Chapter 3
Bella:
By the time I'm get back to my flat, I'm exhausted. And I don't think I've ever been more confused since I was first turned into a vampire.
"How was your day?" My best friend, roommate and fellow vampire, Maggie asks.
"Don't even get me started," I sigh, slumping onto the sofa in our living room.
Maggie lifts up my feet, sits on the other end of the sofa and then puts me feet on her lap.
"Do tell," she says, grinning deviously.
With a sigh, I tell her everything about the two vampires, Jasper and Alice, who cornered me in the alleyway. After my incredibly lengthy explanation, I wait expectantly for Maggie's insight to my large and unexpected problem.
"Wait, they were American?" Maggie asks.
I stare at her silently for a few minutes. "Seriously? That's your question? Where they were from?" I ask incredulously.
"I just mean that if they're from America then they've come a long way to see you," Maggie shrugs.
"They want to see me again tomorrow. In the park," I tell her.
"So we'll go together. I can help you see their intensions. If they lie to you, we'll have a more even fight," Maggie says.
Like Alice said she has a gift of seeing the future, both Maggie and I have gifts. Occasionally when a human is changed to a vampire, they also gain a gift, usually something that was present in their human life. Maggie is a vampire lie detector. Whenever someone lies, she knows. Though she can't remember much about her human life, she says she can vaguely remember being aware of having a sense of when people were telling the truth.
My gift is the ability to protect myself against mental attacks – other vampires have gifts that attack the mind, of which I can protect myself from – and the ability to project a force field to defend others from mental attacks.
"Ok, that sounds like a good plan," I concede. "How was your day?" I ask.
"Ugh, chaotic. Humans can be so pushy. I swear, one nearly pushed me off the tube! Just because I look defenceless it sure as hell doesn't mean I am!" Maggie rants. As she was only 15 when she was turned, humans usually think she's an easy target. Which, I can assure you, she's not.
"How was work?" I ask.
"Yeah, that was ok, I guess." Maggie, like me, has a part time job. While I work in a bookstore, Maggie works in a clothing store.
We spend the evening watching TV and planning what we're going to do tomorrow. We come up with a signal for Maggie to do if Alice or Jasper lies to us, so that we can either escape or attack. I'm more inclined to escape but Maggie, ever the headstrong woman, wants to attack. She doesn't deal well with people lying to her.
Just as the sun is rising, Maggie and I decide to go hunting, just in case the meeting does end in a fight. We want to make sure we've got the most energy possible.
After sufficient animal blood, we make our way to the park, just before 11.
Let's see what these vampires want.
A/N: What do you think the vampires want?
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