Dia Cullen

She's 15. She's half-vampire. And she's running with the Cullens.

"She's here. Now, be on your best behavior, everyone. Especially you, Emmet, dear!"

I heard a woman's voice by the time we reached the living room. The dining room must have been just around a corner.

"No need, really. Edward must have told the poor girl already. I told you we should not have let him in by the time she wakes up!"

"Shh! They're outside already."

"Sit! Sit!"

"Oh mother! Oh, hey, I left something somewhere. I have to go get it. Be back in a while!"

"Right now?"

There seemed to be a lot of commotion going on but when I finally entered the room, it surprised me that it was rather orderly. I was now surrounded not by one but 6 vampires, 8 including Bella and Edward. They were all pale. Like a bunch of dead guys. And they each had beautiful topaz eyes. I wondered why they had topazes and I had a pair of reds.

Sitting at both ends were the oldest-looking. A man and a woman.

The man was in his mid-20's and he was pale. Yeah. And he was blonde and also strikingly handsome. Like some Hollywood moviestar. But then again, aren't they all?

The woman also seemed to be in her mid-20's. She had wavy chestnut brown hair and same as always, beautiful and pale.

Across me, Edward, and Bella were 3 teenage vampires. They must have been mates, too, and so were the older ones.

The two girls were the exact opposites-or something like that. One was short and petite while the other had a statuesque figure and she looked like a runway model while the other was a like the pixie Tinkerbell. Only that she had spiky short dark hair. The model had endless long golden blonde hair.

The one guy looked like a softie pushover. He had identical golden blonde hair as one of the girls.

They all seemed pretty nice. They each sported welcoming smiles for me.

"Hi! I'm Alice!" said the petite pixie-like girl.

"Hi," I said. A bit shy.

"Everybody, this is Dia. And Dia, this is everybody. We're the Cullens," Edward said smiling.

I got a series of Hi's and smiles. They introduced themselves too. The runway model was Rosalie and the softie was Jasper.

Bella, Edward, and I made our way to our seats-right across Alice's, Jasper's, and Rosalie's.

"Hello, my dear, I'm Esme. How are you feeling?" said ... well ... Esme. The mid-20's girl I was talking about. She was smiling really motherly when she said this so it was no surprise when Bella whispered to me that she's the mother figure. The father figure must be the Hollywood moviestar, then. He smiled at me, waved a bit, and said, "Good morning, Dia. I'm Carlisle."

So this was the Carlisle guy. Not quite what I had in mind.

"I'm back!" a guy came rushing in. He raised his arms up and ducked his head a bit lower. Edward laughed and gave him a high 5 and so did Jasper.

"Emmet, look who's here," Rosalie said when he took his seat next to her. He instinctively stood up and bowed like a gentleman-even if I highly doubt that he was one. By the looks of him. And "Especially you, Emmet, dear!" comment I overheard. It didn't take long for his monkey business. He started it with a "So, you're a Catholic Schoolgirl, huh?"

I flushed tomato red. From where I come from, people don't make a big fuss whether you're a Catholic Schoolgirl or not. I forgot that I was in London and I had no idea how people would react to this.

"Emmet!" Rosalie and Esme hissed together. Alice and Carlisle shot him the bad look. Bella looked away. And Jasper and Edward looked just as amused as Emmet was. "Bella and Edward found this with you 3 nights ago."

He put my fake LeeSportsac knapsack on the table. I nearly forgot about it. I thought ...

3 guys. I got lost while looking for a bookstore in town. I ended up in some dead end. They were there. They beat me up. Dragged me into the woods half-dead. Helpless. Desperate to just die already. "Dia!"

Everyone seemed to bring me back to my mind. I just noticed that I almost fell out of my chair. This time, Edward, Jasper, nor Emmet thought it was funny. They looked as serious as the others were. I shook my head.

They were going to ... rape me. They already took my bag. But then, 2 pale figures came out of nowhere.

"So the 2 pale creeps were you!" I gasped.

"Hey!" Edward said and pretended to be offended.

"What just happened to her?" Bella asked. Concerned.

"She had a major flashback." Of course. He could read minds.