(A/N: Sorry for the wait. You all know how it is. Just been busy. Hope this chapter's worth it. Been looking forward to writing it for awhile now. No smut unfortunately, but as I said, this one will be story as well as sex. Hope you enjoy. Praise or flame, I love hearing what everyone thinks.)
"I think Esme hates me." Bella said, with a pout. It was a few days after their…tri-experiment and Bella and Rosalie had finally told the rest of the Cullens that were there about their relationship.
"She doesn't hate you, Bella. Esme doesn't hate anyone. She's physically incapable of it. She'd have given James and Victoria milk and cookies if…she could bake cookies…and if they could eat them…." Rosalie had a look of momentary confusion before she got back to her point. "She's just surprised, is all."
Bella looked down. "She welcomed me into her home and I chased her son away, and this time I actually knew I was doing it…"
Rosalie put her arm around Bella's shoulder. "Look, they all understand that you can't control how you feel. Nor can I." A sly smile appeared on Rosalie's face. "Nor would I want to." She added, pulling Bella's face to hers and kissing her passionately.
The hooting and whistling that followed reminded the trio that they were in a public park and other people could see them, and not all were mature enough not to react loudly. "I can't take you two anywhere." Emmett said with a large grin, before baring his teeth to the boys who were 'enjoying the show', causing them to go get their jollies elsewhere.
"Oh Emmett's just jealous." Rosalie teased, holding Bella closer.
Emmett grinned back. "Not at all." He replied, the smile of Rosalie's face almost infectious. She was happy before when it was just him, but Bella seemed to make her even happier and as a result, him as well. He had no problem taking a back seat from time to time to give them their space.
"Do you…think we should leave for a bit. Just until everyone gets used to the idea? It was a bit of a shock to everyone." Bella stated, still sulking a little after she'd gotten over the effects of Rosalie's kiss.
"Nah. Think if we leave that'd be even worse." Emmett chimed in. "Until Alice and Jazz get back, it'd just be the two of them."
"I agree." Rosalie replied, seeing Bella wanted to talk about this seriously. "We can be very adaptable if the situation merits it. You should know that by now. Random human finding out about us. Random human getting chased by every evil vampire within a 1000 mile radius. Random human getting knocked up by a vampire. We deal with all sorts of crap."
"Ha. Ha." Bella stated, sarcastically.
"Awww, I love you anyway." Rosalie said, grabbing Bella into practically a bear hug.
"Blah…" Bella grumbled, pretending she wasn't enjoying the affection. Thankfully she didn't need to breathe since the embrace drove all the air out of her. "I wasn't that much trouble."
"HA!" Emmett laughed. "Er…sorry…I'm just…walking over here." Emmett 'innocently' stayed out of the conversation after Bella's glare.
"I didn't mean to. It's not my fault my luck sucks." Bella muttered when she could actually get enough air to talk again.
"Obviously it doesn't if you ended up with me." Rosalie replied with a coy grin.
Bella smiled back. "True." Bella got some revenge with a super embrace of her own. Talking to Rosalie was beginning to cheer her up, she was even starting to regret that they'd decided to go to a public place since she was feeling a little playful and the amount of play fighting the two could do in public was extremely limited if they didn't want to attract too much attention to themselves. The hugging and hand holding was getting it enough, Forks was a small town, after all. It wasn't the first time Bella was extremely glad to not be in High School anymore, not that any of her friends would recognize her now anyway.
Though the playfulness ebbed slightly as the 'knocked up' comment reminded Bella about her daughter. "Nessie seemed weirded out…"
Rosalie rolled her eyes. "Oh for fuck's sake, Bella, stop your brooding or I'm stripping you down and doing you right here."
Bella was slightly taken back by the threat. "You wouldn't…"
"She would…we already have a few…'fun spots'…here in this park." Emmett chimed in with a grin.
Rosalie looked around and seeing no one around went into a crouching stance.
"Okay! Okay!" Bella put up her hands defensively. "No brooding!" A sly grin crossed her face. "I'll…brood when we get home…"
Rosalie let out a chuckle. "As you wish." She stated, resuming her regular stance. "You don't know what you're missing though. Public…displays of affection can be really fun." She teased, nudging Bella. But when there was no response, she wondered if she'd gone a little too far with the threat. "Bella, I was kidding. Well…half kidding. You know I wouldn't do anything that you weren't comfortable with." Rosalie added, reassuringly.
"Bella?" There still wasn't a response, which was beginning to worry Rosalie as she looked at Bella's face, whose eyes were wide open in surprise. Rosalie followed Bella's vision to see that Bella was staring at a teenage girl in the distance, tying her shoe laces. "Sweety? What's wrong?"
Emmett, hearing the worry in Rosalie's voice, turned around and connected the dots. "Oh Hell, I think we've got a singer."
"Singer?" Rosalie asked, slightly confused before she remembered the term that Aro used for how Bella had smelled to Edward when she was still human. "Bella?"
