Chapter 30: Revelation


~Every person has two sides to them. One they let the world see and one they keep to themselves. - Unknown~


My cell phone's ringtone woke me from the best dream I've had in a month. I groaned and threw my fist over my eyes, hoping the sound would subside. It didn't and what alerted me the most was that I wasn't familiar with the bed I was currently sleeping on.

"Will you please answer it?" said a muffled voice.

My heart leaped to my throat and I felt around the bed frantically with tightly shut eyes. My hand met with something soft and I yelped in shock. I almost didn't want to open my eyes but I knew I had no choice.

I tried to remember what happened last night and as the glorious details slowly flooded my mind; my eyes flew open on cue.

Edward was next to me on the large bed, spread out on his stomach. I couldn't see his face since it was buried in the pillow; all that showed were tufts of his thick auburn hair sticking up from the golden sheets.

He was obviously naked under the sheets and so was I.

Breathing hard, I reached over to the nightstand and slapped at the offensive noisemaker. Then I realized it was my cell phone and that it wouldn't stop blaring till I hit the red button.

"Good morning," Edward mumbled sleepily, once he turned to face me.

His handsome face looked peaceful and well slept. My stomach jumped all over the place when I noticed the warm and intimate twinkle in his forest green eyes.

"Hey," I whispered, trying hard to sink in everything.

Edward and I had really made love last night and it was the most surreal thing I had ever done. Oh my God.

He noticed the alert look on my face and sat up immediately. And as he did, the sheet slipped down and revealed an incredibly delicious V accompanied by set of washboard abs.

"Bella," his eyes widened, "are you okay?"

My eyes adjusted to the sunlight streaming through the bay windows and ran around the room. It was the guest bedroom in Tanya's house. Emphasis on Tanya's house. Thankfully, no one had barged in through the door and demanded us to get out yet.

The fashionable tiny clock on the wall told me that it was 6:30 in the morning.

"Yeah," I nodded shakily and sat up, dragging the sheet with me.

He chuckled. "Please, it's not like I haven't seen anything."

I turned pink and a nervous giggle escaped my lips. Glimpses of last night warmed my body and I tightened the sheet around me.

"It's for precaution. What if you attack me again?" I gave him a faux demure smile.

"Oh, really?" Edward leaned forward and trapped me between his body and the headboard.

"Really," I placed my hand on his naked warm chest and shoved playfully. "And get off me!"

"That's new," he murmured teasingly. "I don't recall you saying something like that last night. In fact, you were begging me to-"

"Enough, please!" I squealed with laughter.

When he dipped his head to my neck, his broad shoulders shaking in amusement, I noticed something. I moved back and examined the place where his neck met the shoulder. There was an o ofwhite teeth marks on his skin.

"Uh, yeah, you were quite the feisty one." Edward smirked and there was bashfulness in the way he looked at me.

Since Edward was from the 1900s, he was somewhat old fashioned. I had found it endearingly cute but Edward with a leg up was even more appealing.

"I don't remember doing something as barbaric as that." I pouted.

My cheek was flaming hot now. Those teeth marks on his neck weren't the only ones. There were loves bites on his torso too.

"Hey now," he cooed, cupping my chin. "It's not bad. You just showed…..how much you love me."

"By biting you?" I snorted.

"Well," he shrugged with his lips pursed.

My cell phone bleated again. I glanced at the screen and saw Sasha's name flash across it.

Edward's eyebrows knit together. "It sounds urgent to me."

I carefully leaned towards the nightstand, so that the sheet wouldn't fall down, and pressed the speaker button on the cell phone.

"Bella! Oh thank God!" Sasha's voice was frantic. "What the hell happened to you last night? Where are you now?"

Edward yanked on his boxers and stood up. He pointed at the attached bathroom door and went inside it after I nodded.

"Relax, Sasha. I'm fine." I breathed and leaned back on the headboard.

"Don't you dare tell me to relax! Your mom called me this morning and I had to cover for you. She kept on telling me that you weren't answering her calls." She sounded mad.

I vaguely remembered hitting IGNORE on the caller screen last night. Edward and I were really, really busy.

"Sorry, but I can explain." I glanced at the bathroom door again when I heard the shower turn on. "Not now though."

She made a sound of excitement. "Is that your code word for saying that you bonked Edward last night?"

"No, no! Gosh no, Sasha. You know he would never do that. We just burrowed Tanya's guest room for the night and merely slept on the bed. Not slept with each other." I stretched and found myself sore at some areas.

I knew it was wrong lying to her but I wasn't ready for everyone to know it yet.

"I really hope that's the right 'cause you're not even on the pill and unless, of course, Edward bought a condom, you are not safe." She rambled on, her voice high pitched with stress.

"Yeah, yeah, thanks for the details." I got up. "Look, I'll call you later, okay?"

"Okay. By the way, I told your mom that you stayed with me last night. Just in case you blow my cover."

I pulled on the clothes I had worn to the party last night and finger-combed my hair. Edward came out, dressed in the clothes he had come to the party, but at least he had showered.

"Aren't you going to...?" he raised an eyebrow at me.

"No, I'll shower in my house." I put my cell phone inside my clutch and turned to face him. "Edward?"

"Hmmm?" Edward pocketed his tie and glanced at me.

"Um, you can't, you know, uh, make babies, right?" I practically swallowed my tongue at the ridiculous question.

We didn't use any sort of protection and so I had to ask him, no matter how embarrassing it was.

"I don't...think so." He rubbed his neck warily and shrugged. His cheeks turned pink.

I exhaled. "Good. Let's go."

He swooped down unexpectedly and captured my lips in a searing hot kiss. Longing swept over me and by the time we pulled away for air, I was dizzy.

