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We pulled in front of my storage building and I turned the engine of my truck off, my sensitive ears glad that the roar of the truck had gone. I jumped out of my truck and fished the keys to the building out of my backpack where I normally kept them, I never knew when I was going to have to make a trip, I walked up to the roller shutter door and unlocked the padlock, putting it on the ground beside the door as I turned just as the BMW pulled up, everyone walked up to me with confusion on their faces.
"Damon, I have someone I need to reintroduce you to," I smiled and pointed to Jasper, "Major Jasper Whitlock," I smiled as his mouth popped open in shock.
"Who would of ever have thought that Major Jasper Whitlock sparkles in the sun," Damon said jokingly while looking at Jasper, "It's good to see you Major, been a long time," Damon smirked.
"You know about us?" Rosalie asked suddenly looking angry.
"I'll explain later Rosalie, they're not a threat," I said softly, she looked at me for a long moment then nodded and relaxed visibly.
"Good to see someone I know from my human life, we'll have to talk at a later time." Jasper said while shaking Damon's hand.
"Speaking of later, this is what we're going to do, you're all invited to my place if you want and then we can tell each other about our pasts if you're comfortable with it, don't worry if you're not, my friend Peter and his mate Charlotte will be arriving later this evening to stay with me. Yes, they drink human blood but only that off criminals or people who are on deaths door so don't worry. We are going to tell the Cullen's that Rosalie, Elena and I will be having a sleepover at the Salvatore house, chick flicks, ghost stories the whole shebang and that the men will be having a night of their own, getting to know each other, drinking alcohol etc. We will tell the others that they aren't invited because they don't know them or feel comfortable around them enough to invite them into their own homes. No matter what they say or do, do not invite them otherwise the whole night will be ruined," I said with authority which no one questioned.
"Sounds good to me," Elena said happily, I saw the others nod in agreement; Rosalie looked a bit apprehensive so I placed a hand on her arm reassuringly and smiled.
"It'll be okay Rosalie, if you don't want to come then you don't have to, I just thought it'd be nice for us girls to get to know each other without the Cullen's butting in all the time," I soothed and she gave me a small smile.
"I'd like that, I don't have any female friends," She said sadly and I could see that underneath her ice queen façade that she was in fact lonely, I saw Jasper wrap an arm round her shoulders comfortingly.
"Well you have me and after tonight I think you'll have Elena too, that's a start right?" I asked and she nodded.
"I'm sorry for being so cold towards you, I was told to act like it towards you by Edward and Alice they threatened to kick me out of the family if I didn't do as they told," She said sadly, I nodded in understanding.
"We'll deal with those fuckers later okay?" I smiled and gave her a gentle hug which she returned, Jasper's arm still around her shoulder which made me smile. I turned to see the others watching us so I pointed to the building.
"Are you ready to see my pride and joys?" I asked, almost bouncing up and down with excitement, they all nodded and then I heard gasps of surprise as I pushed the roller shutter door up, I turned to see looks of awe on all their faces.
Rose looked at the Chevy Impala 1967 with a look of adoration. Jasper was eyeing up my Ducati Monster S4R in silver, Damon was eyeing up my black Ferrari F430, Stefan and Elena were eyeing up my Midnight Blue Dodge Viper so I guess that left me with my black Mustang which was my baby.
"You own all of these?" Rosalie asked in awe.
"That I do." I replied as I threw them the keys to the vehicles they were eyeing up, they turned to look at me in shock.
"You're letting us drive your vehicles?" Jasper asked confused. I nodded then looked at Damon, I saw him still staring at the Ferrari with a look of wonder and love that he used to use on me a long time ago, my eyes stung with tears and my throat choked up as I wished he would look at me like that again, I took a deep breath, I saw Rosalie and Elena watching me with concern, I shrugged it off.
"Rosalie, Elena, would you like to join me for some shopping?" I smiled at them trying to take my mind off Damon, which they returned with eager nods.
"You guys can call me Rose, I'm sorry I haven't been friendly towards you all, I just have to keep myself guarded around people but you all seem nice and I'd like to get to know you, perhaps become friends with you in time," Rosalie said almost shyly, I smiled at her in encouragement and surprised the both of us by giving her a tight hug, at first she tensed up then she returned the hug. I turned to Damon, ignoring the longing pang in my heart.
