A/N – So you've read the first chapter and I thought you guys might want the next one. Now that RL has slowed down a bit I'm hoping to post more often in my stories. So enjoy!

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Chapter 2

I woke up feeling rested for a change. I stretched and had a moment of confusion when I realized that I was still in my clothes from last night. Then it all hit me hard. They were really here and they wanted to be around me. That still didn't make any sense and I wasn't sure if I should step back into that part of my life. I had finally started making progress and they never told me truthfully what happened back then.

I couldn't stop thinking about it as I got ready for class and it was still swirling through my brain up until class started. It took everything in me to put thoughts of the Cullens in the back of my mind so that I could concentrate on the day's lecture.

When I walked out of the lab four hours later, I felt spent. I never knew how taxing it would be to have to not think about what was waiting for me after I was done with class for the day. Deciding to wait till later to call them, I took the long way back home so that I could stop in the park and center my thoughts. I knew why they were in New York, but I still didn't fully understand why they wanted me around.

Sitting in the park, I watched as couples walked by, hand in hand, and I couldn't help feeling a bit jealous. I had my chance at love and it left me behind. As I continued to sit there I started to feel like I was being watched as I in turn watched the couples. It should have scared me, I know, but it had a calming effect on me. The longer I felt those eyes on me the better I felt about everything, it was like I was finally at peace.

As calm as I felt, it was still unsettling knowing someone was watching me. I looked around and noticed that I was the only one in the park. As the sense of calm continued to relax me, I thought that it could only be Jasper messing with my emotions and yet it didn't feel like the calm was being forced on me. Taking out my phone, I scrolled until I found Jasper's number in my phone and sent him a message.

Lab took longer than expected, heading home to rest ~B

I hit send and waited to see what the response would be. I knew if he was watching me he would call me out on the little fib, but if he wasn't then I might just need to head home as being stalked was not on my list of things to do today. A ray of sun decided to peak through the cloud and I turned my face into the warmth, letting a sigh of contentment slip through my lips. Closing my eyes I soaked up the warmth as I knew this was going to be a dreary day. I was brought out of my thoughts as I felt my phone vibrate in my hand.

Alice dragged us shopping as she saw you were still indecisive about coming over ~J

I groaned, that meant I was saved from shopping for today and that they weren't expecting me to come over anymore. I pouted as I thought that this was just proof that I didn't need to let them back into my life. Then I thought that if he wasn't spying on me, then someone else was. With that thought I decided to head back home. I stood up just as I received another text.

Hope you enjoyed the park, please let me know you get home safe ~J

I have and I will ~B

Tucking my phone back in my pocket, I picked up my bag and headed through the park to my apartment building. The sense of being watched followed me until I walked into my building. As I went up the stairs I suddenly felt alone and like a part of me was missing. I rubbed my chest as I unlocked my door. Before I was able to step in though, my nosy neighbor decided to stick his head into my business yet again.

"Hey, Bella. You came home late last night."

"Troy, would you stop stalking me and get a life please?" I snapped back, the empty feeling was growing and I was feeling more agitated by the second.

"Yours is now too interesting to ignore." He laughed. "I saw you being carried in by a blonde man followed closely by muscle boy. What were you up to last night?"

"Well, Troy, if you had been paying attention, which I know you did, then you know that my friends brought me home and left soon after." I felt a headache coming on and I just wanted to go lay down. "Before you ask, they are friends from home and I ran into them and their wives yesterday."

"Friends huh? Are you sure?"

I turned around to glare at him. "Yes, Troy, friends or rather more like big brothers. With the mood I am in, I would not hesitate to sick my overly protective friends on you so please leave me alone."

