a/n hey! soooooo sorry...I kept forgetting to ask my beta to beta this chapter...and inbetween school and the rest of the life I got over the summer, I haven't had a chance to until now...the good news is that I hve nothing to do until later on today, so I have about 3 hours to write! and I'll hopefully be able to write really quickly and give you another 2 or 3 or more chappies...no promises though...lol+
Irreplaceable
It's been only a few days since the call, and in an effort not to weaken me by over-using my powers, Edward, Carlisle, Esme, and I went hunting. When they thought I was hunting and when the rest were in the middle of hunting a little further off, and wished that I was some where else, far away, in an area with no one around.
I heard a phone start to ring as I started to leave, and knew that my plan had worked well enough and that they couldn't stop me from leaving. And since I didn't know where I was going, neither did they.
I closed my eyes, and waited a bit. When I opened my eyes, I was in a rain forest. I heard animals running from me, but decided that I wouldn't hunt right then. I had hunted a few bears before I left anyway. There was no reason for me to stay. For all I knew, I could be somewhere close to them and they could find me easily.
I looked toward the sun to see what time of day it was in this part of the world to find it was somewhere near noon.
I ran to the nearest voices, still far away. when I came close enough to tell what it was, I found that it wasn't much of a town, but more like a little village. The village had very small, grimy homes, none of which looked strong, with dirt paths to walk on. The people of the village were dark skinned, some with short hair, some with long, but none looked well-cut, most looked like a parent had cut it.
I slowed to a human walk so I would be able to gather as much as possible about this community before I stepped foot into it.
As I walked closer, I saw that girls were carrying water buckets to homes, and that everyone was barefoot. I discovered that many children looked homeless, sleeping in boxes and working in corn fields behind the village.
I was in Africa, then. I knew I could stay here for a few days before they had any chance of finding me.
Minutes after realizing this, I thought about how I would never fit in at the community and if someone came out they would be wondering why I was there. I quickly changed my skin tone to deep brown, my eyes to black, and my hair to black. I messed up my hair and made it shorter, like many girls' style's around here, and tore up my clothes a bit, then covering them in mud and dirt to make it look like I was dirty and venturing in the wild for a long time. The last thing I did was dirty myself up a bit.
I walked on a bit, taking in more of the village, before I was sure that I would fit in well. I ran until when they could see me, and slowed to a human run, until I was really close. I then made myself look tired and parched, and walked through the bushes into this community that would hopefully let me stay for a bit.
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When I stepped in, all heads turned toward me. I must have looked either more beautiful than the norm, or, what I was hoping, was that new people walking out of no where was a rarity.
I walked to a few adult women, and asked them, guessing languages until I got one right, "Is your village welcoming to me?"
I'm sure I got some of it wrong, but they understood me, and one, the oldest looking one, answered me with a frown.
"We have very little room, we need the room we have and food to feed our children."
"I will get food somewhere else, I won't take up much room, I will help you take care of your children," I started. "I only need a place to stay for a few days."
In truth, I didn't, I could move on any day I wanted and at any time, but if I stayed somewhere for a few days at a time, maybe they would be more confused.
"We will let you stay one day to rest, but you must move on, and you will help as much as any one else." The same one from last time spoke.
I asked them what I should do, and did it without complaint. At the end of the day, I went around the village, after everyone was asleep, to make sure they were asleep. Then I ran into the night and hunted. When I would get back, I would be able to pretend to be asleep and wake up when the earliest risers awoke.
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I 'awoke' with a few women, one of them being the one whom had granted me permission to stay, and a few from the original group who I walked up to.
I left after I said goodbye to them, and as soon as I was out of sight, I wished that I was closer to Forks, but far from the Cullens. I did this a few times before I decided it was time to stay where I was long enough to hunt.
I hunted, in a mountain full of forests with no humans in the area, and drank the blood of two bears and a deer before I heard someone's thoughts.
A second later, they were gone. I would have heard hearts if they were human. I would have heard or seen it too, but I didn't. Whoever this is, she or he is a vampire.
I waited where I was, and talked loud enough that any vampire just out of my thought rang, could hear me, for a bit.
"Hello? I know someone is out there, and I know you're a vampire, as I am."
After a while more of waiting, while I was giving up finding whoever it was, the vampire walked through the bushes.
It was a single vampire, with no coven. A female, changed at 25, with orange eyes. Whoever this was, she was trying to turn vegetarian.
"I am Bella, what is your name?" I asked the quiet stranger. Afraid of why I couldn't hear her thoughts. This must have been what Edward had felt when he first saw me.
"I-I'm Melanie," she stuttered.
"Nice to meet you, Melanie," I started, "may I ask if you have an extra sense?"
"What do you mean?" she asked, confused.
"Well, I have a few extra senses and powers, and I can't use any on you or when I'm around you," I stated while I was trying to use any of my other powers on her. None of them would work.
"I guess I do…" Melanie pondered, looking as if she was thinking for a moment after, "I have never met another vampire. I didn't know that's what I was. I just found that I wanted human blood and that I was going to kill, so I came into these mountains."
I laughed, remember how over the time when we where planning the wedding, Alice and the others told their stories, and Alice didn't know anything until she had the visions, and still didn't know she was a vampire.
I wasn't going to think of them now though, I should just get on with trying to get to Forks. Maybe if I have her with me, I'll be able to block Alice from seeing me, and I could know where I was going! I thought about it for a moment and decided to ask her.
"So, would you like to join me?"
a/n so now I shall try to write a LOT of chappies, get them betad, and get them on, in the next 3 or so hours!