Tears leaked out of Steph's eyes as she held her left shoulder. Edward raced home, calling Carlisle on the way. He parked in their drive way grabbing Steph, and running in the house at human speed.
"Take her to my office." Carlisle orders, grabbing a first aid kit on the way.
Edward places Steph on the sofa, and takes a seat beside her.
"W-w-what h-h-happened?" she chokes out.
"My question exactly." Carlisle starts to examine Steph's shoulder.
He handed her an ice pack to help with the bruising.
"She cut herself, and then Kelly and Jasper couldn't help themselves." Edward says carefully.
"It's not broken, but it will turn into a nasty bruise. I want you to take it easy for a couple of weeks." Carlisle says handing her some painkillers.
"What happened?" Steph questions once again.
"Your free to go, Edward will you drive her home?" Carlisle says avoiding her question.
Steph sat next to Edward in his silver Volvo, she kept staring out the window refusing to meet his eyes.
"Why were they trying to attack me?" Steph asks, finally bringing her eyes to his.
"I can't tell you. You need to figure this out for yourself."
"Don't you trust me?"
"Of course I trust you. This is something you need to do yourself."
"Why does everyone keep saying that?"
"We want to tell you, it would make things so much easier. It's just we can't it's against the rules." He says, pulling up in front of her house.
Steph hops out the car and slams the door shut. She storms into the house not looking back. She quickly ran upstairs and turned on her computer. She began thinking of what she knew about them.
"They are really strong, have cold skin, really pale, all beautiful and beck and Kelly shouldn't be alive." She says typing it into the Google search bar.
No searches are available; she lets out a small laugh despite herself and erases Kelly and Beck from the search. She began reading through the websites, finding that things were slowly coming together. The only problem was that they all had different names for whatever it is, and none of them seemed to help her. She clicked on the last link; she found something none of the others covered. The words strong, bloodlust and undead stood out.
"Vampires." She screams.
Her father runs up the stairs and opens her doors.
"Are you okay?" he asks his voice full of worry.
"Yeah, I just saw a spider." She says with a little laugh.
Her father walks out the room shaking her head. Steph wanders over to her bed, facing the window.
"They were trying to eat me." She whispers to herself.
Something moved in the tree outside, she gets up and walks over to the open window. She holds back a scream as she saw Edward and Beck sitting on a large branch.
"Move out the way Steph." Beck leaps in the window as soon as Steph moved, Edward follows Beck.
"I knew you would figure it out." She says pulling her into a hug.
"Come, Carlisle will explain everything to you." Edward says taking her hand.
They help her climb out the window and into the tree, and into the car without being heard.
"Are you going to eat me?"
"What no! Like Edward said Carlisle will explain everything." Beck says, returning her attention to the road.
"If I was to get a blood nose right now, would that make you attack me?" Steph asks in a joking matter.
Beck and Edward look at one another and laugh at Steph's stupid behaviour.
"So how old are you in vampire years?"
"Ummm.... like five" Beck explains
Edward continues just sitting there.
"So, Beck....Rumours float around saying that you guys are actually a couple couple like married, is that true?"
"Yeah, it is true you see Steph when you are what you say 'Vampire' you don't really age so you get married young, now that is all I am saying Carlisle will say the rest." Beck replies quickly to Steph's question.
They continue sitting there, Steph asks question but both Edward and beck keep telling her, Carlisle will explain. They arrive at the Cullen's house and Carlisle was sitting in the living room.
"Hey, Carlisle apparently you need to tell me something about fictional creatures, but now I don't think there fictional." Steph says flopping herself on the house next to him.
Carlisle looks at Beck and Edward with confusion.
"She knows." Edward says.
"Oh, How?"
"She Google." Beck laughs
Carlisle begins to laugh, while Kelly, Jasper and Emmett walk in.
"HEY! Everyone." Kelly screams entering the room.
"HEY!" Beck screams back.
"Hey, Jasper looks Beck's back" Kelly screams pointing to Beck.
Carlisle gets up and walks up and down the room, scraping his head. He begins to talk about how they are known as vegetarians, because they refuse to drink human blood, and that they survive on animal blood. Steph sits there thinking this was all a little farfetched.
