CHAPTER 1: LIFE...
Life moves quickly, sometimes you don't have time to enjoy the moment...
Carlisle paused before turning to me, Emmett was laughing-as usual- and Edward was trying to analyse my thoughts, "Jessie?" he asked... I don't know why they use that name at home, "you are different..." he hesitated, waiting on Edwards' interpretation, "you are not at all like the rest of us, your mother has had an extreme influence over you. You are human in physical make up but, I don't know there seems to be something going on with you- genetically."
"She's a weirdo, what do you expect?" Emmett couldn't help himself; he knows I'm sensitive to things like that.
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I'm Mary Alice Cullen, Alice to my family- that's when I'm not at school- my father Carlisle is a doctor in the small town of Forks. My mother, Esme, is the best mother anyone could ask for. I am very close to her, being the only other female in our family. My brothers Edward and Emmett are both great, really, it's just sometimes I wish I had a sister.
Emmett's wife, Rosalie, is the closest-age wise- to me, though she isn't what many would call sister material. She is rather self obsessed and some would call her arrogant and vain, but I know the real Rosalie Lillian Hale Cullen. Bella, Edward's fiancé, is completely different, due to my strange ability I 'saw' that we would be great friends... and we really are. She is, in so many ways my big sister- she is 19.
I am sixteen, I have short spiky black hair that sticks out in every direction, and I am the shortest by far in my family. And I am nothing like them at all, they are very pale including Bella though she is human... shouldn't she at least have a little flush to her cheeks? We are vampires, in case you hadn't realised, or at least Edward, Emmett, Rose and my mother and father are. There is something wrong with me. Though both of my parents are vampires and both my brothers alike- they are my biological brothers- I am human... it's not fair really, why should they get to be beautiful, intelligent non-aging creatures? Why am I different?
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"Alice, are you listening to me?" Carlisle asked getting impatient- weird for him.
"Carlisle dear," my mother had come into the living room now and sat beside me, "maybe we shouldn't tell her this," What weren't they telling me? "Maybe we should wait till she is a bit older and can cope with the..."
He cut her off with a raised hand. Bella skipped into the room at that time, waiting for Edward to be ready, I guessed, but what did I care? Esme's words had caught my attention and I wasn't going to let Carlisle get away without telling me what was going on. Edward glared at me and I blushed- another weird thing... I bled. Emmett laughed again catching Rosalie's attention; she walked, or rather glided, into the room and sat down next to him on the beanbag. Get a room weirdos!!! Geez anybody would think that you'd want privacy, not wanting to stay here with your family? Another glare from Edward made me blush again... sometimes I hate his talent; I wish he would just stay out of my head!