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Masen's POV

My sister knew me too well. It was very difficult to keep up with her once she climbed into the trees. I may be faster but she can definitely jump higher than I can. I followed the movements of leaves and branches, relying on my nose mostly to stay with her. It was then that I caught the scent of somebody else. Someone not human…but not a vampire either I could smell their blood. I knew I should be looking for Nessie , but what if whoever was out there found her first. I started to panic slightly and my heart beat faster.

I caught a stronger trail of the mystery scent, it smelled like citrus, almost like a lemon, but softer, sweeter. I looked above me and I saw a pair of neon yellow eyes looking down at me. In an instant they were gone, a blur through the trees. I took my chances and leapt onto a branch to follow whoever those eyes belonged to. In an attempt to stop me from chasing them a large branch was hurled in my direction. Well if they were going to play rough then so was I.

I still couldn't take gravity away but I could make it seem as if there were no tree's to swing through anymore. It only took a few seconds but I turned my surroundings into space, leaving planets where a few of the branches actually were so that I could find my way. As soon as the coverage from the trees was gone she screamed and looked towards me. She didn't dare take a step, for all she knew she could plummet with her next step. I started making my way towards her leaping onto my mock planets.

She seemed mesmerized by my illustrations for a moment, but quickly regained her composure and attempted what I was doing and jumped for a planet. Unfortunately the one she aimed for was not a tree branch and she began falling, screaming as she was unsure of how far she would fall. I dove towards her turning the scenery back to normal as I dropped. I didn't catch her but I grabbed ahold of her wrist before she could run from me again.
She turned to me when she realized I wouldn't let her go.

"What did you do?" She said accusingly. Her voice was deep and had a rasp to it. She was beautiful. Her hair was a deep brown color, it was almost black, except for a large streak in the front that seemed to be a searing shade of blonde.

"Incredible." I said trying to stroke her hair. She slapped my hand away with a disgruntled look on her face.

"It's only the sun." She said taking a step further under the shade. Her hair lost the streak of color and uniformed into the brown framing the rest of her face. She tugged at her wrist again.

"Let go of me, I have to get home." She said aggravated when I couldn't let go of her.

I definitely had never seen her before walking through the cities. I'm positive I would have seen her or smelt her if she was a local. Her scent was stronger and more intoxicating than any human. Her mouth was agape waiting for me to speak or give any sort of reaction. She had a very narrow face but her cheeks and lips were full, almost too full for her frame. She looked younger than I was maybe 16, her skin and her heartbeat were the same as mine, and she was gorgeous. I had never met another hybrid that didn't already live with me. I was curious to know where she came from. Her eyes kept darting to the left of her, but I was positive that nobody was there.

"Who are you?" I asked her finally.

"None of your business now let me go!" She replied angrily.

"Listen girl you were stalking me, now I want to know why." I demanded tightening my grip on her wrist.

"I wasn't stalking you!" She exclaimed in disgust. "I was just hanging out here in the forest when I saw the curly haired girl running into the forest. I climbed into a tree and when I saw you chasing her I followed the both of you. I thought you may have been trying to hurt her." She said frowning her eyes seemed to be shining bright like electricity. "Kind of like what you are doing to me now. Look you were the one who started chasing me boy so I can't see how you can accuse me of being the threat here."

"That girl is my sister; I wasn't trying to hurt her." I began to tell her. I slackened my grip but I still didn't let her go. "I would never hurt her, she ran off by herself and our parents are going to kill her when they find out. I was trying to get her to come back."

That's when Renesmee finally entered my mind again. What was I doing her? This girl wasn't going to hurt me. I was still curious to know more about her, but I had more important things to do right now.

"I have to find her." I said dropping the inky haired girls arm finally. I turned trying to find Nessie's scent, but I couldn't, I started to panic again. I began to run to the spot where I had last been able to smell her.

"Wait!" The girl ran after me into the sunlight, still half covered by the shade of the leaves. Her hair looked as if little golden snowflakes had fallen upon it.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" She said sarcastically. "I was just your threatening hostage a second ago and now I'm free?" She stiffened her body and held her head high, jetting out her bottom lip again. "I could be an assassin. That could have all been a cover and you just completely let your guard down."

I chuckled, I couldn't help it. "You're serious?" I said with my crooked smile. I just shook my head at her. "I need to find my sister." I said still smiling and began to walk away again.

"She isn't in any danger." The girl called after me again. This time my back stiffened.

"How would you know?" I rounded on her. "Do you know where she is?"

She shook her head. "No I don't I just…well if you two are close presumably I would be able to tell if she were in any mortal danger…I have gifts too." She smirked. "Besides it's safe out here. I come out here all the time and nobody harms me… Except of course, for handsome boys who can somehow turn a forest into a solar system." She finished looking towards the ground.

