Edward POV

I fled as fast as I possibly could from my house. I had just arrived home to find Emmett and Rosalie engaged in passionate lovemaking, atop my piano. I roared at them, naturally, only to shock them so much that they rolled onto the keys, crashing through them onto the floor. I left before I completely lost control.

I ran on autopilot to the meadow, only to find people in it. Six kids in fact. All of them were sleeping, apart from one, a kid that couldn't be more than eight or nine years old, and was looking straight at me. I should have run away then, but some strange feeling kept me there. By this time the kid had woken up an older girl, who was presumably the leader, and proceeded to wake the rest of his travelling companions. The older girl was violently kicking one of the older males.

I could clearly hear her silently yell (in that way only women can) at him for falling asleep in watch. These people fascinated me. They smelled like no other humans I had ever smelt. In fact they smelt rather like birds, mixed with a humany smell. I felt an overwhelming urge to talk to them, which was completley out of character for me. I had never in my life felt like this before. Well, Bella is always telling me to be more sociable. Oh why not ?

I started to approach them. The older girl and the guy had looks of complete horror on their faces. The rest of them hadn't noticed, and were only just starting to get up. I finally got to them. "Hi, i'm Edward Cullen" I introduced myself, trying to be nice.

The looks of horror turned to confusion. How nice to know his name was the sarcastic thought from the older girl. I decided to answer this thought, although I don't know why.

"My pleasure, may I ask your names?" The look on the girls face was hilarious.

Max POV

Ohmygod. Did he just read my mind? He can't have. What if he had. I looked round at my flock, who were now standing behind me and Fang, half asleep but ready to go nonetheless. I debated giving the loner, or 'Edward' my name. What harm could it do ?

"Max" I eventually said, after much thought. Fang looked at me as if to say, what the hell did you do that for? but then gave his own name. The rest of the flock followed our lead.

"So who are you and what are you doing here?" Edward asked, rather abruptly. "Max" he added, as if realising his rudeness and trying to be polite. I decided not to answer this one. I was just about to tell the rest of the flock to do a U&A when something truly disasterous happened.

Gazzy sneezed. Now you might be thinking what's so disasterous about a sneeze. Well when that sneeze is accompanied by a giant pair of wings rolling out in front of a complete stranger... you see my point?

Anyway, at this Edwards eyes practically popped out of his abnormally beautiful head and his jaw dropped practically through the floor. It was Angel who broke the stunned, awkward silence with a rather odd question.

"Who's Carlisle?"

Edward POV

That strange question from the little girl,Angel, combined with the wings, strange smelling blood and wierd thoughts from the rest of the kids, led me to believe that these kids were not human.

At the moment the young boy, Gazzy, sneezed to reveal a large pair of wings growing out of his back, I had been thinking about how Carlisle would love to see this. Apparently Angel could read minds. A fact she then confirmed.

"Yes I can read minds" Well that settled it.

"I'll ask again, who and what are you?" I asked them, feeling they owed me an explanation. Max narrowed her eyes at me.

"What's it worth?" I was supprised by her answer.

"I'm sorry?"

"What's it worth?" She repeated, this time saying each word very slowly. "You know, what do we get in return for answering you question?"

I didn't know what to say to this. Still in shock I suppose, I answered very stupidly and for the second time today out of character.

"A temporary place to stay" Max looked at her right-hand-man, Fang as if to ask his opinion, or permission. He gave a slight nod of his head.

"Done" She said. I waited expectantly for her to answer my question. There was a long pause until I asked:

"Are you going to answer my question?" To which she replied :

"We'll tell you once you give us a place to stay" I sighed, looked at them all, and reluctantly began to lead them back through the forrest towards my house.

Well that was the second installment of my very first fanfic, so please read and review (constructive critisism if you just have to critisise) 10 reviews for a 3rd chapter.