Chapter 2: Family.

Esme had to hold my mouth shut and smother my screams as she carried me threw the town. My neck was burning and the burning pain was spreading, fast.

All the while, Esme ran very fast, she apologised and carried on running, but it sounded like she was crying, I just wanted to die. If I wasn t sure of death before outside my home, I was now, Esme didn t seem much like an angel anymore, more like a beautiful demon who was running away with me. I was so scarred, surely death will come. This much pain cant be suffered without some death at the end.

But it never did come, instead I was being brought into a home, one I had never seen before, or never really knew was there, the home of the Cullen s, it was in the forest and the house filled the whole clearing, there was no path leading to the home through the dense wood, but there was a path in the garden that was like patches of flowers not a square meadow as ours had been in Watford Meadow House. Suddenly the door opened and there was doctor Cullen, I made it plain what was wrong.

It burns.

He looked to his wife who began to sob.

She was beaten and abused, but she wanted to never see her father or family again, I thought-

You thought wrong, you didn t even think to tell her what she would become, the only reason you stayed is because you where told what you would become and you accepted it. Carlisle snapped.

I accepted it because I loved you, I loved you. You where the most beautiful person I had ever lain eyes upon. Esme said crying, her face contorted with hurt and pain but no tears flowed.

Esme she looks to you and thinks the same, any one at death would take the gift of a better life, but if they knew of the pain, of the hurt&

But her life shall be better, she longed for a life without hurt, why should she not have a life with us. Esme moaned.

You think she will choose this life, she will feel the thirst and leave, or leave as Edward has. Carlisle hissed.

You think your Edward left for that reason, because he feels the thirst? Maybe he missed his home Carlisle, maybe he went home, to glimpse his family just one last time, Delilah wished never to see her father one visit, remember, that was the visit that we knew for certain she was an abused child. Oh Carlisle please, I beg of you, do this, for me. Esme crossed to Carlisle and held his hand close to her chest, pleading with her eyes.

Carlisle looked to me, then approached.

Make it stop. I begged him.

He sighed and glanced to Esme.

Esme never had the right to do this to you, without telling you, but I can stop it, but it would put an end to your life, meaning death, but the burning will stop eventually, then you will wake up, beautiful like we are, but thirsty for blood, you see, Carlisle came closer, We are Delilah, vampires.

I cant remember feeling any emotion, I just registered the words because my brain seemed to tell me that it was important, so I listened from the burning heat of the unknown fires.

He explained everything, and I took his offer of a home, on one condition, that I don t take the traditional diet of vampires, human blood, instead I would feast upon animal blood.

It was a long four days, but in the end when I woke up I looked around and realised I was in a new home. A smaller home, the room was tiny and the view from the windows was of the mountains. I knew I should have been cold, but I felt, oddly cosy, then Esme came in with a mirror, and felt like crying, but I stood and watched the beautiful woman who was me stand with a face that flooded hurt and angst, but no tears ran from those ruby red eyes, the ruby red eyes that belonged to me.

But Carlisle told me that if I kept to a diet of animal blood that my eyes would turn amber and stay amber, he explained all the easy ways how to hide being a vampire, but Esme and Carlisle stayed up in the mountains in the little hut with me hunting large bears and wildcats or other large animals we could feed on. But I knew what to do, stay clear of humans. If I approach a human, the smell may cause my thirst to go wild, Esme had found it so hard when she bit me, Carlisle is the one who can small fresh human blood and not be tempted, but still he is always vigilant.

I myself found myself possessing a gift, a very good and unique gift.

Carlisle had explained that we may bring back something from our human lives. I tried to forget all of mine, all but the large Watford Meadow House, mother and Nathaniel. The rest became blurry, like smoke patterns, or trying to find the great bear amongst thousands of tiny stars. But Carlisle and Esme had no special gift as I did, instead, they brought back strong gifts of compassion, loving nature and a sense of family to me. I brought back a gift that helped me hide or blend in. I was there, I was visible, but you wouldn t notice me, only if I attracted attention to myself, I thought at first that it was because I was not wanted, but I d do something like speak and Esme would look to me and tell me how she had been looking for me. I soon learnt how to expand it out to Camouflage Esme and Carlisle as well as myself, We even tried it out on a human, just to make sure.

I was fine with the smell, I held my breath and walked by the human, he didn t see me, then, I did it again with out the camouflage, and sure enough he looked, so, we knew that I could camouflage from humans, but would the sunlight make them notice me, so, we took a risk, and used a human again to look at me shining, but still nothing, I stood opposite them, not causing attention to be drawn to myself, just standing in the sunlight, looking to the man, who looked around, but merely just glanced at me. You would think that he d be gawping at my shimmering skin.

Carlisle and Esme found it so useful, but I mostly preferred to use it to be alone, whether it was in the house or on the mountain, but I kept my word, I didn t hunt humans.