When The Ball Drops 4

“I can’t believe I’m driving a McLaren with the top down on a sunny day, drinking ice coffee out of my own personalized travel mug.”Rosalie took a sip of that ice coffee savoring the flavor. The caffeine did nothing for her but she liked being able to do something as human as starting her day with a coffee. Isabella had promised that when they got back to the hotel room that she would make Rosalie a milkshake after Rosalie mentioning while they were talking about beverages that she had always wanted to try one. In her human life her parents kept her on a strict diet so she wouldn’t gain weight and things like milkshakes were forbidden. Rosalie had always envied her friends when they would go to the soda jerks and get one. Now Rosalie had a new dream of drinking a milkshake as she was driving her dream car. She thought it would be a nice fuck you to her parents.

“If you like the car we can buy one.”Isabella wouldn’t mind buying a couple cars for Rosalie.

“I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that not only can I buy anything I want but that I never have to worry about money again.”Rosalie had been on strict allowances her entire life both human and vampire. Not having to make a budget was something that would take some time to get used to.

“I fully support you making it your life’s mission to empty my bank accounts.”Isabella told her.

“You know I think I’m going to accept that challenge. Starting today with clothes.”Rosalie had always wanted to shop in Paris but never got the chance because of the weather.”Alice is going to be extremely jealous when she sees my new wardrobe.”

“She is already very jealous of you. Your clothes will just add to that.”Isabella said.

“Why would Alice be jealous of me?”Rosalie wasn’t that close with Alice but thought that was because they had different interest not because Alice was jealous.

“Alice is jealous of your looks. She hates that you are literally the embodiment of a supermodel and can not only fit into but can pull off anything you wear. With her height and body type everything she wants to wear she has to alter. Then when you became mated to me that jealously fueled her mission to help Edward claim me. She wanted to hurt you and she wanted a new best friend.”Isabella explained.

Rosalie thought about her relationship with Alice.”You know I never really noticed but she did make a lot of comments when we went shopping. Comments that looking back were more like back hand compliments.”

“She is extremely petty. Most of her thoughts were her plotting how to get her way about everything from me being with Edward to small things like who got to ride in what car to drive to school.”Isabella had never liked Alice. She was extremely fake.

“I usually went along with things because I didn’t want to deal with her tantrums.”Rosalie usually let Alice rant then did what she wanted after Alice had walked away. Hearing Isabella gasp Rosalie looked over and saw Isabella leaning her back with her eyes closed.”Isabella are you alright?”

Isabella groaned when she came out of the vision.”Those idiots.”

“What is it? Are you ok?”Rosalie wasn’t sure what just happened.

“I’m fine. I just had a vision of the Cullens going to Alaska and confronting the Denali.”Isabella pulled her phone out of her jacket pocket.

“Of course they are.”Rosalie knew that her former family wouldn’t rest until they figured out who Rosalie was with. Not that they were worried about Rosalie’s welfare. They just wanted the blocks that Rosalie and the Denali had.

“I’m sorry but I need to call Tanya.”Isabella hated to interrupt her private time with Rosalie.

“I understand.”Rosalie took this interruption as one more reason to hate the Cullens.

“Thank you sweetheart.”Isabella pulled up Tanya’s connect and hit dial. The phone was answered on the second ring.

“Hello Isabella.”Tanya’s voice greeted them over the line which was followed by the sounds of a scuffle and Tanya cursing.

“Did Rosalie show up?”Irina asked.

“Give me back the phone Irina.”Tanya demanded. There were sounds of another scuffle before Tanya’s voice came over the line.”Sorry about that.”

“It’s alright. You can put it on speaker phone.”Isabella knew that none of the Denali wanted to be left out of this call. All of her friends and family had been waiting years for her to reunite with Rosalie.

“You’re on speaker.”Tanya told her.

“So did Rosalie show up?”Irina asked again.

“Yes Rosalie showed up. She believed my explanation of things and as of this moment we are together both sporting mating marks.”Isabella pulled the phone away from her ear when she heard Irina squealing.

“I told you it would work out.”Kate said.

“Well now that it has there are consequences.”Isabella wished there weren’t but she knew that her and Rosalie being together would cause problems.

“The Cullens are already causing trouble.”Carmen guessed.

“Yes they are.”Isabella confirmed.

“As you are calling me the day after you met up with Rosalie I’m to assume it has to do with us.”Tanya concluded.

“You are correct.”Isabella hated that the Denali were going to be inconvenienced because of her.

“Does this mean we can finally kill them?”Kate asked.

“Not yet.”Isabella smiled when she heard more than one of the Denali’s groan of disappointment.”The reason I’m calling is that they called Rosalie when Alice realized she could no longer see her future. When Rosalie talked to them she didn’t mention me by name but did tell them I can shield mental gifts and I was responsible for your blocks. When asked for my identity Rosalie told them to call Aro and then ended the call.”

