Here's another chapter. I hope you guys enjoy this one. Please let me know what you think of my story. I would like to hear what people think of it. I would like to hear if it's any good and if I should keep writing. I know there are some grammar problems and I am slowly fixing those. Also the characters do not belong to be, they belong to the author, accept the story line does belong to me. I will be posting the next chapter tomorrow. I really hope everyone enjoys this chapter.
June 21st
She woke to someone tracing their finger up and down her shoulder over her birthmark. She rolled over and could see Edward smiling at her. Edward could see that Bella's eyes widened when they landed on him.
"What are you doing in my bed?" Bella asked while sitting up. Bella noticed that most of the light coming into the room was coming from the large window, but she was too busy staring at Edward to noticed the storm raging outside.
"Well actually it's not your bed." He said while chuckling. "It would belong to the beautiful Katherine Swan."
"Whatever." Bella said while shaking her head. She did not care whose room it was, just that he was in the same room has her. "But that still doesn't answer my question
"You don't remember?" He asked while grinning at her.
"Remember what?" She asked while running her hand through her hair.
"You asked me to stay last night." He said while placing his arms behind his head and grinning up at her.
"Just get out." She said while trying to push him. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer to him. She ended up falling on top of him. She noticed how close their bodies were and how nice his body felt against hers. She began to blush, which made her madder. She gritted her teeth together and hit him the chest while trying to sit up again. "Get out…you over stayed you're welcome." She said while freeing herself from his embrace.
"You are giving me whiplash…one minute you want my attention and the next you're pushing me away." Edward growled while getting up and heading for the door. "I'll get breakfast ready for you." He said while slamming the door behind him.
"I hate you." Bella shouted. Tears formed in her eyes. She knew that she should not have been surprised that he would end up sleeping in the same bed has her. That's how they had slept the last time they were together. He would never let her have her own bed and she never refused sleeping in the same bed has him. She actually enjoyed sleeping beside him; he made her feel safe. She was just tried and wanting everything to go back to normal. She wanted to go back to a few months; maybe then she could change things. She wiped her eyes and go out of the bed, while making her way to the door. Before she could open the door, the door was flung open.
"Edward." Bella gasped, because he had actually scared her a bit.
"Yes Princess." Edwards said while smiling at her. Even with her hair all messed up and no make-up, she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
"You just surprised me." Bella said while trying to flatten her hair down.
"Sorry…I was just coming to get you for breakfast."
"Oh okay." She said while biting her lip.
"Come on." He said while showing her down to the kitchen. She noticed that everyone she had seen yesterday was not here today.
"Where is everyone?" She asked while taking a seat at the island that stood in the center of the kitchen.
"There is a horrible storm going on outside." He said while motioning to the window with his head. She cursed, the sky outside was dark and she could see the trees swaying back and forth. Rain pounded against the window. She could hear it thundering outside. "Miss Ryan sent everyone home…she's the person runs the estate for Charlie…and now all the phones and everything are down."
"What?" Bella asked while taking a bite of the food that was on the plate that Edward had made up for her. "I need to call Jacob." He hated hearing that mutts name coming off her lips.
"Like I said…storm is bad…the news is saying it one of the worst storms that this area has seen in awhile…but nothing too bad, you're not going to blow away." He said laughing. She just glared at him.
"Not funny." She said sarcastically. "So what about Charlie…is he is coming or not?"
"No…he is staying another day and will be here tomorrow…more business came up and I can't really call him, remember phones are down…Miss Ryan told me that he had called before all the power went out."
"Well Shit." She said while stabbing at the food on her plate. "Damn it…so how did you make this food then?" Bella asked.
"It was made before the power went out…left with a note saying to just use the gas stove to heat it up…Rob's the one that left…dude acts like he is from the stone age some times." Edward laughed. "You know…with heating things over a fire."
"Yeah…okay." Bella said while rolling her eyes at him. "I think I am going to go look around." She said while getting up.
"That's not such a good idea." Edward said while standing also.
"Why not?" Bella asked. "Isn't this kind of my estate more than anyone's right now?"
"Yeah…but its still more Charlie's place than anything and the power is out right now…candles haven't been lit in most of the rooms." Edward said while stumbling over his words. There were many things in this house that she did not need to see. Secrets that were meant to stay hidden until Charlie could tell her.
"Okay." Bella said while turning to leave. "I am just going to go to my room then." She said over her shoulder has she left the room.
"Do you know your way back?" He called after her.
