Renessmee had said her first word: Momma. Also, that first word became her first sentence: Momma, where is Grandpa? It sure made Bella's day since she knew that her baby didn't have some sort of growth disorder. Just a 'normal,' growing immortal child. On that subject, I planned to stop Irena from running to the Volturi, but something told me I wouldn't be able to stop it. I sighed unnecessarily; I was still being ignored. For reasons unknown, I got the feeling that nobody really wanted me around. An outcast once again. Perfect. Seth, Diet Coke, and isolation were pretty much all I had, no thanks to Jasper and Emmett. If I had just killed those humans, no one would know anything about it. I think.

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The days grew into weeks, weeks into months. Renessmee was now three months old. One day, when she was sitting in my lap, she'd asked me about something that I'd hoped she'd never ask. Too many people knowing about my visions, especially a baby, depressed me too much.

~Flashback~

"Auntie Erin, do you go to sleep?" She asked me randomly. I was an Aunt figure to her now, and I was proud of it. Too bad I probably wasn't in the book.

"No." I smiled at her. "Why do you ask that?"

"Because your face goes blank, like you're asleep," She said.

I sighed. "You know how your Aunt Alice can see the future, right?"

She nodded eagerly.

"Well, I can do that too, sort of," I explained. "But instead of subjective visions that change when people make decisions, mine are definite and can't be changed." That was all I was going to tell her.

"What do you see?" She whispered, as if wanting it to be our secret.

"Isn't it your bedtime?" I asked her, taking note of the dark sky outside, changing the subject.

"I'm not tired," She protested, and then she yawned and rubbed her eyes.

"Huh-uh, you aren't gonna get away with it that easily," I teased her. "Let's go find your Momma."

~End of Flashback~

So, now the smart little brat knew I had visions. I was standing in the local supermarket, which was kinda small, looking for food for the pack and Diet Coke for me. My eyes were becoming an interesting shade of amber now, so from a distance they looked almost brown.

In my cart, I had an assortment of food, and there was a lot of it—I think I might need to get another cart. I saw someone in the store, someone that I recognize, and someone I hadn't seen in a long, long time…and that person saw me.

"Erin?" She asked. The girl was standing next to the meat freezers. She looked about my age, and had long blonde hair and was a little taller than me by a couple inches, and was really skinny. "Erin, is that you?" She walked towards me slowly.

"Do I know you?" I asked her. No, it couldn't be her, it was impossible! Yeah, sure, I remembered her face, and now that I saw her the memory of her name was coming back, but…

"I'm Briana, don't you remember?" It really was my old childhood best friend. But what was she doing here in this dimension?

"Briana?" I asked, my eyes widening in shock. Seriously, what was she doing here?!

"Erin!" She ran over and hugged me. Thankfully, I was wearing a turtleneck sweater. I hugged her back, trying to ignore the sweet scent of her blood. "It's been so long! What have you been up to all these years?"

"It's a long story," I smiled at her. "Would you like to come over to the house I'm staying at?"

"Yeah, you and I can finish our shopping," she agreed enthusiastically. "I walked here, since I live a few blocks away, so you can take me there once I have everything put away. I'll meet you in the parking lot. What does your car look like?"

I had borrowed Alice's Porsche. "Look for the yellow expensive car. Do you need to let anyone know where you're going?"

"Nah, I live alone. No boyfriend, even," she said, and walked off with her cart.

As a matter of fact, I did have to get another cart. You know, the wolves are fun to be around and all, but sometimes I think they eat too much for their own good.

After I check out and brought everything outside—with the help of a kind grocery clerk—I dumped everything in the trunk of the yellow car. After that, I got in the car and waited for Bri.

The only reason I was inviting her over was because I needed to know if she knew she wasn't in the same dimension she used to be in. I decided to give Carlisle a heads up she was coming.

He answered on the third ring. "Erin, what is it?"

"Um." Honestly, I didn't know what to say. "I found a friend of mine from my world."

"Yes?"

"Well…she's human, and I think she's oblivious to the fact that she's not exactly in the real word."

"Get to the point, Erin."

"I invited her to come over," I said quickly. "And, well, I'm planning on telling her about all this considering she's not even from here?"

Carlisle was silent. Then he sighed. "First, find out what she knows, and then maybe you could tell her. Who is she?"

"Her name's Briana Thompson," I told him. "Have you seen her anywhere before?"

"I think she's lived in Seattle for eight years. That's all I know, besides that I've seen her in the hospital a few times. I think she's an intern there. Do you think she remembers anything from her old life?"

"Probably, 'cause she remembered me." I saw my friend making a bee-line for the car; it was the only yellow one in the lot. "Oh, she's coming. Gotta go!"

"Erin—" I hung up on him.

Briana got in. "So! Where are you staying?"

"At these people's house. Their last name is Cullen." I shrugged. "Got a big family, all the kids are adopted. One of them got married, and they adopted a three-year-old." My friend's eyes went wide.

"You mean, like the Cullens in that Twilight book, or a different family?" She asked, half-teasing me.

