'Kill me now' I thought. 'Let me die. Please send me to hell, just stop the pain, and stop the fire. Please, I'm begging'. The fiery feeling exploded through my neck. I could feel it seeping through my veins getting hotter and hotter every passing second.
It felt as if I was holding on to my life with a single thread. It was dark, not a sound not a reassurance of a presence. Just dead silence, making the pain a lot more than it should have been. I screamed, of at least tried to. I never knew if I did or not because my ears were betraying my brain not sending back the vocal sounds I had just made.
That tiny string was holding my life, holding me down but all too soon the sliver of string snapped. The fire that was in my veins stopped and I slipped into a world of utter nothingness.
Is it possible to die and yet not die at the same time? Random question I know sorry. I don't know what's going on I'm too petrified to look, so that's not going to happen for a while. Everything was coming back to me now. I could feel my hands and fingers as I opened and closed them. I could feel my toes wiggle as I moved them. I took a few deep breaths then heard someone talk.
"She should be waking up soon" It was a young man, late twenties early thirties, maybe.
"Yes in about a minute" a sweeter smaller bell sounding girl –which I assumed.-
"That's good" the man said "What Edward did for Ms. Isabella was way out of proportion, he started feeding, and for once I didn't think Emmet and Jasper could hold him off." When he said Edwards' name I froze. I was scared of him. I didn't want to see him. Why in the name of crows was he here? I could feel my own heart pounding in my chest at the mention of his name. I had to get out of here. I took a few more needed deep breaths and opened my eyes.
At first the light was blinding, but after a painful second, my eyes adjusted to the room around me. I was in a rather bright room, a yellow creamy colored wall stared back at me – not latterly but you get what I mean. - A glass shelf was against the wall, with two light green vases positioned neatly on either side. On the left was a soft brown couch and in the couch was a rather small way to familiar girl. Pixy face, hair black as night, eyes of gold, and face of an angle. Wait go back… Eyes of gold? The only people I saw with eyes of gold were the Cullen's. So this must be one of them. Well they were mentioning Edward earlier. Wow don't you feel smart Bella?
I quickly sat up. Way too quickly because the world became splotches of color and I quickly was overcome by dizziness.
"You should lay back down" said the male voice. I could finally match the voice with the face and it was like seeing a god. I'm serious I thought for a second I was looking at some type of god. Blond hair with a shiny overcoat. Gold eyes perfect flawless skin. He even seemed to be glowing, but then my eyes could be betraying me. I stayed sitting up there was no way I was going to lay back down when I didn't know where the heck I was.
"Who are you?" I asked trying to stay calm but my voice quivered when I spoke.
"My name is Carlisle Cullen, this is my daughter Alice Cullen" He gestured over to the pixy girl in the chair. Alice waved with a big smile on her face. "Hello Bella!" He voice sounded like bells softly ringing in the summer wind.
"H- hi?" I didn't mean for it to come out in a question but it did. "What am I doing here?"
Both Carlisle and Alice looked down at the floor.
"Bella?" Carlisle asked in a low mumble. "What do you remember of two nights ago, when you were at home…alone making dinner?" Once he mentioned that I was overtaken with memories. The weird swooshing by the windows, the knock at the door, the un-welcomed visitor. The growl, the feel of his lips on my neck, the loud crack as he was thrown off of me and onto the ground. The three silhouettes that took away…Edward.
I small gasp came out of my mouth, one I didn't even try to keep back. My voice quivered with every word "I remember everything."
"Oh my" Alice sighed.
"What… What happened two nights ago?" I asked. "What the hell is going on?" I hated using fowl language but this time it just slipped out.
"Bella," Carlisle started. "Do you believe in the supernatural?"
"You mean like, demons, pixies," I looked over at Alice when I said pixies. Then I looked back at Carlisle. "Or do you mean like werewolves, and Vampires?" I couldn't help but feel the air go tense as I said Vampires.
"Carlisle?" Alice spoke. Carlisle looked right into my eyes.
"Bella, I have many things I need to explain to you. Now this is going to sound strange. What I'm going to tell you…you're probably not going to believe…but I assure you, it's all true."
"Okay" I replied slowly
"Well," Carlisle began, "after you were attacked, we brought you here because I am not really an ordinary…person. And the man that bit you, he was not either." I wasn't catching on but I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"You see," He continued "I'm a…well, a vampire. The man who attacked you, he was also a vampire, and he bit you," he explained, hearing how absurd he sounded.
