A/N Hey guys. Thanks for all the lovely reviews, it inspires me to write. Check out my other story, Goddess of War. It's a Peter/Bella pairing and my first vamp story, because who doesn't love Peter? Enjoy the chapter and keep up the reviews! I wanna make it to 100 XD Oh and I decided to change Paul and Jared's ages, they will be seniors now. I just couldn't leave them out of the school drama lol. I would also like to add that before Esme met Carlisle, they were known as the Platts. Sorry I was late in updating, my modem died and I couldn't get on the internet. But its all good now. Happy holidays and New Years' everyone.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, SM does.

Previously

Seth grimaced. "I'm sorry to be rude. But how is it you knew what I am?"

Bella grinned. "Oh Sethy, I know all about your pack. But I'm afraid time is running out and you really have to leave. My family is going to be here soon, and they won't much like a shape-shifter on their land."

Seth nodded and stood up. "Will I see you again?"

Bella laughed and nodded. "I'm sure we'll meet again very soon."

And with that, Seth phased and took off back into the woods.

Chapter Three: Who is that girl?

Seth sighed in relief as his patrol ended. They had not seen a vampire for a while now, so Sam had lightened up on the patrols. There was now only one person on patrols, if something happened, all he had to do was howl.

That brought him back to the strange girl that somehow knew about him and the pack. He didn't know why he didn't alert the others to the fact that a girl was in the middle of the woods. Maybe it was because some part of him wanted to have a secret that the pack didn't know about. They always teased him because he was the youngest and he always felt that he was in the background. Sam was alpha, Jacob was the strongest, Leah the only girl. It made him feel insignificant compared to them, so what was wrong with keeping something to himself?

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that perhaps it was something about the girl herself. There was something about her that made him want to trust her, and for her to trust him. He felt that if he told the pack, he would be betraying her in some way.

His mind kept flashing back to how he'd stumbled upon her. It was strange for anyone to be in the middle of the forest and curious, he had followed her scent. He found her lying on her back, just staring into the sky. Her long, wavy brown hair was splayed around her and with the sun glinting off of her hair, she almost looked like an angel.

Seth shook his head to clear his thoughts as he phased back, walking back towards his house. He was met at the door by a clearly furious Leah.

"Not so fast, we have a pack meeting at Sam's house. Apparently it's important."

Seth grimaced. As much as he loved his sister, he hated what Sam had made her become. He knew that Sam had imprinted on Emily, but did he have to break up with Leah like he did. His sister had walked in on him making out with her cousin, and ever since then, she had turned so bitter. He missed the way his sister had been before and now he worried for her.

Leah, seeing the expression on his face, softened. "Don't worry about me. Let's just get this meeting over with."

A few minutes later, they were all gathered at Sam's house. Paul looked like he didn't really want to be there and Jared probably just wanted to get back to his imprint, Kim.

Surprisingly, the Elders were there; Billy, Harry, and Old Quil were all that were left in the council. Quil Jr. (Quil's dad) had died in a car accident, he had broken his neck and died instantly. Joshua Uley and John Hunter (Paul's dad), had took off from the rez when they were younger. Looking at their faces, they all looked as if they were about to say something that they knew the pack wouldn't be too happy about.

Billy cleared his throat. "The Platts have come back. They contacted me a few days ago."

Almost all of the pack had jumped up in an uproar. Paul, who had the least control, was shaking in his anger.

"Silence! You will listen to your Elders!" Old Quil's voice was somehow able to rise over their voices.

Billy stared at them each in turn. "As I was saying, they are returning and their..children..will be attending Forks High School."

Seth shook his head. This would be bad. Ever since La Push High School had burned down a few years ago, they all attended Forks High.

Embry looked confused. "Wait a minute. What do you mean by they?"

Billy sighed. "Apparently, their coven leader has found her mate and they think of the others as their children."

Everyone snorted at that.

Billy looked at each of them again. "I want it to be clear that you are not to attack any of the Platts unless they violate the treaty." His eyes were lingering on Paul in particular, he was the one who was most likely to start a fight.

