Infinite Bliss || Volturi Kings [1]

chapter 22

"I'm so excited I'm so excited I'm so excited I'm-"

"We heard the first time," Jane cut off.

I was on one of the kings' private planes to Forks with Jane, Felix and Santiago. While Jane had taken to complaining about my never-ending excitement, Felix and Santiago had spent the first hour of the journey playing Uno together before beginning a game of Hungry Hippos, that game with the coloured plastic hippo things. Sure, the entire set up was completely shattered by round two, but it was admittedly a lot of fun to witness.

I hadn't seen the Cullens in over two months now, and the kings in almost a month. On the plus side, I was officially out of school, meaning that I could finally get on with my summer. It turned out that I did get accepted into the University of Pisa, which ended up giving me a perfectly valid excuse for moving into Volterra. I mean, worst case scenario I could always drop out.

"Guess what I found!"

"Hells yeah dude!"

Felix dashed at full speed from the back of the plane carrying the box for the game Twister. There were few things that made that guy happy, playing childish games being one of them. Santiago grinned and high-fived him as they sat on the floor together with their legs crossed like a bunch of five year olds.

"Jane, you going to join?" Santiago turned his head to her.

"I have no reason to join your childish games. Besides, I'm wearing a new dress which I bought while in London, and there is no way you can get me to rip it," she scoffed.

In her defence, she was wearing a really gorgeous outfit. The dress was long-sleeved and went down to just above her knees. It was made out of an expensive-looking black velvet fabric with a white leather belt around the waist, which she wore with a pair of black lace-up biker boots. Meanwhile, I was literally just lounging around in an old t-shirt which I'd tied up with a hair band and a pair of fabric shorts. I even brought flip-flops and tied my hair into a bun which oddly resembled Spongebob's house.

"Eli, are you joining?"

I was about to say yes before reminding myself how weird it would be if I played twister with two elderly male vampires.

"I think I'll pass, you two have fun," I responded.

"Your loss dude," he rolled his eyes, the two of them instantly beginning the game.

"Jane, can I ask you something?" I timidly questioned.

"If you must," she shrugged, moving seats to the empty one adjacent to me.

"Just out of curiosity, and I've been wondering this for a while, but what were the kings' wives like?" I asked carefully, staring awkwardly into my lap in case it was a touchy subject.

"Can't say I was a fan of them!" Felix called, leant uncomfortably over the Twister mat.

"She asked me, Felix," Jane snapped before turning back around to me, "the previous queens of the Volturi were... not exactly the kindest vampires."

"Really?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Don't get me wrong, they were not evil per se, but they were not nearly as thoughtful and considerate as you. We guard members were not viewed as equals, but rather inferior to them, and there were rarely any friendly interactions between us. That is what makes you so different to them, Eliana; you have such a genuine heart, and you care about us guard members much more than they did," she explained.

My face went bright red. Me? Genuine heart? They were going to need to widen the doorways for my now inflated ego.

"Don't take this the wrong way, but I didn't even realise I was being particularly caring to you lot. I was just trying to be friendly," I laughed.