Author's Note

Hey hey hey! How's everyone been? I'm sorry about how separate these chapters are. So much stuff is going on with school, etc, that it's hard to keep a steady thing with this. Anyway, I'm also sorry about how random the last chapter was. It was mainly the stuff that you needed to know before these more fun things happened. Enjoy (and review please). One last thing, jsyk, it's October 25 right now in the story.

Song: Teenagers by My Chemical Romance (if you haven't heard this song you're deprived...go look it up on YouTube). This song was mostly chosen because of Emmett.

Disclaimer: Still don't own any of these recognized ideas. Not even the recognized ones that aren't Stephenie Meyer's...oh well.

As the gorgeous group of people walked in, Carlisle and Esme tensed. The group laughed heartily about something they'd been talking about. Finally they noticed their 'parents' standing in the living room. I saw Alice at the front. When she saw them she said, "Hey guys! What's up? You look ready for a fight."

My new parents tried relaxing a bit but to no avail. They had to again tense up because right as they relaxed, Jasper saw me. He growled loudly, making me retreat a few steps. I was shocked! How could he act so mean, especially since he didn't even know me. But as soon as he growled, everyone noticed me. The guys all reacted as if they'd had acid dropped on them. Jumping in front of the girls, I heard one guy yells, "Jake, get the pack out, and take Nessie with you."

The dark figures who had been mixed in with the vampires left the house quickly. One of them was dragging a pale vampire with bouncing bronze curls out of the door. She seemed to be fighting him hard, but eventually he got her out. Now that they felt safer, the guys (who were the only ones to freak out), relaxed a bit. But not very much. Alice stood on her toes to see over her husband's shoulder. "Hi, Kat!" She waved at me but was shoved back by Jasper.

This ticked me off. I stepped forward to come face-to-face with Jasper. Esme reached out a hand to me but I saw Carlisle take her hand and shake his head, warning her to leave me be. When I was up close in Jasper's face, I looked up at him and said, "Do you have a problem? What gives you the right to push around your wife like that?"

Bending forward to make his face an inch from mine, he challenged me with, "I have every right to push her around when it comes to her safety."

"And what here looks unsafe to you?" I was practically yelling at him. It was strange. Normally my temper is kept in check better. But right now, all I wanted was for him to say it. Say that I was what he thought was unsafe.

"Well right now," he started, sneering, "you look pretty unsafe to me."

Something snapped when he said that. My fists automatically clenched and a growl escaped my throat. But just then, the man I had somehow failed to notice (don't know how that happened), stepped in front of Jasper.

"Now you don't wanna punch him do you? That could mean big trouble." This guy scared me to death. I only came up to his chest and the look in his eyes was pure anger. As soon as he said that, my eyes widened in horror and I quickly retreated to my spot behind Carlisle and Esme.

Jesus, I thought, looking at the huge guy. Emmett is way bigger than I ever imagined he could be.

Suddenly, Emmett started laughing. "You know," he said, "that's what most of the people at my school said when I first showed up."

Because of this random outburst, everyone took their attention off me and stared at Emmett with incredulous faces. One guy with bronze hair who I assumed to be Edward, said, "Emmett, who are you talking to?"

"Kat, of course. Who else would I be talking to? She's the one who said, 'Emmett is way bigger than I ever imagined he could be.'" Emmett looked around the room at all the confused and worried faces he was getting. I just put my face in my hands.

A musical voice, belonging to a girl that wasn't Alice, said, "Emmett, sweetheart, she didn't say anything."

He blanched. Oh boy, this was going to take some explaining. Carlisle turned around and saw my hands over my face and realized what had happened. While Carlisle was paying attention to me, I heard Edward whisper, "Rose, how many times have you hit him in the head. Cause I think he's finally lost all of his brain cells."

"Shut up," whispered the musical voice I'd heard a second ago. As she said that, another girl whispered, "He had a brain?"

I looked up in time to see them all burst into laughter and Emmett glared at them yelling, "I do too have a brain!"

"Then who are you hearing Emmett?" Jasper asked, gasping for breath. "If you say 'the voices in my head' then it's true, you've gone insane!"

"I'm not insane," Emmett argued.

"Prove it!" Challenged Edward and Jasper.

Stepping forward I said, "He's not insane."

The attention was focused back on me again. Although this time, the air didn't seem as tense. Alice quirked an eyebrow and said, "You don't have to stick up for him, Kat."

