Enimies?

4th grade:

Bella's POV:

Oh he is so dead! Deader than dead! I'm going to kill him, then bring him back, and beat him senseless with his own dead body!

"Um, Bella, are you ok?" I can always count on Alice and Rose to notice when I'm pissed.

"I'm very irrational right now – although, right now, killing Cullen sounds completely rational. I think I will!"

"Who the hell is Cullen?!" When Alice shouted that, I was deep in thought on how to kill him and make it look like an accident.

"What?! Huh?! Oh, 'Cullen' is what I'm calling Edward". – I said his name like the insult it was.

"Oh." She and Rose said in unison. They then proceeded to literally drag me out the door, from a very smirking: Edward. Anthony. Mason. Cullen.

"You will never get away with this! YOU! ARE! SO! DEAD!" his smirk just grew. I thrashed against the girls, but they didn't loosen their grip an inch.

"As much as we want him dead too, 1, it's illegal, and you'd be put in jail, no matter how much he deserved it" – she knew me well. Well enough to know I was about to protest, ant way – ", and 2, he'd be getting off easy if he were dead."

"You hear that, Cullen?! You mess with one of us; you mess with all of us!" Rose added to Alice's mini-speech

7 years later (for those of you like me who will sit there for the next 2 minutes doing the math, they are now juniors in high-school)

I was in a total daze.

Cullen?! Edward Anthony Mason Cullen?! All of the Cullens?! VAMPIRES?!?!?!

"Ugh, Bella! I told you not to drink at that goddamn party!"

"I-I d-didn't…" I managed to stutter out. Rose looked at me concerned.

"You sure you're okay?" I snapped out of my haze. I decided to call off telling the whole school at lunch today.

I can't believe I still have a crush on him!

"I said I didn't drink at the party. I never said I was okay." They both gave me confused looks.

"I need to talk to Ed – Cullen…"

"Um… okay. You can do that while we go park. Be there in a few." But I didn't get a chance until 10 months later.

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I swallowed my pride and went up to him. Thank god he was alone. If Jasper or Emmett – let alone both of them – were there I couldn't talk to him.

"Um, Cul – Edward."

"Oh. So now we're using for-"

"Please. This is really difficult for me, so it will be over quicker if you shut up, and give me a yes or a no answer. Okay?" I was being as sincere as I could.

"Um, okay. Ask away." He sounded a little hesitant at first.

"I wanted to know if…well if…UGH! Screw it! I wanna make a truce!" right when I said that, Rose and Alice and Jasper and Emmett came up, literally simultaneously. They all started gawking at me, also simultaneously.

"A – a WHAT?!" Now our audiences had doubled and were all texting their friends to come over and watch too. I tried to ignore them. I couldn't help it. I looked once. Big mistake. They were all gawking at me too.

"A truce. You know. Call off the war." He straightened up, no longer gawking at me.

"Are you SURE you're not drunk?!?!?!" He, Alice, Rose, Jasper, and Emmett all shouted at once. No one was gawking any more.

"I am NOT FREAKING DRUNK!!!" I was getting pissed off now.

"Uh…Um…" I had rendered Edward Cullen speechless.

"N-No." he finally stuttered out. Okay. I gave him a fair chance. I was seething. I wanted him dead more than I did on the day of 'the incident'.

"After all the crap you've pulled on me?! A truce is the least you could do!" I practically screamed.

"Me?! Where the hell have you been?! You started this whole thing in 4th grade!" As much as I hated admitting it, Edward Cullen actually looked sexy when he was angry.

Wait?! WHAT?! Where the hell did that come from?! Mind out of the gutter, mind out of the gutter, mind out of the gutter…he's a jerk…he's a jerk…oh, who are you kidding!? This whole war started because you had a crush on him, and he embarrassed you in, front of not only the whole school, but on national television (on purpose too) and that completely broke your heart. Remember that faithful day, dearest voice in my head?! I mentally scorned myself.

"Excuse me?! You started the whole goddamn war, Cullen! I simply got revenge, and you got revenge for me getting my revenge, and it escaladed from there. So, technically, it's your fault!" By now we had drawn well over half the school to watch our argument.

Edward and I had a fight almost everyday (4 times a school week, that's our schedule for you). Our class-mates were pretty much used to it by now. But, this fight is different. We usually fought over something insignificant and they would walk right by. But no, not today. This fight was over my love-life. And he was so dead for that.

"You know what, Cullen?!"

"No, what dearest Isabella?!" his voice hissing, yet seductive (to me, at least).

"You're not even worth the goddamn fights anymore, you fucking bastard!" I stormed off. Leaving every one, even my two best friends, stunned.

"But, Bella! You found his weakness yesterday, and we were going to use it against him today at lunch!" Alice complained.

"Yeah! Consider that a warning for what's to come, Cullen!" Rose spat at him. He immediately flushed. He stared at me in awe.

He knew that I really did know. Otherwise, he would have said we didn't really know, but, he knew that I knew.

"No!" I screamed at them, I had found out yesterday, but I didn't tell them what it was yet. How do you tell your best friends that the man you love (they still didn't know that yet, seeing as how Alice took on Jasper, Rose took on Emmett, and I took on Edward, all on separate turfs, alone, at different times, so they never actually saw me talk to him… until now, that is. But we were in a shouting match, so neither of them got the chance to notice today either) and who is your worst enemy is an immortal vampire.

