Chapter Four

Nessies POV

Ok, so it seems that it's going to be harder then I first thought to find out any information about this new coven and one overly attractive vampire whom I seem to be drawn to and maybe, possibly in love with. I hadn't seen one of them. Not one! Since Monday…or Tuesday was it? I don't know anymore. It seems the days are a blur and all I can think about is the new coven, Josh…and my family's growing paranoia about whether the new coven will show them selves soon. I was secretly hoping they would too.

I was currently sitting in my room thinking of whether I should text Jake or not and if by doing so that would unintentionally fuel his feelings for me, when I was called downstairs.
Making my way downstairs I proceeded to pull up my shield and smiled. Sometimes being the kid of two overly gifted parents was such a blessing, having my mums shield AND my dad's ability to read minds was great. Kind of like the best of both worlds you could say. Ugh I really hated Hannah Montana; she's like a singing buggery gar. At that thought dad laughed and said "Hey Ness you going to come hunting with us?" I sighed. Even though I ate human food I still needed a portion of blood to sustain me and the special abilities I'd inherited from mum and dad. "Yeah, I'll come. Is Jake coming too?" it wouldn't be so bad if he was. Dad on the other hand was thinking that I was becoming more "interested" in Jake as a mate. Ha! Yeah right, I only liked it that Jake come because I got to wipe his butt at who could catch and eat…well drink for me the most prey and it was usually him that won. So lately I had been employing the technique of catching smaller prey so that I was able to finish all the blood. "And no dad, I am not interested in Jake as my mate. How many times do I have to tell you that we're are only friends?" I said emphasizing the only part. "I know I know" Dad thought back, but he still has that grin on his face. That one all dads wear when they think they know what you're planning, when in actual fact they are most likely so far off that it would embarrass the hell out of them if they were to ever find out. Ah…dads. Gotta love em.

Well hunting was awesome! We were walking through the forest a slow walk. Well slow for vampires fast for humans, my technique of going for the smaller prey finally paid off and even though Jake first laughed at me when he seen how small my prey was, he sure wasn't laughing now. It had been a final count of twelve me and seven Jake. He of course had gone for the biggest prey, all the bucks and larger deer; I on the other hand had gone for the doe's and the young baby deer. Sometimes I felt guilty going for the baby deer but it always made me feel better when I see so many of the deer reproducing. Its also seems I'm kind of like my when it comes to hunting and I love the mountain lions, dad and I usually had competitions when mum wasn't looking of who could tackle the biggest one, sometimes uncle Emmett joined in but he really preferred the grizzly's. So dad and I usually let him tackle the biggest grizzly while we vide for first place of biggest mountain lion.

Since mum had found out about our little competition she had been fuming mad and threatened dad with a no "fun time" ew, like I wanted to know about my parents and their "fin time" Gross! If he was to continue letting me be involved with his and Emmett's stupid tackle games. So we had stopped, but eventually I'd gotten sick of watching dad win, so I'd put on the cutest face I could and pleaded with dad to let me join in and that I was able to handle myself. Well I was a half vampire for Christ sake! If I couldn't handle a measly mountain lion then I should be able to call myself a Cullen.

I was listening to dads' thoughts about what how he was going to surprise Aunt Alice when I smelt it, the smell that would forever be ingrained in my mind and heart. I wasn't the only one who smelt it either, it seems the whole family had and you could tell this was the moment we had all been waiting for and kind of dreading to find out who the new coven was and if they were staying in Washington permanently and if they were what it would mean for both covens.

They must not have smelt us yet because as we were coming up to a small clearing the coven were all still hunting and fully engrossed in mock fights. There were eight of them and one human which was obviously not something we were used to seeing from other covens. Seven males and one female, just then the wind changed carry our scent straight to them and upon smelling it; six stood looking in our direction with the human just moving his head from watching the six vampires mock fighting. He was casually resting against the dead trunk of a tree and was very handsome looking for a human and I could tell by my family's thoughts that they agreed. It was like out of one of those cowboy movies, a Mexican stand off, both covens unsure of who was going to make the first move and it seems that Carlisle had made that decision and stepping forward he recited the oh so familiar greeting "Hi, my name is Carlisle Cullen and this is my family. It's nice to meet you." Blah blah blah, I could see that the only one from the coven that was paying attention to Carlisle speech was the lady vampire in the coven, the boys on the other hands had refocused there attention on teasing the human, Jesse was his name. "Hey Jesse, you think the youngest one of them is hot ay?" one of the boys wolf whistled and continued "Haha, you do don't you" he proceeded to taunt the human…eh Jesse. It wasn't until I realised that they were talking about me, that I heard three very distinct but different growls, one from my dad which was the loudest but was cut short by two from the other coven the first from Josh, which was the one I'm guessing that confused and intrigued my dad and the other from the lady coven, whom it appeared was the leader of the coven, seeing as how as soon as she had growled all teasing of the human had ceased. Which was when she began to speak "Hello, it is nice to meet you Cullen family, please excuse my sons, they act more like two year olds then fully mature adult vampires." She smiled and wrapped an arm around Jesse the human, kissing his forehead, I think this action intrigued all of us most of all Jasper because all he was getting from both of them was a mother/ son relationship which in turn confused my dad which meant that we were all pretty confused by now before Amanda continued to speak saying "I am Amanda Heart and this is some of my family, my four daughter in laws are yet to join us here in Washington, but it is a pleasure to meet you all the same" Amanda said smiling.

There are not many things that can surprise a vampire especially ones that have gifts such as ours. But a coven of vampires of twelve was very much a shock for us, with eight we were evenly numbered even if most of the coven consisted of males but with twelve on eight…well eleven technically if you didn't count the human. If a fight was to break out they could still possibly win. At this point in time I would not like to be Jasper because I didn't need to be an empath to realise that it was getting tense and as the saying goes there's only so far you can stretch a rubber band before it snaps.