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Chapter 3
BPOV
As I sped towards the back of Emma's car, I couldn't help but reach out with my extra senses. My power is to absorb other vampire's power when I am within five miles of them. I could also block out their powers so they couldn't use them on me or anyone I didn't want them to. I also had a second power, I could create force fields. They are basically invisible barriers that people cannot come over unless I allow them to. I absolutely love my power, especially when I absorb my families as well. Everyone has a power in my family, James is telekinetic, Sarah can freeze things, Ethan and Emma are twins to they can talk between themselves and Ethan can also read minds. Emma can change her appearance, Sam can control the elements (which included the weather because clouds are just water vapour) and finally Andy is super strong. I tried not to let Andy's power get to me, but often he reminded me of another vampire who was stronger than most of us.
I could tell that we where nearing our new house as James started to slow down. He turned onto a path that I barely saw and we all followed, careful not to get left behind. The driveway was a long dirt road and my jeans got covered in dust. I overtook them all and came up next to James' car; I pointed to my helmet trying to signal to him to turn on his phone.
"Yes Bells?" he asked sceptical as to my mood.
"Are there any other houses up here or is it just us?" I asked,
"No. It's just us. Why?" he replied wondering what I was getting at.
"Just wondering." With that, I sped up and I accelerated leaving them in my wake. I laughed at the thrill of being able to run away from my troubles even if it was only for a second or two. Too soon, a beautiful house came into view. It had three floors and looked like it was from the 1800's. It reminded a little of their house but right now, I didn't care. It was all ours, no one elses. I pulled up outside the garage and stood my bike up. I took off my helmet and shook out my hair. Setting my helmet on my lap, I leaned against the seat and waited for the rest of my family to turn up. Even with them driving fast, they still took five minutes to even come into my sight, and I had wonderful sight, even for a vampire! Ten minutes later, Ethan and Sammie where getting out and heading over to me. Ethan put his arm around my shoulder and Sam snuggled into his side. Sighing, I stood up and followed James' Mercedes into the garage. I quickly got out before Emma could run me over, not like she could actually do any damage, or before I put a huge dent in her car from where she rammed into me. I ran up to Sarah who was standing watching the forest that surrounded the house.
"Hey honey." She said to me as she put an arm around my shoulder. I snuggled into her side and we stood there until Sam came over and dragged me away so that I could choose my room. They had decided that since I was having the most trouble with coming here that I should get first pick. I hugged Sam and ran inside. As I entered, I was stopped in my tracks as I was presented with a huge room, it led off into the lounge and morning room. I walked through until I reached the kitchen that we would never use. We still the most state-of-the-art stuff, but I knew that it was a waste of money to even consider buying this stuff. I just sighed mentally and continued on my tour of the house. I walked past the front door again, much to the amusement of the rest of my family.
"What? It's a big house?" I said defensively. I skipped over to the other side and walked through the open door. I gasped at the scene in front of me. On the wall was a huge 60" plasma screen TV with Andy's wii and x-box in front. There was a huge white leather couch placed in front and over to the side there was a pool table with a ping-pong table as well. I was in heaven when I saw the piano that adorned the floor that was slightly raised on the opposite side of the door. It was the one instrument that I could play without breaking it.
"Bella, when you are quite done ogling at the games room, can you please pick your room. We are dying out here waiting to see the house." Andy said I heard him earn a slap off Emma for that comment. "What was that for?" He asked surprised that it actually hurt.
"We are already dead, you doofus!" Emma replied, the sound of hysteria clear in her voice. I giggled at the fact that Emmett was – wait, no ANDY was hurt not Emmett. Where had that come from? I never thought about the Cullens if I had any choice at all. Putting it out of my head, I giggled at the fact that Andy was hurt by Emma. I ran upstairs and wandered around all the rooms. None of them spoke to me so I went up to the next level. The top floor was one huge room. I knew that it was right for me as the entire west wall had shelves and shelves just waiting to be stacked full of my books and music collection. I could picture my bed in the centre of the wall with my black leather couch on the opposite side.
"This is it." I whispered. I knew that the others had heard me as I could hear Sammie coming in behind me.
"Wow! You really know how to pick a room Bells." She also whispered this as I danced into my new room. My troubles momentarily forgotten until I saw the view from the huge window. I could see for miles. I could see so far this could see another house in the distance. It also looked huge, also looked white and also looked like it belonged to someone rich, someone as rich as us. I collapsed again in a heap on my floor as I immediately recognised the house. It was their house, Cullen's. I winced as I thought of their name, it had been almost a century but still they could cause me pain. It's not fair, it had been almost a century, but yet they still had the same effect on me. I didn't love him any more, I couldn't. He was probably off with Tanya somewhere.
"Sammie," I said through tearless sobs, "Why should they be able to do this to me? I don't love him anymore. In fact I hate him! Why should he be able to make me break down like this?" I pulled me in close to her and let me sob onto her shoulder.
"If they are here, he will not be able to come near you. You got that? He is scum and should be killed for what he did to you. Everyone in this house will protect you. If you want, we can even make it so that he cannot come within ten feet of you. Does that sound fair?" She said soothingly. I could tell that there was anger bubbling underneath the surface of surprisingly calm façade, even though she wasn't our 'mother', she fit into the role of my mother perfectly. I laughed a bit at her last sentence and looked up to find all of my family surrounding me, worried expressions on their faces. They could all tell exactly how I was feeling, you didn't have to be an empath to know what I was feeling.
"Right," I said, my voice filled with conviction, "I hate Edward Cullen, so from now on, I will be a new Bella. I will be stronger and I will face whoever and what ever comes to school tomorrow. I mean, what are the chances of them being near us?"
EthanPOV
I could hear other people's thoughts in my mind, not my family's, but not a human's either. It had to be a vampire, no other family would think the word 'hunt' every few minutes. From what I could tell, there was seven of them, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and another. They didn't say the name of the other person, they just kept thinking 'him'. Who was he? Why did he seem so sad? The only thoughts I could get off him was 'How stupid' and 'I didn't mean it'. Whoever 'he' was, he was beating himself up badly over this.
I went down to James and Sarah, they were talking in the games room in hushed voices. They were worried about what would happen to Bella now that she was back here, what would she end up doing?
"James, Sarah, can I talk to you for a minute?" Sarah looked at me with motherly concern. She knew how worried we all were for Bella, and knew from my face that I had something extremely important to say.
"Ethan, what is it?"
"Did Bella ever say the names of the vampires she knew in Forks?" I asked, probing their minds. I hated doing this, but I had to find it out.
James wouldn't lie to me. "She mentioned something about a Carlisle and Esme, does that help?"
"I think they're back in Forks."
