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Chapter One
(Destiny's POV)
Crouched low in the forest I could see my prey standing in the open meadow. Quietly reajusting myself I watched as the boy strode forward, a mere yard away from me. Having not seen me yet he has no idea I'm about to attack. With one final deep breath I pounce and knock us both to the forest floor.
"Dez, what the hell are you doing? Get off me or so help me I will shred your new outfit for school tomorrow!" I can't help but choke up a paniced laugh, "Shawn Lee Keith, you wouldn't dare touch my new wardrobe or me and Zoey both will tear you to shreds and burn the peices. I'm dead serious boy, you know I wouldn't joke about something as important as my clothes." I watched in amusment as Shawn's face paled even more than it already was and his eyes got wide, just the threat of me and my 'sister' being angry with him nearly scared him to death, but we both knew it'd be a pretty fair fight anyway. Laughing like a maniac I got off the ground and held out my hand to him, "Come one Shawn, Zoey's going to be angry enough as it is that we were hunting in our new clothes, she'll throw a fit. Better not give her anymore reason to be angry, lets go back to the new apartment." As he grabbed my hand and I easily pulled him to his feet, we started running back to the edge of the woods where my baby was parked.
"Dez, I still don't get how we can afford this car, It's not like any of us have had jobs in the past 40 or 50 years," Shawn sounded unsure as he gently pulled open the door of my new 2009 Silver Nissan GT-R.
"Shawn, I've told you this many times before. I am the oldest in our group, there fore, I have had one hundred and forty seven years for money to build up. Weather that money be from when I was human or now that I'm a vampire and was a vetrenarian for 20 years spread out, or maybe even from when I was a lawyer, hell, most of it's probably from when I was a doctor for 15 years. The point is, we all together have more money than you can possible imagine, now little brother-" Here I just had to smirk at him, it was a point we'd argued many times before, he was eighteen but was only born in 1900, whereas I was seventeen and born in 1863, "Stop whining, get in the car, and lets go home!" I loved to torture him with the fact that I was actually older, but he was like a big brother to me and Zoey, we always treated him as if he were the older one. As I sat down in the new black leather seats of my beautiful car and turned the key, my music started to play and the comforting sound of piano music filled me and Shawn as I breathed in the new car smell. Hearing my music in this car just made it all so much more real than it had been the night before when we'd bought the car. We were going to try to settle down here in this small town of Forks, Washington, try to seem normal, live in an apartment and go to school. Zoey and I would be Juniors and Shawn would be a senior. Zoey had tried to argue that she did not want Shawn alone in his classes because he hadn't completely perfected his control around humans, to which me and Shawn both retaliated that she was only seventy-seven, she'd been born in just 1932, and only changed in 1949. That instantly quieted her, but we all knew she had darn near perfect control, which was only rivaled with my own.
Turning onto the slightly busy road that led to the apartment complex my 'siblings' and I would be living in hauled my attention back to reality as I slowed and watch the needle of the speedometer sink down to a hundred and five.
As we pulled up to the apartment complex, slowly might I add, Shawn looked up at the sky through the darkly tinted windows. "Typical clouds, grey sky with cold drizzle. It's perfect." Shawn muttered to himself as he opened his door and I shut off the car. Grabbing my purse and keys, I locked up the car before closing my door and following Shawn up the sidewalk into the building. I walked straight over to the elevator and pressed the little button which lit up as soon as I touched it. The doors opened to reveal a completely empty elevator. As me and Shawn stepped on, an old lady with a rather large bag shuffled her way into the small space with us. I immediatly looked at Shawn to see his body go rigid, we'd only had a small hunt, a deer or two, he was obviously still thirsty. Acting upon instint, I gently but firmly shoved Shawn over to the corner of the elevator farthest away from the women and stepped closer to her myself. "Here, let me help you with that, it must be heavy. I'm Destiny, and that's my brother Shawn." I made sure to act as if that was the reason I'd moved Shawn, and I made my voice as kind as I could. "Oh, thank you child, that would be very nice of you. I'm on the third floor, do you think you could help me take it up there?" The women said in a raspy old-lady like voice. Well, at least that was convenient, we were on the forth floor, the very top. By now the bell had made a little ding and the doors were sliding open to reveal the third floor. "Shawn, go up to our room and tell Zoey I'll be up in a minute-" At this point I was facing and speaking to Shawn with a kind voice, but my face and mind was screaming at him to get himself together. "Here, I'll take your bag, just lead me to your room and I'll be on my way." With that, Shawn left and went toward the stairs, and the woman started walking to a door a few strides away from where we were standing. I bent to grab the suitcase and as I stood back up, I walked to the door the old women had unlocked. As I walked through the door I noticed the disgusting old people smell and I quickly dropped the suitcase on the couch the old lady gestured to. "Thank you darling, you really helped an old women out." The women said in the same raspy tone as before. I modestly waved away her thanks and strode out the door and over to the stairs.
