Author's note:
I'm very sorry I haven't updated in a while I have just been very busy with the holiday season. I hope you enjoy this chapter because I've been planning it since day one. Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight I'm just playing with her characters.
Aiden's POV:
That Christmas eve was one of the best I'd ever had. The worst being the one I spent in a group home after my parents died. Though Renesmee getting a purity ring was kind of a buzz kill, I had fun and I was going to show my mom the Beatles album she got me. When I got to my apartment that night it was already almost midnight and I was exhausted. Before I went to bed I wished the picture of my real parents a merry Christmas.
While I laid in bed waiting for sleep to come I thought of some things. Renesmee's family was weird and I know a lot of families are weird(my parents are hippies for crying out loud!) but there was definitely something…off about the Cullens. I was going to do some serious internet searching the next day after I visited my parents. I finally fell asleep after I turned on my 'Sleep' playlist on my mp3 player.
I normally don't dream. My mom says it's because I repress things and I simply don't want to remember my dreams. But when I remember them, they're vivid. And that night's was no exception.
It started out almost like my day. I got out of my car and walked to the Cullens' front door. Renesmee was the one to open the door. She looked even more glamorous than usual.
"hi." she said almost seductively. Then she hugged me and it was like hugging an open flame.
"ow!" I cried involuntarily. Suddenly Renesmee's brother Edward was by her side. He looked more sinister.
"what's wrong?" he asked.
"uh nothing." I said nervously. Carlisle then appeared next to him.
"Hello Aiden." he greeted me with a smile. His teeth were all pointed as if he was a demon or something like that.
He then shook my hand and I felt like I would get frostbite. I pulled my hand away from him and looked at it. It was perfectly normal. Suddenly all of the Cullens were there in front of me as if they'd just appeared out of nowhere.
"it's so nice you came here today." Bella said to me.
"yes. So nice." Jasper agreed. His voice almost sounded like the hiss of a snake. I must have looked terrified because Renesmee said,
"what's wrong Aiden?" she asked. "We're totally normal." she said as she ran her burning hot hand down my cheek. I screamed in pain and awoke in my bed.
Light was pouring through the window. My heart was racing and my hands were shaking. I rubbed my eyes and looked at the clock on my bedside table. It read 9:15.
"Crap!" I said to myself and jumped out of bed. My parents had said they had wanted me over at their house by 10. I ran into my bathroom and took a quick shower. I found the outfit I'd picked out for the occasion in my closet. It wasn't what I would normally wear, especially since it consisted of a loose fitting, light blue, long sleeved shirt and khaki pants. The shirt was one of my Christmas presents from my mom the year before. The outfit made me look like a hippie but it would make my parents happy.
After that I quickly brushed my hair and teeth. I didn't have time to shave but I didn't think my parents would mind if I had a little bit of stubble. My hair would also be a little bit crazy because if I don't blow-dry it, it tends to stick out in all different directions. It was incredibly cold when I left my building so I had my jacket zipped up as far as it could go.
"Global warming my ass!" I said to myself as I deiced my car's windshield. Normally I wouldn't have given much thought to my dream that night and just thought it was a sign that I had commitment issues or something but this was different. I'd dreamt that Tiffany was a demon trying to suck out my soul once but the dream I'd had that night had freaked me out even more because I knew that somehow there really was something up with the Cullens. If Tiffany turns out to actually be a soul sucking demon like something off of Angel or Buffy then I'll stand corrected.
My parents live in a normal suburb which I find rather ironic because back in the 60s they were the ultimate anti establishment hippies(well according to their stories they were). On the outside of the house it looks like any other in the neighborhood, but on the inside it's full of things made of hemp and it smells like mango hookah tobacco. Though having hippie parents that love you is better than having none at all. I know how that feels.
I'm my parents only child. My mother Margaret(Maggie) and my father Andrew(Andy) couldn't have kids. When they'd taken me in they were in their early 50s. My real parents had been young so it had been a weird transition but I love them all the same. My real parents had died two months before my tenth birthday. We'd lived in a small apartment in New York then. There was an electrical fire in their room and they'd both died. I managed to climb out my window and onto the fire escape.
I'd stayed at a group home for three months until the Thompsons took me in. A year after I'd lived with them they'd offered to adopt me but I turned them down because I felt as though I already had parents and I couldn't replace them.
