A Christmas Surprise
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Chapter 48 – The Detroit
Sam's POV
"Let me tell you about my man Mordo," Jalen said. "Mordecai had a mom and dad. He had everything a kid could ask for; a nice home and a happy family. Until one night when Mordecai was six, he and his father were in a car accident in the intense rain and the car kept rolling until it stopped. Mordecai was in the front seat and his seatbelt made it hard for him to breathe since the car was upside down. His father was able to unbuckle his seatbelt and got him out of the car but his father was still in his seatbelt. Mordecai went over to help him but his father pushed him away telling him to get out and call the ambulance. Someone was close by and got Mordecai out of the car but then there was an explosion from the car and his father died."
Gosh, that is so sad for Mordecai to have lost a parent so young tragically.
"If you think that's bad, think again." Jalen said. "Mordecai's mother was heartbroken over losing her husband. She was so heartbroken that she blamed Mordecai for his father's death."
What!
"That's terrible!" Renee said.
"What kind of mother would blame their own child?" Ellie asked.
"I don't know, a psycho one?" Jalen shrugged. "Anyways, she lost her job and has been spending money buying alcohol and getting wasted. Most of the time she invites men over to her house and do things you don't really wanna know about. Sometimes whenever she doesn't feel like… you know doing it with a man, she said that if he gets upsets, he can take out on Mordecai."
"WHAT?!"
"Okay if we're gonna keep telling the story, we might as well bring the kids down here since you're about to wake them up." Jacob said. Hey, it's not our fault you guys keep throwing stuff at us.
"They'll wake up at ten." Alice said. Did she just had a vision?
"Yes she did." Edward thought to me with a smile.
"Back to this now," Jalen said. "Mordecai was only twelve when he was fed up with how not only his mom treated him but from everyone at school and everywhere, and he ran away just like I did." Damn. I thought.
"Here's what happened to him." Jalen said. "All Mordecai ever wanted was to be respected as a person, so, he decided to help those who are in need of saving hoping to gain something," Well that sounds right.
"One problem, all of his actions were misinterpreted and his victims were ungrateful which hurts Mordecai even more. He kept on doing it though throughout his life and still never got any appreciation for it." Are you kidding me?
"Ten years have passed since Mordecai left home and still got no respect from others." Jalen continued. "He thought that there was no point in living. One night, Mordecai went to the ledge of a building and tried to commit suicide by jumping off of it." Again with the gasps. "He would've succeeded have not been for his creator name Witney who saw it happened. She was too late when he jumped and his condition was so bad when she caught up to him. Witney then took Mordecai to her place and changed him. You should know the rest." I guess that explains that part.
"I don't want to get into details about those two but let's just say that he and Witney haven't been together after what a few weeks later." Jalen said. I wonder what happened. "So after awhile, Mordecai ran into me when I was being tasered to death. You guys already knew that part."
"Now, let me tell you what happened after that." Jalen said and then began.
"Mordecai and I learned about each other's history. He taught me on how to control my vampire abilities and on living like one and knowing about the world we live in. Pretty much like Jasper, I was taught on feeding on human blood." Jalen hesitated until he said, "We made a life mission to kill any humans mistreating others. We didn't want those to be in the same boat Mordecai and I was in." Every one of the guests including me was shocked at his words.
"During one night when we… got rid of a group of humans, I found out I have a gift like the others." Jalen said.
"What is your gift Jalen?" Asher asked.
"I'm a tracker, just like James, Demetri and Alistair. The only difference is that I'm better." Jalen bragged with a grin.
"Jalen." Tiffany scolded as the others chuckled. Cocky aren't you, Jalen.
"But seriously, my tracking skills are different than the other three you've heard." Jalen said.
"How so?" I asked.
"My tracking skills are a combination of all three of them together." Jalen explained. "Like Demetri, once I get the essence of the person's mind the first time I meet them, I can track them down no prob. Like the others, my gift doesn't work on Bella, Lucina and Lucas."
"Similar to James, I can predict where the person could be heading and follow them to catch up but I have to be more familiar of the person's mind to do so. I can also act before a person reacts to their moves which means I can anticipate what Alice and Edward are thinking before they get the chance."
"As for how Alistair and I relate, I can feel the person's mind if their coming towards me. It gives me a heads up." Jalen finished.
"Wow, you really are better than those three!" Russell said.
"I'll say." I said sounding very impressed. He must be the most powerful tracker in the world.
"I know I am." Jalen grinned earning a slap in the chest by Tiffany. "Must you always slap me?" He asked her.
"Must you always brag?" Tiffany asked rolling her eyes as most of us laughed.
"So anyway, during my time with Mordecai, we've found five other people who have also been mistreated by others and nearly ended up dead." Jalen said.
"There are others like you and Mordecai?" Mom asked.
"Yeah, and their stories are just as bad as ours." Jalen said sadly.
