Chapter 9
Walking for the first time out of three weeks perhaps, was the most strangest thing I had ever experienced. Not only did it feel like learning how to walk for the first time, but it felt good. My legs felt loose, almost like elastic. And while that was going on, my body released all of the tension it had been holding in for weeks at a time. At first, I walked around the room with Emmett at my side, then the next few days strolled by myself, with Alice and Rosalie in the room to make sure I was alright. Rosalie was beautiful and because of that it was extrememly difficult not to stare at her. I rarely saw her smile...at least when she wasn't with Emmett, who could bring a smile to anyone's face.
"When do I get to leave?" I asked aloud. Alice giggled softly. I looked at her confused. I didn't comprehend the humor in that question.
"When you're ready to go I suppose." She answered.
"Doesn't Carlisle have to give her permission as to when she needs to go?" Rosalie asked. It was the first time I had heard her speak...and her voice was just as beautiful as she was; sultry and velvety. I looked at Alice who shrugged. Rosalie and I glared at her watching the sides of Alice's mouth twitch. "You know you know..." She murmured.
"Listen." I said. "All I wanted to know was when I'm supposed to be leaving. If I can leave whenever I please, then I'm leaving now." I walked to a closet that was on the other side of the room. I opened the door and found the suitcase that held all of my clothes. I started to unpack; unaware that both Alice and Rosalie had been staring at me.
"What? Are ya'll just gonna sit there and watch me change or...what?" I asked a bit sarcastically. Rosalie looked me up and down, rolled her eyes and stood to leave.
"Where are you going?" Alice asked her curiously.
"Oh cut the crap." I snapped. Alice's head whipped around and there was an almost confused yet terrifying expression on her face. "It's not like you don't know." The door had slammed shut; Rosalie had walked out.
I felt the hairs on the side of my neck stand up as I realized Alice was standing too close to me for comfort. I didn't even hear her move (which was saying something, considering I had been hearing everything all the time.)
"What?" I asked tentatively.
"You need to show some gratitude you know?" She asked viciously. "There is definitely a difference between being highly upset and frustrated at this whole situation and being highly bitchy to everyone around you trying to help out. Do you know all the shit this family had to go through to make sure everyone and everything wasn't exposed to you? Huh? I'm sure you don't. It wasn't just Carlisle...no. Although he helped more than the rest of us, we helped too. We were concerned...including Rosalie." She said pointing to the door where Rosalie had been standing before. "All you've done to anyone of us is snap, crackle, and pop! And we're about sick of it. Now grow up, use some manners, and stop being so pathetic. Everything is starting; your new life is just beginning. Trust me. And for now, it will never end." She gave one more heavy sigh then, "Do you need any help changing?"
"No." I said trying not to let my emotions show. "No thank you." I said again-a little more roughly than before. She looked me in the eyes, not daring to ease her expression, or to ease the tension between us. Her face was as still and as solid as a beautiful pale marble stone. And her dark eyes were quite the contrast towards her skin. She nodded and then turned and walked away, leaving me alone to get dressed.
I sighed. She was right. I had needed to control my attitude. I had just gotten more news about my difference between other normal vampires...and well myself. Apparently other than my being able to sleep and eat normal food...after the cure of my bloodlust, I have regular human emotions...and human smells. Alice likes to point this out everytime the subject is mentioned. Apparently I smell sweet like a human...but I have some form of sourness that prohibits other vampires from attacking. Also, there was the fact that my heart was still beating. It was silent to all vampires...but humans would be able to hear it. As in if I were to be operated on, my heart would be beating, or if I were hooked up to a heart moniter, it would read that my heart was in perfect shape. But as far as any vampire knew...I was dead to them and the world. This is sad...Even as a vampire, I'm still not normal.
I pulled out a white haltar with a red heart in the middle of it and a pair of jeans that hugged my hips down to my knees, where it flowed out like bell bottoms. I pulled them on and put on my shirt. I walked to the rest room for the first time. Apparently, vampires don't really have digestive systems...which meant there wasn't any need for a rest room. I looked at my reflection for the first time in weeks. I laughed inside at my expectancy to not see me looking back out of the mirror. Like Carlisle said Hollywood never really got anything right. But he had been right about my looks. I had always had olive skin with freckles here and there, big hazel eyes with clear blue around the irises, and long straight red hair. But, alot of that had either left completely, or had changed somewhat. My bright red hair, now had dull gold streaks within the undertones of my hair. My freckles were gone completely, leaving my olive skin a little tanned, and flawless. And my eyes were now a yellow-green color with white around the irises. My body seemed to be more thinned and curved out, from the lack of food it was recieving and the lack of excersise. I gawked at myself.
"You okay?" I jumped as I noticed Edward standing behind me. It was getting really annoying that I didn't hear some of them approach. He laughed silently. "Apparently, since you're a little bit different from us, you can't really hear us coming, unless you listen very carefully. It's gonna take you awhile. However, with humans, you'll hear them from a mile away." That pissed me off. I also didn't want him to hear what I was thinking. 'Yea well...at least you still have some of your human traits.' Said a voice quite unfamiliar to my brain. I looked at him and he was staring me up and down with a look of utmost envy. Are you serious? I was alarmed. That this gorgeous vampire-boy was sitting across from me; jealous of me. He wanted to be human? What for? He pretty much had it all.
"Listen. I'm sorry you don't have any human traits..." I retaliated a little more forcefully than I had meant to. "But it's not my fault I'm this way. If anything I wouldn't have asked to be a...a...a vampire anyways." He looked at me confused. Stop! Don't read me! His eyes grew wide.
"What are you thinking?" He asked in a whisper.
"Like you don't already know." I said sarcastically. No! Don't read me!
