3. Reflections
I shuddered as I relived that day in my mind. After that day, I spent ten years in captivity. The monster vampire's name was Christopher. He had found out about my gift and was hoping to keep me so he could use my gift in battle. He tried to "train" me, but I would not cooperate. Finally, after ten years in captivity, I managed to kill him and burn the pieces. My living nightmare was dead, he was gone. But so was my family.
I remember being angry for a long time because they had left me, but in time I came to realize that they had not left with the intention of hurting me. They had thought I was dead, and the people in the area would have noticed that they had not aged in a very long time. I sighed, I guess it didn't matter that they had left now, because they were coming back. I was so excited to see them, and to show them how I had grown.
I had trained hard ever since I killed Christopher. I had nowhere to go, and nothing to do so I trained myself. I became faster and stronger than I already was, and I developed my gift much farther. When I had first discovered my gift, I could move small objects over small distances. It required me to use my hands to control these objects in the air, and it required very much concentration. I have developed this gift so far that I can now throw a large boulder across large, vast fields without so much as looking at it. I could even use my gift to a certain extent on myself. I could levitate myself or use it to float through the air.
As I stared blankly at the house, I noticed that the movers were finishing and getting ready to leave. I knew that the Cullens would be here soon after they left. I wanted to surprise my family when they got home, but I knew how difficult that is with Alice and Edward. I kept changing my mind so that Alice would not see my plan, and I tried to stay a safe distance from the house so Edward couldn't hear my thoughts. I knew he wouldn't be listening for them though, so I did not have to go far.
Suddenly, a line of cars pulled up the long driveway. I watched silently as eight beautiful vampires got out of cars and looked around at their new home. I froze and my mouth dropped open a little. Eight vampires. There was a new vampire standing between Alice and Edward. I was shocked. Suddenly my attention was drawn to Esme. She stood a few feet away from the rest of the family, staring sadly at the spot on the pavement that was still slightly scorched. The rest of the family went to join her and judging by the look on the new vampire's face, she had no idea what had happened here.
I couldn't decide if that bothered me or not, but I tried to let it go. I couldn't bear to watch their sadness anymore. I took off my necklace with our family's crest on it. We all wore the crest in some form of jewelry and mine is similar to Alice's necklace. I held it in my hand for a moment and then let go of it. I floated it about ten feet in the air and over to the small circle they had formed around the scorch mark. Once it was in the middle of their circle, I allowed it to fall to the ground.
They all stumbled back in surprise. I watched their confusion as I climbed up a tree right on the edge of the forest. They would be able to see me now if they ever got over the confusion of my necklace. Alice was the first to recover, she walked up to the necklace and picked it up. I watched the look of shock cross her face again as she realized exactly what had just fallen into their circle. She smelled it and looked almost in pain.
"It still has her scent on it," I heard her whisper in the distance. "It's like she's still here..."
I rolled my eyes, they weren't getting it. I used my telekinesis to throw a stick at the back of Emmett's head. He whipped around and his mouth fell open the moment his eyes locked on me. I smiled as innocently as I could and shrugged. And then he took off running, at vampire speed of course, over to my tree. I laughed and jumped down into his arms to meet him.
He pulled me into a huge hug and held me close. His unnecessary breathing was fast as the rest of the family ran over to greet us.
"You're alive," he breathed into my ear.
I smiled, "It's a long story..."
He pulled back a bit from the hug, "You threw a stick at me..."
I giggled at his playfully offended look at laughed, "It was an accident?"
Smiling, I pushed him to the ground and we began to wrestle just as we had done before Christopher had come for me. The only difference was that this time, I was much stronger than last time. I had him pinned in under a minute. I sat on his chest and grinned triumphantly while Emmett lied on the ground looking confused.
Suddenly there was a rush of hands as I was passed from family member to family member, each one hugging me tightly and talking in fast, excited voices. Once I had hugged all seven of my family members, and Emmett had gotten over the surprise of losing a fight, Alice put my necklace back on for me and turned me around to face Edward. She wrapped her arms around my waist and rested her chin on my shoulder.
"I missed you so much," she whispered in my ear.
"I missed you too," I smiled and leaned my head against hers.
Just then Edward grabbed the hand of the new vampire and brought her over to me, "Kaelyn, this is Bella. Bella, this is my little sister Kaelyn." He smiled at me and I knew he had found his soulmate. I didn't know how I felt about this, so I kept my mind off of it so he wouldn't hear my thoughts.
"It's nice to meet you, Bella," I smiled at her.
"Nice to meet you too," she mumbled. She still looked throughly confused.
"Well this has been a wonderful surprise," Carlisle said as he kissed my forehead. "Let's go inside and get everyone settled, and then maybe Kaelyn will tell us what happened." He looked at me questioningly and I nodded.
"Of course," I didn't really want to relive that part of my past, but I wanted them to know.
Alice laced her arm through my left and Rosalie did the same on my right. Rosalie smiled at me as she brushed a strand of hair out of my face.
"My little sister," she smiled proudly. We all walked back to the house, Emmett still grumbling about losing a fight to his baby sister.
