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I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty is not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart
Forks, Washington, 2008
Isabella Marie Whitlock Mason Cullen's POV:
Thursday flew by with nothing interesting to recall. The same old boring classes, two pop quizzes, a disgusting spaghetti and meatball lunch, and then more misused death glares from the two queen bees. And then there was detention. After Wednesdays 'friendly' display of where our boundaries laid, Jessica tried her best not to speak after being so forwardly scolded by my amazing big brother. Lauren on the other hand sat in the class and openly ogled at my husband while sneering at me.
And like I had predicted, Mr. Monroe, our detention center advisor, had left us half way through the class and returned for the last five minutes looking quiet disheveled. When class was over, I grabbed Edward's hand and raced to the car, hoping to get shot gun. But my request was shot down when I saw Emmett had cheated and ran at vampire speed to get there first. I sat in the back on my brother's lap, making everyone laugh when I acted like we were twelve again.
Once we got home, I ran straight into Alice's room, not bothering to tell anyone what I was up too. "Sup Alibelle, what are you up to?" I asked the same time I slammed her door shut and jumped onto her mattress. She spun around from her desk and looked back at me with a smug smile. My smile dropped and I looked at her with confusion evident on my features. "What?" Her smirk grew with her ego as she replied, "Nnooottthhhiinnnggg….I just knew you would be overly excited about this party. More so than you let on, Bellsie Boo."
I groaned into her comforter. She had heard Emmett's new nick name for me. "What's that, like the forty-second one?" She giggled and came towards me, sitting down on the edge of the bed. "Forty-fourth, but who's counting?" From downstairs I could hear Emmett yell, "I am!" We both growled and yelled, "Knock it off Emmett!" It was kind of strange how we sometimes did things in sync, but Alice just told me she saw everything I was going to say before I said it.
"Alright back to business. You wanted to see my interior decorations for the party, didn't you?" I opened my mouth to reply but was cut off when she smugly said, "Of course you did. Now, if you would please walk with me to my pride and joy, and I will show you all my drawings." I raised a brow at her. Pride and Joy what the hell? She began to walk to her walk-in closet. Oh, of course. I rolled my eyes.
She opened the door to the huge, brightly lit room and directed me over to her vanity desk. A huge mirror with light bulbs surrounding it was placed on the wall, as well as a few portraits of famous Hollywood actresses that even appeared to be signed. Typical pixie behavior. How my brother put up with her, I would never know. I sat down in one of the hot pink vanity chairs and she followed my movement, pulling out a pink binder with the words, HALLOWEEN on the front.
After she showed me the entire binder, she slammed it closed and put it back underneath a huge folded pile of never used Jeans. I stared with my mouth wide open and eyes bugging out. "You're a fucking genius Mrs. Whitlock!" I screeched and heard the entire commotion downstairs stop. Then the house seemed to vibrate with laughter as I launched myself to Alice and wrapped her in an Emmett worthy hug.
She laughed with me and patted my back. "Why thank you, Ms. Whitlock." I rolled my eyes but never the less chuckled and stood up. "Thanks Ali, I can't wait to see the final masterpiece!" She smirked and replied, "Of course you can't. That's why you came to me in the first place." I stuck out my tongue and went down the hall to my room.
I could smell Edward all around me, so I knew I must have just missed him. I looked out the window when I heard someone call my name. Edward, Emmett, and Jasper were waving at me and pointing in the direction of the woods. I gave them the thumbs up and smiled. They smiled back before launching off into the woods.
Looks like I had some free time. I decided to write to a few of my friends. In the meantime, I also let my wings come out of me. It felt nice when they were out, because I didn't have to restrain them anymore. I shook them a bit before tacking a few pieces of paper and a black pen.
When I was finished, I had officially made a letter to every single one of my friends. I asked how they were doing, what was new, where had the visit, meanwhile explaining to them everything that has happened to me so far. The only thing I left out was the imprinting, and broken imprint thing/ wings. Even though they were like second family, Carlisle told me it wasn't safe to be going around exposing myself like that.
