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Chapter Three

Almost Cruel

There was no need for me to breath and yet it felt like someone was choking me, their hands tight around my throat, making my breaths coming in short gasps. My throat was burning but not for blood. It was like I needed air. My eyes burned but did not water and for the first time in my life I lost control over my body as my hands started shaking and would not stop.

"Bree?"

I wanted to move, I was vulnerable like this. Before I could do anything Jasper quickly took hold on my arms and held me in place.

"What happened?" he asked Esme.

"I don't know" she replied quickly, almost like she was panicked. "We were talking and then she just started crying"

Crying?

Was that what this feeling was? I have never cried after I had been turned, there had never been a reason to. It felt wrong, crying when you had no tears in you.

Almost cruel.

"What were you talking about?"

I looked at Esme to see her looking at me in confusion and pity, just as Carlise had when I had begged him to kill me quickly. Even though my mind was screaming at me not to I found myself fighting against Jasper, trying to make him let me go. He was going to rip my arms off.

"Esme?" Jasper yelled when she did not answer. He knew that he was going to hurt me soon.

"I was telling her about us, about who are mates are"

Another sob escaped and I hated how weak I was acting in front of them.

"Diego"

If they had not turned to me then I would of thought someone else had said it. I didn't mean to, it just seemed to slip out. It was all I could do, sob and say his name, over and over again.

"Diego, Diego, Diego, Diego, Diego!"

"What's going on?"

Rose and Alice were walking down the stairs but I paid them no attention, I had too much to think about right now, too much to remember…too much to never forget. I was always going to remember what had happened, how he looked, his smile and they way he had first leaned in and kissed me softly, like it was something that we did all the time.

"when I take you to her and hold you as she tears off your legs and then slowly, slowly burns off your fingers, ears, lips, tongue, and every other superfluous appendage one by one"

"No, Diego, no!" I sobbed, suddenly tired I let myself go limp in Jaspers arms and stopped fighting. I had never been tired before.

"Who is Diego sweetie?" Esme asked quietly, she went to put her hand on my arm but I saw Jasper stop her, deeming me unsafe to touch.

I said nothing but it seemed that there was no need for me to any way as the front door opened and they turned to see the mind reader, Edward standing in the door way, watching my body shaking with a sad look on his face.

"Its her mate" He answered for me. I don't even care that he was telling them, just thankful that I was not going to have to be the one to do it. "He got killed"

The room was silent as the others looked at me like they had never seen me before, Jaspers grip on me grew lighter and the pain vanished from my arms.

"No Jasper" Edward said to the question that his brother did not want to ask "We were not the ones who killed him. He wasn't even there, he was killed a few days before that"

"Oh you poor thing" Esme muttered "Was it one of the other new borns?"

I looked at Edward, asking him to talk for me.

"No, it was Riley. Bree did not know in till she reached the field, that's why she tried to leave. He was the one reason that she came in the first place. She wanted to find him so that they could leave together. She did not want to fight us"

"Riley?" Jasper sounded confused "Was that not the vampire who was leading them in the first place? Why would he kill one of them when he needed as many as he could get?"

"Diego knew too much, he needed strength but not smarts. In order to control the newborns he told them lies to keep them in line. He used thing that they already believed in their human lives about vampires. He even said that they would die if they went out into the sun light in order to keep them in the house in the day.

"We knew" I whispered without thinking and all of them turned to me, waiting for me to talk for myself "Diego and I got caught in the sun one day and found out that it would not kill us as Riley had said. Diego believed that Riley did not know so one day we followed Riley and found him with Victoria. He made me leave but stayed behind to try and explain. That was the last time I ever saw him. I was told that he had gone ahead to make sure everything was alright, to watch you for a while. I was so desperate to think that he was alright that I just…believed what was I was told. Then I knew as soon as I saw everyone fighting that I had been wrong. Riley had taken him to Victoria…and she had killed him"

There was silence and for that, I was thankful.

"Do you want a change of clothes?"

I looked around to see Alice standing there with a small smile. She was the first one to talk to me in the last few hours, ever since I had cried everyone, even including Jasper, had let me have some time by myself to calm down.

"Please" I replied. My cloths seemed so dirty now. They were the same cloths that I had been killed in and the lines of blood that ran across them seemed out of place in such a clean house.

I followed her upstairs and into a room that was slightly smaller then the room that Rob and myself used to sit in. Everything was so bright.

Alice went over to her wardrobe and I almost laughed when I saw how far back it went. I guessed when you had been alive as long as she had you needed something to keep you busy and it seemed that hers was clothes.

"How old are you Bree?"

"Just over three months"

"No, I mean how old where you when you were turned?"

"Almost sixteen I think, but I may have been sixteen already. It was hard to tell back then"

She stopped looking at her cloths and turned back to me with a frown on her face.

"Bree you do remember your human life don't you?"

I nodded and kept on looking around the room, I always disliked talking about when I was human, it seemed so pointless to me.

"I remember, I just don't like thinking about it. I guess you could say I block it out, my human life was not a very good one. I lived out of the streets because I ran away from home. that's how I trusted Riley in the first place. He got me a burger and for a while he seemed like a hero to me" I turned back and looked her in the eyes "and then he killed me"

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