ok soo i love this chapter a lot haha the ending was an idea that popped into my head while i was listening to my iPod one day and yeah i hope you like it

we're getting closer and closer to the big battle. I think it'll be not the next chapter but the chapter after that...if that makes any sense

ummm...i have a song that i think fits perfectly with this chapter/ the next one

its called I'll Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab for Cutie

seriously i was listening to it non-stop while typing up this chapter haha. I suggest while you read the beginning you listen to that song cause it really sets the tone/mood for it

so enjoy! and don't forget to review! ;]

Chapter 23

One Point for the Vampires

There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist,

Or accept the responsibility for changing them

As soon as I got back into the house I ran upstairs to think for a moment, not saying a word to anyone. When I reached the spare room me and Seth were staying in I quietly closed to door behind me and started pacing back and forth.

So basically everyone down there wanted to fight, but little, stupid, pathetic me wanted to be changed instead. The only reason why I want to be changed is because I was afraid that one of them might lose their life because I had to be a freak that's 'special.'

I scoffed at that word. I'd give anything for things to just go back to normal, then all of them wouldn't have to worry about the fact that tonight might be the last night they spend here in this house on this earth with the people they love most. I feel so guilty right now!

"UGH!" I groaned and slammed my body down onto the soft mattress, staring up at the ceiling while I tried to think about some good things that might come out of this…I got nothing…

I could try to persuade people into thinking my idea was the right choice, but they knew better than to listen to a human who barely even knew what being a vampire meant. And that was the truth, I didn't know much about it, but I could adjust to the lifestyle of drinking blood, only animal blood of course though because the thought of killing a human made me cringe.

Suddenly Chase's voice started ringing in my ear, I waited for it to get clearer and when it finally did I understood what he was telling me, "Look at the desk next to you," he said.

I picked my face up and slightly looked over at the piece of furniture he told me to look at and lying on it was…my iPod? I sat up and took it in my hands feeling that it was really cold. Somehow, Chase must've gotten it for me and it wasn't too long ago I figured from how cold it was.

"How's this gonna help?" I asked out loud as if he were in the room with me.

"Don't worry about tomorrow," I raised one eyebrow at his words, "Have fun," his voice started to fade away and when I could no longer hear it I sighed in confusion. He could never just give me a straightforward explanation, he always had to keep me guessing and it annoyed me to no extent.

So I decided that I shouldn't be bitter and stay up in this room all night, I should tell people what I think and believe and include my iPod somehow to make tonight a good night instead of a bad one. The only thing that made sense to me as to why he would give me my iPod out of every other device in the world was because people can connect through music in a positive way and I guess Chase wanted me to lift all of their spirits by using this.

I slowly walked down the staircase and thought about how I would explain my side to them. Even though it probably wouldn't do anything to change their minds, I still had to try. I put my iPod inside my pocket and started twiddling my thumbs, taking deep breaths as I reached the bottom of the stairs. They were all silent for some strange reason. And not one of them bothered to look at me, except for Seth. I smiled when his eyes met mine and part of me wanted to cry and break down right here and now, but other parts made me compose myself so I could stay strong. He was by my side taking my hand in his the minute, no, the second my feet touched the tiled floor.

"Feeling better?" he whispered while I kept my eyes on the depressed bunch of people in the living room.

"Sort of," I quickly glanced up at him, "What's wrong with everyone?" I asked.

He sighed and pulled me in close to his chest. I wrapped my arms around his waist and he started kissing my hair multiple times, "Everyone's just, you know, saying a possible goodbye."

I shut my eyes tight so that tears wouldn't come out and for once they listened to my refusal, but apparently my voice didn't, "Why does this have to happen to us?" my voice shook after every single syllable.

"Shh," he cooed in my ear which made me calm down a bit, "Nothing's gonna harm you."

I managed to open my eyes and smile, "Not while I'm around," I said, stealing a classic Sweeney Todd line and attempting to lighten up the tension in the air. He obviously didn't get it by the crazy look he gave me and I rolled my eyes, "I'm forcing you to watch all of my favorite musicals with me once this is over."

He chuckled, "Deal," and his lips brushed up against my skin making me lose focus on my real reason for being down here right now.

I lifted my head off of his chest and stared into his eyes, "I need to say something to everyone."

He groaned, "Please tell me it doesn't include the words Volturi and change."

I slowly bobbed my head up and down, "I don't care, I need to tell them why I think this is wrong, even if it won't change their minds." He was quiet for a moment, but then he let out a big sigh and nodded his head in approval which made me smile and I reached up on my toes and kissed him on the lips, "I love you, so much."

"Ditto," he half smiled.

