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"Don't watch, " the redheaded mind reader whispered.

I closed my eyes.

When nothing had happened a few seconds later, I opened them again.

The blonde male, Carlisle, was trying to persuade that Jane to let me go free.

I was certain I was going to die then and there, but Carlisle won the argument.

"Fine! She can go live with you! But if she isn't completely tame in three years, we will find you!"

With that, she and the other dark cloaks left.

I was still having difficulty processing all this, when Jasper approached me.

"Bree. We will teach you how to be a vegetarian, then you can live with us."

No-one had even been that nice to me. But how could I explain to the yellow-eyes that I craved the blood of the human girl?

Oh, right.

Hey you, mind reader! I saw his head move a bit towards me.

Can't you take your girl away? Her blood smells too appealing.

He nodded and talked to Carlisle is a hushed whisper, then took the human on his back and left the clearing. I immediately felt better, with the source of the temptation removed.

He was pretty fast... but I bet I could take him.

Now is not the time to get side-tracked Bree, I scolded myself.

"Bree, are you really thirsty?" the caramel haired woman asked me. Esme, wasn't it?

I just nodded, still too shocked to speak.

"Alright, Jasper, Alice and Emmett will show you how to hunt. We don't drink human blood, but animal's. We call ourselves 'vegetarians' as a joke. In the meantime, Carlisle, Rosalie and I will go to search through Victoria's house."

Victoria. After all this time, it was weird knowing her name.

Victoria.

Her.

She who killed Diego, my... what exactly was he?

My boyfriend, I guess, even though we hadn't known each other long enough, the spark was there.

"That's okay. Do you know where her house is?" I asked Esme.

"No, we don't. We could just follow her scent trail. But do you know where it is?"

"Yes. It's in a forest, west of Seattle. The house looks ridiculous, so I think you will recognize it."

"Alright, thank you," she smiled at me. Diego was the only one who ever did. And Fred, of course.

"I'm sure we will find the house. Good luck hunting!"

I smiled at her in order to show my gratitude, and then she, Carlisle and a blonde female who I guessed would be Rosalie, left.

"Hey, newbie!" a big vampire with dark hair called me.

I turned my eyes to him, refusing to answer to 'newbie' but also afraid of them abandoning me for me doing something to offend them.

"We will go hunt some deer, and maybe a mountain lion. You will stay between me and Jasper all the time, understood? Alice will know if you're planning something. Oh, by the way, I'm Emmett."

He seemed really nice. Like a big teddy bear actually.

I nodded and stood to go hunting.

A few hours later, after the hunt, we ran towards the house of the Cullens. I didn't like the taste of deer blood, but Emmett had assured me it just took some getting used to. I hoped he was right, the taste of human blood was still fresh in my mind.

When we came near the house, I could smell the scent of that human girl, Bella. So she came here a lot? Perhaps that mind reader really loved her.

That thought caused a pang of deep sadness to go through me.

Diego.

Diego.

Perhaps it would have been better if Jane had killed me, because then I would have been able to see Diego again.

From the corner of my eye, I noticed Jasper looking at me weirdly.

Why would he be doing that?

He looked... a bit concerned.

Concerned, for me?

No, of course not. He knew nothing about my 'life', he only thought of me as some out of control newborn.

But his... wife? Alice, she had told me that I was more in control than other vampires my age.

So perhaps, there was hope for me?

Just as I thought that, Alice stiffened. I saw her eyes glaze over, as if she was seeing something we didn't. Emmett and Jasper were clearly used to it, because they just stopped and patiently waited.

I was confused, what was happening to her?

Suddenly, she 'awoke' again.

"What did you see Alice?" Jasper asked her.

"When we arrive home, there is a visitor waiting for us. I think Bree will be very happy to see him."

What? Me? What did I have to do with whatever she just 'saw'?

And what 'him' was she talking about? Perhaps Fred, but I thought he would go to Vancouver...

Right, I'd have to send him a message somehow, that I was alive and well. But maybe he was the mysterious visitor.

Well, I would see soon enough, we were approaching a huge mansion, with walls of glass on the main floor.

I sniffed the air, just to check if Fred was here, but the scent I smelled, made me stiffen.
No. No, this couldn't be.

Not... not Diego. He's dead! Riley said so!

Did he?

Yes, he did.

But how... how could his scent be here?

Still puzzled, I began to move again. The other three had waited the few seconds I had been standing still, and now ran with me again.

When we arrived at the house, Emmett opened the door. Alice walked in first, then Emmett and Jasper gestured for me to go first.

He probably still didn't trust me. But I couldn't really blame him.

Before I had a chance to look around at a room, someone ran towards me and hugged me!

I went rigid, I didn't like people intruding in my personal space, but just as I wanted to push this stranger of me, I recognized him.

"Diego?"

He looked up at me, and I was sure that if I was able to faint, I would have.

"Hi Bree!" he said cheerful.

Wait, he was dead, right?

"What... how... I thought you were dead!"

"No, as soon as Riley left, Victoria –"flinch "—locked me in some room I couldn't break out of. And then these guys, I mean vampires, came and rescued me!"

At that moment, I was so happy. I don't think I've ever been this happy before. Not even when I knew I wouldn't be killed.

