This morning in Cullen residence was quiet, sunny and warm. Spring finally was here. Sun shined like a big, bright ball of gold in the middle of the blue sky. The air was full with some invisible, aromatic life. Bees flew around flowers and a bee house. The birds sang in the trees, lovely sound spreaded through all Forks. The big, bushy forest was green and breathed lightly next to the Cullens house. Everything was peaceful. Bella braided Renesmee's hair while little girl was sitting on Jacob's back, rumpling werewolf's thick, red fur. Rosalie and Emmett was out for a hunt and Alice with Jasper – still in school. As the spring had came, they found it hard to study.

Edward came into the house. School day was over for him too. He looked like a diamond while going through the living room, full with sun. As he wanted to go upstairs to his room, he heard Bella's voice.

„Love, Carlisle said he wants to talk with you. He wanted you to come to his office when you're home. He seemed worried, Edward."

Edward stopped and turned to Bella. „Did he tell what's wrong? Something with the Volturi?"

„No, he just said it's very important and you know, it really seems so. He didn't want anyone to come to his office and tried to call you, but your mobile phone was switched off. I don't think it's a case of Volturi. Alice would have seen it." Bella smiled sadly, still caressing Renesmee's hair.

Edward walked slowly to his foster father's office. This had to something really serious, if Carlisle didn't tell it even to Bella. No, no, not the Volturi. They had accepted Renesmee is not an immortal child and Cullens had done no crime. What else could make Carlisle so serious?

Reached Carlisle's office, Edward pushed the door open and walked into. He saw nothing special. Carlisle was sitting on the sofa with a book in his hands. He didn't seem worried. When he noticed Edward, Carlisle got up and with a wave asked his son to come closer.

„Finally, Edward," Carlisle said with a relief in his voice, „ I thought you won't come. What's wrong with your mobile? I'm trying and trying to call you."

„What has happened? Is it about Bella? Or Renesmee?"

Carlisle shook his head. „No, don't worry, it's not about them. I need you to meet someone."

„ Who? What do you mean?" Edward asked, totally confused and distress in Carlisle's eyes made it all even worse. Suddenly he heard a voice behind him. A very familiar voice. His own voice.

„ Hello, Edward."

Edward froze, still staring in Carlisle's face, too frighten to turn around. Carlisle's eyes, worried, careful, looked at something or someone behind Edward's back. Then he looked to Edward again, nodding and encouraging him to turn around. With a little Carlisle's help Edward forced his legs to move, turning around and a new shock was waiting for him.

Leaned lightly to Carlisle's table there stood somebody. Somebody that was Edward's reflection. Pearl white skin sparkled like a diamond in the sunlight. Messy, bronze hair and perfect, angelic face just like Edward. Reflection was dressed in a usual, classic clothes, a shirt and dark jeans, out of color already. The two Edwards were almost completely identical. The only difference between them was the color of reflection's eyes, red like a ruby, like a burgundy.

„ Hello, Edward," reflection repeated, „aren't you going to exchange greetings with me?" Even their voices were equal.

Edward stepped aside a bit, shocked totally. „Carlisle, will you, please, explain me what the hell is going on? Who is that.....that thing?"

Carlisle sighed and put his hand on Edward's shoulder. „It's not a thing, son. That's Jonathan. Your biological twin brother." Carlisle went to the door. „I'll leave you guys alone. I'm sure you have plenty to talk about. I'll make sure nobody bothers you." Carlisle left the office and they heard his steps going down the stairs.

Edward kept staring at Jonathan, still without any believe to Carlisle's words. Brother? Brother! A twin? No, it was impossible! Edward remembered his human life well enough to know surely that he was the only child in his family when he was a human. Yes, he had always wanted brother or sister, but he didn't have them. It was without a doubt. But how else could he explain this incredible resemblance? They were like two copies, like two drops of water.

„Brother?" Edward slowly inhaled. Jonathan smiled lightly and sat on the sofa. „Brother." Edward sat next to him, the distance between them now was just some feet. He hesitated a while before touching Jonathan's palm. The skin was smooth like a sateen and their temperatures also were similar. A vampire. His brother was also a vampire.

„How does it comes that only now I find out about your exsistence? Where were you when I was a kid? Our parents?" Edward asked in a constrained voice. Still he couldn't believe that all this is real....that the person in front of him is real. Something like a big lump in Edward's throat made it difficult for him to make more words.

Jonathan kept silent for a while.

„The reasons why we got separated are very complicated. It's a long story. You always had me, Edward. You just didn't know me. When we were born, it was a very hard time for our parents and other young families in our town. The poverty, diseases and starvation was everywhere. Our parents loved us, but they also understood that won't be able to make a normal life for us both. So in order to give us a better life, they decided to separate us. You stayed with mother and father, while I was growing up in mother's sister's family with her two children. I knew about you, I knew I had a twin brother, somebody who looks just like me. And I wanted to meet you so much, but nobody allowed me to do it. I've seen mum only two or three times in my life. I remember she came to me, caressed my cheek gently and said she loves me, but unfortunatly cannot be with me."

Edward was still holding his brother's hand, afraid to let it go, afraid that Jonathan could be just a vision and suddenly disappear. Jonathan didn't try to pull away, not even move. These memories was hard, hard for both of them.