"Yea...that's the thing. I usually do. I did just a second ago..." His voice trailed away. 'Are you blocking me?' I heard his voice in the room...but his lips did not move. I looked at him confused at the fact that I could hear him. Could he make his voice reverberate throughout the room without actually speaking too?
"What do you mean Am I blocking you?" I asked confused. His mouth moved to say something but then stopped. There was silence for a few seconds before he broke it.
"You can read me and block me..." He said sounding a little more pleased than upset. I could? Then it all made sense. He wasn't causing his voice to sound through the room, I was hearing his thoughts as he could hear mine. Of coarse, the reason he asked me what I was thinking...I was blocking him. I felt a small smile begin to ease it's way from my lips.
The door opened and Carlisle walked in immediately looking at me.
"Everything going well?" He asked concerned. He looked at Edward. 'What are you doing in here?'
"I came to check up on her...I figured out who bit her..." He looked at me. I couldn't believe I was hearing everything Carlisle was thinking while they were silently looking from one another to me. "Wait...Carlisle, she can hear us." He said. Carlisle's eyebrows creased together as he looked from Edward to myself then back to Edward again.
"Let's go outside." Edward said. "Adrienne...you stay and finish packing."
"Why can't you say whatever you need to say infront of me?" I asked. "You said you know who bit me. I deserve the right to know."
Edward lightly pushed Carlisle out of the room and locked the door behind them. The nerve...I...I have every right to know who bit me. So I can kick his ass for screwing me up this way!
I was sitting on my newly made-up bed with my suitcase sitting by my feet. I was slipping my feet in and out of my flip flops. 'Wow...' was all I heard. It was the voice of my sweet angel. He was walking to my room. Carlisle slipped back in. I could feel his heavenly blue eyes on me already.
"Hi." I said not bothering to look up.
"Hey." He said back. He came to sit by me. I looked up at him and saw him in a more casual out fit. He wore a nice blue button-up collar shirt with nice black pants and black dress shoes. He was clutching his briefcase in his right hand and ran his left hand through his nicely combed blonde hair. I watched as I could pick out each strand that fell back easily and with one swift movement. The colors shone out in each ray of sunlight that lit the room from the windows. Golden-blonde, honey-blonde, platinum-blonde, white, and dirty-blonde in the deepest of his undertones. My heart melted at his unmistakeable beauty. What I had found somewhat surprising, is that now that I was one of them, I noticed how very normal they were. Their appearances did not intrigue me the way it used to when I was a...a human. I would look at Edward and see just another good looking guy. The same went for Emmett, Rosalie and Alice (whom were the only ones I've seen of all the family lately). Alice's gentle, graceful movements were nothing extraordinary to me anymore. I could match her strides as easily as riding a bike. I could make myself as fascinating as Rosalie did everyday. Emmett...Emmett was just another big, burly, teddy bear I could depend on to make me laugh. However, when I looked at Carlisle, he was, again, very good looking, but I still felt for him. Stronger maybe than when I was human. My heart still pounded in my chest whenever he looked at me. I was inwardly grateful he couldn't hear it. And I kept feeling the urge to reach out and touch him any chance I could. Although I had to stop myself from doing so, considering he's married. I was so entranced by his appearances that I didn't even hear what he was thinking.
"So. Edward has told me that you apparently have his same gifts...only that you exceed his by being able to block him from reading you." He said nonchalantly.
"Yea...I guess." I said.
"Well...at least that's an improvement. I mean, now we know what you are capable of." He said with a sigh.
"What I'm capable of?" I asked slightly confused.
"Meaning, now we know that they- Alice, Jasper, and Edward- aren't the only ones who have special abilities." He explained. He smiled a pitiful smile down at me. But the smile didn't reach his eyes as they had a sullen look in them.
"Who did it?" I asked. I knew he knew what I was asking about. His smile faltered abit.
"It's been his first attack in a long time since he's first been changed...and he was out of control and..."
"Who did it Carlisle?" I asked. I wasn't even upset anymore...I mean what was done was done and it wasn't like there was a way to turn back time and prevent it all from happening anyways. I mean if we could do that Greyson would still be alive.
"You...You just can't be upset..." He persisited.
"Carlisle." He sighed. 'Jasper...' he thought. Momentarily forgetting that I could hear his thoughts, he made to open his mouth to tell me,
"Jasper?" I asked. He was slightly caught off guard for a second before he remembered I must have heard him. He nodded hesitantly. I shrugged.
"Well...I'm not upset. I mean things happen and it's not like we can do anything to reverse it is there? I'm not angry at all...really." I reassured. I noticed him relax a little.
"Well I'm glad you understand." He said. I nodded.
"Thank you for all of your help Carlisle. No doubt I'll be returning to you for anymore adjustment issues." He smiled down at me. His heavenly blue eyes boring into mine with a touch of passionate happiness that I had never seen before. My heart began to pound furiously as I tried to balance my breathing.
"You're welcome. Well...are you ready to go?" He asked. I nodded.
"Well you will have to hold my hand then. I'm going to be assisting you outside of the Hospital. No doubt your nerves will go a little out of whack when surrounded by all the doctors and nurses outside of this room. Emmett is going to help me usher you out. I will trust that you will try with all of your power to keep yourself sane until we get you out safely without exposing us." He cautioned.
"Exposing us?" I asked.
"In our world...we pretty much have one major rule of survival to abide by." He said.
"And that would be?" I asked. He looked down at me and smiled gently. But his eyes were narrow slits that cautioned the worse.
"Don't let others know what we are." He said deeply. My skin shuddered at the tone of his voice. Just my luck. Don't let anyone know what we are. With my out-of-control bloodlust there was no telling what would happen; but I promised Carlisle I would try and stay sane. pfft...yea right. Now I was scared.
