Disclaimer: I do not own the Twilight Saga, namely Eclipse, all books belong to Stephanie Meyer.
Carlisle insisted on bringing me home with him. He wasn't angry or upset, in fact, he was happy. Bella and I hoped in his car, very nice by the way, and drove down a long road. I felt a little safer with Bella in the car, but I still knew that I wasn't 100% safe, because I was going to live with a family of vampires for five days.
"Carlisle, I checked into a hotel in Seattle before I heard about the mass murder. Can I go get them?" I was silent and shy. I really wanted an excuse to hunt some newborns. I would grab my things though and check out too, but I wanted to hunt, I wasn't going to let Bella die.
"Sure, I can have Alice drive you up there tonight," I groaned, a bloodsucker had to drive me.
"I am sure that I can drive my self up, but thank you for offering," I replied. Carlisle shook his head.
"I don't want you driving if you have these, megrims, I don't think that that is a good idea, plus, Alice really wants to drive her new car," Both Carlisle and Bella chuckled. I didn't get this inside joke, but I guess that it was unimportant to the big picture.
I didn't get it. I realized that I cared about this human, but why? Why did I want to save her? What did she mean to me? I questioned myself all the way to the Cullen's residence. It was huge. I didn't realize that the car had stopped and that there were much more flashy cars in front of the house.
Carlisle opened my door for me like a gentleman, but I was hesitant about getting out, until Bella came around to see the hold up. For some reason, she made me feel safe.
"So do you get those headaches often?" Bella asked. I shrugged, because they were visions, not headaches. I tapped into her thoughts, Poor girl; I wonder how she was strong enough to push Carlisle off of her, especially in extreme pain. I wonder if Carlisle has a theory… I smiled; Carlisle was just as bewildered as she was. I heard several voices upstairs and saw decorations strung about the place. I walked through the front door. I saw six very surprised vampires stare at me. All of them had weird golden eyes that I had never seen. The red haired male walked over to Bella and embraced her, so I assumed him to be Edward.
"Why don't we introduce you, uh," Carlisle said pointing to me.
"April, DeLoine," I locked my jaw after that. Edward raised an eyebrow and spoke next, "Edward Cullen, it is a pleasure to meet you," He didn't move a muscle after that, so the caramel haired woman went next, with a warm smile, "Hi I'm Esme, Carlisle's wife, welcome to our home," She shook my hand and didn't seem to notice that I was running 10 degrees hotter than any normal human. The blonde girl introduced herself, "Rosalie," she didn't smile or make me feel welcome, in fact she glared at me. I stared at her disgustingly perfect face when all of a sudden, I was locked in an embrace from what looked like a pixie.
"Hi, I'm Alice, wow you're tall," I tried not to laugh, because compared to her, everyone was tall. The other blonde, male, shook my hand, "Jasper Hale," I smiled, though I was feeling his discomfort. It was agitating. I then felt very frightened by the giant that stood in front of me, who could probably break me in half with a simple little hug. Luckily, I heal fast.
"Emmet Cullen," He held his hand out, but to tell the truth, I was a little scared to take it. He laughed.
"Come on, I won't bite," he said. I scoffed, "You sure 'bout that?" Everyone laughed. I laughed with them to cover myself up. None of them could know what I was. I tapped into each of their minds, first Edward's because he made me curious be giving me the cold shoulder. What I didn't expect was to hear everyone else's thought, but Bella's and mine.
"Whoa." I said aloud. Everyone turned to stare at me. I gulped and smiled, "Just realized that Bella has red in her hair under the light," I realized that back at the hospital, but I had to have a cover up. I felt Edward glare at me, probably frustrated that he couldn't hear what I was thinking. I looked around and saw that the place had food out and a stack of CD's by the stereo, a fountain of soda and small plates. My stomach growled loudly, and both Bella and Carlisle stared at me wide eyed. I opened my mouth, but then closed it.
"Dear, let's get you something to eat, you must be very hungry," Esme said. Carlisle said, still staring at me, "She ate at the hospital, a steak, 2 baked potatoes, a salad and 2 slices of triple berry pie." I bit my lip, and felt everyone's eyes on me. I had to come up with something fast.