I skipped down stairs and pranced outside towards the driveway. As the gravel crunched beneath my feet and the wind played with my hair, I realized it was a fairly decent day here in Forks. Strange. I placed all my envelopes into the mailbox and lifted the red arrow before prancing back up the steps and into the house.
I was sitting on the couch reading while Esme was dusting off the spotless kitchen. "What are you up do Esme, this house is already perfect!" She chuckled at me and replied, "You never know when you will be getting visitor Bella." My head shot up to stare at her retreating form. That was a close one. I seriously thought she had miraculously found out about the party.
A few minutes later and the door burst open. In came my brothers and my love, all covered in mud, smelling like woods, and laughing like the little boys they were. Esme tutted and walked over to stand in front of them with her hands on her hips. Uh-oh, Mama Cullen can't get angry when needed be. "Boys, I spent half the day cleaning this house spotless! Go outside and hose off before even considering walking through this place!" There laughter immediately stopped and they gulped, nodding their heads and rushing to get the hose.
"Let me use it first! C'mon it's just a damn hose!" Emmett yelled while grabbing the long green tube from jasper's hand. "I need to get back to Alice before she kills me for getting this shirt dirty!" Edward shoved them both away and grasped the hose. "Well your sister will kill me if I'm not back inside in the next two minutes." I rolled my eyes at them. Edward knew that wasn't true, and jasper was overreacting…possibly. Emmett was just being Emmett, so I decided, why not have a little fun?
I put the bookmark between the page I was on and tossed the tattered copy of Romeo and Juliet on the couch. I looked down at what I was wearing before stepping foot into the backyard. Just a simple pair of black skinny jeans, and a white V-neck T-shirt with black high top converse. Nothing I couldn't clean off with bleach or throw in the washer.
I found the extra hose near Esme's water can and quickly turned the nozzle to the left. I snuck around to the front of the house, watching each step I took so I wouldn't make a sound. When I got to the front, I noticed the boys looked even dirty. This time they were rolling around on the floor trying to get the hose. I smirked and yelled, "Y'all men are act'n like boys. If y'all needed to be cleaned so badly, why didn't cha just ask?" They immediately stopped and whipped their heads around to look at me. I smiled and giggled like a little girl before waving to them and blasting the hose full power.
I knew any normal human would have been thrown back by the force, but I stood my ground as I watched the boys getting soaked and trying to run from the spray. Everywhere they went I would aim the hose for their heads. Suddenly the power shut off and I was left defenses. I gulped and dropped the hose to the ground, slowly looking up at the guys. They all got up, staring me down and smirking as they stalked forward. I took a step back and their grins widened. "S-stop it y-you jerks!" I yelled at them and felt a tiny grin reach my lips.
Emmett yelled as he charged for me and I screamed running off inside the house. I was horribly mistaken when I thought they would have listened to Esme's rule about not getting the house dirty. All three of them charged in from different doors and chased after me. I squealed when I felt someone pounce on me.
With the speed and force they were coming at me with, we both toppled over on top of the couch and rolled off onto the floor. "Jasper get off me!" I yelled as he pinned me down, laughing loudly. The last time I saw him like this was when Ben, Jackson, jasper, and I were all riding our horses. It was nice to see again.
"Don't worry my fair lady! I shall save thee! Surrender foul beast, and go back to the cages of hell where you belong!" Emmett yelled and before either of us could tell him to stop, he jumped onto us and I was officially at the base of a dog pile. I groaned and tried to wiggle my way out, but with the two of them laughing and struggle on top of me, I just didn't see it happening anytime soon.
"Oh my fair knight! Where art thou?" I said dramatically, throwing a hand over my forehead. I heard his angelic chuckled from behind me and looked up to see Edward's wide crooked smile. He bent down to my level and whispered in my ear, "Don't worry Princess, I shall save you. As long as I get my reward in the end." I smiled and pecked his cheek before replying, "Whatever you please…just get the ogres off me." He nodded his head, his eyes twinkling in excitement.
"Who you calling an ogre?" Jasper asked with a smirk on his face. Before I could answer, Edward pounced on the two of them, sending them all toppling backwards and crashing into Esme's glass coffee table. Four choruses of 'shit' went around the room as we all froze, waiting for the dragon to come out from its dungeon.
