Prelude to a Day Out

"And that is pretty much what Phasing is - a Second Puberty," I spoke matter-of-factly with a finger in the air like I was proclaiming God's word.

But from the look on Bella's face - full of curiosity and intense attention - you'd think it was.

I'd only spoke about the most basics of basics when it came to what I was - don't want to give too much information to Edward or the Vampires for that matter. Especially as I know Edward will have his mind read by Aro in the future.

Don't want that bastard to know anything about me yet.

"W-wow..." Bella spoke with an expression which spoke volumes about how this was a cathartic experience for her - finding out the secrets behind two of the big mysteries she'd been mystified by in the past week or two. "So you can turn into a Wolf?" she asked slightly like a kid on Christmas to which I said and nodded my head.

"Yes, I can turn into a wolf-like creature, but I'm still getting the hang of it," I lied, not wanting either of them to know that I'd only just got one-quarter of a way into my Phasing. It would be better this way. At least until I needed to show my superior physical prowess, which wouldn't be too far away and around the time James and his Coven make their appearance in front of the Cullens.

But Bella nor Edward seemed to sense my lies, and I brought up a hand and shifted the claws at the end of my fingers to show my ability to Bella, to which she gawked before getting closer and going to tap the tip, but my other hand stopped her.

"Do you really think it's good to make yourself bleed around a Vampire, Bella? Especially one that is incredibly attracted to your blood?" I admonished her and she looked over at Edward apologetically, the pretty boy Vampire just smiling back at her before continuing to pace around. But something I said seemed to pique Bella's interest.

"What do you mean 'incredibly attracted to my blood' shouldn't it hold the same value as other people's blood?" she asked genuinely confused and I saw Edward look over to me with an embarrassed glare.

I just shrugged in reply before getting to explaining it.

"Well, Bella, think of blood as food - you have some food you can eat but you won't like it, it just serves to give you sustenance, and then there's food that you'd love to eat, even if it gives the same kind of thing or worse, right? Your blood is like his favorite food. Or a drug. A very enticing and addictive-smelling drug," Bella seemed a bit uncomfortable with how I put it and she even smelled her pits, as if she wondered why she smelt, "Bella, it's nothing to do with your body odor...idiot," I let out a long, drawn-out sigh, dragging a hand over my face.

"You're something called his Singer or 'La tua cantante'. It's like a rare opportunity for a Vampire to drink blood specifically made for them. I'm honestly surprised Edward hadn't taken at least a sip out of you, though, I guess it must be a Genetic thing as I'm Edy's singer as well," I mused before looking over at Bella, "Maybe us Swans were determined to be with the Siblings~?"

Bella looked a bit shocked at this news - that both of us had blood attractive to two Vampires who also happened to be siblings.

Standing up, I pat off my legs, freeing them of the dirt and vegetation covering them. Looking over at the other two, I gave them a cheeky smile, "Well, I'll leave you two to it, don't go doing anything I wouldn't do~" chuckling as I ran off, I heard Edward scoff but I ignored it, he should be thankful - they can have that weird 'The Lion fell in love with the Lamb' conversation now.

Running off back to school, I thought about the coming events and decided to try and up my training as much as I could - I'd need it for when James and his coven arrive.

. . .

Currently, it was the morning and I'd just stepped on the scales in the bathroom. I wanted to weigh myself as I'd found my weight to be constantly increasing. It hadn't affected my speed and may even have increased it as my momentum allowed me to just barrel through any obstacle in my way without slowing down but I was seeing some adverse effects - not on my myself but the environment around me.

Whenever I stepped into Bella's truck, the metal groaned so much I was surprised my feet didn't go straight through the floor.

I was currently measuring this a few days after revealing myself to Bella. She continued with her questions after having searched up Lycans on the internet. It was mainly to do with what was real and what was fake. But I didn't mind and just answered what I could.

Anyway, I had a free day off school today and I was planning to go over to Edythe's today but an act of curiosity led me to weighing myself.

And a broken electric weight scale.

...Okay, before you start judging me, it didn't break immediately. I stepped on it and my weight was being read and it flashed with 364lbs before I heard something inside it snap. I looked at the weight limits of the scale and it said 'Max. Weight 340lbs'.

Honestly? It's a pretty humiliating thing to find out you're a heavy bastard.

I didn't know if this was because of my training or because to match a Vampire's physical strength, speed, and durability, my body needed to become denser and heavier to increase the density of each muscle and bone cell to the point where they were on par or even stronger than a Vampire's in terms of strength and durability. Though I'm thankful this weigh increase hasn't affected my speed or athletic ability.

In fact, if it weren't for the signs happening around me telling me I weighed a lot, I wouldn't have noticed I weighed more. I didn't even feel like I weighed 360lbs+, as I felt as light as a feather when I ran or jumped about.

Though I doubt I'll ever reach a ton in weight, I have to wish and hope I don't get too much heavier otherwise I'll start testing the structural integrity of everything I walk on.

I'm just lucky my bed has a strong metal frame.

Putting the scales back where they were and hoping no one would use them again, ever, I wandered back to my room, overly aware of every creaking board in my house, thinking it was my weight causing the creaking.

Luckily, I was still in the weight class range of a human - just a Human like Eddie Hall or Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson, both strongmen who weigh over 160kg, with Eddie Hall being around 164kg and Hafthor weighing around 190kg whereas I weighed around 165kg.

Conclusion? Sure I weighed a lot but it wouldn't be classed as the heaviest human yet. Nor would my weight be overly weird for someone of my physique and height.