„In the september of 1918, the Spanish Influenza epidemic began," Jonathan's voice sounded like a beautiful, sad melody. „Everybody got sick, including me. Mother's sister died very fast, just like her husband and her children and I was still alive, so I was taken to the nearest hospital. There I saw our mother, who was in very bad condition and our father was dead already. And you... I saw you for the first time in my life. We were both in the same ward and I was in the bed next to you. I felt better than you, and I wanted to tell you that I love you for the first and perhaps for the last time. But you were unconscious and I didn't want to make your condition worse. I was sure that I'm going to die. I was happy to meet you, although you didn't have even inkling about my presence. You were fighting about your life. Just like I did.

Mum didn't know about my being there, so, knowing 's secret, she plead him to save you. But then, in the ward, Carlisle saw us both, like a two identical halves of one unit. He knew we're brothers. Knowing that the fate of the influenza awaits me as well, Carlisle turned us both."

Jonathan sighed and looked in Edward's golden eyes. Edward looked back at him, waiting for the continuation and trying to see at least a little difference in their faces. There were none.

„I will never forget the live fire burning through my veins," Jonathan continued, „I didn't want this, in that moment I was longing for death. I saw you feeling the same and wanted to help you, but the fire was going through every cell of my body and all the medicaments I was given, made me almost completely frozen. But there was difference between our transformations. Carlisle bit you in the neck, while for me the venom entered right in the heart, so my transformation was faster. When Carlisle told me what I had become, I was happy again. I thought that now you and me, we'll be finally together and forever. While you were still wriggling in pain, Carlisle took me to my first hunt. And that was when all my hopes vanished."

„What happened?" Edward asked, grabbing Jonathan's hand tighter.

„Carlisle told me about this vegetarian lifestyle, as he called it. And when I first time tasted animal blood, I found it totally disgusting. I killed a bear and a woodman. And the sweet, warm stream of human blood showed me what I really need. I need peace, blood streams and that terrible rhythm of a dying human heart. I left Carlisle, first making him to promise me he won't tell you anything about me and I started to wander, hoping desperately that the world will teach something to me.

Edward slowly played with Jonathan's fingers, examining silver ring on his index finger.

„ And it did?"

Jonathan shrugged his shoulders.

„Nothing much, except that I'm predator. I feed on those, who cross my path. I find peace only when I kill. And that's the biggest difference between us, bro. I've chosen human blood. I'm not a herbivorous like you are. Vampires are supposed to feed from humans. What you and all your family are doing, is not life. It's surviving. It's just useful when you take a longer trip, on the sea, for example."

Jonathan got up and walked slowly to Carlisle's table. For some time there was a silence. Edward knew he would cry now, if he only could. He had met his brother only to lose him again. Jonathan was a classical vampire, so it was clear that he's not going to stay with Cullens. And Edward had started to love him already and, though they knew each other such a short time, he couldn't imagine Jonathan out of his life anymore.

„If you're not planning to stay with me, why did you come here?" Edward asked quietly.

„ I just wanted you to know finally that I am and who I am. That you're not alone, even if your family will split up someday." Jonathan smiled. „I saw that newborn downstairs...."

„ Yes.....uhm, that's Bella, my wife. And the little girl is my daughter, Renesmee. Do you have a mate?"

„No. I feel no need for that. I love my freedom. And all these people, who think that I'm just 17 years old boy." He smiled again. „ Don't worry about my hunting. I won't do that in the territory of La Push. Carlisle told me about your treaty with werewolves. They could confuse me with you."

While talking, Jonathan took a little, white piece of paper from Carlisle's table and a pen. „Here's my phone number. Call me everytime you need me. Maybe you'll need my help someday. Or maybe you'll just want to meet me. Sorry, I can't give you my address, because I'm moving all the time.

Edward understood that these are farewell. He wished to be strong enough to keep his brother from leaving. Jonathan was a part of him. Edward had biological bond with him. They shared the same blood, the same bones and soul. Edward wanted to give Jonathan everything he wanted, just to prevent him from leaving. He stepped forward, grabbing Jonathan's waist and pulling him into his embrace. Edward pressed his head to Jonathan's neck as he felt Jonathan hugging him in return. Edward's lips travelled up to his brother's flawless cheek, kissing it lightly and then touching his ear.

„Please, don't leave", Edward whispered. „ Not now, when we're together finally. You wanted to see me, because you love me. We couldn't be each with other when we were kids, well at least now we could make our way together for the rest of our lifes."

„Edward, understand, please", Jonathan moved away from his brother's hands and sat on the windowsill. „I'll always be there for you. But we can't be together. We won't be happy and you better know it. We have a different lifestyle. And I can't adjust myself to yours, neither can you. So we can meet, but living with you....it's impossible."

Jonathan smiled the same crooked smile that Edward had. „ Love you, Edward."

„ Love you." Edward answered quietly and watched Jonathan jumping out of the window. When Edward came to the window, Jonathan had disappeared already. He took the small, white paper with a beautiful phone number and felt like this is the dearest thing he has. After some while of loneliness the doors opened and Carlisle came into the office.

„ So? Angry?" Carlisle asked carefully, catching a quick glimpse of his adoptive son.

„ He left, Carlisle. He left. And I don't want anyone to know about him. Not even Bella. He'll be my secret. This little piece of paper is only, what I have from him."

Carlisle chuckled. „Well, then I guess, it's nice that no one else in our family can read thoughts. Of course, I'll keep silent, Edward. I never ment to separate you from your twin, I swear."

„Don't swear, Carlisle. I believe you." Edward smiled sadly and left the office, clenching little piece of paper in his fist.