I was speechless as I sat on a long straight branch, of a large Oak tree. I watched Alice Silently catching Elk with Jasper. I could here Carlisle and Esme deeper in the forest. Edward and Bella had gone to look for something a bit more grisly than Elk. I was trying to come to grips with the latest news. I was a cold-blooded killer; a vampire. The thirst was an uncontrollable force as I sank my teeth into the unfortunate creature. I had the picture of its last moments stuck in my head. I had always been an animal lover, not a killer. I hated people who killed innocent creatures, and now I had no choice but to be one of those people myself. Jasper had explained everything to me about being a vampire; the sparkly skin, the constant red eyes of a newborn, the gold eyes of a content vampire, and the black eyes of a thirsty vampire. I Jumped through the tree top branches and landed gracefully beside Bella who was leaning on large boulder.
"Hey, Bella" I said casually.
"Hey, how are you?" Bella asked with confidence.
"Don't worry, I wont attack you if that's what you're thinking." I sighed.
"Actually, she was wondering if you're feeling better now that you understand the concepts of being one of us." Edward said, jumping from the large boulder from behind us. He landed gracefully beside Bella and wrapped his arm around her waist. Bella had meaningfully given up her human life for Edward. Jasper had explained everyone's stories to me after my hunt. Rosalie's scared me slightly I must say. She had killed he loved one and went on a rampage through the town on a killing spree. Imagine seeing a newborn vampire running through your town? Not even that, she was wearing a wedding dress! Edward sniggered at my thoughts. Obviously, Rosalie wasn't the most loved person in the vampire world.
"So, how are you feeling Emma?" Edward asked curiously.
"Dirty" I said, gazing down at my blood stained clothes.
"Come, we'll go back to the house. You can take a shower there." Edward said putting his hand on my shoulder.
"Can I try something?" I Enquired.
"As long as it doesn't result in someone's death" Edward laughed again.
I smiled.
"It won't, I promise"
I jumped up to the hanging branch of the Oak tree. I used to love to watch programmes where monkeys jumped around on the tree tops. Edward laughed at my childish thoughts and I fired myself into the trees. I swung from branch to branch for about 5 minutes before we came out of the clearing. I pushed up and threw myself from the trees, doing a back flip before I landed.
"Awesome!"
I grinned for the first time in about 48 hours. I guess this wasn't going to be that bad after all. I loved all kinds of sports at school and had always been a tomboy anyways so the speed and strength just added to my image. I had never been one for being girly and posh. I had always just been one of the guys and action and adventure was my kind of fun. A thought occurred in my head and I decided I would jump into the house through the top window. I ran and jumped for the open French doors on the 2nd story. I landed without a bump and looked around. Woops! I should have picked another room. This was Rosalie and Emmett's room, and on the king sized bed sat to very still figures. They looked up from there conversation and I froze. Rosalie and Emmett stared at me for about 5 seconds with bewildered eyes, and then I decided I should probably leave. Would she try and attack me again? I fell into a defensive position against the closed window at the thought. I was going to jump back out, but a hand caught my arm. I turned to see Rosalie. Her beauty astounded me for a fraction of a second.
"Sorry" I managed to whisper cowardly.
"Please don't leave. I just want to talk." This was what Alice was talking about earlier. I braced myself as I pulled my hand free from her grasp. She didn't hesitate to grab it back; she just stepped back a few feet and whispered for Emmett to leave. The door shut and we were alone. She sat down on the bed and patted the spot beside her and smiled ever so slightly. I hesitated, and done as I was told. I sat down beside her and she put her hand on mine.
"I'm so sorry" She whispered the words. I could see it in her eyes that she was truthful about what she had said. Obviously, apologising wasn't something Rosalie did that often. I continued to stare into her eyes; I could tell there was more she wanted to say.
"I know what its like to be taken from your life with no choice what so ever and I never really have gotten over leaving my perfect lifebehind. Have you heard my story?" She asked sounding slightly ashamed, yet sarcastic.
"Yeah, Jasper explained everyone's. You don't need to explain it again." I said feeling Rosalie's pain.
"That's ever so kind of you Emma, but I owe you a proper apology. What I done was Selfish, you would think a vampire of my maturity would be able to control thirst by now, but it had been 3 days since I last hunted as I had been looking after Renesme with Jacob" She snarled Jacobs name.