"I'm not," I said defensively. "It's the truth."

"How so?" Alice looked intrigued now. Suddenly she looked dazed, and when she came back to reality she screamed, "That's so cool!"

Edward looked very confused. "What's cool? And why can't I hear her thoughts?! I mean there must be something up there!"

I glared at him and thought, Gee, thanks. That's the phrase I've always wanted to hear from a guy.

Now he looked taken aback. He stammered, "How'd you do that? I mean, talk without moving your mouth."

"Um..." Great. How would I explain this. "It's one of my powers."

Rosalie gaped, "She has a power too!? What, was I not a special enough person to get a power?"

Emmett started massaging her shoulders and was whispering something in her ear to calm her down. So I continued, "Yes, my power. I can send thoughts into people's minds. But I didn't mean to send that one to Emmett. I'm just not used to this yet."

Everyone was gaping at me in disbelief. Well, except for Alice, Carlisle, and Esme that is. I snickered. "You know, if you don't close your mouth something will crawl in there eventually."

After a few seconds, Emmett sniggered. We gave him a funny look and he stated, "Do you all realize how much fun we could have with this power?"

Almost everyone in the room suddenly got an evil looking glint in their eyes. Alice started laughing maniacally which made everyone fall over laughing. Well, everyone except Edward that is. "Great," he yelled in the middle of our fits of laughter. "Another person whose thoughts I can't hear."

Calming myself, I stood up and said, "Well if I send them to you, you can hear me."

"That's not the point," he yelled in my face. Then he turned on his heel and ran out the door. The brunette who I assumed to be Bella, sighed.

"Sorry about that." She looked at me apologetically. "He tends to overreact...a lot."

"So I've read." Smiling, she held out her hand. I shook it and said, "It's nice to actually meet all of you. I mean, since I've read the books, that's the only thing I was able to go by when preparing to meet you."

"Well even after all we told her our entire story, Stephenie Meyer still had to fictionalize us a lot. Just for our safety." Because of my confused look, she continued. "You know, since she's a vampire she knew how unsafe it would be if we were found out. So our personalities were changed a bit and she changed the names of any human who we'd interacted with while we lived in Forks."

This made me realize something. I turned to Carlisle. "You know, you never told me where we are. I feel kinda lost."

"Oh," he said, surprised. "I can't believe I forgot to tell you. We're in West Virginia. We live in a city inhabited only by supernaturals."

"What kind of supernaturals?" I asked suspiciously.

"Vampires, shape shifters (mostly only wolf shifters), and wizards. The wizards cloaked this city years ago so that humans couldn't find it or even tell it's here. We call this city Sesame."

"Is there any reason for the name?"

He laughed bitterly. "Really it's a pointless name. It's because the password to get into the city from outside of it is 'open sesame.'"

Right as he said that, the front door slammed open. In came the girl that had been dragged out earlier. "So, what's goin' on?"

"Renesmee!" Bella yelled. Quieting her voice she softly said, "Go back to Jake's place."

"But mom," the girl whined.

It suddenly clicked in my head who this was. I don't know how I missed the name. Stretching my hand in front of her, I said brightly, "Hi, I'm Kat. You must be Nessie."

"Finally! Someone who doesn't automatically call me Renesmee first!" She shook my hand happily. "It's nice to meet you!"

"Same to you," I said back. Looking closely at her, I asked, "How old are you?"

She giggled. "I just turned 16 in August. You?"

"Turned 16 about a week ago. Birthday's October 16."

She gaped at me. "So you, like, got shot almost right after your birthday?"

"Sadly, yes." I sighed, remembering the surprise party my friends had thrown me. I hated surprises, and they knew that, but the party was still amazing. Katy's house had just been finished and they celebrated moving in by having my party there...

"Kat, you with us still?" Nessie was snapping her fingers in front of my face. It reminded me of when I was in the hospital. I shook my head, releasing the memories of my friends. It was just too hard to think of them.

"Sorry," I muttered to the floor. Immediately, Nessie's arms wrapped gently around me. I heard Bella gasp and Jasper put his arm out as if he were going to block me from her.

Looking up, Nessie growled at Jasper and snapped, "Stop worrying so much! She's not going to do anything! She's upset and you people aren't helping one bit. Come on, Kat. Let's get out of here."

