Mending Hearts Chapter 19: Songs Of The Past, a twilight fanfic

Disclaimer: Twilight is owned by Stephanie Meyer. NOT ME. Edward might be freakin' smokin' hot but I DO NOT OWN HIM. If you want him you can ask Stephanie Meyer or possibly Bella Swan.

Bella's POV

"So, what are we going to do until they let us out of here and we kick butt?" Sapphire asked.

We all sat there in deep thought until my Edward broke the sillence, "The wishers could tell us how they got changed and there stories." he suggested.

"OK." Sapphire agreed happily, "I'll start."

"I was born in southern Alabama." She started, "My mom, Sue, didnt like it much there so we moved to Tennessee were I met Skylar, Austrella, and Alex. We instantly became good friends. I also met Jacob."

"Wait how in the heck did you meet Jacob if that was like 50 years ago?" Emmet asked in a matter of fact tone.

"I'm getting to that" Taigen added and continued "Then Skylar and Austrella introduced me to Austin and Michael." she nodded towards Austin and Michael who were sitting beside none other than Austrella and Skylar.

"Skylar was with Michael and Austrella was with Austin, still. Surprise, surprise. Well, one day we all went over to Jacob's house to hang out. That day we found out that Jake was a werewolf. We walked up to his door and knocked. No answer. We were about to turn around and give up after the fourth try when a giant russet wolf came bounding out of the woods after a white and brown blur. Little did we know that it was a vampire named Lilly. Only when we paused did we see that it was a 'human'. The wolf pounced onto Lilly but she got away. Using vampire speed she bit all of us… Skylar Micheal, Austrella, Austin, Me, and Alex …" she paused a little uncomfortable with continuing.

"When we woke up Jake told us he had killed the one called Lilly and that now We all were vampires, the others said he smelled horrible, but I don't know how to me he smelled… let's just say he was my singer" everyone nodded and she continued "We all went to my house because my Mom was at her friend Tracey's funeral. Jacob said We couldn't stay long…We just looked to different so we tried to figure out a plan.Jake started to get really mad at himself for letting this happen to me and the rest of us, making us move away from him when we were his best friends. Then Lea showed up, saw the whole Alex ordeal, and Jake got really ticked off... yet again... and attacked the closest vulnerable thing to him. Lea. I had to bite her to keep her existing. Then she kissed Jacob later. I thought Jake was cheating on me so I left along with the wishers, after I attacked and almost killed him." she said shamefully.

"In fact h-he" she started to stutter here but she never showed any emotion to the subject. "He was so badly injured I had to,let's say use a power I had never used before on the spot and it caused something really weird to happen. Jacob disappeared, I thought he was gone forever. I didn't know what I would do seeing as I caused this all. It turns out he was sent into the present to relive his life… but he remembered everything from his past, his nephew is now his father…" She sighed.

"I soon found out that my Mother died in a car accident, that I didn't know about, on the way back from Tracey's funeral." a single tear fell from her eye but she quickly gained composure. "I still had my Dad but my sister was with him and I couldn't jolly well go back to him and her and say 'Look dad I'm a vampire now so you and Lyn are going to have to stay away so I don't suck you dry... Lyn was my little sister."

"That's it for my story. Not exactly they lived happily ever after thing but more like a... sad beginning." she smiled, "The princess might get her prince after all." Even without reading her thoughts you could tell that she was thinking of finding Jake again. I was happy that he had finally found someone that would love him back.

"You already know my story..." Alex said, "So, I really dont need to tell it. Plus, I got a happily ever after... after some dragon slaying that is." She said thinking back to Rosalie's death. Everyone laughed, even if some laughed light-heartedly.

"What's your story Austrella?" Jasper asked.

She flinched involuntarily. It was obviously a question she didn't want to answer. "I was a foster child," she said quietly, "Along with my twin, Andria, and my older sister, Heather. Our parents both died in a car crash on the way home from my friends' birthday party. I was in the car with them and was put into critical condition. There was a drunk driver in the car that rammed into the front of the car. They had to use the Jaws of Life to get me out, I was out cold. Nobody came to look for me after I was changed. These people," She pointed out Sapphire, Skylar Austin Michael and Alex, "They were the only ones who cared." She couldn't speak any more. Austin rubbed comforting circles on her back. I was sitting next to them so I heard what he was whispering, "I would have looked for sure."

"Who wants to go next?" Sapphire asked.

