Long Live Life
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First of all, she did it again! Debbie Hicks keeps writing reviews on my stories like she's telling how it should go. Debbie, if that's really your real name, I don't know if you're really a person or some sort of scam guest but please stop! For God's sakes write your own story on your own account. Stop rewriting my stories, I'm telling it, not you! I'm sick and tired of hearing you write about something dark on my stories like hearing Vulcans, aliens or venoms or angels or Star Trek. They have nothing to do with it! I mean come on, my character Damien as an assassin? The rest of you, I'm sorry again if you're reading this because this person is annoying with reviews like it's his or her story. Who owns this story, me! I don't know how else to block this user out of my stories because the system to do that no longer exist and I don't wanna delete my account moving to a different website, not with everything I have called progress. I'll just have to deal with it but I say this again to Debbie, fuck off and stop writing shitty reviews. THIS IS MY STORY, NOT YOURS! Please, I don't like it!
Everyone else, enjoy this chapter update.
During Luna's first day of school…
Chapter 3 – Should've Known
Lucien's POV
The definition of life? Well, let's put it this way, life sucks. I never understood how everyone can be okay with it all. I don't think I'll ever understand the meaning of it.
My name is Lucien Bryson Summers. I'm an eleven year old human vampire hybrid, the son of Bryce and Lucina. Yeah, Bryce and Lucina are my biological parents. I thought it was obvious to you guys. I guess I should explain more about myself.
As I said before, Bryce and Lucina are my biological parents; I was born in Forks, Washington the day before my dad's birthday. It happened after my parents got married. Then there's my grandmother Tiffany who is a kindergarten teacher and my step grandfather Jalen who owns Long Corporation. Carlisle and Esme are my great-grandparents, Edward, Bella, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, Jasper, Lucas and Krystal are my great aunts and uncles, Jacob and Renesmee, who prefers to called Nessie, is my aunt and uncle and also my godparents and Evan and Sarah are my cousins who are my parent's godchildren. Yeah, I have a big family.
Should I be happy about this? Sure, I mean I have great parents with my half-human half-vampire mother being so loving to me and sending 'I love you' messages in my head with her gift to communicate mentally and my charming father raising me to be a great man and my grandparents where one brags a lot with all the work and accomplishments he's done for the company and not to mention his amazing tacking senses and the other one that knows how to heal with her gift along with seeing through a person's eyes. Along with a compassionate doctor and a woman who loves people passionately as great-grandparents. Then a mind reader, an emotion controller, an aura reader and big teddy bear for great uncles along with great aunts where one has extreme beauty, another with a shield, one who is fast and a crazy pixie who sees it all. Now add a werewolf and a half-human half-vampire who shows you her thoughts as godparents and twin shape shifters as cousins and you could call us a unique family.
Oh yeah, Evan and Sarah are shape shifters just like their father. Evan first phased when he was three years old in a fourteen year old body making him the youngest member of the pack to do so. Sarah also phased about a month later after Evan. At first everyone thought she only had vampire and human traits but with Evan being annoying to her kinda pushed it.
And yet everyone is okay with their lives despite what has gone on… unlike me.
It was the middle of the day on a Monday where the sky is all cloudy at school. My family and I are walking our way to the cafeteria from the outside. It's what we always do at school; meet up after class before lunch and then we find a table to sit together.
"Hey Lucien, you wouldn't happen to know where Evan is, do you?" Sarah asked me as we were walking behind of family who were all paired up talking to each other.
"Knowing Evan, he's probably trying yet again to find a girl to imprint on, and failing." I said giving out a small chuckle as my hands were in my pockets as Sarah joined in laughing.
"He's always hoping to find that certain someone." Sarah said.
"How hard is it for you guys to imprint?" I said.
"You can't choose to imprint. You just never know. Take my dad for example." Sarah said. She didn't have to tell me because the next thing that happened was that I was seeing things through Sarah's eyes that is not happening now.
