The family I never knew I had
The inside of the house was even more beautiful than the outside; it was open planned with white walls and glass windows everywhere. It made me feel like I was in a crystal palace rather than an average home.
"God, Uncle Emmett was right you look a lot like Uncle Jasper," A girl about my age whispered. She has bronze coloured ringlets that went down to her elbows. She looked a bit different than the rest of them.
"This is Renesmee." Esme told me, gesturing to the girl who had just spoken.
"Hi," I waved, feeling slightly awkward.
"Hi," she smiled back
"This is Jacob, Renesmee's mate." Esme pointed to a rusty skinned boy.
"Edward and Bella,"
"Hello." they both said together. Edward was lanky but muscular and had untidy bronze hair. Bella had brown straight hair, she was slender.
"This is Alice,"
"Hi," I greeted a small pixie looking girl with short black hair.
"Hello." She replied a bit coldly, I saw everyone give her a dirty look, clearly not pleased with here unfriendliness.
"And I think Rose and Emmett have already introduced themselves." Esme smiled at me with a shine in her eyes.
"Y...yes they have." I stuttered out.
We just all stood there with utter awkwardness which seemed to be seeping out of the atmosphere itself. A couple of minutes passed of us in an uncomfortable awkward silence. It appeared that the situation only got worse by the minute.
Thankfully the front door opened sending a nauseating whiff of dog my way. Yuk! Great they had a pet dog I thought sarcastically.
Edward started chuckling. What was his problem?
"Who's this?" A 24 year old man spoke, he was one of the two men who just walked in and was obviously the leader of the coven.
But I couldn't concentrate on him; all I could look at was the man that came in with him. He was about 19, we locked eyes for a while, and then we both gasped at the same time.
"Jasper who is she?" Alice hissed, clearing hating my presence more than ever.
None of us spoke. We just stood there speechless until…
"You ca-"
"You loo-"we both started at the same time.
"Who are you?" The little pixie screamed at me.
"Ella Whitlock Etherington." I answered back, trying to work out a way to get to the front door but it was blocked by Jasper and the man who came in with him.
Everyone kept looking from him to me.
"You can't be Whitlock, Jasper would have told me. Wouldn't you Jasper?" Alice continued getting angrier and angrier. It looked like her head was going to explode.
"Alice, calm down it doesn't mean anything!" Edward hissed towards the little pixie.
"But what about her accent, looks and the fact Jasper isn't denying it, she's his daughter!" She replied to him, her voice becoming higher and higher.
"WHO ARE YOU?" Jasper shouted, he was running towards me at vampire speed and I was now up the wall my feet dangling off the ground.
"Stop this now, Jasper." The leader demanded.
"I will not repeat myself a third time. Who are you?"
"Ella," I was now scared shitless, I could see bite marks all up his neck and arms that he properly gained from numerous battles he had fought, but obviously he never lost.
"Where have you come from?!" He roared at me.
"Jasper stops this now you're scaring the hell out of her!" Edward hissed trying to get him off me.
Edward was right, his voice, his eyes and the way he was holding petrified me so much. It reminded me of my past. But that wasn't the worse part; it was like he was going to kill me here and now like he didn't even care about staining the fluffy crème carpet beneath us with my blood.
The thing that I was certain about was that I didn't care, I didn't care that he was going to kill me because deep down I've been wanting death since I knew what it was. Deep down all I thinking about is that I must have done some deep s**t in my before life to get here. The amount of times I had tried to kill myself but failed…me being half vampire and all.
"Where do you come from?" He shouted again bringing me out of my thoughts
"Te...x...as." I stuttered out.
"Who is your mother?"
His mentioning of my mother got me into my natural reflects. I crouched down and covering my face with my arms. My hands had a tight grip on my hair nearly pulling it out.
I heard everyone gasp and Jasper finally let go of me.
"I'm so sorry, I wasn't going to hurt you," Jasper explained sorrow filled his voice.
It took a couple of minutes to compose myself and finally look up.
Everyone was still in the exam same positions as before…all staring at me.
Jasper was now by the front door and it looked like he was trying to get as far from me as possible.
"Sorry, it's a natural reflex for me I suppose." I tried to smile.
Everyone looked horrified; the person I thought was my Father just stood there and kept staring at me, like everyone else did.
I was beginning to feel self-conscious.
"Guys stop staring at her, you're making her feel self-conscious" Edward spoke.
Everyone tried to turn away but I could tell it was hard for them.
"How did you...?" I asked amazed
"Daddy can read minds," Renesmee smiled.
"Wow," I simply said.
"I'm Carlisle by the way." The other man greeted me. I shook his hand.
"I know who you are, I remember you."
"That's very well, I remember you to. How are you?"
"As good as I can get, I suppose." I mumbled.
"Good, good."
"Wait, you two know each other?! God if you said that earlier I wouldn't have had to drag her into the back of my jeep and I wouldn't of had to hear about how it's against her rights and rubbish like that for half-hour." Emmett wined.
"Emmett, I did not teach you to drag girls into the back of your car." Esme scolded, clearly not amused at all.
Everyone gave him the 'WTF' look, I just laughed.
"So how do you know Carlisle?" Rose glared; I suppose she still didn't like me much for checking out Emmett.
Edward looked at me weirdly, raising his eyebrows.
'It wasn't my fault' I thought to Edward 'But believe me, now that I've spoken to him I'm not going anywhere near him' Ok now I sound crazy, I was mentally talking to myself 'Edward you there?'
Edward chuckled.
Great he thinks I'm mental.
"Umm...well I-I lost a baby and umm... Carlisle helped...a lot…" The thought of my past brought a lump in my throat.
