Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
It was raining when I woke up. Brilliant, I was
already starting a new school. Leaving everyone
of my friends behind to go to small town of Plute
in England. England was renowned for raining
but surely in spring the rules change! Only one
good thing comes of the rain in my opinion. I am
always so focused. There is something about the
gentle patter against my window that helps me
concentrate, gently lulling me into a calm state. I
hated the sun, it always reminded me of my
parents… at least when they were happy. Both
had now gone their separate ways and neither
had really wanted me. In many ways I was a
painful reminder of the life they had before. So
after months of kicking it back with my oldest
and I guess, now my only brother, I realised I
needed a little bit of structure to my life.
Thankfully Dylan didn’t mind, he knew that I
wanted to do something with my life and unlike
him; I wasn’t going to settle with becoming a
bookstore owner. Not that that wasn’t good
enough for him; I have just always wanted more.
So my Aunt Jean decided to take me in. Both my
parents said I didn’t have to, but one glance into
their griefstricken eyes told me that they didn’t
really want me. So I moved continents, all the
way from sunny Florida, to gloomy England. I
wasn’t going to lie to myself! Of course I was
excited. I could get away from everything and go
live in a totally new place. Make new friends
who had absolutely no knowledge of my
previous life. I was riveted by just thinking about
how I could go to school and not see pity on
everyone’s faces. I doubted this would be the
same with my teachers as I was sure that Jean
had told them about my family’s troubles. Jean
was such a kind woman, always looking out for
me and trying to be there when my mother, and
her sister never was. She wasn’t intruding, in fact
just the opposite, everything about Jean I loved
and in a way I saw her as my mother. Back in
Florida I hardly ever saw Jean, we were over 3000
miles apart but I spoke to her on the phone all
the time and we emailed regularly. Shewas more
then my aunt… she was my best friend. I spoke
to her more than my actual mother. I could tell
that she worried about me; nothing pained her
more to see that I was unwanted. She stopped
speaking to my mother after that, she knew how
much it upset Debbie to know how unwanted I
felt. I knew that it hurt Jean to not be able to talk
to her and that she wanted to but she was such a
martyr. It was her only fault; she always made
sure other people were ok before she was. It
didn’t surprise me when I found myself
awakening to a completely different room than I
had fallen asleep in. She had unpacked for me
whilst I slept, sorted out my clothes and hung up
my outfit for the day. I blinked my eyes open…
she was truly amazing. Sitting up stiffly I
surveyed my surroundings taking in what I saw.
My three suitcases, which I had originally flung
down at my moment of arrival and let them spill
messily across to floor had been tucked under
the desk and my clothes were now presumably
folded and had been placed in the drawers. My
pictures were now hanging on the walls and my
computer set up on the desk. I noticed a piece of
paper attached to the screen. Gruffly getting up I
shuffled to my new desk. My eyes groggy and
heavy impaired my vision slightly as I attempted
to read her incredibly intricate script.
“Lilly
I had to go to work early today, they needed me to sort
out some of the new magazine pages. Sorry I’m not
here to wish you luck on your first day of school, have
a great day!
I Love you,
Jean x”
I hung on each letter until I saw the three most
amazing words and my heart abruptly jumped.
Love. I guess after all this time I had a cold heart
because it never occurred to me that somebody
could love me. But she did, Jean truly was one
of akind. A person who you can only read
about and until you meet someone like her you
will never truly believe somebody so selfless and
good could exist. I shook my head trying to
decipher my shock. What was wrong me! Why
was I so stunned? Before the incident, with my
parents I had no problem with the concept of
love. I guess after my parents abandoned me I
had managed to acquire some serious
commitment understanding issues. Whatever it
was I had to get over it. I knew that Jean could
see straight through me but if I had any hope of
even being considered slightly normal at school I
would have to realise that my old life didn’t need
to affect my new one. I glanced over at the
clothes that Jean had hung up for me to wear. I
was shocked by how easily she has pinpointed
my style. Ahead of me lay my favourite blue
stretch shirt, my baggy gray cardigan, my comfy
straight leg jeans, my overly worn converse and
my mothers cream pashmina. I would have gone
without the pashmina but I had to admit I liked
how it looked with my outfit. So I put the
ensemble together and realised that I looked
pretty good. Usually I stumbled out of the house
without a care in the world concerning my
appearance but it was my first day. After my
final assessment of my outfit I trotted out of my
new bedroom and went to the bathroom. Again I
was shocked by what I found. My toiletries had
found themselves carefully placed upon the
shelves and my dressing gown was hooked
against the door. Ahh I realized, of course, Jean
had a steady job working at ‘British Vogue’ and
she had a 3bedroom house all to herself. I had
my own bathroom. To most people it wouldn’t
seem to be such a luxury but to me! I had lived
in a house of 5, three of those boys. That had
changed with the click of a trigger of course but
in essence I still felt like I had to share a small
bathroom with four other people. I would never
have to wait in a line to go to the toilet, or take a
3minute shower because we only had 10
minutes worth of hot water. I was amazed by
something that to most is a common thing. So for
once in my life I took my time, carefully brushing
my teeth and washing my face. I realised after
five minutes I didn’t actually have that much to
do. I had never bothered with makeup,
sometimes I would put on mascara if I was
feeling up to it but that was where my makeup
supply ended. I glanced at my hair, wondering if
it was even worth doing anything to it. It fell just
above my shoulders in a messy manner. I was
never inclined to do anything with it. However it
wasn’t always that way, I used to straighten it to
perfection and lightly apply makeup so that my
face appeared to have a natural glow. After
Danny was… killed I didn’t even think about
what I looked like anymore. In fact this was the
first time in about a year I had actually glanced
at my reflection. I was a mess. There was no nice
way to put it. I had dark rings under my eyes
from my endless string of sleepless nights. My
hair was messy and my skin was scary
translucent white. It had always had a natural
glow but I wanted to be a Florida girl. It was
ridiculous. So much had changed in the last year
that I don’t even know the person I used to be.
She was a distant memory that I had placed in
the back of my mind for safekeeping. One day I
would be able to smile again without fear of
crying. I had sworn to myself I would never shed
a tear in front of anybody ever again and that as
much as it hurt me to forget my brother I would
have to try. I blinked to fight back tears that were
brimming to the surface of my lifeless eyes. This
was going to be a hard day, I could tell. Was
there any way I could look to the future and try
to see what was going to happen so at least I
could be prepared? I knew everyone would stare
at me that was inevitable. I was the new kid in
town, with the freaky American accent and
weird fashion sense. I wasn’t even sure if
Converse were around in England. Well there was
is only one way to find out I thought firmly to
myself. I grabbed the keys that Jean had left on
the table and went outside to find a shiny black
mini cooper waiting for me. I would have to
remind myself to kill Jean later. How could she
expect me to accept a car from her? Especially a
mini cooper! She must have been paying
attention when I told her what car I would buy
when I was rich. And it was black just like I had
said. She was amazing, hadn’t she already given
me enough? Taking me in. Now she buys me a
car! I will have to make sure I am extra kind to
her after this. Apprehensively I walked towards
the car, it looked so new and monstrous I wasn’t
sure if I could even remember how to drive. I
could tell today was going to be hard, my nerves
always got the better of me. This is ridiculous I
said to myself, my hand quivered as I reached for
the handle to open the car door. I heard a
clicking noise, locked I said to myself. For
goodness sakes! Was I actually this nervous or
simply losing my mind? I gripped hold of the car
key in my hand and clicked one of the buttons.
The car lights flashed menacingly and I jerked
back frightened. Honestly I muttered under my
breath! It wasn’t like she had bought me a huge
Jeep or Range Rover! My nerves were beyond
ridiculous! Determined to prove myself wrong I
slid my hand under the car handle and pulled it
back automatically as though I did this everyday.
I was shocked by my own strength and pleased
at the same time when the door easily fell open.
My jaw dropped… it was even more beautiful
inside. The chairs were coated in a soft leather
interior, and the baseboard of the car was all so
complicated I couldn’t make any of it out. Beside
my nerves I almost laughed once I saw that Jean
had stuck little post it notes all over the car with
instructions on how to use each of the very
official switches. I chuckled quietly to myself,
she knew me far too well. Without hesitation I
slid into the car seat and shut the door quietly
behind me. Instinctively I put the key in the
ignition and put the car in reverse. It came as a
surprise with the car jolted backwards. The
lightest touch of my foot and I was pelting into
the road. I’ll have to get used to that I thought to
myself. My old Volkswagen was still in Florida
and was no longer in a fit condition to be driven,
I used to have to slam my foot down on the pedal
to achieve a steady speed of 25 mph. I don’t
think I would I get used to driving fast I usually
kept to 50 mph. Apprehensively I glanced at the
dashboard and saw that my new car could go up
to 150 mph. I gulped, hoping I would never have
to test that fact. The drive to school was short
and I really didn’t get to prepare myself mentally
for this, what if they thought I was weird? Or
what if I didn’t have a table to sit at lunch? Oh
god I was not ready for this! My heart drummed
quietly in my chest as I slowed towards the gates
of the school and realised that there was nothing
strange about this. I am in 16 years old, in
England of all places and instead of being in
high school I am in something called a 6th form. I
was going to be fine, besides who cares if these
are the worst two years of my life? After this I
can go to university and never have to talk to
anyone from this place ever again. I made a
mental note to pay attention to where I was
walking, as in nervous situations I was prone to
tripping. That’s when I saw him. Through my
shiny new car windscreen he was standing
silently with a group of 3. There were 2 girls and
one boy. One of the girls and the boy was
holding hands. He stood facing them away from
me, I could only see his back but one of his
friends was staring nervously at him and then
back to my direction. I had a bad feeling about
this. The last thing I needed was to forget why I
was here. School I reminded myself I reached for
my bag that was tucked behind my chair. I
shuffled through the paper and found my
schedule, my first lesson… English. Thank God.
