A/N: Well there's not much to say but my friend Ceria(pronounced Ke-ra) wanted me to write this, but I'm not sure where this is going so lets pray this is good. It takes place in Eclipse so Bella is a human and the Cullens still go to school, but Victoria is dead. Once again my spelling and grammar sucks. So if you are one of those nit picky people put up with it! (she said ever so sweetly=)) -XOXO Jackie-Cullen1901.
Edward's POV:
"Alice," Emmett complained. "Why did 'ya have to do that?"
"Because I would rather watch anything than football." she replied as she changed the channel. My annoying family was once again sitting around the living room watching whatever Emmett wanted which was 99.9% some sort of sport.
"But gymnastics?" he asked. Well I guess it is a sport.
"Yes." she one again replied
Emmett's mind was suddenly not so angry. WOW, he thought just as a girl finished her floor routine. Eww. That was one mental picture I could have lived without. I tried to block his mind but one thing slipped through. How the hell is this a sport?
The next girl started to take her place on the floor and the announcer stated, "And here goes our last year's champion Ceria Cullen." All of us gasped at the same time. Well, Cullen as a last name isn't that uncommon. All of our heads gravitated to the general direction of Carlisle's study. He was up there reading some new volume, learning nothing more then he already knows.
By the time our minds got off the topic, we turned back to the TV. She was getting into her beginning pose, but not before flashing a dazzling smile to the judges and the cameras. And all of us noticed one thing about her. She had electric blue eyes with soft pink lips with skin the same color of my Bella's. Maybe a bit lighter. She had blonde, curly hair. The same color as Carlisle's. Now no human would notice this detail but us as being vampires and all, did. Then I noticed her features. They were almost the same as Carlisle's except more dainty. They were definitely related, but even through over 300 years how could they look that alike!
In that instant we all ran to Carlisle's study. He yelled "Come in" before we even got to the top of the stairs. We all rushed in and Carlisle was confused. Alice motioned for him to follow us. He stood up and put a book mark in the new volume.
"Look." I said for him to look at the TV. When he looked he saw the girl on an interview.
"What is all this?" he asked
"Carlisle, don't you realize? She looks exactly like you. And she is wearing out crest."
He was speechless.
"Well you have to go see her!" Jasper interfered with Carlisle's thought process. He was in shock. I didn't expect Jasper of all people to say anything, but he knew that Carlisle couldn't walk up to the poor girl and say "Hello, I'm related to you and I am over 300 years old. Ohh, and did I mention the rest of my family and I are vampires?" the girl would have one: go into shock or two: run for her life. She was a smart girl if she ran.
"How?" was all that he could think of and finally verbalized it.
Suddenly the phone rang and Carlisle answered. "Hello?…Sure, I would be glad to help….When is it?…ok… Goodbye."
"What was that?" I asked. We couldn't hear the other end of the line because he walked into the kitchen where Bella was sitting with Esme. She insisted that I go and watch TV with the rest of my family. The both became curious and followed Carlisle out.
"Well, I suppose that I will get to meet her after all. The hospital asked if I would be one of the doctors on hand at the National Championships, and I said yes. It's tomorrow in Seattle."
"Meet who?" Esme asked politely as I wrapped my arms around Bella waist and hid my face in her. Her sent hit me just as hard as the first day I saw her. I haven't hunted in over two and a half weeks. I would have to go tonight. Especially if we were going to Seattle. She giggled.
"Apparently I have a relative who is a gymnast." The short sentence was hard for him to get out. He was still in shock.
"Well, lets get to Seattle!" Alice squealed. I sighed. Sometimes she was just too overexcited.
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Carlisle's POV:
I was nervous, curious and worried. Gymnastics was the most dangerous sport. By far. Humans shouldn't be doing such dangerous things as this and I didn't want her to get hurt.
Last night I learned that Ceria lives at the gym in which she trains with about six other girls and five boys. All about the same age. They were all adopted by their coach, John.
I took my place over my the event which was first, vault.
"And here is Brianna, first on vault." said the announcer. She saluted the judges and started her vault. She wound up with an 9.6. After the other girls went it was Ceria's turn. I don't know why I was worried but I really just didn't want her to get hurt. She would be vaulting the most difficult vault of the night. She was vaulting a Yurchenko 3.0 Twist. I sighed heavily.
She didn't look nervous. She had a small smile on her face and she was listening to "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyes Peas. But her hand was clutched around her family crest which she wore as a pendant. Her coach looked at her which meant it was her turn. She gave him a little nod and took off her crest.
She saluted the judges and flashed a wide smile. I then herd her heart rate pick up and I could almost smell her adrenaline and I could tell she loved it.
She started on her run and preformed the vault perfectly. Her second vault was just as good, if not better, than her first.
I smiled, relieved, and looked over at my family. Jasper had his arm over Alice's shoulder and gave me a look that said to calm down and I did as told without trying.
I walked over to bars, the next event, with the other doctors.
"Hey there." Said this one female doctor. She had bleach blonde hair and hazel eyes. Her hair was obviously dyed.