The thing was, as she was dragging me, she must have been remembering something. Right as we were at the front door, I was blinded by images of deer running, a bunch of white streaks were following it and finally one pounced, drawing blood. My throat was suddenly on fire. I growled and yanked my arm from her, clutching my hands around my aching throat. What was going on? Was I still changing?

A panic had started when I yanked my arm away from Nessie. Bella was suddenly by her side, making sure she wasn't injured, Emmett and Jasper were helping me to a couch where they got me to sit down, and Carlisle was massaging his temples saying, "I should've expected this to happen."

To top off the panic, two of the large dark figures from before suddenly burst through the door. One had a long ponytail. He looked frantic. "Bella! I'm so sorry but I lost her! You see, I had to use the bathroom and I told Paul to watch her. But Nessie kicked him in the balls and ran for it. I have no idea where she could possibly-"

"Jake! Stop worrying. She's right here." The guy (who was apparently Jacob), finally took in the scene around him. Then he saw Nessie and ran over to her, embracing her in a hug.

"Nessie! Why do you do this to me? I was so worried," he scolded her. She huffed but looked happy to hug him anyway.

"Jake, you worry too much."

He smiled cockily. "I know."

The other dark skinned boy had been looking at me curiously for a while and just now got the courage to come over to where I was. I must have looked funny sitting there, on a couch, squeezing my throat so tight I thought my head my fall off. In reality, I was attempting to hold my breath to hopefully subside the burning sensation in my throat. When that didn't work, I took a deep breathe. That was a terrible idea. As I took my breath, I caught the scent of something foul smelling. I coughed and spluttered, leading the other boy to ask, "Is she all right?"

Fed up with the burning, and the smell, and the not knowing anything, I screamed. Loudly. Now, that sure got everyone's attention. Turning to Jasper, I yelled, "Why won't you people tell me what's going on? Why am I burning and what is that smell?"

Everyone chuckled. I didn't find this funny at all so I again yelled, "What's so frickin funny?!"

"You," Emmett said, laughing even harder. My face fell.

"Well why can't you people just tell me what's going on?" My voice cracked. And then, the last thing that I wanted to happen, happened. I burst into tears. Everyone rushed to my side at once. Apologies kept coming from left and right as they tried to calm me down.

Jacob was the first one to notice anything strange though. "What the hell?"

"Jake! Watch your language!" Nessie slapped his arm. "What's your problem?"

"She can cry," he said, astonished, pointing at me.

Jasper rolled his eyes. "Of course she can. Every single inhuman thing here can cry. It's a natural emotion."

"That's not what I meant! I meant that she actually has tears. I thought you guys couldn't have tears."

"Whoa," Jasper gasped.

"Ballin'!" Emmett said.

"She gets two powers?!" Rosalie, of course.

"Amazing," Alice and Bella whispered in astonishment.

"Poor honey," Nessie muttered, hugging me tight to her chest again. Besides her arms around me, I could feel a very warm hand rubbing my back soothingly.

I lifted my head from where it was on her shoulder and saw that the other hand belonged to the other dark skinned boy. Sniffling, I choked out, "Who are you anyway? I saw you the other day while everyone was playing football."

"I'm Seth Clearwater," he smiled.

I gaped at him. "But aren't you supposed to be like...13 or something?"

His smile faltered. "Well, yeah, but I decided that I'd go on and age a few years since I hadn't imprinted yet. But now I've decided to stop aging since I've-"

"ALRIGHT! Now, Seth, we were supposed to get Nessie and bring her straight back. Since that's not happening do you think we should go ahead and leave them to bond?" Jacob seemed anxious about something. I wonder what...

Seth sighed and his shoulders fell a bit. "Yeah, I guess so."

"'Kay then, let's go." Jacob gave Nessie a kiss on the head and the two of them left. I dried my tears on my sleeve.

"Are you okay now?" Nessie asked worriedly.

"Yeah," I said smiling at her. "Only as long as someone explains what's happening."

Jasper sat next to me and for the first time, he smiled at me. "You need to hunt. You're just simply hungry."

"Oh," I muttered, feeling stupid. Of course I'd be hungry. "And the smell?"

"Werewolf," he said, wrinkling up his nose.

"I feel really stupid now."

"Why?" he asked, actually sounding curious.

I sighed. "I mean, I've read the entire Twilight series, read about these things happening, and still can't realize when it does happen."

There was an awkward pause. I broke the silence by saying, "So...can we go eat now? I'm starved."