Chapter 10

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"Uhh hello? Earth to Bella?"

"Mmm..." I muttered automatically not really listening to anything going on around me while I thought about my date later on that day. At least, until my arse got slapped.

"Hey!" I squealed glaring at Angela while she smiled a cheeky smile.

"Well now, glad I got your attention."

"There are other ways to get someone's attention, I don't think molestation is one of them."

"You enjoyed it."

"So did your mum last night."

"Oh, how clever."

I grinned as an evil plan was brought to my mind. Angela thinks that I have never met her mother but when I was shopping for food the other day I saw a slightly older copy of Angela. When I went up and asked if they were related she told me she was her mum and we had a really nice chat after that as we shopped where I learned some funny, juicy gossip about her daughter.

"Hey now she came after me, I thought it was you at first you look so alike, if it wasn't for her blue eyes and the little scar over her nose from that fall she had last year I wouldn't have known! Anyway she told me some funny stories during the pillow talk, like about that time she walked in on you drunk during summer and you were singing Hit Me Baby One More Time into the broom. That one had me rolling."

"You're...You're kidding." She said in slight horror, her face completely dropping. "How do you know about that?"

"Well, I'm sorry Angie." Feigning a confused expression, "You're hot, and an older version of you is very hot! You have Ben so I can't really steal you and your mum is fair game, I can't help it."

She stared at me in utter disbelief for a few seconds before shaking her head and wandering slowly away, looking lost before throwing herself at an unsuspecting Ben who had just walked out of his class.

"Benjamin! Save me from this demon!"

"Ange? Wait...what...?" He looked around confused before seeing me grinning at him.

"Don't worry Ben. She's just being a baby because she doesn't want me to be her step-mum."

"GROSS!" I ran away to my lesson quickly laughing all the way as Angela chased after me holding her ruler high like a sword.

I forgot how fun humans can be!

"Okay Isabella, this is it, just be your natural charming and funny self and everything will be fine." I said to myself as a pep talk after school.

"Who says you're charming? Or funny?" I heard an amused voice behind me and my cheeks flushed to high heaven.

"Oh crap." I muttered as I turned around to Alice who had her arms crossed and appeared to be enjoying my embarrassment way too much. "Hey Alice." I said quietly trying to calm my red face.

"Hey Bells, you done talking to yourself so we can head off?"

"Hmph, you could have been nice and at least pretended not to have heard me."

"And miss the healthy bright red glow of your face? Nope, I like this a lot more."

"Fine, maybe I should just leave you here and go on a date with me, myself and I."

"Awwwww Bellaaaaaa don't be like that, I've been looking forward to this all day!" Her pout and that last bit got me grinning like a fool.

"So have I." I replied handing her the helmet which she took without protest, she's learnt by now that I wouldn't move unless that pretty little head was protected.

"Where are we going?"

"Somewhere."

"Damn it, I hate surprises." I could practically hear the pout as I swung my leg over the bike. I found out pretty quickly that she doesn't have that many visions of me for some reason and it's pretty easy to block them completely once I learnt the technique of changing my mind all the time from the other Cullens.

"Well deal with it Tinkerbell, I'm not going to tell you because you have a little strop back there."

"Insulting your date isn't very chivalrous Kitten."

"If you wanted chivalry you should have gone on a date with Jasper."

"...Ew." I laughed at that and sped off enjoying her arms around me as usual.

I weaved through the after school traffic and turned into a dirt road leading into the forest, stopping at the end of it.

"What're we doing here?" Alice asked taking off her helmet, I simply smiled, shrugged out of my jacket and then proceeded to remove the rest of my clothing.

"Bella! Why are you undressing!?"

"I thought we could go streaking, come on take your clothes off."

"I'm not sure what kind of crazy dates you shape shifters go on but I'm not-"

I flicked her nose playfully to stop her protests. "I'm going to shift honey, watching me strip is part of the dating package, just try not to drool on my bike."

I winked at her and removed my top, jeans and underwear shoving them into the bag I put around my leg, I turned my head slightly and was excited to see that Alice was watching me this time, I took a calming breath before shifting into my cat. After I shook all my fur out I looked down at her with a toothy grin which she returned before stroking my muzzle making me purr deeply and push into her hand.

"I love your cat form, it's beautiful. I mean-I mean you're beautiful as a human too of course, but, you know what I mean..." She stuttered out quickly looking like she would be blushing, this made me smile even more and I nuzzled against her face slightly making her giggle.

