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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward had thought that starting a conversation with Bella had been difficult and nerve racking… but now he felt like he was ready to die. He was sitting on the stairs with Vince, Glynn, Alice, Jasper and Kamber. All the other adults were seated in the living room talking and the little ones were running around with Emmett and Rose who seemed to be in heaven./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward was fidgeting with his fingers, trying to think of something to strike a conversation but whenever he thought of something, it sounded too stupid or embarrassing. However, he was saved from this problem when the baby, Holden, waddled over unsteadily to Kamber and flopped against her knees. Smiling sweetly at her baby brother, Kamber lifted him off his feet and into his lap. The boy wiggled and fidgeted around until he was comfortable, his back against Kamber's chest and his head snuggled against the crook of his neck whilst he played with her fingers./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward found himself staring rather intensely at the girl who was seated on the middle step, leaning her shoulder against the railing. He noticed that whenever she sat down, she pulled her left leg up to sit on but always left her right leg down. He found that rather intriguing and honestly, cute for Kamber never tried to act like an adult even though she was at least Alice and Rose's age./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Can I ask you something?" Alice asked out of the blue./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""How can you bear to change diapers for almost thirty years till the little ones are potty trained? Besides that, how come your growth is so much slower?" /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled and shifted so she was leaning her back against the railing and she began to wiggle her fingers to entertain Holden./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Well, our bodies might grow slow but everything else doesn't. Holden just recently began to learn how to walk but that is because his body grows just like humans… but ten times slower. However, his intelligence is already equal to that of a ten-year-old. Right Holden?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The baby looked up at his sister, then at Alice before an adorable smile spread across his chubby cheeks and he nodded, "Right sissy!"br /Alice's eyes bulged. Holden's voice was just like a babies, small, high pitched and with a slight lisp because of his lack of a full mouth of teeth… but besides that, his pronunciation was clear!"br /"How…" Alice gasped./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Like Kamber said," Vince explained. "Holden might still look like a baby physically, but his mind has been growing for the past ten years. He is even studying fourth grade schoolwork."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""But how does that work?" Edward inquired, finally speaking. "How come your growth is so slow?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Vince and Glynn both looked over at Kamber who entertaining Holden was. However, she lifted her eyes and smiled, nodding. Glynn rose to his feet and grabbed a bouncy ball from his pocket. Twirling it in his fingers, he threw it straight at the grownups./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Dad! Heads up!"br /Mr. Vicasi barely turned his head to see the ball nearing him. He reached up with one hand and the ball stalled in the air…. Frozen./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Woah," Alice whispered. "He can control things telepathically?"br /"No," Kamber replied. "He can slow things down. See, that ball is still moving…. But incredibly slow."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Alice's eyes widened but Jasper tilted his head in puzzlement, "What does that have to do with your growth?"br /Kamber smiled, "Our dad can slow things down and he is also a shield. That is why you cannot read his mind Edward because he blocks it."br /Edward felt his pale face turn slightly pink when she said his name and looked over at him. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""When we were born, there was speculation as to what gifts our father possessed that we would inherit. As it turns out, we inherited most of his shield gift which means no one can read our minds and we can protect ourselves against other vampire gifts… but we cannot protect other people like our dad can."br /"What about the sounds I hear when I try to read your mind?" Edward asked. "It's like I'm listening to the forest."br /Kamber smiled, her face lighting up, "That is because we can only block you partially because we inherited the gift from our dad. The sounds you hear in our minds are the sounds we hear more times than naught… because we're part werewolf, we spend a great deal of time in the woods."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Well that makes sense," Jasper remarked, "But what about the growth?"br /Glynn smirked, "We inherited that from our dad. See, we might have inherited the gift to shield ourselves partially… but we didn't inherit dad's gift of controlling time like everyone thought. We do not have the gift to slow or speed things up like our dad can… but we ourselves are slow…. If you get what I mean."br /"See, instead of us inheriting the power," Kamber explained. "the gift of slowing things down was imbedded in us deeper than we thought… thus meaning that we would age… incredibly slow."br /"Oh," Jasper whispered, finally understanding./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Does that mean you will never stop gradually aging?" Alice asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber grinned, "That's the best part! Because we are part vampire, we are also immortal. And just like half vampire, half humans, we stop aging once we reach adulthood. Vince and Glynn have both stopped growing, so they won't age anymore. I just recently reached my maximum, so I wont age anymore either."br /"That's amazing!" Alice whispered. "So does that mean you don't change diapers for twenty years?"br /Kamber and Vince both laughed at this./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""We actually do," Glynn replied. "Because physically we grow slow. So, just like how Holden just recently learned to walk after ten years of life, he won't begin to learn how to potty train for another few decades."br /"That's got to be painful," Alice whispered./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled, "It's not really. We're used to it and with vampire speed it's even easier. Besides, there are plenty siblings to take turns!"br /"Quick question," Jasper spoke up, "It just dawned on me that your mother is a werewolf… so does that mean you inherited some of her gifts?"br /At that moment, all the adults had risen to their feet and had overheard the last part of the conversation. Vince, Glynn and Kamber all looked at their parents and then smiled at Alice, Jasper and Edward./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward glanced over at Alice in puzzlement. 