The pack grudgingly nodded. Billy's orders were just as powerful as an Alpha command.

Back with the Cullens

Bella was getting more and more frustrated with Alice. She insisted on picking out the perfect outfit for Bella's first day. Jasper was no help because she was still mad and refused to speak to him. When she complained to Emmett, he just laughed at her. Thankfully, Rosalie was there to stop Alice from going too overboard.

Rosalie was finally able to convince Alice to let Bella choose from the large pile of clothing that Alice had thrown on the bed as she searched for Bella's outfit. Bella sighed and selected a dark pair of skinny jeans, a purple sweater that clung to her figure, and a pair of black ankle boots.

Alice huffed, but seemed satisfied with her choice. Usually Alice would usually look to the future to see what would be the best outcome, but she was blocked by Bella's shield. Bella knew how to manipulate it so that Alice could see, but most of the time she didn't want Alice interfering, so she kept it up.

After Bella was dressed, Emmett came upstairs with a mischievous grin, dragging Jasper behind him. "Hey Bellsy…"

Bella sighed. "Yes, Emmett?"

Emmett smiled wider. "You said that you're gonna meet your mate at school, right?"

Bella was afraid of what this was leading to, and lifted her shield, hoping that Alice could see what might happen.

Alice came bouncing out of Bella's room, unable to contain her enthusiasm. "What a great idea, Emmett!"

Emmett looked surprised. "Really?"

Bella tapped her foot impatiently. "Is anyone going to tell me what's going on?"

Alice turned her attention to Bella. "Jasper is going to pretend that he's your boyfriend at school. Don't worry, I'm okay with it. I can't see your mate, but I do know that he's going to try to ignore you for some reason. But, if Jasper pretends to be your boyfriend, then he'll get jealous."

Bella grimaced. "Alice, Jasper is like my dad. I can't pretend to like him."

Alice narrowed her eyes. "Stop trying to ruin my plans! Put those acting skills to good use or so help me I will burn all your books!"

Bella glared at her. "Fine. But if this messes up things with my mate, I will burn all of your clothes.

Alice's mouth dropped open and then she shrugged. "As long as you make people believe that you and Jasper are together, then everything should go according to plan."

The next morning

Jacob was rushing to get ready for school. If he didn't hurry, he would be late for school. Grabbing a piece of toast and waving goodbye to his dad, he ran to the Rabbit. But he couldn't leave until Embry, Quil, and Seth came, so he leaned against his car to wait.

Out of the corner of his eye, Jacob saw Seth running up to him, clearly out of breath. "Sam is making Quil and Embry run a quick patrol before school. Ever since we found out that the Platts are back, he wants us to patrol more. Quil and Embry said they'd meet us there."

Jacob sighed and gestured for Seth to get in the car. He noticed that Seth seemed a little jumpy, but figured that he was just nervous about his first day of high school. "It's not really that bad, just stick with the pack and you'll be fine."

Seth just nodded and stared ahead. As they arrived at school, Jacob quickly pulled into a parking spot and got out of the car, leaning against the car to wait for Quil and Embry.

A strong gust of wind blew and brought with it a strong stench of vampire causing both Seth and Jacob to stiffen. It seems that the leeches had arrived. Mere seconds later, he and Seth were joined by Paul and Jared, with Quil and Embry behind them.

As soon as the others reached them, a black motorcycle sped into the parking lot, skidding to an abrupt halt a few spaces away from them, followed by a large Jeep. On the motorcycle there were two leeches, or so they thought, until the female rider swung her leg off the bike and pulled her helmet off, shaking her hair out of it.

The pack stiffened and started to shake. This girl was clearly a human, and she was hanging with leeches.

Paul could barely control his tremors. "What the hell are they doing with a human girl? I thought they sucked animals dry!"

Jared nodded. "We're going to have to tell Sam and the elders immediately."

Quil and Embry seemed to be speechless, as well as Seth, who was staring intensely at the girl.

