A/N: Hey! Just so you know updates will be getting to you quicker! I have entered into a competition with my wonderful beta Rebarbative! I have to get to chapter 10 of this before SHE finishes Mission Hogwarts! (Which if you haven't read, you should. As soon as you are done reading this chapter) Like I have mentioned before I had already had chapters 1 through 5 done! They will just be out quicker than they might have been before! Thanks to Rebarbative for beta-ing and making this readable! Thanks to my reviewers for the last chap who were: HOAnubisTS and Rebarbative (Kinda… -_-)
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Chapter 4
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*
"SHUT UP!" I yelled at the alarm clock as I threw it against my wall.And once again it stays intact."Stupid, evil, indestructible machine..."
I got up and went through my usual routine. I put on my makeup and got dressed in my red jeans, a white blouse, my pair of solid red converses, and my locket. Then, I threw my hair into a ponytail while dashing down the stairs, rolling my eyes at the shorter hairs that refused to stay in the band.
When I got downstairs, I had a plate of steak and eggs, with a tall glass filled with a red liquid that I assumed was blood.
"Hi Mom, hi Dad. I've got band practice after school so I'll be home late."
"OK," my father said. "Oh, and by the way, the deadline for us to leave is coming up. Just a warning."
"Yeah, I know."
School came with the normal excruciating boredom, at least until I met Charlie at lunch.
"Hey Charlie."
"Humph."
It had been a week since the incident, and she was still ignoring me.
"Nice to see you too. Are you at least going to come to practice today?"
"Yes we are," said Jimmy.
"YAY!"
"Hey people!" screamed a familiar voice from behind me.
"WILL! Where have you and Alec been?"
"Ditching as usual," Alec cut in.
Alec and Will are the last two in our group of mismatched friends. They are twins, and mischievous ones at that. They are always cutting school, but they never get in trouble because they get good grades, do all of their homework, and pass all of their tests. The whole group calls them the evil geniuses.
"Saph, I've been hearing some pretty interesting rumors."
"Yeah, like you're in a gang and the leader came after you in gym class. Totally wicked, why you didn't tell us?" Alec cut in again.
"Cuz' I'm not in a gang. Yes, someone was after me, but as you can see, I'm alive."
"For now," Alec said.
"Guys, I have to tell you something. I'm going on a trip with my dad and I'll be gone for a long period of time. But that's not the point. If I end up not coming back I probably died while hiking up a mountain."
"Sounds fun," said Will. "Can I join?"
"Sorry, no"
"If you say so…"
"I do."
*BRRIIINNNNGGGG*
"There's the bell Charlie. We better get to science," I said.
"Oh joy," she said, scowling at me.
"HONESTLY ALL I DID WAS TELL YOU THE TRUTH!" I burst out, unable to contain my anger any longer.
"NO YOU WERE MOCKING ME!"
"UGHH, FINE! KEEP THINKING THAT!"
"I will," she said, putting a calm, blank, façade on.
As me and Charlie walked to science there was a constant palpable presence of tension and anger in the air. We sat on opposite sides of the classroom, a simple, but broad statement.
"OK class" Mr. Banner said. "Today you will be assigned a partner for a new project. Your assignment will be to research a scientist and one of his or her experiments and then recreate it. This includes actually doing the experiment and recording detailed data. At the end of the project, you will present your experiment and your data to the class. Now as for your partners, I will be assigning them."
He started naming the pairs, and in the end neither Charlie nor I had been assigned a partner yet –and we were the last two people in class.
"And last but not least, Charlie and Saphire," announced Mr. Banner
"Just great," said Charlie, moving to sit next to me.
"It's not my fault you won't believe me. Anyway we should start on the project today after school. We should go to your house. At my house, well, things are really disorganized there right now, so yeah."
"Fine whatever."
After science, gym and Spanish were over, I met Charlie at her car (I walk to school because I have yet to receive a car). I got in and she started to drive to her house. About ten minutes into the drive I realized something.
"Charlie, I just realized I've never been to your house before and I've never met your family."
A flash of terror and regret flashed across Charlie's face, but then turned back to normal. "Yeah, that's odd, well I guess you will now.'
The rest of the ride was spent in ear shattering silence.
Charlie pulled into her driveway, where a wide variety of cars were parked. There was a yellow Porsche, a black Mercedes, a BMW, and a silver Volvo. There was also a large car garage that I was sure held even more vehicles.
