A/N hiii :) I forgot to do one of these for the first chapter coz I was in a rush, lol. So just ot make it clear Matt doesn't know about Bella. And this chapter is mega long. And I know nothing about the American education systym, so apoligies in advance for any mistakes. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the first chapter; it really made my day and I've had a pretty rough one... anyway on with chapter 2.

Matt's Chevrolet drove through the familiar streets towards the school, and I felt the butterflies in my stomach start. This was all far too familiar. He pulled into the student car park after what seemed like only a few seconds and parked close to the office building.

"Okay, you ready?"

"Mmmhmm" It was difficult to talk as the feeling of déjà vu choked me.

"Okay, get going then. And don't worry Bells, everything will be fine." He mussed my hair reassuringly and I smiled.

"See you later Matt. I'm making spaghetti for tea."

With that I got out of the car and entered the office. It was a normal room, the walls painted a warm cream. A portly woman sat behind a counter that split the office into two -the 'visitor' area and the 'business' area.

"Hello dear, how can I help you?"

"Hi, I'm Isabella Corelli, I'm new." Matt and I had agreed it would be easier to enrol me with his last name, since I was his 'sister'.

"Ah Matthias's sister! Of course!" Great; I was already a topic of conversation, "here, this is a map of campus, and your timetable, and, oh what have I done with it! Oh wait, here it is. This is for your teachers to sign, bring it back to me at the end of the day." She smiled sweetly at me. "Oh and welcome to Forks High School, dear."

"Thanks"

I didn't need the map, navigating the hallways of the school was almost second nature, even after half a century. I arrived at biology before the bell and paused to compose myself before I entered the room. It was the same classroom I'd first spoken to him in.

There were only a few people in the room, and after the teacher had signed my piece of paper I walked straight to the back of the room, to the same desk I'd shared with him.

Over the next few minutes the room filled up, many of the students eyed me suspiciously, but nobody made an effort to talk to me.

The lesson began, and the seat beside me was still empty. It was strange, but I felt disappointed, and I had no idea why.

"Mr Cullen you're late. The bell went eleven minutes ago."

I looked up in shock, surely I'd imagined it; this was taking wishful thinking to a whole new level. But no, sure enough, there were two golden eyes staring back at mine.

"Sorry sir, my car broke down on the way to school."

"Well hurry up and sit down, you'll have to copy up from Miss Corelli."

The vampire traversed the room silently and sat down beside me, as the teacher carried on with the lesson. His eyes never left mine, even when he was sat beside me. Say something! Say anything! But what?

"Car trouble?" my voice was too low for human ears, but I knew he heard it.

"Miss Corelli?" His voice was as low as mine, and equally saturated with disbelief.

We stared at each other for a moment. I couldn't believe this was happening. He was here, they were here.

"How are you, Jasper?"

He eyed me suspiciously "I'm fine. Now is it still Bella, or have you changed that too?"

"Yes it's still Bella."

"Then in that case, what are you doing here Bella?" His voice surprised me, it sounded...angry.

"Well at the moment I'm taking notes on how the pancreas creates insulin. And why are you taking that tone with me!"

"Shock, maybe? Or maybe it's because your emotions are so...forceful. Your angry, I'm angry."

"Damn straight I'm angry! And I have every reason to be!"

His expression softened somewhat.

"Bella... we didn't want to leave. We really didn't. Edward only ever wanted to do the right thing by you."

That was the first time I'd heard his name in more than fifty years; all the walls and barriers I'd built against him were torn down in an instant, and the hole in my chest was suddenly back with a vengeance. Jasper's expression became worried.

"Bella? Are you okay?" he reached out to touch my arm, but then withdrew his hand at the last instant.

"I'm fine." I turned my attention back to my notes. "So what's wrong with your car?"

"Alice was driving. She had a vision, caused her to crash. By the time Edward could get inside her head she was thinking of other stuff; she refused to tell us what she saw. I guess I know what it was now..." He looked at me pointedly. "Anyway we had to wait for a mechanic to come tow the car away, and that made us late even though we ran," he paused for a moment before he continued, "So, how are you ... here?"

"Well your brilliant plan to protect me by leaving me to fend for myself backfired - who would've thunk it? Laurent came back for me about six months after you left. He had every intention of killing me, but he... stopped. I never did work out why. And when I woke up I was alone in the forest. I left, I'd never be able to live with myself if I hurt Charlie. I did try to find you all, despite the fact I was unwanted; I didn't care that you didn't love me anymore, I needed help. I couldn't find you, of course, so I just made my own way from there. I travelled a lot. I went to Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America. I considered Antarctica at one point, but there doesn't seem like theirs much to do except hunt penguins." My nose wrinkled in disgust at the thought of it.

Jasper was hanging on my every word, living my story with me.

"Then last January I finally got homesick, so I came back to Forks. I was working in Jessie's Diner down the road when I met Matt. He was charming and intelligent and hard-working, and human, of course. I told him I'd run away from home because my father beat me, and he offered me a place to stay. I would never have normally accepted, but I was desperate. The story is that I'm his little sister from Seattle, and that our parents died so I was sent to live with him."

