Hey everyone!
Sorry it's been so long since I have written, had the worst case of writer's block. This chapter is sorta a filler chapter sorry but the next chapter will be much better. I have to thank LJ Summers her story Wolf Girls 101. It gave me so many good ideas for the rest of the story. I hope you guys keep reading.
Natalie's POV
I woke up to talking. I didn't open my eyes as the voice spoke.
Mama, Mama!
Wish he would stop that pecking.
My eyes shot open looking for the voices but I didn't see anyone. As I went to move my body I couldn't move at all but the voice still began to talk. I closed my eyes again thinking I was still dreaming.
I'm coming babies
Left, left, left, right, right, right, left
Mommy, mommy's home!
I found one!
Dive, Dive, dive!
Hush little one the hunters are about
"Natalie!"
To the lake!
"Natalie, wake up." I open my eyes again to see EJ standing over me. His lips were moving but I didn't actually hear him because so many other people were talking.
Follow me
Do you love me?
Are you there?
He's coming!
What?
Then I heard a scream and the sound of a baby cry. I felt a sharp pain in my neck and my hand instinctively grabbed my neck as tears fell from my eyes. The blood in my veins felt like it was burning underneath my skin.
Soon I felt my veins cool down and I could feel warm hands on my shoulders and I felt as if I was being shaken, which started to make my head spin.
"Natalie…Natalie, snap out of it." EJ's Voice said. My eyes started to focus on his face and the voices turned to a whisper and fade away.
"Huh?" I asked, taking note of how weak my voice had gotten. I felt EJ's hand in mine and the scene flashed before my eyes.
It was me lying on the bed curls up on the bed then turning over on to my back. The scene grew closer so I could see my face. My eyes had opened like I was possessed then shut again. I saw myself being shaken then my eyes opened again. They looked sightless as if I wasn't really seeing just staring beyond E.J. Then my eyes were filled with pain then my eyes glazed over and I grabbed my neck.
E.J let go of my hand. "Are you alright?" He asked.
I nodded. "Guess I was still dreaming," I say with an ill willed smile. I felt more awake then I ever had in my how life but the voices still bothered me a little more then it usually had.
"Granddad wants to see you to make sure your okay." E.J said. I nodded. I got off the bed standing up carefully and still falling. E.J caught me and held me up. "Be careful."
I laughed lightly. "I'll try." My clothes felt different, more comfortable. I looked down and saw I was in a striped polo and a pair of boxers.
"Aunt Alice and Aunt Rosalie dressed you." E.J said as he helped me stand up. He took my hand and led me out of his room and down the hall.
"But these look like-"
"Yeah, well you see, because of your new…" He stopped.
"My what?" I asked.
"Developments," He said but then paused again. "You don't exactly fit anyone of the girl's clothes so we gave you someone else's clothes." He said.
"How clothes are they?" I asked.
"The shirt is Jasper's and the Boxers are E.J's cause he doesn't have that much to carry they fit nicely on you." Emmett said walking into the hall.
"Gee, Uncle Em thanks." E.J said rolling his eyes.
"Anytime, you okay Natalie?" He said looking over at me.
"A lot better," I said smiling. He smile back at me and ruffled my hair.
"When you're done Alice and Rosalie want to take you shopping." Emmett said walking down the hall.
"But I have clothes." I said turning trying to tell him but he had already walked, at vampire speed, down the stairs.
"Believe me Natalie none of you clothes are gonna fit you anymore." E.J said looking over me.
"Did I change that much?" I asked running my free hand over my body. It didn't feel any different.
"Why don't we let Granddad tell you?" E.J said leading me down a set of stairs and to a set of double doors. He knocked on the doors.
"Come in," I heard Carlisle's voice come from room. E.J slid the doors open and led me in. "Good morning Natalie how are you feeling?" He asked.
"Better," I said. That was true I never had felt better I felt more wide awake before in my life.
"Great, now to just take you measurements," He said. I raised a brow and looked at E.J with a 'he has to be kidding look'.
"No he isn't and I went through the same thing every day for two years." E.J explained.
"Not two year only nine months and you were only nine months old."
"E.J it wasn't that bad you were just an irritable little child." Carlisle said smiling as he brought out a measuring tape. "Now just stand straight." I did as told as me and he brought the measuring tape from my head to my feet with lightning speed then stood up straight to look at the tape.
"Last recorded you were 5'1" now your 5'5"."
Shock and awe held my face as I stared at him.
"No, I couldn't have grown that much," This was the first stage to acceptance: the denial part.