“He would enjoy speaking to them.”Eleazar said.

“He would if that is what Carlisle planned to do with the information. I just recently had a vision of them coming to your home to confront the group of you about me. I only had the initial vision of them coming so I don’t know what the repercussions of that visit are.”Isabella would need to mediate and focus her gift on the Denali to see how everything turned out.

“We will remove all traces of you in our home.”Tanya told her.

“Thank you. I just need to keep my identity secret long enough for Rosalie to collect her personal belongings from each of their properties and storage units.”As soon as she did Isabella was going to reveal all to the Cullens.

“I still don’t understand why you won’t let any of us kill them. Even the kings want to. Why are you holding us back?”Irina asked.

“If we acted beforehand a lot of innocent people both vampire and human would have died. Including my mate. Once we get her things I will work out the best way to kill each of them.”Isabella knew that everyone wanted the Cullens dead it was just the collateral damage was to much to do it.

“You know for the most feared Volturi guard member you should be relishing in the death of so many.”Kate pointed out.

“It’s because I value life so much I am even a guard member. If I was as ruthless as people believe I would have killed the guard and the royals and taken the throne for myself.”Isabella never wanted the responsibility of ruling over others.

“True.”Tanya agreed.”That being said we will let you get back to your time with Rosalie. Do you know when the Cullens are going to be showing up?”

“Tomorrow afternoon.”Isabella told her.

“Then we will make sure we hunt as well so our eyes are back to gold.”Tanya said.

“You know you could tell them about the food if you really wanted to.”Isabella didn’t care if the Cullens knew about the food.

“There is no way we are going to let the Cullens benefit off of anything you created. That and we like the idea of them drinking animal blood when there is a much better alternative on the market.”There was murmurs of agreement to Tanya’s reasoning.

“Ok, well I’ll let you know if I see anything else.”Isabella would be taking some time later to look.

“Thank you and we will make sure they know nothing about you.”Tanya told her.

“Good bye everyone.”Isabella said disconnecting the call to sounds of good bye.

“Do the Denali have a lot of stuff at their house that could identify you?”Rosalie asked.

“They have pictures of me on some of our adventures and when I was visiting them. Plus I have my own room in their house that has clothing and some of my personal belongings. To include pictures of you.”Isabella was considered a member of the Denali coven. She just didn’t claim them because she a member of the Volturi.

“You have pictures of me in your room?”Rosalie hadn’t expected that.

Isabella nodded.”After they found out about our story the Denali made sure to take pictures of you every time you visited so that I would have new ones of you every time I visited.”

“Now that you mention it the Denali did make sure we took pictures every time we visited over the last decade or so.”Rosalie had thought it odd at the time but didn’t question it.”I’m surprised that you have a room in their home.”

“The Denali adopted me after our first interaction. Once they had the blocks and I told them what was really going on and why I was in Italy they became regular fixtures in my life. I actually think they felt bad for initially but after spending more time with them we have become incredibly close. I would actually claim them as my coven if I didn’t have Victoria and James. They don’t play well with others as they like to say so they didn’t want to join.”Isabella wasn’t mad about that because if she had been on her own as long as James and Victoria she wouldn’t want to start answering to someone either.

“I always wanted to be a Denali but I didn’t want live in the wilderness away from civilization like they do.”Rosalie now doubted her former coven would let her leave knowing how close they were to killing her.

“Tanya told me that they get bored traveling to the same places all the time so they take time off from going anywhere. Since I’ve met them though we have gone on at least two vacations if not more every year.”Isabella enjoyed traveling with the Denali. They were a lot of fun to hang out with.

“I look forward to the many vacations we can take together.”Rosalie would have to sit down and plan a trip for her and Isabella to take once they finished collecting her stuff and moving into their new house. A house Rosalie was extremely excited about seeing. Especially knowing that she was the one who designed it.

“We can go anywhere we want anytime we want.”Isabella said.

Rosalie sighed happily.”Life really is good isn’t it.”

“With you by my side yes it is sweetheart. What do you want to do first after we finish driving? I have the car for the whole month by the way.”Isabella knew that Rosalie would want to go driving more than once before they left.

“That’s good to know.”Rosalie wanted to have more than just one chance to drive the convertible. Maybe she would get online and search out a route that would allow them to go a lot faster than they were going. Rosalie liked that idea. She and Isabella driving around without a care in the world and no destination in mind.”As for what I want to do first I would really like to go clothes shopping. You were right when you said I don’t have to pretend to be a teenager anymore and my first step to shedding that image is to dress like an adult.”

“I wouldn’t mind going clothes shopping with you. As long as you would be willing to model the outfits that is.”Isabella was already mid fantasy of Rosalie in more daring pieces.