"So what, you're not tempted to eat me right now?"
Kelly begins to laugh, then turns to being serious.
"Oh, no I want to drink your blood plenty."
Steph's eyes widen, this was once her best friend. How could she be saying such things?
"Don't worry, we won't let her and Jasper get you." Beck says.
"JASPER WANTS TO EAT ME TOO?" She screams.
"Of course not, I only want to drink your blood." He chuckles, sharing an amused glance with Kelly.
"Okay, so let me get this straight. You are vampires and none of the normal rules apply to you guys like drinking human blood."
They all nod. Steph walks closer to Kelly, who snarls at her. Emmett places a warning hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry Steph, it's just you smell so good. Wouldn't you agree Jasper?" Jaspers laughs and nods his head.
"I smell good?"
"Oh but of course, every human has a different smell. And yours is quite appealing, to me it smells like the old perfume me and you use to play with when we were kids. And to Jasper and the others you would smell different." She says with a simple shrug of the shoulder as if it were nothing.
Steph looks around for awhile not really sure what to say.
"Oh okay." She says.
"How did you get changed?" Steph blurted out.
"It's okay. I will tell you my story as will Kelly."
"Well as you already know that I am Kelly's older sister. Four years older in fact. Well she lived with my dad, and I lived with our mum. That was until dad's new wife kicked her out of the house. She came to live with us, and I had only met her a few times but we bonded as sisters do. You wouldn't understand your any only child. Well before my sister came I found my Jasper. Will you listen to the story of my changing?" Beck says never breaking eye contact with Steph.
Carnival, 2003
I held onto the bar as the ride began to start, I was never one to get scared of a ride it's just somehow I knew I should be dreading this. I looked at the man sitting next to me, how could I be so lucky. His gaze meets mine and I got lost in his smile.
"Beck, breathe." He instructs realising me from his gaze.
A smile makes its way on my face, as the cart slowly makes its way higher. I braced myself for the first dip; it was the biggest one in this whole carnival. The cart speed down the dip, a tiny scream escapes my lips. Jasper pulled me closer to him, I wasn't about to complain. I look ahead the loop was coming up, my smile widens as we pick up speed. I could have sworn I heard he chuckle. We just entered the loop; the ride was a little too rough. It shouldn't be like this. My eyes widen at the sound of screams, these were not the normal screams you would expect. They were full of horror.
"Jasper?" my voice sounds so different; it came out as a squeak.
I watched as the carts ahead of me came off the track, I felt my body jolt forward. I screw my face up as I heard at least two of my ribs crack. I watch as our cart hits the floor. My head smashes into the ground and I hear a sickening crack. I try to wedge myself out of the twisted medal, but my legs would not do as they were told.
"JASPER!" I try to yell, but my voice comes out no louder than a whisper.
My vision starts to blur as a metal bar blocks my breathing. My hand searches frantically next to me to find him. A sob escapes my lips as I found it empty. The metal was removed from my chest, I gulped in air, and it burnt my chest. My mind started to comprehend the pain I was in, I bit my lip and was surprised as I could taste metallic oozing from the wound. I blinked numerous times, trying to clear my vision. That's when I noticed Jasper hovering over me. A wave of relief hit me. Why wasn't he hurt, I tried to hold on to the thought but my thoughts seemed rather slippery and I was getting really tired. Yes I could use a nap right about now.
"Beck, you got to stay awake." His voice was full of despair.
My hand slowly rises, to touch his face but he moved. Why is he doing this to me, can't he see that I am dying.
"Beck I love you, I'm sorry it had to be this way."
A new pain took over my body worse than the first; I felt my heart shatter into a thousand pieces.
"A-a-are y-y-you l-l-l-leaving meee?" I choke out.
He laughed at me, then bent down and placed a kiss on my forehead.
"I love you." He says lowering his head to my neck.
"I love you too." I say through clenched teeth.
This was it, I could feel it I was about to die. That's when I felt something sharp in my neck. A new pain took over, it was like nothing I had ever felt before, and my whole body felt like it was on fire. A scream of pain passed through my pursed lips. I felt someone slip their hands under my body and lift me. This was all insignificant; I just want this pain to stop. Anything would be better than this, maybe even death itself.