"Well it appears you have now arms up,"
"But I mean when you 16 you're supposed to stop growing right?" I said raising my arms as Carlisle measured my bust.
"Normal humans that is a possibility, but for you not an option," He responded smiling at me before taking the measuring tape off of me and moving down to my stomache.
"What do you mean normal humans?"
"Yes he is saying that you aren't human. We don't even know what you are." E.J said smiling at me.
"I'm not gonna get any taller am I?" This is the second stage of acceptance: panic.
"Well I'm not sure. You have a bite mark but judging by it you were bitten a long time ago, so venom is ruled out," Removing measuring tape from my stomach then down to my hips he measured as he went. "The only thing that could have done this would be the bear's blood…" He drifted as he stopped measuring me and walked over to one of his many book shelves.
"What about it? It's not going to kill me is it?" I said sounding a panicky.
"Possibly not you might be showing signs of what folk lore would call the elixir of life stages." He said deep in thought as he picked out a thick leather bound book off of the shelf and began to look through it. "It might be quite the opposite. You see in olden days villagers used to believe that Vampires need blood to be beautiful. So when they didn't drink they would be hideous or unsightly but when they did drink they would beautiful and tempting."
"So the more she drinks the blood the prettier she gets." E.J said.
"Exactly, or made this is as changed as she will be, we'd have to do tests to find out."
"Whoa, I don't like the sound of that." I said.
"They won't be bad, you'll just have to drink blood for a few days and we will keep watch over you to check for any changes."
I nodded. I wasn't ready for all this information right now. Finding out that my real family is a bunch of vampires, that I was some kind of freaky half-breed and my body changes was a lot for a girl to handle in like three days.
"Now about the dream you had…" Carlisle said still somewhat looking through the book but then looking up at me.
"What would you like to know about it?" I asked trying to clear my head of my whole light speed puberty thing.
"Well Edward said that you had a dream about your brother killing you." Carlisle said.
"Then you know just as much as I do. I don't really understand it; it just felt like my adoptive family didn't want me." I said. I felt the ping of hurt but then it was more confusion then anything. Once I thought about it why would my mother say that she hated me and that I was going to kill me if no one knew the Cullens were Vampires?
"I'm sure they do dear." Carlisle said placing a hand on my shoulder as if a way to comfort me. I smiled up at him.
"Can we take her now?" Alice said walking into the room.
"Alice maybe Natalie doesn't want to go?" I heard Bella's voice from somewhere is the house.
"Oh course she does, don't you want to go shopping with us, Natalie?" Alice said looking at me. She had this look in her eyes I didn't know what it was but for some reason I was a little afraid to find out.
"Um, sure but-"
"Great we'll be going as soon as you're ready." She said walking away.
"I have clothes though," I said to her fleeting figure.
"They won't fit you anymore," Carlisle said kissing my forehead. "You should go instead of being cooped up in the house all day."
"Alright," I said smiling. He really felt like my dad. He was kinda and cared for me, for whatever circumstances brought him to be my biological father I was happy it happened.
"Come on you can use my bathroom while I find some clothes for you." E.J said leading me out of the office.
"Thanks Dad," I said as I followed E.J down the hall up the stairs to his bathroom.
In the shower I let the water run over my hair and my body. I had this nagging feeling in the back of my mind. I felt like something was missing. I felt really lonely; I shook off the feeling and finished washing my hair.
I dried off and saw that there were clothes sitting on the counter for me. On the top there was a flop hat and a shirt with shorts underneath it. I put the hat on and looked it the mirror with a smile. As I put on the rest of the clothes they fit kinda weird. The shirt though it had long sleeves that were too long it was tight around everything else, and not the fashionably tight but the uncomfortable tight. The shorts were really short while the hat well that was just a nice plus.
I put the clothes on and walked out of the bathroom to be grabbed by a small hand. I was pulled down a flight of stairs and outside to a car. "Alice,"
"You can tell me on the way," She said smiling. I saw the door open then all I saw was the back seat of a car as I was tossed into it. Suddenly the car started moving and I sat up.
"Shoes?" I turned to see E.J sitting next to me. He was holding my ballet flats I had on yesterday.
"Thanks," I said taking the shoes from him and putting them on my feet.
"Thank goodness you feet haven't gotten any bigger." Esme said from the passenger seat.
"Yes but she still needs shoes." Alice said focusing on the road.
"You can see that, Aunt Alice takes this shopping thing very seriously." E.J said smiling.
"It is serious, might I remind you who bought your clothes and your car." Alice said. I smiled as E.J's defeated look. "Exactly,"
"First we're going to get you some clothes that will fit you and some shoes and how about we go to lunch?" Esme said.