"But it was more than just the scent of your blood that pulled me to you Emma. There was something else, and I'm not sure what it was or I would have probably been able to control myself before ... "She stopped her self before she had to say the word bite.
"What do you mean something else ... Am I ... Was I not human in the first place or something?" I laughed nervously.
"No. It was the human blood that brought me to you, but... You didn't feel like just a human... You seemed special, like family or something" Special and Family? A stranger that Rosalie tracked down in La Push felt like family and somewhat special. How could that be?
"Please don't ask what I mean by that, I'm not completely sure myself. I've yet to tell anyone but Emmett. Carlisle wouldn't understand, he'd probably go into medical terms and it was nothing human that I sensed familyish about you." Rosalie looked down at her hand on mine and then up to my face. Her eyes scanned my whole body until she finally looked back to my face.
"Have you seen yourself lately?" She asked and sighed.
"Oh... I'm covered in blood, I know. I should go take a shower-"She cut me off.
"No, silly, I meant in the mirror. Look at your self, minus the blood" She smiled and gestured to the walk in closet, where a giant mirror filled the back wall. She guided me into her closet. I was stunned to see a whole other room dedicated to clothes and shoes, most of which still had the labels on them. There must have been about 100 pairs of shoes alone on the left shelf and another 100 on the right. Above the shoes, was a hanging rail stuffed right along the wall with expensive looking clothes. Rosalie walked down to the mirror, quickly checked herself out and then moved to the side for me to have a look at myself. I was speechless when I first saw myself. My jaw must have flown open. My pale skin was the first thing to catch my eyes as I remembered having quite tan skin in my past life. Then my eyes suddenly came into my view. Red. It was the burning red eyes of a newborn. I remembered having blue eyes when I was human and dirty blonde hair. Now my blue eyes had turned red and my dirty blonde hair had gotten lighter, with blonder streaks flowing through my wavy hair. Had I been human, I would have looked like a tramp right now, but even with the blood stained clothes and the wavy hair, I looked kind of nice.
"You're beautiful Em." Rosalie laughed in a stunned way.
Now I realised why l looked so beautiful. There was some kind of resemblance between Rosalie and me. I didn't remember much from my past life but I remembered not being so blonde and not having such a perfect figure. Now my hair was taking on the curly goldenness of Rosalie's and my body was so leak and smooth.
"How come I look so much like you?" I gasped, still stunned from my beauty.
"Some take on the resemblance of their creator. I hope you don't mind being a bit of a mini-me." Rosalie chuckled again, nervous this time.
"Uh...Will I go completely blonde?" I asked still stunned that I may one day be as beautiful as Rosalie. She chuckled.
"I'm not sure, only time will tell I guess." She shrugged.
"Wow, this is goanna be real weird, I thought I was already as blonde as I could be" I thought I said it under my breath, but clearly Rosalie heard because she cleared her throat and then began to rummage through her closet.
"I guess you'll need some clothes if you're going to be staying with us, but I'm 18 so I'm not sure if my clothes will fit you-"I cut her off.
"No offence, but I don't really think your clothes are my type... Too girly" I shuddered and Rosalie laughed.
"Oh I think Alice and I are going to have great fun with you!" Rosalie said, looking thoughtful.
"Great" I said sarcastically.
"So anyways, how was your first hunting trip. What did you catch?" She sounded interested.
"Quite scary actually. Elk I think, I'll never forget it's face before I ... bit it. How do you do it without feeling so guilty? And getting so bloody?" I asked, remembering the innocent little deer, and then the burning...
"It becomes habit; the guilt will fade in a couple of weeks if not days. The spilling of the blood will stop too, it's only because you were not in control of yourself that time and didn't really know what you were doing in the first place that you ended making such a mess. Did anything else happen, anything that the others could not do?"
"I don't think so. Why?" I was unsure of what she meant by anything else quite a lot of things had happened to me today, and I didn't know what was normal for a vampire and what wasn't.
"I was just wondering if you have any gifts. You know, like Edward, Bella, Alice and Jasper."
"Hmm... I don't think so." I Ran through everything that I had done in my head. I swung around on the tree tops? But Edward and Bella had done that too. I caught Elk, but everyone had done that as well. I jumped into Rosalie's bedroom window on the 2nd floor, but that wasn't unusual for vampires either. It was starting to looking like I wasn't going to have a gift, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
"What is Bella's Gift?" I wondered.