"Right." I said after a brief silence, "Follow me, and try to keep up!" I dashed into the trees and heard soft footfalls behind me.

"I didn't know you were this quick!" She shouted.

"I didn't know you were this SLOW!" I threw back which she growled at and I saw a white blur vanish past me a second later.

"Oh it's on girl..." I muttered and dug my claws into the dirt throwing it up behind me as I caught up with her, I looked over and appreciated her grace as she dodged logs and trees and saw a happiness in her face I knew was reflected in mine.

This was where we both belonged, in the wild where we could hunt, run as fast as we wanted, do whatever was in our nature and act however we wanted away from the observation and scrutiny of humans and I loved sharing this moment with her, promising myself we should do this more often.

I ran in front of her when an idea popped into my head, once there I stopped slightly and ducked down, I heard a surprised squeak come out of her before she fell onto my back, I rose and ran forward again letting her ride on my back.

"Holy shit!" I heard her cry as she grabbed the scruff of my neck, I roared in laughter and ran as fast as I could which is a lot faster then any vampire I've met and heard her whoop in excitement.

"This is freaking awesome!"

"Hold on tight cowgirl!" As with my sharp eyes I saw a chasm fast approaching, when I reached it I sprang into the air putting a lot more height in it then I would usually to make it more fun and cleared the sheer drop easily. After another few minutes I came to a stop at my destination and heard Alice gasp above me.

"Bella...this place is beautiful."

I nodded my head in agreement and gazed around at the clearing I found on one of my hunts. It was a meadow like many others in the forest but this is the only one I knew that had a beautiful waterfall and deep natural river coming down from the mountains behind Forks.

I trotted towards the waterfall and stopped when I got to the bags I'd put down before school.

"What's in those?" Asked Alice as she slid from my back.

"You didn't think I'd make you skinny dip on our first date did you?"

"That's a shame, I would have done exactly that. But I suppose now that you've brought swimwear that won't have to happen." She said very seriously before undoing one of the bags. I spluttered uselessly as her swimming naked raced through my thoughts and tried to backtrack and use my pleading eyes to pretty much beg.

"You're such a pervert." She held up the yellow bikini I picked out for her and laughed. "This is the skimpiest bikini I own, did you happen to plan that by any chance?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I could have given you the crotchless ones I found in Rosalie's room."

"Crotchless bikini's exist?"

"Vampires and Shape-shifters exist, don't be surprised that kinky swimwear makers do as well."

"Hmm, good point." She replied before starting to take her top off.

"You..." My mouth dropped open slightly and dried up as her purple bra appeared before me.

"Please, you're not the only one who can strip whenever and wherever they want, and I don't see any leafy changing rooms around here."

As much as I tried to be the proper gentlewoman and look away while she changed I just couldn't, she obviously didn't mind anyway. I could feel my heartbeat rise as she removed the last of her garments and I knew she could hear it as plain as day, there was just no hiding my attraction for her.

She was absolutely beautiful and the slight sun made her shine like an angel, my angel. She gave me a look from beneath her lashes which was both sultry and shy and my temperature shot up along with my heart, damn it she was going to make me faint, her sexiness is ridiculous. By the time she covered herself up I was lost in my Alice fantasies and had no chance of getting out without help.

"Dirty cat." She grinned flicking my ear and effectively snapping me back to reality.

"Damn girl, you look stunning." In my panther voice it came out a lot gruffer then I expected and made me sound like some horny old man. Well, I suppose I'm a horny old lady so it was to be expected.

"Your turn!" She said as she took the next bikini out, her grin crossed from confusion and then realisation as she saw what she was holding.

"Holy mother of...they do exist!" She held the red bikini bottoms with the hole in the front up to eye level. "You're going to wear these?!"

"Is there a problem Ali-cat?"

"But you...Are..." She really didn't know what to say and I had to put her out of her misery with a laugh.

"You really are too easy to tease honey." I said affectionately nudging her with my nose before picking up a hidden bag with my claw and phasing back to get changed into my intact bikini.

"As I said before, insulting and making fun of your date isn't very nice." She said with a huff as I came up beside her.

"And I will repeat, you could have Jasper's manly physique standing beside you instead if you wanted that."

"Eww." She said once again before grabbing me and pulling me into the water with her, the speed of it made me yelp and I inhaled the water making me cough and splutter as I emerged.