Both of us walked into the living room, hand in hand, and there was a big open space between the wolves and the vampires again. So instead of me standing in the middle alone Seth stood with me. I cleared my throat really loudly so everyone could hear and all of their eyes went on me with worry in each and every one of them.

"Ok, so," I took one deep breath, "I know that you've all decided to fight tomorrow instead of me being changed," I saw a couple of people flinch out of the corner of my eye, "But I would just like to say that to me, it would be easier if I…became one of them," Jasper opened his mouth to speak, but I held up my hand directing him to shut his mouth, "I care about each and every one of you and if one of you got hurt because of me then…I wouldn't want to have to live with the fact that I was the reason for it," I looked up at Seth for a second and he gave me an encouraging smile even though he was totally against what I was saying right now, "So, please just listen to me when I say why risk your lives when I'm the reason why they're coming back tomorrow. Just let them change me and save yourselves."

I looked around the room and tried to keep it together as I stood there, but I started to feel my eyes water. I shut my eyes to control the tears, but then I felt the feeling in the air change, I was calm.

"You don't want to change," Jasper whispered from where he was sitting, "And we all consider you a part of our family and families look out for each other and do what's best for each other. So, I think I stand for all of us when I say I'm willing to do anything for you if it means that I get to see you for another day."

I felt Seth's warm hands rubbing my arm and I slowly opened each of my eyes and looked at Jasper, "Am I really worth protecting though?"

"Definitely," he said and everyone else nodded in agreement.

"You know I'll protect you any day," Seth kissed my cheek.

"Well…" I shook my head, "Then just let me say this," my eyes scanned each of the faces in the room, Leah's, Jacob's, Tanya's, Alice's, and every other mythical creature in the room, "I love all of you," I stated confidently, "And I mean that because you're the family I never had," I saw a couple people smile, "Esme and Carlisle, if you were my biological parents then I'm pretty sure I would be the happiest teenager in the world right now, so thank you for being there for me when I lost faith in my parents," I squeezed Seth's hand for a second, "Alice, Rosalie, Bella, and Renesmee, thank you for being the sister's I've always wanted," then I turned to Emmett and grinned, "Em, even though you suck at making bets, you're like my big brother," I put my hand on my necklace, "Thanks for filling the holes that formed when my brother died," my big speech made me want to cry, but I couldn't, I knew that I had to be strong, "Jacob, Leah, and all the rest of you Quileutes, some of you I got to know really well and some I haven't, but each of you mean so much to me, especially you Leah, don't ever think you're not good enough because you are so unique and special, I wish I was more like you," She chuckled, "But back to the point, thanks guys and Leah," I winked at them and then turned to the other vampires, "And thank all of you for willingly coming here and giving me a chance, I know I'm nothing to brag about, but you all still stand here and put up with this drama that I've caused," Then my feet turned towards one of the most important people to me here, probably the second most important person, "Jazz, you're my best friend, and you always find a way to make me feel better without using your gift, I mean we put Tom and Jerry to shame," us two laughed while the rest of the people in the room looked at us like we were completely out of our minds, "But on a more serious note, I'm glad that you almost tried to kill me that one day in the woods because then I probably would've never have gotten to know you, thank you for being completely awesome," I smiled and then turned to Seth, the one at the top of the most important people to me list.

I put my arms around his neck and looked him straight in the eyes and he did the same, "Seth," I said quietly, "I love you, you're amazing to me and…perfect. I could get into all of this mushy crap right now, but I'm not like that so let me just say this. Seth, you rock my world, you are my other half, my reason for living, my overprotective werewolf, and my…my…" I was speaking so quickly that I realized I had said so many mushy things, oh well he can live with one more, "My everything," at that moment, I saw a burning passion in his eyes that made me want him so much. So instead of paying attention to the people in the room I grabbed his shirt and tugged him forward, "Kick some ass out there tomorrow," then I smacked our lips together and kept them there for a good three or four minutes before one of the wolves groaned from behind us and way too deep into the kiss I didn't listen, but he did and he pulled away.

Our foreheads were touching now and we were just standing there in a moment while everyone else was trying to mind their own business, "I'll go to the ends of the earth for you," his warm breath brushed against my skin.

Someone's loud sigh interrupted our stare, making me turn my head to see who it was. I saw that they were all looking sad again and I remember my trusty iPod I still had in my pocket. So for a moment I thought of an idea that would make everyone get their minds off of what was to come and just live in the moment. And then, bam, BRAINBLAST!

"A game," I mumbled to myself.

"What?" Seth let go of my waist.

