I had a really horrible day yesterday when I started writing this but I needed to do something to get my mind off of how angry I was so I kept writing. I hope this chapter doesn't suck but I wasn't in my normal mindset when I wrote it so I guess I'll see if you guys end up liking it. The next couple chapters will be really interesting as we learn about what went down in Ireland but once we get back to the present day it will get even more interesting, maybe even downright crazy. Thank you to those of you who reviewed.
Playlist: Survive by Rise Against and Full Moon by The Black Ghosts
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I was walking too quickly for someone with a severe lack of balance, I was nervous about missing my flight even though I still had 3 hours until it left. I was just getting to my gate when I ran into a rather large man wearing a security guard uniform. I looked up and noticed that it was the same security guard that Renee had called "cute" when I picked her up from the airport 4 days ago. Great.
"Hello, nice to see you again Ms…?" He said a little too seductively.
"Swan, just call me Bella though."
"Ok, Bella. I'm Brendan. So where is your lovely mother today?" He said to me with a smirk.
"She's back at my house with my dad. Her flight home is tomorrow so you don't have to worry about dealing with her today." I laughed. Hey I laughed and I didn't force it. Cool?
"Oh, thanks for the warning. I'll be sure to stay clear of her," He chuckled. "So where are you off to in such a hurry, if you don't mind me asking?"
Well actually I kind of do mind telling my completely ridiculous plans to complete strangers but I suppose since I'm going off to a country where I don't know a single soul I might as well get used to talking to strangers. "I'm leaving for Ireland today. It was kind of a last minute thing so I'm really nervous. I'm 3 hours early but I couldn't just sit home and wait."
"Ireland, huh? That's really cool. What made you want to go there? Are you fond of guys with accents or something?" He joked.
I had no idea why he was so interested in my life. Maybe he wasn't, maybe he was just bored, but he reminded me of Emmett and that made it easy to talk to him no matter what his reasons were. He was nowhere near as beautiful as Emmett but no one who wasn't immortal could be even a fraction of as beautiful as any of the Cullens. He was big qnd scary looking but had a sense of humor that showed he didn't take anything too seriously, just like Emmett. I missed my big brother. I threw myself back into the conversation before my mind overflowed with memories of the Cullens.
"No, I'm not going there to bag an Irishman, I don't date. I don't really know why I'm going there. It's a really long story, most of which doesn't make sense." I admitted mostly to myself. I really have no idea why I'm doing this.
"Well, my shift just ended when you ran into me so I have time for a story, and by the looks of it so do you." He said with a warm smile.
"You want to hear my story?" I gave him a questioning look. Not many people wanted to have conversations with me since I tended to end up engulfed in depression because of some insignificant thing they had sad. Of course this guy didn't know that but still, usually my apathetic aura scared strangers off.
"Yeah, I would. You don't have to tell me though if you don't want. I can just go and leave you be." He looked at me apologetically.
"No, that's ok. I don't have anything to do for about 2 hours and 55 minutes so if you don't mind being subjected to a boring, slightly crazy story then sure I'll tell you."
He smiled. "For some reason I doubt that your life has been boring at all."
So there I sat, for the few hours before starting the newest and probably craziest chapter of my life, telling a complete stranger almost every detail of my life the past few years. I skipped over the parts that mentioned that the people in the story were mostly mythical creatures as well as the part about receiving illegal stock tips, of course.
"So the lady at the travel agency really planned this whole thing out in 3 days? That's crazy. I'm definitely going there if I ever need to plan a trip." He said with an astonished look on his face. I was surprised that he sat there and listened to my whole story and wasn't just faking interest.
"Yeah it really was a miracle. I probably would have chickened out if there were any speed bumps in the process."
"Well I think that it's good that you didn't. I'm sure that you getting away will be a good thing and you'll gain a lot of life experience. So how did you tell Charlie and Renee?"
"Well that was actually easier than I thought…"
I had left the travel agency and drove out of Port Angeles with my stomach full of knots. I wasn't sure how I was going to tell Charlie and Renee. I didn't know when I was leaving but Suzanne had promised me it would be in less than a week. Renee had left her severely injured husband to come see her empty shell of a daughter and now that daughter was going off to another country with little warning and I felt really bad about it. Charlie and Renee had already been home a while from lunch, seeing as I had been in Port Angeles for hours, and when I got home they were really worried. I explained everything that happened that day to them and that I had decided to take a year off and go to Ireland. They gave each other a look that said that they thought it would be worse. I frowned at the thought that both of my parents had seen me so miserable that they thought one day I would snap and gladly accepted the alternative of their daughter putting off college to go away.
"Once they got over their typical safety-type concerns that any parent would have, and I made it known that I was not going there because he was there and that I really had no idea where he is, they were actually really supportive. They had both been trying to figure out some way for me to be happy again and they think that this might be that way. I don't think I'll ever be the same, once someone like Ed…um, he comes into your life it can't just go back to normal but hopefully I can be ok. Or at least sane enough that it doesn't affect my family."
"Well, Bella, you are a smart girl and eventually you'll be totally over this guy. I'm sure your life will be better than it was before, you'll have experienced different parts of the world and you'll probably learn that you don't need a guy. "
I don't need a guy, I need Edward. He isn't just a guy; he is perfection defined, the love of my life and the keeper of my heart. If only everyone knew how much I really, truly needed him. How seeing those piercing eyes stare into mine would be worth all the pain the world could inflict on me. Hearing Edward say 'I love you' gave my heart a reason to beat. Now that was gone and I wasn't sure what I lived for but I knew what I would die for. I would die for another chance to feel his embrace, to see that perfectly crooked smile or to watch him play the piano.
