I woke to the sound of soft classical music. my body was sprawled across an expensive, 4 poster, queen sized bed with a pink, lacy bed cover.
"She's awake, she's awake" A high squeaky voice came from somewhere in the next room. "Edward, Carlisle get up here!" she exclaimed.
"We can hear you Alice", a cool voice replied "we have super human hearing, remember?"
"Yeah, Yeah, whatever, she's awake! What's her name, does she know about us?"
"Calm down. I'm not looking into her mind, and anyway, she's hard to read, she's confused and disorientated, but by the look on her face, she doesn't know what we are. Let her speak."The cool voice spoke again.
There were 3 of them, they all had the same pale skin as the hostess, but I wasn't scared of theses people.
The female with the high squeaky voice was obviously called Alice. The taller male with the cool voice had started talking to her whilst the third sat on the edge of my bed. He had short blonde hair with innocent, blue, piercing eyes. He seemed to look straight through my soul, I couldn't hide anything from this one. I suddenly felt like I could be honest and tell this man my whole life without feeling uncomfortable or ashamed.
"So", he said, his gentle voice ringing in my ears, "My name is Carlisle, this is Alice, and this is Edward" he continued, pointing to the two others talking in the corner. "I need you to tell me exactly what happened after you ran away from home",
I stuttered "How do you..." ,
"Just let me continue" he butt in. "What's your name, tell us your background and tell us every little detail about what happened in the woods, be careful not to leave anything out."
"My mind was spinning. Fair enough, this guy had possibly saved my life, but still, who did he think he was? I wasn't telling him my name and background, and how did he know that I'd run away from home.
"No", I croaked "I've only just met you, and you want me to tell you everything about myself. No way."
I tried to put on my stubborn and confident face but deep down, I was feeling scared.
"Ok, I can understand where you're coming from but I'm trying to help you. As I told you before, my name is Carlisle Cullen, I live here in Forks and I'm a doctor at the local hospital. Normally, I would ask you to phone the hospital just to prove myself, but as you're wanted by the police I don't think that's a very good idea, do you?" he replied.
"Well, ok. My name is Louise Viola Stewart, I'm 16 and a half... Mum & Dad died at the start of last year. They died in a car crash, You know the usual, a late night out, they were driving along a empty road, the car smashed into a tree, blew up and rolled down into a ditch. I have a little brother, Ben, he's only 13 and I love him to bits. We lived with my uncle Pete, my Dad's brother, in a cheap house, in a massive estate. I have an older sister but she was engaged when Mum and Dad died so she packed and left after the funeral. I've never really forgiven her for that and I never really will." I took a breath and continued "I left 'cause my life is stuffed up. My grades dropped after Mum and Dad died and they've never really gone back up. The teachers were sympathetic for the first couple of months, they don't know what it's like to lose someone you love. So I didn't go to school much and when I did it was to socialise. I used to go to massive parties, something I didn't do before my parents died, I'd make-out with boys, smoke and get completely smashed, just to try and take away the pain. I figured that if I had heaps of boyfriends and kissed heaps more then I'd feel loved. I only came to school on days that we had art. I wanted to study art at college but I didn't, I gave up." I continued up until this very day. "please don't turn me in. I'll go back home when I'm ready, but I'm not yet."
"It's alright. We aren't going to hand you over if you don't want us to, but I suppose you have questions." Edward uttered.
"Hell yeah." I started "Who was that lady and what was she? Who are you guys and again, what are you, are you the same as her? Who saved me? What happened to the wolf? What is going to happen to me now?"
"Ok," Carlisle replied "One at a time. This might be a bit of a shock to you..."
Carlisle was cut off by Edward, whose voice suddenly seemed a lot more harsh. "What on Earth are you doing Carlisle? You can't expose us."
"You can't tell her" Alice jutted in.
"Calm down, both of you. She's been through a lot. She's been attacked, and this lady followed her, it wasn't just because she was thirsty!" Carlisle retorted just as firmly as Alice and Edward. "And from what Sam described, Louise had some sort of control over her mind. She needs to know. If Bella didn't know and she was in the same position, would you tell her?"
"Yes, of course I would,...but that's different"
Edward was interrupted, "Who's Bella? Don't talk to me as if I'm not here, I can still hear you. You need to tell me, whatever it is you are keeping from me, what if she comes back or someone that she knows that's like her?"
"For starters, as you asked, Bella is my daughter-in-law, Edward's wife." Carlisle spoke softly, all of that anger had dissipated.