Troy raised his hands in surrender. "Fine, I will, but I don't believe that a woman can be friends with guys without anything happening. "

I stepped into my apartment and sighed as I shut the door. I would be so happy when I completed my course work so that I could move away from here. The apartments were small and crappy, and then you have the added bonus of nosy neighbors. I had done what I could to make the small space feel homier for my college days, but I was reaching the end of my fuse with Troy. He was the only one in this building that thought it was a good idea to spy on my comings and goings while still trying to hit on me. The more I thought about my earlier threat the more I wished I could do it. My phone vibrated in my pocket. With a sigh I pulled it out.

If he is hurting you I will kick his ass for you, so will Emmett ~J

Shaking my head I let out an exasperated laugh. I would have to get used to Alice seeing me in her visions again. I quickly typed out my reply before walking into my bedroom.

He is just an annoying neighbor, no ass kicking needed. You could scare him though ~B

Emmett says to point him out next time we are over there and he will scare him for you ~J

Setting my phone on my nightstand, I went into my little bathroom and grabbed the Advil out of the cabinet. Downing two with some water, I went back into my bedroom and lay down, throwing my arm over my eyes. That feeling of being incomplete was not as bad as earlier, but it was still bad enough to have me rubbing my chest. Wishing that the odd feeling would just go away with my headache, I groaned into the empty room. The past day's stress was starting to get to me and I felt myself starting to slip into sleep.

I sat bolt upright in bed, confused as I took in the darkness surrounding me. As I stared into the darkness all I could see was the man from my dreams staring at me with a look of pain on his face. In my dream I had been trying to chase him down but he was always just out of reach. I remembered how he looked with his tall toned frame that reminded me of Jasper yet better. He was taller and a bit more muscular, but not anything like Emmett. He wore his dark brown hair loose down to his shoulders and was dressed for travel. He always had his eyes closed and I wanted to see the color, I felt compelled to go to him and to ease his pain. I had been just about to close the distance and I was reaching out to him when a noise in my bedroom had pulled me from sleep.

Rubbing my eyes, I sighed as the image of the man from my dreams faded so that I was again looking at just the darkened walls of my room. My phone went off again signaling that I had missed a call and had a voicemail waiting for me. That must have been the sound that pulled me from sleep. Sitting on the edge of the bed, I dialed my voicemail and waited for the message to play.

Emmett's deep voice filled my quiet little bedroom. "Bells, we have been waiting patiently for you, but Alice can't see what you are planning to do so me being the impatient one, I decided to call. Please call one of us back as we are starting to worry about you. If you don't want us around at least let us know. Miss you little sis."

I laughed. He sounded as unsure of me as I was of them. Pulling up the log I called him back.

He answered before the first ring ended. "Bells, I knew you would call me."

"Well, you were the one to call first so you seemed the best choice to call back." I sighed. "Sorry if I worried you guys. I wasn't feeling good after class so I came home and fell asleep."

"We always worry about you, sis." Emmett laughed into the phone. "Are you calling to tell me to come pick you up so I can scare that pest for you?"

I had to laugh at how excited he sounded. "Pick me up for what?"

"We want you to spend the weekend with us of course. So pack a bag and I will come get you."

"I'm not sure, Em." I hedged. Did I really want to let them back in?

"Please?" He begged. "I will do anything you want, just come spend the weekend with us."

I imagined dressing him up in women's lingerie and makeup. I could hear Alice laughing in the background.

"Even knowing that whatever you are planning is going to be horrid for me based on Alice's reaction, I am still begging here." Emmett grumbled, the pout coming through clearly over the phone.

"Only because you are asking, Em. Just give me about twenty minutes and I should be ready for you." I sighed, knowing I was setting myself up for future hurt but deciding the joys of the present were definitely worth it.

"See ya then." Emmett said. "Oh hey, Alice says to pack light, she went shopping for you."

"The one thing I didn't miss." I groused. I ended the call as Alice was going on and on about my lack of want to be a woman. Who needed to be when Alice was more than enough to cover for the whole state of New York?

I was just setting my bag down by the door when I heard the knock. Opening the door, I saw Emmett's smiling face as he leaned on the door frame. "Ready, beautiful?"