'What do you think is going on?' he heard Alice's thoughts. Edward shrugged and Alice gave him a confused look./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"At present, they were standing in the clearing where, not long ago, they had stood with the werewolves, training to protect Bella against the newborns. It seemed so long ago and almost unimportant that that event had taken place. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The Cullen family was standing all together, shoulder to shoulder while Mr. and Mrs. Vicasi stood opposite them on the other side of the clearing. All the Vicasi kids were standing to the Cullen's left and Mr. and Mrs. Vicasi's right. The kids were all huddled together, talking to each other. the three youngest: Holden, Vanessa and Dashiell were seated opposite their siblings, watching with wide and curious eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Alright, who is first?" Mrs. Vicasi called./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The first ones out were Vince and Antigone. They both stood about ten feet from each other, both with relaxed stances./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Ready…. Now!" Mr. Vicasi called./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Vince went charging at Antigone who did a clean leap over his head and landed on all fours, a smug look on her face. Vince grinned and ran at her again, this time catching her and pinned her to the ground. The Cullens could tell just from watching that Vince was incredibly strong for Antigone could barely move underneath his grip./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"However, a smile appeared on the girl's face and out of nowhere, her leg found his sensitive spot and he went flying off of her, against a nearby tree. He was just about to run at her again when Antigone got on all fours and sprung into the air… transforming right before their eyes. Vince kept running at her and at the same time, they leapt into the air and Vince transformed as well./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Rose had to nudge Emmett for his jaw was hanging so low that it almost hit the ground. Standing before them where Antigone and Vince had been just a second ago stood a huge white bison and an elegant white zebra. The two were about to charge again when there was a loud guttural roar and the two froze. Standing next to Kamber was a huge white lioness. Antigone and Vince at once morphed back into their regular selves and at the same time, so did the lioness who turned out to be Imogen. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""That… was…. Awesome!" Emmett cried, "Can you all do that?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""This would be a good way to train," Jasper mused /"Who's up next then!?" Dale inquired, stepping into the middle of the ring. He morphed into a huge white panther and smirked. Everyone gulped and eventually Emmett went in for a brawl./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"About twenty minutes later, the Cullens had soon discovered that all the kids could morph, but each kid was different. Calliope was an arctic fox, Kenelm was a white cheetah, Nevaeh was a white wolf, Eustace a white tiger cub, Hermione a white squirrel, Dashiell a baby white racoon, Vanessa a white kitten and Holden a white bunny./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"All the Cullens had gotten a chance to have a friendly fight (at least with the older kids) except Edward who had been staring the whole time, staring intensely at Kamber. When would she go up for a brawl? He wanted to know what she could morph into… or if she could./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Alright!" Mr. Vicasi called, "next!"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Before Edward could move Emmett gave him a rough shove forward and Edward found himself in the middle of the ring. He looked around, not knowing which of the Vicasi kids would step forwards. Just when he was beginning to feel really out of place, Kamber walked forward. Edward felt all the blood (if he had blood in his body!) drain from his face. She looked so calm… confident… and gosh did she look beautiful! Her black jeans hugged her curves perfectly and showed off her long, slender agile legs. She wore a pair of black ankle boots that had a slight heel to them. She wore a short black leather jacket that came down to about her mid abdomen. Underneath she wore a white t-shirt that concealed everything… except a thin strip between the top of her pants and the bottom of her shirt. Her bright red hair was pulled back in a high ponytail and she had a few wisps floating around her face./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward swallowed. Why did she have to be so beautiful? He planted his feet further apart and prepared to run at the girl. Taking off at a sprint, Edward had no idea what he was going to do when he approached the girl… but that was decided for him. Kamber began to run at him, her hair blowing behind her when she suddenly leapt into the air, clear over him. Edward skidded to a stop and watched as the girl sailed over him… and landed on all fours delicately… but her feet and hands were no longer feet and hands… but hooves./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward let out a soft gasp as his eyes traveled up from her delicate yet strong hooves…. Up her long white legs…. To her slender white body, pretty ears and piercing blue eyes…. She was a doe!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Before Edward had time to register this, a giant white stag and white bear appeared on either side of Kamber and Edward felt like someone had punched him in the gut./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You're…. you're…." he gasped./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber morphed back into human and hung her head, "I was the one you met in the woods earlier."