A/N: I don't own Twilight or the characters
Not The First
Chapter Four My Story of Two Vampire Lovers Part Two
BPOV
"Hi Marcus, my name's Bella, Bella Swan. Umm, I am renting the apartment next door and I was told to let you know when I have arrived," I said shyly to the man before me. As I am standing there looking at him I noticed there is something about this man. He seemed ageless, yet stuck in a 25 year olds body. He also seems dangerous, maybe its his red eyes that seem to look deep down into my soul. But at the same time I was drawn to him.
I thought to myself how strange it is.
"Ahhh, yes, I am the landlord of the apartment. Would you like some help getting your possessions into the apartment? Maybe some help unpacking?"
'He seems kind enough,' Wow, why am I talking to myself in my head. Maybe I'm going crazy. Maybe that is why his eyes are red, my craziness. That makes sense, NOT.
"Um, if you don't mind. I kind of have a lot of paintings, mainly, that I need help with. If you're sure you want to help."
With a nod of his head we both walked down to my car and the waiting moving truck, where two men were opening the back. Between the four of us we carried all of my stuff into my apartment.
Afterwards the two moving truck men left but Marcus insisted on staying and helping me unpack and set up. We started to unwrapping some of the framed art work and Marcus's face as he unwrapped the first piece was one of awe.
"You painted this? He asked me.
The painting was one of my more recent ones. The dark night sky, only illuminated by the millions of starts bringing a mystical glow to the meadow that lay below. It was only a small meadow, surrounded by forest but the meadow was not empty. There was a lone wolf in the centre of the meadow, howling to the sky and being watched by the glowing eyes following his every move.
"Umm, Yeah, I did. Why?" I replied.
"This is amazing. I am actually an art...expert, you could call me and I have never seen a painting like this one. It is extraordinary...no, even that word does not do it justice," He answered.
Weeks passed and Marcus and I got to know each other better. Then one day, after school, I was unlocking the door to my apartment when Marcus' door opened his. Out stepped a blond haired man, Marcus and a black haired man all with the same red eyes as Marcus.
"Oh, hello Bella," Marcus said kind of shocked to see me standing there.
"Ummm, hey."
"This is Caius," He said pointing to the blond, "and this is Aro. They are my Brother's," he introduced.
Caius just nodded his head at me in greeting while Aro took my hand from my side and placed a kiss on my knuckles. A second his hand touched mine I could feel a small spark shoot through me and his expression turned to one of confusion while my cheeks turned a bright shade of red from my blush.
"It's a pleasure to meet you both," I said as Aro released my hand.
"The pleasure is all ours," Aro replied.
After that Aro and Caius left with Marcus; off to some job or something so I decided to go inside to the spare bedroom which I had transformed into an art studio. I placed a clean canvas on the easel and moved the paints into to place; then I just let my hands do all of the work. I wasn't even aware of what I was painting until two hours later. There on my canvas is Aro's eyes stared back at me. The brilliant red eyes surrounded by long lashes and the pale glowing skin of his face.
'What the fuck am I doing painting Aro's, a man I only meet two hours ago, eyes?' I thought to myself.
'Because you feel connected to him,' I replied to myself.
'We spoke all of two sentences to one another,' I argued.
'So?' I questioned.
Great, now I'm arguing with myself.
For the next week all I could think of was Aro.
It was a week later that I heard an unexpected knock on my apartment door. I slowly got up from my position on the couch, where I was sketching, to answer the door.
I opened the door and gasped. There, before me, was the object of my thoughts for the past week pacing a hole into the floor.
"Hello," I said to Aro, who had suddenly turned and smiled at me.
"Hello, Isabella," He replied, and then all of a sudden he looked incredibly nervous, "I came here to ask you if you would like to go out on a date. I know we have barely said two sentences to one another and I know that I am nearly ten years older than you but I don't care. All I know is that I have constantly thought of you since the day I met you, I just can't get you out of my mind. This obsession is almost getting so bad that I am starting to consider believing in love at first sight, which believe me has never been on my list of beliefs before, I can assure you of that but-."
I placed my finger to his lips to stop his ramblings.
"Yes I will go on a date with you. No I don't care about the age difference or the fact that we have only spoken two sentences to one another. By the way, you were rambling."
"I was, wasn't I?" Aro said chuckling to himself.
XxX
Aro and I had been going out for two months now and things were getting serious. I had fallen in love with Aro Volturi. I didn't care that he was a vampire, which I had found out about three weeks ago, I didn't care that he was over a thousand years old and I didn't care that he was king of the vampire world. All I cared about was him and our love for one another.
After he had told me he was a vampire he took me to the castle and introduced me to his guard. Trust me I was surprised at how many of them were there in the throne room. Over the few weeks I became quite close to everybody in the castle. Caius became an older brother and Marcus was like my protector. Felix and Demitri were my older jokester brothers while Alec and Jane became like my younger brother and sister.
During the past few weeks I even got Felix and Jane to admit they had feelings for one another. Of course that led to Alec and Felix kicking each other's asses in the castle gardens.
Today, Aro was taking me to our bridge that crossed over the river in the castle gardens.
After the walk to the bridge I noticed Aro was really restless.
"What's the matter Aro? You're a vampire, you don't fidget."
"Isabella, Bella, I have lived over 1,000 years and I have never met anybody as lovely, talented, bright or beautiful as you are. You have been the light in my life since the day I met you. Before my life was black and white, a chase for power and enforcing the rules but every since I met you, you have brought colour into my life, fun and joy as well as hope for the future. I know that I will always love you. Bella, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?"
For a few moments I was stunned. I mean we were only two months into the relationship and he was asking me to marry him.
But I knew within my heart I love him so I answer with; "Yes."
XxX
We decided to have a long engagement. I mean, he was ready to marry me the moment I said yes but I thought that we should give the rest of the world a chance to catch up. I was turning seventeen in three weeks time and life was great.
Until today.
Aro and I were standing at the front gates of the castle and to my surprise there were no guards the like there usually would be. Aro stood before me looking at me with an emotionless expression.
"What is it Aro?" I asked.
"I am breaking off the engagement," He stated.
"What? You must be joking. You are joking right?" For some reason I knew he wasn't.
"No, I never joke. I am breaking off the engagement. You are human; you don't belong in this world. But you are also a weakness, a weakness I can't not allow myself to have."
"FINE! IF YOU WANT TO BE LIKE THAT YOU FUCKING BASTARD, FINE. BUT NEVER EXPECT TO SEE ME AGAIN YOU MOTHER FUCKING BASTARD!" I yelled as I stormed off.
XxX
I tried going back to school but all I couldn't get my mind off of Aro. I would all of a sudden breakdown in the middle of class so I decided to go back to Phoenix, to my mum.
XxX
After awhile I moved to forks... (Everything that happened in Twilight and everything before the Italy part in New Moon)