I blushed, smiling at him. "Sure thing, handsome. Wanna come in for a minute?"

"Nope, I think I can hang out right here just fine." He laughed.

Looking behind him, I saw the door to Troy's apartment cracked open. I raised my eyebrow at Emmett, wondering what he was planning. I knew he was up to something when he turned sideways in the door to lean his back along the frame and reached out for my hand.

"Just go with it, love." He whispered in my ear as he pulled me flush against his body, nuzzling his face into my hair. "This will work so much better than scaring him and it's much more fun for me."

I gasped as his hands travelled down my back. I placed my hands on his hard chest and leaned my head to the side, enjoying the contact but dreading the bitch out I would get later from Rose. "Em?"

He turned his head as the door opened wider. "Enjoying the show?"

I squeaked as he grabbed my ass and I just barely contained my laugh as I heard the door slam.

Emmett chuckled. "Let's get your bag and head out."

I took a deep steadying breath. Damn it had been way too long since anyone had touched me, and that's where I stopped that thought. As I knew thoughts of him would only bring me pain and annoyance at having to admit that I had not let myself date or have any fun since he left me. I grabbed my keys off the counter and followed Emmett out the door, locking it behind me. "Em?"

He turned to me with a grin. "No bitch out coming, this was all my Rosie's idea."

I stood there with my mouth hanging open, not having seen that coming at all. "Really?"

"Yeah, she knows how other guys react to me on her so she said that would be a good deterrent for this pest of yours. It is now my pleasure filled task to pick you up any time we hang out. That way I can continue to keep him at bay. Although I'm sure that Jasper would be willing to help out too." He put my bag in the back of the truck, pausing before opening my door. "Now there's an idea. Between Jasper and me, that pansy won't bother you ever again, Bells."

I climbed into the truck, wondering why these two were willing to go to such lengths for me. I sighed as he got behind the wheel. "So is it safe to assume that Alice has planned this whole weekend out based on her visions?"

"Doesn't she always?" He laughed as he pulled out into traffic.

I shook my head and stared out the window, so many thoughts flowing through my head. I was nervous about this weekend and what was going to happen and why they seemed too interested in spending time with me. As I worried over the weekend, the man from my dreams kept popping up. He seemed so sad and real, all I could think of was wanting to pull him into my arms and comfort him. I felt compelled to help him and to get him to open his eyes.

"Earth to Bells."

Opening my eyes I looked around. "Huh?"

Emmett chuckled. "Didn't realize I was so boring that I could put you to sleep so quickly."

I looked over at him and blushed. "Sorry, Em. Guess I am just more worn out that I thought I was. Maybe this weekend wasn't such a good idea."

"Nonsense." He sighed as he pulled into the parking garage for the hotel. "You are still family and we want you around regardless of how you feel. If anything that just means that you have the four of us to take care of you if need be."

I snorted in response, we all knew how well I enjoyed being the center of attention and being taken care of. I hated it, quite literally hated it. I tried to not let that thought worry me as I waited for Emmett to be the gentleman and help me out of my seat and get my bag out of the back. Moments later, I was following him out of the garage and into the lobby of the hotel. We had gone all of twenty feet when I felt like I was being watched. Stopping in my tracks, I looked around.

I know that I should be worried about always feeling like I was being watched, but still it only made me feel calm and cared for. Weird, I know, but I couldn't argue with how I felt. I was still looking around me when Emmett back tracked to me after finally noticing that I had stopped.

"What's up, Bells?"

"I don't know." I continued to scan the room, trying to find someone that I knew that would match up with the feeling I had. "I feel like I'm being watched."

Emmett scanned the room, not hiding what he was doing at all. With a frown, he placed his arm around my shoulders and started guiding me towards the elevators. "I don't see anyone staring at us, so I think it may just be your overactive imagination getting to you. You did say that you haven't been sleeping all that well, right? Maybe that's all it is, your tired brain being goofy."