I stopped, noticing for the first time the hurt in Jasper's eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." I decided to let it go; he was probably just feeling my emotions."

"So are all of you here then?"

"Yeah; it's the first time we've all lived in the same place at the same time since... since we left. Emmett and Rosalie went abroad, and the rest of us moved around a lot separately; Alice and I, Carlisle and Esme, and Edward... he would visit every now and then, or call but... Anyway, when Carlisle and Esme decided to come back to Forks, we all decided to join them. We all think of this as home really. Bella..."

"Yeah?"

"Well... you know this whole Edward thing? Do you... well what I mean to say is...would you ever... take him back?"

"Jasper..." my tone was exasperated, though it was silent to human ears "with Edward things are...complicated. He and I, what we had was... beautiful, and you know how I loved him. But it was so dysfunctional, deep down I knew it would never last. I let him go, because I loved him, and I always knew it made no sense for him to love me back. What he said to me in the forest that day just confirmed what I'd always known to be true, I didn't deserve him."

My eyes had fallen to the table while I spoke, to make it easier to say what I felt. Once I'd finished I looked up to see Jasper staring at me solemnly and if I didn't know any better I could have sworn there were tears in his eyes.

Just then the bell went, causing me to jump slightly.

"What lesson do you have next?" Jasper asked conversationally as I gathered my belongings.

"Umm... History, I think. Why?"

He smiled slyly "No reason", he replied. "Oh and Alice is waiting for you outside."

I was wondering what that smell was...

I walked out of the room after him, only to have the wind knocked out of me by what I could only assume was Alice Cullen.

"Bella Swan do you have any idea how much I've missed you!" she clung to me desperately, and I wrapped my arms around her in return, suddenly aware of how much I'd truly missed her.

"That's not her name anymore, Alice" said Jasper as he leaned against the door frame bearing a wide grin. Alice pulled away from me instantly, her dark gold eyes frowning at me. "What's he on about Bella... or not Bella?"

I rolled my eyes," I'm still Bella. It was just... prudent for me to change my last name; it makes more sense this way."

"Are you going to tell me the story behind this or not, Bella?"

"Well I would but I'll just have to repeat it for Emmett later. And plus I'm going to be late for class."

"She has History" interjected Jasper, his smile growing again.

"Really!! Oh My God, Bella!! This is so exciting!!"

"Is anyone going to tell me what's so special about History?"

"Nope" they chorused. At that I groaned and bid them goodbye before heading across campus as fast as my feet could carry me and still look like a human.

When I arrived, the rest of the class was already seated, but the teacher was only just opening her briefcase. I wasn't too late then. I handed her my slip from the office and she promptly signed it and pointed me in the direction of the one spare desk.

I'm pretty sure that if my heart had been beating when I entered the room, what I saw now would have stopped it completely.

I walked slowly down the aisle and took my seat... beside Edward.

The lesson began and for the first ten minutes I took notes in silence, concentrating on the Wall Street Crash with all my might. But then the teacher, a flustered looking woman by the name of Mrs Hughes, announced she had left some sheets in her car and needed to go fetch them. The door was barely closed behind her before the chatter began.

"So you're the new girl." I looked up in surprise; the boy in front of me had turned in his seat to talk to me. How brave...

"Yeah... um hi. I'm Bella. Bella Corelli."

"Dylan Masters." he held out a hand to shake mine, doing so with what I imagined he thought was a 'firm grip'.

"So, you're Professor Corelli's little sister, right?"

I smiled "Why do I get the feeling that people have been expecting me?"

He smiled in return "Because we have. The Bad-Ass Professor's sister that no-one has ever heard of before shows up from Seattle. I won't be surprised if you end up in the town news letter."

I laughed nervously at how my older 'brother' was painted by the human boy. I was very conscious of Edward's eyes on me, listening to our conversation.

"Oh Cullen, are you coming on Friday?" I was shocked when Dylan said this to Edward; I turned my head to see his response.

"Yeah, I can't wait." His voice ripped though me like a knife.

"Cool. Oh and I spoke to Mandy, she says she can't come, so there's room for one more. Hey Bella, you wouldn't want to come would you?"

I looked back at Dylan confused "Umm where are we going?"

"There's a party down in Port Angeles, in one of the warehouses, a load of us are hiring a mini bus and heading down; do you want to come?"

What the heck... "Sure, I'd love to."

"Really?" It was Edward who spoke now he sounded almost...disapproving.

"What?" I asked innocently.

"Well as I seem to remember, you don't like parties."

"Well as I seem to remember, you don't like any sort of social event. Except maybe prom..."

"I'm allowed to change aren't I?"

"If you are then I am too."

"Umm have you two met before?" Dylan looked confused at Edward's and mine heated exchange.

"Yeah, I used to live in Seattle remember, Dyl? We used to go to school together."

Dylan nodded to show he understood, but something about the way he looked at us told me he suspected there was more to our relationship than we let on.

At that moment Mrs Hughes re-entered the room with a pile of papers under her arm. The class fell silent as she began to hand out the sheets, and I leant my forehead on my fist, letting my hair block my view of Edward.