At least it was my favourite lesson. I shoved the
paper back into my bag and gripped my chair
tightly as I awkwardly got out of the seat and
stepped onto the pavement. Locking the car I
slung my bag onto my back and put my hands in
pockets, looking up the rain was now just a faint
drizzle. This brightened my outlook;hopefully
the weather would just be an overcast of clouds
the best kind. I rushed over to the building at
glanced at a sign that stated this was the English
department. What luck I thought to myself, I
pushed open the entrance door and walked
inside whilst taking my coat of. I shuffled
silently to the first door and peered inside.
Empty dang, I grumbled in annoyance I slung my
bag into my hands and took out the piece of
paper with my schedule it said room B56. I
wasn’t far of. This empty room was B49 so slowly
checking each number on the doors I stumbled
through the corridor. Finally I reached the door
and saw students filing in. Instinctively I
hunched my shoulders and walked into the
room quietly. I paused when I was facing the
apparent teacher. I introduced myself shyly,
“Hello, um I’m Lily Dove, I’m meant to be in this
class.” I realized the moment the words came out
how thick my accent must’ve sounded to them.
He raised his eyebrows in response, “Oh right
you can take that seat there in the third row.” He
pointed aimlessly at a seat and I nodded in
response to the gesture. He seemed nice enough,
I walked slowly to the seat I had been assigned
concentrating on my feet making sure that I
didn’t trip to badly on my first day. English went
by with the breeze. It felt as though I had just
sunk down deeply into my chair when the bell
rang and I was left to find my way to
Government and Politics. Sure enough my
strange luck continued and I found the
classroom quickly. Again I introduced myself
with the same strange shyness and shuffled to
my allocated seat. I didn’t notice until halfway
through the class that one of the boys that I saw
in the car park was in this class with me. He kept
nervously glancing at me with a confused
expression of his face. The moment the bell rung
he flew from his seat leaving me dazed. England
was weird I concluded. Imbetween my next two
lessons I had a short break and went to the toilet.
The second I walked in all of the chatter that had
been apparent before diminished. They all
glanced and me with curiosity. I planned to walk
straight past them not acknowledging their
existence but once I was close enough a girl with
long platinum blonde hair looked at me not
hesitating before she spoke, “Hi! I’m Michelle
and this is, Callie, Ali, Clark and Annie.” She
said whilst pointing at each individual girl. I
nodded and smiled at each girl, “You can sit
with us today at lunch if you want, and we know
how hard it is to be at a new school.” I smiled,
“Thanks that’s really nice of you I thought I was
going to have to sit by myself I will see you
later.” I smiled as I made my escape for the toilet.
I was not good at conversation and these girls
did not look like the silent types, well apart from
Annie. With Michelle’s hair, Clark’s obvious
fashion sense, Ali’s noticeable giddiness I would
not be comfortable if I didn’t have time to
prepare myself. I rushed to Geography and the
same as before I barely even noticed the time go,
it felt as though time was accelerating at such a
speed that I couldn’t even see it slipping away.
After geography I went to my media studies
lesson and immersed myself with the lesson.
This time he was there. Sitting right in front of
me. Both times I had seen him it had been his
back. I was becoming pretty familiar with it. I
really wanted to see his face. Media went slowly,
not just slowly, time was on a perfect stand still.
His hair was perfect, it fell messily on his head as
though he had woke up and it was just like that.
Mine is exactly the same except I looked like a
mess and as far as I knew at least from the back
he looked like complete perfection. This was not
normal behaviour! Why was I analyzing him so
intently? It’s not right. Infact it was quite stalker
like. I forced myself to focus on something else.
The lesson was boring know in comparison to
memorising the shape of his back. I took my
ipod out and listened to The Goo Goo Dolls until
finally the bell rang. Lunch finally I thought to
myself. I walked slowly behind other people who
led the way fro me and as I walked into the
cafeteria a few people glanced to look up at me. I
saw frantic waves coming at one of the tables
and saw Michelle and the rest of her group
enthusiastically waving at me to join them. I
smiled at quickened my pace towards them. But
I was sidetracked my eyes looked to the left for
just one second but that was all it took. His face. I
finally saw it and it was even more perfect that I
had imagined. We looked into each others eyes
for a brief moment and suddenly everything
clicked. I could see him gazing at me so intently
as though he could look past my eyes and
straight into my soul. One second was all it took
and my heart had been claimed. Who was this
boy? And why was he staring at me with such an
intense curiosity that I felt a forceful pull
yearning me to move forward until I was
centimetres away from him and I could gaze into
his sapphire eyes. I had never felt anything as
strong as this and whatever this force was it took
all my strength to keep my legs from unwillingly
moving forward so that I could touch him. I
blinked trying to clear my head and see clearly
but all I could see was his eyes, the instant
memory of them as clear as day painted
permanently on my eyelids. Slowly I reopened
my eyes and found him still staring at me with
the unbelievable curiosity etched onto his
beautiful face.
Is it Her?
EDWIN 1617/01/09
She was looking at me and even from 20 meters
away her eyes looked the same. She was as
beautiful as ever. I had not seen her face in 300
years and here she was perfectly preserved less
than 3 seconds away from me. Was I dreaming?
Of course I wasn’t. But was it her? Could it be?
She must have noticed the intensity of my stare
by now and I could feel my family’s eyes like
sharp daggers against my back. I had to look
away, but her gorgeous blue indigo eyes held
mine with an identifiable grasp. Only a second
had passed but suddenly every memory came
flooding back. This had to be the same girl. I had
dreamt of her every night for a hundred year
until the dreams stopped coming. My visions of
her joining me had never come true. I had
always hoped and wished that the girl who I had
dreamt of meeting would someday come to me. I
never truly believed that she would, but here in a
lunchroom cafeteria stood the most stunning
creation my mind had ever been able to imagine.
It was not possible. I had not been able to
visualize her face for 300 years. It had been a
distant memory lost in the depths of my mind. I
had never been able to unlock the memory of the
woman who I knew to be my soul mate. Time
was at a stand still literally. I broke my gaze to
glare at Sara. My sister was highly annoying
when she stopped time at amazingly important
moments. “I hate to break your concentration,”
she said smiling, “but I think you might be
scaring her.” I nodded gruffly turning away from
her and morphed back in the exact same position
I had currently assumed. Time resumed and I
quickly turned away from the girl whom I before
had been so intently staring at. What did this
mean? Was my only uncompleted vision finally
coming true? Was it really her? Yes a voice
erupted in my head, it is. I snarled in anger, I
hated it when my family trespassed into my
mind. The fact that Ajax of all people was risking
it amazed me. He knew how much I hated him
meddling within my thoughts. I didn’t do it to
him and he hadn’t done it to me in a long time.
My whole family could all read minds. We tried
to give each other privacy and mute our family’s
‘voice’ but I knew that my thoughts were
practically screaming at them to listen. It was
very useful at times to be able to hear each other,
but most of the time it was plain annoying. I
must be very preoccupied with the girl, as we had
worked out all together how to turn the power
off to give ourselves some discretion. Usually it
required no concentration to keep it up but in
times of stress, danger and preoccupation of the
mind our thoughts flooded into each other’s
minds. I concentrated so that I could think
clearly without Ajax, Josie, Sara and Zaide
hearing my thoughts. This was something I had
never been required to do. I would have to talk
privately with Alroy my father and see what he
thought I should do. I couldn’t very well go up
to her and tell hershe was my soul mate. No, I
had to play this right. I wasn’t even sure if it
would be safe for me to be around her. I went to
sit with my family, all of them concentrating on
not letting me hear their thoughts. I hated
moments like this, I could sense their stress and
worry. I looked up to see Zaide grinning at me.
