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"Ok" I didn't resist.

We walked to the second floor, to the third door down the hall. The door was already open. She pulled me into a dark room, she flipped a switch on the wall. The room looked like and office, rows and rows of books…a large desk was set at the back of the room and behind that a row of five windows. On the back right was a small table with two chairs on each side.

Alice pulled me over to the small table, it was a chess table. I had seen them before. The strange little pieces were already set up, Alice set on the end with the black pieces and I set on the side with the white.

"Ok the goal of the game is to capture the opponents king," she held up one of the pieces that had a little cross on top of it.

"Capture this," she waved it in my face "and you win ok. This is the bishop, the rook, the queen, the knight, and the pawn." She pointed to all of the little pieces on the board.

"Now just watch me… you'll catch on."

She went first, she pushed the littlest piece (pawn, I think) over two spaces. I did the same. This went on for a while until she got my king, but I did get a few pieces of hers.

"Whoa that was confusing." I laughed a weak laugh.

"Well you did good for your first time, so what do you know how to play?" She pushed all the pieces back to their original spots.

I thought threw my memories, my father had taught me loads of games…more card games than anything.

"Well my father taught me how to play poker… want me to show you?"

"Sure, but to spice it up a bit lets play for real stakes…hold on." She zoomed out of the room in the a pretend blink of my eye.

I could hear her upstairs rifling threw something, but I couldn't tell what. She was back then, holding to large stacks of cash held together with rubber bands.

She held the cash up and smiled, then she passed one stack to me. I flipped the rubber band off. There were a lot of fives, tens, fifties, and about twenty hundreds. Alice grabbed all the chess pieces of the board and flipped up a lid on the table, put the pieces in then pulled out a pack of cards.

"Show me how you play it." She slid the deck to me, I put the rubber band back on my money and pushed it to the side.

"Ok each player gets four cards," I shuffled the cards then passed out four cards to each of us.

"Each player checks the cards, then the dealer…that's me…asks if you want new cards." I checked me cards, I had I had two aces, a five, and a three. Alice checked hers too.

"How many cards do you want?" I picked out two and put the two old cards on the bottom.

"Two please." She slid to cards toward me and I slid two new cards back to her.

"We both put in the pot, five will be the pot because it's the lowest number. Ok then the person who is not the dealer can start to make bets."

"Ok I bet….twenty." She threw down the bill from her stack.

"Ok I see your twenty and raise you, fifty." I had two aces, a five, and a king. I had a good hand.

"Oh and if you don't want to bet anymore then you say show them, every one shows their cards and who ever had the better hand wins. Or you can also fold."

I was so good at this, I was also good at bluffing, my father could never tell when I was bluffing.

"Ok show them." She laid out her cards and so did I. She had three fives and one seven. I won.

"You did good for your first try, you're a good bluffer." I smiled and put all the cards together.

"Thanks, here's your winnings." She slid the pile of money at me. I put it altogether with my stack.

Just then Esme walked in.

"Hey you two, so I was looking at schools…and I found some I think would really be good." She walked over to us, she pulled out the rolling chair from the desk and came and set by us.

"Schools?" I was confused. I was a vampire now, I didn't need to worry about silly little things like school.

"Yes as soon as your year is up and when we have made sure you are ready to be around people you will start school, what grade were you in when you were human?"

"Seventh."

"Ok, well Alice would go to eighth grade so she can keep an eye on you. Emmet and Rosalie will go to high school." She patted my hand. "Don't worry dear, this will teach you self control around the scents of humans."

"She is going to have very good self control." Alice gave me a brilliant smile.

"Thanks Alice." I nudged her foot under the table.

"What were you two doing with this?" She reached across the table and grabbed my stack of money.

Alice and I shot covered up laughs at each other.

"Just playing some poker is all." I tapped the deck of cards.

"Really, well got room for one more?" She disappeared for a moment then came back clutching a stack of money.

"Sure!"

We played ten games, Alice and I both won three games. Esme won four, I had a feeling that she had done this before. I still had a hefty stack of money though. We were having so much fun that I didn't even notice the time. After our games Esme said that Carlisle was on his way home. I listened and could hear tires turning on the little dirt road toward the house.

I looked out the window and I could see the clouds getting a lighter shade than gray. It looked very beautiful. I realized that I had never seen my skin shine, I wanted to see it so bad. As soon as there was a nice sunny day I would step in to the sun to see my new skin. To see it sparkle like a sea of diamonds.

Alice put the cards back in the tables flip up compartment. I grabbed my stack of money and went to go put it in my room. Alice followed me up.

Alice plopped down on the couch as I looked around for a place to put my stash.

"Hey Alice is there a place were I can put this?"

"Ummm, put it in…" she had gotten up and was fumbling with my book case. She pulled out a book and lifted the top, there was a square hole right in the middle. "Here…just stick it right in here, then just put it back on the shelf." She had grabbed my money, put it in the square, and put the book back on the shelf.

"Thanks." I went and set on the couch.

She set down in the chair next to me. We set silent for a few minutes, both of us just staring off into space. I heard Rosalie and Emmet coming up the stairs. They walked to my door and knocked.

