Scarlett
My breath caught, and suddenly we were the only two people in the room. My senses were on hyper drive as I gazed upon this man. He didn't smell human, but he definitely wasn't a vampire. It felt as though my heart was beating out my chest. My legs were moving me towards him as if I was being forced to. Suddenly I was inches from him, and I looked up into his eyes and noticed they were not only brown, but they had striking hints of dark green in them. I could feel his emotions more powerfully than I felt Dimitri's just this morning, but this isn't the same as the lust Dimitri was feeling. This was way more powerful.
"Hello," I greeted him and was still star struck by his eyes.
"Hi," he sort of squeaked and my heart felt like it had exploded. He was so adorably cute.
Without thinking, I put my hand on his soft cheek. It was so warm, I could feel his jaw clench, but then he slightly leaned into my touch. He was so enticingly warm, and there was so much energy flowing through my fingers. I could feel the goose bumps raise on my arms. I almost shuddered.
"What is that you're feeling?" I asked, and suddenly, I felt embarrassed for asking that. It was a common thing I made people tell me. I felt emotions so strongly, so I'm always asking, but this time it felt dumb of me to ask. Suddenly, his answer surprised me.
"I think I'm in love with you!" I dropped my hand and blushed. No one has ever told me they loved me before, wait, what? No, my father is in love with my mother, Carlisle is obviously in love with Esme. This is different though. I giggled to myself at the thought of this being love. Love isn't this strong.
"I have felt love before, but whatever this is, is much more powerful," I corrected. He let out a quick laugh, and his face darkened from how hard he was blushing, and suddenly, he was gone. A few seconds later there was a loud wolf howl that chilled my bones. I blinked a few seconds and noticed everyone else in the room. My face felt hot. I had honestly forgotten about them. They all seemed surprised, but happy. Pulling myself together, I turned my attention to the person I was sure I had been looking for. She looked as though she were in her early twenties. She had a cute round face that was strikingly similar to Bella's, but she had Edward's bronze hair. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of chocolate brown. She was tall and slender, and had fair skin. She was leaning into a man who looked similar to the one who I had just met for a brief moment. He was tall, and had wide shoulders and beautifully large muscles. His hair was black and cropped short unlike the other man whose hair was to his shoulders.
"You must be Renesmee, I'm Scarlett," I held out my hand to her and she graciously shook it, and I was overcome with images flooding my mind along with sweet voice.
"Hello, Scarlett, I am so excited to finally meet you." It was as if I were having a vision, but it was like I was being told a story. I saw a human version of Bella smiling back at me, although there was not much life left to her. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head, and Edward rushed by her side and started biting her, and injecting his venom into her. Another image came to my mind, and Bella was now a vampire. Her eyes were a deep red. The man whose name flowed to my mind as Jacob was standing in front of me protecting me from Bella. She was yelling at him, but I could feel the same power towards Jacob that I felt from the man from before. Another image came, and I was in a snowy field looking at my Volturri family. They were all together, looking like they were going to attack, but my hand raised and I could see my father's face fill with fascination.
"I have met your family before, see," She said in my mind. A man whose name came to my mind as Nahuel was introducing himself.
"He's like us too, he convinced your family to spare me. They thought I was a threat."
I could feel my actual hand on Renesmee now, and I concentrated to answer back.
"There are more hybrids out there other than you and me?"
"Yes, there are many others. Some have venom, some don't. We quit aging after around seven years old. I'm only seven myself."
"I'm six; I didn't realize we were so close in age."
"I want to show you more."
More images flooded my mind of Renesmee going to school once her aging slowed. That's when she confessed her love for Jacob. I could see images of her crying when she found out he had once loved her mother. She took a while to get over it, but he loves her. I saw Jacob turn into a giant, rusty brown colored, wolf.
"The men with me can shift into wolves. Seth is the other guy you just met."
I saw an image of him shifting into a sandy-blonde colored wolf. I also saw him laughing, and my heart squeezed when I saw his dimples. His hair was shorter then, and he was younger. Jacob seemed to be the same age now.
"Why is Seth older, and Jacob is still the same age then?"
"If you stop phasing, then you start to age again. Seth wanted to go to college, and get older, so he stopped phasing for about five years, he only started phasing again recently, so he quit aging."
