Oh yeah, this is how I wanted to spend my Saturday. Outside since 6, then cleaning the yard till 330! Do you know what time it is now!? 331! AH! I'm going to take my mind off the outside.
Chapter 36: I Love You
Bella's POV
"And why is that, oh great Alice?" Edward asked. Alice smiled and stood on the balls of her feet. "No reason!" She said perckily then grabbed me and ran off.
"Come on everyone! If I'm going, then so are you!" I shouted as everyone laughed. Alice turned around. "You know, shes right! You all need new outfits! Come on!" And with that said, we were all groaning while getting into the car.
"Oh come on! It will be fun!" Alice said happily as she blasted some girly music. I saw Emmett grab something from his pocket and put it inside the cd player, but I don't think that no one else had noticed.
Alice's song stopped abruptly, then the car went blank. There was a ringing sound in the air, and I couldn't help but grin. "Mission Impossible?" He held out his fist to mine. I bumped him back. "Heck yeah!"
"I think we need to have a girls only sleepover..." Rosalie muttered. After 2 minutes of the song, I think Alice lost it. "That's it!" She screamed as she pressed the eject button multiple times until it came out.
She grabbed the disk and threw it backwards where it went right over my head and into Emmett's hand. "Yeah, and what if that just magically came and chopped my head off!?"
"That would be a problem, now wouldn't it?" Alice giggled turning into the mall. After we all -reluctantly- got out the car, Alice dragged Jasper away to find him a suit. Even though he already had 10 of them customly made for him and 2 of them being shipped out here from Japan.
Rosalie and Emmett went off towards an old looking shop, so that just left me and Edward. He came and wrapped an arm around my waist. "So where shall we go first?" He said with a smile. I felt an electric shock run through me.
"Um, anywhere?" I said after a moment. We started walking but stopped when we heard our names being used. I saw that it was Jessica and Kelly. There arms were linked together while the others occupied shopping bags.
"Isn't it wrong? I mean, Bella and Edward are brother and sister." Kelly said to Jessica who nodded her head. "Oh I know. And I bet you that Edward doesn't even like Bella. I heard that they adopted her because they felt pity on her."
"I know! Ugh, they would not be a good couple. After all, they are, siblings." Kelly said as she stared right at us. Edward's arm around my waist was more pronounced. And maybe she was right.
I knew that that would never happen. He doesn't like me. He probably does think that I need pity. I averted my gaze down at the floor. "Hey, wasn't it true that Tanya wrote the whole book based on a true story?" Jessica said a little louder then neccisary.
"I do believe that, and remember chapter 16, where Edward and Tanya were in her room and then-" I didn't hear the rest. I started walking away from them as they walked by. Edward was now on my right side. Kelly bumped my shoulder on the way by, muttering 'slut' under her breath.
"Bella. Bella, look at me." I heard faintly in the background. My eyes were unfocused and staring at nothing. My face was pulled up gently. I closed my eyes so he wouldn't see them watering. I heard him sigh as he brought his hand up to cup my face.
"Bella, don't listen to them. You know there not right." He whispered. I just shook my head. He sighed again, then I felt him move beside me. The next minute we were back at the house. Did I really like Edward in that way? If I didn't, then why would I be crying over it so much?
"Bella. Please..." He lead off. I finally opened them and saw how close we were. If I just moved my head an inch closer, no. Stop!
"Bella," his intoxicating breath fanned across my face. I breathed deeply as he started to lean in. I felt his lips lightly move over my own. A shock like feeling went through my body.
And then the phone rang.
We paused for a moment until he sighed and reached over towards the phone. Our lips were still only a couple inches apart. "Hello?" His voice sounded annoyed. I laughed a little at that. Then his face got serious. As he took a step back.
"She's what!?" He looked panicked now.
"What's wrong?" I whispered as he grabbed onto my arm. His eyes kept darting towards the door and back to my face. My breath turned shallower. "Well what if-"
"It's to late!" I heard Alice's voice yell. It felt like as if everything was going in slow motion. There was an ear splitting howl sound that crashed the window that was behind us. Edward grabbed me and crouched over me so the glass wouldn't cut into me.
"When I tell you to run. You run." He growled feircley at me.
"What's going on?" I asked, but then saw four figures in the background all in dark clokes. The Volturi? That was my first guess before I saw the small one. She grinned wickedly at me. Jane.
I had heard about her and her powers. Edward had described her in ways that could only be words of hate. I felt the rest of the family come over and make a circle around me as everyone took a step closer.
It was silent except for my sharp breathing. Just then, Edward tensed up as I heard a low growl. But it wasn't from him... Aro smiled as suddenly he was flanked with- is that a horse? Or a wolf!?
