Chapter 1

It was a few days, in the morning, after my wedding to the most wonderful man I had ever met. I was still in shock every morning waking up knowing that Skyler was mine forever and that together we had two wonderful children. I knew that I had two of my best friends back and that just made everything better. As I was waking up, I heard Mel and Christian yelling at each other... again. Before I was about to go downstairs to see wait the meaningless fight was about Skyler grabbed me by the arm, turned me around, and kissed me.

"Just let them kill each other. All I want is some quiet and peaceful time with my wife. They won't do any severe damage, let Bell take care of them."

"I would but Bell took her turn breaking up the argument yesterday. It's my turn."

"They're made for each other, you know that right? I mean they sound like a married couple."

"I know. Mel just has a habit of going through denial before admitting she likes, and in this case, loves someone. It will happen. I know it, I give them a week before they're together."

"I give them four days."

"You wanna bet?"

"Of course."

Just as Skyler was about to kiss me again I heard Mel scream a new phrase at Christian. I sighed, got ready to use my fire or water or anything else that was needed to end this torture, and headed down the stairs.

"Wish me luck!" I yelled up to Skyler.

"I'm going to win the bet!" He yelled back. I wouldn't be surprised if Skyler did end up winning the bet.

"Of all the dim-witted, annoying, pestering, infuriating, egotistical, dunderheads I had to be in a house with, it just simply had to be you!" Mel yelled.

"What could you possibly have against me besides the fact that I can play violin and you can't! What could it possibly be!"

"You are so immature. I am not jealous! I'm just tired of being woken up in the morning by your constant playing of a wonderful instrument that you don't even know how to play!"

They were yelling at each other about the usual. I felt like I was stuck in the same thing happening every day. Mel was grumpy about being woken up early and Christian just loved annoying the crud out of her. Before I knew it they were using punches, kicks, and whatever else they came up with.

"I hate you with my entire being I wish you could just fly away and I could never see you again!"

Mel was really angry. More than usual. At this point I realized that today was not going to be normal. I also realized that this fight was going to get especially ugly.

"Get out of this house! I can't stand to see you another second!"

Mel was continually screaming at the top of her lungs. Her eyes were blood shot with utter fury. Christian appeared taller, I looked at his feet. He was floating, then his head hit the sealing. I giggled.

"What in the world is so funny!"

"Melinda look!" Christian just now realized he was air-borne.

"Why in the world would I want to see you! You ugly..." Mel stopped in the middle of her sentence. She realized what she did.

"Ouch!" Christian yelped.

Melinda lost concentration and dropped Christian on his head. She giggled her flirty giggle.

"Congrats Melinda." I laughed.

"Thanks. I didn't realize I could lift people. I wonder if I could levitate regular things too."

"Let's go show Skyler and everyone else." I thought if I didn't say something those too would start making out in the middle of the kitchen.

"Yeah, let's go." Christian agreed, still angry about the fight.

After we all got up the stairs I took a left to get to mine and Skyler's room, I turned around to make sure they were still there. I went into the room to get Skyler's attention away from the babies. I told him Melinda figured out her power I realized the two weren't there anymore. I poked my head out the door and looked at Christian's door. It was closed. I saw the lock on the outside of the door turn. Melinda could lift people and objects and apparently move them.

"Nothing is going to happen." Skyler reassured me "They hate each other right now."

He was right. A few moments later Christian and Mel came out of the room with unhappy looks on their faces. I decided to go back to Skyler and enjoy the rest of my morning. We layed down in the bed together.

"So Mrs. Wickham, what do you want to do today?" Skyler asked as he brushed his fingers against my cheek.

"This." I answered.

I leaned over and started to kiss him. Being married was the best ting to ever happen to me.

"I would love that." Skyler laughed "But Dameon and I have to go work on some things for he and Bell's wedding."

I sighed. That means that tomorrow it would be Bell's turn to take care of the plans and I would have to help her. Being the Maid Of Honor was….an honor.

"Ok." I said, trying to cover my sadness.

"Don't be upset." He laughed "I need to get ready to go with him now. Once Dameon and Bell are happily married things should calm down a little."

