Chapter 1. A New Life.

"Johnny. Johnny wake up were almost there." I heard Jasper say. "Hold on. Let me sleep for two more minutes." "Johnny we'll be there in two minutes." When he said that I almost jumped. "Oh. I didn't know we were that close." "Why are you nervous Johnny?" "I'm not nervous." He turned to look at me and smiled. "John, you can't fool me like that. Remember I can sense people's emotions." "Right. I forgot about that." "Alright then. Answer my question now." "Okay. I'm nervous because I'm worried they won't like me. I'm a little, tiny, microscopically worried that I might fall and cut myself, and die." "So you're more worried about them liking you than you dieing." "That's about right." "You are a strange person John."

All of a sudden the tree line ended and I was able to see this magnificent, giant house. It was huge. "Holy crap. Is that where you guys live!?!" "Yep. That's our home." "Wow." was all I could say at the time. "Oh, John." "Ya." "Do not swear at all. It would not be a very smart decision." "Okay. I take your word for that." I noticed as we were about drive into the garage. There were three other men in there. "Okay Jasper. Is that Carlisle, Emmet, and Edward." "Yep." "Oh." Welcoming committee. I thought. Then out of nowhere one of them just smiled. I'm guessing by the look on his face that's Edward. He smiled again. I'm right. Then the older looking one must be Carlisle. And the guy wearing a backwards baseball cap must be Emmet. Then I noticed something. "We are the girls?" "They're out hunting." "Oh."

When we parked, I was about to open my door when it just swung open. "Hey Johnny. I'm Emmet." "Hi." "Emmet you're scaring the kid." I heard Jasper say. "I'm not scared, just shocked." And a little scared. "Emmet." Edward said. Then he put his hand on Emmet's shoulder, and pulled him back gently letting me get out of the car. Thanks. He just smiled. I heard Emmet breath in a huge breath through his nose. "Jasper was right. I can barely smell you." "Uh. Cool." I said. "Johnny we are very glad to have you come into our home. Now let's give you the grand tour." said Carlisle. "Okay." So we walked through the garage door into my new home.

Jasper walked right next to me the whole entire time. On the first floor all the walls were knocked down so it looked like one giant room. The second floor had the kitchen, which had really nice appliances, and a couple other rooms that we didn't really look at. The third floor which is the last floor had all the bedrooms. When they showed me my room I almost fainted, I actually did but when they caught me, and I snapped out of it because of their freezing cold skin. It was colder than steel when frozen. My room was HUGE!! I never had seen a room as big as it before. "Wait. This is my room!?!" "Ya." said Jasper "Is there something wrong with it." "No. It's just I've never seen a bedroom as big as this one before." "So you're happy." said Emmet. "Ya defiantly." I replied. "That's good." said Edward. "We will let you look around your room for a little bit. Just so you could get situated." Said Carlisle. "Thanks." I said.

My room was awesome. In the main room was a king size bed, and a huge stereo. On one of the walls is this giant bookshelf that takes up the entire wall. Next to the stereo is a huge guitar amp, and a Gibson Flying V black and white guitar. This place is awesome! It's everything I like and ever wanted. I hope they didn't have to spend to much money on this, because I don't want them going bankrupt just because I'm here. All of a sudden I heard this huge laugh that came from downstairs. Who was that? Then I thought about what just happened. Probably Edward. So I went to my door to go downstairs to part of my new family.

As I opened the door, Jasper appeared right in front of me. "Holy crap." I said, shocked by the sudden appearance. But right away I felt a sudden wave of calmness come over me. Jasper. I thought. "Sorry," he said "I didn't mean to surprise you. It's just we're all a little edgy right now. We're just hoping you like it here. You do like it here right?" "Jasper I don't like it," He stared at me shocked. "I love it." He was less tense after I said that, and he started to smile again.

"So were are the girls?" I asked. "Oh," he said "They won't be back till tomorrow. Why?" "I just want to meet them, see if they like me or not." Trust me Johnny they'll like you, they already know you." "Oh. Ya, Carlisle had to leave to go to work. It's an emergency. So it's just you, me, Edward, and Emmet. Home all alone, now we can do whatever we want." All of a sudden he just smiled at me. "Uh." I said "Is that a good thing?" "Trust me Johnny this is going to be fun." Suddenly there was a rush of air, and everything was blurry around me. Holy shit! This is awesome. About 5 seconds later it stopped, and I noticed we were outside.

"That was fast!" I said as I stumbled out of his arms, onto the ground. "Oh." I said, "Next time warn me." "Alright." "Hey, Johnny." said Emmet as careless as ever. "Hay, Emmet." I said. "Johnny, do you want to play a game of hide and go seek, vampire style?" said Edward. "Um... What do you mean by vampire style?" "Instead of trying to find the person, you have to try and hunt them." said Emmet." "What!" I screamed, horrified of the thought. Nice word choice. Holy fucking crap. I wonder if he actually means that I run, and then I die. "That is not what we mean." said Edward. "Then what do you mean?" "We're trying to say that we use our enhanced senses to find each other." said Jasper. "Well then that's totally unfair on my part! I mean, you guys could smell me, hear my heartbeat, read my thoughts, screw with my emotions, and totally out run me! So what's the point in me playing?"

"Because it's fun." said Emmet. "How about this," said Jasper, "Me and Ed will help you hide, and when we're ready we can tell Emmet to come and find you." "I guess so." I said. "Sweet." said Emmet. "Come on Johnny." Jasper said, while holding out his outstretched hand obviously gesturing me to grab it. "Here we go!" he said. Then we took off, flying through the forest in a blur. I wasn't able to see anything clearly, so I just kept my eyes closed, and laid my head against Jasper shoulder.

