Chapter 6:

Yes, I Know, I had it Tough When I Was a Newborn

The next morning, I was the only one watching TV since everyone went out. Jasper decided to visit the Denali Cover to think things through.

While watching TV, I was wearing my white T-shirt with black knee-length shorts. I was barefooted and super lazy. A.C. came downstairs. I was able to tell that she just woke up from her long sleep. She was also wearing the same thing as me and was also barefooted.

As A.C. sat down next to me, I said, "You're always wearing the same thing as me."

"I know," A.C. said.

"Where do you find the extra clothes?" I asked,

"You'll never know," A.C. said and giggled.

I smiled and looked back at the TV. Pretty Little Liars was on and Jersey Shore was on in an hour. A.C. told me she wasn't too fond of Jersey Shore. She said it was annoying and had pointless drama. Well people, this is coming from a girl who rather watch Invader Zim (although, that is the best cartoon out there) and the show If You Really Knew Me (that's actually a pretty sad show. I almost cried… without the human tears obviously).

"What happened to you once you turned into a vampire?" A.C. asked.

My body tensed up as I remembered my somewhat frightening past. "Let's wait until everyone gets back. I'm sure they want to know too."

A.C. looked at me with sorry eyes. Then she looked back at the TV as the Pretty Little Liars theme song came on.

"Was there something that you needed to tell us?" Carlisle asked me. Everyone, even Jasper, was in the living room."

I nodded. "I need to tell you about my past from when I first became a vampire to when I found this coven. I thought you would want to know about it because A.C. was asking me about today."

A.C. stood by my side along with Bella. Renesmee was next to my daughter and everyone else was in front of me. They were all waiting for me to being.

I sighed and then started what was going to be a long story. "It was the year 1920 and I was outside behind shaded pushes. My throat burned but I couldn't remember anything that happened before that moment. Then shadows came near me and I gasped. Before me stood three beautiful people with pale skin but their eyes were red. One was African-American and was a male with long black hair. There was a male with blond hair in a short, low ponytail. Then there was a woman who had fire-engine-red hair. I thought they were the most beautiful people I've ever seen.

"'James,' the African-American said, 'isn't this the human you told us about?'

"The blond, whose name was James, nodded. 'She isn't a human anymore,' he said."

I took a breath and looked at everyone. So far they didn't have any certain reaction so I kept going. "James walked up to me and I started shaking. The burn in my throat was getting stronger and I didn't know how to stop it. James looked at the African-American and said, 'Laurent, get this girl something to drink.' The African-American nodded and walked away. The woman, who I later found out had the name Victoria, came up to James and they watched me closely. Laurent came back with a male human in his arms. The human was still alive but frightened. He also smelled good. Laurent dropped the man on the ground and the man winced. He tried escaping but James caught him. James held the human tight and said to me, 'It's fine. Come and have a drink.' I looked at the poor human. James was suffocating him and I felt like I needed to help the poor human somehow."

I took another breath and crossed my arms. "So I did. I pulled James's arms away from the man and the man got up and ran. Laurent and Victoria almost went after him but James stopped them. James looked at me with hatred in his eyes and in a flash, I was wrapped tightly in his arms. He started yelling at me.

"'That was your lunch! Don't you know anything about your kind?' he growled. He grabbed my head and started to pull. I was able to feel my skin tearing so I screamed. James smiled as if he loved hearing the sound of my screams.

"Then Victoria stopped Jams. 'Calm down,' she said. 'She probably doesn't even know what she is. You know how newborns are; they're clueless as soon as they open their eyes.' I shook in James's arms but his grip got tighter. Victoria looked at me and asked, 'Sweetie, what's your name?'

"I tried remembering but I couldn't so I said, 'I don't know.' James butted in and said, 'One year ago, I saw her father. He was either calling her Mary Alice or Alice Mary.'

"Victoria smiled. 'I like Alice better. We'll call her Alice. How old was she one year ago?'

"James was silent but after a minute, he said, 'I don't know.'

"'She looks about seventeen,' Laurent said.

"Victoria looked at me and gave me an encouraging smile. 'Do you remember your human life?' she asked me. I didn't know what she was talking about but I shook my head anyway. Not remembering anything that happened an hour ago counted as not remembering my human life, right? 'Do you know what you look like?' Victoria asked. I shook my head again.

"Victoria grabbed me out of James's arms. She took out a tiny pocket mirror and put it in front of me. I looked at the mirror and gasped. There was Victoria of course but also a beautiful pale girl with black, short, spiky hair and red eyes. She was wearing a black T-shirt with ripped up knee-length jean shorts. She also had no shoes on. Slowly, I moved my hand towards the mirror and touched the reflection.

"'That's you,' Victoria said to me. My eyes widened and I looked at her. 'You're not human anymore,' she said. 'You're a vampire.' I gasped at what she just said. Then I remembered the burn in my throat.

"'I'm thirsty,' I said. My voice was raspy.

"Laurent and James went hunting. They came back with for dead bodies. Victoria set me down by a woman while James and Laurent were sucking blood out of males. Slowly, I put my mouth by the human's neck and I bit it. The blood tasted so good as I sucked it out of the human's body. Pretty soon, I was finished. The three vampires stared at me for a while. The burning wasn't completely gone but I was satisfied.

"'Did it taste good?' James asked. I nodded slowly and smiled.

