Chapter 1

 Walking home from school is my favorite time of the day. It’s when I get to see my friends: Alice, Emmett,

Jasper and Edward Cullen. They are brothers and sister, even though they look nothing alike. Edward, Alice

and I are best friends and every day after school we walk home together. Today, though, Edward and Alice

weren’t at school so I was walking alone. I was walking down the street when I heard a car horn; I turned

 

around and saw the familiar large yellow jeep I often saw in the Cullen’s driveway. I stopped walking and

waited for the jeep to pull up to the curb beside me. It did, and the driver’s side window rolled down to reveal

the goofily grinning Emmett Cullen. “I don’t see why you won’t let us buy you a car.” He said, it was true once I

turned 16 the Cullen’s had insisted on buying me an expensive Italian car. I was very tempted to say yes, but I

liked to stay under the radar, and riding around in a flashy car was not the best way to do that. I sighed and

said, “You know I” but Emmett cut me off. “Don’t like to look like a showoff blah blah blah.” I rolled my eyes and

snapped at him. “Don’t you have some thing better to do?” As soon as I said that he walked out of his car and

picked me up bridal style. “Yes, I have to drive you home” Emmett said still smiling that goofy grin I love so

much. But, of course, he doesn’t know that. I tried to wiggle out of his grasp but that only made him hold me

tighter. He walked over to the passenger side of the car and opened the door. He set me gently down in the

passengers’ seat and awkwardly reached over me to fasten the seat belt. Emmett then closed the door and

walked over to where I left my backpack on the sidewalk. When he finally opened the driver’s door and threw

my backpack into the back seat, he put the jeep in drive. “You know I hate when you do that,” I mumbled.

Emmett chuckled and said, “Alice was right; you really don’t know what today is.” I looked at Emmett, about to

get really mad when the jeep stopped moving and Emmett got out of the car. he opened the passengers’ door

and I climbed out. I looked at the ground; this wasn’t the usual white and gray gravel that paved my driveway. I

turned to Emmett, “Where the hell” once again he cut me off. He wrapped his huge muscled arm around my

waist and pulled me closer to him, Emmett then used his free hand to cover my mouth. I glared at him, his

sparkling eyes were laughing at me. He then positioned himself so I was in front of him. With his massive

hand still covering my mouth he leaned his head next to my ear and whispered, “Close your eyes Ellie” in that

seductive voice I always obeyed. I rolled my eyes and then closed them. I felt my feet lift off the ground as I was

carried into the Cullen’s mansion of a house.

 

The whole time I hade my eyes closed I was thinking of ways I could to get back at Emmett and possibly Edward and Alice. I felt Emmett’s hands move and he put them on my shoulders. I felt his breath on my ear as he whispered, “Okay Ellie you can open your eyes now.” The instant he said that my eyes flung open and I tried to turn around to face my captor. But sadly as soon as I had thought about it, Edward said, “Emmett” and pointed to me. Emmett’s hands quickly tightened around my shoulders and I couldn’t move, “B*****d!” I thought and Edward chuckled. I sighed and looked around; Alice had really out done herself for what ever the occasion was. “Here Ellie, look at this!” Alice said cheerfully, I nodded and turned my head to Emmett, “Down boy, I won’t run away,” I said sarcastically. Emmett rolled his eyes and dropped his hands from my shoulders. As I was about to go after Alice, Emmett grabbed my elbow and snapped something around my wrist. I stopped and looked down at my wrist “Handcuffs!” I screamed, Esme and Carlisle who were watching T.V. turned their heads to look at us. Emmett was laughing and I glared at him. “What is this?” I yelled rising up my arm and pointing to the cuff on my right wrist, the movement caused Emmett’s own left arm to be lifted up, my Fuming only caused Emmett to laugh. “Come on” I growled as I pulled the still chuckling Emmett to were Alice was. When we walked through the large double doors that led to the Cullen’s dinning room, there was a large red circle around the number 13 on a huge calendar. It was September 13 today, so said the calendar, then it clicked. Esme, Carlisle and Edward must have snuck into the room because when every one yelled “Happy Birthday, Ellie!” They were standing by the big dining table. Alice walked up to me smiling and grabbed my un cuffed left wrist. She and Emmett began to drag me to the Cullen’s massive garage, every one else silently followed. When Edward opened the door, my mouth nearly dropped to the floor and my eyes were popping out of my head, because sitting in the garage was a shiny black Prius. I squealed as I ran to hug Alice, she knew exactly what I wanted for my birthday, even if I didn’t realize when it was. As I ran over to her I was suddenly jerked back by my wrist into a bear hug, compliments of Emmett. As Emmett crushed me he bent his head down “now may be a bad time to tell you this but I lost the key to the handcuffs.” He whispered into my ear. I looked up at him and yelled “What!” every one else was the least bit startled. With out thinking I attempted to punch him in the chest, it’s too bad I forgot that Emmett had rock hard abs, and when I say rock hard I mean it. I had punched him with my non-cuffed hand and as soon as my fist connected with his sweatshirt I heard my wrist crack. I screamed in agony as the pain from my hand shot up through the rest of my body, I fell to the ground sobbing into Emmett’s chest. I guess when I went to punch Emmett my fist scraped his jackets zipper making a small but gushing cut on my knuckle. Every one in the room stiffened for a moment before taking action. I felt Emmett lift me into his arms and stand up. I heard Carlisle say “hurry before Jasper…” To Emmett but that’s when Jasper came running through the door like lightning and lunged at Emmett and I, and then I blanked out. The last thing I remember was Jasper lunging at me with his wide open, and my terrified scream.

