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Surprises
'Lauren'
They all looked at me as if I was speaking some forign language.
Un- be- lievable!
"What the hell is a mungle?" The lunatic man they called Jacob asked. Honestly! 'Knock her out and ship her to the hospital'???
"Muggles, are average humans that have no…"
"So are you saying that you aren't a human?"
"AGAIN WITH THE INTERUPTING!!! Goodness, it's impossible to communicate with you guys!!! Ugh! Please let me finish my bloody sentences!
"Now, I am human, but I am not a muggle. Like I said, muggles are average human beings, and I am far from average." I sighed, wanting to get to the point, my head was throbbing. "I guess I should start with a formal introduction. My name is NOT Lauren Alexa Griffin, or what ever I said it was. My name is Karin Aslan Carvahall, and I am a witch."
Edward
What the?
What?
No way
Oh my
Not possible! Absolutely not possible!!!
Oh my gosh!
Girls' lost her mind. I knew we shoulda sent her to the hospital…
This girl must be crazy.
"When you say witch," Alice started skeptically, "Do you mean magic wands, pointy hats, flying broomsticks and black cauldrons?"
"That's exactly what I mean." Lauren smiled, not a hint of a joking tone to her voice. "But pointy hats are a bit out of fashion nowadays."
"Ok, so, I'm going to call Carlisle to check up on the patient." Said Jacob, "Edward, do you know of any near-by mental asylums?"
After that sentence, Lauren's eyes turned into slits, and her face snapped into a malicious glare. As that happened, I felt a strong tremor throughout the house.
"I. Am. NOT. Mental." Lauren said in a seething tone, "As much as I would love to prove myself to you, I do not happen to have my wand, and above all else, I feel horrible. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way."
"No! Wait a sec…"
I stopped mid sentence when I heard a large cat pounce on the kitchen window seal.
Jeremy was back.
"Oh goodness!" Lauren…I mean…Karin exclaimed, "I am not in the mood for this!"
She trudged to the window and grabbed her cat from the ledge.
"I suppose you all have already met Neko." Karin said with a strange expression on her face. Almost as if she was introducing an annoying relative.
"Oh! Is that what his name is?" Alice flinted over to Karin's side to pet the feral cat, "I've been calling him Jeremy for the past few days. Karin snorted.
"Ha! Is that really what she's been calling you Neko? Jeremy?"
Every one looked around at each other. She was talking to a cat.
Karin noticed and rolled her eyes.
"Listen. I am not crazy, or mental, or insane." She enunciated each word. "I'll prove it to you." Karin said as she placed the cat on the table.
"Alright Neko, tell them that I'm not crazy."
We all stared down at the cat.
Nothing.
Karin began to glare at it.
"Neko, so help me, if you do not tell them that I am not crazy I will do such horrible things to you that even your great grand- kittens will live in fear of me!"
"OK OK!!! You don't have to say all that!! I don't what scares me most, the fact that you thought of that or the fact that I'm fairly sure it wasn't an empty threat! And stop calling me Neko! My name is Nox!"
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There is a cat on my breakfast table, and it's talking.
There is a CAT on my breakfast table and it's TALKING!!!
"Th… this… this is impossible." Bella stuttered.
"No way can this be happening." Emmett began, shell shocked for the first time in….well, for the first time.
"I never would have imagined.." Jasper murmured
Alice, Renesmee, and Esme where just staring back and forth between Karin and the cat.
And Jacob looked a mix between fear and awe.
I was just shocked. Even though I could amend to the fact that vampires and werewolves existed, I was a logical person, and logical people don't calmly listen to cats talk, or little girls claim to be witches without first thinking they themselves were going crazy, or going shock.
"I told you I wasn't a crazy person." Karin said with a smug smile plastered on her face.
"Maybe not," Neko said, his cat mouth actually moving to make clear speech, "But you are in so much trouble."
"What?! Why?!" Karin said in confusion.
"You let the secret slip! And it has barely been a week!"
"But they are vampires! They are apart of our world!"
"Yes, but they did not know that did they? Weren't aware of it were they? The rule was that you could not let it slip to anyone who did not know about wizards find out what you are. And you blew it, in less than a week."
"That is so unfair Neko, and you know it!"
