Silver Blood

Alice POV

I tapped my foot impatiently at the bottom of the stairs, my arms crossed. "Hurry up!" I yelled.

"You're way too impatient." Jessica said, sitting st the kitchen table. Jacob was sitting across from her. He got up and put his arm around my waist.

"Calm down." He said to me.

I frowned at him and Jessica. Jacob is my boyfriend, a year younger than me. Oh, and he's a werewolf. Jessica is a human and one of my best friends. My other bestfriend, Angel, is a witch. Our parents share his large house outside of town, we're in the same coven.

Angela came down the stairs, smiling timidly. "Sorry, Alice. We can go now."

I smiled. "Finally. I want to be the first one to meet the new girl." I said as we all went out to my yellow car. Jacob took shotgun, my gal pals took the back seat.

"Of course you'll be first." Jacob muttered under his breath. "No one else even knows that she's here."

I elbowed him in the side. Jessica wasn't exactly in on the witch or wolf thing and I didn't want to change that. My blood ability was for preminitions and something told me that that conversation would not go well.

Bella POV

I'm doing it. I'm actually doing it. I am actually in a house with James and Vera, where I plan to stay for who knows how long. Vera and James took care of things, because the house has furniture and lights and everything was working. Vera already spelled his eyes, but it's so cloudy and wet that he won't be sparkling any time soon.

I didn't think anyone knew we were here, so I was surprised when the door bell rang. "I'll get it! James, do not come out here."

He gave me a charming smile from the stairs then vanished. I think he was pleased by this arrangement. Vera was nothing more than a minor inconvenience to him.

I opened the door to find three girls and a guy standing at my door. The tiniest one had the biggest smile. "Hello, I'm Alice and it's very nice to meet you. This is my boyfriend Jacob and my friend Angela and Jessica."

Someone was hyper.

"We came to welcome you." Alice finished.

"Um, I didn't think anyone knew we were coming." I said. Actually, I knew no one was suppose to know. At least, not until they saw us around town.

"Alice knows everything." Jessica said.

Alice smiled at that.

"Well, we haven't finished setting up the house." I lied. "I can't let you in."

"That's fine." Alice said. "Would you like to come to our house?"

That was unexpected. "Well, I..."

"Oh, go ahead." Vera came up behind me and placed a hand on my shoulder. "I can take care of things here."

"You sure?" I asked.

"Yeah, yeah." Vera pushed me gently out the door. "I got it."

Jacob threw an arm around my shoulder and led me towards the car. "You'll love it with us. Trust me."

"Jacob, you're acting like Alice." Jessica said. "Personal space matters."

Jacob smiled sheepishly at me as he moved away. Angela smiled at me and whispered. "They're a bit much at first, but you get use to them."

I smiled back at her. This girl was obviously the most normal, and normal was something my life sorely lacked.

Benjamin POV

I was extremely excited as mom and I looked around. There wasn't much of anything in Nevada but desert and that was perfect. I already had a small snow storm going around us.

"I never thought I'd get to see this." Renee said to me.

"Maybe if I get enough going we can build a snow man."

"And a sand man!" Renee added.

No one else was around and we got caught up in our games. Renee built her sand man and I was working on the snow man. Somehow we didn't notice the sparkling of a vamp. (not that mom wasn't sparkling as well.)

"Whoa, you guys are freaks." The vamp said, catching our attention.

"How are you doing this?" Another asked.

The first had black hair and the other was a small blond.

"Hello." Renee said to them.

I smiled, too. "Um, don't freak out."

And that did it. They took off and ran very fast. I asked mom, "Follow the leader or snow men?"

Something sparkled in her eyes and I guessed her curiosity was stronger than creating an impossibility. I jumped on her back and she sped off after the two.

Renee POV

I was starting to hear what they were saying. As tempting as it had been to have snow in the desert, I more wanted to know about these strange vampires. It was a mystery that I couldn't resist.

"It's the Volturi, it has to be!" The black haired one said.

"We have to tell Maria." The blond went on.

"The Volturi?" I said absently. "I don't know the Volturi."

"Neither do I." Ben responded.

"They'll kill us!"

"Calm down, Nettie."

"I'm not going down, Lucy!"

You're betraying Maria?"

It happened so quickly. The one called Nettie turned and threw Lucy, who was lots younger, a child maybe, and she came right at us. Ben pushed a strong forceful gale at her that slowed her enough for me to catch her. Nettie kept running.

"Listen, we are not from the Volturi." I said. "I don't even know who the Volturi are."

"Lies!"

"The Volturi lie?"

That question seemed to shock her or maybe she just didn't know the answer.

"Listen to us, alright. We're fun people to get to know." Ben enthused.

Lucy didn't look convinced, but she paused to let us speak.

A/N: Once again, I ask what I should do with Jasper. As you can foresee, he'll be coming up soon. What should he do or what should be done? Or should I just, 'meanwhile, over here' (which I seem to do a lot of.) Help please. I'm starting to get stumped for ideas to get to my main plot and I don't want to skip around the months if I don't have to.