Chapter 57: Negative Aura.
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The sun seeped right through the trees, passing everything as if it was being commanded by a medium, cutting the air and touching the skin of Edward, who was on his back, head turned sideways and staring daggers at Bella, who shared a similar fate.
Edward's skin glossed, sparkling brighter by the second, reflecting in Bella's eyes, which couldn't help but widen; she was seeing it for the second time now, but even then, his diamond skin proved too beautiful to comprehend.
"So, he killed them?" Her words sounded more like a statement.
Edward just nodded, his unseen finger tapping uneasily against the ground.
"Then, why doesn't he sparkle like you?" Edward's face sparkled brighter. "He's always with me in the sun, so why…"
"Vlad is not like us."
Bella's brows knitted together, eyes squinting, with her upper body rising.
"What do you…"
"I don't…" The words stumbled harder than they should have, voice halting, eyes turning to everything around them but her, "It's not my place to tell you, but he isn't that different."
Edward followed her stance, raising his body and straightening himself, watching Bella as she still maintained her stillness.
"He doesn't need to drink as much blood as we do." Edward couldn't keep to his word. "He can eat, he can drink what he wants and…"
Something flickered in his pupils, a certain spark that didn't come from the sun's light.
"He has veins, a beating heart, warmth…" A chuckle escaped his lips as he shook his head, crushing the faint spark of despair. "He is more human than any of us, but…"
"But?" Bella noted the hesitation, so she moved her hand, touching his arm, watching as he turned his eyes to the part where she placed them.
"It's like… being wary of the darkness, or the feeling you get when someone is following you, it's…" The hesitation was taking too long. "It's like a bee, like a gas leak, or a thunderstorm."
Bella paused at Edward's sudden smile.
"He's unpredictable."
His words lingered for a moment too long. Perhaps a divine revelation that what he had said wasn't entirely false.
Because at the end of the day, no matter what they did, fate was inevitable.
He was coming.
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"Let's go somewhere," Vlad said, decreasing the heat on the scrambled eggs as he turned his eyes to Alice, who was frying up a sausage.
Alice turned her gaze, eyes narrowing, and her head nearly tilting to the side.
"What?" A laugh nearly broke from him as he noted her actions.
"Are you doing it because of Bella?" The words didn't even hesitate. And as quickly as the smile appeared, it started fading, only to be replaced by a smirk on his lips. "Are you?"
The question persisted, leaving no room to overlook it.
"Nope." His voice sounded more like self-conviction.
Alice placed the pot of meat to the side, moved forward, and hugged him from the back.
There was a pause, the silence growing louder.
"How did she look?" he finally asked, "I mean… when Edward told her, was she scared?"
"Nope." Alice imitated his voice, with a smirk following behind it.
"Then how…"
"Let's go." She silenced him. "Right now… I'll go with you."
She turned him around by his arm and hung her hands around his neck.
"Where are you taking me?"
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[HOURS LATER]
Vlad grabbed his bike helmet from the sofa.
"Aren't you locking the door...?"
"Don't worry about it." He exited, with Alice watching him outside from the driveway.
THUD!
He tossed the helmet to Alice, but she tossed it back to him, causing him to laugh after realising she actually didn't need it.
"I'm driving." She rushed to his bike and pushed it into position with one hand.
Then she jumped, starting the engine, with Vlad climbing behind her.
And slowly, he trailed his hands down his jeans, moving them and slowly grabbing her figure.
Alice didn't halt or hesitate; she immediately pulled the accelerator to the max, causing the bike to do a wheelie before drifting off at abnormal speed.
With Vlad seated holding her figure from behind like a woman, his head wearing a helmet, perhaps in an effort to hide the negative aura the single act produced.
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