Chapter One

Thirst

I didn't know where I was. In a cave, maybe? Wherever I was it was dark and damp. I was sitting down on a hard wooden - no, a brick chair. I struggled trying to stand up and my legs were weak so I fell back down. "Where are you going?" a voice behind me called out leaving an echo trailing behind him.

I turned around startled. I had been walking towards the only light in the room. A small crack in the wall. "I…I… Where am I?" I felt like I could tear apart the sky and knock down a building.

"You're in my…let's say… secret hideout." The gloomy figure replied.

"Let me leave! I want to go home!" I screamed back at him. The figure just stood there staring. He crept forward.

"I'm afraid you can't go far from here" He was still calm! How? "Not until we get your thirst under control."

"W-what d-do you mean?" I stuttered while my hand reached my throat; then I felt it. It was like my throat was on fire. After a while my eyes settled on the now illuminated body. He was tall and blond wearing a trench coat. Underneath the coat he was wearing a sharp suit with a pearl-white t-shirt.

"I need to show you something, do you trust me?" asked the blond man. I nodded. "Now, follow me." I walked to a wooden door on the over side of the hideout. Now that he had opened the door I looked around. It wasn't a cave. It was a bedroom and I had been sitting on a carved brick bench. The walls were painted a turquoise kind of colour and there was what looked like a king-sized bed at the far edge. There is also a dark wooden wardrobe almost reaching the tall ceiling.

"Wait. Before I go anywhere, who are you and why am I here and not at my home?" I asked worriedly.

"Bambi, I am Doctor Carlisle Cullen. Your father and I were good friends. You were in hospital Bambi; your father had lost your mother he couldn't lose you too. But unfortunately he had died. I saved you, I saved you to let him die happily and not have a terrible death."

"Let's go I want to get out of here. The sooner you show me what you need to show me I can go home, right? Let's go!" He turned and started walking. And like a lost pup I followed.

I followed Carlisle all the way through his bright and airy house- But if you ask me it was more like a mansion. We ended up in an attic with a few windows. He climbed out of the biggest and stood on the wall on the edge of the path surrounding the roof.

"Carlisle! Come Back! You will fall and then I won't have anyone to tell me what the hell is going on!" He jumped. "NO!" I jumped through the window and stood on the wall where he had.

I looked down. "Jump," he whispered. Surely my hearing wasn't that good? "You won't hurt yourself" I shook my head vigorously. "Jump!" He repeated. I closed my eyes and let my knees bend and my feet bounce. I remembered what my gymnastics teacher had taught me in Middle School; 'Meow, because cats always land on their feet.' "MEOW!" I screamed from thinking about it.

THUD. I felt the touch of grass between my toes and the mud squelching under my feet. I did it. I had jumped from the roof of a three story house. "Well done" an unfamiliar voice spoke to me. I looked up. In front of me stood a tall man with dirty blond hair, wearing a pin-striped shirt and black trousers. "I'm Jasper; I can change your emotions with less than a click of my finger."

A girl walked out from behind the glass door. She had extremely short hair-like a boy's- that had been flattened down. She was wearing a sleek leather jacket and black denim jeans. "Hi, I'm Alice," she was very colourful when she was talking. "Guess what I can do!"

"Oh, I don't know, read my mind?" I said sarcastically.

"Nope, that's my ability." I turned around startled. Behind me was another tall man wearing a white shirt and black trousers. He had brown hair and pale pink lips. "I'm Edward, Alice's ability is to see the future." Another female walked in. She had brown long hair and was wearing a purple top with black jeans. "This is Bella, my wife. She is a shield. That means she is not affected by other vampire's powers that affect the body both mentally and physically."

Bella spoke to Edward. "I can talk for myself you know." She turned to me and said kindly "Hi, nice to meet you."

"W-wait. W-what do you mean 'vampire's'?" I asked worriedly. What were they on about? No. I couldn't be. Could I? Was it possible? That would explain everything that has happened today.

Carlisle took a step forward. "Bambi, you're a vampire."

I opened my mouth about to call him crazy when an older female jumped down from a tree. "Hello, Carlisle," she had long brown hair and her fringe was parted in the middle. She wore a frilled purple top and a knee long black skirt. Behind her came a blonde girl in high heels, brown leather jacket and blue denim jeans.

Following the blonde was a strong muscular man with short dark brown hair wearing a white t-shirt and blue jeans.

"Who's this?" the blonde girl asked.

Carlisle spoke again "Rosalie, meet Bambi. She is the newborn I have been telling you about. Bambi this is Esme, my wife." He said pointing to the brown haired woman. "This is Emmett my son."

I was too afraid to speak with so many others watching. Suddenly, a terrifying, painful sensation ripped at my throat; I had no choice but to ask the doctor what was happening to me. "Carlisle my throat," I rasped, grabbing at it, "it's burning!"

"That'd be your thirst. Edward, Bella take Bambi out hunting. Give as much blood as you can." He turned towards me. "Bella's only recently gone through the transformation herself, she knows what it's like." He looked to the woman named Bella, his eyes concerned and pleading. "Help her."

The beautiful couple started running into the forest. I looked at Carlisle. He nodded at me and said; "trust them. They will keep you safe." I spun around, took a deep breath, and ran. The hunt was on.