Chapter 8: Chaos

I woke up to the sound of the doorbell ringing. I glanced at the clock and saw that it's 9:00 am on Sunday morning. I rolled over and saw Elena sprawled out on the air matress next to my bed. Suddenly, I started having coherent thoughts and rememebred everything that had only happened just a few hours ago. My parents are vampires! Or, rather, they used to be vampires! I jumped out of bed and ran to my bathroom, grabbed a toothbrush and walked over to Elena who sleeps like a rock.

"Laney, get up. We don't want to miss the action!" I shook her with my left hand while I held my toothbrush in my right hand, brushing furiously.

"Huh?" She said groggily. I saw a look of understanding cross her face and she jumped up quickly. We both brushed our teeth and got dressed quickly and ran downstairs. My Aunt Alice, Uncle Jasper, and Eve were sitting in the living room. Brayden, Eve's older brother is away at college, as are Vera, Henry and William, my other cousins. Before I could even say hello, the doorbell rang again. I opened the front door and saw Uncle Emmett, Aunt Rosalie, Carlisle and Esme.

"Hi Lily," Esme smiled as I opened the door wider so they could enter. My parents came down the stairs, followed by a messy haired Tom, a yawning Adam and a sleepy Annie. I heard a few muttered hellos and Elena and I went to grab a seat on the floor in front of the fireplace so we'd have a perfect view of eveyones faces.

"What's going on, Mom?" Annie stifled a yawn. "Dad?"

"I called everyone over here because I knew that a family meeting would be happening today," Aunt Alice answered. Uncle Jasper put his hand over hers.

"I don't get it," Adam said.

"Join the club," Eve said a little sarcastically.

"Well," Dad hesitated and looked at my Mom. "Where should I begin?"

"How about you start with the fact that you were born in 1901," I chimed in.

"Shut up, Lily. Let Dad talk." Tom reached over from his seat and messed up my hair.

Uncle Emmett, finally getting what was going on here started to laugh. Carlisle and Esme looked serious, obviously understanding as well. Then, Aunt Rosalie said under her breath, "Thanks for the warning, Alice." I saw Annie's facial expression turn from boredom to concern when she heard Aunt Rosalie's words.

"Lily's right," Dad sighed. "Do you kids remember all of those stories I told you about Edmund, Gabriella, Elijah, Joseph, Carson, Emelia, Rebecca and Alison?" The four clueless teenagers nodded. "Well, you're looking at us." My dad motioned to his siblings.

"Ha - ha, Dad." Adam said. "Can I go back to bed?"

"He's being serious," Carlisle said. "I'm just not sure why he's telling you this now."

"Lily and Elena overheard Bella and I having a discussion about recent events very late last night." My dad exchanged a loaded glance with Carlisle and nothing else needed to be said.

"And I saw that you were going to tell the other three, so that's why I wanted the rest of us to be here. Eve, honey, do you understand?" Aunt Alice asked in a soothing voice.

"I - I don't think I do," Eve's face is unreadable. I have a pretty good idea what she's thinking though.

No one said anything for a few minutes so that everyone could conjure up the memories of my Dad's very detailed imaginative stories. When the four of them realized that it wasn't his imagination, the chaos began.

"What?!" Annie screamed.

"Are you freakin' insane?" Tom said to the adults.

"Are you bored or something? Is this meant to be funny?" Adam chided.

"Seriously?" Eve looked in Uncle Jasper's eyes. They were all talking over each other.

"Yes, honey, it's true." Jasper said soothingly, and Eve remained calm. He's playing with her emotions. I laughed.

"Lily, what did you over hear?" Adam asked, realizing that this wasn't a joke. I went over the details of my frightening moments on the back stairyway with Elena, then the conversation at the kitchen table, leaving out the details of Mark's imprinting on me.

"And if Lily didn't insist, you weren't going to tell us?" Tom inquired angrily.

"What the heck are you talking about you read Javier's thoughts?" Anne glowered at Dad. "You've lied before, why would I believe you now?" The tone she's using wouldn't be tolerated on a normal basis, but I think my parents are willing to make a few exceptions after what she just learned.

"I'm telling you the truth now," my Dad gritted his teeth together. He whipped around, "Emmett, please, this isn't funny." Emmett stopped laughing.