I had to laugh; only Emmett would come up with that reasoning. "My brain has nothing on you when it comes to goofy. I don't know what it is Em, but this is not the first time I have felt like I was being watched."

Emmett glanced down at me as he led me into the open elevator. "Why didn't you say something before now?"

I turned to face the doors as they were closing and just before they shut, I caught sight of a tall man with long hair turning away from me, so all I could see was his back. I suddenly wanted to be out of that elevator and with that man; I couldn't keep my feet still. I took a step forward, but was stopped by the weight of Em's arm on my shoulder. Just before the doors shut off my view of the man, I felt a sense of panic come over me and I knew it wasn't my own. It reminded me so much of my dreams that I gasped. I was going to say something, but I noticed that Emmett was looking quizzically at me.

"What?" I asked, turning so I could look up at him better.

"Were you trying to get out of the elevator?"

I sighed and looked down at my feet. "It felt that way, yeah."

Before Emmett could respond, the elevator doors opened and he pulled me out with him. Leading the way down to their room, he didn't even pause at the door as it opened just in time for us to walk through.

"Took you two long enough." Alice pouted. "Every time I thought I had your arrival timed just right, something would change and delay your arrival."

I glanced at her in question as Emmett went to put my bag in the one bedroom. "How is it that this mere human was able to foil the all-knowing pixie?"

Jasper snorted from his spot on the couch. "I like this Bella, she has more spunk."

I laughed as I went to sit next to him on the couch, happy when he didn't flinch away from me. "I like this Jasper too; we can finally get to know each other."

"Bella, are you hungry? We ordered room service for you since it's close to dinner time." Rose asked from over by the table that I just noticed was loaded down with food.

I was about to pass when my stomach decided to make me a liar and growled. "I guess I should eat, can't remember when I ate last actually."

"That's not going to keep happening right Bells?" Emmett asked as he walked out of the bedroom and headed to the table. I was about to get up when he shook his head at me. "You said you weren't feeling good so as promised I'm taking care of you. Sit down, relax. If you don't, Jasper will make you."

That I should have expected and yet it still made me flinch. "I promise to behave, dad."

Alice and Rose belted out peals of laughter as Emmett stomped his way over to me with a plate of food in his hands. "Don't call me that, technically we're the same age. Just eat your food and behave."

I had to laugh as he turned away visibly shivering at me calling him dad. When one is with Emmett, one does as Emmett does, goof off. "Thanks, dad."

Jasper started chuckling over that one. "Alright you two, before poor Emmett dies over this, how about we watch a movie?"

It wasn't long before Emmett had taken my empty plate, brought me a blanket and popped in a movie for us all to watch. I'm sure it was Emmett who picked it out, I mean who else would pick a movie about a killer tooth fairy? Don't get me wrong, Darkness Falls was good from what I remember of it, as I saw it when it first came out, but it wasn't able to keep me awake. Emmett had just got done telling us that the next movie we were watching was Boogeyman and then I was out.

I knew I was dreaming and I knew what dream I was having, the same one I had been having the past few days. It was a different setting, but the same feelings were floating to me. I could sense a presence near me and I looked up, catching my dream guy's profile as he stood a few feet away from me. He just stood there looking around and all I wanted to do was run to him, but my feet wouldn't listen to the orders I gave them.

"I've been looking for you for a long time."

I jumped when he spoke. It was such a deep voice, yet he spoke softly as if he was afraid to startle me, yet I could hear an accent coloring his words. I stood there waiting for him to speak again.

He turned to me but kept his eyes cast down at the ground. "I have been looking for so long and I think I may be close to finding you, but I'm afraid."

I was finally able to find my voice, "Afraid of what?"

"Losing you."

Well that silenced me again. How could someone lose me when they technically never had me in the first place? I couldn't help but want to ease his fear as he looked so lost standing there. I tried to move, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get any closer to him. I was starting to panic now that I watched him wrap his arms around himself. I could feel his pain and his fear like they were my own.