I carefully looked around and, after seeing no one in sight, I ran up the stairs and down the hall to the door of my in mere seconds. Taking out my key card, I slid it through the door and it unlocked, turning the handle and pushing open the door I found that as soon as I opened the door I was flung inside the dark room, although I could see perfectly fine without the light it was still weird, and pushed to the floor and rolled onto my back. The next thing I knew a short something was pinning me to the ground and the lights were flipped on. I looked over to the lightswitch by the door first to see Shawn standing there with a very grim expression on. I then looked up into the face of my captor and felt rather than seen the short black hair tickle the side of my face as I looked into the golden eyes of another very grim and serious expression. Zoey looked as if she was about to commit murder and deeply regretted it. "Destiny, I'm sorry, but this has to be done. I told you not to wear your new clothes yet, but you didn't listen. I told you if you even touched them, you'd face the consiquences. Again, you didn't listen. So what did you do? You wore them on a hunting trip AND got a bit of mud on the new shirt. Do you know what kind of crime that is?" Zoey looked like a crazed lunatic and I couldn't help but laugh. We all started laughing as Zoey rolled off me and stood up. "Zo, honestly, you almost had me going for a minute, but then again, you do that all the time, and it's still funny!" By now, we were all rolling on the living room floor, and I'm sure, if we'd been human, there would have been tears streaming down our cheeks. "Okay, Okay, girls calm down, we need to start setting up the apartment and our rooms. Now Zowhats the story?"
We all sobered up by the time Shawn had asked Zoey what the story was. "The story is that our parents were killed in a car accident while on vacation in Mexico. Since you are a legal adult, you have taken custody of us and we live together in this here apartment. None of us work, our parents were rich and before they died they left us with a very big sum of money, which isn't technically a lie, we do have alot of money, because they were both doctors. We are all actual siblings. Is that all? Did I leave anything out?" She looked confident and somehow triumphant, about what, who knows. "Yeah, thats it. The whole story. Although we don't tell anyone but the office and people in charge. Remember, don't get attached to anyone, and we keep to ourselfs. Oh, and don't forget our last names are Keith." Shawn said as Zoey and I started unpacking all the brand new stuff we had bought for the apartment.
Within half and hour, the whole apartment, minus each of our respective rooms, was unpacked and looked quite homey. "Zo, Shawn, I'm gonna go sort out my room. You should do the same." I told them as I walked to the very last door in the three bedroom apartment. I opened the door to reveal a gorgeously deep plum painted room. I looked around in awe. This room had been plain white when I had first seen in mere hours ago, and it still smelled of fresh paint. "Zoey." I merely whispered her name, but she heard me, what with our devine vampire hearing. Zoey came dancing up to me and beamed at my awed expression. "I knew you'd love it. You've always been one for the deep and rich colors. What are you waiting for? Go on in! Decorate your room, set everything up. Don't worry the paint's dry, I made sure to buy the super fast drying paint." With that, Zoey shoved me in my room and shut the door behind me. I quickly ran to the very large box that held my couch and, sure enough, it matched perfectly with my walls.
Nearly fifteen minutes later, using vampire quick speed, my room was complete. I looked around at the comfortable couch with the plush fur pillows, the desk with all my art supplies on it, the super fast laptop that I had sitting on the coffee table in from of the couch, the picture I painted of the forest handing on the wall, and last, but definetly not least, the small walk in closet that held so many clothes and accessories that even Zoey would be happy for a week. Then all the smaller things I had sitting around, the book shelf next to the door filled with books and my phone plugged into the charger with my black digital camera the small table next to the couch. It all looked perfect.