"That sounds nice,"
Now I've been in cars with lots of people but none of them drive as fast as Alice did. I don't even think it was physically possible to drive as fast as Alice did. The ride to where ever we were going was taking mire minutes when I'm pretty sure with other people it would take at least an hour at the most.
When we arrived at the mall Alice pulled me into store after store making try things on. After like fifty different styles she settled on a look which was like some sort of nature girl meets high fashion or something she said to that effect. After buying enough clothes to last me the next lifetime we went on to shoes. We didn't go with high heels because I felt too uncomfortably tall so I got a couple pairs of kitty heels and mostly flats and this particular pair of boots.
"I like them," I said trying them on.
"But their hideous," Alice said.
"I like them though they- huh I don't know I just like them." I said. "Can I get them mom?" I asked Esme. She gave me her motherly smile and nodded while I smiled.
"Okay, but I am in no way to blame for this fashion mishap." Alice said before finding a pair of heels and tossing them to me.
The fun was still going because The clothes I wore to the mall weren't going to walk out of the mall on my body. So Alice bought me something called a romper, which was basically a shirt and shorts sewn together but this one had a shirt that went over the shorts so it looked like a dress. I didn't like how much of my newly developed cleavage showed so Esme bought me a little white cardigan to cover it a little. Then I put my boots on which Alice wasn't too happy about but then I got to put my hat back on which I had grown quite found of.
E.J who had been following us around for most of the day had rescued me for lunch while Esme and Alice went off to shoe at a home décor store.
"What is the difference between Hollister and Abercrombie?" I asked E.J as we ate at a restaurant in the mall that had a patio that was covered by a nifty glass roof.
"It's just different,"
"But how?" I asked.
"The labels, the clothes,"
"But they are the same clothes different labels," I said.
"Why do you ask?" E.J said picking up a fry and throwing it at me.
"Cause I've got three bags full of Abercrombie clothes and a skirt from Hollister, I'm pretty sure both stores had the same clothes." I said throwing a fry back at him and he caught it in his mouth. I laughed. "Very talented I see."
"You have no idea," He said.
"E.J Cullen," A girl said standing near are table. She was a blonde with her hair pulled back by a head back and sunglass on top of her head. She kinda reminded me of Kelly back at the Orphanage. "I never thought you left home anymore."
"I get out," He said offensively.
"And who is this?" She asked.
"I'm Natalie Call and you must be Heather." I said looking up at her. From what I had seen from E.J's dreams it looked like Heather.
"Um…no I'm Amy," She said looking at me like I was crazy. I blushed and looked at E.J who was trying not to laugh. "And who are you?"
"I'm- uh Natalie, Natalie Call." I said again stammering looking up at her giving her a questioning look as she gave me a sour look back.
"I've never seen you around school before, are new?" She asked. Her eyes narrowed at me. You know I might be a vampire of half breed or whatever but I was actually afraid of this human girl. She was genuinely threatening.
"No, I don't go to school in Forks." I said. She raised a brow at me like I was lying to her. "I live on Reservation." I added feeling as if I needed to reassure her.
"You don't look Indian."
"My family is Native American." I retorted giving the words Native American extra emphasis.
"I thought you didn't go to La Push," She said folding her arms looking at E.J. E.J rolled his eyes and looked back up at her.
"I don't she came up to see me." He said.
"So you two are together," She said.
"Yes,"
"No," E.J and I said simultaneously. I looked at him with a look that said 'what the hell?' He gave me a pleading glace.
"So are you or aren't you?" She asked.
"We're testing the water," E.J said putting a hand on my knee. Amy's eyes shifted down to my legs and saw his hand.
"We've been friends for a while and we want it to be something more." I said smiling up at her. With the expression on her face the phrase if looks could kill came into play.
"Well that's sweet; I'll see you tomorrow at Lunch E.J?" She said smiling at him. "Nice meeting Natalie," I could tell by her face she wasn't.
"The feeling is mutual," I said. She turned and walked off. "She's a pleasant girl."
"I'm dead," E.J sat putting his head in his hands.
"Why?"
"She's gonna make my life a living hell."
"And just your luck you're gonna live forever." I laughed.
"And what's so funny?"
"You did this all by yourself if you would have just said no there wouldn't have been a problem." I laughed harder. "You're such an idiot." E.J sighed as the waitress walked by he asked for the check.