"Yes." Bella sighed. "I am not blind…I saw the way you took." Bella yelled back while going back up the steps and beginning her way down one of the long hallways in the estate. She finally noticed the hallway was kind of dark from the power being out. It was kind of spooky looking. Something called to her from one of the doors. She stopped short and looked at the door, she could not hear anything calling to her but something inside her was telling her to open the door. Slowly twisting the doorknob, she pushed the heavy door open. She gradually moved inside, while looking over her shoulder before going further into the room. The room looked like it was a home office, little light was being let into the room from the large windows, so the room was kind of dark, but she could still make things out. The room was a clash between modern and old world. A large glass desk in the center of the room had two small flat computer screens and keyboard on the glass desk. Three large flat screen TV's mounted on the wall in front of the desk. Over to the right side of the room, there was a large floor to ceiling, built into the wall bookcase that had every shelf jammed with books. Bella ran her fingers over the books, seeing that who ever used this room, had classics that were hard to get a hold of. Bella noticed on the left side of the room, that the wall had oil paintings of people. Walking towards the first picture, it was a picture the High King and what look liked the woman from her dream. Bella noticed that lady was wearing the same locket that Bella had been wearing her entire life, until it was taken from her. Bella touched the necklace she was wearing. She remembered when Edward had given them back to her. She had been feeling down that day and he told her that he had something that would probably make her happy. He presented her with her necklace that had her rings and cross on it. She was so happy when he had given them back to her. She remembered him telling her that he could not get the locket that it had already been sent to the High King. He also gave her back her ring, she had cried that day when he had given them back to her. She had thought she would never see them again. She had asked him how he had gotten them back and he said that it was not easy and to just leave it at that. The woman in the canvas had to be Elena. She looked just like the woman in the picture but younger, along with the High King. The High King looked younger than thirty-five. They looked like they were dressed in a Regency style. Her eyes moved to the next oil painting, it was a picture of the two people she had dreamed about. It was Peter and Helena, but they were younger than they had been in the dream. They were dressed in clothes from the Georgian era. She studied the painting a little more before moving over to a painting that made her gasp. Her hand flew to her mouth has she looked at the oil painting before her. It was a picture of a man and woman dressed in clothes from the 1400's. What made her really struggle for a breath of air, was that the woman looked just like her. They could have been twins. The woman in the picture had dark brown hair that looked like it was in an up do for that time, the woman was wearing a black and gold embroidery hennin beneath a sheer veil. The woman in the painting had the same strange eyes has her also. She could not get over how much she looked like the woman in the portrait. The only difference between them was that the woman in the painting looked evil, while Bella looked innocent. The man in the picture had long, curly, dirty blonde hair and honey brown eyes. He looked like Peter. "So that must be the High Kings grandparents," Bella thought has she studied the portrait. She noticed how the High King looked just like the man in the picture that she was staring at. She kept staring at the picture, until she heard someone clear their throat behind her. She jumped at the sound and turned around to see Edward standing in the doorway.
"Who is this woman?" Bella asked while turning back to look at the portrait. Edward had feared that Bella would find the portrait of the Luminița, the first vampire, and Bella's great great grandmother.
"You need to leave this room." Edward said while trying to get her to leave the room. "Now Bella." He shouted at her. "I told you that you shouldn't be go looking around this house."
"You didn't tell me that…you just said that it was more Charlie's." Bella yelled. "Why do I look like her…who is she?" Bella cried.
"It's not my job to tell you." Edward growled.
"The hell it is…she looks just like me." Bella said while crying more has she pointed at the painting.
"Bella…she is Luminița…the first ever vampire…your great great grandmother." Edward said while pinching the bridge of his nose and sighing. He did not want to tell her anything, mostly because he did not see it has his job to tell her, her family history and really he did not know much about the royal families history or how the vampire race came to be. There were a lot of myths nowadays on how the vampires came to be; only the High King himself knew how the vampires were truly made.
"My what?" Bella asked in a quiet voice. "You're telling me this." She said while pointing at the woman in the picture. "Is one of my dead relatives."
"Yes." Edward said while trying to come closer to her, but she backed up from him. He stopped trying to come closer to her and just stared at her frightened posture.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because it's not my job…its Charlie's…he should be the one to tell you about your family history…not me." Edward sighed.
"Huh…well he is not here…you are and I have trusted you with my life." Bella cried more. "And you have failed to mention…that I could be my great great grandmother's twin." Bella's voice raising has she ended her speech.
"Bella…please…you have to understand that I don't really know your family history or why you look just like her…its probably because Charlie looks like her and you look like you could be his twin if you were a guy." Edward shouted.
"You still could have told me." Bella shouted back. "I deserved to know."
"I know." Edward sighed.
