Edwards POV
Frozen.
Everything in me remained frozen,
Her eyes!
His eyes!
Their faces, their looks, their charms, their traits…
What was happening?
I couldn't get the effect these hybrids had on me out of my head. And the more I speculated the worse I became.
I could briefly hear my name being called around the table but I couldn't move.
They were half and half.
Human and vampire together.
Just like….
"Just like me and Bella"
Alice moved to me her eyes unsure and frightened.
"Edward…I…I don't know what to say…I would have seen it" She said shaking her head, putting her hand on my shoulder.
I always wanted children. Without a doubt, why wouldn't I want another part of Bella in my life to love and cherish even more than I already could.
But that life wasn't available to me, it wasn't possible.
"It's not possible" I nodded to her looking down at the table.
"Edward you should sit down you don't look too good" Esme found herself at my other side and guided me down onto a chair.
How human, I mused.
"Well… that went well" Emmett snickered as Rosalie hit him on his shoulder
"Rosalie you could have been a bit more welcoming" Esme scolded and Rosalie looked down to the floor
"They shouldn't exist, they could be out there killing half of the town, and how do we know they aren't spies sent from the Volturi? I don't trust them" she rambled for another few minutes before flipping her hair behind her shoulder and huffing.
"Rosie they seem pretty cool, and they didn't put us in danger. Besides don't you feel that...trait?" Emmett asked pondering over the right word. Carlisle hummed in a low key once before nodding
"I do feel something, it's a connection of some sort, the brown haired boy I feel the connection more with and I suspect the girl connected with you Edward. I don't want to add any more suspicion but…well she's the spit of you, its uncanny and the black haired boy looks like your human version only with Emmett's colour hair and speech." I knew where he was going with this.
"It still could be a trick, they could be playing with pieces of Alice's visions" Rosalie butted in once again.
"Hmmm it is a possibility but we'll have to watch the situation with them, we still don't know enough about them to accuse them of anything, but I have to admit there is a connection there." jasper mused. Alice nodded as well, but she shook her head.
"I…I would have seen, I've been concentrating on Bella for years now…I would have seen"
Alice flopped down gracefully into the chair next to me. She met my gaze for a moment with sadness in them.
I couldn't do it anymore. I needed to know.
Were they who I thought they were?
It seemed too good to be true.
"Alice do you see anything about the...hybrids?" I asked quietly as she leaned over and placed her icy hand in mine. her face filled with concern
Edward, you know they look a lot like you... she thought biting her lip remembering the three beautiful children who didn't know about their Parents.
"It's not possible" I said remembering vampires can't have children; maybe the venom in them didn't spread correctly or something along those lines.
"Hmmm" Alice sighed looking down. "It's still blurry but I can just see the school and that's about it, sorry I'll try harder. I want to know as much as you do." she said as I smiled and patted her on the shoulder, I loved my sister dearly, but right now I just couldn't be around her. I knew it wasn't her fault and maybe my hunch was wrong.
But I couldn't deal with it now. All I could think about were Matts Chocolate brown eyes; the exact same shade as the girl I still loved irrevocably.
"Don't strain yourself" I wisped before heading up stairs, I slumped down into my couch against the glass wall and stared down to the floor boards, Ignoring all the thoughts of the others in the house and sent my mind into the past.
I remembered Bella.
Everything about her; her soft hair, her chocolate eyes, her pale soft skin.
Her scent.
I remembered everything we shared together; our first touch, our first date, our first kiss, our first night together...and then three small vampire children flooded my mind.
Damien, Mathew and Renesmee.
It was impossible. I knew in my vampire brain it was impossible and even if vampires could conceive children. That night was only eight years ago and these hybrids were 17 or 18.
There was nothing I could do to describe the pain I felt.
There was no remorse from it or anything of the sort. If my theory was correct I was the worst creature this world had ever seen.
From down below I could hear a similar discussion between the rest of my family.
But there was nothing I could do. I couldn't just out of the blue ask if they were who I thought they were.
Mainly because one, I was frightened of what would have happened to Bella.
And two: I didn't want to be disappointed if they weren't.
"well I think we should all continue the way we were before these hybrids came along, just be cautious we don't know a lot about them so we should take caution with them but be friendly, Rosalie I mean you" Carlisle said knowing I could hear him and we all agreed. Before everyone went off to hunt...
