He held my hand down the stairs. Even through Charlie's yelling.
"Edward. you are not allowed to touch my daughter! She was so sad when you left and-"
"Dad." I reached over with my free hand because Edward wouldn't let me go, to grab hold of Charlie's shoulder, "We're taking this slow. I'm not for sure about our relationship dad. Don't worry I've learned about heartache and I can deal with it." Dad looked down at me and then towards Edward. He wants to shoot me Bella. He's thinking about it and the fact that he's Billy's friend and how many places he can hide my body on the reservation or in the woods…
"Charlie I won't hurt her ever again," breathed Edward his eyes hard and meaningful. Charlie looked at us and then glanced at Carlisle.
"Should I trust him?"
"He means it Charlie. And don't worry we're going as chaperones on their date," replied Carlisle. Esme nodded with a bright mesmerizing smile on her face before she was distracted by our cabinets that had flowers carved around them, her eyes widened at the prettiness and she thought to herself, I should redo our whole house like this… Carlisle had already grabbed Esme's shoulder and brought her back over, he didn't want his house remodeled… again.
"Okay the cabin in the woods," she breathed to herself thinking how nice it would be to renovate that cabin… maybe possibly give it to Edward and Bella should they ever make up and who knows… marriage…. The music played in her mind and she imagined herself making the greatest wedding ever… Esme practically drooled at the thought.
Edward tried to ignore his mother's thoughts though they were somewhat happier though even more meddling. Though wouldn't it be nice if that could… Edward's own thoughts were interrupted however by Charlie's train of thoughts and his big fat mouth.
"If they're going to be your chaperones so will I!"
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"They'll be showing up soon," Aro cried clapping his hands giddily with Marcus as Jane danced about the room with her brother. Voldemort danced around the room with his pet snake wrapped around his arms singing, "My Fair Lady." "We should get ready before she gets here! We have 30 minutes!"
The vampires were dressed in 4.7897356823658937 seconds, their hair fixed, and even Jane's make up done up properly. It took Voldemort 2 minutes to choose between his dark black robe or his seemingly lighter black robe.
Victoria and Caius sighed at the same time catching themselves and giving each other a quick little smile as Caius reached over and clasped onto her hand. Just as Caius's smile met Victoria's own smile, though hers was deceptive compared to his charming hot smile that was turning into infatuation, Marcus came between them.
"Caius and Victoria you two have been acting oddly… you two are up to something." The two immediately sprang far far away from each other. Their eyes were wide in fear as they looked back at Marcus. Could it be that they hadn't been so secret as they should've been?
"I know what it is," growled Marcus seriously as he glanced at the two of them, "And I can't believe what you're planning!" Victoria glanced at Caius her mouth wide open as his breathing sped up. Could it be that these idiots had found them out?! What would the punishment be? "Gloves on your hands! Unwilling for me to touch you! I know what you've been doing!"
"Look Aro we're-"
"You've been having an affair and you don't want me to see the dirtiness that pervades your mind," he cried out! "And you're planning to leave tonight to satisfy your own desires!" He suddenly smiled bright and glitteringly back at the two like the prettiest constellation there ever was in the sky, not Orien's belt but far prettier, "Its okay you two! We won't wait up!"
"Caius and Victoria sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G," sang Marcus. Victoria looked at Caius and then back at the idiots…
Voldemort made a face, "I really don't want to know whose been playing with whose sorcerer's stones." Jane stared at Voldemort with a disgusted face as she whispered in her brother's ear what that probably meant and he looked back at Voldemort who just shrugged and said, "I'm a vile bad evil wizard for a reason." Voldemort's face crooked up as he thought over that sentence, that'd be something to say 7 times fast, 'I'm a vile bad evil wizard for a reason…' –author's note: You tried it didn't you?-
"It's not like that really," replied Caius quickly feeling like he could blush right there and then. The group stopped their jeering to stare back at Caius.
"Then what is it?" Aro asked reaching out about to touch Caius's forehead when Victoria grabbed Caius's gloved hand and pulled him over to her out of Aro's reach.