"Damon, are you leaving the BMW here?" I asked softly.
"Sure, you can burn it if you want as long as I get to drive this beauty," he said in an awe filled voice, I laughed.
"Throw us your keys then, you boys can either join us at the mall and do your own thing or go off on your own as long as you meet us back here in 3 hours?"
I caught the keys that were thrown at me, the boys decided to join us at the mall so I said I'd meet them at the mall I was just going to finish up here so I drove the Mustang out of the building and parked it beside my truck and Damon's BMW both of which I then parked into the building. I went to a closet at the back of the building and pulled out some boxes and placed them in the trunk of the Mustang for later, after I padlocked the building once more and checked everything was secure I raced towards the mall, the Bella the Cullen's knew hated driving fast but I loved it, it was a rush plus I loved the purr of my Mustang.
Once I got to the mall I pulled up smoothly in between Rose and Stefan's choice of car, I grabbed my purse and locked up my car just as the group walked up to me, Stefan was eyeing me carefully, I raised my eyebrow in a silent question.
"Are you going to take that wig off and those god awful contacts out now?" Stefan asked with a disgruntled expression.
"Wig? Contacts?" Rosalie asked confused, I think this has been the most confused she's been in a long time.
I nodded and Stefan grinned so I pulled off my itchy brown wig and pulled my honey blonde hair out of the elastic and bobby pins that were securing it in place so none of it would show when I had the wig on.
"Another thing we have in common Rose," I winked then removed my muddy brown contacts and blinked a few times, Jasper and Rosalie gasped, probably the fact my eyes are a stormy blue with specks of silver. My eyes felt much better without the contacts in.
"Wow, you look so much better, no offence," Rose complimented; I blushed lightly and smiled, coming from Rosalie Hale that was definitely ego boosting, she was the personification of beauty.
"So why do you wear wigs and contacts?" Jasper asked curiously.
"When you're as old as I am you gain a few enemies, enemies that would love to see you dead plus I wouldn't fit in with Charlie if I went around with blonde hair and blue eyes would I?" I smiled.
"So how old are you actually?" Rose asked.
"Let's just say I'm in four figures," I smirked at the looks of shock that passed everyone's faces
"Wait, why didn't you tell me?" Damon exclaimed, I could see hurt on his features, my anger rose to the surface, he had no reason to being hurt, it was him that had left me, him that had cheated on me and had broken my heart, he didn't deserve an explanation but I gave him one anyway.
"There was no need because I was going to give it all up for you but you left before I had a chance of which I'm glad I didn't give my immortality up now," I spat angrily, I felt tears sting my eyes, Damon looked into my eyes.
"You were going to give up immortality for me?" He asked sadly, my throat was closing up with emotion so I looked down and nodded.
"Why?" He asked shocked, I let out a warning growl which caused the others to freeze in alarm.
"Because I would of done anything for you, I loved you," I snapped angrily, "Something you know nothing about obviously," I didn't want to discuss this now, luckily Elena distracted us.
"Wait, how can you give it up?" Elena asked curiously.
"Let's just say I have special abilities that I was born with, we can discuss it later." I effectively ended the conversation.
After about 2 hours of almost non stop shopping and some time spent in the hair salon, I had my hair shortened so it reached mid back with layers and bangs, we had our arms full of bags which contained jewellery, books, beauty products, clothing and lots of other things, we made the men carry some of our bags, they grumbled at first but we shut them up with a few dirty looks. Once we got back to the car, I put my shopping bags in the trunk of my Mustang and the ones that couldn't fit went on the backseat. I turned to Rose and Jasper and said a special incantation quietly, they just stared in confusion.
"I've put up a mental block for this afternoon, tonight I'll do a permanent one for you, that's only if you want it," I added on, not wanting to make choices for them, The Cullen's did that enough. Rose and Jasper nodded gratefully.
