The drive to Port Angeles was awkward and silent much like the plane ride, and I didn't see the need to break that silence.
Alice had tried several times all of them starting with 'how are you friends with werewolves?' or 'when can you tell me?' or my least favorite 'why don't you love Edward anymore?' to all of which I ignored or sighed and looked out the window which thankfully I had asked Alice for when boarding the plane.
I noted happily that Alice seemed to get the idea that I didn't want to talk to her and back off.
Were about to land and only have a couple of hours till Edward or Fuckward decided to being dramatic and reveal himself to the humans, I mean really? He just had to be so dramatic about, he probably didn't even think about how much this would hurt Esme or anyone in the Cullen family for that matter.
"When is fuckward...or Edward suppose to be an idiot and reveal himself to the humans?" I asked using Edward's real name when I saw the frown on Alice's face.
I almost didn't even think about calling him Fuckward or Dickward anymore; that's what me and the wolves called him, guess I would have to be more careful around his family.
"At noon when the sun is at it's highest." She replied as she went back to closing her eyes most likely searching the future.
Letting out a bored sigh, I went back to looking out the window.
We soon landed and were on our way with Alice's hardwired yellow Porsche which she commented she would make Edward buy for her for her trouble.
Soon we could see the city walls and the red that covered everything, from my researching Volterra I knew it was St. Marcus day a day for thanking for vanquishing all the vampires in the city.
Ha, yeah right he went and became one of their kings! I got a good laugh out of that and in turn quizzical look from Alice, to which I just shrugged and went back to looking out the window.
As we came to closure to the city I was beginning to become giddy with excitement which Alice translated into nervousness and kept 'reassuring' me that Edward would be okay..as if I cared.
As we came to the city walls I began to feel a pull in my chest and by my research it was a mating pull, which meant I was getting closer to Caius.
Once we had got into the city walls we had been stopped by police because you weren't aloud to drive through the city during the festivities so, Alice telling me to get the the clock tower sent me off.
Which is why I was now running through the city pushing past people and falling occasionally -suppose I had not thought the shoes thing through- but finally I made it directory in front of the tower and sure enough there was Edward standing there -without a shirt I might add- his eyes were closed and he had an unpleasant sort of look on his face it looked as though he was trying to make his mind up over something but couldn't.
The only thing that separated us was a large fountain and of course the crowds people on either side of the fountain deciding it was the quickest way I jumped in the fountain and ran towards him, my last rational thought while jumping out on the other side was 'this is going to hurt' and I, was right the moment I jumped onto Edward I felt the oxygen leave my lungs and for a sickening moment I felt as though I was falling backwards but stopped when two cold arms wrapped around me.
"Heaven." The idiot muttered as he smiled lightly.
"More like hell." I responded.
"Come on Edward! Move!" I instructed once I noticed he hadn't moved.
"Ugh!" I complained at his lack of intelligence as I used telekinesis to hover him over the ground and push him back into the hall he had come out of.
"How did you-" He started but was interrupted by the arrival of two vampires both wearing all black suits, the big one was carrying a red clock like the people outside and was wearing a annoyed look while the smaller but still buff one was wearing an amused expression looking between Dickward and myself.
"Aro, wishes to see you." Said the smaller one said his face calm and collected.
"His assistance is no longer needed." Replied Edward through clenched teeth.
"Still he wishes to see you." Replied the vampire with a look of amusement at Edward.
Dickward just narrowed his eyes at him.
"You seem to be in a better mood." Commented the big one obviously amused at Edward, when I got a better look at him I decided he looked very Emmett-ish.
"Well, who wouldn't be after seeing me?" I inquired stepping around Edward.
"Who brought the snack?" Asked the big one but I could tell he was teasing trying to get a reaction out of Edward he obviously knew who I was, but apparently Edward wasn't thinking or didn't care about what the big one was thinking about and decided to put his life in even more danger and growled at the two vampires, the nerve of some people!
"Smart, growl at the two vampires that could rip you to shreds." I said sarcastically.
Edward turned to look at me with a shocked expression.
"Fine, i'll come with you...Bella why don't you go and enjoy the festivities?" He said turning back to them and turning giving me a urgent look to which I fought the urge to roll my eyes at but I didn't get a chance to say anything before the sounding of a door opening behind me and Edward announced the arrival of someone new as Alice materialized next to me.
"Come on guys it's a festival, you wouldn't want to cause a scene would you?" She asked innocently but we all saw through it, I turned my head to see she had opened a door and people could see in if they wanted to.
Smart. Dammit they are going to ruin my plans!
"What's going on?" Asked a female voice as a small figure came in view behind the other to vampire guys; she couldn't have been more than fourteen or fifteen when she was changed and she looked to be slightly shorter then Alice.
