Chapter 1

Joeseph's pov

I got my strength from my father, my looks from my mother and my uniqueness from both.

My mother originates in Biloxi, Mississippi. When she was about 15, her parents put her in a phsyc ward because she claimed to 'see the future. 'They soon abandoned her there.

While she was in the asylum, my mother was hunted by a tracker vampire named James. A vampire-doctor at the asylum took special interest in my mother. Learning of James search for her, he turned my mother into a vampire at the age of 19.

James soon ripped him to pieces and burned him-the only way to kill a vampire.

Soon after she got out, my mother saw more visions of a man named Jasper Whitlock.

She saw visions of their life together. She saw them married, living with the 'Cullens,' a vampire family she'd seen, that only lived off the blood of animals.

Jasper had been tortured and deprived of love just like my mother had. He'd been a Civil War general.

My mother said she can't remember how she had been tortured-in fact, she said she can't remember anything from her human life.

My mother met Jasper at a diner in Port Angeles, Washington. She sat there for hours thinking of what to say when he walked through the doors. Then, suddenly, she saw what she would say-she heard it.

Finally, a man walked through the doors, wearing a war uniform and a tortured look on his face.

My mother stood up from her stool and walked over to him in a way that was almost pixie-like.

She threw her arms around him and he stepped back, confused. The only response he knew to react to this was to go into a defense and pull her off.

My mother suddenly remembered that she knew him but he didn't know her yet.

Still, she responded in the voice of an angel, "You've kept me waiting a long time."

Jasper has the power to manipulate emotions, so he was confused, unsure of what she was saying, but he'd never felt such emotions as she was feeling at that moment.

Jasper tipped his hat and responded with, "I'm sorry, ma'am."

The two sat in that diner talking for hours.

My mother telling Jasper of her visions and how she'd been seeing him for years even before being a vampire.

Jasper also told my mother of his life story.

He said he'd been changed by a woman named Maria for the only purpose of helping to take over the South.

That night, since of course, vampires don't sleep, they set out that night to search for the Cullens.

With my mother's visions-her and Jasper were able to find the Cullens three days later.

There were five of them.

Rosalie and Emmett.

Esme and Dr. Carlisle.

And Edward.

None of them were biologically related, but they called themselves family because they all truly cared about each other.

Esme and Carlisle were the two oldest. They were the parental figures. Emmett and Rosalie were the second oldest. They're married as well. They're also the 'older brother and sister.' Edward was the only one whom was 'alone.' He was the 'younger brother.'

My mother and Jasper fit right in as the two youngest.

They soon married and the seven came up with this story so they could co-exist with humans.

Carlisle and Esme are the foster parents of my mom, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, and Edward. According to the story, Jasper and Rosalie are Jasper and Rosalie Hale-twins because they look so much alike. Remember, that's according to the story, though.

My mother was born Mary Alice Brandon. About 19 years later she became Mary Alice Whitlock. Not many months later, she was Mary Alice Cullen.

But this isn't my mother's story-it's my story.

Joeseph Aaron Black.

Biologically, i'm a Black, but my mother changed that when she remarried my step-father-Jasper-and changed mine and my siblings last name.

But i'm getting ahead of myself-let's back up to the night my twin sister and i were conceaved, but before, I tell you of that night-you'd have to know about my aunt.