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The silence seemed so long… it was like Kamber and Edward were the only ones standing there, frozen. Kamber slowly lifted her bright blue eyes to look at Edward, only to see him staring at her with a look she had never seen before. His mouth was slightly open from shock, his eyes widen but full of curiosity, relief and wonder…. But his usually white pale face had a slight red tint. Little did they know that their families were looking at them with raised eyebrows and knowing smirks./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When Emmett and Rose came running down the stairs to the living room on Monday, they found Alice and Jasper waiting but no sign of Edward./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Where is he?" Rose inquired, rather impatient./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Already in the car," Alice replied. "He was ready to leave half an hour ago!"br /"But school doesn't start for thirty minutes!" Emmett pointed out./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Jasper and Alice nodded, both with smirks on their faces. Emmett soon had a grin of his own on his face, but Rose was groaning./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""This lovesickness is going to be the death of me!"br /Once the others got into the car, Edward was almost prepared to push the car to the school he was so impatient which wouldn't make sense since he could have just asked Emmett for the keys and it would have been easier to just run there than push the car./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hold your pants on brother," Emmett chuckled, starting the car, "It's not like she'll go anywhere!"br /Once they arrived at the school, Edward was out of the car in a flash and running into the school as fast as the average person could run which for him was painfully slow. He was just running into Science class when he realized that meant he would have to sit next to Bella. Great!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Putting on a placid expression, he walked into the class. His eyes fell on the familiar red-haired girl who sat next to Glynn in the front row. When he walked in, the girl looked up and smiled sweetly at him, waving./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hey Edward!" /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward rolled his eyes and pushed Bella's arms off of him where they had begun to travel down to his abdomen./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Bella."br /Edward walked away from her and sat down in his seat. However, as he looked over at Kamber, the girl was talking to her brother. Bella sat down next to Edward and lazily pressed her thigh next to his and that was when Edward noticed she was wearing rather short jean shorts./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward tried to move away but that would end him on the floor. For the first half of science, Edward was in hell, trying to get Kamber's attention but the girl wouldn't look at him./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Just when Edward was about to lose it, their teacher spoke up./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Miss Swan, if you wish to seduce Mr. Cullen, then please do not do it in my classroom."br /Edward didn't have to look down to know that Bella had placed her leg over his and was rubbing his thigh with one hand./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"He looked up and saw that all the students were looking at them… including Kamber. Edward didn't dare look at her, but he could sense her piercing gaze and when she turned to look the other way, he could see that her face was slightly pink… from embarrassment… or anger? What he didn't see was Kamber biting her lower lip to hold back a flood of tears./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When Edward walked into history class, Kamber was already there and so was Bella. Kamber was looking straight ahead but Bella was trying everything to get Edward's attention. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Mr. Cullen," the teacher called./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I am grouping all the students in pairs of two for the rest of the semester. I have paired you and Miss Vicasi together. Please take your new seat."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward walked over to where Kamber was seated and sat down. Kamber glanced over at him and Edward got a strange sense that something was wrong./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hey," he greeted./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hey," Kamber replied softly./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"For most of the class, Kamber refused to speak to him or even look at him. Finally, Edward couldn't handle it anymore and scribbled a note on a piece of paper and passed it to her. Kamber took it and read it./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'I'm sorry. What happened in science class was on accident. Bella is my ex'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber wrote back on the same piece: 'that explains a lot.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'I don't love her anymore,' Edward wrote back, 'she is just annoying now. I'm sorry if it made you mad.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber felt her cheeks turn slightly pink from embarrassment. How was she supposed to tell Edward that she was upset because she had a liking to him and seeing Bella getting all cozy with him made her hurt? She wracked her brains for a good excuse and was relieved when she thought of one./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""My dad is on a case but it's kind of disturbing. He asked if you and I would try to figure it out. He specifically asked the principal to pair us up for history so we would have an excuse to work together," Kamber whispered. "Do you think you could come by our place after school?"br /Edward made his heart jump, even though it was just about work. However, when Kamber said that it would be an excuse to work together, he felt his heart ache. So, they couldn't just work together as friends…./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Sure," he whispered back./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward looked up at the huge house that stood before him. It wasn't like his house, but a little more human. A large log cabin type house rose up from the trees about three miles from the Cullens'. There was a basketball net out in the front driveway and the yard was littered with balls, toys, ropes and old tires? Edward smiled. The Vicasi kids sure knew how to use junk for fun!