This story starts out six months after Breaking Dawn.
Summary:
Genevieve Phillips has successfully become a vampire thanks to her best friend, Linsey. Gen realizes that Linsey seems to not want to be her friend anymore since she has been a vampire. So Gen moves to Forks for the simple reason of that there's hardly any sun, but she finds herself in a world that is nothing she expected it to be. She ends up meeting some interesting people and finds out some of her mysterious hidden powers with the help of a friend. Someone steals her heart for her that she least expects, and there is something happening behind all of this that might tear apart her whole happiness if she doesn't figure out soon enough.
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Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End
It felt like forever before the dreadful torment of pain was gone. Every heart beat was excruciating, and I was totally relieved the moment my heart beat stopped.
I took my first quick breath. The air was heavy, and damp. I could smell the mildew in the walls of the basement I was in. The odor was stronger then it should have been, and unpleasant, but it was not the most interesting of the smells in the room. I was sure someone was there, someone not human, and familiar.
My eyes were closed still, but I could feel an presence near.
I was laying down on comfortable surface, a bed, and I wondered what use it will be to me anymore.
I slowly opened my eyes into slits. The lights were on, and I could see that Linsey was hovering over me, waiting for me to awaken. My clouded mind suddenly cleared, so I knew that there was nothing sinister, wicked or evil that was going to attack me if I moved. I guess that's what three days of agonizing pain makes you think. I opened my lids fully to perceive Linsey leaning in to see my face.
Her glistening bright red eyes were staring straight down at me.
We gazed at each other for minutes. I liked the silence for once, no loud pounding jolts in my chest. I took one more large breath, and sighed.
She smiled widely, and I sat up and she hugged me gently. I hugged her back even more gently, knowing the kind of strength I had now.
I was alive! Everything seemed fine. We let go of our embrace and stared at each other again.
"Gen, you have no idea how happy I am that this all worked out!", Linsey smiled and laughed.
I knew the reason for her laughter. "What? That your best friend had successfully become a vampire?", I twitched at the thought. I was a vampire. I was shocked that I hadn't remembered it sooner. I didn't seem to be thirsty at all, but I did feel stronger. Then I remembered how I came to be this...
TWO YEARS EARLIER:
I had just moved from Florida with my dad, to Texas with my uncle. My mom lived in Mane, but I hardly went to visited her since she started a new family with my step-dad, Hugh, about four years ago.
My uncle was modern and rich, even if he lived in the country. There were few people living in that small town, and I was far from anything that was a country girl. After the first day I was introducing myself to neighbors, almost everyone I would walk by in town knew that I was Drew Montgomery's niece and everyone would have already known that Drew Montgomery was filthy rich, so most of the people were pretty nice. Uncle Drew was the type of guy who usually kept to himself in his large house, doing most of his business work. So when my dad asked him if I could stay with him till the end of high school, he didn't mind, just said "okay".
The reason I had to live with uncle in Texas was because my dad had to move again for work and he thought I shouldn't move with him, this time. He was always moving, mostly around Florida, but now he was moving to Europe, to all these famous places in Europe, and he said that he would rather I finished high school in America! Of course I wanted to go, but he was a paranoid dad and said I couldn't. Photographers...
So my dad flew to London, and I moved to Texas to live with my happily over-worked uncle. It was the middle of the summer and I was seventeen years of age. I spent most of my time before school started driving around in the new silver porsche cayman my uncle gave me as a present, because for years all he sent me at Christmas and my birthday was a card. He said he felt sorry. He tried to spoil me more, and I knew I didn't want him to spoil me, but he was my uncle, I was living with him, and I wanted to stay on his good side so I thanked him for whatever he offered.
