SOME OF YOU MAY LOVE ME AFTER THIS, SOME MAY HATE ME. SUCKS TO SUCK. :3
I shuffled down the stairs, Bella was chipper. She had rosy cheeks and a bounce in her step, if I hadn't known any better I'd say she had a new love interest.
I sat down at the table and she handed me a cup of tea, and skipped over to the stove, humming. Charlie and I looked at each other then at Bella.
"So Bells..." Charlie started and looked over at me for a direction, I nodded and tried to get a 'guy' mouthed across the table at him. He seemed to have understood but took to long to say it.
"Hmm?" Bella responded, distracted by her phone. She'd gotten a text message.
"Whose the guy?" I said point blank, beating Charlie to the question. She paused and I watched with mirth as her cheeks turned bright red, I began to grin. Charlie and I started laughing at the expression she made.
"Theres no guy!" She was embarrassed now by Charlie and I's laughter and turned back around.
"I bet its Mike Newton." I leaned over to Charlie to say it in a whisper-yell so she'd hear. Charlie nodded, he accepted Mike as a son-in-law now. I snorted at the idea.
"It is not!" Bella was grumpy now, after I snorted. I couldn't blame her but I felt like she was being childish, it was just what happened. People got crushes. I was dealing with my own furious crush at the moment. I was just better at hiding it than Bells.
A few minutes passed and we looked around at the clock, it was about 8:30. Early start for people who weren't into the whole morning thing. Bella huffed and sat down, still distracted with her phone. She cracked a smile a few minutes later and I watched as Charlie almost leaned closer to try and see who she was texting. I cracked a smile at this, he was slowly going back in the the dad mode.
"So I was thinking about heading down to go fishing with Harry Clearwater, maybe you two would like to come?" Charlie looked hopeful and as I thought about the idea of sea water and the humidity, my face crinkled into a grimace. No way in hell.
"I'm good, thanks Charlie." I said this and shivered at the thought of what my hair would look like after.
"Oh. Okay." Charlie muttered this and took a sip of his coffee, he looked sad and I looked across the table at Bella. She was biting her lip, trying to weigh the odds of something, I'm sure. She looked over to me and I realized she was asking if it was okay for her to spend the day with Charlie instead of Alice and I. I nodded, it was better this way.
"Charlie, I'd like to go..I-if thats okay." Bella said this, not looking at her phone. Instead she was looking at Charlie, a little worried he'd say no.
"Sure! That'd be great, I'll introduce you to Harry." Charlie perked up at the idea of one of his daughters spending the day with him. I brought the glass up to my lips to hide the smile that grew there when I saw Bella perk up too. It made me happy to see them bonding.
"Wheres Bella?" Alice asked me curiously as she took stock of my outfit and my lack of twin.
"She and Charlie are having a father-daughter bonding day." I shrugged and looked at her when she didn't respond or start driving. She was staring at me again but she looked mildly happy.
"What?" I asked her, touching my face for something I'd missed. When she still said nothing I peered closer at her, she just kept on smiling at me. She quickly turned and shook her head.
"Nothing, sorry. I zone out sometimes, but today I promise to try and do as little as possible!" Alice giggled as she said this, like there was a joke she knew about that I didn't know. I pulled a confused face but said nothing as she turned on the radio and we started the hours long trip to Los Angeles. She chatted a bit along the way about her family and how they came to be. I felt like she had left out a lot of details, but accepted it none the less.
We'd be shopping nearly all day, it was late at night now and I was texting Bella and Charlie to let them know I'd be rather late getting home. Alice made me try on just about everything and bought it all even when the price tag was absolutely sinful. I liked shopping as much as the next girl, but Alice...Alice was a superhuman with shopping. She'd gone all day without stopping unless I said I had to sit down.
Speaking of Alice, we'd gotten a little closer. I found that after the hugs from yesterday, I didn't mind her touching me. In fact I'd come to enjoy it as I thought back...
"Irene! You have to try this on, the purple would look amazing with your dark hair." Alice skipped over to me for what felt like zillionth time, handing me something new to try on. I groaned loudly when I saw the price tag in the dressing room, of course I'd already put it on but 200 dollars for a stupid dress was insanity.
"Alice! We are not getting this dress." I yelled out, taking off the dress, I'd worked it down to my waist when she opened the door. I was caught between embarrassment and the need to kiss her when I saw her take in my appearance. Her eyes traveled down then back up, getting distracted by my black and red lace bra. I watched her eyes darken and her tongue come out to lick her lips when she looked back at my face.