I could swear I saw her blush. I did too, I couldn't help it. She was really hot, and she just called me handsome.

"What is your name?" I asked her finally realizing that I absolutely needed to know this.

"Aria." She said looking back up at me. "What's yours?"

"Masen" I replied nervously. "Do you live nearby?"

She nodded and continued. "With my family, we only moved here about a year ago. We traveled a lot during my childhood, but my uncle keeps telling me we will be able to go home soon, to where they lived before I was born. So I don't think we will be here much longer."

My heart sank a little. "That's too bad. I mean it's great your family will be where they want to be but, I won't get to see you again."

She smiled. "Well you are seeing me right now." She smirked walking towards me. "You should be more grateful for the things you have Masen Cullen." She ended running her soft delicate hand down my face.

I shut my eyes and smiled absorbing her embrace when common sense came crashing into me. My eyes widened and my smile faded, I pulled her hand away from me. I think she knew she had messed up as her eyes had widened as well and again she began glancing to her left.

"I never told you my last name." I said coldly trying to figure out why she knew me, why I was so easily persuaded into staying her with her instead of finding Renesmee.

"You're stalling me." I said backing away. She reached out for me grabbing my arm and holding on tight.

"No Masen, I swear I'm not. Please listen to me-"

But she was cut off before I could even give her a chance to explain. There was female screaming in agony close by. I recognized the voice, it was Cassie. I turned to look at Aria who seemed as genuinely confused as I was. Before we had the time to make a step toward her cries Aria and I were both sent flying backwards with a tremendous force. It was painful; it felt as if my entire body was vibrating right down to my bones.

Aria and I didn't separate as she still clung to my forearm while we were being thrown backwards. I could feel her fingernails dig deep into me, I was pretty sure she made me bleed. We finally stopped when I hit a tree, I was able to keep ahold of Aria but I felt my shoulder blade snap from her pulling it back so far when she stopped. I cried out when it cracked, I was pretty sure I had pulled it out of the socket.

"Masen, I'm so sorry!" She said stumbling into me, throwing the both of us against the tree once more.

"Hold still." She said with an empathetic expression on her face.

She placed one of her legs in between mine to keep me from moving; the other was squeezing me from behind. If the excruciating pain hadn't been distracting me I was sure that I would have gotten an erection from her body placement. She placed her arm across the length of my chest and with her other arm ripped my arm toward her as hard as she could.

I screamed out in agony, and ended panting, holding on to my now reattached shoulder. My eyes were watering from the pain.

"I'm sorry." She said. "But it would have been a lot worse if you didn't take care of it."

"I appreciate your concern Aria but either way it fucking hurts!" I screamed squinting my eyes trying to yell the pain away.

"Here." She said walking up to me. "Every time I hurt myself as a kid my mom would kiss the wound and it would make it feel better."

I still had my eyes shut and scoffed at her. "I'm not 5 you kn-"

But I was cut off, thankfully this time it wasn't due to a sound wave tsunami. I figured she was going to kiss my shoulder blade in a lame attempt to distract me from the pain. Instead Aria lifted my head into her hands and placed her lips on mine. They were so warm and inviting and moved so gently across mine.

My scowl faded and I held the back of her head touching the hair that intrigued me so when I first saw her. I didn't even care that somehow she knew more about me than she lead on. This was my first kiss, and I was going to enjoy it as long as it lasted. A few glorious moments later she finally pulled away from me, gently biting my bottom lip as she parted. I opened my eyes, still cradling her head, to look into hers; they looked like two brilliant suns.

She smiled radiantly and giggled. "She I told you a kiss would take the pain away."

I laughed as well she was right. I certainly wasn't thinking about the pain anymore, and was in fact holding her with my recently injured, then uninjured arm.

"I hope that isn't how your mother used to do it." I said laughing inappropriately.

She slapped my good arm playfully. "C'mon let's go find your cousin, it was my aunt that was doing that to her."

Okay, that was it. I started running with her towards Cassie but I had some questions for Aria along the way. "Are you a mind reader or something? I never told you she was my cousin, and you said yourself earlier there was nobody dangerous out here, why would your aunt hurt my cousin?"

She sighed before giving her reply. "My Aunt goes off the handle pretty quickly when she feels threatened but really, she isn't dangerous to the ones she loves." Aria protested. "But no I am not a mind reader. Like I said earlier I am gifted, but your thoughts are safe from me."

"Then how did you know my sister was safe? How did you know I was related to Cassie?"

"How did you turn the forest into fricken outerspace Masen?" She answered me getting annoyed once again. "We can talk about it later; right now can we both just make sure that they are okay?"

I nodded and sped off a bit faster, which Aria had no problem keeping up with me.

This girl was incredible.