HI ALL. REVIEWS ARE APPRECIATED YOU KNOW 3
THIS IS ALICES VIEW, KEEP IN MIND THAT SHES KNOWN HER FOR LITERALLY ALL OF IRENE AND BELLA'S LIVES. SHES A LITTLE IMPATIENT.
The first few visions, I got a little bit confused. They were almost two decades ago, and I wasn't sure why I was being shown these twin girls. Irenta and Isabella Swan. They were beautiful together, I watched them grow up from the visions arriving in my head. I watched the first time she took her step, she did it before Isabella. Always the more courageous one.
It was interesting how Renee and Charlie gave them the same initials with that variation of name.I didn't think it was bad, I just surprised. I loved the name Irenta. It was fierce and powerful, Latin for "filled with rage". She'd become a powerful women when she was changed.
It continued and eventually I figured out why I was getting these, Irenta was my one and only mate. The one I'd been waiting for for years, the one I'd been searching for.
She was only about a hundred years late, but at the same time it was perfect. I'd had time to perfect my control, and now that I knew she was coming and she was human, it'd be worked on twice as hard. Jasper could feel my happiness explode every time I got a news flash from her life, even if she'd just snuck out or decided what to make for dinner.
The first time I was angry with Irenta was when she'd met Dahlia, her first. It never really occurred to me that she'd have someone before ever meeting me, after all, I hadn't. I remembered seeing their skin touching and the word love muttered in between the sheets and afterwards I saw red.
She was mine. She was meant for me, just as I was meant for her. Jasper had to be sent in to calm me down, I was destroying the forests of Alaska from how much Irenta had driven me crazy. I considered giving myself over to the Volturi guard but had been begged both by my adopted mother and by Jasper to not, to just hold on a few more years. I almost had her within my reach.
Everyone had their own, except for Jasper and I. At first I thought he may have been my mate, but eventually I figured out it was simply a friendship. (This was after we flung each other into a tree when things got a little hot and I figured out I was indeed a lesbian.) Carlisle has Esme, Emmett had Rosalie, Edward had Tanya, and I was about to have my Irenta.
I'd been thinking about her all day when she and Bella flew in. They'd be arriving at the airport and then Charlie would drive them back. I almost went to the air port myself just to catch a whiff of her or touch her but I held myself back and hunted instead. I had to be extremely well-prepared. I didn't want to scare her off.
While I was drinking from the neck of a mountain lion, I was hit with a vision of one of the twins falling. I had come conflicts of who it was but decided it'd had to have been Isabella, my Irenta was the more graceful of the two. Either way I made a mental note to check Irenta over tomorrow when I saw her, just in case.
I drained the beast and gracefully walked into the living room, not a drop of blood or dirt on my dress. It was a favorite of mine after all.
Today was the day! Oh my goodness today was the day. I was moving around, person to person, rehearsing how they'd react and how amazing my girl was, how much they'd love her. They'd practically grown up with her as I had when I shared every vision with the family. They humored my ups and downs because they loved me and tried to explain that if I loved her, they'd love her.
Rose was the only one that was a little peeved with the idea of a human and any consequences but nearly two decades allowed for some mind changing to begin, and she was at least going to be tolerating my mate. I insisted upon it and from the fact everyone knows I almost vibrate with the force of five three year-old full of coffee, it was something that she was happy to do for me.
"Esme! Carlisle! Today's the day!" I said this as I hopped down the stairs, taking them two or three steps at a time. She and Carlisle were in the kitchen, discussing whatever it was they discuss, I was too excited to listen to it. She turned around first, opening her arms to me for a hug, I ran to her and hugged her, squeezing only a little. Then I did the same to Carlisle.
"Do you think she'll like me?" I paused the excitement bouncing with that though, my heart cracking into a million pieces. Esme frowned and patted my shoulder with loving eyes.
"She'll love you, Alice. Don't worry. We can't wait to meet this Irenta!" She said this happily, clapping her hands together as Carlisle came up next to her, nodding. I hugged both of them one more time before I skipped out to the cars. They'd get there around 7:55 but we could be early, just in case.
Jasper was trying to calm me down as I was giving him some emotional whiplash, going between nervous, excitement, worry, and longing. I just wanted to feel her hair between my fingers and hear her say she loved me as much as I loved her. I checked my watch for the third time in the last 6 minutes. It was almost time for her to pull in, or she'd be late for our English class.
I saw the red Nissan Sentra pull into the lot, one was staring out the window, the driver was talking to her. I looked over as Edward had a funny look go over his face.
