The Definition of Love
After new moon. When Alice makes a terrible mistake, how will it affect the Cullens? And more importantly how will it affect Bella? Told from Bella's POV.
Don't own anything.
A.N.: Thanks to Melanie-Kisaragi, Avarenda, Hier, .I Talk-2-Evil Little Pixies. and Julman for the reviews
Julman, I chose this city based only on how many sunny days there were in that city. First I was gonna send them to Pittsburgh, but there was too much of a difference on the number of sunny days. In my opinion, that is. And Bella will have her share of admirers, as soon as time is right. ;)
I'm glad you all liked the last chapter. Hope you like this one too.
And, before i forget: Happy Easter. I hope you all get a lot of chocolate!
Chapter 7 – Babysit me
But he had pretty much just dismissed me, and that annoyed me to no end. He didn't get to decide what I would or wouldn't worry about. And if I wanted to worry about that freaking invisible wall, I would worry about that freaking invisible wall.
I reached Carlisle long before we got to the others, but I kept my mouth shut. I was still pissed at being dismissed, and I was afraid that if I started talking, I would say things that I shouldn't. And I don't know what I would do if there was another Cullen pissed at me.
My presence made Edward leave, Jasper obviously despised me and Rosalie had never hidden the fact that she would rather see me gone. If I got another Cullen to dislike me, they would have majority of votes, and they would probably tell me to leave.
I couldn't live on my own. How would I control myself? Where would I go? How could I take care of myself? I would be completely lost.
Well, I would just have to make sure to please Carlisle, Esme, Emmett and Alice at all times. And I'm pretty sure that included not lashing out on any of them, so I bit my tongue and followed him.
When we got to the place where the house would be built, I can honestly say that I was surprised. They had already cleared out the area, meaning they had taken the trees out by its roots, and Alice and Jasper were pilling them up somewhere near. Emmett was almost done digging the soil to build the footing, the foundation and the basement. Esme was showing Rosalie the blueprint, explaining how she wanted things to be built.
The nicer of the duo waved at us, telling me and Carlisle to come near. I suppose that she wanted to put us to work, but I had no idea how to build a house, and they were making it seem so easy. I didn't want to make a mess out of things, but I knew my track record.
Carlisle walked in a painfully slow human pace and I accompanied him. It must have been a habit that he picked up from walking with humans so much and I wanted to learn that. I think it would please him and diminish my chances of getting kicked out.
Esme started to show us what she had drawn, and where each material was located. But I wasn't paying attention to her, I was trying to listen to Alice and Jasper's conversation 300 yards away, but they were whispering. They must be keeping their voice low because they didn't want any of us to hear them, I guess they had learned how to keep their privacy in a house full of vampires.
I realized that I was trying to eavesdrop on their conversation and shifted my attention elsewhere, to Esme, who had just told me what I was supposed to do, but of course I had no idea what she had just said. It was just that I missed Alice, and I wanted her near me, not over there, flirting and joking and chatting with Jasper.
Esme looked at me like she was waiting for me to move, but I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. I tried to remember what she had just said, I couldn't disappoint her, but I came up blank. Luckily for me, Emmett yelled for me to stop being so lazy and help him out.
I made my way to him, and waited so he would tell me what to do.
"Bella, Bella. What will we do with you?" He said as if he was disappointed, but I knew better. He had a smirk on his face, so I figured that he was just trying to tease me. "Get your mind off your gutter and get to work, will you?"
So, I guess he had seen what I had been staring at when Esme told me what to do. Had the others noticed it too? I really hoped they hadn't. I was just glad that no one seemed to have heard what Emmett had said. He either had also learned how to keep things quiet or he had enough sense to lower his voice when he said that. I'm starting to think people didn't give Emmett enough credit for his sensitivity.
"What do I have to do?" I asked, but I guess he was already expecting it.
"Just get all the dirt that I dug and pile it up somewhere else."
I did as he said as fast as I could, and I supposed that to someone that didn't have superpowers, I would be a blur, if even that. But I didn't feel like I was too fast, because I could see it all approaching, it was like things happened in slow motion.
Emmett hadn't said where he wanted the pile of dirt to go, so I decided to pile it up next to the trees, by that I mean, next to Jasper and Alice. Emmett saw it and just shook his head, laughing.
I tried to hear what Alice and Jasper were saying, it was subconsciously; I had no control over it. But every time I reached hearing range, they stopped talking. What were they trying to hide from me? What were they talking about?
Eventually, they finished their jobs and joined the others. I guess I couldn't really be mad that they didn't want me to hear their conversation. Every couple had its secrets but I was kinda of bothered by it.
After I was done, I realized that Carlisle and Esme were doing the plumbing and wiring as the rest of the family was working on building the footing and the foundation. I made my way to them, trying not to feel left out. It seemed that they were a family, and each had its pair. And I was just standing in the way.
Eventually, Esme noticed me standing there and asked me to help her. I mostly watched her work, because I had no idea what to do. It also gave me time to watch the others and that made me even more depressive that I already was. They worked as a team, they knew what each other was doing. They were used to it.