Jacob followed his gaze and his eyes met hers, and suddenly nothing else in the world mattered to him. All the ties that held him to this earth, snipped and fell away, and attached themselves to her. His eyes widened as he realized what had just happened.

Quil finally snapped out of it and whistled. "Damn, that girl is hot. Maybe I should go over and…"

Jacob growled at him, causing the others to turn their attention towards him.

Quil's eyes widened. "Holy shit! You imprinted on her!"

Seth looked disappointed, while the others were nonplussed.

Embry looked at the girl again who now appeared to be waiting for the guy who she'd ridden with. "Did you guys forget that she's with the vamp?"

Everyone once more looked at the girl and the leeches. The guy had now stood up and took off his helmet as well. He had honey-blond curly hair and they stiffened as they saw that he was covered in vampire bites. He immediately glared at them and put his arm around the girl that Jacob had just imprinted on, causing Jacob to growl.

Paul chuckled. "Damn, Jake. Looks like your girl is already taken."

Jacob could barely control himself when he saw that the vamp had leaned over to kiss the girl. The girl just laughed and smacked him on the shoulder. "Stop Jazz, not right now. People are looking at us!"

The blond vamp who she called Jazz, just smirked and whispered a 'Later' into her ear before turning around to wait for the rest of their 'family.'

Out of the Jeep, stepped a very large vampire, with short black hair and strangely enough, dimples. He walked to the other side of the truck, and opened the door for a blonde-haired leech who appeared to have an almost permanent scowl on her face.

The black-haired vamp sighed. "Aww, come on Rosie. We can take your car tomorrow."

Rosalie let a small smile cross her face which widened even more when she saw the girl. "Come on Bella, you can't have Jasper hogging you all day."

After them came a spiky-haired female and a copper-haired male vampire who were laughing at the others' antics.

Bella looked over at the spiky-haired female vampire. "Come on Alice, leave Edward there so we can go get our schedules."

Alice smiled and ran over to link arms with Bella as they walked to the main office.

Rosalie was just starting to follow them when Jared ran up to her and grabbed her arm. "Meeting at the boundary line at 7 and bring the human with you."

Rosalie sneered at him and jerked her arm out of his grasp. "Don't touch me, mutt. And that human has a name and you'll stay away from her if you know what's good for you. I saw the way one of your dogs was looking at her."

Jared narrowed his eyes at her. "You will bring her. Or there will be war."

Rosalie glared at him. "Whatever, pup." She hissed at him once more and turned around to catch up with the others.

-time skip-

Bella retrieved her schedule from the receptionist and cast a quick glance at her glasses. She had mostly advanced classes, many of them with her family, except for two classes. Bella grinned as she saw that she had homeroom and Spanish without them. Jasper would be annoyed but there was nothing he could do about it.

Bella saw that the bell was about to ring to go to class so she quickly went outside to distribute schedules to her family. She waited with a smirk on her face as Jasper realized that none of them would be with her for two classes.

Jasper frowned at her. "Just because we won't be able to be in these classes with you, doesn't mean I won't be able to keep an eye on you. Super hearing, remember?" He tapped his ear for emphasis.

Bella rolled her eyes. "Whatever Jazz, see you in second period."

Jasper grabbed her arm. "I'll walk you to your first class. You are my girlfriend remember?"

Bella grimaced until Alice interrupted. "Bella you have to keep up this persona. So just go along with it."

She forced a smile onto her face and grabbed Jasper's hand before dragging him off to her first class.

As they arrived in front of the door, Jasper growled under his breath as he saw that all of the Quileute wolves were in the class. "I don't like this, Bella."

Bella grinned. "Don't worry, I'll be extremely careful."

He sighed in exasperation and hugged her just as the pack came walking in. Jasper immediately stiffened but let go of Bella, giving her one more warning glance before he walked away.

Seconds later, the bell rang and Bella rushed into the classroom. As she looked around, she saw that there was only one seat left, and that was in the middle of the pack. Grimacing, she walked over to the teacher and handed her the slip to sign.

