AN: haha! update yay!!!! sorry i was going to update on wednesday but that was my bday so there were distractions and i couldnt update thursday cuz well my computer is crap and i had to finish my book. well lets be happy i updated, ok?
DEDICATIONS: Dedicating this to Mizuki Awayuki ciz she finally started reading Fun! even tho i kinda made her, heehee
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Chapter 10: My Serenity....?
It was dark and cold. It was so very cold. And wet. The rain poured down hard. I ran though, and ran and ran. I was crying. And bleeding? Yes, I was bleeding. The blood rushed from the side of my abdomen and through my fingers, as I was holding it to put pressure on the wound. He would catch me I just knew it. "Please, leave me alone!" I shouted. I then slipped, landing face first into the mud. I squeezed my eyes shut. "Please, Dakota, stop this!" I then felt a tight grip on my ankle. There was a cracking sound. I screamed.
Dakota's tight grip broke my ankle. "Why do you run from me, sister?" he asked sweetly. "I only want you to feel as free as me. Don't you want to be strong like me, fast like me?" His hand was cold against my ankle.
"Let her go, Dakota!" shouted Uncle Travis. He and my cousins Journey, Imogen, and Unity came running over.
Dakota lifted me up and held me bridal style in his arms. "No! Serenity is my sister! I won't let you have her!"
"She is not your real sister, Dakota! Aiden and Jasmine adopted you! You are not their real son!" Journey called out to him, her long green hair blowing in the wind.
"Dakota isn't even your real name! Your real name is Theodore!" Unity shouted in his deep, husky voice.
"Put Serenity down, Dakota. She is bleeding badly. You do not want to bite her accidentally, do you?" Imogen asked him in a calm voice.
"If I bite her," he said looking down at me, "we will be alike. Then she will be my real sister." Dakota smiled.
I looked up into his golden eyes. "But, Dakota, I don't want to be a vampire. I love you and you will always be like my real brother but please don't bite me," I begged.
Dakota dropped me in the mud. "You don't. You lie! You don't want to be my real sister! You hate me!" he yelled at me before running off.
Unity picked me up, his large muscular arms cradling me protectively. He and the others walked back to Uncle Travis's cottage.
"Unie, where did Dakota go?" I asked my bulky cousin. "Why did he hurt me? Why was he trying to kill me? Why!?" I continued crying though the salting tears stung. I hugged Unity tightly.
He didn't answer me. Unity just continued walking next to Uncle Travis. There were no emotions on his face. His dark green eyes stared forward. Water droplets bounced off his shaved head. His large harms squeezed me tight to his chest. Jasmine always said he worked out way too much. Unity was always off working out somewhere and only ate meat. It sickened Jasmine since she was a vegetarian. He was over three-hundred pounds when he turned sixteen this year.
I looked over to Journey. She hung her head down in shame. Her wet hair was sticking to her bare shoulders. Journey never liked wearing anything the covered her freckled shoulders. She was always seen wearing a strapless shirt and gloves, her hair would be dyed some odd, non-natural color. A few tears fell from her face and mixed with the rain. Though she was only thirteen and Dakota was frozen as nineteen, she had been crushing on him for five years now. She must be heartbroken that he ran off.
I then turned to look to Imogen. Her crimson red hair was whipping in the wind, curving around her face and over her light hazel eyes. She was always quiet and apathetic. Uncle Maxwell says the Imogen should have been name Serenity instead of me because I am so 'reckless' and 'wild'. But what can you expect, I'm only seven. Imogen didn't even start talking until she was seven. Still now at age fifteen she didn't talk much.
When we got back to the cottage, Jasmine and Aiden ran over to us. Aiden lifted me out of Unity's arms and cradled me himself. "My little girl, are you alright?" I asked, hugging me tightly.
I heard Jasmine gasp. "Aiden, she's all muddy. She's still bleeding quite badly. We need to rush her inside and clean her up," she said hysterically.
Aiden nodded and carried me inside.
I looked up at him, my eyes still watery but no tears falling. "Daddy, what's going on?"
He shushed me and held me close to his chest.
