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❂| 028. "I Will be your Shining Knight"- Bella

Sebastian was laying on the couch, head placed in Jasper's lap, the cold fingers untangling black locks, the blue eyes were resting, his breaths were short, "Seb-", Bella stops when she notices that Sebastian is asleep on the couch, Jasper looks at her, signaling if he should wake him up though he was against it, he knew Sebastian won't like that he was sleeping when Bella needed him.

"No, no, let him sleep", Bella moves to sit on the sofa, fingers massaging her forehead, "he's always like this", she looks at Jasper, who make no action except for his fingers, roaming in Sebastian's head.

"Always the guardian brother, Bella's own knight in shining Armour", Bella looked like she remembered a forgotten memory, the scent of sorrow filled the room, with small wafts of happiness, "6th grade or 7th", she tried hard to focus which year was that but gave up continuing the story, "there was this book I read in the library, a girl who raised her own brother when their parents died" she smiles at the memory.

"I was sad for a week and stuff and Sebastian, being him", Bella looks over at the sleeping figure of Sebastian, "read the book and promised me, if something happens to our parents, he will look over me", she stops, reliving the memory, "to be my shining knight", she holds back a sob, "he's still the same, Jasper", the gold eyes focus on her, feeling that something important is to come up.

"He trusts you, Jasper", Bella tells him, moving from her seat, her fingers gliding over the curtain of the closed window, "protect him", she pulls over a piece of the blind, the Phoenix sun burning her skin, she basked in the familiar feeling of that heat, "save him", she looks at Jasper, the sunlight making her hair to shine, to sparkle the tears that have been formed in her eyes, the curtain falls back, the room going dark again, only to be illuminated by those small lamps.

Isabella moves toward Sebastian, leaving a gentle kiss on his forehead, etching the memory, "let me be your knight this time", she whispers to him, so slow that even Jasper had a hard time hearing it. Jasper studies her, and soon she left for her room.

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Sebastian stretches, hearing his bones cracking, Alice looks at him, bringing him the plate layered full of hotel sandwiches with packed juice, "eat, Seb", She tells him, then looks at Bella, who was staring at the burner phone, placed casually on the wooden table.

"Ella", Sebastian breaks whatever trance she was in and she looks at him, "come, eat first", her eyes stare at the phone, then meet the blue of Sebastian, filled with worry, he decides to change his place from the sofa to the chair if she won't move, I will, he thought to himself, placing the plate in front of her, "eat, Isabella", she listens to him, taking small bites from the sandwich.

"I wish they could call", Bella talks with Alice, both of them looking at the phone, Alice casually drops one more sandwich on her plate, "eat more, Bella", she pushes the plate towards her, and the dragging sound makes Jasper look over at them, then at the locked bathroom door.

"They could get hurt, it's not worth it", she drops the sandwich on her plate, fingers making a circle on the phone, feeling the cheap plastic under her touch, "yes, it is", the sudden interaction from Jasper, leaves her stun for some moment, before she looks at him.

"Edward's changed since he found you, he's less brooding now and happier", Jasper tells her, already moving away on the sofa, the bathroom lock clicks open and Sebastian dries his wet hair with the towel, sitting where Jasper made space for him, reading the room. Jasper casually takes the towel from him and starts rubbing his head, Bella looks at them in affection, her brother deserves the best, and Jasper, he works.

"And, none of us want to look into his eyes for a hundred years if he loses you", He drops the towel on the edge of the sofa, gold's eye piercing into the brown of Isabella, he nods at her, and eases his weight onto Sebastian's back, inhaling the cheap shampoo, covering his original scent.