"What's that look about, Edward?" I thought this and he looked over at me. My feathers were getting ruffled and I stood straighter, glaring at him. I didn't like the look he had going on. It worried me.
"I can't hear them. At all. I can't hear either of their thoughts, Alice." He said this gruffly and my glare broke into a smile, he was grumpy because he couldn't read my mate's thoughts.
"HAH. ONE PERSON YOU CAN'T SPY ON, EDDIE BOY." I turned back around to watch as the driver smiled at the other. Why was it taking so long for them to get out of the car?
"Shes trying to calm her sister down, Alice. Be just a little more patient, ones the mothering type." Jasper put his hand on my shoulder to strengthen the calm feeling and I almost growled. I wanted her now, I was tired of waiting.
Finally! She hopped out of the car, her sister going ahead. We made eye contact as she went up, she wasn't Irenta. I walked over quickly as she was turned around, getting her bag. She turned around and jumped as she looked at me, I guess I might have been a little quiet.
"Hi! I'm Alice!" I bounced as I locked eyes with her, she was the one. She was my Irenta! She looked back at Isabella, the confusion clear on her face. When she looked back at me I could feel myself almost preen with her looking at me.
"Hey. Irene." She said this quietly and I reached over to hug her. Now I have a name to call my mate. Irene. It worked for Irenta.
"Uh..u-hum, Hi. I'm Bella." Her twin sister, Isabella got here finally I let go of my mate to smile her. Trying my best to be welcoming.
"Oh! You do have a twin! I'm Alice." I clapped my hands together, I had been right all along. This was a relief though, I could tell from the reeling back that Irene had been doing that I wasn't making a good impression. It was something I hadn't expected at all. iN all honesty, I had a fantasy of her falling in love at first sight with me as my kind does. Humans were difficult, picky, and they had a choice between acceptance and rejection.
"Y-yeah." Bella was stuttering, she was definitely nervous. I gave her a sympathetic smile, I knew her sister was important to her. If I made a good impression on Bella, then Irene would be so much easier.
"Well it was great meeting you, Alice. Excuse us, we have to get her in class." Irene said this with a tight smile, I didn't mind. She was definitely the mother in the two, it was understandable that she'd want to.
"You'll make it into our English class on time, by the way!" I called from the parking lot and she gave me a thumbs up. I grinned, feeling happy and content with that interaction as I skipped back to my family.
"How was that?" I asked as I skipped back. Jasper smiled at me and Edward shrugged. I looked around at everyone else
"Well?" I asked them impatiently. As they answered I had a vision of me hugging Irene in the empty English classroom. I began to grin and clapped my hands together. I didn't care about what they thought anymore, they'd learn to love her. I wasn't letting go.
"Alice? What did you see?" Jasper asked me with a raised brow and I shook my head grinning. That was for me and Irene to know, and because it was I started to sing the Canadian national anthem to keep it from Edward. He glared at me and I giggled as I skipped off to English. Today was the best day!
I waited for Irene to arrive, and she did, right as Mr. De Ronin was about to close the door. Seeing her rush in with her rosy cheek and hair swishing around made my face crease into another smile. She was so perfect.
"Um Sir, could you sign this please?" I heard her ask as she looked at him as he came back around his desk, inspecting her. I narrowed my eyes at the teacher, silently promising to break his fingers if he tried to hit on her the same way he had hit on me. To this day I cringe at the smell of that man's breath.
"Sure. Please introduce yourself, Ms Swan." He said this and dismissed her after we made eye contact and I glared him down. I was small but I was a force of nature when I wanted to be.
She turned around and I started waving for her to notice me. She'd hopefully be more likely to sit next to me. The only other open seat was next to Ben, a boy of Asian descent that would fuck anything that moved if he could.
"Well I'm Irene. I'm sure you all know Charlie Swan, I'm his daughter. I have a twin in this grade, her name's Bella." We made eye-contact and I smiled down at her as she introduced herself, the glare was gone entirely.
She finished and walked up the row, towards me. I grinned with excitement, I'd get to sit next to my Irene. She shivered and I tried to keep in mind that my teeth may not be the most comforting thing for her right now, so I slowly leveled the death-grin into a smile. My mate was so perceptive, it may even travel on as an ability in her immortality. If she wanted immortality anyways. I'd live out her old days with her if she let me. If she did let me then when she died of old age I'd just go expose myself and be taken care of to.
"I told you, you'd make it!" I said this quietly, smiling at her, as she set up all her papers and pencils. She nodded, not making eye contact which made me frown but I accepted it. During the lesson I slowly shifted so that our arms were touching now, it was torture to not just hold her hand or kiss her.
