It had been three years since that fateful day in the woods. I stared into the floor length mirror that hung on my wall. I couldn't see the one in the bathroom so I had to apply my make-up in here. I had changed, and it was for the worst. My hair was thinner, and my skin was even more translucent if that was possible. I started to turn around as the phone rang. There was only one phone in the house and it was in the kitchen on the other side of the house.

"Natalie, can you get it?" I called.

"Sure Bella." She called back then I heard a soft Hello as she answered. I made my way through the one floored ranch house to the kitchen. Natalie was standing there talking on the phone. I started thinking about that first day I met her.

Flash back

I was sitting in the classroom for my English lit class when the door opened. It was just moments before class was going to start when I realized that the seat next to me was the only one open, the classroom was very small it only held 35 students.

The girl was beautiful, she reminded me of Rosalie. She had the same blonde hair. I came to the realization that she may be—I let it trail off there was no way a—the word was even to painful. I had left all those thoughts in Forks. As she came closer I noticed her gold eyes. My breath hitched and she smiled. Her skin was pale, it was like the moonlight. She noticed my staring and said,

"Hello I'm Natalie." I stared into her eyes. Her voice was the soft rush of the flowing stream.

"Bella" I said, as she shook my outstretched hand. Her hand was cold and hard. "I know what you are, and what you are is not human." I breathed the words so low that only a vampires hearing would be able to pick it up.

She gasped as she let the words sink in. she answered aloud. "I do not understand Bella."

"Natalie I know don't bother pretending." She looked at me she looked scared. "Natalie I know that you are a vampire. I will not say a word to anyone seeing they would lock me up in an asylum; I dealt with vampires a year ago."

"Bella we need to talk in private."

"Fine by me."

The rest of the class passed uneventfully. After the class ended we headed out to my car. Yes car not truck. I had gotten a small Volkswagen it was blue. Natalie climbed in the passenger seat as we headed to my apartment.

"Bella how do you know what I am I really need to know. If you know enough you may be able to help me."

"Nat last year I dated a vampire. His name was Edward. He left because he didn't love me anymore. But I love him still. There were seven of them; Edward also refused to change me. End of story."

This was hard I could feel the festering hole in my chest. The one that had been dormant for a few months. Well that was also because I hadn't thought about Edward, or the Cullen's.

"So Bella what can you tell about me?"

"You are a vegetarian." A smile spread across my face "It was a small joke that the Cullen's used. You see they drank animal blood too." she smiled and looked at me.

"Bella I think that we need to stick together."

Later on I learned that she had liked all the same things as a human.

END FLASHBACK

Natalie stood in the kitchen with the phone against her ear.

NATALIE'S POV

As I answered the phone a very musical voice came through it.

"Hello I am looking for an Isabella Swan. I was told this was a number I could reach her at." It was a woman's voice; it was like the sound of bells.

"May I ask whose calling?"

"My name is Alice." I froze. Alice as in Alice Cullen, Bella's lost best friend and almost sister?

"Hold on one moment please." I didn't wait for a response. I looked at Bella as I covered the phone. "Bella it's for you." Hesitantly I said "She says her name is Alice." Bella snatched the phone from my hand as quick as she could. As quick as it was possible for a woman in a wheel chair.

BELLA'S POV

"Hello?" I asked a little breathless. My sister could it really be?

"Bella? Is it really you?" I knew that voice anywhere.

"ALICE!" I cried as the tears came now. My best friend my sister, my lost life. Natalie took the phone out of my hand. She did it easily seeing I am a frail human and she is a vampire. She talked to Alice and finally turned to me.

"Bella she wants to meet with you. She wants to take you shopping."

"Tell her no shopping. How about she comes here?"

Natalie relayed the message and Alice must have agreed seeing that Nat was giving directions. They were hanging up. The tears were still flowing and if it had been possible I would have been jumping up and down. Natalie looked down at me. "She is coming over tomorrow."

"Natalie!!!!! You get to meet Alice the girl who gave me a sense of style.

NATALIE'S POV

I had never seen Bella this happy since what happened two years ago. I had seen her smile many times but I had never known if it was genuine or not. I wasn't really telling Bella something. Not only would she see Alice she would see all of the Cullen's.

Ever since I had become close to Bella I always knew that there was a part of her missing. Edward was that part. I always hoped that they would try and find her, but hope ran thin when you didn't know if the person was going to be alive the next day.

I was afraid of what this would do to her. I had to warn her.

"Bella?" she stopped and turned to face me. She had been making her way to her room, the smile too big for her face it looked as if it would crack her face. "Alice isn't the only one coming tomorrow."

"Who else is coming with her?"

"She didn't say, just that she wasn't coming alone." Her smile hadn't faltered one bit. She just turned and went to her room. I ran to my own room and started to read a book. It was a vampire book. It was silly but I liked it. It was the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. It was exceptionally good except for the vampire nonsense. When I read a book I tend to read at a human pace make the book last longer and what not, it was the only thing I didn't do at vampire speed.

I heard Bella's breathing slow and I knew she was asleep. I was shocked; I thought she was going to be awake for hours too excited about her "sister" coming.

I loved her, she was like a sister to me, she helped me when I needed it, like all the times it was sunny.