The teacher was really young and seemed to be very laid-back. Looking at the board, Bella saw that her name was Ms. Greene. She smiled at Bella and quietly welcomed her to the class, quickly signing the slip with a flourish before handing it back her. "We don't really do much in this class, just think of it as a free period. You can sit next to Mr. Ateara. If he gives you too much trouble, I can move you."

Bella grinned. "That's all right, Ms. Greene. I'm sure I'll be fine."

Bella turned around and made her way over to her seat, ignoring the glances of the pack. She noticed that she would be sitting to the left of Quil, behind Seth, and to the right of a rather pretty girl who was next to Jared. Jacob was behind her, with Embry and Paul on either side of him. She swore under her breath as she could almost sense the tension that surrounded her.

With a determined air, Bella sat in her seat, tossing her long hair over her shoulder to get it away from her eyes. She could have sworn she heard a sharp intake of breath from Jacob but decided to ignore it. As soon as the teacher finished taking roll, which didn't take long since it seemed that she had some sort of seating chart, everyone else in the class began to talk amongst themselves. Taking out her sketchbook, she decided to try to finish coloring a sketch she had been working on for Peter's birthday.

She had decided to draw a picture of Jasper, Peter, herself, and Char as a reminder of the times they had spent with him. Alice wasn't in the picture, of course, since she didn't really get along with Peter and Char. Or maybe it should be the other way around. Peter and Char hated Alice because she disapproved of Jasper and Bella's visits with them. She was always going on and on about how Peter and Char would attack Bella. Bella usually just ignored her but once she saw the effect it had on Jasper that his wife didn't get along with his brother and his wife, she just had to put Alice in her place. This usually ended with Alice getting angry and stomping off to her room and Jasper glaring at her.

Bella was so consumed in her memories that she didn't really hear the harsh whispers around her and nearly jumped out of her seat when the girl next to her tapped her shoulder.

The girl's eyes widened in surprise. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."

Bella smiled. "It's fine, really. When I'm drawing, I usually kind of tune out everything that's going on around me."

The girl laughed and held out her hand. "Hi, I'm Kim. I was wondering if you would like to sit with me and my friends at lunch. I know you're new and probably don't know anyone."

Bella shook her hand but noticed that the pack seemed to be listening in on their conversation and she had a feeling that she knew who these friends were. "Hi, I'm Isabella, but I go by Bella. And I don't know about lunch. I'll have to ask my family first."

Kim looked confused. "They won't want you to sit with anyone else?"

Bella laughed. "They don't own me or anything like that. It's just that I promised I would sit with them on the first day. So, who are your friends?"

Kim's eyes lit up and she pointed at them. "This is Jared and he's my boyfriend." Bella's face remained neutral as she nodded her head in greeting. "Next to you is Quil, behind him is Paul, next to him is Jacob, and next to Jacob is Embry. Oh yeah and in front of you is Seth."

Bella had to fight to keep the anger off of her face when she was introduced to her former tormentors but she had to remind herself to be patient. She would get her revenge in due time. Bella pretended to have no interest when she saw Jacob, quickly overlooking him, knowing it would most likely piss him off. As soon as Kim said Seth's name she brightened. "Hey, Seth!"

Bella had to fight a laugh as she could almost feel the daggers that Jacob was sending Seth's way. Seth cringed but turned around with a wide smile. "Hi…Bella? I never really caught your name."

Her smile widened and she winked as she leaned in closer to whisper, knowing the others could still probably hear her with their enhanced hearing. "Adds to the mystery, doesn't it?"

Bella heard Jacob growl and turned around innocently. "Is something wrong with your throat?"

Jacob immediately stopped and shook his head while still glaring at Seth who seemed to be shrinking into his seat. Bella rolled her eyes. "Okay…"

Quil decided to interrupt before Jacob drew more attention to them. "So, Bella, how did you meet Seth?"

The bell rang just then and Bella answered as she stood up. "Oh, I was just hiking in the woods yesterday when I saw him. He makes a pretty cute wolf, don't you think?" And with that, she waved goodbye to Kim and took off towards the door.

