So, this is the sequel. For those reading the companion, In the Highest Tower, sorry it's going so slowly. Edward's POV is SO HARD. I think a lot better in sync with Bella. But hey, here's the sequel!!

I only own Finn. And Laura and Lynne if they decide to make an appearance.

Just Another Fairytale

My solace. My voice. My friend.

You lifted me up when I thought it was the end.

If I could thank you, I would a million times.

If you hadn't been left, been left behind.

I miss my light

My beacon, my truth

I miss the one who left me feeling I could let loose.

If I could see you, I'd give you all I could.

Oh, if I could see, yes I bet I would.

I miss my light, my beacon and my truth

You cut the strings, you let me let all loose.

If I could thank you, I'd think of all the ways.

If it would take all of my days.

It seemed corny, but that hung in my locker along with the picture Mr. and Mrs. Thomas had given me of Finn and me. I was somber now, still sad, and faced with the fate I had thrust upon myself. It was my first day, and everything was already going insane.

I had driven up into the parking lot, and met the most amazingly gorgeous creature. A man, with auburn brown hair, and deep ocher eyes. He was pale, like me, but had the face of a god. (PC-fans, sound familiar?) But then, almost within a split second, he was gone. Like he had never been there. Had he been there?

The second uncanny thing that had happened was that the minute I had walked into my first class, every male eye turned to me. Every male eye GOGGLED me. This was going to be an interesting school year.

I shut my locker and walked to the next period of embarrassment. Not only did teacher make me walk to the front and get assigned books and seats, but some even made me introduce myself to the class. I would blush scarlet and stumble back to my seat, provoking giggles and murmurs.

The syllabus was fairly simple; most of the curriculum was underclassman in Phoenix. I still wondered about the angel.

I was a couple of paces from the building of Spanish, my next class, when I was caught and swung around to the side of the building in a super quick motion.

"What are you doing here?" I was facing a gorgeous angel face. Just not mine. This one was just as pale, but with gold cascading hair and figure of a supermodel.

"Ummm…excuse me?"

"First you nearly kill my brother from guilt and temptation, and then you come here, where we're perfectly happy, just to disrupt more things!"

"I don't even know you!" her eyes narrowed and she looked at me with utter contempt.

"Don't play dumb with me! You know very well who I am. I'm Edward's sister, and I insist you go away from here otherwise you can deal with me!"

EDWARD?

I had an immediate flashback, of painful memories, of Finn's video:

Edward really hurt you bad didn't he?

Finn, I don't know what I'd do without you. Without you I would be dead now. Lynne, Edward, they had killed me. Thank you Finn. I will always love you.

Once again I was whirled away, but this time in another direction, by a different set of arms. This one was tiny, and instantly sheltered me from the blonde.

"Rosalie! How dare you! That was unnecessary! Bella, are you okay?" I faced a pair of large, deep black eyes on a small, pixy shaped face.

"Ummm, I'm okay. Just a little confused. Who are all of you?"

The two exchanged a look and the smaller spoke up again, "Bella, I'm Alice Cullen and this is Rosalie Hale. We met over Halloween. Don't you remember any of us?"

Did I imagine a hint of something else in her words? Of course I didn't know them. I knew no one from Forks yet.

"No. I don't remember anything."

"What happened? Why don't you remember us?" Alice, or so she called herself, was now bringing me to sit down at a nearby table. She sat down after I was settled. The blonde, or Rosalie, sat down as well. Her face was still slightly hardened, but she seemed to be mellowing. They both seemed confused, but it confused me even more their reactions to everything.

"I don't really like to talk about it. Besides, I barely know you two."

"Your name is Isabella Marie Swan, you used to live in Phoenix and your ex-best friend's name is Lynne Peterson, who deserted you after she made the cheerleading squad and made new friends. Shall I go on?"

Ummm….how did she know all that? Was there a file of my personal life on store here?

"Uh, can I ask a question?"

"Sure. Within reason."

"How do you know all this?"

"Bella, we met you and for some reason you're not telling us, you don't remember. Can I ask the questions now?"

"Alice, I really don't want to get into the reasoning behind my, as you say it, not remembering. It's too painful."

