A Christmas Surprise
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Chapter 53 – Have A Purpose Part 2
Sam's POV
"So it's been a month since Jemma left to who knows where," Lucina said. "Minus the mystery of the Volturi's future and the bad behavior of the students, I really enjoy school." Well that's good to hear. At least the Cullens go with her to be sure that she's safe. "What I'm most happy for is me and Bryce." She beamed as Bryce kissed her cheek.
"It's November and that means for me, basketball season. I actually made varsity that year with Colton and of course Orion." Bryce said shaking his head. "I thought Orion wouldn't make the team after those screw ups."
"You mean the screw ups caused by me when Krystal and I were there at tryouts with Lucina when we watch Bryce." Lucas said. "I send some aura spheres at him because he keeps blocking Bryce to get Lucina's attention. That and the fact that it was funny." He said causing the others to laugh as he high fived Jalen.
"So at school, Bryce walks me to my class that morning." Lucina said. "During class, my friend Kelsi told me how my relationship with Bryce last longer than Bryce's previous relationships." We all turned to Bryce to know what happened. Even his family was curious.
"I dated a few girls who were nice to me but we only last for a week or two." Bryce said. "That's because when I told them I have asthma, they just leave me not wanting to be with a guy with asthma." How rude! "I never told Lucina and I was planning on telling her but the timing was unexpected."
"Don't tell me." Austin said.
"Let me tell you my side." Lucina said. "It was just me and Lucas walking to class together. Bryce didn't show up to meet me after class, and the next class. We met Jalen after the next class which Bryce has it with but Bryce was not there. That's when we saw Alice and Emmett carrying Bryce to the nurse's office."
"What happened?" I asked.
"After dropping Lucina to her first class, I got abducted by Orion, Mitch and Falkner." Bryce said. "Next thing that happened was that they started beating me up. Orion blamed me for 'taking Lucina away from him.'" Unbelievable of that guy! There's no way in hell that guy deserves to be with my niece even if he knew how old Lucina really is.
"I would've fought back but when they took me, Falkner covered my mouth with a cloth with some drug that made my coughing worse and see things unfocused." Bryce said. "Next thing that happened was that they put me in a closet with Orion saying that Lucina will be his and then locked me inside and I fell unconscious. He's hoping Lucina will think I stood her up."
"If that was true, I'm okay with that. OW!" Jalen cried when Tiffany slapped his chest again.
"Aunt Alice saw that too late." Lucina said. "We got Bryce to the nurse's office and daddy and I took Bryce to the hospital where grandpa Carlisle came to his aid." Austin and Ellie gave Carlisle a look of gratitude as he smiled to them.
"Bryce had a broken rib, some bruises and a concussion." Lucina said. Ouch, I believed that Orion took it too far. "He was resting in his bed. That's when I found out he has asthma." Oh so that's what they meant about the timing.
"How come you guys didn't report Orion for what they did?" Charlie asked in disbelief.
"Do you think they'd aka Mr. Bitters would believe us over Orion?" Jalen asked. Of course not. "Plus, how do we prove it without exposing ourselves?"
That is a good question. What is wrong with that school?
"So I woke up and saw myself in the hospital with Jalen and Lucina filling me in where I'm at. I told them what happened and Lucina knew about my asthma." Bryce said. "And then she said something that made me feel so happy."
"I never cared if Bryce has asthma, I love him for him and I would never leave him because of it." Lucina said.
"Awe!" The Gold sisters said in unison.
"And then Austin and Ellie came in and met Lucina for the first time. They then invited her to our place for dinner once I was out of the hospital." Bryce said.
"That's what happened later." Lucina said. "I arrived at the Gold's house and met Bryce's foster siblings."
"Yeah Dexter was the only one not harassing Lucina while Tori and Trina kept asking her questions about us, Nina wanting to be Lucina's flower girl and Russell was hitting on her." Bryce said causing Jalen to growl at Russell.
"I didn't know her actual age!" Russell said. "I wouldn't, I mean not that I don't, it's not that – guys hit me!" And that's what Dexter did punching his arm. Okay then.
"So while Bryce's family made preparation for dinner, Bryce shows me the place and then we came to his room." Lucina said.
"The door was opened and they can prove it when they were eavesdropping on us later on." Bryce said when Jalen had a mad look on his face to Bryce.
"I saw a photo of Bryce's birth parents and noticed his birthday is next month." Lucina said. "I offered to allow my family to celebrate Bryce's birthday with him and he accepts."
"Then Lucina was being snoopy trying to read my journal." Bryce teased.
"I was just curious what it was." Lucina said playfully smacking his head as Bryce chuckles.