"I will." Skylar said, not so happy any more. "Well, I was born in Tennessee just like my mother, Brenda. My father, Thomas, was born in Kansas. My parents were together. So basically everything that happened to Sapphire happened to me. My parents put me on the little picture on the back of an advertisement just like in the song "Paper Angles" by Jimmy Whane. I never saw them again after Alex's... incident." she lowered her head, "I didn't even get to say goodbye."

"What's your story Tally?" I asked.

"Well, at first I didn't remember my past. But after I met Zane...again... I started to remember. It turns out the Zane and I were turned by the same vampire. Zane had been searching for me considering that I was the love of his life even when we were human. The vampire's name was James, Victoria/Lea's mate. I was born in east Tennessee in the mountains. My dad, Henry, worked in some record producing company. My mom, Ellie, stayed home and watched my sister, Stacey, and me. One day when Zane was walking me home nobody answered the door. I took the key from under the matt and walked inside."

She shuttered as the images crept up on her, "My mother lie on the floor... dead. Two puncture wounds in her neck. I ran into my sister's room looking everywhere for her, just praying that she was alive. I found her in her room. The blood sucked out of her. She was only eight years old and she didn't deserve to die."

Tears spilled from her eyes. "I ran all the way to Zane's house. When I found him, the same fate had happened to his family. James bit us and separated us thinking it would be worse than death itself. He didn't think I would become a wisher. I killed his twin brother eight years later. I gave him eight more years. I gave him those eight years because I got eight years with Stacey before he killed her." Tally sobbed into Zane's shirt.

"I guess I'm next." Acebo sighed. "Ok. When I was seventeen years old, my father went MIA."

"MIA?" I asked.

"Missing in action, he was a general in the war. My mother was heart broken. She went out for a drive when she found out and... Never came back, Leaving me to fend for myself. When I was eighteen I could finally join the army. My plan was to go looking for my father. I disobeyed orders not caring what the consequences were. I visited abandoned camp sights were my father had been. One day, after half a year, I found him. He was lying there screaming things about fire."

Then she sent us all images. I don't think she realized why the others didn't send us images. They didn't want us to go into severe depression.

"The fire!" a man screamed. I was guessing that this was Acebo's dad.

"It's OK Dad, I'm here." Acebo tried to calm her father while crying her eyes out. Her dad was writhing on the floor in pain.

"He did that for two and a half days." Acebo commented before showing us the rest.

Acebo's face was pained and worried. She didn't even know what was happening to her father, even with her war training. She looked helpless and fragile; all she could do was sit there and try to comfort him. She sobbed for him. She tried her best to comfort him. She stayed up night after night.

"STOP THE FIRE!" he screamed once again while a man with black hair and a robe walked into the room. I already knew who he was. Aro. He looked just as friendly as ever with a warm smile on his face. I felt relief was over me, that was probably coming from Acebo's emotions at the time. I started to wonder what the heck Aro was doing in an old abandoned army campsite. You could tell just by looking at how miserable she had been for the past few days that this was Acebo's personal 'Hell on Earth'. She leaned forward with anticipation until she noticed his eyes and backed away. They were crimson, as always. Then she looked curious.

"I started to wonder if he was sick with some kind of eye disease." she interrupted again.

"Hello dear," Aro said. "What seems to be the problem." retard must be blind.

He reached out to touch her shoulder so he could read all her thoughts. It was obvious that when he realized he couldn't, he knew. He knew she was a wisher. Wishers were but legend then but Aro still believed. Acebo looked very surprised for some reason. A puzzled look covered his face; he was obviously wondering what might happen. His face grew dark he thought she would destroy him. Then contemplating, he was thinking of a plan. Then last but not least happy and content, his plan was written all over his face. His plan was: to change her and before she learns her powers, find a way to manipulate her and force her to join the Vulturi.

Aro picked up Acebo's dad and started walking away. What was he doing? "Stay here." he commanded.

"No! That's my father, I am staying with him!" Acebo argued fiercely from the dark corner, though it wasn't really her nature.

His smile transformed into a straight face, "Trust me you really don't want to see what happens to your father."

"I have the right to know!" she shouted a little louder than necessary.

"Alright," he smiled wickedly, "Then I will show you." he sat her dad down on the floor, and then walked slowly towards Acebo with a wicked grin plastered on his face. Her face showed fear, but also the determination to see what was to become of her father still shown in her eyes. Then he lept at her. She struggled to break free but his grip was to strong. Then he held her face and back to the floor and bit her neck. She screamed, raved about fire, and then it all went black.

