A/N~ Here's Chapter 3! It's way longer than the others so you better like it! I skipped out on the fun chore of cleaning the bathroom for this, so appreciate! XP And please excuse any minor mistakes. One of my biggest problems with writing is skipping over mistakes when I'm proofreading. I guess I need a Beta. But I'm to embarrassed to show my friends my writing. Enjoy!

People were laughing, talking and catching up on their summer fun with all of their friends as the Hogwarts Express rolled at full speed through endless expanses of hills. We had been sitting in our car for quite some time now and I could tell as the sun began to set that we were nearing our wizarding school.

I sat on the bench next to Harry, while Rom and Hermione sat across from us. We were having some sort of conversation but I wasn't paying much attention to any of the words said. I know that Harry picked up on that right away, since I was usually full of laughter, but he didn't pressure me into telling him. Eventually, the train came to a stop and we all exited. Harry grabbed my hand as the four of us pushed our way through the crowd of teens.

Surprisingly, we didn't see Hagrid ushering all the First Years into the boats like he did every year. Instead, Professor McGonagall was there. My eyebrows pulled together in confusion, but I didn't have much time to think about it before Harry was pulling me into the Great Hall and we were taking our seats.

Our empty table was soon filled with chatter as other Gryffindors joined us. The three other House tables filled up as quickly as ours. Again, I noticed that Hagrid was missing and his chair, along with another teacher chair was empty. Dumbledore said in his large chair at the middle of the Professor's Table as usual. His gray beard had grown, but his kind, withered eyes were as kind as ever as they hid behind his half-moon spectacles.

Dumbledore stood and glided to his candle covered podium at the front of the Great Hall to begin his beginning of the year speech.

"Welcome to this years school year. For some of you this is your first year, and you are overwhelmed and excited. Other's are returning to fill their minds with more knowledge. In light of recent events, I will assure you that although our worst fears are true, Voldemort has returned, that you will be safe here at Hogwarts." People flinched as he said the name.

Harry and I never understood people's aversion to calling Voldemort by his name, and we were quick to tell people that it was unnecessary to call him He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Even experienced wizards were reluctant to say it. Although the Order was beginning to come around to the idea.

"With that said," Dumbledore's clear voice brought me from my thoughts, "we have some rules that are new to some, but a reminder to others. The Forbidden Forest is extremely off limits to all students. Also, students are not to leave their Dormitories after nightfall unless accompanied by an adult."

Dumbledore sighed before continuing, "On to lighter news. The teaching position of Defense Against the Dark Arts has been filled by none other than Professor Snape." A chorus of groans filled the air as the Slytherin table erupted into cheers.

An uncomfortable prickling started in Harry and I's matching scars. We looked up, knowing who was causing it. Meeting our eyes with Snape's, the prickling became more of a fire. We looked away when Dumbledore began to speak.

"We have the position of Potions Master, which will be filled by one of the two new teachers that we will be having at Hogwarts this year. Their five children will be beginning school as Sixth Years."

I could breath. It wasn't them. It wasn't them. Pain ripped open that stupid hole again. I felt like dying. Harry asked me what was wrong but I just shook my head. It wasn't them. I was just going over board like always.

"Everyone, please give a warm welcome to the Cullen family." Dumbledore smiled broadly and clapped as the seven vampires appeared from the sides of the Great Hall and crossed to the front of the room.

I almost began to cry. The only ting that stopped the tears was Harry's hand holding my worriedly under the table. They walked as gracefully as I remember. I gave myself the pleasure and pain that came with looking at the faces of the people who had left me. Just not the one who had truly left me. Gasps escaped people's mouths as they took in their beauty. Even my friends mouths were agape in awe. Many of the girls sighed longingly.

Dumbledore let the shock die down before continuing, " Professor Cullen," Esme stepped forward, " will your new Potions Master. Treat her with respect, and be patient as she settles in this year." Esme looked the same as I remembered. Carmel hair, pale, gorgeous features. The one thing that was different was her eyes were much darker than I ever remembered. Come to think of it, all of their eyes were dark. Why hadn't they hunted?

My chest constricted in pain as I looked at.. Edward's face. He looked as if someone had torn him into pieces and set him on fire. He was in pain. Alice wasn't as bubbly as she used to be, and Rosalie even ignored her own reflection.

I felt sick.