"Then I told Lucina that I've never been with someone like her before, that she's not like the other girls I dated. I love her and her family even if they seem different, different. I didn't care about that fact. I believed that now that I know everything about her as she knows about me with no secrets, we can have an amazing relationship."
"That's when I felt guilty about the fact that Bryce doesn't know about the supernatural my family and I live in and I can't tell Bryce that not wanting him to be killed by the Volturi or change him." Lucina said with a sigh. Man, can't the Volturi bend a few rules when a vampire loves a human? Look at what the others and now my niece is going through.
"So Bryce dropped me off to the main house where I got attacked for a hug by Nessie who gave me big news." Lucina said.
"Jacob proposed to me!" Nessie said as she showed us her ring and Russell and Dexter covered their ears just in time when the twins screamed. That caused Edward to grimace as Lucas, Jalen, Jacob, Jalen and Emmett laughs at Edward's reaction.
"Then we were told about how Lucina feels keeping things secret from Bryce and we told her that we'll be sure that nothing happens to them both if Bryce did found out." Esme said.
"But he did." Nina said.
"Yes but we'll get to that." Jalen said. "Here's what happened after that; we had a nomad visiting us, Raymundo."
"Ray-who-now?" Russell said.
"He's a vampire who just comes and goes until he came across Forks. He was curious about us living with humans." Carlisle explained. Why do I get the feeling that it doesn't sound good? Why do most things never sound good?
"When Raymundo left, here's what we found out." Edward said. "All I ever got from him was that he just traveling until he came upon us. That was it. No history or anything from his past."
"That was it?" Charlie asked and Edward nodded.
"I only saw half of Raymundo's aura." Lucas said. Wow what!
"And the other thing is that Raymundo was staring at each of us." Edward said. "He's a collector; he collects every single information from the person once he makes eye contact. He can't go through shields but he knows the rest from us."
"What does Raymundo want information about you guys for?" Asher asked.
"We weren't sure because it's either someone is planning to take down the Volturi or they take down the Volturi and then us next." Jasper said and we all gasped.
"Why you guys?" Mom asked.
"We are the second largest coven next to the Volturi with gifts like none other. With that and our alliance with the pack, we're unstoppable." Lucas said.
"But the good news is that we're not the ones being targeted, just the Volturi. But the bad news is that I can't see the Volturi's future fully again." Alice said. Oh boy. "And the other good news is," She turned to Jalen excitedly as Jalen chuckles.
"My old coven is living with the Denalis." He said.
"Wait what?!"
"When did that happened?" Dad asked. Yeah, did I miss something here?
"Well you see, my old coven and the Denalis met at my wedding and after Tiffany and I left for our honeymoon, they went to Alaska together to get to know more about each other." Jalen said and chuckles some more. "But the main reason for that is because of the hookup between Mordecai and Tanya." Whoa, didn't see that coming.
"Finally!" Edward said as all of us laughs.
"Moving on," Bryce said. "It's December and the last day of school before winter break. Not to mention it was my birthday at that time. I met up with Lucina and the Cullens at school and they wished me a happy birthday and Alice threw a little party for me inviting my family and friends."
"Let's not forget we saw Mr. Bitters riding that two wheel stand up electric scooter." Lucina said as the others shakes their heads in disbeliefs. Are you serious?! What gives him the right to – oh never mind.
"I guess I should tell you what happened to me at school if you're wondering how I'm doing." Jalen said. "First, I'm doing well in school, I'm just that good. OW! Okay, okay!" He said when Tiffany slapped his chest. "I was in English class when my English teacher started handing us Christmas cards. It was really nice of her although I couldn't eat the candy cane." Of course not.
"I asked her why she's treating me more than her student and her main reason is that I remind her of someone who was always there for her and she should be doing the same for me." Jalen said as he looked off to a distance.
"Let's skip after second period." Jalen said. "Bryce and I met up with Lucina along with Lucas and Krystal. We were talking about Bryce's big game against our rival school when Orion came up to us." Oh no.
"He asked me where I was." Lucina said. Huh? "You see Orion put a note in my locker telling me to meet him after second period. But I never got any note."
"That would be me again!" Alice said happily. Well that doesn't surprise me. "You see, Orion left a note in Lucina's locker telling her to meet him so that he could kiss her under the mistletoe. So I went in, took the note and slipped it in this girl, Amy's locker. She seems pleased considering that she has a crush on him." Well that was clever.
"Yeah and because of you, I got accused again for doing that." Bryce said to Alice. And we're back to the bad part. "He thinks I was the one setting him up and stopping him from getting Lucina. Jalen stepped in when Orion was about to grab me and so did Lucas and Krystal. Orion kinda pushed Lucas's button."
