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When we got back to my new house Maggie decided to see what we wanted to do with my room. I thought about my old room. It was a very dim memory. I thought hard about it. I had a homemade quilt that my mom made me that sat on my bed. Mom. The word gave me a pain in my stone cold heart. I wanted to see them. I wanted to talk to them...i wanted to go to Arizona. I would see my family - i would see Jack. Maggie touched my arm.Stop it Layla! “I looked at her.
"Stop what!"
"You keep making that face."
"What face? “I said - was my family thinking that obvious.
"I don’t know. It’s weird."
I walked (well kind of flew) around the room. Touching the walls the balcony, the glass window.
"Leyla - what’s wrong?"
"Oh Maggie...i want to see my family".
She looked hurt. I didn’t mean to offend her. “Layla...that’s kind of ...not a good idea.Maby when you are past the newborn stage and you can be around the humans-then maybe we could have a little trip. But it will take years."
"Maggie i can control my thirst. I would wear contact lenses. Walk at human speed. We could go shopping!"
"Layla - i am still not THAT good at being around the humans. Look what happened in the park! I BECAME A VAMPIRE about a decade ago!"
I thought. We would train ourselves. To control our vampire habits. Go out. We were silent for a while. Then Maggie decided to start doing things with my new room.
We got some green paint that was about the colour of my dress. The burning kept coming but i stopped it.We painted a wall each. I wanted to leave two other walls the same colour. The lovely brown wood went perfectly with the green walls. Siobhan taught us how to sew and let us make curtians.They were green and we made little silk red roses which we stitched to the curtians.We found some brown ribbon that we tied into bows and stitched onto our homemade curtains. They went onto the big glass windows that were doors to the balcony.
Liam went on a trip to get some wood to build a mirror. The wood was fresh from the trees in the forest. He also brought some vines and roses that we wrapped around the balcony. Siobhan gave me some roses that we put in handmade wooden flower pots. Some we painted with the leftover green paint and some we left brown. We put the roses out on the balcony.
The room decorating went on for days. Liam let Maggie build the mirror. I got to build a dressing table - with the help of Liam. Siobhan made more silk roses which we put onto ribbon and wrapped it around my dressing table.
Siobhan took me hunting for the first time. My thirst had been almost too much for me to control. My eyes were black. I had made myself feel full for about a week! I was really nervous. I was going to kill somebody. I didn’t think about it at the time though. Siobhan took a male and a female up to a little cave. She said she was so sorry, nodded her head and i sprang. I took the male. His blood tasted so good. My throat cooled down.
The sweet taste filled my mouth. I heard the girl screaming. I had broken the male’s leg and snapped his head. He was dry in about 6 seconds. “Siobhan i am still so thirsty! “I breathed. She ran out and this time had 2 men that looked as if they were in the early 30’ .I grabbed the blonde one first. This one didn’t taste as sweet but he still tasted so good! The other male looked at me in terror. I had finished the first man and moved onto the brunette. He struggled a bit but i was so strong i held him still. He was gone a little slower than the rest. I knew that was the last i was going to get. I felt full but i wanted to taste the sweet blood again. I wished i wasn’t so full. Then it happened. I was starving! I couldn’t hold myself together. Siobhan had a woman waiting this time. When i had finished her i felt fine again.
I told Siobhan about how i had make myself feel starving, and how can i make myself feel so full. She seemed interested and also thought about going to see the volturi to find out what my power was. We both ran back to the house, where Maggie and Liam were waiting for me. It had been a month since we had started my room but it felt like a lot less that. Maggie grabbed my arm and pulled me up to my room.
Just when we got there Maggie held me back. “Are you ready?” she sang
“Ready for what?” I asked sounding a little worried.
“You’ll see!” she giggled in excitement. Maggie was the most energetic, lovely person (well...you know what i mean) I had ever met.
Something touched my shoulders. I turned my head to see what it was. Siobhan stood with love in her eyes. Liam mirroring Siobhan’s touch. Maggie opened the door and held my hand at the same time. I stood, frozen. I wanted to cry, but the tears wouldn’t come.
My new room finished. It was so beautiful. It wasn’t like anything I had imagined. Nobody talked; I just gasped and sighed at everything I saw. The walls were glowing in the sunlight. My new family sparkled with me in the light. I touched everything I passed. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I turned to the most beautiful things on earth. Maggie spoke first, a little unsure. “Well, d-o you like it?”
“Oh Maggie I love it, so much it’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me I – i – love you guys. You all know that don’t you?!”
“Liam spoke, which surprised me “Yes Layla, we do and...”
Siobhan interrupted “and we love you too”
This touched me. I wanted to cry so badly. I loved their cute Irish accents, their beauty; I pretty much loved everything about my new family. Then a thought upset me. What would my own family be thinking about right now? Would they miss me?
“Layla, what’s wrong?” somebody said, I think it was Siobhan.
“Honestly nothing!” then I realised I shouldn’t have lied.
“Layla your making that face again, I know something is wrong, you’re lying. Please tell us!” Maggie whispered.
“Ok, don’t be offended but … I really miss my … old family.”
I looked to see the disappointment .Everyone kept completely still. Had I hurt them? They didn’t show any emotion at all. “We know, and we have been thinking. You are going to get to see your family. We will train you; take you to places so you can keep control.” Liam explained. I lit up.
“Oh my god, really! I want to cry so badly! You guys this means so much to me! I don’t know what to say! Thank you so much!” I almost screamed.
I told them that I really didn’t need to train, I could control my thirst. They knew this but wanted to take me to the volturi, just too check. I understood this. Maggie would take me on a road trip through Europe. We would swim to France and stay there for a month. Then we would meet Liam and Siobhan in Germany and we would travel there for two months. After this Liam would leave back to Ireland, while Maggie and Siobhan would take me to the Volturi in Italy. So after about four months of “training” (and getting to see some of the world) I would go to Ireland and get ready to go back to Arizona.
This was a great plan but, my family were now going to get to see me as... me. I obviously looked a lot different and well my eyes by then would not be as red as they were. I had to make them think I was an angel, tell them how I am and leave. As the weeks of preparation I forgot more and more about what my family and human life were like. This did upset me, but Maggie kept me sane.
