1 The Move
I looked out the window. Our last bit of time in Mississippi, soon we would be in northern West Virginia. Here we were supposed to be twenty-seven, in West Virginia we will be sixteen turning seventeen. Our story there is that our mom died when we were born and we got put into the foster care system, then when we turned sixteen we got emancipated. What really happened is that on our seventeenth birthday our mom was killed and we were turned into vampires.
Once again I thought about Jasper, the night before my sister and I escaped. I had ran to the lake and jumped in. I didn't know Jasper was there, until I came back up to the surface. When I came up I saw him and I laughed. For the first time since I had met him he smiled a genuine southern smile.
"Tiffany, hurry up with those last few boxes! We need to be in West Virginia before sunrise unless you wanna try hiding our sparkles from a distance." I heard just before the front door shut. My sister and I aren't normal vampires. We have gifts. Mine are I can change the scent of anyone or anything, I can hide our sparkles in sunlight, and last but not least I can talk to people in their mine. When my sister and I had a run-in with the Volturi we found that my mind is shielded, and when I talked to someone else in their mind theirs is shielded as well. My shield is always over my sister some, and I can either take it away from her mind or tighten it. We found that out thanks to one of the leaders of the Volturi, Aro. Alicia's gifts are she can change anyone's eye color, create heart beats, and last she can tell what other people are feeling and why. She can also change how they are feeling. Alicia was happy to move. I guess I am to it's just I wish we weren't running from Amun's new born army. What got him so mad is Alicia had, had a great "friendship" with Benjamin.
I picked up my last four big boxes and took them to the front door. I sat them down and looked around. The house is completely empty but the few boxes. Most of our furniture we sent to the new place already. I lost our bet so I got stuck driving the car with our cat Willow and our wolf Jackson. Alicia is going to ride our horse Bandit to the new house through woods. Something no one knows, including the Volturi, is that you can turn animals into vampires. All of our animals are vampire animals. We found out because after we got away from Jasper and Maria we were utterly alone. We tried eating human food but we knew we needed blood. Although we had never even tasted human blood we refused and couldn't do it. So we though how could we get blood? We considered robbing a blood bank but said no then we were in a clearing when we saw a deer on the edge. So we started hunting animals and when we got lonely we turned a few into vamps. I felt something hit my back then I went flying to the floor.
"I think that's willow talk for, get your butt in gear girl." Alicia laughed and got the last boxes loaded into the car. I spent most of the day driving; Alicia had already gotten there quickly because of how fast Bandit could go. We spent the rest of the day and most of the night unpacking and then went hunting.
I looked in the mirror and smiled. My favorite part about being a vampire was being beautiful. Something I never thought I'd be when I was human. Unlike most vampires, my sister and I remember our human lives much clear, except our childhood. That's because we were both in an accident when we were ten.
We have gone to High School dozens of times but for some reason I kept sensing this was going to change our life. It's Monday and we are already enrolled at school so we're ready to go. I'm wearing a black skirt to my knees that flairs out with a tight dark blue one long sleeve shirt that has lips with vampire fangs sticking out that says "Watch out. I DO Bite." All that was left to do was put on make-up, which made me look amazing with my long straight black hair to my waist with short thick bangs; and soon to be blue eyes. We always change our eye color right before we leave. I finished my make-up, I apply dark eye liner, and ran down the hall to Alicia's art studio, and I knew that's where she would be this close to leave. I knocked on the door and walked in.
"Alicia, time to go." She looked up from her drawling easel and smiled. I walked beside her and gaping in awe. It was a drawling of our mother. The most beautiful one yet, she was captured perfectly facing the sky in the outfit she wore the day she died, our seventeenth birthday. Alicia scooted over on her work bench and I sat down. We sat and talked about mom and our other sister, she was eighteen and had already married so she wasn't with us the night it happened, and we never saw her again. I glanced at the clock on Alicia's wall jumped up and screeched.
"Dude, we have to go like now or we could be late!" Alicia just got up and laughed.
"Relax we'll get there in time, we just got the new car in anyway. The newest hybrid on the market and the fastest we will get to school." Alicia smiled and I noticed what she was wearing. Her black hair was long and curly to her mid back with long bangs to the side, and light make-up. She was wearing leggings and a shirt/dress which was orange and brown stripped from the bottom breast down, above that it was just brown. The dress was strapless so she was wearing a black pullover her shoulders. We checked on the animals then she changed my eyes to blue and hers to an orange brown and headed out the door to school.
