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Josephine and Cody have been "official" for two weeks. In her words, "'Our date was totally awesome'". Lynn was still dating Calvin, but they weren't "official" yet. Girls at school hated Josephine and Lynn. They were jealous because Lynn and Josephine were dating the 'two most handsome boys in school', as some referred to them.
They weren't extremely attractive to me. Human beauty had it's limits, after all. Cody was six feet tall, spiky blond hair, he had muscular body, and an amazing smile. Calvin had olive toned skin, his head was shaved, but not complete bald, he was tall and muscular just like Cody, and he knew how to sweep a girl of her feet.
Cody and Josephine were an "item" before they even came back from their date. Apparently they were madly in love. At least that's what she says. Every time she talked about how she wanted to be with Cody "forever", I would laugh until I collapsed.
"Shut up," she scowled at me.
"It's not my fault you're being absurd," I chuckled.
"You should wait a little longer before declaring your love," Nessie giggled.
"Humph," she stocked off. Nessie and I burst into fits of laughter. Josephine wasn't really mad. She knew we were just joking. It was fun to aggravate her either way. Just then Alice ran into the room towing Josephine along with her.
"Harlan," she said sounding out of breathe.
"W-" I started.
"Something happened you have to hurry," she ran out the front door. Josephine and I exchanged a glance and followed with Nessie behind us. Everyone was standing together in front of a giant object covered by a thick sheet.
"What's going on here?" I asked impatiently putting my hands on my hips.
"Well, Josephine mentioned to Rose that it's your birthday today," Alice chirped. I had completely forgotten about our birthday.
"So," Bella began.
"We got you this!" They said in unison. Edward snatched the cloth. As it fell I saw a beautiful green car. I felt my mouth hanging open. Josephine looked at me and squealed. We jumped on our amazing family and hugged everyone.
"It's a BMW M3 GT4," Edward stated proudly. I was still in awe. I couldn't believe they bought us a car.
"I had it custom painted to match your eyes," Alice added. I gave her the strongest hug I could muster.
"Thank you so much," Josephine said through her tears, in a small voice.
"Yes, thank you!" I bellowed, hugging Carlisle and Esme one more time.
"Here you go," Jasper said. He handed us two little envelopes. I opened it and inside was a driver's license! I freaked. No words could escape my mouth. We both bear hugged him before running to look at our new car. Our car. This was the best birthday I'd ever had. Probably Josephine too.
We had to practice driving in Edward's Volvo before we were allowed to drive the M3. It was pretty easy. Today would be our first day driving in the M3. They were going to let us drive to school by ourselves. I would drive to school and Josephine would drive home from school.
"Are you ready?" I asked Josephine as she got in the car.
"Pretty much," she said cheerfully. We waved good-bye to our family and I backed out of the garage. We would be leaving for school first. I don't like to drive too fast.
By the time we reached the school parking lot the others were already behind me. Emmett kept honking and screaming 'You drive like a human!'. I could see Rose glare at him in my rear view mirror. As I turned into the lot, students were staring and pointing. I parked the car and waited for the others to park around us. We got out and joined our family walking to class. Lynn caught up to us in awe like everyone else.
"Oh. My. Gosh! Where did you guys get that car?" she asked.
"Our family bought it for our birthday last Friday," I said.
"It was your birthday?! You didn't tell me that!" she looked at Josephine accusingly. Josephine looked away, blushing with guilt.
"Sorry it slipped my mind," I apologized laughing.
"I'll have to by you a late birthday present. What do you guys like? Obviously you like green..." her voice trailed off.
I don't know how it happened, but I felt my heart stop. There was the most amazing scent in the air. It smelt like a mix of hundreds of scented herbs. The scent was burning a hole in my throat. I took a deep breathe and swirled around looking for the creature that was emanating this beautiful smell. I lost myself completely, only caring about my unbearable thirst.
There he was, leaning against the lockers by my Biology class. I'd never smelt anything so wonderful, even for a human. His face was unfamiliar, he had his black hair slicked back, and his complexion was light brown. His neck was so warm and inviting. I wanted to drink. I wanted to quench my thirst. However, I knew I shouldn't, but it didn't stop me from edging closer to him. It didn't stop me from breathing in his rich aroma. It certainly didn't stop me from lunging for his throat.
