Where am I suppose to go? Victoria left me and I can't go back home.

(Bella POV)

I ran and ran and ran.

No wonder vampires always run! This feeling will never get old.... just like me.

At first it felt as if I would hit a tree but I quickly got over that.

All I ever did now that I was a vampire is run and hunt. Sometimes if things got real bad I would curl up in a ball and just look out into the forest or wherever I am at the time.

Every day I worry I might see him or his family while I ran. How would they react if they saw me like this? A shiver ran down my spine even though I wasn't cold.

This is how my days went. Run, hunt, and try to hold myself together. The pain still feels as fresh as ever. Like the... incident... had just happened.

Every once in a while I would come across a human but their blood didn't smell very welcoming. In fact the smell of human blood smelled aweful to me. Animal blood is much better smelling and I'm sure it tastes better as well. I wouldn't know. I have never once wanted a human's blood.

Once or twice I thought to go to school but ended up just running away, for the painful memories of school shot through me every time I walked into the school building.

Never once had I run into another vamire or made any friends..................... untill today.

I was hunting and caught the smell of a grizzly somewere off north. I ran after it and lunged. Apparently someone else had the same idea and lunged for the bear as well. We crashed into each the bear got away. "Sorry about that." I said slightly embarrassed. He smiled, "No problem, I'm Zach and you are?" said his angelic voice. "Oh um, I'm Bella."

"Ah Bella, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too."

"Would you like to come back to my place and tell me about yourself? I don't believe I have ever heard of another 'vegetarian'."

"Sure, lead the way." I said in my same old monotone voice.

We ran for what felt like half an hour untill we reached a tall, yellow, three story house with a white fence around it and tinted windows.

"This is your home?" I asked in disbelief."Yes is there something wrong with it?" He asked looking slightly nervous. "No! No! I love it it's just that I was surprised. Your house looks just like the house I use to dream about when I was a little kid."

"Wierd," was all Zach said.

I just let the subject drop and followed him into the house. On the right was the living room. It had cream colored walls, a long red sofa, and a black love seat. There was a flatscrean in the center of the wall. On the leftt was the kitchen."Would you like the tour?" Zach asked. I nodded. "Well this is the living room," he said pointing to the right, "This is the kitchen," he pointed to the left. We walked strait ahead and up the stairs and turned righ into a long hallway. "The first door on the right is the library, then the bathroom, next is the guest bedroom. On the left, the first door is storage, then there is the game room. And at the end of the hallway is my room. You can stay in the guest room." He said. "Wow your house is nice." I replied.

He led me back downstairs. I sat on the love seat and Zach on the sofa. "So I have a few questions I need to ask just to be safe." He told me and I nodded.

"So, how long have you been a 'vegetarian'?"

"I have always been a vegetarian. There are two reasons for this. One, I don't want to be a monster and kill innocent people. and two, I can't stand the smell of human blood. It's horribleso it makes me think that it must be revolting."

"You don't like human blood?" He asked in amazement.

"No, it probably has to do with the fact that when I was human, the smell of blood would make me faint. I have never once had human blood and never will." I stated.

"Amazing, so how long have you been a vampire? How were you changed?"

"I have been a vampire for about 60 years now. I was changed when I was 18. One day I woke up to someone knocking on my fron door. My dad had already left for work so I went down and answered it. It was a woman named Victoria. She told me she was going to turn me instead of killing me. After she bit me everything went black. The pain was, of course, excruciating. I later found out that the volturi had killed her for an unknown reason shortly after my change." I explained.

"Who was Victoria? How did you know her? Why did she want to kill you?"

I told him the story of what had happened and all about the Cullens and him. Also how they had left me.

"So do you have any powers?" I asked

"Yes I have two. I can tell if you are lying. So if you lie to me I will know it. But you have gained my trust. You have not lied to me once. The other is that I can tell what other peoples powers are just by touching them."

"Do I have any powers?" I asked

Zach looked a little surprised at my question. "Give me your hand."

I gave him my hand and a second later he let go. "You have three powers! That's incredible. Your first power is a mind shield. You can make it so that so no one can penitrate your mind. I can tell your powers because that is part of my power, I can penitrate any shield. That is why Edward (flinch) couldn't read your mind. From what you told me he seemed to be very annoyed by it. Your other power is speed. You can run faster than any vampire. Last is your control. You have very good control when it comes to blood."

I looked at him. I was speechless.

My powers are amazing!

"Do you, uh, think that you can help me learn how to use my shield like maybe I can push it away and shield other as well?" I asked

He thought for a moment then said, "That seems possible."

Zach showed me to my room which was all white with blue carpet and had purple furniture everywhere. A purple bed, a purple sofa, a putple rug, a purple dresser, LOTS OF PURPLE!

Someone must like purple.

After I got cleaned up I decided that I needed to shop considering that the only clothes I had were the ones I was wearing. Zach gave me some money and I left for the store. I bought about $300 worth of clothes and about $100 of bathroom supplies, Zach gave me $1000 to spend so I am doing good. With the last $600 I decided to buy some decorations for my room that weren't purple.

Zach was waiting for me when I got home. "Did you have fun?" He asked

"Sure. I got enough clothes to last me a while. I think I will go change and get out of these old clothes. After all, they have been the only thing I wore for about 50 years.

After I got all cleaned up I went and sat down by Zach on the sofa. "So when are we going to start practicing with my shield?"

"We can start right now if you would like." He said.

So we started practicing. First Zach told me to imagine stretching my mind. Then he told me to try and push it away and we practiced similar things like those for the next few days. After about 3 weeks I was able to extend my shield for miles and push it away from me, but not just that. I also learned to push it around me so that if someone or something was coming towards me I could stop them and it would not be able to get to me.

Of course though, my practicing didn't take away the pain that is still there. It helps distract me so it hurts less but nothing can make it go away.

I tried to look happy for Zach's sake but he obviously saw through it. He never said anything though. At night I just sat on my bed and cried.

One night it got bad so Zach invited me to go hunting with him. I was trying not to think of him So I distracted myself by focusing on my prey. A fully grown mountain lion. I lunged for it and drained it.I hadn't even noticed the hiker watching me until it was to late. I had let our secret slip to a human! How could I have been so careless?

I quickly killed him but knew deep down that there would be a punishment for breaking the most important rule even though the human no longer lives.

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