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward trotted up the stairs to the front door and knocked on the large wooden door. Soon it opened but Edward saw no one there. Glancing down, he found himself face to face with little Vanessa who was looking up at him curiously./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Oh, you're Edward!" the girl chirped in her two-year-old voice, "Come on in! Daddy and sissy are waiting for you!"br /Edward smiled as the girl led him down the hallway and into a room which turned out to be a library. Mr. Vicasi was standing at the other end of the library, reading standing up. Kamber was lying on a backless couch in the middle of the room, a book laying on her face and her hands laying on her stomach./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The boy tried not to stare at the girl for she wore a pair of grey leggings underneath a short pink skirt and fuzzy striped socks. Her shirt was short, so part of her abdomen was showing but her fair smooth arms laying lazily on her stomach and her rich red hair flowing about her made Edward begin to sweat./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Ah Edward," Mr. Vicasi said, turning and smiling kindly at the boy, "Come on in. Please excuse Kamber, she didn't get any sleep last night."br /"Sleep?" Edward asked, "She has to sleep?"br /Mr. Vicasi nodded as the two sat down at the table. "They inherit some things from their mother. At least once a week the kids have to sleep once they reach maturity. For all the little ones, they have to have a regular human sleeping schedule. Kamber just recently reached maturity so she doesn't need as much sleep but it's still all new to her, so she has to get at least twelve hours of sleep once a week."br /Edward nodded in understanding. He sat down at the table and Mr. Vicasi reached over to his daughter and lifted the book off her face. That was when Edward noticed that her eyes were closed and her long black lashes brushing her cheeks. Her mouth was slightly open as she breathed and her chest rising and falling with her breathing. Edward envied her. While she was still half vampire, she had enough werewolf in her which meant she was also warm… and could breathe./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""So, the case…"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Ah yes," Mr. Vicasi said. "About three months ago I was asked to defend a young man in court. He was being sued by a man for breaking and entering their house to get his hands on his sister. The man who was accusing is Harrison Gerasimov. The man being sued was Jason Bounds."br /"Was?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Was," he confirmed. "Jason was found dead… murdered last week. I didn't hear about it until last night. I cannot investigate it because I am not a police officer and I have two other cases that are much more pressing. I need you and Kamber to find out who killed Jason and why."br /"Couldn't it have been Harrison?" Edward asked. "To get back at Jason for trying to harm his sister? Besides, how was he killed?"br /"That was what I thought at first but that is too obvious. If Harrison wanted to kill him, he wouldn't make it so obvious. But besides that, his death is strange… it was a fatal wound to the chest… but not by any weapon or creature we know. Your father investigated the body… the scar marks and wound itself are none that we are familiar with."br /Edward frowned, "That is strange. Do you think it is connected to the case?"br /"That I do not know," Mr. Vicasi replied. "But that is what I need you to figure out."/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Anything else sir?" the boy asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Mr. Vicasi nodded, "Kamber has a hard time making friends. I guess she is just socially awkward, but she likes you Edward. I hope you can be a friend for her."br /Edward smiled and nodded, "I will sir."br /Mr. Vicasi nodded and left the room, leaving Edward with a folder which contained all information he had on Jason Bounds and Harrison Gerasimov./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward opened the folder and began to look through the information. He glanced once at the pictures of the two but he didn't recognize them. He was just getting situated when he felt a presence behind him. Turning around in the seat, he saw Kamber standing behind him. The girl looked like she had just woken up for her eyes were blurry and half open, her face flushed from sleep and her hair all over the place. Edward had never thought she looked more beautiful./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Edward?" the girl asked, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hands./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward reached up and grabbed her wrist, stopping her from rubbing her eyes, "Don't do that. My dad once told me that rubbing your eyes when you first wake up damages your eyes overtime."br /He rose to his feet, not releasing her wrists. The girl looked up at him with a question in her eyes. Edward sped off to the kitchen and after a few seconds of explaining the situation to Mrs. Vicasi, rushed back. He held out a warm washcloth to Kamber, but the girl seemed puzzled. Reaching over, he wiped her eyes gently with the warm wet cloth. The girl let out a content sigh./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""That feels good," she whispered./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward swallowed. 'You have no idea what you are doing to me!' he thought to himself./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When he finished, he realized that his eyes were no longer blurry, and she was looking up into his amber eyes with big sky-blue eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Feeling all the life draining out of him, Edward found himself frozen to the spot, staring down at the girl. Kamber was faintly aware of him reaching up and gently touching her cheek. She was surprised at how cold his hand was and shivered slightly. This caused Edward to snap out of it and he stepped back, removing his hand./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Sorry…"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber blushed brightly and looked down, shielding her face with her hair, "We should get to work."