Chapter 8

Werewolves?

(Edward POV)

"To what do I owe the pleasure, Carlisle?" Katrina asked Carlisle., giving him a quizzical look.

"Well you did ask me to come by and meet the girls, so here I am." He told her.

"Well then by all means please do have a seat." She gestured towards the living room furniture, and we all obediently took a seat.

I tried to focus on Rayna and Serenity and see if I could read their minds but I came up blank. It was rather quite frustrating. I don't know what it is about Rayna but for some reason I'm drawn to her. I feel compelled to know everything about her. And it pissed me off to no end that I couldn't get inside her head. Why the hell can't I read their minds? I thought to myself.

"So you're a mind reader huh?" Rayna asked, eyeing me curiously.

"How…how did you know that?" I asked confused.

"I heard it in your mind… you were asking yourself why you couldn't read mine and Serenity's minds." She replied looking at me sheepishly.

"The two of you can read minds as well?" Carlisle questioned them.

"Uh-huh…we can also hold conversations with you if we wanted to all through our minds. We can also control the elements as well as manipulate the weather and we can fly. Also we can project a mental and physical shield." Serenity answered him.

"That's spectacular." Carlisle was clearly amazed, as well as he should be. I have to say these two girls are quite magnificent. Truly stunning.

"Can you demonstrate for us?" Carlisle will have a field day with these two.

"Alright, if we must." Rayna replied and she and Serenity stood up. "What would you like to see first?"

"How about the mind conversation thing?" I asked curious to know more.

Hello Edward. I heard Rayna's voice in my head.

So this is what it's like to be inside your head?

Yep, but you only get to know what choose for you to know. I looked up at her to find her smiling at me, which in turn I gave her my famous panty-dropping crooked grin that all the human girls seemed to love for some odd reason.

Rayna and Serenity took turns going around the room, saying hello to each of my family members in their minds. I only know this because I could hear them in everyone else's minds. Once that was done with serenity stuck booth her hands out palms up and I watched in amazement as they both caught on fire as if out of thin air, and the Rayna ran to the kitchen and glass of water, sat it down on the coffee table, she then proceeded to make the water flow through the air following the motions of her hands, it was even more amazing when she froze the water in the shape of heart and handed it to Alice.

"For these next few we'll have to go outside." Serenity commented as her and Rayna made their way out the door the rest of us close behind them.

Without warning both the girls launched ten feet into the air and just hovered there for a minute before coming back down. They then proceeded to make it snow but only over us, just as soon as it started though they made it stop, saying that it was very risky to manipulate the weather.

"Alright for our next trick we're going to need two of you to attack Carlisle and Edward." Rayna said, giving me a flirtatious wink.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Jasper questioned them, looking to Carlisle for reassurance.

"It's alright Jasper; just give it your best shot." Carlisle said giving him the go ahead.

Without another word both Emmett and Jasper came flying at Carlisle and I, running at vampire speed, only to be knocked on their asses two feet in front of us. These two girls were mesmerizing, absolutely breathtaking.

"Holy shit! That was awesome!" Emmett hollered as he and Jasper picked themselves up off the ground.

(Serenity POV)

After the Cullen's left we headed over to Charlie's, he and Bella decided to take it upon themselves to throw Serenity and I a birthday party.. We were very thankful but it really wasn't necessary, when I brought this up Charlie had just said it was a way for him to introduce his other two daughters to his friends. So we just decided to go along with it for Charlie's sake, I mean he was our father after all and he had missed sixteen years of our lives.

"So these must be the lovely young ladies you were telling us about Charlie." An elderly man in a wheelchair said to Charlie as he wheeled over to us, a young girl who looked to be around mine and Rayna's age, and three boys close behind him.

"Yeah these are my two youngest, Rayna and Serenity, and their mother Katrina." Of course when mentioning Katrina he was a little colder. I don't really blame him, she did keep us from him, but it was only to protect him.

"It's nice to you ladies, I'm Billy Black…" Billy has mid neck straight shaggy charcoal black hair with dark chocolate brown eyes. He's wearing a white t-shirt, with a dark brown leather jacket, a pair of faded blue jeans, and a pair of dark brown cowboy boots that still looked brand spanking new. "My daughter Kalista…" Kalista has mid neck pixie cut dark velvet red hair with straight bangs and icy blue eyes. she's wearing a burnt orange elbow-sleeve scoop-neck Henley tee, a pair of dark wash low rise skinny jeans, and a pair of worn burnt orange knee-high lace-up converse with white laces. Now this was my kind of chick. "Her boyfriend Seth Clearwater..." Seth has short kind of shaggy messy dark mahogany brown hair with dark chocolate brown eyes. He's wearing a faded red v-neck tee, a pair of off white cargo shorts, and a pair of red tony hawk skate shoes, with black laces. "Bells boyfriend Paul Uley…" Paul has short cropped spiky jet black hair styled into a Fohawk and dark chocolate brown eyes. "And my son Jacob." My eyes settled on this Jacob character and it was like the wind had been knocked out of me. I felt this strange pull wanting me to be closer to him, but I tried to ignore it, putting it at the back of my head. Jacob has short cropped spiky charcoal black hair and dark chocolate brown eyes. he's wearing a black ribbed tank showing off his glorious muscles, a pair of white Nike basketball shorts, and a pair of black Nike running shoes.

Jacob was too busy talking with Seth and Paul to even pay attention to me. I have to admit it kind of hurt just a bit to have this beautiful creature ignoring me. I just shrugged it off and started up a conversation with Kalista, getting to know her better.

Something wasn't quite right here and I knew it in the back of my mind but I have been putting it off, just watching people from a distance. I also hadn't wanted to say anything to Charlie but this place was really starting to stink like wet dog. Also Charlie's guests ignored Katrina like she had the plague, as if these mere humans already knew what she was. I just kept getting this feeling that these people weren't just mere humans after all. Jacob had stepped outside earlier and he had yet to return, I wonder what was up with him?

"Okay I'm just going to put this out there and ask." Rayna said getting everyone's attention.

"Ask what dear?" Billy asked her.

"Why in the world are all of you not associating with my mother? I mean you're treating her as if she has some kind of disease or something." She said in a huff, yep she was getting pissed off, not only could you hear it in her voice but the ground started trembling. Uh-oh this isn't going to be good. Rayna is good at controlling her anger because she tended to bottle things up, so when she erupted it wasn't pretty or safe for anyone.

Rain, calm down! You don't want to accidently hurt anyone do you? I shot at her with my mind.

No! This is fucking ridicules they're treating her as if she's beneath them! I had to admit Rayna had a point, but hurting anyone wasn't going to make her feel any better.

"Rayna honey calm down its okay." Katrina said walking up to her placing her hand on her shoulder. "I understand why they're staying away from me…they know what I am, as do I know what they are."

"Wait…you know what they are? What are they?" I questioned curious.

"They're werewolves." Was her simple reply. Excuse me… Werewolves! They're our natural born enemies! What the hell are we doing associating with them?!

As if on cue Rayna and I both got into our defensive positions in front of Katrina, Charlie, and Bella. I would defend my family with my last dying breath and I wouldn't let a flea bitten mangy mutt sink their teeth into one of my family members!