A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for the reviews. I hope you like this chapter. Oh and if you want to see what the Owen's house looks like, go to my profile and click the link!!. Read and review! Oh, i dont own Twilight or any of its characters in stuff... :(
Oh and one more thing. If there is any confusion, like about Bella's power or where she's going, I promise that it will be explained in the next chapter.
The lunch hour passes slowly. When the bell finally rang, Chase jumped up, grabbing Bella's elbow and steering her out of the lunchroom quickly.
" Ugh, Chase. What the hell?" Bella growled as she tried to get her arm out of his grasp.
" Come on. I'm walking you to class." Chase growled, glancing behing them.
" But then you'll be late." Bella pointed out, considering that her choir classroom was on the opposite side of the building as Chase's study hall.
" No, I won't." Chase said with a small smirk as he removed his arm from Bella's elbow, placing it protectively around her shoulders instead.
" Chase, what's going on?" Bella asked, " And don't say nothing, because if you do I will be forced to kick your ass."
Chas, knowing what Bella was capable of, sighed, " Fine...I don't like the way that new vampire was looking at you."
" What?" Bella asked, giggling slightly.
" And another thing. Why are they cloaking their scent, huh? It's suspicious and I don't like it." Chase growled as they reached Bella's choir class.
" Chase, Damien said they're like us, so just drop it." Bella said as she started walking into the classroom but stopped, " Oh, and Chase? Don'd do anything stupid."
Chase narrowed his eyes before walking away, mumbling angrily under his breath. Bella shook her head, smiling slightly as she made her way to her desk. Bella got out a pen and opened her notebook, waiting for class to start. She absentmindedly chewed on the end of her pen. She looked out the window on her left as the bell ran and the rest of the class filed in.
" Class? We have a new student today." Mrs. Peterson announced in her nasally voice, " Her name is Alice Cullen."
Bella froze and dropped her pen, her head twisting to the right as Alice walked happily towards her. Alice bent down and picked up Bella's pen, holding it out to her with a bright smile on her face.
Bella took the pen warily before facing the front, a frown set firmly in place on her face.
" Hi, Bella." Alice said cheerfully as she sat in the empty seat to the right of Bella's.
" Alice." Bella greeted monotonely with little emotion as she stared straight ahead of her.
" Ho-How are you?" Alice asked, slightly taken aback by Bella's greeting.
"Juust dandy." Bella replied with sarcasm, scowling.
" That's good. " Alice said. She waited about thirty minutes to see if Bella would say anything else. When Bella said nothing, she tried to make conversation again, " So...we uh...we saw you at lunch."
Bella raised an eyebrow and flickered her eyes to Alice before staring back at the front of the classroom.
" Is um...is that guy your...um boyfriend?" Alice asked anxiously and curiously.
" Sorry, Alice, but I don't think thats any of you business," Bella growled while struggling to keep her anger in check as memoried unwillingly flashed through her mind.
" Oh." Alice's face fell and she sat silently for another fifteen minutes while Bella pretended to pay attention to what the choir teacher was saying.
Suddenly, Alice brightened next to hers, " So during lunch we saw that guy kiss you on the cheek. Oh, my Gosh. You should have seen Ed--"
" Alice!" Bella hissed angrily, " I am trying very hard to control my anger right now but I swear to God if you mention his name I will snap. So please, just leave me alone!"
Alice looked shocked, then angry, " Ok, listen. I may not know ab--"
" That's just it, Alice! You don't know!" Bella's eyes were coal black, " You don't know anything about what happened after you guys abandoned me! So don't you dare get angry with me until you do know!"
Alice looked hurt, " Bella? We didn't abandon you. We consider you a part of this family."
" Oh, please. Don't make me laugh." Bella let out a bitter laugh, " What else would you call leaving without saying good-bye, huh? You and your family deserted me and left me to die!"
" Die? What do you mean die?" Alice demanded.
" That is the business of me and my family, not you." Bella said viciously.
" We are family!" Alice said, her eyes sad.
" If you were my family, you would have cared. You wouldn't have left me here, knowing who was after me." Bella said, a little more quietly as feelings of betrayal rose once again.
" What was after you?" Alice asked, but Bella remained quiet, " What was after you Bella?"
" Don't you mean who?" Bella said bitterly, looking at Alice.
" Who?!?" Alice got angry, " I swear, Bella, whoever came after you will not get away with it! We will rip them to pieces."
" Well, that was already taken care of by my family! You know, the people who cared enough about me to not desert me!" Bella said as the bell rang.
Alice looked shameful as Bella gathered her books in her arms. Bella shot up, walking out of the classroom as quickly as she could. She saw Chase waiting for her at the corner and Bella was relieved.
" Bella! Wait!" Alice called, following her, but Bella ignored her, " Bella! Please talk to me!"
