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Bella's Point of View
…It was my own reflection. I didn't recognise myself. There was a beautiful woman staring back at me, her perfect lips parted slightly as she gazed at her reflection. I was not being big headed when I called myself perfect. I knew vampires were always extremely attractive, however I did not think that such an ordinary girl such as myself could have ever changed into this. The one thing I did not like about my reflection was my blood-red eyes. They were shocking and harsh, and I could tell if I looked a human directly in the eye, fear would pulse through their veins and radiate from them, making me thirst for their blood even more. I had become a monster. But I knew nothing could be done to save me now, I would just have to live my monstrous and blood-thirsty ways forever…or until somebody ripped me to shreds and burnt me. The thought of that did not appeal to me, but neither did the thought of living forever. Forever is such a long time.
"Come on Bella, we haven't got all day," James rushed me into the back seat of the car as Victoria placed herself into the front.
"More police will be here soon, and we need to scarper before the bodies are found," Victoria grinned viciously, "Not that they ever find us anyway." She started the car up and we began to drive, breaking the speed limit from the word 'go'. I wasn't frightened. I vaguely remember being frightened of fast drivers when I was a human. I had no reason to be now, I was immortal. The idea of being a vampire was starting to grow on me, and the more I thought of my delicious feed earlier in the day, the less I felt bad about it, the less human I became. "Where are we heading?" I asked, catching Victoria's' eye in the rear view mirror.
"We have business to finish with the Cullens," Victoria snarled, "We will drive to Forks. It will take a few days, but we are willing to wait."
Again, that name struck something in my mind. I knew it from somewhere. Edward Cullen, I thought. How did I know that name?
"What business?" I asked, curiously. At least I would finally get to meet these Cullens.
"The human-lovers tried to kill James," Victoria stated simply, "We want to show them why you don't mess with our coven."
Human-lovers? What did she mean by that? Surely all vampires saw humans as food and nothing more. "Why are they human-lovers?" I questioned.
"They refuse to live on the blood of humans. They drink animal blood instead, and live among humans. Pretending to be humans, in fact. Personally I don't see why you would ever want to disguise yourself as a lesser species," James explained to me, in a disgusted tone.
I thought that maybe that lifestyle would have suited me, before I ever fed on human blood. But now I had tried it the pull of delicious, fulfilling human blood was far too strong and I would go out of my way just to get a few drops. I was a killer, and it felt good.
James Point of View
Bella's curiosity about the Cullen's was quite interesting. I understood that human memories were blurry once the transformation had taken place, but I did not expect Bella to forget her lover completely. Even his name had not reminded her. I wondered if when we reached Forks and came face to face with him, if she would then remember. And if she did remember, would she stay with us in our small coven? Or become our enemy and join the Cullen's? I believed Bella had a lot of potential with us, and hoped she would stay. Why would she want to join a coven in which they drink measly animal blood anyway?
My tracking ability suddenly burst into action. I could see the Cullen's were not in Forks any longer. "Stop the car," I snapped quite violently, trying to concentrate on where they were. "What's wrong?" Bella asked me.
"Shh Bella," Victoria whispered, holding her hand up to stop Bella talking, "He needs to concentrate." She could always tell when my ability kicked in. I could see them…they were heading back here, to Phoenix! They must be coming for Bella. Perfect. We have what they want, and at the moment, that something wants to stay with us. A grin spread across my face. This was going to be a fun few days. "We can stay here," I said casually, "It seems the Cullen's are coming to us."