"This'll be a good spot." said Jasper while he was taking me off his shoulders. "Ya. Em's never going to look here." said Edward. As I became less disoriented, I started to look around. It was extremely green. Everything I could see was green, even the ground. "Wow." I said. Were am I going to hide. "Don't worry Johnny, we've already have a spot picked out." said Edward, while Jasper was looking around. "I've got an idea of were I should hide." "Oh, really? Were?" said Jasper. "Under the moss on the ground." I replied back to them. "That sounds pretty good. Though I was thinking of some place with a bit more altitude." Edward said, while looking at this giant mountain ahead of us. "But this'll work." he said. So they told me to lie down on the ground, which I did, and after I laid down they put the moss on top of me. "Don't worry Johnny," said Jasper, sensing my uneasiness, "You'll be out of here in no time." And then everything went silent. I knew I was alone now.

So there I waited. It felt like a couple of hours went by. My arms and legs started "falling asleep." I was thinking of getting up just before I heard this low quiet growl. What the fuck was that. I heard it again except this time it sounded more feline. I'm screwed. I really wish Jasper was here right now. I heard the animal again, and it sounded like it was only a few feet away, heading towards me. SHIT! I thought as I felt the horror of it gripping at me.

"NO!" I heard someone scream, and then I heard a huge crash as two things flew through the air. All of a sudden I hear this ripping sound, followed after by a sucking and a gulping sound. Oh shit. After about two minutes the noise stopped and I heard a couple pairs of footsteps coming towards me. "Johnny, it's okay." I heard Jasper say as he pulled me out of my mossy hiding spot. Ounce he pulled me out of the hiding spot I saw something over his shoulder, but I wasn't quite sure what it was, so I started focusing on it. Jasper saw my eyes heading in the direction of the shape I saw. All of a sudden he moved in front of me blocking my view.

"Jasper, what's behind you?" "Nothing. He replied almost sharply. I looked at him with a look of confusion on my face. He started looking down, looking ashamed, but all of a sudden his head snapped up. "It took you long enough." Jasper said, as Edward and Emmet came into view. "What happened!?" said Edward, and Emmet together. Edward and Jasper just stared at each other for a couple seconds. Edwards face had a look of shock on it, but he wiped it away as soon as he saw me looking at him with a confused expression. "What Happened?" said Emmet again. "Nothing." replied Jasper, who was staring at Emmet, trying to tell him something. I saw Emmet's and Edward's eyes look behind Jasper and me. But they quickly turned back.

I started to turn around to see what was behind me, but as soon as I tried turning I felt a firm hand on my shoulder preventing me from doing so. "Let's go." said Jasper, picking me up, and before I was even on his back he took off.

As soon as he put me down I took a quick glance over to Edward thinking, what happened back there? He kept on looking forward. Did Jasper feed on an animal? This time I saw his head go slowly up and slowly down, basically meaning yes. OH. So now he's upset about it because I was right there and he thought it was...wrong? He nodded again. Jasper's silly. I mean it's natural for him to "feed" on animals. He shouldn't feel bad that he was next to me. The only thing I was scared about was not knowing what was going on, and hearing those sick noises. Edward looked at me with a confused expression. "What's wrong?" Jasper asked seeing Edward looking at me, obviously sensing my emotions which were partly sympathetic, but partly annoyed to. Edward looked up smiling and replied, "Nothing, Johnny just has some odd thoughts. That's all."

I got really annoyed. "Okay!" I said. "My thoughts are not weird at all. I'm just actually thinking about things more thoroughly than other people do. Jesse!" We reached the house by now and Emmet was already inside watching ESPN on the T.V. "What's going on?" Jasper said to Edward and me. "I think you and Johnny should talk." Edward said while he was walking through the door. Closing it softly behind him.

"You know what happened, don't you?" He said barely loud enough for me to hear. "Yep." I replied. "Look Johnny, I'm really sorry I..." "Don't even say that." I said interrupting him. He looked at me confused. "It's natural for you to do that, I mean even if you don't think so, it is. If you didn't do that I wouldn't be here right now." "I guess you have a point there." He replied halfheartedly. "Oh. Come on Jasper cheer up." I said, giving him a light punch in the shoulder. "Alright." He said, sounding better, "Let's go inside."

Edward and Emmet were sitting on the couch watching the T.V, but I knew that they were really eaves-dropping on our conversation. "Wow." I said looking at the hockey game on the T.V, "Detroit's kicking Chicago's ass." I said looking at the score which was 4-0 2nd period, Detroit. "What?" Edward said kind dazed like he wasn't paying attention. So, you guys were listening in on our conversation, huh? He just kept on looking forward. Ha. I'm taking that as a yes.

Then I noticed that it was really dark; I looked at the clock that was on the kitchen counter and it read 12:02a.m. "It's late." I said, "How long were we out there?" "Oh, I'm guessing, for about six hours." said Emmet. "What!" I said, "It took you six hours to find me?" "Well yeah. Sometimes games could last days." "That's...weird."

All of a sudden I remembered something, "Um." I said, "Remember when I got here and you guys said that everyone else was hunting, by any chance, are they coming back tomorrow." "Yeah, why?" said Edward. "Just wondering." Ounce I started walking up the stairs I felt, for the first time, a feeling of genuine fear.