"Edward, you, a vampire? Really?" I scoffed; I couldn't help the small smile playing on my lips. "So then, I guess, if he bit me, then I'm supposed to turn into a vampire too, right? That's how the stories go," I said, almost laughing. "Is this supposed to be some kind of joke? Cause I gotta be honest…it's kind of lame." I don't know where the all of a sudden power came from but I liked it and I kept on using it.
"Ok, seriously, what's going on? Has it really been two days? Because I really feel fine. I look fine. And I think, if you're done with your little story, that maybe I ought to be going. I do appreciate you helping me though…or whatever you did," I said, starting to stand.
"Wait…please, Bella, sit back down." She looked at before sitting again. "Like I said before, I realize this is all a little hard to believe. But two nights ago Edward bit you." Almost automatically my hand flew up to the spot on my neck where I had felt his lips. And there was a small crescent shaped mark, with dried blood and some slimy stuff over it.
"If you're a vampire," I started. "Then prove it."
"Alice?" Carlisle said before Alice looked up.
"Yes! Okay Bella I want you to follow me outside." She grabbed my hand and pulled me through a large room full of windows and out a mahogany door, before I could agree.
"Now us vampires-"
"Wait," I cut her off "you're a vampire to?"
"My whole family is. Like I was saying, us vampires, we can run faster than humans." At that moment she took off like a bullet. Once a still figure now a blur of color running around. She was so fast I didn't see her return. "I just ran around the whole house!" She said not even a hint of tiredness in her breath.
"Were a lot stronger than humans." She did an amazing jump over a river that went passing through the yard. Plus the river was like fifty feet wide! Then she disappeared through the trees. An ear splintering crack echoed through the air, as Alice returned with… a fully grown one hundred foot pine tree carrying it like it weighed as much as a baby.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing; this had to be a dream.
"Oh my gosh!" I was absolutely speechless. "I get it… I believe you" I managed to get out.
"Okay good that was a lot faster than in my vision."
"Your what?" Did she just say vision?
"Oh my visions, you see some vampires have different powers some have none. Carlisle thinks it like a little part of your human life that you bring over to your quote dead UN quote side."
"So does everyone in your family have powers?" I asked.
"No, not everyone, only me, Jasper, and Edward. I can sometimes see the future, Jasper can feel, manipulate, and control emotions; and Edward, he can read minds, but he can't read yours for some reason." That made me feel good. I was immune to the scary vampire.
The sun all of a sudden shined through the trees, I didn't even notice that it was setting, but when it did, what I saw on Alice, was amazing. She sparkled, like a million diamonds were each one by one made and placed into her skin.
"The sun's setting. We should probably get you home now. It's getting quite late and Carlisle told your father that we would have you home tonight. Your dad is very gullible he thinks you and I had a sleepover. You know how much fun that would be. We totally should!" I met her gaze with a questioning eye.
"We'll see," I said but she was right I should probably get home. "Alice I think I am ready to leave now."
"Okay I'll just go tell Carlisle that I'm taking you home" In a flash she was gone and in another flash she was back.
"Okay let's go" As I climbed into the back of Alice's car I couldn't help but notice that the silver Volvo was missing. I didn't ask but I wondered.
Once home I yelled bye to Alice from the front door and walked in. I was soon greeted by Charlie in a bear hug and a kiss on the top of my forehead.
"Bella I am so glad your back" he smiled
"Me to dad me to."
"I went to the liberty of ordering pizza; I didn't know when you would be back, so yea…" I smiled
"That's fine dad but I'm not hungry, I ate at the Cullen's before Alice brought me back."
"Oh, okay then. Well I'm just glad that you're making new friends already."
"Yup, dad I'm going up to bed I'm really sleepy." I wasn't but I didn't want to sit and watch football Seahawks vs. the packers. Woo hooo…
"That's fine, sleep well" I was up the stairs when he finished that sentence. I took a long hot shower put on a large tee shirt some pajama bottoms and lay in bed. I don't know how long I stared at the plain white ceiling but sinner then I thought I fell asleep. I had completely forgotten about the bruises cuts and danger I was going into, because for one night I wasn't the weirdest thing on my mind.
AN: I'm not really satisfied with this chapter, but oh well I know the end is kind of rushed but my mom's yelling at me to get off the computer so I will try to start a new chapter tonight!! Lots of love to everyone!!