That night I spent most of my time daydreaming, since I couldn't sleep, about what might happen tomorrow. Lace had felt my jittery mood and came to sit next to me on the sofa, she put her arms around me and hugged me. I didn't return the hug, but I shifted my gaze to where Sylvia was yelling at yet another newborn while Lucas just gave them a cold stare. I looked away, both of them frightened me, I couldn't put my finger on why though. I could compel them to do whatever I wish, and I could probably take Sylvia, but they just seemed so scary I had to mentally slap myself to get a hold of myself.
"Are you okay?" I looked at Lace her crimson red eyes made her seem fierce but her petite figure and the way she spoke made her look so fragile one touch could break her. I forced a small smile and Lace bought it, she was still hugging me probably trying to avoid the ravenous newborns. They tore anything they saw apart, the room was nothing but pure shreds of wallpaper from the walls, some chairs they had ripped causing fluff to spill out, and paintings with tears from what looked like a dog.
I leaned back into the sofa, letting myself sink into the soft cushion. I started remembering things from my past, with my family. I remember Christmas day, when Arielle and I were ten I opened up all the presents just to tear something up. I didn't bother with the presents, just handed them to Arielle or mom and continued ripping up the wrapped gifts. I smiled to myself and Lace caught my happy mood and smiled to, I leaned my head against hers and watched as everything was getting burned or ripped to shreds.
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It was time. The next day came so fast all I remember was sitting next to Lace, but when the clock struck 1:00 a.m. Sylvia let us know. Our coven had over twenty vampires in it, all newborns excluding me and Lace. Sylvia didn't like to keep older vampires like us, but she made the exception because of our rare gifts. Lucas had informed me that nobody knew of anyone who had compulsion like me, no one came even close, but Lace had a few more vampires who could do the same thing as her.
As we all sprinted into the forest I heard a few newborns ripping trees from the ground and send them flying into the woods, that made our presence very known and it made Sylvia mad. She wanted to kill them, but her numbers were already low so we had to make do. I smelled a hiker on our way there and Lucas groaned, the newborns wouldn't be able to resist and that would slow us down.
To our surprise only two launched at the hiker, and after they chucked the body into the woods, they joined us again. After sprinting in the forest for 30 minutes, we came across a huge clearing. Lace and I were in the flank, while Lucas and Sylvia on the sides, I mentally laughed and realized they were planning on running first sign of defeat. I squinted into the darkness only to be rewarded with nothing, but after a few heavy seconds I could see bodies running to us.
Everyone charged except me and Lace, I grabbed her arm and pulled her behind the nearest boulder, we could already hear the screams of our clan being defeated. I looked up to peek at how much damage was done but when I did a huge vampire jumped onto me, causing my body to pin itself to the ground.
I yelled for help but after I did I looked into his butterscotch eyes, and my body went limp below his. Edward . Lace must have felt my change in mood, because she didn't attack him. Before I could register what was happening he bent down and kissed me, I would have wrapped my arms around his neck but his hands were still holding me to the ground.
Emotions began spilling into me, love, worry, confusion, it was endless. The kiss ended abruptly as one of the newborns tried to attack Edward, but as soon as she came close enough he grabbed her arm and threw her into the boulder, right next to Lace. Shocked Lace ran to my side and started whimpering. "I-I n-never wanted t-this." she said through her sniffling, I grabbed her in a one arm hug and she put her head in my neck and started shaking violently.
Before I could comprehend what had happened, all seven of the Cullen's were in front of us, a woman with golden eyes and caramel brown hair started stepping towards me. I realized this was Esme their mom, she looked so worried as Lace turned around and faced her, I had seen Lace cry and I understood how Esme felt. "Are you two alright?" a male vampire with rich blonde hair and golden eyes looked at me with concern covering his facial features. "Yeah," I said silently, my voice was cracking and I knew that if I could my eyes would be waterfalls by now.
Lace, who was now in Esme's arms, looked up at Carlisle her wide child-like eyes made her look so fragile. "I-is she dead?" she asked, and he nodded and pointed to Sylvia's body laying near the woods, probably an attempt to escape. "She lied." I was caught up in my thoughts I hadn't realized I had spoken, all the Cullen's were looking at me confused. "She said that because of your golden eyes, you were weaker than us." I looked away, embarrassed by what I had said.
Edward was beside me, his arm around my waist pulling me into him, I layed my head on his chest and he kissed the top of it. I felt so secure with him, even though I didn't know what we were really. I smiled mentally trying to keep my face from showing the way I felt about him, then I remembered that he had kept his vampirism a secret from me.
I sighed because I knew that would have only gotten us both in trouble, I looked at his family they all looked so happy together and I didn't want to ruin that. I pulled away from Edwards warm embrace and looked up at him, his face was pale and perfect with his bronze hair color making his warm gold eyes illuminate, he looked more like an angel than a vampire.
He laughed, and I understood, I had overheard Lucas talking to Sylvia about the Cullen's powers and he said one could read minds. Edward nodded, and I looked at the ground shyly, and then my heart began to beat faster than normal (pun intended lolz) as I realized he had heard all the things I thought about him when I was human. "Oh my gosh, I can't believe you."
I said and playfully punched his arm, he looked at me laughing. "What?" I heard someone chime in, I turned around to face a small female who looked twice as young as she should be. Her hair was a smooth brownish bob, her face showed confusion. "She found out about my gift." Edward said, laughing still, I tried not to think about how wonderful it sounded knowing that it would come back to haunt me. Alice, I soon found out, tensed up and soon Edward did as well.
He looked at me and Lace, I was so confused what was he worried about? He looked at me once again. "Run! Go in that direction until you reach the house!" he pointed north of where we were standing. I grabbed Lace's hand and ran as fast as I could, even though Lace was faster than me she still dragged behind. "Come on, Lace." I said, and then remembered my compulsion, I thought about Lace until I had a clear image of her in my mind. "Lace, run as fast as you possibly can."
As soon as I was finished Lace shot up and ran she grabbed me and pulled me with her as I tried to compete with her lightning speed. I looked back and saw Edward turned away from me, Be Safe I thought and ran towards the house.