I enjoyed the shocks between our arms and I kept looking at them, admiring the way they looked together. It took so long and now I could touch her. It was worth the wait.
"You should have lunch with my family and I, today." I whispered into her ear and watched as she straightened her back and her heart beat sped up. I could smell the slightest bit of lust coming off of her and started to giggle. I had an effect on her and I loved it.
"Sorry. I promised my sister that I'd eat with her." She laid her hand on my arm and whispered into my ear, the giggling stilled and I leaned towards her, trying to just get closer. I searched the future with the idea of after school and found I couldn't see a thing to do with her. It scared me and I narrowed my eyes at her, what was she doing? Did she know she had blinded me? She raised an eyebrow and I tried to remember that she didn't know about me or my abilities. If she had blinded me, it was unintentional.
"I'll eat with you guys then, introduce you all to some people." She looked back over at me and seemed to think about it for a second. I began to feel a little worried and but she nodded eventually and I started to smile, happy again.
"Alice, really. Its okay. I can carry my own stuff, like seriously." She said this as she reached for the bag, but I danced out of her reach and heard her sigh. I started laughing when she reached again and grumbled after I stopped, suddenly remembering the vision from earlier. This caused Irene to bump into me. She was about to fall over when I looked down at her. She leaned up and I started to lean in as her mirror. I dropped the bag, joke forgotten as I stared into her brown eyes and pulled her closer to me. She smelled sweet, like honey suckle. I wanted to scoop her up and mark her as mine already.
I was so caught up in the moment with Irene I never realized her sister was coming up the hall. I only realized as she did, and she pushed me away. I watched, looking sad as she grabbed her bag, and gave me a forced laugh. I growled at this and watched, with dismay, as she pulled her sister out of here and away from me.
"You coming?" Bella's voice sounded from the entrance and she nodded quickly, running away from me. She never looked back but I watched her leave, I just wanted my mate. I tried to remember that patience was key. She was only human.
"What was that about?" Bella asked her and she sighed. Would she tell Bella about it?
"I don't know about that, but I do know this, we're staying away from her and her family. I don't care if she stomps after us, there's something off with her and if they're all like her then they're all off." She said this quietly in the empty hallway, it echoed a lot and I don't think I knew a worse feeling than the one of her walking away from me. Happy to finally be rid of me.
Their conversation continued but I couldn't hear over the pain, I felt Jasper come in at some point, pulling me up from the floor, where I'd apparently gotten on my knees.
"Alice? Alice, what are you doing? Get up." Jasper hauled me up and I sputtered, wanting to cry.
"She rejected me. She was happy to get rid of me. Jasper, this wasn't supposed to happen, I never saw her leaving, why is she leaving?" I asked the questions in succession trying to make sense of something that wasn't meant to happen. I felt him pick me up and move towards wherever he wanted to go, I wasn't paying attention.
"Alice?" Rosalie was waving her hand in front of my face now. I stared at her, she looked worried and she looked between me and Edward.
"I can't hear anything but 'how did this happen' and 'why me', Rose." He responded uneasily, looking worriedly at me as well. I stared at the table, drowning out all other distractions but Jasper's hand on my shoulder. He was trying to take the pain away, it just wasn't working. Now I understand why we die after our mates do. I didn't want to live with out Irenta anymore.
"Alice, whats wrong?" Emmett was asking me now and I shook my head, still unable to speak.
"She wanted Isabella to stay away from us, there's something wrong with me. I'm not good enough for her, she doesn't like me at all." I said this when I found my voice again but I almost started crying as I thought about it for the fourth time. Tanya was quiet, as always, she didn't have much to say but a sympathetic look on her face.
Rose growled at this and my shoulders shook, why didn't she want me?
"She does like you, Alice. At least a little bit." Jasper had leaned down closer to me, I looked back him and furrowed my brow as I shook my head. It wasn't possible.
"She got jealous when she saw me rubbing your shoulder, she does like you, Alice. I promise." I stared at him for a bit, he seemed serious enough and I stopped shaking as much. It was about this time that her scent rolled around to this side of the cafeteria, I jerked my head over to her and noticed she was looking at me. She turned quickly and began to fuss over what her sister was eating.
"She feels guilty, Alice. Shes not rejected you." Jasper continued stroking my shoulder and I took in a deep breath, nodding. Maybe there was hope still.
"I still don't like her. Shes supposed to be Alice's mate, not her tormentor." Rosalie snapped it off and I gave her a heart broken look, which in turn softened her glare. She sighed and looked away from me. We all inspected my human, Irenta Mae Swan. She was definitely a handful for me.