Chapter 11: Secrets

Ally's POV

We followed Carlisle into the house. We were all still in shock over everything that had just happened. I don't think that any of us will ever quite look at the world the same way ever again.

My hand flew to my stomach at the little bit of movement I had just felt. It looks like my daughter feels the exact same way.

"Please take a seat" Carlisle said.

"What are all of you? Are you really vampires?" Caroline was the one to ask.

"Well, it's true that we are vampires" Carlisle said.

My heart started to beat faster as I suddenly got nervous. Then my baby started to move around quite a bit as if she could feel all of my nerves.

"But don't worry, we don't drink human blood" he explained when he saw all of our suddenly scared expressions.

"Wait, what do you mean you don't drink human blood? Isn't that the only a thing a vampire can consume? Are all of the myths wrong?" I asked.

"Well most of them are wrong, but not this one. It's true that we do drink blood. Most vampires do drink human blood. However, my family and I, we're different. We value human life and we find that we are able to subsist on the blood of animals instead. It actually helps us be more like a regular family" Carlisle explained.

"Are vampires immortal?" I asked.

"Yes" he said. "In fact I'm over 300 years old" he said.

"But we're not vampires" Jacob interrupted. Suddenly the image of him, Seth, and Leah exploding into giant wolves filled my head. I'm pretty sure that was going to give me nightmares.

"Leah, Seth, and I are shape shifters. We can turn into wolves at will. Unlike real werewolves we don't need the full moon to change. We're also immortal as well as long as we continue to phase, meaning turn into wolves" he said.

"This is all to much to take in" Charles said.

"Well Charles, it's a lot to take in" Carlisle said.

"Tyler how did you get involved in this?" I asked.

"It happened right after 9/11. You see Carlisle and Bella here came to the hospital to help treat all of the injured people that were there. I was there unconscious. My heartbeat and breathing were so low that not even Carlisle could hear it and thought that I had already died. Bella, on the other hand could hear it. So she decided to change me and thus save my life" he explained.

"But Tyler" Diane started to say. "Why didn't you come home after? We really missed you and needed you so much" she was about to cry now.

"I couldn't mom. The first several months of the change are extremely hard for a newborn vampire. It's when we are at are most uncontrollable. I had to stay away or I could've accidentally killed you, dad, Caroline, Les, and Ally. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I accidentally hurt any of you" he said.

"and besides that" Carlisle said. "It's absolutely crucial that vampires remain concealed from the human world. We have to keep our existence a secret from humans because the Volturi will come after us" he said.

"What's a Volturi?" Caroline asked, echoing my own thoughts.

"The Volturi are a very powerful coven of vampires. They're basically vampire royalty. They live in Volterra, Italy. They enforce all the rules, and the number one rule is that we remain concealed from the human world" Carlisle explained.

Everyone remained silent for a minute until I was the one to finally break it.

"What happens if a human finds out about your secret world?" I asked.

He sighed before continuing. "In the eyes of the Volturi there is only two options. Number one is that the human or humans become vampires themselves. Number two would be to silence that human permanently" he said.

The tension was so thick that you could cut it with a knife. Suddenly a cold hand grabbed my shoulder and scared the crap out of me. I turned and saw that it was only Tyler.

He looked really anxious for some reason.

"So what does that mean for us?" Aidan asked. He had been so silent this whole time that I had almost forgotten he was even there.

"It means, that most likely you'll all have to be changed into vampires" Carlisle asked.

"Don't worry Ally, I won't ever let anything happen to you. You won't ever have to turn into a vampire" he said.

What he didn't know was that I had already made up my mind. As soon as our baby was born I wanted to change that way I could be with him for eternity.

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