"Chase told me to have fun and not worry about tomorrow," I was talking to myself and completely shutting out everyone else standing in the room, "So, why not play a game that everyone will enjoy," a huge grin appeared on my face and before I knew it I was opening my mouth to speak again, "Ok, so instead of worrying about what's going to happen to everyone tomorrow, I have an idea," I bit my lip while everyone looked at me with curious eyes, "Let's play a game."

A few chuckled while other's just looked at me like I was going insane, "What's the game?" a more than enthusiastic Emmett shouted from behind me and I turned around towards him holding up my iPod.

"Do you possibly have iPod speakers Emmett?" I asked and before I knew it he was back with a pair of speakers in his hands. I took them out of his hands and plugged them into the outlet, "Ok, so this game's called guess the name of that song or artist or whatever you want to call it."

"I like where you're going with this," Edward smiled and I thanked him in my mind.

"How do you play?" Embry asked.

"It's simple, I just pick a song from my playlist and you guys have to guess what song it is. We'll have teams. So, ummm…how about…werewolves versus vampires?"

Before I could even finish my question the guys were all high fiving each other like idiots while the girls just smiled in agreement. Seth took his place by the rest of the pack and left me in the middle.

"Rules!" I shouted and some people groaned, "Edward and Alice you can't play because that's unfair to the wolves!"

Alice groaned like a child while Edward just nodded, "I can't see anything anyways!" Alice yelled.

"So what maybe you'll magically see something," I muttered, "And you have to raise your hand and make a buzzing noise in order to answer so there's no chaos."

"Do we get a prize?!" I heard a low, husky voice ask and it made me laugh.

"Umm…I don't know," I replied, "The team with the most points gets…to make the opposing team do whatever you want them to do!" I started giggling to myself at the stupid prize I came up with in less than two seconds.

I searched my iPod for a song that I could use first, "Ok," I said after I found a good one and then I pressed play.

I got a lot to say to you,

yeah I got a lot to say

I notice your eyes are always clear to me

Keeping me here it makes no sense at all

They tapped over your mouth-

"EEEEHHHH!" I heard Embry obnoxiously scream and I pointed to him, "Crushcrushcrush by Paramore!"

"Correct," I approved.

The wolves rejoiced while Emmett threw a hissy fit and he was the only vampire to react so childish about it. I wondered how I could keep track of the scores…

"Here," Edward handed me a piece of paper and a pen and I wrote on one side wolves and the other vampires, making a dashed mark that indicated a point on the wolves side.

"Ok, next song," I smiled and searched my playlist again and when I found a song I pressed play and the music started to fill the room.

Oh, well imagine

As I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor

And I can't help but to hear

No, I can't help but to hear an exchanging of words-

"EEEHHH!!!" Rosalie, out of all people, surprised me when she actually raised her hand and made a buzzing noise on top of that. I pointed to her, "I write sins not tragedies by Panic at the Disco!" she shouted.

"One point for the vampires."

I made a dashed mark on the vampires' side and then the game continued on for about an hour. Everyone actually seemed to be having a good time and it really looked like they were all getting their minds off of the fact that tomorrow they would have to fight. So, after all that, I didn't think that I would get upset about tomorrow. I mean maybe I wouldn't be such a worry wart and think about this every two seconds…

"We have a tie!" I shouted after thirty points worth of our game, "The next team to get this song right wins the prize of making the opposing team do whatever you want them to do," some people scoffed from beside me while everyone else laughed at my idiotic prize.

I quickly picked out the last song and each and every one of them anticipated my choice. It was a pretty good song, but I also didn't know if people knew what it was so I chose it.

It started out with a guitar solo and then the lyrics came on…

Never think
What's in your heart
What's in our home
That's all I want

You'll learn to hate me
But you still call me baby
Oh Lord
Just call me by my name

I looked around the room to see if anyone recognized it, but so far they were all blank.

"Oh, come on! Even I know this song!" Edward shouted out loud and started laughing.

And, save your soul
save your soul
Before you're too far gone
Before nothing can be done

"Anyone?" I said.

They all were looking down at the floor deep in thought until I finally saw a pale hand shoot up. It was Jasper. I picked on him and everyone else stared at him.

"Never Think by….Robert Pattinson?" he guessed.

I stood there for a couple of seconds, letting the suspense run through a room a little bit and then I took one big breath of air and said, "Vampires win!"

The wolves grimaced and started cussing to themselves while the vampires rejoiced. I just had to laugh at them because of their reaction to this game. It made me happy to know that I could cheer each of them up on this night.

"What do you plan to do to us?" the wolves asked, interrupting my thoughts.

All of the vampires raised their eyebrows in a suspicious way and I grinned from the looks on the Quileutes faces.

"I think I better stay out of this…" and then I walked out of the room and up the stairs towards the spare room I would be staying in for this night that seemed endless...

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