Flashback from A Christmas Surprise
Sarah's POV
"Alice made all the preparations for 'my' graduation party." Grandma said, making air quotations when she said 'my'. "The Cullens felt like they had to go to Seattle to take care of the problem. Edward goes hunting to be at his strongest and I am dropped off to spend the afternoon with Jacob."
Daddy's smile vanished and he folded his arms across his chest. What did he do?
"That's when I invited Jacob to the graduation party. Then Jacob told me that he's in love with me and wanted me to choose him over Edward." Daddy was in love with grandma? That is so weird.
"You were in love with Bella?" Bryce asked daddy as Jalen, Lucina and Tiffany looked at him with weird looks. Mommy gave daddy a playful glare.
"That's creepy weird." Jalen stated.
"Then stupid, stupid Jacob kissed me," Grandma said.
"Nice! OW!" Russell cried when Dexter punched his arm as grandpa growled at Russell. Boys are stupid.
End of Flashback
Lucien's POV
"Not all boys are stupid you know, princess." I said after Sarah showed me her thoughts as our family already went inside the cafeteria.
Sarah has a gift opposite of her mother's. It is similar but how it works is different. See while Nessie shows you her thoughts by touch, Sarah shows you hers without it. You could say she's doing it 'wirelessly' and plus her gift penetrates shields just like Nessie.
Evan has a gift too apart from being a shape shifter. He can read minds just like Edward and Jacob, in his wolf form, but here's how it works. You see Evan can hear thoughts from other shape shifters in the pack when they're in their wolf forms but in human form, he hears the thoughts of humans the same way like a wolf but he only hears and shares the thoughts to only members of the Cullen family pretty much like hearing the thoughts of wolves only. And yes, he can hear my mom, Bella and Lucas despite the aura and shields with his other gift like Sarah's.
"I know, its boys like Evan that act like this." Sarah smiled.
"You two talking about me?" Evan said jumping in between me and Sarah as he flung his arms over our shoulders. "How's it going?" He asked happily.
"It's good. Now get your arm off me Ev, you stink!" Sarah said. Ain't that the truth. Depending on the day, Evan's scent is a mix of sweetness, not really sweet or serious dog odor and today, Evan's scent reek of wet dog.
"Hey, it's not like you smell any better." Evan smirked. Good point. I thought. Sarah smells just as bad as Evan.
"Hey!" Sarah said in offense as she whacked Evan on the arm hard causing him to let go of us as he took off laughing.
"You're dead Thomas!" Sarah said calling out his middle name as she chased after him in annoyance to the cafeteria leaving me behind as I gave a weak chuckle and soon immediately frowned.
How is everyone okay after what has happened? Why can't they feel what I feel? Even Jasper deals with feeling everyone's emotion and yet he's cool with it. He had trouble before since he once had the hardest control of his thirst. Why and how?
I was the last one coming inside the cafeteria. The minute I stepped inside the room, I can hear human girls gasping and soon sighing in such a dreamy way as I can hear their heartbeats going crazy. Looking up, everyone was talking not like they normally do in school; something that was a bit similar when my family and I first came to this school of Lakeville South High.
"Oh that's Lucien Summers, Bryce's younger brother. He's in my Algebra class." The guy I know in that class, Damien Grant said explaining about our 'family relationship.' He's actually talking to someone. Damien's usually the loner at this school. I don't understand why though. He sounds like a nice guy according to Edward and Lucas.
I sighed as I walked my way to where everyone is at. I made it to the table and slouched down in my seat with my hands in my pocket.
"So what's everyone in this school talking about?" I asked looking down.
"Everyone's talking about the new girl here." Lucas said causing me to look up.
"Yeah, from what I heard, she's really something. OW!" Emmett said when Rosalie smacked his head. Does he know what loyalty means? "I was just saying it just in case Evan here is interested." He said as everyone else laughs.
"I've seen her from what Edward here is showing me." Evan said. "She's alright but I'm not sure she's what I'm looking for."