/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward had thought that starting a conversation with Bella had been difficult and nerve racking… but now he felt like he was ready to die. He was sitting on the stairs with Vince, Glynn, Alice, Jasper and Kamber. All the other adults were seated in the living room talking and the little ones were running around with Emmett and Rose who seemed to be in heaven./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward was fidgeting with his fingers, trying to think of something to strike a conversation but whenever he thought of something, it sounded too stupid or embarrassing. However, he was saved from this problem when the baby, Holden, waddled over unsteadily to Kamber and flopped against her knees. Smiling sweetly at her baby brother, Kamber lifted him off his feet and into his lap. The boy wiggled and fidgeted around until he was comfortable, his back against Kamber's chest and his head snuggled against the crook of his neck whilst he played with her fingers./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward found himself staring rather intensely at the girl who was seated on the middle step, leaning her shoulder against the railing. He noticed that whenever she sat down, she pulled her left leg up to sit on but always left her right leg down. He found that rather intriguing and honestly, cute for Kamber never tried to act like an adult even though she was at least Alice and Rose's age./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Can I ask you something?" Alice asked out of the blue./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""How can you bear to change diapers for almost thirty years till the little ones are potty trained? Besides that, how come your growth is so much slower?" /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled and shifted so she was leaning her back against the railing and she began to wiggle her fingers to entertain Holden./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Well, our bodies might grow slow but everything else doesn't. Holden just recently began to learn how to walk but that is because his body grows just like humans… but ten times slower. However, his intelligence is already equal to that of a ten-year-old. Right Holden?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The baby looked up at his sister, then at Alice before an adorable smile spread across his chubby cheeks and he nodded, "Right sissy!"br /Alice's eyes bulged. Holden's voice was just like a babies, small, high pitched and with a slight lisp because of his lack of a full mouth of teeth… but besides that, his pronunciation was clear!"br /"How…" Alice gasped./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Like Kamber said," Vince explained. "Holden might still look like a baby physically, but his mind has been growing for the past ten years. He is even studying fourth grade schoolwork."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""But how does that work?" Edward inquired, finally speaking. "How come your growth is so slow?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Vince and Glynn both looked over at Kamber who entertaining Holden was. However, she lifted her eyes and smiled, nodding. Glynn rose to his feet and grabbed a bouncy ball from his pocket. Twirling it in his fingers, he threw it straight at the grownups./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Dad! Heads up!"br /Mr. Vicasi barely turned his head to see the ball nearing him. He reached up with one hand and the ball stalled in the air…. Frozen./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Woah," Alice whispered. "He can control things telepathically?"br /"No," Kamber replied. "He can slow things down. See, that ball is still moving…. But incredibly slow."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Alice's eyes widened but Jasper tilted his head in puzzlement, "What does that have to do with your growth?"br /Kamber smiled, "Our dad can slow things down and he is also a shield. That is why you cannot read his mind Edward because he blocks it."br /Edward felt his pale face turn slightly pink when she said his name and looked over at him. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""When we were born, there was speculation as to what gifts our father possessed that we would inherit. As it turns out, we inherited most of his shield gift which means no one can read our minds and we can protect ourselves against other vampire gifts… but we cannot protect other people like our dad can."br /"What about the sounds I hear when I try to read your mind?" Edward asked. "It's like I'm listening to the forest."br /Kamber smiled, her face lighting up, "That is because we can only block you partially because we inherited the gift from our dad. The sounds you hear in our minds are the sounds we hear more times than naught… because we're part werewolf, we spend a great deal of time in the woods."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Well that makes sense," Jasper remarked, "But what about the growth?"br /Glynn smirked, "We inherited that from our dad. See, we might have inherited the gift to shield ourselves partially… but we didn't inherit dad's gift of controlling time like everyone thought. We do not have the gift to slow or speed things up like our dad can… but we ourselves are slow…. If you get what I mean."br /"See, instead of us inheriting the power," Kamber explained. "the gift of slowing things down was imbedded in us deeper than we thought… thus meaning that we would age… incredibly slow."br /"Oh," Jasper whispered, finally understanding./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Does that mean you will never stop gradually aging?" Alice asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber grinned, "That's the best part! Because we are part vampire, we are also immortal. And just like half vampire, half humans, we stop aging once we reach adulthood. Vince and Glynn have both stopped growing, so they won't age anymore. I just recently reached my maximum, so I wont age anymore either."br /"That's amazing!" Alice whispered. "So does that mean you don't change diapers for twenty years?"br /Kamber and Vince both laughed at this./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""We actually do," Glynn replied. "Because physically we grow slow. So, just like how Holden just recently learned to walk after ten years of life, he won't begin to learn how to potty train for another few decades."br /"That's got to be painful," Alice whispered./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled, "It's not really. We're used to it and with vampire speed it's even easier. Besides, there are plenty siblings to take turns!"br /"Quick question," Jasper spoke up, "It just dawned on me that your mother is a werewolf… so does that mean you inherited some of her gifts?"br /At that moment, all the adults had risen to their feet and had overheard the last part of the conversation. Vince, Glynn and Kamber all looked at their parents and then smiled at Alice, Jasper and Edward./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I think it's time some proper introductions occured."