Bella rolled her eyes as she reached Chase. Chase raised his eyebrows, but Bella shook her head, turning down any empty hallway. Before she could walk more than ten feet, Alice's hand closed around Bella's upper arm. The minute Alice's hand came in contact with Bella's skin, pain erupter in Bella's head. Bella dropped her notebook and clutched her head in her hands, faliing to her knees. Bella rocked back and forth, taking in shaky breaths. Chase, being familiar with this, squatted down next to her and rubbed her back soothingly.
" Oh, my Gosh! Bella! I am so sorry! What did I do?" Alice was frantic.
" You didn't do anything. This isn't your fault." Chase said as he hugged Bella.
As quickly as the pain had come, it left. Bella took a shakey breath and slammed her hands against the floor, " Damn it! Not again!"
Bella stood up and stormed away, Chase following while Alice stood, staring at their retreating backs in confusion.
" Bella, will you please calm down." Shase jogged after Bella.
" No! No I will not!" Bella turned around, her eyes coal black. She pointed her finger at herself, " I'm supposed to have this under control. That wasn't supposed to happen!"
" Bella." Chase held her shoulders and stared into her eyes, " It isn't your fault."
" Yes is it. It's my gift. I should be able to control it." Bella snapped.
" Bella." Chase groaned.
" No, you know what just drop it okay? We have to change for gym." Bella mumbled as she brushed past him and though the door to the girls' locker room.
Bella came out of the locker room five minutes later and headed towards the football field, where her class would be running the track.
As she reached the track, an arm wrapped around her shoulders.
" Ugh, Chase. I told you I don't want to talk right now."
" Who's Chase?" A deep, masculine voice teased.
Bella looked up and froze as her eyes met sparkling topaz eyes. Emmett smiled down at her, " What? No hello?"
" You have got to be kidding me?" Bella growled as she enetred the field and broke into a jog the second her feet hit the red track circling the field, separating the large aluminum bleachers from the actual field.
" Nope, no joke. I'm here." Emmet laughed as he easily matched her pace.
Bella just rolled her eyes as she kept looking forward.
" So, how ya been? It's been a while." Emmett asked.
" Oh, not really. Only half a century," Bella answered sarcastically.
Emmett chuckled, " I've missed you Bella. We all have. Well some, namely one, more than others but--"
" Is there a point to this conversation?" Bella snapped.
" Ohh, fiesty are we?" Emmett was leveled with a glare. He held his hands up in an 'I surrender' motion, " Fine, fine. Never mind. I just wanted to say hi, see how you were doing, give you an invite to dinner from Edward, say bye, run like hell--"
" Tell him I said to go to hell!" Bella growled, " And stop talking to me!"
" Oh, Bella. Why are you so mean?" Emmett teashed, "We're like family!"
" Oh yea? Well in my books family doesn't leave a member alone and unprotected when there's a psyco red-head out to kill her!" Bella said waving her arms hysterically.
Emmet's eyes darkened, " Red-head? You say Victoria?"
" Yeah, now drop it, Emmett, before I make you drop it." Bella sped up and raced to the coach, asking to leave class early because she felt light headed.
Bella changed back into her school uniform and waited for the end of school bell to ring. When it did, she gathered her things in her arms and headed to her locked. She got her homework from inside her loced and stuffed it into her black book bag. She slung the strap over her right shoulder before walking out to her car.
" Hey, guys. Chase got detention, so I'm going to go bust him out. Wait here for Caden and Mac." Bella told Tristan adn Abby as she met them at the car.
They nodded and Bella threw her bag into her car before heading off to Chase's math classroom. On the way, she undid another button of her blouse, loosened her tie a little more. She popped in a piece of gum as she reached for the handle. Taking a deep breath and shivering in dusgust, Bella entered the classroom.
The classroom was empty except for Chase, who sat in the back of the room, and Mr. Duvall, who sat at his desk in the front. The two looked up as Bella opened the door. Chase's reaction was relief. Mr. Duvall, on the other hand, looked dazed. Mr. Duvall had slick, thinning black hair. Despite the lack of it, he had somehow managed to style the little he had ina a comb over. His gut hung out ever so slightly from under his shirt and his beady little eyes, seemingly miniscule compared to his large glasses, roamed Bella's body.
Bella resisted the urge to run from the room screaming and instead put on the best smile she could muster, " Hello, Mr. Duvall."
" H-Hello...B-B-Bella." Mr. Duvall pushed his glasses up using the nose bridge and smiled a wavering smile.
" So, listen. I have a small problem." Bella said as she sat in a desk in front of Mr. Duvall's, crossing her arms on the desk and leaning forward, " Chase is my ride home today, and I have plans tonight, so do you think that maybe, just this once, you could let him off?"
Mr. Duvall gulped, " N-now, now, B-Bella. I already told your brother, no exc-c-cuses."
Bella slumped a little and stuck out her lower lip, " Pleease, it would mean soo much to me."
Mr. Duvall eyed Bella for a second, " Well, I suppose th--"
" Thank you!" Bella smiled and jumped up, racing out the door before he could reconsider.
