1932, Hoquiam -

Edwards POV-

Will this torture ever end?

If there was any way for me to atone for my sins this ought to count towards it in some measure. I was stuck in this room with over one hundred humans, as they ruthlessly assaulted me with there mouth watering scent that drives me mad, making my throat burn like an African savannah during he middle of summer. The endless chatter of their trivial thoughts was more annoying than the conversations going on in the banquet hall. There thoughts went something like this-

"I wonder if he's noticed that I'm alone, maybe I should go speak to him, but he doesn't look like he wants to talk. Oh…. the things I'd like to do that don't necessarily involve talking! (Mental Swoon)"

"Look at all the females staring at him, he thinks he's so big, well if they were looking at me like that you'd bet that I wouldn't be here with this cow whose making eyes at everyone else in the room!"

"The doctor hasn't even notice that the colour of my dress matches his eyes." Well at least I'm not the only one that has to put up with comments like this, Carlisle gets his fair share too, I don't understand how the fact that he is married doesn't mean anything to the humans.

I went back to tuning them out. I really hate these public appearances, of course I had the option of staying home, but Esme still needs some help in large crowds and Carlisle is busy keeping up the charade by mingling.

While I was picking at my food to make I look like I was eating, something very interesting happened, the room went silent and still. All eyes turned to the front of the room and I decided to follow suit looking over all the round tables, past the gleaming vases full of flowers, below the glittering chandeliers and through the masses of seated humans the men in tuxes and the women in sparkling gowns and towards the main entrance where two people stood.

A quiet muttering began around the room and although the humans didn't want the new comers to hear what they were saying, I knew that the man and woman could hear their every word, breath and heartbeat….they were vampires.

I felt Esme stiffen next to me and Carlisle took her hand. All the human males' eyes went straight to the female as the man helped her remove her coat as a gentleman should. Once the long white coat was removed I could see that she was wearing a deep midnight blue floor length silk gown. It fitted her curves perfectly and clung to her in all the right places, accenting her pale skin. Her deep mahogany hair so dark that it almost looked black curled loosely past her shoulders to just below her waist. Her hands were sheathed in long white gloves that ended past her elbow and a sparkling diamond choker wrapped around her neck. A cape of transparent shinning blue material draped from one shoulder to the other dipping low to show some skin at the back while remaining tasteful, sparkling silver thread was woven into it. Her immortally beautiful face almost glowed when she smiled showing her perfectly straight, white and deadly teeth. The only makeup she wore was mascara on her incredibly long lashes and her full lips were shining with the help of a little tinted gloss. While small tasteful diamonds shone from her ears. She looked like an angel and it was hard to believe that she was one of us when her soul seemed to shine so brightly, absorbing the light around her and emitting it only brighter.

The other vampire with her was huge, about six foot nine, and had an excess of muscles. He wore a black tux and while looking immortally beautifully he was paled next to her magnificence. He had dark curly hair that almost hung in his eyes and a wide grinning smile like the one that she wore as they seemed to be enjoying some sort of personal joke.

I decided to tune into their thoughts.

"You're going to give some poor human male a heart attack, sis!"

"Ha Ha, very funny. Besides you bought me this dress and it seemed rude not to wear it at the next appropriate event."

It was strange I read his mind like I would anyone else's, but then I heard her voice through his mind, like she was speaking to him, which was entirely plausible considering that we were vampires. I tried to listen specifically to her thoughts, nut there was nothing, I felt like I was trying to read the thoughts of a tree, they just weren't there!

"Hey look there's other vamps out tonight, cool."

"I believe that the blond one would be the Infamous Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the woman is Esme Cullen his loving and devoted wife. The other bronze haired man is Edward, Cullen by default, but he is currently pretending to be Esme's brother, so his public name is Edward Masen, oh and he's a mind reader so be careful what your thinking Emmett."

"Well we should get this night over with, time to mingle."

"Let me guess you won't be leaving my side all night?"

"Offcourse, I don't want you snacking on innocent bystanders."

"Your vote of confidence is overwhelming."

"Hey I'm just looking out for you Belle. I know that you don't want to hurt any one and besides a lady shouldn't be unaccompanied, there's dangerous men lurking, he he!"

"Whatever."

I was mildly disturbed that they seemed to know that much about us. The two of them began mingling and as promised Emmett linked his arm around hers in a friendly non-romantic manner and watched her very closely for any sign that she might loose it. Judging from the conversations that they had with humans they were apparently orphans that had lived here in Hoquiam the past three years and had moved away a year ago, they supposedly had just returned from a vacation to Asia, about two months before we arrived. She was apparently 18 and he was 22. The town respected them and they were independently wealthy as well as popular among the town's folk. They played there human charade exceptionally well and after watching them for a few minutes I turned back to Carlisle and Esme.

"The woman seems to know a lot about us."

"What do you mean?" Carlisle and Esme spoke in unison.

I quickly explained the brief mental conversation that had taken place between them and what I had learned from the minds and words of humans.

Carlisle breathed in sharply in shock, "look at there eyes…there vegetarians."

"Oh my, the only others we have ever come across were Tanya's Coven. Maybe we should invite them to sit with us?" Esme mused.