Hey guys and gals it's me again! Well I was planning to update Thursday, but I was inspired to write more by reading a book I bought the other day. It was really good, I started reading it at 11 last night and I stayed up until 6 in the morning to finish it. It's a really great book, If you want to know what book it is, in your review say "Inspiring Book" and I'll PM you the Title and author. Anyway on with the story!
Disclaimer! I do not own Twilight.
Recap
"So." I said casually, "What are you?"
Then it was the Cullen's turn to freeze up.
Bella's Point of View
The Cullen's sat, unmoving as statues. Shock was the dominant emotion on their lovely faces. Alice was the first to thaw out.
"W-what do you mean Bella?" She asked in a shaky voice. Did they honestly think I was that dull?
"Well" I started pursing my lips. "You all know I'm different, you know what I am too, Your all way too beautiful, and your skin is hard kind of like mine." I studied my arm.
"Perceptive" I heard Edward murmur. I knew what that meant.
"No, I just pay attention." I said glancing up at the god in front of me.
"Don't be ridiculous Bella." Esme said in denial. I waited patiently for them to say something. Silence.
"Seriously," I said slowly, "I can handle it." They all sighed.
"Please." I whispered. They all looked at me and I saw their faces soften.
"Let's just tell her Carlisle, She'll find out soon anyway," Alice grimaced "She's amazingly stubborn."
"Your right Bella." Carlisle said, looking me directly in the eye. "We're not human."
"Like me." I said brightly
"Almost." He said. My smile wavered but didn't fade.
"We're vampires." My smile vanished and my eyes widened as I remembered another piece of my childhood.
-Flashback-
Renee was covered in a familiar blanket of sweat and blood. She was mumbling random things. At one point I was able to catch the fragment of a sentence.
"Phil, vamp, hybrid" And then her eyes closed as she drifted off into an eternal slumber.
I shuddered out of my memories. I hadn't understood what she was saying on bit and I had been so focused on finding out what a "hybrid" was ,I almost completely forgot about the other nonsense she was speaking. But now it made perfect sense.
"Like Phil." I gasped. The Cullen's stared at me in confusion. Realization dawned on Edward's face first.
"Her father" He announced.
The Cullen's still seemed to be in processing-mode, well except Edward, who had already put 2 and 2 together. Heck, I was still in processing-mode.
"Your not like him are you?" Edward knew what I meant.
"No," He said softly, leaning down to put a comforting arm around my waist. "We respect human lives too much, we would never purposely hurt them." I looked up into his mesmerizing golden eyes and saw nothing but sincerity. I smiled, I could accept that.
"So this Phil," He said his name like a dirty word, "Is you biological father."
"No shit Sherlock!," Emmet boomed from across the room, "I think we said that about 10 minutes ago!"
"Emmett! No cursing in front of Bella." Esme scolded him.
"Sorry mom." he muttered defeated. I smiled, using the distraction to muster up some confidence to ask a question. I opened my mouth to speak, and then I realized that 'Oh yeah. I don't have any confidence'
"Where's my room" I squeaked out.
"Bella," Edward said smirking. "Isn't there something else you wanted to ask." He found my lack of self esteem funny! I glared at him and he smiled angelically. I felt my face soften on it's own accord, and my heart speed up even faster.
"Your right," I mumbled. I took a large breath of air. This was one of the most crucial moments in my existence.
"Well, when I said earlier about me being like you and you said 'almost' I wanted to know why it's 'almost'."
"Bella, can't you see?" Carlisle said softly "Your only half vampire."
And then it all clicked. Renee was human, she was my biological mother. Phil was a vampire, he was my biological father. Part of me had known this since the Cullen's had told me what they were, but a much larger part of didn't want that to be true.
"That makes sense...I guess" I whispered.
"It's okay Bella" I felt Edward pull me up into his arms and stroked my hair. I hesitantly put my head on his chest, it felt nice to be in his embrace. I felt my eyelids begin to droop, which was ridiculous because it was only noon. But our conversation had taken a tole on me and I let my heavy eyelids win and I drifted off to sleep, without nightmare for once, and I'm pretty sure that was because of Edward.
I woke up in an unfamiliar bed without a pair of familiar arms around me. I sat up slowly, trying to recall getting into bed, but all I could remember was falling asleep in Edward's arms with the Cullen's loving looks on my face. I heard a rustle come from my closet. My eyes widened, in terror. Was something in there? I crept up slowly to the closet. I gulped and twisted the handle slowly. All of the sudden the closet door swung open and I was attacked.
"Ah! Help! There's a mutant elf trying to attack me!" I screamed as something migitish flung itself onto me.
"Shh, Bella it's just me, Alice ." In the light, I could see the elf's features more clearly, and it was, indeed, Alice.
"Oh, it's only you Alice." I puffed, feeling stupid. I was suddenly aware of roaring laughter coming from downstairs. Apparently, all of the Cullens heard my run in with the 'mutant elf', and found it utterly hilarious. I turned bright red and Alice giggled and apologized for scaring me.
I was still tomato red, and Alice saw that and rolled her eyes "Don't worry Bella, they won't bug you about it, well, maybe Emmett will, but I'm sure he won't be too hard on you," She smirked, "I mean after all it is your first day as a Cullen." I smiled. I looked around and studied the room, we were in.
"Is this my room?" I asked Alice. I certainly hoped it was. The walls were painted a beautiful light blue. The bed was light brown, the sheets were white, and the pillows were light blue, and matched the walls. On either side of the bed were blue desks with lamps on them. Above both lamps were windows. Underneath one window wan a cute blue bench with brown floral patterns on it.
"Yep!" Alice said brightly, "And this is you walk in bathroom." She said pulling me towards another door. I gaped at the bathroom. Not only did the colors match perfectly with the ones in my room it was beautiful. The walls were speckles of blues, grays, golds, and browns. When you walk in there's a luxuriant shower. Next to that was a white vanity, with gold, marble sinks and A lot of drawers. I opened up one of the drawers and gasped. They were fully stocked with, hair spray, mousse, curlers, bobby pins, ponytails, a flat iron, and leave in conditioner. I looked up at Alice.
"Is this a joke?" I asked her.
"Nope," she said, and then suddenly grinned wickedly, "And that's only the hair stuff, look at this." She pulled open another drawer and inside was my worst enemy. Make up. Some of the ladies at the orphanages tried to put make up on me to , and I quote "enhance my beauty". I stared in horror at the lipstick, eyeliner, mascara, blush, foundation, lip gloss, and eye shadow. She looked at my expression and smiled. "You'll thank me later" She said smiling.
"I doubt that." I mumbled to myself. I laughed nervously and looked over at the bath tub. It was very vintage style. I loved it. I thought about how beautiful my room was, how beautiful the Cullen's were inside and out, and in general how beautiful my life was right now.
I felt tears threaten to fall as I choked up. Alice looked at me in alarm.
"Do you not like it?" She asked. "Because, Esme could always redesign."
"No Alice, it's gorgeous." I choked out. "I'm just so happy, and I....I just... Thank you, thank you so much."
"You're welcome Bella, you're always welcome" Alice whispered.
Aw! I had to add a little Edward and Bella moment in there! XD Looks like Alice and Bella are bonding! The elf part was just something super random that I thought of on the spot. Check out the pictures for this story on my profile! Well, please review!
P.S. If you want to know the book that inspired me to finish writing today, say "Inspiring Book" in you Review
Love,
Jacky