Author's Note

Well, hope everyone liked the last chapter. So now this is finally going to get more interesting. I mean, I'm a vampire, hear my mighty roar *meows*... well that was embarrassing. Anyway, keep working on those entries and keep entering. I don't know if we mentioned this or not but you can just enter one chapter at a time. Feel free to. By the way, I really didn't mean for it to take so long to get this chapter up. I just got braces, and my school's spring break is over so I'm really short on time right now. Just bear with me. Thanks!

Song: New Soul by Yael Naim

Disclaimer:

Kat-So, using the money I've recently inherited from joining this family, I bought the Twilight series copyrights.

Alice- *glares*

Kat-Okay so I didn't...but I wish I had. (By the way, I also don't own any other recognized items in this story).

Alice-Hence the point of FANFICTION

I slowly opened my eyes. The room was bright and sharp looking around me. I couldn't believe it was the same room I'd been in five minutes ago. Looking around, I noticed Carlisle and Esme smiling at me. I sat up to look them in the eye. It took a total of a millisecond to move to a sitting position. I marveled at my speed and grace. I'd never been very graceful.

"This is certainly different," I said to my new parents. Then I gasped. My voice! It didn't sound anything like it used to. Normally it had a low, slightly gravely sound to it. Now it sounded around the same range, but a little higher, with a bell like quality to it. Basically a middle C and the B below it. I must have been wearing a funny expression because Carlisle and Esme both started chuckling.

"What's so funny?" I growled. I gasped again. That was weird. I could growl! Just for fun I growled again, bursting into a fit of giggles when I succeeded. Carlisle and Esme joined in my laughter. It was very contagious.

Once we'd all calmed down, Carlisle smiled at me warmly and asked, "Ready to test your vampire body?"

Before he even had the chance to take another breath, I'd jumped out of my seat and run to the door. I turned around to see his shocked-but happy- face and said, "You coming or what!"

Then I took off down the stairs. Finally I got to look at the whole house! It had four floors. The lowest floor was the basement, then above that, the main floor. The main floor consisted of the kitchen, living room, dining room, washing room, a half bath, the garage, and a sun room made completely of glass. Going into the sun room, I saw that, in their backyard, they had a pool and tons of space. That was mainly because their house backed into a forest after about an acre. Back up the stairs on the second floor there was a door leading to Carlisle and Esme's room, a door to Emmett and Rosalie's room, a door to Jasper and Alice's room, Carlisle's office, and a full bath.

While I looked around the second floor, I noticed a staircase at the end of the hall. My curiosity got the better of me and I ventured up the stairs. At the top there was a short hallway lined on one side with glass. This led to a closed door. Making sure no one was around, I peeked into the room where the door led. It was empty except for some shelves. The wall straight ahead of me and the wall on my left were both totally glass and the carpet was white. Considering that it was the only room on this floor, it was pretty large.

I was peering around the shelves when I sensed someone entering the room. Quickly, I faced the door and hissed at the intruder. Carlisle put his hands up in an 'I surrender' position and I relaxed my stance. As he came further into the room, I continued to look around. Suddenly, he placed his hand on my shoulder. I tensed up and glared at him while thinking, Idiot, scaring me like that while I'm still new to this.

His eyebrows raised in shock. "What did you just say to me?"

Giving him a questioning look, I responded, "I said absolutely nothing."

"Now that's a downright lie," he contradicted. "I distinctly heard you say 'Idiot, scaring me like that while I'm still new to this.'"

I gasped. "But I only thought that!"

Staring at him I thought, Can you hear this?

He nodded. "Pretend to be facing Esme and think something."

I imagined that I was face-to-face with my new mom. Then I thought, When are the rest of them getting back from school?

She showed up at the door suddenly. "They should be here in about a half an hour. Why?"

Carlisle and I both gasped. "Is that normal?" My voice reached a higher pitch. Great, I was a freak vampire! This couldn't get any worse. I wonder if I did something during the transformation that-

"It's probably your power," Carlisle cut off my thinking. Something in my head clicked when he said that. My mouth formed an 'o' shape.

