Okay the response for the first part of this story was pretty great. True I only got one review but I got of people adding me to their story alerts, so I was quiet happy and decided to write another chapter. Please read and review. Oh and I am not sure if anybody took any notice but i said it had been 76 years since Bella last saw Alice, I made a mistake it was actually 88 years. i will change it. Thank you.
Chapter two
I drove up the long driveway to their house – if you could call it that. It was more of a three-story mansion all white and glass. It was beautiful.
We walked up the front steps. Before we could even reach for the door it was swung open by a beautiful, young woman.
"Well, well. Isn't this a surprise?" She said teasingly. "Am I going to have to call your principal to inform him that you are all sick?" Emmett snickered and Alice rolled her eyes.
"Like we didn't call you and let you know." Alice replied in a sarcastic tone.
They all pushed past the women, into the house. I was the last and I stood there just before the doorway.
"It's alright sweetheart, we don't bite." The woman said to me.
"MUCH!" Emmett cried from his place in the house. Everyone snickered quietly and I smiled warmly at the woman and walked through the door.
"I'm Esme." She told me with a smile. "You must be Isabella."
"I am." I replied and she pulled me into a tight hug.
"Esme is our mother for all intense purposes." Edward's sweet, velvety voice said from behind me. I turned to him a saw he was wearing the same crooked grin from a hundred and seventy-six years ago, only it didn't reach his eyes. His eyes were staring at me intently with great concentration. I knew that it was because he couldn't read my mind and I wasn't going to help him with that.
"Follow me to the living room," Esme was saying. "Carlisle will be here shortly."
Following her through the hallway I saw that the whole back wall was glass. It showed a beautiful view of the surrounding forest and river.
The living room was very open and was all white. It joined to the dining area – that probably never got used – and also to an extra space that had a platform in the middle of it. On top of the platform was a grand white piano.
It was beautiful and it made me think of home. How I missed it there. I would sit for hours on end and just play anything that came to my mind. Daddy would sit and watch me and everything in the world would feel right.
I hadn't realised it but I had moved forward and placed my hand on the top of the piano.
"Do you play?" I turned around and saw that everyone was watching me but there was no mistaking who spoke those words. I looked towards Edward and his eyes were filled with wonder and curiosity.
"In my spare time. It was something my father insisted on me doing but I found I loved it all the same." Was my cool reply. He nodded slightly and took a seat on the plush white leather couch.
I went to go join them and we all watched the back door as we heard the sound of running footsteps. A tall blonde man that I knew to be Carlisle from his visit to our castle many centuries ago.
"The hospital allowed me the rest of the afternoon off. So what's happening?" He asked the room at large before his eyes landed on me. "Ahhh…"
I knew he wouldn't recognise me as I never made his acquaintance all those years ago but it still fascinated him to have a 'human' in his house.
"She knows about us Carlisle." Emmett said in a giddy tone. "She said she has worked with vampires before."
Carlisle raised his eyebrows at me. "Have you now? And who might these other vampires be?"
I held my head high so they would see that I was not at all intimidated. "I was recently with the Voltori."
"I see. Did they send you here? It has been quiet some time since I spoke to my dear friend Aro."
"As it is, they did not. I came here of my own accord."
He mumbled something along the lines of "… letting a human go?" He was confused, as was everyone else.
"Aro has a lot on his plate and his mind as of late. His daughter has run away yet again and he is franticly searching for her."
"Daughter?"
"No offence intended but maybe you aren't as good of friends as you once thought."
"Perhaps not." He replied curtly. "And how does a human such as yourself, come to acquire such information?"
"I am very dear to Aro. We go way back."
"I see." He said even though it was clear he obviously didn't. He was even more confused now then he was before and even though he would never admit it but it was frustrating him, more than anything had frustrated him in his entire existence.
"Okay… so for the slightly less educated of us… what the hell does all of that mean?" Emmett boomed.
Carlisle gave an amused smile before replying. "Dear Isabella here is saying that she works for Aro and the rest of the Volturi guard –"
"I never said I worked for them I occasionally work with them." I cut in.
"Why would they work with you?" Emmett asked.
"I am an asset to Aro."
"Ohh I see the old man is getting his pimp on."
"Emmett! Please!" Esme cried.
"I am not sleeping with Aro."
"Well how do you know him?" Emmett was so amused by his previous comment he barely got the words out for this one.
"As I said, we go way back. We are like family."
"There must be something about you that makes you so valuable to him." Rosalie sneered. "Everyone knows that Aro is known as the collector. What can a human offer him?"
"You all like to throw around the term human don't you?" It was actually getting quiet irritating.
"You have something he wants don't you?" Carlisle said in wonder.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't."
"I can't read your mind." Edward spoke up. Everyone turned to him with an amazed look.
"I can't see your future, it's like a blank wall." Alice said.
"I can feel or alter your feelings, but you can obviously alter mine." This was more information then the others gave and Jasper was met with more inquisitive stares.
"So you do have something he wants." Carlisle clarified. "You have a power. Perhaps even two by the sounds of things. Amazing that he has yet to turn you."
"It isn't like that. Aro would never willingly turn me." They all scoffed in response. "Look, you don't know him like I do."