"You know," I began, "we won't tell anyone. It's obvious, at least to me, that you'll keep our secret safe. It's only fair we keep yours."
"Thank you Edward." Karin said fervently as she turned to Neko, "See! So you don't have to go tell Aunt or anything crazy like that." She sighed in relief.
I didn't think it was possible, but Neko's face actually looked guilty.
"Well, Karin, um… the problem with that is.. I've already… told her…"
"YOU WHAT!?"
Karin's sudden rage made us all, but mostly Jasper, jump.
"Neko how could you?! You know Aunt has never been the one to let me off easy! She'll kill me!"
"Karin, calm down! The worst she'll do is send you a howler!"
"Neko!" Karin said in defeat as she slumped down into a chair.
We all just stood there not sure what to do. It all just seemed so crazy. Here there was an actual… witch having a heated discussion with her talking cat. It was to bazaar.
"Well," Karin sighed, beginning to get up, "I guess I'll be leaving now. Thank you again for your hospitality. Common, Neko let's go to the house, I have something special in mind for you." Neko, or Nox, shivered slightly but jumped off the table to follow.
"Wait!" Alice said quickly, "I'm going with you!"
"Alice! What are you doing?" Jasper asked.
"You guys!! Do you even know what's happening right now?" Alice asked incredulously, "We have just met a witch! A real live witch! You can't tell me your minds are not filled with questions! And to know that there is a place where we might actually be accepted and not have to hide? You can't honestly be thinking of passing that up!"
We stared at her. Soaking in the words until Karin's foot tapped on the floor impatiently.
"You know, you all are welcome to come! It would be nice to have some company for awhile." She added with a grin.
Alice smiled brightly at her. There was going to be a definite friendship between the two in the future.
"Well, I'm game!" Emmett said.
"Me to, I guess." Said Jasper as he went to stand by Alice.
Everyone else nodded.
"Alright then!" Karin cried, with a huge smile, "Lets go."
We trooped out of the house, following Karin into the forrest.
"So where exactly are we going?" Rosalie asked, "Do we need to drive there?"
"Oh no, we actually live quite close to here, Neko and I have just been camping out for the past few days."
"Why?"
"We knew that there was a residence nearby, and, since we didn't know you weren't muggles, we didn't want you to accidentally hear or see anything… strange… so to speak."
"If you don't mind me asking," Esme said in a small voice, "Why did you come hear? To Forks, I mean."
"Well, I am a witch in training and I could have, should have, gone to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but my Aunt won't let me! And my Mum and Dad are taking her side on it! So instead of going to school like a normal person, I had to pack my bags to go on a 'Wizard's Journey'. It was an ancient way of educating a young witch or wizard. You give them a broom and they fly off to some far destination were they must fend for themselves and learn their magical strengths and weaknesses. It's a little like an extreme home schooling type of thing."
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Jacob finally spoke up, "You mean to tell me that you flew, on a broom, from England to America! How long did that take?"
"Not long actually. My broom is home made, but it's really fast. So around five? Six hours was it Neko?"
"My name is Nox, and it was five hours and forty six minutes to be exact."
"Whatever. Point is, my bum was so sore after that!"
Everyone laughed. Surprisingly, it was very easy, and somewhat natural to talk to Karin and Nox.
"Alright! We're here!" Karin said.
We had stopped in front of two trees somewhere in the forest at least half a mile away from the main road. There wasn't a house in sight.
"Um, Karin?" I began, but she was to busy searching for something around the two trees in front of us.
"Neko, where did you put my wand case again?"
"You put it under the tree to your left. And my name is Nox!"
"Right Right," She said airily as she pulled a case from the ground, unlatched, and opened it.
"It's good to have this back." She said as she pulled out a fourteen inch embroidered stick.
"Is that your wand?" Renesmee asked slowly as if daring to believe it.
"Yes, it is." Karin said in an almost endearing tone.
"May I see it?" Renesmee asked, eagerly holding out her hand.
"Well,… um…"
"I'm sorry Mrs. Black, but a wizard's wand is like a blind man's cane, it is very important to them and they would not feel comfortable just handing it out to someone." Nox replied for Karin.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Renesmee said, whipping her hand behind her back, obviously embarrassed.