"Hello." I said politely and purposely ran my left hand through my hair so she would see my ring. And at that moment we walked past my family an Esme was not a happy camper. She was giving the woman daggers and had her teeth clenched. I walked over to the front row seats took her hands in mine. I gave her a quick peck on the lips and she whispered "You are mine. Don't forget that."
"Never." I whispered back.
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Ceria smiled and started her bar routine. It all started well and then she went to jump to the lower bar on her hands and then, OHH NO! Her hands missed and she let out a small scream as she fell towards the floor head first. She closed her eyes and covered her head with her arms.
She hit the floor hard with a thud and a crack. Too low for human ears to hear. I was the first doctor to run over to her at a slow human pace. I was obviously the most experienced doctor there.
"Don't move her!" I shouted and everyone listened. They pulled over a stretcher to lay her on. She was slipping in and out of consciousness.
"Wait, NO! I need to finish…" and she went into unconsciousness.
When she came back to consciousness, I asked, "Ceria, can you feel this?" I touched her foot.
"What? No. why can't I!?" she was becoming more panicked by the second and I looked to Jasper for assistance. He shrugged. The panic from everyone in the room was too much for him to handle. I looked at Esme and she had her small hands over mouth in shock and her eyes wide. That's just how the rest of my family looked too.
"Oh my god! What happened?" she said in the ambulance. We were driving to Forks Hospital because her condition wouldn't change. I even confirmed with Alice.
"Well we are going to the hospital. You fell in your bars routine."
"Ohh" she said and her mouth made a little 'o' shape.
"I'll just need to run some tests on you." I said. I truly felt sorry for her.
"Okay." she said quietly.
"Can you feel this?" I touched her thigh.
"Kinda. It's like a tingling sensation." She said nervously.
"Okay. That's better than no feeling. What about here?" I touched her foot. Before she said no but she was in such shock that she may have been delusional.
"Again, it's the same tingling sensation." she said.
"Okay." I said as we pulled into the hospital.
Ceria's POV:
I was sitting in my boring hospital room bored to tears. I was literally staring at he wall with a blank mind. My doctor would be back with my results in a few seconds. I've always been good with guessing where other people were. Right now he was in the hallway walking away from nurses that were trying to flirt with him. I was also very persuasive.
"Hello, Ceria. How are you feeling?" Dr. Cullen asked. I thought it was pretty funny that we had the same last name.
"Pretty good, I guess." Honestly, on the inside I was ripped to shreds. I would never get a second chance at that meet, until next year. "Um… Where is my necklace? I never take it off unless for gymnastics meets."
"Right here." he said politely and handed it to me.
"Thank you."
"And you have a visitor." he said with a small smile. Right then my boyfriend Dylan walked in. He too was a gymnast. I could tell my whole face lit up with happiness. I smiled my famous smile that everyone loved. Especially Dylan.
"Hello." he said lightly with a slight smile.
"Hello!" I said a little too enthusiastically. The doctor looked at us and I blushed.
"Now, what am I going to do with you? Bubble wrap you?" he said with a chuckle
"No, but that was fun when we jumped down the stairs wrapped in bubble wrap." I said and we both let out laughs.
"Always in a good mood. That's my Ceria." he said and came to sit on the fake leather chair next to me.
"Ceria, you can move your legs if you feel well enough to. The tests came back. You have a small fracture in your lower spine. We have already put you through the procedure that is needed to fix it." the doctor said.
"Well that's good! Fractures can heal. Sometimes even within a few months!" I said happily. That means I can make it to the tryouts for the Olympic Team! That has always been my dream.
Dr. Cullen's brow furrowed and frowned. I widened my eyes. "Ceria, it's true the fracture will heal, but if you ever do gymnastics again, the small fracture will split your spine in half and you will become paralyzed."
I exhaled sharply and let the tears come pouring down my face.
"Baby, It will be okay. Shhh." Dylan said as he came to lay down on the bed next to me. I hid my face in his chest.
As soon as I herd the doctor leave, Dylan lifted my chin with his finger. I looked at him in his emerald eyes. He leaned in and we kissed.
"Make me forget." I whispered in to his ear as he hitched my right leg over his hip.
We could have been there for minutes, hours or even days. I didn't care.
I herd a gentle cough behind me. Then I realized that my legs were wrapped around his waist and my fingers lost in his dark brown hair. I immediately released my grip on him and fixed myself into a seated position as fast as possible.
That's when I noticed the rest of my team standing there in their leotards with wide eyes. "Sorry to interrupt." giggled Brianna I must have blushed about fifty shades of red. Thank God John wasn't there. I would have died.
That's when it hit me. I couldn't do gymnastics. Ever. And I had to tell all my friends. Where would I live? John would let me stay and train the girls. Right?
"Hey." I said on the verge of hysteria. They could tell and quickly walked over to me and hugged me.
"Ceria, It's going to be okay."
"You're going to be fine."
"You can train us, the doctor already told us what happened."