/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward glanced over at Alice in puzzlement. 'What do you think is going on?' he heard Alice's thoughts. Edward shrugged and Alice gave him a confused look./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"At present, they were standing in the clearing where, not long ago, they had stood with the werewolves, training to protect Bella against the newborns. It seemed so long ago and almost unimportant that that event had taken place. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The Cullen family was standing all together, shoulder to shoulder while Mr. and Mrs. Vicasi stood opposite them on the other side of the clearing. All the Vicasi kids were standing to the Cullen's left and Mr. and Mrs. Vicasi's right. The kids were all huddled together, talking to each other. the three youngest: Holden, Vanessa and Dashiell were seated opposite their siblings, watching with wide and curious eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Alright, who is first?" Mrs. Vicasi called./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The first ones out were Vince and Antigone. They both stood about ten feet from each other, both with relaxed stances./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Ready…. Now!" Mr. Vicasi called./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Vince went charging at Antigone who did a clean leap over his head and landed on all fours, a smug look on her face. Vince grinned and ran at her again, this time catching her and pinned her to the ground. The Cullens could tell just from watching that Vince was incredibly strong for Antigone could barely move underneath his grip./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"However, a smile appeared on the girl's face and out of nowhere, her leg found his sensitive spot and he went flying off of her, against a nearby tree. He was just about to run at her again when Antigone got on all fours and sprung into the air… transforming right before their eyes. Vince kept running at her and at the same time, they leapt into the air and Vince transformed as well./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Rose had to nudge Emmett for his jaw was hanging so low that it almost hit the ground. Standing before them where Antigone and Vince had been just a second ago stood a huge white bison and an elegant white zebra. The two were about to charge again when there was a loud guttural roar and the two froze. Standing next to Kamber was a huge white lioness. Antigone and Vince at once morphed back into their regular selves and at the same time, so did the lioness who turned out to be Imogen. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""That… was…. Awesome!" Emmett cried, "Can you all do that?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""This would be a good way to train," Jasper mused /"Who's up next then!?" Dale inquired, stepping into the middle of the ring. He morphed into a huge white panther and smirked. Everyone gulped and eventually Emmett went in for a brawl./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"About twenty minutes later, the Cullens had soon discovered that all the kids could morph, but each kid was different. Calliope was an arctic fox, Kenelm was a white cheetah, Nevaeh was a white wolf, Eustace a white tiger cub, Hermione a white squirrel, Dashiell a baby white racoon, Vanessa a white kitten and Holden a white bunny./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"All the Cullens had gotten a chance to have a friendly fight (at least with the older kids) except Edward who had been staring the whole time, staring intensely at Kamber. When would she go up for a brawl? He wanted to know what she could morph into… or if she could./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Alright!" Mr. Vicasi called, "next!"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Before Edward could move Emmett gave him a rough shove forward and Edward found himself in the middle of the ring. He looked around, not knowing which of the Vicasi kids would step forwards. Just when he was beginning to feel really out of place, Kamber walked forward. Edward felt all the blood (if he had blood in his body!) drain from his face. She looked so calm… confident… and gosh did she look beautiful! Her black jeans hugged her curves perfectly and showed off her long, slender agile legs. She wore a pair of black ankle boots that had a slight heel to them. She wore a short black leather jacket that came down to about her mid abdomen. Underneath she wore a white t-shirt that concealed everything… except a thin strip between the top of her pants and the bottom of her shirt. Her bright red hair was pulled back in a high ponytail and she had a few wisps floating around her face./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward swallowed. Why did she have to be so beautiful? He planted his feet further apart and prepared to run at the girl. Taking off at a sprint, Edward had no idea what he was going to do when he approached the girl… but that was decided for him. Kamber began to run at him, her hair blowing behind her when she suddenly leapt into the air, clear over him. Edward skidded to a stop and watched as the girl sailed over him… and landed on all fours delicately… but her feet and hands were no longer feet and hands… but hooves./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward let out a soft gasp as his eyes traveled up from her delicate yet strong hooves…. Up her long white legs…. To her slender white body, pretty ears and piercing blue eyes…. She was a doe!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Before Edward had time to register this, a giant white stag and white bear appeared on either side of Kamber and Edward felt like someone had punched him in the gut./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You're…. you're…." he gasped./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber morphed back into human and hung her head, "I was the one you met in the woods earlier."