Summary:: Bella used to be a vampire, but something happened and now she's half human. What will happen when she moves to Forks and meets the Cullen's?
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I'm eighteen years old and Ive died twice.
I would say my first life is most preferable out of the three, but you cant choose. Or can you? That's what Ive been trying to work out for the past six years. If one person can have three lives why cant everyone else?
My father figure Charlie calls me Tiger, in the sense of being a cat. He believes I have nine lives and after so long still tries to make me believe his theories. He comes with me now and then on my expeditions all over the world, to follow up on old legends that I think will help me in my quest.
Even though Charlie would do anything to help or protect me, he still refuses to be my test subject. You would think after all Ive been through he would trust me.
I was born in 1960 and was murdered eighteen years later. My biological mother Renee was distraught. It killed me a millions times over to watch her suffer my loss and not have anyone to comfort her.
But I had to also deal with what I had become. A machine, a cold blooded killer. I never knew my father which almost made it harder to leave my mother. She had no family left I was her only hope. But there was nothing I could do, I couldn't be anywhere near her without risking her life. So I watched from the sidelines, always with her but from a distance.
When she died I visited her grave once, and that was the time I decided to move on. I left the country and made a new start in America, that's where I met Charlie. He was the same as me, dead but still living. Our friendship wasn't easy to begin with. I wanted to be alone and travel by myself, but he wasn't having any of it. In some way I didn't feel like I deserved to be around anyone, to have the pleasure of anybodies company.
But he followed me until I gave in, and from that day forward we have been inseparable.
Charlie was forty-one when he was 'murdered' and so he looks old enough to be my father, and that's the way we keep it. The day I died for the second time, he says it was the worst day of his existence. I cant remember any part of that day but he told me the story.
He was out hunting, trying out our new-found way of life. We heard of a story that our kind could survive on animal blood and it also helped us blend in with humans. On his way back to our house, not completely satisfied but under control. He heard an unfamiliar sound, so he picked up his speed racing back to the house.
He found me on the ground shaking uncontrollably. Blood filled my eyes and trickled from my nose. Charlie picked me up and ran into the house, not knowing what to do.
All he could do was wait, while I writhed on the couch, gurgling and half screams escaping my mouth, and then it happened. My body straightened out and became as stiff as iron, my eyes rolling to the back of my head. All Charlie could do was sit and watch in horror as my solid hard skin softened slightly. My breathing became heavy and necessary.
''Bella?'' He said, I could hear his whispering voice.
When I opened my eyes it felt like I was looking through frosted glass. I blinked a couple of times and the blur began to fade.
''Bella please talk to me, whats happening?'' Charlie was beyond shock, there was no explanation for the way he felt.
There was also no explanation for what just happened. I needed air, it was something I couldn't go without. My skin felt softer, less durable.
''I'm ...I'm human'' I cried, tears bigger than basketballs rolled down my cheeks.
''No your not, Bella you have no heart beat'' I looked at Charlie, he was right.
I had no heartbeat, but I needed oxygen. My skin was softer and more human like, but no blood ran through my veins. I was thirsty, Like I had never been before but I didn't have a thirst for blood.
''I'm not a vampire anymore'' I whispered, not sure whether I was glad or disappointed.
We still never found out what happened to me that day, but I'm hoping to change that.
Ever since then we have kept up the human facade. It has been seven years since I died, and I haven't aged one bit. Even though I'm not a vampire anymore it seems I can still compare.
Now me and Charlie are moving somewhere new, Forks to be exact. The small town is under a near constant cover of cloud and rain, so it makes it easier for Charlie to come across human. I have no problem with going out in sunlight, because my skin isn't the same anymore.
I had already enrolled myself into Forks High School, and Charlie had found us a nice place on a secluded street opposite the forest. We both thought it was time to settle down for a while and live like normal people, or as normal as we could get.
So as we moved the last of our stuff into our new home, I smiled at my surroundings.
This should be a good thing, I think.