So, I did the only thing I could.
I kissed Diego.

Sure, we had kissed before, but only two times and those were only quick pecks. And he had kissed me then, now I was kissing him.

It was a chaste kiss and only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed much longer.

I felt that spark, that sense of belonging again.

Diego let go of me and took my hand.

"Come on, you have some explaining to do. To me and to the Cullens."

"Alright."

Nervous, I bit my lip and sat next to Diego on a couch.

"So, Bree, Diego, first I will introduce everyone. I'm Carlisle, this is my mate Esme, Rosalie and her mate Emmett, Jasper and his mate Alice, and the only one missing are Edward and Bella."

Bella was the human girl, so Edward had to be the mind reader.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you all. I'm Diego and this is Bree, my... girlfriend. Thank you for saving me, for saving us both."

I felt a slight shiver up my spine when Diego said 'girlfriend' and noticed Jasper looking at me amused. Suddenly, I got an idea.

"So, do any of you have a special talent?"

"Yes," Esme answered, "Alice can see the future, but it changes with every decision –" that explained how she knew about Diego being here "—Jasper can feel and influence emotions and Edward can read minds."

This also explained about Jasper looking at me weirdly when I had felt that shiver, and earlier when I was thinking about Diego.

I tightened my grip on his hand, not wanting to let him go. Losing him once, was enough for me.

Diego explained everything about Riley and her, to the Cullens. He even told them about the time we discovered the sparkling, and when we heard the Volturi.

After he told them about his plan to inform Riley, which went wrong, it was my turn. I talked about Fred, the preparing for the fight, Riley's explanations about the Cullens, saying goodbye to Fred, going to the fight and hearing about Diego's death.

When I came to that part, Diego pulled me against him, as if to say he wasn't going anywhere.

After the Cullens had told us a lot about the vampire world, the rulers, rules, and blending in in the human world, Emmett, Rosalie and Alice left to find Fred.

I thought it was very nice of them to tell him about my survival, Diego's survival and to offer them a place in their family.

'Cause that's what they were. A family. And Diego and I were already accepted.

Ten years later, we had become very close to each other and the other Cullens. Edward changed Bella, after she got a baby, Renesmee. I loved her like she was my own sister, and we often talked or played games together.

Diego and I had grown accustomed to the vegetarian diet, so when Jane came again, she let us live.

We had even started going to high school! Since I ran away from my human dad, I hadn't been to school, so this was really nice. Diego pretended to be sixteen, so we could start in the same year.

Our relationship was also very good. We were always in each other's company, hunted together and held hands. We kissed too, but never more than that.

I was twenty-five, even though I looked like a fifteen year old, and I didn't think that I was ready for that yet.

We hadn't even said 'I love you'! Even though I knew that I loved him, I waited for him to take the first step.

All those annoying human girls at high school all tried to break Diego and me up, they thought they were better for him than me.

Ha! Diego always told them off, just as those boys that tried to ask me out. Being a beautiful vampire really had its downs.

At such times I wished for Fred to be there, so he could use his power to fend them off. But unfortunately he had decided to wander on his own.

I think he had taken a liking to a vampire girl somewhere in Canada, though. Perhaps he would stay with her.

I was currently being dressed by Alice, because I had a date with Diego tonight.

She dressed me in a deep purple dress, wrapped around my body, with lighter purple flats, an amethyst necklace and an amethyst in my hairdo.

Diego looked very handsome in his black dress pants, white shirt and black jacket. He lead me towards his car and soon we were speeding off to the nearby lake.

Once there, I saw that he had placed candles around a blanket where we could sit.

"So? What do you think?" Sweet Diego, still so unsure about whether he did it right for me, or not.

"I love it!" I hugged him.

"Do you want to sit down?" he asked, embarrassed.

We sat on the blanket, and I turned my head up to gaze at the stars.

"Bree, I've wanted to tell you something for a very long time. I..." I turned to look at him. He seemed nervous, fidgeting with his fingers.

"Yes? You can tell me anything, you know."

"Yes, I know. I... er... I love you."

Wow, that was not what I had expected! I just looked at him, too shocked to speak, and he was getting more nervous with the minute.

"I knew I shouldn't have said anything," he mumbled, looking to the ground dejected.

"Don't say that! I... I love you too." There, I had said it. Hopefully he will take this good...

His eyes were lighting up, and he beamed at me. Suddenly, he bent forwards to kiss me.

After a long snog session, we broke apart and just gazed in each other's eyes.

"Bree, I wanted to ask you something as well..."

I urged him to go on with my eyes.

"Do you... do you want to give me the honour of becoming my wife?"

This time, I didn't hesitate.

"Yes!"

I kissed him again, and when we stopped, he showed me a beautiful ring. It was white gold, with a simple diamond in the middle.

"It sparkles in the sunlight. That way, you won't forget the day we became friends."

"And super ninja's," I whispered.

We did our secret handshake that Diego had invented short after our acceptation in the Cullen family.

The rest of the night, we stayed out. I knew Alice would have planned almost the whole wedding when we arrived home, so I didn't need to worry about anything.

Everything was alright. I was going to marry the boy... vampire of my dreams, and we would live happily for the rest of forever.