"But you're like 16," Rose stated.
"I was actually 108 when I got pregnant but looked 12."
"How could you be 108 but looked 12? You're not a vampire are you?" Jacob asked.
"I'm half vamp, half witch, something I got from my... my mother, she was a witch. I was bit in 1979 making me half, I was only bit for like, 2 seconds seeing as the vampire was thrown off me so I think the transformation didn't complete properly. Some things are vampire like drinking blood, the speed, my mind, senses and I don't sleep. But I can still do my spells, I can eat human food and how I grow older I grow one year about every 9 or 10 years making me look 16 but I'm actually 149."
"Will you ever stop aging?" Bella asked.
"I don't know but I don't think I ever will stop."
"I don't want to upset you but is your mother Sheila still alive?" Jasper asked
"I don't know that either, I left, ran away when I looked 11 but I heard all 3 witches died a couple of years ago."
Now thinking of the day only made me feel weird. I believe it was probably the saddest but happiest day of my life; it was the only day in my existence that I felt free and safe.
"Why did you run away?" He continued to question me.
This was the hardest question I had to ever answer. I only told one person about my past and he died because I told him.
"Mum used to use her powers on me, her witch powers I mean, there's a book with spells in it. Some are good others are not so good and once you use a bad spell it's hard to stop it takes over you. I suppose it's like drugs for humans, once they have their first intake it takes over your body and mind. It's almost impossible to stop."
"Your own Mother did that to you?" Renesmee asked horrified as she walked over to Bella, her Mum, and held her hand.
I just nodded in response.
"Sheila wouldn't have done that to you!" Jasper shouted.
"You want to bet?"
"She was kind, considerate...but she left for no reason…"
"Let me guess what she did to you, you can tell me if I'm right or wrong at the end."
He nodded for me to continue.
"She met you in a bar. She became close to you, nice, kind even. Then she took you to a nice place like a hill with a nice view and she 'seduced' you, she made you think you were the only man, the best man there is and she loved you. She then took your money and left. Am I right?"
Jasper looked like he was remembering a memory and finally nodded.
"Seriously I lived with her for 99 years, and the amount of men she brought home was filthy. You know the worst part was how she watched as the men touched me, and when I looked 8 years old the men weren't in her bed anymore they were in mine. I lost my virginity at 8, alright I was actually 70 but my mind was still like an 8 year olds. The pain and the blood that happened at first confused me; I didn't have a clue what it was or what he was doing to me! But that was a long time ago I guess, wounds do heal to an extent." I was shaking now and was breathing heavily.
Jasper came over slowly towards me.
"I'm sorry," He whispered.
"I don't want your sympathy. I don't want any of yours."
He came towards me like he was going to hug me; I put my arms out to stop him.
"Sorry but I'm so not a touchy, feely person." I said harshly.
He stepped back with a gentle smirk on his face.
"That's what Jasper used to say, but believe me give it a couple of days, hours even and you will be in all our arms!" Alice squeaked a smile on her face; she was jumping up and down.
"What?" I asked.
"Well your Jasper's daughter and family normally live together. And I believe you're not living with us, even though we're family sooo… you should move in, right?"
Everyone around nodded even Rosalie.
"Look I don't want to disturb you and I'm moving out in a couple of weeks anyway. People are noticing that I don't age like a human does."
"We're also moving soon, people are noticing at the hospital and I think it's time for this lot to start school again now Renesmee is slowing down her growth."
"What! We're moving?" Rosalie asked.
"Yes, that's why I came home early today to tell you all."
"So I'll be starting school?" Renesmee asked.
"Don't worry you'll be fine," Edward encouraged her.
"Where are we moving to Carlisle?" Bella questioned him.
"England, I think it's time to go back to my home town, I haven't been there for years."
"What do you say Ella, you coming or not?" Alice smiled at me still bouncing.
"Are you sure?" I looked at everyone.
They all nodded, except Jasper.
"Jasper, what do you think?"
"It will be great to get to know you." He bowed his head with a smile, I smiled back.
"Is that a yes?" Alice squeaked.
"I suppose."
Emmett ran over to me, picked me up and swung me around.
"Let go!" I laughed as he began to tickle me.
"Emmett seriously if I were you I would let go." Edward chuckled, reading my mind.
"Why? Because she's not a touchy, feely person,"
"No, because you don't know what she is capable of or what she's thinking."
"Oh please, have you seen how small she is? And look at those arms, no muscle on them at all!"
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
Edward was right, he didn't know what I was capable of, and they should all be scared.
"Where did she go?" Emmett asked.
I had made myself invisible in a single breath.
Edward chuckled as I ran over to Rosalie and lifted her hair up and down.
Everyone's face was hysterical they didn't have a clue, well Edward did he was chuckling.
"Is that Ella?" I heard Bella whisper to Edward, he nodded.
Bella was now laughing with Edward.
I ran over to Emmett who was looking around, looking for me properly.
I pushed him to the ground, so he fell face first, I then managed to pick him up and make him float. I kept throwing him up in the air then dropping him, his face looked terrified. I then span him around and around. It looked like he didn't like the taste of his own medicine. I made myself visible again and caught him in mid throw, cradling him like a baby.
"Don't you like the taste of your own medicine Emmett?" I asked looking innocent, everyone chuckled.
Emmett was trying to get away from my grasp as I kept him tight in my arms.
"What's up Uncle Emmett, you can't be scared of a girl can you?" I joked.
"No...No," he stuttered out making everyone laugh more.
I bent down to his ear and whispered "good" in his ear. As soon as I let him go he ran up the stairs.