Once we get there we climb up the stairs to Lily's house and ring the doorbell. There is a lot of noise and then the door opens. Isabella spies us and leans her head on the door.
She leaves the door open and walks away. "Lily!" She yells.
Lily comes running downstairs. "What?"
"I will not talk to the people at the door." She says, turning the corner.
"Don't you hold grudges." Lily mutters. She smiles and urges us in. "Sorry about her, she has a tendency to hold grudges on people."
"Yeah, we don't exactly remember her." Jasper tells her.
"Yes, well, she most certainly remembers you." Lily mutters, weaving her fingers through her light brown hair. "So, what brings you here?"
"Lily?" Isabella asks, coming in. "I am going to the store-"
"No you are not." Lily interrupts.
"Where are my keys?" Isabella demands, upset. "I left them in my purse, and they are not there anymore."
"You are not going anywhere." Lily tells her. "We have people over and you will talk to them."
"Why did you take my keys! I have my own life, it is a great life. I didn't come back here to live in my middle school years! You can't force me to do this Lily!" Isabella tells her, getting even madder.
"They don't even remember you, start fresh." Lily tells her.
"I am so glad that they don't. Now give me my keys Lily. I am not going to have this conversation again! It is completely unfair-"
"Didn't anyone teach you life was unfair?" A voice interrupts. Isabella turns around.
"Oh god." Isabella sighs, closing her eyes.
"Josh, what are you doing here?" Lily snaps.
"To see my sisters." He grins.
"Don't you dare do this." Isabella growls. "You stay away from us, all of us!"
"Get out Josh." Lily says.
"Did we come at a bad time?" Carlisle asks, suddenly standing in the doorway.
"A very bad time." Isabella sighs. "I am going to give simple instructions to everyone. Lily, my keys, you have no food in the fridge, Jasper, Alice, out, we are not coming to your house tonight, Josh, i never want to see you again to avoid me as much as possible, and the rest of you, there are so many other continents that you could have lived on, why is it North America?"
"Isabella!" Lily gasps.
"She is having a bad day." Josh chuckles. Isabella slaps him.
"I told you seven years ago exactly why the hell you should stay out of our lives! You don't need to ruin our family more than it is already!" She snaps.
"You aren't the boss of me." He tells her.
"I am, being the oldest has its advantages. Don't ruin Rachel's life like you ruined ours. " She says through her teeth.
"Rachel? So they adopted another one! Gosh do they stop?" Josh chuckles again. "And you aren't the oldest."
"Benjamin is gone Josh, don't you remember?" Isabella asks.
"I remember alright. Just like those other two brats." Josh chuckles.
"Leave town Josh, because if mom and dad know you are back, i am positive they will hunt you down and kill you."
"How can they do that if they couldn't even protect their kids?" Josh smirks.
"They thought you were their kid." Isabella snaps.
"Um, should we go?" I ask, getting up slowly.
"Yes, family crisis." Josh tells me.
"No not a family crisis. Just some jerk who walked through the door." Isabella snaps. She points a finger at him. "Leave us all alone." Then she walks away.
"She is such a bore, always mad." Josh tells us all.
"You heard her, get out." Lily tells him, crossing her arms.
"Sorry, no can do. Don't have a place to stay." Josh says. He looks out the door as a car drives up. "Who is that Jerk?"
"I think you are the only jerk in the world." Lily tells him. She goes and looks outside and smiles. She runs outside and hugs the guy that comes out of the car.
He comes inside and looks at everyone.
"Hi, i am surprised you keep this kind of company Lily. Everyone Bella Hates, wonder how she reacted." He says.
"Locked in the basement, why don't you go say hello to her." Lily suggests.
"Yeah, i should probably do that." He says, leaving the foyer and going through a door downstairs.
"Okay, who was that?" Josh demands.
"No one." Lily says, looking down and smiling.
"We are going to go now. Lily, you and Isabella are invited to our house tonight for a sleepover." I tell her, leaving with Jasper.
We all go outside, just as we are about to leave we heard a scream and a loud crash. I run up the steps, everyone looking after me and open the door.
What i saw was unbelievable. It didn't look like what is seemed, but it was!
Bella POV
I locked myself downstairs and cried. My life in forks turned from bad to worse. I missed living away from here, but i had to come back. My family needed me and i needed them. Suddenly the door opened and Alec came in.
"Alec." I gasped, i jumped up and hugged him. We kissed passionately. "I missed you so much."
"So have i, but i wonder Bella. Those people outside? Josh and the Cullens?"
