Collision of Worlds

Chapter 1 – A Trip to Diagon Alley

Alice-Rose's POV

It is a few days before I have to go to King's Cross and get on the Hogwarts Express. The family were with me in a Wizarding market called Diagon Alley; we had to buy everything for school. I was going around with my mum and dad to buy my wand, robes and pet; while the others were getting everything else that I didn't need to be there to buy.

I was seriously looking forward to everything new and unknown. Dad said a lot of the other kids going would have come from all or mostly Wizarding families and wouldn't know much about the "muggle world" as he put it. It would be odd to explain everything that is so normal for us but totally alien to them.

We went to get my robes fitted first; it was a peculiar sensation to say the least. A measuring tape was moving on its own to measure me and then the seamstress magicked sets of robes for me in a few seconds. It was while we were leaving that I met my first wizard my age.

I wasn't really paying attention to where I was walking so when I walked into someone, I was profoundly apologetic. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I didn't see where I was going."

I looked down to help up whoever I had knocked over and found a ginger haired boy that looked to be the same age as me.

"It's fine I was too busy talking to my twin over here to pay attention to where I was going either." He pointed to another ginger haired boy not far away from us.

"Oh, well I'm Alice-Rose Cullen. What's your name?"

"I'm Fred Weasley, my twin is called George, and we're the middle kids of our family."

"How many people are in your family?"

"Well, Bill is the oldest, and then Charlie, then Percy, then you have us. After us is Ron and Ginny. The older guys are already at Hogwarts, me and Georgie-boy here are going into our first year. Are you just starting school?"

"WOW! You have a big family. Yeah, I'm just starting. I didn't even know about any of this until I got my letter."

"So are you from a muggle family?"

"You could say that."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well can I trust you to keep a secret? Like a big secret?"

"Yeah!"

"Well, my family isn't exactly normal..." I wasn't really sure how to tell him that I had a vampire family.

"What do you mean not normal?"

"Well..." I looked at my dad for help, he gave me a look that I knew that he had read Fred's mind and knew that he was a trustworthy person and he meant to just come out and tell him. "We're vampires, but I'm only half, my mum is a witch but I didn't know that until recently."

"Whoa! That is so COOL!" Fred exclaimed excitedly, "But you're not like vampires in books are you, since you're all hanging around here during the day?"

"You're smart. Well it's not too sunny today so we can walk around normally, but we sparkle, like diamonds, in the sun, except I'm not as bad as the rest of my family. Also you have no worry of being eaten because we're 'vegetarian' and hunt animals, but I can eat human food as well."

"Okay, so how about an ice cream to fill your human side of things."

"If my dad says yes, but I need to get my wand soon."

Fred's twin came up then, "You haven't gotten your wand yet? That's usually the first thing that people do."

"Why? What's so special about getting your wand?"

"It's so special because the wand chooses you and you never know what'll happen when you find your wand."

"Well I'll get it as soon as I can but Fred offered ice cream and dad said I could go."

The twins looked at each other with a dumbfounded expression on their faces. "How do you know? You haven't asked yet."

"Well, dad has amazing hearing and knew what was happening. Then when he nodded, I saw it with my enhanced vision."

"That is so cool! Is there anything else you can do, or can your family do stuff?"

"Well we can all run really fast, see and hear better than anyone, smell a whole lot more than you can and some of us are gifted."

"What's 'Gifted'?"

"Well, not everyone can be gifted, but my mum and dad, Auntie Alice and Uncle Jasper and I are all gifted differently."

"What are you gifted with?"

I decided to show them instead of telling them. So I lifted my hands, placed one on either boys' cheeks and showed them a few of my memories from when I was little. I thought that would be the best way to show them what my gift was.

They looked astounded as they blinked their eyes into focus. "What was that?"

"My gift, I can show you anything that I've seen."

"What can everyone else do?" George asked enthusiastically.

"My dad can read minds, my mum is a mental shield, Aunt Alice can see the future and Uncle Jasper is an empath."

"I don't understand all of the things you listed," they said together.

I giggled, "I'll explain while we get some ice cream."