The guys and I headed back to the farmhouse around seven. During the day we helped the pack map out patrols, set up wards, assign patrols and other stuff. I decided to make a big pot pie for dinner, the guys were watching a quidditch game on the television.
If we say a certain spell, we learned in muggle studies, over the TV it tunes into wizarding events allowing us to watch quidditch games. The French were playing Bulgaria and James was explaining the plays and strategies to my dad and Billy, who was also over. Putting the pie in the oven to bake I set the timer and walked into the room. Remus was reading an old text book of mine and Sirius was shouting at the TV because Bulgaria just scored. My father and Billy were watching the game in amazement, they had never seen people throwing a basketball size ball around with softball size balls whizzing around uncontrollably and then someone trying to catch a golf ball with wings before.
I was a chaser, my job was to score goals in one of the three hoops at each end of the field. Remus was a keeper, he guarded the three goals from the other teams chasers who tried to score. Sirius was a beater, he used a small bat to hit the bludgers, softball size balls, at the other teams members to knock them off of their broomsticks. James was a seeker, his job was to find and catch the snitch, the golf ball with wings. In total there is one keeper, two beaters, three chasers, and one seeker.
Quidditch is like baseball, rugby, football, basketball and hockey all rolled into one sport played on broomsticks and fifty feet in the air sometimes more. I love quidditch so much and put a lot of effort into it. I'm hoping to be captain this year. The guys and I train year round. You have to really be in shape to play quidditch, its not something you just show up and do, its very difficult and agility, balance and strength are key in the game. We usually run about twelve to fifteen miles, no walking, stopping or jogging, you're running.
Then lifting and stretching and finally play strategies and balance make up the six hour conditioning periods during the winter and summer. Practices are rain or shine usually last about four hours sometimes more during the spring and fall seasons.
Winter is used as conditioning along with summer. When I was younger the guys and I would go to quidditch camps during the summer learning new plays, tricks and strategies. Of course I was the only girl in the camp, our society only let guys play quidditch but no where in the rule book does it say a girl cant play and be apart of a team. The camps were always fun, it was something I looked forward too every summer. However by our fifth year we were to old and to good to come back. I was sad but there were other things to do during the summer.
"Sirius and I will go and search up to the border, we don't have a treaty with the Cullen's so we should be fine. We can take care of ourselves, we wont split up, and we can apparate back over here and we do have our wands, if there is a problem. You'll be the first to know." I told Jake who was concerned about us going on the Cullens property to snoop. The Cullens were a coven of "vegetarian" vampires. They didn't drink human blood, only animal blood. The pack had a treaty with them, but the guys and I were not part of the treaty. So Sirius and I decided to do what we do best, sneak around, eavesdrop and get clues that would help the pack.
We headed out at dusk, dressed in black shirts, black athletic shorts and our Nike shocks, wands at the ready. I pulled my long hair into a ponytail to keep it out of my face if needed. A few shorter locks escaped framing my face with my side swept bangs.
We walked side by side going deeper into the forest, it was soon to dark to see properly so we whispered the spell in unison, "lumos." and a bluish white glow let the tips of our wands guiding us in the dark forest. I let my animal instincts pick up, making sounds and smells more prone to my knowledge than a regular human. It was much later and Sirius stopped suddenly pulling me to him.
He unlit our wands and we stood their waiting…watching, listening. My heart sped up, they were out and hunting. I could just make out the pale skin of one in the glow of the half moon. I raised my wand, curiosity over took my senses and I crept closer.
It was watching me, I could sense it. Sirius grabbed me trying to pull me back to him but with the sudden force of Sirius pulling me too him I forgot about the uneven ground of the forest floor and fell backwards letting out a squeak of surprise. I prepared to fall to the ground but something caught me, something hard, cold and sweet smelling. Sirius lit his wand revealing the most beautiful boy I had ever seen.
He gasped as our eyes met and the world completely stopped. His tousled auburn bronze hair was long and stood in all directions on his chiseled masculine head. Honey gold eyes stared at me, they were captivating. His hand reached up tracing the softest of lines across my cheek. His skin was pure satin, I blushed at the feeling and his gaze left mine to look at my changing hair.
