Alright, here is the next chapter. I won't have time to write for the next couple of weeks due to finals, an English paper, and a History project. So review and be patient and only then will I try to put the next chapter up when I have the time. I will officially be out of school Wednesday December 17, time still unknown.
Disclaimer: Do not own Twilight, or any Hancock ideas that if you have seen Hancock will notice during the story.
If you haven't seen Hancock you should, it was a great movie. Great action, comedy…mild language, but overall good
Pulling up the long widened road, away from all other houses and no chance of neighbors, it was a good choice for us to be distant from other people. Just in case one of us did do something we could, should not be able to do if we were human, of course. We had just moved from Phoenix, Arizona a place we lived at for two times. The second time Tuesday July 3, 2007 to Sunday March 23, 2008, and the first time Monday January 8, 1923 to Thursday April 9, 1925. We never stayed in one place too long it would bring too much suspicion when the kids, me and my siblings, weren't aging as fast as others if we were even aging. As for instance my sister and I both weren't aging for the moment, but for my sister that was only temporary. She would probably start aging again in the summer if not sooner, while my non aging was pretty permanent, but hey you never know what the future holds.
It wasn't easy trying to live a normal life when we were far from it. We all had to lie about practically everything, to the point where it's hard to distinguish the truth from the lies, almost impossible.
The car pulled up into the driveway and everybody started dashing out of the car, to go take a look at our new home. This time though, we should be living here for a bit longer than our other houses before as we were surrounded by woods and nobody lived within miles of the house. We might even have been able to stay here longer if we didn't have to school again. High school was getting really intolerable. Yet, our parents kept forcing us into school wanting us to have a social life and not be distant from the world, life. There really weren't many of our kind.
Serenity was already making her way inside the house followed by Noah. Our parents stood outside looking at the house's structure, with Robert in mother's arms. They were probably checking out the house to see how much damage it could possibly take. The house, of course, didn't look too shabby, nicer than others I had been in. It could probably with hold our residence for a couple years, but that was my opinion. Not like I was the architect for the house, but then again I'm sure he hadn't built it to withstand our residence for too long.
A slight cough tore my eyes from the house to my left, where Katie sat. She could be so quiet at times you would forget she was even there. Her dark hair flowed around her face, hiding it slightly. Her piercing green eyes stared at me, a slight smile formed on her lips. She was youthful, extremely, only twelve years of age.
"So, what do you think of the house, Bella? Livable or a practice range for us?" she asked her eyes sparkling with humor.
Smiling from her joke I replied, "No, I actually like the house. I would hate to see it destroyed within days of our visit. I consider that it would make a wonderful place for us to live at, at least for a good couple of years. Afterwards, of course, when we have to leave we could have a real destructive party." Katie pondered the idea for a moment and then nodded her head while stepping out of the car. Following her actions shortly, we both walked up the steps and through the doorway of our new home.
Serenity and Noah were already looking around the room, searching through the cabinets and drawers. While I looked around the room, a family room I'm guessing, I had to admit the place was ideal for us, perfect even. It had the touch of the old times with the new modern times, which was what I loved the most. The room would look even better once the rest of our stuff arrived in the moving vans, ready for a place to be put. My mind focused on the placements when our parents walked in.
"So what do you guys think of the house, a good choice?" mom asked while setting Robert down so he could explore.
"Perfect is more like it," Serenity replied gleaming with happiness. She was the hardest of us to please when moving. It has been centuries since she's liked a house. Forks already seemed like a nice place for us to all live in the only problem was the rain.
"Yeah it couldn't be better, especially with nobody around," Noah added as I could see the dark gleam look in his eyes. He and Katie were both the newest in having powers, and Noah wanted every chance he could get to use them, for practice. Katie however was fine with waiting, coming from her laid back nature.
"Now this is what we need to talk about," dad said in a stern voice as he waited for all of us to take a seat. We all knew this speech was coming and I could see Noah's face sagging a bit from disappointment.
I took my place on the far left of the couch in the middle of the room with Serenity on the far right side. Noah sat down in the beige chaise next to me as Katie seated herself on the one sloping armrest of the chaise between Noah and me. Our parents sat down on the love seat right next to Serenity with Robert climbing up onto mom's lap.
"This house isn't very new. It's a couple decades old, and hasn't been lived in for awhile because of location, being so far away from town. We want this house to last, during our stay and after. So you all have to maintain control of your powers, and temper. No accidents, okay. We can't afford anymore of those," dad said looking us each in the eye. We had known to have done some damage from time to time, even before having our powers.
All our powers consisted of incredible strength and flying, nothing more except for the unique powers, though there was supposed rumors that we could go invisible. So far I haven't seen that happen. As for our unique powers, each one of us had a certain gift. For this family it seemed to center around the weather. Dad could control snow, mom fire, and I lightning, the reason I received my nickname of walking taser. Serenity, Noah, and Katie all had one as well just undiscovered. It had taken me twenty-five years after receiving my powers before I discovered I could control lightning. It was going to be a while before the other three discovered what their special power was.