Edward ran over to me and swooped me up bridal style. "Are you hurt milady?" I laughed but then saw the seriousness in his eyes. "Oh Edward" I rolled my eyes and kissed his nose. He seemed satisfied and smiled proudly with his head held high and chin out.
I burst out laughing once more and when my brothers saw what I was laughing at, they joined in. I couldn't help it, Edward looked too damn cute when he did little boy things like that. "What is going on in here?" We heard a furious voice yell and our laughter stopped short. Esme looked furious, but also couldn't keep the warmth form her eyes when she saw her children looking all so happy together.
"Well…there were these two ogres, one who believed he was a prince, who were trying to attack the real prince to gain control of his water powers." I began and saw the guys trying to stifle their laughter. Esme still looked angry, but we knew the only way to fix that was to warm her up by telling her this story.
Emmett continued by saying, "And then when the Prince wouldn't grant us the powers, his fair princess came down from her tower and enforced a tsunami on us!" I chuckled and we saw Esme begin to smile.
Jasper began the next part. "So then we ran inside, chasing after the princes. She was our only leverage. Once we got a hold of her, the prince showed up to save her." Then Edward smiled and held onto me tighter, "So I fended off the evil ogres and saved my beautiful princess from all harm's way."
I smiled brightly at him and replied, "And I granted my prince with the world most passionate kiss…which I wouldn't mind to give out once more." Edward smiled down at me; eyes alight with happiness and love.
Before we could even lean into each other, we heard Esme laughing and replied, "And in the process you managed to destroy the magic palace? Fantastic." We all laughed with her and then she stopped laughing and god a straight face. "You're not grounded but I want you to fix the table and dry the floors." We looked at each other and sighed, "Yes mom." She smiled happily and walked out of the room.
After Emmett and I dried the floors and Edward and Jasper fixed the table, we all settled down on the couch awaiting our fathers return from work. I got up from my spot on the couch and walked over to the window where I accidently tossed my book. When I walked back over the couch was completely occupied. Edward and Jasper sat on either side with Emmett in the middle, all eyes focused intently on the T.V.
I growled in irritation and crossed my arms in front of me. They didn't even flinch as some basketball game continued blaring throughout the room. I huffed and slammed my book down on the now fixed coffee table in front of them. Nothing happened.
I sighed and eventually went to sit on Edward's lap with my feet spread onto Emmett and a little bit of Jasper. They finally looked at me with confusion and I flashed them a large grin. "What? You guys hogged the couch…" Emmett snorted and Jasper smiled while rolling his eyes. Edward leaned in so he could kiss me and I gladly complied.
After about five minutes, our kissing had reached an all-time high. My hands were wrapped tightly around his neck and his arms were wrapped around my shoulders. "Alright…this couch got a little too crowded for me." Emmett groaned and moved onto the floor. Jasper shook his head while quietly laughing.
He had gotten used to our PDA by now. When Edward pulled away from me, he moved to sprawl his feet on the couch and I cuddled up in his lap. We left Jasper enough room so Edward's foot wasn't touching him, and he didn't seem to mind at all.
A half an hour later and I was completely absorbed in the basketball game. The team all my boys were rooting for was about to make their last slam dunk when the buzzer went off. I launched off the couch with them and we all yelled in victory.
Emmett even got on top of the couch and started to jump up and down. Edward picked me up and spun me around while Jasper and Emmett started to fist pump. Let me tell you, this was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.
"What the hell is going on down here? I was trying to paint my nails and spilt my nail polish all over Alice's white carpet!" We all stopped parading around the room when we saw a furious Rosalie storming down the steps. And equally pissed Alice ran into the room and they both crossed their arms.
"Seriously guys, can't you behave until our parents are gone? Then you can do whatever, but for now we need to remain calm." I giggled at them and they both gasped when they noticed me. "Bella what the hell are you doing with them?" Alice asked in horror while Rose looked like she would be sick.
I cracked up more knowing these men were their husbands yet they believed them to be disgusting little boys when they acted like this. "What? Afraid I'm guna get coodies?" They smirked at me and shook their heads. "Bella, Bella, Bella…we need to girl-ify you some more." Alice said while walking over to Jasper.
