Chapter 4

Summer's POV

"So like a vampire... but with super powers?" I repeated to Seth.

Seth was cool, a bit overly enthusiastic about everything but hes the nicest person I've met In a few weeks. Or years.

"Yeah, I guess you could put it like that" He replied "but Edward's cool, and it doesn't hurt or anything it's just a bit weird someone being able to know exactly what your thinking all the time"

"Weird" I sighed. If you want weird, look at my life I thought.

Seth just stared at me for a minute, like he was trying to work out some stupidly hard math problem in his head, before standing up and walking out of the door. Locking it behind him. Of course.

From what Seth had told me it looked like 'Sam', as Seth named the big scary guy, didn't believe a word I was saying. So they were taking me to a vampire guy, who could read my mind. Great.

A sudden surge of panic began to build inside me. What if they found out? What if they thought because of my mom being who she was, I was on the vamps side? I mean, they already thought I was on the vamps side but I'm pretty sure that this information wouldn't help the matter. I never even knew my mom. But I know I'm not her.

I'm nothing like her.

After regaining a normal breathing pattern, I walked back over to the bed where that Seth kid had left a tray full of food. It actually looked pretty good, not like all those TV dinners at the vampires place. Ew.

But anyway, this was kinda pretty good. I sat there eating for a while, I honest to god cannot remember the last time I actually ate properly. I'd gotten scarily thin over the past year.

Never being able to stay in one place long enough to sleep a full night, never mind eat properly.

I'd just finished pretty much all the food on the plate when the door re opened. Sam was stood in the doorway with another guy I didn't recognize stood just behind him.

"You ready to go?" Sam asked looking me straight in the eyes.

I quickly recoiled from his gaze, but nodded and walked towards him. I cheered up a bit when I realized I was actually going outside. Not just into another dark, and stupidly boring, room.

I had just reached the doorway when a hand, I'm guessing Sam's hand, reached out and grabbed mine before handcuffing me to the guy he was with. Charming.

"Not that we don't trust you Summer, but we don't" He smirked "Can't be too careful can you"

I groaned. Might as well just give up now, it's not as if I'm going to get away from here when he'd around. But then again, If it's between here, or the vampire's house. I don't know if I really want to escape. Yet.

I was led around quite a large, pretty cottage. Empty though, it looked like it was only us in the house, so I didn't get to see the rest of the guys I'd heard moving around. As I'd guessed, I was in the basement since we came up a small staircase before finally reaching the front door. I began to walk towards it when the guy I was handcuffed to stopped and Sam turned around. He had a scary expression on his face, not that I was scared of him. Much.

"Just a few ground rules, or maybe a better word is advice" He started " One, don't try running, I mean, your handcuffed to Quil here " - he pointed at the guy next to me - " and you know I can catch you."

I nodded in agreement, he was right he could. Life's a bitch.

" And also" He continued "we are going to a house full of vampires. 7 vampires to be exact, so don't try anything funny. You won't get away with it"

It took a hell of a lot of self control not to puff up at him then, but I'm getting better at it so I manged not to shout. Instead I just pictured myself killing him in my mind. That worked like a charm.

I was basically dragged outside to a dark blue jeep, which was sat on a dirt road leading off into the woods to the left of the house. But to my surprise, when we reached the car instead of sliding in the seat beside me, Quil unlocked the handcuffs when I was securely in the car and slid in beside Sam. I was debating opening the door and trying to run, but just when I'd found the courage to try the locks disappeared down into the car. Great.

"I told you, you can't get away" I heard Sam say from the front but I ignored him, and stared out of the window as we drove away from the cottage.

I gave into the fact that I was going to see these vampires whether I liked it or not, and decided to just settle down in the seat and enjoy seeing the outside world. Oh, what it was like to have free will.

After about half an hour, the jeep made a sharp turn off the main road down what seemed like an overly long driveway. Tree's lined either side, some of them were full of fairy lights that lit up the way. I saw the house then, it was huge. More of a mansion then a house, and definitely nothing like where the other vampires lived. Nothing like that at all.

It wasn't long before we pulled up outside the house, and my door swung open. I stepped out, half expecting to get cuffed to Quil again but he just grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the front door. Kinda annoying, you know.

Sam stepped in front of us, taking up his usual 'leader' position. What is up with that? The door swung open almost immediately and we were greeted by a way too beautiful, smiling blonde vampire.

"You must be Summer" he beamed at me "I'm Carlisle"

"Hey" I replied gloomily as I was pushed up the stairs and into the house.

The room was a huge open space, like at Erik's 'home', but it was more like a home here then it was there. There it was just a house, probably a stolen house at that.

Carlisle lead us into an area to the side where a group of vampires sat all crowded round a TV.

"Edward, come with us" Carlisle ordered and the rest of them looked up from the TV to stare at me.

Okayy so I'm human, but that's it. Its not like they've never met a human before. Jeesh.

I so did not get all the staring.

A vampire with bronze coloured hair stood up when Carlisle spoke, and moved towards us. There has got to be a limit for the amount of hot guys allowed in one room. Especially pretty scary hot guys. That just makes them all the scarier.

I heard a snicker behind me.

Wait, Edward? Was he the mind reader? I thought to myself

"Yeah" I heard from behind me again

Great. Mind rape. We were lead off after that, up the stairs and into a large office sort of area. It was how you would expect a college dean's office to look like. Except that would have a lot less books than this room contained.

"Edward" Sam began "you know why we need you, we just can't trust what shes telling us. Can you help us find whether she'd with them of not"

I' M NOT WITH THE FREAKING VAMPIRES I screamed in my mind

Edward chuckled "I don't think she is, judging from that little outburst anyway"

"But you must be able to tell Edward, there's something wrong about her. Something not quite human. I can't trust that. WE can't trust that" Sam pleaded

"No, we can't." Added Edward solemnly "The ways of the south don't belong here, and if shes the key" - they both looked at me - " well, if she is then, at least we have her here"

Sam nodded in agreement.

I did not understand a word they had just said. The ways of the south? The key? What? Nothing was making sense anymore. Nothing at all. I thought I understood sort of why the vamps wanted me but, I'm just not sure of anything anymore.

I stopped dead then.

Oh yeah, I thought, mind reader.

I realized I'd let him in on something and scrambled for a way to hide my thoughts.

You get the limo out front OoOoO

Hottest styles every shoe every colourr

Yeah when your famous it can be kinda funn

Its really you but no one ever discoversss

First song that came into my head, and it HAD to be Hannah Montana? Great.

Edward chuckled again,

god is that ALL you do? I sneered

"I don't think shes going to let us in on anything Sam, but there's definitely something. Not what your looking for though" Edward said

"Just give it up Summer," Sam shouted

"I CAN'T" I screamed back before legging it out of the room and down the stairs.

I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere but hey, with a closing sentence like that, I needed a dramatic exit.


Okayyy so I know it's getting complicated,

but all of that stuff about her mother will be explained in the next chapter

or at least I think it will, depends how it goes xD

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