Chapter Two (Red Eyes and Meetings)

She was doing it again. After so long you would think someone would get the fact that you don't want to go meet one of her new friends. But not Alice. I could tell she was trying to set me up with someone...again. All of her friends were nice - but extremely shallow and/or too clingy.

"C'mon, Edward...please just give Jasmine a chance. She really is a nice person," she was on her knees next to me as I was curled into a ball with my head resting on my knees and my arms around my legs.

"I don't want to meet anyone, Alice. Just leave me alone." I could see the hurt in her eyes.

Jasper walked in and pulled Alice to her feet. "Maybe you should leave him alone. We can talk to him later, okay?" Alice's eyes were downcast as she ran as fast as she could from the room. My brother sighed and took Alice's spot next to me. "Edward, I understand that you can't - or rather, you don't - want to move on right now. But please, your emotional being is making everyone's relationships harder than they need to be. So can you at least act happy for your sisters and Esme's sake?"

I didn't answer and I could tell he wasn't expecting one. He got up and left and as soon as he did I jumped out of the window so I could hunt.

In the middle of the woods, oh so conveniently near our house, I could smell the spilt blood of deer. I thought everyone was back at the house... I shrugged it off and ran towards the smell to see who it was.

Whoever I thought it was going to be, I didn't consider it to be someone I didn't know.

As I entered the clearing, I was shocked when I looked straight into the red eyes of a woman who just finished drinking the blood of a young buck. She froze as did I. When she sized me up I realized that I might have a fight on my hands, so I cleared my mind to hear her thoughts. My eyes widened as I was shocked for the second time by this strange person.


"Who is he? Is he going to hurt me? I don't know where I am. I don't even know WHO I am..."

Then it hit me. She was a newborn. And a fresh one by the sound of it. I was torn by just turning and running away, or bringing her to Carlisle. Deciding to be the gentleman I once was, I started to approach her to do the latter.

She growled at me while her thoughts screamed.


"He's going to kill me! Oh dear God, what did I do to deserve this?"

I held my hands up to show I meant no harm and tried to put on the best smile I could muster. "I won't harm you. I know what you are and I know someone who could help you."

She looked like she was ready to bolt, but relaxed a little. "What do you mean? What am I? How do you know?"

I took another step forward, but I was shocked when she ran towards the house. Pausing to recover myself, I ran after her. It only took me a few seconds to catch up and grab her wrist. The newborn stopped suddenly and I almost crashed into her.

She turned and looked pointedly at me. "Don't touch me...you...you...STUPID!"

My eyes widened again as I looked at her and I heard Emmett booming with laughter from the house just up ahead. Suddenly he was right next to me. "Hey, bro! So you finally found a woman and here she is calling you names. Alas, she is poor at insulting someone though." He laughed again as he put an arm around one of her shoulders. She tensed. "So, beautiful, what's your name?"

I took this moment to actually look at her. And Emmett was right. She was rather attractive. Her shiny black hair had a tint of blue in it when in the light, and she had a supple body with her curves being highlighted by a ripped (but not indecently so) tanktop and jeans. Her red eyes burned like fire at the physical contact.

Shyly, she stepped away from my brother, although according to her thoughts she wanted to smack him for touching her so casually. "My name isn't of importance."

Emmett blinked at the coldness of her voice. "Well, okay then. Come on in, I'm sure Calisle and Esme would like to meet you, No Name." In his thought's he snickered and I rolled my eyes.

"I really don't want-" I cut her off as I lifted her in my arms bridal style and carried her into the house with her protesting all the way.

Once inside, Carlisle was waiting in the main hall. He smiled warmly at our 'guest' and motioned for me to set her down. "Well, hello. I didn't realize there were others in the neighborhood."

She looked confused as she answered. "Others? Other what?" Carlisle's smile faltered a little.

"She's a newborn, Calirsle," I informed the room where everyone in the family decided to gather.

"Ahh, well now it makes a little more sense." Everyone nodded while the woman was getting more and more frustrated from being left out of the loop.

"What do you mean newborn?" she asked cleary insulted.

Alice giggled and wrapped her arms around the woman's waist in a hug. "Sorry, we didn't mean to offend you. Once we explain everything to you, you'll now what we mean by newborn." She squirmed at Alice's touch and tried to break free.

"Umm, Alice? I don't think she likes to be touched," I said.

"Oops, sorry, miss...what's your name?"

Once released, she huffed and looked away. "My name doesn't matter."

"What I think she means," I said before Alice could get offended, "is that she doesn't know what her name is. I heard her in the forest. She doesn't know what we are, what happened to her, and anything about herself for that matter."

The newborn glared at me. "I said nothing like that."

I smirked. "I never said you said anything."

My family chuckled and she looked more frustrated than before, still out of the loop. "Okay, that's enough," Carlisle composed himself. "Now, young miss, why don't we step into my office so I can fully explain what is going on here."