"Then why didn't you tell me?" Bella said through clenched teeth. "You should have told me…my head is going to explode." Bella yelled. "Not only do I learn that vampires are real…I also learn I am a halfing…the creation of a human and a vampire getting together…I am part of the royal fucking family for vampires…and that the my supposed grandfather…the king of all vampires…wants me dead." Bella shouts while pointing at herself. "On top of it all…I learn that the father I thought was supposed to be my father…isn't…its some guy I don't even know." Bella cried. "I thought I had the best father in the world…he was great for being a young dad…he taught me so many things...and I now have to live with knowing that I don't share his blood and that I have been lied to and I have to lie to him…but wait…it gets better." Bella screamed. Edward wanted to wrap his arms around her and comfort her, but he knew that would just make her madder. "I am now a part of some prophecy...I can't handle anything else…and now I learn that I look just like the first vampire…one of my relatives." Bella cried, while wrapping her arms around herself. "The icing on the cake…is you did not tell me and you knew." Bella said while trying to walk past him, but he caught her arm and pulled her towards him. He wrapped his arms around her and layed his head on top of hers.
"Bella…I know this is a lot to take in but believe me when I tell you…I was doing it to protect you…everything I do is to protect." He sighed, while kissing the top of her head.
"Let go of me…you have done enough." Bella said while trying to push away from. She had tears running down her face.
"Princess please." Edward begged.
"Let go of me Edward…I can't stand to be in the same room with you right now…I still haven't forgiven you for leaving me like you did. I don't care what it was for…and now…to know that you have kept this from me…just let me go." Bella hissed. "I am so pissed at you right now." Edward finally let her go and she ran out of the room crying. Her sobs were making his heart hurt. He wanted to do something for her, but he did not know what. He felt helpless and he had not felt like that since he been homeless and that was many moons go. She ran down the hallway and flung the first door open that she could find. The room that she had entered was a lovely suit that had light blue walls and huge Regency style bed was in the middle of the room. The room made Bella feel like she had stepped back into the another time period. She touched the bed, while looking around the room more. There was huge oil painting of Elena and the High King over a huge fireplace. She stared at the painting for a few minutes before figuring out that she must be in Elena's old room. She began to look through the closet to make sure that she was right. She found a cute creamy white colored cotton gown. The dress had a high waistline and short puffed sleeve gathered to cotton lace band. The dress had a cotton ruching and lace at the hem. It was very beautiful. Looking down at the clothes she was wearing, she decided to put the dress on. She wanted everything that had to do with Edward to be far away from her at that moment. She was still fuming over what she had learned. She carefully took the dress off of the hanger it was on and leisurely put the dress on. She looked in the mirror at herself and sighed. She looked like hell but the dress was very pretty.
"You look pretty my granddaughter…never think your not." Elena whispered. Through the mirror Bella could see Elena put her hand on her shoulder, Bella touched the hand that Elena had placed on her and smiled at her. Elena smiled back at Bella. "The dress suits you…but your wearing it wrong my dear…it involves a petticoat." Elena laughed. Bella quickly turned around but did not see anything. Elena was not standing behind her. She looked back at the mirror and did not see Elena standing there anymore. She did not understand what had just happened; maybe it was just her mind imagining things. "Probably losing my mind…but who wouldn't with everything that I have been through," Bella thought. She sighed while looking at herself in the mirror again.
"You just can't stay out of places that aren't yours." She could hear Edward talking and she knew what he had said but she ignored him. "So you're really not going to talk to me?" Bella immediately turned around to glare at him.
"No…and this is my grandmothers…I think she would be okay with me borrowing her clothes." Bella said before leaving the room. She did not want to talk to him and she did not know when that would change. "Where is the bathroom in this place?"
"Its connected to both of are rooms…I can show you…if you want?" Edward said with a smirk on his lips, which made Bella more pissed at him.
"Fine." Bella said while running her fingers through her hair. She followed Edward back to her room and through a door that led a bathroom that was not that big but it was big enough. In the middle of the room stood a claw bathtub. There was two sinks with marble countertops.
"Here you go…do you need anything?" He asked. He was trying to push her buttons now. He did not like the change in her attitude. He knew that she had a right to be pissed, but she was acting like something Edward did not like.
"No…I think I will be fine." She said while shooing him out of the room and locking the door behind him. She managed to lock the other door that led into the room also. She just wanted to be by herself. She could not believe that she had not had a shower yet and that her hair still looked like bed head. She used the toilet and then began to fix her hair with a hairbrush she found on the sink. She looked at herself in the mirror and began to cry. She did not see the same girl who had looked back at her in the mirror, at the beginning of May, but someone new. Someone that had experienced pain and heartache. She could hear Edward asking if she was okay, but she was ignoring him. She wanted everything to just disappear, so she could have peace and quiet and just some time to think.
