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Alice wound up going to get me clothes, I thought about trying to run through really fast into our room but it wasn't received well. In fact she downright killed the idea, burned it, then danced on its grave...I pouted while she did.
She handed me a pair of black jeans and a white shirt with a multicolored geometric design on it. She also brought me jewelry and shoes, i.e boots. I loved this girl to death. In fact I wasn't sure when the right moment was to tell her I did, I knew she was mine but would she really want a love declaration?
"Have you put on the earrings yet?" Alice asked with her back turned to me like I'd asked her to do. I was having a bit of modesty and even though the idea made her giggle, she accepted it and turned around. I tilted my head as I laced up my boots, why was she so interested in the earrings?
"No, but you can turn back around now. I'm deccent." I finished with a bit of laughter and she turned around to inspect me. She brushed my hair back with her fingers and it laid down perfectly along my shoulders. It'd have never done that if I were human, after a roll like that it'd be sticking up four different ways with some leaves.
I bent down to pick up the earrings and noticed that they had the same lion, hand and plants insignia that Alice wore around her neck. I looked to see Alice's face, she looked hesitant, like she wasn't sure if I'd take them. Instead I grinned and hugged her tightly.
"So I guess you like them then?" She said between chuckles and hugging me to her. I nodded enthusiastically, it was an honour and I felt it as I held them.
"Yes! How'd you guys get them so quickly? Do you just have all kinds of jewelry stored with the crest on it?" I was curious as I pulled away from my mate to put the earrings on. She laughed for a second and I began to frown, I didn't get the joke.
"No, we don't have a bunch of jewelry stored up for people. Carlisle had it specially made for you when you were in the change." She said this affectionately, having finally stopped laughing at me. I shrugged and we began to walk slowly back to the house, it had gotten dark while we were out but we could both see easily in the dark.
"Alright let me get this straight for one last time. I'll turn up to the house tonight or tomorrow morning, say Alice and I broke away and ran back from someone, got lost in the woods and just found my way back home?" I asked for the third or fourth time if this was the story I'd be feeding my family. Carlisle nodded and I took in a deep breath slowly letting it out.
Alice and I were sitting close together on the couch, Rosalie and Emmett were on a separate chair, Rose was in Emmett's lap and Edward was standing in the door way, holding Tanya. Jasper and Esme were sitting near us on the couch as well while Carlisle was pacing in front of the couch and coffee table. This had been cause for a family meeting and after Emmett got in all his jokes about lesbians, we were discussing a game plan.
I'd just have to make sure I wore a lot of brown eye coloured contacts as the venom would eat away at them, and I had to be careful about dealing with my thirsts. I wasn't sure why this was such a big deal for me, it seemed minor but I trusted Alice and my new family. Ali had spoken about me wearing make up to give my skin some kind of 'life' to it as she called it but after a few coats of foundation, I found that it felt like my skin was dying from a lack of oxygen and refused to wear it.
She felt like it'd be hard to be away from me during the time after school and before bed time, I felt the same. However afterwards I'd think about Bella crying and suddenly I could deal with not seeing Alice for a few hours.
"Are we all clear on the idea then?" Carlisle looked around and we all nodded, we were clear. Afterwards we all drifted off to do our own things. Carlisle and Esme went off to their study, Jasper hung out on the couch reading, Rose went to the garage, and Edward and Tanya went to the music room. Edward was a wonderful piano player and I had a feeling that Tanya loved listening to him play.
"Hey, Irene. Ever played GTA 4 on a Xbox?" Emmett wriggled his eyebrows at me and I chuckled as I shook my head. Looks like he was looking for someone to play video games with.
"You want to learn how to?" He leaned closer to me, still wriggling his eyebrows back and forth. He was offering a black Xbox controller to me and I could hear Alice sigh in my ear.
"Sure." I grinned and grabbed the controller, he made a 'SCORE' motion and the game was on.
"H-HOW!?" Emmett sputtered as I won the third race in a row, giggling happily. Alice had settled for stroking my thigh, ghosting over the healed bite mark. It was surprising at first when I realized how quickly we healed from general injuries. Jasper had moved his reading to his own room right after the first few bits of yelling from Emmett and I.
