4. Self-control
"I know you're in here, vampire! I can smell you!" He had been shouting for the past half hour. "Get out and leave! Our family doesn't want you mucking it all up!" He was scaring me, but he made me want to stay even more. I had gotten dressed again – in different clothes because I had ripped the old ones – and went downstairs to a sitting room, where he was shouting.
"Oh, OH! I'm guessing that you're not with The Volturi." He said, still shouting, but not quite as loud as before.
"The what?" this was the first time I had spoken since the… I couldn't remember. My memory was fading even more; my human memories were going to disappear. My voice had sounded like velvet.
"I also guess that you're a newborn, since you haven't heard of The Volturi and you look extremely uncomfortable being here. I wonder who changed you. The dumb blonde can't have done it, all she wants is to be human again… and Jasper wouldn't do that again after what he's been through… Edward would've told me, same as Bella. Maybe it was Carlisle, or Alice?" He rambled on about who might've bitten me and then I realised… Alice.
"Wait, you said Alice. Does she live here? And who exactly are you?" I said. This "Alice" character sounded very… perky.
"I think real question is; who are you? I know I'm not a bloodsu-vampire, but I'm still considered one of the family… by almost all of them." he said. I was getting impatient. Why wouldn't he tell me who he was!
"I'm… I'm… I don't know who I am! Please, person, I can't remember anything about being a human!" I cried, screaming piercing screams. It didn't seem to affect him, but it didn't stop the others from returning.
"Evangeline! It's nice to see that you're awake!" the moment I saw his face, the memories came flooding back. I could remember being a human much more clearly. It was Doctor Cullen, my creator.
"Doctor Cullen! I… um… huh? Doctor Cullen, what is going on!" I screamed making the six year old, who looked like the girl in the painting, cry.
"Evangeline, please stop screaming! You're making Nessie cry! Evangeline, you no longer need to call me 'Doctor', please, just call me Carlisle." He was keeping calm, and steady, as if not to anger me. One man, who had blonde hair, was looking nervous. As if he could feel the tension in the air…
"What are you all staring at? Haven't you ever seen a seventeen year old girl before?" I heard myself snap at all of the vampires, they all took a step back, as if it was rehearsed.
"I can't believe this, Carlisle! I thought that you had promised not to change anyone else, without discussing it with us first!" the blonde girl yelled at Carlisle. He was still keeping calm, why is he so calm? Why does he let her talk to him like that? I thought.
"I believe that it's time for introductions, let's all sit at the dining table, shall we?" said a woman with brown hair, and looked older than all of the other women. She even looked older than Carlisle.
Everyone went to sit at the table, Carlisle at the top. A boy who looked seventeen and had bronze coloured hair gave up his seat for me. I sat down, the blonde man still staring at me.
Yay! Another girl to play dress up with! I heard, the voice seemed to be coming from the small, black haired girl on my right.
How does she do it? Not even Bella was this good. The voice came from the blonde haired guy, who was still staring at me. I glared back at him, and he looked away.
"Say it ain't so! Carlisle, I can hear Alice and Jasper's thoughts from her mind!" said the bronze haired boy.
"Oh, great, another mind reader." murmured the seven-foot, russet-skinned boy who had been shouting at me, the one who was a wolf…
"Okay, can someone please tell me what is going on? Oh, and I've established the basics: I'm a vampire." I said. This was annoying; wouldn't they tell me what was going on?
"Yes, Carlisle, get to it." hissed the blonde girl. She didn't seem to enjoy my company, nor I hers.
"Okay, Evangeline-" Carlisle started, before I cut him off.
"It's Angey, I hate being called by my proper name, it's so… old fashioned." I shivered in disgust at my name.
Like me with my name. said the brown-haired girl with the six year old – Renesmee – on her lap. The bronze-haired boy chuckled, the girl laughed.
"Angey, then; as you know I'm Carlisle. Your creator, this is my wife, Esme." The oldest looking girl waved at me. I smiled at her.
"This is my son, Emmett and my daughter, Rosalie." He gestured toward the tall, curly-haired man with the blonde-haired girl tucked under his arm.
"Rosalie isn't as bad as she seems, she just dislikes the fact that I took away your human life," Carlisle continued. "She would do anything to be human, you see. This is my other daughter, Alice and my other son Jasper." He gestured toward the blonde boy who had been staring at me and the small girl sitting next to me. I waved, Alice waved back, and Jasper just looked uncomfortable.
"So you're the famous Alice! I'm wearing your undies, hope you don't mind…" I burbled. She just giggled, "It's okay, I knew you would find some. I forgot to put them in your dresser! Oops!" she kept on giggling.
Oh, I'm so forgetful! I can remember every vision I've ever had but I can't remember underwear! I'm so dumb! Alice said. I still didn't know how anyone could talk without moving their lips, I was positive that no-one was a ventriloquist. And mind readers don't exist… do they?
"Yes they do. I'm Edward; this is my wife Bella and our daughter, Renesmee. Angey, you can read minds, so can I and Alice can see the future. Jasper can control people's emotions." said the bronze-haired boy; Edward was just the perfect name for him. He then looked embarrassed; I guess he heard my silent comment. I blushed.
"How did you do that? Carlisle, her eyes… they're violet!" Bella looked panicked, but I wasn't sure why, I tried to read her thoughts. There was something blocking my way.
She has a shield, Angey, I can't read her thoughts either. It's very useful. The "voice" was from Edward. I nodded at him, to show I understood, I guess it wasn't really needed. Jasper was still staring at me, I growled at him.
"Stop it! Why aren't you going for him? Why aren't you going for Nessie?" Jasper said, he was quiet but his voice was filled with panic and confusion.
"I'm not 'going for them' because I can't smell anything! Will you just stop staring at me!" I yelled, standing up and diving across the table towards him. Emmett, Edward, Carlisle, Alice, Rosalie, Esme and the russet-skinned boy all ran towards me and held me back. Bella jumped out of her seat and into the next room, probably to protect Renesmee.
Even with 7 people holding me back, I still got through; but instead of going towards Jasper, I ran outside and into the forest, breathing in the fresh air. It was raining, so I could cool off better. Carlisle and his family left me, I felt unwanted.
They left me for some time, it was dark b the time I heard Edward's "voice".
Are you okay Angey? Do you want to come back in? Jasper promises not to stare at you anymore.
It's not Jasper, Edward, I thought to him. It's all of this, why are my eyes violet? Why am I here? Why did Carlisle change me? These questions haunted me. I wanted an answer, now.
"If you want an answer then why don't ask Carlisle? He at least knows the answer to the last two questions. C'mon, you didn't get to meet Jacob." I stood up and walked towards him.
"Is he the wolf boy?" I asked as Edward put his arm around me, he did it as a comfort. Nothing more, nothing less.
"Yes, I guess you saw him change?" Edward was thinking about Jacob and Renesmee together, I couldn't think why.
"Actually I 'heard' him as a wolf and when he was shouting at me he had the same voice. No-one has the same voice as someone else." I said, he took his arm away when we got closer to the house.
"You're very observant, much like Bella." He sighed as he said her name. He must really love her.
I do, Angey, I do.
That was the moment when I could smell the blood.
© Charlotte Woodcock 2010