((wwoww, that didn't stay on page one for very long O.o, so I decided to post another chappie now. And for all of you that didn't post a review- I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!! You can't hide for ever, slackers… (runs off into the woods with a butterfly net)))

I only had knocked once before the door burst open. A man who I instantly recognized as Carlisle was standing there, his eyes wide with shock. Shi-oot, I thought. I had stayed with the Volturi for a while, debating on weather to join them or not, and he had come. I could tell from the look in his eyes that he recognized me, and thought that the Volturi had sent me.

"Hello. My name is Arrow, and I heard about your remarkable family. I thought I'd come and see for myself if the rumors were true," I said. I had changed since he had last seen me; I had gold eyes, not red, my hair had turned red-gold instead of red-brown, and I had more slightly visible scars from various fights. I hoped that this would be enough to convince him that I wasn't Sam.

A smile crossed his face, and the fear was covered up. "Hello. I'm Carlisle. Come in, you can meet our family."

He escorted me into his house, and there was their whole family lounging around. I could guess most of their names. Rosaline was the beautiful one, Emmett was the strong one, Esme was the mothery-looking one, Edward was handsome, and that left the remaining boy and girl to be Jasper and Alice. And then there was the human girl, Bella. Her scent almost sent me into a frenzy right then and there. She smelled almost flowery, like lavender covered with honey and chocolate.

Carlisle gave Edward a short, meaningful look, and Edward stared at me, his eyes going slightly out of focus. I suppressed a grin. Most powers didn't work on me, since I was more smoke and shadow than vampire. And even then, I wasn't even really a true vampire, what with my mixed diet, my unusual abilities, and even my scent marked me out as out-of-the-ordinary vampire. I had spent some seventy years living in harmony with wolves, had been given the option to become the fourth member of the Volturi's inner circle, and had helped overthrow the Nazis.

Edward's face contorted slightly, looking frustrated. His eyes bored into me, and I raised a perfect eyebrow.

"Everyone, this is Arrow. Arrow, this is Alice, Jasper, Rosaline, Esme, Emmett, Edward, and Bella," he said, pointing them out in turn. I nodded politely to them all, pretending that I didn't already know who was who. By then my iron self-control over blood was cracking. For once, I wished that Edward could read my mind and discover what was going on. Leave, I mentally willed Bella. Leave now!

It was more or less luck that Carlisle gave Edward another look, and he took Bella's hand and stood up.

"We'll be upstairs. I want to show Bella my new CD," he lied. He betrayed nothing in his face or eyes, but I was better at reading people than he thought.

"So, sit down, make yourself at home. Where are you from?" Carlisle asked politely as I settled comfortably into a black leather chair, letting the strong smell of leather coat Bella's intoxicating scent.

"I'm not really from anywhere permanent. I just go here and there. Germany one day, Australia another, the Cayman Islands the next," I said, shrugging vaguely. "I'm not a human-sucker, though. I just like to travel. How have you managed to get all this?" I asked, waving a hand at the house.

Alice smiled, but there was a slight trace of frustration in her eyes. I suspected that what ever her power was wasn't working on me, either. Jasper was staring at me without seeing me, so his power, no clue what his was, either, was working just as well. Carlisle, oblivious to their puzzlement, smiled.

"We've been very good with out 'vegetarian' diet, and they all have enrolled in high school. And Alice here can see what is going to happen in the near future, so the stock market is unbelievably easy. Oh, I forgot to mention out abilities. I'm almost immune to the smell of blood, Esme could love anything, Rosaline is beautiful, Emmett is strong, Jasper can manipulate emotions, and Edward can read minds. Care to tell us yours?" he asked politely. I smiled a crocodile grin.

"Well… I don't really have much of an ability," I said, careful not to use the word 'Talent', which would give me away easily. "I'm just very good at hiding."

The others seemed unnerved by my predatory grin, but Alice clapped her hands and smiled.

"Let's play hide and seek, then! Inside the house only, no cheating. Carlisle can be It!" she laughed. I snickered at her childish suggestion.

"Ah'right. When do we start?" I asked.

"Now," Carlisle put in, then turned and closed his eyes and stopped breathing so he wouldn't cheat. Everyone was gone in a flash. As soon as everyone but Carlisle was gone, I dissolved into smoke so that he couldn't follow a scent, and shot upstairs. I scoured the ceiling, searching. Finally I found what I was searching for; a slight crack. I slipped through, until I was up in the roof of the house. I sagged on a rafter, still smoke, and settled in for a wait.

From the sound of it, the others were found quickly. I counted them off in my head. Emmett, Jasper, Esme, Rose, Alice. That was all of them, because I suspected that Edward had sprinted Bella off to her house.

Fifteen minutes, half an hour, forty-five minutes passed, and I could hear them all searching for me. I held back a laugh. After another ten minutes, I decided to come out.

I let the smallest of wisps of smoke slip through the crack, and looked around the room. It was empty, and the door was closed. In an instant, I shot down the hall and slipped into the nearest empty room, and poured myself back into my body. I only took one step before they heard me, and were up in the room.

I stayed for only another hour, chatting pleasantly and enjoying myself, careful not to give anything away, but then I told them I was going back to the flat I had rented. I did rent one, but it was only so that I could shower and such. I preferred to stay in the trees.

I wandered for a while, enjoying the forest, then decided to give the wolves another visit, maybe keeping this one a bit less aggressive. Smiling, I shifted into smoke and whirled toward La Push and that house where I had first seen them.

By the smell of it, they were all there. But there was a human in there, a human lady who knew what was going on. Curious, I slipped in the open window and hovered in the shadows above the huge refrigerator. They all looked about the same, with small variations. I thought that the one that looked sullen was the cutest, then quickly wrenched myself from those thoughts.

"What are we going to do? They plan to bite Bella, and we can't let that happen," the sullen one said. The one who I remembered as Sam frowned.

"Right. But we don't have much of a choice. We can't steal Bella, and we can't just attack the filthy leeches because that would be breaking the treaty. They might be fine with breaking it, but we're not evil like them. We keep our honor. The only thing we can do is wait and hope something happens," he said. I sensed a way to start a good fight. I quickly dumped myself into my body, ignoring their snarls of surprise. Most of them shifted into wolf form and roared, pouncing on where I was standing. Or at least, had been standing. Realizing what they were going to do an instant before, I had shifted again and drifted lazily out of the way. I changed back into my body and held up my hands.

"Stop! I have a way to solve your problem," I said, crocodile grinning.

((sorry again for not posting in a while. My best guy friend just told he that he loved me a week ago over msn, sending me an offline message thing, and now he's avoiding me. I talked to his friend, and he shrugged, saying he didn't know why. I know he's keeping a secret, though, and I can't trust him cause he likes me too. He said that my guy friend might have moved on. When I asked him what that meant, he shrugged and smiled. I really like the one who told me he loves me, and I don't know what to do from here!!!

Yea, sorry for pouring my life out at ya all. I'll post again soon this time, just so long as you review. THAT MEANS YOU, YA SLACKERS!!

O and ps- the sullen one is Jacob, and the house is Emily's))