She narrowed her eyes at him and shoved her finger into his chest. "And you…what do you think you're doing making my friend act all…boyish?" I huffed and crossed my arms while Jasper laughed loudly. "If this bothers you, you wouldn't have lasted a day with her in the 1800's." I groaned and covered my face, knowing he was right.
They all began to laugh, even Rose and Alice. I was glad the tension was gone, and that's all that mattered at that moment. Just then Carlisle walked through the front door and was greeted by an ecstatic Esme. He greeted all of us and asked how school went. Multiple choruses of 'fine', 'Okay I guess, and my personal favorite (Emmett), 'Boy would you like to know.' He raise his brows at his son by chuckled and pat his shoulder before making his way upstairs with Esme to pack.
Everyone congregated into different rooms just like before. I sat back down on the couch with Edward and we curled up watching Titanic. I sniffled a bit when I felt like crying. Edward thought it was adorable. The movie was probably one of my favorites, and not that I would tell Edward, but young Leonardo Di Caprio was hot!
A half an hour later and we were all outside hugging our parent's goodbye as Carlisle loaded the Mercedes. They were conveniently going to a huge meeting for all Doctors in Seattle, and there would be a fun-raiser/party for Cancer. We watched as they pulled out of the driveway and drove down the gravel and onto the long high way. All of our 'fake' smiles dropped and our real ones spread across our faces.
"PARTY TIME, YEAH BUDDY!" Emmett screamed, picking up Rose and tossing her caveman style over his shoulders. I about died when Rose started to shove his arms off her waist. They were so much fun to watch, I had no idea why we still paid for cable with hem around. Leave it to Emmett to throw in Pauly D's signature line and make a bunch of century old vampire's laugh.
"Alright, alright, alright! Everyone calm the hell down, would yea?" Alice yelled at all of us and Emmett put Rosalie back on her feet. She dusted herself off and crossed her arms in front of her chest. I chuckled. "Now we only have twelve hours, including school time, to make this house looking horrifyingly perfect. This will be the best house party these teenagers will ever attend! I want everyone helping out, and taking shifts!" We all looked around at each other and I heard Edward gulp next to me.
"Get a move on!" Alice yelled at us and started to dictate everyone. I was assigned the first floor along with Alice, probably the most difficult of them all. She knew I wouldn't let her down. She gave Rosalie and Edward the second floor and food job. Neither were happy to be around the foul smelling stuff, and Emmett even bough beer.
Emmett and Jasper were outside decorating the entire house with cobwebs and spooky looking things like placing 'bloody' hand prints in the windows and sliding them down so it looked smeared. "Ready Bella?" Alice asked, tossing down a few crates of supplies. I smiled down at them and replied, "More than ever."
I ran around the room at lightning speed and shoved all the couches, tables, and vases against the wall. Alice and I rolled up the large white plush carpet (that toward over us vertically) and tossed it in the basement. We threw black, orange, and purple sparkles all over the hardwood floor, declaring it the main dance room. I stripped down Esme's floor length white curtains and replaced them with heavy black velvet ones. I opened them all the way so the beautiful full moon could shine down from above the mountain tops.
Alice ran upstairs and was back down carrying four huge black speakers. It was quiet comical for a person her size to be carrying such heavy cargo. She placed them in each corner of the room and plugged her I-phone in, letting it charge for now. I could hear Rosalie and Edward arguing in the kitchen over who was pouring salsa dip into a bowl and who was putting the brownies on a plate. They really didn't want to touch food let alone be that close to it.
I found about ten bags full of cobwebs and just went crazy. I put them everywhere, covering the entire first floor with spider webs. I even hung some from the glass chandelier Alice had hung up and along the staircase. Multiple little spiders and creepy crawler were hidden in it, as well as one huge black widow. I pulled out a jumbled mess of what appeared to be Christmas lights, just in the colors orange and purple. I strung them around the room and even went as far as running around Rose and Edward in the kitchen.
Meanwhile, Alice was throwing autumn colored leaves askew. She even decorated the bathroom by putting blood smears on the mirror and giving it autumn scented candles. I also took many candles and placed them around the house, letting the wax drip for that spooky effect. Alice needed my help when it came to the strobe light she had been dying to install, so I let her hop into my shoulders as she tinkered with them and angled the light towards the center of the floor. It would flash and make spooky sounds every few minutes.
