Chapter 1- Fragile

-Carlisle-

"Carlisle, I'm so very glad that you are doing this for me. You're the only ones I trust with her." Aro seemed pleased that I'd be taking in this girl who's had a bad past with many vampires and their covens. If you ask me he was being odd about this whole situation. "I just want to warn you, she has bad nightmares and is scared of male vampires. Particularly large vampires like Emmett. She's also very fragile."

"I know Aro, Alice has had visions of her. Do you know what happened to her?" I asked through the phone.

"No," he answered solemnly. "When I touch her, I only hear her screams. My vision is blank. She's almost like Bella, in a way."

"Aro, may I ask why you are sparing this human's life? She knows a lot about vampires from what you've told me, and I thought that you disposed of those humans."

"Carlisle, she reminds me of my daughter when I was a mortal. My daughter is the only human memory I've ever had. And she looks exactly like her. That's why I wouldn't let any of my guards touch her. Carlisle, promise me you'll take care of her until she is of age." So that's why, I thought to myself.

"I will," I promised. This girl had just turned fifteen from what Aro said. "I have to go. Her plane will be here and Esme and I are going to pick her up." I said hanging up the phone.

-Mirabella-

Chains were shackled to my wrists as I was curled naked in a corner. Nothing but a thin blanket covered my body. My long black hair was messed up, and my ice blue eyes held tears within them. My tanned skin seemed to glow in the moonlight and the scars of vampires bites were all over my inner thighs. But there was one bite mark that belonged on the top of my left breast. It was his mark, and he said I'd never be able to run.

"Miss?" said a voice that awoken me from my almost nightmare. I looked up to see the stewardess looking at me with a small smile. "The plane has landed," she said.

I nodded, getting up and grabbing my back pack. Aro said not to bring anything with me, so I didn't other than some things I held close to my heart. I was riding in his private jet and the stewardess led me down some stairs to the cloudiness of northern Minnesota. There was a black Mercedes parked on the landing turf and two pale figures stood outside it. There was a woman with a motherly smile, and beautiful chestnut hair. She had topaz eyes that brightened when she saw me. Then, there was the man that Aro had told me about. His had blonde hair, and a fatherly smile. His eyes were the same as his wife, but he seemed to have sense of worry about them. I timidly walked over to them, jumping back a little when the woman tried to embrace me. From the look on her face, I guessed fear was written all over my face.

"Why don't we get in the car and you can meet the family once we get home?" offered the man. "I'm Carlisle, and this is my wife Esme."

"I'm Mirabella," I said in a small Italian accent. It wasn't much of an accent, but I had one. "But call me Mira please." I asked politely.

"Of course," said Esme with a warm smile. I smiled a very small smile before getting into the car. Carlisle shut the door, appearing in the driving seat in seconds. I was used to it. I was basically raised by vampires, no tortured is more like it. Sadly

"Aro had told me many things about you Mira," said Carlisle. "He told me you know how to play the guitar. One of my sons Jasper knows how to play it. Maybe you guys could play together."

"That would be nice," I said politely once again. I was actually terrified. Male vampires scared the hell out of me. Carlisle was an exception ,Aro had told me he was a genuine guy. There was also something about him, something that reminded me of my father. I grimaced and tried to push the bad memories back and only think of the good ones. Thankful the didn't noticed. Aro also said that his sons were nice, but I needed to take my recovery one step at a time.

"Alice, Edward, and Bella will be starting out as sophomores with you in a week. You'll like Bella, Mira." said Esme with another motherly smile. "She's actually been the most, excited besides Alice of course."

"Bella is the one that has more than one power, right?"

"Yes," smiled Carlisle. "She can control nature and has the same control over her blood-lust like me." That was a good thing.

"If you don't mind me asking Mira," began Esme. "What happened to your parents?"

I looked at Esme's eyes through the rear view mirror. It was complicated as to how my parents aren't with me anymore. There was a lot of gambling for their lives and mine, and pain. They weren't vampires, but something much worse. In my opinion anyways, like that matters. No matter what they did to me, giving me to those monsters, I still loved them from the bottom of my heart. It hurt me when they did those things to them. They were tortured. I was forced to watch them suffer.

