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So Chapter two.....
I was waiting for Daniel by the car. He had gone last minute hunting before we left for Forks and I was starting to get impatient. The sun was starting to emerge over the apartment building around me and I was aware of the faint glow that my skin was giving off. I was starting to get impatient. If Daniel was any longer we would have to wait until this evening to leave. It might have drawn some attention to us had we left in the middle of the sunny day. People already thought that we were odd. Fair enough, we hadn't seen many humans since I had graduated from high school two years ago, but they may have noticed if two teenage looking boys stepped out onto the street, one glowing and one reflecting light like a diamond. I looked around for Daniel. He was nowhere in sight. I couldn't hear or smell him either, I groaned, frustrated. He was most likely at his usual hunting ground; the large park just outside the town.
I put the suitcases, both mine and Daniel's, in the trunk of the car and climbed into the drivers seat. We had chosen to take my car; Daniels was a little too.... noticeable. Daniel owned a silver Mercedes whereas I owned a silver Volkswagen.
I revved up the car and put it into gear. I pulled away from the side of the street and began to drive towards the park. When I arrived, the sun was almost risen completely but about to be obscured by a large, grey cloud. I smiled and admired the view. Daniel had obviously heard me coming and was jogging at a human pace to the car.
"Hurry up!" I said, both impatient and annoyed, knowing that he was able to hear me.
"You wouldn't want me to blow our cover now little bro', would you?" Daniel said, nearing the car. I merely grunted in response. "Now budge over," Daniel continued, opening the door to the driver's seat. "I'm driving."
I didn't bother arguing with Daniel as I shifted into the passenger seat. I simply chose to mumble incoherently. Daniel started up the car and drove with alarming speed out of the park. I continued to mumble to myself, "...stupid, speeding vampires..." Daniel looked at me amused, with a small smirk on his face, but didn't bother to retaliate. I could tell that he was excited about moving. He had been getting bored of the small town that we had been living in the past five years and was rather excited about being able to hunt different animals without going so far. He was especially excited about the bears in Alaska.
We were already nearing the highway at this point; Daniel had pushed my car up to 150mph and was willing it to go faster. The morning traffic was beginning to build and Daniel wanted to avoid it. He hated nothing more than to get stuck in traffic and He had terrible road rage. He had destroyed more than one steering wheel in his time by banging his fist against it. "Come on," he urged my car that was now pushing 175mph. "You can do it!" I sighed and furrowed by brow in frustration.
"If you're this eager to get there quickly, we may as well have taken the plane."
Daniel shot me a death glare. He was terrified of planes. I found this fact hilarious; he was a vampire, indestructible. He could survive a plane crash without a scratch on him. I couldn't help laughing out loud at him.
"For that," he started, an evil glint in his eyes. "I'm getting the bigger bedroom when we get to Alaska."
"Aw, come on man! You don't even sleep!"
"Doesn't matter, it's still mine."
"Whatever." I said, annoyed by the smirk that occupied my brother's face.
"Besides, we'll be in Forks in a few hours. I never asked – how long do you wanna stay there?" Daniel asked looking over at me. I hated it when he did that. I knew that he wouldn't crash and even if he did, that we would both survive, but something about it made me feel uneasy.
"Well?" Daniel persisted, bringing me out of my thought bubble.
"I dunno really," was my marvellous reply. "I hadn't really thought about it."
"Useful." Daniel stated, looking back out to the road. "Why do you wanna go back anyways?" He continued, curiosity dripping from every word.
"Well, ummm.... I guess I just wanted to see where I came from. See if my granddad was still there. My mom's letter says that he was the chief of police there. I wanted to find out more about her, my mom, as well I guess."
Daniel was deep in thought for a moment.
"I don't see anything wrong with that. You'll have to say that you're fifteen, of course, but I'm pretty sure that you can pass for that." I could tell that he wanted to say something else so I waited for him.
"What about your father?" He said finally. I was silent for a moment. Me and Daniel rarely spoke of him.
"He won't be there anymore." I said slowly. "He'll have moved on to another town by now."
Daniel seemed to accept this and became silent. I looked out of the window to the cloudy sky, lost in thoughts of my mother and father. I wondered what they looked like. My mother only said that my father was beautiful and that she was plain. I guess that I must have looked like them. I wondered if my mother had brown eyes. My father would have had golden eyes as it said in the letter. But where did my occasional green eyes come from? I was confused.
"Daniel?" I began cautiously. I knew that he didn't like to talk to me about what I was about to bring up. "Can you tell me, about the day that you found me?"
I heard Daniel's small intake of breath.
He looked at me, a saw a hundred different thought fly through across his face as he contemplated telling me. I met his gaze calmly. I wanted to hear it before I arrived in Forks.
"Well," Daniel began. "I suppose that you should know thoroughly before we get there." He took another breath. "I was hunting quite far away from where I lived at the time. In the forest surrounding Forks." He looked at me and I nodded for him to continue. "I remember it as if it were yesterday. I had just finished off a couple of deer, I was a bit peeved that I couldn't find anything better honestly. And then I smelt it. It was so delicious, so mouth watering, almost like freesia. I started running towards it. I was so excited as I smelt it getting closer but bit annoyed that it wasn't running, half the fun is in the hunt, ya know?"
He looked at me apologetically before continuing. "And then I saw her, your mom. She was lying in the middle of this meadow. I knew that she was dead, I heard no heartbeat and she was perfectly still. She looked so peaceful. I stopped breathing so as that her blood wouldn't tempt me. I could tell that she was bleeding. Her scent had been so strong. But then I heard you. You had somehow managed to get behind her. When you heard me you peeked over her, at me, with those huge brown eyes and you seemed just as surprised as me. You stared at me for a moment before your eyes turned the most shocking shade of green. God I was shocked. I had no idea what you were. You looked like a baby but I knew that you weren't. You were something else. Something different. And that's when I noticed the letters. They were sitting on top of a backpack. There was one addressed to you, and one addressed to 'whoever may find this.' I read it of course. I was kind of shocked to be honest. It was asking me to take care of you and telling me that you were half vampire, you're lucky it was a vampire who found you. I didn't know what to do. I knew I couldn't just leave you out here so I took you home. Your mom had put clothes and food in the back pack for you. She loved you even then. But anyway, yeah, I took you home and kept you there for a couple of days. You grew so quickly! I had to go get new clothes every couple of weeks." Daniel finished his story, smiling at me. I couldn't help but smile with him. A thought clouded my mind and I once again furrowed my brow.
"What did you do with my mom, her... body...I mean?" I asked.
"I don't know what happened to her."
I felt my eyes widen in shock and my jaw drop open, Daniel obviously noticed and continued with his story.
"I ran you home to where I was staying at the time and when I got back to see what I could do for your mom, she was gone."
"What do you think happened?"
"Personally, I think it was a bear or something, she was too weak to get anywhere by herself."
I stared out the window. I had nothing to say, I was too lost in thought. I had no idea how long I sat there thinking. Just thinking. But before I knew it I felt Daniels gently shaking my shoulder and speaking to me.
"We're here."
Well that was Chapter 2. I hope that you enjoyed it. Sorry if you didn't :D
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