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New Moon: Edwards POV

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING. BASED ON “New Moon” by Stephanie


Meyer
Chapter 1: Party
“Alice, Bella said that she didn’t want her birthday to be
celebrated. Why do you have to be so difficult?” I said to Alice as
we walked out the front door to go to school. Today was Bella’s
birthday. September thirteenth. She’s eighteen years old today.
An age I would never be. An age I never made it to. Bella didn’t
want to celebrate her birthday. As usual, Bella didn’t do the
normal, human thing. Most humans loved birthdays and
presents….
If I wasn’t in her life, she would probably love her birthday.
The only reason she didn’t want to celebrate it was because she
was turning a year older than me. She had a horrid fear of getting
older because I couldn’t get older with her. I couldn’t grow and
change with her. She would get older and older and I would
forever be seventeen. Her physical appearance would continue to
change as I stayed the same. But her mind, her personality, her
warmth, and all the other things that I love about her would
remain the same. She would still have those same, mesmerizing,
chocolate brown eyes. Eyes that I always got lost in. And although
I also wished that we could stay the same forever together, that
meant dooming her to a fate that she did not deserve and so I
would just have to suffer in silence. Her soul and her future are
too important. We can’t change what is supposed to happen. I
want her to be normal. As normal as Bella can possibly be. If that
means staying with her as she continues to grow old, than that is
exactly what I’m going to do. I would gladly stay with her as she
ages. She would always be my Bella. She would always be
beautiful to me. Inside and out.
“Well, she is just going to have to deal with it Edward. This is her
eighteenth birthday. This is a big day. It should be celebrated.
She’s only going to turn eighteen once.” Alice said back to me,
interrupting my reverie.
“But a party Alice! You’re already pushing it by bringing the gift
you bought her to school. You already know how’s she’s going to
react when she sees it.” This is her day. Even though she doesn’t
want to celebrate it. I still want her to be happy today. Especially
today. And Bella isn’t going to be very happy about this. But I can
see Alice’s point. She will only turn eighteen once………

“Please, Edward. Please, please, please,” Alice pleaded.


“…………..Ok, Alice, but don’t push her too hard. You know how
you get when you want something and don’t get your way. Be
gentle with her. Don’t make this harder than it needs to be.”
“You act like I’m going to tie her down and kidnap her. It’s
just a party. A couple of hours. Geez, give me a break.” Alice said.
I didn’t say anything else. I just threw her one last warning glance.
She would know what it meant.
‘Ok, gentle, gentle I got it.’ Alice thought.
We were pulling into the school parking lot now. Bella still wasn’t
here yet, but I could hear her truck nearby. She would be here
soon and I would be whole again. I missed her so much last night.
I wanted to stay with her, but I needed to hunt. Especially since I
wasn’t planning on letting her out of my sight today. It had been
weeks since the last time I hunted. We spent every day together.
We were practically inseparable. I hated being away from her. Not
just because I was scared that something would happen to her,
although that was definitely a concern, but because I just felt
better….happier when I was near her.
After that whole thing with James was over, I was
overbearingly protective for awhile. I didn’t want her to be without
my protection for a single second. This allowed so much time for
us to be together. I thought that my protective nature would make
her angry with me. But she didn’t seem to have a problem with it.
She seemed to enjoy my company as much as I enjoyed hers. Out
of all the summers that have passed in my lifetime, this past
summer was by far the best I have ever experienced. And the fact
that it was probably the rainiest summer the Olympic Peninsula
has ever had didn’t hurt either. Although it wouldn’t have
mattered. The sun would never keep Bella and I apart, as it once
had in the beginning. Bella loved me, vampire and all. My
sparkling skin did not scare her. She actually thought it was
beautiful. Typical Bella.
Bella pulled into the parking lot and parked her truck. As
soon as I saw her face, my lips turned up into an involuntary
smile. I would never tire of her beautiful face. She smiled when
she caught sight of me and then frowned as she saw that Alice
was holding a gift in her hand beside me. Here we go. I had
almost forgotten Alice was standing beside me.
