Chapter 2
The rest of the day went pretty fast, like Sundays usually do. I took a long hot shower, loving the feeling of hot water on by tired, aching back. I wrapped a white towel around me and twisted the water out of my hair. I looked in the mirror, a skinny girl looked back at me, her tussled, wet black hair hung at her waist and her pale blue eyes were bright with enthusiasm and confidence, but her arms that were once muscular clung to the bone.
"I really need to start eating" I sighed and opened the door, mist flowed out and soon evaporated into nothing. I quietly tiptoed into my room and got dressed into my yellow pyjamas and towel dried my hair and trudged downstairs. Justin and Lucas were getting a talking to by Tyrone, my adoptive dad. His brown hair sprang in wavy locks, his green eyes looked at his two sons with such compassion and discipline. Tyrone was a muscular man, he worked as a lawyer, and no one could work up an argument as good as Tyrone.
"Tammy, Justin and Lucas have something to say to you" Tyrone looked at Lucas and Justin, with a threatening stare.
"We're sorry, we take your food and we're sorry we bully you all the time" Lucas and Justin said dully. Lucas looked up, his brown eyes were soft and his light brown hair tumbled into his eyes, Justin just looked straight ahead.
"Okay, you boys may go, Tammy can I have a word with you?" Justin shot straight up and stomped up the stairs, Lucas stoped in front of me and pulled me into a hug.
"No hard feelings right?" Lucas mumbled into my hair, I wrapped my arms around him and let out a sob. My brother had finally accepted me.
" I could never hate you, when you apologise like that" I said and pulled away, wiping a tear away. I started towards the white leather couch and sank into white cushions. Tyrone came and sat next to me and pulled me into a hug. Why was everyone hugging me? Did they forget that I was the queen of the track I'm not fragile!
"This came in the mail for you this afternoon" Tyrone handed me a letter; the same writing that was in my silver book. I gasped and turned it over, the name Robert Mezzanotte; I don't even know a guy named like that. The paper was heavy and a strong scent of lavender hit me like a punch to the face.
To my beautiful niece,
You may not remember me, but I am your uncle Robert. My darling, it is time for you to come home, back to Italia, your father joined the Volturi and is creating hell for all vampires, you may not know this, but you are half vampire. Your mother died giving birth to you, but your father, tried everything to keep her alive, but it was no use. No one must know about the Vampire race, this is very important do not tell anyone about us, your mother and father can be trusted, the Volturi know them well. Tammilia, please you must come and talk sense into your father, maybe he will listen to you.
Be brave, Uncle Roberto.
I looked up at Tyrone, he had been reading over my shoulder, his eyes widened and then smiled.
"So, I guess we're going to Italy?" I asked. Tyrone stood up urgently and called to Helen.
"Honey, could you see when the next flight to Italy is?" Tyrone said not taking his eyes off me. Upstairs I could hear Helen running to the computer, pushing Anna, my adoptive sister, off it.
"What plane?" Helen yelled back. Tyrone closed his eyes and smiled and ran upstairs, leaving me alone with butterflies in my stomach. Going to Italy is a really big thing for me, I always wanted to go to Italy ever since Helen showed me some pictures of Italy, and told me about their culture.
I heard footsteps come down the stairs; Anna walked into the room with a confused look on her face. Her brown eyes were the colour of roasted chestnuts and her beautiful blond hair went to the end of her shoulder blades. Anna was like a friend to me, she was my second friend at school.
"What's going on?" Anna said sitting next to me, turning on the 42-inch plasma TV. Justin Bieber's face popped up, I groaned and begged Anna to turn it off, and she just smiled and turned it up.
"Okay, okay I'll tell you" I waited for Anna to turn the music down. She turned to face me with her eyes open wide.
"Well, you know how I'm adopted right; well I kind of got a letter from my Uncle. It turns out that my f-", I cut off mid sentence.
"Your what? Tammy your killing me, what is it?" Anna pleaded in a whinny voice, not the puppy voice the really high pitched annoyed voice.
"We're going to Italy!" Helen exclaimed rushing down the stairs. Anna stood up and started jumping up and down with Helen, like a teenager girl seeing a friend for the first time in a whole day.
"Oh my god, there's so much to do and I still have to pack and I got to call the girls and tell them that we're going to Italy!" Anna squealed with delight. My eyes widened, remembering Uncle Roberts words. Helen looked at me then shrugged her shoulders, I gave a confused look then realising that she wasn't going to tell Anna, I put my index finger to my lips and nodded.
"Well, we leave tomorrow at around 7:30. So we need to pack, right away, Anna pack your winter clothes it's going to get quite chilly in Italy. With it being in the beginning of winter, in Italy" Helen said heading up the stairs; Anna and I close on her trail.
I closed my door behind me and pulled out a giant autumn orange suitcase form under my bed, I headed over to my wardrobe in the corner of my room and started packing my clothes, I saw the floor board that, Helen had lifted earlier that day, the light from the ceiling reflected off something shiny in the floor board. I carefully lifted it up and saw a beautiful mask, the main colour was Ivory, and it had silver sparkles, silver sequence around the eyes and royal blue swirls coming from an aquamarine jewel in the centre of the mask, it had baby blue silk ribbon coming from the sides. Underneath the mask was a royal blue dress with silver embroidery, it was strapless, I delicately picked it up and laid it down on my bed. I quickly undressed out of my pyjamas, and slipped on the dress, it was a little too big for me seeing how I had lost so much weight; I guessed that it was meant for me when I was muscular and healthy. I felt a small sharp pain near my right shoulder blade, not a stinging one, more like an irritated on, I walked around the room pulling it up a little, in my full-length mirror. I turned so that my back was facing the mirror and saw the silver of a little pen that was stuck into the dress, I slipped out of the dress, easily, and looked at the inside of it. There was a piece of paper that had browned over age:
When you come, wear this. It will help; remember who you are.
Aro Volturi
Great another mystery, I thought to myself. I folded the dress and put it into my suitcase, I couldn't stop thinking about the note; it was just sitting there on my bed, I crumpled it into a small ball and through it into the small silver bin next to my desk.
At around midnight I was dead tired, I was falling asleep where I stood. I had packed my bags and collapsed on my bed. Helen's head poked through the door again.
"Hey, you better get some sleep. We've got a big day tomorrow" she came and pulled the blanket from underneath me and put it over me.
"No arguments with sleeping" I said. Helen was silent for a while, then leaned and kissed the top of my head.
"Goodnight, Tammy".
"Night, Helen" I said before she turned the light off and closed the door, my eyes closed quickly and I fell asleep; to tired to dream I dreamt of blackness.