"Who is she?" Sarah asked.
"Her name is Luna Snow." Jasper answered.
"Wow, her name is just as beautiful as mine." Krystal said.
"Why does that name sound familiar?" Bella asked.
"Her mother Maureen Snow just started working with Carlisle and Calvin over the weekend." Edward answered. "Their family moved all the way from Portland."
"So that's the girl Damien's talking to huh." Rosalie said.
"Well, she's gonna need some major help with her wardrobe." Alice said.
"Can't you just stay out of people's closets?" Krystal asked.
"You already became known as the fashion police here doing it to half the school, and the ones who could barely afford a current look didn't ask for a new look." Lucas said.
I tuned out from my family's conversation as I sighed looking down again. Everyone just has to behave and talk like nothing serious had happened. Way to put up an act.
"Lucien." My mom called to me in my head with her gift. That had my full attention. Having your mother talking to you mentally feels the same as having a conversation aloud. I only lifted my head for a slight fraction so that my mom doesn't think I'm ignoring her.
"Everything alright, sweetie?" She asked me.
I sighed as I replied through my head, "I'm fine mom."
I could see from moving my eyes up to see mom and dad looking at each other with concern and then turned back to me as my eyes went down looking at my Converse shoes. That's when dad placed his hand on my shoulder.
"Must we have this conversation again? Don't lie to us, and to yourself." He said to me mentally as I sighed again.
"Really dad, I'm fine. It's just one of those days with the weather." I said back to him.
Did I ever tell you about my gift? I can communicate mentally just like mom but I have to make physical contact. It's pretty similar to how my grandma Tiffany uses her seeing gift. My gift works the same way mom's does. See others communicates mentally to her if she allows them; if she talks to you mentally first then that means you both get to communicate and you can be the first to talk to her that way. The same with me. I have to touch you and then talk to you mentally to allow it because if you touch me and then talk in my head first, it won't work. I've used my gift on the whole family except there was no need to some. Since mom uses her gift without the need of touch I can just talk with her that way and Evan uses his gift on me like I was a wolf.
Also I too have a shield but the thing about that gift is that, well… it doesn't really protect my mind. You see my shield works just like my mom's where it protects all mental conversations but once the mental connection has hung up, the shield is automatically dropped down giving people like Edward with his mind reading gift to have access to my thoughts and I can't control it, at all.
"Okay, but if there's something wrong, please tell us." Dad said. I nodded my head and he let go thus losing the connection. Soon, the bell rang signaling lunch is over and it was time for our next class.
"Ah, can we just go home?" Evan groaned.
"Oh suck it up Evan, it's only two classes." Sarah said.
"Two hours long together! I can't stand them, especially history!" Evan said about his final class of the day with me.
"I'm with you on that buddy." Emmett said.
"Two hours is not gonna kill you guys." Mom said.
"Come on." Bella said as we got up and went our separate ways to class. I made my way to Reed's English class. I doubt there's anything new for me to learn since I've memorized the material with my vampire memory and the fact that I've learned this back home when I was only a year or two years old.
In the classroom, I slouched down in my seat after placing my notebook and mechanical number two pencil on my desk and just stared at it. The desk next to me is empty; been like that since the beginning of the year.
The room started filling up with students coming from lunch. The humans are lucky that they have no worries of what goes on or what has happened. Why couldn't my life be like that? I thought as the warning bell rang. That's when I heard Mr. Reed spoke.
"Ah yes, Ms. Snow, you can sit with Mr. Summers over there." He said and at that moment, I caught a scent that I've never smelled before; apart from the scent of blood that has my full attention, there was also the scent of jasmine in it. I looked up and now what or who I'm staring at really has my attention, like I've never seen it my entire life.
This girl has long hair of chocolate cherry, if that's even a thing, with a triangle shaped face showing a thin peachy lips and eyes in an unusual shape of wide round. She is wearing a plaid green and blue skirt with black leggings with a light brown long sleeve shirt that has a white design pattern at the collar. I saw that she was staring at me in surprised as her heart was beating uncontrollably along with a small hyperventilation as she walked up to where I am sitting. I wonder what's up.
