About a week passed by uneventfully. After the day I had kind of lost it with Adrian and all his questions, he didn't ask me any more questions. I didn't even sense an air of curiosity around him anymore. I was actually sort of thankful that he seemed to have let go of the whole subject about my being blind. The same could not be said for everyone else.

Britney and her friends let me sit at their table, but I could sense an aura of hate around their intentions. They were mad about something, probably about my hanging around Adrian, and they had no problems showing me that they didn't like me because of it. Well, they didn't show me per say, but I could feel them glaring at me and whispering behind my back, or rather in front of my face.

At the end of my second official week in Forks, Adrian surprised me by meeting me outside of the cafeteria before lunch.

"Hey," he said, although I knew it was him by the cool touch on my arm.

"Hello," I replied, reaching my hand out for the door handle. I no longer wore the watch I'd been given from earlier, since I knew the grounds of the high school well enough. I'd even begun to know the way home, but that was only by driving of course. Outside of school or Lizzy and Joseph's back and front yards, I hadn't actually walked in Forks. I was still being babied.

"Where are you going to sit?" Adrian asked me.

I turned to him and tilted my head up so that he felt that I was looking at him.

"With Britney and the others," I replied, thinking that it should be obvious. Didn't I always sit with them?

"Nope," Adrian said, "not today. Today you'll be sitting with my family who may prove to be real friends to you. They've been wanting to meet you ever since day 1."

"I thought that your family's not sociable," I said, echoing the rumors that Britney had told me about. I instantly wished I could take back what I'd said. I didn't believe the rumors obviously, but I still heard them.

"Well, you're an acception," Adrian said. "And if I hang out with you, that's good enough reason for them."

I shrugged, and allowed him to bring me over to his table. I felt the usual stares on my back.

"Everything, this is Charlotte," Adrian said, introducing me.

"Hey!" greeted one musical voice after another. It only took me ten minutes to distinguish between each of their musical voices, and learn all of their names. There was Rosalie, Emmett, Edward, Bella, Alice and Jasper.

"So, how are you liking Forks?" asked Alice.

"Well enough," I said. "It seems like a wet place."

Bella laughed. "Don't worry, I was pretty new here at one point too. I didn't like it that much at the beginning either."

"It's not that I don't like it," I said. "I mean, one place to me is the same as the next."

Silence. I felt like I'd just made it awkward. But surely they saw that I was blind, or knew about it from Adrian? None of them were as questioning as Adrian in any case. On the contrary, they just seemed to want to make conversation.

"You know, our dad's a doctor," Alice piped up after a while.

"Alice!" snapped Rosalie.

"What?!" Alice asked innocently. "He might know someone who can help her."

Another pause.

I cleared my throat. "You mean...with my eyes?"

Alice made some sort of movement. "Oh right!" she said. "Erm, I mean yes, maybe. Carlisle's a doctor and although he's not big in the field of eye-surgery, that might be all it takes to give you even a bit of sight."

"Alice!" Rosalie hissed, with a little too much bite.

I spoke before anyone else said anything. "I thank you for the suggestion Alice, but I doubt it will work on me. I was born blind, so I'm not sure if eye-surgery applies to me. Besides, I can't afford it, and neither can my guardians."

"It's no problem," Edward said. "Money's nothing to us. We'll pay for it if..."

"Why?" I asked, not understanding any of them. I felt their eyes on me, but I couldn't tell their expressions. "I mean...you don't even know me..."

"We know," Emmett said in a casual manner. "But everyone's got a right to see, don't they?"

I paused. I'd honestly never thought about it before. I never felt reproachful towards God, or fate or whatever because I was born without my sight. I'd just grown so used to it, that I figured that it should always just be that way. There were few times when I wished I could actually see. Maybe it was better not to see. What if I didn't like the sight?

"Emmett's got a point," Jasper pressed. "Everyone's got a right to that much at least. Fate's dealt you the wrong cards, but we can right it."

I paused and so did they, all waiting for my answer.

"Well, I suppose if I meet him..." I said.

But they didn't need to hear more. They invited me to their house that very day after school. After lunch I gave a phone call to my house and told Joseph that I was going with a few friends to meet their family. Joseph, unlike Lizzy, didn't hover over that fact and gave me permission to go.

"Tell Lizzy not to pick me up, please," I said, hoping that I wouldn't make her come to the school grounds for nothing. I didn't know how much she would approve what I was doing, but I partly didn't even care.

Although I repeatedly told myself to not let my hopes get too high, I couldn't help it. If there was a chance...even a small one, that I might get even a tenth of what was known as 'sight', then maybe I was willing to risk it. Just a bit...

At the end of the school day, I'm not sure if Lizzy was in the parking lot. The Cullens, all of them, urged me towards their cars and then argued over who would sit with me. In the end, I went in Emmett's jeep with Emmett, Adrian, Rosalie and Jasper. I sat in the back seat between Jasper and Adrian while Emmett drove. It seemed to me that he drove rather fast, but luckily I couldn't see just how fast. All I felt was the wind through my hair from the open window as we drove past.

Finally the jeep came to a stop, and the first thing I heard was birds. Wait, animals? Where exactly were we? I both sounded like and smelled like a forest. Nearby was the fresh smell of grass, dirt, and a lot of pine.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"Just in front of our house!" Emmett yelled excitedly.

"And where is your house?" I asked sarcastically. "In the middle of a forest?"

"Eh, just as the border of one, you could say," Adrian said, and he was being honest.

Emmett took a sniff and then growled. It wasn't a growl of anger, but one of excitement.

"Hey, they're here!" he called. Everyone except me seemed to understand what he meant.

Then with Adrian gripping my hand, he led me up some stairs and into their house.

Seth's P.O.V.

Jacob paced back and forth, waiting for Esme and Renesmee to come back from hunting. Renesmee had insisted that Jacob not accompany her this time, since she and Esme needed some grandmother-granddaughter bonding time before Edward and the others came back from school. Leah had insisted on going to the hunt too.

Not that I was complaining about any of this. Some quality me and Jake time was always pretty good.

"Relax," I said, stretching on one of the large couches in the Cullens' house.

Carlisle emerged from the upper level. He looked out the window, seeing something that we didn't.

"Everyone, welcome home!" he greeted.

I looked up, excited to see all of the vampires. I was actually hoping to hang out with Edward for a bit since I wasn't allowed to come to the Cullen household very often. Sam forbid it usually, but since Jacob was like an Alpha all his own, I was allowed when he came.

The Cullens all assembled swiftly into the room, but there was someone else with them, who looked quite human. She lifted her head and I instantly saw that she was blind. But something else was at work.

Thump. Thump.

Like the thumping of a heart, I heard a noise. It grew louder and louder until it filled the entire room. Wait, the pounding was in my ears and no one else's! No one else heard it, only me.

Suddenly everything around me seemed like it was a black hole and all I could see was the girl who'd just come in. All I could see was her pale complexion with rosy cheeks, her long mass of brown hair, her light blue but blind eyes.

I heard her every breath, even her every heartbeat. Every movement she made caused my heart to ache in one place or another.

Then suddenly it all stopped, and I felt at peace. More at peace than I'd ever felt before in my entire life. I felt as if my soul was no longer my own an that it just floated between the distance of me and the girl. Just lingered there, but it was happy. Suddenly I realized what was happening to me.

Oh my god, I'd imprinted...

There we go, another chapter! I didn't describe it the same way Stephanie Meyer did, but I hope that my description was just as good. I hope that this chapter has made things a bit more interesting.

Please tell me what you think! :3