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Chapter 4

KPOV

Alice dragged me up the stairs and pointed out some of the rooms to me as I went. She pointed out her room, Esme and Carlisle's and Rosalie and Emmett's as well as Carlisle's study. She said "I'll show you them later on, but judging by the way you were pleading to have a shower I'd say that it's your main concern right now."

"Thank you, you're right." I said as she suddenly dragged me into a room to our left. It was a huge bathroom. I don't think I've ever seen one this big. The floor was made of black marble and so were all the counter tops. There was a huge bath in one part of the bathroom and also a very luxurious shower.

"I'll leave you to it. I'll get you a new outfit ready and I can promise you it will be perfect! Oh this is going to be so fun!" she squealed before hugging me. I wasn't used to this physical contact, not since my mother used to hug me.

"Before I forget, will you please tell Edward not to read my mind while I'm washing? I'm starting to get paranoid." I said.

She laughed before saying "Of course, but he probably heard your thoughts just now anyway. Didn't you Edward?" I heard hi laugh before he shouted up promising not to read my mind.

Alice then said "Just wrap yourself in a robe when you're done and come along to my room. I'll have something ready. We'll take care of these dirty clothes later." Then she danced out of the room humming to herself and obviously very happy at having a new dress up doll.

I had a hard decision to make. Take a bath or a shower? Eventually I decided on a bath, I needed time to soak and relax and try and sift through all my thoughts. I started running the bath and while the tub was filling I stripped off my clothes . I then climbed into the steaming hot water. I was glad for this. I hadn't had a proper wash in so long. I was borderline disgusting, although I wasn't sure if I had already crossed this line. The water felt so good as it soothed my limbs. They weren't exactly aching, but I could definitely feel that I had been running for a few months.

I settled in and started thinking. This family seemed nice enough, they even had the same diet as me and there was even another half-vampire. I could learn more about my kind and maybe even help her with whatever she needs. It wasn't easy for me, so maybe I can make it easier for her. But she had a whole family full of vampires to help her. I had only had my human mother. I didn't even know if they would want me to stay after I had told them the rest of my story. I hadn't expected this. I though I would be running forever, just running from my past trying not to face it. Now I've met the Cullens they need to know my story, I promised them, so now it was time for me to face my past.

The weird thing was that they wanted me to stay, even without knowing everything about me. That may change, but it felt nice to be wanted after such a long time, even if I knew it couldn't last. But then again, they had taken my story in their stride so far and they had even accepted my crying. Maybe I was underestimating them, maybe they would understand and I wouldn't have to leave. I would finally have a family after so long. Maybe they would even love me. I think I'm even beginning to start to love them too. They have accepted me unconditionally and without reservation. I never expected it and it has come as a shock. But it wasn't unwelcome, in fact I gladly accepted it with open arms. Oh my God, I think I already love them like a family. I never knew this would happen so quickly. It will only hurt so much more if I have to leave though.

I wonder why they were all friends with Jacob. He was human as far as I could tell, although he did smell like the forest a lot. If he smelled any more like that then it may even hurt my nose. But it was just on the right side of it, he smelled okay. But I couldn't figure out why they were friends with him, he was human and they were vampires. He wasn't supposed to know about them, and even if they didn't drink human blood wasn't it still a bit dangerous for him to be around them? As far as I could tell from the smells outside he was around here a lot. He seemed to go out into the woods on walks with him too, although I doubted that they'd walk. Surely they'd run? With their speed I knew I'd want to run instead of walking. I could get to just about vampire speed, but unlike them I needed energy more often and running wore me out more than it did them. I still couldn't fathom it out though.

I wonder how long they are going to stay here? They said Bella's father lived near by. Does that mean that he knew about the vampires? I'm guessing he's human so he shouldn't know about her, and if he is still human wouldn't he have noticed that Bella has changed a lot since being turned into a vampire? Did he know, or was he just being oblivious? Isn't it dangerous though, to have Bella around him? She is only a newborn. But maybe she has very good control, it must be easier if you live on animal blood though to control your thirst.

They all acted as a family. I knew none of them were related apart from Edward, Bella and Nessie so how come they were so close? Maybe it was because they drank animal blood, but or maybe it was because they actually made a conscious effort and genuinely loved each other. All having mates must help too. I wish I could get a mate. Maybe I wouldn't be so lonely. But where am I going to find one, and do half-vampires even have mates? The bond between Nessie and Jacob seemed very strong. Maybe they are future mates? At least they are all happy and love each other. They have each other whenever anything goes wrong.

I then washed my hair and shaved and washed myself all over. God this felt good. I haven't felt this nice in too long, I don't want it to end. Eventually I got out the bath and towelled myself off and then got into the robe. It didn't exactly cover much. I hope I don't run into anyone when I cross to Alice's room. I hope Jasper isn't in there. That would just be too embarrassing. I picked up my clothes and dashed towards Alice's room at vampire speed and hoped that no one caught a glimpse.