Another interesting thing about Charlie's house was of the size and location. It was huge and hidden in the forest. Also, it was drop dead gorgeous.
We walked up to the door and Charlie took a deep breath before we walked in.
"Hi! I'm home and I have my friend with me. I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys earlier, it was short notice," Charlie told her family, who was sitting in the beautiful living room.
There were a total of nine people in the room: A bronze headed boy was sitting with a brunet girl, a bulky guy sitting with a model looking blond, another bulky blond was sitting with a black spiky haired pixie like girl, a young girl on the floor with yetanotherbulky guy with black hair and russet skin and a Young woman with short caramel like colored hair. And they all looked perfect.
"Family and Mutt, this is Saphire. Saphire, this is Family and Mutt. OK, introductions over, let's go and work on the project," Charlie said, obviously anxious to get out of there.
"Charlie mad at me or not, I want to meet your family," I said. I mean why was she so anxious for? It's just her family and whoever mutt is.
The bronze haired one chuckled. But at what?
"You just did. I introduced you to them and reverse."
"Charlie, why does it matter? I want to know their names. You're my friend and they're your family."
"She is right Charlie, you're being rude," said the young woman with the caramel hair. "My name is Esme. These are my sons: Edward (the bronze haired one), Emmet (the bulky one), and Jasper (the blond bulky one). My daughters and their wives: Bella (the brunet and Edward's wife), Rosalie (the blond and Emmet's wife), and Alice (the pixie and Jasper's wife). And this is my granddaughter, Edward's and Bella's child, Renesmee. And then there is him Jacob (the russet skinned one). My husband Carlisle is working, so he's not home."
"It's nice to meet you all," I said. And then realization hit. They were perfect, too perfect. The only reason I could think of was that Charlie wasn't lying. They are all vampires.
Edward stiffened and glared daggers at Charlie.
But they aren't like me, that much is obvious. That means Jimmy was right, there are ore then one species of vampire.
He stiffened even more. Wow I didn't think that was possible….
Charlie noticed and said awkwardly, "Um then let's go now!" She ushered me up the stairs quickly into her room.
"YOU WERE TELLING THE TRUTH!?"
"OF COURSE I WAS! YOU WERE THE ONE THAT WAS JOKING!"
"NO I WASN'T!"
"YES YOU ARE!" screamed Charlie.
"NO I'M NOT!"
"What is this stupid fight about anyway?" Emmett asked, unexpectedly standing in the doorway.
"I told her I was a vampire and she won't believe me!" I screamed.
The next thing I knew all of the Cullen family was in Charlie's room crowding around me. Charlie's brother, Edward, inspecting me closely.
"I mean I am a vampire, but different from you."
"A different type of vampire… that's impossible," scoffed Rosalie.
"She is telling the truth, or at least she thinks she is. I don't sense any deception," said Jasper.
"See! I told you!" I screamed at her. "Wait, what you can sense my emotions!?" I asked, turning to Charlie's brother.
"I'm sorry Jasper but um her eyes are blue she is by no means indestructible and she has lived here all of her life, so yeah," Charlie said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"I have never lied to you! Why would I start now? I am a vampire, just a different type of vampire than you. OK, and we just wastedallof our project time; we have to go to band practice."
Charlie and I headed to the warehouse where we practiced. When we got there Alec, Will, Jimmy, and Annabelle were waiting.
"WHERE WERE YOU GUYS? WE ARE RUNNING LATE NOW!" hollered Will.
"Sorry guys! We kinda got held up. We are here now so let's start."
In our band, I play lead guitar and vocals, Charlie is lead vocals, Jimmy is backup guitar, Alec is drums, Will is base guitar, and Annabelle is the manager. Juliet is the co-manager, but she doesn't come to practices that much.
After we played a few songs we all headed home.
"Hey mom, hey dad, I'm home!" I called walking into the house. "I'm not hungry, but I'm exhausted. I'm going to go to bed, OK?"
"OK, goodnight sweetie," said my mother.
I fell asleep about an hour later, not bothering to do my homework.
A/N: Review! (Counted out eight of those... ) I mean seriously guys, only two reviews last chapter. :( My traffic for this story is through the roof! But it would be really nice if I could get some feedback. Thanks for reading! The next chap should be up soon!