But about this was humorous to him? I would
never understand my brother he was so
optimistic it sickened me. We sat in silence for a
few moments until Sara spoke up breaking all of
our concentration, “Huh so she’s here?” I
blinked my eyes back and remembered that all of
my family had seen my thoughts and that they
knew who she was. I nodded silently at her. I
reopened my eyes and found four confused
facing staring back at me, “Well aren’t you
excited?” Zaide asked, “You finally found her…
the girl of your dreams.” I thought about it for a
second and realized that I should be in essence
excited but I wasn’t. I was scared. I knew she was
my soul mate but why would she want to be
with someone like me? I wasn’t human or
natural. I shouldn’t exist and she could do so
much better than me. I couldn’t ever be close to
her. She was too precious and fragile. She was
just a breakable human. We all kept our
distances for that very reason;the fact we were
even able to mix with humans was amazing. Our
animal instincts should kick in whenever one so
much as brushed into us. I took a deep breath
trying to clear my confused thoughts and looked
up at the warm faces of my family and broke out
into a smile, “Yeah…” I breathed. I wasn’t sure
exactly what any of this meant but I now that I
could see her I could remember. Every dream,
every vision I had once had about her. I wasn’t
sure if any others would come true but if I could
just know her, even just slightly my life would be
complete. Josie looked relieved and reached out
to hold Zaide’s hand. Sara smiled and
instinctively reached over the table to hold Ajax’s
hand. Whenever they used to do this I had
always felt incomplete. There had always been
something missing. Somehow all of my adoptive
brothers and sisters had found love but I never
had. Previously in the past I had had
opportunities… but I always thought of her and
even though I couldn’t remember her in my
mind I knew that I couldn’t be with anybody
else. I smiled at my family and glanced back in
her direction to find her still staring at me. I
quickly turned away but I saw in Josie’s mind
that she did not. This was highly frustrating, I
knew that we were going to be together but she
didn’t! What hope do I have of charming
somebody who I haven’t even met yet, and
therefore have to keep the conversation light
whilst stringing a coherent sentence and trying
not to burst by the necessity of not scaring her by
telling her I love her. This was not going to easy!
Despite all this I couldn’t help feeling slightly
giddy. She still hadn’t looked away from the back
of my head and I could see her beautiful face in 6
sixview points from my family’s minds. But it
simply wasn’t enough. I had to see her with my
own eyes, stroke her delicate cheek and perfect
throat. I wanted to be close to her, so close that
the proximity would scare me. But even that
wouldn’t be enough. I wanted to know her.
Everything. Her favourite colour, the music she
liked, where she grew up to even the obscure
details I should care little about like what size
feet she has. I didn’t just want to know, I needed
to know. Pull yourself together Eddie! I growled
menacingly towards Zaide. “Get out of my head”
I muttered aggressively. “Pssh, its like you’re
shouting them at us!” My death stare silenced
him quickly. I didn’t want his taunting right now.
I just wanted to see her again. I figured a quick
glance towards her direction wouldn’t hurt. So
casually I turned my head round to see a quick
glance at her beautiful doleful face. She was still
gazing at me and my eyes locked with hers once
more. Her cheeks blushed crimson red in
response and I lightly smiled. She was going to
be the death of me! She had the sweetest face.
Perfectly sculpted with a nose that was just
slightly too large for her face making her look
that much more beautiful. I so badly wanted to
go over to her table and ask her to sit with me so
that I could meet the girl behind the eyes and my
dreams. So badly that it took every particle of
strength in my body to keep from thrusting
myself across the dining room in animal form to
be close to her. But I had to keep control; Alroy
would kill me if I exposed us for what we were.
Well kill is an exaggeration as he is the most
eventempered person I know, but the principle
still holds. I barely even noticed that my family
was starting to get up, all of them grinning at me
and heading towards the door. Shit biology ugh
another lesson I could outsmart my teachers
whilst they were trying to convince themselves
that I was cheating somehow and there was no
way I could possibly be better in their teaching
field than they were. Especially in this particular
lesson, Mr Bennet was convinced that I was
somehow cheating in his lessons something,
which he had actually addressed my parents
officially about. I almost died of laughter when
my father asked him to ask me any question to
do with Science as how could I anticipate a pop
quiz on Parent Teacher Consultation Evening. It
was pure entertainment to see him shuffle in his
seat uncomfortably at my father’s perfectly
legitimate request. Of course he said it wouldn’t
be necessary and he never brought it up again.
Yet I still found myself grudgingly going to his
lessons with nothing more the do than stare at
the wall and count to cracks that I had become
accustomed to expect of the falling apart
building. It was basically and hour of pure
boredom where I all had to keep myself
entertained was the thoughts of people around
me. Yet of course I had become mixed with a
bunch of people who mad me wish I couldn’t
hear thoughts. Their generic minds made me
gag. All the he said she said gossip was so
trivial. My sisters found it interesting and kept
up to date with all the latest gossip but I
shunned away from it. Our first day her was
humorous, as immediately my family assumed
our usual cliques for high school. I was the quiet
‘hot musician’ (Sara and Josie’s words not mine!).
Zaide was the hunky quarterback, Josie the
Captain of the Cheerleading squad, Sara the
fashion queen and Ajax the smart hunk. All of
them fit the stereotype to perfection, but of
course I knew there was so much more to them
than the criteria that were attached to our labels.
They were my family and best friends and even
though most of us had from zero to none in
common it was still that way. I shuffled out of
my daydream as I walked through the door to
my biology lesson. I had an empty table perfect
for lounging across; it was my only sanctuary in
this unbearable lesson. I expected the find it
totally clear expect it wasn’t, instead a girl was
doodling some drawing on the front of her note
pad. She looked as though she were a million
miles away in her thoughts. Instinctively I froze,
less than a meter away from me was the girl of
my dreams, perfectly preserved with an
expression I couldn’t make out for the life of me.
She looked up as if she sensed my presence and
gazed intently into my eyes. I tried to listen to
her thoughts see if I could interpret her
expression but I couldn’t. It was as if she
blocking me. Her expression became hard and
suddenly I heard her. Stop trying to get into my
head animal boy. Jesus! What the hell was this?
She laughed at my expression and turned to me,
“Meet me just outside after school finishes by the
parking lot in the woods by the school, you
know where I’m talking about?” Her tone was
serious but she looked at me with a carefree
smile. I just nodded dumbfounded and sat
down. This was going to be an even longer hour
than usual…
The Invincible’s LILLY
I sat in through my class smirking as Edwin tried
to decipher how I could possibly know he could
mind read. It was quite humorous as looking
into his mind I could see that he wasn’t even
close to the truth. Shuffling uncomfortably in his
seat he looked stiff. Desperate to know what he
could be thinking I plunged deeper into his
thoughts. Ha! I almost laughed out loud by his
genuine fear of what he was going to tell his
family. Mostly he was scared about my ‘abilities’
which he was positive he hadn’t even seen a
glimpse of he was correct of course but I wasn‘t
going to tell him that. No… just let him squirm
until he realises I mean no harm to his or his so
called ‘family’. Again he scurried uncomfortably
in his seat and I plunged even deeper into his
mind, like it was my own. He was trying to
figure out what I was. Shouldn’t be too hard to
figure out but then vampires can be
exceptionally unobservant at times. We had been
under their nose for years; did they never
wonder who ultimately controlled the Volturi?
He knew I wasn’t human yet he could smell my
blood and the Vanilla and Freesia flavoured
scent was nothing he had ever experienced. I was
enjoying his squirming a little bit too much and
decided to put him out of his misery. I waited for
a moment and drained all the blood from my
face. Sucking my cheeks in profusely, I glanced
at the window and saw my reflection gaunt and
pale. Perfect! I turned back to my desk and
raised my hand. It took a moment to grasp my
incompetent teachers attention but once I did
there was no stopping me. “Sir I fell really ill and
faint, please can I go to the medical room.” I gave
him my best attempt at a puppy dog eyes look.
He looked at me suspiciously and zeroed into
my face. I was desperately trying to not look into
his thoughts as he would probably make me
laugh and the last thing I needed to do was give
myself away. “Well I suppose you are very
pale…” He snapped his head to glare at Edwin,
“You take her and stay until your next period
you know the whole darn syllabus anyway!”
Edwin rolled his eyes and I looked at Mr Bennet
incredulously. The man was seriously bitter and I
could help but read his mind. Stupid kid… he
must be cheating! He doesn’t play and attention to
my lectures anyway! Thinks he knows better! Well
Mr Cullen maybe your perfect 4.0 will drop by your
biology grade! I almost fell over whilst stifling a
laugh. He was ridiculous. Edwin was obviously
so smart because he had repeated high school at
least twice. Probably more but who keeps count?