"Bella has much self control. She could stop herself from following the scent of human blood from her very first day as one of us. She is also immune to any other vampire gifts. She has what Carlisle calls a "shield". She can wrap this shield around the people she cares about most when they are in danger. It's really quite amazing; we had never seen anything like it until Bella. She also had this shield when she was human, as Edward couldn't read her mind. Some gifts are carried on through from your human life." Rosalie said. I nodded understandingly.
"Do you think I would be able to manage running back to my house and sneaking some clothes from my room, just some sweats and hoodie's until I can talk to my parent without ripping their heads off?" I asked.
"Emma, it's going to be a long time before you can go back to that house and be around human blood. And sweats and hoodie's? Am I going to have to pin you down and dress you myself?" Rosalie crossed her arms over her chest.
"Uh... I always wear sweats and hoodie's. And no I will run far before you can put any sorts of skirts, dresses or anything else like that on me!" I moved out of the closet and Rosalie followed at my flanks.
"Well, I'd better show you where the shower is and find you some descent clothes to put on for now. Come with me." Rosalie led the way out of her room and took me down the long corridor. She led me down stair to where I'd first met the Cullen's properly. Alice was sat on the sofa with Jasper. Emmett's face lit up with a big grin when Rosalie and I walked in. Jasper eyed me suspiciously as I walked in behind Rosalie.
"Hey look! She's not killed her!" Emmett shouted form the far window. I wasn't sure if it was sarcastic or not really, that worried me.
"Shut up Emmett" Rosalie said, playfully punching him in the stomach and then walking over to the sofas to sit with Jasper and Alice. She patted to seat beside her and Alice, but I continued to stare to Jasper, who continued to stare at me. Rosalie cleared her throat, but Jasper didn't drop his stare.
"Jazz" Alice said quickly to him, slapping his arm. Jasper came out of his daze. He must have been trying to mess with my emotions of something because I now felt nothing.
"Uh, Sorry" jasper muttered, and Edward chuckled along with Emmett.
"Don't worry about Emma, Jasper. All She's worried about just now is if we own a shower." He smiled and pulled his arm around Bella who was sitting beside him on the white sofa. Jasper relaxed his position slightly, still not letting down his guard on me.
"Yes we do Emma, we too can get a bit messy when in the forest." Edward told me. Emmett chuckled again and I couldn't help the smile that pulled on the corners of my mouth. I got the felling that Emmett and I could become friends quite easily. My childish mind and his could give Edward something to laugh at I suppose. I composed myself before I fell into a laughing fit, which I was known to do every now and then. I remembered once in my human life, being at a party when myself and some friends decided we would suck the helium from all of the balloons in the hall. We were laughing for hours and probably looked more drunk than the adults. I always hated alcohol anyways, I never did believe in the stuff, I always found that I had my own ways of having a good time without it. Edward nodded at my thoughts, I think in agreement.
"Are you two done now?" Edward asked sarcastically. We nodded and I bit my lip to contain my laughter which I think was a mixture of humour and nerves. Edward whispered quickly to Bella, who nodded when he finished.
"Well the bathroom is upstairs, Bella will show you it and get you some clothes. Then I presume you would like to do the rest yourself." He smiled at Bella and pressed his lips to her forehead. Bella stood and walked toward me, putting her arm lightly on my back.
"Ignore the mind reader Emma" She said, rolling her eyes. I Heard mumbles from behind as Bella and I reached the top of the staircase . She guided me to the end of the corridor, where she opened a door into a large white bathroom suite. Everything shined like brand new, I guess they all probably have their own en-suites, and that this one was for visitors, which didn't often occur for the Cullen's.
"I'll run over to my cabin and get some of my old sweats and tees. I know you would fell much more comfortable in that than some of Alice or Rose's clothes. I'm not that old myself Emma, as I was new born only a couple of years ago. So if you ever have any questions or problems please fell free to ask me, I know what it's like." She smiled. I liked Bella already, she seemed normal enough, like a slice of my old life.
"Thanks, I really do appreciate you all making me feel so welcome. And thanks for lending me some clothes, I'll try not to blood stain them too" I smiled at Bella who smiled warmly back and headed for the door.
