Sadie opened her eyes and found herself in the Cullens' living room. She seemed to be alone.
She sat up, and Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Edward, Bella, and Rosalie entered the room.
Sadie smiled at them, and then remembered what had just happened. Her face became confused as she thought about the situation in the forest.
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Bella watched Sadie's face carefully. She had seemed happy at first, but then her face had clouded over.
Bella hoped it wouldn't be difficult for her to understand everything they were about to tell her, but having been a human herself not long ago, she knew the possibility of that was very small.
The sound of someone inhaling caused her to look at Carlisle, who was about to tell the girl the truth.
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Sadie looked at the family. Their faces were a complete mixture of emotions. Some looked grim, others calm, and yet others worried.
Carlisle walked over and sat down on the couch next to her.
Sadie turned to him, the head of the family.
"What happened?" she asked.
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Esme sighed as Sadie asked the one vital question. This would be too much for her, such a young woman, so innocent. But there was no way out of it, they had to tell her, for all their sakes.
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Sadie watched as the family's faces all changed expression with that single question. She turned to Carlisle for an explanation.
"You fainted, Sadie," he said.
With those words, memories flooded back into Sadie's head. Her best friend had turned into a wolf. The family had appeared out of nowhere. There was a strange man with red eyes. Esme had taken her back to the house with a speed that was impossible to reach.
"Oh!" she said, and stood up.
Scared, she looked over at the entrance, which was blocked, her gaze headed to the window.
She was about to go there when Edward separated himself from the group and walked over into her possible escape path. He stood in the middle of Sadie and the window, looking serious.
"Sadie," Carlisle pleaded, "you have to hear us out."
Sadie sat back down warily.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"Listen, Sadie, you're going to find this very hard to believe," Sadie looked at Carlisle, eyebrows raised. Everything she had just seen was hard to believe, and it was frightening.
"We're vampires!" Alice exclaimed.
Sadie was startled, whatever she had expected them to say, it certainly hadn't been that.
She took a deep breath.
"Ha-ha, very funny, Alice," she said.
"No, she was completely serious. We're vampires, Sadie," Esme broke in.
"But, but that's impossible!"
"Yes, I suppose it does seem that way."
"Vampires don't exist!"
"Come on, Sadie! Look at the facts!" Alice said. "We are all incredibly pale, we never go into the sunlight, we're super fast, super quiet, super strong, and if you don't mind me saying so, super good-looking."
Sadie looked at Alice, her expression impossible to determine. Yes, all that Alice had said was true, but that didn't mean they were vampires.
"If you really are vampires, how come you haven't drunk my blood?" she asked challengingly.
"We have been tempted, that's for sure," Rosalie muttered.
Sadie was surprised, Rosalie rarely spoke around her.
"We're vegetarians," Alice explained.
Sadie snorted in laughter. Now that was a crazy idea, a vampire who was vegetarian.
"We're completely serious."
"No, you're not."
"Yes we are, Sadie," Edward interrupted. "You know, deep inside, you know it's true."
Sure enough, a part of Sadie believed the family's claims completely.
"And what does that make Mark? A were-wolf?"
"Sort of."
Sadie had opened her mouth to answer when the family looked up. Carlisle stood up, and he and Edward made their way to the front door.
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Just outside, Mark, now fully-clothed; Jasper and Emmett walked up to the porch.
As soon as they got to the door, it opened, and they went inside.
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"What happened?" Carlisle asked them.
"The stupid vampire got away, he's really fast," Mark answered.
Carlisle cursed mentally; this was not a good thing. Demetri had gotten away, and was now probably telling the Volturi of what he had found.
"There's more," Jasper said.
"What more could there possibly be?"
"The Volturi army is here, they might arrive tomorrow. Carlisle, what are we going to do?"
"Fight them, of course," Emmett said, his hands shaping into fists.
"No, Emmett, even we cannot fight the entire Volturi army on our own," Carlisle said, his eyes closed deep in thought.
After a short while, his eyes opened again.
"I know what we must do. We must flee to Alaska."
(A/N) Um, heh heh, sorry? Yeah, I know I haven't updated in, like, ages, but I was kinda grounded. If you want to know why, let's just say it was a rather interesting situation concerning revenge, a lizard, and my sister's pillowcase. And then, when I was finally ungrounded, school began, and I had no time to write. And when I finally got a spare second, Catty decided to go on a vacation, and I didn't know what to write. And when I finally wrote, the stupid file refused to upload. So, those are my excuses. I'm really, terribly sorry. And now, I have to finish my report on Leon Trotsky (the russian dude), ok? I'm sorry! Don't kill me!