True to his word a few minutes later Aro arrived and re-wrapped my hand and gave me some of the pain medication. But he was gone as soon as he came, saying he had 'business' to attend to. What kind of business do vampire royalty have anyway? besides ripping other vampire's head's off?
So I was left to sit and try to entertain myself for the next few hour's which I did: constantly bothering Angela and Sam: Angela had just purchased her wedding gown, and Sam announced to me that Emily was expecting. So I guess every decided to wait and do the exciting stuff until I was out of the country. I had only been out of the country a few day's and already I was beyond homesick. My talk with Angela was interrupted by a hard knock at my door.
"Hey, Angela I gotta go! But if you don't send my pictures of the dress I'm gonna come back just to whoop your butt!" I joked, shaking my head.
"Well, it might be worth it; we miss you like crazy!" She whined.
"It must be my charming personality." I replied smirking as the person on the door knocked again. It was beginning to annoy me: could they not hear me getting off the phone?
"But I really gotta go! Tell everyone I love them!" I said standing up as I made my way to the door.
"M'kay, bye Bella!" She chirped.
"Bye, Ang." I said before shutting my phone before we starting 'you hang up first!'. As I went to the door I hoped that it was someone with food-I was kind of starving.
"Yes-Ah, crap not you!" I groaned when I opened the door and Edward stood there with a wild look in his eyes.
"What the hell do you want?" I asked my eyes narrowing.
"You." He said smiling his crooked smile. Ugh.
"Too bad." I snapped as I tried shutting the door in his face knowing it was useless. And I was proven right when I closed the door and he was behind me. I could have always just used my power and push him out the door or a window but using my powers used to much energy. Energy that I didn't have thanks to my early wake up call.
"Come on Bella let's talk." He sighed running a hand through his messy hair.
"Fine." I conceded: I was bored anyway why not have an emotional conversation with a backstabbing liar of an ex-boyfriend?
Walking past him, I plopped myself down on one of the coaches-rather hard I might add.
Edward followed behind me and slowly sat in his chair. His head raised like he was the bloody king of the world. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes -it was hard. Dreadfully hard.
"You wanted to talk... so talk." I said, even I could hear the boredom in my voice. I saw Edward flinch a little at the less than warm welcome.
"Bella, my love you must understand I only left you for your own safety! Jasper nearly killed you!" Edward tried to reason. Keyword being tried. This time I couldn't control when I rolled my eyes.
"If I remember correctly Edward, Jasper never laid a hand on me. You on the other hand pushed me into a table and almost made me bleed to death and if that hadn't killed then the other five vampires who had, had control before that would have." I commented.
"I'll admit I acted a little..." He trailed off.
"Stupid?" I supplemented.
"Rash." He continued narrowing his eyes slightly at me. "But it was only because I was so worried for you, love." He said.
"Edward..you don't love me. You may have fooled yourself into believing you love me but the truth is you don't. People who love other people don't leave them, they don't lie them. I've moved on just like you asked me to;I've grown up, matured. Something you will never be able to do. You're stuck as a seventeen year old forever and I'm on my way to being twenty. I'm not the same girl you use to know." I finished my little speech with a sigh.
"Bella, you may be nineteen but I'm one-hundred-eight, you can never be older than me not mentally anyway." He said smirking at me. God, how I wanted to wipe it off his face but I valued my hand not breaking.
"Not mentally no, but emotionally? physically? I believe I have." I said coolly.
Edward had open his big mouth to say something, something would have most likely annoyed me beyond belief but thankfully another knock sounded at my door. Getting up quickly before Edward could start talking again I headed for the door. Opening the door I was met by the unmistakable grin of Felix Volturi.
"Oh, hey Felix." I greeted smiling in relief: I had half expected Alice to come bouncing in.
"I have brought food." He said showing me a food tray, I had somehow yet to notice.
"Oh, thank god!" I said dramatically as he handed me off the tray.
"Come in, come in." I ushered him in despite the glare I could feel Edward giving me.
"I'm not interrupting am I?" Asked Felix cheekily as he smiled at Edward. "No." I said at the same time as Edward said "Yes!"