"Never underestimate me!" Lucas said. That's what I love about him. "I was able to pin that guy to the lockers. Unfortunately it was in human strength and Orion got out of my grip and then I got pinned to the lockers."
"A fight almost broke out between the three of us until my English teacher stepped in." Jalen said. Oh wow, does she always appear when Jalen's in trouble? "She threatened Orion to leave us alone or else her husband will pull a restraining order on him if he wants to run his family's company." He chuckled after a smirk.
"Wait, how can her husband pull restraining orders?" Tori asked.
"Her husband's the commissioner of the police department." Lucas said. Wow. I thought.
"And then she helped us more by giving us a pass since we were about to be late for class." Jalen said. Gee, I wonder why Jalen's English teacher cares so much about him. She doesn't, I don't know, have a thing for him, does she? Edward chuckled and shook his head to me. Now I'm even more curious about this English teacher. Who is she?
"Let's skip forward to later tonight," Bryce said. "It's the basketball game against our rival South Central High, the toughest team ever. I'm not kidding, we were crushed in the first half of the game by like twenty points. Even with Orion as the star player and my good defensive skills, we were no match for them." Damn, I thought Thurston was tough when we face them.
"Now can you believe that the team minus Colton and Adam, another teammate who is nice to me, thinks I'm the reason we were losing?" Bryce said.
"I heard it." Russell said.
"Yeah, not so pleasant." Dexter said.
"Yeah how could they blame you." Asher asked.
"Do you think I was meant to be a jock when I was home schooled my whole life before?" Bryce said. Come on. Why can't people break out of the status quo? That whole thing was like centuries ago.
"Any way, we got our confidence back in the second half of the game and we started catching up to the other team, just behind by three points." Bryce said. "South Central was about to score but I jumped in and blocked which resulted me getting knocked down and drew a foul."
"I was freaking out being put this kinda pressure. I was thinking that I might screw up and everyone will make fun of me even more." Bryce said. "Just when I was about to chicken out, I heard a voice. I didn't know until later that it was Lucina talking to me with her gift."
"I just wanted to give him some confidence. Thankfully, he thought he was being crazy in a good way." Lucina said.
"So with that, I was able to get the confidence I needed and scored two free throws leaving us behind by one point and one minute left in the game." Bryce said. Oh damn. "We got the ball on our side and Orion was about to score only to be intercepted and the ball was passed around to, drum roll please," Lucas, Jacob and Emmett drum on the floor and stopped to signal Bryce. "Me. I was completely stunned the ball was handed to me at the last second that without even thinking, I shot and scored the winning goal." No way. That's when Emmett started chanting.
"Bryce! Bryce! Bryce! Bryce! Bryce! Bryce! Bryce! Bryce! Bryce, Bryce, Bryce, Bryce, Bryce, Bryce, Bryce, Bryce!" Soon all the guys were doing the same thing.
"That's great of you Bryce to win your school the game." Dad said.
"Yeah but what surprised me more was when the whole team and school minus The Big Five praised me as a hero." Bryce said.
"Seriously?!" I said in total surprised.
"I'm not kidding." Bryce said.
"Yeah, Bryce was somehow popular to everyone, almost everyone." Jalen said.
"Another shocking thing was that I was introduced to the coach of UW who wanted to recruit me to join his team." Bryce said. No way! "I thought he was gonna pick Orion but I had better quality of a player than Orion does."
"I'm surprised you didn't play for them this year." Austin said. Huh, I wonder why.
"The only person who was not at all pleased of the news was Orion." Bryce said. Here we go again. "No surprises, he accused me of 'stealing' his spot on the UW team he was sure to be offered, 'stealing' his moment at the game and 'stealing' Lucina from him."
"What is wrong with that guy?" Trina asked.
"Why does he always blame you of such things?" Renee asked.
"Let's just say things weren't looking so well for Orion." Bryce said. "Anyway, I told Orion to get his head on straight and that it's not my fault Karma… is biting you where it hurts and that's when Orion snapped and try to punch me but I got out of the way. Bad move. What I didn't see was Lucina behind me and she got hit right in the face."
"Jerk!" Nina and Tori said while Asher and Charlie shook their heads. Mom tries her best to calm dad down when he was furious. That's when he did and I believe that was Jasper's doing. I just can't believe that guy would do that to my little niece. Well, okay, not so little I guess.
"And then Bryce took on Orion!" Russell said.
"Hey my anger got the best of me." Bryce said. "Our fight got broken off and Mr. Bitters thinks I should be punished." Bryce shook his head as did the rest of us. Where was the principal this whole time?