In better news, my strength, speed, durability, flexibility, reaction speed, stamina, and overall body coordination have improved by leaps and bounds over the past few days. It was like a burst of energy suddenly hit me a few days ago and if I really think about it--

It was when my second week of phasing started.

Does each completion of each week cause a burst of power to be added to me, while my growth also speeds up? Could this be what's supposed to happen or is it because of my training and special diet? Or could it be a mixture of both which has made it more potent?

Either way, I'm glad it's here. I'm not much weaker than a Vampire at the moment and I suspect I only need a week before I'm on par, if not a little superior to them, physically. It makes me wonder what will happen with the 5 weeks after that? Will I hit a Newborns strength and stay there or will I continue to improve? I don't know but I'd say that's unlikely.

Newborns are the strongest of the Vampires - Vampires with their blood still in their tissue, empowering them. Vampires are at their strongest a few months after their creation, but they slowly weaken again once the blood in their body tissues dries up.

Though, even if I'm not stronger than a Newborn in my human form, I'm more than just a little sure that I would overpower them in my Shifted form.

Getting dressed in a blue shirt and some grey jeans, I slipped on my shoes before exiting the house with the Cullen house as my destination.

. . .

Arriving at the door, it was opened before I could even knock. Greeting me was Alice who looked up at me with her usual cheery smile.

"Hello, Alex, how are you?" she continued smiling before backing away from the door and making way for me to enter.

Kinda surprised at this turn of events, I carefully walked into the house as I answered Alice's greeting, "Hey, Alice. I'm doing fine, thank you," I paused for a second before deciding to carry on, "You?"

I spoke a bit stiffly because of our last meeting - when Jasper threatened the torture me for the information on what I am. So, not the best of meetings in all honesty.

But Alice's cheery smile didn't leave her face as she skipped past me.

"Oh, I'm good, no, brilliant! It's a day I've seen before, and I know the contents will be fun," she said before waving at me and rushing off.

Weird.

That's one way to describe Alice.

Anyway, I ignored Edythe's odd sister before walking up the stairs toward Edythe's room. On the way, I heard her playing the Piano and I found myself froze on the spot as I listened to her beautiful playing.

My playing was getting better with each second, my brain just constantly expanding its knowledge and my ability, but I knew I'd be an idiot to think I could catch up to Edythe without years of practice.

From what I could hear, she was playing Clair de Lune and it was, well, beautiful.

I crept to her door and looked in, the door completely open, and I just watched her play. It would help me learn that piece of music but for now, I just wanted to appreciate this wonderful woman.

It was as I was doing this, I felt a pang of guilt for my actions. I'd shared something brilliant with Leah and here I was looking at another girl with such fondness...I know I've gone over this before but - Am I a bad person?

The only answer I could come up with is 'Most likely'. My actions are most likely going to cause someone harm but...I'll try my utmost best to not let that happen. Despite it being very selfish, I'd try to keep both these girls despite their probable hatred to one another. I'd help to smooth it out, at least.

Sighing, I let my thoughts go - they were too troubling to think about as such beautiful music was being played in front of me.

Sometime along as I watched her, I moved into her room and sat next to her on the piano bench. At first, she seemed a bit shocked but she didn't stop playing. I didn't interfere with her playing, I just sat and listened.

When she finally came to an end, I gave her an enthusiastic clap and a smile to which she went a bit flustered about but thanked me anyway.

"Man, Edy, I wish my playlist for Classical Music was filled with songs you recorded - maybe a future birthday present~?" I happily said, feeling relaxed after listening to her play.

She only smiled at this, like she had noted something down, before replying, "I'm sure the originals are much better, Alexander," she spoke to me in a tone you'd expect to hear from an older sister; doting but also teasing.

"Yeah, right," I scoffed before swinging my legs and body around to face away from the piano, "Do you wanna do anything today, Edy? We've got a free day, and I've got nothing else to do."

It was Edythe's turn to scoff as she replied, "Oh, and I'm only a fill-in when you've got nothing else to do, huh?" she playfully smiled at me, faking a hurt expression, before she couldn't take it any longer and started laughing at my awkward face.

Smiling, I lightly admonished Edy with a flick to the forehead, "No, you're, like, one of my only friends, Edy. I just know you'll have something fun to do, or maybe something cool to show me...old timer~" jokingly mocking her age and implying she had a plethora of experience to show me around like a tour guide, I saw Edythe pout before smacking my arm before quickly apologizing.

"I, I'm s-sorry, Alexander...I didn't mean it...?" her voice trailed off when she saw that I wasn't screaming in pain.

Sure, the smack hurt and felt like someone had punched me as hard as they could but it was bearable, and the bone and muscles there were pretty much fine.

"I'm not a human, Edy, so don't feel scared that you can hurt me so easily on accident~" standing up, I reached a hand to her who was still sitting, "Now, are we gonna do something today or just laze about?"

Edythe seemed confused, shocked and happy all at the same time, but finally, she took my hand before replying.

"I'll take you somewhere nice and then we can talk about something I've been meaning to tell you," she smiled happily at the start but it soon turned into a more awkward, stiff smile as she told me she had something to tell me.

If I had to guess, she was about to try and scare me away again. I don't know why she kept trying - I was a supernatural creature like her but perhaps she couldn't see beyond the fact that I was her Singer?

It must be pretty scary to have the urge to kill your friend and not be able to do anything about it.

How little I actually knew. How little.

While thinking thoughts like this, I let Edythe lead me by the hand out of her house before the two of us started jogging at Superhuman speed to wherever Edythe wanted to show me.