"I dunno." Again, I shrugged. I was shocked that she knew about the book. "When did you move up here?"

"Long story." She announced. "You remember when my mom and I moved to Arizona after my dad died from cancer when I was six, right?"

"Sorry." I shrugged again. "No."

"Oh, well. Yeah, we moved to Arizona, and we lived there for six years. I turned twelve right before we moved to Seattle. That's right around when the Twilight book came out; I got it for my birthday. We rented a car and we were going to our new house. Well, mom isn't the best driver, and when she stopped at an intersection, the car was sticking about halfway out of the road so that if someone was coming from the right, they could've easily hit our car. Well, I was reading my book at the time, not really paying attention to what was going on around me.

She took a deep breath. "And, well, the doctors had told me a semi had hit the passenger side of the car. They said the car rolled over, and my mom died instantly. Somehow, I survived; they said it was a miracle. I was in a coma for about two years, and when I came out of it, the only thing I had with me were the new clothes the hospital had given me, and my book. Homeless at the age of fourteen and no way to pay the hospital bill. I moved here to Forks last month after I'd had a job in Seattle for a while." The she looked around and noticed we were still in the parking lot. "Why aren't we moving yet?"

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"Sorry, I was too focused on what you were saying," I said as I turned the car on and put it into gear. I drove out of the lot at an alarming speed. For my friend. She didn't notice it at first for the first few minutes, and then…

"Holy, crap! Slow down, you'll get us in an accident!" she panicked, clutching the seat tightly.

I laughed. "Don't worry, I've never—"

I was cut off by a familiar, alarming howl in the distance. Leah. Soon, the other's joined her in. All but Seth.

Briana gasped. "What was that? Some sort of wolf pack?" But I barely heard her as I opened my mind to anything that I could hear.

Seth, what is going on?! I heard Leah scream. This didn't happen in the book; I was panicking.

I slammed on the break, and pulled the car over to the side of the road. We were about a half mile away from the house. I got out of the car, not bothering to shut the door.

"Erin, what's—" Bri started to ask, but I cut her off.

"Stay in the car! Lock the doors!" And I ran full speed into the woods. I didn't know where they were, I was just hoping to find that familiar wet dog smell, or Seth's scent.

What happened! I screamed at them through my mind.

I don't know! That was Leah. I just saw something attacking him, and—

I'll help find him! I ran deeper into the woods. And then I found him.

I stopped at the edge of the clearing, appalled at what I saw. Seth lay near me, bleeding, while a hunter and his buddy stood not too far away. One of them was holding a smoking rifle.

A plan already forming in my mind, I ran as fast as a human would into the clearing. "Hurry! There's more coming!" I pretended to pant. "Run!"

They didn't need any more convincing, and they ran away from the direction I'd come. They'd think I'd follow them.

"Seth!" I whispered, searching his mind to see if he was conscious.

A-are you a-an a-angel?

"Seth, please don't joke around right now!" I scolded him as I ripped my jacket off and applied some pressure to the wound. All of my strength would probably kill him.

F-fine, you d-don't need to be so bossy, I heard him think faintly.

Hang in there, Seth! I heard Leah shout. We're coming!

While I was putting pressure on the wound, I whipped my phone out and dialed Carlisle's number. He answered on the first ring.

"Erin, what is it? Did you attack your friend?"

"No!" I almost shouted. "Some hunter shot Seth! This didn't happen in the book, Carlisle! This wasn't supposed to happen!"

"Erin, calm down, I'll be there in a minute." He hung up. About a minute later, he showed up. "Erin, will the pack be here soon?"

I nodded.

"All right. When they get here, I'll have them help me." He raised an eyebrow at me. "You, however, have some explaining to do to your friend."

I looked down at my bloody hands. I sighed. "Yeah. I'll bring her over to the house. Call me if something happens, or…Yeah."

I ran back in the direction of the car. Surprisingly, Briana had done as I'd told her to do. Once she saw me walk through the trees, she came out of the car, hands on her hips.

"Ok. First of all, don't try to fool me, 'cause I know what I saw," she said stubbornly. "You can't explain how you just disappeared in the blink of an eye, and I know it had something to do with that howling." She took a deep breath. "What. Are. You?"

"I'll take you to the house first," I said, trying to hide my hands. Didn't work, considering Briana is extremely observant.

"What happened to your hands?" she shrieked.

I got in the car. Her door was still open. "Just get in the car, Bri."

She huffed. "Fine. But I want an explanation."

The rest of the ride to the house was silent. Briana just stared ahead with a cold look on her face. The only time I'd seen her like that is when we were having a 'slumber party' when we were five, and her mom had made us go to bed early. When I pulled into the driveway, her stare got even meaner. It got even meaner, still, when she saw the house.

As we were getting out of the car, she mumbled something. "Suspicions confirmed." Then, she added coolly. "But I suppose you heard that, didn't you?"

I didn't answer her. I grabbed her arm and fled into the house quickly.

"She knows." Was all I said before I let her go in the living room, and darted upstairs to the attic. I sat down and put my head in my hands. This was not how things were supposed to happen.