Alice skipped over to Bella to give her her present. I decided to
stay behind to give them their space.
“Happy birthday Bella” Alice said once she got to Bella.
“Shh” Bella said in return. Glancing around the lot to make sure
no one heard Alice mention her birthday. Bella hated to be the
center of attention.
“Do you want to open your present now or later?” Alice asked her
while they made their way to where I was standing. She already
knew Bella’s answer.
“No presents”
“Okay..” Alice said and then thought “ You’ll get more at the party
anyway. This can wait until then”, “Later, then…… Did you like the
scrapbook your mom sent you? And the camera from Charlie?”
“Yeah. They’re great.” Bella said with no enthusiasm.
“I think it’s a nice idea. You’re only a senior once. Might as well
document the experience.”
“How many times have you been a senior?” Bella asked Alice.
“That’s different.”
They finally made it to where I was and I held out my hand for
Bella’s. It always surprised me how my cold skin never bothered
her. Doesn’t repulse her as I thought it would. She was eager to
hold it in hers. The warmth was always a pleasant feeling. I gently
squeezed her fingers, silently greeting her. She looked into my
eyes and her heart started to flutter. I smiled at it. Even though I
couldn’t read her mind, her heart always gave her away. I lifted
my hand and ran my finger across her lips. These lips………..
“So, as discussed, I am not allowed to wish you a happy birthday,
is that correct?” Bella had forbidden me to even mention her
birthday. She didn’t want me to buy her anything. I wanted to get
her a gift. Possibly a new car. I could never quite understand what
she liked about that hideously slow truck. But the most important
thing was what Bella wanted, and she didn’t want any money
spent on her. So I agreed. But………she told me not to buy her a
gift, not that I couldn’t give her a gift. I made her a CD of some of
my favorite compositions. One of which was her lullaby. She loved
to hear me play. I wish I could’ve bought a piano to put at her
house so that I could play for her all the time. But I knew that was
out of the question. Someday she would just have to accept other
people taking care of her. Especially me.
“Yes, that is correct” she said.
“Just checking. You might have changed your mind. Most people
seem to enjoy things like birthdays and gifts.” Bella was always
the exception. She never acted like other humans.
Alice laughed at my statement. “Of course you’ll enjoy it.
Everyone is supposed to be nice to you today and give you your
way, Bella. What’s the worst that could happen?” Alice was just
joking, but Bella answered her anyway.
“Getting older” Bella said. Her voice was unsteady as she said
this. I tried to keep the smile on my face, but it was hard. I hated
that getting older caused her so much pain. And it was all
because of me.
“Eighteen isn’t very old,” Alice said trying to comfort Bella. “Don’t
women usually wait till they’re twenty-nine to get upset over
birthdays?
“It’s older than Edward,” Bella mumbled and I could hear the
sadness in her voice. I sighed. I hated for being the reason for
making her so sad. What I wouldn’t give to be human with her
and change and age as she did.
“Technically. Just by one little year, though.” Alice said. Again
trying to comfort her. ‘ Sorry Edward’ she thought. She knew how
I hated for Bella to be sad. To be unhappy.
It didn’t help Bella though. She was still sad, lost in thought.
These were the times where I wished desperately that I could
read her mind. When she was so quiet and thoughtful. I wished I
knew what to say to comfort her, but I knew the only thing that
would comfort her was if I changed my mind about changing her
into a vampire so that she wouldn’t get any older. I would do
anything for her, except that. So I just stayed quiet. Thankful, that
Alice was there, because she changed the subject.
“What time will you be at the house?” Great. This definitely
wouldn’t make her feel better.
“I didn’t know I had plans to be there.” Bella said, sounding a little
skeptical, like she knew Alice had something up her sleeve. She
was so perceptive.
“Oh, be fair, Bella! You aren’t going to ruin all our fun like that are
you?”