"Oh Caius! Why should we lie to them if we don't lie to ourselves? They should know our happiness! Tonight we're eloping," she smiled her eyes beaming back at the others before she pulled Caius forward and crushed her lips on his kissing him as passionately as if she were pms-ing and his lips were the last snicker bar on the whole planet.
"Okay I approved at first but will you please get a room," hissed Aro taking a step back… "Or better yet make a video." Jane growled at Aro and sent a wave of pain to him. "Why do you hurt me so Jane?"
"They love each other." Her eyes glowed like that of a school girls catching her crushes's eyes as he walked out of the bathroom while ignoring the train of toilet paper on his foot just to look at her. Everyone looked at the lip locked couple for a long moment envisioning them as the perfect symbol of true love, Caius meanwhile was thoroughly enjoying himself and wishing that Victoria's kissing him wasn't just a cover up and that she was honestly attracted to him, and Victoria was thinking of her evil plan which Aro could've easily seen had he merely touched her then again she was thinking of her plan in Ukrainian…
Then Jane's smile turned into a leer as she hissed, "Just like Bella will love me. and be my love slave forever!" A loud maniacal laugh soon followed with Marcus, Aro, and Alec taking a step back from her.
And the moment was broken. Victoria and Caius broke apart, she tugged on his hand like she wished to take them away to a quiet place, the rest just looked at each other and shrugged. "Be back when the fun begins," called Marcus.
"We wouldn't miss it," called back Victoria with a girlish giggle of innocence while her mind swam with the blood of Bella… and wishing she weren't a vampire so she could eat a taco salad at Taco Bell.
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I told my father I wanted to go by myself, ahead of them in my truck because I needed to fill up my gas tank and would probably make it there as they did since they would leave later. "Follow them in the police car," I said hugging onto my dad tightly. "Hey Charlie. I love you and I'm sorry I put you through hell and back."
"Bells its okay. You just put me through hell inadvertently," he said casting a glance at Edward.
"Whoa, big vocabulary dad," I joked.
"Just because we live in a hick town doesn't mean I am a hick. Do you think I only ever watch football? I love the history channel too you know." Dad, I need to spend more time with you and stop taking you for granted like I always did in the past. "Though it does seem odd you're going without Edward beside you. This is a date isn't it?"
"Yeah but I'm not going to let him have it easy dad. He's got to earn back my trust you know." Charlie grinned and I raised a questioning brow. "You're finally taking some of my advice," he stated. I walked to the truck leaving him on the doorstep with the Cullens knowing they heard every word my father and I had said while pretending not to have heard anything just to be polite. Jeez could they be normal or indecent for just one moment?
"Get the hell out of here you hick," called out Emmett. Well, one of them was normal and indecent.
"Shuddup Emmett!" I smiled a little despite the circumstances. Edward walked to the truck and opened the door for me with a crooked smile.
"Just like old times huh Bella?"
"What do you mean?"
"You being in danger," he smirked.
"Yeah and your family looking impossibly beautiful in the stupidest of moments while I look…"
"Flustered and beautiful."
"Edward, this you and me thing… look I'm confused," I rambled running my fingers through my hair. "I'll admit it. But like hell I'll let my confusion control my life. There are other things than love to preoccupy my life. And to be honest I've decided to tell both you and Jake I'm going to give it a few months to think over before I start thinking again." The thing was I didn't know whether I was lying or whether that was the truth.
"Bella, I thought the same thing too so in those few months you have preoccupying yourself just think of this. I'm tired of being a pussy." He grabbed me and pulled me forward plastering a very passionate kiss on my lips that wasn't at all cold and icy but made me feel for the first time with him… warm. He pulled away with that grin I had loved so much once upon a time on his face. I could hear Jasper shouting and hooting with his family as Emmett shout out, "Finally he admits it! You owe me fifty dollars dad."