"I think it looks fine." Her voice came out as a semi-whisper and she closed the door behind her as she came in. She walked up closer to me, and slowly moved my hands away from my chest to pull the dress back up.
"Whats wrong with it?" She was still hoarse sounding despite the fact that she'd zipped the dress back up already and was looking at me in the mirror. I fought to find my voice, the effect this girl had on me was awful. I'd have to change everything when I got home, I was going to be soaked after this.
"Th-um..the price tag. Its too much!" I found my voice finally after that round of total eye fucking on both our sides. She looked back at me then down at the price tag that happened to be laying on my chest. It took her a second and I have a feeling she looked at a little more than the price tag but she shook her head.
"Thats fine, Irene." She said this and dismissed the issue of price. I felt her hands, soft but firm at the same time, run down my shoulders to stop at my hands. She held them and stared down at me, as she did I could feel everything heating up again and briefly considered whether or not I was blushing. I didn't understand why she had this effect, I'd lost my own virginity to Dahlia. Why was Alice any different?
"I'm not waiting anymore." She muttered this gruffly and pulled me to her, our lips meeting in the middle. I immediately reciprocated without quite thinking about it. When I did think about it, she'd pulled away already, leaving me wanting more.
"Wh-what? Why?" I sputtered, indignant that she'd pulled away before I was ready, and stuck my hands on my hips glaring up at her. She grinned and ran her hand down to cup my ass and gently squeezed. Apparently she gave no fucks now that I'd responded to her advances. I, however, still gave a few. I pushed her back slightly from the sudden contact with my ass and she giggled. She was enjoying my responsiveness.
"You're getting the dress, Irene." She said this as a final answer let go of me after another squeeze. She left me in the dressing room with bruised lips and a racing heart, I huffed at this and turned back to look at myself in the mirror. I did look pretty good.
I heard a glass bottle break from around the corner and finally took notice that I was standing in a dark alleyway behind a mall, alone. I tried as hard as possible to blend into the wall as I heard heavy foot steps come around the corner, where was Alice with the car already? This was an awful situation to be in.
"Oh look here boys. What have we got?" The male voice sounded deep and gorgeous but everything was wrong about this picture. Why did I think he sounded nice? A few more heavy steps came around and I felt them all look at me, taking stock.
"There should be enough to go around." Another replied, and I peered into the darkness, only seeing glinting...red eyes?
"I don't know...Shes kinda small, we may have to wait for another to show up. Not going to be much blood in that one." A third sounded out and I watched as they took a few steps into the light, they were all pale and beautiful, like Alice. But their eyes were all red and malevolent, they were sniffing the air.
"She smells like one of us. I don't know if this is really a good idea, guys." The second one said worried now, I forgot to pay attention to each word they said, focusing more on the fact that they were getting closer. It was time to run. I took off in a single direction, arms pumping.
It felt like a brick had been hurdled at me as I fell, face first. I started to scream until a hand went over my mouth, why didn't I just go with Charlie today? I looked up at the male on top of me, absolutely terrified.
I thought they would just strip me and get it over with but I felt my heart beat increase as they each picked a spot and opened their mouths to reveal perfect white canines. I opened my mouth to scream again as they sunk them into my arms and neck and a burning started.
"IRENTA! NO!" I heard my name shouted and it vaguely reminded me of Alice's voice. I tried to look over to where it sounded like it came from, but there was no one there. It felt like a life time until the one on my chest was pulled off and I watched in a burning haze as the other two dropped my arms, hissing with my blood dripping out of their mouths.
"Let go of him, woman. The human's our meal, get your own." They were arguing with the the other person, the other person responded but I was distracted by the hot poker sensation traveling up my arms. The two standing over me hissed again and leapt at whoever had came.
I closed my eyes and tried to not cry out anymore than I already was. I rolled to the side, and my hand landed in something wet. I opened an eye to see a black sticky puddle under my other arm, how'd that happen? Looking at the arm, I realized that I was literally laying in a puddle of my own blood. I was bleeding out. I was going to die. What was Bella going to do? She'd be heart broken. I decided these were the best thoughts to go on about, ignoring the skin ripping, banging on metal, and general sounds of things happening around me. It sounded like a fight.
The burning had spread down from my chest and was going towards my legs when something cold and hard picked me up off the ground. I lazily looked over and saw a frilly shirt that had once been white but had torn and gotten red splashed on it. Someone was whimpering and another person was crying. I realized I was the one whimpering, and Alice was crying.
