After taking nearly a three year break (sorry about that!), I'm ready to tackle this story again. Hopefully my writing has improved a little, so enjoy! And please leave a review! Grazie!
"No!" Alice screamed. She jumped up, knocking over the expensive-looking coffee table in her haste. Startled, I looked around in confusion. Alice turned and looked at Jasper. "Woodstock?" she shrilly yelled, as Emmet winced and put his fingers in his ears. "You went to Woodstock!"
Edward simply sat there with his mouth open, the smug look wiped off of his face. How could she have known? If Esme hadn't mentioned 'special powers', I wouldn't have been able to guess. Obviously Edward had some sort of mind reading ability, but how could he have told Alice, unless she was a mind reader too? This was all beginning to get out of hand.
Snapping back into reality, I realized that Alice was turning a violent shade of white, if vampires could even get paler than we already are. Jasper's face had turned to stone. Everyone else just looked bewildered.
"You told me you were going to New York to settle a business deal," she seethed, looking very dangerous, and very venomous. "What the hell happened with that, Jasper?" Sighing, Jasper looked at me painfully. The flutter in my heart kicked up. I stupidly tried to cover it up with my hands, drawing the attention of everyone in the room to, regrettably, me.
"Did your heart just beat?" breathed Carlisle, the doctor. He leaned forward on the couch toward me, eyes glimmering with curiosity. At these words, everyone froze. I glanced around, taking in the expressions of seven very confused vampires and one exceedingly docile human. My eye locked onto Jasper's as his expression transformed from shameful to fascinated.
"Only for him," I breathed, and clamped my hand over my mouth. Alice's shocked face was like a spotlight shining on my embarrassment. As her eyes narrowed at me, she crouched and spat out violent hisses. I crinkled my brow and looked at her as if to say 'Really?'
Now, I'm not a violent person, but when someone tells you to 'dream on, bitch' and launches herself across the room in pure attack mode, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Thank God I ran track as a human, and thank God that I'm a pretty good shot. Otherwise, it would have been me that smashed through an entire wall of glass and ran screaming in fury into the woods. As we all stared at Alice streak into the woods and lose her mind tearing down small birches and breaking boulders in her path, Emmet walked over to the shards of glass that lay scattered on the ground. As he picked one up and crumbled it to dust in his hand, he summed up the situation the best way anyone could: "Well, shit."
Immediately, Jasper chuckled. As I glanced his way, he shrugged his shoulders, and tucked his hair behind his ear. At this familiar gesture, I began to giggle. Soon, Rosalie and Emmet joined in, and we were all tickled. I hadn't forgot about ripping Jasper's head off his shoulders, but this situation was so absurd that there was nothing else to do but laugh. And so we four fools just popped a squat on the glossy hardwood floor and laughed until we could have cried. If it were possible for us to cry, that is. Edward mumbled something about 'dangerous conditions' and yanked Bella to her feet. The poor girl didn't get one word in around him. As she exited the room, I waved at her bewildered expression and said, "Nice to meet you!" This set off a fresh round of laughter from the other three on the floor.
Esme, however, was not pleased. "Look at what she did to the wall! Carlisle, I just got this replaced last week. And honey," she said, pointing down at me, "you have a lot of explaining to do." At this, I sobered up fast. I stopped laughing, and got up carefully. Carlisle gently grabbed my elbow and led me to what appeared to be a dining room table with enough room for a party of twenty. Everyone else filed in after me and sat down around me. Jasper sat across from me, and refused to meet my gaze. Even now I couldn't help but get flutters in my heart, which everyone in the room heard. Taking the head of the table, Carlisle sat down and leveled his gaze at me.
"Let's start at the beginning," he said, and sighed, running his hand through his golden blond hair. "What are you?"
Short chapter, I know, but the next one explains everything! Leave a review if you like!