"Dad, hurry up!"
"Coming!"
I heard him scurrying acrossthe upper floor and the 'smack!' as something made contact against its rough surface and the clatter as it broke. My dad appeared just seconds after with a worried look on his face. I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Don't ask," he said.
"Not planning to," I answered.
We took the car and drove to the forest. My dad had this weird grin on his face; he was very excited about this thing I thought was totally waste of time.
"Can you please tell me once again why we're hiking in the woods at night?" he smiled.
"We have to learn to appreciate the nature at night too, Andy."
"Well I prefer to appreciate it through a TV screen," I mumbled.
"Just like your mother."
He smiled and I smiled back, but that's where the conversation ended. When we arrived was the parking lot empty. As it should be at 10 pm.
He took a deep breath "Miranda Stevenson, in less than ten miles we'll feel like life has a meaning," he said and I stopped.
"Ten miles!" Perfect!
When we'd been walking for much more than an hour did we take a break. I was breathless.
"Why . . . are you . . . doing . . . this . . . to me?" I managed to say in between gasps of air.I sat down on a rock and rested my head on my hands.
Dad just laughed. "Don't blame me for your weaknesses."
He sat down next to me.
I then heard some tree branches crack and noise. I jumped.
"Dad, what was that?" I breathed frantically, scanning my surroundings quickly.
"Relax, probably just an animal. It won't hurt you," he re-assured me smoothly.
"But what if it's a dangerous animal?" I whispered while scootingcloser towards him. I had that weird sense that something was very wrong.
"No, I don't think . . . " he trailed off as his eyes focused on one spot ahead. I followed his eyes and saw what he saw.
In front of us was a woman.
As she walked closer did I see how pretty, well stunning, she was. She could send Tyra, Naomi and Heidi to retirement as soon as she stepped into the same room as them. She came closer and stopped some feet ahead.
"Hello." She greeted us witha voice as sweet and delicate as a child's. She smiled widely and my dad smiled back as the man he was. I on the other hand couldn't, I felt danger stream out of her body and eyes. I gripped my dad's arm hard.
"Can I help you?" he asked politely and I pulled him. The woman turned her eyes at me, giving me a quick flash of fury in that sight, and also a glimpse of her dark red eyes. My hart froze.
She turned as fast to my dad with that dazzling smile again.
"Yes, you can." She crouched ever so slightly. "You can help me a lot"
In such a speed that was impossible for any human to get was she over my dad, knocking him down and me with him. While we fell did my grip of him loose.
"Dad!" I screamed as I saw the woman leaning over and sinking her teeth in my dad's neck.
"MIRANDA!" he screamed, his voice filled with despair and pain, I couldn't watch, his screams disappeared and ended with gurgling. I turned around and saw the woman razing over his now lifeless body. She looked at me and then down at the body. She kicked it away so hard I heard every single bone and even the tree it had crashed against broke. I stayed with the scream in my throat, unable to release any sound. So perfect that I can't scream when I need it the most!
As the woman walked closer to me did I get my voice and air back.
"What are you?" I wanted to know, even on my death bed.
She smiled sweetly again. "Something you never thought existed"
She'd run really fast and her eyes were red, that didn't give me much. Then, I got the sight of her, drinking my father's blood. She looked like a human so she couldn't be a chupa cabra, either. There was only one thing.
"Vampire?" stupid me who put that out as a question!
He giggled slightly and crunched. I closed my eyes tightly.
Mom? Hey! You know what? We're meeting up. And guess what. You'll have to thank a vampire for that. I know, it's complicated, I'll explain when we meet up.
"She's over here!" a male voice yelled from deep inside the forest. I opened my eyes, but everything was pitch dark. A quick wind blew past me and the red haired woman was gone. "Don't let her run away!" same voice screamed again.
I opened my eyes,-or maybe they were already open-just as another quick wind blew past me and a cold hand on my shoulder made me shriek.
"Are you okay?" a soft female voice said.
I shook and nodded. Yes. No. I don't know! How could I be okay when my dad had just got drained by a vampire! My head nodded once again.
"You'll be fine, I promise. We won't hurt you, we're different" the woman looked at me with bright eyes filled with empathy. Different? Really? Huh, well, my first impression of a vampire is that they drain your love ones! But sure… different.
Those thoughts where caught in my head, my tiny brain that would soon explode of all confusion.
"She's in shock Esme, her mind is everywhere." the male voice I'd heard first said, now closer but I couldn't see him. But there was something that bothered me more.
Excuse me? My mind is everywhere? How the heck could he know what's going on in my mind when not even I can understand it?
"Edward where is . . ."