"First, there's Eden Love. When she was in high school, Eden was a bit of a loner; always spends her time burying her nose in a book and not get involved with others around her (not to mention that she's painfully shy except for those she's comfortable with) yet people at school bully her." They just bully her just because she just reads a book and not interact with others? I thought in disbelief.
"Things get worse for Eden when they elected her to Homecoming court… as a joke." They wouldn't. "She was so humiliated that she wanted to end her life by hanging herself." Cue the gasps. "I found Eden when she was near in completion to hang herself to death until I saved her not before she had minutes to live. So after an agreement, I changed Eden and she became one of us."
"Later we found out her gift and that's like Niall and Christina; she can turn into purple haze whenever she runs fast and uses them to block both senses and gifts." Wow, for someone who's so shy, she must be good.
"Next, we ran into Sophia Faye. She's a tomboy but she also has a girly side when she doesn't go kicking butt. She always gets into trouble with the law but she has ways to escape. People would put Sophia down since she never knew her dad and her mom is… a bit of a mess. We ran into Sophia where she was fighting three muggers. One of them stabbed Sophia with a knife and Mordecai changed her after we killed the muggers."
"After that, Sophia discovered her gift which is to identify any danger around her that's coming. It helps when danger is approaching and it reacts faster than my tracking senses."
"Then there's Cameron Parker." Jalen shook his head when he said that name. "He has problems even as a vampire. He was born with a speech disorder and he gets picked on a lot for it and people would take advantage of that. Around that time, he met Eden outside of school and those two fell in love.
Well I think that's sweet. I thought as the Gold twins awe at the moment.
"Then one day, two students caused a high school shooting." Oh no. "They've been bullied worst than Cameron. We heard about the shooting at Cameron's school and killed the two shooters not before they shot Cameron and wounded him." Shit. "Eden was a mess fearing that she might lose Cameron that we agreed to changed him. Soon Cameron was transformed and he and Eden became a couple since then. His stuttering however became worst even as a vampire and most of the time annoying after his transformation." Jalen said shaking his head again.
"After that, we ran into Ariana Vega." Jalen shuddered causing the Cullen boys to snicker. What now? "She was once a popular girl at her school where she's all mean, rich, "dumb" and self-centered."
"What's her story?" Tori asked.
"Turns out she's an undercover nerd with the glasses and is super smart causing her status to go down and everyone started making fun of her." Not again.
"One night after a football game, she got… well, let's just say that Ariana was in the same situation Rose was in." Oh god, not again. "We came in and killed those guys and I changed Ariana. Big mistake." Jalen said shaking his head again.
"Why?" Charlie asked looking amused to know.
"Ariana has a thing for Jalen similar to how Tanya does for me but way more." Edward chuckled causing us to laugh.
"Sometimes I wonder if I ever regret changing her." Jalen said. "But if it wasn't for her gift, we wouldn't know how to survive. You see Ariana has the gift to receive the answer to any question especially in combat, helpful whenever we're stuck in a situation." Wow, I wish I had her gift. I would've done a lot better on my exams back in college.
"Last of all is William Heart, the youngest of us all physically and mentally. He looks close to, I believe Russell's age." Jalen said. Damn, a vampire that young? That doesn't count as something similar to immortal children, does it? Edward turned to me and shook his head. Okay then.
"William's past is just as sad as mine and Mordecai's." Jalen said. "His parents left him near a dumpster when he was an infant." Oh my gosh, what the hell is wrong with those parents? "William was an orphan but was looked after by a nun and kept him well behaved even though he can still be childish."
"One night, a fire started at the church caused by some men who bought the church but the nun refuses to leave, with William and the nun in it." More gasps came. "William was able to get the nun out of the burning building but not before the nun died due from the lack of oxygen. William was about to die too and was gonna get killed by the thugs who saw them come out until we came in and killed them and saved William since he's so young and deserves to have a life still."
"I think I found my dream man." Tori said totally lost in a dreamy state.
"He's my dream man." Trina said to her.
"No he's mine!" Tori said.
"No, mine!" Trina said and the next thing that happened was that they ended up fighting.
"Girls, that's enough." Ellie said as Austin broke them up. Moving that aside,
"So after William became a vampire, we found out his gift which is to imitate any sound as long as he has heard the voice/sound at least once since he's good at mimicking the noise for fun as a human." I guess that's typical for a young boy.
Jalen sighed as he continued speaking. "We've been together since then avoiding any human contact. Because of how we ended up, we all believed that humans are nothing to be respected from since they never do to others except for those that do matter. They just treat people like us as dirt. It's been like that as we live in Detroit for years." Jalen finished as Tiffany took his hand.
Damn, poor Jalen and his coven have had it rough. I never knew there people who would be like that. How could they be so cruel to Jalen and the others? What did they ever do? How could people just rank others as low lives and think of them as nothing?
"We kept that belief for what, eight years I think. But all of that changed when we met the Cullens." Jalen said smiling to them. "You guys wanna take over?" They nodded and turned to us. I guess this is where they tell us the next story.
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