"You are in big trouble missy!" I yelled before starting a game of chase which we followed with somersaults off the top of the waterfall into the deep pool that had been eroded out at the bottom of it and generally acted like a couple of children. When we got tired of that we sat down in the shallower sides of the river and talked, it was mostly her telling me of all the antics her family got up to since my past was not a very pleasant thing to talk about.

Halfway through Alice's tale of Edward having to do a forfeit where he wore a tutu, which I was most definitely going to mention in future, my stomach growled embarrassingly loudly. This was when I realised I completely forwent hunting the last week because I was worrying too much about this damn date, which was absolutely ridiculous now that I was here alone with my mate having an amazing time.

"Are you hungry? Wanna go to a restaurant?" Alice asked worriedly when she heard it.

"I am hungry but umm...It's not a restaurant eating kind of hungry."

"Oh I see, haven't you gone hunting at all?" I scratched my head sheepishly.

"I was kinda being a coward about asking you out and forgot." She smiled widely at that.

"You're too cute." I should never have mentioned that I hate being called that, she now uses it way too much. "Well...want to come hunting with me?"

My inner cat jumped to the front of my mind in excitement over that idea and I went rigid and silent as I thought about hunting with my mate. Seeing her completely feral and taking down prey. A wild grin on her face. Midnight eyes looking at me. I had never hunted with another being in my life as I felt like it was a very personal act, but sharing it with my mate sounded like the most natural thing in the world. I simply nodded my head a couple of times as apparently my voice disappeared into nothingness along with normal thoughts. This woman was driving me insane, and I loved it.

I shifted as soon as I finished nodding, ripping my bikini to pieces and listened for any heartbeats and sniffed for any whiff of a scent, as soon as a herd of deer invaded my senses I went into complete hunter mode and looked into my mate's now pitch black eyes.

This was the first time that our wilder sides had been let out completely in each others presence and I felt my bond with her grow in strength, her stance shifted and her eyes widened slightly almost as if she could feel the tug of it. It's like each side of me that meets her falls in love with her in their own way, the human, the kitten and now the predator.

Before I did something stupid and animalistic like mount her right there and then I took off after my prey hearing Alice follow straight after me. When I reached the cliff that towered over the herd I pounced down into the middle of them and landed on a large female's back, snapping it and killing her instantly, making the rest scatter, but not before Alice tackled another to the floor and latched her teeth into its neck.

We locked eyes again and growled loudly to each other as the thrill of the hunt flowed through us and a passing thought stunned me for a moment. As an animal I was naturally protective of my food and the thought of someone else taking it was just not possible for me, in the past that is. Now, I wanted to give my kill to Alice, to share it with my mate as an offer of utmost trust between us.

I picked the deer up with my teeth and approached her slowly never breaking eye contact, she growled a little louder at me as I got closer to her and her own kill but did nothing else, when I dropped the animal in front of her she looked at it and back up at me in confusion. I nudged the body closer to her with my nose as a hint, there was no way my voice was going to work in the animalistic state I was in. She clocked on quickly and looked at me in shock before accepting the offering warily, like she was expecting me to take it away again.

I started feeding on the deer's leg as Alice drained her from the neck still never breaking eye contact and as strange as it is, even after the sex I had in my years of depression it was one of the most intimate moments of my life.

When we both finished I shifted back and approached her while her eyes raked up and down my body with obvious appreciation before settling on my lips when I was almost touching her.

I leaned forward putting my hands on her hips and ran my nose across the side of her neck, inhaling deeply and she exposed more of it in submission which I purred out loud at.

"Bella..." She growled and I brushed my lips against hers softly at first giving her a chance to pull away if she wanted to. I didn't have to worry about that as she pushed forwards eagerly and claimed my lips, it was like the whole of my being connected with her in that instant in a snap. There was no way I could detangle myself from her now, she had to be a part of my life or I don't think I'd be able to survive. As her cold fingers lightly danced around my exposed overheated sides I couldn't help the sigh that I let out when I felt the electricity they created, just like that first time I touched her in gym, light years ago.

Just as I was about to run my tongue against her lips to ask for entry I felt her freeze suddenly and I pulled back immediately thinking that she changed her mind but when I saw the blank look on her face I knew she was having one of her now rare visions. I stroked her hair back softly and waited patiently for her to come back to the present.

"N-no..." She stuttered so silently I could barely catch it.

"What is it honey?" I asked, calmed down enough I could talk properly. She looked back at me and I'd never seen so much terror in someone's eyes, not since that night I saw my parents anyway.

"James has Esme..."

Soooo...See you soon? ;)

Becky.