A/N I got the idea for this story from a dream. I know, like Stephenie Meyer, but it is true. I kept having these vivid dreams of the every day life of this 'girl'. I started to write the story out on my mom's computer, but then I heard about Fan Fiction and decided to post. I have more, so please read, review, and enjoy.
Greetings Earthling
"Great." I knew I shouldn't have put myself up to this. I stared at the small house that was hugged by the woods.
"You know everything is going to be fine" my best friend Izzy, who was sitting behind the wheel of the rental car, said. "They're only human; they will be charmed to meet someone so beautiful and talented." Before Izzy could say another word of 'encouragement' I slipped out of the car into the rain. I grabbed my things out of the trunk, waved goodbye and watched the car silently slip around the corner, back to the airport. I slowly approached the steps and rapped on the door twice. "Charlie and Bella, Charlie and Bella" I told myself. "Only human, Charlie and Bella" Why was I so nervous I knew I shouldn't be. I was getting angry with myself. "Settle down, Kat; don't get angry, you know what will happen." I shivered. "What?" the other half of my brain challenged. But before I could answer this, the door was opened by a 17 year old girl with brown hair and big brown eyes, extremely pale skin.
"Hi you must be Kat"
"Ummm, yeah" was my stupid self-conscious reply.
"I'm Bella" she offered.
"Nice to meet you Bella" trying to redeem myself. She looked just as shy as I felt and about twice as crushable. We stood on the porch for some time looking at each other awkwardly until it started to rain. She pushed open the door for me and looked at my one little duffle bag and asked if I needed help. I sighed.
"I think I can handle it myself, thank you, though."
"This is Charlie" stated Bella, as we passed through the tiny yellow kitchen and towards the slightly larger living room. Charlie turned reluctantly from the basketball game he was watching and got up.
"Hey" he said gruffly.
"Hello Chief Swan" I replied politely
"Call me Charlie"
"Hi Charlie"
"Ummm" He shifted uncomfortably "We kinda have a space problem. You see when I told the nuns that you could stay with me I didn't know that Bella would be coming to stay and…" I raised my hand and cut him off.
"That's alright, I'll sleep outside" The icebreaker worked, and Charlie laughed.
"That won't be necessary as long as you don't mind sleeping in the basement."
"Great" Bella started to move by a door that must lead towards the door to my new quarters.
"This way" she murmured, almost incomprehensible.
As soon as I was settled I tried to re-access my thoughts of what had happened that day. I had wakened up and had actually remembered everything that had happened to me since two years earlier. A record. Izzy then met up with me to take me up Forks where I would be spending the rest of the year. She had decided to drive to look more human. Months before I had gotten a project from my Human Sciences professor to study humans. I immediately asked him if I could get up close and personal with some humans on earth, since I had some experience before with them. He had readily agreed with this and made plans for me to stay with Charlie. Then 'something came up' and the trip was postponed.
"Kat, dinner!" Bella's voice interrupted my thoughts. She was new to this high school too so we were 'two peas in a pod' according to Charlie. Two months ago she was new. Bounding up the stairs I could smell that she had made pasta. Great. Another challenge: since I was living with humans, I would have to eat like a human, sleep like a human and act like a human. That meant no Gym class. I scooped up the spoonful of pasta and tasted it. I sighed and ate it. Ugh. Definitely not my kind of food. Bella noticed that.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I just miss all of my friends." Right, since I had so many.
Bella fell for it and continued to eat her pasta. Sure she didn't mind, she was human. I finished the food quickly so I could go down to my new room and write this in my notebook. Behind me Bella and Charlie were talking about something to do with shopping. When I got down there I took note of the room for the fist time. It looked just like my room back at the convent. Small with a single mattress on the floor. A bare bulb lamp beside it. I quickly wrote down what I had observed at dinner and reached into my bag for my toiletries. I found the only bathroom without difficulty and started to get ready for bed. This was going to be difficult. Since my body was not made to digest human food like humans… the food became like a poison to me which meant I had no other choice. I was now in the human world becoming bulimic. "Ugh" I moaned to myself. "Why did I ever sign up for this?" To do what is right for my people. I thought to myself. To bag the killer.
Crawling into bed and pulling the sheets up around me I listened to the quiet pitter patter of the rain against the roof. I had a hard time falling asleep. I knew that it would be like this possibly for the rest of my stay I was here. It wasn't the rain or Charlie's snores that kept me awake, but for the simple but true fact that I was nocturnal. I thought for a while how life would be easier as a human as I drifted into a fitful sleep.
A/N The two types of itallics are skinny (the less active, human side of her mind) itallics and the bold (more active, monster side of her mind) itallics.