26. Explanation

"So let me get this straight," Bella started, "You knew her before you were changed?"

We sat in the Cullens house in Forks, Washington. I've never been here before, but it was just so open. It was so much like my home. Maybe It was a vampire thing.

After almost trying to kill Edward again we decided to come back here to explain everything. And man do I mean everything. So much can happen in 100 years that you had no idea about.

I sat still while Edward told me about Reneesme. He told me about how Bella conceived her while she was human.

"Are you a moron!" I shrieked. "Of course since Sierra's life meant nothing to you, you must not have cared a lot about Bella to do that to her!" of course I had no fit with Bella. I actually liked her. But I didn't yell like that again while he told the story. That was until the Volturi came into the picture.

"Back up a minute Eddie." Edward gritted his teeth as I used his old nickname. I was glad that he still hated it. Alice could help but laughing.

"The Volturi came? Man I wish I was there. I would have ripped Jane's head off." I laughed darkly.

If there was anything I hated more than Edward was the Volturi.

"You seemed quite fond of her when you were apart of them." Edward countered. I would have lunged at him, but I was restrained ever since my outburst about Reneesme.

Bella didn't like, well of course no one liked that I was once a part of the Volturi, but they did seem quite satisfied that I quite promising to annialate them all. Esme and Carlisle even laughed.

Then we moved on to the subject we were now talking about.

"Claire was my best friend when I was human." Edward smiled at me gently. I hated him for that smile. It almost melted my heart. "She stayed by my side while I was sick. She had even agreed to help save me." he already told the story of my gift. "But she didn't. do you remember what you said?"

I sighed. "I said 'Carlisle, I can see that this boy laying here is going on to great things. It would be foolish to take that from him. You're lonely and I cannot stay forever, change him Carlisle, you won't regret it."

Edward held Bella closer as he moved on to the topic I knew he would get to eventually.

"You see I had grown fond of Claire. I always thought she was the most beautiful thing in my world. In a way, I fell in love with her, but nothing like you Bella." Bella had hissed when he looked at me again. Jason even narrowed his eyes.

Edward laughed.

"What's so funny?" said Nessie-Bella's nickname for her. She sounded like the lock ness monster to me-who was next to Jason. She always kept looking at him.

"It seems Claire has had some difficulties with boys." he then shifted to face Carlisle. "She and Skylar had a tiny make out session."

Carlisle smiled.

"It was not!" Jason and I yelled at the same time. I looked at him and he laughed.

"What ever you want to call it. Jason just thought of it. And clearly it was in plain detail…hmm." he closed his eyes in thought. I wonder who was thinking what.

Then Edward burst out laughing. I'm sure if he cold have cried from laughing so hard he would of. He was putting the ravenous hyenas to shame.

"Now what?" I grumbled.

He looked swiftly from Jason, then over to me, appraising me with his eyes. He smiled slightly. "I'll tell you later." he winked at Jason.

Jason turned away. I couldn't see his eyes.

"So what's your story?" Alice chimed in. she looked around her mate, Jasper, who was so intent on her safety that he couldn't even smile if his life depended on it.

I stiffened.

"Alice, I don't think that's the best-" Edward began.

"No its fine. I'm surprised you don't know, but you haven't seen much life have you?" I stood up and walked to the window. Best not to break anything I would regret if I were to flip out.

"I wouldn't let you." Edward murmured, entering my mind yet again. Dang it really irritated when he could do that. It didn't bother me with Syd since I loved her…but Edward? Yeesh, it made me mad without even thinking about it.

"Gee, thanks."

"Oh shut up Edward." I smiled. Where had my hate gone from him? Of course I was still mad, but being around him again made me remember how much we were alike. How much I enjoyed his presence.

"Ok listen, I'm not going into any detail, but here's how it goes. I was dating a vampire named Cody Marshall. Of course I didn't know he was a vampire at the time. He claimed he loved me, which I think he does, but more in a stalkerish, evil kind of way. Anyway, I had a major fight with my parents and I stormed out of the house. Naturally, the fight was about Cody and how much they didn't trust him, but of course I defended him saying that he wasn't that bad. I met him on the dirt road and we were walking to an old willow tree-where we normally go. He took me through a short cut through the cemetery and…well you know. Well, I guess you don't. he…uh…raped me and changed me into who I am. A monster."

I didn't realize I was shaking, until Carlisle came to my side. "It's ok." he whispered.

"That bad huh?" Bella asked quietly.

