Chapter 4 Knock it off already, Now What?
"I wish you would stop saying that, it makes me uncomfortable." "I do not like being treated like a victim. " Now Everyone was staring at me, making me feel even more like I did not understand something important. I asked "Ok, now what? Can you please start filling me in on what to expect? I mean, I get the pain part but there is so much I need to know." "Alice said something when I first was brought here, about me being a friend, and being very powerful?" "What was that all about for starters?"
Alice stepped forward, interrupting Carlisle who was about to speak. "When we get changed, some of us get special abilities, nobody knows exactly why, Carlisle thinks it is us taking something from our human lives." "I know for myself there was probably something to that, but I do not remember my human life, I was in a mental hospital as a human, and the shock therapy wiped out my memories, so I woke up like I am now, which is able to see the future". I was shocked, I had never imagined there were people like that, I thought it was all scams and ways to rip off gullible people. She continued "I can see when someone makes a decision what the outcome will be, it is not perfect, the future changes every time someone makes a choice, but the gift does come in handy"
Just then Edward stepped forward, As Alice looked at him. Edward began "I can read minds, that is I hear what people are thinking, as if they are speaking out loud, except Bella...." Well, that explained the odd behavior in the beginning I suspected that but dismissed the thought because it was crazy, like crazy even began to cover the weirdness that my life, death or whatever this was. I turned to Bella "Edward said except you?" She Apologized again and begun, "I was human less than a year ago, I met Edward at school." I had moved here from phoenix and when he first saw me he could not read my mind like everyone else in the lunch room, then in Biology class later that day he got a wiff of me, and I was nearly dinner". "But somehow he resisted and in trying to prove to himself that he was stronger than his desire to feed, we fell in love". She continued to explain when she saw my confusion "You see every once in a while we encounter a human whose blood smells better than the rest, I was this for Edward, and he ran away at first to avoid killing me, and in time, long story short he learned he wanted me in his life more than he wanted my blood". "He did not want to change me, you see we are reluctant to make someone into one of us because it is a permanent change, and there is debate on what happens to our souls etc, and there is a big price to pay for immortality, the thirst is constant, and for those of us with a conscience, resisting killing humans is difficult."
Alice stepped forward again "He probably never would have changed her if he hadn't had to". Bella continued "On our honeymoon, I got pregnant, and you will meet our daughter later, when it's safe, but I almost died during childbirth, and Edward had to change me to save my life." "I have a natural shield which blocks mental powers from affecting me, and now that I have changed, this shield is much stronger, I can shield others too" I half laughed grimacing with pain at that, and said "Now you can shield the rest of your family and keep secrets from Edward?" She laughed, and said "I never thought of it like that but now that you mention it...." HAH!" Laughed Alice "Bella we have too talk lets go for a LOOOONNNGGG Walk!" Edward pinched the bridge of his nose and said "I was afraid they would figure this out eventually now I am going to get paid back for all the surprises I ruined"
Carlisle stepped forward now to explain my fate "Since we are responsible for you now, you will stay with us after you change until we explain the rules, and you learn to fend for yourself". "Of course you can stay as a part of our family as long as you wish, as long as you follow our lifestyle, but even as strongly as we feel about not killing, we do not seek to impose our choices on you." "You will be free to make your own choices, but we cannot just abandon you, or turn you loose, there are rules as Alice mentioned, that is one." "And we will have to in the near future introduce you to the Volturi, they are the self appointed royal family of the Vampire nation". "They enforce the rules, someone has to, and it benefits us that they do it." "It leaves the rest of us free to live our existence without having to worry too much about discovery, which would make us all fugitives, or worse force a war with humans."
I sat there in silence soaking in all this new information and remembered what Alice had said about me being powerful. I asked "So what about me, Alice said I was going to be powerful?!?" Alice explained "You will have the ability to move objects with your mind, telekinesis, I think, that is what it looks like anyway".
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