Title: In Need of Rescue

Chapter 4: Neighbors

Yet again I woke up. This was my life. I woke up, slept, and woke up. These past few days have been the most exciting days in my life. Was that horrible for my age?

The same guard as usual came forward as everyone stood aside. I walked forward without hesitation knowing he was going to have me come with him.

"Bugh." He said looking at me. He opened the door and I walked out. We walked down the hall in silence.

I noticed that I had a little more bounce in my step, could this possibly be hope? The guard seemed a little more in thought other than the few other times I had seen him. I knew something big was going to happen but I didn't know what. We walked into the room with bright colored pictures as I was forced to sit down in the same seat as last time.

The guard talked to the same man that he talked to last time.

He exchanged paper money and talked to the other man. They were speaking vampiric and were speaking really fast. I watched as the man signed a few papers and then they shook hands. I heard my name mentioned a few times but couldn't make anything else out. The man behind the desk went on his computer until it started to make an awful noise. When it was done the man behind the desk pulled out a pink tag in the shape of a circle. He was explaining something to the guard as he pointed at the tag.

The guard then pulled out a pink thing and hooked the tag to it as they laughed and shook hands. Of course I was scared, I had no clue what was going on. Before this time, they seemed so in thought but now they seemed a little more relaxed, making me feel more at ease.

The guard came up to me as I stayed completely still. He put the collar around my neck and clicked the buckle from behind. "There you go. You have to keep this on at all times." He told me. "No taking it off."

When they walked away to finish talking, I looked down at it. I couldn't read most of the tag but I could read one part, it read, "Bella NO. F53/245." I tried to squint in order to read the rest but it was to no use.

Did this mean I was leaving?

He came back with the man as they shook hands for the last time and then he came up to me and hooked a leash to me.

I stood up when he slightly pulled on the leash. We walked toward two double doors. I was so excited; I got to see something outside of this building!

I couldn't believe it. The sun was supposed to be out during the day. It was a bright orb in the sky. Something amazing that I could only dream of. My smile grew as I watched the guard open the door. He looked at me oddly from my smile but shrugged his shoulders and held the door for me.

I stepped out and then was greatly disappointed. It was dark. There were no stars in the sky, it was just black. Were all those stories a lie?

He noticed me looking up in the sky and then turned his head up to the sky, "The day of no moon is supposed to be good luck."

I looked over at him, day of no moon?

"Hope you don't mind the pink, my sisters love pink so I figured all girls do." He said smiling to me. "I had to get you out of there soon; things are starting to get messy at that place."

I still couldn't help but look at him as he opened the passenger door.

"Can't you say something?" he asked. "It's bugging me with how silent you are."

"Where's the sun?"

He seemed so happy to hear my voice. "It's not night time." He said.

"I don't understand." Night meant the moon and day meant the sun.

He looked confused then let out an "ooh. You see the sun comes out at night when vampires try not to go out too much. It doesn't harm us but it's a nuisance to see anything. During the day, the moon is out."

"I don't see a moon." It's so confusing.

He shook his head. "Day of no moon today. Now let's get you home so that you can see my place. I made sure none of my family will come over to my house today so that you can get used to it. Now go ahead and sit down." He walked up to a metal beast and opened a door to it revealing a seat on the inside. I starred at it. "Get in." he said again.

I walked cautiously toward it as I placed my hand on the surface of it.

"It's a car." He said chuckling at my inability to know much about the outside world.

"A car? They help you move faster." I said remembering the stories of cars.

"Yes, they can go really fast but you have to get inside first." He said to me. I nodded and sat in the seat that was inside the car.

He closed the door and went to the other side and sat down. "I had a seatbelt installed for you. Well actually my sister had one installed six years ago when she was trying to get me to buy a human but I never found one that I…" he trailed off. "Just put it on."

I nodded and looked around, a seatbelt? What was that?

"Here I will show you. Your face tells me that you have no clue what I am talking about." He bent over me as his cheek was almost flesh against mine and got the belt. "Now put it around you." He pulled it his way and then he clicked it into the buckle. "And click." I jumped at the sound of the click. "A little scared? Don't be, not until my family comes over to visit at least." He snickered and then drove off. He was driving too fast for me to see anything, not to mention the complete darkness that engulfed the streets.

"I should be afraid when your family comes over?" I asked turning my head to look at him.

He let out a light hearted laugh. "Well, I shouldn't say afraid, it's just that they are starting to believe that maybe the lifestyle now isn't as bad as we first thought."

"Lifestyle now?" How old is he? How old is his family?

"Yeah, we were around before vampires took over. It was different then." He slowed down and looked to either side of him then turned the corner. "Vampires had to keep their secret. My family has always sided with humans but recently, almost all of them have changed to this lifestyle. Not to mention that if we didn't switch over to this new lifestyle to begin with, we would have been killed long ago."

"Killed?" I asked.

"Yeah, you know, not here anymore."

"I know what death is." I said back. I looked outside as we went down a different street; there were so many vampires around. I didn't think there would be this many out. I could barely see them in the dark but their pale skin was enough to shine by the few lights that were coming through the stores and houses. "Are all of these vampires?" I asked.

"Yes."

"No humans?"

"They are kept inside homes. It's hard to explain." He pulled up to a tall structure. "This is my place."

"You live here alone?"

"Yeah, there was a rule passed ten years ago, no more than two vampires to a house. My family was a little bigger than that so we all had to get our own place. I was the odd man out." He pulled the keys out of the ignition. "I will show you the place. Before we do that, I need to start fresh with you. I'm Edward. Just don't say that name in front of others and you will be fine. And you are?" He looked like he was waiting for me to speak.

"Isabella."

