"Well Mia, this is my wife Esme," he pointed over to his wife.
"Hi," I smiled.
"And these are my sons Edward, Emmett and Jasper and my daughters Alice, Rosalie and Bella. This is my granddaughter Renesmee, Bella and Edward's daughter and this is Jacob Black, a family friend," he smiled with a little hesitant at the last bit.
"It's nice to meet you all," I said politely.
"Would you like to come back to our place?" Carlisle smiled.
"That would be lovely thanks," I smiled back.
I looked over at Jasper; surely he must have figured it out. By his blank wide eyed expression I think he kind of did.
The inside was even more surprising, less predictable, than the exterior. It was very bright, very open, and very large. This must have originally been several rooms, but the walls had been removed from most of the first floor to create one wide space. The back, south-facing wall had been entirely replaced with glass, and, beyond the shade of the cedars, the lawn stretched bare to the wide river. A massive curving staircase dominated the west side of the room. The walls, the high-beamed ceiling, the wooden floors, and the thick carpets were all varying shades of white.
"This is a very nice place you have here," I said to Carlisle specifically while looking around.
"Thank you," he replied with a chuckle.
Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Edward, Bella, Emmett, Jasper and I headed towards to couches in the lounge.
"So tell us Mia, where were you from?" Alice sweetly asked in a gentle voice.
"Texas," I answered.
As stone hard and still vampires may be, Jasper definitely flinched at my answer.
"Tell us, if you don't mind, how long have you been living as one of us?" Edward asked intrigued.
"Well I was born in 1861 and was turned in 1877, so one hundred and thirty-one years" I half smiled.
I felt so old when I said my age, although I had the body of a sixteen year old, I had the mind of a one hundred and thirty-one year old.
At the corner of my eye I could see Jasper sitting there working out dates, numbers and times in his head.
"So what happened, like what about your parents, your family?" Alice asked. There was a look in her eye that said she could relate to that situation.
"Well my father left before my mother could tell him she was pregnant, he had to go fight in the Confederate States Army in 1861 to serve in the Civil War which was all my mother told me."
"My mother was called Alexandria Platt and she got killed by the vampire who turned me," I said thinking back to the painful memory that had haunted me my whole life. "we were taking a short cut through an alleyway and a vampire came out and attacked me, my mother tried to stop it but all that she managed to do was get it off of me as it went for. She died and I was half dying according to doctors. I was in the hospital for two to three days, healing and changing. Once I had completed my transformation I was hungry, very hungry, but I knew what had happened to me and I controlled myself just enough to get out of there," I explained.
"How did you get out of a hospital so many stories high with hundreds of people in it?" Bella gasped.
"Easy, my window was facing an alleyway and I jumped," I smirked.
"I found an abandoned building and lay low for about a week. The hunger was driving me insane but I got through it, I ate a few rats so that helped a little. I soon found a companion, Marnie. She helped me through a few years; teaching me how to control my hunger and guiding me, helping me get a hold of my new life. We fed on humans but also animals, depending on how sympathetic we felt really."
"How did you meet Alec?" Jasper asked looking like a concerned father.
"A long time ago, Marnie and I were travelling and the Volturi were passing through and we just so happened to meet and get acknowledged. Alec and I turned out to have more in common," I smiled leaving that little story there.
I suppose I felt a little satisfied that Jasper had shown an interest in my life. I didn't know how to feel to be honest. Jasper never came home to my mother as she thought he was dead, but he wasn't dead, but also he couldn't really tell her about becoming an immortal unless he wanted to turn her himself which would be deadly for a newborn.
"So are you just travelling around by yourself now?" Carlisle asked with a look of sympathy on tattooed on his face.
"Yeah, I was passing through and I heard you playing baseball. It has been a long time since I've played baseball, well really watched it, like it said," I smirked.
"Well, if you like Mia, you could stay here for a little bit," Esme smiled, knowing her husband was thinking the same thing.
"Well that's very kind of you," I smiled, "thank you very much."
"Uh, sorry guys but I promised Charlie that I'd meet up with him," Bella said looking at her watch.
"We'll see you tomorrow," Edward half smiled and then left with Bella.
"Charlie is Bella's human father," Alice told me.
"Ah," I laughed.
"Well if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the hospital," Carlisle apologized as he stood up, "I'll see you later," he continued and then pecked Esme on the lips and left.
"Well if you'll excuse us Mia, but Alice and I were going to make a dress," Esme smiled a motherly smile, "you could join us if you want?"
"No, it's ok you, I don't want to interrupt any plans."
Everyone had been and left and now it was only Jasper and I. We both knew that this conversation was coming.
"Are you?" Jasper started with his voice almost audible.
"Your daughter? Yes," I said.
His eyes sensing all of my emotions projected back at me, feeling the pain and suffering I felt.
