January 10 2006

Christina

Have you ever had one of those moments when you were at the wrong spot at the wrong time? I have, lots of times. But I have to say this one takes the cake. I was driving to school and into my ratty old car. The thing breaks down on a weekly bases. I was halfway to school when my car gave a groan and stopped dead in the middle of the road. I stepped out of the car and gave the tire a kick. I heard someone scream with pain down the road. I thought of my sister and ran towards the scream. My twin sister had been missing for the past four months. I ran into an ally where I saw a man with pitch black hair standing over a girl. He had his teeth in her neck. It looked like he was drinking her blood. I screamed was about to scream but he had his hand on my mouth before I could even blink. "Oh boy, two meals in one stop" he said sounding very happy. I opened my mouth to question him but he threw me to the ground and sank his teeth into my neck. It felt like flames were scooting out of his teeth. I screamed and tried to push him off, but I was so weak I could barely lift my arms, let alone push this monster off of my. I felt someone pushing him off of me before everything went black.

The flames were pulsing through everypart of my body. I screamed out in pain, begging whoever was there just to kill me. I thought I heard someone talking to me but I was too lost in the flames to care, let alone even hear them. Why did that jerk light me on fire? What did I do to him? The only reason I could think was that I was already dead. I have no idea how long I was burning but it felt like entire years had gone by. I noticed that the fire was starting to leave my fingers and toes. The fire was leaving my arms and legs. But my heart started beating faster and faster until it was going so fast that I thought it was going to rip out of my chest. I felt like most of the flames were gone but my heart was getting faster and faster. That is when my heart stopped. The flames were gone except in my throat. I could hear everything. Cars wizzing by, kids laughing and birds chirping.

I opened my eyes and everything was so clear and defined. I felt someone holding my hand and next thing I knew I was in a strange crouch. But I popped out of it when I saw my sister standing in front of me. She looked so different. He light brown hair was now down past her shoulders. Her face was pale, touch and very beautiful. Her eys were now topaz instead their regular green. She had a grin on the face as she said "welcome to the vampire world". The one who was holding my hand said "Hi, I'm David". I knew that at that moment, I was in love with him. I thought he was an angel. I was also now a vampire. Have you ever had one of those moments when you were at the wrong spot at the wrong time? I have, lots of times. But I have to say this one takes the cake.

Crazy Newborn

January 10 2008

Christina

"Christy, are you sure you're ready? We don't want anymore slip ups" David asked with alarm. My sister looked at me and said "yeah, it seems everytime you start a new school, you slip up". I swept my dark brown hair away from my gold eyes and said "I will be fine, the last time was because I was neglecting my hunting. I'm not even thirsty." David and Maddie shared a concerned look and David just said "Okay, if you feel any temptation I want you to get up and leave, right away". I turned and kissed my over protective husband square on the lips and whispered "well I guess that means I have to leave now, because I am totally temped." Maddie rolled her eyes and pushed the back door open. It was the first day at yet another school. This one was Dartmouth High. I knew they had reason to be nervous. We have been to five schools and we ended up leaving those schools because I would end up giving in to the call of someones blood. David stepped out of the car and came over to open the door for me. I kissed him and said "well, my hero". I knew we couldn't tell anyone we were married, but we would could let them know we were dating.

We got our sceduals and went to our new lockers. Maddie was posing as a sophmore and David and I were Juniors. I heald hands with David the entire way upstairs. People were staring at us, whispering things like, "are the related to the Cullen's." I didn't even know who the Cullen's were. David and I had the first class and afternoon classes together. That meant I was on my own for math. Daivd took my hand and said "come on, lets go to class." We had Chemestry first period. I could smell the presence of one or two vampires before we went into the classroom. We walked into the classroom and I let our a little gasp as my throat caught fire. A blonde male and a bronze haired male vampire looked at me with a nervous faces. David just pulled me towards the door and saying "are you sure you can do this?" I nodding questioning myself and whispered so low only a vampire could hear. "David, with you here I can do it." I turned around and sat down at a seat up front. I heald my breath, moving my shoulders rythically. I looked around the room and saw the two vampire staring at me like I was about to jump up and eat the person next to me. I looked at David and concentrated on not drinking the blood of anyone in the classroom. David wrapped his arm around my waist for comfort. The clock moved slowely as ever. When the bell finally rang the two vampires were at our side. The blonde vampire spoke first. "Hi, I'm Jasper Hale and this is Edward Cullen, could we talk to you for a minute?" David just said "yeah, but can it wait until lunch?" Jasper just nodded and said "oh, sure. We'll meet you in the cafeteria." I looked at Jasper and Edward and said "well I am Christy Hasting and this is David Dean."