It was sickening to watch Emmett throw himself at Rosalie's feet. The worst part was that even if she pretended to be above it, it was so obvious that she cared about him in the same way, if not more. Jasper and Alice were another story. They bothered me in whole new way, not the stop-acting-so-much-like-a-damn-couple way, like Emmett and Rosalie or Esme and Carlisle. But a different way, one I couldn't describe.
It just bothered me that he felt the need to touch her every two seconds, or that she would smile at him, or how they would laugh together. And I specially hated when he would kiss her.
We, I mean they, were done much sooner than I had expected, but I guess it shouldn't have been hard to predict, considering they were a group of super strong, not tiring vampires that had almost a century worth of practice. Now the concrete had to dry, and in the mean time, we started to cut the trees that had been torn down by Alice and Jasper into lumber so that we could build the actual house.
We were done in a few hours, but the concrete wasn't dry yet, so there was nothing we could do. The family decided to go back into town to pick furniture, but I knew that I would have to stay behind. Alice came running to me, and jumped into my arms.
"Don't worry, Bella. I'll pick your room" She told me, in her usual vibrant voice. "I know exactly what you need" I don't know if she meant it, but I heard it in a completely different meaning. And I agreed with it completely.
Alice didn't kiss me when she let go of me, and I missed it. But I guess she didn't want Jasper to see it.
They left, so I sat down beside a tree, waiting for time to pass thinking about my life and the changes in it. I realized that I missed my family. I wanted to call my mom and Charlie. They must be frenetic, trying to find me and even if I knew that it was dangerous for them to do so, I wished they would succeed.
After a while, I realized that they hadn't left me alone after all. There was a figure, standing still, staring at me.
"Emmett, what are you still doing here?"
"Let's just say that Rosalie knows precisely how I want our room to be."
"By that you mean, she will pick anything she wants regardless of what you say to her?"
"Exactly. Besides, you needed a babysitter and I volunteered" He told me, as he sat down beside me. I liked Emmett, he was like a giant teddy bear.
"So, you thought you would be a good babysitter for me? Are you gonna change my diapers?" I teased him.
"No, I think I will leave that up to Alice. She seems to like to get your pants off of you." I didn't know how to respond to that, and after a while he continued. "So, who is top and who is bottom?"
"Emmett!" He was unbelievable. How could he joke around with something like that?
"Alice looks like someone who would take charge, but you seem to be someone shy on the outside, and really controlling inside the bedroom. Am I right?"
"I can't really see how that's any of your business."
"So, I AM right."
"Emmett!" I repeated.
I suppose I would be three shades of red by now if I was still human. Good thing I was not, this way I could hide my embarrassment. Kinda of. He knew he was making me uncomfortable, and he was enjoying every minute of it.
"Come on! Help a guy out here. Two hot girls going at it inside my house and you won't tell me anything!"
"Hot?"
"Hell, yeah!" I was shocked, so it took me a while to answer him.
It was the first time someone told me I was hot. In Phoenix, no one told I was anything. Edward used to tell me I was beautiful. Alice always told me I was cute when she complemented me. But it was the first time someone told me I was sexually attractive. I know I should have been mad, but I was more flattered than anything else.
"Either way, you don't get to hear anything." I told him, matter-of-factly.
"Quite the contrary, I hear plenty." He said, laughing "You do know how sensitive a vampire's ear can be. All I hear is 'Oh, God, Alice!' or 'More, Bella!' or 'Faster, Faste-"
"Shut up!" I cut him off. I didn't need to hear it, he was already laughing hard enough.
"Come on, Bella. Don't be mad. You know I'm just having fun with you." He told me, once he realized that I was actually angry. He approached me, and put his arms around my shoulder. "You know, Bella, there is nothing to be embarrassed about. It's just sex."
"It's still weird that everyone can hear it."
"You will get used to it. You will be able to hear everyone else too. And trust me, there is nothing you can say or do that will shock us, we have seen everything." He was smirking as he let go of me, and I knew that I would have to endure another round of teasing now that he had comforted me.
I was right, and he spent the next day and a half teasing me in any way, shape, or form that he could think of. He stopped about the same time that the rest of the family arrived.
"Bella, you will love your room" Alice told me in her usual overexcited voice. She jumped on me, catching me in a hug, and spinning me around. For a moment, I thought she was gonna do more than that, but she quickly let me go.
I adored when Alice touched me, even before when her skin was cold and hard. But now that her skin felt soft and warm to my touched, I was powerless to resist it. I yearned for it, and I missed it when it was gone.
"What did you get me?" I asked her, still trying to regain my mind, after she let go of me. It was like I was intoxicated with her. I wanted her. I wanted to rip her clothes off and fuck her, in front of everyone. I took a deep breath, regaining some sort of peace.
"That's a surprise. But I'm sure you will love it." Of course she was sure, she could see the future. She probably had had a vision of me seeing the room and loving it.
