The Roses Will Bleed |1|

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I stood nervously in front of the mirror; staring at myself with an unsure expression. Today was the day of the ball and to say I was scared was an understatement.

Liz rolled her eyes and put her hand on my shoulder. "Isabella you look beautiful, there isn't a flaw on you" she says.

I look at her dress and I feel like hiding in the bathroom. She wears a black strapless dress with diamonds that cover her cleavage and reach down below her ribs; and the thigh is spilt so it shows her pale white leg. She looks absolutely gorgeous.

"Now come on, Adam is waiting"

I look back one more time at my piercing blue eyes which is surrounded by thick black lashes and smokey eye shadow. I nod at myslef and walk belong side Liz into the corridor.

The loud opra music is heard loud and clear from here, and I can make out voices. Hundreds of voices that belong to vampires. Oh god.

I see Adam waiting by the door with his back to us. Once he turns around we both freeze and stare at awe at each other; we seem to do that a lot.

His red eyes noticeably darken as he looked me up and down. I smiled shyley and took his hand.

He smiled down at me. "You look very beautiful mi amour"

I felt Liz's elbow hit my side, I jumped and looked at her. "Told you" was what she said.

I shook my head and smiled. My smile was quickly wiped off once we came to the large room which held hundreds of talking dead people that had a craving for blood. My stomach was tight and my palms were sweating; Adam kissed my knuckles and squeezed my waist protectivaly.

"Don't worry to much Isabella, there are other humans here" Liz reassures me.

'Yeah, for bloodbags' I want to say but I bite my toungue. Here goes nothing.

We walk into the large room where the vampires are. Everything seems to go silent and I can feel hundreds of eyes on me, stabbing me with their peircing gazes. I swallow my spit and try not to freak out then and there.

Adam leads me into the crowd. Eyes follow my every move and I can hear them sniffing the air. I smell tasty to them. What seems like forever has attually only been 30 seconds, but a woman steps out of the crowd and locks eyes with mine and smiles wide--revealing all of her deadly sharp teeth. I gulp.

"Well Adam dear, what a wonderful treat you brought for us this time" she licks her lips.

I can feel Adam tense, and I'm afraid he'll explode again. Instead he glares into the crowd and growls deeply; they all backed away a few steps.

"Whoever touches my mate in a way that can cause harm..you will be executed and your head will be put on a stand to set a reminder to not touch what is mine."

People gasp at the word 'mate' but quickly recover once Adam's harsh glare lands on them. They all turn back around to whatever they were doing before I arrived, and its like I was never here. 'That's better'.

Adam grins at me. "Alright, now we dance." He says making me frown.

Shit.