“I thought my birthday was about what I want.” This would
probably go on all day if I don’t jump in.
“I’ll get her from Charlie’s right after school,” I told Alice, thinking
that that would end the conversation.
“I have to work,” Bella protested. Always so stubborn.
Alice had already thought of this. “You don’t actually, I already
spoke to Mrs. Newton about it. She’s trading your shifts. She said
to tell you ‘Happy Birthday,’”
“I-I still can’t come over. I, well, I haven’t watched Romeo and
Juliet yet for English.”
“You have Romeo and Juliet memorized.”
“ But Mr. Berty said we needed to see it performed to fully
appreciate it- that’s how Shakespeare intended it to be
presented.” Bella would come up with anything to keep from
going to this party. I rolled my eyes. She did have the movie
memorized. She could take that test today and pass it with flying
colors. Alice wasn’t going to give up though. She was just as
stubborn as Bella.
“You’ve already seen the movie”
“But not the nineteen-sixties version. Mr. Berty said it was the
best.”
Alice ,finally, lost her patience with Bella. “This can be easy, or
this can be hard, Bella, but one way or the other-“ I interrupted
her then. Not only was this starting to get on my nerves but she
was ruining Bella’s birthday. And I specifically asked her to be
gentle with Bella and not push too hard. That was exactly what
she was doing.
“Relax, Alice. If Bella wants to watch a movie, then she can. It’s
her birthday.”
“So there” Bella added, a little too smug. She probably thought I
was going to let her miss the party. Even though Alice was taking
this whole birthday thing too far, I did understand what she meant
about Bella not missing anything. I, too, didn’t want her missing
anything.
“I’ll bring her over around seven. That will give you more time to
set up.” I told Alice.
Alice laughed. Pleased that she was getting her way. ‘She’ll love it
Edward. Don’t worry’ Alice thought to me before she spoke.
“Sounds good. See you tonight Bella! It’ll be fun, you’ll see.” Alice
kissed Bella on the cheek and then headed off to class before
Bella could say anything else. Bella turned to look at me with a
pleading expression.
“Edward, please-“ she started. I put my finger to her lips to
silence her protest.
“Let’s discuss it later. We’re going to be late for class.” I told her
as I led her to our first class.
I was able to get the administrators to rearrange my class
schedule so that we had almost every class together. All of Bella’s
admirers didn’t like that too much. Especially Mike Newton. He
would just smile at Bella now to make her think that he had
accepted our relationship. I knew better. He still secretly wished
that I would fall off a cliff so that he could comfort Bella in her
time of need. He even changed his looks that mimicked my own.
Of course he couldn’t pull it off, but I guess he gets points for the
effort. We had to die to be beautiful, beautiful to humans
anyway………wait, that doesn’t sound like a bad idea. If he wants
to look like me, maybe I could kill him…………
Bella seemed to relax as the day progressed. I told Alice not to
mention her birthday again so she didn’t. I’m pretty sure Bella
was thinking of ways to try to get out of the party. I would tell
Alice later to drive the Volvo home. I would ride with Bella to keep
her from trying to escape. Not that she could, but I’m sure she
would try anyway.
Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett were pretending to be off at
college, so that left just Alice and I stuck in high school. We were
pretending to be seniors this year. Now we sat at Bella’s table
with all of her friends. They sat at the opposite end of course, but
that didn’t bother us. We were used to humans being repelled by
us. I still didn’t understand why Bella wasn’t afraid to be so close
to us. It was like she had no fight or flight reflexes. No instinct in
her body warning of the danger. I wouldn’t complain though. As
long as she didn’t mind being close to me, I was happy.
School went by quickly. I walked Bella to her truck and held the
passenger door open for her. She folded her arms and didn’t
move. Of course, she would be difficult.
“It’s my birthday, don’t I get to drive?” she asked.
“I’m pretending it’s not your birthday, just as you wished.”
“If it’s not my birthday, then I don’t have to go to your house
tonight…….”