I do, And it’s been way too long! His velvet voice
gushed through my ears. It sounded nice. I
almost welcomed the idea of somebody else in
my ohsoprivate mind. Not that I was going to
let him know that. I snarled under my breath,
“Get out of my head.” Muttering furiously a
slow grin spread across his face. “Please, like you
haven’t been intruding in mine for the last half
hour! I actually have a head ache from all the
poking and prodding you did!” Was he teasing
me? Vampires are so confusing! One minute
there jumping about in their seat, trying to figure
out what their parents will say about some crazy
sadistic not sohumangirl. And the next he is
teasing and… kind almost flirting? God! That’s
why you stick to your own kind! Stay away from
him Lilly! I glared at him whilst gathering my
things. A boy I had known for about an hour was
already messing with my head! I was in some
serious need of girl talk! I wish I could talk to
Aneeka but she was back home with the rest of
my family. Jeez I need to make some friends and
forget about my old life. I have plenty of time to
make friends forever in fact. Never aging does
get old, especially once I actually had a mother
who was in her late 90’s and I was still perfectly
preserved at 18. That was an awkward time…
trying to explain to my mother why I wasn’t
aging. I told her that I was her great
granddaughter and that Lilly had died years ago.
She always told me I was wrong, and that I was
her daughter. It made her so angry that I
wouldn’t just confirm what she knew to be true.
It broke my heart the day she died. I always
though that just before she passed I would be
able to tell her the truth and that I am so sorry
for lying to her after all these years. I never got
my chance, it broke my heart when the hospital
called but at least her death had been peaceful.
The way it should happen, sleeping is so
comfortable she probably just drifted off into
oblivion not even realizing what was happening.
I was drifting off into my thoughts and needed
to stay focused. Edwin and I were walking and
pretty soon I was going to have to go running
and think because of all the thoughts that were
clouding my mind. I glanced over at him
nervously and immediately read his thoughts.
He desperately wants to know what I am… but
could I tell him? As in everything, or do I lie. Tell
him I am a vampire and that I wont bother them
again. So many questions he had and so little I
knew how to answer. This was going to be
impossible. There was also my knowing that if I
did tell him everything that his ‘family’ would
see me as a threat and try to kill me. I was in
total unknown territory. Now way of knowing
which way to turn anywhere could end with my
death or worse. I had to decide. Was I going to
trust him, or was I going to be the same old Lilly
who knew nothing but her own thoughts and
how different she was to everybody else. I was
pondering about what to do when Edwin
brushed my hand lightly. Presumably by
accident but my body didn’t agree with that.
Shock waves of electricity rushed onto my skin.
My heart was having palpitations and my hands
were clammy. A feather light touch had caused
that? Damn! What the hell was wrong with me!
All he had done was brush against me and I was
suppressing to urge to have my way with him
right there! We were barley out of the classroom
door and already I was having some improper
thoughts. Jeez I needed a boyfriend or
something to get the effects that had been caused
by a friendly gesture could cause. Friendly
gesture… that was it. I had to keep saying it over
in my mind. He was just being friendly. Just
being friendly. I glanced at his face to see if he
had heard any of that in my mind. God that
would be embarrassing! He would think I was
some freaky stalker would got excited by a light
brush on my arm. I had to get away from him
before I gave myself away. I slid past the door
and checked behind me to see that only Edwin
and myself were in this stretch of the corridor. I
felt the anticipation building in my muscles until
finally I released and sped down the corridor
like I was flying. Only three seconds had passed
and I was gliding through the forest. I felt all of
my worries slip away and I began slowly
stopping to let Edwin catch up. I had promised
to explain this all to him and had every intention
of keeping that promise. I was decided; I trusted
him and was going to tell him the truth. Not the
cliff notes version either. Everything I knew
about my existence was going to poured into
somebody who I had known for all of 45
minutes. After what seemed like an eternity I
was stationary and listened for Edwin’s
approaching footsteps. He was quick, nowhere
near as fast as me but then again I had never met
anyone with my freaky abilities. It was
exhilarating to know that Edwin was almost as
talented in the running department as I was. I
was almost definitely older too, which meant
that maybe he would someday be as good as me
and I can finally race someone seriously and not
have to slow down significantly. Two more
seconds… one… he grabbed my arm and the
same electrifying sensation I had experienced
before was back. He spun me round until both of
his hands were placed of my arms. Holding me
there firmly he stared at me locking my eyes
incapacitating my ability to turn or move away. I
felt the oddest sensation to kiss him again but
shook the thought from my head. He stared
shaking me lightly, “Lilly, did you hear what I
said? How did you run like that! I was running
as fast as I could after you and… you were barely
trying! You were almost flying! How… how did
you do it? What… Lilly what are you?” He had
so many questions, and I desperately wanted to
answer them all but first I had to know what he
already knew about me. Gulping I locked his
eyes with my own “Edwin… what do you know
about the invincibles?”
Explanations EDWIN
“Edwin, what do you know about the
invincibles?” The invincibles? What is she
talking about? I paused to gather my thoughts
and glanced at her face to assess her formality.
“Umm… honestly Lilly I have no idea what you
are talking about.” She sighed frustratingly
bringing her fingers up to her temple and then
massaging them in quick swift motions. Her
guard was down and I took the opportunity to
read her thoughts. Dammit! How can he not know
anything! Vampires aren’t stupid! I can’t tell him
everything about us can I? No. I promised myself. I
trust him and I will tell him. I will tell him. I must
tell him. I quickly blocked her thoughts granting
her privacy. She trusted me. Lilly trusted me. All
I had to do was give her time to tell me. It would
only be right for me to tell her too about
everything. The dreams and how I came to know
that she was the one who I would inevitably love
forever. No matter what she was about to tell me
nothing would change. She would always be the
most beautiful person to me, inside and out. Her
eyelashes fluttered lightly and she looked up at
me assessing my sincerity. “Edwin, I want to tell
you everything. But I’m not proud of it all and I
certainly understand if you want me to leave
after I tell you everything. But I will leave it up to
you. I want to make sure. Are you… are you
positive that you want to know about me and
what I am? Because once I tell you, there is no
way to forget and“ I cut her off, “No I want to
know, I have to know. No secrets, if you tell me
then… then I will tell you about me too.”
Breaking into a light smile I felt the electricity
between us becoming apparent once more. “Lets
talk about this at my house, my parents aren’t
home so we will be alone.” Only once I said it
did I realize how I must have sounded. She
blushed a deep crimson red and turned her head
slightly away from me, “Ok lead the way and
please try to go faster than a snail this time.” She
was teasing me because I wasn’t as fast as a
bullet. Pssh bring it on! She laughed aloud, “All
talk no action!” With that I clicked my heels and
dug my toes deep in the ground and catapulted
my body forward. I ran with so much force I
couldn’t see the ground beneath me. I heard her
laugh from close behind me as she effortlessly
caught up to my sprint. Jesus she was fast! I cut a
corner and relished the last seconds as I saw my
house becoming clearer and clearer. I saw her
inching behind me closing the gap until she was
ahead of me. “Hey! How are you going to find
my house if your leading the way?” Laughing at
me she snorted and picked up her pace, “Your
scent is everywhere I could find it in my sleep!”
The house was seconds away and I slowed down
until I reached a screeching halt outside the
garage. I saw her jaw drop and she gave the
expected once over. My mother Clare had a way
with interior design and definitely didn’t hold
back on decorating. “Welcome to my humble
abode not exactly what you were expecting?”
She rolled her eyes and pulled her hair from her
face in one swift motion. “No not exactly but I
find that you tend to surprise me and I have only
known you for an hour.” She looked at me
expectantly, “Aren’t you going to invite me in?” I
blushed lightly as I barely even heard her. Whilst
she was examining my house I was gazing at her.
“Sure lets talk in my room.” I opened the door
and held it open for her. Her jaw dropped down
lower as she took in her surroundings. “You…
you live here?” I stifled a laugh, her reaction was
priceless, “Yes, my mother is quite the
decorator.” Her head spun around trying to
appreciate everything the room held. “Well it’s
really nice!” I had to chuckle at her surprised
tone. Where did she think we lived in a cave?
“Not exactly what you were expecting?” She
eyed me nonchalantly, “No I suppose not but like
I said before you tend to surprise me.” I
chuckled under my breath again; she had a very
sharp personality. It was quite refreshing. “You
coming?” I turned to her and sped up the stairs,
which lead to my bedroom. I was done with all
the time wasting that was in effect, I wanted my
answers and I was sure she wanted them too. I
swung my metal door open and held it open
politely for her. I wasn’t going to forget my
manners around her, if I had to admit she
actually scared me slightly. She walked under
my arm through the door and walked hesitantly
through the threshold of my doorframe. Her face
scrunched up in surprise and I chuckled once
more, “Not exactly what you were expecting
again?” She simply scowled at me and plopped
herself down on my large leather black sofa. “I
resent that. I’m simply surprised that you have
such a nice home. It’s just so light and open.” She
glanced over at me hesitantly, “I suppose you
want to hear the story now right?” My eyes
flickered up meeting hers; I felt the same
unexplainable intensity that I had felt in the
lunch hall and again couldn’t bare to part with
her gaze. After what seemed like an eternity I
regrettably tore from her eyes and walked over
to my sofa. “Yes… I want to know.” She sighed
hesitantly, “Ok but I’m warning you it
aintpretty.”