"You have no idea what I have been through." Flashes of Shadow crossed behind my closed eye lids. Pictures through my muddy human eyes of Cody who said he loved me.

Edward moaned in pain and he couldn't escape my mind. I was pretty much shouting at him, without even trying. And the sad part was that I wasn't even happy about his pain. Maybe because he was in pain because I was in pain. I guess he really did care about me.

"More than you will ever know." Edward croaked.

"Get out of my head." I snapped. Edward smiled in relief. Obviously this was what he wanted from me by saying that. To get my mind off of it so he could get his off it too.

"Not entirely." he mocked. He then jumped out of the way, knowing I was going to hit him. He reminded me so much of Skylar.

"Where's Jacob?" Rosalie asked suddenly. I had no idea who Jacob was. Another vampire?

Edward snorted. "He wishes he was that cool." he laughed. "He's coming over later, I think."

Esme turned to me. "You don't have any aversion to werewolves do you?" I watched her heart shaped face look at me with sudden worry. She looked so much like a mother. So much like the mother I had killed myself.

"We live with one…or at least we used to." Nick said. He clasped his hands together and he sniffed the air. I knew there was a reason for why the house was smelling like this.

"I don't think we'll be here that long. You shouldn't test my self control at this point." I smirked but my words were so true. Reneesme twisted around Jason and looked at me with beautiful chocolate eyes.

"You wont leave yet will you?" her voice was so wonderful, as with the smell. But after I got over the human blood smell, the vampire smell was able to balance it out.

She was so hard to resist. She was so the daughter of Edward.

I couldn't answer at first and everyone laughed at me.

"No one is able to get past her charm." Rosalie told me. She leaned back in the love seat with Emmett, who was holding her hand and talking to Jasper about mountain lions.

I crinkled my nose. "Animal blood, yuck."

Then a brown teenage boy popped in though the door. He had dark black hair and was taller than anyone I had ever met, even Sam and she was pretty tall. He was followed in by another tall skinny boy, a gangly looking 15 year old, and a female with shiny, lustrous black hair.

The smell told me who they were.

An involuntary hiss escaped through my lips. Each of their heads snapped over to me. The first one who walked eyed me with such furry it was a wonder why he was still in his human form. But he wasn't looking at me. He was looking at the girl I was now holding in my arms. Reneesme.

The wolf-boy jumped towards me, but I was too fast. I held on to the girl and jumped to the ceiling, grabbing on to one of the poles on the wall.

"Jacob!" Bella leaped towards him and pinned him to the ground. "Stop that. She isn't going to hurt her."

Why would he care so much about one of his enemies daughters?

"Look at her eyes, Bella! Do you not know what kind she is?" his husky voice was rough and angry.

"Look at my eyes you moron!" Bella retorted.

I jumped down, confused by what could have triggered this reaction, but I already knew the answer.

"You imprinted on her." I told Jacob.

Skylar was then at my side, along with everyone else. Jason even managed to squeeze his way in through the whole. Jacob was surprised to see a human.

"Who are you?" Jacob then asked after swallowing his anger.

We explained everything after that. Jacob imprinted on the human-vampire girl. He attacked me because of my eyes; he has no problems with vampires like the cullens. Of course he got along with the rest of my family, but his eyes always flickered over to mine.

The skinny one was Quil, the 15 year old was Seth, and the female was Leah. A little after a hour later another one named Embry showed up. It took him a little while to cool down.

Seth had no problem with vampires in general. He talked to me like I was human and he never flinched away from my eyes like some of the others did at first.

Jacob had his own pack with Leah as his right hand man, so to speak. She never left his side, but after a while he got annoyed with her.

"Calm down, Leah." he said, totally relaxed sitting next to me. "She's not a threat right now. Besides with her gift she could have killed me easily if she wanted to.

Leah narrowed her eyes and walked away, frustrated.

Edward and Carlisle explained everything about me and my unique talents. They even knew a bit about Skylar, but nothing about the rest of them. Seth was just throwing question after question at me.

"How old are you? Four thousand! Wow you must have seen a lot. What's it like? Do you feel guilty? Who changed you?" after the last question Alice told him that it was none of his business. I felt grateful for these people that I barely knew. It looks like my family just extended.

"So four thousand huh? Dang you're old." Jacob teased. He would crinkle his nose every now and then, but I think he got used to it since it seemed like he was over here every day.

I threw my elbow at his ribs, lightly.

Jason even seemed to be enjoying himself with Trevor. They both were hypnotized by Reneesme as much as anybody.

