Chapter 4. Guess who she meets in this chapter :-)

I don't know how long it lasted it seemed to go on forever, but slowly the pain disapeared from my fingertips leaving them feeling cold without the heat of the fire, the pain ebbed and the fire slowly relinquished it's grasp on me. It took a long time but finally I was able to look around and sit up.

All around me was tree's and it smelled so good. I took a deep breath and could smell the leaves, and a stream a ways ahead. And then I smelled something ten times better than that. It smelled sweet and I could almost hear it rushing through the animals veins. I jumped up and the speed startled me. The burning in the back of my throat pushed all other thought aside. I ran as fast as I could to the lone deer in the middle of the woods. Before I knew what I was doing I had pounced and bitten into its throat, the blood spilled into my mouth and tasted so good. I had drained it dry before even giving the animals life a second thought.

The wrongness of what I had done pushed from the back of my mind, but why would killing an animal matter. I couldn't remember if it was wrong or not. Now that I thought about it I couldn't remember anything except waking up in the clearing earlier today. I strained my mind as hard as I could but all that came up was darkness. And then suddenly a name flowed to the front of my brain: 'Alice' it whispered and then nothing. Was that my name? Alice, I tried it out, "Hello, my name is Alice" it sounded pretty good.

And then darkness overclouded my sight, a flash like a photograph showed me a man, with bright ruby eyes, he was tall, muscular but lean, with honey blond hair, wearing a uniform. The picture disappeared. Suddenly I knew I had to find that man, I didn't know how, but I needed to find him.

I walked quickly to the river I had heard earlier, not to drink the water that thought was disgusting, but to see how I looked. I was pale, with red eyes like the man I had seen, my black hair was short and in a wild disarray around my head, but I liked how it looked. I was short, that was easy to tell, and very thin, my eye had dark circles under them and my clothes, well my white smock was covered in dirt, it was ragged and didn't fit, I'd need to find something else to wear. But as I looked closer I realized I was beautiful, I didn't have anything to compare myself with of course, but I was most definetly pretty, and I needed clothes.

My vision went black again but I wasn't afriad, it showed a family of five with golden eyes and pale skin, and they were drinking animal blood. the sight faded. How strange to be seeing all these things, I must be able to see the future. Whoever these people are, they are the same species as me.

I decided to follow the stream, it might lead to civilization. Soon I came upon a small village, but that wasn't what alarmed me. It smelled of blood by far sweeter than the deers. I saw a small human girl walk out of her dwelling, and my throat ached with thrist, I needed that girl. But it was wrong, the people in my vision drank animal blood, killing a person seemed wrong. I ran away from the town just in case my thrist got the better of me. The next fer months I survived on animal blood, and didn't ever venture to near a town. I kept having visions of the man, and by now I knew his name: Jasper. I also kept seeing the family that only drank from animals, they gave me hope. I knew there names too. Emmett the strongest one, Rosalie, the beautiful blond, Edward the reddish haired boy, Esme and Carlisle the leaders. There last name was Cullen and Hale. They seemed to be a family and the way they lived seemed so good I knew one day I'd live with them too. But until then I needed to find Jasper. Over the next few years I flitted from town to town, buying a new outfit when mine got soiled and hunting animals. The smell of humans still made my throat ache whenever I got to close, but it was managable if I wasn't thirsty at the time. My eyes slowly turned gold just like the Cullens, which pleased me to know that we had something in commen. I never did see another like me, not even one with red eyes. My existence was boring at best, but it had a purpose, I needed to find Jasper and then I'd find the Cullens.

One day everything changed, I'd realized over the years that I was in love with Jasper even though we'd never met, it must have been twenty years since I'd first awoken in the clearing, somewhere around 1940 I guessed. On this day however I'd just finished a bear, one of the most fun animals to hunt, when the familiar black darkened my sight, it showed Jasper arriving at the Philadelphia Brewery and Pub. I was up in Maine and knew Pennsylvainia was a few days run away, plus I needed to hunt so I could stand in the pub long enough. I arrived quicker than I'd expected and waited for about a week the bartender started looking at me funny, so one day I ordered a beer, not that I was going to drink it, this stuff smelled even worse than the food theses humans ate. It started to rain but I kept a vigiliant watch. When the door dinged open I swung around, there he was, blonde hair dripping and dark black eyes. I hopped down from the barstool and saw him crouch infintesimally, I nearly ran to him, but knew that he didn't know who I was, hope, happiness, and love raged through my mind, finally Jasper had come, finally we could be together. I smiled.

"Youve kept me waiting a long time" I said

"I'm sorry ma'am" his voice had a southern accent and I loved it. I held out my hand, would he take it? He grasped it lightly and I was so relieved he was here, I'd begun to think he'd never show up.

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