My eyes flickered open; I had begun to think I was dead. The pain had finally stopped and I was relieved, I would not have to suffer any more.
As the room around me came into focus I could see bright lights on the ceiling, it looked like a hospital, a feeling of sadness washed over me as I realised I must have been saved, brought back into the world I detested so much, the world I had been trying to run away from.
I sat up and looked at my surroundings; it did not look like a hospital. The room was cool and white. I was lying on a table which had been made up like a bed, a pillow where my head had been and a sheet draped over me.
I then noticed the unbearable burning in my throat, like I had swallowed fire. I heard movement outside the door and pulled the sheet further round me grasping at the sheet. The door opened and a young man entered, he was wearing a white knee length coat which again made me think I must be in a hospital. He was pale and blonde and wore a friendly smile. "Good Afternoon." He said to me. "Don't be alarmed."
My mind couldn't focus at first; Carlisle had just told me I was a vampire. Vampires don't exist… unless I ended up in hell instead of heaven. He left the room for a brief moment and came back holing in a mirror. Carlisle held it in front of my face; I did not recognise the person looking back at me from it. She has longish thick brown curly locks, pale white skin, just like Carlisle, but the most startling thing about this remarkable beautiful woman in the mirror was the burning crimson eyes. I put my hand to my face and the woman copied me, I gasped in horror.
"Please don't be frightened." He said calmly. "I will explain everything." He left the room again and was back within seconds. He held out an ebony silk dress for me, and I quickly put it on. I stood for the first time, all the while thinking I shouldn't be able to. Jumping off the cliff was supposed to free me from the cruel world not bring me back to it shiny and new. I ran my hand up my arm, my skin was hard, firm and when I looked to Carlisle everything seemed so clear. Carlisle came to my side and put one hand on my waist while he led me from the room.
"My… my throat." I choked out as we walked through the house (it was a house, not a hospital as I had previously thought), him guiding me along by my hand.
"I will soon have that sorted for you." He smiled down at me and brushed a lock of my hair away from my face. "It is part of who you are," he explained. "The thirst will be you primary objective for a long while my love, but we have eternity."
"Thirst!" Realisation suddenly hit me, if I was a vampire, and I was thirsty, he was leading me to some poor innocent people to kill. "I… I can't do this." I stammered.
"Don't worry my love."
Carlisle led me out into the gardens, it was almost night fall and the brilliant orange sun was lowering itself out of sight behind some trees in the distance. "Now run." He whispered in my ear, before I knew it I was speeding along through the trees that the sun had been setting over, I could smell some many new things, I could identify the trees by smell, my eye sight was a million times improved. Suddenly we stopped and I could see Carlisle staring through into a small clearing where there was an adult buck standing grazing. Carlisle moved so fast I almost didn't see him, within seconds we was by my side again and handing the limp buck to me. "Drink." He again whispered.
I was now feeling much better than I had, Carlisle and I were walking back across the lawn towards the house, I could see movement in one of the upper windows. I stopped Carlisle and pointed to the shadow flickering past the lit window. "Don't panic my love." He smiled and pointed up to the window. "That is Edward, my son, for all intensive purposes."
Carlisle led me into a room filled with dark furniture, there were dark couches and lots of little side tables, the place was very much cluttered. The only thing in the room which stood out and caught my attention was a sleek white grand piano in the corner of the room. I walked towards it and brushed my fingers along the smooth polished top. "Edward." I heard Carlisle say, although only loud enough, I though, for myself to hear. Suddenly there was another boy in the room. He was tall and shared the same chalky white pallor that Carlisle and I did. He had untidy bronze hair and powerful amber eyes.
"Edward, this is Esme." Carlisle explained. "She will be joining is from now on." Edward stared at Carlisle seeming to understand something else in the words which I was not. Edward nodded and a wave of sadness washed over his face, he moved towards me and took my hand, he kissed it lightly and took a step back.
"It is very nice to meet you Esme." He said in a velvety voice.