"And you can see the future?" Adam inquired, looking at Aunt Alice.

"Yes, I can. If you remember how your dad told you Alison's visions worked from the story, he was describing mine." She put and arm around Eve and patted her shoulder. Eve remained calm and although her natural personality is calm, I'm guessing that sitting next to her dad was the real reason for this.

"Carlisle, how old are you?" Tom must've gotten over his anger because he didn't sound angry anymore.

"48..." Carlisle said.

"No, really, how old? You're like 300 or 400 right?" He didn't wait for Carlisle to confirm, he turned to Dad, "and you really were born in 1901, weren't you?

"Yes," My dad admitted.

"Oh, I forgot to mention Jacob is really Jack the Werewolf from Dad's stories." I smiled.

"What?!" Annie cried.

"Are you serious?" Tom exclaimed.

"What the hell else do we need to know?" Adam asked. Adam must really be upset to swear.

"Well, you know your namesake?" My Mom was looking at Adam, referring to Adam Bailey who's like an Uncle to us. "He's Aiden, the scientist who discovered Anti-Venom from the stories."

"Great!" Adam said, unhappily. "Do I know the REAL anyone?"

Some more curse words flew out, accusations were thrown around, attitudes were expressed, but in the end, luckily, I think my siblings and Eve are on the same page as me. We're just glad to finally know the truth. After Carlisle gave us a ten minute speech on the importance of not telling anyone outside the family, we were all calm again.

"Aunt Alice?" Annie asked.

"Yes?"

"Do you think Javier and I will last? I mean, can you see?"

Aunt Alice was quiet for a minute, then said, "Well, you haven't really made your mind up to do anything, but he has. And Annie, trust your father on this one."

"Oh freaking great," Annie got up and stomped up the stairs dramatically. My Dad started after her, but my mom stopped him and said "Let me."

"Was it as fun as you hoped?" I whispered to Elena.

"Even better," she smiled. "Too bad I have to go home soon."

"You better get your stuff together, Elena." Aunt Alice advised. "You're mom will be here in two minutes."

"Thanks! That's so totally cool!" Elena said and ran to get her things.

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"I'm going to Jake's with the stuff I promised him," my Dad told my mom, then kissed her for a long minute on her lips. Gag me! He is carrying a large metal case that looks heavy.

"Be safe," I heard her whisper as I finished loading the dishwasher after lunch.

"Evan's patrolling again, or I wouldn't leave you," he smiled.

"Don't worry about me, Edward. Love you."

"Love you more." He said, turning toward the door to the garage.

"Dad, wait." I made a snap decision. "May I go along?" It's been probably a year since I've been to Jacob and Ava's house.

He looked at my mom and she shrugged. "Sure Lily, I'll wait in the car." I washed my hands, then grabbed my jacket and ran out to the car. My dad closed the trunk of his new Volvo XC90 SUV, and climbed behind the wheel.

"Ready?" He asked.

"Ready," I confirmed. "Dad? What's in the case?"

He backed out of the garage and turned around easily, in the large driveway, then started in the direction of the main road. "Well, your mom and I agreed we weren't going to purposely hide things like this anymore, so I'll tell you."

"Yes?" I said after a short pause.

"It's a special gun with Anti-Venom bullets inside."

"Why does Jacob want it?"

"He's going to give it to Mark. Your mom doesn't want the wolves to hurt Jessica."

"Oh," I'm not sure what else to say. I flipped on the radio until I found an oldies station that played music from 2000 - 2010. I really love that era. A Linkin Park song was playing, so I left it on that station and sat back to enjoy the ride. A little over 10 minutes later, my dad pulled into Jacob's driveway, in front of his large contemporary home which looked silly when you compared it to the other small homes in La Push. When Jacob became a Contractor, working for Uncle Emmett and Uncle Jasper's company, he tore down his dad's small house to build a much larger home with a seperate, first floor living quarters for his father, Billy.

I climbed out of the Volvo and turned to see Mark waiting for me on his front porch, a smile on his lips. I took a deep breath and said to myself, tell him you hate him Lily. Don't let him be a slave... I narrowed my eyes at him, then approached.

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