"She ran off," the two were having an oddly quiet conversation. He replied
"Take her home" he suddenly said "I'm going with Emmett and Jasper to follow her scent, Rosalie and Alice are going to check around the forest, Carlisle is going home to check her" Check who? And who the heck are Emil, Jason, Rosemary, Annie and Carlos?
"You know what, I'll take her instead" he said once again.
"Okay son" another wind and the woman was no longer here.
The guy appeared from the shadows. He was tall and very good looking, not that I cared though. Well, I'd anyways never seen someone like him.
"C'mon" he said and I raised an eyebrow.
"C'mon what? Did anyone ask me if I wanted to go?"
"We can do it the hard or the easy way" he said
Before I could speak where my feet off the ground and I felt like flying. I was furious!
What the heck! What, my thoughts don't count here? I'm the one with a dead father, ain't I supposed to decide if I want to go or not?
"You've any other place to go?" he said pissed, ha! Like he would like to be forced to… wait a sec… did he just… Well this was creepy. I just shook my head and avoid any type of eye contact.
I turned my head away from him and saw just the contours of the trees that where swishing by… which I shouldn't have.
"Great" he groaned and stopped. I flew out of his arms and ran behind a tree to throw up.
After what felt like the five longest minutes of my life did I once again walk to him.
"Got any tic-tac or something?" I asked as I whipped my hand on my thighs.
"No," he said coldly. I shrugged and went to stand in front of him. He looked at me and I frowned.
"What? Do I have something on my face or what?" he didn't answer but he came closer to me. I put one hand around his neck and jumped just in time for him to catch me. When I felt the air to my body did I hide my face in his chest and gripped harder of him. He stiffened, but relaxed. Then I thought hit me. I, somehow, didn't feel afraid of him. More the opposite. He made me calm, I trusted him…
Great, Miranda! The first person you trust in a long time, is a vampire!
"You've hard trusting people?" Edward's voice was low, but still made me jump.
"What are you? A mind reader?" my voice raised.
"You're quick," his voice was slug and I heard a tone of amusement in it, but I didn't dare to see if he was smiling.
"Barely," he said and I immediately understood he was answering my question.
When I no longer felt we were moving did I look up. We were in a spacey living room with black and white furniture. It looked like some classy, five star hotel lobby. But what was I doing here?
"Carlisle wants to check you. To see if you're in shock."
I lifted my eyebrow "You think I'm in shock? Believe me, if I would get scared of a bunch of vampires attacking me, I would already be running to the hills."
"And you aren't?" he said trying to sound like he didn't care but I knew he was curious.
"Not really, no. which door is Carlos office?" I turned around to face him. Seeing him in this light definitely made a difference.
He just snorted quietly "Go up the stairs, first door to the left…"
I started to walk up the staircase to Dr. Carlos' office "It's Carlisle" Edward said after me.
"Of course, Edmund."
I came to a black door and knocked carefully.
"Come in Miranda." I opened my eyes in shock. He knew my name.
I opened the door slowly.
"Take a seat." he pointed at a big black leather couch. I walked over and sat down.
"I'm going to check some vitals, to see if you're in shock then I need to talk to you" he said all doctorish and I just nodded.
After he'd lit my eyes with a flashlight, hit me in the knee and checked my pulse did I once again go to sit down on the couch.
"Well, everything seems to be alright." he said with a soft smile. Man, was every vampire this beautiful?
"That's good right?" I couldn't help but feel a bit worried. And it was like he could sense it.
"Yes that's good." he smiled "Now, I would like to talk to you about more serious stuff." His face turned serious too.
"Well, you know about what we are, and we, have laws" he did a short stop and I waited for him to continue "No human is supposed to know about our existence, and if any human finds out is there two options" he looked at me as to say ' you sure you want to now?' and that look started to make me feel a bit scared. I looked at Carlisle
"They either choose to be brainwashed or continue like nothing else happened and live happily ever after?" I looked at him and he smiled slightly.
"No not really" he chuckled slightly to.
"Eah, I could guess. So what happens? You either become a vampire or what, have to die?" I laughed at my ridiculously statements. But Carlisle didn't laugh. He just looked sorry.
My laugh eventually became more exaggerated chuckles and before I knew it I was freaking out.
"Oh my God! I… I… I can't become a vampire or die! I'm too young and pretty for that!" I was starting to hyperventilate.
"Jasper, please come here" Carlisle said.
A blond- gorgeous of course- guy stepped in the room "You want me to take care of her?" he asked with a southern accent. Oh my gosh! He was here to kill me!
"No! Please! I promise I won't tell anyone about vampires I swear! But please don't kill me!" I was screaming and climbing up the couch.
"Miranda please, calm down…" Carlisle said.
