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Chapter 3: Understanding

There stood my love, my everything, my statue of Adonis.

Completely naked.

Edward's face was a mask of confusion and pain.

"Bella? Don't you recognize me? Say something! What's wrong?" I could hear the guilt eating at his voice. He sounded ready to cry.

I finally managed to find my voice.

"I… you… PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" I spluttered, and then hid my face in my hands.

He didn't say anything for several moments.

"I… what? Bella, I already have clothes on!" He argued

"Oh my God! None of you have clothes on!" I glanced down at myself in a panic.

"HOLY CROW! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU PERVERTS!" I couldn't believe what was happening. I had never been more embarrassed in my life.

I ran upstairs as fast as I could and went straight into Edward's closet, pulling on all the clothes I could fit onto my body.

"Bella? Bella! Just calm down!" Edward was suddenly standing in the closet with me.

"Edward! Please cover yourself up!" I stomped my feet like a 2-year old. I had never been so confused or frustrated. I whirled around and tried to burrow into a rack full of hanging sweaters.

"Bella, for the love of… CARLISLE!" Edward called.

"Would either of you like to tell me what is going on?" Carlisle asked.

"She thinks we're all naked, including herself in that statement." Edward sounded bemused.

"She thinks… WHAT?!" Carlisle sounded appalled.

"She just keeps telling me to put some clothes on and to cover myself up." He sighed "Bella, honey, please come out. I promise you that none of us are naked, not even you."

His voice was too persuasive to resist, but my shame kept me grounded.

"NO!" I yelled. There was no way I was going to let them see any more of me than they already had.

"Bella, not only are you not naked, you are wearing over half of my wardrobe, if you haven't noticed." He chuckled. "You're the opposite of naked right now."

I looked down fearfully. To my great relief, I saw that I looked like a basketball of sweaters and coats. I probably looked ridiculous.

I glanced out to see if the others had regained their clothing.

Nope! I quickly burrowed back into my home within the sweaters.

"Bella, I swear to you that we all have clothes on!" Edward was beginning to panic.

"No, Edward, oh my God I can't believe I saw your…" If I could have blushed I would have been purple.

I wanted to cry, this was the worst situation I had ever been in. Why were they doing this? Was it a joke? Or were they becoming nudists and were trying to see if they could trick me into thinking I was crazy? Of course I had been curious about Edward, but I had absolutely no desire to see the rest of the family without clothes on.

I heard Carlisle trying to reason with Edward.

"Are we the crazy ones? Maybe we don't have clothes on!"

Carlisle laughed.

"Edward, please. We just need to figure out why Bella can't see our clothing." Carlisle mused. "I supposed it could have something to do with her power, but I can't understand why her power would be the ability to see others naked, unless it's some sort of an x-ray vision gift."

"If it was x-ray vision, wouldn't I be able to see your skeletons instead of your…" I wanted to punch myself in the face. This was unbelievable. I finally got what I wanted, eternity with the man I loved, and something like this happens.

"Bella. Please listen to me. I need you to calm down and take very deep, slow breaths. Just concentrate on relaxing." Carlisle's voice was soothing.

I struggled to do as he asked, and several minutes later I decided I was calm.

"Now what?" I called through the tunnel of fabric I had created.

"I need you to come out here. Close your eyes if you must, but we need to see you to figure out what's going on." He said.

I had a miniature panic attack, but then I looked down at myself to realize that I was wearing clothes. I closed my eyes tightly and came out. I felt strong arms envelop me immediately.

"Oh Bella! Never hide from me again please!" The voice of my angel sounded beautiful to my newly enhanced ears. The smell of his cool breath made me forget what I was so worried about. I opened my eyes to look at his face. He was more perfect than I remembered.

I sighed contentedly and laid my head on his chest. What was I worried about? I tried to remind myself. Oh! The clothes! I pulled back and saw that Edward and Carlisle's clothes had returned.

"Your clothes are back!" I rejoiced, throwing myself into Edward's arms with renewed vigor.

I felt his cool breath on my face as he chuckled into my ear.

"They were never gone, love."

"Bella? Perhaps we should take this into my office." Carlisle always had to be the killjoy.

I nodded once and followed him down the hall with Edward in tow.

Once we sat down in the office, Carlisle thought for a moment, and then spoke.

"What were you feeling when you came downstairs?" He asked.

"I'm not sure. A lot of things. Excitement and nervousness mostly." I replied.

Carlisle thought for a few more minutes.

"I think we should try to recreate the no clothing scenario."

I was floored.

"Wha… why?! I never want to see you without clothes on again!" I protested.

"As good as that makes me fell, Bella, you have to learn what your gift entails. If you're uncomfortable with other members of the family then do it with only Edward. Either way, you seemed to regain some sense of composure once you had a chance to calm down. I think you should try to get yourself worked up again and try to see if you can recreate the effect so that we can learn what it is and how to control it. Besides, I doubt that seeing underneath people's clothing is the entire extent of your gift." He smirked and stood up. "Just give it a try. I know you may still be uncomfortable using Edward, but you won't get accurate results working alone. It isn't something you wouldn't have seen eventually anyway." He grinned widely and gestured for us to get started.

Edward nodded and stood, solemnly offering me his hand.

I stared at him, shocked. He was supporting this madness.

"Bella, it's got to be done. You don't want to not be able to control what you see of people do you?"

That did it. I grabbed his hand and practically dragged him out of the room.

This would definitely be an interesting night.

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