Lilly’s Life LILLY
Edwin stared at me with eyes that urged me to
go on. Sighing I sat up and closed my eyes, I
needed to be hidden from his reactions. For
some reason I had developed a small crush on
somebody who I had known for barley an hour. I
found myself yearning for his acceptance. Above
all I found myself on the brink of depression if
he were to shun me for what I am. I fluttered my
eyes open and saw his unchanged expression
willing me for an explanation. Sighing I took my
head in my hands and begun what I could only
describe as the tale of my twisted existence. “I
was born in Holland in the 1800’s, 1867 to be
specific. I was born into a family of 5. I was the
fourth child. My father was an important banker
and dealt with very important people across
Europe. He desperately wanted a boy so that the
Brae family name could go on. To say I was a
disappointment doesn’t cut it. I was the
devastating reminder that our family name
would end with my father. My sisters and I got
on very well. Their names were Alice, Clare and
Aneeka and throughout my child years were my
only friends. My father became abusive over the
years and I would always be the sole target. He
would tell me it was my fault that his business
transactions weren’t thriving as they used to. He
said I was a curse that God had plagued on the
family and that I didn’t deserve my sisters or my
mother. I broke my heart, and after years of his
screams I broke down into a shell of nothing. I
began to steal money from him and it took me
two years but once I was 17 I had over £300
pounds. He never noticed the disappearing
money because he was selfish. He never let my
mother know how much he was actually
making. It was disgusting he would work until
4pm, then go to the bar and pay for a hooker, be
home my six and expect my mother to have sex
with him. I hated him with every fibre in my
being. I told my sister Clare of my intentions and
that I was going to run away. She begged me to
stay telling my I was her only salvation and that
our sisters would be lost without me but I knew I
had to go. The night I ran away I went to see my
mother. She knew it was coming and told me to
take care of myself and never let a man be
abusive to me. She realised that I would
eventually run away when I was 16 and had
saved up £100 for me. Of course I refused telling
her I already had money and I told her to keep it
in case something happened and she ever had to
leave. It broke my heart saying goodbye, but I
managed it. For about three months I was free. I
had never felt so exhilarated. The notion that I
would never have to return to my horrible
former existence ever again was so exhilarating. I
created a new identity for myself; I went from
Meghan Brae to Lilly Sears. After leaving my
identity behind I went to Italy. I knew Italian
from school and fit in surprisingly well. My
money however had taken a major dent and I
needed to get a job. I went into Volterra the heart
of Italy to look for work. It wasn’t long before I
met the Volturi. I worked as their assistant for a
month before a man named Lex approached me.
He told me all vampires and that I worked for
them. At first I didn’t believe what he was
saying… but they put a little show on for me. To
say it was horrifying is an understatement; I
pretty much blocked that day out of my mind
completely. He told me that I had a choice; I
could either become a vampire, become my
boss’s next meal or have an experiment put on
me. He didn’t detail what the experiment was
however he promised that I would not become a
vampire and that he wouldn’t kill me. It seemed
like my best option. So I agreed, I barely
remember what happened. I slipped in and out
of consciousness during the experiment but I
was fully awake for the last part.” I gulped
catching my breath. I had been talking for so
long that darkness was enveloping in Edwin’s
room. I hadn’t realized that audience that had
accumulated either. His whole family was sitting
with us now looking curiously at me. Edwin
brushed against my arm, “Ignore us, just carry
on.” I gave him a curt nod and closed my eyes,
“Members of the Volturi walked into a room
which I was in, Lex was standing with me. There
was a girl that was being dragged by Aro one of
the Volturi members. I tried to see her face but I
couldn’t make it out. Aro bit her right in front of
me. But instead of shrivelling her up she started
writhing in pain screaming. Begging. She begged
me to help her, it was then that I saw it was my
sister Aneeka. I broke down right there. Lex was
approaching her with a huge needle, he drew a
large amount of her blood and then approached
me. I had never felt so sick in my stomach. I
knew nothing of newborns at that point and was
a naïve 17 year old. He injected me with my
sisters blood before I even had a chance to
protest. I blacked out and woke up 6 months
later. Lex was gone, my sister gone and the
Volturi all gone. All I had were my possessions
and a letter detailing what had happened. It took
me 4 years to find people like me. They were
living in Chicago and took me in when I was all
alone. They became my family and I stayed with
them for about a 100 years. They called
themselves the invincibles for good reason too.
My adoptive fathers name was Delayor he was
well over 1000 years old and runs the Volturi. I
never found out what happened to my sister, or
the rest of my family, it didn’t matter though I
could never see them again after what I became.
After I found the invincibles they taught me
about what I had become. For lack of a better
term I am a vampire without all the downsides
that come with it. I am warm. I don’t need blood.
I don’t even need food. I am immortal however I
can have children. They told me how my
transformation happened, explaining that
because newborns are exceptionally stronger
than regular vampires my power was enhanced.
The only reason Lex was able to extract my
sisters blood was because she hadn’t gone
through the whole change and her body had
become as hard as stone. The needle extracted
her already altered blood. It already carried the
superhuman powers. I am amazingly fast,
unbelievably strong, as well as that I have
other… senses. I’m not sure how to explain these
so well. I will have to show you when the time
comes. It all became to much for me to handle.
That is why I came to Plute. I had left my
adoptive family in search of any relatives that I
have. I was shocked to find out that my sisters
Clare and Alice married and had children. Alice
was the only one who still had the line carried
on. That’s how I met Dawn my great great great
great great neice. To say she was an unfit mother
doesn’t cut it and eventually I went to live my
aunt Jean here in Plute. It took some convincing
on my part, my adoptive brother Dylan had been
really supportive and wanted me to stay with
him, but I couldn’t. It was too painful, so Jean an
absolutely wonderful women took me in. She
reminds me of my real mother in so many ways.
After all this time I had learnt to reject any sort
of affection, love anything that resembled a
family unit. Jean changed that though. She’s
amazing and I will be really said to say goodbye
to her.” I reluctantly opened my eyes to see
Edwin’s family and their stunned faces. I
laughed, “Wow it takes a lot to shock a vampire!
Breathe guys even if you don’t technically need
to. It’s not healthy for you to all just sit there!”
Edwin broke into a smile and slowly the others
found their composure. “I suppose you want to
know our story then? It’s not nearly as exciting I
might add but I shall tell you anyway. If you still
want to know.” He looked at me hesitantly, “”Of
course I do, and why so serious? Gosh your just
a bucket of sunshine, now explain I just told you
top secret stuff. I expect some serious dirt!”
Edwin glanced at the man I presumed to be his
father. He grinned at me, “I like her son. She’s a
keeper.”
Edwin’s Life EDWIN
Lilly’s words were cascading around in my
mind. How could somebody do that to her?
Make her become and invincible? It was so
unnatural I can’t even begin to understand! I
thought that vampires were like mutants but she
was injected with the blood of a new born. Blood
is such a powerful thing it makes us what we are
and created what she is. I glanced over at her
face. It was unmistakinglybeautiful. Yet behind
the shoulder length golden blonde hair her
bright blue eyes were so sad. Nobody should
look this distressed especially not somebody as
perfect as her. She had one tear travelling lightly
down the side of her cheek. My family was
downstairs making no attempt to block their
thoughts. Alroy was emulating his previous
words and murmuring to himself how Lilly
seemed to just fit in with my reserved character.
My mother Carin was overjoyed by how elated I
appeared. My siblings had mixed views, all not
very sure what to make of her. Zaide was
contemplating whether or not I was going to ‘get
lucky’. My sisters were in exact unison both
wanted the best for me but didn’t like that Lilly
was. It was all so frustrating; I desperately
wanted to be with her. Completely. However the
light nagging in my mind that told me I was all
wrong for her refused to diminish. I wanted to
tell her exactly what I was, try to explain in a
way that she would understand so she didn’t
think of me as a monster. I was so conflicted, a
part of me large admittedly wanted to forget
everything and just tell her. But the other side of
my brain, possibly the more logical told me to
shy away from whatever the feelings I was
having. It almost broke my dormant heart to
even think these words even more by
considering them. Her ragged impatient breaths
brought me back to the stunning reality that she
was waiting for my explanation. My eyes
flickered up o hers and held her gaze for an
immeasurable amount of time. As much as I
wanted to tell her everything, I felt in the pit of
my stomach a lurching fear that she would run.
So far that even if I wanted to I would never
catch her. She had already displayed her
incredible speed and all it took was one false
move from my part and she would burst from
my life as quickly as she has exploded in. Ugh
grow a pair and tell her! Zaide had obviously
acquired a death wish in the last few hours
seeing as he had entered my mind without my
permission several times. I suppressed the urge
to race down the stairs and throttle him. Turning
lightly I collected my thoughts and flickered my
gaze to Lilly’s trusting eyes. Apprehensively I
began the tale of my existence, “ I was born in
England in 1901. My father was a blacksmith and
my mother was a nurse. Both immeasurably kind
raised me to believe in the good of people. When
I was 18 war had broken out and being the naïve
young man I was I went. I broke my mothers
heart parting with her and my father so quickly
was the blackest of blasphemy. I never saw her
again after I left her. It was very bitter sweet as
my mother had just announced her second
pregnancy. My parents were young whilst
having me and my mother believed herself to be
infertile. Leaving my parents was one of the
hardest choices I had ever succumbed to make.