I entered Alice's room and was amazed. This was huge. "I'm in the closet" she called out. I followed her voice into the closet, closed the door and turned around. I nearly fainted with how big it was. I think I'm going to be here for a while. I hope I don't have to try on too many different outfits. But once she's done with that I'm sure she'll want to tackle my hair and make-up. I refuse to let her get too carried away though, I have a feeling any protests will be in vain though. Maybe if I tempt her with finishing off my story? It's been more than an hour since I got into the bath, so maybe she would be swayed? I doubt it, she seemed too excited for anything except clothes. I would definitely be here a while.

"Katherine!" she squealed. "I've not managed to find the perfect outfit for you yet, but I have a few ideas, so if you wouldn't mind would you please try them all on so I can get a better idea of what would suit you? I hate not being able to see what you would look like in them. It makes everything so much harder." she said, pouting.

"Sure Alice. As long as I'm not trying them on for too long. I don't mind trying them on, but I do want to get downstairs again sometime this year. I can see how many clothes you have."

"Silly Katherine. It will only take an hour or two, but then I have to do your make-up and hair of course. That may take about an hour." she said cheerily. I gulped and hoped she was exaggerating, I had a feeling that she wasn't though.

She wasn't.

I spent an hour and a half trying on clothes while Alice murmured to herself about what looked best; and that was changing at vampire speed too. I lost count of all the outfits after outfit number twenty.

Finally she found the perfect outfit for me. I was wearing dark blue jeans and a green silk shirt that perfectly set off my hair. Then she put me in a pair of black shiny flats. Great, as if I wasn't small enough, I was only 5 3". I'll admit I was kind of hoping she would out me in heels, I need them. Maybe next time though, I mean she has enough shoes. But her clothes outweigh her shoes 10 to 1 any day. I think she may need a therapist she's that obsessed. To top it all off she wants to take me shopping as soon as she can to get me a whole new wardrobe. I think I'll feel guilty if she does though. But I do need clothes, and I don't have any money to buy them with. Maybe I will have to submit if I do end up staying.

Then she dragged me through to her bathroom I assumed as it joined onto her room and pushed me down onto a seat. "You'll sit here and won't complain while I do your hair and your make-up. OK?"

"Sure." I squeaked. I was intimidated now. I'm sure she could be scary if she wanted to be.

"Good. Now let's get started" she replied.

She pulled and tugged on my hair using lots of spray on conditioner. I wasn't surprised she needed this much force and help. "How long did you go without brushing your hair anyway?" she asked.

"A while." I couldn't bring myself to admit that it had been weeks, if not months since I had. Now I really felt like a complete scruff. At least I had an excuse though; no money and I wasn't the sort of person to steal anything. I hadn't taken anything with me when I left, only the clothes I was wearing at the time. I've been wearing clothes that were out in the trash for a while now. Even I'm not that much of a scruff.

My hair was very curly and hung in tight ringlets. Somehow, she managed to get them to hang perfectly and at the same time stop them from going frizzy. This was impossible, I'd never managed it before. I'd have to ask her how she did it, maybe I would have to stay around to figure it out.

She then moved onto my make-up. "Alice, can you please not go too overboard with my make-up? I don't wear that much to begin with and if I started wearing loads your family might get the wrong idea about me." I said.

"Nonsense. Anyone made over by me never looks like a tart. You don't even need much anyway. I'll give you just the amount you need and no more. Happy?"

"Yes, thank you." I said. I was more relaxed now anyway. I really didn't want to give her family the wrong impression. It wouldn't do on the first day. It would be the first time they've seen me half way respectable looking and I wasn't about to give them the wrong impression about me. We didn't even know that much about each other. Sure we knew each other's backgrounds. But nothing very personal. But I hoped we would start to become closer. I would like to have a family again.

Finally she said "You're ready, take a look at the new you."

I looked amazing.

"Alice you're a genius!"

"I know" she replied.

She had put some black eyeliner on, mascara and also some perfect green eyeshadow. It was a few shades darker than my top and set off my eyes perfectly. My eyelashes were very long, but they were golden so you couldn't see them that well, but with the mascara and all the rest of the make up my eyes just popped. On my lips she had just put a small amount a clear lipgloss. It put a nice shine on them, but still let the natural pink colour come through. I didn't really need any changes to my natural shade, they were just the right colour of pink. That was it, and I looked amazing.

I was surprised. I knew that being a half-vampire I was pretty and I'd used make-up before. But the person looking back at me didn't even look like me. It was someone completely different, because even I wasn't that gorgeous. "Come on, let's go show everyone else how gorgeous you are" she giggled as she took me by the hand and led me downstairs.

