But just before the thick darkness completely swallowed me, I felt a horrible, sudden sinking pain into my neck. It was as if someone had stabbed me with a dagger with poison on it, not that i would know of course. It burned me and I cried out in pain, but it was gone as suddenly as it had came. I gasped for air, it felt like I couldn't breathe.

I could feel my heart speed up, I screamed. The pain was horrible, it felt like someone was burning me from the inside out. I heard a opening of a door, a gasp, and a slam, I guessed was from the door. I felt a slight pressure in my hand.

"Carlisle," Esme scorned her husband, and from where her voice was coming from I could tell it was Esme holding my hand. "how could you do this to her? To doom her to an eternal night of- of- of this? When we adopted them I didn't imagine this happening to her, or to any of them for that matter. They don't deserve this life." Esme said softly.

"I couldn't just let her die before me, not when I could do something about it." he said just as softly, which was strange for Carlisle. He was ususally confident in what he said, but in that way, the comment sounded nothing like him at all. "I love her and Alice and Emmett just as any parent would love their children. I-I-I-" I heard Esme shush him.

"Carlisle, I know, I know." she comforted him, then I felt her gaze on my face.

"Bella, it's alright. it's almost over. Shh, shh, Bella. You'll get to see your brother and sister when this is all over, ok?" Esme continued to comfort me, I was whimpering like a baby and was furious with myself for letting it happen. I, Isabella Marie Swan, do not whimper like that.

But, at last, when it was over and I sat up and looked around the room for them, they weren't there. They had left me, in my time of need, nonetheless. Blinding fury almost took me over, but I remembered Alice and Emmett. Esme had said something about me seeing them when I woke up.

I looked around franticly, searching for their familiar faces. I finally found them downstairs, writhing in pain like I had been. I took Alice's hand, squeezing it gently and to my surprise she squeezed back and peeked at me from the corner of her eye. The corner of her mouth upturned the slightest bit, I smiled back.

Emmett sat bolt upright, gasping. His head swiveled, looking around the room and his eyes focused on me and Alice. He got to his feet and came to stand on the other side of Alice's bed. I looked up at him and he met my gaze.

"Carlisle and Esme left us." I whispered, and even I could hear my brokenhearted tone. Alice's transformation was don a few minutes after I said that.

*end flashback*

So here we are, moving back into our home town we tried so hard to forget about.

We've started our own little coven since we were changed, and added a few other members other than ourselves. There's Max, a girl that was a year younger than me when she was changed with medium length black hair, she's taller than me, and has golden eyes, like the rest of us. She had been mugged and left for dead on the streets of New York when we found her. Only I had enough control to change her without draining her dry.

And then there's Alex, a guy that I saved from being killed by a newborn. He just won't let it go, he thinks he is forever in my debt. You have no idea how much he annoys me sometimes.

Alex has curly blonde hair, like Emmett's darker hair, but a little longer, ending just below his ears. He's Emmett's age, and this will be his "last year in high school", like he hasn't been through it at least four times already.

Alice, Emmett, Max, and Alex, for some odd reason, voted me to be the leader of the coven. I have no idea what was running through their minds at the time.

Well, we all have different powers, and I am a mental shield. What I do is that I have this shield-type-thing in my mind that protects me from 'mind tricks' by other vampires; I can also project it out from my body to cover others.

Alice can see into the future, Alex is a physical shield and basically does the same thing physically that I do mentally and he can project like me, too. Max can shape shift, basically turn into what ever she wants. She can even turn others into whatever she wants. It makes powers like mine look incredibly stupid.

Emmett is what you could call a normal vampire because he doesn't have a 'special power'. He just inherited, if that's what you want to call it, his human strength and multiplied it by like twenty.


So, there we were, standing on the edge of town. We had just come down from Canada, that's where we were staying at the last time. Well, before we had to leave, that is.

I sighed and turned to look at everyone else, I tried to put on a smile but apparently they could tell it was forced. Max came up to me and put one of her long arms around my shoulders. Emmett was doing the same for Alice. I shook my head to clear my thoughts.

"So, this is our home town of Forks, Washington. The most dreary little town in the states, it rains most of the year and under cloud cover except for the rare sunny days that we will go 'hiking'." Emmett snickered as I used air quotes around hiking.

"This is your home town, Bella?" Max asked in my ear I nodded.

"Alright everyone, hoods up. This is one of those rarely sunny days I was talking about, I know we're not going out in public but better to be safe in case we run across some hikers." I smiled to myself as I turned away and pulled my hood up over my head.

Everyone was dressed in dark jeans, black running shoes, and black hoodies. I took off running, everyone following behind me. I was the fastest runner out of all of them, I was on the track team in school when I was human.

We had bought a three story house that was surrounded by woods, a silver motorcycle for me, a yellow 911 turbo for Alice, a huge black jeep for Emmett, a white suburban for Alex, and a small white convertible for Max, who was just 'barely old enough' to drive. We all laughed at that. I bet you're wondering where we got the money from without a steady job, but, hey, who needs a job when your sister can magically tell when the stock market was going up or down.

We didn't have much to move into our house, just the backpacks we kept over our shoulders at all times, in case we needed to make a run for it.