Walking out of my room, I headed to the room next to mine, instead of going right in, I sent my thoughts to Shawn, Is it okay if I come in? I'm finished with my room and I don't think Zoey is yet, I could help you finish if your not either. I didn't bother telling him it was me, I was the only vampire we'd ever met that could project her thoughts. I waited for Shawn's reply. Of course you can, you don't ever have to ask to come in Dez, it's fine. Yeah, I'm pretty much fnished, you don't have to help. I was also the only vampire we'd ever met that could read the thoughts of those around her. If I were to focus on a certain person, I could read their thoughts, or send them mine. The only other vampire we knew of that could read thoughts was Aro, and he had to physically touch someone. So, when I heard Shawn's answer in my head I turned the door handle and walked in. I looked around, fasinated at how his room looked nearly exactly like mine, but boyish and the walls where a deep green. He was sitting on his couch looking through was I realized was a photo album. It was the photo album me and Zoey had decided to him him last year, it was filled with random pictures of each of us. He was looking at the picture of all three of us on a canoe in the middle of the Amazon River. It was cloudy and dark out but that's what our camerea's were for. Shawn was leaning over the side of the boat, his short, shaggy black hair dripping wet, and had water cupped in his hands that he was about to fling at Zoey, who's short black hair was already sopping wet and sticking to her face and shoulders. Both of them were laughing and having a great time while I was behind both of them, unoticed with a big bucket of water about to dump it on them both. My long, straight black hair was soaking wet and clung to my lower back and my bangs did the same to my smiling, beaming face. "That was a fun day, I just can't wait to see all the fun moments we'll catch on camera here. Just remember, keep your camera with you at all times." I reminded Shawn, and he looked up at me and gave me his most toothy smile, exposing all his pearly whites. "Dez, let's go check on Zo, maybe she needs our help, usually she would have come in here by now, I know she's heard us in here."
With that, we both stood up and walked across the hall to Zoey's bedroom door. The door was firmly shut so I sent my thoughts to Zoey, Zo are you okay? Need some help finishing up? It's been nearly half an hour since you started. Me and Shawn can help you if you want. Can we come in? When i finished sending my thoughts to Zoey, I turned to Shawn and whispered, "One minute, let me get a reply." Wait, don't even touch the door handle yet! I want it to be a super suprise. You can't see my room yet. When I'm finished I'll call you with my thoughts, just keep an open head so you can hear me when I am finished. And then there was complete silence within my mind. "Okay, she says to come back later, and then we'll get to see what her room looks like. Let's go finish looking at the pictures." I told Shawn, and we walked back to his room and sat on the couch, picture album on our laps.
Nearly another twently minutes later, as me and Shawn where finishing up the picture album, I heard it. Come on Destiny, bring Shawn. You guys can see my room now! So we stood up and walked back to Zoey's bedroom door, which was still firmly shut. I reached out and turned the handle. Pushing open the door I saw Zoey standing on a swing, yes a swing hanging from her ceiling. All the walls where a sky blue and the floor was covered in a pretty light green plush carpet. There was a very big, very soft looking couch the color of freshly mowed grass sitting in the center of the room but pushed against the wall.
"Shawn, I would like your help. You have the coolest gift and I was wondering if you could make grass grow on my floor, like big soft plush meadow grass. And use your talent so it doesn't die? That would be the best present in the whole world! Well, that and make a tree grow over there in the corner. Like a pretty birch tree! And make is so that one doesn't die either, and let the branches hang out over the couch, that would be so pretty. Please?" By time Zoey was finished she was practically on here knees with her hands held together begging Shawn. "Fine. But only because I love you. You owe me big time." As Shawn was talking he had flicked his wrist and pointed at the corner of the room near the couch where a birch tree immediatly began growing up out of the carpet. He then did the same while pointing at the floor and all over the green carpet knee high, soft lush green grass started to spring up. He then did the same but pointed toward the chains that hung the swing from the ceiling and vines entwined themselves in the chains and small pink flowers bloomed every few inches on the vine.
Zoey and I stared around in silence, then together we breathed, "Shawn, it's beautiful-" I stopped talking there but Zoey continued, "Thank you so much. Your right, I owe you big time."