Chapter 18

Bella

I slowed the kiss down because I knew that she would not be able to stop me and neither of us was ready for a physical relationship yet. 'Kissing her is amazing though' I slowly pulled away to catch my breath and cool the heat in my lower abdomen 'my goddess' I thought when I looked at the rumpled state of her hair. Somehow in the heat of the moment, I had taken off her top and she was now sitting on my lap in a black lace bra, creamy skin exposed to my eyes. The soft swell of her breast, the smooth lines of her stomach. Her slim neck called to me, to mark her, to make her mine. I took in everything and I knew that if I don't stop I would be tempted to continue.

"Rose I need you to put your top back on," I said

She got off my lap with a sad look and once she was done she sat beside me.

"Do you find me attractive?" she asked

I turned and looked at her in her eyes to make sure she understood me.

"Of course, I only asked you to re-dress because I'm not sure that I can control myself. You're a beautiful woman Rosalie and the day we make love I want it to be special. For you and for me."

Rose just smiled and I knew that for now, everything would be fine.

We sat like that for another 5 minutes just enjoying each other's company, before Emmett came knocking at the door and beckoned me to come and play video games with him.

'Essentially he whined that Rose was hogging me, that even though she was my mate he also wanted some Bella Bear time'

We sat on the floor in front of the tv, playing Mario Cart for the umpteenth time, shouting at the other for cheating 'Not my fault he kept losing' and he kept trying to push me over to distract me or to make me drop the controller. Rosalie was in her garage, Alice lost in her designs, and Jasper was most likely in the library. Carlisle was at work and Esme was nowhere to be seen either. I had lost all sense of time during our game I was only reminded of my hunger when Esme came to tell me that she had lunch ready. I liked it when she cooked for me, reminds me of being back in the castle.

Where I got lost in the books in the library 'it's really big with lots of books, can I say just awesome', or in my father's study discussing battle strategies 'or playing chess, getting my ass beat but gave as good as I got', talking with Uncle Marcus about anything and everything 'This was always fun, Uncle Aro tends to get lost in the thoughts of other people that he had seen (collected) over the years'. My mother would walk in with a snack, call me to the kitchen or just make sure that I was well fed. 'I miss them, I miss being in Italy but being with the Olympic coven also felt like home'.

I played another game of chess with Jasper and beat him, he gets so frustrated that even when he sees it coming and he doesn't know how to counter it, he may be the 'god of war' but I am my father's daughter. Emmett plays one move at a time, Jay tends to plan out the entire game before his first move. He plans an all-out war instead of seeing every single game as an individual battle. This is what makes it easy to beat both of them.

I was sad when the weekend came to an end and I had to go home to Charlie. It was nice having people my own age, even though they have been teenagers for decades. In the castle most of the guard I spent time with was older than me. Jane was like a sister to me, Alec a brother, the only other teenagers besides myself, I would be turning 17 soon and they would forever be stuck at age 16.

Alec, Jane and I spent dinner with Charlie and watched a movie before I went to bed, Jane and Alec snuck out. Either to hunt or spend time with their respective mates. I was happy for them. They need a little happiness. Uncle Aro does his best and so does aunt Cia but there is only so much they can do.

Dream

I was back in the forest again.

It was quiet but there were signs of life.

I looked around and saw nothing so I began to walk.

I don't know how long I was walking or where I was going.

I was being pulled in a direction.

I saw a cave,

Inside the cave was a cage,

Inside this cage was something I had never seen before.

A humanoid demon was inside small horns on the top of its head.

It had my facial features but instead of my brown hair with red undertones its hair was black

Its eyes are black with no pupils just black.

It smiled at me

Its teeth were normal and white until I noticed that its canines where long

The top two looked to be about 5 cm long and the bottom two 3 cm.

Its black wings curled behind it.

It was wearing a tunic, with some strange symbol on it.

The symbol was pulsing, slowly but pulsing non the less.

Legs long, waist small, hips round.

It was inhumanly beautiful but an aura of danger surrounded it

It stepped forward and held onto the cage bars.

Nails sharp

The cage had no door, once it escaped there was no locking it back inside.

"Isabella," it said with a musical voice.

I was too stunned to respond

"The seal gets weaker by the day,"

"I will bide my time until your 17th birthday, at midnight when the day ends so will my imprisonment", and we shall be one," it said with a gruesome smile

"Remember Isabella, at midnight on your 17th birthday,"

It then began to cackle

End

I woke up with a start, all I could remember was a voice telling me 'at midnight on your 17th birthday' I had no idea what it meant but I knew that I had one more month before my life changed irrevocably.

With this in mind I got up and got ready for school, Jane, Alec and Charlie were already seated at the table. Jane had a steaming mug of something and Alec was making breakfast for Charlie and me.

"Good morning Bells," said Charlie in a rough voice.

"Good morning dad, mornin' Jane, Alec" I replied

I sat down and started eating the awesome breakfast Alec had made, Alec had his own mug of steaming something

'Probably blood but it could be coffee to look more human. Why I have no idea.'

"Good morning Bella, how did you sleep?" Asked Alec

"I slept alright just had a weird dream,"

"Weird like the others or like the one you had at the Cullen's?" asked Jane

"You been having weird dreams Bells?" asked Charlie concerned

"It's nothing guys, yes similar to the one at the Cullen's but not scary just weird,"

"I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. Have a great day at school" said Charlie as he got up to leave.

10 mins after Charlie left the rest of us headed off to school. Hoping it would be a good day.