I sighed again as we slowed to a stop at the front of our new house, it was even bigger than I thought it would be. I stuck the key into the lock and turned it, silently opening the door. Inside, there was couches and chairs covered up with sheets and from the way some of the sheets were darker, I could tell there was black furniture underneath.

I jerked off the sheet closest to me, I laughed. They were exactly like I ordered them. See, we like to get different furniture for each person. Don't ask me, it's just a habit.

I turned to the door, shouting. "Hey, come on in! the furniture actually got here on time this go around." I laughed as Max came bounding in. she tore off the sheet to the nearest couch and flopped down. She rolled over so that her face was against the fabric.

"Ohhhh! You were soo right Bella! This is the softest thing ever!" I laughed at her muffled voice. I heard a booming laughter that could only be from my brother.

I walked out the door and saw that Alex was trying to grab Alice, which is pretty much impossible. The little pixie can dodge like a pro, she proved my point by ducking as Alex dove and her head. He sailed right over her and hit a tree face first.

I hit the ground I was laughing so hard. I clutched my stomach out of habit, a human habit. But after a minute, i rolled over and got up. Alex looked mad about something, but it quickly went away when i motioned for them to follow me inside.

"Guys, come on! We need to pick rooms and arrange the furniture. School's on Monday and we all know just how much we need the sleep." we laughed and walked inside.

I got the master bedroom on the third floor with a door on the left wall that led to a study. On the right, there was a huge wall stuffed with CD's, a computer, a stereo, and a brand new Ipod touch with a hundred dollar gift card to the iTunes store and bright silver headphones. I definitely did not order this. Someone cleared their throat and I looked over to the door of my room.

Alice, Emmett, and Max stood there smiling hugely. Alice danced up and hugged me, squealing, "Happy birthday!" when she back away, she was still smiling.

"I got you the CD's." Alice told me.

"I got you the stereo." Emmett told me, walking up to me, and picking me up off the ground in the huge bear-hug of his. When he sat me back down and moved away Max practically jumped on me, giving me a hug.

"I got you the computer and there's software I put on it so that you can copy and transfer the CD's music onto your Ipod. I also got you the headphones, the gift card, and the Ipod."

"Gosh, guys. Thank you. To tell you the truth, I forgot my birthday again." I said and if I could blush, I would've been. Apparently Emmett and Alice could see that because Alice giggled and Emmett laughed. I smiled despite myself and Max just looked plain lost. "Don't worry about it, Max. It's a sibling thing." she nodded, understanding.

"Alex is on his way up here with his present. Here he is!" Alice said when her giggling fits had stopped.

Alex walked through the door and handed me a small box. "Go on open it." he said, and I did. I gasped, and held the necklace up. The pendant had blue diamonds in the shape of a B. I hugged him then I kissed him on the cheek and when I pulled back it looked like he was going to pass out. I smiled and he smiled back, still looking a bit dazed.

"Here, I also got you a…um…. new backpack." he stuttered, handing me a brand new Columbia backpack.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone. And I got you all something too, a welcome present. Well, there's two things actually." I told them smiling. Emmett ran down to his room, which was on the second level. I heard his yells to thank me, then the stereo turned on along with his new TV, probably turned to some football or baseball game. Alex was next to run out, Max following him. Alex's room was across from Emmett's and Max's room was at the end of our hall.

Alice started to walk out of the room, but I stopped her. "Alice, I'm walking you into your room… blindfolded." I told her, putting my hands over her eyes.

"Um, okay." she said and let me cover her eyes.

I walked her into her room across the hall and into her huge closet, that was my first surprise. The second was that I stocked the whole thing with her clothes from up in Canada. She was so sad that she had to leave them, so, I had them shipped here. There was still some room left so I went out and bought her the rest so that it would be full.

When I took my hands off her eyes, she squealed like a little girl at Christmas. She ran around the room, pulling something out every once in a while and holding it up. About half-way though, she gasped and looked at me.

"These are my clothes from Canada, you shipped them here? Thank you so much Bella!" she told me, and I smiled.

"There was still some room left in here so I bought some more that I knew you would like and filled it the rest of the way up."

"Seriously? This is too much for me to wear, you're going to help me wear all of them."

"I was afraid you were going to say that." I told her, she just laughed.

"You ready for school on Monday?" Alice asked me.

"Not in the least, but I've already registered us all. We're juniors, Emmett and Alex are seniors, and Max is a sophomore." I told her. She was trying on the new clothes, she loved every single top, bottom, and pair of shoes. I knew her too well. She nodded, she knew the drill. It was the same grade each time we moved, we knew all the answers to all the questions. All we had to do was read the text book once and we would never forget. Cool, I know.

Just as the sun was setting, I walked back into my room. Alice was done with trying on the new clothes. I picked up my Ipod and it's connector, the gift card, my computer, and sat down on the bed. I leaned over to plug in my computer. I started it up and within two minutes, I was downloading songs off of iTunes. I got at least eighty off of it before my credit ran out. Then I started transferring all t of the CD's Alice got me. It took me all night, and when the sun started to come up I had ten songs to go.

"Alice, Em, Max, Alex! I'm going out to hunt, Max's in charge!" I yelled, and I heard two groans. Emmett and Alex, and Alice met me outside. I smiled. "Somehow, I knew you'd be coming with me."

"Well, what can I say? I'm parched." we both laughed and took off into the forest.