I didn't even turn around to answer the now silent crowd's question. "Forget it. No one, not even Cullen, deserves that bad a punishment. Even if we are life long enemies." I replied, now in a normal tone, then walked away, not able to bring myself to look at any of their faces, let alone talk to them.

I was going to skip school today. The bell rang. All the kids cleared. Alice texted me, and I told her I was going home. She said she'd play hooky to think – like me – if she were in my spot. So that's what I decided on. Appaerently, so did Edward.

I sighed. I turned the key. The damn car won't start. Edward tapped on my window.

"You ditching too?" More of a statement than a question, really. But, I still nodded.

"Car won't start, huh?"

"What's with all the freaking mood changes!? I swear! You PMS worse than me! And that's saying something!" he chuckled. Chuckled. I sighed

"Yes. My car won't start, okay? What of it?"

"Want a ride?" I slowly raised my head. With all the comments he's made in the past, I wasn't sure if he meant in the car or…somewhere else. I quickly pushed the thought out of my head. He looked a little confused.

"What?" Sudden realization hit him. He laughed.

"I meant the car."

"Yeah, sorry, I can never be too sure around you."

"Where to?"

"How about the coffee shop on the corner?"

"Sure."

"So, do you accept my truce?"

"Ah. I like how you don't automatically assume. Smart cookie."

He patted my head like I was a little kid.

"Stupidshinyvolvoowningvampire." He tensed up. He did a 180 in his car. Very fast. Even for him.

"Where are we going?!"

"My house." Sudden realization hit my face.

"OH SHIT! DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD?!?!?!"

"Yes. You did."

"Um, I don't suppose your mind power thingy can erase that, can it?" I asked in a very tiny voice.

He sped up.

"Oh come on! What did I say now?!" I was talking normally again. Thank god.

"How long." He asked through clenched teeth.

"Since about three weeks after you became one." I went back to my itty-bitty voice.

"And you told no one?" he relaxed a bit, and slowed down.

"Um, I pretty much had no choice. I mean, you can't read my mind, so you didn't know I knew, and I couldn't think of a way to tell you, I would die if I let anyone know I knew, so, as I said before this particular rant, I would die. Due to the Volturi, that is."

He pulled out his phone.

"Um, Carlisle? We have a situation. No, it can't wait till after school. What kind? I don't know how to categorize it. Any guesses, Bella?" He gave me the phone.

"Um, please don't hate, but I kind of know…three weeks after? No, it's not his fault. No, I figured it out myself. How? Um, that's not easy for me to answer. No, I had legitimate reasons. No, I knew already."

"Fine. I used to hunt your kind." I said that too quiet for even a vampire to hear.

"Um, I used to hunt your kind." I said, just the teensiest bit louder. Edward fishtailed to a stop.

"YOU?! WHAT?!" His screeching was louder than the tires. I handed the phone back. I guess Carlisle asked what I said.

"I'm coming home right now. Call Esme Jasper and Emmett. No. she's coming with me. I'll tell you what she said later."

"Do you hate me now?" my voice was almost as tiny as when I first answered Carlisle's question.

"No. But we defiantly need you to talk to my family."

"Why does this feel like we're dating to me?" I muttered.

"Are you dreading this?"

"You know how it is for you to keep your thirst for human blood in tact, and how you know where they are when they are within hearing distance? – he nodded – Well, that's how it is for a vampire hunter. If we're around them for so long, we have to either run away, or give in. and I've grown very accustomed to you, and now don't want you dead. Oh, before you ask, Alice and Rose still think vampires are Halloween movies."

We walked up the steps, Esme welcomed us all. Edward filled them in. I knew of all their powers. Jasper gave me a smirk. Edward hadn't told them about me being a hunter yet.

"Hey Edward? Want to know something interesting about Bella you didn't know before now?"

"You so much as even think about it and you will be the first thing I attack when I give in!" I roared to life. He got up and ran around at vampire speed.

"Stupid vampire! You think you can out run me!"

"Um, Jasper, don't she's a-"I caught Jasper and tackled him within the first ten seconds of our running's.

"Vampire hunter." H e finished.

I got up and dusted myself off. They were all staring at me.

"What?!" they didn't move.

"Oh. Thanks, Edward."

"Hey! You tackled Jasper! The questions were coming anyways."

"Um, guys. You guys have the same amount of chance of me attacking you as Edward attacking Alice." They were staring in disbelief.

"Oh. I see. How could I be a vampire hunter, right?" I sighed.

"Fine." I muttered. I pulled my hair up and showed them my clan mark on my neck. They still didn't believe me. I grunted. I pulled my jeans leg up over my left thigh and pulled the dagger off of it's holder there. I slit my wrist.

It wasn't blood. Well, not human, anyway. It was ash, or vampire hunter blood.

"I gave it up to live the life of a teenager. Well, multiple lives of teenagers, but still." Emmet grabbed my wrist, and sniffed it. Sniffed it.

"EMO!" he shouted and started to run away. I sat back on the couch.

"This is going to be a long night."