I had my family gather in a group to figure out what each family member can show. Liz sat about 5 feet away, so we whispered. Alice, Jasper and I would show her that some vampires had a gift above all else. Emmett would show her the strength. Carlisle would show her the speed. Rosalie would show her the indestructability. Esme would show her the senses.
"Are you ready,"I asked as I turned to face her.
"Ready as I'll ever be."
"First Emmett and Rosalie, they will demonstrate our physical strength and how impenetrable we are. Only vampire teeth and werewolf teeth can cut through our skin."
Rosalie got up and pulled Emmett with her. Emmett picked up a boulder that was at least three times his weight, then he threw it at Rosalie. She watched as the rock hurtled toward her, but obediently stood still.
Liz watched with wide eyes as the blond vampire just stood there, like everything was normal. Then the rock hit. It shattered into a billion pieces as it touched her skin.
"Wow,"Liz whispered as her already wide eyes got bigger.
"Now Carlisle will show you how fast we can run, he's going to lap this clearing 5 times. So don't blink."
Carlisle stood up, then he took off. I watched as his 5 laps took merely 2 and a half seconds.
"You can run that fast?"
"Yes,"I answered greatful that she was still sitting there.
"What's next?"
"The senses, Esme is going to stand across the clearing from you. You are going to hold up an amount of fingers from 1 to 5 and she will say what number you are holding up. Emmett will be standing behind you, facing the same direction Esme is and he will tell you what Esme said."
I nodded towards Esme and she flitted across the field and Emmett took his place behind Liz, who was now standing.
She held up 4 fingers, than Esme said 4 too low for Liz to hear, while Emmett said 4 loud enough for her to hear. She gasped. Then this continued in 1,3,2,5,5,4,2,5. She still had her mouth hanging wide open. I smiled.
She finally gave up.
"So, that's what vampires do. What about Alice and Jasper?"
"Well Alice, Jasper and I are going to deminstrate some gifts that all humans bring with them when they become vampires. At least that is what Carlisle believes. Carlisle brought his compassion, Esme, her ability to love, Rosalie, her beauty and Emmett brought his strength. He is stronger than the rest of us. But Jasper, Alice and I brought something special, an extra power you could call it. Jasper can feel and change the emotional atmosphere around him. We believe that when he was human, he could sense how some one was feeling."
I nodded to Jasper and we could feel sudden anger emerge from our very cores, then we were all calm. A very strange sensation.
"Did you feel that?"
"Yeah, that was really weird."
"Alice must have had some precognition. She can see the future at will, like she can see vampires best because she is one, she can see humans okay, because she was one, and she can't see werewolves because she never was one."
I nodded to Alice. She stepped forward and turned around.
"I am going to tell you the future. I am going to tell you the forecast. There will be a nice sunny day on Tuesday, and there will be a thunderstorm on Friday, so we'll be able to play baseball, and it will be dry up here, it will go around the mountains."
"Okay,"Liz replied, looking up at the sky.
"Would you like to watch?"
"That would be cool."
"But on Tuesday, I'm going to take you to a clearing and I want to show you something else about being a vampire that I can't show you now.
"And I can read minds, Carlisle thinks it's because when I was human, I was sensitive to the thoughts around me."
She gasped.
"Did you ever listen to my thoughts? I mean on the way here especially,"she asked outraged, but with a hint of embarrasment hidden underneath.
I looked down, ashamed.
"Yes, I know what you did, but I think your right, and if you were a vampire, I have a feeling you'd have a power, I'm truly sorry, I just wanted to know you. I understand if you don't like me anymore and if your mad, you can still stay here, I'll just go somewhere else."
She stared at me in outrage then she took off running at full speed. I followed her, just to make sure she didn't hurt herself. She ran back the way we came, which surprisingly she seemed to remember perfectly.
I can't believe it. He knows my deepest, darkest secret and he's okay with it? How can he be okay with a murderer?
She let the forest drown out her thoughts so that I couldn't hear them anymore. I still followed her through the trees and into the house. She ran upstairs and jumped on the bed, laying facedown. She cried herself to sleep.