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Chapter 12: What did Happen?
We were all sat down at the dining table, which was never used that much by the family. They kept asking that same inane question
"What happened?" I didn't know how to take this new information, so I was persistent in trying to tell them that I was fine.
"It's nothing, really." I shrugged, trying to assure them. But my words fell onto deaf ears, ears that should be acute to even the quietest of whispers.
"It was most certainly not 'nothing'. Tell us, we are worried about you. You are like family to us now, so you must tell us what happened." Esme confessed. She was right, I could see, feel, and hear their distress. I didn't even know myself what happened back there, so how was I supposed to make any sense of it?
"Well… I'm not quite sure really, in all honesty." I began, I had to try however.
"I was walking to the changing rooms after Alice had handed me a pile of clothes, when I had a… Black out? It was like I was hit in the back of the head, and I fell, tripping over nothing. As I was falling, I started to see things. But it didn't take me long to realize what I was looking at. I saw me, as a human, another of me and what I believe was my brother. I looked different. I had green eye, that were almost emerald green. I had longer hair than I have now, the colour was darker, ochre I believe. I think that I must have been around the age of fifteen? My brother, looked to be about three years older than me." I stopped my recount there. I had nothing else I could say, that was all I knew. This had brought me back to a previous conversation with Edward.
I don't know why I can't remember. I don't think that I remember anything from my human life, it's all a blank to me. I replied with a sorrowful tenor, but I can't help that I don't remember my human life at all, maybe this was how it was meant to be, maybe horrible things happened to me in my past life, that I wanted to be rid of it all in this life, so I 'woke up' amnesiac.
You should speak with Alice. She was, or partially still is the same. She couldn't remember her past life, she couldn't even remember the change, which is supposed to be our most predominant memory. So like I said, talk to her, she understands more than anyone. Edward suggested.
So I turned to Alice.
"Alice, I was going to talk to about this at some point, but now seems to be a better time than any." I started. She looked at me curiously for a second, before realisation dawned on her, she saw my decision to tell her this. But for the sake of the others, I continued.
"I am like you in a way, Dany, George and I to be more exact. We don't remember anything about our human lives, not even the change, which I heard is supposed to be the most memorable." She gave Dany, George and myself a sympathetic glance before she started to speak.
"Yes, I don't remember anything from my past life. I only found out parts from a tracker who was hunting Bella while she was still human. I then found out more later on. I some of the information, but I don't have the actual memories." Her face began to sadden, and in that instance, Jasper hugged her tightly as calm and happiness washed over us all.
I allowed them to digest the information about my own visions of my human life. They were baffled at how I had 'blacked out' for around five minutes. I tried to tune them out, as I already had a feeling that I was different and weird.
This brought me back to another memory, of when we first entered Forks. I opened my mouth to speak, and then took a breath in, which caught their attention. They all looked at me, wondering what else I had to add to this.
"I also remember that, when we first came to Forks, I saw all of the green scenery, and for some stupid reason, I felt sorrow. I didn't understand what it meant until now. I was subconsciously reminded of my human eyes." I could see the sadness in Alice's eyes. She looked at the three of us, and we shook our heads, signalling for her not to worry about us. We have been with this sense of unknowing for decades, well for Dany and George. For me, it had been about a century and two decades, which is a long time to get over it. But I always had this need to know who I was, and if any of my human qualities passed on into this life, and if so, which ones were they? I slowly made my way over to where Alice was sat, and I hugged her in an assuring way.
"Don't worry about it Aunt Alice. We haven't relied on our human memories for anything, which is solely because we never had them. I know that it would be nice to get them back, so that the four of us could know about who we were before this" I waved around us.
"If only…" I continued, but was then struck with a feeling of stupidity, which alerted Jasper, causing to look at me in curiosity.
"…Alicia…" Was all I could say. Dany and George gave me the same look of obvious stupidity as I had moments ago.
"Why didn't we think of that before?!" They both exclaimed, hitting their foreheads with their hands.
"Who is Alicia?" They asked intently. Dany took this as her turn to step forward and talk.
"When we were with the Volturi, there was one who had been brought in by the Volturi as an experiment for my gift, when I first found out about it. Alicia, was our friend, and she has the gift of showing a vampire their past lives, including their memories." She explained. I could see that Alice's eyes glistened with anticipation. George saw it too. We couldn't let her get way the idea that we could find her.
"But it was our presence that kept her alive in Volterra." George said. I certainly didn't want our hope to come crashing down on us. So I tried to salvage this.
"We could try looking for her. She knew our plan, and she knew that we were keeping her alive, so she may have escaped shortly after we did." Jasper was looking concerned as he watched Alice take this in.
"I need to do this." I heard Alice whisper to either herself or Jasper. However, Jasper would never want to part with Alice, so he would, without a doubt, join us, even though he was probably against the idea of causing further upset for Alice.
