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     𓏲 ࣪₊♡𓂃 ARLINA WAS SAT IN HER BEDROOM ON HER SINGLE BED, sketching in her notepad. She hadn't noticed her adoptive mother walking into the room until she felt a disturbance in the mattress. The redhead looked up from the page and smiled softly at the sight of Esme.

"Is that Alec Volturi?" Esme asked, nodding her head at the page where there was a sketched portrait of the said boy, stood with his red eyes. She, of course, had to only colour his eyes because they were the most fascinating part about him... that she knew about. It had been a week since the incident in Italy and she just couldn't get him out of her mind.

Arlina hummed in response, taking a quick glance back down at the page before closing the drawing pad, setting her whole attention on Esme, "So... What's up?"

"We've all noticed a difference in you lately, is there anything going on? Does it have anything to do with the boy you're drawing?" Esme inquired, a sweet, knowing smile on her face.

"I don't know, when I first locked eyes with him properly, I felt this twinge in my heart, I'm not sure what it was. I've never felt this way before towards anyone, and I don't even know him." Arlina huffed, putting her head in her hands and her elbows leaned against her knees which were in the criss-cross position.

"Honey." Esme took Arlina's hands in her own, pulling them away from her face and sent her a comforting smile, "When I first saw Carlisle after turning, I felt similar. And yes, I didn't really know him either but it felt like I'd known him a thousand years when he spoke. Maybe Alec is your mate."

Arlina scrunched up her nose, she didn't enjoy the fact that he killed humans for satisfaction and caused them pain for pleasure. She shook her head hastily and Esme smiled sadly.

"You'll accept it soon, and we'll all support you." Esme reassured, a knocking at the door interrupted them and they both turned their heads towards Alice, who smiled brightly.

"I had a vision, it was such a beautiful vision. I need Esme. I hope I'm not interrupting a conversation though." Alice smiled guiltily and the two Cullens smiled.

"Of course not, Alice." Arlina smiled up at the pixie-haired vampire, who beamed at her before grabbing Esme's hands and pulling her out of the room.

Arlina rolled her eyes giddily and found herself sketching in her notebook once again. Maybe Alec really was her mate...

*✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:

A COUPLE NIGHTS LATER, Bella had called for a family meeting, so Arlina stood beside Emmett in the heavily decorated basement, leaning against a pillar in the middle of the room. She silently fiddled with her Cullen necklace, watching as Bella made her way into the room.

"You all know what I want. And I know how much I'm asking for. The only thing that I can think of for it to be fair is to just vote." Bella stuffed her hands in her back-pockets nervously.

"You don't know what you're talking about." Edward spoke up from the stairs and Bella rolled her eyes.

"Shut up." She hissed, causing Alice and Arlina to laugh quietly, "Alice?"

"I already consider you my sister." Alice walked forward and embraced Bella tightly, pulling Bella down properly into the room from the bottom of the steps, "Yes."

"Thank you." Bella smiled softly.

"I vote yes. It would be nice to not want to kill you all the time." Jasper stated with a smirk and Bella hummed in response. The brunette turned her attention to the redhead, who stared at the ground, lost in thought.

"Lina?" Bella startled Arlina, she snapped her head up and smiled lightly, remembering what they were conversing about.

"Oh, of course. I'd do anything for you, sister." Arlina smiled sweetly and Bella chuckled with a nod, looking at her feet.

"Thanks." She smiled.

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry to both of you for how I've acted." Rosalie gestured to Bella and Edward, "And I'm really grateful that you were brave enough to go and save my brother. But this isn't a life I would have chosen for myself. And I wish that there'd been someone to vote 'no' for me. So, no."

The youngest Cullen placed her warm hand comfortingly on Rosalie's arm and the blonde beauty smiled at her briefly but it shortly drifted off of her lips, she knew that she was outnumbered. Emmett casting his vote added to her point.

"I vote 'hell, yeah.'" Emmett walked forward and picked Bella up, spinning her around before setting her back on her feet, "And we can pick a fight with these Volturi some other way."

The mention of the Volturi made Arlina tense, but she slowly relaxed at the thought of Alec, smiling softly at her hands.

"I already consider you a part of the family. Yes." Esme nodded with a sweet grin and Bella returned it, thankfully.

Carlisle walked forward, setting his attention on Edward, "Why are you doing this to me?" Edward asked, leaning against the wall on the stairs, and the rest of the Cullen family, including Bella, all looked towards him, "You know what this means."

"You've chose not to live without her, which leaves me no choice. I won't lose my son." Carlisle spoke softly, and then he placed a gentle hand on Bella's shoulder, who sighed in relief.

"You are going to make an extraordinary vampire, Bells." Arlina took a step forward, embracing the girl tightly. Bella giggled under her breath, sending thankful smiles to everyone around her.

*✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:

IT WAS A COUPLE WEEKS LATER, and everything had been calm. Until it wasn't. Arlina was on a hunt one night on her own, when she felt eyes on her.

Her head snapped to the left, but all she could see was trees and fallen branches covering the ground. A twig snapped on her right, but there was nobody there when she turned her head.

It went silent for a moment, she couldn't even hear the tweets of birds or the wind gushing, she could hear nothing. Eventually, she caught sound again but it wasn't nature as she would've expected.

"Arlina." A deep voice spoke from a few metres away on her left, and her head snapped in that direction. Her whole body relaxed when she caught eyes with Alec Volturi.

"Alec? Why are you here?" She scrunched her eyebrows together, and he sighed as he sat down on a log beside him.

"I had to see you again." He responded, watching her every move, but she just stood there, still, watching him. The only thing on her mind was for why he was even there in the first place, why he travelled from Italy to Forks on foot just to speak with her. Then it lingered in the back of her mind, the word 'mate' but she shook her head, ignoring that pestering thought.

"Why?" Arlina asked, she crossed her arms over her chest and raised an eyebrow. She knew why, and he knew why, and it was kind of stupid that she asked a question she knew the answer to, she was just nervous. She had never talked to the boy before, and suddenly he's her mate?

"We both know why." Alec replied, crossing his ankles over each other and smiling at her, "I'm one-hundred percent sure you're definitely my mate. Additionally, Marcus confirmed it."

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