Chapter seven Forks
CPOV
"Everyone, Family meeting. 5 minutes" I said normally walking through the door from a long night shift in the hospital. It was 2002 and we had been living in Alaska for the last few years with the Denali coven. Esme walked down the stairs greeting me with a hug and kiss. We sat down in the dining room taking our normal places everyone was silent watching me. "Thank you for coming. I have called the meeting to inform you that we shall be moving again, we have stayed here the longest we can. My co-workers are getting suspicious. Does anyone have any suggestions?"
Everyone opened their mouths to speak when Alice interrupted "We are going Forks, Washington"
"Right. Then it's settled, we shall be moving in a month"
TPOV
Ethan and I were out hunting before we went back to work from the weekend tomorrow. After two deer and a elk I decided I was full, I sniffed the air then ran after Ethan through the woods. When I finally found him he was finishing off a deer.
"Hey dude, you ready?" I said punching him in the arm.
"One more, not quite full" I nodded as he sniffed the air but not like he always did he stiffened.
"What's the matter?" I asked nothing something was wrong, he was holding his breath. I sniffed the air too curiously. I was hit like a bullet with the mouthwatering scent of humans. "What are humans doing this far into the woods? Come on" I chased after the scent through the darkened woods. The scent led me to a family huddled around a tree, shivering. Their skin an unhealthy pale white- just as white as ours. I listened closely to their heartbeats, it was increasing. The man who looked in his mid 30's looked up, he gasped locked with our eyes then whimpered "He-e-lp...u-us" I turned to Ethan who nodded picking up the man and the young girl as I picked up the woman and the young boy.
"Close your eyes" Ethan whispered to the man. We took off racing threw the woods, battling agent the slowing pulse.
BPOV
Months past since the wedding and all of us couldn't be more happier. Emma and Grace became like sisters to me as Ethan became my joker older brother. Since they woke up from their transformation and known the truth they had shown their true colours.
Emma was trustworthy a good shoulder to cry on. She loves painting and playing the harp. She and Grace are naturally from Canada but moved to America, New York when Emma was fourteen and Grace was thirteen. Ethan was their neighbour who was fifteen. They married she was eighteen then on her nineteenth birthday they went to the bank to get some money out to shop when they where shot. Ethan was going to go off to the army before the incident.
Grace is a outgoing girl, she loves to try everything and is overall a lovely person who I bonded with a lot over the last couple of months while organising her wedding.
After two months into their changed we found out their powers. Emma was an empath, Ethan was a physical shield and was stronger than the rest. Grace can see into others pasts and pick their weak spots which is handy in attacks and is a lot fast than the rest of us apart from me who is just a second faster.
I was sitting in the couch reading Wuthering heights when the front door came crashing down, I jumped in fright. Thomas and Ethan came running in with four humans two boys and girls their hearts where failing, slowing. "What's happened?" rushing to their sides looking into their eyes – golden.
"They must have been lost, they are dying of hypothermia. We cannot change them, too much risk" I nodded in understanding.
"Put them in different bedrooms"
Thomas and Ethan said nothing more and ran up the stairs which me following afterwards.
I went into the first room which had a middle aged woman, in her 30's I would say, she had silky blonde hair with forest green eyes which were slowly beginning to close. I took my chance and bit into her. I went into the next room which contained a middle aged man who must have been the woman's husband his dark brown hair and hazel eyes, I did the same with the woman then went into the next room.
On the bed lay a boy and a girl, they must be twins as they looked the same age – around sixteen.
The boy had dark brown hair like the man but forest green eyes like the woman then the girl had bright blonde hair and hazel eyes.
They were a family.
I repeated the same thing I did to their parents, then picked up the girl and put her into my room.
3 days later
We waited patiently for the screaming to stop of their last hours of burning. When finally we heard their hearts pick up speed. When finally the woman's heart stopped first. We walked into her room first. The woman jumped like the many times before with the others into a crouch.
"Who are you?" she asked with her new found voice which she was shocked by.
"I am Bella Cullen. This is my family. How are you? What is your name?"
"Stephanie. I'm fine... I think. Where is Mark ? Lily? Luke?"
"Your family is in the other rooms. They should be waking up now" Emma said in a calming tone sending calm emotions to her like waves, she relaxed the slightest.
We heard the others hearts falter. We walked into the next room, Stephanie speed to her husbands side.
"Mark? Open your eyes... It's me Stephanie" Mark snapped his opened and Stephanie pulled him into a hug.
3 hours later
We were all sitting in the living room. My family and I then Stephanie, Mark and the two twins on the other side of the room watching us, sitting in silence. When I decided to speak.
