Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. Stephenie Meyer does. Deal with it.

A Farm Somewhere in Idaho-1950

"Carlisle, someone's coming. Two people actually." I sat huddled with my family at the dining room table in our house. We had been alerted to coming of two individuals. They didn't smell or sound familiar, so we had no idea what to expect.

"Are they friendly or not?"

"Friendly. It seems like they want to join us. Here they come now!" Sure enough, in our yard stood two vampires. One was female, and the other was male. By the way they were standing, you could tell they were a couple. I read their minds and knew. What was surprising was that their eyes were gold like ours. They obviously followed the same diet as us.

"You're the Cullen family. I'm Alice, and this is Jasper. It's very nice to finally meet you." Alice seemed like a very energetic person, and Jasper was her down-to-earth counterpart.

"You know of us?" Carlisle was front and center in our group. He was without a doubt our leader, and we weren't afraid to show it.

"Yes. She can see the future, and he can manipulate emotions," I revealed once I read it in their heads.

"How did you know?" Jasper finally spoke up.

"I can read minds."

"Then you know that we want to join you. I saw us become part of your family in one of my visions."

"Can we talk for a moment?" Carlisle gestured back to us, and Alice nodded her approval. We knew they could hear us, but it was the best we could do. "What do you all think?"

I decided to talk first, "She's telling the truth. They both are sincere about joining us. It even appears that they follow our diet."

"We do!" came Alice's voice from across the clearing. I laughed. I was already beginning to like her. She kind of like the perfectly annoying sister I had never had.

"I guess we'll vote on it. I vote yes," Carlisle's vote was cast.

"Yes," from Esme. I voted in the affirmative, as did Emmett. Rosalie voted as the only "no". I wasn't surprised. She didn't want to have two more people to compete with in this family.

Alice rushed over and gave each of us a hug. Jasper just hung out in the periphery. I knew he wasn't comfortable in this kind of situation, and I didn't blame him. Strangely, I found myself liking both of them more and more.

"You know, you guys are not that easy to find," Alice commented.

"How long have you been looking for us?" Carlisle asked with some curiosity.

"A few years. I had to find Jasper first."

"We have plenty of room. You guys can go in and pick any of the spare bedrooms for your own."

"Thank you, Esme. Come on Jasper, let's go pick one out!" They disappeared inside, and the rest of us followed suit. Alice quickly selected a room, and her and Jasper joined us in the living room.

"So tell us about yourselves." Emmett had Rosalie in his lap on the couch where Carlisle and Esme also sat. I occupied a chair across the room. Alice and Jasper were hand-in-hand on the love seat.

Alice went first knowing that Jasper still felt uncomfortable, "I don't remember anything before I was changed. After, though, I had premonitions of joining your family. Those probably kept me from becoming wild. Then I had other visions about meeting Jasper. We met a few years ago and have been looking for you guys ever since."

Jasper spoke up with some reluctance, "I was changed during the Civil War in the south. I worked with a coven creating an army to fight over territory. I left several years ago to reform. Then I met Alice, and here we are."

"I'm Carlisle. I practice medicine and have been a vampire for over 300 years."

"I'm Esme, Carlisle's wife. He changed me in the twenties."

"I"m Rosalie. Emmett's my husband. I was a socialite in New York when Carlisle saved me."

"I'm Emmett. I worship this beautiful goddess in my lap. She brought me back to Carlisle after I had been attacked by a grizzly."

"My name is Edward. I was the first one Carlisle changed. Welcome to our family."

We kept talking for hours and hours. By then it felt like Alice and Jasper had always been part of the family. I especially liked Alice. She was the little sister I had always wanted. Rosalie could never fill that spot, not that she had ever tried. Alice and I were going to be good friends. I already knew that.

Later on, she pulled me aside, "I know you may be alone now, but it won't always be that way. I see a girl in your future who loves you eternally. She's great, and you'll be willing to die for her."

"How do you know?"

"Trust me," and she tapped a finger to her head.

I could only look after her in amazement. I was beginning to wonder if I was going to spend forever alone. I didn't really believe that, but nearly forty years without even a date made you think. I guess it was because I never found a girl that really interested me. Don't get me wrong, I liked girls.

I guess my biggest obstacle was struggling with the image of myself as a monster. I didn't want to make any girl what I was, even if she was my soul mate. I just didn't want to fall in love, only to have to let her go. I think that was a little selfish on my part. Who knows, maybe this girl would already be a vampire, and I wouldn't have to worry about it...