He shook his head. "No, you are now Bella. I felt like that name suited you better." He smirked at me.

I was upset at first about the name change; my mom had given me that name. Then it hit me, my mom? She will never know what happened to me. We may never talk again. My name was all I had left from her, but he changed my name? I thought about it for a short time. Maybe this wasn't so bad.

A new name? A new life.

He got out of the car and came around the other side as he opened the door and grabbed the leash that was attached to the collar. We started to walk to the door when a man went to a small fence that was separating the two front yards. "Hey Edward." The man sneered. I could barely see the man in the darkness of the day.

"What is it James?" he asked back as if he were ready to snarl.

"You finally broke down and got a pet?" he asked. This guy was somehow scarier than the other vampires I had met over my years.

Edward crossed his arms, "You don't ever talk human why are you starting now?"

"I want her to hear me. I wouldn't trust him." He looked over at me. "Something wrong in the head, I don't know what it is but that boy needs to go to a mental institution."

I was nervous, not knowing what to do. Edward on the other hand started to growl and ran at him, luckily he dropped the leash. He started to speak vampiric.

The man laughed, "Hey Vicky, come get a load of this. Our neighbor finally got a new pet. He doesn't want us to warn the pet first."

A female walked out of the door. Her red hair gleamed from the small amount of light coming from their house. She laughed, "Got a cute one there. Should I warn her about the time you poisoned our pet?" She asked Edward.

"I didn't do that." He said. I backed away from them. I knew I couldn't run, he would easily catch me but I was afraid from all three of them. "I told you that it was probably those kids down the street."

"Sure it was." He laughed. "You are just the one that complained about my pets every day."

"You never cleaned up after them; your backyard reeked of feces."

"It was fine, had the cruelty police over here several time thanks to you. They said we were fine."

Edward spoke again in vampiric as his voice escalated. The other two came back speaking in vampiric even louder than he was. I backed behind the car, not knowing where to go.

Edward finally walked off, "I don't have time for this." He said grabbing the leash and practically dragging me into the house. I looked back at the two as they had an odd smile on their face. The man was able to yell, "Be careful in there sweetheart." Then Edward slammed the door.

"Ignore them. They are blaming me for something I didn't do." He said angrily, putting his keys up on the wall. "They hate this lifestyle and try to cause drama whenever possible."

"Why?"

"They used to be nomads and walk around wherever they wanted but when vampires took over and the two per household rule was made so was the rule that you had to have a house and you have to live in it for a minimum of five years."

For some reason I believed him more than I should have or maybe I was just too busy realizing that I was in a real house. I looked around the house in awe of its beauty. I wanted to ask about what they said out their but I couldn't find my voice. I started to walk off but was pulled by the leash.

"Give me a second." He said as he unlatched the leash from the collar. I stayed still after that. "Go on, look around."

I started to walk off as he stayed perfectly still. I walked down a hall and placed my hand on the wall.

The hall way wall held several colored pictures on the wall. I went to touch one but didn't want to take a chance of breaking it. "That's my family." He said still not moving from his spot. I went closer to the photos on the wall. He walked up behind me as I stared at them. "We technically aren't related but we are the closest to family we will ever have." He said to me.

I stared at the picture of a bigger man and a blonde haired female.

Edward pointed to that picture, "That's Emmett and his wife Rosalie." He said then pointed to one of a short woman and a strict looking man. "That's Jasper and Alice. All five of us consider ourselves siblings and we look out for each other."

Siblings? That sound like fun to be able to have a sibling.

"This man over here is Carlisle, he's the one responsible for most of us being here. Next to him is his wife Esme. She is like a mother to all of us. On most of our papers we have our parent as Carlisle because he is the one that changed us. He is so much more wise than the others, we always go to him for advice." I noticed the man almost instantly.

"That's the doctor." I said.

"Yes, he loves helping humans out more than he would care to admit. When vampires took over, he had to refuse to help many humans because it was forbidden at first. When he got the job to go to the farms and check on humans, he took it without a moment's hesitation. Don't anyone know I told you their names. We could both get in trouble for that one." He smirked at me and I nodded.

I walked off and went into another room. I looked behind me to see that Edward had not followed. There was a table in this room but it was holding a huge box. The box had one side with glass and the other sides with plastic. I stared at it, afraid to touch it.

"That's a television."

I jumped at his voice. I looked back at it. Television? It looked cool. We then heard a nock at the door making me jump and turn toward the door. My hand hit the television and it almost went flying off the table but he was able to catch it before it hit the ground.

"Sorry." I said as he seemed angry.

"It's no problem." He grumbled something under his breath, "I told her not to come over right now." He looked over at me as he placed the television back on the stand. "I will be right back don't move." He said going over to the door and answering it. I could only hear mumbling, it was of course in vampiric. Finally I gathered the courage to walk toward the door. I knew he said to stay here but I wanted to see who it was. I walked through the door frame and into the main hall. I could see his back but couldn't see who he was talking too. It was obvious that whoever it was, he was trying to get them to leave.

I accidentally made a picture fall off the wall as it went crashing near my feet. I flinched back and then I heard a loud gasp. "Why didn't you tell me you got a pet? Is this why you didn't want me over? Your future kept changing as if you didn't know which day you were getting it." I heard a shrill female voice. Before I could move back she was in front of me. She started to talk in vampire language as she cupped my face and forced me to move my head so that she could see my side profile.

They talked back and forth in their own language. I got used to it from the farm. I heard my name on and off throughout their conversation. I wasn't used to hearing my name in conversation though.

I took a good glance at the girl. She was no doubt a vampire. She was short. I would venture to say shorter than me. Her hair was a little spiked and she seemed very charismatic. This must be the woman in the picture.

Alright, they are out of the farm now. Yay!

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