"Come in." I turned around on the couch.

They both walked in.

"So what are you guys up too?" Rosalie asked and set on the couch.

"Nothing really." Alice said then stood up. "Carlisle wants to see us."

Everyone was downstairs in a second. Carlisle and Esme were sitting on the couch staring nervously at the floor. Rosalie and Emmet went and set on the couch in front of Esme and Carlisle. I sat on the floor and Alice did the same.

"What's wrong Carlisle?" I asked.

"Well Shelby, your old home in South Carolina, the owner is going to just demolish the house with all of your old possessions in it. Esme and I would like to take you there so you can get a few of your old things, if you want?" He looked me deep in the eyes.

"How did find out about all of this?" The bottle my sadness was in nudged inside me.

"On South Carolina's news website. We know that this is sudden news but if you don't want to go you surely don't have too." He took hold of Esme's hand.

"No I want to." Alice patted my shoulder.

"Alright well I will go make the arrangements." He squeezed Esme's hand and walked up stairs. Everyone was silent for a moment, All staring at me. I just stared down at the floor, nothing in my mind.

I could picture my old home, were everything was, every room and everything in it. Everything.

I got up and walked over to the window, everyone's eyes on me still. The sun had just topped over the trees, the sky was a pink and orange garden filled with all the pink and orange flowers you could think of. But everyone of those flowers had to pay the price for being so beautiful by having gray leaves and stems.

I knew I was seconds from a melt down but I held it in as best as I could. This is when I wish I was still human, so I could just go to sleep and just dream of better things. Or even cry…to just wash away all my troubles. But I wasn't a weak human anymore, I was stronger now…better now. Or was I? If my parents were still alive would they except me as a vampire? They loved me unconditionally, but would they still love me undead-tionaly? I have started to talk about them as if they were still alive.

I touched the glass expecting to feel the temperature of it, but felt nothing. I heard Rosalie walking over to me but I didn't turn around; nothing anybody said to me right now would make me feel better about any of this.

She cradled me in a hug and leaned my head against her shoulder. She rocked me back and forth. Rosalie was really a mother figure, I could see her playing in a playground with a cute little blond girl who looked just like her and Emmet. I heard Emmet suppress a laugh behind me, then he clued Rosalie in. She looked down at me just like a mother would and hugged me tighter. We stayed like that, just watching the sun rise and the clouds get a lighter shade.

We all heard Carlisle walk down the steps and enter the room but Rose and I didn't move. I was afraid to move, afraid that if I did move the hysteria and tearless crying would erupt. Rosalie let go of me slightly and turned us around to see Carlisle.

"Everything is booked. We will be leaving on Friday, and during that time I would like to do run some tests to make sure Shelby has enough control."

Today was December 16, Tuesday. So I only had three days to get ready.

"Ok," I said in a weak little voice.

"We should begin immediately, were do you want us to start dear?" Esme asked, looking both at me and Carlisle. As if to ask both our opinions.

"Well we should start small. First take her into town, drive around…see how she handles it. Then move on to bigger ones. I hate to start this now but I want you to have every chance you can get to closing up your old life peacefully." He came over and put his hand on my cheek. Rosalie released me but took hold of my hand instead.

"We should get started." Alice said, then got up and came over to. Then the remaining Coffins came over too.

"I will take her around town today." Alice touched my shoulder as if to say to Rosalie that it was ok, that she had it from here. But Rose never let go.

"Alright, and take Emmet with you. If for any reason you need to restrain her you will want someone strong." Carlisle concluded, we both looked at Emmet he just nodded.

"Goodbye dear." Esme hugged me tight and kissed my cheek, all the Coffins staying home from our endeavor did the same.

Alice took my hand, Emmet put his arm around my shoulder and they walked me to the garage.

We got in a long black car that had the windows blacked out. Emmet and I sat in the back and Alice drove. We drove threw endless streets, with forest on each side. Sometimes passing a lake or pond. No one talked. I looked at Alice for the first time in a while as we passed a sign that said: town in six miles. I looked at her in the mirror, she looked back at me but said nothing.

She says that you will do fine, better than Carlisle or any of us expected. Don't worry. Emmet finished up and patted my hand.

Thanks, I settled back into staring out the window.

Soon the forest disappeared and a small town was put in its place. Alice slowed the car down; which I just noticed she was going eighty. There were few people on the sidewalks, I couldn't smell them but my body tensed up at just the sight of them. Emmet scooted closer toward me. I gave him a look.

Just a precaution, he assured me.

Alice stopped at a read light and spoke for the first time.

"Ok, we are going to roll down the windows little by little, every time the window goes down it will be harder for you to resist. If you need a break just say so…if you need to stop yell stop. Emmet will restrain you if he feels necessary. Ok ready?" She had turned around in her seat.

"Yes."

The light turned green and Alice turned right in an street filled with shops on each side. The sidewalks had the same amount of people every were. Alice rolled the window down next to me, a sliver of light came into the car but not enough for my new skin to shine. I didn't even really care about that right now.

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