I had math next. I walked nervously into the classroom and once again my throat caught fire. I took a seat next to the open window and waited. I put up the hood to my hoodie and put my head on the desk. I just wanted this class to end. I felt somewhat releaved when I looked up to see Jasper walking in followed by a vampire with black, spikey hair. She looked like a pixie. She was only a couple inches shorter then me. I was very short. I was 5'1 and Maddie was 5'4. David was 5'9 and very smug about this. Jasper walked over to me followed by the pixie girl. I was still scared stiff that I was going to mess up. The girl stuck out her hand and said "hi, I'm Alice." I shook her hand and she whispered in my ear "you should be fine." I gave a her confused look as she sat down beside me. Jasper sat in back of me. I knew they were trying to help. I gave them thankful glances and went to work. The teacher made me intorduce myself to the class. I felt myself almost ready to attack a couple times but Jasper placed his hands firmly on my shoulders, holding me into my seat. Class ended and Alice took my hand and said "I told you, you could do it with help". Jasper just whispered in my ear, "she sees the future". We went in the hall and David was waiting for me. Jasper and Alice showed us the way to the cafeteria. My throat was still enflamed. Four more vampires, a blonde girl, a muscler man, a brown haired girl and Edward. Jasper looked at Alice who said "maybe we should go outside". Jasper nodded and said to the four vampires "come on, we are going outside."

I found out that the blonde was Rosalie Hale, the muscular man was Emmett Cullen and the brunette was Bella Cullen. Maddie met us outside. The first thing she did was ask David how I did. Jasper raised an eye brow. I said "so I had a slip up or two". Maddie laughed and said "or five, this is the longest she's ever made it". Jasper said "oh that explains why she is having trouble. How old is she?" David looked at Jasper and said "she is two years old today". Emmett and Rosalie got bored after a while and walked away. Jasper gasped looked at David and said "why did you bring such a new vampire to school?" Maddie laughed and said "we tried to leave her home, but she went crazy on her own and killed the landlord". I roled my eyes and said "that was a while ago". Maddie laughed and said "that was last month". Edward said "we should talk to Carlisle and Esme".

I wondered who Carlisle and Esme were. Edward and Alice took David and Maddie aside. Jasper said "just to let you know, I can feel emotions and Edward can read minds. Edward can't read Bella's mind because she is a sheild". Did that mean he could read my mind? Edward, Alice, David and Maddie came over laughing. David looked me in the eyes and said "you are going to go with Jasper and Alice. They are going to take you to their house. You are going to discuss the option of home schooling with their parents". I kissed David good bye. Alice grabbed my hand and lead me to a yellow porshe. I climbed in back. Alice and Jasper went up front. The car sped off to the highway. Jasper looked at me and said "so you and David are dating?" Alice laughed and said "they are engaged".

We pulled up to a big three story house. The house looked very welcoming. We went inside and a man with Blonde hair came down the stairs followed by a woman with light brown hair. Jasper said "this is Carlisle and Esme". I got a warm, motherly feeling from Esme. She sent Jasper and Alice back to school, leaving me with her and Carlisle. Carlisle looked at me and Esme and said "I have to get to the hospital, I won't be home until six or seven. We are doing two triple bipasses." Esme kissed him good-bye and turned to me. She lead me over to the sofa and asked why I wasn't in school. "I am only a couple months old. I tried going to school but everytime I ended up with my teeth in someones throat," I confessed with guilt dripping from every word. She pulled me into a motherly hug and said "it will get easier with age".