"Like I said… pimp on." Emmett snickered. I couldn't help but growl in response and crouch into a protective stance. Everybody turn to me in astonishment. And I quickly righted myself, too quickly. Not humanly possible, quickly.
"Maybe there is more to it then you lead on?" Carlisle questioned.
I sat back down with a sigh. How did I get myself into these situations?
"So… Isabella, tell us what you left out." I sat in silence not replying to Carlisle. He sighed. "Are you going to make us guess?" Again there was no reply from me and I could tell I was weighing on their patience.
"We could always force it out of her." Emmett said excitedly.
"Emmett!" Esme cried, looking towards me with compassion that made my unbeating heart ache. I missed my mother more then anything and it was clear that Esme loved playing the mother role.
"That's not what we are about Emmett, you know that." Carlisle scolded.
"I know, I know. It'd be fun though. We haven't done anything really exciting in a while."
Everyone turned to me expectantly.
"Umm… I'd rather just speak to Carlisle if you don't mind." I whispered knowing they all heard me.
"If we don't mind? Are you kidding? We mind!" Edward shouted.
"Edward, please. Calm down." Carlisle spoke calmly as if talking to an armed shooter trying to lull him into causing no harm. "We can go to my office at the hospital later tonight, there will be less people around then." I nodded my thanks and he walked up the stairs.
"Umm… well… would you like anything to eat?" Esme asked.
"Ohh no thank you. I'm fine, really."
"Well I'm not sure what to do… umm… I'll be in the office." And with that she followed Carlisle upstairs.
"Well it would seem we have a lot of time to kill." Alice spoke up cheerily. "Who wants to go shopping?"
There was a collective sigh from all the men. "Alice not again! You went yesterday." Emmett cried.
"But Isabella might like to go." She argued. I had to admit it was appealing.
"I'd much rather she just stay in the house Alice." Edward growled.
"Edward, she is not some show animal for you to lock up!"
"Thank you, Alice, but I understand where he is coming from." I told her.
"You do?" Both Alice and Edward said disbelievingly.
"Yes, I do. It's fine, really. We can shop online."
Alice squealed shrilly and bounced of the couch and towards the computer in the corner of the room. I followed slowly behind her – much to her irritation.
"Well Rosie and I are going to go for a run. Maybe hunt a bit. We will stay in hearing range of the house but." Emmett told everybody.
"That won't nearly be far enough to hunt." Alice said not moving her head from the computer screen. Emmett poked his tongue out in the direction of the back of her head and she flipped him the bird, still not moving her eyes from the screen.
"OMG! Izzy, these shoes are to die for. They would so suit you." Alice cried gleefully. Edward and Jasper turned to her suddenly. It wasn't at all strange for me I had heard her call me that a million times over but never in this life. It brought back so many painful memories that I felt the tears welling in my eyes.
"Izzy?" Edward cried outraged.
"Yes, Izzy!" She shouted back.
"Why?" This caused Alice to fall short.
"I don't know. It-it suits her, kind of. I'm not sure it just felt…right."
Nobody had noticed my silent tears from beside Alice, but Jasper eventually did.
"Isabella…? Are you alright?" His voice was filled with nothing but concern. Alice gasped lightly as she realized she hadn't noticed.
"Ohh… Izzy, what is it?"
"Nothing. Sorry, this is so stupid." I couldn't stop the tears from falling.
"Look what you did Edward!" She shouted.
"Me?" Edward was so pissed. "What did I do?"
"Nothing. He did nothing." I intervened before this started a fight. "It's nothing, just my best friend used to call me that." I couldn't exactly say she used to call me that.
"Used to? Why not any more?" Alice sounded so innocent I felt horrible for my next words.
"She died. A long time ago."
"Ohh… I'm so sorry." I knew that if she could Alice would be crying too. Trying to lighten the mood she said "Was the ceremony nice?"
"I wouldn't know." I answered bitterly. "I wasn't allowed to go." I couldn't help but shot invisible daggers towards Jasper. It was, after all, his doing.
"That's horrible! Why weren't you allowed?"
"Her husband did not like me. It was understandable being mere acquaintances with me went against everything he believed. If I was in his position I wouldn't like me either." Alice stroked her hand across my face, ridding my cheeks of their tears, but she stopped still.
"Is that… blood?" she whispered horrified. I noticed that Jasper and Edward had turned to stone too.
"Shit." I whispered wiping my cheeks with the sleeve of my top and cleaning Alice's hands. I quickly took it off to reveal my tank top and ran to the kitchen, chucking my shirt in the sink. I found the lighter in my jeans pocket and set alight to the top.
Everyone slowly walked into the kitchen to join me and I realized Rosalie and Emmett had come back from their run.
"Your tears were tinged with blood." Jasper stated.
"Yes." Was all I could reply.
"We should check that out. It is never a good sign to be crying blood." Carlisle said going into doctor mode.
"No, seriously its okay. It always happens, it's not unusual. It's a side effect…"
"Are you sick? Do you have a disease?" Edward was slightly panicking but he wasn't sure why.
"No, no. Nothing like that. It's a side effect of…" I let out a large sigh. Here goes nothing I thought, "of being on a diet of blood."
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