Angel actually made friends with Leah and they weren't separated since. They would giggle and laugh and tell jokes about the littlest things.

But it only took one thing to ruin this party.

As Trevor made his way with Embry to get some more food, he tripped. As with my luck he had scissors in his hands to get open the bag of Doritos's. he landed on his back, but the blade grazed his elbow, sending blood slowly out of his arm.

All of a sudden every vampire's eyes were on Trevor. Hands flew to get Jasper down before he eve had time to think about it, while Edward knocked me to the ground with the help of Nick.

The sad part was that nobody even thought of restraining Cody and Bella, the newborns.

Bella jumped for Trevor, but Emmett was able to get control of her. The only problem was that she was really strong.

Cody was the closest to Trevor so he was already there in a flash. I watched his lunge for Trevor while he pushed everyone away with his new found gift.

Trevor was beyond confused. He had that deer-in-the-headlights look when Cody was jumping for him.

"Stop!" I yelled. And without even thinking about it, Cody was on the ground in pain. I wasn't hurting him that bad, but it was enough to stop him. Angel raced over to both of them, touched Trevor, and disappeared in the same second. Skylar poured straight bleach on the blood and was already washing it up. Nick released me to help clean up, but Edward didn't move.

"This remind you of anything?" he asked, slightly amused about my position.

I smiled, remembering. "Your first hunt." he helped me up by giving me his pallid hand. "You tackled me because I smelled human blood when I was helping you." the memory was so vivid it was like I was there again. Of course that was a long time ago.

We had everything cleaned up when Angel returned with Trevor. He wasn't mad, in fact he sat ext to Cody who was already booming with laughter.

"Bloodsuckers." Leah said with a shake of her head.

"It also reminds me of Bella's 18th birthday." everyone froze as I spoke. Well everyone, but Bella. She laughed.

"Your right." she had a tight smile, but she knew nothing could go wrong with her love now.

Leah left with Seth and hour later, after making me promise that I would be here tomorrow. I had to promise. I liked that kid.

Embry followed Seth out the door and then only Jacob was left. He stayed with the human-vampire, never leaving his side.

"What are you doing, Nessie?" Jake asked as I heard her soft footsteps coming towards me. She bounced on my lap like she was a little girl. Well I guess she is one in a way.

She put her hand on my face and I gasped. She showed me Bella, well when she was human at least. She looked horrid. She was covered in blood so I guessed that she had already given birth to her. Then she went through quickly what they had been up to. I laughed when I saw Bella pounce at Jacob for calling her Nessie. I'd like to see her do that to me.

She finally got through all of her memories when she also included me in it with her father. She watched in horror as I was hurting him. Then she was smiling as I was able to talk to him without going for the kill.

Edward put his arm around me and squeezed us both tight as Nessie giggled. He put me down. Well I guess that would be a rough translation. He threw me out the door which Alice opened for him, waiting.

It was so weird to see them in action. A mind reader and one who sees the future. What an odd bunch. But was any vampire coven normal anymore?

Edward pounced on me and we began fighting like we used to. We didn't hold back and even though he could mind read, he was no match for a person as skilled as I was. Of course I couldn't use my gift, but that never stopped me before.

Emmett wouldn't let Edward forget that he got beat by a girl until Edward reminded him of the arm wrestling match with Bella.

He grunted and walked off.

"He likes you, you know." Edward whispered in my ear after we settled down inside.

"And who would that be?"

"Jacob. It's very interesting. He's taken to you faster than he took to any of us and he just met you."

I chuckled. "Well maybe it's just my blonde charm." I teased, wrapping Jason in my arms when I sat down next to him. He yawned.

"Don't tell me your getting sleepy." Jasper said. "You don't want to sleep for the big race."

"What race?" Nick questioned, not really seeming interested. He was too busy watching Angel play with Nessie.

"Claire and Edward." Carlisle said, taking a step in. He pulled his hands through he golden hair and smiled. looking at him was like staring at the sun. "Edward's the fastest, but Claire has so much raw power. I think it would be interesting to see the outcome of this."

"And it looks sweet in the dark." Emmett claimed, throwing his head back.

"Nope, I'm a awake." Jason seemed to have been given caffeine because he shot up like a rocket and was bouncing at the door waiting for everyone to file out.

"Let it begin!" Emmett and Jasper said in a tone that made me wonder how they put up with both of them.

"We wonder too." Edward said, running past me.

"No fair!" I shouted, already at his heels. Let the race begin.