"I forgot about vampires getting powers sometimes," I muttered. I was thinking about this as I continued to look around the room. "So, from what we just tried out, I assume that I can shoot thoughts into peoples heads." I chuckled.

"What's funny?" questioned Carlisle.

"I'm a paradox." When he raised his eyebrows, I explained, "Well thoughts are supposed to stay in your head and if mine are in other people's heads it sort of contradicts itself. It makes me a paradox."

My parents mulled over this for a moment. As they thought, I asked, "What was this room for anyway?"

"Well now that you're here," Esme began, "we wanted to know if you wanted it."

Almost literally bursting with happiness, I jumped to face them and wrapped my arms around their neck. "Oh thank you! Thank you! It's perfect!"

Carlisle coughed. "Now I know it's not necessary for us to breathe but it's much preferred. And right now, we can't."

"Oops." Laughing nervously, I stepped back. They rubbed their necks and smiled at me lovingly. That's when I realized something about my hug. "Carlisle! You didn't feel freezing cold and rock hard anymore!"

He smiled warmly. "It's because we have the same temperature and body structure now. Actually, while I'm thinking about it, you need to test your strength."

Can we go outside? I mentally asked him.

He gave me the slightest of nods and then I was off. I ran over to my window (in my room!) and jumped out. Because of my new speed and eyesight, my falling seemed more like slowly floating. Carefully, I placed my feet on the ground and took off at a dead run.

Staying in eyesight of the house, I ran through forests and climbed up trees, swinging on branches and jumping to other branches. Even though I probably couldn't literally have one, I felt like I was having the largest adrenaline buzz ever!

As I jumped out of a tree nearby the house, something came in sharp contact with me and sent me flying to the ground. Landing on my side, I quickly turned to face to attacker. I was staring into the eyes of a large cat. It growled sharply, lifting its claws when suddenly something pale white flew into it, sending it soaring away from me.

A sense of relief washed over me. The funny thing was, when I was looking at it, I wasn't scared. It actually made my throat burn, but in a good way. Plus, it smelled fantastic!

Carlisle was by my side in an instant. He held out a hand to help me up but instead I jumped to a standing position. "What was that thing?"

He sighed and said quietly, "It was a mountain lion. I have no idea how it got this close to our house but somehow it managed to."

Even though my question was answered, I still couldn't figure out what that odd burning sensation in my throat was. "Carlisle?"

"Mm-hm?" He looked at me with concern. It reminded me of my father.

"When that lion pounced on me, I felt a weird burning in my throat. Is it normal for vampires to feel like they're burning?"

He laughed whole-heartedly. "It's very normal. In fact, you'd be one weird vampire if it didn't happen to you."

I screwed up my forehead in concentration. Seeing my confused face, he continued, "You're hungry. That's how it feels for you when you need to feed."

At the word feed a chill went down my spine. I had totally forgotten that I'd need a diet of animals to live. Not that eating animals bothered me. Actually I was more worried about the fact that I'd have to kill something with my bare hands. Plus, I'm really squeamish...so I had no idea how the blood would affect me. I looked off in the direction Carlisle had sent the lion. The burning returned to my throat and I whinced.

I was lost in thought when I heard Carlisle yell, "Go long!"

Turning my head towards the sound of his voice, I noticed-just in time- that he threw a silvery ball in my direction. I realized quickly that it was going to go over my head. After taking a few milliseconds to calculate where it would end up, I took off running. Catching the ball (right where I knew it would be) I examined it closely. I all too soon realized that the thing was made of pure lead all the way through.

Carlisle came up to my side where I was testing my reflexes and speed by tossing the ball randomly different ways and then running to catch it. When I got bored of that, I took the ball in my hand and gently squeezed it. It felt like the equivalent to a stress ball. Easily it crumbled to dust in my hand. My eyes widened in shock and I mumbled, "Wow."