"Shes just that perfect, Emmie." Alice replied proudly, and kissed my cheek. He rolled his eyes and stood up, stretching and cracking his joints. The sun was almost up, we'd been playing for hours.
"Yeah yeah, you lipstick lesbian." He cracked another joke and I rolled my eyes, ignoring it as I pulled Alice in a for a kiss. I heard his feet clunk away from us and leaned back into Alice's side, watching the sun come up from the big window.
"Think we'll be okay, Ali?" I asked her quietly, not looking up from the view. I felt her nod and she pecked the top of my head, she was comforting me despite being worried herself. She really was the best girl for me. I sighed into her embrace almost dreading when we'd have to separate.
I had been fed with several bags of different kinds of animal bloods, dressed up in my old blood stained clothes and tried to some how frisk up my hair, it was being perfect as usual but right now I needed it to be crazed. I sighed as I looked in the full length mirror in our room, everything had a film over it from the contacts. Alice was behind me, looking at me sadly. She really didn't want me to go, but we both knew she had to for now.
"It'll be okay Alice. I'll see you in school tomorrow at the latest and I'll see you tonight, okay?" I turned around and reached up to stroke her cheek, her hand caught up with my half way and pulled it to her lips for a kiss as she nodded.
We started slowly down the stairs, the whole family was there to see me off. Rose patted me on the shoulder and I noticed Jasper had been holding his breath, I assumed it was from the dried blood on my sweater. Carlisle and Esme gave me hugs and told me it'd be okay and I thanked them for everything.
Alice ran with me half way, we parted with some tears and some hugs and kisses and I walked the rest of the way. It felt like it'd taken me forever to get there, humans are so slow. How'd I get anywhere within an hour before? I took in a deep breath and walked up to my front door and knocked. It was about 7:30 AM on a Tuesday, Bella should still be home right now. I waited a bit and knocked again, I could hear her feet hit the stairs and she stomped all the way to the front door, taring it open and glaring out.
"I-Ira?" Bella opened the door and looked shocked. She looked like shit, dark circles under her eyes and a weepy look about her. Her hair wasn't brushed and her clothes were out of sorts. I nodded slowly, waiting for her to do something.
"Oh my god. Ohmygod. CHARLIE! CHARLIE, ITS IRA!" She took a second look at me and abruptly turned to scream Charlie's name into the house I jumped at the sudden increase in volume. He started running, his footsteps were heavy and quick for a human.
She heard his feet hit the stairs and almost launched herself at me in a hug, it didn't do much to me but I made a big deal of stumbling to try and increase the human factor. Charlie finally appeared in the door way and I watched in awe as his face lost all manner of color. He threw himself at me in a hug to and again I made a big deal of stumbling.
"Oh my god, Irene. We've been so worried, we even set out a missing persons notice." Charlie mumbled this into my shoulder and I realized that his father mode had been fully activated by now.
"Sorry guys." I said this breathlessly, they both smelled good but at the same time it was a mixed odor. I liked Alice's smell better.
"You look like you've been through hell, Irene. Come on in and tell me about it and we can consider this the statement for the missing persons report." Charlie pulled back first, giving me the option to not go down to the police department. I nodded and rocked back and forth with Bella, who was still attached to me in a hug.
"And you ran through the forest to here?" Charlie recounted and I nodded slowly. I was leaning farther away from the table simply because Bella was sitting so close to me that any closer and she'd be in my lap. I felt like this may be tempting the fates as I could hear both of their heart beats as well as the next door neighbor's and their dog's. Thank goodness we never got a dog, they smelled awful, even from a distance.
He nodded back, writing things down in a notepad. It looked mildly official and I could hear the sounds of the pencil scratching into the paper and Bella breathing onto my shoulder.
"I feel alright, enough to go to school tomorrow anyways. Plus I was hoping I could talk to the counselor there about everything..." I trailed off looking over at Charlie for a reaction. He stopped writing and looked over at me.
With a brow raised he gave me a slow but definite nod, seemingly surprised that I'd want to get back to school so quickly. I couldn't blame him honestly. If I wasn't looking forward to seeing my Alice, I'd try to lay out for as long as I could. I was hoping he'd swish this under the 'reactions from a traumatic experience' rug.