"Believe me, i don't want them here. They just showed up." I told him, leaning into his chest. We stayed there for a few minutes, then we heard a loud scream and crash. We both looked at each other and raced upstairs. Lily was on the floor, glass and blood surrounding her. She was unconscious, Josh standing over her. I ran over to her and crouched next to her head.
"What did you do?" I scream. The door burst open and Alice comes in, she spies us all. "Josh, call nine-one-on!" I yell. I put my hand to her neck, her pulse was still there.
Josh slaps me. I fall back into the wall.
"You will end up like Lydia Bella." Josh yells.
"Not if i can help it." I say.
"Alec, go call the police. Quickly." I cry. I put my hand to her head and look at it, it was covered with blood.
"Carlisle!" Alice screams. Alice runs outside, panic written all over her.
"What the hell did you do to her?" Alec yells at Josh.
"No one does anything in this family without informing me." Josh screams. Sirens suddenly come into earshot, they pull up on the street.
The police come inside and so do paramedics. The quickly figure out the crime scene. A paramedic quickly brings in a stretcher and put her on it. Alec stands me up and hugs me.
"What happened?" A police asks me, pulling out her pad.
"I don't know." I cry. "We were downstairs, and then we heard Lily scream and glass shattering and we came up here and she was just lying there with Josh over her."
"Anything else?" She asks.
Alec looks at me then at the cop. "Josh has a very. . . Bad history in the family. Mr. and Mrs. Swan adopted a few kids, and Josh isn't one of the most well behaved ones."
"Adopted?" The cop asks.
"Yes, i am their only child, they adopted Josh, Lily, and two others." I told her.
"Are any of the others . . Do any of them have a history?" She asks.
"No, Rachel is younger than five. It is just Josh, he had only created problems in the house ever since we adopted him. We sort of told him we never wanted to see him again and he just showed up seven years later, today." I cry.
"Okay, thank you." She says, going and talking with someone else.
"Let's go to the hospital." Alec tells me.
"Let me call my parents." I tell him, going to the kitchen. I take my phone out of my purse and dial mom's number. It rings twice before she answers.
"Hello, Bella?"
"Hi Mom, um, can you meet us at the hospital?" I ask her.
"What happened?" She asks, her voice panicked.
"I don't know, but Josh showed up and something happened between him and Lily, i was downstairs, i didn't see anything. But just go to the hospital, her head is bleeding and she is unconscious."
"I am only my way." Mom says. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, i am fine." I told her. "What did they say about Lily?"
"Nothing, they just took her to the hospital." I told Mom. Suddenly i spied Alice and Edward behind me from their reflection in the mirror. "I will meet you there."
"Okay, bye."
"Bye." I shut the phone and grabbed my purse.
"What can we do?" Alice asked.
"Stay away, far away." I told them, pushing past and getting into Alec's car. He drove to the hospital, staying just at the speed limit. Mom met us in the lobby.
"Mom, did you talk to the doctor?" I ask.
"No." She sobbed. "Not yet,Rachel is in the car with the babysitter. She is tired and cranky, so she couldn't come in."
"Where is Dad?"
"He had a conference in Michigan, will be gone for another week."
"Tell the babysitter to leave with Missy and Rachel." I told Mom. "Go downstairs, get something to eat, don't get stressed." No need for her blood pressure to rise.
She nodded and left.
"I am going with her." Alec told me.
"Thank you, Alec." I told him, it was good he was going with her. She looked pretty scared, and nervous.
I went to the desk.
"Hello." The nurse said.
"Hi, i am looking for my sister, she was just admitted. Her name is Lily Swan." I told her. She typed it into the computer.
"Yes, she is in room three-oh-two." The nurse told me.
"Thank you." I said. I started walking for the elevator. I went upstairs and found her room easily. Just before i was about to go inside a doctor stopped me.
"Excuse me, are you allowed in there?" He asked.
"I am her sister." I told him.
"Family only." He told me.
"I am her sister. How much more related can you get?" I demanded.
"You all look nothing alike." He hissed.
"Missy and Lily were adopted." I told him, upset.
"I won't allow it." He told me.
"Excuse me?" I demanded. "Why not?"
"I need some I.D." He growled.
"Fine." I took out my wallet and showed him some I.D. "Good enough?"
"No, you can not go in there. Rules are rules."
"What rules stop me from seeing her. She is my sister, i have a right-"
"Excuse me. Dr. Grandy, she is allowed to go in there." A familiar voice said. I look up and saw Carlisle. He was a doctor, now that i remembered.
