-- time skip --
Today is Bella's 18th birthday and Alice couldn't pass up the opportunity to throw a type of party. So, I am in Alice's room getting dressed. My mom let me move in, and Alice let's me sleep in her room when I'm not in Jasper's.
I stand beside Emmett and Edward on the bottom step. Bella is driving over now, in the dress Alice bought her. Jason is standing with Jasper and Alice. Bella walks in, and she looks absolutely beautiful.
"Happy birthday!" I exclaim.
I turned 18 last month, and Alice threw me a party too. You guys.... I woke up crying because of my dream last night. You will see as it plays out. They all know I dreamt of today, but nobody asks about it.
"Here is my present." Emmett says.
Bella shakes it, and it doesn't make a noise.
"Already installed it." Emmett chuckles. "Only a decent sound system for that piece of cr....."
"Hey," Bella interrupts. "Don't hate the truck."
Rosalie hands Bella a small box, and I smirk.
"It's a necklace." I say. "Alice picked it out."
"No fair, Athena." Rosalie wines. "You already saw this in your dream last night."
Esme hands Bella hers. "Just something to brighten your day, you've been looking awful pale lately."
I tense, this is a bad part of my dream.
B
ella fumbles with the wrapper, and she gets a paper cut.
"Jas, it's just a little......" I freeze. "Blood."
Jasper goes to attack and Edward throws Bella back, and she lands on a glass table. It takes both Emmett and Carlisle to catch Jasper.
"Athena. Get him out of here." Carlisle demands.
I take Jasper's hand gently and I walk him outside for some fresh air. I smash my arm in his mouth and he bites on instinct. He grips my arm and he pulls back, with shock in his eyes.
"Why did you do that?" He asks. "You brave, beautiful human."
"To calm you down." I reply honestly.
Jasper wipes his mouth and kicks his teeth. He hugs me, thanking me. Carlisle calls for him and Edward comes outside.
"That was really brave, Athena." Edward says. "What if he couldn't stop?"
"I believe in Jasper." I reply. "I knew he'd stop."
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Edward goes into the woods with Bella. Oh no, they are about to leave. I walk inside and see the others already hunt. The ones anyway gone are in Ithaca, New York. I dreamt in. I cannot remember where Edward goes.
They are officially gone now. I feel so alone in this huge house, but I promised I would keep it up and going. I don't have to pay anything, because Carlisle is doing it from new York. I love my vivid dreams sometimes.
I find a spare room, and I go all interior designer on it. My walls are dark blue with guns and soldiers in our. I lay siren a dirt brown carpet. I made my room civil war inspired. I ain't forget. I run to Jasper's room, and grab his pictures from the war days, and I hang and sit then around my new room.
I have a queen sized bed against the window. It has black and brown blankets and sheets on it. I smile in satisfaction broke going to the bathroom on the second floor. I take a twenty minute shower before I puts I some of Rosalie's sweats before I go outside.
It is right now dusk. It isn't raining, or humid. The breeze is just right. I put in a sweat band around my head and I go running
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I down a bottle of water when I make it back home. (In case you forgot, Athena bite lives in the Cullen mansion) I change into some of my pajamas in my new room and I collapse into my bed, exhausted from my run.
I close my eyes, and I wait for my breathing and heartbeat to slow. Once I am good and relaxed, I drift off to sleep.