Then when the school year began, I met Elizabeth Hart, also known as Linsey, who I admired greatly. She had long wavy blonde hair to the end of her back. She had the craziest red eyes and the palest skin I ever saw. She was everything, nice, smart, beautiful and a hint of mysteriousness. Perfect even. I couldn't describe it enough, but there was one thing that was oddly strange about her. She had no friends, and yet I thought she would be the most popular kid in the school. Most people just glared at her and she would smile. It was very odd, but I could see how people could be jealousy of her.
I had three classes with her, and two of them I sat right next to her. So we got to know each other pretty well and by the next month we were friends. I wouldn't say best friends, but friends. I soon found out that it wasn't everyone else that ignored her, she ignored everyone else. It seemed as if I was the one person that she decided she was going to get along with. I thought about how everybody has at least one vice, and that was hers.
Then as the school year when by, Linsey and I got to know each other better and better. Her father owned the town's hospital, which I thought was pretty cool. Her eyes were red all the time because she liked to always wear red colored contacts. I didn't know if I should believe that or not, because they didn't look fake at all, and for some reason I couldn't remember why I thought that. Then I found out another one of her odd vices.
Everyone knew that there were restrictions about students touching each other, but it seemed like Linsey took that rule to an extreme because she didn't like being touched in any way at all. She would recoil when I would try to give her a high five when we were doing team work in class and she would never want me to give her a hug. I always felt like I was hurting her, so I gave her space.
She never seemed too cold or too warm, just still. Sometimes she was so quiet and motionless that I thought she was like a statue, like a statue of a goddess. Then she would snap out of it and move on, but I had a weird feeling why she was like that. I pushed the thought a side. I was her only friend, or at least I was the only one she really talked to, not that she talked much.
When we weren't in school and just hanging out, she would be the most outgoing, chatty person ever. It was like she was a totally different person and being at school made her shy and out of place. I had noticed after awhile that Linsey was always her happiest when the sun was down. I never really liked nighttime, but Linsey made me feel like night was the best time of day. We had been friends the whole school year, then I went to Mane for the summer.
The next year was totally different. Linsey spilled her secret. She told me everything about being a vampire and I just sat there listening intensively. When she had said all she could, I believed her. It would explain everything about her, her perfect beauty, her red eyes, her pale white skin and her sensitivity to touching.... humans. I sighed. I hadn't decided if she told me all this to scare me away, or to turn me in........ I shook my head. Wow. She smiled at me and told me that she wanted to still be friends, but she didn't want any secrets. I was grateful for that, I didn't want to lose my friendship with Linsey.
After her secret was revealed to me, my understanding of her had improved extremely and we seemed like much better friends. As the weeks went by she keep telling me more about whatever questions I asked her. She let me touch her, only hardly on the top of her hand. She was so cold! She felt frigid and hard as a rock. That made me smile, so she was like a statue. I smiled wider.
Then I had to ask about blood. I mean she wasn't killing me, or any one else that I knew of. She said that vampires had red eyes because of the vampire venom in their bodies. Then I asked about if she had killed anyone and she said she had never killed anyone in her life. Her dad owned the hospital, so she got downers blood for free and no one knew because she was the only one in her family who was a vampire. She didn't want to kill anyone, but she did crave the taste of blood, so that's when she said the family she lived with now wasn't her original family. (This was when I was completely in shock.) She was around two hundred years old. (She sure didn't look like it.) So for two hundred years, because she would always look sixteen, she has been adopting herself to different families and they wouldn't care because Linsey could change and control people's minds, that's when I felt like I should have never met her. Was she controlling my mind? Maybe I don't notice. Then she said she started to become my friend because she couldn't control my mind. She stared at me and I stared back. Maybe I don't want to believe any of this. Then she said I'd make a great vampire. Shoot! Not good! Not good! Wait? Didn't I want to be a vampire? To do things I thought weren't possible? But what about my family? What would they think when I was gone and never came back?
Then Linsey told me how new born vampires are always out of control and always wanting blood. They were savage and would do whatever it takes to get their hands on it. So they can't be around humans for years till they got the hang of not biting everyone they see. Then there is the practice of resisting when they were closer to any human. I stared at her. I would be out of control?
