The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes.

I couldn‘t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that, the fight was over, my coven had lost and my enemies had won. But my dead coven was full of people who would have loved to watch me burn, and my enemies were speaking to me kindly when they had no reason to.

no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro)

Spider-Man is such a whiny loser.

He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook his head as he looked at the tiny blackhaired girl. "Alice doesn‘t need anyone‘s help." The vampire named Alice shot a glare at Jasper. "Overprotective fool," she said in her clear soprano voice. Jasper met her stare with a half smile, seeming to forget for a second that I existed.

I felt horribly obvious. I wished I were invisible to myself- that I could see the illusion so that I could trust it

It was like talking to Diego had cleared my head. For the first time in three months, blood was not the main thing in there.

It was shockingly weird to touch another person after a whole life - because the last three months were my whole life - of avoiding any kind of contact. Like touching a sparking downed power line, only to find out that it felt nice.

I hope you end up caring about Bree as much as I do, though that's kind of a cruel wish. You know this: it doesn't end well for her. But at least you will know the whole story. And that no perspective is every really trivial.

No estoy quemando" "It was too late now to choose anything." "I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt

Like Riley said, I was god now. Stronger, faster, better. Nobody else counted.

What? You don't want to be- BFFs?

I felt horribly obvious. I wished I were invisible to myself, that I could see the illusion so that I could trust it

We dropped down, and Diego quickly threw the cars into a new arrangement, so that it sort of looked like they'd hit each other rather than been piled up by a giant tantrum-throwing baby. -Bree

The vampire had both his arms around the human girl, and she had both hands pressed to his chest. Her throat was just inches from his mouth, but she didn't look frightened of him at all. And he didn't look like he was hunting her. I had tried to wrap my head around the idea of a coven with a pet human, but this was not close to what I had imagined. If she'd been a vampire, I would have guessed that they were together.