“All right……. Happy birthday,” I said. I shut the passenger door
and walked past her to open the driver’s side.
“Shh” she whispered and got into the truck.
While she drove, I decided to throw a hint about her needing
a new radio. I knew that Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper got her a
new radio for her truck. She needed one. She needed a whole
new car, but I guess I would have to settle for the radio. At lease
she can’t take the radio back. Once it’s installed. And Alice will
make sure to have Emmett install it first so that she can’t take it
back.
“Your radio has horrible reception,” I told her, shaking my head
while I was searching through the stations.
She frowned. I knew she hated it when I picked on her truck. “You
want a nice stereo? Drive your own car. “
It took everything in me to keep from laughing. She said that
with a sharp tone, which only meant that she was nervous.
Probably about the party. She always worried about the wrong
things. I know how to make her forget her worries, though. We
were in front of Charlie’s house now and I reached over to touch
her face. I pressed the tips of my fingers softly against her
temples, her cheekbones, and her jaw line. Always keeping in
mind how fragile she was. I could never make a mistake with her.
“You should be in a good mood, today of all days,” I whispered to
her.
“And what if I don’t want to be in a good mood?” It was working
already because her breathing was uneven. Which in turn did
strange things to me…
“Too bad.” I said and leaned in to kiss her. I loved kissing Bella.
Her lips were always so warm and soft. My mouth lingered on
hers. I hated to stop but it was always necessary. I was always as
eager as she was to continue the kiss but she always made my
self-control worse by getting a little too carried away. She
wrapped her arms around my neck and threw more of herself into
the kiss, as she always did. I wanted to keep going as much as
she did. And keep going still…….
But I couldn’t. I couldn’t lose control. And so I always had to be
the one to stop. I let go of her face and unlocked her arms from
around my neck.
“Be good, please.” I whispered against her cheek. I kissed her one
more time and then, forced myself, to pull away. Her heart
sounded like it was about to pound out of her chest. If my heart
could beat, it would undoubtedly be beating out of my chest too.
“Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart my
someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch
me?” she wondered.
“I really hope not” I told her. I loved when her heart fluttered like
that. The sound of her heart was the most significant sound in my
world. I couldn’t bear not hearing it. I’ve been doing everything in
my power to make sure it keeps beating!
She just rolled her eyes at me. “Let’s go watch the Capulets and
Montagues hack each other up, all right?”
“Your wish, my command.”
I went and laid across her couch while she started the movie.
After she fast-forwarded through the opening credits, she sat on
the edge of the sofa in front of me. She should’ve known I wasn’t
having that. I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her
against my chest. I pulled the blanket off of the back of the couch
to wrap her in it while she laid against my chest. I wanted her as
close as she could get to me but I didn’t want her to freeze
against my cold skin..
“You know, I’ve never had much patience with Romeo,” I told her
while the movie started. He was a very complicated character.
“What’s wrong with Romeo” she asked. She sounded a little
offended. She loved the classics.
“Well, first of all, he’s in love with Rosaline-don’t you think it
makes him seem a little fickle? And then, a few minutes after their
wedding, he kills Juliet’s cousin. That’s not very brilliant. Mistake
after mistake. Could he have destroyed his own happiness any
more thoroughly?” I said to her. I really didn’t see the draw to the
story. I never understood why it became so popular. So epic.
Bella sighed. “Do you want me to watch this alone?” she said.
“No..” I told her. “I’ll mostly be watching you, anyway. Will you
cry?” I asked her while I traced pattern on her arms.
“Probably, if I’m paying attention” she said.
“I won’t distract you then.” I told her and kissed her hair.
As we watched the movie, I whispered some of Romeo’s lines in
Bella’s ears. I had to admit, although I didn’t understand Romeo,
he really did have some great lines. I thought Bella was joking
when she said that she would cry, so when she did, it made me
smile. I never understood it when women cried over something
they saw on a movie or on television. They know it’s not real. But
they cry anyway. And Bella has seen this movie countless times,
and it still makes her cry.