The following day it was icy. Snow was thick on the ground and the roads were terrible to drive on. Making our way to school was hard, considering we like to go at a very high speed but every time we tried to steer forward we would swerve or skid on the road, which is why Rosalie decided to drive instead of me her being the safest driver to the humans around us. I wasn't exactly in the right mood to drive anyway.
The sky was grey and thick as well which suited the current atmospheric situation as we pulled into the school car park. Everyone's minds focused on the three hybrids still curious from last night.
I began pondering over the questions in my mind; would they make it to school okay? I felt a strange new unsettling feeling of worry flow through my system about each individual. I could see them setting off in their little black car and turning a corner too sharply ending up crashing.
It worried me even more that this would happen as there was a childlike innocence in their eyes; it made them look younger than what they were.
I remembered the connection I felt with the girl last night; Renesmee. The way she looked at me as if her unsung prayers were going to be answered. The way she held herself as well reminded me of a lost child in my eye sight.
As composed as she was, she seemed fragile underneath that strong connection; like she needed me to release it.
Obviously she was seen as the youngest and it eased me that the boys were protective of her but at the same time, I still worried about them.
It was strange. There were no revelations about these kids and we had only been in each other's company for little over a week, but I felt the need to see them and protect them every day.
Perhaps it was because they reminded me of her. My Bella.
Oh how I miss her, I would much rather spend my days burning from my transformation again than be without her.
When I truly thought about my life without her, it was miserable, and the second I found out about her going missing; it was unbearable.
I tried to imagine that she had only ran away somewhere with another boy and started a new life somewhere. With a human.
Living her life with children.
A perfect human life for her.
That's what she deserved. No matter how hard I tried to convince myself that this was good, it made me want to scream inside, made me want to burn again.
"Edward?" Alice asked her voice worried as she looked to me with eyes that matched the tone of her voice. She patted my shoulder with her hand as we got out of the car. Some students were stood by their cars chatting away, their minds focused on shopping and celebrations
"Im fine Alice" I sighed answering my sisters worried gaze and thoughts, she nodded once in understanding before her head spun round and looked to the gate of the school, just as the all too familiar shiny black car pulled into the gates and parked in the same spot as yesterday. Damien and matt first got out slowly, talking.
"Im telling you Damien, you can't do that during school" Mathews voice laced with soft authority exactly like Carlisle's voice would be, it even made Emmett turn his head in wonder to look at the two boys then his gaze shifted to me and his head tilted to the side in worry
"Edward..." his tone was the same as Alice's and his thoughts heading down the same line as hers,
"There's something not quite right, ill agree with that" I huffed quietly before turning my gaze back to the two boys. Both of the boys were dressed similar again, black denim wash jeans and both wearing a polo shirt, Mathew was wearing blue and Damien was wearing white. Damien's head scanned round the yard before spotting us, he looked to his brother and smirked before shaking his head
"You wish" he called before slinging his bag on his back and patting the car roof
"You coming red?" he said ducking his head down and threw the car window
"yeah I'll be a minute" Renesmee musical voice sighed and Damien nodded twice before raising his eyebrows sarcastically at his brother matt who rolled his eyes and shook his head before joining his brother who was now walking towards us while Renesmee got out of the car
"hey Damien!" Emmett called jogging over at a human pace to high 5 him as dampens face lit up with his trade mark smirk as he patted Emmett's back
"Hey!" Damien smiled back at Emmett as he explained about our baseball games, Mathew skated in front of Alice shyly and introduced himself Alice being her usually happy self-gave him a slight hug, much to jaspers dismay his eyes locked on Mathews with jealousy in his eyes and his hand was tight on her shoulder.
Mathew blushed and looked down to the floor. Like Bella would have done,
Alice noticed as well her face showed shock but she reeled it in as fast as she could. It didn't go unnoticed by jasper either that the blush in his face was similar to my Bella's.
Except she wasn't mine anymore.
I was about to be enveloped in pain when Alice had a vision, it was blurry but manageable.
A large oversized red van was heading along a road when it hit the ice wrong and went swerving into the nearest parked car. A girl's light scream filled the air, and then the vision vanished.
Alice looked to me confused before her eyes reached Matthew who had copied her actions perfectly as if he seen the same vision. I notice Damien shift in that moment and lock his gaze with his brother. Instinctually, they both flickered their head over to the gate where their car was parked first.
Matt let a word slip from his mouth.
"Renesmee" he whispered as all four of our heads whipped round to see Renesemee standing by the side of the black car taking her bags out of the back seat and a red van owned by one of the students had just come through the gate.