My throat sudenly ripped into flames again. Esme looked at me and said "thirsty?" I put my head down in shame and said "it's nothing, I am thirsty all the time. I'll wait for David to come get me". Esme put her arm around my shoulder and said "and have you in pain for the rest of the day, we can go hunting right now!" Hunting with Esme was like going shopping with your mother. She gave advice when needed and helped if I needed help. She was able to restrain me by herself. It was like she really cared. She knew I would be upset if I killed another human. After all my eyes just turned gold. We went back to the house and Esme got me settled with some math. I was finished my math work, some english and even a little bit of history when the door opened and I found myself in my husbands arms. He crushed my lips with his before asking how my day was. "I went hunting and caught a mointain lion and a bear," I told him. He looked at Esme. "Thank you so much for volenteering to help Christy. She just isn't ready for school yet," he said greatfully.

Esme begged us to stay for a couple hours. Edward took David and Maddie downstairs to give them some advice for school. I wanted to be able to go to school too. But I was still too out of control. Jasper was sitting on the lazy boy watching the news. I walked in and he looked up from the news. I sat down on the sofa and watched to see what was new. He sensed my mood and clicked the TV off. "what's wrong, Christy?" I shrugged and said "what makes you think something is wrong?" He laughed and said "I am an empath, I can sense that you are upset about something". My mouth fell into an "o" and I said "don't worry about it, it's nothing". He didn't seem convinced. He sat down on the sofa beside me and said "you can tell me, I won't tell anyone". I starred at him for a second and drew in a deep breath. "Does it ever get easy? When will I be able to be around people again?" Jasper looked into my eyes and said "it is different for everyone. What you are going through is perfectly normal. I went through it and so did everyone else in this house, except maybe Bella. You will one day be able to control yourself around people. You just need to get past your crazy newborn stage".

Alice came downstairs and sat beside me. "Where do you guys live?" she asked probably already knowing the answer. We didn't live anywhere. We just drove around all night stopping to hunt once and a while. When I told Alice this she told me that we were moving in with them. She had already showed Maddie to her room and David to the room he and I would be sharing. She pulled my hand and showed me to the room I'd be sharing with David. David saw me and pulled me into an embrace and started kissing me. I started to kiss him back, forgetting Alice was even in the room. Alice pulled us apart saying "you aren't married yet. Even if you don't care about not being married, you don't have a bed and you are NOT denting the floor". I eyed her suspicously. She grinned an evil grin before saying, "you will be married next week. You can do what ever you want once your married". If I could blush I knew I would have been beet red. After Alice left he whispered into my ear "we can sneak out tonight". Alice screamed up the stairs "no you won't!" She was right. The first time should be specal. If anything it should at least be after we were legally married. I knew that I wanted the first time to be magical and not just an act out of lust. That and I did not want it to be in a house full of vampires who would hear every single sound. I wouldn't be able to look them in the eyes. It would be even worse seeing as I just met them. Alice said the floor would be dented, so we would have to tell them the floor was dented. Then we would have to tell them HOW it got dented. I could not stand that embaressment.

I walked downstairs with Alice leaving David to finish his homework. Edward ran upstairs with Bella in his arms. Emmett started laughing uncontrolably. I looked at him and thought, I wish Emmett would shut up for two hours. Suddenly the laughter from Emmett stopped and he began franticly trying to talk. However he wasn't capable of talking. Yep, that was my power. I could control people with my mind. I remember when I dicovered it.

flashback

I walked into the house we were staying in. It was two weeks ago ago and I had just attemped to go to school. I however slipped up two hours after arriving to the school. David was comforting me. "You know it wasn't your fault. I should have made sure you hunted before school". I shook my head and said "I know, I am so sorry. We now have to move because of me. I am a monster". He pulled my chin up so that I was looking into his eyes. "You listen and you listen good. You are not a monster. You are a beautiful, strong and wonderfull woman. But not a monster". I felt myself feeling warm and happy. I felt sort of giddy. I looked deep into his topaz eyes and wished for him to kiss me. Suddenly he was pulling my face towards his. Then our lips touched and I felt and electric current rush through my body. We pulled apart and he looked at me with confussed eyes. He smiled and said "I didn't mean to do that. I guess you have a gift". I looked into his eyes and said "then I didn't mean to do this". I pulled his lips back to mine and kissed him until Maddie walked in and screamed "get a room".

End of Flashback