Disclaimer: How many times do I have to say this: I do not own Twilight!! I only wish Edward Cullen was mine but he is Bella and I would never take him away from her.

Chapter 13

I was home alone that February weekend. My entire family was out hunting, LouLou and Jason were on a couple's getaway, and Lillie and her mom were at a spa in Seattle for a mother/daughter weekend.

It was just the stereo, Edward's massive CD collection, my lovely guitar, and I. The perfect setting for making you forget your boyfriend who just so happened to be cheating on you with your mortal enemy, but I'll get to that later.

I was just me, the stereo, CD's, and my guitar, then the doorbell rang. Damn that doorbell!

I stalked downstairs with an irritated look at life. Who would dare interrupt my nice and quiet weekend alone? If it was Dances with Wolves aka Robert, I just might have to murder him.

I threw open the door an stood in the doorway in shock and udder disbelief. It was him, Chace, the mysterious black haired boy who was extremely kind to me in Volterra eight years ago. He was standing her in my doorway in Fork Washington, but why? Why was he here? What had my family done to deserve a visit from the Volturi?

After a minute I composed myself enough to force something coherent out of my mouth, all I could say was "Hi". How pathetic!

"Hello, is this the Cullen residence/"

"Yes, it is Chace." He gave me an odd look, "Mind Reader." I said clearing up the situation.

"Ah! I'm Chace, Chace Finnegan, but you already know that, but I'm sorry I don't recognize you. I mean I have only met three members of the coven, but I have seen pictures of the rest and I don't recall ever seeing you. Are you new to the coven?"

"Um, well I am the newest member, but I'm not that new . I have been here for fifteen years. I can't believe that you don't remember me."

"We've met before?" Chace asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, but I was younger. I was only seven when we first met."

"I met you when you were seven, wait, Beth!" Chace exclaimed.

"Well it took you long enough, but yes; it's me, the one and only Beth!"

" I can't believe it! Beth, wow, you grew up!"

"Well that is what Gwen's prophecy said. You can come in if you want to."



We walked into the living room and I quickly move my guitar from the couch to the stand right next to the sofa. Chace caught sight of my "baby" as I like to call it and was just staring at it in awe.

"Is that a Gibson Les Paul?"

"Yes, that's my baby, my pride and joy." I finished like a proud mother.

"You play?" Chace said shocked

"Since I was ten, Jasper got me that guitar for Christmas when I was thirteen."

" Are you good?"

"I'm decent."

"I think that is so cool. You don't see many girls playing the guitar."

"Well, I'm not your average girl, now am I. Now, no mean to be rude, but Chace why are you here exactly?"

"I 'm here because I got feed up the Volturi, So I left." Chace said in a matter of fact tone.

"What! You just up and left"

"Well for you to understand my reason for leaving I have to tell you my story. I grew up in Freehold. New Jersey. I was seventeen when I was changed. I was on my senior trip in Italy. Our class was traveling the country and Volterra was only one of the many stops on the trip. There was a festitaval that night. A man with long black hair and a long hooded cloak approached me. He told me that his name was Aro. He started to mumble to himself. I missed most of what he was saying but I caught things like 'He has potential.' Potential for what I didn't know at the time. Then he asked me 'Chace would you like to roam this world forever as a creature of the night.' Before I could answer, I felt a sharp pain slash at my neck. I had been attacked from behind by Jane. They took me back to the castle and I was in pain for the next three days. Once the pain subsided, I was told what had become of me and where I was and the rules I had to follow now that I was a vampire. I felt a burning sensation in the back of my throat, and I attacked the human that had been brought to me. Natural instinct you know. However, I immediately disliked the flavor of it. I hated it, despised it, but I continued to drink it because at this point I didn't know that there was an alternative, and I need blood to survive. Because of this aversion, I exercised control over my thirst. Within a week, I could be around a crowd of people and not have the urge to attack any one of them. About a month after my transformation I discovered my power. I can acquire any power I want to with the exception of mind readers, as long as the original power holder is within a five mile radius."

"Whoa, Are you serious? That's a awesome power." I said genuinely impressed.

"Thanks Beth, anyway after your family came to find out what was going on with you eight years. I learned about your way of life and decided to try my hand at hunting animals. When I could sneak away from Volterra I would hunt for animal. I found animal blood so much more appetizing. Aro knew about my aversion and knew about my secret hunting trips but he never made any motion to stop me. Well that brings us up till about two days ago. I finally had enough of the whole way of life with the Volturi. I went up to Aro and said if there was not another way to exist then I didn't want to anymore. Aro suggested that I seek out the Cullens since he didn't want to destroy me. So I packed up my stuff and left, so Beth that's my story."



