Chapter two
And there they are, well at least six of them. My eyes bulge and immediately I put my defense up, hoping he hasn't heard my thoughts yet. But just then he looks me dead in the eye, trying to get a read off of me. I just stare at them, what are they doing in here, at a school. They can't go to school here, I mean they eat humans for Christ sakes. Then I see one of them looking at me and giving me a big smile, she looks at mind reader boy and he shakes his head, she just rolls her eyes at him and starts heading my way. I stay absolutely still and look around myself to see how many kids are still in the hallway. That's when I notice that they are all looking at the vamps in awe, how predictable.
The short girl with spiky black hair reaches me and cheerfully says "Hey, I'm Alice. What's your name." I look at her a little dumbfounded, I mean she must know that I know what they are and here she just comes strolling over acting like nothing is wrong with this picture. After a little while she purses her lips and says "I think we need to talk, so we can understand each other better." I feel my eyebrows shooting upwards as that line comes out of her mouth. Is she fucking kidding me.
"I don't need to understand your kind better, I understand you just perfect. I know how to kill you and that's all I need to know." Suddenly out of nowhere a blond curly haired guy appears right next to her growling softly and all I can do is chuckle at him. "You really think that intimidates me," I say to him. He just looks at me and asks "What are you".
"That's for me to know and you to find out right before I kill you." I respond. The others are starting to come closer and I back off a bit. The burly looking guy then says "You really think you can kill us? I can hear your heartbeat you are just human." I start laughing so hard that all the other students start looking our way wondering what's so funny. "You just keep thinking that, it will make my job easier" I say.
Then everything goes silent and we just stare at each other, me amused and they confused and curious. "Look it doesn't have to be like this if you would just listen to us," the girl I bumped into spoke up and stepped forward, the mind reader moving with her. "Why would I listen to you? What are you doing here anyway, what you get a kick out of sucking the blood out of teenagers?" I snap at her. I see her put her hands on the mind readers arm to hold him back. Like I can't defend myself. I look at him and suddenly his expression changes from angry to confused to even a little scared. He looks at me and I smile at him.
"Edward, what's wrong" the girl asks him. "I can't move" he answers her. They all look at me and see me smiling at him. "Stop that right now" a beautiful blond girl says. I look at her and the mind reader, Edward was it, falls forward as the spell stops. "Why?" I ask her. She just growls at me. "Just listen for a second, okay… we don't feed off of humans. We feed off of animals." My head snaps to the girl I bumped into with pure shock clearly visible on my face. I'm so shocked that my defense around my mind crumbles. As it crumbles the face I've been looking for these last fifty years passes true my mind and I hear Edward growl loudly. As I look up I realize I lost my defense and pull them back up. "Stay out of my head" I say through my teeth.
"Why are you looking for him" he asks me.
"let's just say that we have some unfinished business" my face turns hard as I answer his question. "Well you can stop looking for him cause you are not going to find him." I just look at him shocked and say "and why is that?" as I glance around to see the other vampires staring at us with confused and irritated expressions on their faces. "Because his death… I killed him 2 years ago." The other vampires look at me and Alice asks me "Is he talking about James?" That's his name alright, I can't believe this, he is actually dead.
I fall to my knees and tears start to fall down my cheeks. I look up at him and in his eyes I see disgust towards me, he has no idea why I'm looking for him. "Thank you" I whisper to him. He looks at me, his eyes wide open and questioning. So I decide to let him see why I was looking for him and I open my mind as I recall that night. I see him wincing and hissing and soon his disgust is replaced by sorrow and compassion. He gets on his knees before me and looks me in the eye as he says "I'm so sorry". I laugh a little and tell him "don't be, you just gave me the best present ever. I've been looking for him for fifty years now. It's like there's a weight being lifted off my shoulder."
Suddenly the big burley guy speaks up "Can someone please tell me what's going on, I hate it when you do that Edward. In case you're forgetting we can't read minds like you and you know how I hate being out of the loop. Wait, did you just say 'for fifty years'?" That's when I start laughing and laughing, the others look at me like I'm going crazy, but I can't seem to stop. That's when I look around myself and see that we are the only ones in the hallway that classes started five minutes ago. My laughing stops abruptly and I ask "Why am I still alive?"
"Like Bella said, we don't feed off of humans" Edward answers my question with a sweet smile. I just look confused back at him. "Maybe we should take this conversation elsewhere?" he asks me. I look skeptically at him and say "I don't know about that." "I promise you will not be harmed." Edward says to me. Trusting a vampire yeah right, but he did kill James I would love to know how he did that. Worst case scenario I get killed and I take a few of them with me. Edward growls softly at me with an amused expression on his face. Oops I forgot I let my defenses down. I smile at him sheepishly and put my defense back up. "How do you do that, blocking me out of your mind?" he asks me. I look around me and say "maybe we should take this some place more private."
Edward offers me his hand to take, but I just look at it and get up on my own. "No offense, I just never had a reason to trust a vampire, so I'm a little reluctant to do so now," I say to him. "Okay, let's go, Carlisle is been dying to meet you" Alice says while bouncing up and down. How can anyone be that perky. "Where are we going?" I ask them before I start moving. "To our home, if that's okay with you?" Bella asks me. I just nod my head and start following. We head for two of the most conspicuous cars in the lot and Blondie, burly, curly and Alice get in one and Bella and Edward go to the other one while Edward says to me "You can ride with us if that's okay." I simply nod my head at him and get in the backseat. I'm a little uncomfortable being in a car with vampires and I just keep my powers at the surface so I can call at them in the spur of the moment.
When we drive up to there house, my jaw falls slack. It's huge and so beautiful, as Edward opens my door for me, I can't stop staring at the house. It's the most beautiful house I have ever seen. It's an old Victorian style house, with everything restored as it should be. I can't wait to see the inside of it, to see how they decorated it. Then I hear chuckling behind me and I look back to see Edward smiling widely at me "So I guess you like what you see?" he asks me. Damn it, I totally slacked of here. Here I am standing in the presence with six Vampires and I'm so drooling over a house that I don't even have any of my powers on hand. I curse to myself, I really need to pay better attention. They might seem nice, but I have no idea what they have planned for me once I get inside there. For all I know they have a torture chamber there and god knows how long they have been around to improve their torture techniques. I sigh as I walk up the steps and get inside. "Esme, Carlisle, we have a visitor" Edward says softly. Although I bet they heard him just fine, and my suspicion is right of course, not 2 seconds after that sentence leaves his mouth a man and a woman walk in the room and smile warmly at me. I can't help myself and smile back at them, I mean they both look so human.