"I guess that I have a high metabolism or something. Plus I hadn't eaten all day at the hospital," I tried to think of any other reasons that would explain why I ate so much, but consisted a low weight. Esme pulled me towards the kitchen, still smiling warmly. I felt her feel motherly, as I would put it at least.
I sat at the counter and I saw Edward come in the kitchen and start taking random food items and chopping them up. Esme walked over to me, "I'm going to go talk to Carlisle, Edward will fix you some food, take care," She said, and I felt weird. I haven't had a mother in such a long time, that it was hard for me to adjust.
"So," I started, "What do you like to do," I asked Edward, hoping to break the ice. If I was in a room with someone else I didn't like silence. Unfortunately, Edward did, because he continued to work without making a sound.
"Is Bella your girlfriend?" I acted like a dumb human, like I was oblivious to the fact that the Cullen's were vampires. He didn't answer me. I bit my lip, the silence was getting to me.
"Do you play piano?" it was common, I learned when I was 7, my dad taught me. Edward nodded, and I smiled.
"What's your favorite?" I loved the 1812 overture personally, but I hadn't heard it in a while, since I was always busy hunting.
"Bella's Lullaby," He answered. I thought about it, and realized that I had never heard it.
"Did you write it for Bella?" I asked, I didn't usually get to know my preys, but the golden eyes on them made me curious. My stomach growled again, just as Edward placed a plate of Chinese food in front of me with a pair of chopsticks.
"How do you know her name?" He asked, avoiding my question.
"She introduced herself at the diner before I had my vis I mean megrim, she took me to the hospital," He caught my stutter, so I quickly stuffed my mouth with food, and flavors exploded on my tongue. I moaned, enjoying the food very much. Edward could cook. Lucky Bella.
"I see, do you realize who we are," He asked. Damn it, he probably realized that I stuttered over vision.
"Yeah, your humans," I said while laughing. He didn't by it.
"You know what we are, admit it," Damn leech. He knew that I knew.
"Yeah, vampires, I could tell by your scent," I wasn't going to say anything else. So he continued.
"I would never hurt Bella, you realize that don't you?" He asked me, he was across the counter, but I heard him whisper.
"How? You need blood, and I really can't imagine how long she'll last." I sounded hateful, but could you blame me? I am their enemy.
He laughed, "Longer than a year, we hunt animals such as bears, mountain lions, deer. We do this to survive among humans," he said, and I was surprised, I had never met a vampire or vampires that hunted animals. That explained how Carlisle was able to be a doctor and the golden eyes.
"Well then I guess that I should have no worries," Except for the huge army of newborn vampires coming to kill Bella. I smiled, "I'm done, so I'll go ask Alice if she can give me a ride to Seattle," I jumped down from the stool.
"Why? There's a newborn on the loose, you would put yourself in danger," He asked.
"Because I have nothing to lose," I answered, hard and cold. I walked out of the kitchen and found Alice.
"Hey Alice, can I get a ride to Seattle to get my bags. And I need to check out of the hotel I was in," I smiled, and she smiled back.
"Sure! We can take my new car," I had a feeling that it was fast. Good, I wanted to get there and hunt.
As soon as we reached the hotel, I jumped out. Alice started to follow, but I told her that I wouldn't be more than a minute. I hated lying to her, she was so nice, but I had to kill a few at least tonight. I was able to ditch her by going out the back way and run like hell. I ran down a dark alley, perfect for vampire preying. I saw a few newborns. They started arguing about who got me, while I ripped the first's head off, the second broke the third one's head in half and burned it. I hit his head and snapped it off, then burned them all. I saw a bigger group, all of them competing for food. I got out of there fast, hoping to return later.
I grabbed my bags and purse, cleaning the room completely. At the front desk, I paid for one night, even though I wasn't going to be there, but I already messed up the bed, so may as well pay for it. I went out to the car, where Alice sat waiting.
