Authors Note: All standard disclaimers apply.
AHHH! I forgot to write an author's note for the first chapter. This is my first story, but I've read a lot before. Thanks so much for the reviews. I don't know how often I'll be updating, maybe every day or every other day? I'll try to write longer, but tell me if you want longer chapters or more frequent updates. The next chapter will probably be Edward POV. Tell me what you think...Thanks :)
Edward stared at me, shock covering his face. Carlisle walked towards me slowly. "Bel- Um... What's the last thing you remember?"
"I don't know. The fire and James." I replied exasperated, they had taken me away from my food, and I was still hungry.
The one named Jasper seemed to realize this first. "Guys, I think she's hungry" he said in a calm voice.
"She's starving" I said sarcastically in 3rd person while wincing at the growing ache in my throat.
They gathered together closely in a bunch and talked about what they should do, but Edward stayed next to me. He was frozen in shock, holding onto my arm.
"You can let me go you know..." I said annoyed by his peculiar behavior.
"You... Don't remember anything? Bella... It's me. Edward. Your Edward. Don't you remember Charlie, Renee? We are your family Bella. Please" he pleaded, his voice breaking off into a whisper in the last part of his sentence.
"I don't remember you, or your precious Charlie of Renee. And who the hell is Bella? Stop doing this!" I screamed, frustrated that he kept throwing this new information at me. In an attempt to get away from Edward his grip tightened, making me look even more pathetic.
Meanwhile, Carlisle walked up to me and gently began, "Bella-"
"I'm not Bella!" I yelled, interrupting him in mid-thought.
"Right..." He seemed startled and thrown of track for a second "Umm... What would you like us to call you?"
"Victoria" I replied, my voice confident. My memory had faintly thrown this name at me, knowing it would cause some reaction.
A collective gasp went around the room as I mentioned my 'name'. I smirked, content with this reaction. Jasper was the first to collect himself.
"Victoria" he began, his voice uncomfortable "we Cullens aren't what you would call... Normal vampires. We drink animal blood, not human blood. You have no idea who you are right now, and we know this is going to be tough, so we've decided to start you on blood bags- but JUST for right now. You'll have to adapt to our lifestyle soon enough"
"What?" I screamed at them while my fury blinded me. "I know who I am. I am a vampire, not some lame excuse for a vampire, human sympathizer! I'm willing to bet there are other vampires out there who would be more than happy to let me into their coven and let me drink human blood!" I finished in my piercing shriek.
"Bel- Victoria..." began Carlisle in his annoyingly calm and patient voice. "We know you want freedom and human blood, but before you turned you were our family. We loved you, and still do. We will do everything possible to restore your memory"
"Listen, I will do everything possible to get away from you freaks. You will eventually make a mistake, mess up, trust me. And in that moment I will escape from this idiotic madhouse." I replied, a smirk plastered across my face.
"No, you listen. We will never mess up. We love you Bella. Yes, I said BELLA. Your name is Bella, not Victoria. Love is more powerful than hate, more powerful then thirst. You are letting the thirst control you. Don't let it control you!" interrupted Alice in her shrill voice. It was the first time I'd heard her speak. Her eyes were blazing with rage as she stared me down. I looked away, uncomfortable with the intensity of her gaze. After a few moments of silence under the in the intense scrutinizing of the Cullens, I muttered, "Fine".
We all trudged back to the huge white mansion the Cullen's owned. Once inside Edward let go of me and ran back outside, not emotion leaking through on his face. For some unknown reason I felt a twinge of sympathy and the urge to go after him. Shrugging the feelings away, sat on the counter with Alice on one side of me and Emmett on the other. Cautiously Carlisle handed Jasper a blood bag. I inhaled deeply and, even though it wasn't as good as the human I'd had earlier, it still smelled delicious. My throat ached and burned, worse than before. I struggled against the hands holding me down. Slowly Jasper walked towards me, the blood bag behind his back.
"Bella, you need to learn to control yourself. I'm going to put this in front of you. All you need to do is wait for 10 seconds and then you can have it. Okay? That's it, just 10 seconds" he said cautiously and placed the blood bag in front of me. "10,9, 8..." said Esme softly. My vampire instincts went on high alert then, my throat burning with a fire I couldn't bear. I hissed and kicked, growled and bit at everything in my sight, doing anything possible to get away from my torturers and closer to the blood. "7, 6, 5..." Tears were streaming down my cheeks as I struggled to contain the fire erupting in my throat, almost as bad as when I was transitioning.
All of a sudden Edward flew into the room his eyes blazing with fury. "What the hell are you guys doing? She's a newborn! She can't control herself! You need to let her drink, just imagine what she's going through" And just like that Edward swiped the blood bag and dropped it in my hands, placing me out of my misery. I ripped off the top of the bag and chugged the blood down, the burn in my throat now just a dull ache. I took a deep breath and set down the empty blood-bag on the counter. Looking around I realized that there was no one left in the kitchen but Edward. Apparently they thought he could handle me.
Edward was sitting on a chair, his face buried in his hands.
"Ummm... Can I have some more?" I asked, trying to be nice. He looked up at me and my breath got caught in my throat. It was the first time I had actually looked at him without the blood haze. He was so... Beautiful. There was something about him that pinched at my heart, something that I didn't know.
"I don't think Jasper would allow it. He sort of knows a lot about newborns..."
"Oh" I replied awkwardly. My throat still ached, but it was bearable.
"So you don't remember anything? Not me, not Renee, not Charlie?.. I'm sorry, it just hard to understand" he said apologetically.
"What's so hard to understand? I... Don't... Know... YOU!" I shouted, my previous feelings for him gone. How could he expect me to understand? It wasn't exactly a picnic for me either, living with people who expected me to know who I was. As my emotions took reign of me, I lunged for his throat.
But Edward just stood there, not fighting back as I dug my fangs into his skin, trying to rip him to shreds. He showed no emotion as I attempted to bite through his skin, only to find that I couldn't get past the first layer. I felt rough hands pull me off of him. There was lots of commotion around us as Esme wept for Edward not fighting back, Alice screamed at me about self control, Jasper and Carlisle discussed about what they should about me, and Rosalie and Emmett held me down. All of a sudden the phone rang the room went silent. Everyone froze in their various positions, not moving a muscle. The call went to voicemail. "Hey Carlisle, it's Charlie. I just wanted check up with you to see if anyone in the family has seen Bella. We've got search parties out, but there's no sign if her. That's all. Please call if you find her."