Usual disclaimers, I don't own twilight, I make no money from this, etcetera etcetera, etcetera.
Chapter- 4
As soon as we step foot in the store, Alice shouts for me to meet her by the changing rooms and she is gone. The store is absolutely gigantic, divided down the middle into men and women. All the latest fashions in every possible color decorated hangers and shelves. It was bordering on traumatic for me. "C'mon Amshall!" Alice drags me from the store entrance to the changing rooms and shoves me into one "one of each!" Alice is nuts, this is an absolute certainty. The body mirror on one wall, hangers, bench with the inevitable ginormous pile of cloths; everything seems like I expected to be.
Time to go to work! A pile each of pants, shirts, and sweaters and jackets; one of each she said. I picked a piece of clothing randomly from the piles and slipped them on. It was amazing, exactly my style. "I know how you like your cloths; it's all simple, neat and in your four best colors." Alice said from over the door. She was right all the cloths were in grey, black, white and red. The only colors I would wear. Ashman loved to see me in red, he would always say so. He picked out all of our cloths always in white, grey or black, but for me there was always some red. It could be a scarf or a shirt or even gloves, he always wanted me wearing at least one thing in red. It stuck with me I guess.
Rosalie came into the store around outfit twenty or so and I was spared for a moment while she went with Alice to see the shoes she was talking about. Maybe I could escape, while they were drooling over the shoes. Estimating how far I could get before her pesky visions kicked in- "you won't get far" you really can't beat her can you? An hour later…
"Please I'm begging you! Kill me now, I can't take the torture!" I scream. The two giggled "Don't be such a drama lama!" Alice said in a sing song voice as she gathered up the ten outfits she thought I looked best in. You have no idea how much begging it took for me to get her down to just ten outfits, I'm counting my blessings now. At checkout our beloved (if somewhat nutty) Alice greets all the workers by name "I feel bad spending so much of your money; I know this much cost a fortune." I say as I watch a rather long number flash across the register display. Actually I have no idea about the value of currency. I've never had to worry about it; Ashman and later Zachariah took care of all the transactions and I frequently over or under paid when I was alone. "Oh its nothing, we have enough money invested or stored around the world to where we get thousands every month. We have plenty and…" the spiky haired vampire leaned closer "between you and me I spend three times this per week"
The Cullen house was abuzz; the entire family was home and it seemed some of Jacob's friends had come to see him. Well I thought they were his friends, they all had that same disgusting smell which made me think they were members of his pack and thus werewolves also. I wonder, I'm meeting the friends (pack?) of the person I tried to incinerate, yeah this is gonna go great. Damn I don't want to be a chew toy! A tall broad shouldered man stepped forward "I would like to extend an apology on behalf of my brothers and myself. If you abstain from human blood you are no enemy of the pack. My name is Sam Uley; I am the second after Jacob." He moved to shake my hand but apparently thought better of it. Carlisle appeared next to me "If you would like to you can bring Jake home, new skin has already started to grow. He'll need bed rest and medication for a few days but he is healing faster than I anticipated." Sam nodded.
"Amshall I'm going to put your cloths in your closet" Alice said from the base of the staircase "why don't you come up and see your room?" my room? I get a room. Up until now the whole experience had been almost like a dream, but this was the proof. They were going to let me in. I could be part of a family again. I followed the pile of seemingly animated shopping bags up the stairs. I'm greeted with a long hallway with doors on either side. At the absolute back of the hallway a wooden cross was hung on the door. "Alice what's this?" I asked pointing at the cross. She paused "it's beautiful isn't it? Carlisle carved it when he was a human in London." I wanted to touch it to see if the wood was as silky as it looked but I was afraid because it surly was old and fragile. "How old is Carlisle anyway?" the way he carried himself and the fact he was leader of this coven, it made me curious. "Carlisle was born sometime in the 1640's which would make him over three hundred years old. I supposed he was quite old and if he had made this cross when he was human and Alice's statement supported that. Still he wasn't as old as Ashman.
Alice had opened a door and I could hear her fidgeting with bags and boxes. The room had a light gold colored carpet and a wall made completely of glass. In the closet Alice was diligently hanging cloths on hangers. "This is Edward's old room. Since he and Bella moved out to their cottage to raise Nessy it's been empty. So you get to stay here Amshall." She smoothed out her cloths and looked at her handiwork. There was one thing about that that didn't add up "Who's Nessy?" She said raise, did that mean Edward and Bella had adopted a human child? Obviously Vampires don't have children. Alice had an odd look "that's a little hard to explain. You see Nessy Is Bella's and Edward's daughter-" That made no sense "vampires cannot have children" I interjected. I saw her lip twitch slightly at being interrupted.
"Nessy is a half vampire. Edward shagged Bella when she was human and Nessy was born. To save Bella's life Edward changed her into a vampire. Got it?" she seemed slightly annoyed now. No not really, "Got it" plenty of time to interrogate Bella about that later. "So where is Nessy?" Alice's good cheer returned "right now she's in south America visiting her" She did air quotes "friend, Nahuel. He's one of the few other half vampires in the world and *one* of her admirers. After that she's going back to college in California." She said quickly and with many giggles. That was interesting, many questions. Many many questions, not enough patience; maybe tomorrow.
I soon found the Cullen house was wonderful. Every few days we would hunt, I found that I liked the taste of brown bear. Eventually my eyes turned to gold and I stopped wearing my sunglasses; after that I went to school for the first time. The rest of the family introduced me to their friends, we got along great. Within a few weeks Jacob healed, we exchanged apologies and I found that Jake came over a lot to talk to Bella. The rest of the pack was nice too; a lot of them come over on Sundays to watch football with Emmett and Jasper. Life was grand.
Oh course it couldn't last that would just be too good wouldn't it? Some might even say boring if my story ended here all happy. Worry not fates or gods or other such beings peeking into my life, chaos does ensue. About five months after I moved in Bella was sitting on the couch with her laptop, Edward and Alice were starting a game of chess (always fun to watch a mind reader and a future seer play a strategy game) and the sounds of a television could be heard coming from the furnished basement. Suddenly Alice dropped the piece she was holding, which knocked over several others. "Edward. PAPER!" she shouted. Within seconds she had a notebook and was hastily drawing with a pen. Slowly a face started to form, with long hair and sunglasses and… I noticed my own face in that paper. She dropped the pen "oh no, Rose." I had not seen a vampire that scared in a long time.
"What's wrong with Rose Alice? What does it have to do with Amshall?" Edward asked frantically. "He is going to kill Rose but it's not Amshall" she sputtered. "You drew his face Alice" observed Bella. "We have to get Rose" but Edward was already ahead of her dialing on his cell phone. Jasper had come up from the basement "Isn't rose out hunting with Esme and Carlisle?" We all knew that was true, our father, mother, and sister were all in grave danger. "Who is it Alice?" Bella asked. "No, Carlisle too" she muttered. "No one is picking up!" Edward shouted before darting off to his car followed shortly by Jasper and Emmett.
Bella rushed to the garage and I carried Alice to the other car. Bella handed me her cell phone and skidded out after the other car. I called Carlisle then Esme, no answer. "Amshall, it's him. You know who." I did know who. Only one person it could be. Finally my call was answered "Oh God Rose, are you okay? Alice had a vision an-" muffled laughter came from the other end of the line. "Oh brother, how I have longed to hear your voice."