"Alice, Jasper," he introduced us. "This is Bob and Dottie Thompson and this is their son, Tony." Jasper looked at them and tried to smile but it didn't work out. He could smell the blood. I gripped his arm as tight as I could to warn him. He wrapped his arms tighter around me as we sat together looking at the 3 strangers. I smiled at them and got up, unwrapping Jasper's arms from around my neck.

"Hi," I greeted them. "My name's Alice and this is Jasper." I gestured for Jasper to come forward and he stood up and moved forward very cautiously.

"It is a pleasure to meet you," he told our guests, keeping a distance.

"Hi," Bob answered. He stuck out his hand. "I'm Bob Thompson." Jasper looked at the hand and then looked at me.

"He is a bit shy," I covered him up. I smiled at him and his pale face smiled back at me. I took Bob's hand instead and shook it. "How do you do?" He looked at me, surprised.

"Your hand is so cold," he told me. "Did you run out of hot water or something?" he joked.

"Uh... yeah. That's it," I hesitated. I smiled at him again and Jasper's arms slithered around my waist. He pulled me back into the living room and up the stairs. There, he pulled me back onto the bed and began to kiss me on the lips. I kissed him back. We rolled onto our backs with our heads on the pillows and that is where we stayed for the rest of the night.

In the morning, Jasper and I went downstairs to find Bella sitting at the kitchen table eating eggs and bacon. She looked up at us as we walked into the kitchen and said hi.

"Good morning, Bella," I said to her. "How are you this morning?"

"I am fine thanks, Alice," she answered. I looked at Jasper and he nodded. I smiled to myself. I have my own mood detector. I walked into the dining room and stopped dead in my tracks. I looked at Jasper and he took a couple of steps back. Bob, Dottie and Tony were sitting at the dinning room table talking to Carlisle about an 'important matter.' Tony saw us walk in and looked up from his Nintendo game that he was playing and smiled at me and Jasper.

"Hi," he said. "I'm Tony." He was wearing glasses, a red T-shirt and a black pair of shorts.

"I know," I said, smiling at him. "I'm Alice and this is my husband, Jasper." I looked back and saw Jasper was way back in the kitchen. I shook my head and smiled at Tony. "Come on. I'll show you around. I think that you will like our place. It is huge."

"Really? Wow!"

I waved goodbye to Jasper and took Tony on a tour of our house. I introduced him to my brothers, sister, Bella and Esme and showed him the view from upstairs. By the time I showed him our house, it was noon. Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper and Edward all gathered in the kitchen for 'lunch.'

"Are you hungry, Tony?" I asked him. We had finished our tour in the living room, so all we had to do was walk through the kitchen doorway.

"Yes," he answered excitedly. He ran ahead of me and looked back at me. The room warped in front of me into a darker version of our living room. It was tonight. The family was in the living room and there were 5 others. The Sackville-Bagg's. The room was suddenly light again and Tony had disappeared from the doorway. I could see that the kitchen had filled up with humans and vampires. I walked through the doorway into the kitchen and sat down next to Edward on one of our kitchen chairs.

"Are you okay?" Tony asked me as soon as I sat down. He must have seen me in my 'vision' mode. My face goes completely blank when I have a vision.

"Yeah," I answered him. "I fine." I looked at him and smiled. He smiled back at me and dug into his chicken sandwich. Jasper came over to me and whispered to me: "Do you want to go hunting?"

I nodded and walked out of the kitchen with Jasper. We dashed through the woods and jumped over the river until we reached the deepest part of the forest and entered vampire mode. We stalked at the herd of deer in front of us and pounced at them. My arms grabbed one of the deer around its neck, pulled it to the ground and drunk it's blood. The blood tasted good in my mouth because I hadn't fed in weeks. It tasted sweet as I drunk the blood until the deer had been drained. By the time we had finished hunting, it was dark. I had drained 3 deer while Jasper had drained 5. We dashed back home and walked into the living room to find the scene in my vision had come true. In the room was Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie and Emmett and 5 others that I have only seen in my vision. The youngest, I guessed was Rudolph, had short black hair spiked up and was wearing a faded black coat and faded black pants. He kept his coat done up so I couldn't see what he was wearing underneath. The young girl, who was possibly Anna, had pale wavy-blonde hair that hung to her waist and was wearing a red gown that suited her 100%. My eyes searched the room and landed on a teenaged boy in the brown chair. He was different compared to his siblings. He must be Gregory. He had black hair that was styled in a mullet type hairstyle. He, like Rudolph, was wearing a faded black coat, except his was a trench coat. He wore this open so you could see a black and yellow-striped top underneath. He wore black pants and black boots on his feet. He was also wearing Goth-type make-up. Every single one of them was pale. Carlisle looked up from a conversation with who I guessed was Fredrick and gestured for Jasper and I to come in. I walked in and sat down on an available seat while Jasper stayed standing in the doorway.