When we got back to the Cullen's house it was sunset. We walked into the house Alice carrying all the bags up stairs to well…I'm not exactly sure where. I followed E.J into the living room where Emmett and Jasper were sitting in front of the TV playing some game that involved beating each other's character to a pulp.
"I play winner!" E.J said hopping over the couch and sitting on the floor in front of his uncles.
"Well your about to play me cause Jasper is going down." Emmett said. I walked over to see the TV better. Emmett's character which was a giant guy that was overly muscular guy that had guns on his hands, was punching a little girl every time she tried to get up.
"Uncle Jasper, why are you playing a girl?" E.J asked.
"For this reason," He said. Suddenly the girl on the screen grew a jet pack and flew upwards. Then her hands turned into chainsaws and she spun around in a circle cutting Emmett's player causing him to fall backwards. Then as Emmett's player tried to get up the girl took off her head and gave it to him which the proceeded to blow up.
I stared dumb founded at the screen as E.J and Jasper laughed and Emmett pouted.
"That's not fair, how did you do that?" Emmett asked.
"Now brother did you really think I was gonna let you win?" Jasper said patting Emmett on the back.
"Alisa wins!" The TV said as the little girl jumped around happily.
"What heck kind of a game is this?" I asked still staring at the screen.
"This is Tekken, Natalie." Edward said walking down the stair standing next to me. "It's a game that gives anyone the actually feel of fighting, or win the game by just pressing buttons."
"I'm so taking you down Uncle Jasper." E.J said as they were picking characters. E.J picked a guy called Wang.
"Compensating for some E.J?" Emmett said.
"No," E.J said. "More like making a statement."
Jasper picked a person called Miguel that looked like he was gonna beat the ever loving crap out of the old man that E.J had picked. Then the battle began. Okay now even though E.J's character was so old he probably new Jesus up close and personal, he gave a beating to Miguel so much in fact that I don't even think Jasper got a punch in edge wise.
"Wang Wins!" The game said showing an instant replay.
"Oh yeah!" E.J yelled jumping up.
"Beginners luck," Jasper said smiling.
"Whatever you were totally owned," Emmett said. I laughed.
"You wanna play Natalie?" Edward asked.
"Oh no I don't even know how to." I said quickly.
"That's okay I'm sure you can beat E.J, all he does is push random buttons anyway." Edward said.
"No, I'm not!" E.J said crossing his arms over his chest.
"Then why are you so defensive?" Edward asked. E.J went to open his mouth but then just sat back down on the floor.
"So do you wanna play Natalie?" Jasper asked. I shrugged and walked over to sit on the floor near E.J. Jasper handed me the controller and I started at it.
"How am I supposed to know what buttons to press?" I asked no one in particular. Emmett started laughing. I just kinda sat there wondering if he was laughing at me because I didn't know or because of the way I asked.
After a good five minutes of laughing Emmett showed me how to play. I picked a girl named Lili. Unlike E.J who picked a guy named Bob I didn't pick her because of any special power or what they called 'combos' she could do. No, I picked her because I just liked her outfit.
"I'll go easy on you," E.J said.
"Thanks," I said unsure because for some odd reason I felt like him going easy really wasn't going to help.
"Round one," The T.V said. "Ready…Fight!"
At this point in time I don't really know what I did or what button I pressed but whatever I did or malfunction occurred in the game Lili wasn't getting killed it was quite the opposite actually. Lili grabbed Bob's arm ended up on his shoulder and twisted his arm and stepped down which caused a cracking noise and Bob to fall down to the ground.
"Oooo!" Emmett said and began to laugh. I heard E.J growl. This only made me smile and just keep pressing buttons. Next I knew I saw Lili doing cartwheels and summersaults while still kicking Bob who was lying on the ground unmoving.
"Come on E.J get up don't go that easy on her." Jasper said.
"She won't let me stand up." E.J said through gritted teeth.
"Oh I'm sorry," I said putting the controller down. Bob got up and kicked Lili Down and then body slammed her.
"You don't say you're sorry that's the point of the game." Emmett said appalled I had even offered my apologize at all.
"Oh!" I picked the controller and began to push buttons again. Lili got up from the ground and punched Bob while twirling around in a circle which sent him flying up in the air. As she turned again, she karate chopped him back to the ground.
"Lili wins." The T.V. announced. I smiled happily that I won.
"Don't get to excited we still have another round or two to go." E.J said. His face didn't look to cheerful if anything he looked above and beyond pissed. I bit back my smile and just continued to stare at the screen as the next round began. I pressed buttons furiously so I wouldn't get the crap kicked out of me. The only help that I had was the fact that Bob was tall so his kicks were really high, and Lili could get down low enough so she wouldn't get hit.
