I made my way from the east coast to the west coast in about three days. I only 'hunted' animals, because I wouldn't hunt humans. I ended up in a small town called Forks. I gasped. Vampire scent was everywhere. I followed it, sticking to the forest. I came upon a small meadow with a beautiful white mansion, and it was also where the scent was strongest, there were, in combination with vampire scent, two others. One was well, plainly put, disgusting, and the other was…like vampire and human, mixed to make something indescribable.
"She's here!" I heard a high soprano voice call. She was happy.
"Don't scare her Alice." Another voice, this one more motherly sounding and very calm, called in reply. I crouched, hiding in the thick brush.
"Whose here?" A husky, deep voice asked, in confusion. I was fairly certain that one was the cause for the repulsive smell.
"Please come out now Meghan." Yet another voice said, and he was amused.
"Oh, and you accuse me of scaring her? You're the one using her name!" The happy one, I think they called her Alice said, agitated. The amused one chuckled. Betting my life on it, I stood up and walked into the clearing. I instantly picked up on all the different emotions of everyone. The most confused one of all stepped in front of Alice.
"Oh, lighten up Jasper." She shoved him out of the way. She bounded over to me.
"Hi! I'm Alice!" and instead of shaking my hand, she hugged me. I froze, taken by surprise with the sudden gesture of friendship. She stepped back and smiled widely at me. I managed a half smile back. I looked around. There were ten in total, but only eight vampires. The other two, well…I didn't know what they were. There were three blondes, one was surprised, one was bored, and one was the super confused one (who was throwing every emotion back at me.) And there were three brunettes, Alice, also massive one, who had PRANKSTER written all over him, and a tiny girl, who was filled with love and the mother figure, who was extremely happy.
"Why do you keep doing that?!" I looked at the blonde boy. Everyone looked between me and him.
"I could ask you the same thing." He retorted. I took in his climate again, feeling that he was…everything that everyone in this damn field was feeling!
"Meghan, you and Jasper share a talent." The amused one with the bronze hair smiled. "Oh, and I'm Edward." He added.
"Edward." I nodded.
"What do you mean, 'share a talent'?" Jasper asked.
"She can read emotions as you can." Edward smiled again, amusement radiating off of him. Jasper and I looked at each other. He smiled warily. I was still confused. He laughed. I took in his happiness and smiled back.
"I'm Bella!" The tiny love-filled girl chimed. I looked at her.
"Hi Bella. I'm Meghan." I smiled. She walked over and shook my hand. Edward came over, holding a child. "And this is Renesmee." She took Renesmee from Edward and smiled. Her emotional climate the best I've ever felt before. Jasper moved closer to her as well, absorbing it just as I was. The big one, with the bored blonde one in tow, walked over.
"I'm Emmett!" He grinned. I smiled back. "And this is Rosalie." He gestured to the blonde, who looked up from her nails and half smiled.
"Hi." I said. Edward disappeared into the house for a minute.
"Guys, you might want to come here." Edward called. Alice grabbed my hand and towed me inside with everyone else. We all went upstairs and crowded into a small office-like room. The blonde man walked over to a table, were a…I gasped, and ran over to the table. I looked up quickly and met nine pairs of extremely confused eyes. I shrugged it off, the confusion already registered before I had looked up. The blonde man--
"Carlisle." Edward said, looking at me. I nodded once.
"What is it Meghan?" Carlisle asked.
"I…I know him." I looked down again. The confusion turned to shock. I sent out some calm, so I could think. Jasper caught on and helped. I shot him a look of thanks, he nodded.
"Who is he?" Carlisle asked.
"My best friend." The shock came back. Jasper controlled it for me, because I wasn't sure if I could do anything.
"What?! Meghan, tell me everything." Carlisle said sternly. I spit out that his name was Max, and we'd known each other since diapers, and how he was gonna be at my wedding. They all listened somberly. Bella came over and stood by me. My eyes felt prickly. I looked at Max when the sound of his heart jack hammering started. I remember when my heart felt like that, not even a week ago.
"Meghan, when were you changed?"
"Three days ago."
"By whom?"
"A couple. I mean, the man…Peter, bit me, but his wife Charlotte helped." Jasper's climate changed to a shocked surprised. They all looked at him. "And when they were going to take me hunting, I told them I wouldn't kill humans, so they sent me here."
"Meghan, we know them, well more specifically, Jasper knows them." Carlisle smiled. My head snapped up and looked at Jasper. He shook his head.
"Peter and Charlotte. Figures they'd send you here. How are they?"
"Good as far as I could tell." I answered, relived that the people who changed me were good …er… vampires. Edward laughed.
"What?" I asked. He shook his head.
"Your thoughts." He answered. I stepped back involuntarily.
"My thoughts!?"
"I read minds."
"Oh." I blinked. "Okay." Max's heart stopped. We turned all our attention to him. His eyes opened, and I gasped slightly. His eyes, once a beautiful, no, stunning, turquoise, were now bright red, much like mine. He heard me gasp and he shot up, looking around. His emotions were a whirl wind of shock, confusion, relief, and more confusion. I sent a few calm waves his way. He looked over at me.
"Meghan?" He whispered. I nodded.
"Hey Max." I whispered back. He moved in front of me, looking me over, as I was to him.
"What happened?" He asked.
"I don't know about you, but I drove off a mountain." I shrugged. He winced.
"Well, I got lost and bitten by a black widow." He said.
"Cool." I said. He laughed, in shock again. I looked at him. "What?!"
"We missed your wedding." I laughed.
"At least I don't have to wear the dress." I didn't like dresses at all, but no one would let me wear just white skinny jeans and a white t-shirt. Max laughed, and then froze.
"Max?" I asked, his climate changed yet again, this time to hurt and confused. Edward laughed, in awe. We all turned our attention to him.
"It's like twins." He mused.
"Told you so." Alice muttered. Jasper laughed.
"Wow Megs, your mind…" Max said.
"Oh god. Don't tell me. You can read my mind." I sighed. Edward laughed again. Jasper moved closer to me, sending a wave of empathy. I gave him a sharp pang of agitation. He chuckled.
"You'll get used to it." He mumbled. Alice laughed and hugged him, then looked at me disapprovingly.
"What Alice?" I asked. Max and Edward were clearly having a mental conversation.
"Those clothes. We need to fix that." She grabbed my hand, and pulled me out of the room.
"Alice, really, this is fine." I looked down at the clothes I had bought in a thrift store in Montana. That was beyond difficult, but I needed to get out of my old clothes.Alice dragged me into what I assumed was her room. She threw a red and black plaid mini skirt at me and a black tank top.
"Alice." I moaned. She sighed.
"Fine." She threw a pair of white skinny jeans at me. I put it on and came out of the bathroom. "Oh! You look so pretty!" But she still dragged me into the bathroom and did my hair and make up.
"Tell me why we're doing this?"
"So you look pretty for Max!"
"What?! Why?!" I couldn't imagine why Alice would think that I need to look good for Max my best friend.
"Just come on."