Life Isn't So Simple With Her

'The One And Only Harley Swan!'

Harley smiles brightly, a blush starting to form on her cheeks. "Aww shucks, that's very nice of you to say." He chuckles.

Bella looks to Edward in confusion at Aro's words. "One touch and Aro can see every thought I've ever had in my life." Aro raises an eyebrow towards them before turning back to Harley.

"And you are also mated to Rosalie and Emmett, was it?" She nods as the guards start to murmur around the room at this revelation. "Very rare to have a third mate, they are very lucky."

She laughs, smiling brightly at him. She opens her mouth but a throat clears, cutting her off and they turn to see that Marcus, the third king, was the one to interrupt.

"As interesting as this conversation is, can we please get back on task." Aro nods as Harley smiles at Marcus brightly, which he returns a small smile.

"Yes, yes." Aro turns back to Edward and grabs his hand back. "Even though I can hear every thought with a touch, you're quite the telepath yourself, Edward. Though... you can't read Bella's thoughts. Fascinating." He releases Edward's hand and turns to Bella. "I would love to see if you are an exception to my gifts, as well."

He reaches for Bella's hand. She hesitates. Aro laughs at her reluctance, further extends his hand. Bella finally takes it. A beat as he holds her hand, confusion sweeping over him.

"Interesting." He releases her, moves back to his chair, deep in thought. "I wonder if -"

"No!" Edward shouts, reading Aro thoughts. Harley jumps a little at his outburst and Aro continues on as if he hadn't been interrupted.

"Let's see if she's immune to all our powers, shall we Jane?" Jane turns toward Bella but Edward springs in front of her, Jane instead focuses her gaze on Edward which flings him across the room where he collapses, writhing in agony. Jane concentrates on him with a small smile, enjoying his pain. Harley jumps a little at this but looks on intrigued before shrugging and walks around the room with a skip in her step.

"Stop!" Bella and Alice rush to his side. Harley was still walking around the room when suddenly she walked up to Marcus as the others continued on.

"Hiya, Harley Swan!" Marcus looks to her with raised eyebrow.

"Marcus Volturi, little one." She smirks as curiosity appears in her eyes.

"You're old right? Like super old?" She pauses for a second as he looks at her startled at her bold statement. "So you would know a lot of things."

He chuckles. "Yes little one. Since I'm, as you say, 'Super old', I do know a lot of things. That's what happens when you have been alive for a long time."

She laughs. "That's true. I like you. You are my new friend." He smiles at her, a new light started to appear in his eyes as she continues. "I think it's cool that ya know a lot of things and see things that others will never get to." Marcus looks to her with curiosity.

"I'm surprised you are not with your mates, where are they if you don't mind me asking."

"They are on vacation at the moment. We do keep in contact and everything but with the whole Edward and Bella drama, we decided that they would wait until I graduated before taking me away. I love my dad too much to abandon him with Bella."