It takes about twenty minutes to get from my apartment to my parents house. My clunker car can just barely make the trip. I parked my car on the curb in front of their house and didn't even bother to ring the doorbell or knock. I just walked into their house. My dad, Andy was watching the news in the living room. Of the two of them my dad is the least like a hippy. His grey hair is cut short and usually he'll wear normal t-shirts and such. He's part owner of a small organic food store but he's due to retire soon. I greeted him with a,
"Hey dad." he smiled at me and gave me a hug.
"I'm glad you made it. Your mother was about to start calling your cell phone nonstop until you answered and explained why you were 10 minutes late." he said and laughed.
"yeah sorry I overslept." I apologized.
"that's ok." he said. "Maggie, Aiden's here!" he yelled towards the kitchen. In two seconds my mom, Maggie appeared in the doorway.
"Aiden!" she cried and speed walked over to me to give me a hug. My mom actually does look like a hippie. Her white hair falls loosely down her back and she usually wears crazy dresses along with homemade hemp jewelry. I get family moments like this about once a week. "come on it's time for brunch." she said and led my dad and me into the dining room.
While we ate an amazing vegan meal we conversed about lots of things. Including my personal life.
"so how's that girlfriend of yours?" my dad asked.
"she's good. Actually she got me a Help! record signed by all four of the Beatles." I said.
"wow that's cool!" my dad said enthusiastically. He's the one that started my love of music.
"and what did you get her?" my mom asked.
"uh…a Paramore CD." I said guiltily. My mom shook her head in disapproval.
"I can't afford anything expensive." I explained.
"you could if you didn't have to pay rent on that apartment." my mom said, insinuating that I should move back in with them.
"I like living in my apartment." I said. "and besides you guys get alone time." my mom sighed.
"fine but as soon as you say the word I will drive my van to your apartment and pick you up." she said sounding incredibly motherly. I laughed.
"ok mother."
An hour later we all sat in the living room and exchanged gifts. Being spiritualists my parents didn't celebrate Christmas before I got there. But I was raised Catholic by my parents so they do celebrate Christmas for me. Just not a totally conventional one. I made my dad a CD of some of my band's songs(he's our biggest fan) and I got my mom a vegan cookbook. They both seemed to love their gifts. My dad got me a new book of sheet music(exactly what I asked for) and my mom made me a new hemp necklace. It was made of rainbow dyed hemp and had a blue mushroom bead with smaller glow in the dark beads on the sides. I honestly loved it.
I spent the rest of the day hanging out with my parents and when it started to get dark I decided to go home. I hugged both of my parents goodbye and began to drive home. Being with my parents was a good distraction but I had some work to do. People think I'm not that smart and maybe they're right but I'm not stupid and I do notice things. So when I got back to my apartment I went straight to my laptop and began to do a little searching.
I decided to start with golden eyes. WebMD said that it is a sign of liver failure if your eyes turn yellow. I highly doubted all of the Cullen's except for Renesmee had liver failure so I decided to move on. When I shook Carlisle's hand the day before it felt like touching ice so I tried typing 'pale cold skin' I got a bunch of stuff about hypothermia but I also got one other thing that oddly enough led me to a site about vampires. I wanted to push that notion aside but somehow it just struck me.
Then I remembered what Esme had called Bella, Isabella Marie Swan Cullen. I typed in Isabella Swan then added Washington state to the end because Renesmee said that's where they moved from. It led me to a newspaper article or more accurately an obituary. The article read:
Isabella Cullen, formally Isabella Swan, of Forks Washington died on February 5th 2007. The 19 year old died of 'Yellow Fever' which she caught on her honeymoon to South America in late 2006. She left behind her father, the chief of police in Forks, her mother and her husband Edward.
Along with the article there was a picture. It looked like it was probably her school picture and she looked totally different but besides that she was most definitely the same person. What also caught me was that it said her husband's name was Edward Cullen. But finally it said that she died five years before! My mind went straight back to the vampire website. I couldn't help it, I went back to that website and looked for other symptoms the Cullens possess. I didn't recall ever seeing any of them in the direct sunlight besides Renesmee and Bella's obituary said she's died a few years ago at age 19 and she still looked like she was in her late teens. So I don't think they'd aged.
One thing I still didn't understand? What was Renesmee? She wasn't one of them I knew that. She had beautiful brown eyes and the rest of them had gold eyes. She went out into the sunlight and she eats normal food. She's not cold but hot(temperature though yes she is hot). Hell I've felt her heartbeat! But still there was something about her that wasn't quite right. And I was going to find out.
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