Chapter Three...
Monday morning started off as normal, Thomas and Iven waited downstairs as Sara picked out Bella's outfit. It took about twenty minutes each morning for the girls to argue over what Bella was going to wear. Sara never could understand how Bella was blessed with her figure yet never wore anything flattery. Bella just liked to be comfortable.
Bella had biology first hour, she sat in her normal seat, by herself. The table had two chairs yet she always left the one by the window open, she didn't allow anyone to sit in 'his' seat. She had her nose in a book and as sharp as her scenes are she didn't notice him walk into the class room. The smell of him when he walked by her and claimed his chair made Bella pull her head out of her book. Her hair was undone, shielding her face from him, she looked threw the curtain and confirmed her suspensions.
"It's funny that we meet again here Bella." Edward whispered as he leaned against the table. Bella laughed a little and sat straight, moving her hair out of her face. The teacher started talking, Bella looked over at Edward, of course he looked the same, but he looked so different in her eyes. She smiled at him.
"We all have to come home eventually." Bella than turned to the front of the class and tried to loose herself in the work she already had memorized.
When the bell rang Bella went to leave but Edward grabbed her arm first, Bella sat perfectly still as the feeling of electricity ran up her arm where his hand laid. It took only a few minutes for the class to empty out, even the teacher left for a quick cigarette break. Edward had to constraint on letting her arm go, his hand didn't want to she was warm and safe and the perfect fit for any situation,.
"Welcome back Edward." Bella said stiffly. She shifted on the stool to face him, he was just standing there staring at her. Bella picked up her books and gave him one more chance to talk, when he still hadn't said anything she nodded and headed for the door. At the open door she looked back at him.
"I'll leave this time Edward." she disappeared in the crowd, if Bella had a specialty that was it.
Mentally Edward kicked himself for freezing on the spot but he didn't know what to say. Bella met Thomas at the car, she now was watching everyone around her.
"What's going on Bella?" Thomas asked when he reached the car, he would dare say she's paler than normal but he figured it wasn't a good time.
"Their back. The Cullen's I mean, he was in class with me. I don't know what to say to him how to act, do I be nice or mean?" Bella started to ramble on when Thomas pulled her into him for a hug and a kiss. She sunk against him for the strength she so wanted to have and the comfort that she needed.
"Bella we're all going to face this together." Bella nodded and calmed herself, they stayed molded together until they saw the other couple walking across the parking lot. Edward had a little head haired vixen on his arm. Bella went still and Thomas didn't breath. They watched Edward and the girl walk to their car, they went to climb in and when the moment their gaze shifted towards Bella and Thomas, Thomas moved in front of Bella blocking their complete view of Bella and making Thomas unrecognizable. They waited till the car was gone, Bella looked up at Thomas confused.
"Who is she Thomas?" Bella asked, Thomas just motioned for her to get in the car. She climbed in the passenger side while he slide behind the wheel. They were off and down the road, she didn't know where they were going but she wasn't going to mention that to him.
"Her name is Breeanna, she was my mate." Thomas mumbled as they pulled up to the cemetery.
It took Bella a minute to let it sink in.
"Thomas... are you sure?" Bella asked it was a stupid question she knew but what else was there for her to say.
"Yeah I'd know her scent from anywhere." they we're both sitting in the car. Bella tried to think of what to say.
"What happened Thomas?" he looked over at her then stared out the windshield like he was remembering an old dream.
"I was in love with her the first moment I met her, she was human than, lived up in Maine, one night she came to see me, it was rainy and she had a car accident. I remember finding her, she'd been thrown out of the car. She wouldn't have survived the injury's so I'd taken her. I had actually met Carlile and I had heard how he had saved every member of his family. So I took her and turned her, she seemed fine at first but she really started to hate this life. After Iven and Sara joined us she started to resent everything. The day she left she told me that she needed to try something new." Thomas finished Bella looked a little shocked.
"That's why you agreed to come here with me is because you thought I'd leave you too?" he just nodded. Bella put his hand in hers.
"Oh Thomas, I'll never leave you guys, you mean to much to me if I would have know. I'm sorry and now all of this. I'm so sorry." Thomas squeezed her hand in acknowledgment.
"Well we have someone waiting for you." Bella looked up and saw Jacob walking towards the car, she smiled at him and kissed Thomas's cheek.