She looked straight at me, almost disbelieving my security to stay pulled together until then. "Just whenever you can, let me know. Until then, just know I'm here. You have a friend." She pulled me into a hug, a little uncomfortable to hug a complete stranger, but it was nice to know I had a friend.

I walked into Spanish, and was placed next to a rather talkative girl, in English, but never Spanish. When we were given a passage to translate, she instead turned her chair to me and introduced herself.

"Hi, I'm Jessica Stanley. You're Isabella, right?"

"Yea, Bella."

"I like your name, it's very pretty."

"Thanks."

"So, how did you know Alice Cullen and Rosalie Hale, I saw you three talking. They barely ever talk to anyone besides their boyfriends slash brothers."

"Boyfriends slash brothers?"

"Here let me try to explain. It's complicated. Dr. and Mrs. Cullen adopted Emmett, Alice, and Edward. And as far as I've heard, and I've heard it all, Rosalie and Jasper Hale have been Mrs. Cullen's foster children since they were eight. The boyfriend part comes in that Rosalie is dating Alice's brother Emmett and Alice is dating Rosalie's twin, Jasper. And they live together." She took an enormous breath, signifying she was done.

"That sounded like a mouthful."

"Yes. And Edward's by the most amazing of them, but he doesn't date Forks girls. I think he has some foreign or out of Forks girlfriend."

"Oh."

"Yea, but it's not been confirmed. I'm still waiting from my sources to tell me the whole story." She flipped her hair over her shoulder and her bracelet jingled.

Jessica turned out to be quite the gossip. By the end of the period, I had been informed of who to talk to you, who NOT to talk to, and who I was to be friends with.

At lunch Jessica led me to "her" table. It included a couple of people I recognized from my morning classes and the others she soon introduced me to. Before I could even sit down, I was getting questioned from every side, and that prompted me to go to the bathroom.

I walked across the lunchroom toward the door nest to the bathroom, and before I could even reach THAT, I was once again accosted by Alice Cullen, except this time in a much more publicly appropriate manner. She acted as if to just go and throw her full tray out, but she walked after she had thrown her "trash" out and caught up with me.

"Bella, can Rosalie and I come over tonight?"

Umm, I don't think that Charlie would mind.

"Umm, I don't think that Charlie would mind. Sure, what for?"

"We just have something we want to show you. And maybe you could help us understand your forgetting and we could help you remember."

I had no temptation to retell the events of this spring, but she seemed sincere, and it seemed she could help.

I half-heartily nodded my head. "Sure."

I no longer needed to use the bathroom, so Alice and I walked back into the lunchroom. As we did, all eyes turned to us. I hate being the new kid. Then I saw the table Alice had come from. There sat three exquisite beings, Rosalie and two men. But the table was secluded form the rest of the room, disassociating with everyone else.

She must really not talk to anyone else. But there are only 4 of them today. Why? Jessica said there were five of them.

"Alice, where's your other brother? Someone said there were five of you. There's only four."

"I'll explain some other time. Maybe tonight. Six- thirty okay?"

"Uh, sure. Sounds great."

I sat back down at the table I had been at before, where Jessica sat, mouth open and eyes wide.

"Bella?! Care to explain?" her eyes refocused onto her lunch, a strawberry yogurt, which she was spooning steadily.

"Explain what?"

"Alice Cullen never has done that. She stays with her brothers, Rosalie and Jasper. Always."

"She seems mighty friendly to me." Didn't she do this to anyone else, Alice?

"She and her family keep to themselves. They camp together, they eat together, and they all excel in everything." She dipped her spoon into her yogurt again and licked it clean.

"Well I don't know what she sees in me. She told me she's my friend, so I'll believe her."

Jessica murmured at a tone hardly audible, "Well, that's just wow. She's not even anything special."

A kid named Mike Newton broke our discussion to ask my name. He seemed overly interested and I barely paid attention, and instead thought of what Alice and Rosalie could possibly need to show me tonight.

After lunch I had biology, where I was seated at an empty lab table, and guaranteed that I would eventually have a lab partner to work with. For today I was stuck with Mike, who still constantly yammered on the toughness of biology while we did our lab. In the end, I just watched him struggle and wrote down the answers as I had a year and a half ago on the same lab in Phoenix.

I was still in a cloud as I drove home, and pulled into my driveway to prepare for Alice and Rosalie's visit.