I turned my head around quickly and gasped. "Felix!"

"Shh… You have to be quiet or your friend will see us." Felix whispered, pulling us higher into the tree.

I watched Lucinda look towards the direction of the tree but she didn't seem to notice me or the vampire with me. Lucinda shook her head and continued onto school. I let out a low sigh.

"Hmm? Did you want to go to school today? I'm sorry Bella." Felix apologized. He looked a little hurt by the thought of me wanting to go to school instead of spending time with him since he'd been gone for so long.

"No, it's not that… It's just that things have been strained between Lucinda and everyone else since I've came back." I said.

"Really?" Felix asked. "Tell me more about it."

"Um… Sure… But can we get out of the tree first?" I asked, my fear of highs now kicking in.

"Oh. Yeah." Felix jumped from the tree and carried me to a small lake side park. He sat me down under a shady tree. It was a very pretty spot. Calm, quite, almost always empty.

"Felix."

"Yes Bella?" he asked.

"Not that I'm not happy to see you, I really am, but why are you here? Shouldn't you be in Italy?" I thought the fact that he wasn't with Marcus when he brought me home meant that he stayed behind.

Felix frowned and went silent. I suddenly regretted asking. Did something happen?

"Felix?"

"Well…" Felix started. "After that stunt we pulled with Aro, Caius, and Jane things got pretty bad. When Marcus was bringing you back here I was carrying your jacket with your scent on it leading them away from you. After that Marcus and I went back to the Volturi. Marcus was grudgingly welcomed back since he is their brother. I only the other hand was taken differently. Caius, ignoring anything Aro or Marcus said, put a price on my head. So I've been traveling from country to country dodging Demetri and everyone else he sent after me. I was passing through here and I thought 'why not drop in on Bella'? I doubted you would have forgotten about me."

"Well yeah! Who could forget about a vampire you played hide-and-seek with?!" I exclaimed.

Felix let out a light laugh. It was nice to hear it again.

"Well that was me. Tell me what's been going on with you." Felix asked, curious,

I told him about how my mom was in hysterics, and still is, when she saw me. How when I told her that Marcus didn't hurt me she immediately took my to a therapist. How my therapist had no idea what he was doing. How Lucinda and everyone else was treating me differently since I returned. I told him… Everything.

Felix looked at me sympathetically.

"Times have been bad for both of us hasn't it?" he said.

"Looks like it." I said.

"Well let's make this time good." Felix picked me up, holding me to his chest.

"How long are you going to be here?" I asked, clutching to his shirt. I wanted him to stay here with me forever but I knew that wasn't possible.

"For as long as you want me." he whispered into my hair.

Maybe it was possible.