"No! You'll never get me alive!" with that said did I start to run out of the room. The blond guy just stepped away and I ran downstairs.
I was so focused on watching my feet on the steps that I didn't saw the big rock by the end of the staircase.
"Emmett watch out!" a female voice said.
In that second did the huge guy that I had thought was a rock turn around and I stopped in the middle of the move.
"Whoa, what the hell?" he said with a very deep voice.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed hysterical. In less than a second was there about 4 more vampires in the room. I started to walk backwards.
"Please, don't kill me!" I said and put my hands in front of me as I kept walking backwards.
"Miranda watch out!" someone said.
Just then my feet hit one of the steps of the staircase.
"Shoot!" I screamed as I fell backwards and hit my head with a big 'thud' and then there was a collective 'ouch' and 'ow's' around the room before everything went black.
My head was beating against my temples and I was in so much freaking pain!
I tried hard to open my eyes, but I just couldn't. My eyelids where like glued together.
"Miranda? Honey are you okay?" a woman with soft voice asked.
"I think she has a concussion" another voice said- I think it was Edward but I wasn't sure.
"I think that looked hilarious! Too bad I didn't have a camera…"
"Emmett!" various voices said at the same time.
"What?" he said once again.
Wait a sec . . . Emmett wasn't he the . . .
I fought to try to open my eyes but they just danced under my eyelids.
"Look Carlisle, she's starting to wake up"
"Quick, get my medicine kit so I can check her, her eyes might have…"
Oh gosh, they took my eyes away! They took my eyes away so that I wouldn't be able to tell the world that vampires exist. Oh no! I want my eyes back!
"Would you please calm down" someone- Edward definitely- hissed in my ear.
Sorry! But, hey, you would also freak out if you wake up without your eyes! You're really picky. I thought answering him
"Well you haven't been easy"
Yet, I'm the one hanging with a bunch of vampires, WITHOUT MY EYES!
"Oh, you still have your eyes, just open them!" he exclaimed louder.
"Edward, who are you talking to?" the woman asked.
"To me!" I yelled. I slowly opened one eye and saw a bunch of people over me. I was laying on some kind of stretcher. "Huh, I guess I only needed to open my eyes after all"
I put the elbows under me and was on the way to sit up when my head stated to spin fiercely "Oops, coming down!" I yelled as I fell backwards to the stretcher but this time someone caught me.
"Jupp, that's definitely a concussion" Carlisle said "You'll have to remain laying down for a while"
"Wait, she'll stay?" Edward exclaimed. Someone's not happy.
"It's not that" he said, obviously to me "But, shouldn't we at least tell the police she's here?…" he trailed of slowly and I saw that he was exchanging looks with Carlisle before his face went blank. His color went from death pale to paper white.
"Carlisle, you can't keep a teenage girl just like that! The last thing we need is the police after us!"
Everyone in the room stared at them both. Not to mention me. I felt my eyes popping out of the little holes they were in.
"Edward, it's not what you think," he said quietly.
Of what I saw where they communicating silently. I just saw Edward flinch here and there, his eyes narrowed and went to normal, his fists opened and closed and so on.
"Still" I jumped when Edward spoke "I think it's risky." he glanced at me and I looked away.
More silent communication occurred and I started to die of curiosity of knowing what they were talking about.
"Carlisle, we can't just fake anyone's death like that! Not only will the police be involved, but we are probably going to have to tell a story and that's too risky. We're risking our identities and the secret here. Not to mention we have an orphan girl in between!" Edward rabble out loud.
There were two things that made me react. It was 'fake death' and 'orphan'.
There was no need to fake a death when it was real. My dad was dead. He had been drained to death. Scared to death.
And I was an orphan. No mom, no dad, no siblings. No family whatsoever. I had nothing. I was nothing. I was just this misshapen in the stretcher of a vampire family that half of the family members probably didn't want here. I was a mistake, a fail. That was what I was.
"Honey, what's wrong?" a caramel haired woman approached me and put her cold hand on my cheek carefully when she saw my tears.
"She's thinks she's a mistake and a fail," Edward said coldly.
"Hey! The mistake and the fail is right here!" I said through my tears.
"Oh, dear. You're not a mistake or a fail. You've just really bad luck. But I promise you that everything will be alright." she came closer and was on her way to hug me but stopped in the movement "May I?" She asked a bit shyly.
I not only nodded frantically, but I half slung myself into her body.
She held me tight and I didn't let her go.
Then I felt my head spinning and beating again.
"Esme let her go" Edward said.
Almost immediately did she let go of me and put me down on the bed.
"Don't leave me," I whispered in desperation.
Just then, everything went black.
So this was the first chapter and I hope you liked it! Please review!
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