He grinned revealing his crocked smile making me dizzy. "What is your name?" he asked in a deep baritone chime of bells, I shivered and not from the gentle breeze. "Bella…and you?" I whispered back. "Edward Cullen, I should have known your name was Bella, it means beautiful in Italian." I blushed even more at his compliment and he chuckled tracing the blush. "You and Sirius are more than welcome to come back to my families home. You can trust us."
"How do you know my name is Sirius?" Sirius said grabbing me from Edwards grasp, he growled lowly but did nothing, I missed the lack of contact from his hard arms. "I'm able to read minds, I know you are a wizard and you don't think you can trust me. I assure you that you can trust me. I may be a vampire but I promise not to hurt you, especially Bella. My family and I, we aren't like other vampires. We hunt animals and only animals for blood. We like to call ourselves vegetarians as an inside joke. We wont hurt you, come, meet my family." I looked up at Sirius, he had his piker face set obviously thinking over what Edward had said. He nodded and took my hand, he stepped forward pulling me beside him. I trusted Edward, there was something about him, I knew he wouldn't hurt me.
I felt drawn to him, something was different in the air, every step he took I copied, we were in perfect sync and it was completely natural and easy. Absolutely no effort. Sirius had his wand at the ready, I let him protect me, he would get mad and want to fight anyways and I wasn't in the mood for that. I watched Edward who was a step ahead of us, he had a dark hunter green polo that fit his muscled form perfectly. Dark tan cargo shorts sat low on his hips showing the leather belt holding them up. His perfectly sculpted calves were contracting beautifully as he walked in his leather flip flops. Coming out of the denser area in the forest he led us to a trail.
The trail wasn't long and soon I could see the lights of a house. The house was huge and very modern with window glass walls and five floors with a large garage in the back. The ever greens grew around it making it blend in with the tan neutral colors of the house. We walked to the front door climbing the porch steps.
Stepping inside I saw the most beautiful rooms ever, it was generously furnished with large leather couches placed on either side of the biggest TV I had ever seen. A stone fireplace sat opposite with oak bookshelves on either side. Everything was done in earth tones mimicking the forest outside. It was beautiful, "You have an amazing house Edward."
"Thank you." A boy with curly blond hair walked into the room, he was really tall and had a southern presence about him, a tiny girl with spiky black hair held his hand looking at us with a huge grin. Another man with longer blonde hair tied at the base of his neck stepped forward as well. "Hello, my name is Carlisle Cullen. These are my children; Jasper, Alice, Rosalie, and Emmet. I assume you know Edward. This is my wife, Esme, and you are?"
He pointed to everyone as he introduced them. A tall burly man with short brown hair stood behind the most beautiful woman I had ever seen were standing off in the corner of the room. I felt intimidated by all of these beautiful people, especially the blonde goddess.
Esme stood next to Carlisle, I looked at her stunned by her insane beauty as well. She had long caramel hair that fell in waves past her shoulders and golden honey eyes that were soft and loving. "I'm Bella and this is Sirius." Sirius was standing tall assessing everything, he would make an amazing auror. Carlisle studied him before raising his eyebrows, "What is your last name Sirius?"
"Black…why?" Carlisle smiled.
"I know your father, Orion. You're his "rebel" son as he likes to say." I felt Sirius harden, his face becoming dark and shadowed. His home life was extremely rough, his parents are death eaters, supporters of the dark lord, and pure Slytherin. However Sirius was placed in Gryffindor while is twin brother, Regulas, was placed in Slytherin. He was disowned from his family a few years ago after his parents found about that I was a metamorphous, they were not going have a son who had 'filthy half-breeds' as friends. I have never met his parents but from the bruises and nightmares he has gotten they couldn't have been good.
"If you are anything like my father we will take our leave now." He said in a low growling voice, I noticed Carlisle flinch.
"I know how cruel your father is Sirius, no follower of the Dark Lord is a friend of mine. I know him through the Volturi, I'm a good friend of Aro's. I do not agree with your fathers perspective on life, same as you." I felt Sirius relax slightly.
"Yes, he does… business with Caius, we are distantly related. Aro is my godfather, I've been to Italy more times than I cared too, but Aro was nice he always sent me gifts, he doesn't agree with Fathers outlook as well but keeps neutral ground because he brings in their food source if you know what I mean. When was the last time you were there."
