All rights go to Stephanie Meyer for her characters, Alex Cullen is a creation of my own mind. I hope you enjoy my first fanfiction that I've posted or wrote in many years. Please review! :)
How to begin, well I guess first is to tell you my name is Alex Cullen, well actually my full name is Alexander Carlisle James Cullen buteveryone calls me AJ well everyone apart from my Mom she calls me Junior because apparently I look so much like my Dad. I will tell you a bit more about my name - first Carlisle is my Dad's name and James is named after my Mom's baby who died when he was just a few months old. Anyway about looking my Dad well every time we go out people say that I'm like a carbon copy – a doppelganger and how you can tell I'm his son just by the look of us. That's the weird thing about it though, he isn't my real father, he and Esme who is my Mom aren't actually related to me at all, I guess you could say they are more like adoptive parents. So here's my story, I was dying aged just fourteen years old after falling over and hitting my head. My now father found me and bit me, turning me into a vampire using his venom. He saved me but now I am stuck fourteen years old for eternity and I can tell you that's no fun at all. My family and I are the nicer vampires if there is such a thing – we feed off animals not humans in fact my father has never tasted the blood of a human in over 300 years and I so far haven't either.
Moving on then, I have three brothers – Edward who is a mind reader and an extremely talented pianist. Then there s Jasper who can manipulate emotions and is an ex-soldier who fought in a civil war and then there is Emmett. Emmett is my best friend and my favourite brother but I would never say that out loud, we love all the same things – pranks, video games, violence and sports. Emmett has this amazing strength even for a vampire and is the strongest one I know. I also have two sisters, Alice who is dating Jasper which sounds weird but I assure you is not, I'll get onto that in a minute, Alice's power is that she can see into the future. Then there is Rosalie who is beautiful, even for a vampire and she is dating Emmett, she may seem like a cold hearted person who can't show her feeling but once you get to know her like me well she's amazing. The reason it's not weird that my siblings date is because we don't have the same parents well not biologically, Carlisle is our father but he's only our 'adopted' father. We don't share his genes so there is no reason why my siblings can't date, though I am surprised my parents allowed it. The people in our small town of Forks find it weird but they don't really understand it so you can't fault them.
Back to me now – Alex, my mom calls me Junior which if you haven't already guessed is because I look so much like Carlisle, my Dad. My mom hates the fact me and Carlisle don't spend any time together unless we are going on road trips on our own, she knows it's because we never see eye to eye, we have differing opinions that's all so usually when we spend time together it ends in an argument and then me leaving for hours. However when we do spend some time together in the house, he tells me wonderful stories of Britain and Italy where he was born and lived. They are wonderful stories and I can't wait to see for myself how beautiful they really are. Also he usually offers to help me with my homework if everyone else has given up trying for the week, but I always refuse.
Which brings me onto today, it's Monday 15th October and I haven't done any of the homework that is due this week, which I know will get me detention and a phone call home so I am refusing to go to school. I'm sat on my bed playing Call of Duty on my Xbox 360, my favourite game but downstairs I can hear my mother on the phone, I'm not paying enough attention to what she is saying but I know she is speaking to my Dad. I also know she's probably asking him to come home and handle me because she can't, she gives in too easily to me because I'm the youngest in the family. I hear her put the phone down with my vampire hearing and then I know what's coming – she walks towards the bottom of the stairs and I wait for it...
"Alex, dear, could you please come downstairs? We need to talk." She walks up a third of the stairs and then stops waiting to hear of any sign of movement from my bedroom. When she is satisfied that I am not following her instructions, she walks up the rest of the stairs and into my room. Before I know it, she's opened the door and is coming in. She turns off the television and as such has ruined my game. I leap up, fire in my eyes and turn to her angrily.
"Did you want something, mother?" I hear my voice come out but it doesn't sound like me, it sounds very angry and sarcastic.
"You are already thirty minutes late for school, why are you still up here playing games?"
I ignore her and sit back down on my bed, she looks at me with pleading eyes wanting me to answer her question.
"Don't give me that look mother, I know you've called him, so don't pretend. He'll be here in about ten minutes right? What I find funny though is whenever I do something wrong you can't wait to get rid of me and hand me over to Dad because you can't handle me can you? You can't handle the fact that I will most likely shout and argue with you and call you nasty things like a bitch. The stuff I call Alice and Rosalie when we argue. Well guess what mother? It's about time you realised nobody can handle me, not you or my father. I don't care what you have to say or what Dad has to say, I'm done with school for good and you can't make me go. I'll just run away and turn nomadic, maybe even join the Volturi, I'm sure they'd love to have me as one of their guards with my power. I could do that and never look back, you'd lose your precious son and it would be your entire fault. Well you and Father's, because you aren't my REAL parents so stop pretending to be." Esme gasped, shocked that her son could say such things, she felt like she was his real Mom and loved him like she was his real Mom. She couldn't imagine life without her precious son in her life, her baby boy, her little one.