"An aversion to human blood, I thought I was the only one that had such an aversion. I have no bloodlust for humans. Now, mountain lion is a different story." I said to let him know that he was not alone.

"Mountain lion?"

"Yes, Mountain lion, but Chace I'm afraid you will have to wait for Carlisle to get back from hunting!"

"When will the rest of the coven be back from hunting?"

"I'm sure my family will be back within the hour. I'm sure Alice had a vision about your arrival." I said emphasizing the word family.

"Ah that's right Alice has visions. Why didn't you go hunting with them."

"Two reasons: I didn't need to and my family wanted to give me a nice quiet weekend alone to help me forget Caleb." I replied.

"Caleb? Who's Caleb? And why do you want to forget him?" Chace asked.

"He is my ex-boyfriend. Wee broke up last Sunday while on a dinner date in Port Angeles."

"No mean to press, but why?"

"Well since you told me a story, I guess I'll tell you one. Caleb and I started dating back in October. He decided to take me out to eat for Valentine's Day which was, ironically, Sunday. So Sunday night we were at the La Bella Italian Restaurant, having dinner, when his cell phone rang. The conversation went like this: 'Hello (pause) Yeah I'll be there at ten I'm in Port Angeles with Beth right now. (pause) Okay I'll see you then. Bye.'

"I asked him 'Honey, who was that?'

'Oh it was, um, Chuck. He wants me to come over later tonight to work on our science project.' I knew he was lying because of my power. I unblocked his mind and read that the was really going to meet Ashley St. Martins, my mortal enemy at school, at her daddy's hotel, the only hotel in Forks, and apparently this wasn't the first time Caleb had done this with her while dating me. I began to lose control.

'Caleb Pennington, you are a filthy liar.' I told him I a low menacing voice. 'I know that you are going to meet Ashley. It's over!' I stalked out of the restaurant. We had borrowed Rosalie's car because honestly Caleb's car was a piece of crap. I ran to the car and Caleb followed me.

'How are you going to get home?'

'You forget we're in my car.'

' first, we're in Rosalie's car and second your only fifteen and you can't drive all the way home.'

'Oh I can't?' Then I unwillingly phased. Thankfully it was dark and Caleb didn't see anything. I got into the car and drove home. I ended up bending Rose's steering wheel, but that was the first time I lost control since I was seven. By Monday morning everyone at school knew. At lunch my best friend/werewolf confronted Caleb. Caleb lost it and punched Jason in the face. Of course, Jason wasn't hurt, but it gave him a perfect excuse to hit Caleb. Jason shattered Caleb's jaw and told him never to crass him or me ever again. I'm just glad Jason got to Caleb before Emmett, Edward, or Jasper got to him because Caleb would not have escaped that encounter alive. My family decided to let me have a 

weekend alone, or at least that was the original plan. I can hear their thoughts now and they will be here in about two minutes."

"That's horrible, I mean the story. I'm sorry about your sucky love life. I can't wait until the rest of your cov-I mean family to get here." As soon as Chace said that the entire family came bursting in. Edward looked unhappy, Alice, on the other hand, looked optimistic, and the rest just looked curious.

Carlisle approached Chace and said, "Hello Chace, I am Carlisle Cullen. Welcome to our home."

"Thank you Carlisle." Chace replied a little shyly.

"what bring you here?" Esme asked. As Chace told his story, Edward moved closer to me, over protective father much!

Once Chace finished Carlisle said "I don't see why you couldn't live with us and join our family. I have never heard of a vampire having an aversion to human blood apart from Beth."

"But, "Edward interrupted, "how do we know that your not just a spy for the Volturi?"

"I'm not I swear!" Chace promised and I knew that he was telling the truth.

Everyone looked at me and I just simply said, "What?" trying to sound oblivious, however I told Edward that Chace was not lying. Edward discreetly shook his head toward Carlisle.

Carlisle told Chace, "Well, Chace lets get your bags from outside and show you to your room."

"Oh, Carlisle can I show him to his room." I asked.

"Whatever Beth." Carlisle said with a slight smile.

"Come on Chace, your room is on the third floor."

"Beth," my father called, "take your guitar upstairs. I really don't want to face your wrath when Emmett breaks it.'

"DAD! Be nice to Emmett." I scolded Edward, "but good point." So I grabbed my guitar and brought Chace upstairs to his room. First, we stopped by my room to drop off the guitar. When I opened the door Chace was in awe!

"Dang! Black and purple. This room is fit for an Emo princess."

"Good thing, I'm a emo rocker chick huh?"

"Yeah! Did you design this."

"Yea, I re-did it about a month ago. It was just purple, but I add the black vertical stripes. Alice wanted to kill me she doesn't like my sense of style. But anyway let's go to your room.

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