Please don't kill me! I'm so sorry it's taken so long for me to update! I'm also very sorry this is so short! And thanks to my lovely reviewers! -Max

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*Dylan POV*

After Fang and the others rescued Max and I, they brought us up to Washington. Forks, Washington, to be exact. The town was incredibly small in size. The brown-skinned-never-stops-talking girl, Nudge, told me that there were only a couple thousand people in the town. It was one of the smallest towns, population-wise. And possibly the rainiest, weather-wise.

I hated it. Every single persons' thoughts were attacking me constantly. It was not much better at the Cullen's house, either. There was so many people living there. I couldn't block out their thoughts unless I was blaring music in my ears.

Lumi had convinced the Cullens to decorate the attic for my bedroom. I had to admit, it was nice. An entire wall was devoted to music. They'd bought me cd's from every genre so I could see what I liked the best. So far I liked Rock best. It was easy to drown out all the voices in my head with the loud music blaring in my ears.

The only time I left the safety of the attic was to get food. I only did that at night, though. We were never fed more then once a day at the School, so I wasn't very hungry. I didn't have much of an appetite yet.

Another reason I didn't leave my room was that I didn't trust the Cullens. Nudge had explained to me what they were. I felt completely unsafe around them, even though at least ten different avians have told me that we can trust them. I'm just too paranoid, I guess.

Max still hadn't woken up yet, three days after we were freed. Dr. Cullen was terribly worried about that. So was I. Max wasn't having any dreams at all. I couldn't even find any when I searched her mind, which made me nervous. Her dreams always screamed out to me back at the School.

The vampire family kept thinking about some group of vampires called the Volturi. The shortest of them, Alice, had seen the future. She saw the Volturi decide to come here, to Forks, to see us. To see what we were. The whole Cullen family was a wreck.

Fang wasn't too well, either. He kept switching from worrying about the unconscious Max to panicking over the Volturi visit. His constantly changing thoughts annoyed me to know end. His changing moods annoyed Southern-accent Civil War Veteran Jasper, too.

Out of all the Cullens, I felt safest with him, which was incredibly weird. He was possibly the most dangerous of the Cullens, not counting Bella who was a newborn. Though she was impressively in control for being a new vampire.

Here I was, three days after being rescued, laying on the long black sofa in my room, blaring Linkin Park at the loudest volume possible. This genre of music was by far my favorite, to Edward's distaste. I could relate to many of the songs and it helped clear my mind from all the thoughts.

The kids were all at school. Rosalie and Emmet were gone, off visiting the Denali Clan from I heard. Edward and Bella were visiting Charlie, Bella's dad, with Jacob and Renesmee. Alice and Esme were shopping. Carlisle was at work, Iggy with him. Raz was sleeping in. Jasper and Fang were the only other ones here.

The attic door knocked. I pulled the headphones off my ears and let them settle on my throat so I could still hear the songs. I called out, "Come in". Jasper entered.

"Out of everyone who lives here, you are the only calm one," he noted. He sat in my computer chair. "And you, of all people, should be the biggest wreck."

I nodded, understanding what he meant. Too much was happening at once. That's why I'd retreated to the safety of my attic-room.

I knew Jasper was grateful I was in the house. I knew all about his emotion-feeling ability, so I knew that everyone's crazed emotions were bugging him. His efforts to calm them all down were futile. Whenever things got too hectic downstairs he'd come up here and tell me about the Civil War, a topic I was surprisingly interested in.

Jasper was in the middle of telling me about one of his battles when I heard a scream come from downstairs.

I threw off the headphones and rushed down to the nursery. Fang was already there, holding Tyler, a confused and worried look on his face. I took the crying baby and ran a finger down her cheek gently. He stopped crying instantly.

Ty, what's wrong? I asked. I was a little worried myself. Tyler never cried out unless something was very wrong. For her to cry, well, that took a very wrong something.

The little baby girl looked up at me, eyes wide. She always knew when something bad was about to happen.

People coming, Tyler thought. Bad vampires.

I knew right away what she meant. The Volturi were coming.

They were coming today.

Again, sorry for the lateness and shortness! I have too much to do right now. And I'm sick... again :( Hopefully the next chapter will be longer.

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God bless!

-Max