"Alex, please you can't mean that?" She asked, her words coming out soft and low as she tried to get her head around what he had to say."
"I mean every word, mother. Now leave me alone." Esme left the room as soon as she said this and shut the door not wishing to anger her son anymore before Carlisle came home, which would only be in about five minutes time. She made her way downstairs and could hear her son destroying his stuff, throwing his belongings around. She heard a loud bang and then his bedroom door fly open saw him run down the stairs and out the door, breaking the front door completely. She just stood there in the kitchen frozen in shock. A few minutes later, that is where Carlisle found her, he was fuming he had already seen the state of the front garden and the front door where his unruly son had done his damage.
"Where is he?" Carlisle fumed to his wife.
"I don't know Carlisle, he most likely ran into the forest, that's where he goes when he's upset or angry and can't handle his emotions. Oh I wish Jasper was here." Esme cried to her husband.
In response, he kissed her on the forehead and told her he loved her, she whispered to her husband to bring their son home and that is when Carlisle nodded and went after his youngest child, intending to do just that. A few miles into the forest is where he found him, his son was throwing himself around the trees, running at them, headbutting the trees and kicking and punching them with all his might. Carlisle knew his son was weaker in strength and body because of his age but also knew his son was very strong which was assured by the marks he had left in the trees. Carlisle saw the sight of the blood on Alex's forehead where he had cut it open, it would heal very fast but it would still hurt like a real wound. Alex could still bleed and could still be affected by guns and knives unlike the rest of his family because his body wasn't matured as much as the rest of them. Carlisle saw his son go to headbutt another tree and that is when he stepped in, stopping him just seconds before his forehead connected with the bark, not wanting his son to do anymore damage. Carlisle wrapped his arm around his son's back and put his other hand on the back of Alex's head, rocking him back and forth as his son struggled, humming a lullaby to him, trying to calm him down.
"I know I am not your real father Alex but I love you all the same, you are my son. Your place is with us son, you are a Cullen through and through. Yes sometimes there may be arguments but they are nothing we can't solve. Please don't leave us, it would break my heart, your mother's heart, we'd lose our precious son and Emmett would lose his 'pranking partner', yes I know what you two get up. Rosalie would lose her youngest brother that she loves to torment; Alice would lose her Ken that she loves to dress up. Jasper would not be able to tell you anymore war stories and for that he'd be very upset and Edward would miss teaching you the piano which is the only thing that you two can seem to do together without arguing. Don't leave us son, you complete our family." Alex was shocked, before his father had said it he hadn't realised how much he meant to the family but then he realised what he'd done and said to the house and his Mother.
"But Dad, Mom hates me now, I said so many hurtful things to her, things I didn't mean. I don't think she'll ever be able to forgive me. She was so upset when I left, I really screwed up. Oh Dad you should never have saved me, you should have left me to die in that forest. I've brought nothing but bad to the family." Esme who had been listening in on the father and son talk, gasped and ran to her son, taking him from his father's embrace and into her own.
"No no no no. Alex please baby you can't mean that, please don't ever think like that again. Carlisle saving you was the best thing to happen to this family and still is. You are our world son, your siblings can take care of themselves but you still need us, you're the one child I've been allowed to actually care for. I'm your mother in every sense of the world. It would kill the family to lose you Junior." Esme said and Alex could practically feel her heart breaking in town as she tried to emit all of her love into every word she said.
"Life wouldn't be the same without you son, you bring life to an old man like me." Carlisle said with a slight laugh trying to make his son happier, in response he got a smile which was enough for now. "Come on son, let's go home."
Alex looked at his father and then his mother in shock. "You still want me, even after all the destruction I did, to your garden and my room?"
"You did what Alex?" Carlisle knew about what happened to the house but not to Alex's room, he was shocked that his son could do so much damage in such a short space of time. Esme coughed and Carlisle turned to look at her, noticing the look on his wife's face, he realised now would the best time to let it go for now and not get angry about it. Carlisle tried to retract his earlier question. "I mean Alex, we will discuss this later on after everybody has calmed down and matters have been sorted." Alex frowned, knowing he had a heavy punishment coming his way, Esme squeezed her son's hand in support knowing the one thing he hated more than school was being punished.
"Come on, darling, let's go home." Esme repeated her husband's statement. Alex walked in between his father and mother, his mother holding his hand and his Dad just walking by him and Alex felt for the first time in a long time that he belonged and this was where he was meant to be in the world.
Chapter two will be up in about a week or so, I will try and get an update done every week until the story is finished.