used to it

We ran back in silence. Both of us embarrassed by the past happenings. Finally we came to my house. I started running up the lawn but something caught my ruined shirt.

"Where do you think you are going?" Carlisle asked clearly irritated

"Home" I retorted in the same fashion

I really should've known. Carlisle thought

"Known what?" Though I already had the gist of what was coming.

"Edward. I thought than when I explained you were a vampire I thought you would understand."

I was shocked. I knew I understood. He should be grateful that when he told me I didn't rip him to shreds.

"Now that you're a vampire your going to have to live with me and act like my adopted son." He then finished in a no-nonsense tone that made me do exactly what he said. "You have ten minutes to pack. Then we will go back to the hospital to pick up the car and we will go home."

I stared at him in shock

"Go, go! We don't have much time. Make haste!"

I definitely made haste. So much haste I nearly tripped over my feet. I got into my room and raided it packing the first things my hands touched. My usually tidy blue bedroom looked much emptier and exposed. My bedroom was fairly small. I had a desk that was piled with paper and I had an unusually long bed for my growth spurts. That would all stop now I thought sadly. I grabbed my overflowing bags and raced out the door before I could give in to my emotions.

Carlisle was out side looking impatient. He was sitting in his Volkswagen. It looked new. When you got close enough you could smell it was new to.

"Since when did you have the time to get this from the hospital?" I asked with awe and wonder.

"Well you took an infuriatingly long time so I ran down to the hospital and got this." He explained in brisk way.

I was hurt. I didn't take that long. Not even 5 minutes. I tried hard not to let the hurt show on my face. To keep it away I tried to calculate how many miles per hour he had gone. With my arithmetic expertise I calculated her went at about 150 miles per hour.

I gasped and Carlisle nodded in a knowing way.

"When you become a vampire you always want to do everything with speed. It will feel perfectly natural."

He was right. We were going 100 miles per hour although I wasn't scared we were going to crash, it felt perfectly normal.

In a matter of minutes were at his house. I was stifled a gasp. It was like a tall grey tower. It looked very open with lots of circular windows. Carlisle didn't say anything he just let me take in the scene. The sun had come out and its glowing rays warmed my granite body, which was always unpleasantly cold.

Carlisle came right up to me and touched my shoulder as a signal to turn around which I did. When I turned around I was in too much shock to make a sound. His shirt was unbuttoned showing his perfectly toned chest. What shocked me was that every bit of his exposed skin that was in the sun's glow sparkled like diamonds had been imbedded in his stone chest. It was an incredible sight. Shocking at the same time though. I wondered if I looked like that. Obviously I did…

My daydreaming was then interrupted. Someone was coming.

"Quick! Inside so I can explain!" Carlisle gabbled frantically.

I grabbed my suitcase and ran into his house. Inside it was different. More private than the outside. It wasn't much different to my house actually.

I dumped my luggage in the longer than necessary hallway and headed to the sitting room. The room had fitted rocking chairs and iron like throne that gave a medieval feel to the room. When I got there I saw Carlisle already sitting with an empty coffee table in front of him. He gestured towards me to sit down and then answered all my questions.

"The myth about us saying that we get burned in the sun it false but for the reason I showed you we shouldn't go out on sunny days. Also for further reference we vampires can't sleep. No one knows why it is just one of those things we will never know the answer to."

He had answered my question about the sun but vampires can't sleep! Wouldn't we get tired? I wouldn't get used to that in a hurry.

Carlisle then left me to unpack and get sorted. My bedroom was small. With a desk and no bed. It looked different without one. I unpacked and sat at my desk. My head in my hands and groaned.

This was going to be the start of a long new life and I knew I wouldn't like it.