I am so completely sorry for taking so long to update! I just had like a freak out mental breakdown. You see, I thought my dad erased everything from my computer, but it turns out, the evil technology called a computer transferred all my files to my photo album. So as I frantically screamed at my dad, the files were on my computer the whole time. I love my life.
Anywho, here is the latest and greatest, hopefully the next chapter should be up soon, unless it gets moved to a different folder as well :(
Soome people had some questions, so to clear it up:
The vampires are all the usual vampires from the book with the exception of Emmett. All the werewolves remain werewolves, and Bella and Emmett are witches.
Hope that helped!
Enjoy!
Chappie 9: Down With the Rainbow
Song: For some reason I just feel like I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred works for this one.
BPOV
I lay on my bed alone, staring at the walls and humming quietly to myself. It had been three days since Edward was released from the medic wing, and since then we've been slightly inseparable.
Whether it was in training or eating or just passing time, we were together. I guess it was good for bonding with a roommate and building the foundation of our friendship, but every once in awhile I caught Zeno sneaking a suspicious glance our way.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Edwards's melodic voice pulled me out of my thoughts. He was standing over me, smiling in his own way, a book in his hands.
"What's that you got there?" I asked, changing the subject.
"Oh what? Nothing," he muttered quickly, trying to hide the book behind his back. I hopped up and around him, grabbing the book as I went and skipping across the room.
"Let's see what Edward reads in his spare time. Could it be," I glanced down to see the title of the book, "Wuthering heights," I whispered.
I looked up at Edward through confused eyes then back to the book.
Just the other day over lunch we were casually playing a game of twenty questions, or a least my version.
Flashback to the other day:
"Alright tenth question," Edward announced while taking a sip of the coca cola lying in front of him, "hmm what to ask. How about book? What's your favorite?"
"Wuthering Heights," I said immediately, straightening up a bit, "it's my absolute favorite book."
"Why?" Edward smiled casually, his eyes filled with curiosity and another emotion I couldn't place.
"That," I said while pointing at him, "is a good question. One day, while my family was on a fun old shopping trip, I kinda went out on my own and stumbled upon an old antique store. The place intrigued me, what with its creepy ambiance and all, so I went in.
"It was a cramped area lined with furniture and magazines and books at every corner and wall. They tried to stuff everything from anytime in there, it's impossible to know how they could keep track of anything. Well, as I walked around, or at least attempted too, something caught my eye. Wedged between an old reading chair and a mahogany desk was a small green object. I pulled it out and noticed it was a worn copy of a book. I turned to the title page and read the title: Wuthering Heights. I had never heard of the book before, but something about this old book that had seen so many days had me craving the information lying in its pages.
"So I asked to buy it, but it was much too much, and I had to get going. I promised myself I would return the next day to buy it, a promise I almost fulfilled. The next day I found myself at that same antique shop, searching and searching for that copy of the book. I never found it, so since then I read it at least once a year and think about the day that I almost had it for myself. Never does a day go by where I think to myself, maybe if I had done something different. I'd have that book. I don't know why it impacted me so much, it just did."
End of flashback.
I stared down at the book in my hand that now felt like lead. I could feel the rock in my throat appearing again and looked up at Edward for an answer.
"How'd you find it?" my words were but a whisper now, but the question still held strong.
Edward's stern face softened and he sat down, patting the bed next to him.
"Sit," I obeyed, sitting down, staring at my hands, "I know the owner of an old antique store much like the one you described. He's well, friends of the family I guess, and I asked him if he had a copy of Wuthering Heights. He told me he did, first edition to be exact, and I bought it. I guess I imagined that it was the same as the one you saw that day, and I thought I'd surprise you.
"I was going to do it in a much cuter way though. You know the bench you always sit on after class?" I nodded, "Well I was going to leave it there for you to find. I was going to write a little note in it on the title page, and then you'd have it."
He got all quiet again, following my example and staring at his hands. Those glorifying hands.
"You'd do all that for me?"
Edward nodded silently and looked up at me, his green eyes filled with some emotion I couldn't quite place. And oh how beautiful those emeralds were, a sea of endless beauty, daring me to swim.
I knew what was going to happen before it did. Our faces were inches apart, the remaining space slowly closing. Our lips were close, I could feel his breath....
"Oh man today was great!"
Jacob. Black.
"Training was awesome, kicked some ass! And dinner, man was that steak good or what? Oh and the desert, yum! And now for a nice rest to do it all again tomorrow. How could it be better? Why are you two so close?"
I frowned at him, slowly backing away from Edward. Bella he is your savior right now. He just saved you from doing something bad, you should be thanking him, not wanting to rip his head off. But it looked so appealing.
