerned.
"We wait." Carlisle confirmed. "Alice, when will he be arriving?"
Her eyes glazed over. "Tomorrow at 9am."
"Ok, when he gets here we will figure out what they want. No one is to leave unless it's an emergency. Let's go back down and start to send everyone home. We need to think about what's to come."
After Carlisle spoke we started to file out of the room and back downstairs.
The party lasted for about an hour longer before everyone was completely gone. We all changed our clothing to our regular everyday wear and started to clean up the mess they all left, in silence. It only took about ten minutes at vampire speed to pick everything up.
"So what's the plan?" Edward asked as we all sat around the living room.
"I can't see any decisions being made on what he will say or do. Since the decision for the reason he is coming here was already made I can't see that in my vision. I can only get the same one and no other." Alice said as Jasper wrapped his arm around her in comfort.
"Everything will be fine. We will just wait and have a civilized talk with him. We must not worry. They might not know about Edward yet. When he does get here there's no way we could hide him. The Volturi will find out tomorrow of him and we'll have to wait for the outcome then. We'll discuss it more when we find out more." Carlisle reassured.
For awhile we just sat there looking at each other in silence. There was a cloud of sadness and worry coming from all of us. We all wanted Edward safe. A sudden wave of calm hit the air.
"Sorry, I just couldn't take the gloom anymore. It was starting to be a little too much." Jasper tilted his head down looking at the floor as he spoke.
"Bella, could you come up to my room with me?" Edward asked out of the blue.
I gave him a questioning look. He stood up and started to walk. Alice smiled. And I got up and followed.
We walked up the stairs in silence. When we got to his room he motioned for me to sit down at his couch. He walked over to his dresser and fumbled through some things in one of the drawers. He walked back with a small box in his hands.
"I know you asked us all not to buy you anything for your birthday…But I wanted to give you something anyways. I technically didn't buy it, so I hope you accept it."
I gave him a smile even though I wished he wouldn't have gotten me anything. I didn't really like receiving gifts. But this was Edward, and if it made him happy to give me something, I'd accept it.
He handed me the small box and I proceeded to open it.
Inside there was a silver bracelet. It seemed quite old, an antique maybe. It was a charm bracelet. It had a flower, a cross, an emerald, a silver E, and a small diamond dangling from the chain. I gasped.
"It's beautiful Edward."
He smiled. "So you accept it? You don't have to wear it if you don't want to…but I wanted to give it to you anyways and…" I cut him off.
"Edward, I love it. Thank you. Help me put it on." I smiled.
He took the box from me and took the bracelet out of it. He placed his warm hand over mine and hooked the latch on. He spun the bracelet around.
"It was my mother's. My father gave it to her, and his mother gave it to him. My mother decided to make it a charm bracelet after she had me." he said still looking at it and still holding my hand up.
My breathing caught. He gave me his mother's jewelry?
"Oh god, Edward. I don't want to take this away from you if it was your mother's…"
"Please keep it. I really want you to have it. Would you like to know what each charm means?"
I nodded.
"Well as for the flower, it stands for the love my mother had for gardening. The cross is for her religion. She was a devote Christian. The emerald was to remind her of my eyes. And the E for my name."
"What about the diamond?"
"Well…the diamond I got from Alice..." He trailed off a little unsure if he should continue. "It stands for you and your beauty."
I felt as if my heart would spring out of my chest and start beating again. This was the best gift anyone could have ever given me.
"Thank you so much Edward." I said as I leaned in and embraced him in a hug. I didn't want to let things get awkward so I unwillingly let him go after a few seconds.
"Edward, you should get some sleep. It's getting late and you'll need your rest for tomorrow." I frowned at what we would have to face in the morning.
I stood up to exit but he grabbed my arm before I could walk away. It sent a pulse of electricity through my body. His heat felt wonderful on my skin.
"Please stay, I don't want to be alone."
"I'll be here as long as you want me to."
He dropped his hand from my arm to walk to his bathroom to change in to his sleep wear. The spot on my arm where his hand was left a flame like sensation lingering and I longed to have it there again.
He came out in shorts and a t-shirt and moved over to his bed. He still looked as godly as ever.
"Come lay with me, I promise I won't bite." He said with a crooked smile placed perfectly on his face.
I walked over to his bed and he pulled the comforter up so I could lie next to him. He shivered as my body temperature lowered his.
"I'm sorry." I said. My cold skin would be too much for him while he slept.
"It's ok, you could just lay over the covers." I did as he said.
We didn't speak again after that. It wasn't long until he fell asleep. I was so unsure of the situation but it never felt awkward it just felt right somehow.
Sometime during the night he ended up with his head on my chest and an arm wrapped around my stomach. I knew it was wrong for me to leave him there but I couldn't get myself to move him. I wanted to feel his warmth on me and have him this close for as long as I could.
He started to stir and woke up around 8am the following morning. It seemed like the day had come way too soon. I moved him as he fully woke up.
"Good morning sleepy head."
"Morning." He said with a smile. "I'm glad you stayed. I half expected you to be gone when I woke up."
"Nope."
He sat up in his bed as I stood up.
"I'll give you some space so you could get a shower and such. I'll be downstairs with everyone as we wait."
He nodded and I walked down the stairs to the living room where everyone was still sitting from the night before. I didn't look like anyone had moved since Edward and I had gone up stairs.
"Good morning, Bella." Alice said as I sat next to Emmett on the couch. I did my best to smile at her.
"It won't be long now."
For the next forty minutes I kept getting flashes of Alice's visions as she looked into the future, still looking for his decision.
"He'll be here in five minutes."
As I took a shower I took the time alone to asses everything that was going on. I don't know if I should be worried or afraid of this visit from the Volturi. I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later, so I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise. It was odd because no matter how much I tried to keep my attention on this visit we were about to have my mind kept drifting back to Bella.
The last couple of weeks have been amazing. I've spent all my free time with her, and I've loved every minute of it. She was the friend I was longing for but didn't even know I longed for. She made me feel complete. Esme was thrilled that I started to play the piano again. I hadn't played for three or so years but I had a melody stuck in my mind that seemed to play in my mind over and over again any time I thought about Bella. I'm glad that both Esme and Bella enjoy me playing the piano for them. I enjoyed letting them listen.
Last night was the best sleep I had ever had, just knowing she was there I felt safe. I was so happy that she accepted my gift. The bracelet was one of the very few things I owned from my real mother, but I came across it a couple of days ago and just knew that I had to give it to her. It just felt right. I wanted her to have something that meant a lot to me, for her to carry with her forever.
I started my walk down the three flights of stairs. I felt anxious, not to meet this Volturi but to just see Bella. It's strange the pull she has on me. I always feel like I want to be by her and she makes me happy which is always a plus. As I made my way down the second stair case Alice's vision came to my mind. He's so close now.
I made it to the bottom of the stairs just as Alice blurred over to the front door to open it.
I stiffened. In the door way there was a man with a long black coat with a hood covering his head. His eyes were glowing red beneath them. They sent a chill down my spine.
"We've been expecting you. Please come in." Alice said. The figure glided into the house and then stopped as he faced the living room. He slipped the hood off.
"Bella…" he said with a smirk on his face.
"Demetri!" I snapped my head in Bella's direction. She ran at vampire speed in to the vampire's arms.
I felt a sudden pang of jealously throughout my whole body as he held her tightly in his arms.
"I've missed you."
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-Jan