"Her husband, who has given us the right to refer to him as Carlisle so there wont be two Professor Cullens, will be working with Madame Pomfrey in the infirmary." Carlisle nodded at Dumbledore's words. " Now our new students will be sorted into their Houses."

McGonagall stood from her chair and went to stand next to the waiting Sorting Hat. She cleared her throat lightly, " Cullen, Emmett."

I watched my ex-brother drag himself to the chair and plop the hat onto his head. After a minute of thinking the hat yelled, "Gryffindor." Our table cheered as people leered at his muscles. I gripped Harry's hand tighter to keep from screaming. I could tell Harry was panicking.

"Cullen, Rosalie." I guess they were all using the same last name now. She repeated her husbands actions. "Gryffindor." I didn't react as badly as she coldly swept past me and sat next to Emmett. She had never hid her distaste for me, so it wasn't like she had betrayed me like the others.

"Cullen, Alice." McGonagall called. Alice had lost her dancers step as she sat on the stool and covered her spiky locks with the hat.

"Gryffindor." It called.

Was that thing rigged? Where they all going to be in my House? Why couldn't I just live in peace!

"Cullen, Jasper." I closed my eyes. " Gryffindor." My eyes opened. He went to sit by the rest of his family. Not even noticing the girl he had attacked not even a week before. Not noticing the girl his brother had left in the forest. He was wrong. I wasn't worth it.

I ripped my hand from Harry's and clutched my chest, knowing who was coming next. My eyes closed so tightly it hurt. I couldn't look at him. His name ripped me to pieces. Shattered me like glass. "Cullen, Edward."

I almost fainted as at the next words I heard, " Gryffindor." I eventually opened my eyes.

I could feel him walk down the aisle towards his family. Towards me. Unlike all his siblings before him, he looked in my direction as he passed. His eyes widened as they locked with mine and his steps faltered for a millisecond. But he shook his and continued on.

Dumbledore finished his speech, wishing us all a good year, and then the feast began. I usually ate a lot of the feast. I loved Hogwarts food, but now I had no appetite. From the prickling on the back of my neck I could tell that he was looking at me, but I was afraid I would fall apart if I met his gaze.

"Bella, you better tell me what is wrong and now." Harry ordered. I looked up and I could see Ron and Hermione nodding in agreement. I knew I couldn't keep this from them anymore, but I knew if I told them now there would be a good chance of the Cullen's listening in.

"When we get back to the Common room. I promise." I pleaded with him. He reluctantly agreed.

Just as dinner was finished and we were standing up to leave Professor McGonagall strolled over to Harry and I. "Headmaster Dumbledore would like to have a word with both of you in his office." She informed us. "The password is," she leaned in and whispered, " Lemon Drops." Then she turned and walked away before we could argue.

I loved Dumbledore, but I wasn't really in the mood for this. Knowing we couldn't just ignore it, we told Hermione and Ron where we were going and headed to his office. Harry told the Gargoyle that stood guard the password, and wordlessly the winding stone stair case appeared. Trudging up the stairs we knocked on the wide oak doors and entered at the sound of Dumbledore voice.

To my surprise and immense anger, the Cullens were already standing in the room. Dumbledore sat at his desk, and smiled warmly.

"It's so nice to see you again Bella. And you too Harry." Dumbledore said.

As soon as my name was out there, the uninterested Cullen's perked up and began to look me over. They were probably pissed that they couldn't get rid of me. They had to know I am Bella. I still have the long brown hair, pale skin, and dull brown eyes. And since I had learned Occulumecy last year when it was discovered that Voldemort could enter our minds Edward couldn't read my mind.. Harry was never good at it.

"Hello. It's nice to meet you all." Harry said politely to the Cullens. I didn't say anything. " I'm Harry and this is Bella."

"Bella?" One brave soul asked. It was Alice. She looked so hopeful and lost that even though I wanted to lie to her, lie and say I didn't know her, I just couldn't.

"Yea, Alice?" I asked hesitantly. I shied away from her a bit and hid behind poor Harry who was probably dying of confusion. I grabbed his hand for support. The whole family noticed my action, and since Harry hadn't introduced us as brother and sister, from the looks on their faces I could tell they were thinking me and Harry were more than friends.

That didn't stop Alice for long. "BELLA!" She screeched loudly enough to crack the windows. She ran at vampire speed and crashed into me, wrapping her arms around me in a bone breaking hug. I froze for a second before hugging her back lightly. She released me then began to bounce, " Omg! It's you. Oh. My. God!"