“I’ll admit, I do sort of envy him here” I said to her, wiping her
tears with a lock of her hair.
“She’s very pretty” Bella said. Did she really think that I would
envy him the girl? Especially when she was sitting right here in
my arms.
“I don’t envy him the girl-just the ease of the suicide” I told her.
And then I teased her, “You humans have it so easy! All you have
to do is throw down a vile of plant extracts….”
It surprised me when she gasped, “What?”
“It’s something I had to think about once, and I knew from
Carlisle’s experience that it wouldn’t be simple. I’m not even sure
how many ways Carlisle tried to kill himself in the beginning…..
after he realized what he’d become….” My voice had become
serious and I didn’t even realize it. I didn’t want to upset her. I
tried to make my voice light again, “And he’s clearly in excellent
health.”
She twisted around in my arms with a frown on her face, “What
are you talking about? “ she demanded. She was angry. “What do
you mean, this is something you had to think about once?”
“Last spring, when you were…..nearly killed….” It was hard, even
now, with her safe and alive in my arms, to think about when I
almost lost her last spring. At the hands of another vampire. That
was one of the worst experiences in my life. Not knowing whether
Bella would be alive when I got to her. I took a deep breath and
tried to regain my tone. “Of course I was trying to focus on finding
you alive, but part of my mind was making contingency plans.
Like I said, it’s not as easy for me as it is for a human.” I could tell
she was remembering what happened too. She started to trace
the place on her wrist where James had bitten her. It made me
angry again as I remembered how close he had gotten.
Bella shook her head, trying to make the memory disappear, I
guessed, and asked “Contingency plans?
“Well, I wasn’t going to live without you.” Did she think I would
just move on with my life without her? What a ridiculous idea! I
continued, “But I wasn’t sure how to do it- I knew Emmett and
Jasper would never help……” they would stop me if they even
knew what I was thinking of doing. “So I was thinking maybe I
would go to Italy and do something to provoke the Volturi.” They
would surely find some way to get the job done if I caused any
kind of trouble.
In that instance, she was furious, outraged, “What is a Volturi?”
she demanded.
“The Volturi are a family. A very old, very powerful family of our
kind. They are the closest thing our world has to a royal family, I
suppose. Carlisle lived with them briefly in his early years, in Italy,
before he settled in America-do you remember the story?” I
asked. I had told her this the first time she came to my house to
meet my family.
“Of course I remember.”
“Anyway, you don’t irritate the Volturi, not unless you want to die-
or whatever it is that we do.”
Her face turned from anger to horror as she took my face in her
hands and held it tight, well as tight as she could, “You must
never, never, never think of anything like that again. No matter
what might ever happen to me, you are not allowed to hurt
yourself!” she said, with her kitten like anger.
“I’ll never put you in danger again, so it’s a moot point.”
“Put me in danger!”, she yelled. Always so forgiving. She never
thought I did anything wrong. She was too good for me. But I
knew, without a doubt, that it was my fault. “I thought we’d
established that all the bad luck is my fault? How dare you even
think like that?”
“What would you do, if the situation were reversed?” I asked her.
“That’s not the same thing”
Her response made me laugh. I didn’t see the difference. She
continued when I didn’t say anything.
“What if something did happen to you? Would you want me to go
off myself?” she asked. The thought of anything happening to
Bella, even if I was already dead, was still painful.
“I guess I see your point……a little. But what would I do without
you?” I asked her. It seems like I didn’t even have a life until I met
Bella. Going back to a time without her was unbearable to even
think about, let alone have to live it.
“Whatever you were doing before I came along and complicated
your existence.” She said as if it were that simple. I sighed
“You make that sound so easy.”
