A New Vampire 3
Rei Edogawa
Time passes differently when you don't sleep. I never knew what it was to go day and night without tiring and to learn and do so much. Carlisle taught me about vampire culture, Emmett and Jasper taught me to fight, while Bella, Edward, and Alice taught me to harness my new gifts.
My mind was truly amazing. I could do what Edward did and read minds. I could shield it too like Bella, and I could control or change the minds of the people around me. I couldn't touch Bella's mind, which was good. I needed someone around to keep me in line. If I had wanted to, I could have torn through the house and Bella was the only one who could stop me. Not even Jacob's pack could do that. They tried.
For the first year, I was kept away from humans, and gradually reintroduced to them over the summer. I was the Cullen's new foster son. Now that all the 'kids' had grown up and moved out, Esme wanted another teen around. I was placed with them. That was the cover story anyway. I became Nico Cullen.
September came around and I joined Forks High. We were going to leave in December, but the exposure now to humans was beneficial to me. I never touched human blood after my first victim. Being around all those humans was a challenge, but every day that I survived without killing someone was a victory for me.
Carlisle finally told me who did this to me. He was a nomad that was making a nuisance of himself, becoming more public with his kills. They had been tracking him through the city when he attacked me. He had been going to kill me. I was glad to be spared that. Emmett apparently had come close to me, but thought I was dying and couldn't be saved. That is why he had left me there. I hit Emmett in the face for that one and knocked him across the river while doing it.
He apologized to me and I apologized to him. We got over it. I knew that he had been trying to save more lives, and he understood that I needed to hit him because he had left me there. We understood each other's motives and accepted them. We were friends again afterwards, though Rosalie was mad at me for weeks afterward.
One day in November over a year later, I headed home from school on a day like any other. I liked to run, but they insisted I drive the new Audi they bought for me. It was a fast car, but I liked to run. They were all generous. They gave me access to their money and I found it didn't matter what I took. They had millions just stashed around the house, not to mention the banks around the world and the stock markets they played. I was dumbfounded by it all.
I was thinking of last weekend when Alice and Rosalie decided out of the blue to take Nessie and me to Paris for shopping. It was a fun weekend. I spent thousands on new clothes because Alice didn't like the ones I had picked for myself. Before I had shopped at Walmart and Target because I didn't want to spend too much.
The trip had gotten rid of that idea. I wasn't completely comfortable with it, but I was getting used to it. I drove up to the house and found a rental car in the drive way. I wondered if it was the cousins from Denali, but didn't think so because they would never use a rental. I parked the car and went inside. I could hear shouting from outside, and when I went in I recognized the voice.
It was my mother.