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Chapter 3

Carlisle shooed everyone out of the room except for Edward and Esme. Then he, with their help, began to answer my questions. "What was your first question Getty? You'll have to forgive me, I sometimes forget these things."

"I wanted to know where I am," I replied.

"Oh, yes," Carlisle said. "Well, you are in my house. All those people that were in the room earlier were my family. Edward, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie are my children. Bella is Edward's fiancée and Esme is my wife. You are still in Forks, but I don't know how much longer we will be able to stay here."

"OK. The next thing that I want to know is what I've become. There is no way you guys are human, you're all just too beautiful".

"Well, I'm flattered by that statement," Esme replied. "We are vampires."

I recoiled at the thought and Esme continued. "We don't have to drink human blood. If you ask Carlisle later, I'm sure he would be more than willing to tell you about his change and how he learned that we could survive on animal blood. There are also several myths that I'm sure Edward would be glad to clarify you on."

I was now eager to know what Esme was talking about. "What myths?"

Edward looked at me and said "Firstly, we can go out during the day. Most of us just choose not to because of what happens when we go out in the sun." He then noticed my confused look. "I'll show you later," he said. Then he continued "Secondly, we do not sleep in coffins. If you go look in every bedroom in this house, you will see a bed, however, being as we do not sleep, I assume that you will be able to guess what those are used for." He chuckled, a crooked little smile appearing on his face as he clearly remembered his own escapades. I tried not to think about it. "Thirdly," he continued, "Garlic does not have any effect on us at all. Bella loves Italian food with as much garlic as she can get. She especially loves it when I cook for her, so, if garlic did anything to harm us, I probably wouldn't be as healthy as I am. However healthy vampires may be, seeing as we're technically dead."

I laughed at this. I knew I was going to like Edward. He was cute, funny, and sarcastic, but he still didn't hold a candle to my wonderful, wonderful boyfriend. I just thought of him as one of my brothers, but the look on his face made me a little nervous. It almost looked as if he was in love with me, but he couldn't be. Could he? I mean, he didn't even know anything about me except that I was a vampire and my nickname. So how could he already be in love? And what about Bella? "OK," I continued. "Why am I in so much pain? I've never sworn this much before in my life. Except maybe when I sanded off all the skin on my knuckle."

This time it was Edward's turn to laugh. "Ouch," he said. "You don't waste any time getting to the point. Very, very blunt and no-nonsense. I assume that particular incident was an accident?"

"Duh. Now can we please answer my question. Don't make me beg."

"Alright," Carlisle continued. "All of this pain you're feeling is because of the change. In order for a human to become a vampire, the human must be bitten by a vampire. Instead of blood, we create venom, which we use to help kill our prey and to turn people into vampires. The stinging is the venom coursing through your veins, but the pain should subside shortly. It just means that the change is, for all intensive purposes, complete. The change in and of itself is also an extremely painful process and your body is just getting used to the venom."

Right as Carlisle finished explaining that, the stinging stopped. "Thank you for explaining all of that, Carlisle and Esme. Oh, wait. I have one more question for you guys. Why was I changed in the first place?"

Carlisle began his story by telling me "I only change people if I am asked to and there is no other way to save their lives".

"Wait a minute… I was dying?"

"Yes, you were," he said. "And your father asked me to do everything within my power to keep you alive."

"Why was I dying? What happened?"

"I was in your father's office at the woodshop. I was telling him what I wanted Esme to have for her birthday. The meeting was actually very drawn out. I saw you in the woodshop, doing about 20 different things at once. It looked like you were making a dining room set or something because you kept going back and forth from the table saw to the lathe to the band saw and all these other power tools I didn't recognize. I believe one might have been that sander you mentioned earlier. I eventually started to see chairs just appear before my eyes. They were beautiful. You really do have talent there. I was talking with your father, when all of a sudden I heard a loud bang and I looked over and couldn't see you. Ryan and I immediately ran over to the band saw where you had been working and he noticed that it had had a kick-back. Then he saw your neck gushing blood. He was panicking and asking me 'You're a doctor. Can she be saved? Do everything within your power to save her. Please. I need her here. Without her I would never manage to meet all of my deadlines. Please!!'. He was crying hysterically by that point. I examined the wound and saw that the blade had nicked your carotid artery and that if I didn't turn you, you were going to die in less than 5 minutes."

"How could that have happened," I asked. "I'm always careful to stand off to the side of the saw where the blade can't hurt me if something like that happens."

"I believe you had a rapidly approaching deadline to meet, what with the way you were running about, becoming more and more frazzled by the minute. I think when this happened, you were standing in front of the saw."

I gasped. God, I'm such an idiot. Now what is Ry- my dad going to do? Shit. Edward gave me a look that said "Everything is going to be just fine."

Just then, Alice burst in. "OH MY GOD!! I can't wait to get to know you better!! I can tell we're gonna be best friends!"

"Is she always this hyper," I asked.

"You have no idea," Edward said.

"Alice," I began. "Before we hang out and you put me through whatever torture I know that you're planning, I have one more question for Edward. So if everyone else will please leave…" And they politely left, Alice saying that she would be back in in less than 10 minutes.

Edward looked at me. "You were saying…"

"Well... um… I don't really know how to put this," I started. "But right after I woke up, when you were talking to me, you knew things about me that I didn't tell you. And I know I didn't tell you them because we'd never talked before, even though we go to the same school."

"And your question is…" he pressed.

"How did you know all that about me?"

Edward sighed heavily. "I can't think of any better way to put this, so I'm just going to be blunt. Some vampires have powers. I'm one of that group. I can read minds."

"Oh…" I said. "Does anyone else in your family have powers?"

"Alice and Jasper do. Alice can foresee things in the future and Jasper can manipulate people's emotions."

"How do you get these powers?"

"You are born with them. They generally come from certain talents you had when you were human. I was always able to read people very well, Alice had an uncanny intuition. She almost knew that certain things were going to happen. And Jasper was always good at making people feel calmer."

"Oh… Will I have any powers," I asked. Then I heard something. It sounded like Emmett's voice, but I didn't hear anyone talking.

I wonder what they're doing in there. I mean Edward had this weird look on his face when that girl woke up. It looked like the way that he used to look at Bella. I hope he isn't…

"What was that," I asked. "Did you say something?"

"No. I didn't," Edward replied.

"I think Emmett might be outside the door listening to us."

Edward got up and opened the door. "Hello Emmett. It might be a good idea for you to leave now. Before I hurt you." Edward glared at him and Emmett left.

"How did you know he was there," Edward asked.

"I heard something that sounded like his voice, but what I heard didn't sound like something he would say to another person. Especially with Bella in the house."

"Weird… All I could hear was him singing 'I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston to himself," Edward replied. "I thought he and Rose had just finished… Well… You know."

I then looked at the clock and noticed 10 minutes had passed. As if on cue, Alice burst in.

"Alice," Edward practically shouted. "Give us just 5 more minutes please. We're almost done." And Alice promptly left. "That's a first," he mused. "But anyway… I think I know what your power is."

I looked at him curiously.

"You can also read minds, but you are much more powerful than I am. You can hear what people are trying to cover up."

"OK. Well… Alice is listening at the door and growing impatient. Thanks for answering my questions. You can let Alice in, by the way. And maybe we'll talk later."

As Edward left, Alice came bounding back in. "Finally," she said. "Now… let's see about getting you ready to go hunting."

A/N: I am looking for a Beta and I own nothing in relation to Twilight except for a copy of each of the books. Please read and review. Contrary to some people's beliefs, I'm not that good of a writer. I promise to give you a sneak peek at the next chapter if you review. I apologize for being lax on this last time.