"I see that you and the Cullens know each other, but I'm afraid that Harry is a little.." Dumbledore trailed off.

I looked over at Harry to see him frozen. He had seen Alice run. The poor boy. I stepped away from Alice and grabbed his hand before making him sit.

Dumbledore went on," Seeing as we are all confused at you relationship with them Cullens why don't you explain."

I nodded, " Of course. Well, as you know, Dumbledore sent me on a mission to Forks, Washington, where I met the Cullen 'kids' at school." I addressed Harry. I looked at Carlisle, " It's not my place to tell him." He nodded.

"One of the reasons we came here was so we could act like ourselves, which we can not do around humans. Dumbledore and I came to the agreement that it might cause some panic if all the students were told so soon, but seeing as you are special…. We are vampires." Carlisle spoke the word slowly.

"V-vampires?" Harry stuttered, but them, suddenly, he laughed. " Of course you would get involved with vampires Bella." I was shocked that he wasn't angry, but he didn't know the whole story.

Esme's quiet voice broke the silence, "Your not scared of us?" She asked timidly.

Harry thought before he spoke, "I was… at first, but you see, I have great faith in Headmaster Dumbledore and in Bella," Edward's lips seemed to curl into a growl when Harry mentioned my name, "and I know if they trust you, then you aren't like other vampires." That seemed to please everyone. And attention was back on me.

Dumbledore prodded me to go on, so I explained to Harry everything that had happened at Forks. None of the Cullens said anything. Like they were embarrassed. When I got to the part with James… lets just say Harry had a minor heart attack. But it's all good now.

"I hope you killed him." Harry growled.

Emmett spoke for the first time, " Of course we did. It was a blast." He almost cracked a smile.

Why did they look so worried? I wondered. I shook my head and continued up until my birthday. At the mention of Jasper attacking me, both Harry and Jasper stiffened. Dumbledore didn't say anything so I had a feeling he was already aware of the whole story.

"About that, Bella I'm really sorry. I didn't mean too… and I-" I cut Jasper's apology off.

"Jasper…," I sighed, "I don't blame you. You did what was natural. And I know it tortures you. So please don't think I hold it against you."

Jasper smiled," You forgive me."

I laughed, a carefree laugh," Nothing to forgive."

Everyone expected me to continue with the story, but I didn't. Them leaving was personal and I didn't want to share what happened with anybody. " That's really it." Shock crossed the Cullen's faces for a second, "I had to leave. School was starting, and the Cullens needed to move on. So I can back." I lied smoothly. See, I'm a good liar, I just used my good lying skills to pretend to be a bad liar. Harry believed me.

I turned to the Cullens, " I would have told you that I'm a witch, but I was sent to Forks on a mission."

Carlisle spoke, " A mission? What do you mean?" He looked hurt, like he though I was using the family the whole time. They are the ones who left me.

Dumbledore spoke for me, " To understand that, you must under stand who Voldemort is." He turned to us, " You two know the story almost better than I do. And it is your story after all." He was throwing us under the bus. Great.

"Who the hell is Voldemort?" Rosalie said the name with great distaste. It wasn't an attractive name.

Harry sighed loudly next to me, " Your friends are very ignorant if they don't know who Voldemort is." I nodded in agreement. "And since they are your friends, you tell them."

Neither one of us liked to tell the story, " I always tell it." I whined. "Half and half?" He reluctantly agreed with a head nod.

Gathering my scattered thoughts I began, " Voldemort is a bad wizard. No matter how cliché that sounds. He came to power almost thirty years ago. He began to dive into the world of Dark Magic, and gather followers, who he called Death Eaters." They were all listening intently. I met Edward's gaze, and some emotion flickered in his eyes. "People who refused to join him, where killed." Some gasps. "He was very smart and very powerful. By the time people started connecting the dots on all the unexplained disappearances it was too late. He was too powerful."

Harry didn't miss a beat, that's the good thing about being twins, "He told the people that he wanted only Pure-Bloods - people with all wizarding blood - , he would kill the muggle - human - borns and have special rules for the Half-Bloods. It was horrible times. Many people were killed. But in the mist of it our parents were starting their families." He trailed off and grabbed my hand. We were getting to the part.

Carlisle leaned forward, begging for more, " What happened next? Voldemort isn't still around?"