Mrs Hughes droned on for another half an hour about the Great Depression as the class took notes, every now and then I would sneak a look at Edward through the wall of my hair. He seemed to have his chair angled towards me slightly, as if he was watching me, though I never caught him in the act. I was probably imagining the angle of his chair; wishful thinking again.

The bell finally went and I sighed quietly; it was time for Math. Half a century had taught me a lot, but I was still stumped when it came to numbers. I slowly got up from my chair and gathered my belongings, acutely aware of the room emptying around me. I was last to leave the classroom, and when I did I was met my Alice once more. She was almost bouncing on the spot, a wide grin across her beautiful face. Her brother was already gone.

"So? Did you talk to him?"

"Why are you asking me? Surely you already saw it?" She rolled her eyes.

"I saw you yes, but I don't know what you said! You have to tell me everything!"

"Okay what's going on? Why are you so excited about this?"

"Well it's the first time you two have seen each other in over fifty years Bella! Do you really mean to tell me that you didn't say anything to him?"

We were outside now, walking towards the Math rooms. I sighed, exasperated, and recounted the conversation Edward and I had had in History. Her pale brow wrinkled and her eyebrows arched in distaste.

"Is that it?"

"Well... yeah, I guess, it is." I was a little confused at the harsh tone in her voice.

"Oh for Heaven's sake, Bella! What are we going to do with you two?"

"Alice there's nothing to do. He's made it very clear in the past how he... feels about me." My arms lifted up automatically and folded across my chest.

Alice seemed a bit put out by my statement. Surely she'd known that already though?

"What are you doing?" she asked suddenly, looking pointedly at my folded arms as she opened the door to our classroom.

I cringed inwardly. "Sorry... old habits die hard." I unfolded my arms and dropped them to my sides. It made me a bit uncomfortable to walk that way, less secure.

"When did you pick that up?"

"I don't know... a few decades back." Alice frowned at my inadequate answer, but decided to let it go.

We sat at the back of the room and waited as it filled up slowly. "So anyways, are you going to tell me who did this or not?"

"Did what?"

"Changed you."

I sighed deeply. "Laurent." I felt Alice stiffen at my side. "A few months after you...left, I was out walking in the woods. He found me, and at first everything was normal... I remembered what he said about moving to Denali and stuff, so I thought it would be fine. And then I noticed his eyes...

"He told me he was on a mission for Victoria. It turns out she was bit peeved over the whole James incident" I laughed quietly before I continued "He was meant to see how difficult it would be for her to get to me. They didn't know that you had left... But anyway, when he found me he was thirsty. He bit me, and then... he left. I never worked out why he did that, but he left me there. The last thing I remember was him saying "It can't be" and backing away from me."

"What do you think it was?" Alice's voice was just a whisper.

I didn't answer, I couldn't. At the time, I'd thought that maybe he'd pulled away because they were back... The Cullen's. I'd hoped they'd come back to save me. But then I'd woken up, alone in the meadow, and I knew that it couldn't have been them. They wouldn't have cared, he wouldn't have cared.

"You're doing it again Bella." I looked down and realised that I was holding myself together once more, my nails gripping my skin through my jumper.

"Why do you do that?"

"No reason. Like I said old habits..."

"Bella tell me-"

"Alice who's this?" asked a deep voice from behind me.

I turned slowly in my seat to face the source of the voice.

"Emmett we're in the middle of a conversation here, can't you sit somewhere else for today?"

Emmett ignored her chastising; staring at me in awe. "Bella..."

"Hey Emmett." My voice was just as quite as his. He sat at the desk in front of me, turning in his seat to talk to us.

"What are you...How are you... What the hell's going on?"

"Well, obviously, Bella is a v- one of us now," answered Alice before rolling her eyes at Emmett.

His eyes widened. "Since when?"

"About six months after you left," my voice surprised me by being both steady and strong.

"Is this why you totalled Edward's car this morning?" he looked at Alice, a small smile playing at his lips. Of course, Emmett would find Alice crashing terrifically amusing.

"Yep, I'm kinda hoping that my vision being Bella will be enough to redeem myself," we all laughed lightly as the teacher, a very short bald man, walked into the room with a briefcase.

"I'll be back in a moment" I whispered as I grabbed the slip of paper from my bag and went to speak to the man.

"Ah so you're Professor Corelli's sister. I'm Mr Douglas; it's good to meet you."

"Thanks." I smiled politely as he signed the piece of paper and handed it back to me.

"Corelli?" asked Emmett as I walked past him.

"Long story."

"We have time" whispered Alice as I sat down and Mr Douglas greeted the class.

"Uh-uh, I still don't understand this subject after nearly seventy years of it now, so I'm paying attention to the bald guy."

They both snickered at my comment while I attempted to follow what Mr Douglas was telling us.

A/N right, that's chapter two done. Reviews please, they make me very happy. Oh and the italics are meant to be Bella's thoughts. I'm gunna try to update every day, but I might stop if I don't get reviews and stuff, lol.

See ya later alligators :)