Meanwhile it was taking every force of will for Bella to not dash that amazingly short distance, for a vampire anyway, and get a taste of that delicious smell coming off of that girl. Bella had gotten used to the scent of human blood, and was pretty good at trying to distract herself from it, but the smell of that one girl was…well…words couldn't describe it. She didn't care that Rosalie and Emmett were there. She didn't care that she wasn't supposed to drink human blood. She needed it. And she couldn't resist any longer.
"I got her!" Emmett whispered harshly, holding Bella back. Though she wasn't a newborn anymore, Bella still was very strong for a vampire. It was like as soon as she felt getting to the girl wasn't an option because of Emmett, she snapped, thrashing against Emmett's hold to the extent that even he was having a hard time containing her.
"Bella. Bella, come on, we need to go. You don't want to do this. Just look at me, okay? Just think about me." Rosalie spoke so quickly human ears wouldn't have understood it. Not that there were any of them around except that stupid girl, who was taking way too long to tie her shoes. If only she realized how close she currently was to death. Not that she'd be able to outrun Bella anyway, but maybe if they could just get Bella far enough away, she'd be able to regain her senses.
But Rosalie's words did nothing. Emmett had to readjust his hold a couple times just because Bella kept breaking out of it. Rosalie was helping as well, just trying to keep Bella back and talk her down. And then it happened. Faster than either of the vampires could react, Bella had thrown them off and both Emmett and Rosalie were helplessly airborn for a few seconds, unable to do anything but watch Bella bee line for the unsuspecting girl.
The moment they hit the ground, and in Rosalie's case, she might have actually defied the laws of physics and started moving before she hit the ground, they ran to Bella. Emmett had gotten there first, simply because Bella couldn't throw him as far. By the time Rosalie caught up, she just saw Emmett watching. "Oh no…" She muttered.
It was the most delicious thing her lips had ever tasted. Like someone who'd been fasting for weeks was suddenly given a gourmet meal. Bella wanted to savor the taste, but she couldn't. She just drank as much, as quickly as she could before she could be stopped. The body lay limp under her lips as she finally got her fill and an immense sense of pleasure washed over her. Unfortunately the wave of pleasure faded quickly as she got her wits about her and looked down at the corpse to see what she did.
If Bella had the tears she would have shed them. She'd taken for granted what she was. Killing the girl had been so easy. And the scary part was, she wanted to do it again. Part of her was angry that humans had so little blood. She wanted more, and she hated herself for it.
There was a silence between the 3 as they all took it in. None said a word but one. "So…dildo on a stick, anyone?" Another loud crack was heard, followed by an 'OW!' as Emmett rubbed the shoulder which Rosalie had just punched.
Elsewhere, a familiar short, black haired girl was opening her eyes from seeing something that'd happen in the very near future. "Dammit, Bella…" Alice muttered.
"What's wrong?" Jasper asked, his voice laced in concern.
"The same thing that always happens when Bella's involved. Things got worse." Alice said with a sigh as she threw back her head, resting it on Jasper's chest as he stood behind her chair.
"Alice. You know I love you. And you know I've enjoyed all this time alone with you, but let's be honest here. We all know you want to go back to them. You saw what was coming. You saw that it was inevitable and you didn't want to be caught in the middle of it. I get that. But now it just seems like you're stalling." Jasper stated, softly rubbing Alice's shoulders.
"It's because I have to stall, Jazz." Alice said, kissing one of Jasper's hands. "Bella just ate someone. Or she's going to in about 4 minutes. They're too far away. There's no way for me to stop it…"
"Then shouldn't we go now? She'll want…she'll need a friend to get through that." Jasper offered.
"I can't. Not yet." Alice stated, her voice exasperated.
"Why not?" Jasper asked, intrigued.
"Because. Bella's involved. And things are gonna get worse."
Jasper cocked his head to the side. "Bella left Edward for Rosalie and she's fed on human blood for the first time. How can things get worse?"
Alice turned to glare at Jasper. "It's Bella. Things can always get worse." She replied.
Elsewhere again, or to be more specific, in Volterra, Italy, home of the Volturi, a litter of previously breathing bodies now lay motionless, relegated to nothing more than food to the vampire royalty. Aro stood above them with a smile on his face. Sure this was nothing unusual but the smile was exceptionally wide. "My brothers. My sisters. I would like to officially introduce you to the newest member of our family. Edward Cullen."
Edward looked up from body he was feeding on, blood dripping from his hungry lips, his eyes now a vibrant red. "Not Cullen. Masen." Was all he said before he returned to his meal.
(Eh? Eh? How was that? Did I blow your mind? Okay, maybe not going that far. But for those who think I'm just an Edward hater, I'll have you know that the next chapter will be explaining how this happened and it is for a very legitimate reason. Not to mention it'll be one of the very few times I'll be writing Edward as a core character.)