"Nomads tortured them to death," I replied simply. It was kind of the truth since A) they were basically dead and B) they were being tortured at this very moment. It was their fault though. All of this was their fault. If it wasn't for them and their selfish ways, I'd be a happy fifteen, almost sixteen, year old girl with a happy family, at least that's what they said to make me feel better. It didn't work. Now, I was heading into a coven of vampires that I didn't even know.

"I'm so sorry," said Esme.

"It's ok, at least they are in a better place now." which was a lie, of course. They were going through hell right now

"That's a Good way to look at it," commented Carlisle.

"Yeah I guess, everything dies, but at least they could say they did something with their lives while they lived." another lie.

"Well, we could be your parents for the time being then," said Esme. "You'll be with us for about three years, maybe longer depending on you and Aro."

"Thanks, mom." She smiled at that, a true motherly smile that I wasn't accustomed to seeing.

-Edward-

We were all seated in the front room, waiting for the girl to arrive. We didn't even know her name, but everyone was excited. Rosalie was even excited about this. I guessed she got used to it after Bella was turned and now she was as happy as everyone else. Alice and Bella were pacing in the front window, when Alice stopped. Her eyes were glazed over and she had a blank expression. She sent the vision to me.

"Everyone, this is Mirabella. But you call her Mira," said Carlisle with a smile. I saw a girl with long jet black hair, ice blue eyes, and tanned skin skin. She had a heavenly face, but it also was guarded. She looked a little scared in front of us, but Esme patted her shoulder with a smile.

"Hello," she said with a small Italian accent. Emmett suddenly came up to her, and she jumped back. Her eyes were wide with horror as he stopped and looked at her with a confused expression. Then, she turned and ran. Leaving us all confused and worried.

"Emmett," I said. He was sitting with Rosalie spacing out. He looked at me with a smile. "Don't go near her when she comes to the house."

"Why?" he asked. "I wanted to give her a bear hug."

"She'll run," said Alice. "I think she's afraid of big vampires Em. Remember, Carlisle said she was afraid of big vampires. And you're a big vampire!"

"I wonder why," said Jasper.

"Try and calm her if she gets scared," said Bella. She sat down next to me, wrapping her arms around my shoulders. "I don't want her running. When I talked to Aro about her, he said she was a little fragile."

"I wanted to hug my new baby sis though," pouted Emmett.

"You'll hug her when she warms up to you," smiled Rosalie.

I looked out the window, watching Carlisle's Mercedes pull up the large driveway that was surrounded by forest. Every house we owned was surrounded by forests with tons of wildlife in it. I got up, taking Bella's hand and walking to the door. Everyone followed behind us. I opened the door, walked out onto the porch. Mira got out of the car, but stood very close to Esme. She looked up at us with those piercing eyes that seemed to hold so much pain and knowledge.

She wore fitted jeans, black Vans, a yellow shirt with Tokio Hotel on it. It showed off her slim figure. There was a black beanie hat on her head and bracelets that covered only her left wrist. Her fingernails were painted black and her eyes were outlined in black. She looked like a girly kind of skater. Maybe that was all she had to wear since she didn't bring anything else but a back pack.

'No! Please don't! Stop! You're hurting me! Please stop!' My mouth hung open as her thoughts came to my head. She wasn't thinking that. She had to be thinking something else. I couldn't see any mental image; only hear what she was saying. That was different. Then another thought came to me from her. 'They're good vampires. They wouldn't do that to me.'

"Everyone, this is Mirabella. But you can call her Mira," said Carlisle with a smile. Esme patted her on the shoulder with a small smile.

"Hello," she said in her small accent.

Bella slowly walked up to her. "I'm Bella," she smiled. She held out her hand, watching Mira take it and shake it lightly.

"Piacere di incontrarvi Isabella." Her Italian was perfect. I might ask her to teach me how to speak the language.