"I have to go off to work, will you girls be alright for today?" He stood up and put on his belt, only pausing to stop and look back at us. Mainly me. I nodded and gave a thumbs up. His smell hit me in the face as he went by and I almost crinkled my nose. He smelled like sweat, anxiety, and the detoxification of alcohol. This wasn't what I was expecting at all when Rose and Alice said that they'd smell, I figured they meant that humans would smell good. What the fuck is this shit?
Now that I think about Bella smelled better but her deodorant smelled more chemicalley while the rest was lots anxious sweats and a bit of smoke. Had she been smoking? I spun around to face her as Charlie left the house.
"Have you been smoking?" I asked her quickly, looking for any sign that she was lying when she responded.
"No! You know I see it all as cancer sticks!" She looked horrified I'd suggest that, her mouth popped open. I narrowed my eyes and nodded slowly, accepting the answer. She must have been hanging around people who were smoking then. The kitchen went quiet again and I played with my cold cup of tea, I'd sipped it once but it tasted like dirty water to me now.
"Hows Mike doing? Thats his name right?" I started with this, turning towards her. She had been inspecting me after I'd changed clothes, I supposed I did look really different that before. I watched as the question registered and she blushed.
"H-hes okay. Hes been around for me when you were um...gone for a bit." She said the ending softly and if I hadn't had the super hearing, I probably wouldn't have actually heard her. Her phone went off and she glanced at the caller then picked up quickly.
"Hey Mike! Yeah shes here, shes really back. I know, I'm glad too. Oh yeah, I'll definitely be in school tomorrow. I'll see you then." She was looking between me and the table for the whole phone call, her voice went up and down and I began to laugh. She stared at me for a second and my laughter died.
"What?" I asked hesitantly touching my hair and face for something sticking up. She tilted her head and narrowed her eyes at me.
"Your laugh is really really different. Like holy crap different." She said this slowly as she leaned closer to me. I leaned a little away after being able to see every blackhead on her nose and felt her breath across my face. It smelled like day old coffee, highly unpleasant.
"Yeah I guess so." I responded carefully, clearing my throat and standing up at a human speed. They did things so frickin' SLOW.
We had moved to the couch, watching reality TV shows and being general quiet people when the door bell rang. I got up first, shuffling to the door at what felt like snail pace. It smelled like Alice, and the thought may have had me moving faster. She knocked again, impatient. I heard Bella behind me, her feet hitting the floorboards softly. I was gliding over them, they hadn't squeaked just yet.
I almost ripped open the door out of impatience when I finally got to it, Bella peeked over my shoulder.
"Alice?" Bella spoke first, Alice and I were doing a eye talking thing of how much I'd missed her and how much she'd missed me. However Bella wasn't privy to this conversation, all she saw was Alice and I staring at each other in a door way. She cut away from me to look at Bella.
"Hey Bella. I was hoping that I could spend a girls day with you two." Alice sounded friendly enough but she had an undertone of tense to me. Her eyes snapped back to mine and I almost purred from the eye contact. It always made me want to kiss her hard on the lips, though this wasn't a good idea at all right now...so I refrained from doing so.
"Oh sure! Come on in Alice." Bella had the friendly tone back on and tried to move me from the door way to let Alice in. I didn't realize what the butterfly touches were until Alice cleared her throat and looked down to Bella, tugging on my arm. I moved quickly, grinning sheepishly. I got distracted with Ali and forgot the whole human thing, which I'm sure she was here to check up on as well as see me.
"We're just watching some TV, we could do a movie though. Do you want anything to drink or eat?" Bella was chatting back to Alice as she walked into the living room.
"She wants some coffee Bella, I'll take her on a house tour if you get the drink ready!" I shouted back at my human twin, staring into Alice's eyes some more as we literally just stood in the hallway. Anything was a great time with her.
"Alright!" She yelled back into the hallway. I smiled softly at Alice and took her hand to pull her up the stairs, she started to grin. She was happy to see me, just as much as I was to see her.
I opened the door and showed her my room. It was a blue coloured thing while Bella's was more purple. She took a look for a second then grabbed the front of my shirt, pulling me towards her. Our lips smacked together and suddenly it was a hard core make out fest, like we hadn't seen each other in years.