"Hello, I know you are confused right now but it will all be clear soon. I promise. My name is Bella and this is my family: Vanessa, Thomas, Nicholas, Grace, Ethan and Emma. If you haven't noticed we are different-" Ethan snickered earning him a slap on the arm from Emma "- We are vampires. We are not myths, we do exist. We are extremely fast and strong, we do not sleep, we do not burn in the sunlight we sparkle, we are immortal and we drink blood but we are different we drink from animal blood. It isn't as satisfying but we do not want to be monsters, we are what the human drinkers call us – vegetarians. Some vampires have special abilities like they are stronger, faster or more beautiful than others and some can have powers. All of us here have powers apart from Nicholas who in return brought his protectiveness to his life. Us vampires live on rules, we have laws that are set by our 'royalty' as we call it, The Volturi. There is three leaders: Aro, Caius and Marcus. They have a guard built of vampires who are special, they track people down if you break the law they kill you and your family. The laws are simple – do not expose your self to the humans e.g. do not show your self in the sun, control your strength and speed and do no kill in front of humans, do not create newborn armies, do not make immortal children as they do not learn they go out of control."
"So you mean we are vampires now?" the young boy asked, we nodded at the same time.
"Thank you" Stephanie whispered
"For what?" I asked
"For saving me and my family." she smiled a shy smile at us all.
"Can you tell us about you?" Vanessa asked.
" Well my name is Mark Fox, my wife Stephanie. Our two children Lily and Luke, We live in Mississippi. I am 34 years old as is my wife, Lily and Luke are sixteen. We were on the weekend hike through the woods when we got lost and we started getting hypothermia, we were about to die when we saw you to... Thomas? And ...Ethan right?" They nodded and smiled. "May I ask what are your powers?"
We began to talk, sharing our stories one by one everyone listening in, we talked about our powers and our lives. They seemed astonished like many others that I can be a doctor but said no more. The Fox's decided to join our family and our diet which we were all pleased about.
2 year later
A year later and the Fox's are already controling their thirst incredibly well, they could be around humans with no problem which was very impressive for a newborn. Their powers we really interesting. Stephanie was a tracker, Luke and Lily had fairly similar powers- Luke could feel powers and Lily could advance powers. We decided it was our time to move again and we were settled on a small town called Forks in Washington. Mark used his power which was to be easily hidden from attackers or intruders and we set off to Forks. We took a flight to Port Angeles then we ran to our new home.
Our new home was beyond beautiful, it was stunning. It's light colour stone walls with large glass windows, a wide white double door, a balcony. It had an very large garage by the house from the large drive which was bent around the huge water fountain in the middle in-front of the house. Inside was just as amazing as the outside. The ground floor had a living room, a game room, music room, a kitchen, dining room and a indoor swimming pool. The ground floor had bedrooms with walk-in closets and bathrooms, Vanessa's and Thomas' bedroom, Nicholas' and Grace's bedroom, Lily's bedroom, Luke's bedroom, my study and the library. Then the third floor had my room, Emma's and Ethan's, Mark's and Stephanie's with two extra guest bedrooms.
"Come on Bella! Lets go SHOPPING!" Vanessa squealed from downstairs. I was in my study reading when she called, I sighed put my book down then went downstairs.
None of the rooms had been furnished yet but we were all going shopping to get it all ready. We all decided on our story.
Stephanie and Mark will be the guardian's, Stephanie will be a work at home mother. Mark will work at Settle times, Thomas, Ethan, Luke, Lily and I will be brother and sisters: Thomas and Ethan twins, Luke and Lily twins. Nicholas and Vanessa will be brother and sister and our cousins on Mark's side. Then Emma and Grace will be our cousins on Stephanie's side. Nicholas will be portending to start law collage while the rest of us will be at high school. Luke and Lily as sophomore, Vanessa, Grace and I as junior then Emma, Ethan and Thomas as senior.
We all ran side by side to Settle Mall to start our shopping. Once we arrived we all went our separate ways promising to meet up at the end of the day. Vanessa, Grace and Lily went for clothes. Nicholas and Mark went for books, Ethan, Thomas and Luck went for the electrical things (laptops, phones and games etc.) while Stephanie, Emma and I went for furniture.
"Stephanie, Bella what do you think of this for our couch?" Emma called from across the store. We both walked at human speed to were she was to show a large white couch which Stephanie instantly liked.
"I like it." I commented, I went to sniff the couch when I smelt another vampire – nearby. What would another vampire be doing in a furniture store? "Come on, lets check it out" I whispered, we walked towards the smell to a petite woman with caramel hair, pale skin and golden eyes. She looked up at us staring and looked started then relived – probably once she saw our eyes. She walked over to us slowly, she was very beautiful like over vampires but she had a certain motherly nature about her, she would have been the perfect mother, if she wasn't a vampire.
"Hello. I'm Esme" she smiled warmly at us holding out her hand to shake, I took it willingly.
"Nice to meet you. I am Bella, this is Emma and Stephanie. It's nice to finally meet another vegetarian, other than your coven" Stephanie and Emma both shook Esme's hand.
"Yes. I know what you mean. How many is their in your coven?"
"Their is thirteen of us" I answered simply.
"thirteen? Wow. Lucky your all vegetarian I would have seen you as a threat" she chuckled "Does the Volturi know about your coven?" she sounding worried for our safety.