"Wow, you're his father?" I exclaimed pointing from Carlisle to Edward "You're old enough to get married?" I said, again, pointing this time just to Edward.
"As far as I'm concerned, when you're 150 years old, you're allowed to do whatever you please." Edward sneered.
"SHIT! 150? No way, how'd you do that? Awesome!" I marvelled.
"Good one Edward" A cold voice cam from the doorway. I looked up. A beautiful woman in her early 20's was standing there, shooting a cold, hard glare in my direction.
What had I done? I hadn't even met her, she didn't have any reason to hate me, did she?
"Everyone out! Rosalie, stop fighting with Edward, Check on Jasper, Tell Louise to start cooking something for Louise and Renesmee, tell Emmett to stop cursing and to leave the wolves alone and could you please ask Sam to come up here ASAP, Alice, you can show him the way." Carlisle shouted orders at the top of his lungs.
The room emptied, Edward moving out as soon as Carlisle started talking. They must have a good bond, I thought, for him to be able to know what his father was going to say. I looked around, it was quite a large room, with pale cream wall paper and beige carpet. Besides the bed I was sitting on, there wasn't much other furniture, although a mahogany dresser and matching beside table completed the set.
A tall, tanned, muscular man walked in. His chest was bare and he wore only tatty cargo pants. I recognised him from the night of my attack.
"This is Sam. By the look of your face, you already know who he is."
"Yeah, he saved me!"
"I know. I'm going to tell you everything, ok?" Carlisle mumbled, he looked a bit unsure and uncertain.
"Is it alright that I tell her all of the legends and secrets, Sam? I just think that she is in a dangerous position and she needs to know about everything, just in case. But it's up to you whether you tell her your side of the story as well."
"It's alright." Sam grunted.
" Ok, get comfortable, this might take a while." Carlisle started "We are called the cold ones, or as you might know us, vampires. We do not drink human blood, we chose to live of animal blood, that's why our eyes are gold. When you are a newborn vampire, your eyes are bright red. They turn a milkier colour, the older you get. When we are hungry our eyes turn black. our skin is pale and turns a more transparent colour, again, the older you get. When exposed to sunlight, we appear as if smothered in glitter. The legends about burning in the sun are false, as are the legends about sleeping during the day: we do not sleep at all. We can see and hear unlike any being: light or dark, day or night. We also have super human speed. Some vampires have special abilities, for example, Edward can read minds, Alice can see the future and Alice's partner, Jasper, can sense and control other people's emotions. To change, you need vampire venom in your system, the transformation takes approximately three days to complete. That's about it. Do you want to ask any questions?" Carlisle finished "Another thing, once you have changed, there is no going back, you are frozen in time forever."
I sat rigid in my seat. Holy frig! What the hell was happening to me. Vampires. Wohhhhh!. Oh My Gosh. 'Ok, Louise. Calm down. Right now!. Ok, it's alright.
"Yes. I do have a question. You won't...you know...eat me, will you?" I stammered
Both of the men laughed at this. I wasn't sure how to feel. Should I feel happier and looser of should I feel scared, were they laughing because they were going to eat me.
"No, of course we're not going to eat you. We're vegetarian vampires, we only drink animal blood." Carlisle laughed.
"Oh, ok. That's a relief." I sighed. I looked from Carlisle to Sam, then Something hit me. "Wait! What's he?" I asked pointing to Sam. "Your skin is tanned, Carlisle said that vampire's skin was pale and he said that they had red or gold eyes depending on what they ate, and black of they were hungry, but yours are neither. You have brown eyes. What did I miss?"
"Sam's about to explain. If you were ok with the vampire thing, then I'm hoping you'll be ok with the next bit." Carlisle answered.
Sam started to speak.
By the end of an hour I had an in depth knowledge and understanding of every thing, from the doggie's do to how to interpret the vampires behaviour.
"Alice, come up here." Carlisle shouted.
Alice emerged in the doorway. She was wearing a short, deep blue dress that cut of at her knees with a loose white scarf. Her black hair was spiked up in a pixie hairstyle whilst she wore silver bangles up her lower arms and thick banded, expensive sandals.
"We need to get Louise dressed and sorted out, and then we'll introduce her to the family." Carlisle spoke softly and firmly.
A grin spread across Alice's face as it lit up. "This is going to be so much fun!" Alice crooned
But as she whisked me away, I had a gut feeling that it wasn't.