The year I spent out at war was the most eventful
of my human existence. I spent a little over a year
out in trenches and by the end everybody in my
original group had perished. I was upgraded
steadily throughout the year and had a natural
flare and instinct for survival. I almost knew
when something was going to happen. When I
met Seth we instantly clicked. We were best
friends during the last few months of my war
experience. On the 18th 1919 we were ambushed
and bullets were flying around like daggers. I
almost knew where they were coming from and
had an undutiful dread that one was going to hit
Seth. Once I had anticipated this I lurched myself
over in front of him to protect his fate. He had
not only a sweetheart at home but a kid on the
way. It was too much for me to imagine his death
so I leapt in front of the bullet that wanted to
destroy his happiness. I had several shot
wounds six in total. Most of the bullets hit my
upper torso and one in my left arm. Shockingly I
wasn’t left to die due to my status in the army.
They brought my almost lifeless straight to the
morgue with my hope of my survival. That’s
where Alroy was working and he found me. I
had no idea of what I was about to become but
felt strangely at ease by his presence. I don’t
remember much of my change due to the fact I
was so close to death. I do remember to pain.
Excruciating. It felt ike giant pokers were being
slid through my veins and I had no power to
stop the burning. I begged for death but the light
never came. I woke up deep from slumber three
days later with Alroy and my mother Carin.
They treated my like a real son and over the
years our family unit has grown and developed.
The three days that I was being changed I only
saw one thing. Over nadover in my mind. It
wouldn’t disappear and even once I woke up
changed it was all I could see in the lids of my
eyes engraved forever in my thoughts.” I passed
hesitantly and she had a small smile placed on
her beautiful lips, “What was it?” I smiled and
shook my head, “No Lilly not what but who.
Those three days all I had were dreams of you.
Your eyes, nose, forehead, lips always you. It all
seemed so real. So brilliant. I never wanted to
wake, all I wanted was this brilliant dream to
become a reality. The moment I opened my eyes
and discovered what I was I broke down. I
needed you. I needed to see your face like I had
in my head. Every part of your features held
such a deep clarity that I was desperate to see
something that even resembled something half
as beautiful. I was a lost cause, silently praying
that I would find you. So I always hoped that
maybe one day, you would reaper as the girl
from my dreams. I would sit in my room
listening to music in a desperate attempt to
distract myself from your face, which was slowly
disappearing from my mind, but all I could see
was you. I was not going to let myself forget any
part of you. I found that will each slip of
memory I lost a bit more hope each time. Every
time I failed to be able to recall the way your skin
had glowed lightly in the light or that way your
whispers wrapped around my oxygen acting as a
caress I would break down. I was helplessly
caught up with a dream of a women who could
only be described as a goddess.” Her breath
hitched slightly returning me to the dawning fact
that I was revealing how much I cared for her
after knowing her for a few hours. Fuckk!! Talk
about a sure way to scare a girl away! Her eyes
were desperately trying to lock with mine but
my embarrassment ensures my gaze to be fixed
with the rather uninteresting floor. “Is there
something on the floor that is distracting you?
Because I was pretty sure you were declaring
that you… like me.” She smirked at me lightly
pressing me to carry on with my story. I gulped
lightly and tried to press into her mind Omg, did
he really just say that? Did I really jut come up with
that lame response? And here I thought it was only
me who was incredibly infatuated by his very
presence. Wait Lilly shut up! You can’t like him like
that you have known him for what 4 hours? Get a
grip, it doesn’t matter how easy it is to be around
him. Or the fact that you just divulged all of your
most personal secrets to him… does it? Can it. Does
he truly? Or… or is he just saying that. UGH the
urge to kiss him is becoming really hard to suppress!
“Right… umm.” Stuttering lightly I glanced back
at her as she bit her lip in a mix of frustration
and obvious enjoyment. “ We can get back to
my… feelings later. I want you to know more
about my actual existence like why we are
different to other vampires. After being with
Alroy and Carin for 60 years we began to notice
some changes in our behaviour. At first it was
small things. Uncharacteristic growls and the
ability to do things a little better than before. I
was in a very heated argument with Zaide as he
had gone into my mind when I was very upset
about… you. And well I sort of lost it. Before I
even knew what was happening I was being torn
from my brother by the rest of my family. The all
had extremely uneasy frightened expressions
plastered on this faces and I yearned to know
what was wrong. I felt terribly guilty for
attacking my brother and he just grinned at me
exclaiming that it was, and I quote “SO COOL!”
he wouldn’t stop raving about how cool it all was
until he realised I had absolutely no idea what he
was talking about.” I hesitated, could I really
reveal this? She glanced at me and opened her
mouth and closing it quickly. She locked my eyes
for an immeasurable period as I got caught up in
her eyes making me want her even more. She
chuckled lightly and murmured quietly, “As long
as you didn’t turn into a bat or something I’m
cool” My breath hitched and I murmured back
as quietly as she had “Or something…” Her
eyebrows shot up in anticipation and her jerking
head nod urged me to go on. “After drinking
animal blood for a good 70 years we discovered
hidden… talents that we had developed.” She
regulated her breathing before hesitantly
responding to me, “Such as…” I chuckled
without humour and looked sadly into her eyes.
“I can with the flip of a mental switch turn into
either a cheetah or snake.” Her eyes widened in
vast surprise. “Jesus! That’s an “all
something”alright! Is it just you or the rest of
your family? can you just keep going forever as
an animal? What it like? Why a cheetah? Infact
why a sna“ I interrupted her fast flow of
questions, “Lilly! Stop I promise I will answer all
you questions you just have to give me and
opening.” She blushed away from me and
whispered an apology. I gulped and look at the
ravishing colour emitting coming form her
cheeks so… beautiful. The word barely held any
meaning as I had used it to describe her on so
many counts. “No it’s not just me, the rest of my
family can all… transform into animals. Alroy a
eagle, Carin a tiger, Josie a lion, Ajax a mountain
lion, Sara a tarantula and uh Zaide he’s a umm…
Grizzly Bear.” I saw her shudder and gasp as I
listed all of the menacing animals that we were
all able to impersonate. “I am the only one who
can become two animals though. Zaide liked to
say it’s because I have no life andtherefore have
more times to develop my skills but Alroy
believes it is because I have to most conflicted
character. He believes I become a snake so that I
can slither though life undetected and simply
wither away to dream of you forever. He also
believes I become a cheetah so that I can run and
find you. Presently he believes that unless I find
you I will always be this way.” Her breath
hitched again and I took the opportunity to read
her mind to interpret her exceedingly frustrated
collected expression. Gahhh he is so perfect and all
I can do is fantasize about him? He is telling me how
deeply he feels and all I can think about is how much I
want to kiss him in the rain and just be with him
forever. He is breaking me down and all I feel is this
rollercoaster of emotions. He can’t see me for what I
am and still accept me can he? God its 2am, Jean is
going to have a fit but I have absolutely no intention
of leaving this spot. Maybe I could just jump him and
kiss him until he reciprocated. Hmmmm tempting. So
tempting. God what was I saying? I was slightly
amused by her thoughts and how she doubted
herself for absolutely no reason. I inched closer
to her until I was centimetres away from her. The
heat eradicating from her porcelain skin was
enough for me to faint. She turned to face me,
her breathing ragged and laboured. “Edwin, I’m
sure you were intruding in my mind so you
know exactly want I desperately want you to
do.” I smirked at her, “I’m sure I have absolutely
no idea what you talking about.” Leaning further
into her and our lips were millimetres apart.
“Sure you don’t” She leant further to my lips
until millimetres became micrometers and the
anticipation was curling in my stomach. She was
too irresistible for her own good! She stared into
my eyes with complete trust. He vivacious blue
sapphire eyes swimming connected with mine.
“Beautiful...” was all I managed to whisper until
our lips met and every detail I had imagined in
my hundred years became reality. The moment
my lips touched hers I was in sheer bliss with
electricity coursing through myveins. Exactly
perfection.
Electric Veins Lilly
(A/N sorry guys just a short authors note, this is just
a few pages, so just counts as a small update. I didn’t
want to leave you hanging so I just kind of wrote
this for fun. A little bit of fluff :D )
The anticipation heaved in my heavy stomach as
he slid closer to me. I wasn’t sure if the
movement was conscious but I was suddenly
very aware of his hot breath caressing the side of
my cheek. His steady breathing was like a
lullaby lulling me into an unbreakable trance.