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The silence seemed so long… it was like Kamber and Edward were the only ones standing there, frozen. Kamber slowly lifted her bright blue eyes to look at Edward, only to see him staring at her with a look she had never seen before. His mouth was slightly open from shock, his eyes widen but full of curiosity, relief and wonder…. But his usually white pale face had a slight red tint. Little did they know that their families were looking at them with raised eyebrows and knowing smirks./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When Emmett and Rose came running down the stairs to the living room on Monday, they found Alice and Jasper waiting but no sign of Edward./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Where is he?" Rose inquired, rather impatient./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Already in the car," Alice replied. "He was ready to leave half an hour ago!"br /"But school doesn't start for thirty minutes!" Emmett pointed out./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Jasper and Alice nodded, both with smirks on their faces. Emmett soon had a grin of his own on his face, but Rose was groaning./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""This lovesickness is going to be the death of me!"br /Once the others got into the car, Edward was almost prepared to push the car to the school he was so impatient which wouldn't make sense since he could have just asked Emmett for the keys and it would have been easier to just run there than push the car./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hold your pants on brother," Emmett chuckled, starting the car, "It's not like she'll go anywhere!"br /Once they arrived at the school, Edward was out of the car in a flash and running into the school as fast as the average person could run which for him was painfully slow. He was just running into Science class when he realized that meant he would have to sit next to Bella. Great!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Putting on a placid expression, he walked into the class. His eyes fell on the familiar red-haired girl who sat next to Glynn in the front row. When he walked in, the girl looked up and smiled sweetly at him, waving./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hey Edward!" /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward rolled his eyes and pushed Bella's arms off of him where they had begun to travel down to his abdomen./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Bella."br /Edward walked away from her and sat down in his seat. However, as he looked over at Kamber, the girl was talking to her brother. Bella sat down next to Edward and lazily pressed her thigh next to his and that was when Edward noticed she was wearing rather short jean shorts./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward tried to move away but that would end him on the floor. For the first half of science, Edward was in hell, trying to get Kamber's attention but the girl wouldn't look at him./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Just when Edward was about to lose it, their teacher spoke up./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Miss Swan, if you wish to seduce Mr. Cullen, then please do not do it in my classroom."br /Edward didn't have to look down to know that Bella had placed her leg over his and was rubbing his thigh with one hand./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"He looked up and saw that all the students were looking at them… including Kamber. Edward didn't dare look at her, but he could sense her piercing gaze and when she turned to look the other way, he could see that her face was slightly pink… from embarrassment… or anger? What he didn't see was Kamber biting her lower lip to hold back a flood of tears./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When Edward walked into history class, Kamber was already there and so was Bella. Kamber was looking straight ahead but Bella was trying everything to get Edward's attention. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Mr. Cullen," the teacher called./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I am grouping all the students in pairs of two for the rest of the semester. I have paired you and Miss Vicasi together. Please take your new seat."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward walked over to where Kamber was seated and sat down. Kamber glanced over at him and Edward got a strange sense that something was wrong./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hey," he greeted./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Hey," Kamber replied softly./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"For most of the class, Kamber refused to speak to him or even look at him. Finally, Edward couldn't handle it anymore and scribbled a note on a piece of paper and passed it to her. Kamber took it and read it./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'I'm sorry. What happened in science class was on accident. Bella is my ex'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber wrote back on the same piece: 'that explains a lot.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'I don't love her anymore,' Edward wrote back, 'she is just annoying now. I'm sorry if it made you mad.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber felt her cheeks turn slightly pink from embarrassment. How was she supposed to tell Edward that she was upset because she had a liking to him and seeing Bella getting all cozy with him made her hurt? She wracked her brains for a good excuse and was relieved when she thought of one./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""My dad is on a case but it's kind of disturbing. He asked if you and I would try to figure it out. He specifically asked the principal to pair us up for history so we would have an excuse to work together," Kamber whispered. "Do you think you could come by our place after school?"br /Edward made his heart jump, even though it was just about work. However, when Kamber said that it would be an excuse to work together, he felt his heart ache. So, they couldn't just work together as friends…./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Sure," he whispered back./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled but Edward noted that her cheeks were tinted a bright pink./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward looked up at the huge house that stood before him. It wasn't like his house, but a little more human. A large log cabin type house rose up from the trees about three miles from the Cullens'. There was a basketball net out in the front driveway and the yard was littered with balls, toys, ropes and old tires? Edward smiled. The Vicasi kids sure knew how to use junk for fun!