♫ Ivory & Mahogany [Closed/Complete] ♫
Who: Bella Swan [bellatramonto] and Edward Cullen [premuroso]
What: Random meeting at the new music store. Pianos are played. Debussy is praised. Chaos ensues.
When: A few days after he returns [So this technically occurs next week]
Where: Che i Bei Suoni music store downtown
Why: Because they haven't talked yet and they need to! And Edward wants to buy a piano since ( Read more... )
What: Random meeting at the new music store. Pianos are played. Debussy is praised. Chaos ensues.
When: A few days after he returns [So this technically occurs next week]
Where: Che i Bei Suoni music store downtown
Why: Because they haven't talked yet and they need to! And Edward wants to buy a piano since ( Read more... )
He was afraid that his gap in playing would have diminished his skills. That he would have forgotten what it was like and how to play it properly, but he chanced it anyway, placing his hands in the proper positions curiously.
It took a moment to readjust himself to the settings, but it was hardly as though he had forgotten the notes. And, as he began to play, he realized he had hardly forgotten the music either.
A soft kind of pleasure spread through him as his fingers flew across the keys, slowly at first and then gradually faster and faster, the clear music of Debussy's Clair de Lune winding out. If he had been paying more attention to his surroundings, Edward would have noticed an almost intoxicating flowery scent enter the store.
As it was, he had no eyes for anything but the piano, no ears for anything but the harmony and melody, and no senses for anything but the enthrallment he had in the music.
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When Bella found the strength to pull her eyes away she looked around the shop at the other teenage girls. They too, had stopped what they were doing and were just standing there with their mouths hanging open. Some of them, the ones who even had the audacity to speak during this masterful display, were whispering to each other frantically- probably congratulating each other on just finding the love of their lives.
Feeling like she'd seen enough, Bella stepped out from behind her shelf and walked over to the piano. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't mystified still, because she was. A large part of her didn't even want to make her presence known so that he could continue.
He's probably just doing this to pick up girls . . . or victims.
The other girls in the store had somehow congregated around them, though standing behind divides and shelves. Bella saw them giving her funny looks because she was the only one approaching him.
Well excuse me, she thought angrily. I'm not his girlfriend- don't get pissed at me.
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It was a testament to how far gone he was that he didn't even notice Bella as she approached him. It wasn't until he had finished Clair de Lune, fingers resting on keys close together on the piano, that he even blinked, the trance the winding music had held him in suddenly breaking. It was another few minutes before he could will himself to remove his fingers from the ivory keys that felt so comfortable and soothing beneath.
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"You should put out your own CD," she interrupted his daze, placing a hand on the top of the piano. One of the managers came hurrying over and immediately made her move it.
"You have tons of fans," she rolled her eyes and tried to ignore the girls that were being so blatantly stupid. Bella figured it had something to do with the vampire thing. Jasper never told her as much, be she had a suspicion that they had some kind of power to lure people.
Either that, or both of them were just exceptionally good looking.
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He jerked a little to the side, an automatic reaction these days, and didn't bother to hide the surprise in his voice.
"Bella?"
He hadn't seen her in person since the night he had stopped Jasper from drinking her. That brief flashback, of course, reminded him immediately of his own drinking experience a week earlier and then, as if on cue, his senses were heightened immediately; most particularly his sense of smell. And what he found, from his heightened senses, was that Bella smelled amazingly, deliciously wonderful.
He recoiled from her immediately.
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"Lovely to see you too."
But speaking of personal space, Edward removed himself from Bella's immediately. His sudden movement made her twitch a little. She wasn't used to people doing that- the last time being when her mom saw a spider on the wall over year ago.
"I don't have too many cooties," she chuckled when her adrenaline calmed down.
Could she really blame him for looking repulsed? She wasn't anywhere near his league in beauty. She was gum on his shoe.
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He remembered smelling her that day in the alley. Her smell had even stopped him, all while he was trying to stop Jasper from drinking her. But he hadn't had blood to drink then. Now that he had, his sense of smell was strengthened even more, refined in a sense. And he could tell, now, why Jasper had such a hard time staying away from this girl. She smelled intoxicating. Sweet and flowery. Edward had no idea why, but he could see a dozen different scenarios in his head, each of them ending in him partaking of her blood and enjoying every last drop of it.
He paled a little as he found more and more visions overloading his senses. No. There were too many people here. He would give himself away. And she was just a girl. And innocent civilian. He had to keep reminding himself that, even as his throat dried, aching for a drink.
"I didn't expect to see you here," Edward managed. He wanted to move away from her, but somehow his body was refusing to cooperate.
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"I thought you left for good."
Well, that was a lie. She never thought Edward would leave Reggio Calabria forever, but she had expected him to stay out of most popular part of the city for awhile.
His blatant revulsion was starting to bother her more than she'd like, so she turned away from him and started thinking up things to say about his musical talents.
"Debussy is a favorite of mine, if you didn't already know..."
Now she was just sounding like an obsessed fangirl or something. It was not the impression she wanted to give off. She wanted to behave differently than the girls around them.
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He took quick, shallow breaths to avoid breathing in her scent as much as possible, although even that was making him light-headed and dizzy. He decided that he needed to keep her talking. If nothing else, it would keep him distracted enough to leave the store.
"I came back," Edward said rigidly, trying to think past the haze in his mind. "He's my favorite as well."
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"Do you want to go outside?" she asked instinctively. She knew that he must have been feeling guilty or skittish, or both, and she didn't want to discuss this personal matter in a room full of music and giddy girls.
Ignorantly, however, she didn't think for a second that he was having problems dealing with her blood at the moment. She was still in the dark about a lot of issues concerning the blood lust.
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He decided that going outside would probably be the best course of action under such circumstances. At least outside, her smell would be mingled with others who were walking down the street. And the wind would be a blessing as well.
"Yes please," Edward said, standing up from the piano stool. He found that he was a little wobbly. Shaking his head to clear it, it was only then that he noticed the throng of girls.
He frowned and in his confusion, unwisely offered a hand to Bella to help her up as well.
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"Okay," she agreed calmly and took his hand. It may have just been her imagination, but his grip was shaky.
Bella had been here to look at, and maybe purchase some music, but she figured that if Edward said he was going to upload some stuff for her, she'd be fine.
What was more important right now, was getting him out of this store if he was thirsty. He was looking at those girls like they were cows in a field.
"Are you thirsty?" she whispered in his ear when they were both standing. She could have been wrong in her assumptions, of course. Jasper said that Edward had been feeling very guilty, and acting a bit wild.
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He immediately retreated his hand as soon as she stood, stuffing them in his pockets instead. He could hear her thoughts about browsing at the store and almost suggested that she stay behind and do so, before catching himself. If she was as intrigued with Jasper as she was, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to let her on to the fact that they had abilities even beyond their vampiric ones.
Edward stiffened automatically as she whispered in his ear and he had to clench his fists to keep them from doing anything. He gave his head a little shake, not trusting himself to speak before stepping past the piano and hurrying to the door without seeming like he was fleeing.
He knew that he had left Bella a little behind and it was more than a little rude (although, really, worrying about courtesies when he was so close to killing her was almost laughable), but it was necessary. He needed to get some fresh air and fast.
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Frowning, she moved forward, letting her long locks fall over her face in semi-embarrassment. She pushed open the door with more force than necessary and looked around for him.
"Edward?" she called out nervously, afraid that he would shun her some more. She caught his bronze hair out of the corner of her eye in a small crowd making their way around the block.
"What's wrong?" she asked when she caught up to him, even though she already knew.
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