"No probs, I'll have your clothes ready for you when you come out of the shower, so just take your time and relax, I'm sure you have a lot to think about" She laughed and then was gone out of the open window.
I hesitated in the middle of the huge bathroom and then walked over to the big mirror which filled most of the right wall. I looked at myself for the second time today, and this time I could properly look at myself because I wasn't being watched… I think. My pale skin stood out more in the white light of the bathroom. Then the blonde streaks through my hair. I had natural blonde highlights before this, but now the blonde streaks flowed through my hair more prominent than before. I ran my fingers through my hair, realising how beautiful I was. I smiled and my whole face lit up. My pearly white teeth shown from behind my lips and perfect skin shimmered as a ray of light passed through the window. My skin lit up like a million diamonds and my golden hair blew over my shoulder as a gust of wind blew in through the open window, followed by Bella. She landed gracefully beside me and stared into the mirror with me, her skin also sparkling in the light.
"Wow. Your luck Rose bit you, your just as beautiful as her. You hair wasn't so blonde before." She continued to stare in awe at me in the mirror. I remembered thinking how beautiful Bella had been when I first met her, and now I looked more beautiful than her. It sounds lame but it's true.
"Thanks" I managed to whisper ever so quietly. Bella stepped back and placed a pile of clothes on the dressing table beside the sinks.
"I brought you a few choices, I wasn't sure which you would like. I'll leave you to sort it yourself. Remember just take your time. You've got all the time in the world" She grinned and left, this time through the door before I could thank her again. I felt like such a burden. I sighed and looked back to the mirror. I just couldn't get enough of myself, I'd changed so much. I'd always been slightly jealous of the pretty girls at my school. Though they plastered themselves in make up and ended up looking like the ompa-lompas from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, I did envy them a bit. Now I wasn't wearing any trace of make-up and I looked amazing. I wanted so badly to go down to my school and show off my beauty to everyone. But then I would kill them … would that be so bad? I hated the girls at my school, but I wouldn't put their blood anywhere near my lips if it was the last on the planet. I shook off my evil thoughts and went back to gazing in the mirror. I kicked off my converse and my combats. I had yet seen my legs. They were not thin or skinny, but were more long and round. I ran my fingers over my skin to find it so smooth and not a hair in sight. My thighs were tight and smooth too. I pulled off the rest of my clothes to reveal my perfect pale, stone cold body. My muscles had been pretty good before this and now they were like rocks under my skin. I took a deep breath and walked to the shower. The buttons seemed to cover most of it and I wasn't sure which to press. I decided to go for a warm powerful shower. I pressed the corresponding buttons and stepped into the cubical, shutting the door behind me. The water felt nice against my body, and as powerful as it may have been I felt no pressure on my skin. I also felt no need to be cold or hot, I just felt normal. I wash through my blonde wavy hair with the expensive looking salon shampoo and conditioner. I though of what Bella had said to me earlier just take your time and relax, I'm sure you have a lot to think about. Yes I did. I'd found out I was a vampire, had my first hunt, met my new family, and found out that I may someday be just as beautiful as Rosalie Hale. I'd also found out that vampire's really did exist in the modern world, and that a vampire can live forever unless ripped apart into pieces and burned. I'd found out that I may not remember much from my human life. I'd found out that the Cullen's that everyone called freaks at Forks High School, had reason to be so independent. They could not get close with any human just encase they snapped and ended up killing them. The Cullen's call themselves … We call ourselves vegetarians. We don't hunt humans like some other vampires do. I'd been told that I could not see any of my friends or family for a long time. I remembered a little from my human life. I remembered that I lived with foster parents in La Push, and that I hated them. I remember I little about my school, such as the ompa-lompas. But my friends… I remembered nothing.
I felt fearful as I stepped out of the shower, worrying that I may have somehow washed away my beauty. I jumped to the mirror and relaxed as I saw myself once more. I wrapped a towel around myself and went to the pile of clothes that Bella had left me. She brought me 3 pairs of sweat pants, 3 t-shirts and 2 hoodies. I liked the ¾ length pair of grey sweats, and the red Rolling Stones t-shirt! I got dressed and put on the clean pair of ankle socks and my converse. The top was quite tight and showed of my slim stomach well. I didn't bother drying my hair, I just pulled it into 2 bunches. I dried off the shower cubical with the towel and then threw it into the laundry basket. I took the other clothes and opened the door to go down stairs. I walked down the long corridor to the end where the stairs started, and peeked down to see who was down there. Only Bella and Edward sat on the sofas, so I continued down to where they sat.