Alice and Rosalie came up next. They introduced themselves and Alice had to be pulled away because she kept on rambling on about shopping later in the week. Jasper then walked up to her. "Non si ha nessun motivo di essere spaventato." How did Jasper know Italian?

She smiled slightly. "You speak perfect Italian. Impressive," Mira said.

Emmett and I came up together. She looked up at Emmett with a little bit of fear within her eyes. "Hi! I'm Emmett and that is Edward. He gets an attitude sometimes so just ignore him when he's having his hissy fits."

"I'll keep that in mind," she replied evenly. She then turned to Jasper. "Come posso non avere paura di un diritto vampiro gigante davanti a me?"

"He's harmless," Jasper replied with a small laugh.

"What did she say?" Emmett asked.

"Don't worry about it," Jasper said.

-Rosalie-

She looked so fragile as Esme guided her into the house with the family following behind. Her walk held such grace that a vampire couldn't even match it. She stared in awe as we entered the house. I smiled when Esme turned to me.

"Mira, Rosalie would like to give you a tour of the house okay?"

Mira nodded. I gave her a warm smile, taking her hand gently and guiding her upstairs. "I'll show you Emmett and my room first since it's right next to yours." There were three levels to this house, upstairs, basement, and main floor. We walked down a long hallway that was painted a deep purple. My door was the first one to the left. I opened it, showing her my room. There were video games and a TV in there along with a vanity table and a huge bed. Pictures of cars lined the walls along with a picture of Emmett and me on a beach. "Most of the video games and movies are in here. Just ask Emmett to pick out a good game for you to play. I barely touch the things."

"I will," she said softly. She looked over at an old picture of me that was framed in a silver frame. "Is this you when you were a human?"

"Yes," I whispered sadly at the horrific memories.

"You're very pretty, but as a vampire you're beautiful. I wish I had your beauty." I didn't think she wanted me to hear the last part. She was beautiful, more than me when I was a human. Everything about her was beautiful and she needed to see that. Maybe it was the way she looked at herself, or maybe some memories just caused her to think those things.

"Would you like to see your room? Alice decorated it for you."

She looked at me with a puzzled expression. "I… get my own room?"

"Yes, of course," I said with a confused look. I led her outside into the hallway. "You've never had your own room before?"

"No, I was-" she stopped. "Never-mind," she said with a tight expression.

"Well, I hope you like your first ever own room," I smiled. Something was wrong with her. Didn't she know that she could tell us anything? We were her family now. She should trust us. I bet she had trust issues.

I opened the door that led to her room, letting Mira walk in before me. We had decorated the room to the vision Alice had. The walls were a midnight blue color with white flower designs on it. Green painted vines trailed up to the ceiling, making it looked like a room with a forest in it. The four poster bed was in the middle of the room with a white canopy sheet over it. Her sheets were blue and a green pillow contrasted nicely with it. A TV was on the wall and some books Jasper picked out for her were in a bookshelf. There was also a guitar in the corner along with a huge stereo system that Edward got her. Emmett had placed an assortment of DVD's on her night table along with a journal from Esme. A laptop was on a desk in another corner of the room from Carlisle and Alice got her a huge wardrobe that was inside a huge closet. I got her all the hair products and makeup she'll ever need. We got everything covered for her and I walked around to see her expression. There were joy in her eyes, and her smile was a little bigger than it was outside.

Mira looked at me. "It's wonderful," she breathed.

"Come on," I said. "Let's show you the rest of the house."

-Jasper-

Her fear had not ceased since she met us. I watched her as she came down the stairs with Rosalie. My sister looked at me with worried eyes. I could sense Mira's fear, but there was a little bit of happiness, only a little.

"Are you hungry?" Rosalie asked. The feeling of self consciousness waved off of her and to me. I sent her waves of calm. She did look a little thin for her height.

"Sure," she whispered with her eyes downcast. Rosalie gave me another worried look before exiting the living room with my new little sis. I felt sorry for her, something was definitely bothering her. I looked over at Edward who shared the same worried glance.