I walked into the kitchen to put a few extra candles in. All the lights in the house were going to be turned off, leaving just the candles, 'Christmas' lights, strobe light, and moon light. The kitchen looked the same, just littered with food that had decorations on them and were color died black and orange. Edward placed a life size black cat above the refrigerator and Rose placed a witch's cauldron in the middle of the isle for candy to go in. Besides, it's not like we ever got trick-or-treat-er's up here.
The cabinets were wrapped in gauze and to my amusement; the entire ceiling was covered in bats. "Nice job guys, I will go check out Emmett and Jasper's masterpiece…good luck, Alice is coming by for inspection soon." Rosalie rolled her eyes and Edward kissed me. "You two did a fantastic job by the way." Rose said and I thanked her before running outside to see what my brothers have done.
I was very impressed to say the least. I didn't think they could pull it off. There was cobwebs everywhere and gauze attached to windows, making it blow in the wind. They even went as far as to decorating some parts of the forest by putting 'Jack-O-Lanterns' on the forest floor and cobwebs in the trees.
And to appeal to Emmett's gory side, he placed a few decapitated heads strung from the branches of different trees. The front door was covered in caution tape and there was lights flashing around the house to make it look like lightning. I think we have outdone ourselves here, but what can I say?
I love Halloween.
"You guys…this looks amazing!" I told them while giving them each a huge smile and a high five. They smiled back at me. "Well let's head inside so we can see how outstand the rest of you did." Emmett said, giving me a wink and charging inside. I giggled and was about to run in after him when I felt someone grab my wrist. I turned around to face Jasper's concerned face. "Bella…" he said in a soft whisper, and immediately I knew something was wrong.
"Yes brother?" I asked, confusion lacing my voice. He sighed and let go of my hand, looking sadly into my eyes. "You never told us what was bothering you." I felt my breath get caught in my throat and my eyes go wide. I thought they had forgotten, but I guess my brother pays more attention then I gave him credit for. Dammit! My subconscious screamed at me. This is why you need to stich your lips together and shut the hell up!
"Look…Jasper, it was noth-", I was cut off by an angered growl rumbling from his chest. I looked at him in shock and he shook his head. His lips were in a tight thin line and his eyes were dark. "Don't. Don't tell me it was nothing. Something was obviously bothering you, Bella. And I intend to figure out exactly what it is so I can stop it." I gave him a sad smile and whispered, "You can't stop it. I don't think anyone can." He looked at me long and hard for a few seconds. Almost like he was trying to stare me down until I told him.
His eyes tightened in pain when he saw my own fear flash in my eyes. "Bella…" He sighed and pulled me in for a hug. I wrapped my arms around him and buried my face in his chest to prevent from sobbing. I clenched my eyes tightly and bit down hard on my bottom lip. "You know, you don't have to tell me now. Come to me when you're ready Bella, and I will be there for you. You can always tell me anything, you know that. I will always be there for you." I hugged him tighter and he rested his head on top of mine.
I calmed myself down and backed away from his embrace. I exhaled and closed my eyes lightly, taking in my surroundings. "Kara and Maria." I breathed before I had the chance to stop myself. I could sense him freeze and everything become still around us, the air thick with tension. I knew I couldn't go back on my words now. I had said it, and he would want an explanation. I opened my eyes slightly to peek a look at him. Just like I predicted, he was rigid.
His eyes were tight and his lips were in a hard straight line. His shoulders were tensed and his fists were balled at his sides, almost shaking. "What about them?" He spat and I flinched at his cold detached tone. His eyes softened a tiny bit when he saw my hesitation, but none the less remained hard. This was a very difficult subject, for both of us.
Did you guys like it? Review please! Thanks for reading! SO…now you know what was on Bella's mind, but how do you think Jasper is going to take it? And the others? NEXT CHAPTER IS THE PARTY! What do you think will happen? What about Irina…hhhmmm….let me know! Thanks guys! ;) Did you like my 'fluff'?
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