"Good." Said Felix grinning. Shooting me a wink.
"We'll talk later." Edward said through gritted teeth, glaring at Felix who seemed strangely unaffected.
"Mhmm," I said as I started shoving my face with the sandwich Felix had brought me. After shooting one more glare at Felix, Edward zoomed out of the room; slamming the door. A few seconds later I broke out laughing and soon Felix's booming laughter drowned out my own. While I was busy stuffing my face like a complete cow, Felix just watched me. Studying me. It did nothing for my nerves but I was too hungry to really pay attention. After a few minutes of me practically swallowing my food, Felix cleared his throat.
"Hmm?" I asked looking up at him.
"Master Aro, wishes for you to meet the rest of our coven if that is agreeable to you." Felix stated.
"Dude, how in the hell did you just say that so frigidly and keep a straight face?" I asked shaking my head. He cracked me a small smile.
"Oh, yeah of course, when?" I asked.
"Well, they were ready before I came in here so..." He trailed off.
"You should have told I would have eaten faster." I said as I placed the tray to the side.
"Somehow I doubt that." He said smirking down at me.
"Ass." I muttered knowing full well he could hear me. His booming laughter once again bounced of the walls.
"Come on then, get a move on." I said nodding at the door.
With Felix leading the way, we made our way down the dark hallway's. I had a good enough memory to realize that I had come this way when I first arrived so we were either going to the throne room or somewhere around there. Felix and I walked most of the way in silence besides the occasional question by him. Finally we came upon the large, dark wood door's that I had entered only hour's before.
"You ready?" Felix asked from beside me.
"As, I'll ever be." I said holding back a sigh: somehow I couldn't imagine something not going wrong.
Without saying anything, Felix was suddenly in front of me pushing the door's open. Letting out a deep breath, I started walking into the room that could only mean my doom. Okay maybe...I am being a bit dramatic but I could almost swear hear the mission impossible theme song playing in the background.
"Dear, Isabella!" Cried Aro from his place on his throne.
"Aro!" I said with as much excitement as I could muster.
"And pray where is my hello?" Drawled a deep voice from behind me.
"Marcus, darling! Why I haven't seen you in ages!" I joked.
"Enough, with these silly games we have business to attend to." Only one person could possibly sound that cranky. Caius.
"Ah, yes Isabella would you mind meeting the rest of our coven?" Aro asked his smile dimming slightly.
"Course' not." I said resisting the urge to roll my eyes; yeah, I'm gonna say 'no' to a bunch of vampires. Not.
"Right, let's get to it then!" Aro said and there were suddenly a whole lot of vampires in the room. They were all looking amused or confused looking from Aro to me to Marcus and back again.
"Master," They all said simountasly, like robots. Creepy.
"My children, this is Isabella." Aro said pointing towards me.
"Hi," I said trying to make myself small, and look anywhere except at their questioning stares and few glares.
"Master, who is she?" Questioned a dark skinned male vampire.
"Dinner perhaps?" Sneered a female vampire with long dark hair. Bitch.
Apparently Caius, agreed with me because as soon as she said it he let out a almost deafening growl making several of the vampires in the room jump back in surprise.
"No, no Renata. Isabella is not 'dinner'. You must all treat her like you would treat me, Marcus, or perhaps Caius would be a better example? You are not to bring harm to her in anyway am I understood?" Aro babbled. At least in my opinion he was babbling.
"Yes, Master." They replied like pre-programmed machines.
Did he seriously just do that? introduce me like the new kid at school? Great. Not. Apparently the bitch brunette agreed with me, because she had yet to answer Aro.
"Renata?" Called Aro his voice sickly sweet. I mean someone could get a toothache from hearing it.
"Yes, master?" Renata asked looking innocently at him. Before Aro could answer Caius, growled again.
"Now, that you've all met Isabella, I would like Isabella to all meet you." Stated Aro; changing the subject.
One by one the immortals formed a line introducing themselves to me.
The first was a female vampire called Chelsea;
"Hello, my name is Chelsea." Said the short vampire.
"Hi, Bella well I mean my name's Bella." I said awkwardly, rubbing my neck not really sure how to talk to her.