"She isn't -"
"They are all siblings." Carlisle told him. Dr. Grandy stopped off angrily.
"Thank you." I told him.
"No problem, sorry about Lily." He told me.
"Thanks." I mutter, going into her room. I walk slowly to her bed, her head was wrapped in gauze. She had an I.V., a breathing tube, heart monitor, all those scary wires. I went and sat next to her on the bed. She was sleeping. I wasn't sure what that meant. I held her soft hand in my lap, rubbing it gently. Everything was quiet. I closed my eyes and let the flow of tears come, the tears that i was holding back.
"This is all my fault Lily, i wanted a brother." I muttered to her. I sat there for a few minutes, everything was quiet.
"Excuse me." A voice said. I turned around, not noticing someone had come in.
"Yes?" I asked, wiping my face dry.
"You must be her sister, Isabella?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes." I muttered.
"I am Dr. Ian, her doctor. I am pleased to say she will be alright." He told me. I smiled at her.
"Her head opened, she has a concussion. Not that big." He told me. "She should be fine, but we are keeping her here until she wakes up."
"When will she?" I ask him.
"Depends, we are keeping her drugged for now, until her head heels a bit. Maybe a few days." He tells me.
"Okay, everything is fine?" I ask.
"Yes, she should be able to go home within a week of her waking." He told me.
"Thank you." I said.
"No problem, let us know if you need anything." He told me, leaving. I walked outside and went to the waiting room. Mom and Alec were there.
"How is she?" Mom asked.
"She is fine, just a small concussion. Her head opened. She is sleeping, they are keeping her drugged for a little while, until she heals a bit." I told them. "They said she will be alright."
We all go upstairs and Mom goes inside to have a little time alone with her.
"Good, everything is fine then." Alec agreed.
"No, everything's not fine Alec. This one time, just this once, we were there. Josh couldn't do anything more. But what if he starts stalking us on the streets, what if he hurts us more or someone else more than he did today?" I ask. Tears start dripping down my face. Alec sits down with me on the bench outside Lily's room. He puts a shoulder around me, hugging me to his body.
"Bella?" A voice asks. Alec and i turn look up and meet the eyes of all the Cullens.
Rosalie tells me. "We remember you! This afternoon we finally remembered who you are."
"We are so sorry what we did to you. We had problems." Alice told me.
"Yeah, and Josh is going down, he won't hurt anyone else." Emmett tells me.
Carlisle and Esme walk up behind them.
"We are really sorry for everything." Jasper tells me.
"Should have said it year ago." I tell them. Getting up and walking inside the room, Alec follows me.
"Bella!" Alice calls and the door closes. I drag a chair closer to the bed and sit down, holding Lily's hand.
There is a knock on the door and Tanya comes in, along with Edward and Alice.
"What did you just do to me?" She sneers.
"Who are you?" Mom demands.
"Just some of my friends from college. I am going to talk to them outside." I told her, getting up. I pushed them outside the room. Mom walks after me.
She drags me to the corner.
"Bella, i know you. Very well. Who are they?"
"No one, just some friends." I tell her.
"Your lying, Bella. Because you have never been good at lying. It shows all over your face. Answer me this, who are they?" She demands.
"Just some people i know." I tell her.
"Bella." She says softer. "Just tell me."
I remain silent. She shakes her head and goes back inside the room.
Alice POV.
Mrs. Swan takes Isabella to the corner.
"Bella, i know you. Very well. Who are they?" She asks.
"No one, just some friends." Isabella tells her. Friends? What, was she crazy?
"Your lying, Bella. Because you have never been good at lying. It shows all over your face. Answer me this, who are they?" She demands.
"Just some people i know." Isabella repeats.
"Bella." She says softer. "Just tell me."
Isabella remains silent. Mrs. Swan shakes her head and goes back inside the room.
"Why didn't you tell her?" I ask.
"She has enough on her plate as it is. No need for her to want to murder you guys now." Bella tells us. We all exchange a look. "So, i never told her exactly who did it. Maybe i had a heart and thought you would change. Guess i was wrong, you guys continued. Found new toys, should have told her when i had the chance." Bella goes back into the room, i swear i saw a tear drip down her face.
"She was like totally crying." Tanya says, chopping on her gum.
"Yeah, cause she cares about her sister." Rosalie mutters.
"I would like never cry, it would totally mess up like my makeup." She says, playing with her fake nails.
Okay, was that any better? This is just the climax it will get a whole lot better, trust me! Please review, i only got one for the last chapter!
Lilibeth Ariel