Alice's POV

I ran sniffing my way through the pine trees hoping to come across the animalistic scent that I remembered from my vision.

"Alice this is hopeless. There isn't civilization from miles now." Jasper said coming down from a tree. I stood from my crouch.

"Well, I don't care. There has to be a boy feeding of an animal somewhere around here!" I yelled a little too frustrated.

"Alice, I know you want this badly for you and for me… but whatever is that you saw its not here." He said walking to me.

"I want to know…" I whispered letting my head hung. He smiled and hugged me.

"I'll make you a deal. We run a couple of more miles but if we don't find anything we go back." He said letting go of my and kissing my forehead.

"Ok, I hear a river coming soon, if we don't find anything by then we go back." I said with an unneeded sigh.

Without word he jumped to the next tree branch and disappeared out of my sight. What would I do without him?

We started running towards the river. Suddenly I had this chills coming down my spine. "Alice, run!" I heard Jasper say from above me. I didn't thought twice to speed my legs. I could hear something snarling close to me. It was catching up to me. Whatever it was it was big. There was no time for fear, I had to move and concentrate. I could hear the river very clearly now and as soon as I saw the water I jumped into it getting all my clothes wet. I heard something crash by my side so I speed my way towards the other edge. When I got there I jumped and landed swiftly on my feet far away from the river. Jasper got out almost at the same time, soaked from head to toe.

"You ok?" I asked coming to him taking his head in my hands and looking for injuries.

"I would if I knew what that is?" he yelled furiously at a snarling beast across the river. It looked like a wolf but it was the size of a horse.

"They are shape-shifters." A voice said from behind us making us both jump in alert. "Calm, we mean no harm." He was a tall blonde man and at his side was a petite brunette that I assumed was his wife. "I'm Carlisle and this is my wife, Esme." He said gesturing towards her. "And you are?" he asked. I looked at Jasper waiting for his approval. He took a glance at them and then he nodded.

Then I could see him. It was a house and it was full of vampires. There was Carlisle and Esme; this husky curly headed man with a blonde woman very much beautiful; and this other man…

What on earth was that? They were acting like a… family? "What are you?" I whispered even though everyone here could hear me it still felt more to myself than to anyone else. A trace of confusion splattered across their faces but it quickly went away. That's when I noticed, that their eyes where topaz, like the boy's in my vision. I definitely wanted to know how they lived and most importantly why.

"What is it that you mean?" Esme said taking a step towards us and that just made Jasper's arm wrap around my waist protectively.

"You have other vampires living here with you?" It wasn't really a question but it sounded like one. I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. "What are you?" I repeated.

"We are a family." She replied. "Carlisle and I adopted two sons and a daughter."

"That's impossible, vampires adopting human's babies! It's a lie!" he was getting agitated. I pulled on his arm and his eyes locked on mine.

"Jasper, I don't think they mean human kids." I said low like the words had some weight on me.

"Why don't you come in, Rosalie is upstairs and Edward and Emmett will be back home in a couple of minutes." Carlisle said this motioning toward the beautiful estate. It looked perfectly settled but mostly it looked departed from the rest of civilization.

I looked at Jasper for confirmation. He looked in defense mode like he was about to drag me back into the forest. "Jasper, let's take their offer." It was a direct plead, no bluffs. I wanted to know.

"This could be a trap." I could feel the fear creep in my insides but I wasn't having it. He was trying really hard to get me out of harm's way… but not today.

I could see two guys walking toward us, their eyes as gold as Carlisle and Esme's

"Two guys are coming, just like they said." I knew Jasper would be stressed to more creepy vamps but maybe it could help as proof of their honesty.

"You can see the future?" Carlisle asked interested.

I nodded felling embarrassed. "Five minutes now." I didn't see any violence coming up, so I wasn't scared, I was curious. I wanted to know more about them, how they lived and why. A blond came out of the house dressed in a very modest and elegant fashion. She looked amazed and surprised when she saw us and about the same time the two guys, the one from my first vision and another, came out of the woods.

"Alice, is time to leave." Jasper said panicking but I knew, and so did he, that I wouldn't. There was something about this family that drawn me in. I wasn't leaving, plus I wasn't about to go back to that werewolf beast waiting for us in the woods.

