Chapter 3- the unbelievable now believable

(Sorry I said she was 18! Erase that out of your mind she's 16)

My heart was ramming against my chest. Nothing could have prepared me to have seen what I am seeing. The man who had attacked me had un-humanly possible glowing red eyes and knotted blonde hair that was hanging down in his eyes. His skin was pale and looked like smooth white stone, and with his mouth open you could see pointed fangs protruding from his mouth. I had only seen things like this in movies but in the movies was

Dressed up people in costumes; here was something right in front of me. Things like this were only supposed to exist in old stories told around a fire at night or in Halloween specials on TV … so how am I seeing this? After the shock of what I was seeing started fading I started realizing more "JASPER STOP!" the man who had saved me from death yelled as he held the red-eyed struggling man against a tree by his neck. Although this man had supposedly saved me from a certain death he

had the same pale stone skin, and I assumed that whatever the man was he was holding back from me was he was too. His hair was shorter and his arms were a bit larger and stronger-looking. A shock went down my spine

… What if he wasn't protecting me but fighting like a wild animal to kill me, I was sure no matter the outcome of this fight I wasn't going home. I wondered how long it would take for my mother to notice my absence, and if my father would find out somehow. Maybe he would care… maybe he would feel bad about leaving us. My thoughts were suddenly snapped off when my so called "protector" threw the man he called Jasper into the ground almost as effortless at throwing away a sheet of paper. When he hit the earth the ground beneath me shook. What were these people?

I knew the word that would name them but my brain wouldn't let me bring it to mind. "Go home jasper!" He yelled again holding him to the ground. Although he was struggling to get out of his grasp, the red eyes were glued on me never looking away or even blinking. "Jasper!" an unidentified female voice screamed from behind me, I tried to get a look at who it came from but I couldn't bring myself to lift my head any higher. Finally leaving my gaze, Jasper turned toward the voice and the struggle calmed, and in a blink of an eye he was gone from under my abettor. "What are you going to do about this Edward!" the girl bellowed once again. "Just take him back to Carlisle I will deal with this…" I was sure that meant kill me off … but why go through that much trouble to save me just to throw me away? The woods briskly went silent again, and I wondered if he had left me but then his voice, calmer now, spoke towards me, "can you get up?" I wasn't even sure of that can I?

I lifted one leg

No problem

Then the other

A sharp pain but no too bad

First arm

Shoulder hurts buts usable

The other

Fine

I came to the conclusion that my body was some-what applicable. I raised my voice as much as I could but I still wasn't sure if it was enough for him to hear me, "yeah I… I think so" I slowly lifted myself off the ground, but when I got to my feet spasms of pain went through my left leg and I fell back down on my butt. I looked up at him, his eyes were a bright bitter-sweet apricot shade that seemed to look through me, unlike Jasper he was more mystifying than terrifying, and I felt like getting close to him. "Here…" he said as he neared me and lifted me into his arms as if he read my mind.

"Where do you live?" I didn't want to tell him I wasn't done with this; I needed to know what happened… "Please don't ask me questions" My heart jumped. He did know what I was thinking… "Well then you can just set me back down then" the words came out without me being able to stop them. He gave me agitated look, and though I knew that this wasn't supposed to played with I felt strangely comfortable in the arms of … again my mind wouldn't let me declare it. "Just tell me…" he hissed. I thought a second before I spoke again although I was sure he could hear everything I was contemplating, "I will tell you if you explain why he... Jasper attacked me" "OK listen" he was looking me straight in the eyes now. Even though everything about him wasn't ordinary he felt so normal to me. His voice was as smooth as he spoke, "what happened with him was NEVER supposed to happen, and I am NOT normal. If you don't tell anyone about anything you won't get hurt so please just tell me" Every thought about him being normal was now erased from my mind completely. Part of me was terrified when my senses finally snapped but the other half was now completely infatuated. I was in the arms of a vampire.