"Who's winning?" Carlisle asked as he walked into the room.
"Natalie," Everyone in the room apart from E.J said. This game felt like a threat for my life because E.J started pounding me into the ground. Lili got up and starting Kicking Bob by doing her flips and cartwheels. Bob grabbed her leg and through her down then proceeded to pick her back up and through her back down and sit on her.
"Bob wins."
"Yes," E.J said doing a fist pump.
"Is the game over?" I asked looking at Jasper.
"No you have a final round to play." He said.
"Bet you 400 that E.J takes her." Emmett told Jasper. Jasper smiled.
"You're on." He said with a smile. "Oh Alice," He sang.
"You can't ask her that cheating!" Emmett said like a little kid that wasn't getting his way. I looked over at E.J next. He looked mad. "Are you mad at me?"
"Na, just competitive," He said smiling at me.
I smiled at him and then the fight began. And once again poor Lili was being bludgeoned by Bob's fist hands and oddly enough his stomach. Lili was lying on the ground when I got up enough nerve to actually make her get up. She started kicking and hitting Bob well that is until grabbed her hand and held it behind her back, breaking it and making her fall.
"It's all over now." Emmett said excited. "Get ready to pay up bro."
Lili got up and while I was pressing every button that controller had she grabbed Bob's arm and did that standing on his shoulder thing she did earlier and flipped away from him. All of her movements were followed by a red flash.
"Why does she look like that?" I asked still looking at the screen.
"She's dying." Jasper said. For everything I was worth I backing away from Bob making sure that Lili was far away from him as possible.
"Natalie you can't do that." Emmett said laughing.
"Why not?"
"Cause when the timer runs out your gonna lose anyway."
"Aww why did you have to tell her?" E.J said making Bob kick but Lili ducked and still moved away.
Out of a bout of braveness I was feeling I started pushing buttons again. Lili kicked Bob in the stomach then turned around grabbed his neck and flipped around in a circle cracking it and having him fall to the ground.
"Great," The T.V said showing the instant replay. It was really quiet as the T.V announced the winner. "Lili wins," Out of elation of winning I smiled and clapped then looked over at E.J. He didn't look happy in the least bit.
"Good game?" I offered. He turned to me with eyes I'm pretty sure he only really gives his food. "You're mad,"
"Very,"
"It's just a game," I said, yeah he didn't want to hear that.
"Natalie…"He said through his teeth, and with that I ran out of the room with him following.
"Mommy!" I screamed as I ran into the kitchen. I stood on the other side of the kitchen against the counter because the cleverness of me made me run into a room that didn't really lead anywhere else. E.J stood on the other side of the room.
"Natalie you're gonna pay for that." He said. I looked around for an exit but found a window. In an act of desperation I crawled out of the window and on to the branch of a tree that was directly outside of the window. Unfortunately for me the branch wasn't as sturdy as I thought and it broke which made me fall to the ground. I stood up and looked up at the tree wondering if it was possible to climb it.
"Natalie, come back here," E.J said. Not clearly thinking I shimmed up the tree to the highest branched and looked down at him.
"Really E.J it's just a game, It's not that serious." I said.
"You cheated!" He said.
"You're a sore loser!" I yelled down from my branch.
"Wanna say that to my face?"
"No, cause I value my life!" I yelled. Emmett's laughter boomed causing me too look up and noticed we had an audience. Jasper, Carlisle, Emmett and Edward were looking at us from the back door.
"I'm not gonna hurt you." E.J said looking up at me. "Just come down here," I shook my head no. "If you don't then I'm coming up."
I looked up at the tree and began climbing faster. Next I knew I was flipping through tree branches like I was a born acrobat. That wonderful feeling of flying was soon ended when someone grabbed my foot and pulled me down. This caused me to fall and actually feel the impact of the ground. Oh don't worry I wasn't hurt I landed on E.J.
"Ugh," He said giving a grunt. "Get. Off."
"Are you gonna keep chasing me?" I asked looking up at him because I was lying on his chest.
"No, but I'm also not going to be having kids. Get off me please." He said in a strained voice. I stood up and brushed myself off. Not a scratch on me, but I can't say the same for poor E.J. He had turn over on to his side holding himself.
"E.J got ball bashed!" Emmett said booming with laughter as he walked into the forest with us. He leaned down and picked up E.J, who made a whimpering noise at the contact of his stomach on Emmett's shoulder. "Take it like a man." Emmett advised before walking back toward the house. I just followed behind them trying not to laugh at the strange noises and face E.J was making.