"Jane." I heard Alice and Edward breath at the same time defeat evident even though all they had said was her name.
Okay, maybe my plans were safe.
"Aro, sent me to see what was taking so long." She said to her two fellow guards.
'Come." She commanded to us as she turned gracefully and walked away with us following her as we passed the two other vampires the big one handed Edward the clock which he wrapped around himself.
"Thank god" I muttered as I followed the smaller girl.
"So, Alice what happened?" Edward asked casually as him and Alice came to stand slightly behind me.
"I had a vision of Bella jumping off a cliff but when I got there I found she had been cliff diving." She responded in the same uncaring voice that no one was fooled by.
"Hmm." Came his only reply.
We continued walking turning here and there at some point the hall started to slope on our last turn there were stairs
"Go ahead." the young vampire instructed softly as stopped and let me pass with Edward and Alice behind me down the stairs was a elevator we all climbed in the two vampire guys in the back, then Alice and Edward then me and the vampire girl who looked determinedly at the door and if that awkward elevator music didn't start as everyone stood there silently as the elevator took us up.
Finally we stopped and we walked out into what looked like a receptionist room with two benches on one side of the room and on the other side was a big wooden desk and chair and a human receptionist when she saw us she stood up and said something in Italian to the bigger one he replied and she beamed at him before sitting back down and going back to whatever she was typing.
It didn't seem like much of a conversation, but I could tell by the way her face lit up that they had more than a human to vampire relationship.
"Your mates?" I inquired as we started walking all the vampires stopped to stare at me.
"How'd you know?" He asked frowning at me.
"I'm very inquisitive." I explained flashing him my best smile, he just shrugged and we continued walking.
We came to stand in front of two very tall and large doors that the small vampire pushed open even though they were twice her size.
Once the doors opened the first thing you saw was three stones on a sort of pedestal, but that held my attention for less than three seconds before I was staring at the three men on the thrones; the one on the left had long shoulder length hair, he had thin lips and a nose that bulged slightly at the end, he seemed to be about normal build but it was hard to tell for one because he was sitting down and second his was wear a long black cloak, but his most distinct feature was his sad and distant expression he seemed to be looking beyond everything in the room and for some reason I felt like running up to him and making him smile which I personally found to be quite weird shaking my head slightly I turned to look at the man in the middle he had long jet black hair, thick eyebrows, and a thin beard and mustache he was smiling down at me he was smiling so hard I thought his face might just break which made the right side of my mouth lift slightly, but the one of the right is the who really caught my attention; he had short blond hair, he had a strong jaw line, and had a annoyed look on his face but in my opinion was still the best looking of the three.
Caius.
My mate.
and so it begins.
"You must be Bella!" Exclaimed the one in the middle, Aro, when he said my name he added a 'r' making my name beller instead of 'bella' which I found to be quite cute.
"And you must be Aro? Carlisle speaks a lot of you." I replied smiling amused at the vampire.
"Edward welcome back and you've brought Alice!" He said turning to the pathetic being next to me who had been glaring at Aro the entire time.
Edward just nodded curtly at him, as I turned my head to frowned at Edward.
I mean they were royalty weren't they? shouldn't he be a little more..respectful or something but then what could I expect from Edward he always thought he was above everyone just because he could read minds.
"What troubles you human?" Asked a irritated voice, swirling around to see who had asked, to my surprise Caius was now standing right next to Aro who was only a few feet from me.
"Nothing?" I said but it turned into a question, upon Caius fixing me with a hard stare I continued;
"Fuckward...I mean Edward had just been annoying all day." I said shaking my head at my mistake.
"Fuckward?" He asked amused.
"Fuckward, Dickward, Moron, and oldest virgin of world are common names me and my friends use for Edward." I explained.
"Wh-" He started but was interrupted by the sound of a phone ringing not just any phone my phone and I would know the ringtone anywhere;
Yeah, yeah
When I walk on by, girls be looking like damn he fly
I pimp to the beat, walking on the street in my new lafreak, yeah
This is how I roll, animal print, pants outta control,
It's Redfoo with the big afro
And like Bruce Leroy I got the glow
Sending Caius a sheepish smile, I bent down and grabbed the phone out of my boot before it could start singing again.
"What, Jacob?" I asked harshly into the phone.
"Bella.. why are you so cranky? it's not your time of month is it?" I heard him laugh into the phone I'm sure if anyone looked at me (as I was sure every vampire in the room was doing) they would have saw me with my eyes practically popping out my head and my mouth wide open; at a lost for words.
Closing my eyes and taking a deep breath, I started again.
"Why are you calling me? I told you I would call when I was done." I said calmly, smiling sweetly even though I knew he couldn't see me or at least my rational half knew.