I thought back over the past few hours as I sped back to Forks, during the shopping spree, Rose, Elena and I had grown close, we found we have a lot in common, we have different fashion tastes but we decided to try some of the other persons style to see if they liked it, I liked the whole leather and lace rocker chic deal where Elena was more of a casual Jeans, t shirt and jacket and Rose was more of a conservative person with beautiful blouses and trousers but also liked skirts and heels, she looked older than she was and we agreed she needed to act her age sometimes, human not vampire.
While we were in the mall I had changed into a pair of black skinny jeans, a deep purple tank top that clung to my curves in all the right places, I finished the look with a black leather jacket. A pair of calf length 5 inch heeled black leather boots, black rose earrings, a black bead necklace that I could wrap around my neck 3 times and some natural looking make up with some fake eyelashes. The girls had complimented me on my outfit, which made me smile; Damon and Stefan welcomed me back to the Leather Jacket Club with open arms. We made plans to meet up later that night at Charlie's house so I could lead them to my place which no one knew about except me, Peter and Char; now of course the rest knew, so I made a mental note to go shopping later on so I could stock up on plenty of alcohol and junk food.
30 minutes later we pulled up into the school parking lot, everyone's heads snapped up in our direction but then again who wouldn't, we had a fleet of flashy vehicles, I pulled into a spot at the back of the parking lot with the others pulling up around me, knowing meeting up with Edward, Alice and Emmett wasn't going to end so well, I took a deep breath and stepped out of my car and stood beside Rose and Stefan, Damon stood slightly behind me, Jasper stood beside Rose and Elena stood next to Stefan, I then saw the remaining Cullen's storm up to us, I rolled my eyes, dramatic much.
"Where the hell have you guys been? I've been so worried, I couldn't see your futures anymore and you're blocking Edward's mind reading so tell us now!" Alice screeched at us, Elena winked at me slyly then fake gasped which made Alice spin round to face Elena with a look of horror on her face.
"Are you crazy? I mean you think you can see the future? You think Edward can read minds? Dude you belong in an asylum," I stifled my laugh as Alice paled at the word asylum, "By the way, how come if the Hales and Cullen's aren't related you all have those freakishly gold eyes, you're all so pale and the fact none of you touch food? Haven't any of you heard of tanning?" Elena carried on her fake rambling; I could see the look of shock horror on Emmett's, Alice's and Edward's face.
Jasper and Rose pretended to look pissed off.
"Great job Alice," Rosalie growled at her, I stifled my laugh.
"Wow, smooth Alice, two rules in one day, you really are willing to die huh?" I shook my head.
I then pulled out my phone to send a quick text to Aro, I told him that once I gave the go ahead that he was to send a guard to me ASAP, I requested Jane, Alec and Chelsea to be part of the Guard coming. I also told him that I suspected foul play from the Cullen's keeping true mates from one another. I also told him they had just practically exposed themselves in front of others.
Even though I was older than they are, Caius and Anthedora had adopted me as their daughter and loved me as such, Sulpicia and Aro were one of my Uncle and Aunts and also Marcus and Didyme, who I managed to bring back from the dead, she was my favourite Aunt and so like me. I also warned Aro if he lay a malicious hand on her again then I'll personally remove him from the Volturi which made him swear he wouldn't try to kill her again. Alec, Jane and Chelsea were my favourite from the Guard but that's for personal reasons. Alice broke me out of my thoughts.
"Who are you texting?" Alice asked angrily, stalking towards me, I shoved my phone into my bra and smirked smugly at her.
"What's it to you Alice?" I asked sweetly, she growled, I grinned.
"Don't think I won't reach down there and grab that phone if I need to!" Emmett snarled at me, I looked to see what Edward was going to do about his brother reaching down his girlfriend's bra; he just stood there looking like an idiot attempting to look intimidating.
"You're such an assehole Edward," I said angrily, his eyes snapped to mine, I could see the irritation in them.
"What? Why do you say that?" He asked irritably.
"Your brother just threatened to reach down your girlfriend's bra and violate her against her will who is supposed to be the 'love of your life', your mate and you just stand there not saying a word, not to mention you never once defended me from the Ultimate Whore, if I was your mate then you wouldn't of been able to just stand there ignore it," I glared at him with conviction.
"Well if you were more obedient then I wouldn't have to resort to such means and who is this 'Ultimate Whore?" He asked curiously.
Well here's another chapter, let me know what you think.