"There's more." Acebo said.

She woke up and looked around room. Her eyes immediately went to Aro who was now in the corner. Her father lied beside her. She quickly crawled over to him at top speed. She looked surprised. I knew her senses seemed sharper to her at this moment. When she reached her father she noticed he was cold and when she checked his pulse, she realized that he was lifeless. She cried. He was dead.

"I soon learned that I was a vampire and that he had drunk from my father right before the change had been complete. I had torn the Aro to shreds and left him to 'die'. Little did I know, being a new vampire that I should have set him on fire?" Acebo cried.

"He was my only family left, and he was dead!" she whispered while sobbing.

"Well... that's everybody." Tally said. She was done with her crying.

"Wait I still have one question, well two..." Emmet said, "Alex and Acebo, where were you born?"

"I was born on the border between Tennessee and Kentucky. I mean right on the border. My mom, Sillia, went to visit my Aunt in Kentucky and her water broke. The nearest hospital was in Tennessee so he started to drive my mom there. But... it was 'time' and right as we were passing the border between Tennessee and Kentucky; the best baby ever was born! I don't think I would've waited for any one, not even my mother."

"Who?" Edward asked playfully.

Alex gave him a look and he shut up. I have learned that when Alex gives you a look, you either shut up or wake up very confused in the Indian Ocean.

"Duh me..." she said pointing to herself.

"I was born in New York." Acebo said.

"Well... I guess that settles that." Sapphire said.

"But we haven't told them about our special songs yet..." Tally said before Sapphire elbowed her in the ribs.

"Oww... that hurt." Tally said.

"What do you mean 'special songs'?" Alice asked.

"Nothing." Austrella said.

"Please tell us..." I begged.

"Fine." Alex said.

"We each have a 'special song'. A song that tells our heart something, or opens something up to us that it doesn't to most people."

"I want to go first!" Alex raised her hand high. "Mine is 'Independence Day' by Martina McBride" Then she began to sing.

"Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light though she looked a little
Worried and weak she tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' aagain but daddy left
The proof on her cheek and I was only eight years old that summer and I always
Seemed to be in the way so I took myself down to the fair in town on
Independence day

Well word gets a round in a small, small town they said he was a dangerous man
But mama was proud and she stood her ground she knew she was on the losin' end
Some folks whispered some folks talked but everybody looked the other way and
When time ran out there was no one about on indpendence day

Chours: let freedom ring, let the white dove sing let the whole world know that
Today is a day of reckoning let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong roll
The stone away, let the guilty pay, it's independence day

Well she lit up the sky that fourth of july by the time the firemen come they
Just put out the flames and took down some names and send me to the county home
Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong but maybe it's the only way talk
About your revolution it's indepenednce day

Roll the stone away it's independence day."

"Mine is 'Sweet Southern Comfort' by Buddy Jewell." She also started singing the song.

"Misty sunrise in my hometown,
Rows of cotton bout knee high,
Mrs. Baker down the dirt road,
Still got clothes out on the line,

Erwin Nichols there with Judge Lee,
Playin checkers at the gin,
When I dream about the southland,
This is where it all begins

From Carolina down to Georgia,
Smell the jasmine and magnolia,
Sleepy Sweet home Alabama,
Roll tide roll,
Muddy water, Misssissippi,
Blessed Graceland whispers to me,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort carry on,

Catchin catfish on the river,
Chasin fireflies by the creek,
Kissin Gary Williams sister,
On the porch Homecomin week,

With rusty cars and weeping willows,
Keepin watch out in the yard,
Just a snapshot of downhome Dixie,
Could be anywhere you are,

In Carolina or in Georgia,
Open arms are waitin for ya,
Louisianna yellow rose of San Antone,
Arkansas, Mississippi,
Old man river whispers to me,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort carry on,

As I sit here I'm surrounded,
By these priceless memories,
I don't have to think about it,
There's no place I'd rather be,

In Carolina or in Georgia,
Smell the jasmine and magnolia,
Sleepy Sweet home Alabama,
Roll tide roll,
Muddy water, Misssissippi,
Blessed Graceland whispers to me,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort carry on"

"What's yours Skylar?" Alice asked.

"'Back Where I belong' by Darryl Worley" Skylar answered. She also started to sing. Skylar's southern accent wasn't as prominent as the TV Tennessee people but it was still there. It just became more noticeable in the song.