"The next day, Laurent James and Victoria held onto me tightly for some reason. Two humans came up to us and told me that they were my parents. It was hard to believe them since they didn't look anything like me. James said that what they told me was a lie. Suddenly, a burn came to my throat. With the three vampires holding my arms, I slowly bit both the humans who claimed to be my parents. I sucked their blood and watched them drop dead. In a way it hurt because of the innocence in their eyes but I was thirsty. The three vampires cheered for me. At first I felt somewhat proud so I smiled but then James revealed that I killed my father and my step-mother. My real mother was already dead. Since I was angry that all three vampires lied to me, I tried to attack them. I wanted to kill them. Sadly, I failed and was shoved to the ground. I didn't have anything to drink for a week and I went paranoid.

"A month passed by. The burning in my throat was still annoying but I learned to live through it. Laurent, James, and Victoria wouldn't let me get away from the shaded bushes. I always wondered what I was like outside of them. If I asked one of the three vampires, they would ignore the question. But one day, James brought a person over. The two of them watched me as I was tackling Laurent. Laurent didn't seem to notice James and the stranger so I pretended not to. I kept tackling Laurent. I giggled as he pinned me to the ground. I pushed him back and I held him to the ground by holding his arms. The two of us laughed.

"James cleared his throat. Laurent and I looked at him. I let Laurent go and we both sat on the ground. That's when I noticed what the stranger looked like. He ended up being a male and he also had bright red eyes.

"James turned to me and then I saw the face of the man he held in his arms. 'This is the man who turned you,' James said. 'Look what's going to happen to him.' Once James stopped talking, a vision came in front of my eyes. I gasped at what I saw. Then, when I was looking at the present, James was pulling the man's head off of his body. The man screamed and finally, his head was detached from his pale body. To my surprise, there was no blood. I gasped and winced. It was like the vision I saw. That's when I found out I could see the future. I didn't tell James, Laurent, or Victoria. James stared at me as Laurent stood up and started a fire. James dropped the dead vampire in the fire as I also stood up. Victoria looked at me and asked what I was doing. None of them were blocking the exit of the bushes so I made a run for it."

This time I stopped. Everyone's eyes were wide. I knew I had to keep going. "I never knew that vampires had amazing speed. A smile went across my face when I finally knew that I was free. But I was also a little creeped out about my sparkling skin. James always told me that vampires burn in the sunlight. I was also creeped out about how bright the sun was since I've never seen it before from what I knew of. My sparkling skin and the sunlight were the first beautiful things I've ever seen because I didn't remember seeing anything else like them.

"Two week I ran but I finally stopped because I saw a tiny beige house. Then, a girl around the age of ten ran up to me. 'Mary, Mary!' she yelled with a smiled on her face. I stared at her with confused eyes. Who was this girl? Why was she calling me Mary when my name was Alice? I started to back away from her but then she told me, 'It's me, Cynthia! You look like you don't remember me! Someone killed dad and our step-mom! They were found dead with their eyes open and no blood in their bodies! Oh, my God, why are your eyes red?' I got scared since she was describing the incident with me killing what James called my dad and step-mom. I didn't want to wait for Cynthia's other reactions. When she looked away, I started running again.

"It wasn't until 1937 when I had a completely different style and I was waiting in a diner. I made sure that my eyes were hidden. I was waiting for a man with blond hair. He was also a vampire and his name was Jasper Whitlock."

A.C. looked at Jasper and smiled. I started my story again. "He finally walked in and I ran up to him. I said, 'You kept me waiting for a long time.'"

"Sorry ma'am," Jasper said as he interrupted. I smiled a huge smile. I probably would've been blushing.

"Anyway," I continued, "I told Jasper of Carlisle and we started searching. In 1938, we were on the land of the Quileute's. We didn't know about the treaty yet. All of a sudden, a tall gray wolf jumped on top of me. The wolf growled and I started shaking. Jasper tried helping me but he couldn't. My eyes and the wolf's met. That's when he climbed off of me. I stood and hugged Jasper. Then, the chief of the tribe came up to me. He told me that Sethy, the wolf who jumped on top of me, was part of my human life. I told the chief that I didn't remember my human life. Sethy came up to me and dug his nose a little under my shirt. Then, he started licking my stomach. I felt uncomfortable about it until I looked down at it. That's when I noticed my scare. At the time, I didn't know how I got it but now I do." I looked down at A.C. and she smiled. "We finally found Carlisle a week later. Edward wasn't there yet but Jasper and I settled in our new room."

"And again I say this," Edward said, "when I got home, I found all of my belongings in the garage."

"And again I say this," I said, "you're room had a great view."

I started laughing. Then Bella said, "Or maybe it has a closet bigger than my room at Charlie's but yet, you still can't fit all of your clothes in it."

I laughed again as I replayed the memory of when I was showing Bella her wedding dress in my huge walk-in closet. That's when I found out that I was going to be her bridesmaid.

"Weird past," Emmett said.

"Thanks," I replied proudly.

A.C. stood up and hugged me. She laid her head on my shoulder as I hugged her back. After five minutes of talking, everyone left the room. It was only A.C., Jasper, and me. I picked up A.C. and carried her to the couch. I sat down with her on my lap. Jasper stood in front of me.

"How come you never told me about what happened to you before we met?" he asked.

I shrugged.

Jasper nodded and pushed a strand of hair away from my face. A.C. fell asleep in my arms. I noticed that Jasper had a tiny smile on his face. He hugged A.C. and me and then kissed me. When Jasper pulled away, he looked down at the sleeping A.C. Then, he kissed the top of her head. That awoke A.C. She looked at him and they smiled at each other. Before Jasper turned to walk away, A.C. grabbed his hand. Jasper kissed A.C.'s forehead and then walked up to our room.

A.C. looked at me and giggled. I giggled along with her and kissed the top of her head. She laid her head back against my shoulder and I rested my body against the couch. Again, A.C. fell asleep in my arms.