Calista's POV:
The world around me stops instantly as reality hits me like a giant boulder. My cold, stone hands fly to my gaping mouth. I gasp softly in horror as my mud-covered foot takes a slow step backward into the moss covered ground.
I look at the Cullens as I realize 8 pairs of golden eyes are staring back at me in confusion and shock.
"I'm a monster." I whisper in realization as I cry tearless sobs.
"It isn't your fault." Esme says walking over to me and embracing me in a loving hug. It reminded me of my mom; When she tucked me in when I was little, or when she would chase me around my house, wrapping me in a warm, motherly hug when she eventually caught me.
My mom!
"My mom." I say as Esme and I realease our hug and I look into her butterscotch eyes.
"Calista, it's too risky. You cam't control your thirst yet." Carlisle says sorrowful as he walks over to Esme and gently lays his hand around her waist.
"No. I can't do that to her. I'm all she has. She's lost everything-My dad, my brother, my sister- I can't do that to her. I'm the only thing she has left. Please, don't do this to me." I say now begging for Carlisle to let me go see her just one last time.
"Calista I'm so sorry. Would you like to tell us what happened? If not, we understand and we'll be here whenever you feel comfortable telling us." Esme says as her arms find their way into a hug yet again. It would have crushed me when I was human.
I can't believe I'm using those words.
When I was human.
I take a deep breath in as the memories come flooding back to me.
"My family and I were driving home from my aunts house. I was sitting in the backseat in the middle of my little sister Bailey and my baby brother Caleb. I remember I looked back and saw a car's headlights and felt pain everywhere. The car flipped over and I heard screaming around me. My mom and I broke a window and managed to get out out but they-" I stop and realize I am crying yet again.
I fell to my knees as my hands grasped my face; My cold, hard, dead face. my eyes sting from the tears that will never fall but I don't care.
"Calista I'm sorry." I hear as I look up and see Rosalie walking towards me. Her hands grab mine away from my face and she pulls me up. She pauses for a second but then hugs me. Rosalie is hugging me. Rosalie. Hugging. Me.
I release and I look into her golden eyes. As a memory comes crashing down.
Those eyes.
The forest.
The car crash.
It all fell together.
"That was you wasn't it?" I say stepping away from Rosalie. Confused glances now mask the sympathetic looks that looked at me just a second ago.
"The night of the car crash, I looked into the woods and saw a pair of eyes... Golden eyes." I say begginning to get very frustrated as I look each Cullen in the eye.
"That was me." Edward says taking a step towards me as my body fills with pure rage.
"You could have saved them!" I scream at him taking a slow step forward growing closer to him.
"Calista I couldn't. They lost too much blood. I wouldn't have been able to stop if I started. You know that." Edward says calmly as Jasper begins to grow worried at feeling all of my emotions.
I Look at Bella as her face goes from worried to paind in less than a second. sje falls to the ground, just like Carlisle, screaming in agony.
Edward runs over to me in vampire speed and shoves my torso as hard as he can, causing me to fly across the forest, slamming into a tree, and with a loud cracking sound, it falls to the forest floor with a loud slam.
Bella instantly stops screaming and instead begins gasping for air.
"If you ever, hurt her again." Edward screams as he grabs my neck and pins me into a tree.
"How DARE you!" I hiss struggling to be released from his iron grip.
"Edward!" Esme scolds as his stone hands slowly release their grip on my neck.
"How is that even possible! She's a shield!" Edward yells in frustration, walking over to his wife.
"Edward-I'm-Fine." Bella gasps taking a quick breath inbetween each word.
"Carlisle! What a pleasant surprise!" I hear as I turn to see a black hooded figure with jet black hair staring back at me.
Cliffhanger! Hey guys I was wondering what day I should update on? Any suggestions? Sorry this chapter was kind of short, I was just dying to get it up. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE comment, and review. Thanks
-KayCullen1316
