Romany Lupin's only bloom once
Chapter One
"Come on sweetie we won't hurt you we promise, we're going to look after you from now on until you find who you need," came a beautiful voice. That was the first thing I remembered from my childhood, that voice followed by the beautiful faces of my new family. I was only small when I was left alone in the wreckage of my family home, it had been burnt to the ground with me still inside I don't know what happened I was too young to remember but I can't ever remember my parents faces or their warm embraces, maybe I never had parents or people who cared for me. My name is Romany Thorn Cullen, I'm not human but I'm something more exciting something more ferocious, something wild and I love it.
"Ro are you up we need to get going?" I heard my sister yell from downstairs, she didn't have to yell I could hear her perfectly well if she just spoke normally, "Just a sec Rosalie I need to find my other shoe I swear when I see Emmett next I'm breaking his face he needs to seriously stop thieving all my left shoes it's not funny anymore, the first time yes but not the hundredth time," I called as I tried to find a pair of shoes that still had both the left and right one. "There under the piano stool downstairs," came the sing song sounds of Alice's voice from down the hallway. "Oh thank god for visions, you're a life saver Ali" I grinned as I pulled on my leather jacket and grabbed my bag before tearing down the stairs four steps at a time. "Romany slow down or you're going to-" there was a massive crash sound as I skidded across the marble floor straight through the French doors into the dining room knocking into the glass cabinet full of the china. "Sorry Esme," I called as I picked myself up and scattered bits of glass and bone china everywhere. "You're getting blood on the floor again," came the mused voice of Edward as he appeared with a cloth and handed it to me. "Thanks bro," I smiled as I accepted the cloth and dapped at my gashes, I watched as the skin slowly melded back together leaving only traces of blood to show I'd cut myself. "You're a real klutz you know, you need to learn a bit of restraint," he said as I dumped the cloth in the wash pile and sort out my left shoe from under the piano stool and pulled it on. "Come on your riding with me today," he said as he grabbed his bag and the keys to the Volvo. "Can't I drive please Edward?" I begged as we walked over to the car. "For the last time Ro no, your 15 and a major health hazard and that's just whilst your walking let alone behind the wheel of a car," laughed Edward. I scowled at him as he climbed into the driver's side and I reluctantly got into the passenger's side. "You're so mean to me, Emmett would have let me drive his Jeep," I grumbled as I tied my long ebony hair up and chucked my bag onto the back seat. "No he wouldn't' I remember what happened last time you tried to drive, you destroyed his car, it took him and Rosalie weeks to rebuild the engine and knock out all the dents," said Edward seriously. "Oh come on I was 12 what do you expect?" I bugged as Edward started the engine and took off at an incredible speed.
It took no time for us to reach school, Jasper and Alice had already arrived and she had that I've just had an awesome vision look upon her face. We pulled up just as Emmett and Rosalie pulled into the car park. "The new girl starts today, Bella Swan," smiled Alice as she linked arms with me and led the coven inside the school to our lockers.
My family was always the talk of the school, we were the kids everyone always wanted to date or befriend but we always stuck to ourselves getting involved with humans was high on our list of things not to do, you see my family were vampires, vegetarian ones but still dangerous and bloodthirsty and they always had to be careful one small slip and we would have to up and move before we were discovered. I was the youngest of the coven at 16, I was found in the middle of a burnt out house when I was a baby, Carlisle and Esme took me under their wing, they knew I was special not special like them in a vampire way but special in my own little way. I then had three brothers and two sisters, Emmett, Edward and Jasper were great big brothers. They were a little over protective but it's only because they love me, my favourite brother is Emmett by far, he loves to joke about and cause a little trouble, he's always getting me into trouble with Esme but I love him. My sisters are perfect in every way inhumanly possible, Rosalie is the most beautiful vampire I'd ever met and Emmett was a lucky guy to have her by his side. But of course there was the pixie vampire Alice, the fashion guru and lover of shopping, she was the most fun, she loved dressing me up and doing my hair, without her I'd be truly hopeless I can't even match my socks let alone an entire outfit. I was the odd one of the family in the sense that I wasn't a vampire but I was something a little different I wasn't human, I was too strong, too fast my senses were too strong to be a mere human but I wasn't sure what I was and if my family knew they weren't telling me until I figured it out for myself.