"Thanks Bella, here are your clothes" I said passing the bag of clothes to Bella.
"You can keep them if you like, I'm sure they will just get stain next time you go hunting" Bella said smiling, and gesturing to the seat beside her. I smiled and sat next to them.
"Where is everyone?" I asked.
"Rosalie and Emmett went hunting and Alice, Jasper, Esme and Carlisle are upstairs fixing your new room" Edward told me. I didn't know what to say, id only been living here for a couple of hours and I already had my own room. I felt really bad for intruding on this family, borrowing their clothes and room having them make me my own room.
"Don't be stupid Emma, You have not done anything wrong. Remember we brought you here and we would like you to fell comfortable. Anyway, if there's anything that Alice and Esme love to do, its decorate!" Edward laughed.
"Yeah but honestly, I'd be fine on the sofa" I said a little embarrassed for the hassle I'd caused.
"Uh… I guess no body told you about the sleeping thing did they?" Edward said whilst Bella bit her lip beside me.
"What about it?" I asked curious.
"We don't sleep Emma, never sleep and never get tired. Its great really but it means you have a lot of spare time." Bella said casually and nodding. So I was never going to sleep ever again?
"Never ever?" I said childishly. Edward laughed and shock his head.
"That's Awesome!" I said. Think of all the thing I could do now with an extra 9 hours or so per day.
"Hey" I hadn't even heard Rosalie come in and she was now standing right behind me. Emmett leaped right over the sofa and landed on the sofa at the other side of the room. He started to flick through the channels on the widescreen. I was still struck from the latest news of not having to sleep.
"Hey" Bella and Edward said in sync with each other. I stared through the open window into the forest, thinking of all of the cool things I could do in there during the night when the humans were asleep. My thoughts were interrupted by Rosalie who came into my view.
"Edward what's she thinking?" Rosalie stood with her hands on her hips at the corner of my eye.
"she's planning out what she's going to do during the night. She didn't know that we couldn't sleep" Edward said, looking into my head again. Emmett's booming laugh brought me out of my daydream and my head napped round to where he was sitting on the far away sofa. He was laughing at some comedian on the TV. I recognised the guy as Peter Kay, an English comedian who I remembered now from my human life. I used to watch his shows all night. He was talking about how people call the light in the centre of the room on the ceiling the "Big Light". I laughed my used to be dorky laugh, which now sounded like a musical instrument. I remembered that I used to play some musical instruments in my human life. I think it was Guitar and piano. I also remembered a friend had taught me to play some drum beats. It was all coming flooding back to me now!
"Ah, a musician. Guitar, Piano and Drums? Impressive!" Edward said smiling toward Rosalie. It was like he was congratulating her for creating me.
"Yeah, I remember a little from my human life, but not a lot. It comes back to me every now and then" I tilted my head slightly to the right, thinking of my musical experiences.
"We have a piano over there if you would like a go?" Rosalie said, lounging on the sofa with Emmett, who put his arm around her shoulder.
"No, I'm good" I said. They all laughed at my answer.
"Its going to be weird living with a 15 year old. Shame we did get to see you much before like we did with Bella, it used to be fun to watch Bella fall down all of the time. Now she never falls, it sucks" Emmett shook his head in disappointment. I heard Bella snarl from beside me. Emmett just laughed with the others. Then Alice sudden came flying down the stairs.
"Emma! You're here, great come on up your rooms ready!" Alice bounced with excitement over to where I was sat on the sofa and pulled me to my feet. She pulled me up the stairs before I had a chance to speak one word and took me to the end of the hall way. She open a door and I took one deep breath, but this wasn't a room it was a another set of stairs. I heard the others coming behind me as he treaded up yet another flight of stairs and finally stopped when we came to a solid white door.
"Ready?" Alice asked, still grasping my hand.
"As I'll ever be" I said and Alice gestured toward the shinny door knob. I twisted it with ease, and looked behind me to see Rosalie, Emmett, Bella and Edward, all staring towards me as I pushed into the room.