"She had something in her eye," Edward stated monotonously, plopping onto his bed and rubbing his temples.
"Oh, bummer."
EPOV
Did I really just come that close to kissing Bella Swan? I believe I did, and man how much did I hate Jacob Black for ruining it. Just the image of her lips had me running crazy and now knowing that I was just seconds from actually knowing how they felt….AHH!
I glared at Jacob from across the room, although he was too focused on how awesome his day was to actually notice.
"I'm going out," Bella announced, picking up her sweater and standing to leave.
"I'll go with you."
"No," I winced at her retort, "I want to be alone." She quickly left the room, shutting the door quietly behind her.
"Somebody's a little moody. Someone's entering womanhood!" Why did he sound so enthused?
I just looked at him obliviously, why was he so strange? His mind was about the same, random and weird. You would almost think he was compatible with Alice, except Alice was on a whole other level of strange, but in a good way.
Speaking of that little fireball, guess who was right outside my door? I hopped up and opened the door before she could knock and let her in. She skipped across the room and onto my bed, sighing loudly.
"What is it?" I asked suspiciously.
"If only I had a brother that cared," she sighed loudly again, leaning her head onto her hand.
"What's brought this on?"
"Well, I am just so in love with my boyfriend, I only want my brother that I admire so dearly to like him too. But sadly I don't have a brother that cares for me enough to bond with his future brother-in-law."
"Fine," I had nothing better to do anyways. I slumped out of the room and slammed the door behind me, not really needing Alice's satisfactory smile in my head.
I stomped all across the hall, getting some strange looks, until finally I came across the room Alice told me he was in.
I knocked loudly, not trying to disguise my annoyance with my sister.
Hmm Edward. Could this really just be your pent up sexual frustration with a certain someone named Bella.
Hmm, could this be my need for more testosterone in my life and less women?
"Edward?" Emmett's deep voice pulled me out of my bickering mind and into the reality that my sister's boyfriend was cheating on her. With a guy?
"What?" I asked aloud, allowing my confusion to become apparent.
"Is everything alright?" I scratched my head and tried peering around him to find no trace of Jasper at all.
"Where's Jasper?"
"Oh he's in the bathroom. Why do you need to see him?"
"Well I thought that I would spend some bonding time with my sister's BOYFRIEND," I ended up shouting the last word, "you know, the man she is destined to marry. Because they're dating, each other. Together."
"Okay dude, settle down, I'll go tell him you're here." I nodded my head, frowning as he walked deeper into his room. He gestured for me to follow him in; his room was about the size of mine. Big with two beds instead of three, I wonder who his roommate was.
Covering the wall around one of the beds were posters of half naked women hanging everywhere. I shuddered and decided Emmett's roommate was a complete tool.
"Hey Jasper Edward's here to see you," Emmett announced while sitting against a wall.
"So, Bella never really mentioned that about you," I said nervously, surveying the room.
"Mentioned what?" Emmett sounded a little curious, and slightly afraid?
"Well you know that you're gay. Like its cool, I'm down with all colors of the rainbow. It's just that I never would've thought, a manly man like you. I thought you'd go for someone like Rosalie. But it's cool, whatever you like."
Emmett stared at me for awhile, his face completely blank. Then suddenly, without warning, he burst into hysterical laughter.
"You…think…I'm…GAY? Oh man that's the best thing I've heard in forever. Dude look at my bed, can you say that belongs to a gay man?"
I followed his finger to the bed and the posters surrounding it, the ones that were demeaning women everywhere.
"Oh it makes sense now. You're not some tool or jerk. You're just trying to hide it. It's okay Emmett, there's nothing to be embarrassed about," I placed my hand on his shoulder comfortingly, than removed it immediately, not wanting to give him the wrong impression.
"What's going on here?" Jasper walked out of the bathroom, a confused look on his face.
"Edward here thinks we're gay together," Emmett said out of his closed mouth, his teeth clenched together.
Jasper gave me a curious look and smiled at me.
"Wanna join the party?" he said suggestively, raising his eyebrows up and down. Then he burst into laughter at my horrified look, giving Emmett a high five.
"Dude, I'm kidding," he said, holding his side for support, "we're roommates, not gay."
"Oh," I said embarrassed, running a hand nervously through my hair.
"Oh man, that's the best thing I've heard all day." Emmett was now rolling around on the floor, dying of laughter, and Jasper falling to the ground, tears coming out of his eyes.
"What is going on here?" Bella's voice made the room quiet, her confused face made them start laughing again.
"Edward?"
I walked up to her slowly, rubbing my temples.
"Well you see, I just accused your brother of being gay."
And there you have it. I promise the next one will be more serious and juicy, do I smell drama? Review what you think and what you would like to read!
-Cole
