Hey Again :) thanks soo much for everyone who read the first chapter :) I decided to make this one a little longer...still no Cullens, but next chapter they'll be here, I promise :) I am still being betad by the amazing Renata Swift, to whom I owe my non Mary Sue characters, so check her out to, her stories are great :)

Sadly, I do not own Emmett, Edward, Jasper, or any other Twilight Characters. But thankfully I do have Thomas Jack, and all my other OCs :)

Sophie POV

He hugged me again, gently this time. I hugged him back. I knew I had to go soon, but I didn't want to let go. My eyes got watery, and I had to turn to wipe the tears away. Thomas couldn't stand it when I cried, and I wasn't going to hurt him anymore than I had to today.

It only seemed like a few seconds, but I'm sure I hugged him for ten minutes. People were staring, but I didn't care. We probably looked a little strange, thanks to the fact that he was an unbelievably handsome pale twenty-something, and I was a tan young looking fifteen, and because he was almost twelve inches taller than my petite five feet.

"Hey, Sophie! The stewardess says if you don't get your butt on this plane in thirty seconds, you can chase the plane down the runway!" I guess Jenna made friends with the stewardess - no surprise there. Jenna had a way with people. She always found something she had in common with them; it was her special "gift". That's why Aro chose her. He's the one who wanted to find children with "potential" so that they could live up to it. When we're changed, Jenna and I will have the certain trait that is dominant in our human life, only magnified. Aro has done extensive studies, and he's positive we will be very powerful ("useful" as he would say).

Jenna is going to be able to tell someone's entire life's story by looking at them, and I'll be able to get whatever I want from someone. Marcus is particularly interested in Jenna. He wants to know something about Aro, something no one would ever tell him. Jenna doesn't quite understand, and neither do I, but I suppose we'll find out soon enough.

My gift is very helpful to me. It's something I can do now, but only when I really, really want something. When I'm a vampire, I'll be able to manipulate people, and my kind to do whatever I want. That's how Thomas found me, where I was with my parents, visiting Volterra from the States. He saw me in a crowd. When I was visiting, I wanted candy, from an Italian vendor, my parents wouldn't give it to me, so according to Thomas, I marched right over to the vendor, and asked for one, and of course he gave it to me. No one's ever told Jenna or me how we came to live with the Volturi. I can only assume my parents didn't want me, so they left me here.

Thomas's "talent" is being able to see others abilities. That's how he knew I had a gift, and that's why we're best friends. He found me so Aro made him responsible for my safety. I've been with him since I was three, and he's been through my whole life, from the toddler phase, to the whole adolescent angst thing.

Now, I was leaving. Even though I was scared, I was happy to be rid of the place. Living with insanely gorgeous people your whole life and not being one can really lower your self esteem. I was looking forward to being considered pretty again. I'm not particularly beautiful, but I'm not ugly either. To most of my "friends" I'm pretty much hideous.

My vampire family just called us the human "twins" because we looked alike to them. In actuality, I'm a dark brunette with piercing (or so I've been told) green eyes. Jenna is a dirty blond with the soft blue eyes you expect to see on a princess from one of those fairytale books Marcus was always trying to get us to read.

Marcus and Aro are my favorite "uncles". Caius, was, well… a big pain in the ass, really. He was forever saying that Jenna and I were "nothing special" - just a couple of girls who looked, dressed, and acted the same. He didn't know us at all. We had clashing personalities, Jenna's always been an athletic bookworm, and I've always been the fashion junkie. We were about the farthest from "twins" that you could imagine.

"Sofia Michelle Masen! Get your designer wearing butt onto this plane!" Typical Jenna, she had no shame.

"Okay, Jenna, just as soon as I finish vandalizing your books!" I called back. I didn't have much shame either. Hearing the audible gasp from the plane, I knew I had won.

Jenna and her books. I read sometimes, but she's loved them since she was a kid. Jenna and Jack could spend hours up in the Volturi's library. Sometimes, I'd find her there, curled up on one of the velvet couches, asleep after reading all night.

I smiled, gave Thomas one last hug, picked up my bag, and ran to the plane. No one was in the loading dock. I could tell I was the last passenger. The stewardess, probably the one Jenna was friends with, gave me a look, but I didn't care, because I was on my way to my new life. And I was going to have fun, and be "normal" even just for three years. Nothing could ruin this for me, not even the devastated look on Thomas's face. I would miss him dearly, but he was one of my only good friends, like Jack was Jenna's.

We didn't even have human friends, and Aro said we needed to "branch out" and "blend in". So Jenna and I would make some "normal" friends, and maybe find a "boyfriend". But then again, Thomas would probably kill him before he got that far. Jack wouldn't let him live past a "hi". If a guy even thought about talking to Jenna, he would just go "missing", and knowing Jack, no one would ever see, or hear from him again. Being friends with vampires is really like having two extremely overprotective line backers on steroids, caring more about your safety than their own life. It can be sweet, like when they get rid of the annoying forty year old trying to come on to you (it happened to Jenna; they found his body; or whatever was left of it the next day), but most of the time it's annoying. Today, I was free, Jenna was free, and we were going to be high-schoolers, normal, happy, human teenagers.

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With Love,

Kassie