"I'll see you at home." he nodded as she got out of the car and headed towards Jacob. Thomas sped away.
"Hey Jacob" he stopped at a head stone and studied it. She finished her walk to him then looked down it was her headstone.
"It's still weird seeing your name on it and being able to look at you." Bella laughed a little she knew it wasn't funny though.
"I know Jacob, what's going on?" He looked at her for a moment then smiled.
"He came to see me." Bella nodded she figured he'd go to Jacob first.
"He yelled at me for not telling him. Like I had a responsibility to do so or something. He was upset cause they believed you were dead too. It upset him when he could see any of my thoughts like he use to. Only person I know that can change that is you bell's. So question is why did you prevent him from seeing what really happened?" Bella stood there for a moment, had she really kept Edward out of Jacob's mind as well.
"I didn't know I was shielding that hard Jacob I'm sorry your thoughts are your thoughts." Jacob just shook his head.
"It doesn't bother me that you kept him out of my head Bella, I'm saying you need to actually talk to him. You two need to figure this out, expectantly if you're going to be like that forever." Bella nodded knowing that he was right. She went to ask a question but Jacob put his hand up.
"He returned to school. Figured you will too once we've talked." Bella nodded again and she hugged him. Jacob laughed a little then went back to the woods. Bella headed for the school.
Bella stood at the edge of the forest overlooking the school, she closed her eyes to constraint, she felt his mind for a moment and left him see enough of her old memories of him with her in the meadow, that she knew he'd meet her there. She turned and walked off.
She was laying in the middle of the meadow playing with a flower when she could smell his scent. She stayed where she was and let him walk to her.
"How did you do that Bella?" She smiled up at him as he sat next to her.
"Lots of practice, it's a neat trick though. Apparently I was born with this gift, I'm a mental shield. I can shield myself and others with just a thought. Explains why you never could hear me." Bella continued to play with the flower like he was no one important. It took a lot of resistance from her not to touch him.
"Why didn't you come to us?" Bella looked up at him a little in shock.
"You left me, why should I have tracked you down?" Bella asked, it caught Edward off guard.
"You have to know if I'd known that they would come back and try to hurt you I'd never left you. I thought I was protecting you." Edward tried to explain.
"Well it didn't work, they didn't try to hurt me Edward, they tried to kill me. Least I had Jacob, he's always been there for me." and with that Bella dropped her shield to show her last human memories of Laurent coming to this meadow and finding her, their conversation and the attack. Then the wolfs coming to her rescue. The next memory was her waking up to Jacob, him explaining things and her taking off.
"I'm sorry Bella, I am so sorry." she nodded knowing he was telling the truth.
"I did go to find you, to find the family that left me behind. When I did you all seemed to have moved on and I figured you never wanted me in your life anyways so what was the harm not telling you I was the way you never wanted me." Bella sat up and looked at Edward, his eyes were dead set on hers.
"I've always wanted you Bella, always. Since I met you it hurt more being away from you then it should. I thought we were protecting you, I was trying not to be selfish and putting you in danger by keeping you around us. I never wanted to hurt you in anyway." Bella nodded she'd always known that.
She closed her eyes so she didn't get lost in his, she remembered when she found them in Alaska , she let Edward see her memory of finding them in Alaska, it was right before they'd found out she'd supposedly was killed. Then another memory of them in Maine, after they were told. And the last memory was of Edward and Breeanna in Africa. That was the hardest memory for her, cause she went to tell him she was still alive. When the memories finished she opened her eyes and closed off her mind to him. She could see the surprise and pain a crossed his face.
"It's not like that with her Bella, she didn't take your place. She never could, she just understands what I was going through better than anyone else." to this Bella let out a laugh.
"I can see that, you guys both leave the ones you love." Bella hissed out on Thomas's behalf, anything else she couldn't be angry about she found a new family she had made a new life and she had someone special to her, Thomas might not mean as much to her as Edward ever did but she still cared about him.
"Bella, that's their issues to work out. She knows I want you, I've never been with anyone because it's only you I've felt for." The anger cleared out of Bella's eyes, how was she suppose to be mad at that?
"Edward we can't just pick up where we left off." He nodded, than smiled at her.
"Of course not Bella, I get to start again from the beginning, and make everything perfect this time." before she knew what to say he was inches from her face and they kissed.
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