"Let's go." He rasped in a rough voice.

He took my hand and led me downstairs. We didn't encounter anyone on the corridor but I could see traces of the wild party everywhere.

"The cleaning crew aren't here yet." Tanya announced, as she emerged into the living room.

Her short blonde crop was messy but her pale blue eyes were wide with excitement.

"I see the plan worked." She laughed and took a sip from her coffee mug.

"Wait," I stared at Edward and then at her, "what plan?"

Edward looked down guiltily and pretended to be interested with a loose button on his shirt.

"The plan to win you back." She stated, as if it was obvious.

"Tanya, Bella and I were just leaving. Thanks for the help." He tugged at my hand, his beautiful eyes pleading her.

"When he returned to school," Tanya continued, ignoring Edward. "Everyone could see how miserable he was. The party seemed like the perfect opportunity and so I met up with him after school and told him my plan. Which worked like genius. I should write a book or something. 'How to win your ex back'. Don't you think so?"

She spoke too fast for me to process everything.

"Um yeah. What's the first step, lure the ex into a bedroom and fuck him or her?" I gave her a perplexed smile.

She laughed loudly. "You are such a delight, Bella. I'll see you both at school."

I groaned at the mention of school. Why did she have to throw a party on a school night? Edward was more than happy to escort me to my house and after he had gone to change clothes for school, I stumbled into the living room.

"Bella, there you are." Mom looked more relieved than annoyed. "Did you enjoy your night at Sasha's?"

"Yeah, you bet I did." I remarked with a shy smile.

"And why didn't you answer my calls? Very reckless of you, honey." She made a fuss of me for some more time before she finally let me go upstairs.

I collapsed on bed immediately and snuggled closer to my cold duvet. Oh my, I was really sore. I dosed off and when I finally gained consciousness, it was 7:30 AM.

"Uh-oh." I bolted to the bathroom and took a quick shower.

I yanked on the first clothes I found and messily braided my hair. It was in no condition to be left down. When I ran outside, Edward's Volvo was already waiting, its engine running.

It felt good to have Edward pick me up again since he had stopped coming for the past week.

"Good morning again, lovely." Edward greeted me cheerfully when I got in.

"My hair and lovely do not go together, Edward." I moaned and arranged the braid on my right shoulder.

"Of course they do." He smiled winningly and drove swiftly to school.


After school, Sasha insisted on giving me a ride home. Edward looked a little troubled but agreed reluctantly after some coaxing.

"So, nothing really happened between you two except getting back together?" Sasha asked as she shifted gears.

"For the thousandth time, Sasha, no, non." I played with a strand of my hair.

She released an irritated sigh but shrugged. I knew she was itching to ask me the same question again but the look on my face urged her to keep quiet.

"Alice talked to me at the party about you." She changed the subject. Alice made an appearance at the party? How did she escape my notice?

"What did she say?" I rolled back my shoulders. I was still a leetle mad at her.

"She's sure that you are avoiding her. I could see that she really wants to talk to you, Bella. She didn't give me an explanation but she did say that it was very important." Sasha rolled her eyes, knowing that "important" applied to the Cullens' matter.

"Oh," I shifted uneasily. What had I missed?

Sasha stopped the car in front of my house and I nearly flew out the car. That had something to do with the fact that Alice was currently sitting on the hood of her Porsche, which was parked on my driveway.

"Alice?" I called out in confusion.

"Oh Bella!" Alice jumped from her car and threw her tiny arms around me. Her hug wasn't tiny though.

"Alice, what is it?" I pulled back, worried.

"I don't know where to start." She mumbled to herself.

"From the beginning?"

"You know there's an abandoned storage place behind my house, right?" Alice's blue eyes were sad.

"Uh, yeah." I wasn't sure where she was going with this.

"I've always felt peace there, so I spend some time every week there. It is a good place to de-stress." She fiddled with her dark pink blazer.

"And?" I prompted. The sky darkened suddenly and tiny water droplets started to fall.

"A week back, around the time when Edward started ignoring you, I went there. When I was about to enter, I heard whispers. I hid behind a barrel and peeked inside. I found a group of eight men there, some were teenagers and a few were in their mid-twenties. Edward was one of them." She paused.

"Do you know them?" I bit my lip, anxiety gnawing my stomach.

"No," she shook her head. "But the way they talked...I knew something was off. I listened and Bella..."

"Please cut to the point, Alice." I shivered in my light lace hemmed top.

"They are the soldiers who woke up along with Edward and the others. They were talking about the ways to prolong their inevitable deaths. And..." At this point, she choked audibly.

"Alice, is it very bad?" I whispered. "Why didn't Edward mention any of this to me?"

"That's because they are practicing black magic, Bella. A blond guy kept directing them, James, I think."

"James?" I stumbled back in shock. "He danced with me at the party."

"Oh, that's very very bad." She moaned. "He had a book with him, a spell book for sure. He told them that the steps mentioned in that book could postpone their death dates and give them more time. If they have more time, they could dig up darker spell books, morons."

"So, what's the first step?" I asked. I could barely breathe. Had Edward listened to all of this bullshit?

"Uh," she swallowed. "I called you so that I could warn you. I'm sure they are targeting you for that particular step. I know you are smart, so you wouldn't have done it yet."

"What is it?" My legs became numb and I started shaking.

"Long explanation made short, because they spoke a few ancient terms, in my words, that step is to..." She took a deep breath. "Deflower a virgin."

The last thing I heard was Alice screaming and everything went blank.


Uh-oh, guys. The drama is finally starting, isn't it? Did this chapter answer some of your questions? What do you think is going to happen? Review and tell me!

-BEJL