DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but the plot twist and the new characters, such as 'Destiny' and the new ones you may find below. The other characters, like the Cullens, and even Bella. and the MUSIC are NOT MINE. I REPEAT. NOT MINE. READ ON! :D
A/N: ERMAIGERD! She's back. Well yes. Here I am. :) And directly below this is a new chappie. :o Oh how shocked I bet you are. I know I would be. Tiffany and her promising of chappies, and then nothing ever happens. Shame on her. Maybe if she got some reviews telling her to update more… -hint, hint, wink, wink- ON WITH THE CHAPTER!
I felt a touch to my shoulder and I turned to my right, into the eyes of my sister, Alice. She sighed. "You okay?" I nodded and replaced the photo carefully, realizing that if I did that she may see a difference, and realize something was amiss. I continued looking through the photos. Some of these just didn't make sense. Especially with how young she looked. I was very mindful on just how much I desired to rip a few of these off of their places on the mirror. Just to see if she continued to have that habit writing names, dates, and places on them. She seemed… even younger than she was in Forks, onstage in a few photos with those same vampires in her band but they were human, and younger as well… Was that right?
Before I could examine or scrutinize any further, I stepped away and sighed. What was I doing? I left her behind. I shouldn't care. I turned my back to her wall of history and watched Jasper and Alice converse by the foot of the bed. Her phone buzzed near silently and she pulled it out, glanced at the screen and nodded. She looked up at me with wide eyes just as a small gasp was heard and we all turned quickly towards the door, just to see a small boy disappear.
We all quickly walked after him, but it was too late, he seemed to have vanished within the house. We found the rest of the family in the foyer. "No sign of anyone outside, or on the main floor." Emmett says quietly while looking out the window. Jasper looks over the family. "There was a small boy… He saw us, and was frightened… We didn't get a good look at him, before he just ran… and we haven't seen him since. I think he ran downstairs. Y'all haven't seen him?" Rosalie and Esme just shook their heads and Carlisle frowned then spoke. "You realize they could be alerted of our presence now… if he was able to get to wherever they are…"
Alice nods and sighs. "I see no reading yet… but yes, that's probably what happened… if they weren't alerted already." Jasper looks up finally. "Remember we don't know what gifts they have." I grimace and look at the ground. "They could have already known about our coming or our presence… which is why we can't hear them, or find them." Esme stretches and surveys us all, then tilts her head to the side, as if listening to something far away. She waves her arms, trying to get the groups attention, then silences us. She strangely points down, when I hear it. The noise of a slow steady beat, then guitars and a drum, seemingly emanating from the basement. We all stealthily walk towards the staircase and Carlisle looks at us all, asking us silently if we'd been here, we all answer him silently in some way with a no as we slowly descend the stairs, deeper, and deeper into the ground. The noise gets louder but the stairs never seem to end, though luckily they are nearly triple wide.
Eventually the light from the recessed light dims and the stairs and the bottoms widen even further and disappears into actual floor that slowly slopes downward. My family seems to freeze and stop breathing for a moment as they realize the music is truly coming from the room directly in front of them. They slowly step downward and inhale almost all at once as my gaze as well as their gazes, through their minds, see what is before me.
It was a pretty large room, for being a basement. It seemed to be double the size of the house. It mimicked an arena, in that there were bowl type stands and it sloped down to a stage. But it really didn't matter. On the rather large stage was the band itself. And from this proximity you could clearly tell they were vampires. Either they were so focused on what they were doing, or they didn't care what they were doing I couldn't tell. Their minds were on the instruments in front of them. A bass guitar for one, an electric guitar for other, and drums for the final one.
A room branched off of each wing of the stage, the left side showing a large rec room, and the right showing a dressing room of sorts, with large lighted mirrors. The back wall behind them showed a floor to ceiling music collection with ladders attached to them, and sparsely thrown music awards into the mix. A small raised platform held the drums and drummer, but a bit to the side of the band was another rack of instruments, all different types of guitars, and even some other stringed instruments and brass and wind instruments. Opposite the instrument case/holder/rack/tree thing is a random thing. A chess set is on the wooden floor, the pieces all in place, and a box holding a few, looking mid game, only abandoned.
Whatever song, or set they were in the middle of ended and near silence happened. Noise happened, from the rooms in the back, sounding like laughing and a television. One of the vampires looked toward us as Rosalie and Alice stepped a bit closer, sneered, and looked back to their own group. Jasper's eyes widened and he stepped forward to shield his wife. Carlisle sunk into a seat and murmured, "It's to be expected son… We're in their home… We're lucky that it was just that." "Esme nods and then sighs, "It seems like they already knew we were coming… or they would have all been out here by now… Protecting their territory." Emmett nods as we all settle into seats near midway into the room, close to the middle of the aisle.
I look back up to realize that the stage is deserted. Frowning, I lift my chin to the stage, gesturing that way to Emmett, who is watching me. He raises his eyebrow and looks that way anyway, then looks around to see if he can spot where they went. I gesture again, this time with the top of my head to the back of the stage, towards the rec room. He nods, and then crosses his arms across his chest, leaning back in his seat, seemingly at ease.
The same three wander back out, take up their respective instruments again, but don't begin to play, instead one tunes, and the other two talk aimlessly. … Then she walks out. Bella, in a sun dress and barefoot, hair wavy and black, very long down her back, walks to the three in the middle of the stage. Clutched in her hand is a cell phone and a water bottle. Slowly a trickle of a few more people happens, two more women, one human, and the other seemingly human as well. They cross the stage and sit crosslegged near the instrument storage.
Something very interesting happens…. Two small children exit the room, hand in hand, and go to the chess board. The girl lays on her stomach, and crosses her ankles in the air, and the boy sits crosslegged, with his hand on his knee, and they begin to play. Chess mind you. She takes a bite out of the apple that she has and makes a move, and grins toothily at him, and he heaves a sigh, and makes a move back. She is obviously Destiny, and he is the boy from earlier… but who is he?
My gaze recrosses the stage back to Bella, who was also watching the exchange happen between the pair, she smiles and then shakes her head. She looks over her shoulder at the group when they start to play a song and then takes a step forward to a mircrophone as three final people exit the room. Another girl, human as well, that joins the two by the instruments. And then an older pair, much like Carlisle and Esme, vampires. And they look directly at us, as Bella starts to sing.
I wish I knew then
What I know now
Wouldn't dive in
Wouldn't bow down
Gravity hurts
You made it so sweet
Til I woke up
On the concrete
Falling from cloud nine
Crashing from the high
Yeah I'm falling from cloud nine
I'm letting go tonight
I'm wide awake
A/N: BOO! A semi cliffie :c I know. I'm horrible. But, more reviews = less cliffies so… Get to it? :) I typed this pretty fast my lovies. I had lots of inspiration and a little help from my bestie Jessi… Wow that rhymed a little :o Until the next update… Tiffany xoxo