Chapter 2

At the train station

"I am so sorry, but I hate traveling by plane," Adam explained. "Too close with humans."

"I understand that," Jasper nodded as he finished securing Alice's suitcases.

"She is not a light traveler is she?" Adam asked.

"Never has been," Jasper chuckled.

"From what you know," Adam said. "She had always wanted pretty clothes, my mate told me she use to admire the close in the windows."

"Use to what?" Jasper looked sharply at Adam as Alice came back.

"What is it?" Alice came in as Adam give Jasper a sharp look.

"I forget," Jasper answered confused as he sat across from Adam and whispered to Alice. "Have you seen where he is taking us?"

"No, what makes you think I can see the future with him around?" Alice answered as Jasper glared towards Adam.

"I can still use my powers to make him nervous." Jasper said as he looked at Adam. Adam remained still as Jasper tried to change the atmosphere around him.

"He must have a really high level of calmness," Alice whispered.

"What makes you say that?" Jasper asked.

"He is not showing any signs of nervousness," Alice answered.

"Why would he be nervous?" Jasper asked.

"You are changing his motions?" Alice questioned.

"No," Jasper answered. "Can I do that?"

"Now it is time we began," Adam smiled as he pulled out an old worn out leather diary. "First, are there any questions?"

"Yes, if you're a vampire why are your eyes so blue?" Alice asked now noticing.

"I am a vegetarian, like you," Adam explained. "My coven and I live on an island, and we use the animals from the sea. Any more questions?"

"Why are we here?" Jasper asked. "And where are you taking us?"

"Now I will began," Adam smiled holding up the book. "This is over one hundred years old, I wrote it down for my mate, in hopes I would see you again one day."

Edna Miller was born in 1883 to a family of migrant farmers that was in South Carolina at that time. She was unfortunate at birth in many ways. She was a female, who seemed to be rather unhealthy and she was now the thirteenth child. It was clear from birth she was desperately unwanted. She did not have a crib as a child, nor did she have any toys, those were considered a waist. They had children who could work to provide for, she could not work.

1888

"We will not be able to make it through the winter," Edna listen to her mother's voice as she slept on the wool cot between two of her sisters. She could over hear despite the loud wind pounding against the rickety door.

"I never thought it would come to this," Edna's father said sadly. "She is a cute girl who deserves better, the other can provide, she is nothing but a constant struggle to us."

"She will not bee seen as a struggle to another family, that desperately wants children," the father pointed out. "She deserves better, parents who won't see her as a burden. Tomorrow I will take her to New Orleans. They will provide her with what we can not."

"I just hate to do it," Edna's mother sighed. "It is for the best of the whole family those."

The next morning Edna remembered being served a hot breakfast, before the siblings that had to work. She than received a tight hug from her mother and older siblings as her father took her on a long wagon ride going straight to New Orleans. It was a strange city, crowded with people speaking in languages. Her father took her to a large cold stone building that had dark windows. Edna's father knocked on the door, and an older woman came out. "She's yours now."

"Sir, you have to sign some papers," The woman explained.

"I can't read or write," Edna's father explained. "Can't I just leave her here?"

"No," Edna cried. "Daddy don't leave me."

"Quiet!" her father shouted.

"Just mark here with an X," the woman handed him a small paper the man quickly marked it and ran out.

"Daddy," Edna ran to him.

"Get away from me," He yelled. "You are not my problem anymore."

"No," Edna cried as the woman's cold hands held Edna back.

Present Day

"Did she get adopted?" Alice asked listening to the sad story.

"No," Adam answered. "She was forced to learn how to grow up alone. When my mate was human, she knew how to be on her own, a lesson only taught the tough way."

"It is hard to believe, people will do that to their own," Alice seemed shocked. "Watching Nessie with Bella and Edward, I would not think that is possible."

"Humans are complex beings," Adam pointed out. "Next to us, their greatest predator is themselves. Some hurt people they love without a second thought.

"How did she become?" Jasper asked. "She lived in the south."

"We won't get to that part for awhile," Adam answered.

"How do you know me?" Jasper then asked.

"I was changed by the same woman who changed you," Adam explained. "I was a slave trying to runaway, and Marie caught me. You where suppose to kill me, but I made both you and her forget I existed."

"That is something your power can be used for," Jasper pointed out. "What I don't see is, what is the use of making Alice forget her visions?"

"You will see" Adam answered.

"How is Edna related to me?" Alice then asked.

"You will see," Adam answered.