When we pulled in the parking lot the students stared at our car, they could smell new students from a mile away. I looked at sis and smiled this is going to be an awesome year. We got out of the car and leaned on the side, despite leaving late we got there early. Everyone stopped staring at us and looked at a jeep and Volvo pulling into the parking lot. I looked at sis and she shrugged. When they parked a pretty girl with redish dark brown hair to her back got out fallowed by a guy with golden brown hair. A blond girl with long hair got out of the jeep fallowed by a buff guy with dark brown or black hair, he looked like a teddy bear. I started a conversation with sis.
Omg! Its attack of the pedo bear! She laughed out loud while looking at him.
Hey that's not nice….but oh so funny! And true. She laughed more. I winked at her and looked back at the jeep to see more getting out. A skinny ballerina type with short straight layered black hair got out. I looked at sis and rolled my eyes, these must be the popular kids the way everyone was staring. Sis wasn't looking at me her eyes were wide and terrified, and then I heard two heard beats, ours.
Hey Alicia what's wrong? We don't need heart beats right now. I gave her a confused look but she was still staring ahead. When I turned around I saw someone I never thought I would see again. My mind froze and my breath quickened.
"Jasper," My frozen lips mumbled. Sis broke out of her trance and hit me as all their heads snapped to me, six gold eyes pierced through me with confused guarded expressions. I broke my own trance and changed our scent, then tightened my shield on Alicia's mind. At that point I was glad we seemed human, they won't think we are much different if we have heart beats different scent and different eyes.
Relax Alicia he won't know who we are. They won't know who we are. We will be fine. Use your gift and calm down! I could sense her calming herself through her mind. She looked at me and we got our stuff from the car. I hadn't realized how scared I was until I felt Alicia's calm come over me. I smiled to myself.
Alicia maybe I could tap into their mind like we have been practicing. They won't know. Plus we need to know what if any gifts they have. She nodded. I focused on Jasper I moved through his mind quietly and quickly pulled out. He had a dazed look, so did the guy with golden brown hair who I discovered was Edward Cullen. I filled sis in mentally on everything I looked for and found. The only thing I knew was their names and gifts. Personality? Had no clue what they were like or what they were doing in a human high school. All we knew was that they hunted animals, by their eye color.
The bell rang and we hurried to our class. First period was gym and it was a breeze, sis and I had it together, we have all our classes together. There was only one class before lunch that we had with the Cullen's plus homeroom. I was daydreaming in my fifth period when a note landed on my desk. I looked around and saw a sexy Emo guy sitting to my left and back one. He smiled a beautiful smile and pointed to his desk. His hair was straight black to his shoulders and he was wearing all black, no make-up. He is one of the hottest guys I've ever met. I turned away and faced front glad I couldn't blush anymore. The front of the note said in elegant writing that reminded me of my Dad's old journal.
To: New girl
From: Harrison James Black
I opened it and smiled wider.
Hi what's your name? Btw you're beautiful. What music do you like?
"Now class what's the answer to this next equation?" Mrs. Grayson looked at me, almost challenging. I answered her in such a way I'm sure everyone thought the new girl could be a math nerd. The teacher nodded and smiled returning to the rest of the class. I started to write back when I heard sis in my head, she was sitting to my right.
You know we cannot get close to these humans or date them right? I started to get sad and mad.
Why? You got to be with someone, Benjamin. And relax I'm not going to get with a human. Don't you trust me better than that? I felt hurt radiating through the tunnel. I disabled the connection to her mind. I knew we couldn't have friends. I was just tired of being so alone. Sure we had our animals but I wanted a person. Until we deal with Amun's army though we can't have connections. I wrote back in my old cursive writing.
Hi Harrison, my name is Tiffany Isabella Blake. Thank you and all types of music. Just band and artists and songs I like. And yes I do like Black Vail Brides.; P
I tossed the note back to him. He read it and I laughed as he read the last part eyes wide. I knew he was gonna ask, one of my favorite things to do is enter human minds. I got from his mind that Bella's real name is Isabella. The next few weeks went on the same. Passing notes to Harrison in my math class and hiding ourselves. I was passing a note to Harrison about our birthday in a couple weeks when the bell rang for lunch sis and I went together like always. We, with our speed, got there quickly and unnoticed. We sat at a table and ate. Vampires don't eat because it doesn't do anything, don't fill us up or taste good to us but we knew Jasper could be suspicious already so we ate. I ate slowly while Alicia ate quickly. I looked over at Jasper's table. Bella and Edward were whispering so they couldn't be heard by humans but I heard them. They were talking about Nessie, which confused me. I looked into Bella's mind and found it was their daughter. Alicia is gonna want to hear this later. When Edward saw me looking at them he started talking to Jasper.
"Jasper you know those two? There is something about them I don't like." Edward had a thoughtful look. Emmett laughed softly.