"About twenty years ago, that's very interesting about Aro, I did not know that you were his godson." Sirius nodded, he was becoming more relaxed. His grip on my hand released and Edward noticed pulling me directly to him. "You're very pretty Bella." I blushed at Alice's compliment, I sure didn't feel pretty surrounded by all of these beautiful vampires. I heard everyone gasp, "How did you do that?" She asked, I was confused but remembered my hair, it must have changed.
"Oh my hair? I'm a metamorphous. I'm able to change into anything I want no matter what it is." They stared at me in shock, "That is so cool!" Emmet exclaimed extremely loud. I grinned we would defiantly be good friends. "Change, look like me!" I smiled at Emmet, concentrating I focused on his light brown hair that hung in his gold honey eyes, pale white skin, huge muscles, and tall stature.
He jumped back in shock, "That is so weird…BUT TOTALLY WICKED!" I went back to me, and the Cullens dropped their shocked demeanor. "Sorry, I know it's kind of awkward because you guys don't know us.
We're wizards, every year we go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There are four houses in Hogwarts, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Gryffindor. We are in Gryffindor. Albus Dumbledore is our headmaster, I don't know if you know him or not, he's fairly well known…"
Carlisle nodded, "Yes I know Albus, we keep in touch regularly. WE met about a century ago." I smiled, Dumbledore was very well known world wide for all of the incredible things he had done. I'm not surprised Carlisle know him or that they had at least heard of him. "This will be our seventh and final year at school. Sirius is seventeen and I will seventeen in September. We have two other friends, James Potter and Remus Lupin. We're all really good friends, best friends. They too are seventeen and in Gryffindor. We play quidditch-"
"What's quidditch?" Emmet asked.
Quidditch is a sport played on broomsticks. There are seven players on a team. One keeper, two beaters, three chasers, and one Seeker. I'm a chaser and Sirius is a beater. The object of the game is to score as many points as possible while still staying on your broomstick. To end the game one of the teams seekers must catch the snitch.
There's other stuff but that's the basic gist of the game. It's a lot of fun, its like baseball, rugby, football, basketball and hockey all rolled into one and played in the air."
"WICKED! Will you show me how to play?" Emmet said and Jasper nodded in agreement. "Sure, we're actually in conditioning season right now. You can condition with us and we'll teach you stuff."
"I don't think we need to condition, we're vampires." I rolled my eyes.
"Then prove us wrong, we'll come pick you up in the morning, be ready at six." Sirius said. I grinned shaking my head in disappointment, this will not go down well.
"Edward you should come too." I said and once again was taken back by his beauty. He tucked a stray curl behind my ear looking at me with adoration. "As long as you're there."
"I'll be the one tripping."
"And I'll be the one catching you." I blushed at his sweet comment but covered it with a smirk, "As long as you can keep up."
"Honey, we're vampires."
"You let me know how that's working out for you after tomorrow."
"I'll let you know."
"Looking forward to it." I hadn't realized that our faces were getting closer and everyone was watching us with amusement. I pulled away blushing, stupid hair. He chuckled watching my hair change colors. Sirius watched us, he was interested in these vampires. "Tell us about yourselves. Do you have any powers?" Sirius asked. "Edward is able to read minds," I gasped.
"Except yours, you are silent to me…It's like your mind is on a different channel than everyone else's, its very frustrating, I wish I knew what you were thinking." Edward told me elaborating on Carlisle's statement.
"Alice can see into the future and Jasper manipulates and feels emotions." He said and I processed everything he said. "So Alice is a seer, Jasper is an empath, and you have a natural legilimens. That's really cool." I said smiling but they looked at me in confusion. "Wizard terms, sorry." That eased their minds.
We talked until late into the night and by the time Sirius and I left I had grown to really like the Cullens and was looking forward to seeing them in the morning, especially Edward. There was something about him, I didn't understand what I was feeling. He was so beautiful and I felt this strong pull towards him that I couldn't ignore, I had to be around him or it was almost physically painful.
I needed to smell him, see him, hear his voice, feel his presence or I would lose it. It was so weird, I felt empty without him, like something in my heart had dug a hole and left it there to rot and only Edward could repair it. I was home and alone in my bed, relaxing I let sleep over take me, that was the first night I dreamt of Edward Cullen.