Meeting the Cullens

Twins of Night and Day chapter two

This chapter goes to Bella, Happy Birthday, honey!! Sorry if anything seems off about this, but I've been hyped up on drugs all day because of my nasty flippin' cold. ::sneeze, sneeze:: HEY!! That was my fourth double sneeze of the day! YAY FOR ME!!! (I told you I was hyped up on drugs…)

A small fragile looking girl with short, spiky, black hair stood in front of the tree line. She smiled and waved, looking inviting. Roz and Jeza looked at her for a second, and then glanced at each other.

Should we trust her? Jeza asked with her dark, rustic-looking reddish-orange eyes.

Why not? They're trusting us, aren't they? The eyes of a matching color answered.

They barely lifted their shoulders in a synchronized shrug and walked forward, toward the girl. Jeza shoved the small envelope into the pocket of her grease-stained jeans. Caleb was at their side in an instant, while Alex had chosen to stay back. He had already told the sisters he would leave them as soon as they went to meet the Cullens and he would meet up with them again when they left. He didn't approve of the Cullens' lifestyle, and refused to meet with anyone who 'refused their rightful prey'.

"Rozlynn, Jezalynn, it's so nice to meet you!" the small girl smile at them when they were about a foot away. "I'm Alice Cullen."

"Jeza," the blonde sister stepped forward to shake her hand. "My sister, Roz, and our fledgling, Caleb."

Roz smiled shyly and also shook Alice's hand while Caleb only smiled with embarrassment.

"You must be one of Carlisle's fledglings?" Roz asked.

"Oh," Alice chuckled slightly. "Jasper, Bella, and I all have different people who changed us. Bella was changed by Edward, Jasper by a vampire in the south. Edward killed the man who changed me."

"I'm sorry," Roz said remorsefully. "It must be hard living with him."

"Oh no, not at all, I only found out who he was after her was killed." Alice shrugged. "He tried to change Bella and Edward got upset."

"Tried to change?" Jeza raised an eyebrow as they fallowed Alice.

"Edward reversed it," she replied. "It was before he broke down and changed her himself." She grinned suddenly. "They got married first. Bella let me plan the wedding."

The twins exchanged a look of surprise and confusion. They didn't understand why Edward would object to Bella's change only to change his mind and change her later.

"We were changed by the same man," Roz said suddenly.

"We stay with him most of the time." Jeza added. "Caleb stays with us as well."

"We like to stay together," Roz smiled.

"We do, too. Carlisle is very good to us." Alice said. "Jasper and I chose to live with him."

"I see, I see," the sisters said together, looking at each other. They lapsed into silence. Alice led them to the edge of the small town; their house was set back from the road a ways, almost completely hidden in the trees.

An elegant older house set back from humans and surrounded by trees to block all detectable motion and noise. It may have seemed cliché to anyone, vampires and humans who knew too much, but to vegetarian vampires it was incredibly practical and useful. Most vampires who set up semi-permanent residence picked places of the same style.

"Jeza and Roz, right? I don't want to introduce you wrong," Alice smiled at them, all three following her up to the door. "And Caleb of course."

"Yes, Jeza and Roz are what we prefer." Roz said politely, smiling back while Jeza scowled.

Alice nodded, and opened the door. "Carlisle, I'm home," she said, beckoning them through the door behind her. "Jasper, Edward, Roselie, Bella, Emmett, Esme, our guests have come."

Roz snuck a glance at her sister, Jeza looked back. Both ignored Caleb's tangible tension. He didn't like new people, especially if they were of his kind. Within seconds, seven more vampires had appeared in the doorways of the foyer and on the stairs.

"This is Roz, and Jeza, and Caleb," Alice said quietly, her family watching cautiously. The black haired girl waved, the blonde merely inclined her head, while they didn't move.

"Shall we move to the living room?" one of the blonde males asked. He looked oldest in human years, and from the way Caleb's nostrils flared, he was the oldest in vampire years as well. He could only be Carlisle.

Jeza and Roz obliged him and all eleven vampires moved from the foyer to the larger, more comfortable room. The girls sat on the small couch that they were invited to while Caleb refused and stood behind them, subtly enough to disguise his distrust. Caleb was uncomfortable with anyone coming too close to the girls; only Alex could be trusted with them in his eyes.

"Welcome," Carlisle spoke again; his family situated themselves around him. "I must say your letter caught us off guard little. If Alice hadn't seen that you posed no immediate danger we may not have seen the letter as flattering as it was."

An unearthly beautiful blonde female scoffed subtly. Jeza's eyes snapped to her and she used all her control to keep from glaring. She could feel Caleb's mood darken further, but not in the normal way, it was far more intense.

"Excuse me, but Alice saw us?" Roz ignored the scoff, and kept her attention on Carlisle.

"Yes, I see things," little Alice smiled again; she looked the most inviting of the new females, although a dark haired female near her was close. Caleb could smell that the dark haired female was a young vampire, no more than a few years. "Visions of what will happen. That's how I recognized you."

Of course, Roz and Jeza thought simultaneously, Caleb suppressed a growl behind them.

"I saw another male with you, thought," Alice continued. "Where is he now?"

"Alexander doesn't agree with us meeting with you," Jeza answered.

"He's very set in the old way." Roz added, rolling her eyes. "He didn't trust himself to refrain from hunting here."

"We know you're against human prey," Jeza continued, though the way they spoke it sounded like they were one. "He went to hunt outside the territory. We don't know how if he will join us here or after we leave."

"I guess it depends on how things go." Roz sighed. Her dark reddish-orange eyes sad. "He sometimes has problems with his bloodlust, even though he's very old."

Caleb clenched his hands on the back of the couch, one fist behind each girl. Calm yourself, Caleb, you're acting rashly, he chided himself.

"I see, thank you for your consideration." Carlisle did sound grateful. The girls smiled slightly, only a flicker of a smile.

Silence followed, awkward and uncomfortable on both sides. Jeza and Roz could feel an underlying cause, like a little tickle, in the emotion, as if someone was somehow controlling them.

"Is Alice the only one of you with an added gift?" Roz asked, playing with her dark hair.

The female with curly, brown hair smiled warmly, almost maternally, at them. "No," she said softly. "We are lucky to have four gifted with us."

Jeza's eyes flitted over the others, trying to see if she could guess who they were.

"Perhaps it would be easier for all of us if we introduced ourselves properly." One of the males said. He had bronze colored hair and his eyes were a pretty medium tone in the family's ranges of yellow, gold, topaz, and honey colors.

YAY FOR ME!!! My drugs are actually motivating me!!! Be thankful I'm sick, or drugged up, either works! Just not too thankful, I wanna get better, two different drugs every 4 hours sucks! Anyway, of course this chapter is dedicated to sweet Bella, who's birthday it is today (it's September 13th, re-read New Moon if you don't beleive me on this one). And as always to my bestest friend, and favorite 'sister', Summer. Don't worry honey, you're moment with Edward is coming! (She claimed him, so I called Emmett…and Aubrey, but that's from another vampire series.)

Thank-you again, Summer, Roz is fleshing out better and better in my mind because of you…and thanks for the idea!!