The girl sat down next me pulling out her notebook as her hair covered her face. This must be the Luna Snow everyone's talking about. And… she… really is… something. Can a vampire with a human heart actually beat so loud, because that's what's happening to me. How is it that everything inside me feels like a rollercoaster ride? Is it possible to hear a certain song that's not even from your phone? Why do I feel like I wanna move closer to this girl, more closely than you can imagine? Why am I feeling such a thing?
Mr. Reed started his class but I didn't pay attention to his lesson. I mean I never had since I already knew it but this was different because my eyes were on Luna. Why can't I look away from her? Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. What the hell is wrong with me? What is going on here? Is this some kind of torture I've been given? I noticed through her hair Luna's eye moved. No, she didn't catch me staring at her, did she?
I didn't know how fast time went by when the bell rang and Luna quickly gathered her things and left the classroom fast for a human as I just sat there and stared at the door Luna exited. Why do I get this feeling that Luna wanted to get out of the classroom to get as far away from me as possible? Does she… I don't know… hate me? I'm somehow ninety-five percent sure she does. The other five percent is something I doubt.
"Mr. Summers, you don't want to be late for your class, do you?" Mr. Reed called me and I realized that I'm the only student in the room.
"No sir." I said grabbing my things and walked out the door, but not before I heard him chuckling. What could be so funny in that guy's head?
My last class is history and just like the rest of my classes unlike what happened earlier, I zoned out. However, my mind was somehow on the events that happened with Luna. I have no clue why I'm suddenly thinking about her or why her behavior in class is a big deal to me. Evan seems to notice because he's been silent all class period instead of chatting with me with our gifts but he didn't press on.
The end of school came and I was at my locker after school grabbing my textbook I needed for tonight's homework. I was walking my way to the front entrance to meet up with my parents for a ride home and I just passed the office when,
"Well what's the matter with that class? Do you have a problem with… Mr. Reed?"
I stopped when I was dead in my tracks and I don't know why but I turned back stopping at the entrance to the main office. I know it's wrong to eavesdrop but my will got the best of me.
"What, no I don't have a problem with him it's just… I would really like to have it at a different time if that's possible." That was Luna. She's talking to the front lady of the office… and she's trying to get out of English class, the class I have with her.
I felt like my face fell and my stomach suddenly feels like I swallowed a ton of rocks. Everything inside of me felt like it's shattered right to the center causing the rest to follow through.
She wants to switch out because of me. I knew it! I should've known. She doesn't like me. This is what I get. It's life's way of punishment for what I have done. It's like something was about to grow but then ripped right out of the ground.
"Well I'm sorry dear but most of the other English classes in your grade are all filled, so there's no room. And since you don't have a problem with Mr. Reed, then I can't see why you would want to change it." The office lady said apologetically.
"Can't you just switch my classes, please?" Luna asked desperately. The more and more I listened to them, the more I wanted to run away from here and never come back.
"I'm sorry dear. Maybe this problem needs to be discussed between you and your teacher." The office lady said. Luna sighed and thanked her. I saw Luna come out of the office with her head down until she came to my direction and looked up. The moment she saw me, she gasped stopping dead in her tracks.
I tried to mask the feeling and expression I was developing but I'm pretty sure she saw it all because her wide round eyes of violet were wide as saucers.
"Um, sorry." She said quietly in a voice I've never heard in my life and went around me walking out the door. The minute she was out, Luna started running as fast as a human could run.
I was soon out the door feeling the air hit my face. I was about to go to the parking lot to meet up with my parents when I saw the yellow bus pulling out and right there at the window seat was Luna as she did to me. She turned away as the bus was soon out of school property and drove off to the road taking her with it.
And there you have the introduction of our new characters. A lot will be happening. What do you guys think? Please review.