"Bella?" Questioned Caius behind me.
"Hmm, my friend's call me Bella or Izzy it doesn't really matter." I said turning my head slightly to acknowledge him.
"Well, it was nice to meet you ..Bella." Chelsea said nodding my direction before going to stand in the back of the room. Next was the dark skinned vampire who introduced himself as Santiago.
"Bella, it is my sincerest pleasure to meet you." Santiago said bowing his head slightly at me.
I felt my face light up in a smile.
"It is nice to meet you too," I said nodding my head at him.
"My lady." He said flashing me a smile before going to stand next to Chelsea.
Chuckling, I waited for the next person to come. Next came a rather tall and slightly lanky male vampire.
"They call me, Afton." He said nodding to me in a very regal matter.
"Well, it's nice to meet you Afton." I said trying to sound serious but the moment was ruined when a small leaked onto my face.
He just looked at my strangely before going and standing next to Chelsea and pulling her into him. Mates or in some kind of romantic relationship.
Next was a blond haired vampire.
"Corin." She introduced herself smiling at me. Instantly I felt a kind of warm happiness wrap around and I felt like I had everything I could ever want. But I pushed it away knowing it wasn't true; I didn't have Charlie. Soon, I felt my feelings turn back to normal but I was slightly depressed from going from that feeling to the feeling of the cold, hard, world instead of the fantasy world that was brought on by her. I narrowed my eyes at her and her smile dimmed slightly. I hadn't had my sheild up; which was why she was able to get in my head. I was caught completely off guard, not something I wanted to be around a bunch of powerful vampires.
"Fascinating." Said Aro's voice from behind me as he clasped me in the shoulder.
"Fascinating? more like cruel." I said, even I could hear the slight tremor in my voice.
"I'm sorry, Jane just said her power didn't work on you and I just wanted to see if mine did." Corin said she at least had the sense to look somewhat ashamed.
"Don' . ." I said my eyes like slits: I did not like powers being used on me nor did I like being reminded I didn't have a father.
All the vampires in the room seemed to be paying more attention and Felix, Demetri, Jane, and Alec either seemed excited or wary most likely from seeing me use my 'power' before. I really had to come up with a better name for my 'special gift'.
"I do believe that is enough for today!" Aro said coming to stand by my side. Faster than I could blink all the vampires-excluding the rulers- had exited the room.
"Well, that was eventful but I would like to go back to me room. If that's alright?" I asked Aro.
"Of course, we did not mean to anger you Isabella; Corin was simply curious." He stated looking down at me strangely.
"I'm sure." I said a little more venomously than intended.
"Come. I shall escort you to your room." Caius said.
"Whatever." I muttered bitterly.
Following Caius, out of the throne room. I kept quiet sure if I said something I would either be rude or annoying.
We were nearly to my room when Caius spoke up.
"Why didn't you accept it?" He questioned.
"Accept what?"
"Corin's gift? most people including..myself let her use her gift on them." He stated.
"I don't deserve it." I murmured knowing perfectly well he could hear me.
"What do you mean?" He pushed, I could hear his frustration trickle into his voice.
"I don't deserve to be happy, not after what happened to Charlie." I choked out.
"Charlie?" He asked.
"My father." I snarled feeling all my emotions of hate, anger, and frustration boil up.
"What-"
"Thank you for walking me to my room, again." I said shortly as we came to stand in front of my door.
He seemed to get the idea I didn't or wouldn't talk about it any further.
He nodded at me before whisking away. Once he was gone I let myself go and soon felt hot, angry tears start to stream down my cheeks.
Pushing my door open ruffly, I hurriedly made my way to my bad. I throw myself on it and picked up the biggest pillow. Putting it to my face, I screamed. I scream as loud as I could, making my throat raw. Not caring if every vampire in the country heard me. At that moment I just didn't give a damn, nor did I want to. In that moment I had never felt more alone when surrounded by people in my entire life.
Fate has a funny way of playing games, and a funny way of making my life a living hell because if not five minutes later.
I heard a soft 'Bella' that could only come from one mouth. Esme. They were here. Just damn my life.