My hands went into her hair as her arms wrapped around my waist, moving down to squeeze my ass and pull me flush against her. I started a moan then quieted myself, remembering Bella was in the house. She grinned against my lips, slowing down and relaxing a little. We ended it with a few pecks right as Bella yelled up the stairs that the coffee was ready.
"Baby, why coffee?" Alice asked quietly as we walked slowly down the hallways and stairs.
"It takes the longest for her to make." I turned to her and grinned as I said it. She broke into an affectionate smile and I squeezed her hand one last time before we separated. This was going to be difficult but as long as I got to sit near Alice, I was okay.
Alice wound up going 'home' around 9 PM, Charlie had been introduced and had pulled her into a hug when he found out she'd been with me throughout everything. She didn't quite know what to do from the look on her face and when she looked at me, I shrugged so she just awkwardly patted him on the back.
"Well I'll head up to bed." I said this quietly and stood up from the oh so riveting basketball game that was going on right now. Charlie and Bella watched me go up stairs and I waited as I closed the door for the conversation to start about me. Alice was already inside from where I'd left the window open for her, I held a finger to my lips and pointed downstairs. She got the memo and nodded, continuing to look around my room.
"She seems to be doing pretty well, don't you think so bells?" Charlie spoke first and there was a moment of silence between the two of them where I assumed she was nodding.
"Definitely, she just seems...I don't know, kinda different?" She responded after a bit and Charlie made 'mhm' grunt.
"Shes rock hard and cold and you noticed how she didn't eat anything?I mean usually shes sucking down everything." Bella was probably frowning as she said this and I shrugged in response. Alice giggled at my reactions and I stuck my tongue out at her, her eyes darkened and I sucked the tongue back in.
"Well, shes just gotten back after being attacked, Bella. She'll act funny for a while, we've just got to be patient and hope that it doesn't all stick." Charlie had paused the TV's noise now, fully addressing my sister. I almost wanted to do a dance, he had swiped it under the rug for me.
"I guess you're right. I'll go say goodnight and go to bed myself." I heard Bella sigh and stand up. I got dressed at what felt like normal speed for me but what was a blur for humans as Bella's feet hit the stairs. Alice dropped back out the window as I did.
"Ira?" Bella was knocking hesitantly and I laid down on the bed with a random book in my hands. I cleared my throat and spoke.
"Yeah?" I tried to sound not rush and more calm than anything. I don't know if it worked, but I tried. Her head peeked in around the corner and I sat up smiling at her.
"Hi." She was quiet now, looking at her thumbs. I stood up trying to make as much noise as I could to walk over to her.
"I'm going to be alright, Bella and I'm here to stay, okay?" All the mothering tendencies came back full swing. I'd stopped doing so much as Alice had become my equal and my caretaker during the few days I was out, but being around Bella made everything come back. Tonight I'd watch a few cooking videos and try to get the hang of it all so I could make her a hot breakfast tomorrow morning. It was a good choice to come back here and not stay gone.
"I was so scared when you were gone, Ira." She was mumbling into my chest as she wrapped her arms around me. I shushed her and rubbed her back as I did. This was going to get so much more difficult than I thought.
I'd stay 17 forever and she'd die of old age at some point. I was going to have to explain something to her and try to get the idea through to her, or I'd stay away at some point and hope her life would take off with marriage and kids. I frowned at the fact that Alice and I would never have anyone like that unless we decided to follow in Carlisle and Esme's steps and change someone.
"We'll be alright, Bells. Now off to bed! I have a surprise for you in the morning." I let go of her and gently pushed her out the door, she looked confused but nodded slowly. She accepted this. I waved goodnight as she closed the door behind her, turning towards the window as Alice came back in. She shook her head at me, disapproving.
"Shushie, now! We're going to make her breakfast tomorrow morning and I'm mildly inept so we're going onto the cooking videos of YouTube!" I said this merrily and clapped my hands together with excitement. Alice sighed heavily but seemed to have accepted it as she kissed my forehead and went to the computer.
I realized I was slowly taking on traits of hers and the thought confused but excited me at the same time. I'd get to see everyone tomorrow and all. I began to wonder about what to do or say around them as I was already apart of their family and I already looked like them but...I was going to be with Bella.
"You'll eat with us today, right? I'll bring in a blood bag for you." She was leaning over my shoulder as I messed with an omelet on the stove. It was 5 in the morning and I wasn't entirely sure how I'd explain the blood to anyone.
