As I watched Tanya in awe, she took a deep unneeded breath. I hugged her tightly in comfort. I knew this may be the harder part to tell. I gave her time to collect herself. As I looked around the room, I saw Irina and Kate looked a little uncomfortable. I glanced back at my vampire. She looked calmer now.
"Well, after I woke up," Tanya started, "Sasha took me out to hunt. The group of men were still out there because it was hunting season. Immediately, I knew I wanted revenge, and nothing was going to stop me, not even Sasha. I'll save you all the gore of it, Isabella. After I gorged myself on those filthy men, my dearest aunt took me to a cave in the woods. There she told all about being a vampire and the three main rules. Don't expose yourself, don't create newborn armies, and do not create immortal children.
"These immortal children have no control of their bloodlust. They wreak havoc whenever they are hungry. After traveling for decades across the country, we met up with a dying Irina-"I glanced at Irina to find her stiff posture. I felt bad for making Tanya say this. She was grabbing the arms of the chair. "-she was bleeding because one of her arteries had broken. This was about 100 years after Sasha had saved me. I had alright control over my bloodlust. My aunt looked at me warily as my eyes darkened. I ran because I knew my aunt wanted her to be her child as well as my sister.
"After three days, I returned back to Sasha to find a very young vampire named Irina. She had told us how she had died. I won't tell you today, Isabella, because that is not my story to share. Anyways, the three of us decided to travel together. We became closely knit together. Sasha became our mother, and Irina and I became sisters. About 50 more years of traveling together, we came across Katrina dying slowly and painfully from a rape. Sasha took her in and turned her. When she woke, she strictly told us to call her Kate as Katrina was too fancy," Tanya chuckled. I looked at Kate, she had a slight smile on her face. She looked content compared to Irina. I felt so guilty for them that they had to relive the experiences. Carmen and Eleazar looked so calm and collected sitting together.
"We stayed together as a family for a couple hundred years. We learned the ways of succubae. We gorged on men and women alike. I have always preferred women. One day, Aro, Caius, and Marcus arrived at our door. They are the leaders of the Volturi. They asked for Sasha, which no one knew where she was. 'Aro, I am right here,' Sasha called after she returned. We all gasped because in her arms was an immortal child. He was incredibly adorable but dangerous. Aro took the baby and threw him in the fire, and Sasha followed soon after. My sisters and I mourned our mother's death. Aro had spared us because we did not have knowledge of what Sasha had been doing," Tanya said quietly. I held on tight to her as if she would leave at any moment.
"I'm sorry for making you recall these stories, Tanya," I whispered quietly. "You too, Irina and Kate. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked for that."
"Oh, Bella, it's not your fault," Irina reassured. "You were curious. It's not that bad at all."
"Shall we continue?" Kate asked.
"Yes, I suppose so, but I will do that quickly," Tanya responded. "After our mourning, we went into a frenzy of sleeping with men and women nonstop. There was never just us in the house at one time together. After a while, we met Carlisle. He taught us a newer, healthier way to live. We became good friends after he showed us a new way of life. We have been here ever since. Alice had recently received a vision of you coming to Denali. I took a job at the library to get to know you because the Cullens had told me how much you enjoyed reading, and now here we are. Present day."
"Wow, that's much more interesting than my own life story Tanya..."
"Well, I can't wait to hear your story anyways, Isabella. I'm sure it's amazing," she told me.
Oh, crap. I have to tell my story now. I hope they don't freak out.