Edward shut the door for me. I was too confused to do so. My hands numb as I took the steering wheel. I was a bad person that deserved to go to hell. I was pretty sure I liked two guys…. Though I wasn't going to think about that despite how nice the kiss had been compared to all the other kisses Edward had given me… I pushed out the thoughts of his kiss as I drove on and my mind swam with memories of Jacob and myself… yes I deserved to go to hell. If other girls were in my situation they'd make up their damn mind…
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Edward danced his way over to the porch as he listened to the beautiful chugging sound of Bella's car. He was pretty pleased with himself. He felt… manly. Odd, he kind of liked it. I'm a pussy no longer, I'm a man… sort of, he thought to himself.
Carlisle handed Emmett $50, Jasper looked at Carlisle and back to Alice asking her, "Dad made a bet?! Did you see that coming?" And Esme quirked a brow and leaned over to ask Rosalie, "What did Edward call himself? I don't know what that means." Meanwhile Charlie wondered why everyone was so thrilled, he hadn't heard a thing though it seems the Cullens had… and then Charlie pulled out a beer from under the porch and cracked the lid off. All of the Cullens turned to look at him. "What?" Charlie muttered.
"Can I have one?" Emmett asked.
"We can't drink that stuff," hissed Rosalie.
"Want to prove it?"
"Dad," murmured Jasper glancing at Carlisle, "since it seems you bet how much you want to bet that he doesn't or does get drunk?"
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I parked the car, already the landscape that surrounded the Cullens' house was loaded with cars, music could be heard inside blaring, people were getting out of their cars heading towards the house, there were paper lanterns hung everywhere through the trees with actual candles inside of them that looked too perfect to catch fire, there were paper lanterns on the ground, and hell there were paper lanterns on top of the bushes… it was a fire hazard waiting to happen but it was the prettiest fire hazard I'd ever seen.
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She was like a bright blue zebra waiting to be petted and stroked because of its uniqueness, Aro thought to himself as he watched Bella get out of her mangy car from inside the top floor of the house. He'd already stationed the others to entertain the humans while he kept a lookout. Right now Jane was playing a zap game they'd gotten from a store called Spencers and she kept winning but the truth was she was sending them pain that was actually her power, in fact the batteries weren't even in the game. Just as Aro was about to go downstairs he realized something… him and Bella were wearing the same outfit. "Dammit Jane! You said this was the 'in' style," he huffed to himself. Aro quickly threw on the incredibly odd red dress and opted for the not so odd girly kimono that made him look so cute. Sometimes cross dressing worked on guys after all though to be honest Aro didn't know cross dressing was bad because he'd just got done watching Fruits Basket and decided the little boy dressed like a girl could pull it off so so could he…
Meanwhile Victoria caught the oh so familiar reeking stench of… strawberry banana nut ice cream… and then she caught the stench of Bella. She let out a hiss and Caius gripped onto her hand from where they sat at a nice little table for two with a candle in between them, it would've made for a romantic scene had the two loved each other… "It will go as planned," she whispered to Caius, "no backing out."
….and the prince of the grasshoppers raced to his love knowing that she'd been captured by the spider prince as their small baby –who grew to the human age of 6 in grass-cricky age- was raced in the Yoda ways…. Which oddly enough started first with the challenging game of Paper, Rock, Scissors and every time he lost Yoda threw a jelly bean at him which was like an edible rock to the mixed little child…
………and the snargle watched the child's training in silence hidden among the sharp pointy rocks that resembled Tom Hanks left leg…… this child had strength…. And the snargle sensed something odd in the forces…
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGING:………… Eat something with chocolate now… I command you… please. If you do so you will dream of an evil blue snargle tonight called The Great Snark Snark…………… it does too exist…. Snark bless you all.
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"So… we meet again," replied Draco coming up to me in the lot of cars on the nice pristine grass trying to be debonair as Luna snorted.