"This is my daughter, Alice," he told our visitors. "Alice, this is Fredrick, Freda, Anna, Rudolph and Gregory Sackville-Bagg." As he said their names, he pointed to each one of them. I looked to my left and Rudolph was smiling at me as if he was saying 'nice to meet you'. I continued to stare at him and that feeling came back over me. That poor boy. I looked around and I noticed the 15 year-old staring at me. He was disturbing me.

"Hi," I said to Gregory. "I am Alice." He continued to stare and didn't say anything. I sighed and turned my attention to Anna, the girl with the long blonde hair. She was deep in conversation with her brother, Rudolph. She looked up at me and smiled. She had a row of perfect white teeth and two fangs. I smiled back at her and looked at the doorway to find that Jasper was standing there looking uncomfortable. I gestured for him to come over and I stood up to give him a kiss when he got here. He sat down next to me and Fredrick, who had shoulder-length black hair and was wearing a vampire-like cape with a high neck. His wife, Freda, was wearing a similar cape and her hair was a pale orange all piled on top of her head. She looked around the room and saw me sitting next to her son.

"My name is Freda Sackville-Bagg," she said to me. I smiled and introduced myself. I looked up at the doorway and Tony was standing there. His face lit up and I smiled at him. But it wasn't me that he was smiling at.

"Rudolph," he exclaimed. Rudolf looked up at and smiled at him.

"Hey, dude," he told him. He got up and slapped Tony's hand, led him back to his spot on the couch next to Anna and sat down.

"Okay," Carlisle called the group to order. "We are all here so we might as well begin." I looked around the room and noticed that Edward and Bella had joined us, standing in the doorway.

"Alice," he called to me. I nodded and rose. "Alice will tell you what she found out a couple of nights ago," he told the group. "Try and make it PG rated," he told me silently, nodding towards Tony. I nodded.

"Um..." I started. "Hi. I'm Alice Cullen, for those of you who don't know me." I didn't know how to explain it so I came out with it. "A couple of nights ago I was at the baseball field and I saw Sam Uley, who is a werewolf. He told me that their neighbouring pack is coming to do something to us. I am not quite sure what. Anyway, then our..." I paused trying to find he right word. "... Cousin came and she told us the Vulturi were coming for Bella." I looked around the room and saw a range of confused expressions on our guests faces. I sighed and tried again. "The Vulturi are a coven of..." Should I say it, I thought. I looked at Edward and he nodded his head. "The Vulturi are a coven of vampires who basically run our vampire society." I looked around the room again and this time, as I was hoping to see, the expressions obviously understood what I was saying.

Tony still looked confused. I sighed as I realised why. He still didn't know that my family and I were vampires. I'll tell him later, I told myself and out of the corner of my sharp-visioned eyes, Edward sighed and shook his head. I sat back down and waited for what would happen next. Fredrick stood up and made an arm gesture to his wife, who stood up as well.

"I have been asked by Carlisle to come here and help you with your problem," he started. "We can help with the Vulturi part, but..."

"But we are not familiar with werewolves. We don't know how they act, move and treat vampires," Freda put in.

"That is fine," Carlisle told them. "We don't need help with everything, just one of the problems. It is not fair to let you do everything." Freda smiled and thanked him. Gregory spoke for the first time.

"Why don't we split up?" His voice was a little cracked but that was probably because he was 15, stuck at puberty stage. I considered what he had said for a moment and then nodded.