Chapter 4

Kate

"Yeah! What are you doing? Are you one of me too?" Adam asked, smiling wide.

I let go of him and shuffled away. He turned around and sat across from me Indian style. His features were changed with the vampire beauty, but his old self was still distinguishable, his eyes a disgusting ruby red.

"This is weird, isn't it? We're all pretty, and bloodthirsty. Is this some kind of twisted experiment?"

"How did you get like this?" I asked, my teeth clenched. It was the first time hearing my voice, and it sounded disgusted underneath the melodic chiming sounds my voice made.

He started playing with some fallen pine needles, looking down at the ground. I tilted my head, waiting for an answer.

"Two months ago, long after Dad and I found out you were gone, things got rough at home."

This was the first time hearing about my family. And I definitely did not expect to see them ever again, especially Adam. I flinched at the thought of what I must have brought upon my family.

"I got tired of Dad getting angry all the time and bossing me around so I walked out," he continued.

"Adam! How could you leave him? Now he has no one."

He shrugged. "He shouldn't have treated me so bad."

"This isn't his fault, Adam. Mom died, I'm practically dead, and now you?" I started. "Great job."

"Hey! What about you? You left us, too," he countered.

"I didn't do it by choice," I muttered. "What happened after you left?"

"I decided to drive out to some guy's house halfway between here and La Push, but then my car hit someone on the highway. Like a person! And she wasn't even hurt, my car nearly wrapped around her. And then she came around and pulled me out of the car and took me away. I don't remember anything else except for being burnt to death and opening my eyes to this."

"What did this female look like?" I asked, leaning forward.

"She had short, red hair. She laughed a lot and danced as she ran. A freaky little girl, but hot as hell."

I sighed, closing my eyes and shaking my head.

"What's wrong? How did you get here?" he asked.

"Was she with anyone else?" I asked urgently.

I had to open my eyes to see him shaking his head. "No. But she was talking about how proud 'sissy' would be."

I let out a low hiss, a shocking, but involuntary noise. Adam's eyes widened.

"Whoa, do you have a certain hate for these people?" he asked.

I shook my head. "It's a long story."

"But this is weird. You're eyes are golden, and you're, you know, pretty good looking. And so am I! And blood is so delicious."

"Blood is bad. Why are you killing people?" I asked shortly.

"Don't you do it too?"

I shook my head slowly. "No. That's horrible."

"Then how do you get by?" he asked.

"Animals have blood too," I suggested.

"Yeah I tried that. Animal blood just isn't as good as human blood."

"You're still killing people," I countered, my anger and frustration rising every moment he argued with me.

"People I don't know…"

"THEY'RE STILL PEOPLE! STOP NOW!"

Adam flinched back from my shrill scream. "Okay, I'll try to eat more animals."

"Have you gone back to forks?" I asked.

He shook his head. "Naw. I just stay outside it. Maybe I'll go take a visit to La Push, but that place is so stinky."

"NO. Stay away from there."

"Oh right! That's where you're boyfriend is!" he whistled.

"Shut up! Just stay the hell away from there!"

He held up his hands in surrender. "Okay, okay."

"Thank you," I sighed.

"So what brought you back?" he asked.

"Back? What do you mean 'back'?" I asked, standing up straighter.

"To Forks," he said slowly.

I looked around me, at the trees. They looked like the ones in Forks, but I had been traveling all over the place, the trees looked the same to me. Did I really wander back to Forks?

"This isn't Forks…" I said slowly.

"Yes. It is."

"Wait, have you been feeding here?" I asked, narrowing my eyes.

He hesitated. "Only once."

"Adam! You know the people here! You just killed someone's family member!"

"Yeah, I know. I wanted to see my friends. Show them how rough and tough I am," he said, puffing up his chest.

"No, Adam! You can't come back! If you don't kill you're friends, you'll expose yourself. This isn't something people take lightly. You could get into tons of trouble!"

"What? Someone just pumped some killer drugs into my system. It's science isn't it?"

I shook my head slowly. I couldn't believe he didn't figure it out. "No. This isn't science. This is who you are now."

"What?"

"You're a vampire. There's no going back."

He stared at me for a moment.

"Like in the movies? But this is daylight… I'm going to be like this forever? That's not so bad," he mused.

I shook my head to myself. "You don't understand," I said softly. "You're a monster. You were created by monsters that kill people, and you're designed to kill people. At least I try to be good."

He shrugged. "It's life."

"No, it's not. This isn't life. You could call it that when you were human, but not now."

He sighed, obviously not fully taking in what I was saying. "So how did you turn?"

"By 'sissy'," I said. "She… got a hold of me."

Adam's eyes widened. "Was the redhead there, too?"

I nodded.

Adam leaned back. "Whoa. Do you think they want something from us? Why would they turn us both?"

"It's something personal between me and 'sissy.' I'm sure they only got you to get to me."

Adam laughed. "What revenge! This is awesome!"

"Yeah, to you. I'm the one who really understands who we are."

"Oh, so what if we kill people? It's natural selection. Predator versus prey. It's been like this forever."

"Yeah, but we're not natural. This isn't natural, Adam. It shouldn't be like this."

Adam sighed. "Whatever. I should know there's no use in arguing with you."

"You're right."

Adam dropped the needles piling in his hands. "So what do we do now?" he asked, brightening up.

"We hunt. I'm going to get you started on a vegetarian diet."