“It should be. I’m not really that interesting.” She said. There is no
way that she would ever see herself clearly. She is, by far, the
most interesting person I have ever met. And it takes a lot to
capture my interest. I was about to explain that to her, but I
decided against it. “Moot point” I said. And then I heard Charlie’s
cruiser coming down the street. I sat up and shifted Bella to the
side so that we weren’t touching anymore. It drove Charlie mad
when he saw us touching. I needed to borrow Bella for the
evening and I didn’t want to give him a reason to say no.
“Charlie?” Bella guessed. I smiled to answer her question. After a
moment, we both heard the sound of Charlie’s cruiser pull into the
driveway. As we did, Bella took my hand into hers. She was
determined to make her dad deal with our relationship whether
he wanted to or not. Even though I didn’t like her starting
anything with her dad, especially over me, it made me feel good
when she grabbed my hand. Like she was proud to have me at
her side.
Charlie walked in with pizza. He glanced at our hands for a split
second, Bella didn’t catch him. ‘What does she see in this guy? I
don’t care what any of them say, I still hold him responsible for
what happened last spring’ Charlie thought.
“Hey kids,” he said grinning, only to Bella. “I thought you’d like a
break from cooking and washing dishes for your birthday.
Hungry?”
“Sure. Thanks, Dad.” Bella said. They went into the kitchen to eat.
I passed on dinner, as I always did, and watched television until
they got finished. When they came back into the living room, I
turned to Charlie, “Do you mind if I borrow Bella for the evening?”
I asked him. Bella looked at Charlie liked she was hoping he would
say no. He disappointed her.
“That’s fine-the Mariners are playing the Sox tonight, so I won’t be
any kind of company……here” he grabbed the camera Bella’s
mom bought for her and threw it to her. Of course she missed it,
but I caught it before it hit the floor.
“Nice save,” Charlie said. “If they’re doing something fun at the
Cullens’ tonight, Bella, you should take some pictures. You know
how your mother gets-she’ll be wanting to see the pictures faster
than you can take them.”
“Good idea Charlie” I said as I gave the camera to Bella. When I
gave it to her, she turned it on me and took a picture. “It works”
she said.
“That’s good. Hey, say hi to Alice for me. She hasn’t been over in
a while,” Charlie said. He loved Alice like she was his own
daughter. He had been very grateful for Alice for helping Bella
after her “accident”. I have to admit, I was a little jealous that
Charlie didn’t like me as much as he liked Alice. I wanted him to
accept me. I wanted him to know the truth. That I had actually
saved his daughter’s life. But of course, he couldn’t know
that.“It’s been three days, Dad. I’ll tell her” Bella told him.
“Okay, you kids have fun tonight.” He was anxious to watch his
game. I have never seen anybody watch sports as much as
Charlie did. I smiled, thankful that he loved sports so much.
Because otherwise he might have wanted his daughter all to
himself on her birthday. I smiled at my victory, took Bella’s hand,
and pulled her from the kitchen.
I opened the passenger door for her when we got to her truck.
She didn’t argue as she did earlier. Probably because she could
never find the turnoff to my house.
Driving her truck was like torture. It was so slow. I tried to make it
go faster. The engine groaned louder as I tried to force it to go
past the speed limit.
“Take it easy” Bella told me.
“You know what you would love? A nice little Audi coupe. Very
quiet, lots of power….” And able to go above fifty, I thought to
myself.
“There’s nothing wrong with my truck. And speaking of expensive
nonessentials, if you know what’s good for you, you didn’t spend
any money on birthday presents.”
“Not a dime” I said, but that reminded me. The others did spend
money on her. I didn’t want her to hurt their feelings. They are all
really excited about this party.
“Good”
“Can you do me a favor?”
“That depends on what it is.”
I sighed. She could never make anything easy. My face turned
serious. “Bella, the last real birthday any of us had was Emmett in
1935. Cut us a little slack, and don’t be too difficult tonight.
They’re all very excited.”
“Fine, I’ll behave.” She said. I forgot to tell her that Emmett and
Rosalie came back home for her birthday.
“I probably should warn you…..” I said.
“Please do.”