His movements, so tantalizingly slow make my
heart beat erratically. His impromptu advances
were no coincidence; he had been reading into
my mind and heard my less thanappropriate
fantasy. Oh god he was so close to my face that
the anticipation was becoming too much. My
breath hitched, as he got so close that I finally
saw his face. Of course I had seen it before, but
never so close. The detail was impeccable,
pristine and clear. He leaned closer to me until
our lips were millimetres away. Gazing into my
eyes I didn’t blink. This moment was too perfect
to waste doing something as mundane as
blinking. We were moving at exactly the perfect
pace. As if to gauge my reaction he leaned even
closer. Our lips so close that I felt my heart
beating widely out of control. I expected him to
smirk, but he didn’t. All the sarcastic things I
would have said were non apparent in my mind.
All I felt was the complete distraction Edwin was
for me. Nothing could take my mind of the fact
that our lips were about to touch. It had seemed
like an eternity since he had begun moving
closer towards me. I wanted him to lean the
millimetre it would take and was becoming
frustrated. I wasn’t a delicate flower and was
about to die of frustration. He opened his mouth
and whispered almost inaudibly, “Beautiful…”
and then our lips met. To say it was electricity
coursing through me was an understatement. I
felt as though I had just been jolted with an elixir
of pure bliss. The kiss was no0t as sweet as I had
imagined it would be. It was passionate and
expressed everything neither of us were ready to
express. I wrapped my arms around his neck
and hoisted my body closer to him desperate for
more contact. The heat leaking from his body
made me moan slightly. I was too caught up in
the kiss to even be remotely embarrassed. I
didn’t even notice the door had opened until
Edwin pulled reluctantly away from me. He
grinned at someone sheepishly behind me.
Reluctant to tear away from his face my scanned
it once more trying to commit it to memory, once
I was sure I was done I turned slowly. Before us
stood Edwin’s whole family. Oh god had they
seriously just seen us kissing each other
senseless? There are some things that should
never be seen and I am not one for public signs
of affection. It’s meant to be intimate not a
cinema or film for anyone to watch. I couldn’t
decipher their faces. All of them had a look of
shock but besides that it was blank. Totally
unreadable. Seconds passed and they all just
stood there. I was a bit miffed what the hell was I
meant to do? I was about to break the
uncomfortable silence when Zaide doubled over
with laughter. “I’m... sorry! Your face! It is just…
PRICELESS!” He was gasping for air so
manically that the others joined in until the
whole family was laughing uncontrollably. I just
sat there dumbfounded unsure of what to do
with myself. The boy just continued to laugh at
me whilst exclaiming, “You’re killing me! Edwin
you have to keep her! Her expressions will have
me pissing my pants soon!” I broke into a smile
and glanced at Edwin who was clinging onto my
waist protectively. “Ok Zaide knock it off man
and catch you breath.” The boy whose name was
obviously Zaide pressed his lips into a tight line
to keep from laughing. The rest of the family all
straightened up and looked considerably
happier. “I am sorry about that just now Lilly, we
were just a bit shocked with... the umm… well
you know…” Edwin’s mother trailed off with a
hopeful look in her eye. I smiled warmly, “Of
course I didn’t realize that you were uh… there.”
I finished lamely with the same look in my eye
hoping she wouldn’t make me say that I was just
sucking face with her son. She smiled at me and
turned to her family, “Come on, you all expect
privacy Edwin and Lilly deserve some too.”
Edwin smiled as a thank you gesture to his
mother and I let out a breath I hadn’t realized I
was holding. The family filed out of the room
and one last glance from Edwin’s mother calmed
me down. I turned back to Edwin and smiled.
“Well that was just a tinsy, winsy bit awkward.”
Edwin laughed and grabbed my hands,
“Common I want you to meet them properly,
and not whilst we are kissing. We’ll umm save
that for later…” Later. Hmm I liked the sound of
that.
Later… EDWIN
(A/N sorry if this is really weird to read. I find it
hard to write about boys looking at girls and stuff.
Since I am a girl and all. Lol sorry if it’s really bad I
had to read a lot of books yesterday to get myself in
the ‘boy’ frame of mind. That’s why this took so
long)
She was killing me. The moment I had said the
word ‘later’ her mind was an open book. At least
I knew from her… fantasies that it wasn’t just me
who was getting a little too enthusiastic and
carried away. I was going to have to reign in my
feelings if I was in any state to introduce Lilly
properly to my parents. The fact that she was
embarrassed humoured me. I knew my parents
weren’t angry, just shocked. Zaide swore that I
was gay all these years. Considering I had never
so much as even looked at a girl they had some
entitlement to their suspicions. Of course once I
had seen Lilly’s face in my mind the day I was
changed I couldn’t really see other women any
more. I was claimed. It was excruciatingly
difficult to lift Lilly off my lap which she had
been straddling and set her up on her feet.
Immediately I missed to warmth and grabbed
her hand to make up for it. Her lips curved into a
small smile and she rubbed circles into the palm
of my hand. I pulled her in closer to me
desperate for more contact. Her eyes widened
and her breath hitched, “Edwin… I… we…”
She seemed unable to form a coherent sentence
and I smiled. It was refreshing to know that I
was not the only one taken away by the others
presence. I traced her collarbone with my lips
and murmured against her skin, “Mmm…
what’s that? “ I smirked as I felt her wobble
slightly due to my close proximity. “Well, we
have to…” She stammered as I crossed my lips
up behind her ear. “Ed…win.. Edwin stop!” She
took a deep breath and took a vey large step
backwards. “I can’t think with you so close.” She
closed her eyes and took a deep breath, which I
presumed meant she was trying to clear her
head. I smirked as I watched her rub her temples
and slowly open her eyes. “Uhh and stop
smirking! Am I going to meet you family or not?
All they know me by is the girl who was spilling
her deepest darkest secrets and the girl who was
straddling their brother/son. Not exactly the
lasting impression I want to give.” She begun
making her way towards the door and I pulled
her back again reaching for her waist. “Fine. But
I think I deserve a kiss for letting you go so
easy.” It was her turn to smirk as she lent in for
my lips only to quickly switch to my cheek.
“Common Cheetah catch me if you can.” She
rushed out of my door before I could so much as
blink. I broke into a huge smile and raced after
her. I was confused when I saw her at the foot of
the staircase. “What. Running into your living
room all sweaty and flustered isn’t exactly the
lasting impression I want to give your family
either. Common.” She said whilst reaching for
my hand, which I enveloped perfectly in her
small hand. We walked in a comfortable silence
down the stairs until reaching the door to our
spacious living area. Everyone, be nice… please
you know how much she means to me. For the first
time in a hundred years I was willingly let my
family hear my thoughts.
Lasting impressions? LILLY
Breathe Lilly… breathe. I smiled inwardly as I
tried to keep my thoughts coherent. The small
amount of contact that I have obtained with this
Adonis was enough to make my head pulse.
Jesus he could hear me if he were listening, so
could the whole family for that fact. Okay, new
subject! Ermm ok recite the bible in French keep
the brain busy. Au commencement, Dieu créa le ciel
et la terre. Or, la terre était alors informe et vide. Les
ténèbres couvraient l'abîme, et l'Esprit de Dieu
planait audessus des eaux. Et Dieu dit alors: Que la
lumière soit! Et la lumière fu]. I heard Edwin’s
laugh over my reciting, “You know I can still
hear what you are thinking underneath all that
French babble.” I blushed furiously because
what I had really been thinking should have
been taking place in a place far, far away form
Edwin’s family. He spun my body round with
his hand and pulled me close. “Don’t worry your
too busy to notice, but I am thinking along the
same lines.” He cupped my cheek gently and
rested his forehead lightly onto my own. Our lips
were travelling dangerously closer when a voice
unsettlingly loud echoed through the house.
“EDWIN! STOP DISTRACTING HER MAN! I
WANNA MEET THE CHICK!” Edwin’s growl
snarled from out of his chest and I couldn’t
suppress my giggle. “Common your brother is
right, I am assuming that was Zaide?” He rolled
his eyes, “Of course it was, how did you know?”
I laughed lightly and pulled him back toward the
door that we were previously facing. I glanced at
him and took another deep breath. Eh, it’s now
or never. I stared at the doorknob willing it too
open itself but thought that might freak Edwin
out so instead reached for it with my hand. It felt
slightly unnatural doing something that I would
usually just use one of my many powers to
achieve but thought it was necessary. I would tell
Edwin about the extent of my powers another
time. This was definitely not the ‘time.’ I hoped
that he wouldn’t hold it against me. The fact that
I was so powerful even scared my own family.
This was of course ridiculous since I would
never hurt them but Edwin has no reassurance
of that. He had absolutely no reason to trust me.
Ugh damn myself and my fucked up existence!
Edwin cleared his throat bringing myself out of
my transitory state. Sighing I turned the
doorknob and swung the door open lightly.
Revealing all of his family squatting on sofas
looking completely unnatural. This was sure
going to be and interesting night…
The Bijillion Questions. EDWIN
(A/N I realized that my chapter are getting steadily
shorter so I made a great effort to make this one
longer, thanks again for your amazing reviews!)