"There's a little shack tucked back in the timber
It wasn't much back then but it was home
Sometimes it hurts me to remember
Just how long I've been gone

Oh how I miss the smell of mama's kitchen
And the way she used to sing those gospel songs
Right now I wish that me and dad were fishin'
So I could tell him, he was right, and I was wrong

Big city nights and lights surround me
Feels like a prison to my soul
I can hear a whippoorwill calling me home
Back where I belong

Now all the rockin' chairs are empty
I hate to think how tall the weeds have grown
I'd give back everything the good Lord gave me
If I could just go back to where I belong

Big city nights and lights surround me
Feels like a prison to my soul
I can hear a whippoorwill calling me home
Back where I belong
Back where I belong ."

"I chose 'Three wooden Crosses' by Randy Travis " Austrella said quietly.

"A farmer and a teacher
A hooker and a preacher
Riding on a midnight bus
Bound for Mexico
One was heading for vacation
One for higher education
And two of them were searching for lost souls

That driver never ever saw the stop sign
And 18 wheelers can't stop on a dime

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
Why there's not four of them heaven only knows
I guess it's not what you take
When you leave this world behind you
It's what you leave behind you when you go

That farmer left a harvest
A home and 80 acres
The faith and love for growing things
In his young son's heart

And that teacher left her wisdom
In the minds of lots of children
Did her best to give 'em all
A better start

And that preacher whispered
"Can't you see the promised land?"
As he lay his blood stained Bible
In that hooker's hand

That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday
As he held that blood stained Bible up
For all of us to see
He said, "Bless the farmer
And the teacher
And the preacher
Who gave this Bible to my momma
Who read it to me"

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
Why there's not four of them now I guess we know
It's not what you take
When you leave this world behind you
It's what you leave behind you when you go

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway..."

"Hmm... What was that song again?" Tally wondered out loud.

"You forgot?" Sapphire asked in disbelief.

"Kidding... its 'everywhere but Hollywood' by Tracy Lawrence" she paused then started singing

"full count three runs down bottom of the ninth
two outs gone three men on they all roll their eyes
its tiny's chance to prove them wrong and come out like a king
he bites his lip here comes the pitch with all his heart he swings
strike three

single mom best dress on
another blind date
first time in a long time she stayed out that late
a perfect night that ended with a tender porch light kiss
she really thought they hit it off and he would call again
he never did

chorus
everywhere you go
you see the faces of reality
things dont always go the way we thought they would
theres victories and broken dreams that never make the silver screen
real life scenes everywhere you look
yeah everywhere
everywhere but hollywood

hes working late she said she'd stay and help him out again
somethings shes got just wont stop its starting to get to him
just before he loses track of wrong and whats right
he sees an 8 by 10 of two great kids and him and his wife
and he calls it a night

theres victories and broken dreams that never make the silver screen
real life scenes everywhere you look
yeah everywhere
everywhere
oh everywhere
everywhere but hollywood
yeah everywhere but hollywood "

"Mine is 'Because Of You' by Kelly Clarkson" Austrella said.

I will not make the same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself cause my heart so much misery
I will not break the way you did
You fell so hard
I learned the hard way, to never let it get that far

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid

I lose my way
And it's not too long before you point it out
I cannot cry
Because I know that's weakness in your eyes
I'm forced to fake a smile, a laugh
Every day of my life
My heart can't possibly break
When it wasn't even whole to start with

I watched you die
I heard you cry
Every night in your sleep
I was so young
You should have known better than to lean on me
You never thought of anyone else
You just saw your pain
And now I cry
In the middle of the night
Over the same damn thing

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I tried my hardest just to forget everything
Because of you
I don't know how to let anyone else in
Because of you
I'm ashamed of my life because it's empty
Because of you
I am afraid

Because of you

"That was... interesting... you have songs why?" Emmet asked.

"Because we like songs and one day we were bored and decided to pick songs that told about our lives in some way. We had a very limited song choice." Alex said while glaring at Skylar.

"Hey, you know all my CD's are country!" Skylar countered.

Alex sighed, "Would it kill you to have variety?"

"I don't know if you noticed but really, I'm already dead." Skylar said.

"Keep it up and all your CD's will be replaced with bologna. I'm sure Emmet would have a ball with that." Emmet grinned showing that she was right.

"Meany head." Skylar mumbled. Alex just gave a satisfied smirk that she had won... again.

"They are truly songs of the past." Austrella mumbled. I wasn't sure I was supposed to here that.