Hello everyone. This story might seem familiar to some. I started this a little while ago but when I went back to reread it for the next chapter I was APPALLED at a lot of the mistakes I made. So I simply deleted the story and rewrote it. It will still be the same but with more detail. I already have the next 6 chaps ready.
Thank you very much for sticking with me for this long.
Edward, Meet Your Sons
As I stared at the thick manila envelope that the school sent home, I felt a moment of anger. The envelope that was sent home today was a very long list of pranks and jokes played on the teachers and students of my youngest son's high school class.
I looked up from the list that only seemed to get bigger the longer I looked at it. "Mason." I called my son down here in a tone of voice that I would normally only use in a conversation. Two seconds later only Gabriel came into the house from the garage, wearing only a pair of blue jean shorts. I couldn't help but gasp in surprise. To this day I still think I'm looking at Edwards's perfect twin. From what I can still remember of Edward, Gabriel was about two inches taller than Edward and had the same bronze-colored hair, only now it was cut short due to us having just took a "year off" from school to go mountain climbing recently, and Gabe liked the way it went with the rest of his features that he left it short. Gabe even had piercing green eyes from when Edward was human.
That's right Gabriel is Edward's son, right along with Mason. It's been 71 years since I left him.
"What do you need, mom?" Gabe asked, curious. "Nothing, I just need to know where Mason is." At this, Gabriel shrugged. "I'm not sure at the moment, but I can find him if you really need to see him." I nodded my head, "I need to speak to him about this list." I said gesturing to the very thick envelope. Gabriel nodded already seeing the argument that would ensue in his head.
I had discovered my powers around the time the twins were beginning to exhibit changes. I found I could put up a mental shield around myself and others around me to keep them safe from other vampires' gifts. That also explained why Edward could not read my mind when I was human. I also found out that I could use other vampires' powers as my own.
Gabriel then closed his eyes and focused for a moment. About eleven-and-a-half seconds later he opened his eyes, gave me a knowing smile, and then said, "I can't really tell you, mom, he's blocking my thoughts, he probably knows what's coming, but I can sense him nearby. I can try to find him if you want me to." Gabriel could read people's minds just like Edward as well. I should have guessed that with his good looks, he would also gain some of Edwards's abilities as well.
"That would be great, Gabe, thanks." and with that he turned, and loped gracefully out the back door to leave me alone with my thoughts. About fifty seconds later, I could hear both of my boys playfully wrestling in the back yard. Getting up, I then went out to the yard to see Gabriel and Mason playfully leaping and snapping at each other. I sighed, thank goodness for enclosed back yards; if humans would see this scene before them they would probably call the cops. I walked calmly toward both boys, and by the time I got to where they were, they had stopped their wrestling match and called it a draw.
I turned, first to Gabriel, lifted my mental shield thought, Thank you Gabe, you can go back to tuning your drum set now. Gabriel thought back a quick "your welcome". He then ran back to the four car garage we had installed to the side of the house. Gabriel had acquired Edwards love of music, but instead of expressing it through the piano, he preferred the drums. I then turned to my youngest son, Mason, to see him give me a shy smile then say in his favorite country accent he had learned to use in the south of Tennessee, "But ma, you know that them teachers are nothin' but a bunch a idiots who don't know nothin' about their subjects. I just get so bored in class." I sighed. I guess it was a good thing that Mace had taken after me more than his father. I don't think I could handle it if there were two Edward clones running around the house. Mason had gotten my dark brown hair, though he preferred to keep his at an average length. He had also inherited my brown eyes, and some of my otherworldly ability. Mace could mimic other people and movements to a fault. It certainly helped us get some money from concerts him and Gabriel played a few years back. The mind reading from Gabe didn't hurt much either. And because they are twins, they can hear each other's thoughts as well as mine when I lift my mental shield out of place, but if I wanted to; I could push out my shield and protect them both from other vampire powers.
"Mace, you have got to stop hassling these poor people, now I have to call the school and apologize for you and for me because I'm the only teacher you haven't embarrassed to some degree, they only know that because they think you two are my younger brothers that I had adopted." Mace honestly looked ashamed, but I knew that from past experience that I shouldn't let my guard down. Mace then smiled, did a backwards summersault in the air, and did three small leaps to the back porch. Using the same accent, he then said, "I'm sorry ma, I promise to let up, but only a little, but right now we're gonna be late for school." With that he then dashed into the house to get ready for our group drive to school.
Oh! I had almost forgot, we were going to be late if we didn't leave soon. I called Gabe to go get ready and in record time we were all in my truck on our way. My truck was a very new version of my old Chevy trucks cousin. It was a new Dodge Dune Blaster, customized to go all terrain by none other than Mason himself; apparently he had almost all of the same hobbies as Rosalie. Even though there was enough room in the back seat for the boys to ride in they always preferred to sit in the bed of the truck on the way to school. Oh sure, the twins had their own cars to drive themselves to school, but I made them promise that every Monday, we would drive together. Mason has a new Mercedes Guard, my personal favorite car but I still preferred trucks because that's what I had during the happiest days of my life. Gabe had a brand new H2 Hummer that he refused to let Mace touch because he said that is was fine the way it was.
We got to the school with ten minutes left to spare. Gabe waved a goodbye and went on inside, but I pulled Mason aside and told him to be on his best behavior, and then I sent him on his way. The twins and I all went to Forks High School, the boys were both in a junior grade and I was their junior English teacher.
After checking to be sure I had all the right paperwork for my lecture today, I myself started the trek to the English building. On my way out of the parking lot I noticed that there was a newly restored shiny silver Volvo sitting next to an equally restored canary yellow Porsche. I stopped suddenly, feeling a sudden sense of déjà vu. It seems that there are some new students in the school today as those cars were never here before. I shrugged off any feeling of hope before it could even mean something to me, and headed into the English Building.