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward trotted up the stairs to the front door and knocked on the large wooden door. Soon it opened but Edward saw no one there. Glancing down, he found himself face to face with little Vanessa who was looking up at him curiously./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Oh, you're Edward!" the girl chirped in her two-year-old voice, "Come on in! Daddy and sissy are waiting for you!"br /Edward smiled as the girl led him down the hallway and into a room which turned out to be a library. Mr. Vicasi was standing at the other end of the library, reading standing up. Kamber was lying on a backless couch in the middle of the room, a book laying on her face and her hands laying on her stomach./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The boy tried not to stare at the girl for she wore a pair of grey leggings underneath a short pink skirt and fuzzy striped socks. Her shirt was short, so part of her abdomen was showing but her fair smooth arms laying lazily on her stomach and her rich red hair flowing about her made Edward begin to sweat./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Ah Edward," Mr. Vicasi said, turning and smiling kindly at the boy, "Come on in. Please excuse Kamber, she didn't get any sleep last night."br /"Sleep?" Edward asked, "She has to sleep?"br /Mr. Vicasi nodded as the two sat down at the table. "They inherit some things from their mother. At least once a week the kids have to sleep once they reach maturity. For all the little ones, they have to have a regular human sleeping schedule. Kamber just recently reached maturity so she doesn't need as much sleep but it's still all new to her, so she has to get at least twelve hours of sleep once a week."br /Edward nodded in understanding. He sat down at the table and Mr. Vicasi reached over to his daughter and lifted the book off her face. That was when Edward noticed that her eyes were closed and her long black lashes brushing her cheeks. Her mouth was slightly open as she breathed and her chest rising and falling with her breathing. Edward envied her. While she was still half vampire, she had enough werewolf in her which meant she was also warm… and could breathe./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""So, the case…"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Ah yes," Mr. Vicasi said. "About three months ago I was asked to defend a young man in court. He was being sued by a man for breaking and entering their house to get his hands on his sister. The man who was accusing is Harrison Gerasimov. The man being sued was Jason Bounds."br /"Was?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Was," he confirmed. "Jason was found dead… murdered last week. I didn't hear about it until last night. I cannot investigate it because I am not a police officer and I have two other cases that are much more pressing. I need you and Kamber to find out who killed Jason and why."br /"Couldn't it have been Harrison?" Edward asked. "To get back at Jason for trying to harm his sister? Besides, how was he killed?"br /"That was what I thought at first but that is too obvious. If Harrison wanted to kill him, he wouldn't make it so obvious. But besides that, his death is strange… it was a fatal wound to the chest… but not by any weapon or creature we know. Your father investigated the body… the scar marks and wound itself are none that we are familiar with."br /Edward frowned, "That is strange. Do you think it is connected to the case?"br /"That I do not know," Mr. Vicasi replied. "But that is what I need you to figure out."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward nodded and glanced over his shoulder at Kamber. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Anything else sir?" the boy asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Mr. Vicasi nodded, "Kamber has a hard time making friends. I guess she is just socially awkward, but she likes you Edward. I hope you can be a friend for her."br /Edward smiled and nodded, "I will sir."br /Mr. Vicasi nodded and left the room, leaving Edward with a folder which contained all information he had on Jason Bounds and Harrison Gerasimov./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward opened the folder and began to look through the information. He glanced once at the pictures of the two but he didn't recognize them. He was just getting situated when he felt a presence behind him. Turning around in the seat, he saw Kamber standing behind him. The girl looked like she had just woken up for her eyes were blurry and half open, her face flushed from sleep and her hair all over the place. Edward had never thought she looked more beautiful./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Edward?" the girl asked, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hands./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward reached up and grabbed her wrist, stopping her from rubbing her eyes, "Don't do that. My dad once told me that rubbing your eyes when you first wake up damages your eyes overtime."br /He rose to his feet, not releasing her wrists. The girl looked up at him with a question in her eyes. Edward sped off to the kitchen and after a few seconds of explaining the situation to Mrs. Vicasi, rushed back. He held out a warm washcloth to Kamber, but the girl seemed puzzled. Reaching over, he wiped her eyes gently with the warm wet cloth. The girl let out a content sigh./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""That feels good," she whispered./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward swallowed. 'You have no idea what you are doing to me!' he thought to himself./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When he finished, he realized that his eyes were no longer blurry, and she was looking up into his amber eyes with big sky-blue eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Feeling all the life draining out of him, Edward found himself frozen to the spot, staring down at the girl. Kamber was faintly aware of him reaching up and gently touching her cheek. She was surprised at how cold his hand was and shivered slightly. This caused Edward to snap out of it and he stepped back, removing his hand./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Sorry…"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber blushed brightly and looked down, shielding her face with her hair, "We should get to work."/p
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