"It's ok!" Karin said quickly, "You didn't know. It's one of those things that you pick up in the wizarding world. Anyways, lets go inside the house."
"Where might your house be, exactly?" Jasper asked.
"It's hidden at the moment, I have to tell you the address in order for you to see it."
"Why is that?" Asked Bella.
"It's the charm I used to hide it. We couldn't have someone randomly stumbling upon a house in the middle of nowhere, so we concealed it using a Fidelius Charm. It's used to keep a certain location hidden from anyone who does not know about it in the first place, Nox and I are the only ones who know about the house, so we are the only ones who see it."
"So in order for us to see house, you have to tell us its location?" Bella concluded.
"Yes, so getting to that part, I'll tell you the address, it's 3924 Sherry Lane, Forks, Washington, the Green House." Karin whispered.
Suddenly, the two trees in front of us began to slide apart as a dark mass began to take its place. Seconds later, we could make out a house, growing and expanding out of thin air.
Now, we were all in awe. Shocked in our spots, and every ones mouths had almost dropped to the ground.
"Well then!" Karin said in a cheery tone, "Come in!"
We followed her inside the massive green house whose inside was completely dark and bare.
"Hold on, let me get the furniture down." Karin said.
"Would you like some help?" Esme asked kindly, "It would be no trouble. Is it upstairs?"
"Oh! Um… the furniture is actually on the ceiling, not upstairs. I put it there to save space."
Sure enough, looking up at the ceiling, there was all the downstairs furniture; hovering over their respective spots.
"How will you get them down then?"
"A simple descending charm," She said simply, "nothing terribly interesting."
With that she pointed her wand up towards the ceiling.
"Descendo!" She said loudly, repeating the spell as she pointed to the different items of furniture floating above.
"Mind your heads, the furniture won't stop until it has touched something, and I wouldn't want it to topple down on you." Karin said simply.
As the tables with lamps made their way to the floor, the oil lamps automatically turned on, spreading light throughout the room.
"Neko, keep them company while I get the things upstairs off the ceiling." Karin said as she rushed away from us.
"So…" Emmett began, shuffling his feet, and contemplating what exactly he could ask a cat to start a conversation.
"Nox," Alice began slowly, "Um… well, a few days ago, when Karin was at school, something strange happened to Jasper."
"Alice," Jasper came up quickly to her side and placing a hand on her shoulder, "you don't have to do this."
"What?" Nox inquired, interest gleaming in his huge yellow eyes.
Alice shook Jasper off.
"Well, we vampires sometimes have particular gifts, Jasper, for example, can sense and manipulate other people's emotions.
"Well, the day that Karin arrived to school, Jasper tried to sense her emotions and…"
"Let me guess, something bad happened to him, am I correct?" Nox finished off.
"Yes!" Alice exclaimed, "He started shaking, and going limp and…and… he said that he was in pain. And I remember, seeing you outside our window looking in on us. You were the one that made it all stop, weren't you?"
"Yes, I was. Before Karin went to that muggle school of yours, I placed a charm on her to make her feel bored and uninterested so that she would be socially inactive. I didn't want her making friends for they would have more than likely tried to find out more about her. And since she knows so little of the muggle world it would have made it unnecessarily hard to keep up our façade. What probably happened was when Jasper tried to read her emotions the spell most likely backfired on him and cause his body to act strangely.
"Karin contacted me because she felt something trying to break the wall of the spell. When I got to the school, I saw Jasper in Emmett's arms, so I followed you to your house and helped stop the back lash of the spell. It was then I knew that you were not humans." Nox finished his speech with a small smile.
We all were silent for a second, happy that the mystery from that was cleared up, and relieved that Karin wasn't a potential threat. I could tell from every ones thoughts that they were all coming to like her and Nox. Well, I could tell from every ones thoughts except Bella's, but the look of fascination and relief on her face told me that she was fairly at ease with everything that was happening.
Now the only thing left was to explain this to Carlisle.
Well now you know!!!
OK! So, I want to host a small competition: Whoever becomes my 50th reviewer, I will give them a sneak peak of the story for a few chapters to come! Why? Because I realize that I update at a glacier pace. Sad but true…
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Karin.