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Joy was the first to speak, her eyes were dazed as she spoke, thinking back to her old life.
"I was fifteen. Our family was quite well off, not rich, not poor. I have three younger sisters, Grace, Faith and Hope, and an older brother, Luke. We didn't fight much. We all were close knit, we were raised on the moral that family comes before everything else. They must all be so worried..."
"What are they like?" Serenity asked speculativley.
"Grace is 13, and my best friend. She's smart, insightful, but can be a bit of a know it all. Faith is 7, and extrememly bubbly and hyper. She could be quite annoying, but you gotta love her. Hope is 5, and is the cutest thing on the planet. She would dance around the house singing, she was a little ray of sunshine. Luke is 17, and he was my protector. He was an amazing forward on the high school soccer team. We all look quite the same. White blonde hair, blues eyes..." she trailed off.
"Anyway, I had everything going for me, straight A's, I was president of our student council, and an excellent violin player. I hoped to get a music scholarship into a nice college somewhere, were I could study zoology. But that all came to an end when I was walking home from studying at my friend Emilie's house. It was beautiful out that night and my house wasn't far, so I decided to walk home. Then Maria found me, brought me here, and the rest is history." she ended, sadness saturating her voice.
"I'm so sorry," Alice said, her voice full with sympathy.
"It's alright," she said in a shaky voice, looking down.
"I wish my life had been as perfect as yours." Serenity started, Joy looked up to look at her face. "My father left my mom, my older sister Nichole and I when I was five. He was a big drinker. My mother's job at the local supermarket was the only income we had. We moved a lot, my mother moved in with her various boyfriends. She turned over to drugs, and I didn't do well in school. It was hard to keep up, with having to always take care of myself and my mother." she paused. I could feel her anguish that's these memories were bringing her. After a while, she continued.
"Her boyfriends often abused me. They were usually drinkers, and I would have to hide in my room just to avoid being beaten. Thankfully I had my sister to love and take care of me, but she was taken away from me too. We were in Milwaukee, when Nichole told my mom she was pregnant. My mom kicked her out, and we haven't seen her since. All we got was a letter, telling us when Jade was born. I haven't even met my own niece!" she said, the longing in her voice was plain.
"It was my dream that I would someday find Nichole and meet Jade. We had only been living in San Francisco for two months, with Todd this time, when I was sitting alone in a park, just thinking. Then Gabe found me."
"I almost wish I had your life. There's less to miss when it's over," Joy said sadly. "Do you miss your mom?
"No, not really. She was never really much of a mother. I doubt she misses me. I had always been a nuisance to her."
"I'm sure she misses you," Joy assured her. Serenity shrugged. Alice suddenly gripped the edge of the couch with the hand I wasn't holding. Her eyes were dazed. I got up and kneeled in front of her, loosening her death grip on the couch.
"Alice, what do you see?"
"They're deliberating, they may interfere soon," she told me, her eyes still far away. She didn't have to tell me more for me to understand. The Cullen's were considering taking this army down. Alice returned to the present.
"Once we start moving north, they'll pay more attention. Emmett's all for going now,"
"Of course he is," I muttered, interupting her.
"Yup, that's Emmett." She said laughing. "But the rest want to wait to see how far this is going to go before they act."
"What?" Joy asked, confused.
"Our family is looking for us," I explained, turning to them. "They've noticed that there's an army here, and are considering taking it down. They don't know were here."
"Ahhhh."
"Maria will be back in two minutes," Alice said quietly. I got up and sat on the couch. Those two minutes passed quietly. We could hear them before we saw them. Deafening roars and hollars of victory sounded. Maria spoke to them, still outside.
"You were great!" we heard her shout. We could hardly make out the rest, with all the shouting. "Later we will all go on a celebratory feast. What do you say to expanding our hunting range even further? Next stop, Portland!"
This one was very short, I'm sorry. But I promise, I'll have a new chapter up by tomorrow.
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