"I'm getting there," I told him, " Then, a prophecy was revealed. It said that a child was to be born in September, who's powers would equal that of Voldemort's. Three children were born in September. Two were twins. Voldemort decided, for some reason that the twins were the ones he needed to fight." I paused. "Those twins… were us." I gestured to Harry and I.

More gasps of shock, and growls came from the Cullens.

"But you were just babies!" Esme exclaimed.

We nodded. "A mad man doesn't care who he kills." Harry mumbled.

"So Charlie's not you father?" Alice asked.

I shook my head, " No. We just put a spell over him, and the whole town. He never had a daughter."

"Oh." Was all she said.

I continued, not wanted to relive this, "When our parents discovered this, they went into hiding. They had a spell cast over our house so no one could find it unless they were told it's location by the Secret Keeper. Well, when we were one the Secret Keeper betrayed our parents and Voldemort showed up at the house."

All the vampires stopped breathing. They didn't have to, it was just a habit, but I could tell they were in nervous.

"He busted into the house. Our mother took us up stairs, while our father stayed down the fight. Voldemort killed him with the killing curse." I choked. They were about to say their apologies I held up my hand to stop them. "Then he went upstairs. He told out mother to move or he would kill her to. But she refused to move. He used the same spell on her. Then he went for us. But when he tried the killing spell… it didn't kill us. It rebounded on him. Sadly, it didn't kill him. But he was weak. Very weak."

Harry grabbed my hand, "We had to go live with our Aunt and Uncle. They didn't very much care for us, so we weren't informed of our magic until we got our letter to Hogwarts. This has been our home since. Every year since we came here Voldemort has tried to kill us." Harry smiled at bit a his failing to kill us. "In the first year he almost killed me trying to get the Sorcerers Stone, second year he tried to kill Bella with a basilisk, third year… well he didn't do anything third year, fourth year Bella was entered in the Triwizard Tournament as a trap, and fifth year he lured me and out friends to our deaths."

They were all breathless.

"And now we are supposed to kill him." I whispered.

"Why you? Why not someone else." I choked back a cry at the sound of Edward's voice. It was full of worry.

No… he couldn't care about me. It wasn't worry. "I don't know. But if we don't he will kill us first."

I guess they knew enough about magic to not debate that.

Dumbledore spoke for the first time in what seemed like decades. I had forgotten his presence. "It is late. I think it's time for Mr. and Ms. Potter to get to bed."

"Of course." Carlisle nodded, "Bella…. I was so nice to see you here. I hope we can talk again tomorrow." His voice so sincere… I actually believed him.

I nodded, " I think we should all talk." I implied that I wanted an explanation for why they left me. They all nodded.

We said goodnight to Dumbledore and began to make our way to the Gryffindor Common Room. Carlisle and Esme stayed behind to speak some more with the Headmaster. The Cullen's followed since they didn't know where to go. When we got to the door and Harry told the Fat Lady the password we entered. Emmett looking awe of the decorations. I pointed out the boy's and girl's staircases, and when Harry wasn't look motion for them the stay behind for a second.

"I'm going to go to bed. Night Bells." Harry yawned as he walked up the stairs. I waited until he was out of sight before turning to the Cullens.

"Dumbledore wants me to help you catch up in some magic. Now, I don't know how you can do magic, I can only speculate and right now I don't feel like it. Tomorrow we will meet in the Room of Requirement and I show you the basic. And then… if you want to talk. We will talk." I said harshly.

Edward looked like I had shot him. "Now, you look like you need to go hunt. The Forbidden Forest wont have animals that you hunt in it so you will have to leave the school grounds. Understand? But you have to be back before morning."

Alice beamed at me and ran forward to stand in front of me, "Of course Bella! I'm so glad you are here. He might have only been separated for a couple of days, but I missed you so much. All of us did." She kissed my cheek then bounded away.

I turned and went up the stairs to my room. While I was lying in my bed I had time to think. I missed them. And they might have only been gone for a couple of days, but they still left. I couldn't forgive them like that. It's not like they had wanted to come back to me. And Edward doesn't want me. I can't take it anymore.

Hopefully, we will talk about this tomorrow. After a couple hours or tears. I finally fell into a fitful sleep.

A/N~ Did you like? I hope so. It might be a little longer before I post the next chapter, because I'm trying to spice things up. What do yall want; Victoria, Volturi, or Voldy? Or a mixture? Hmm... Quite. A. Puzzle.