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Chapter 39: Oh, Ye Seer of Fate.
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"Are you guys dating?" Bella slipped the question too smoothly.
Honey nearly choked on her drink. "Why? Do you want him or something?"
"What? No…" Bella laughed nervously. "I'm just… I'm asking for a friend."
Honey chugged another cup of juice like a shot. She had figured it out. "I'm pretty confident this is spiked."
And they both laughed. But in all honesty, it was only a miracle that Que made a remark about Tylar spiking the drinks before he left, and although he was just saying it out of spite, Bella took it to heart and decided not to drink.
"I don't know," Honey finally replied to the earlier question. Then she turned back to Bella. "You?"
Bella frowned.
"What?" Honey asked with a devious grin. "Come on, you keep staring at him… It's obvious."
And Edward, who was standing with his family in the far corner, couldn't help but glance back after hearing the words.
"I think he likes you," Honey admitted. Her voice soft, as if at any moment on the verge of collapse. But she wasn't that drunk.
"Are they related?"
The Cullens all tensed when Bella asked, yet even then, Bella was glancing at Honey, so she didn't notice.
Honey quickly shot her eyes from the Cullens to Bella, a tad too quickly. "Who?"
"Troy?" Bella whispered.
"Troy? No…" Honey shook her head, taking another sip.
Bella shifted her eyes to the Cullens, and much as one would expect, they were all staring away. "But I mean, you can't ignore their resemblance, right?"
'That's because they're vampires, silly.' The thought slipped past Honey's mind; if only Troy had informed her that Edward could read them.
Because beside them, Roselie clenched her fists. But Emmett shot his arm, holding her hand tightly and whispering in her ear to stay calm.
"No, they just look alike… and besides, five months ago, Troy lived in Italy."
Bella raised an eyebrow at Honey's sentence, but right before she answered, Edward appeared beside them.
Honey just smiled awkwardly, got up, and started walking away.
Bella sighed, eyes still trailing Honey, who was slowly making her way to the kitchen.
"Can you stop?" Edward asked, standing a tad too close to Bella's figure.
Bella lightly backed up, eyes occasionally intertwining with his. "What?"
"Just stop asking—… stop with the questions," he said.
"Questions…?" Bella's frown persisted, but a second later her eyes opened wide. "You heard me?"
"What? No," Edward blocked. But Bella softly laughed. "I didn't hear you; it was just… it was written all over your face."
Edward shifted one side of his face behind him, noting how every single one of his family stared blades.
So, he grabbed her arm and started pulling her away, leaving through the back door.
"Baby, listen." On the other end, Emmett pushed both his arms against Roselie's figure, letting the white leather lie shielding his hand from her skin.
Roselie was still angered, but she wasn't frowning, just silenced by stress. The music started playing. Emmett smiled, and Roselie, too fixated on his eyes, couldn't resist doing the same.
So softly, Emmett led his woman to the dance floor.
And both Jasper and Edythe, who were chuckling behind him, did the same, with Edythe pulling Jasper by the belt of his pants as they followed.
It would be the first time everyone would witness the Cullens dance, truly a time to remember. But what would go unknown was that nothing but the Devil lay responsible.
Or in this case, the Devil's son.
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Laughter broke the night, as if the little droplets of falling rain and the thunder that occasionally rumbled above didn't exist.
"So…?" Alice asked, bumping Troy's shoulder, who was seated an inch away beside her on the roof. "What are your real goals?"
"No, I'm serious, I…" Troy shook his head, trying to answer. "I just don't have any."
Alice's laughter died out, replaced by something close but more silent. "That's sad."
Troy dramatically clicked his tongue.
Alice giggled beside him. "What?"
"What about you, huh?" Troy questioned. "You seem to have one."
"I do." Alice turned her head to him when she said it. "But you say yours first… everyone has one."
They kept eye contact, unblinking and unmoving in the wind.
"Painting," Troy said in a whisper at first. "I want to be a painter."
"A painter?" Alice was taken aback.
"No," Troy answered a contradiction. "The best."
And she smiled, with laughter following behind it. "The best?"
"What's funny?" Troy laughed at her giggles. "I want to be the best in the world."
Alice shook her head, a smile still lurking. "Then, what's stopping you?"
Troy shrugged, heart beating louder the closer she neared.
"I can't paint for shit—"
Then it was too late, because Alice had already moved her lips forward. And a cold chill pressed his mouth the instant they connected. But something, in remanence to a force, kept him from pulling back, so he succumbed, kissing deeper on her lower and upper lips as she moved her arms and hung them over his neck.
His hands, as though possessed by a demon, also slipped forward, hanging on her figure.
But then, unexpectedly, a picture flickered in his subconscious; Alice resembled her too much, so he pulled back, even through her inhuman strength.
And there she was, staring into his eyes, inches below his gaze. Then, as though uncaring of the moment, "Don't sleep with her."
Alice's words were clear as day, but they made no sense.
"What—?"
She pulled Troy in for another, and this time it seemed selfish, as though only backed by lust.
Then Alice pulled back, smiled, and pushed to the ground, dropping.
And not even a thud embraced his ears after her descent. It was only silence, with the exception of a whistle that came next.
She was a contradiction, so how foolish was he to hope to understand?
A witch, a seer of the future. And now, more than ever, he knew it.
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