Weeks kept going by and Linsey explained everything more and more. When it was late March I decided that I wanted the life Linsey had. My birthday was in early May, I'd be nineteen. Good, an adult, not sixteen. Then I would be out of school and I would be on my own, doing what I wanted. I would tell my family that I was moving, hopefully somewhere not as sunny as Texas so I could be outside more. Linsey would change me, keep me quiet for a couple for years and then I could start my new life of forever. My family would be alright. My mom had her new family. My dad would be busy with his photography. Then I think Uncle Drew wouldn't even notice if I called or not.
So then I graduated at the end of the year with Linsey, I had top grades because of my vampire friend and then I was on my own. I told my parents that I wanted a couple years to just take a break from life, find a nice job and relax. I picked up my stuff to leave in my porsha and Uncle Drew said he had a couple thousand dollars put into my bank account if I ever needed it. I thanked him and left. (Thinking he wanted me out of there as soon as possible.) I told my family that I would tell them when I found a permanent place to live, but that I would be traveling a lot for a while.
I drove straight to Linsey's after that, she said she didn't have a family anymore and that her adopted family decided to leave to Italy forever and that they left the house for her. I laughed at that.
I was to live in Linsey's basement for the time being, so I put my stuff down next to the wall, sat down on the bed and exhaled. After a second Linsey was sitting beside me, her arms around my shoulders, and she whispered, "You'll do fine", in what was such a beautiful voice to me. Then I suddenly felt a cold, sharp pain in my neck, and then a burning sensation. It hurt so much, so badly. I screamed. I could hardly hear Linsey telling me to be quiet.
I whispered, "Make it stop".
She was next to my ear and whispered back, "It will be over soon." So I closed my eyes and let the pain continue.
I flickered my eyes open again and adjusted them back to the present. Odd...
Linsey beamed and laughed. "Of course I'm happy! I was really getting scared on the second day though. It seemed like you weren't making any progress of getting better. " Her smile tightened. "Well, anyway, are you thirsty at all? Wait, I shouldn't have said that. Of course you are!"
Then she was out of the room for two seconds, then back again with a tray that had four large glasses filled with a deep red liquid in each of them. I stared at them. I hadn't realized it, but I didn't feel thirsty or any craving for blood at all. I felt impressed with myself, but then I remembered I hadn't taken a breath since before I was thinking about how all this happened. So I inhaled, and loved it. I wanted to taste that smell that was so desirable, on the tray that was at the other end of the room, held in Linsey's hands. She looked like she was ready for me to pounce on her, but I didn't.
Moments later Linsey's expression changed to confused and she asked, "Aren't you thirsty?"
"Yes", I said the word quickly, looking into her eyes. "I was waiting for you to walk over here, but I guess your not". I stud up a million times faster then I thought I could ever move. I smiled and murmured," Cool".
I looked back at Linsey and she had the widest smile I had ever seen. "Your not going to attack me to get to the blood?", she said pointing to the glasses.
"Why would I do that?", I asked, scrunching my eyebrows together. Then I remembered. "Oh", I said slowly. How could I have this much control already?
"Gen, I thought you were special before, but now you are even more amazing", Linsey continued, "I mean having that kind of control, minutes after you woke up.... AMAZING", she almost screamed. Then I walked over to her at a speed too fast for human eyes to see and she and I each picked up a glass in our hands.
"To you, Miss Genevieve Phillips", Linsey rang as if singing, we cheered. "Welcome to your new life!".
Then we both gulped down the liquid. It was hot, and delicious. It was the most delectable and savory drink I could have ever tasted. I had strength, speed, control, and beauty. What a great way to start out in a new life.
That was hopefully at least a good first chapter of my first story. Please let me know what you think and write a review! I'd love to know what people think! I also understand that everyone has their own distinguished opinions, good and bad. I want to to hear them all! Advice would be great! Thank you!