"Oh, you mean you haven't told them that Caius is your mate, Edward's a dick, and that Victoria is still after and you need their help to defeat her?" I heard him say carelessly as I heard munching in the background that sounded suspiciously like a bag of chips.
Once again I was at a lost for words as I opened and closed my mouth several times with nothing coming out; like a fish out of water.
"Bella?" He asked after several minutes of me not speaking.
Glaring at the phone, I slammed it shut and ran through my hair that was already a mess from running all around Volterra to save Edward's sorry butt.
Licking my lips I looked up to see a bunch of dumbfounded vampires looking from Caius, to me, to Edward and back to Caius.
Marcus was the first to get out of his stupor as he descended his throne to stand next to his brothers.
"Brother." He said simply as he held out his hand for Aro to take, well that did the trick everyone in the room(excepting me and Alice) did a double take looking now from Marcus to Aro and then to me..it was really a never ending game.
Aro, took his hand but kept his eyes closed longer than he had with Edward which of course made sense seeing is how he was so much older and might actually think unlike Edward.
Shaking my head with a small smile, I looked up to see Edward looking down at me glaring rolling my eyes I turned to look at Caius who was looking at me skeptically but when I turned to look at him his face was immediately morphed into a glare.
Oh, wonderful apparently today was freaking glare at Bella day and I didn't get the memo..huh.
Deciding having a conversation with myself was not what quote on quote 'normal' people do I distracted myself with fiddling with the bottom of my dress and glaring at the floor -if everyone was going to glare at me, I was going to glare at them-.
"It seems there will be a change of plans; Belle(r) will be stay with us for a while." Aro announced as he realised Marcus's hand.
Flashing a triumphant plan, I finally let out a deep breath I hadn't realized I'd been holding.
"What?" Edward asked outraged his voice rising quite a few chords it was quite funny actually.
"I believe he said I will be staying here for a while." I said putting my hands behind my back like the smart ass I was.
"She can't stay here! She's my mate...I won't allow it!" He objected, I could just picture him stomping his foot.
"Excuse? and who are you to decide what I shall and shall not do? you're not the boss of me." I stated my eyes narrowing at the idiot in front of me.
"She's not thinking clearly, she's obviously very tired." Edward said still looking at Aro completely ignoring me.
"Hear that? it's everyone not caring what you have to say! So shut up!" I snapped at him fed up with his controlling butt.
"Bella!" Alice cried/and or whined very pathetically.
"Alice!" I said in the same annoying voice.
"Your not my Bella." Edward said suddenly looking down at me.
"No, no...I'm not." I said my voice lowering.
"Anyway, if I am going to stay here could someone get my bags out of the porsche Alice stole?" I asked turning to Aro who was looking at us(me, Alice, Edward) with one eyebrow nearly touching his hairline.
"Of, course Belle(r) dear." He said clasping his hands together.
"It's settled then." I smiled relieved.
"Well, if Bella stays then I stay too." Edward said running a hand through his messy hair.
"What? no, no, no! you can't be serious! What about Esme she'll be heartbroken!" I said hurriedly trying to think of something frantically to change his mind.
"Well, if Edward stays I stay too." Alice said smiling as she stepped forward.
"You've gotta be kidding me." I muttered closing my eyes.
"What about Jasper?" I asked my eyes snapping open to look at Alice.
Her face fell slightly at the mention of her mate and her face fell slightly.
"He is the empath?"Aro inquired happily.
"Yes." She replied looking up to him.
"Then by all means invite him in fact invite all the Cullen's! I do miss Carlisle." He in a voice that made it clear that what he wished was to be done.
"Great." I breathed my shoulders falling.
I was slightly comforted by the fact that Caius didn't seem to happy about them coming either and he had been glaring at Edward.
Deciding to take my frustration on someone who couldn't crush me, I grabbed my phone and dialed Angela's phone number.
"Bella? I am so sorry! I told him not to call you." She said sincerely and I unfortunately felt all my anger fall away; It was impossible to be mad at Angela.
"I forgive you for not watching your dog." I said smiling slightly.
"I object to that!" I heard several voices said.
"I'm sure you do." I joked.
"Okay, well I called to scream at someone but since I am no longer mad I suppose I should go." I said upon seeing vampires sending me impatient looks.
"Okay, honey but call me when everything calms down." Angela said.
"Of course, Bye." I said.
"Bye, Bells!" came a chorus of voices.
Closing my phone, I looked up at the vampires innocently.
"So, what'd I miss?"
A/N: Okay so I love all you(readers, reviewers, favoriters, followers) but I want to give a special thank you to AbbeNormal who also made me cry with her awesome review! Thank you it means a lot to me! So this chap is dedicated to her!