"I'm taking you to Carlisle, Irene. I'm so sorry." I was dropped in the backseat and I looked down at my arms, I'd bleed onto the leather. Abruptly we started moving and I realized my sense of time was impaired when I felt like we had been travelling for a few minutes and suddenly the WELCOME TO FORKS sign passed by the window.
Alice had been responding to every cry of pain I made with an apology and I began to feel bad for her. It wasn't her fault I'd been infected with whatever was in those guy's mouths. When the burning traveled back from my feet up to my knees, I was pulled out of the car again. There was a shout and a lot of worried voices. I opened my eyes to see the outlines of a blonde guy, speaking.
"I can't suck it back out Alice, she'll die from the blood loss before the change happens." The outline said sounding regretful. I closed my eyes again, the haziness was making my vision go black.
"Well what can you do?! LOOK AT HER. Shes in so much pain, Carlisle!" Alice's voice sounded again, this time she sounded like she was in agony and I haphazardly reached out towards her, trying to tell her it was okay. Someone took my hand and squeezed it, they were so cold. I was starting to feel cold where the burning had left for the most part.
"I can try to get some morphine, Alice." He replied uneasily and I felt a gush of wind go over me and pinching sensations in my chest and arms. It made the burning in my arms lessen but the worse of it had moved elsewhere.
It was in my head now, banging around, killing things...memories. I started to remember less and less from my life. Thoughts were going unanswered, who was Renee? Who was Phil? I wanted my Alice. I remembered there was something cold in hand and squeezed it as a test, it squeezed back.
"I'm here, Irenta. I'm not leaving you." Alice sounded like she was next to me, she was still here. My Alice was still here. Someone came in, leaving a breeze over me.
"Hows she doing?" A male sounded from the corner, he sounded worried. I heard a sigh come from Alice.
"Its hard to tell. She hasn't been crying as much, how much longer does she have?" Alice asked, she sounded so anxious and sorry. I wanted to hug her and make her troubles go away. I kept feeling more and more attached to the woman holding my hand throughout this experience. She was becoming my everything.
"A day or so more. Her heart will give out sometime tomorrow and she'll wake up after that." He answered her question, sounding guilty, like he wanted to be able to do something more but couldn't. Tomorrow? How long had I been here? Was Bella okay? I squeezed the hand again, this time it was weaker. I couldn't open my eyes anymore, they were too heavy.
It felt like a hot poker had begun to poke holes in my throat, slowly moving to my lungs and heart. I cried out and felt the hand holding mine tighten as I did. It was shaking and I could feel drops landing on my forearm. Was she crying for me?
"Alice, its not your fault. You couldn't get to her fast enough, you tried. She could have been sucked dry instead." The guy was back again, I hadn't realized he'd stepped in again. Or maybe he had never left. I honestly couldn't tell.
"I should have Carlisle. I shouldn't have even left her alone there, I kept ignoring visions and I shouldn't have. I was stupid and now my mate has paid the mistake. It wasn't even her choice! What if she never wanted to become like us? She'll lose everyone, Carlisle." Alice was heated and it broke my heart to hear her sound so weepy and regretful.
I kept wanting to tell her it was okay, that it wasn't her fault. I was going to be okay and I forgave her for everything. I couldn't speak between the pokers in my chest. My heart beat was speeding up, trying to keep me kicking still. I started to worry that I wouldn't be okay. It was trying so hard but the burning was getting bigger and bigger. I was trying to fight against it, I didn't want to leave Alice and Bella behind.
"Carlisle...I think shes fighting the venom." Alice's voice was croaky but she sounded surprised. I felt someone move closer to me.
"She is...but its too late. Its already attacking her heart." It must have been Carlisle speaking now, he sounded grave. What venom? Was I bitten by a snake? They both sounded so surprised.
Why was it getting so hard to breath? I squeezed Alice's hand tighter and tighter as I tried to keep my heart beat going, come on. We can do this. The beat was picking up and faltering at the same time, the beats were becoming inconsistent. I was losing the battle, horribly. The burning wasn't anywhere but in my heart now. I needed to breath, breathing would help. Why was there no air? I'm suffocating, can't they see me suffocating?
"Just let go, Irenta. You're hurting yourself. Let go and it'll stop hurting. I promise, baby." Alice's voice came across to me in the fog of the burning. I hesitated for a second, wouldn't I die if I let go? My Alice wouldn't let me die, would she? The burning kicked up again, trying to one up my will, I cried out of pain and decided she was right. She wouldn't lead me astray.
Just like that, I let go. My heart gave out. I was gone. I passed from my old world with faces whose names I'd lost, to a new one that I knew held Alice in it.
HAH DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING, DID YA?
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