"Surprisingly, the whole school backed me up and my coach kicked Orion off the team much to Orion and Mr. Bitters' disappointment." Bryce said. Well they deserved it. I thought. "After that, I checked on Lucina if she's alright."
"Before he did, I used my gift to heal Lucina's jaw." Tiffany said. My sister is so awesome you guys. That's why I look up to her.
"I also met up with my family and we arrived at the Cullen's place. The second best highlight of the night was Russell trying to flirt with all the girls but shocked seeing that they are dating the guys even though their siblings." Bryce said causing us but Russell to laugh.
"Well now I know the truth." Russell said.
"Once Colton and Amber arrived, we all started celebrating my birthday." Bryce said. "Everyone gave me presents and that's when Austin and Ellie gave me letters that were written to me by my parents." Bryce's lips trembled a bit as he looked like he was about to cry. Lucina closed her eyes and rested her head on top of Bryce's and he was able to continue speaking. "I'm sorry, I just miss them so much."
"It's okay Bryce, we understand." Elena said and Bryce continued.
"So it was time for cake and that's when Nina said something that caught the Cullen's attention." Bryce said.
"I did?" Nina said.
"Yeah, you and the others saw Jemma at the park when Russell tried to hit on her." Edward said.
"What!"
"No way!" The twins said.
"That was her?!" Dexter said.
"I was about to hit on a vampire?!" Russell said in shock and that caused Ellie to nearly faint.
"Wait a second, Jemma's back?" Charlie asked.
"Yes and apparently she didn't come to us." Jacob said. "You guys were just lucky that Jemma wasn't hungry at that time." That caused most of us to shudder. Thank goodness for that.
"And another part of the mystery of our lives." Jalen said.
Damn, I think I should be asking is why the Cullens? Why does everything always happen to them?
"Let's go on to what happened last Christmas Eve shall we?" Jalen said.
"Oh please don't remind me." Ellie said as Austin rubs her back. I wonder what's up.
"So we are celebrating Christmas with Bryce and his family. Before they came, Sue and Charlie came just to drop us their presents." Jalen said.
"Lucas gave Charlie a warm welcome." Bella said laughing along with the rest of the Cullens as Charlie shook his head.
"Yeah, nearly crushing me in a hug was real welcoming." Charlie said sarcastically as Sue kisses his cheek.
"You know you love me Charlie!" Lucas smiled.
"Anyway, Charlie confronted me and knows about my 'crime.'" Jalen said. What! We all looked at Charlie who calmly said,
"I knew Jalen was innocent. I wouldn't arrest him if the Cullens had a reason for keeping his where about a secret." Wow. I thought.
"He nearly scared me there." Jalen said as we laugh. "Charlie doesn't know what happened to my foster sister but she's okay and alive and they are still looking for her so that I can clear my name." Well that's good to hear.
"So after Charlie and Sue left to celebrate the holidays with Sue's family, Bryce and his family came and we started celebrating Christmas together. Apart from this Christmas, it was the best Christmas I've ever had celebrating with the people I love. Then something bad happened."
"What?" I asked.
"I had an asthma attack." Bryce said causing some of us to gasp. "I was coughing and wheezing uncontrollably. I might have forgotten to take my inhaler."
"Well thank goodness Carlisle and the others saved you in time." Austin said.
"Well there's something you don't know." Jalen said causing the Golds to be confused.
"Bryce was about to die when his coughing stop but because of his drowsiness due to his asthma worsening and lack use of asthma." Carlisle explained. "The only way we saved him was by changing him and that's what Jalen did."
"You mean he's a vampire?!" Dexter said causing his siblings to gape at Bryce.
"Well yeah, I thought you guys figured it out by now." Bryce said chuckling.
"Why can't I be a vampire?!" Russell asked.
"Because you weren't one foot in the grave." Bryce said. Okay, so now we know how Bryce knew even though it sounded obvious.
"So after my transformation, Lucina and the Cullens told me that they're vampires. I freaked out hearing that I'm dating my best friend's daughter." Bryce said causing the guys to laugh.
"Let's not forget that he heard about Lucina's actual age." Lucas said causing more laughter.
"So yeah, I'm a vampire now and the Cullens filled me in on everything. Carlisle told my family that I had to stay with them to keep tabs on my asthma which actually the truth is my asthma went away due to my vampirism. I just wasn't ready at that time to be with you guys in case I lose control of my thirst. Sorry about that, guys." Bryce said to his family.
"It's okay, just don't ever put me through that again, please." Ellie said placing a hand on her chest.
"Yes, please!" Austin said.
"So I visited my family to show them I am okay and then packed my things to move in with the Cullens and I've been with them since." Bryce finished.
Okay, I think we cleared everything about everyone. Now what happens next?
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