"Bull shit. You just hate the fact that Bella's not the only mind you can't read now. Bet you wish you could read their thoughts." Emmett stuck his tongue out at Edward and Edward rolled his eyes. Jasper just kept eye contact with me, I could tell he was thinking and thinking trying to figure out where he seen us. When he rubbed his scares I started to feel panicky but he kept looking at me. When he looked away he looked at Edward.
"I don't know. Tiffany is always happy to see me and right now she's paniced. Her sister Alicia is always worried to see me. It makes me wonder if they are going to really stay away." Jasper was looking at Edward while he said this.
"Relax they might be weird but their human and that will keep them away." Edward seemed to forget about his earlier statement about us. Jasper rolled his eye.
"That's what you said about Bella and now look." He smiled. I blinked. Jasper. Actually. Smiled! The second time in over one hundred fifty years I saw that man smile. I shook my head and looked at my sister. She didn't see it.
"What's the matter Jazz? Don't like having me around?" Bella made a pouty face.
"No, no that's not what I meant. I was just proving a point." I looked back to my sister again. She was drawling in her sketch book. I talked to her in her mind.
They are worried about us again Tiffany.
I know. Hey maybe we should talk to Jasper. I think he has changed. And maybe he could help us with Amun's army? I pulled back from her mind enough to let her think about it. Then she thought to me.
No. Do you want him to go on a killing spree? He might have changed some. But he is still the old him. Just because he doesn't hunt humans don't mean anything. She kept drawling as we spoke in our mind.
It just hard to hide our scent all the time, and to hide your mind so tightly. I'm not used to having to do this. I felt a flush of anger from her through our minds.
And what you think it's easy keeping two heart beats? No not really. I sighed and got up to dump my tray. Then the bell rang and we went to class. Alicia was thoughtful the rest of the day. On the way home she turned to me and sighed.
"Maybe your right we've been hiding for weeks now. I'm afraid if we don't take care of the army they will find us and it could get messy." I could tell sis still had her worries about telling them but she smiled. When we pulled in to the house I turned to her.
"Do you want me to hide our scent? Can we bring Willow, Jackson, and Bandit?" I am hopeful because I love having Willow with me. She shook her head sadly.
"No we are about to drop some huge information on them, let's keep the shock to a minimum. And nah don't hide our scent I'm not creating heart beats anymore either." As she said this our heart beats stopped and her eyes turned gold. I stopped changing our scent and relaxed. It felt good to stop. I laughed and got out of the car then was met with Willow, Jackson, and Bandit.
"No, no. Stay here for now ok? We will get you when we can." The animals bowed their heads and whimpered. I picked up Willow and cuddled her, she is a tabby and looks like puss and boots. Jackson is a pure wolf and Bandit being an old horse is a rare male. I put Willow down and looked at sis, we both nodded. We bolted into the woods, we live in the woods so it is easy staying hidden. Not that anyone would be able to see us anyway. Alicia is super fast even for a vampire but I can keep up pretty well. I'm the super strong one. We ran up to a house that was drenched in vampire scent and something else…wet dog? I changed the scent and felt much better. Sis laughed. We stopped right outside and was met with the big teddy bear Emmett. I flashed him an evil grin. Which he returned, his angrier.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Just then Edward came out.
"I knew there was something about you two. You aren't human." He was still thoughtful, I could still feel him trying to read my mind.
"Stop trying to read my mind Edward, you can't neither can Aro. I have my own shield. Anyway where is Jasper we need him." Edward's face turned to shock. Just then the skinny Alice came in front of them. Bella was at Edward's side as was Rosalie at Emmett's.
"How do you know Jasper? What do you want with him?" She looked scared and worried. I sighed.
"I got this Alice." Jasper appeared by her side. I smiled at him.
"Well Jasper I have to say, seeing you smile at lunch was a shock I haven't seen you smile since that night at the lake." I laughed and sis gasped in my mind.
Wow I never seen him smile.
I know. I laughed and looked at Jasper. He looked thoughtful.
"I thought you were familiar. Alicia Diana Blake and Tiffany Isabella Blake. The names you had when we found you. I should have remembered." He shook his head and rubbed his scares. I rubbed mine unintentionally. Edward looked back and forth between us and Jasper.
"How do you know these girls Jasper?" A man said from the door. In a second he and a woman were there. They were both beautiful as all vamps and they seemed like….parents? I turned my head sideways. I hacked their mind and found that their names are Carlisle and Esme.
"Tiffany and Alicia are the only two too escape me and Maria. They are the ones who got away, while Maria and I were hunting." I smiled at him.
"Nice to see you too, Jasper." Alicia said smiling. Alice hissed, and Jasper put his arm around her.