Noah sank back into his seat sulking and disappointed while Katie cleared her voice. "So are you saying that we can never practice our powers?" Katie sheepishly asked.
"No, sweetie, that's not it. We are only saying not to destroy or damage the house in any way. You guys still can use your powers just when we are in a better environment for it," mom replied as Katie nodded looking happy while Noah didn't.
"A better environment…is that your way of saying we can't use our powers while were living here in the utensil city." Everybody laughed or smirked at Noah's comment of Forks, Washington while Noah continued to look disappointed.
"No, Noah. Why do you think we bought a house, so close to the woods this time?" mom asked as Noah's face lighted up a bit.
"Baseball!" Robert cried out while Noah's face brightened up even more.
Noah had only played baseball with the family a few times mostly he had to watch, which annoyed him incredibly. But he couldn't really play our game of baseball yet, until now.
"Yes and other games, that would be great practice for Noah and Katie," mom added.
"Can we play tonight?" Noah asked while I shook my head. We didn't really have that many players for the game, six in counting.
"No, not tonight," dad said while Noah started sulking again.
"But soon, when your relatives arrive for a visit," mom added while Noah nodded still looking a bit disappointed. Katie, however, was happy and nervous. She has been anxious about our relative's arrival since we all had found out about it.
"Indeed, it's a surprise visit really. Where we can all catch up on old times and have a fun game of baseball and other sports," dad said while Robert was cheering 'yeah, baseball.'
Robert always loved watching the game, like Noah once did, but soon like Noah I'm sure Robert will start getting bored of watching and want to play.
"Okay, now why don't you guys go upstairs and check out your rooms, while waiting for dinner. Each one was especially decided for you, but you can change it if you want. The moving vans however won't arrive until tomorrow night, something about delays," dad said dismissing us. "Katie yours is through the door next to the large window. Noah yours is across from Katie's. Serenity yours is the one at the left end of the hall." Katie, Noah, and Serenity all rushed upstairs for their room while I followed slowly.
"Bella, wait, your room isn't upstairs," mom said as both my parents stood up. I turned to look at them both confused. It must be downstairs this time.
"We thought you might want more privacy, so it's outside in the back. Go check it out, it won't be hard to find," dad said grinning. My eyes narrowed slightly at them, confused and suspicious of what was going on.
Walking out to the back through the back door I saw a small house-like building to the right. It was closer to the woods and farther from the house, giving me a lot of privacy. I walked over and opened the door to find my room perfect for me.
There were two rooms and a small closet in the small-house (if that's what you call it, maybe a pool house would be better, of course you had to have a pool for that now wouldn't you). One room a bathroom the other a bedroom/kitchen/family room. The bathroom wasn't luxurious, just like any other ordinary bathroom really, which I liked. The only thing in there that might not by so ordinary was the bathtub had jets for relaxation, which I might need at some points during the stay. The other room had a small refrigerator, stove, counter, couple chairs at the counter, comfy couch with a coffee table in front, worn down bookshelf with several books already in place, desk next to the bookshelf with a new lap-top sitting on top with a ribbon, window with a window seat (perfect for reading or looking outside), and of course a king sized-bed already made with a Victorian nightstand next to it. On top of the nightstand was an alarm clock and telephone.
I smiled as I jumped on my bed, happy with my new room. All it needed was some decorations, like paintings and statues that would arrive tomorrow night, until then I was satisfied with my room. Of course, I was also exhausted from the long ride, which would explain the reason I fell asleep shortly after.
Waking up around seven p.m. to my sister jumping on the bed was not a great experience. "Seren, get off," I said as my pillow muffled my voice.
"I will once you get up, dinners ready, and everybody is waiting for you," my sister replied smugly as she bounced harder.
"Fine, tell them I'm skipping dinner tonight, okay. Now get off my bed, so I can sleep."
"Hmmm…let me think about. No!"
"Serenity, I am ordering you to get off this minute."
"And what gives you the right to order me around. I have my rights, the constitution says so."
"Yes, I know that, I have rights as well. But for right now I am your older sister by one hundred some odd years, which gives me the right to order you off my bed!" I growled while Serenity laughed and still continued to jump
"By one hundred and fifty six, but where in the constitution does it state the older sister rights clause, hmmm?" Serenity asked. Okay, now she was getting down right annoying.
This was one of the times I couldn't blame Noah for getting irritated to her. She knew how to get under people's skin when she wanted to.
"The one where if you don't stop your insane jumping in the next five seconds I'm going to throw you out the window, literally," I threatened but my sister was still unfazed.