Just then it was announced that it was time for my flight to board. I said goodbye to Brendan and thanked him for being a good listener. He thanked me for telling him the story as he wrote down his address and I promised to send him a post card. I got on the plane and settled in for the long flight to Maine before heading on from there to Ireland. My nerves were long gone by now, I was excited. My talk with a stranger had made me realize that this could be more than I had thought, not that I had given it much thought. I relaxed and let the thorns of my memories latch on and take away my consciousness. Thoughts of Edward filled my mind and reality flew by.
I awoke from my stupor to a flight attendant gently shaking me. We were here, home for the next year. I stepped off of the plane and cautiously made my way through the bustling airport. I grabbed my bags and walked towards the row of cabs waiting outside. The air was cold and damp, the sky was a very light grey and the color green was already more prominent than it was in Forks, that was saying something. I got into the cab and showed the driver a piece of paper that held the address of a Bed and breakfast in a town called Maam, that Suzanne had booked me to stay in for a few weeks while my rental house was under construction.
The cab ride was long but I hardly noticed. I was too busy looking at the scenery. I had never seen anything like it. It was beautifully green, Forks had nothing on this place. Once we were out of the city there were beautiful green rolling hills everywhere with wildflowers dancing in the wind and old stone homes along with a few newer wood homes were speckled across the landscape. I was glad when we finally arrived to see that the bed and breakfast I was staying in fit in with the charm of the old houses I had admired from the cab. Building a hotel here would have been wrong. It reminded me of the Cullen's house; it had an old eerily-pretty look. Two little boys were playing out front and quickly ran over to me when I got out of the cab.
"Are you the swan lady that's come to stay with us?" The older one said to me with his adorable accent. He had dark brown hair, porcelain skin, perfect dimples and big blue eyes.
"Yes, I'm Isabella Swan but you guys can call me Bella." I said to him with a smile.
"I'm Shaughn and this is my brother Caden. I'm six and he's four." He said, sounding very proud.
"Almost five," Caden said. He was just a smaller version of his brother but with red hair and bigger dimples.
"Well it's nice to meet you both; I'm really excited to be staying here. Now where should I go to check in?"
"Come on with us and our sisters will get you settled." Shaughn said as he led me inside.
The inside of the house was beautiful but quaint. There were a lot of antiques mixed in with new furniture that was obviously carefully picked out to go with the old feel of the rest of the home.
"Falyn, Aislinn? The swan lady is here!" Shaughn yelled up the stairs.
I looked up from the vase I had been studying and saw a beautiful redheaded girl around my age coming down the stairs. She looked in my direction and I gasped as I saw her eyes, they were bright red. She had bright red eyes and was too beautiful to be human. Holy crap a vampire? She took in my response to her appearance and rushed upstairs.
I thought back to the research I had done the night that Suzanne had called me with the details of my trip. I googled the town I would be staying in only to find out that it was the 4th cloudiest place on earth. Why the hell didn't I think that by going to one of the cloudiest place in existence I would run into vampires? Only I would end up at a bed and breakfast operated by vampires. Not just any vampires, the kind that drink human blood. Wait then why are Shaughn and Caden here?
Then the same girl rushed down stairs but she was oddly different. She was still beautiful but not as beautiful as a vampire and her eyes were the same color blue as Shaughn and Caden's. I backed away from her slowly until I ran into a wall. I was guessing that her power had something to do with changing forms.
She looked at the fear in my face and her eyes showed some of the same worry. "Shaughn, Caden take her things to her room please." Once the boys were upstairs she turned back to me and spoke. "Sorry, about that my sister is a bit jumpy. Her name is Falyn and I'm Aislinn; you're Miss Swan, right?" She said as she reached her hand out to shake mine.
I was apprehensive about shaking her hand. I didn't know if it was a trap but I figured if she wanted to kill me she could have already done it easily. I reached out my hand toward her and gasped in surprise when it was warm, like mine.
"J-just call me B-Bella, please." I stuttered.
"Alright then, Bella let me give you a tour of the house."
(Present day conversation with Jacob)
Jacob was grabbing his sides, obviously in pain from laughing so much.
"What the hell is so funny about this, Jake?" I questioned.
"Only you would leave to another country and end up staying in a house with a vampire that could make herself look human." He choked out while still laughing
My eyes shot daggers at him and he stopped laughing after a moment. "That is where you are wrong though, Jake. Falyn was a vampire and her power was to shift shapes but I didn't learn that until later. Aislinn was her human twin sister."
"What? One twin was a leech and one was still a human? How did the bloodsucker not kill her sister?"
"Do you really have to say the words leech or bloodsucker? I mean technically I am one too, Jake."
He rolled his eyes. "You aren't a leech. You didn't choose this life and you don't kill people. So answer my question, how did she not kill her sister or brothers?"
"Ok Jake, calm down. I'm getting to that part but obviously she wasn't a newborn or she wouldn't have been able to run away after she saw me and I wouldn't be here. "
"Wait, you said that your new vampire sister was named Aislinn not Falyn, so what happened?"
"I'm getting to that part Jake…"
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Ok before I freak out any one who happens to be from Ireland I need to explain some stuff. I did do a search of the cloudiest places on earth and it did say that Maam, Ireland was the 4th cloudiest. However when I did a search for a place called Maam I didn't find anything. I did find a place called Maam cross. I don't know if it is the same place or not but for my story's sake we will say that there is indeed a small town in the country called Maam.
Oh and Falyn's name is pronounced like Jimmy Fallon. Not Fall-in. :)