“When I say they’re all excited…..I do mean all of them.”
“Everyone? I thought Emmett and Rosalie were in Africa.” Bella
said.
“Emmett wanted to be here.” Emmett thought of Bella as the little
sister he always wanted. And he also thought she was hilarious.
Because she was so clumsy.
“But……Rosalie?
“I know, Bella. Don’t worry, she’ll be on her best behavior.”
Rosalie was the only one who never warmed up to Bella. But I
wouldn’t expect anything less from Rosalie. Everyone else loved
Bella. That is enough.
It was quiet for a moment. Bella was probably thinking about
Rosalie. I decided to change the subject. “So if you won’t let me
get you the Audi, isn’t there anything that you’d like for your
birthday?”
“You know what I want.” She whispered. I did know what she
wanted. Something that I could not bear to let happen. She
wanted to be a vampire. I really didn’t want to have this
conversation tonight. Why did I have to change the subject.
“Not tonight, Bella. Please”
“Well, maybe Alice will give me what I want.” Why was she so
determined to be a soulless creature. A growl escaped from me
before I knew it. She was very creative when she was determined
to do something. Alice,………. as a matter of fact all of them,
except Rosalie of all people, thought that it would be better if
Bella were one of us. Especially since that was what she thought
she wanted. It felt weird to have Rosalie agree with me. We didn’t
agree on anything.
“This isn’t going to be your last birthday Bella”. My tone was a
little harsher than I intended it to be, but the subject made me so
angry.
“That’s not fair!”, she yelled.
My teeth clenched together to keep myself from getting angrier.
We were pulling up to the house. Perfect timing.
Alice had overdid it. As always. She always went overboard when
she organized parties. Of course this would be no exception.
There were bright lights shining from every window on all the
floors except for my floor, Japanese lanterns hung from the porch,
and big bowls of flowers lined the stairs on the front porch. I heard
Bella moan as she took in all of Alice’s decorations. I took deep
breaths to calm myself from the previous conversation. “This is a
party. Try to be a good sport.”
“Sure” she said.
I went around to get her door and offered my hand to help her
out. As she took my hand, she said “I have a question.”
I just waited, until she asked her question.
“If I develop this film, will you show up in the picture.” She said,
playing with the camera in her hands. At that, I had to laugh. I
helped her out of the car and pulled her up the stairs. Still
laughing. We opened the door and they were all waiting in the
living room for us. As we walked through the door, they all yelled
‘Happy Birthday Bella’. Bella blushed. Inside the house, roses
were everywhere. There was a table next to my grand piano
covered with a white table cloth. On top of it were more roses,
plates, Bella’s presents, and a pink cake. Cake? Plates? What was
Alice thinking? That we were actually going to eat the cake. What?
So we would all just have to throw it up later?
‘I see you looking at the cake, Edward. We’re not going to try to
eat it. It’s just decoration. Geez.”
I half-smiled at her, but I could sense the tension rolling off of
Bella. I wrapped my arm around her waist and kissed the top of
her head to reassure her that everything is okay. Esme came then
and hugged her and then Carlisle. “Sorry about this Bella. We
couldn’t rein Alice in” He said to Bella. Knowing how she hated the
spotlight. Emmett’s lips stretched into a huge grin when he looked
at Bella. It was easy to tell that he missed her. She missed him
too.
“You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference,
but here you are, red-faced just like always.” Emmett teased.
“Thanks a lot, Emmett” Bella said, blushing even more. Emmett
laughed at her. “I have to step out for a second.” He winked at
Alice, then said “Don’t do anything funny while I’m gone.”
“I’ll try”, Bella said.
Alice skipped over to Bella and grabbed her elbow, “time to open
presents”, she said and pulled Bella toward the table.
“Alice, I know I told you I didn’t want anything-“ Bella said, but
Alice interrupted her.
“But I didn’t listen. Open it.”