I wanted to see more of Seth, although she was showing me her story. It was like she heard me so I instantly started to see more of Seth. He was graduating high school, and then he was at his mother's wedding with another girl. I felt a twang of jealousy, but then she showed me that was his sister, Leah, who was also a wolf. I saw him doing a backflip off of a cliff and into the ocean below. He seemed so full of life, so happy. I could only dream of being free like him. I could never do those things. My family would kill me.
All the images faded away, and I was staring into her brown eyes, as she was mine. Her hand was still on my cheek, and mine was on hers.
"What made you come here, other than to meet me?" Tears filled my eyes.
"I'm the princess, so I'm always on lockdown. Constantly guarded, and I can't handle it anymore. You guys were my scape goat."
"They will come for you, you know."
"I know, but I have to try to convince them to let me stay. There's so much more here. I want to be here. I want to see and learn what adventures I can find in life. I want to be able to experience school, love, and so much more. I want to feel the adrenaline you felt while cliff jumping for myself. They would never let me. I was a gift to my mother, and nothing more. If they don't listen, I'll just have to make them."
"How would you do that?"
"I have mind control. Me being able to talk to you is new, but it started with me only being able to control emotions, but now I can make people do things if I tell them to. It's easier for me if I can touch them, but with humans, I can control an entire room without any effort."
"That's so cool! I can project thoughts if you haven't figured that out yet."
"Let me go to school with you, I want to learn," I blurted, "I want to be apart of something."
"We'll have to figure the details later, but I will try to convince my grandparents to send you in as their own. We should really get back to talking to everyone else."
"Wait! One last question."
"Yes?"
"I know this is a weird question, but since I can always feel everyone's emotions, I always get fascinated when I feel something new. What is that you feel whenever you're around Jacob? It's like a pull, and it's like love, but it's so powerful it makes me need to sit down."
"Uh, it's like an unbreakable bond, but I can't be the one to tell you, I'm sorry." And in an instant Renesmee's hand dropped and she was no longer with me.
I looked around the room and everyone seemed really confused.
"Well that was just about the coolest thing I have ever heard," Edward exclaimed, "I've never heard two people talking telepathically before and that was one of the most amazing experiences to be apart of."
"I've never been jealous of your power until now, Edward," Bella laughed.
"Jacob, I suggest you go get Seth, Scarlett has a lot of questions," Renesmee told Jacob and he nodded and held out his hand for me to shake.
"I'm Jacob, by the way."
I shook it and replied, "I know, Renesmee told me."
He shook his head and was then out the door. I saw him phase right before my eyes and gasped. He bolted into the woods. I was going to start more conversation, but I remembered the fire in my throat. I was so hungry.
"Carlisle, we need to get her some blood. She's hungry," Edward said and winked at me.
"Oh, of course," Carlisle replied, "I assumed your family probably raised you on human blood, correct? I have some blood bags in the fridge for you."
"What else would I drink other than human blood?" I laughed.
"Well now we can discuss the difference in my family's eye color compared to what you're used to. We are what you call vegetarians," He smirked, "We only drink animal blood and that's what makes our eye color the color they are."
I scrunched up my nose in disgust, "I'm sorry, but that sounds disgusting."
Everyone in the room laughed and I felt my face flush.
"Yes, well it is an acquired taste, but it's more humane." I nodded in agreement, and Esme came up to me and handed me a wine glass filled with blood. I could feel the warmth radiating off the glass.
"I heated it up for you, Dear," she smiled and I sipped it down like a lady. It was sweet and tangy and I tried to control myself from just chugging it. It wouldn't be very proper. The door opened, and Jacob walked in with Seth following. Seth was shirtless and sweaty and I felt my body get hot. There was a tug at my heart and a squeeze in my stomach. His body was so muscular, as if angels carved it. I could feel my breathing get heavy, and he was giving me a strange look. I looked down at my glass. I hope there's no blood on my face.. I wiped my mouth and looked back at him, and he was still giving me the same look. He looked as though he wanted to say something, but he didn't.
"Anyone else hungry?" Edward spoke suddenly, "Wow, I am so hungry, let's go on a family hunt."
"I actually just ate-" Emmett tried to reply, but Rosalie gave him a firm whack in the stomach.