"You do know that blood bags aren't exactly something humans drink at lunch right?" I asked her calmly, watching the stove still as she nodded and kissed my shoulder.
"It'll be in an strawberry juice container, silly." She responded easily. Alice was pretty easy to please, I just had to be near her and suddenly all was right with the world. I nodded in response and she giggled, kissing the back of my neck. I'd left the back door open in case someone came down the stairs without either of us knowing. She froze up behind me and I got a little worried, I knew she was having a vision but I the fact I couldn't see them to scared me.
"Ali?" I almost turned around to look at her but she relaxed soon after I called her name and squeezed my midsection. I relaxed again under her arms.
"Bring an umbrella. We'll be our usual table at lunch and I have to go, baby, Charlie's getting up. I love you." She spoke quickly, even for a vampire, and pecked me on the shoulder as she let go and ran out the door. My mouth popped open after I head the I love you and I started to feel all warm and giggly. She loved me!
A few seconds later I heard Charlie's feet hit the floor upstairs and sighed, here we go with the sweat smell again. I turned and closed the back door behind Alice and went back to the stove for Charlie's omelet.
"Bella, go on. I promise I'll be okay." I said softly motioning towards where she'd been staring on and off at for the past few minutes. It was Mike and his set of friends. She had a hardcore crush on him and anyone could see how much of a crush he had on her. She looked back and me unsure and I raised a brow, motioning for her to go already. We'd gotten to school and frankly I wanted her to go over there so I could go say hi to my mate and second family.
Both Alice and I had been doing the glancing thing back and forth. Well I'd done glancing, Alice did the staring for as long as Edward would let her. I could hear him telling her off every few seconds that it wasn't normal to just flat out stare at someone. She'd told him to stuff it and winked at me after, making both me and Rose giggle. I had tried to pass it off as coughing for Bella.
"Okay. I'll do it." Bella said mostly to herself as she hiked up her backpack and started to walk over to Mike. He watched her as she came closer with a big grin on his face. He was happy to see her. I waited a second then practically skipped over to Alice.
"I had no one to play GTA with today!" Emmett's voiced boomed out as he picked me up and spun me before I could get to Alice. I heard her growl and he put me down, with his hands raised in surrender.
"Alright, alright. Someone needs to get laid." Emmett muttered to himself while I giggled and practically threw myself into Alice's open arms.
"How was the thirst?" Jasper asked me curiously from next to Alice. I pulled back a little and stared at him in thought.
"To be honest, humans smell something awful. Bella and Charlie smell all sweaty and disgusting. Like 'teen spirit' is abound here and I don't like it at all." I replied sounding a little disgusted with my humans, he looked mildly amazed and leaned closer to me as I made air quotes.
"Isn't that Irenta Swan? Whys she with the Cullens?" "She looks so different now, what do you think happened?" "God damn, now there's some broads I'd bang." It was at this point that I started to take notice of the comments being dropped around us. People had a mixed reaction to my appearance an company apparently. Alice pulled me a little closer, glaring at the teenage guy who said the last comment. He met her eyes and scuttled off under the death glare.
"Hey Irma!" My eyes bugged out and I recognized that voice and mistake in my name. It was Jessica somethingsomething. (I never learned what her last name was.) The Cullen's faces turned stony as they looked at the human girl approaching me, I supposed she was here to try and get into someone's pants.
"Irene." I muttered this half-halfheartedly. I had just about given up on having her say my actual name. I tried to push away a little from Alice before we were inspected by the brunette but Alice was hanging on.
"I'm so glad you're back and all. Aren't you guys?" Jessica was rapid now, speaking quickly and continued on by patting me on the shoulder and grinning at everyone. We weren't really sure what to do though looking at Edward, she wasn't all that friendly. They all nodded slowly, looking at each other.
"Oh that reminds me! We're going to be throwing a house party soon and it'd be totally great if you could all come, its at 9PM in My house. So glad you guys are coming!" She said this quickly and skipped off to go talk to Bella and Mike. We were all silent for a few seconds
"What the fuck was that?" Tanya was the first one to speak and she looked disgusted as Jessica left. I stared for a second and then promptly burst into giggles.