Title: The Perks of Being a Vampire

Author: Sierra_Sitruc

Rating: M

Genre: Romance/Humor/Alternate Universe

Pairing: Bella/Edward

Summary: AU. It’s not like I DIED. I just lost a little thing called humanity: my ability to sleep, the need to eat, breathe, poop…alright that last one is freaking awesome. Not gonna lie to you, there.

Disclaimer: *sigh* I don’t even own a COPY of the books. Stephenie Meyer owns pretty much everything.

Warnings: Dark and childish humor? Sex in later chapters.

Author’s Note: Bear with my strange narrating. Bella is definitely OOC and that’s sort of the point. Also, there’s probably a lot more Jacob than a lot of people want. Don’t worry there is NO Jacob/Bella here. Boo on that ship, that sank with the canon. Get it?  Hahaha…Bad joke. Sorry.
 

Title: The Perks of Being a Vampire

Author: Sierra_Sitruc

Rating: M

Genre: Romance/Humor/Alternate Universe

Pairing: Bella/Edward

Summary: AU. It’s not like I DIED. I just lost a little thing called humanity: my ability to sleep, the need to eat, breathe, poop…alright that last one is freaking awesome. Not gonna lie to you, there.

Disclaimer: *sigh* I don’t even own a COPY of the books. Stephenie Meyer owns pretty much everything.

Warnings: Dark and childish humor? Sex in later chapters.

Author’s Note: Bear with my strange narrating. Bella is definitely OOC and that’s sort of the point. Also, there’s probably a lot more Jacob than a lot of people want. Don’t worry there is NO Jacob/Bella here. Boo on that ship, that sank with the canon. Get it?  Hahaha…Bad joke. Sorry.

Title: Parallels

By: Sierra_Sitruc

Rating: M

Genre: Drama/Romance

Pairing: Canon.

All characters: Bella, Edward, James, Mike Newton, Carlisle, Esme, Charlie, Renee, Angela

Warnings: Psychological damage? Minor character death. Sex?

Summary: After a traumatic experience as children, Edward and Bella have grown up. When their kidnapper returns, the childhood friends are kidnapped and held prisoner again. History repeats. AU/AH

Author’s Note:  This story spawned from a tiny idea and it just got…out of hand. Originally, it was broken down into five parts, but I thought I’d just post it all in one go.

So, this vegetarian thing is going well. Unlike the rest of my life.

Working three and a half jobs, plus 17 hours of college classes is NOT pleasant at all. Luckily, one of the jobs is about to be over and so that will relieve me of some stress.

It probably doesn't help that I put off homework to spend three hours at Wal-Mart with my friends, 30 minutes of which was spent trying to figure out which kind of air freshener we wanted to buy for our dorms. Not going to lie, it was worth the time spent, because we now have the best smelling room in the world. Ahhh...wonderfulness.

The other day I was in my University's fast food area, standing in line, starving. On the TV I saw a video clip from this area in Japan where they corner dolphins and slaughter them for food. My mouth just dropped open in horror. Dolphins are pretty much my favorite animal, so watching the water fill with blood from these innocent creatures made me sick. My eyes started watering - it wouldn't have been so embarrassing if I was with friends, but there was only a girl I sort of knew that was standing behind me. 

I said to her, "That is the saddest thing I have ever seen!"

She, not watching another television, I suppose (seeing as there are three - all on mute with subtitles and on different station), replied, "What?" 

I pointed out the dolphin video and she agreed it was very sad. For some reason, she didn't seem to think it was as upsetting as I did.

I was distraught!

Then, the cow recall happened. Poor cows being abused in California! 

I was with the Boyfriend in my dorm, the Roomie doing homework at her computer, and I'm sitting there looking up videos to show the Boyfriend about it. He made him look at the dolphin video, but he, too, was not as horrified about it as I was.

That's when I got busy. I somehow ended up on the PETA website, which I tell you is the devil, but I can't help myself. I spent the next several hours threatening the Boyfriend that I was going to become a vegetarian. I had him try to reason me out of it, because he is an avid meat eater (and also, I should mention, the son of a cattle farmer. He should be the perfect candidate to talk me into eating meat). None of his arguments worked for me. He just could not make me feel morally better about eating meat. 

So, the next day I set out to be a vegetarian, but after several classes, by the time I got to lunch...I promptly forgot that I was trying to be a vegetarian. 

I decided that becoming a vegetarian would have to wait until the next day.

And so it happened, on February 19th, I stopped eating meet. Today is the third day and I haven't eaten meat. It is both not as hard and harder than I thought it would be. I did once in the seventh grade try to stop eating meat, but back then my parents were still feeding me and did not agree with my decision to be a vegetarian whatsoever and therefore that attempt failed.

It's easier than I thought, because I realized I could resist some of my favorite foods quite easily (chicken nuggets - where is the nugget on a chicken? I don't know) and that many of them did have a vegetarian option at my school.  Plus, ever since I completed the first day, my momentum is BUILDING. Like Obama's 10th consecutive win.

It is, however, harder than I thought because I remembered how much I hate cooked vegetables...And I really like WARM foods. I'm trying to eat more veggies, seeing as a key part of the word vegetarian would imply VEGetables, but I freaking hate those nasty things. Especially at the school Commons which doesn't know how to serve vegetables to save their lives. I did try their brussel sprouts which was the first time I had ever tried them (of course, I had no idea what they were, they were just green and in front of me). They tasted very odd with the spanish rice I was also eating and I made my friends try them to see if they tasted weird to them, too. They told me, "STOP EATING THAT!"

I ate half of another and decided, once you had the spanish rice taste out of your mouth, they were quite vile.

The Boyfriend isn't the most supportive, but he did say he would love me even if I was vegetarian. He likes to eat meat and doesn't understand my moral obligations to eating meat. The fact is, I have always felt guilty about eating animals and I really care about animals. The Boyfriend grew up a farm boy and so death to animals was just part of life. I grew up in the suburbs where I wrote weeks worth of diary entries about how my cat got hit by a car and my painful fourth grade grief over the matter.

I'm hoping that I can keep being a vegetarian. I don't think I can go vegan, just because of the fact that I would be eating only fruits and raw vegetables, because of my hatred of the Cooked Vegetable. However, I am looking into stopping animal abuse. I am going to slowly start cutting out things from my life that I know support animal abuse. Meat was the most obvious. 

At first, I was only upset about the dolphins, because I don't eat dolphins. But then I thought, why are dolphins such an exception? What about cattle, chickens, turkey, and fish? I love these little creatures and shouldn't be eating them! How can I say, it's wrong to eat dolphins, dogs, cats, and various other animals, but it's okay to have a hamburger. 

Also, the meat industry is probably doing more harm to the environment than cars are. Over production of meat has led to a lot of pollution and with the Earth heading downhill in that position, I thought ending my affair with meat would be a good start. Let's hope I can keep up the momentum!!