There was a knock on my door, having me look over there with curiosity from my position at the large window. I was looking out the the view I now had in my new, temporary room. Of course I wouldn't stay here for long, it would be rude just to move into a home of a family I just met. yet when I met some of the members, excluding Rosalie, I felt a sense of peace and as if I was already home. But how could I think like that? I just met them!
"Come in." I said aloud, staying in my spot and seeing the door open. It was Sam, walking in slowly and closing the door behind him. He faced me, his hands behind his back in a proper way as I faced him completely. We never had a moment alone, well if you don't count our one or two minutes alone hunting in the forest. But that was under different circumstances. Now we were alone in the Cullen home, and I was suddenly nervous to talk to him, let alone be in the same room as him.
"I wanted to talk to you for a moment, if that's alright." Sam said to me, and I nodded my head. He then walked over to me and stood by me next to the window. The cloud were rolling through the area, having the room be a little dim. I notice how he was tall, taller than me and I was almost 6 foot! He kept his serious look on his face, and I felt as if I was going to be a trial.
"First, I wanted to apologize for my behavior, back in the forest awhile ago." He said to me, and I thought back to when we were in the forest. He was rather petrified, seeming scared of what was going on. I shook my head, having a small smile on my face.
"There's no need to apologize, truly." I said to him in a warm tone. A smile was now on his face, and he laughed a bit, looking down for a moment or two as he shifted weight on his foot. He looked back up at me.
"I just realized we haven't properly met. My name is Sam Chang." He said in a light tone, having me laugh as he held out his hand for me to take. He was right, he never properly introduced each other since we encountered once another back in the forest. And yet we rang for a couple of hours together, fed together, and found the Cullens together. It was suddenly clear to me: we were a odd pair indeed. I shook his hand gently, feeling how soft it was in my own hand.
"My name is Emma Sheehan, it's a pleasure to meet you...formally." I added in the last part, having the both of us laugh a little bit and we drew back out own hands.
"I also wanted to thank you, for helping me." Sam said to me, and I remembered a few incidents where I did indeed help him.
"It's okay. You seemed a bit out of place a few times, I was more than glad to help you." I replied back to him.
"It surprised me, how you were so willing to help me when you hardly knew me." Sam said to me in a low tone, as if he was trying not to offend me from what he said. But I thought about it for a moment. I hardly knew it,he was right about that. However, something about him made me want to protect him. It might of been his simple nature, the fact that he wasn't so complicated or so complex.
"Wendy always taught me to help others, even when you don't know them. You seemed very...simple." I explained to him, pausing before used the work simple. He raised a eyebrow at me.
"Simple?" He asked in wonder.
"Yes. Some vampires that I have encountered in the past were very complex. You, on the other hand, are different." I replied back to him, a smile was still on his face. I could tell he enjoyed hearing me say that to him.
"Well, to be perfectly honest I was never one for violence, especially when it comes to humans, which is why I chose to hunt animals." he explained, "My maker, Charles, believed that we should live in harmony with humans and not hurt them. It would be unethical if we were to hunt them down and be monsters."
"Wendy and I fond out about this way of feeding from Dr. Cullen. I never wanted to hurt anyone either." I said to him with a shrug and he laugh a bit. I was glad I was getting to know him better now that we weren't running for our vampire lives. There as another moment of silence between us, and I could tell he was trying to think of something to say.
"If you don't mind me asking, when were you changed?" He asked suddenly from out of the blue. but it wasn't a serious or unusual question, well not to me.
"1923 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I was attacked by a group of boys and left for dead when Wend found me, you?" I asked him in casual tone, as if it didn't affect me. It did, no doubt in that, but I didn't want to show it in front of him.
"1906 in San Francisco, California. I was badly hurt from the earthquake that hit the city. Charles, the vampire who created me, found me and got me out of there, changing me in the process." Sam explained to me, "Do you have a ability?"
"I do, actually. It's called Power Mimicry." I said to him.
"It sounds complicated." He said in a joking tone. I laughed a bit, thinking of how he was right.
"It's a little serious for my taste. Whenever I physically touch a vampire whom has a ability, I absorb their ability and copy it for a couple of hours. However, with vampires who have no abilities and humans, if I touch them I can absorb their energy and kill them if I hold onto them long enough." I explained to him, seeing his eyes so wide with amazement and I stayed quiet.
"That sounds very interesting, and also very dangerous." He said to me in a low tone, almost showing how much this, in a way, affects him. How should it? We just met.
"Yeah, it's hard to be close to someone without killing them." I replied back to him.
"Can you control it?" he asked me, his head tilting to the side slightly.
"Sometimes I can, if I'm very focused. Other times it goes on its own without my accord." I said back to him. But before I could say anything else, I saw a ray of sunshine going through the clouds and into the room, lighting the room and making the pale blue on the walls brighter with ease. But as I looked up at Sam, my breath was taken by what was going on, on his skin.
Diamonds, millions of them, on his skin glistening in the sun like a chandelier. They weren't intense, but they weren't dull, it was simply millions of small diamonds sparkling on his skin. I knew we had this affect in the sunlight, Wendy told me when I was first changed. I saw my own skin have diamonds on them, just seeing my arms gave it away. But I never saw it in a way that made me loose focus, because Sam was so beautiful it front of me it made me shiver.
How could I think like this? We are just starting to get to know each other, this was wrong to think of hi in this kind of manner. But I couldn't help it, the way the glistening skin looked on Sam made him more, handsome...or appealing is the better word. Either way, I was intrigued. I never saw anything so beautiful before, so pure and so real that it made me question if I was still alive.
Sam was still looking at me, but his eyes softened up a bit and his mouth was open slightly. It was a look as if he found a new discovery and he was enthralled by it. Was he looking at me? Why would he look at me and think of me in that manner? I never found myself to be beautiful, not with Wendy next to me who was stunning in comparison. But he was staring at me, and I was staring at him. Neither one of us moved from our spots, not one inch.
The the clouds rolled back in, and the diamonds disappeared off of him. I saw my skin going back to normal as well, but I saw he was still staring at me for a moment or two. I looked down at my arms and hands, seeing that I was back to normal myself.
"I'm sorry." I replied, thinking I was staring at him with my mouth open like a fish out of water. I heard a small laugh, something a child would do and I looked up at Sam. His almond shaped eyes seemed so warm as he smiled at me.
"I should be apologizing myself, to be honest." he said in a lighter tone, having the both of us laugh in our spots. The eerie mood I was feeling, the big tension I thought was happening, was now gone as we laughed in my new room of the Cullen house.
"If you don't mind me asking, I wish to get to know you a bit more." Sam said to me, having me smile as he said this, "If that's alright with you. I think it's proper and traditional for a man to be acquainted with a young woman such as yourself."
"That is very true, Sam. However, we are not traditional as vampires, don't you think?" I asked him in a warm tone, moving some of the red hair was in my eyes and he chuckled.
"No, I guess not. But all the same, I would love to get to know you." Sam said to me in a grin, having me feel a bit of butterflies in my stomach. Sam was very intriguing and non the less interesting. If he wanted to get to know me, I wanted to get to know him in return.