So this is my first twilight fanfic. The first chapter isn't the best but you know you have to set up the story somehow. Please review

Chapter 1: The visit from strangers

I remember my last "normal day" of my life. I was 17 years old and I was sitting in my apartment by myself. My mom was out with her new boyfriend of the week doing who knows what. Ok so I had a pretty good idea but it was too disturbing to think about. I was watching reruns of That 70s show, my favorite show at the time. If I wasn't watching t.v I was usually reading the latest mystery or fantasy novel. It was always good to forget about my home troubles someway!

Doing these things helped to keep other things of my mind. For some reason I could stop two people right next to each other from hearing the other one talk, even if they were screaming at each other. All I had to do was concentrate and I could everything they were saying but they couldn't hear me or anyone else for that matter. You could say this freaked people out , therefore causing me to have no friends. Sure some boys checked me out, but only from a distance. I had long wavy blond hair that reached down the middle of my back and had a pretty curvy body but my weirdness scared people away causing my looks to be a waste. Personally I would rather be normal in every way!

Around 10 p.m after I had switched from watching t.v to reading my book there was a knock on the door. I went to look out he peep hole to see a man with long blond hair. He was unbelievably pale and had red eyes but I had to be going crazy because no one had red eyes except in pictures.

I decided to ignore it and got back to reading my book. There was no way I was opening up the door for some creepy looking guy. The knocking continued though and the man said my name. Now I was really freaked out. I went to the phone to dial 911 but I only got to the second 1 when a cold hand not so gently grabbed my wrist and used the other hand to hang up the phone. I was about to scream when the hand that hung up the phone was suddenly covering my mouth. The next thing I knew the man at the door entered the room gracefully with two more figures with the same pale complexion and red eyes appearing behind him. And I do mean appearing one minute it was just him then I blinked and two more were there.

On the one side another man stood. His red eyes seemed angrier than the man in front of him who seemed excited about something. On the other side stood a girl who was younger even than me or so I thought. Her red eyes were staring directly at me and I felt a strange sense of energy flowing through me. She looked away from me and sighed.

"Master my powers did not work on her, " the petite brunette said angrily.

"That is quite alright dear. I had a feeling they would not," the leading man said.

I stared at them in shock but not disbelief. Who was I to say powers were not real. I knew I had them though they were not much use. I tried to struggle out of the man's arms but it was no use. The only way I knew it was a man was by his pants and shoes he was wearing.

"Hello Cathy," the strange man that was at my door said. He really did have a beautiful voice even though I was pretty sure he came here to kill me. What I didn't understand was why he needed a whole party to kill me. "We didn't mean to scare you but we could not have you calling the police," he continued.

"Though they would of made a nice snack," the man to his left said with a smile that sent chills down my back.

"You will have to forgive Cauis we do not have many conversations with humans," the leading man said.

What the hell did he mean by human? Was he not human? And what did Cauis mean he would eat the police? Were they some kind of cannibal monster.

"And how rude of me, I have not given the proper introductions. If you promise not to scream I will have Demetri let go of you and I can give the introductions. Do you promise?"The strange man asked.

I could tell it wasn't a question rather a command. And I also had a feeling calling for help would not do any good rather it would of caused more problems. So I just nodded at the man.

The next thing I knew I felt a gust of wind and a new man stood next to the girl who I guessed was bout 15. I almost screamed involuntarily but managed to keep it to a gasp. This man was bigger than the rest and I don't mean to much junk food big. I would say he was in his late 20s to early 30s.

"So as I said this here is my brother Caius, Jane is on my right and then the man next to Jane is Demetri. Sadly my brother Marcus could not make it since he had to watch over Volterra while I was gone," the man explained.

"Do you mind sharing your name?" I asked not very politely.

Suddenly I felt the strange energy in me again and looked to see Jane staring at me angrily. Cauis suddenly had his freezing cold hands around my neck and though it did not seem like he was using much of his strength I was grasping for breath. I heard the man order them to stop. Cauis let go of my neck and gracefully returned to the rest of them. Jane stopped boaring her eyes into me and the strange sense left my body. I was a little scared to know what her power is but for some reason I knew Cauis was the one I really had to worry about. And I had a strange feeling at the time that my life was about to be changed forever.