I had to swallow back the laugh that was
threatening to seep through as I surveyed my
family. All but Zaide were sitting in
uncharacteristic human positions, resting on the
rarely used sofas. I may have been able to keep
my laugh in however Lilly was not so lucky.
“Wow talk about weird! You don’t have to act
normal for me, its not like I don’t know what you
are.” My family looked relived yet apprehensive,
I knew what they were thinking but before I
could explain to Lilly Alroy beat me to the
punch. “That’s very kind of you Lilly but we
were slightly apprehensive. You see we normally
just morph into our animal shapes and some are
slightly… threatening.” A smile broke across her
beautiful face, “Ohh duh! I think I would have
run away screaming if I had seen a bear in here!
Good thinking, you just saved me some major
embarrassment!” Alroy chuckled lightly at her
honestly. “Yes I can imagine. Oh I almost forgot
we called your aunt and she said that it was fine
for you to stay here for the night since it was
getting quite late. I hope we weren’t intruding
but we wanted to get to know you better.” Her
smile causing butterflies to flutter in my
stomach. “Of course not, I hope Jean didn’t cause
you too much trouble. She is a rather… eccentric
women.” Alroy smiled, “Yes she is and be
prepared for a bombardment of questions from
her when you return tomorrow. She sounded
very excited by the revelation of you staying
here.” Lilly nodded understandingly, “I had a bit
of trouble after my, um…” She trailed off with a
very sad look in her eyes. It hurt to see her
looking so sad and mournful. I reached my hand
out to cup hers with and felt a spark on sensation
tingling through the skin on my hand, travelling
up towards my back. She was so electrifying that
a touch as innocent as this had been rocked to
my core. I saw the corners of he mouth uplift
slightly but the smile failed to reach her eyes.
Something was deeply troubling her. Again I
reached out for her so that I could cradle her like
a child in my arms. One day. I had known her for
one day yet I was willing to give her every part
of me. Every single shread of my soul and heart,
she was pure and graceful. It didn’t matter that
she was created by something that prior I
believed to be a monster she was an angel. An
angel in my own personal hell. She shuffled into
my chest and fit in perfectly. I was totally made
for her, made to love her, made to be with her
and lastly made to hold her. I knew holding her
in my arms that she was tainted. She had
experienced her fair share of pain. The evidence
was pouring from her solitary state. She was
slightly broken and jarred, she recoiled slightly
from others touches but not from mine. It was
like she needed me just as much as I evidently
needed her. I called out for her like a farmer
begging for rain or a musician feeling the notes
of his music. She was my other half, otherwise I
was nothing but a shell of what I was with her.
The sweet turning of her mood as she settled in
my arms was something I needed. I needed this
her. She was in pain and from now on it wasn’t
her pain, it was ours. I cant live knowing that
something was wrong with her. I had to share
the burden of her past not because I knew of it
but because I loved her. Every fibre of my being
knew this however saying it aloud in my mind
reaffirmed it. The potency in which she affected
me was enough to suffocate any doubts of how
what she was could affect me. We would deal
with so issues when it came to it. All I knew was
that I wouldn’t let it affect how I felt about her.
She was perfect and however much I believed
her to be too good for me with any luck she
thought I was worthy of her. EWDIN? She seems
reluctant to say what she was about to say so I am
going to drop it. Maybe you should ask her later. Son
I really do like her try not to close yourself off from
her. My father’s thoughts brought me back to
reality and I was becoming aware of the seconds
that were ticking by. Lilly had trailed off whilst
she was about to say something, I will ask about
it later. I want to know everything about her and
that includes all the bad things. “Dad Mum I
swear you were going to go hunting tonight?”
Thank God for Sara and her brilliant mind. Alroy
glanced over at me hesitantly before I nodded
slightly to signify that everything was fine. “Of
course it slipped my mind, I hope you don’t
mind Lilly but I have work tomorrow and the
delicacy of my job means I should be well fed
most of the time. Please make you self at home
we will be back in the morning. Carin lets go.”
My mother nodded a shot me a stern look, No
funny business Edwin. I had to bite back laughter.
I was a hundred years old not a overexcited
teenager. Rolling my eyes I turned to face Sara
and gave her a questioning look. She picked it up
quickly. “OH I KNOW! Lets play truth or dare!!”
Zaide appeared excited, Josie apprehensive, Ajax
looked unsurprised and Lilly just looked plain
scared. Then she did the unthinkable
questioned Sara. “Um Sara… do we have to I
mean it can get kind of embarrassing.” Sara gave
her a shocked looked before collecting herself,
“Nonsense! It was be amazingly fun! Now up
you get out of my dear brothers arms and onto
the sofa.” Oh god I could only imagine what was
going on in my dear little sisters mind. This was
going to be an eventful evening!
A/N Sorry this was so fluffy and a little bit cliché
like. Before all the drama happens I want to fit in
some fluff so you don’t get depressed! The truth or
dare will also answer a lot of your questions about
Lilly and Edwin so it will be worth it!
R.
Truth Dare Or Embarrassment LILLY
Truth or dare! No way, in fact further than no
way. I was either going to be embarrassed to no
end which in toll would brink m into the
epitome of shyness. Or they would use this little
‘game’ to find more out about my past. “ OKAY!
For Lilly’s sake I will explain the rules. Our
names get placed in the middle on a piece of
scrap paper and the first person to pick a name is
in alphabetical order. In this case Ajax then Bella,
then Edwin, then Josie myself and then last and
certainly least Zaide. The dares are limited to a
hundred mile radius and you can say no to a
dare however you must then do the double dare
which is pretty much guaranteed to be worse.
You get it?” I gulped scared already by the rules.
Eh what’s the worst that could happen? “Yep I
got it.” Sara grabbed a bunch of paper from the
ledge and through it in the middle of the circle
which we had seated ourselves in. “Ok Ajax do
your worst.” Reaching forward he grabbed a
piece of paper at random and opened it.
Grinning as the name revealed itself I got a bit
nervous. They seemed to take this game pretty
seriously! “HA! Perfect! Oh darling Zaide!” He
looked scared, and was actually trembling in fear
by the evil glint in Ajax’s eyes. “Oh shit…”
whimpering Zaide stood up trying to regain so
of his former composure. “Okay Zaide upstairs
grab Josie’s red dress that you love so much and
wear it for the whole night until we reach the
school. You can change once we are in the
toilets.” Zaide went from scared to pissed in a
matter of seconds. “Fuck you man… just wait if
Josie or I get your name we are going to fucking
throttle you.” He chuckled unaffected by the
threat, “I already know who gets my name
thanks to my darling pixie and she is too kind to
do anything mean!” He looked even more pissed
if that was possible as he trudged up the stairs to
return seconds later in a lacy red dress. I couldn’t
hide my laughter and decided to help him out.
Quickly I imagined him in a cloak with the dress
underneath and a second later it appeared.
“What the fuck? What the hell is this?’ He said
gesturing to the cloak. “Oh my sides were
hurting so I decided to help you out.” He stared
incredulously at me, “THAT IS SO COOL! Is that
your gift? Imagining shit and then it coming to
life????” I tried to appear nonchalant, “Umm
yeah amongst other things.” All of Edwin’s
family had their mouths wide open at this
revelation, “Guys its not that cool. Hardly my
best gift that just keep playing the game! Me next
right?” I reached forward and grabbed a random
piece of paper. “Ajax! Hmmm… OK! Truth or
dare?” He turned to Sara and she murmured,
“”Dare definitely dare” He turned back to face
me and smiled, “You heard the girl, I pick dare.”
I smiled evilly, “Your lucky I’m so bad at this, “I
dare you to let the girls give you a makeover,
including nails and hair.” His mouth dropped
open in shock, “Are you… serious! Sara how
could you! That’s a mean, mean, mean dare!”
She looked back at him innocently, “Easy! I really
want to give you a makeover girl style! Thanks
Lilly! I owe you big time!” I chuckled happily,
“No problem! So who’s next?”
Truth Choices Part One SURPRISE P.O.V
(ZAIDE)
Lilly was cool, and pretty too. Nowhere near as
pretty as my Josie of course but there was
something about her. She had human beauty
whilst the rest of us all looked unnaturally
beautiful. I definitely liked her and wouldn’t
mind if she sticked around, Edwin deserved to
be with someone. He was a vampire an old one
at that and had never even been with a girl. Well
if he was waiting for anyone then Lilly was
definitely good enough for him. Truth or dare
easily shows someone’s character and the way
Lilly stuck by Sara shows she has some female
loyalty. Hopefully she’s not one of those
annoying women who have to consult their
girlfriends about everything. That is so
annoying. It doesn’t seem like it so atleast she’s
fun. The damn dress I am wearing is so bloody
itchy, I can’t believe I actually manage to
convince Josie to wear this monstrosity but its
just so damn hot on her. My turn next on the
whole truth of dare game, I want to know more
about Lilly. Lets see should I go for the virgin
question, or one about her powers. Choices,
choices.
___________________________________________