"That was more than a minute," she said suspiciously. I shrugged my shoulders, glad to know that if I couldn't kill newborns, they would kill each other.
"We should get back, I need to tell the others something," Alice said. I raised an eyebrow and tapped into her thoughts, hoping to find what I was looking for.
I need to remember to get some food for Bella and April, oh and a space heater, not to mention clothing. And sleeping bags… I wondered where we were going.
"Alice, I need to tell you something," I had no idea what I was doing, but it sounded like I was going to tell her about my life.
"Yeah, go ahead," I took a deep breath, I guess trying to build up courage up to tell her. I chickened out.
"Do you think we could stop and get me something to eat and drink. I am famished," I was a little hungry still, even after everything I ate. She nodded her head.
"I have to pick up a few things while we're in Seattle anyway," Yeah, a few. I thought about what I was going to get. Defiantly a Pepsi and maybe a bag of chips. Nah, I would get Corn Nuts. She pulled up to a Target, and we both hopped out of the car. I grabbed what I wanted, and saw her grab a tent, the sleeping bags, warm clothes (not fashionable), a heater, and a lot of camping food.
"Don't forget to get flashlights," I added. She looked at me weirdly.
"If you are camping, you need flashlights, don't want to trip on anything in the dark," I smiled, just the thought of me stumbling in the dark was preposterous, but everyone knew that Bella was klutzy and would need a flashlight if she wanted to survive the night.
"Oh, do you camp a lot?" She asked.
"I use to, before I turned 15," Before my parents died, we would camp every summer. She just smiled.
"That's nice," she muttered as she looked at the different flashlights. I knew that vampires didn't need flashlights, so this must have been very difficult for Alice to think about. I grabbed two HD Light flashlights and dropped them in Alice's cart. She yanked the Corn Nuts and Pepsi out of my hands and dumped them in too.
"Hey, mine," I said, she just smiled and continued.
"I'll pay for them," she said. We reached the check out and I stood there, watching every item go through the check out. I thought that everything was unnecessary, but that was me, Bella would probably need more.
We exited the store, Alice carried everything except my Pepsi and Corn Nuts. She put the bags in the back seat and climbed in.
"Don't get crumbs on my seats, that would take forever to get out," good thing she had forever. We reached the house about midnight, and the decorations were destroyed, the food and drinks gone, the CD's a mess. Alice smiled, apparently there had to have been a party here. Esme was already cleaning, and she looked up to see me carrying an empty pop bottle and a half eaten bag of Corn Nuts. She looked up at me and I said, "I got hungry in Seattle," which was the truth. I'm always hungry. I saw Esme smile and continue to clean. Bella brought plates into the kitchen, and I saw three Native Americans enter the room, in shorts and shoes. I saw the boy from my vision, and gasped. He smelled really, really, bad. He saw me and smiled. I smiled back, trying to drive the image of him crushed and naked out of my mind. More the crushed rather than the naked. He had a nice ass, that's all I'm gonna say. He and the others were carrying plates, stuffing food into their mouths like they were never going to eat again. The placed the plates by the sink and smiled at Esme. I smiled at each of them and, somehow, I got use to the stench radiating off of them. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was. In fact, it was interesting. I had never smelled anything like them. I watch them and ate my Corn Nuts, one of the boys was watching me too. He was glaring at me, and my interest grew, like why they hated me. I wasn't watching, but I did hear the sound of flesh ripping and I saw just a drop of blood. I reacted much more quickly than I should have, I ran over to the boy, ripping my shirt and wrapped his hand quickly. He laughed, and took the cloth off.
"What the hell are you doing? You may need stitches!" I nearly screamed. Not that I was concerned, but blood and me, not really friends. I get lightheaded real easily.
When he pulled it off, though, there was nothing but a slight pink line. I rubbed it, but it was healed. I thought I was the only person who could do that. He laughed at me. Bella sat on the floor, her head in between her knees. I guess that she had the same reaction to blood. I was shocked at Esme's expression, she stared at me, wide eyed and her mouth agape. I was in for some serious shit again.