Chase and Bella sped out of the building as Mr. Duvall stepped out of the classroom and called after them. Once outside, Chase wrapped his arms around Bella's waist from behind and twirled her around in circles in the air. Bella shrieked in laughter until her put her down. Her smiled fell as she looked across the lawn.
They had come out on the opposite side of the school as where Tristan and Abby were. Across the large courtyard was Caden, standing protectively in front of Mackenzie. The five Cullens stood in front of them while four human boys stood facing the Cullens. Bella watched as Emmett took a menacing step towards the humans, and they ran screaming. The five Cullens waited until they were out of sight before they turned to Caden, who kept his stance in front of Mackenzie.
" Are you crazy, kid? You could have ruined everything!" Rosalie scolded as she stood slightly behind Emmett.
" Rosalie, leave him be." Alice yelled, then turned to Caden, " So you're Bella's...b-brother huh?"
" I never said that." Caden growled, clenching his fists.
" Well are you realted yo her?" Emmett asked loudly.
" None of your business!" Caden yelled, his eyes coal black.
" Listen, kid. We just want to know if you're related to her." Jasper said, the calmest in the group.
" And I told you to got o hell!" Caden yelled, " You don't need to see her or talke to her."
Emmett and Jasper spun around and grabbed Edward immediately, holding him back as Edward let out a feral snarl.
In a flash Bella stood in front of Caden, her eyes coal black, " Stay the hell away from my family."
Edwards eyes lightened as he saw Bella, " Bella?"
" Bella!" Alice said, relieved, " We were trying to help them. Some human kids were picking on them and we scared them off."
Bella turned to look over her shoulder at Caden, " Was it the same ones from before?" Caden nodded and Bella turned back to the Cullens, her words cold, " Thank you so much for your concern but they can handle themselves."
Edward's eyes widened, then narrowed, " Oh, yeah. Sure they can. Those two would have ripped those kids apart if it wasn't for us!"
" Don't you dare assume you know them!" Bella growled, taking a step forward. Her eyes were the darkest anyone had ever seen, little flashes of light, like lightening, sparked in the depths of her eyes.
Chase reached out and grabbed her upper arm, " Bella, let it go. We should get going."
"Yeah, he's not worth it." Caden begged, tugging on Bella's arm.
Edward growled and took a step forward. Before anyone could do anything Bella drew her right arm back. She slammed her palm into Edward's chest, senging him flying into a tree about fifty feet away. Without a second glance, Bella grabbed Mackenzie's hand and walked away, leaving behind five stunned vampires.
Bella reached the cars and found Tristan and Abby sitting, looking extremely bored. They looked up and saw the look on Bella's face. Abby stood up, " What happened?"
" Bella sent that Cullen kid flying into a tree! It was amazing!" Caden said enthusiastically then looked up at Bella with respect, " You are the coolest!"
Bella smirked as her eyes returned to their normal topaz color. She opened the door to Chase's car for Mackenzie and Caden to get in. Tristan climbed into the front seat of Chase's car while Chase ducked into the driver's seat. Abby hopped over the door into Bella's Ferrari (a convertible) and checked her hair in her mirror. As Bella was aboout to climb into the driver's seat, she sensed Alice running towards her. Bella sighed in annoyance and turned aroound. Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, and Edward were standing by the school, about 30 yards away. Edward looked hurt, sad, and ashamed. The others looked stunned. Alice, probably being the only brave one, was running towards her. She stopped just before she hit Bella's car.
" Bella, we're sorry for interfering, but we did what we thought was right." Bella explained, admiring Bella's car.
" Like I said before. Thanks for your concern, but my family can handle themselves." Bella said through gritted teeth.
" But, Bella, they're so young. They can't possibly have the self control that--" Alice tried to explain.
" They have better self control than I do, Alice." Bella said, her tone dangerously calm, " I know that for a fact."
Before Alice could respond, Bella had gotten into her car, started it, backed out, and was flying out of the parking lot, Chase close behind. When they got home, Bella immediately ran upstairs quickly. She got out a small duffel bag and threw some clothes into it. She changed out of her school uniform and into jeans and a black T-shirt before racing down to the family room, where Damien sat working.
Bella opened her mouth to speak, " Damien?"
Damien looked up. He glanced at Bella, then the bag, then up to her face, smiling reassuringly, " How long will you be gone?"
Relief washed over Bella, " I'll be back Friday, around five or six."
Damien nodded his head, " Ok, be careful. And Bella?"
Bella stopped walking out of the room and glanced over her shoulder, " Yeah?"
" You're going to have to face them."
" I know." Bella said quielty.
" I met Dr. Cullen today. I invited them over Friday night." Damien explained.
Bella sighed, " I understand...and I'll be here, I promise."
Damien nodded curtly before going back to his work.
Bella took that as an end to the conversation and ran out to her car. She sped back down the gravel driveway and through the town. She got onto the highway and headed for one of her most favorite places on the planet...Forks.