"Yes, you are the best on the team. You'll be the perfect coach."
I didn't know where the voices were coming from. I couldn't place the voices with the faces. My vision was clouded with tears. I tried to hold them in. I didn't like to show weakness. But, I couldn't. They spilled over and I squeezed my team back instead of having my arms lay limply over their shoulders.
After some individual "I'm sorry's," the doctor walked in.
"I'm sorry, but visiting hours are over." He truly looked sorry. He saw that depression washed over me. I was nothing without my family.
"Okay." I said.
When everyone was out of the room including the doctor and Dylan, I pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. I started by drawing five horizontal lines. A staff. Then a treble cleft.
By the time I was almost done writing a very depressing piano song, the doctor walked in. I found myself with closed eyes and my fingers flowing over imaginary piano keys. It was really depressing, I would probably never actually play it.
"I didn't know you were musical." the doctor said as he walked towards me.
"Yea, I had a lot of time. I can play almost every instrument, But I can really get lost in the piano." I said looking down at the piece of music I've written.
"You remind me of someone." the doctor said.
Carlisle's POV:
"Who?" Ceria said curiously.
"My son Edward. He too is very musical and his favorite is the piano." I said
I didn't know where this conversation was going, but gymnastics was her life. I had to change her into one of us. I already discussed this with my family. Plus I felt some sort of connection to her. Like how I felt for the rest of my children.
"Oh." she said.
Suddenly her breath caught and her heart stuttered. She was having a heart attack. She had heart problems when she was a child, it said on her record, but nothing made me think this would happen. Usually people outgrow problems like this. Suddenly Edward was next to me. I guess he heard our thoughts. Edward, keep her heart moving! I thought and he started pumping her heart as I leaned down to her jugular. I inhaled to make the venom well in my mouth. As soon as there was enough, I bit her. I saw her expression change from the pain of the heart attack to the excruciating pain of the venom. And that's when the screaming started.
Ceria's POV:
I felt my heart start to hurt and I knew immediately that it was a heart attack. I'm very thankful that a doctor was in the room.
Suddenly another guy was there. I didn't even notice that he walked in. He started doing compressions on my chest an I assumed that the doctor was going to get the heart starter. But he leaned down to my jugular and tilted my head to the side. He inhaled and bit me. Wait, he BIT me?! But it had to be some sort of injection. The pain of the heart attack was fading and a warm feeling started to collect in my heart, but quickly it became much too hot. I screamed.
The doctor looked at me with sorry eyes and picked me up and jumped out the fifth story window. What the hell was this guy doing? Was he suicidal?
To my surprise he landed softly on the pavement. He wasn't human. It was obvious. That's when I realized what he was and what I was becoming. A vampire.
I tried my best to keep quiet, but every once in a while a scream would escape my lips. The doctor ran through the forest at a very inhuman speed. I assumed that came with being a vampire. The other guy sprinted ahead of us.
The doctor walked into a huge house in the middle of the forest. I was embarrassed when we walked in because six other beautiful people were standing around the living room staring at me with wide golden eyes.
"It's okay, it will end soon." promised another vampire with soft curls in her caramel colored hair. She took my hand. Vampires were more human then what I expected.
As he carried me upstairs and laid me on a bed, the pain intensified, if that was even possible. In the blink of an eye two more vampires appeared on either side of me. One was a small short, black haired female. She had a soft smile on her lips.
The other was a tall male with short black hair and he was very muscular. The doctor left.
"Haha! I guess Alice isn't the only small one around the house anymore." said the tall male and he burst into laughter. I hated when people made fun of my size. I could easily hurt a human. I'm not so sure about a vampire though.
"Emmett!" screamed the small girl who was called Alice. She then growled and jumped over the bed and onto Emmett's shoulders.
I wanted to laugh but the pain made it impossible. I screamed again and they both turned around to look at me. They resumed their original positions. "Emmett, do you remember what this felt like?"
"Yes." he whispered really quiet.
"Then have some compassion!" she yelled.
"Fine, I'm sorry Alice and I'm sorry…"
"Ceria." Alice finished
"Ceria." he said to me. I wanted to respond but I couldn't.
After what felt like a century, the pain started to fade from my fingers and toes. My heart started to beat faster and suddenly the doctor was there, but I could see him run into the room. I guess my eyesight became better.
"It's almost over now." he said to me.
I just looked up at him wordlessly. I still didn't think I could talk without screaming. I haven't screamed in a while. It seemed that as the pain would fade from the rest of my body, it would go straight to my heart. I started to arch my back because of the pain. My heart was beating so fast that is was all one sound. Then it stopped. Stuttered twice. And stopped. Shit I'm dead! was all I could think. I heard Edward laugh. I learned his name when he came in to try to calm me. "Open your eyes." he chuckled. So I did.
It was amazing.
I hoped you liked it and now I have some ideas for future chapters. The title will make sense later. This chapter was a lot better in my head… oh well. It will get better later! Thanks for reading! POSITIVE reviews are much appreciated! -XOXO Jackie-Cullen1901
