The next day was not as bad as I felt it should have been. I still knew that something was very wrong with this family, but even without Jasper near me, I was feeling better about it. I had found that my suspicions of him were right. When he left with Alice the panic eased back in, but like I said it wasn't so bad. I had slept really great in the soft bed that was in my new room.
It turned out that everyone was really great. Emmett was like a kid. He chased me around in the woods near the house and we played hide and seek, which was no fun for me. He always found me and I could never find him. Luckily Rosalie started helping me find him.
Carlisle and Esme stayed in the background watching me, but they didn't bother me at all. Edward and Bella hadn't stopped by yet, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to meet more strange people. I was starting to think that the whole town was like them. Maybe this was a zombie town or something. No that can't be right, these people were to pretty to be zombies. My stomach growling brought our game to an end.
When we got back to the house I heard voices from the front of the house. Rosalie ushered me into the kitchen so that I wouldn't hear them, but they weren't even trying to be quiet. "I just don't see what you could possibly be thinking. She isn't safe here." The voice was low and husky. It almost sounded like a growl. I shook my head and paid closer attention to Rosalie. She was looking through the refrigerator trying to figure out what I would want to eat. I ducked under her arm and gasped at the sight.
"What's the matter?" Rosalie's voice was bells on the air, but the worry was still noticeable.
"Look at all this food." I reached in and ran my hand over the gallon of milk and then over a few of the other packages, "I can't believe that you have all of this."
Her laughter filled the kitchen and I couldn't help but to join in.
"Carlisle, you have to understand where they are coming from. This isn't…" The new voice stopped in the doorway of the kitchen.
I saw the man staring at me with his mouth open. This must be Edward. I smiled up at him, "Hello."
He continued to stare a moment longer before snapping out of wherever his thoughts had taken him to, "Hello. Carlisle said that you were out with Rosalie and Emmett still." He shot a look up at Rosalie and then back to me, "I'm Edward. It is very nice to meet you, Samantha."
I nodded and turned back to Rosalie who was putting together a sandwich for me, "Do you want lettuce and mayonnaise on this?"
My eyes lit up and I could barely answer through the excitement, "Yes please."
Carlisle laughed, but I noticed that he didn't turn away from Edward. They seemed to be talking, but not speaking. I would see Edward barely nod or move his eyes as if in response to some unspoken question. My eyebrows raised and I tried to watch closer. Rosalie cleared her throat and both men turned to look at me. I smiled and grabbed the plate with the sandwich on it. She poured a glass of milk for me and followed me out to the dining room.
I was feeling pretty good here with this family. I didn't care about the feelings that I had when I had first met Esme. I couldn't believe that this family would harm me in any way. I didn't care how different they were or what they turned out to be. Rosalie sat across from me staring out the window.
"What were they doing in there? It looked like they were talking, but without words?" I took a small bite and watched her closely.
"It was nothing. Edward is just weird. You will find that out soon enough." She smiled and turned back to the window.
"You can go find Emmett if you want to. I am alright. I want to go up to my room anyway." I shrugged and finished the sandwich.
"Alright, well if you need anything." She stood up so gracefully and walked from the room. I emptied the milk and carried the plate and cup back to the kitchen. I stood still and listened for a breath or footstep, but nothing came. The house was too quiet. I walked toward the stairs and stopped when I heard the loud voice from earlier.
"Bella, you need to talk to them. You have a choice whether to be here or not, but she is just a kid." He was suggesting that I was in some kind of danger, which I had initially thought too, but had changed my thinking on this, "You know what they will do to her."
I wanted to tell him to shut up and leave me alone. I wanted him to see that I wanted to be here and that this was the best place for me now, but I couldn't move. There was something about the boy talking that made me nervous. Bella, who I had yet to meet, stood facing him and he looked mad. He was very large, almost as big as Emmett, but he was completely opposite. His skin was much darker than Emmett's and he radiated anger.
I couldn't hear what Bella was saying to him, but it was not making him happy. He looked like he was about to burst out of his skin. "You can't know what will happen to her, Bella."
I saw his fists tightening at his sides and the trembling in his arms. I had seen this stance enough. He looked like he was about to take a swing at her. I ran from the house and stepped between Bella and the boy. "Leave her alone, you don't know what you are talking about."
His eyes widened and he took a step back. "You shouldn't be out here." Bella's voice was panicked and strained.
"No, I heard what you said. If I should be afraid of anyone it's you. The Cullens have been nothing but nice to me, so you need to leave them alone." I knew that there was something about this boy that was wrong. I shook my head, no not wrong, different. He was dangerous like the Cullens, but I wasn't sure if he was as in control of his dangerous side.
He took a deep breath and another step away from me, "I am sorry if I upset you. That was not my intention."
"Jacob, you need to leave." Edward's voice came from behind Bella and sounded final, "I won't let anything happen here. You need to make sure that you can say the same thing."
An icy hand touched my arm and led me away from Bella. I followed it to the porch and realized that it was Carlisle. I smiled up at him and turned to see Bella. She turned and started walking to us. She was like me, very much like me. Her skin was light, but not as pale as the others and her eyes were the same brown shade as mine were.
She smiled up at me and Carlisle and apologized for Jacob's behavior. I wasn't sure why she felt that she had to speak for him, but she did. She stumbled before making it to the porch and Emmett's laugh boomed from the trees next to the house. She shook her head and continued toward us.
Carlisle's gasp caught me by surprise, "You two do look very similar. Alice was right."
I saw Edward's eyebrows lift as if he saw something too, but chose not to say anything. I decided that when Edward was around I would have to watch him carefully. There was something weird about him, like Jasper. I also noticed that no one ate with me. I never saw any of them eat anything all day. They also didn't drink anything. When I explored the house I also found that the only room with a bed was mine. I would have to figure out this mystery soon.
After the excitement with Jacob, Bella and I talked a little while Edward and Carlisle went to look at something in his office. I wanted to sneak up and see if I could hear anything, but Bella was watching me carefully. She was completely normal. She was a lot like me.
"What are they doing up there?" I was able to study her face better than the other's. She showed a lot of emotion on her face and it was pretty easy to read.
"I'm not sure really. Carlisle is a doctor and he likes to really know everything there is to know about everything. He is probably going over some experiment or something." She flipped the channel.
"So that boy that was here earlier, is he a friend of yours?" Her brows nit together and she froze. I thought that was a pretty easy question. There was definitely something going on there.
"Yes, he is a friend, but he doesn't want to be just friends anymore." She shook her head.
"Tough break, he has nothing on Edward." I smiled at the television, "He is cute though, if you like the whole angry thing."
"He is going through some things now and he is worried about you too." The crease on her forehead never relaxed.
"He doesn't even know me, what does he have to worry about." I smiled to myself and added, "It's not like they are going to eat me or something."
Something snapped in the other room and I think that Bella stopped breathing completely. I knew there was something strange going on here. Now I just had to work through what all these small pieces became. I thought back on everything that I knew, cold skin, weird eyes, no beds, no food, and they eat people.
Could be zombies, except for the good looks and they didn't seem to eat brains. Okay other monsters that ate people. Frankenstein didn't eat people, so he was out. Witches were normal people with magical powers. Werewolves could eat people, but I didn't know much about their diets. Then the answer clicked in my head, Vampires. I was now part of a vampire family.