Edward pulled me into a head lock the moment he heard my thoughts. I tried to break free, but couldn't. They pulled me out side and into Emmett's jeep. Soon, I blacked out from lack of air.
When I woke up I was on my bed. Alice, Josephine, Rose, Bella, and Esme were standing around me.
"What happened?" I asked a little groggy.
"You tried to attack a human," Rose said.
"Really?"
"Yes, Edward had to restrain you and accidentally knocked you out," Bella muttered. She was looking at me like she wanted to apologize.
"Who was it?"
"A new student. What was his name?" Rose asked looking at Alice.
"Julian Gray," Alice replied.
Julian. I couldn't stop thinking about how I almost killed him. Edward and Jasper entered the room and I sat up.
"Thanks," I whispered.
"Anytime, but I'm sorry I knocked you out though," he said sincerely.
"It's okay. As long as I didn't attack Julian," I assured him.
"I still can't believe you found your singer," he chuckled.
"Her what?" Josephine asked.
"Her singer," Bella answered, "It's when a certain humans blood smells extraordinarily strong to you and you can't resist. Like I was to Edward." I remember the stories that they had told us about Bella when she was human and why Edward was so drawn to her at first. They also told us that he resisted from drinking her blood because he fell in love with her. Would that happen to me?
"My singer," I muttered to myself, but I knew they all heard it.
"It might happen and it might not," Edward said. Everyone had a confused look on their face.
"Is she up yet?" Emmett bellowed as he entered the room, "finally!"
"What?" I asked.
"I wanted to show you the birthday present I made for you and Josephine," he grinned.
Josephine was shaking her head and laughing at the same time. Emmett held out a piece of construction paper. It had stars and hearts made out of macaroni glued onto the front. The bottom read, "To my little sister, I get to punch you 11 times."
"I got Josephine already. It's your turn," he snickered.
Everyone was laughing at my horrified face.
"Sike!" Emmett yelled and ran out of the room before Rose could hit him. I laughed at Emmett and got out of bed. Josephine stepped aside so I could go into the closet. After I grabbed some clothes and a clean towel, I made my way to the bathroom. The water was extra cold. It woke me up, that's for sure. I dried off, brushed my hair, put on my clothes, and headed downstairs.
Everyone was already in the living room. I dropped myself onto the floor next to Nessie, who was drawing stick figure pictures of the family. She smiled at me and continued her drawing. Nessie was about the size of an eight year old now. Esme had to pull her out of school because she was growing too fast.
"Do you like it?" she asked me.
"I love it," I said. She grinned and handed me the picture.
"You can have it," she told me.
"Thank you so much Nessie," I chimed, "It's way better than Emmett's macaroni picture." We both laughed and Emmett grimaced. He couldn't say anything because Rose was going to smack him.
Josephine and I decided to go hunting. Edward said if I hunted before seeing Julian again, I won't be as tempted to attack him. We set off into the woods. Before we could get far we ran into Cody, who was fishing at the river near by the house. He and Josephine were busy talking so I waited on a rock by the river. In the woods across river I saw the outline of another person. The wind shifted and I took in the scent. Another vampire. When were these people going to leave us alone?
They walked into the sun. It was a woman. I didn't recognize her. She was thirsty. I saw her eyeing Cody and Josephine. Edward! I screamed in my head, hoping he would hear it. Josephine caught the scent and whirled around to look at this new vampire.
"Hello," she said quietly.
"Who are you?" Josephine asked. She didn't reply. A smirk flashed across her face. That's when it happened. She lunged for Cody. Josephine jumped and blocked her way. The woman vampire threw Josephine aside. I lunged for the woman's throat. She easily over-powered me and tossed me into the river. There were painful screams, then silence. I got up and saw Cody's body lying under a tree.
"No," Josephine mumbled. She stumbled into a standing position. I ran to help her. She pushed me away and fell to her knees. I didn't know what to do. The female vampire returned. This time she was looking at me. Frightened, I tried to drag Josephine away. It was a weak attempt. She bared her teeth and lunged. Josephine knocked me out of the way. In doing so, she was caught by this she-devil.
The hag sunk her teeth into Josephine's neck. Josephine yelped in pain. I tackled the woman and she dropped her. I glanced at Josephine and she writhing in pain. The vampire took this chance to slam me into a tree. Everything started to blur. Before I blacked out I saw the Cullens tearing this mystery woman apart.