Interlude
"She's not turned," Edward said once Renée had left the room. Her mom had given them separate rooms, which Bella wasn't sure how to feel about at this point. Edward's nose wrinkled slightly.
"She smells like one of the dogs." Bella blinked in surprise, not sure what to make of that, but set the thought aside for the time being.
"But she's not a vampire?" She asked, feeling more than a little bit surprised by this information. Her understanding up to this point had been that if someone had gotten bitten and infected with venom, they turned. Plus, one of Maddie's eyes was red, a tell-tale sign of vampirism.
"No." Edward answered, looking more than a little confused about it himself. Bella bit her nail thinking this over for a moment.
"So she survived the change somehow?" She asked, looking at Edward for some kind of answers, but he just frowned shaking his head.
"I've never heard of that happening." Bella's stomach clenched with fear, feeling like all of her future plans were slipping further and further out of reach away from her. She wanted to become a vampire, and now her sister resisted it? Did that mean she would too? Edward's cool hand pulled hers away from her mouth, preventing her from putting anymore damage into her nail.
"Did you want her to have been turned by the newborns?" Edward asked, looking a bit perplexed. Bella frowned slightly. She didn't know the answer to that. She would've been more than a little pissed that her younger sister got to be a vampire before her, all while not even being aware of vampires. However, Maddie being infected and not turning was maybe worse. Bella didn't want there to be any hiccups when she herself was potentially being turned, whenever that wound up happening. Because it would. She would become a vampire. She had to.
"I don't know!" Bella answered in frustration, almost jerking her hand out of Edward's hold. Bella thought about it for a bit longer before looking up at Edward with an idea.
"Should we ask Alice? We should, right?" She asked with a slight smile, feeling confident in the idea, "Surely this is something she can figure out. You couldn't hear anything from Maddie, right?"
"She has very few surface thoughts that I can hear," Edward said, considering what Bella was saying about Alice. Alice generally just saw the future. Would looking into Maddie's future really reveal anything? He wasn't really sure. It was worth a try at least. Besides, Maddie's surface thoughts had just been mostly tired, tired, static, annoyance with Bella, which was par for the course with her thoughts. It was a bit surprising that they hadn't changed considering all that had happened to her recently. Maybe Bella's family was just a more hardy stock than he'd initially given them credit for.
"We can ask her, but don't expect anything groundbreaking." Edward finally assented with a slight nod, his yellow eyes shifting over Bella's happy expression. She flushed with joy and that intoxicating scent her blood had grew stronger. He swallowed tightly, watching her flip open her phone to call his sister.
Maybe they would have some answers soon, but something didn't sit right about any of this with Edward. He'd been convinced that Bella was his soulmate, partly because of how enchanting her blood smelled and the other part because he couldn't read her thoughts. However, Maddie now smelt just as good as Bella, if not even more delicious. He didn't know what to make of this, and his stomach stirred with discomfort the more he thought about it.
short! my bad n all that, but uhh, last chapter is the wedding.