PROLOUGE-EPOV
It was midnight when I returned from hunting with Bella, Alice, and Jasper. It
had been fifty-four years since all my dreams and fears came true, Bella was no
longer human. Instead I had her all to myself forever and ever. Every time I looked
at her, my dead heart filled with love and a current ran up my spine.
I was thinking of our wedding night when a loud cry pierced my ears. Bella and
the rest of the family heard it too and were out in a flash. My eyes
darted back and forth scanning the line along the woods. It was Esme who spied
her first. She let out a gasp and ran over to a bush along the very edge of the
green forest. We all followed. I peered into the bush as a wave of shock rushed
over me. Lying contently in the bushes, looking up at me with big hazel eyes, was
a baby girl.
16 YEARS LATER
I had always lived with the Cullens. I could not remember a time when I hadn't.
They were my family, as far as I was concerned, even though we were as different
as night and day. The Cullens were extraordinarily beautiful, perfect and pale. I
was ordinary. I had blonde kinky hair that fell messily to my shoulders and hazel
eyes that were too big for my small tanned head. To someone else's eyes I might
have been beautiful, but I had grown up under the beauty of the Cullens and my
ordinary beauty could not compare. Also, the Cullens were vampires, with super
strength and every sense and instinct superhuman. Even though I was athletic and
well balanced, I was human and once again could not compare to them. Yet for
some reason, each one loved me dearly, and I knew it.
"Myra, Myracle Cullen, if you're not down in five minutes we'll be late, again."
Emmett called impatiently from downstairs. Ah, Emmett. The hyper big brother. I
yawned and rubbed the remaining sleep out of my eyes. I pulled the covers off of
me and sat up stretching my arms above my head.
Just then, Alice came bursting into my room and opened my closet. I laughed in
my mind and watched Alice hurry to pick out my outfit. I was a giant pushover,
hating to disappoint anyone, so everyday I let Alice have her fun. Bella was
always saying how she didn't know how I stood it.
"No time for makeup today." Alice said blankly, throwing me some designer
jeans and a v-neck blue-green sweater. I internally cheered. She paused for a
moment, her face going blank. I was used to her random visions by now. Soon
she returned to the present and bustled out of the room.
I put on the clothes and pulled a brush through my hair. I then hurried out of the
room and slid down the rail on the staircase. I had been doing this for fifteen
years, ever since I was one, to help me get down the stairs faster. I rushed into the
kitchen, grabbed my bag and a piece of toast and then headed for the door.
Suddenly Alice, Jasper, Bella, Edward, and Rosalie were at my side rushing
through the door. I stopped and let them pass, Edward holding the door open.
Then I realized Emmett was missing. But when I felt cool arms scoop me up and
run through the door, I found Emmett, or he found me I guess. Edward followed
and as Emmett ran me to the car, I thought about my life, and how lucky I was to
have the Cullens.