"No." I smiled at her "But they cannot track us. Are you a member of a coven?"
"Yes. There is seven of us." Wow, quite a big coven then "You must have moved here soon because we did not know of near by covens?"
"Yes we did actually. We moved to Forks yesterday, a few of us will be attending High school"
"Really? A few of our members attend High school. I am sure you are welcome to sit with them." she smiled then looked down at her watch on her wrist and started panicing "I'd better go. Lovely meeting you all. Maybe you can visit us sometime" smiling just as warmly as before then she rushed out of the shop.
"She seemed warm and welcoming" Emma commented as we went to cashier to buy our things.
"Yes and it seems like we shall we not the only vampires attending Forks High" I sighed "Lets hope they are just as welcoming as Esme"
We walked out of the shop after the dazzled worker promised to have the furniture in by tomorrow while we would be at school.
5 hours later
Vanessa, Lily and Grace come in last with hundreds of bags in their hands from every single shop you could thing of, followed by the boys bringing in more.
"How much?" Stephanie yelled wide eyes, Emma sent her calming waves.
"Don't worry, this is Vanessa. She tends to over do things" I chuckled not bothering to look at how much their was "Everyone come into the living room we need to talk" everyone was at my side in a second worried "Don't worry, nothing too bad. Emma, Stephanie and I were in the furniture store when we bumped into another vampire-" everyone took in a breathe "- she was a vegetarian-" everyone exhaled "- their seemed to be a coven in Forks as well. There is seven and some are attending Forks High. But the one we ran into seemed nice and welcoming, no treat intended. We shall carry on as normal"
"All right. We have five hours before school and we need to have a makeover!" Vanessa squealed. "I'll do the boys first" she took Thomas and Ethan's arms taking them up the stairs with Luke and Grace behind carrying bags. I went back up to my study and re-opened my book.
2 hours later
"Girls! It's your turn!" Vanessa's voice ran through the house, I put my book down yet again and went down into Vanessa's bedroom which was the seconded biggest to mine but she did have the biggest closet which was twice the size of her bedroom. When I opened the door, hands grabbed me and pulled me in and sitting me on a chair. I looked to see an evil smiling Vanessa and Grace. I swear they are like twins! Oh crap, I am in trouble.
"Don't worry Bella. You'll be fine!" Grace giggled as she put make-up on my face.
"Can I help pick the outfit?" Lily said bouncing into the room.
"Sure little thing" Vanessa said patting her head teasingly. Lily crossed her arms and huffed.
"I. Am. Not. Little" she stormed of the closet to pick my outfit with a skipping Vanessa in tow.
3 hours later
We had finally finished! The torture was over! I looked in the mirror to be surprised by my reflection, they hadn't gone too over the top as I thought.
I was wearing dark light skinny jeans with my black converses, a midnight blue trilled shirt as they knew it was my favourite colour with a black hooded jumper and silver and blue bracelets on my hands then I had a black leather shoulder bag. My hear was straight and my make-up was light – overall I looked good.
I walked downstairs to see everyone ready. Vanessa in a black mini skirt, a tight light pink top with a black jumper then hot pink stilettos and finished with a hot pink handbag. Her hair in loose curls and with light make-up.
Grace was wearing a forest green skirt with a light denim mini skirt, black boots, black cardigan and a brown leather shoulder bag like mine. With her hair in a loose bun and her make-up, smoky eyes with red lip-stick.
Emma was wearing a long sleeved yellow top with black skinny jeans and a black handbag with yellow pumps. Her hair it's normal smooth waves and light make-up. Who was hand in hand with Ethan.
Lily was wearing a light blue top and a white skinny jeans like mine, darker blue pumps and jacket with a white shoulder bag. Her hair in two plaits and dark make-up .
All the boys looked similar: tight tops, jeans and rucksack apart from different colours. Thomas black, Ethan was white and Luke was brown.
We all walked out the door and what I saw made me scream with excitement...
My car sat beautifully in the drive along with Ethan's.
My midnight blue Austin Martin!
I ran full speed to the car and got onto the black leather seats.
"Come on!" I called to the others nearly bouncing off my seat with joy.
"Calm down Bella!" Emma said as she bounced around Ethan's car with my excitement.
"Oops. Sorry" making everyone laugh.
Vanessa, Thomas, Luke and Lily got into my car as Ethan, Emma and Grace got into Ethan's car.
"Hey Bells!" Ethan called room his car "Wanna race?" I slowly felt an evil grin spread across my face.
"Sure thing sweet cheeks!" I giggled.
"3...2...1...GO!" We shouted. I sped round the water fountain smoothly ahead and out of the drive way onto the curving road into the Forks roads.
The ages the people in Forks think they are:
Stephanie- 30
Mark- 30
Nicolas- 19
Thomas-18
Ethan-18
Emma-18
Grace-17
Bella-17
Vanessa-17
Lily-16
Luke-16