…

"This is our sons Emmett and Edward and our daughter Rosalie." Esme said while she pointed at their faces. All five of them had those golden eyes. We were sitting on their family room drenching the couch. I wondered how bad it would be for Esme to have to clean that up… But then again, here they were in a family room looking like a family. This was plain weird. "What are your names?"

"Alice and Jasper" Jazzy said cold as usual. He saw that I wasn't speaking and truth is I didn't want to; I was too busy absorbing the picture in.

"Alice is having a little trouble forming words." The bronze headed one named Edward said. My head snapped in his direction. I'm sure I looked extremely astonished. How did he know that?

"I can read your thoughts." He answered my unasked question.

Is that your only gift?

"Yes" he replied. He's a mind reader! I couldn't believe I just met a psychic!

"Mind reader" he corrected. Apparently he didn't like my new found nickname for him.

"No" he stated the already known fact. Well, aren't you a charmer. Edward, right? He smiled and then nodded.

"I'm sure you like all your mind conversations that we don't get to share but I want to know." Rosalie said who looked annoyed beyond all reason. "What are these two vampires doing in our house?" the question was meant for Carlisle, the head of the coven.

"Family" Edward said.

"Pardon me" Rosalie directed her gaze from Carlisle to Edward.

"We are a family, Alice, not coven." The way Edward said my name felt like he was making notice that he was talking to me and not Barbie. I simple nodded but he was already smirking I guess at my Barbie comment. At that he nodded too.

"How can that be?" Jasper asked, who was still taking all of this in.

"We never wanted to be what we are." Rosalie said a little bit to annoying for my liking. She carried on. "Carlisle was a doctor, he met Esme, who was in critical condition without a family, and transformed her and they became a couple. Years later they found Edward, who was also in critical condition and orphan-"

"Rose!" the large one Emmett said.

"What?" She said turning to him in an astonished way. "They want to know, I'm just avoiding all the… pointless conversation." Emmett looked like he just wanted to grab her and lock her somewhere in the house. It was kind of funny to look at them.

"You have no idea; it's like this every single day." Edward said from the other side of the room. Everyone but Rosalie, who looked annoyed by the remark, and Jasper, who still looked cold, ignored him. "Emmett, let Rosalie carry on. I do not mind."

Emmett sat in frustration in a love sit. "Well, as I was saying, Carlisle transformed Edward and joined him to the "family" as Esme's brother" She used air quotes around the word "family" like if she didn't think it was true. "Years later, Carlisle found me in very bad conditions too…" at that her eyes trailed off into the distance, like if she was thinking of a very far off time. "Well, then I joined the family and we passed as brothers. Soon after that I found Emmett-"

"Who was dying because a bear attacked him and was losing all of his blood." Emmett said suddenly in an annoyed-beyond-all-reason tone. "Since we are letting them know everything about each other might as well tell them that…" He was still pissed at Rosalie saying Edward's personal life.

"Yes, and then she transformed him and now here we are." Edward finished.

"As you can see, none of us wanted to be what we are but it was destiny." Carlisle finished for them. He was a little embarrassed that his "children" were fighting like cats and dogs but he was smiling on the inside. "But now, what brings you here?"

"I saw you." I said pointing to Emmett. I knew it was rude to point at people but I was beyond caring. "Why do you feed of animals?" Now that the question of the hour had gone off every golden eye and two dark ones in the room were gazing at me now.

"How do you know that?" Rosalie asked. I could tell she wasn't chatter but she was curious one.

"I saw him hunting." I said.

"Where you following us?" Emmett asked. I could see it clear in the vision that the boy or man, whatever, was him. But, hello! No stalker here, just a seer.

"She's a fortune teller." Edward said amazed. "She saw you when you hunted earlier…"

"I prefer seer, if you don't mind, physic." I corrected him this time.

"She can see the future?" Emmett looked like he was going to bounce off that sit and into all the walls off excitement.

"Well, I believe we have a lot to discuss, young ones." Carlisle said looking at us with a distinguished stare of amazement.