Chapter 7

How did that guy get to be a vampire, I heard Amber's voice say. My head turned to her direction.

"Did you say something," I asked; I had never heard my voice since I had finished changing into a vampire.

Whoa, I heard Sara's voice say. The voices are just like they were described in the book. I turned my head in her direction.

Austin, I heard Edward's voice say. Can you hear me?

I turned to face Edward. "Yes, I can," I said in a surprised tone. "I can hear you."

"Why are you saying that," AD asked. "Nobody asked a question." I swear, he gets weirder every day, I heard AD's voice say. Then it hit me. They would never say things like that out loud. Holy crap, I screamed in my thoughts. I can read minds!

"Apparently," Edward said in response to my thought. Everyone gave Edward a weird look.

Should I say it, or should you, I asked Edward silently.

You can do it, He thought.

No, I insist that you do it Edward. He chuckled.

Fine, I will. He stood up from where he was sitting. "If I were all of you," he said with his famous crooked smile on his face. "I'd not think about Austin in any discriminating manner."

Why is that, Amber questioned arrogantly in her mind.

I stood up. "Because Amber," I said just as arrogantly. "I can hear your thoughts too." Edward sat down. It was as if he knew all along that I'd tell them.

I'm going running, I told Edward in my head. He nodded. I bolted out the open door. Running as a vampire was even more exhilarating than the books had described! I felt so free as I ran through the trees. I ducked into my feral position from earlier and realized that I was thirsty. I began to run in my animal-like position. I smelled a herd of deer about a mile to the west. I began to run faster because I wanted to get back to the Cullen mansion.

I tackled the buck of the herd and sucked him dry. I honestly thought that it would be harder to maintain the diet of the Cullens, but it was pretty easy.

I ran back in the direction of the mansion. I was about to walk through the front door when I realized that I was covered in deer blood. I ran back to the little house to shower and change again.

I entered the Cullen mansion. For the first time, I smelled the different scents of the blood in the room. I looked over at AD. His blood smelled like rust. I looked at Josh G. His blood smelled very weak. I smelled blood so delicious it should be illegal. I ran through the group of my classmates so quickly, they didn't even notice that I was there. I found out that the smell came from Mya.

I finally realized the gravity of what I had just found out. I wanted to drain her of all her blood. I thought that I was a monster. Wanting to kill the girl I had wanted for so long. I bolted past Emmett out the open front door. I hid in the big space under AD's bed. I wasn't hiding from my problems; I was protecting the world from its newest predator.

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It had been a few hours. I knew that everyone would be asleep by now. I heard AD mumbling on his bed. I rolled out from under AD's bed and went into my room. I decided to draw. I thought that with endless time, I might as well spend it bettering my art skills.

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It was a few more hours later and now everyone was probably at breakfast. I was curious as to what they were eating even though I couldn't eat it. I walked into the house as quietly as possible. Nobody even heard me come in—aside from the vampires that is. They were eating bagels and bananas. I love this 'b' foods breakfast theme, thought Esme cheerily. I love themed breakfast!

I chuckled a little bit. It was loud enough for human ears to hear. AD's head snapped up and he looked at me. He quickly returned to his food. I sat down at the couch. I just sat still while they finished their food. AD walked over to me after he finished. "Hi Austin," he said happily. "That was a good breakfast! There were, bananas, banana muffins, blueberries and bagels. There was pretty much every breakfast food that starts with a 'b'. Esme called it the 'B Breakfast Buffet.'"

"Cool," I said with as much sincerity as I could muster. "Wanna go running?"

"No thanks, I shouldn't run after such a big breakfast."

I smiled and raised one eyebrow. "Who said that you would do any running?"

I hoisted AD onto my back. "Hold on tight," I said with a smile on my face. I ran fast and stopped at a meadow I had seen when I went for a run earlier. I put AD down on the ground and sat across the meadow from him. "What is this place," AD asked curiously.

"It's a meadow I found when I went for a run earlier," I answered.

"If any of the girls like you, you should take her here." He might've been joking, but with him, you can never tell. There was silence for a moment. "Let's find out," I said seriously.

To be continued…