"Sam, we have to tell her, she deserves to know!" Jacob's voice reached my ears from the kitchen.
A heavy sigh filled the silence of the whole house, everyone sitting in the living room with me kept their eyes in my direction. "I don't want to drag my little sister in this big mess. She was already kidnapped with no knowledge of us. Imagine how bad it'd be if she knew."
Leah shifted in her seat across from me, catching my attention. The look on her face caused my entire body to freeze. That's when her eyes dropped to a piece of paper on the coffee table before once again meeting mine. She nodded her head, urging me to take the paper.
I leaned forward slowly and grabbed the small slip of white paper. On it was a name and an address; the Cullen's. The breath left my lungs as I blankly stared at it, the only thought running through my head is what they are…vampires. Leah forced her gaze to meet mine before he inclined her head towards the front door.
The sound of my footsteps created blocked out the voices of my brother and Jacob Black. A few stares on my back were the only acknowledgement to my leaving the house with Leah. Once out, Leah walked with me to my car and sat in the passenger side before starting the engine.
"Just head to the address and I'll explain everything along the way," Leah said, turning to face the front of the vehicle.
Turing out of the driveway, I had a feeling in the back of my mind of what she was going to tell me. The car remained silent for a while before Leah sighed.
"Do you remember when you were kidnapped," she began, looking out her window, "anything that either…person said that was unusual?"
I nodded my head, remembering both of them talking, basically, about a mean of some sort. "Well, they're not who – what – you think they are."
My eyes opened wider, but I couldn't see the road in front of me. Instead, the scene from the beach earlier played consistently like a broken record. Seth's voice roaring about him being a monster echoed around me.
"Watch out!" Leah grabbed onto the steering wheel and pulled up back into our lane. "What was that all about?!"
"Sorry, I was…err, daydreaming," I replied, placing my hands onto the wheel before making a right hand turn. "Continued on, I promise I won't space out again."
Leah was skeptical at first, glancing at me from time to time until she was finally confident enough in my driving. The silence returned again, shorter this time, before she turned to me.
"Neither of the guys you encountered in the woods are human. They're…pull over here; their house is just on the other side of the road."
Stopping my Comaro, I turned my head to see an absolutely gorgeous house and Bella's beat up old truck in the driveway. Leah got out of the passenger side and was on the other side of the road before I even got out of the car. She turned around expectantly and waved her hand so I'd get into gear.
"Leah are you sure…?" I questioned as I climbed the stairs behind her tall form. My throat closed up as she raised her fist to knock on the door. They're freaking vampires for crying out loud!
The door flung open before Leah's knuckles even brushed against the wood. Dr. Cullen smiled brightly at me from the other side of the threshold. Where are the fangs, aren't vampires supposed to have fangs? I smiled meekly at the doctor as I tried to slowly back away.
A cold hand on my waist stopped me, and my breathing, dead in my tracks. "While Sam and Jacob are discussing if they should tell her or not, I figured you could explain your half to her," Leah said, her usually nasty stare returning to her face.
"Why should be expose ourselves to her?!" a beautiful blonde sneered. "The Volturi are already freaking over Bella, we don't need another one."
A heart laugh from behind me caught my attention. "Hun, relax. She was kidnapped, almost attacked by her ex and is a ticking time bomb. She has a right," I knew that voice; it was the guy who practically saved me.
"Emmett," a bronze haired guy said. "His name is Emmett."
My eyes widened as I turned to look at Leah. What the hell?! A sudden sense of relaxation hit me and I could feel the lazy grin spread over my face.
"Hey mood ring! Knock it off!" Leah snapped, glaring at a blonde who looked like he was in pain. A small pixie-like girl rocked from her heels to the balls of her feet impatiently beside him.
Dr. Cullen shut the door before turning to the blonde. "That's enough Jasper, let her go," he said softly, walking past me to stand near a gorgeous woman with auburn hair. "Take a seat, Samantha; it's in your best interest."
Emmett's hand gently pushed me towards a tan leather couch. As I hesitantly sat down, Emmett flopped onto the couch beside me and put his arm over my shoulders. Leah remained beside the front door with a pained expression on her face, nose scrunched up oddly.
"I'm taking Bella home," the gorgeous bronze haired boy piped up. "My name's Edward, but I appreciate the compliment."
A blush covered my cheeks and everyone went rigid, especially the one Leah called mood ring. Seeing as Edward passed her on the way out, Leah was standing at the side of the couch nearest to me. When I felt the heat leave my cheeks, the entire room relaxed.
The room was silent and I shifted uncomfortably. Carlisle sat across from me and smiled kindly. "I don't want you to freak out once you hear this, but I also don't want you to be uncomfortable with my children," he looked towards Jasper, the "mood ring."
I had the urge to tell them I knew what they were, not to mention pull out a clove of garlic and tell them I knew Buffy. My heart rate and my breathing hiked skyward. The front door opened to reveal Edward with a huge grin on his face.
My eyebrows knitted together as I watched him. What the hell? He walked over to Jasper and put a hand on his shoulder. "Hide the garlic," he laughed, "and board up all the doors. She's considering calling Buffy!"
"Is she now?" Emmett joked, pulling me closer to him. "Then she must know what we are, not necessarily how to injure or kills us. This is probably a good thing."
Carlisle was joined by the woman with auburn hair. "Emmett, not now," he turned his attention to me and stared at me in all seriousness. "Are you aware of what we are?" When I nodded my head Edward practically demanded I say it aloud.
"Vampire," I whispered, lowering my gaze to my hands in my lap.
Leah snickered from beside me, deciding not to mask the humor in her voice as she corrected me on the word I chose. "We prefer the term bloodsucker or leech," she said.
I turned my gaze to hers, what does she mean by "we"? Edward turned to stare at her before asking the question I thought of just moments earlier.
"All of us in La Push, all us-" she began.
"Werewolves," I supplied, gaining everyone's attention once again. "Or shape shifters, whatever you call it."
The entire room quieted before an awkward laugh drew everyone's attention. Then, slowly but surely, Emmett joined in. "She knows more than she lets on," Jasper said once his laughing ceased.
Edward chuckled and looked at me. "Did you know that vampires – not necessarily all but most – have a special gift?" When I have no reply, he continued. "Of course not, you thought garlic would have an effect on us! Anyways, Jasper can alter people's moods, Alice-" the small pixie-like girl grinned from beside Jasper. "- can see the future, to an extent."
"I have super human strength," Emmett piped up, flexing his muscles cockily.
Rosalie wrapped her fingers around his shoulder and squeezed. "That's a given for all of us babe."
"And I can read people's thoughts," I turned away and listened to him tell Leah I wanted no one to know that I knew.