Threats no longer worked anymore since Serenity got her powers, which was a discouragement for me. How was I supposed to get her to listen to me anymore?
"That would cause you more damage to you than me, Bella. One because it's destruction of your own room, two mom and dad would make you pay the damages, three it wouldn't hurt me the slightest, and the fourth and final is because you would have to be up somewhat to accomplish your threat."
"Fine," I replied through gritted teeth as I could just picture my sister's triumph look on her face. "You win, I'm getting up." Slowly I got up and walked out of my room with my smug sister following. We walked into the house and into the dining room where everybody was already seated at the table.
Dad sat on the far end of the table, away from me, mom sat at the opposite far end, near me. Noah was on the right side of dad, Katie opposite of him, Serenity took a seat next to Katie with Robert to her left. I took my seat next to Noah, across from Serenity leaving an empty chair between mom and me, one that once was filled awhile ago.
We all sat there and ate quietly for the first twenty minutes before a conversation was able to get started. However, for that night I took Katie's place of not talking.
Afterwards, I went back to my own room while it was Katie's turn to do the dishes. Once inside I went over to my desk and looked through the drawers to see if there was anything. There wasn't, so I turned on my lap-top. After an hour or two I finally got it running, everything installed that needed to be installed. Turning it off, I went to the bathroom and got ready for bed. A pair of slacks with an old t-shirt I hadn't worn in years that my sister wanted me to get rid of. She hated the fact that I wore worn-out clothes. Having to go shopping with her was torture.
Going over to my bookshelf I looked over the books and found Wuthering Heights. It was a brand new copy unlike my worn-out, signed book that was in the movers van. I went over to the couch flipped the book open and read it for the thousandth time, knowing everything by heart that was going to happen.
Sunlight filled the room as I squinted from the bright light, realizing quickly that I had fallen asleep reading Wuthering Heights, the book that was lying on top of me. The car ride apparently had taken a lot more out of me than I had realized. Putting the book back on its rightful place on the shelf I dashed into the bathroom and got ready for…school, unfortunately. I couldn't even count how many times I'd been going to school, but as each year passed the experience kept getting worse.
Once I finished getting dressed I grabbed my school supplies, and went back over to the house for a quick breakfast. Everybody else was already eating or had finished eating. Mom handed me a plate of pancakes while I went over to Katie who wasn't eating her food, just totally zoned out.
"Katie?" I asked as dad rushed past us and out the door for work.
"Hmmm…," she replied still zoned out.
"Are you okay?" I asked concerned as she finally looked up at me. She smiled, but the smile didn't reach her eyes. Even though I hadn't known her very long I knew that she was a joyous person, a shy joyous person.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little nervous is all. You know with going to a new school and all," she replied looking down at her food.
"You will do fine there is nothing to be troubled about. Besides if you ever have a problem you can always come to me, or Noah, or Serenity. We are all attending the same high school, remember?" I said putting an arm over her shoulders trying to comfort her. I remembered when Serenity used to be this nervous, I missed those days.
"Yeah, I know, but it's still nerve-racking and what if everybody thinks I'm too young."
"Ignore them, it doesn't matter. Everything has already been settled by my parents, okay? Everybody should be expecting you to look young anyway, at least the teachers though this is a small town," I said as Katie looked at me confused. She must not have known. "My parents already told the school you were skipping a grade or two, same with Serenity and Noah, so we could all be going to the same school. So now you and Serenity will both be freshman while Noah will be a sophomore."
"And you'll be a junior, though you look like a junior if not older," Katie said with a sigh. She was very new at the whole secrecy, which was why she was so nerve-racked. She didn't want to mess up. She was afraid to have the whole family in jeopardy because of her.
"You know what might help for this first day of school," I said as Katie looked back at me. "Breakfast, going to school on an empty stomach isn't a good start of the day." Katie smiled and we both quickly finished are breakfast.
Serenity, Katie, and Noah all rushed out of the house to my new old beaten up truck that was dropped off sometime during the night for me along with another car for mom. However, I stayed inside as mom had called me.
"Do you think you could make a quick stop at the daycare for Robert?" she asked as she handed him over to me.
"Sure, but wasn't the new nanny coming over today to watch him?" I asked while my mom packed up for her job. Dad was working as a lawyer while mom was working at a local hospital as a new temporary doctor.
"Yes, but she called in this morning saying she couldn't come. Apparently, she was sick so I called the local daycare and pulled some stings, so they will be expecting him," she said as she gave Robert a quick kiss on the cheek and smoothed his hair out. "Thank you sweetheart for doing this to me, it means a lot." And with that we went our separate ways to our cars.
Unfortunately, the problem was our new school in Forks was closer then the daycare center. Dropping off my siblings at our new school, I had to rush over to drop Robert at daycare and then come back, late. My first day of school and I was going to be late, what a way to start off the day.
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