Bella was still holding her camera in her hands, so Alice took it
and handed Bella Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper’s present. The
radio that Emmett was installing outside as we speak. Alice gave
Bella the empty box that the radio came out of. Bella opened it
and looked at it like she was waiting for the punch line.
“Um……thanks” she said. She even made Rosalie crack a smile.
Jasper just laughed at her. He was still a little uncomfortable
around her. Alice explained to Bella what it was.
“It’s a stereo for your truck. Emmett’s installing it right now so
that you can’t return it.”
“Thanks Jasper, Rosalie” Bella said grinning. She threw a quick
glance at me and then started smiling. She must be remembering
when I was talking about her stereo earlier today. It must have
clicked that it was all a setup. So perceptive. “Thanks Emmett!”
Bella called out loud, as if he couldn’t hear her even if she
whispered. Emmett started laughing and that made her laugh too.
“Open mine and Edward’s next,” Alice said to her. Bella tuned to
glare at me, “You promised.” I was about to answer right before
Emmett came running through the door. He was anxious to see
Bella blush once she opened the rest of the gifts. “Just in time,”
Emmett said.
“I didn’t spend a dime,” I reassured her. I brushed a strand of hair
from her face. I don’t understand why it was so important that I
didn’t spend any money on a gift for her. I would have loved to
get her something really nice or take her to a really nice
restaurant. But she was so stubborn.
She took a deep breath and turned to face Alice as if she were
facing a death sentence or something. “Give it to me,” she said
and then sighed. It’s moments like these that I would love to be
able to hear what she’s thinking. Emmett laughed at her
reluctance. She grabbed the package out of Alice’s hands and
while rolling her eyes at me for getting her something, even
thought I didn’t spend any money, she stuck her finger under the
edge of the paper and gave herself a paper cut. Right then, even
though I wasn’t even paying attention to Jasper’s thoughts, I
heard what went through his head. And I saw his actions in Alice’s
foresight. The same thing that went through mine the first day I
smelled Bella’s blood. He wasn’t Jasper anymore. He was a
vampire. Through and through. He had no self-control. And didn’t
care to try to restrain himself. All he saw was red. All he wanted
was her blood.
“Shoot,” I heard Bella say when the paper sliced her finger. A drip
of blood dropped from her hand and that sent Jasper over the
edge.
“NO!” I yelled. I threw myself over to where Bella was standing
and pushed her out of Jasper’s sight. I used too much force to
push her back and she went flying across the table. The table fell
with her, including the cake, present, the flowers, and the plates,
which shattered as they hit the floor. Bella fell into the shattered
glass which made everything ten times worse. She held her arms
out to try to catch her fall, but ended up scraping them in the
shattered glass which made her bleed even more. Jasper
slammed into me in an attempt to get to her. I loved my brother
and I know he can’t help himself, but there is no way I’m going to
let him get to her. No way. If I had to, I would kill him before he
got any closer. Snarls were creeping out of his chest as he
continued to try to shove past me. Jasper began snapping his
teeth inches from my face. If he continued, this would not end
good.
It’s like Emmett read my mind, out of nowhere he grabbed
Jasper in a steel grip. Jasper continued to struggle to get free,
even then. His eyes were wild, excited, thirsty, and focused only
on Bella. My world. My life. He was determined to get to her. To
drink her blood. What a terrible situation. This has gone too far. I
stood there, hands spread protectively in front of Bella. No one
was getting past me. They would have to kill me and tear me to
shreds before they got to her. It was now me against my family.
This is what it has come to. I wanted to turn around to look at
Bella, to see if she was ok. But there was no way I was going to
get caught off guard. I heard all of their thoughts. I knew that they
weren’t going to do anything to her. Except for Jasper. But they
were all ravenous for her blood. All of their eyes were excited. But
they controlled themselves. Still I wasn’t taking any chances. In
that moment, it was me against them. We were no longer the
Cullen family. We had separated that quickly. They were
bloodthirsty vampires and I was standing in the way of their prey.
It was going to be either me or them.
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