"Let's get back to work then." Emmett said, he was eager to get the house finished, I think he was suffering from too much time without his Xbox.
We had to apply some sort of chemistry thing to the wood to protect it, so we all got to it. By the time that we were done, it was time to actually build the house. We built the frames, and I realized that this house too would have a lot of windows. We worked fast, all together, and I realized that the house would be done much sooner than I considered being possible.
The only problem, though, was the fact that Jasper continued to touch Alice all the time. It was like he couldn't keep his hands to himself. So, they stopped working every so often because of this. Couldn't they see that it was getting annoying? Besides it was really counterproductive, everyone else was working really hard to get the house done, and they were just messing around, distracting us. Or maybe just me.
Next, we worked on the exterior siding, and continued to the painting, it would be a pastel yellow house. While we worked on that, Esme and Rosalie were working on installing all electrical, plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, phone, satellite TV lines, stereo, Internet, and burglar alarm systems. Not that we actually needed a burglar alarm system, but we needed to pretend to be humans, and in case one of them showed up at our house, it would be weird living so far away from everyone else, and not be prepared in case someone broke in.
By the time that Rosalie and Esme were done, we had almost completed the roofing. We continued to the interior, working on the drywall and then painting it. The house was almost done, we just had to install cabinets, baths and thinks like that. Esme said that we had worked faster than she had expected, and we would have to wait until that things were delivered. I guess having a super strong and super fast newborn had its perks.
I hadn't realized that a couple of days had passed ever since we begun building the house, time was not something that mattered anymore. And I could see at night as well as when there was daylight, so it made no difference to us.
I decided to run into the forest, to keep myself away from anyone that would deliver whatever was missing to finish the house. I was surprised, because this time Rosalie followed me. I stopped after a few minutes, deciding that I was far away enough from the house. Rosalie stopped right after me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked. She never hid the fact that she would rather not be in my presence.
"It was my turn watch over you." She told me, and that made me feel like a burden that they had to share together, and dumped at each other. It was like whoever got the short stick had to keep an eye on me.
"You don't have to stay, I can handle being here on my own for a few hours." I told her. There was no need for us to put up with each other, I think I would rather stay alone than with Rosalie.
"There is no way I'm gonna let you ruin our stay here before it even got started."
"There is no one here for me to kill. It's not like I'm gonna look for someone."
"There is a reason accidents happen, people get careless. But, I'll stay here and make sure it doesn't"
And indeed she stayed, until the moment we felt that it was safe enough that the men would be gone. We didn't talk, neither of us even tried to start a conversation. I didn't like her, and she didn't like me, and that's how it would continue.
By the time that we got back, the house was already done. There was even a driveway, and a few bushes and flowers that had been planted. In truth, it had become really nice.
The house had three floors. On the attic there was electronic room, with most of the electronic devices of the house; on the second floor, there were 7 bedrooms; on the first floor, there was a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, a small library and a music room; on the basement, they had located all vampiric things of the house, and it would be tightly locked at all times, even if all members of the house had a key.
I walked into what Esme told me would be my room, and I was amazed to see that it looked like my old bedroom in Forks, only maybe a little more sophisticated. It also had a glass door, which would allow me to leave the house without going downstairs.
I looked to my right and saw Alice standing by the doorway.
"So, did you like it?" She asked, entering the room and closing the door behind her.
"Yes, I did. But I thought you would have changed it a little bit more." I told her, as she walked up behind me, pressing her front to my back. She knew exactly what that did to me.
"I would have." She told me, kissing my neck. Her hands were on my waist, rubbing my skin with her fingers. "But someone seems to be unable to make up her mind."
"I'm very decisive." I told her as she turned me around and started kissing my lips. I missed her lips, she has gotta be the best kisser ever. Not that I had much experience in that department, but the way she did it, it felt amazing.
"I believe that considering the bedroom, you are not." She kissed my neck, and I inhaled deeply. "I couldn't even see how you would wish it to be."
Her scent was marvelous, but there was something else mixed with it. Something disgusting. It was faint at first, but the more I tried to ignore it, the worse it became.
Alice was trying to take my shirt off, at the same time as she pushed me into the bed. But truthfully, the only thing on my mind was that scent. I started to realize that I had already smelt that before. Jasper.
It was Jasper all over Alice. And where her scent called me in, his made me want to run away.
My mind was a mess, it was like there was two of me. One was begging Alice to never stop, the other wanted to push her away. I tried to keep going, some part of me wanted to mark her, claim her as mine, and I fought hard to keep it at bay. But the scent got stronger and stronger until the moment I couldn't take it anymore.
I pushed Alice away.
I guess I didn't measure my strength too well, because she ended up flying across the room until she hit the far wall, funny, it didn't make a crack on it. For a moment her face was hurt, but she quickly hid it.
"Alice, I'm sorry." I tried to tell her, but she was already half away to the door. "Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm alright. But I think I'm just gonna go now." Alice told me, with her back to me, before leaving the room.
Great. Now I had just sent her straight into HIS arms.
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