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Chapter 63

Honeymoon

Bella

The island was just beautiful.

I didn't see that until two days after we arrived, because before that we just couldn't get out of the house.

The sand was almost white and stretched shallowly into the sea, so that the water shimmered beautifully turquoise in the sun.

It was the first time I went swimming as a vampire and it was great. Since we didn't have to breathe, we could stay underwater forever. Although the beautiful fish, dolphins or sharks didn't come closer than twenty meters to us, but I still enjoyed swimming through the sea with the dolphins and Emmett.

When we weren't swimming, we were lying in the sun, and I was watching the lights twinkle on our skin or we were exploring the island.

I still couldn't get it into my head that the whole island was ours. Who gave away islands?

After the first week, I slowly started to think about our nutrition.

There were no animals on the island big enough to quench our thirst. There were a few insects, birds and sea creatures, of course. But these did not smell enticing at all.

On the tenth or eleventh or twelfth day - I had completely lost track of time - Emmett came to me.

His eyes slowly became darker than mine.

"Come on, we're going hunting today," he said, as if there were a bear sanctuary around the corner.

"Where? And what? Don't try to force a shark or one of the turtles on me, they smell nastier than grass eaters," I said, wrinkling my nose at the thought.

He laughed, which probably meant he didn't want to drink water turtles either.

"No, don't worry. I thought we'd take a short trip to the Philippines or something," he said nonchalantly, as if there was nothing more normal in the world.

"What?" I said, shocked.

Philippines? Short trip?

"Earth to Bella! You're a vampire, remember? We'll swim across, it'll take about ten hours. Then there will be night there and we can hunt a little."

I took one deep breath.

He was right. It was no big deal to swim for ten hours. The current couldn't bother us, we didn't get hypothermic, and we didn't need air.

I agreed and we swam to the Philippines to hunt.

We shot a few buffalo and crocodiles.

Emmett, of course, had a blast fighting with the crocodiles.

For the next three weeks, my life was perfect.

I had the most perfect man in the world, spent my honeymoon on a breathtakingly beautiful island that was also ours, had sex when and where and as often as we could and went hunting when we were hungry again.

The day before yesterday we were in Japan, not far from Tokyo, a bit in the countryside.

There, to Emmett's delight, we found bears as well as a few deer.

I thought the blood tasted kind of strange.

"Different countries, different customs," was Emmett's comment on that.

I rolled my eyes and drank my venison.

We even passed a group of pandas in the mountains, but I thought they were way too cute to do anything to them.

Since then, I've been feeling kind of weird.

The next day we lay outside in the sun.

I still felt weird, but Emmett said vampires don't get sick and that maybe I was just homesick.

"EMMETT!" I cried out in fright as something moved in my belly.

My hands slid over my stomach, and he looked at me in confusion.

"What is it, honey?" he asked with concern when he saw my shocked look.

There it was again. I clearly felt something in my stomach and held my breath, startled.

"I ... something is moving inside me!" I screamed in shock.

Had I swallowed a fish or an octopus while swimming this morning? Could it be that it was still moving in my stomach?

Emmett now looked as shocked and confused as I did.

"Did you accidentally swallow a fish?", he asked, voicing my own thoughts.

I shrugged my shoulders.

"I don't know. They never get close enough to us usually. Shouldn't I have noticed that?", I asked.

My brain was working at full speed.

My internal organs were all as dead as my heart. So it could not be that my stomach or intestines had moved. But what else could it be? Pregnant, was my first thought. But it was impossible. I was a vampire and as I just said, my body was as good as dead. A disused factory, stalled when Emmett's poison set me on fire. So what else could it be? Was that why I had been so bad for the last three days? Or was that just a side effect of it?

I looked anxiously at Emmett and saw that he was as perplexed as I was.

He ran away and came back two seconds later with the cell phone.

"Carlisle!" said Emmett when he finally picked up the phone.

"What is Emmett? Why do you sound so worried?", I heard Carlisle's voice through the phone.

"It's because of Bella. She's not feeling well. And she ... well she thinks ... she thinks something moved in her belly," he said slowly and hesitantly.

That silenced even Carlisle for a moment.

"Could it be that she somehow swallowed a sea creature and that's still moving?", Emmett continued to ask.

"I don't know. I've never heard anything like it. We can't get abdominal pain and our organs are all motionless. Please, come home as soon as you can. I need to see this for myself," he said, sounding anxious.

It was clearly not a good sign if Carlisle sounded anxious and didn't know what was going on with me.

Emmett carried me into the house because I hadn't moved.

I was in shock.

What did that mean? Was there something wrong with me? Was I going to die? It sounded idiotic to be scared to death because you felt a movement in your belly. But when you were a vampire, with a body that no longer made autonomous muscle contractions, the facts were a little different. Most definitely, something was wrong with my body. Was it because of the blood I had drunk in Japan? But why didn't Emmett feel anything? He didn't think the blood was strange, nor had he been feeling bad for the past few days, nor did he feel any strange movements inside. Maybe I was going crazy. Maybe I was imagining all of this?

I was still sitting motionless on the bed while Emmett was on the phone making arrangements to fly back and packing our things at the same time.

I tightened my legs and wrapped my arms around them.

I never felt so vulnerable and helpless as a vampire as I do now. I would die, for sure. Something was going terribly wrong with my body.

My eyes started to burn and my whole body was shaken by the sobs. Not a single tear came, but it felt like I could fill an ocean with tears.

What had I done? How could my now so perfect life come to an end so quickly. It was so unfair. Why did I have to die now, now that I had Emmett and infinity?