Rosalie smiled at the goofy smile on Isabella’s face. She didn’t have to be a mind reader to know where Isabella’s thought took her. Not that Rosalie objected. She loved having a mate that was willing to go shopping with her and sit around while she tried on clothes.”You being willing to watch me model outfits is another things Alice would jealous of. She complained all the time about Jasper not going with her.”

“Alice is a terror when she is shopping. More than once I manipulated her visions to not only get me out of going with her but you as well.”Isabella also hated shopping with Alice because the girl was overbearing and whiny the entire time.

“Thank you for that. Going shopping with Alice is not my favorite thing to do. I don’t get her obsession with clothing though. I understand wanting to look good but she controls the entire family’s wardrobe.”Rosalie barely got to pick out her own clothing.

“It’s all about image with Alice. She doesn’t remember her human life so she uses her energy to create the perfect family so that she can get the experience. She is the reason you all go to high school over and over again. She is also the reason Esme stopped working.”Isabella told her.

“You know now that I think about it. We didn’t start going to school until Alice showed up and told us it would make people less suspicious.”Before Alice had come along Rosalie spent a lot more time dedicated to different hobbies. Since then she barely had time to do anything other than work on cars.”Actually Alice keeps us from doing other things as well. I used to love sculpting with metal and had a few exhibits that featured my work. When Alice came she told me I had to stop doing it because people were going to find out I wasn’t aging. Even though I never met anyone in person.”

“Sculpting would have taken time away from the family. That and you wouldn’t be able to play your role of big sister. Alice had it all worked out for everyone. You were the big sister that she went shopping with and gossiped about boys while you did each other’s hair. Esme was the stay at home mom. Carlisle the dad who supported his family by working as a doctor. Emmet was the protective older brother. Then there was Edward who she considered her twin.”Isabella opened her mouth to continue but was cut off by Rosalie.

“Wait Alice thought of Edward as her twin?”Rosalie asked.

“Alice thinks that Edward is the only one who understands her because he has an invasive gift as well. She feels closer to him than her own mate. She isn’t in love with him or anything like that. She just clings to him because in her eyes he wants the same things as she does. A perfect family that everyone would be envious of. She’s stupid for putting her faith in him though because he has perfect control of his gift and can shut it off anytime.”Isabella said.

“He can turn it off?”Rosalie always suspected her could.

“He did many times in front of me. I myself can do it. That’s how I am able to travel to crowded places without getting overwhelmed. I honestly don’t know why none of you caught on. He not only wouldn’t be able to function regularly but he would have likely gone insane if he was constantly hearing other people’s thoughts in his mind.”Isabella would have if she couldn’t shut it off.

“I never really thought of that being a problem.”Rosalie could see how someone would get overwhelmed under those circumstances.

“Even Alice could control her gift. She just doesn’t practice with it. As soon as I figured out what was going on I spent a lot of time working with both Edward’s and Alice’s gift. I was already giving her false visions on the third day of having it.”Isabella told her.

“I’m glad she doesn’t have better control over it. If she did she could use it to make as you do and I would hate to think of how happy the family would be with unlimited money.”Having to be careful with their finances was a complaint from each member of the Cullens. Unlike her siblings and fake mother Rosalie found a way to make some by fixing up cars and selling them. It didn’t make her as rich as Isabella but it did make so she could afford luxuries the rest of the family couldn’t. It also made them ask Rosalie to pay for things which she never agreed to.

“Do you have social media?”Isabella asked.

“Yeah but I usually don’t post anything.”Rosalie kept it so she could find leads on cars for sale and buyers for her projects.

“I was thinking. How angry would the family be if you posted a bunch of pictures of what we are doing? We wouldn’t post anything that would give away where we were of course. Just things that show you are blowing through lots of cash.”Isabella suggested.

Rosalie smiled brightly at the idea.”I love it but we will have to post through your phone because I don’t want to turn mine on and have them track me.”

“No problem.”Isabella didn’t care if Rosalie used her phone.

“Then let’s go hit the shops.”Rosalie said. She wanted to get a bunch of posts done by the end of the day. That and she was really excited to go shopping with an unlimited budget. Rosalie had no problem spending Isabella’s money and was going to do as Isabella said before. She was going to flaunt her wealth. Rosalie may have hated being hit on by gross people or having to hear lewd comments but she loved attention. She had since she was human. It was her goal to live a life everyone would envy. Being with Isabella gave her that chance. It was actually something Isabella encouraged. That was just more proof that Isabella was her perfect match. They hadn’t spoken about marriage yet but while they were out Rosalie was going to make sure to look at rings when they went to the many jewelry stores she wanted to go to.  Rosalie didn’t have anything that impressive to wear and wanted to buy a few pieces to go with her new wardrobe. A new wardrobe that was going to be just another step in distancing herself from the Cullens. Maybe she would ask Isabella later if it would be possible to be involved when they were killed because Rosalie knew they would be and once they were dead Rosalie was going to throw a party. With plenty of champagne.