He got out of bed and put on jeans and a navy blue t-shirt. I decided it would be a good time to do the same. I skipped over to the closet and put on a black t-shirt and jeans. Today was a good day to spend with Charlotte. I hadn't been able to spend much time with her and since everyone was busy, it was perfect.

"Goodbye sweetheart." Skyler said.

He gave me a hug and kissed me. As soon as he and Dameon left, I walked down the hall into Charlotte's room. I knocked on the door and she opened it gracefully.

"Hello!" She greeted me.

"Hey!" I laughed "I was wondering if you maybe wanted to hang out today. We haven't really been able to at all and I thought that it would be fun if we did today."

What I hoped would happen did happen. She agreed and we both decided to go to the mall. I hadn't really been out of the house too much. I was glad that I could spend some time with her. When we made it to the mall, we decided that the first place that we wanted to go was the mall. There weren't many other places to go. Well, there weren't many other places that VAMPIRES could go. The mall was huge. It was near our hometown so we had to be careful. We walked into hundreds of different stores. Everything was pretty normal. We were having fun. We talked about her liking Chase and other things that normal people talk about. Then a wall to one of the stores smashed and in came in three vampires came through. Two were men, one was a women. She had short black hair and her eyes weren't like mine or Skyler's or Scott's. Hers were striking and piercing. They made you want to crawl out of your skin and run away. They all had black capes on and looked like they were from the 1800's. They walked over to us.

"Rosella Wickham!" The black haired female yelled "Charlotte Porter! You have been claimed illegal by the council and shall be disposed of! Along with your family!"

They ran out of the building. We had the attention of over one hundred shoppers. We quickly sped home in our car.

"What was that!" Charlotte yelled "What was all that about!"

"I don't know." I said "All I know is Skyler's got some splainin to do!"

When we made it home, I ran in through the front door, ready to kill Skyler.

"SKYLER!" I screamed at the top of my lungs "Get your lying but down here!"

Skyler came running down the stairs.

"What are you talking about?" He asked.

"What is the council?" I said, still furious "Why do they want to kill us? Why didn't you tell me about this?"

"Oh." He sighed "I guess I should have told you. Everybody! Go into the living room!"

All at once everyone came. They all hurried into the living room so that Skyler could explain.

"There aren't just vampires out there." He stated "There are demons, wizards, warlocks, witches, hobgoblins, werewolves, and tons of other creatures. All of us are organized under one council. There are rules for each group. Vampires have the most specific rules."

I glared at him. This was something that he should have told me about.

"Law one is that we can not interfere with human lives. Christian broke that." Skyler continued "He had been stalking Bell and Ro and reported the camping trip to Ash. Ash was a well known criminal. We were keeping a close eye on him. We didn't know that he was gathering so many people and turning them into vampires. He also broke law two. You cannot change a human unless they are on the list. There is a vampire list. It tells us which humans we are allowed to change. Neither of you were the list. None of you were on the list. What makes you illegal is that you are still HALF human. We have been breaking the law. Rule three, we can't tell anyone about any creature's existence."

I was shocked and angry. I looked at the faces of all of my friends. They seemed shocked too. Then I looked into the eyes of my husband. Pissed off could not describe how I felt. I stormed out of the room and into my bedroom. Skyler followed.

"Sweetheart." Skyler said "I'm sorry that I didn't tell you."

I turned to glare at him.

"I am your wife!" I yelled "Why the Hell didn't you tell me! Something like this should have been mentioned when I was changed!"

He looked upset.

"I'm so sorry." He apologized "I know I should have told you. I didn't think that they would ever bother us. I didn't think that you would need to know."

He came to hug me, but I pushed him away.

"Sweetheart." He begged "Please forgive me."

He looked into my eyes.

"Fine." I sighed "If I don't you will probably have Dameon hypnotize me later anyway."

He kissed my forehead.

"You are correct!" He laughed.

He walked out of the bedroom. I checked on my babies and decided I was going to go to bed. Skyler came in so he could lay with me. He kissed my head and I slowly drifted to sleep.

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