"I'm right here, you can't lose me."

A soft chuckle rose up from him. "You know not of what you speak and yet I can feel that you believe what you say. I wish I could believe as much as you do."

I fell to my knees as I was unable to hold myself up any longer under the weight of his pain. I knew I had tears falling as I looked at the broken man before me. "Why do I feel this way? Why do I think about you all of the time? How do I know you?"

"You do not know me as we have yet to meet. I know only what you look like, not where you are or your name. I am at just as much of a disadvantage as you are." He sighed as he ran his hand back through his hair. "I only know that this pull to you is getting stronger."

"How are you here in my dreams? Is this even real?" I couldn't stop the questions from bursting forth. This felt so real, but how was it happening? "I'm used to odd things happening around me at this point, but this is a bit much to take."

"I don't know how this is happening as I don't dream, at all. It is physically impossible for me. I cannot say that I regret this happening, though, as impossible as it is. I feel calmer now than I did moments before seeing your face." His shoulders slumped in defeat. "I will keep looking for you, I will never stop."

"I will watch for you then. I promise you will not lose me once I am found." Somehow that just felt right, it felt like we would always be around each other if we could just find one another. "I know you will find me."

"I will not stop until I do." He started to lift his head to look at me.

I held my breath, waiting to see his face and his eyes. For some reason I had the need to see into his eyes. Just as he was about to open his eyes to look at me, I found myself being shaken awake and I was staring into four sets of worried golden eyes. "What's going on? Sorry I passed out during the movie. We humans need sleep, something I don't get enough of lately."

They all just continued to stare at me and I had the strangest feeling that I had been asleep long enough to embarrass myself somehow. "What? I didn't talk in my sleep did I?"

"Bella." Jasper said as he turned me to face him. "What were you dreaming about? Your emotions were all over the place."

I frowned, remembering it hadn't been my emotions I was feeling, but his. I still didn't know who he was though and I wasn't sure what I wanted to tell my newly returned siblings. I looked down at my hands and shrugged. "It was just some dream, nothing that I really remember."

"Bella." Alice admonished from the other side of the room.

I sighed, damn future seeing pixie. "Ok, I remember it, but I would really rather not go into it if that's ok with you guys. What time is it?"

Alice sighed, deciding to let this one go. "You were out for two and a half movies. It's just after midnight."

I was shocked, that dream had only felt like it lasted a few minutes, not the hours that I had been asleep. Thinking back on my dream, I again felt the man's pain and fear flow through me. All I could think about was taking his pain away from him, giving him a reason to smile and not look so afraid. I was deep in thought when Jasper nudged my shoulder. "Huh?"

"I'm not going to push you about your dream, but if I keep feeling those emotions rolling off of you I'm gonna have to insist. Those are not normal feelings for just random dreaming." Jasper gave me a knowing look before turning back to the TV.

I knew that I was on shaky ground with keeping the dream to myself. I was suddenly so tired that all I wanted to do was curl up on the bed and go to sleep. I pushed myself off the couch, possibly mumbled something in parting and barely made my way into the bedroom before collapsing on the bed. That is how I found myself hours later. Apparently I had been tossing and turning in my sleep as I had woken up right as I was falling off the side of the bed.

Landing with an oomph, I groaned before pushing myself up into a sitting position. Glancing at the clock, it showed I had only been asleep for a few hours and it was way too early to get up. I found my bag and quickly changed into my tank top and sleep pants before climbing back into bed. Closing my eyes, all I could see was the image of the man from my dreams. I fell back asleep with the hopes of finding him in my dreams again.

And there is another installment. What did you guys think? As always, your thoughts are always welcome. If you have a favorite line from this chapter, please share. My fav just happens to be from Bella this time…

"How is it that this mere human was able to foil the all-knowing pixie?"

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