There was a brown furred wolf growling at me, it's eyes a dark black. Then there was a gray one that was behind a russet colored one. I heard everyone take a intake of breath.
"No way..." Alice said as Edward nodded. What were they talking about.
"Jacob."
Jacob?
Jacob... Black? I automatically took a step back after I thought that, trying to get away from them all.
Flashback"ISABELLA!"
"So Charlie," I heard Jacob's voice enter the house. It was the day that Charlie had taken me back away from the Cullens. I missed them all so much. "I heard you had a surprise for me."
"That my boy is true." You could hear the smile in his voice. I heard there footsteps echoe up the stairs and down the hallway. I moved all the way to the corner of the room. I didn't want to call it my room. Because it wasn't my room. I don't even know who's room this was.
The walls were chipped with fading grey paint, and the floors had mold at the bottom. I had to pull out the wall to get fresh air, before I got sick from the mold. There was nothing else in the room. Not even a window.
No bed, no light, no anything. The door was on the floor under a cut rug, so it didn't look like anything. But I knew that it wasn't. I heard the keys jingle as Charlie unlocked the lock and pushed it opened.
I didn't remember what happend mostly after that.
When I did remember, I remembered being covered in crust old blood. And I hurt. Badly. "Get up, you peice of crap." Charlie yelled as he kicked me in the side. I could feel that a rib was broken.
"Someone's here to see you. So get up and get cleaned." He said after he stepped onto my leg. i bit my lip trying to hold back the scream, drawing blood from the bottom one.
"NOW!"
I scrambled up and limped down the short steps. I could see Jacob talking to Nicole, who was trying to flirt with him. This is what you get for moving to- wait. Where was this place again? I could hear Charlie walking towards me, so I ran into the bathroom, turning on the water and hopping on one foot into the shower.
I quickly scrub off everything that resembled what had happened last night in the freezing cold water, and hurried to dry meself of the cold water. I threw on sweats and a old grey sweatshirt that Charlie had grown out of.
"Bella-" I heard Charlie saying, jiggling the door handel. I stopped breathing as I stepped back into the corner.
"Bella."
"Bella."
I snapped open my eyes to see that everyone was fighting around me. Emmett and Jasper were taking down all of the wolves, which were only 4 of them. Rosalie and Esme were taking down Jane, but right now it looked like they were failing.
Carlisle was fighting with the other two men. I saw Alice in the back, fighting with another person that I had not seen before. He had a lanky figure, with dark brown hair. His eyes met mine. Blood red met boring brown.
I heard ripping behind me, to see that there was another wolf. The one with the russet fur, and Aro, fighting with- no.
"EDWARD!"
"Bella just run!" He growled out as he kicked the wolf away from me and tackled Aro down to the floor. The wolf saw me and stopped, its panting figure slowly coming foward, growling. I started taking steps back as he cornered me.
I heard Rosalie and Alice scream as they got flown back by two wolves, while Esme was thrown into the woods. i had to help them.
"Bella, no just run!" Alice screamed. I saw something blurry come towards me as I started to run. It was the russet wolf. It looked like he glared as he came towards me. I saw Edward eyes meet mine for a second. And I knew something was going to happen to me after this.
"Edward-" I whispered as his eyes met mine after he flung Aro off. "I love you." Something collided with the back of my head. And I saw black.
Edward's POV"Edward-" she had whispered. I thew Aro off of me and into 2 of the wolves, throwing all of them back towards the woods. "I love you." Those were the last words she had said that day. The rest had run off, escaping before we could even follow where they were going.
Her words echoed through my head. I had been sitting in her room for the past 3 days now. I had been chasing to find her for a week now. But I couldn't. What if that Jacob Black had her? Or Aro?
What if she was fine, and she just didn't want to come back? "Edward, stop thinking like that." I heard Alice's voice say through the door. She gently opened it, and saw me for the first time in a week.
I must have looked horrible. I hadn't changed my clothes since yesterday, going at it again to find her. The last time I did I was gone for 2 days. I had left without warning. When I came back, I noticed that the family thought I would never return.
Now I was here, sitting until I thought of a plan to save her. I could hear Esme's soft sobbing from downstairs. This family was falling apart. Emmett hadn't cracked a joke since Bella had left. Rosalie just sat in her room, not thinking about anything. Carlisle was in his office, always occupying his time with his studies now.
Jasper had to deal with all of the pain in the house and also his, so he was distant from everyone. And Alice had been quiet now, all light in her golden eyes gone.
"Edward- I love you."
