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Chapter 1: 2/3 Human 1/3 Vampire

Scarlett's POV

I nearly broke down in tears once I finished packing for the trip. The emotions of losing my mother was still very raw. I didn't know what I was going to do or how I was going to carry on.

I still remember the day she disappeared like it was just yesterday. She had gone out to hunt while I stayed behind to babysit my little brother. She came running home extremely terrified for some reason. She told me to grab Matt and run and not to look back.

I grabbed the four-year-old boy and ran as fast as I could with him. Unlike my mother who was half vampire I was only one third vampire. My father was full human and I had inherited most of his human traits rather than the vampire ones my mother possessed.

My mother hadn't exactly had the easiest life. My grandmother, Isabella Cullen, had died giving birth to my mother. My grandfather blamed my mother for the death. He got so angry that he dumped my mother in the forest and left her to die when she was less than an hour old.

My mother never got the chance to learn anything more about her family. Just my grandparents names. That was it really. Being half vampire she was able to remember the day she was born until the day she disappeared. I refused to believe that she was dead. Despite the odds I held onto all hope that she was still alive and out there somewhere. If my mother could survive in the forest on her own she could survive whatever happened to her, right?

When my mom was eight, physically around 17 or 18, she met my father. His name was Peter. They fell in love and a few years later got married. Then a year after that they had me. They named me after my father's mother. Scarlett. It wouldn't be another 14 years until they had Matt.

A year ago my father died in a car accident. Six months ago I was diagnosed with acute leukemia. Didn't mention that I had cancer did I? Or that I basically have no hope of surviving to see my 20th Birthday? I just turned 18 so that would give me only two years if I was lucky.

Maybe I just had too much human in me and that was why I got sick in the first place. Hardly any vampire genes in me to fight it off.

I looked over at my brother who was fast asleep in bed. It had been a few weeks since he had slept in his own bed back home. We'd bounced around from hotel to hotel every night since my mother told us to run.

We'd started off in Southern California and we'd just made it up to Washington today. I'd been using the money our parents left us to rent motels and to pay for bus fare as well as food and water. I still had money left in the bank and I planned on renting a house here in Washington. I hoped this was far enough from whatever danger we'd been in.

The next morning we went to the grocery to look for something cheap and easy to eat for breakfast. There was a boy there that caught my attention momentarily. He was tall, buff, and extremely handsome. I stood there gawking at him until he noticed me staring. I immediately looked away without making eye contact.

I could feel his eyes lingering on me in particular as we walked away. I didn't give the boy much more thought as I paid for the yogurt Matt and I had picked out.

As we were leaving I heard footsteps walking quickly behind me.

"Bella!" the man yelled out. "Bella!"

He grabbed my shoulder and I turned around. I was ready to smack the guy for touching me like that. The second I met his gaze though everything changed.

Something in him changed. I could see it in his eyes. He stood there shaking. Unmoving until he suddenly kneeled down in front of me.

He stood up without saying another word for a few minutes.

"You're not Bella,"

"No I'm Scarlett and who the hell are you exactly?"

"I'm Jacob but how-I mean you look exactly like Bella did as a hu-" he stopped himself in mid-sentence but I knew he was about to say 'human'.

"You have her face, her eyes, her hair. You look exactly like her. You could be her clone but you're not her,"

"Don't know what you're talking about Jacob but we have to go,"

"No B-Scarlett. Please don't go I-"

"Look I don't know who this Bella is okay? Unless you're talking about my grandmother Isabella Cullen, who I've never met before by the way but I highly doubt that-"

"That's exactly who I'm talking about. What do you mean she's your grandmother? I've known Bella for a long time and she's never had any kids let alone grandkids it's impossible,"

"So the name Renesmee Cullen doesn't ring a bell?"

I could see his face whiten a little. "You mean that abomination that died shortly after birth? She doesn't count since she died less than an hour later and how do you even know about her?"

I was so tempted to slap Jacob right then and there for how he described my mother.

"That 'abomination' is my mother and she never died. She was dumped and left to die. How do I know about this? As I just said she is my mother,"

I suddenly felt very weak and tired. Something that had been happening more and more frequently since I got my cancer diagnosis.

My legs buckled beneath me and Jacob caught me just in time.

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