"I'm hungry too, let's go," she grabbed his hand and in a flash, Rosalie, Emmett, Edward, and Bella were gone.
"Guess we should go to," Alice said and she and Jasper were gone. Esme smiled and shook her head, but then they were gone.
"Sorry, I want to join too!" Renesmee said and she and Jacob ran out of the house giggling, leaving me alone with Seth. I gulped in nervousness, and kept sipping at my drink. The back of my neck started sweating, and suddenly I no longer wanted to be in my robes.
"So," he said after a pause that felt like eternity, "I'm Seth."
"I know."
"Oh," he put his hands in his short pockets and looked down at his feet, "Sorry I like ran out earlier."
"It's okay," I laughed, "it was just sudden. I probably freaked you out whenever I forced you to answer my question."
"It wasn't that, it was something else," he said still staring at his feet. I stood up from the barstool at the kitchen counter, but he backed up, so I sat back down.
"Sorry, but I don't bite, I mean I do, but I won't," I laughed at myself and he let out an awkward, small, but beautiful chuckle.
"Well, as long as you aren't venomous, I don't think I'll mind," he smirked. Was he flirting with me?
"Nope, not venomous, but they are still razor sharp," I winked, and he blushed, but he actually walked forward towards me. I inhaled sharply. I could smell him now that everyone was out of the room. He smelled like the woods with a hint of cinnamon. I wanted to breathe in deeper, but I didn't want to seem weird. When he was right in front of me, my head felt dizzy. Good thing I was sitting because I may have fainted.
"Listen, I would really like to talk to you, but I don't want anyone else to hear. I'm sure they aren't out of earshot, but I understand if you don't want to go anywhere with a stranger."
I laughed, "I'm already staying with a family of vampires I met today, of course I'll go with you. Besides I can handle myself if you have bad intentions." I tapped my head.
"Right, mind control," he replied, "I would never, by the way."He headed towards the door, held it open for me, and I made sure to slightly brush against him whenever I passed. I noticed him shudder, but I only felt the electricity between us. One we were outside he stopped.
"Now I'm going to go around this tree, but when I come back I don't want you to be scared, I want you to follow me. Think you can keep up?" I nodded. I bet he was planning on phasing. Sure enough, a few seconds later, he came back around as a huge sandy colored wolf. He was so beautiful I wanted to run my hands through his hair, I went to reach out, but then he started running, so I ran after him. He was faster than me, which surprised me. I was falling behind, but he turned his head back and slowed his pace when he realized. I must have followed him through the trees for miles. We jumped across a small river, and kept going until we were on a pebbled beach. His paced slowed to a stop and I had to look at the moon reflecting off the dark ocean. I was so fascinated; I didn't even notice him change back into human form.
"You might want to take your robe off."
"Excuse me?"
"No! Not like that," he stammered, "like if you have clothes on underneath take it off. I don't want you to get your robe wet."
"Oh." I shrugged it off and immediately was happy about my decision. The feeling of the salty air hitting my face made me relax. He plopped down onto the sand and I followed.
"This is beautiful, where are we?" I asked.
"We are on a secluded beach in La Push. We're on the Quileute tribe's reservation. Vampires are technically not allowed over here because of the treaty, so we won't worry about anyone bothering us."
"Well I'm half vampire," I scoffed, "and vampires go where they want."
"Well you and Renesmee are exceptions," he answered, "But if any vampires do come over here, they will be hunted down by the pack."
I looked at him questioningly, and he added, "It's a long story. Basically us wolves are around to protect our people from vampires. It's instinct for us to hate them. We're natural enemies. We can't even stand each other's smells."
I furrowed my eyebrows and my heart dropped. So basically he's here to tell me we could never be friends or anything, but Renesmee's with Jacob; I don't understand, "Well you smell good to me," I grumbled.
"No! I don't think you smell if that's what you're thinking!" he seemed worried, "You smell amazing, like a fresh bouquet of roses, I promise. Hybrids for some reason don't smell bad to us for some reason. Maybe it's the human side of you guys. To us, vampires have this sticky, sweet, pungent smell and to vampires, we smell like wet dog."
"Oh, I see."
"Anyway, I brought you here to talk to you about something. I'd rather just tell you now before you end up making me tell you," He took a deep breath, "Okay, so here's the thing. There's, um, this thing called imprinting."