I sighed as it came back into my head, making me think more about her. "Edward... this is hurting you. You need to go. I can hold everything down." She said softly. I shook my head. I looked up at her, "Alice, she's gone now. They took her. We can't track them. Face it-" I was stopped by a stining in the side of my face.
She had slapped me. I stood up now growling. "What was that for?"
"For giving up." She yelled angrily at me and stormed out. I was not giving up. I smashed the glass on the window, jumping out and running as fast as I could. I wonder how long it would take to run to Italy.
Bella's POVEdward.I groaned as I got up off the bed. Then I froze. My eyes opened up as I noticed my surroundings. It was bright outside I had noticed, since the sun was shining through the long red curtains.
"Bella!" I heard someone call out. I knew that voice.
"Jacob." I whispered as I saw him open the large white door to the room. He walked in, smiling at me? Yes, he was smiling. "Where am I?"
He chuckled "Well, you're in Volterra silly." His eyes glowing with amusement. I took another step back, finally noticing how big this room was. Then I noticed camera's covering all side of the room.
He must have noticed, because he rolled his eyes at the small thing. "Making sure you don't escape." I ran from the room, looking for a way out. Jacob was behind me, watching me with a small smile on his face.
I saw a lot of people there, all walking around going up and down the steps. I didn't notice I was crying until I looked down at the steps to see them blurry. "Ah, young Isabella. What makes you cry?" Aro's voice called up the steps. I looked down to see him staring at me with those red eyes. I shuddered.
He was next to me once I reopened my eyes. I stepped backwards, almost losing my footing and falling down the steps. Someone inside of me clicked, making me want to lash out at him.
"Come," he said as he waved his hand in a gesturing motion. "and meet the guards." I conteplated on following him, but finally I made up my mind once I saw Jacob coming up behind me. I walked faster now, almost walking along with Aro.
"This is Alec. He can remove senses from anyone." He said, pointing to a young man with brown hair. His eyes -like everyone else's- was blood red. He smiled and licked his lips. Repulsing.
The next person was Jane. I didn't listen to anything of what he said about her. She glared right back at me. Aro kept walking, naming the guards and there powers if they had any.
Edward.
"Bella?" I turned around but then remembered who that sounded like.
What?
"This doesn't freak you out anymore?"
No, the talking voice in my head aren't scary.
"So your not afraid that your in a house with human drinking vampires and werewolves?"
No, that I am aware of.
"Well then."
Did you need something to tell me? I thought with annoyance in my voice.
"There is a way to get out of here. I thought you may need some help."Yes, please help me.
"Well I just can't tell you how to get out. You need to learn all of your powers. Your not just the special half breed for nothing you know.""So I've been told." I muttered to myself. I was walking along a hallway now, back to the 4th floor of this place, heading towards the end of the hall, which was for now 'my room'.
"Your new powers. Use them."Well what are they?
"Learn yourself. Just relax. Oh, and get close to someone who has a power." It felt like she had left after that. I didn't understand.
I walked back down the hall, doing anything to get out of this place.
Edward.
Ugh. Can't I just bust down a wall or something!? I need to get back to the house. I saw Aro who was talking quietly to Alec. They both turned towards me as I poked my head around the corner.
I felt my body tense on it's on record, then I started hearing something. At first it was a faint buzzing sound, but then it turned into everyones thoughts. I squeezed my eyes closed at the voiced swormed around in my head. How could Edward put up with this!?
Edward
Edward... Did he love me? Why did I have to say that? If I didn't, would I still be here? I was endangering everyone's life just by being there. WILL THESE VOICES GET OUT OF MY HEAD!? I can deal with one, but not 106!
"See? It's just like Edward's. You took Aro's powers, but then changed it so you don't need to touch anyone."Isabella? Are you okay?" Aro asked as he took a step foward, putting a hand on my shoulder. Alec hissed at him, then glared right at me. He sent one right back at Alec who ran out to fast for me to see.
I guess I obsorbed his powers, because the vampire who walked by walked right into the wall when I thought about him not seeing. Aro noticed but shook it off, being amazed that he couldn't read any of my thoughts.
His thoughts accused that I was blocking him, but his posture was still what it was before. That was when I knew how to break out.
So I'm back! Sorry if this was a long wait for this chapter, but an idea popped into my head, and I had to go write it down. Plus, I've been outside for the whole time so- wait. Mom's calling me! Wow that's kinda awkward to say so review please!
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Oh and Ali, I know it's hot and so yes, I am going to go with Sophie, Melinda and Anthony and Peter and am going to go eat some pasta salad! Oh yeah! LY!