Edward always told me I was quite tall for a 16 year old girl, I currently came up to his chin standing at 5 foot 11 and I was still growing I towered above the rest of the girls and a fair few boys in my year. My hair was a deep Raven colour that fell down my back reaching my thighs but it was always tied up in a long ponytail on top of my head. I had pale skin that matched my family but what set me out as different was my eyes, they didn't match one was an intense blue and the other was a deep grey colour. I was slim in build but I had muscle in all the right places, I wasn't very feminine I had a boyish frame with small boobs and hips but my frame made me fast and agile. I didn't have many friends at school but I had my family and I was happy with that even though none of them were in my grade, Edward, Alice and Jasper were all posing as 17 year olds whereas Rosalie and Emmet were pretending to be 18 again which left me on my lonesome at 16.
"We will see you at dinner Ro," said Emmett as we reached my locker, he ruffled my hair before wrapping an arm around Rosalie's shoulders and walking off with her. "Don't cause trouble today ok Ro," warned Alice as she slipped something into my bag before disappearing with Jasper. "Be good, Carlisle doesn't need another call from the school saying you got into a fight or set fire to something again," warned Edward as he gave me a nudge before picking his bag up and setting off to his first lesson. "That was one time and it wasn't my fault," I called after him I heard him chuckle before disappearing out of my line of sight. I huffed as I grabbed my bag and headed for my first lesson History.
Lessons went at a painfully slow pace and I soon found my mind wandering by fourth period chemistry. "Miss Cullen please try to pay attention before you blow the classroom up," warned my chemistry teacher Mr Tetlo as I absent minded poured some form of chemical into a beaker that started to hiss and bubble. "Oh shit," I cursed as the beaker shattered in my hand raining the mixture over myself and the girl next to me. The girl screamed as the liquid splashed her and started to hiss. "Oh double shit, erm you might want to wash that off before it starts burning through your flesh," I said, the girls eyes bulged and she darted from her desk screaming.
"CULLEN-"
"I know, get out," I sighed before Mr Tetlo could finish his sentence; I grabbed my things and stuffed them into my bag quickly before making a speedy exit from the classroom. Chemistry sucked, I kicked a ball of paper around as I wandered down the empty corridors, it was then that I remembered Alice slipped something into my bag; I made my way outside to one of the benches and emptied my bag out onto the table. There tumbled a box of my favourite animal crackers; thank god for Alice she always knew when I'd need a small pick me up. I was in the middle of stuffing my face with my crackers when I heard something strange, a noise far in the distance, it almost sounded like a howl but we didn't have anything in Forks that could produce a sound like that. I felt a sudden chill run down my back and I couldn't help but think that whatever was howling was almost calling out to me. I shook my head and stuffed the rest of the animal crackers in my mouth before heading back inside, just as I got in the heavens opened and rain began to pour down. My stomach growled loudly as I walked towards the cafeteria, recently I've been constantly hungry, no matter what or how much I ate I always felt hungry. I grabbed a tray and made a quick beeline for the food, luckily with the whole vampires can't eat but we pretend to so get food anyway act my family put up I could steal their food from their trays and stuff my face. My family was already at our usual table in deep discussion about something when I arrived, I slipped into the vacant seat between Edward and Emmett and looked at my family, "so I heard you had a little accident in chemistry today," sniggered Emmett, I scowled at him and swiped his slice of pizza stuffing it in my mouth. "Please get some table manners," snorted Rosalie as I continued to stuff my face without pausing. "I can-t h-elp it," I gurgled with my mouth full before swallowing my food down and moving onto my sandwich. "Lay off the kid Rosalie she's a growing girl," said the usually quiet Jasper. "So Edward what's with you and that human I heard she causing you some trouble?" sniggered Emmett. I tuned out of the conversation as a sound rippled through me, it was another howl, my eyes darted to the big cafeteria windows and I looked into the forest, I was transfixed I couldn't tear myself away I could hear the lone howling again and something inside me stirred and I let out a low almost growling sound.
I felt a cold hand on my head and it snapped me out of my trace. "Guys I think we have a problem, she's burning up," said Alice as she felt my temperature. I pushed her hand off me and looked at my family, "what are you on about I feel fine Alice I just thought I heard something, I'm not sick or anything," I replied before digging back into my lunch. For the rest of lunch my family chatted away whilst I tried to concentrate on the conversation but my mind kept slipping away, howls enveloped my hearing but I seemed to be the only one who noticed them, maybe I was imagining it. "come on Ro you have class, the bell went 10 minutes ago your late," I heard Edwards say as he placed a hand on my shoulder snapping me from my daydream. "Hu, what? Oh class yer ok sure," I said not really listening, I grabbed my bag and headed off to gym. Edward shook his head at me as I slipped through the gym doors and apologised for being late.