"Um hi," I said nervously. I really didn't want to make friends out here knowing that if I made friends with a male he'd probably be eaten by Aro just because he was infatuated with my dirty pictures… Ah hell that's why I'd distract him. Besides he was used to seeing me hang around guys anyway in those pictures… damn those pictures. I reached out and grabbed hold of the strange young man's arm, "I'm sorry I don't know who you are to be honest but I'd really like someone to walk me to the house. I don't want to go in alone." I played up the innocent bit biting my lip and all that. I had to sell it tonight baby… I wondered if Aro was watching me now… a shiver ran down my spin like the impending attack of the Knutty Professor's family at a large buffet……
"Its okay. I didn't introduce myself last time. I'm Draco Malfoy," he smiled swooping into a bow over my hand. One things for sure this guy really could sell it. He had class. He was English. He looked pretty hot. Seemed pretty nice… Too bad his fly was unzipped and I didn't want him to be eaten. "What happened to your friends? Last time I saw you there was a flock around you Bella."
"Oh we had a fight," I sighed as he placed my hand in his arm and walked beside his two friends. I stopped in my tracks to quirk a brow at him, "How do you know my name?"
"I heard it at the mall. And other than that I found this interesting thing on a… computer," he said testing out the words. "You're a very popular woman." I blushed to my roots.
"Don't be embarrassed. Lots of people do odd things," replied his friend with the radishes in her ears and the cowboy hat on her head, yet she wore a really nice blue dress. "I'm Luna."
"I'm Neville," said the boy with large front teeth as he tripped over an ant. Yay someone was clumsier than me! We stepped up to the house and I stalled for a moment.
"Whats wrong Bella?"
"Nothing. I'm just mad I can't be a werewolf or a witch or something. Anything right now," I hissed. Malfoy and Neville looked as if they'd swallowed skirt wearing slugs that tasted like sweaty gym shorts that had been lain out in the sun for 23.79808 hours. Luna smiled back at me and said, "I wish I were a witch too."
"You're not," breathed Neville almost jumping away from Luna staring at her like he would a 4 headed frog with a t-shirt on that said 'I'm with Stupid.' "Then how the hell do you…"
"She's being sarcastic Nev," replied Malfoy. "After you miss," he smiled at me as we stepped through the doors. And my stomach fell within my body as the goosebumps ran over my skin. I walked into the lion's den. And there they were to greet me. The vampires. I could tell they were vampires. They were too perfect looking. And then my heart stopped altogether. There she was with a smile on her face in the crowd standing next to a young male vampire. And then the two disappeared in the crowd and I couldn't see them. Victoria was here. And she wasn't hiding.
"Vampires," Neville hissed to Malfoy and Luna. I could hear them whisper and Aro's eyes went wide, I knew that face from the portrait in this house.
"What you've got to be kidding me Neville?"
"Remember class? What Professor Snape taught us," said Neville until he caught my eye, "you know about the classic movie portrayal of vampires. These people look so non-vampirish and normal it isn't funny."
"Here let me get you some punch," smiled Malfoy as he glared at Luna and Neville who decided to go dance, thought Luna's idea of dancing looked like the mating rituals of a swan and a polar bear. I stood there. And the eyes, the brownish red eyes were focused on me.
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Malfoy poured a cup of punch at the table, he hoped it was punch, it smelled fruity enough and was pink. As he poured another cup for himself someone bumped into him. "Who the hell do you think you are mudblood?" His words stopped as he looked at the all too familiar mask and snake. "Lord Voldemort?"
"Malfoy? Where's your father? Does he know you're at a party like this? And have you killed Potter yet?"
"I thought he killed you…"
"About that… hey look over there a snargle," Voldemort cried pointing at the staircase. Malfoy looked and turned around but Voldemort was nowhere to be seen. "Dammit. Now I know something bads going to happen. And I thought tonight was going to be a good night. I thought I was going to get to kiss a girl dangit." From under the table Voldemort snickered, he was a genius of hide and seek… an absolute evil genius of the game.
Malfoy walked over to Luna, "Neville I think you're right."
"Do you hear that Luna? I'm right! I knew I was right," smirked Neville! "Why am I right Malfoy?"
"Voldemort's here and considering he fails at all his evil plans against teenagers I'm guessing there's some other monster helping him here. I would've killed him with my bare hands if I had the chance but he put a mind spell on me and turned invisible," replied Malfoy gulping rather quickly his punch and then Bella's before he noticed the vampires that had started talking to Bella. "Oh hell we've got to protect our friend Bella now."
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