I nodded and gasped and the stinging pain in my ankle. I was staring strait up at the ceiling, though I couldn't see a thing. Everything I saw was black. Soon I couldn't hear anything. I was losing too much blood. I was going to die........... {1}
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I shot up and grabbed my side. I was in my bed but I was...shirtless? I was shirtless with my torso being covered with nothing but bandages. I sighed. My room was dark. It was dark and cold. It was so very cold. And wet? I pulled my hand up. It felt sticky and wet. And warm. It was blood. I was bleeding. "That's right," I whispered to myself, remembering what had happened. I was in a car accident and then I called Alex. Did Alex save me? I whimpered from the stinging sensation.
"She awake!" I heard someone shout. It was Will. I then heard footsteps climbing up the stairs. I sighed and lied back down in bed, pulling the sheets up to my chin.
As if on queue, Jasmine, Aiden, Jacob, Will, and Alex all ran into my room. I looked up at them, dazed.
Alex turned the light on and everyone stared at me.
I sat up and asked, "What, what is everyone staring at?" I then hunched over and grabbed my abdomen. I moaned in pain.
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I rushed over to Serenity's side when I heard her moan in pain. "Serenity, what's wrong?" I asked frantically.
"My...lower...stomach," she whimpered.
My eyes shift down to her stomach. They widened at the sight of blood. It was covering the sheets below her waist. I backed up and turned to Alex as if she would have a solution.
She backed away, covering her nose, and ran out the door.
"Jake, go downstairs and call for a doctor! Serenity is having a miscarriage!" Jasmine shouted in my direction. {2}
I could not make my feet move. I was staring in disbelief. "A miscarriage?" I whispered questionably.
"Yes a miscarriage! You know when a woman is pregnant and the fetus dies before it's completely developed!" Will explained.
I just continued to stare, wide eyed. "But, how..." I was lost of words.
Aiden ushered me out the room. "Go call the hospital! She needs medical attention!" he yelled out before slamming the door close.
I couldn't connect everything up. Serenity was pregnant? But, that would mean that she...maybe that was why she felt so devastated after Leon's death? Well that explained her mood swings. But still... I walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.
I saw Alex pacing back and forth. She looked up at me and said, "Don't call the hospital. A normal doctor can't help her now and the Cullens are off on a hunting trip. I called and old family friend. He's on his way. I don't think that Jazz and A won't be happy about it but he's a doctor now and he can help us. Plus he wouldn't do anything to hurt her. I'm just wondering how she is still human."
"What do you mean?" I was confused as to what was happening.
"I bit her a few days ago. She should be a vampire by now but she still bleeds and she didn't look any different. I'm so confused as to what's going on so I had to call her brother," Alex explained to me.
"Wait, Serenity has a brother?" I asked.
"Yes, well kind of. Dakota is a vampire and has been for over five-hundred years. Twenty years ago, he ran into Jasmine, Aiden, Travis, and Toby. I was there, too. We were all traveling around the country with Travis's children Imogen, Unity, and Journey. Toby was a vampire friend of Dakota. He let him join our group. A few years later Dakota became depressed because he always wanted a family but never had one because his parents died or something. Well Jasmine and Aiden had been trying for a baby but Jasmine couldn't get pregnant so they decided to raise Dakota. Yes, I know they were only seventeen but what can you do. They renamed him Dakota after Jasmine's father; his real name was Theodore. Well four years later Serenity was born and Dakota worship the ground she walked on. Seven years later though, Aiden wanted to finally find a place to settle down and raise his family but Dakota couldn't come with him because people may notice his not aging. Aiden and Jasmine tried leaving him with Travis but he had to be with Serenity. Because of their leaving he felt not apart of the family. He saw her as his Serenity. He was determined to be Serenity's brother no matter what and tried biting her. Now everyone hates him. He ran off to find Toby and me but we part and he had to fend for himself," Alex explained to me. {3}
"But, wait, I thought Toby was the name of the doll you carry around with you."
She looked away from me. "I'll wait outside for him," she said before walked outside and into the rain.
So another vampire was coming; one that already tried to bite Serenity. This vampire says she is his. No, she is my Serenity, no matter what. I'll make sure of that.
{1} this was Serenity's first near death experience. How she got the wound back then was simple. He bit her but no venom had gotten into the wound.
{2} ha aren't I horrible. Yep poor Serenity is pregnant. But it's not Leon's of course! If it wore, she would have shown already! Now whose baby could it be? You have to wait to find that out, sorry.
{3} When Dakota met up them, Jasmine and Aiden were fourteen, Travis was twenty-one, Unity was six, Imogen was five, and Journey was three. During this time Alex was fifty-eight.