 

I woke up in the hospital; the blinding florescent lights were all around me. “Am I dead?” I said sleepily, I heard some one chuckling in the background. I felt someone breathing close to my ear. “No you’re not dead, if you were, I wouldn’t be here.” said someone in a very mocking tone, my eyes fluttered open to see no one in the room. I was about to sit up when I felt huge arms wrap around me, I turned to look at who’s arms were restricting movements. That’s when I saw Emmett sleeping in the hospital bed beside me; he looked so sweet and innocent, harmless even. I moved closer to him and hid my face in his chest; his chest rose and fell slowly. Emmett’s arms pulled me closer too him and I closed my eyes. “Good morning beautiful”, I heard Emmett’s voice and I opened my eyes. I must have fall asleep in his arms because that’s were I was. I was fully awake now, and I scowled at him. “Get off” I said as I pushed him off the hospital bed. He landed on the ground with a loud thud and started laughing. “What’s so funny” I demanded, but I knew he was laughing at the huge blush that ran across my face. “Are you finished.” I asked still annoyed. He nodded, “okay well, what happened last night?” I asked Emmett’s smile got bigger and he said “well I THINK we were cuddling.” I rolled my eyes “no I mean at the party.” Emmett stopped smiling “could you just forget about that.” He said distantly. I looked shocked “no I won’t tell me what happened!” I demanded “I can’t” he said I was getting angrier and angrier by the second. Emmett always told me everything, but there were something’s about his family that I never asked about. “Emmett please you know you can tell me.” I pleaded; Emmett shook his head “what happened to Jasper?” I pressed, Emmett looked really mad now, he turned to look at me and snapped “Just drop it okay Ellie!” I had never seen him that mad before so when he snapped at me I took a step back. Terror plastered on my face, Emmett blinked realizing what he had done. He stepped closer to me trying to say he was sorry but I wouldn’t let him “Emmett just leave!” I said to him, the look on his face almost made me go over and hug him, but my terror shadowed my feelings for him. Emmett walked away from me and turned to walk out of the door. He stopped and said “I’m sorry Ellie” with sadness and regret in his voice and pain on his face he walked out of the hospital room. I was allowed to leave the hospital after a week, but I would have a cast for at least a 8. I had apparently broken, no wait, Shattered and almost destroyed every bone in my left wrist. At school Emmett tried to apologize for what happened in the hospital but I told him “ether you tell me why Jasper did what he did or you can leave me alone.” I know I was being really mean because when I said that the pain in his face returned. I started to have nightmares of what happened and those nightmares just drove me further from the Cullen family. When ever I would see a Cullen in the halls I would turn the other way and not look at them. Edward and Alice didn’t mind as much as Emmett did, he constantly tried to talk to me or stop me from walking away in the hall, but I kept ignoring him. I hated to see him so sad but the nightmare had convinced me that the less time a hang around with them the safer I would be. I eventually transferred out of every class I had with the Cullen’s, it had been like this through out the school year and into some of the summer. Until one night when I heard some on knock on my window. ‘Ugh why won’t Emmett leave me alone! This is hard enough as it is.’ I thought getting really annoyed. There was another knock at me window and I threw my pillow at it, the knocking stopped abruptly ‘good he left’ I thought. But my relief was short lived because as soon as I got up to get my pillow the glass of my window shattered, two pairs of cold hands grabbed me and pulled me through the broken window, I was pulled into a large black car, bound, gagged and before I could even think about screaming in my head I was knocked out.

 “Alexia, she’s coming too” said a husky voice. When I opened my eyes I was looking at a rather large man with blond hair and almost translucent blue eyes, the man was handsome and he looked about Carlisle age. The man moved over and now standing in front of me was a woman who looked a lot like Alice but there was something about her that made my skin crawl. “Why am I here.” I said, the girl I assumed was named Alexia laughed and said “you, my dear, are the Cullen family weakness, or rather Emmett Cullen’s weakness.” I looked at her in horror “what do you want with the Cullen’s?” I challenged, Alexia laughed again “why we want to destroy their coven of course!” she said that as if I should have known. I looked at her blankly “coven?” I asked clearly confused. Alexia clearly didn’t like me asking so many questions. “Yes, they are a coven of vampires, like me and my husband Reilly” she said pointing to the large blond man. “I thought you would be smarter.” I looked at her, I still had no idea what she was talking about. She opened and closed her mouth “you didn’t know.” She said slowly, terror and shock flashed across her face. “Wait so, your telling me that the Cullen’s are vampires.” I said in disbelief, Alexia knelt to the floor clutching her head “oh no, no, no, no” she said clearly in pain “their going to come after us.” Reilly walked up to Alexia and held her tightly in his arms. “What are we going to do, Lex?” He asked softly, Alexia was clearly scared out of her mind. “What’s going on.” I demanded, Alexia looked at me with wild eyes “we are all going to die” she said sternly.

Reviews

[Lena M. P.]

Good storyline but an overload of conversation that seems to run into each other and jumble together. Several times I had to stop and back track to catch up. This made the flow very choppy.