I wondered how everyone would react. Everyone already had a mate so I shouldn't make much of an impression. If I did though that would be a bonus.

As I came into the living room Emmett wolf whistled. "My, my we do scrub up well!" he said. Rosalie elbowed him in the ribs, but I could tell from her face she was kidding. All the guys eyes popped out of their heads when they saw me. I bet they didn't think I would turn out this well either. I was surprised to get that kind of reaction though, even Jacob reacted well. He spoke to me for the first time.

"Wow, Katherine whoever gets you is one lucky guy." I was started to get a bit self conscious by this point. Even all the girls were staring. This really was unexpected.

"Katherine you look lovely, do you want to get some food now like you said? I expect Jacob will join you." Esme said. Jacob jumped up at the mention of food and practically flew to the kitchen. Maybe it was a guy thing.

"I would love to Esme. I am actually getting a bit hungry." I said.

I followed her into the kitchen and was astonished at how big it was. They didn't need to use it so I'm not sure why they even had one. Maybe it was just for appearances sake. Or maybe, judging by the way Jacob was going through all the food, there was a reason for it after all. He ate like a horse. He was probably eating the equivalent to a horse too.

"So what would you like to eat?" she said.

"Um, I don't really mind, something resembling breakfast would be nice." I said.

"Sure, will pancakes be okay?"

"Pancakes would be perfect, although I understand that Americans have a fondness for bacon? I'm afraid that I hate bacon, so if you could avoid it I would be grateful."

"Of course" she said.

"You hate bacon? I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't like bacon. That has got to be the weirdest thing I've ever heard." Jacob scoffed.

"Well sorry if I don't conform to your expectations. I guess we Brits are a bit different to Americans. Although, I have to admit that most British people do actually like bacon. I'm weird though, I don't really like anything that comes from a pig. The only things I do like are sausages."

"That is weird. I think I like all food." he said.

"It's not surprising the way you seem to be practically inhaling it." I replied. I think Jacob and I are going to get on quite well with each other. We seemed to be able to talk easily, as if it was natural. I didn't like him in that way though. I'm pretty sure that he's taken. We're better off staying as friends. I think he took offence at my last comment though as he flicked a bit of food at me. I just picked up a plate and deflected it so it hit him back in the face. "Serves you right for trying to attack me." I chuckled.

"That's it, now you're really gonna get it." he yelled before leaping over the table and getting me into a headlock. He was about to ruffle my hair before Alice rushed into the room screeching.

"Jacob Black if you don't get off her right now and stay away from her hair, you are going to wish you had never been born!" He chuckled and grinned to himself before letting me up and sauntering back to his chair and resumed eating.

"Here are your pancakes, dear" said Esme.

"They look and smell delicious, Esme. Thank you."

"It's no problem at all, now eat up"

They were delicious, I was right. I even had some syrup on them. But nothing like those huge stacks of pancakes that some Americans manage to put away. I managed to eat about 3 or 4 pancakes before I was stuffed. Of course, Jacob finished up the rest of them, he looked at me like I was crazy for not eating them.

By the time Jacob was finished everyone else was gathered in the living room again waiting for me to finish my story.

"Finished, mutt?" said Rosalie. I found this odd, what made him a mutt? Maybe it was a family joke, but it didn't sound like it from the way she said it. Maybe they don't get along too well?

I was still wondering how to phrase all of this. I didn't want to freak them out or make them kick me out on the spot. I didn't think they would, but I never knew. I was still going on first impressions and what they had told me. They seemed reasonable, but I could be wrong. Well, it was time to find out.

"We hope you're ready for this now. Just tell us as much as you can. As you can probably tell we are all very curious." said Carlisle.

"Extremely curious" Jasper commented.

Well, here goes nothing.

"I told you all the basic parts of my childhood. Before I get to the difficult part I will tell you one of my powers. I actually have two. I was a very happy child. Apart from when my father visited me. When I was about 3 years old my father visited for the second time since he left soon after I was born. When he came this time I ended up very mad at him and then..."

I stopped speaking. I was facing the window.

There was a huge sandy wolf coming across the meadow towards the house. It headed towards a tree and disappeared. I could tell my face was frozen. I was terrified, that thing was as big as a horse! "Huge, wolf..." I stood up and started backing away towards the door.

"We can explain, wait."

"Just let us explain, that's.."

"I have got to get out of here." I said before scrambling towards the door.

As I opened the door I saw a huge tall boy, who looked very similar to Jacob, just about to open the door too. He just stared down at me in shock. He opened his mouth as if to start speaking, but I pushed past him and ran out the door. I had to get out of there and away from the wolf. This was too much for me to cope with. I ran into the forest and away from the danger.

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