"You think that's cool," Carlisle stated. "Wait till you see how you look."

I freaked out about the thought of my appearances. Normally I don't care what I look like. I mean seriously, most days I look like a zombie who just rolled out of bed. But now, how could I compare to these gorgeous vampires if I turned out to be ugly. I tried to get out coherent sentences about why I didn't want to see myself, but I was freaking out so much it turned out sounding like, "NO! I don't...see....I mean in comparison....you guys.....I'm probably...ugh....why should I do this?"

Smiling, Carlisle grabbed my arm and dragged me inside. I had started to fight him but that's when he grabbed my legs. By then I'd given up trying to get away and hoped and prayed I turned out at least somewhat pretty. I shut my eyes until I felt myself being sat on the ground gently. I heard a voice say, "Open your eyes and look."

Slowly I cracked slits in my eyes. But as I saw my reflection my eyes (and mouth) opened wider. I stood up to get a better view in the full length mirror. This person-or thing- couldn't be me. It was impossible. The person I was staring at had black, shoulder length, straight hair. I had blonde hair! The only time my hair had been black was when I was born. But upon further inspection I realized my hair must have gone back to my birth color. I had to admit though, my side bangs looked good.

Aside from that, I had pale white skin that sparkled when the rays of sun through the window hit it. I smiled and saw a row of perfectly straight, bright white teeth. Plus, my lips were now smooth and about the color of a pink rose. Looking down at my hands and feet, I noticed that my nails were clean cut and the perfect length for a french manicure. And my legs, etc, had no hair left on them (now there's something to rejoice about).

The last thing I looked at-for fear of what they would look like-were my eyes. They were a startling blood-red color. It made me look pretty scary actually (especially when paired with the dark circles under my eyes....good thing I was used to those because I've always had them...it's a heredity thing). Thankfully, I looked a lot prettier than I anticipated, so there was no harm to my self esteem. Yay.

I looked at myself up and down for a few more minutes-happily realizing that I no longer had to put up with PMSing and sadly realizing I was stuck at a height of 5'4"-and was only brought out of my happy reverie when Carlisle said, "Have you been vain for long enough?"

"Yes," I said, sighing in a joking way. "But I can't wait till Katy can see me like thi-"

That's when it hit me. My friends and family. They would never see me looking like this. They would never see me ever again. Slowly, I sat down on the floor. Not able to contain my emotions any longer, I curled my knees to my chest and bawled. Carlisle knelt down and wrapped his arms around me and made soothing noises to calm me. As I brushed away tears I...wait...TEARS?!

I jumped out of Carlisle's grasp and looked in the mirror. Sure enough, there were wet trails down my cheek. "But that's impossible!"

Carlisle looked over my shoulder. He examined me then carefully brushed a finger down my cheek. He sniffed it and a puzzled expression came over his face. "It's venom."

"Now there's a weird power. The crying vampire. I'll probably be the only one in history." I pretty much figured I got this power because I was so emotional. And moody. Mostly emotional though. I used to tear up easily.

While I was lost in though I missed the sound of the cars pulling in to the driveway. Next thing I knew, I heard car doors slamming and Carlisle frantically said, "Kat, get down to the living room and stay behind Esme and I."

Nodding, I sprinted off. When Esme saw me enter the living room, she stood up and came to my side. "Now sweetheart, don't freak out if they do anything rash. The boys tend to be a bit...overprotective. So stay behind us and you should be fine once they get to know you."

"But how long will that take?" I muttered to myself.

Just as Carlisle got down the stairs and moved in front of me, the door burst open, and in entered to most gorgeous creatures I'd ever seen.

End Author's Note

So sorry it's been so long since the last update. I got writer's block during this chapter and it was just awful. This chapter was also pretty bad content wise. But now I get to meet the rest of the Cullens (and maybe some non-Cullens too). Please review (they can be hateful if they must). Sorry this chapter was shorter than the last two.