Everyone was glaring furiously at Seth but Paul was the one to speak up. "You fucking idiot! You let her see you phased?"

Seth grimaced. "I didn't. I was patrolling when I smelled her and was wondering what she was doing in the forest alone, so I went to her. But, I swear I was hiding in the trees, but it was like she knew I was there. Then she told me to come out and I did, and then she told me to phase back so she could talk to me."

Jacob narrowed his eyes at him. "What did she say?"

Seth sighed and relaxed slightly. "Nothing much really, just really like, cryptic stuff. She did say she had been wronged by the tribe somehow and that she knew about me and the pack. How does she know this? Does she know that her family are vampires?"

Jared's shocked expression matched the rest of theirs. "I don't know, but we'll definitely be getting answers from her at lunch."

-time skip-

Jacob was mad and confused. His imprint lived with a coven of leeches and she knew secrets about the pack that no one was supposed to know. Unfortunately, he couldn't talk to her because he had no other classes with her. It seemed that she was in a lot of advanced classes, and basically went to classes that had mostly seniors. Paul, Jared, and Kim told him that she had a member of her family in all of her other classes, so they couldn't talk to her.

As third period ended, Jacob met up with the rest of the pack on their way to lunch.

Jared came up to him with a worried expression on his face. "We might have some problems, she seems to be really close to the Platts."

Jacob's eyes widened but he figured she would be, she did live with them after all.

Jared shook his head. "It's weird as hell. She had English with the big buff vamp and all they did was laugh and joke around. She doesn't even seem to be afraid of him."

Paul laughed. "Really? Cuz in Bio, she was sitting next to the penny haired one, and she was pretty much ignoring him the whole time while he eye-fucked her."

Jacob started shaking in anger at the very idea of anyone touching his mate, but Quil clapped him on the shoulder. "It's okay, man. She's with the blond guy, remember. They were glued to the hip in History. Had their heads together and were giggling and everything."

Jacob shook even more. "And how was that supposed to make me feel better?"

Quil shrugged. "She..has..better…taste? Cuz c'mon, that copper-headed guy has got to be gay or bi or something. Did you see the way he dresses?"

They all laughed as they now reached the lunch line and began piling food onto their plates before going to sit at their table. Jacob sat down and scanned the lunchroom for Bella. She suddenly walked in with her family, laughing at something the big vamp was saying. But what made Jacob angry was the fact that the blond vamp had his arm slung casually over HIS mate's shoulder.

Embry sat down next to Jacob. "What's up?" He followed Jacob's gaze. "Oh.."

Kim looked up and began to energetically wave at Bella until the spiky-haired vamp poked Bella and gestured to them. Bella then turned to the blond guy with apologetic eyes and quickly walked over to their table. The blond guy seemed to be furious and glared at their table before joining the rest of the vamps at an empty table not far from the pack's.

Bella sat down next to Kim with a smile. "Hi again." She chatted with Kim for a while as everyone ate her lunch, not even seeming surprised that they were eating so much.

Quil suddenly sat down next to Bella and slung an arm around her shoulder. "So Bella, I didn't really peg you for the incestuous type."

Jacob had to fight to stop himself from growling when he saw that Quil was touching his imprint. Bella lifted his arm off of her and narrowed her eyes at him with a look of disgust on her face. "That's fucking disgusting. I'm not related to him. He was adopted by my dad and stepmom. And if you touch me again, I'll have him come over and remove your hand. And it won't be painless, I can tell you that."

Quil just smirked. "What? Can't take me yourself?"

Bella glared at him even more. "Oh, I'm extremely capable. I just wouldn't waste any energy on you."

Seth chuckled and yelled out an, "Ohh…burrrrn."

Kim spoke up before Quil made Bella any angrier. "So Bella how is everyone in your family related?"

Bella took a deep breath to calm herself and spoke to her directly. "Well, Emmett, the black-haired one, is my brother. Our dad married my stepmother and she already had Alice, the spiky-haired one and Edward, the copper-haired one, from her previous marriage. Jasper and Rosalie, the blond ones, are twins, and they were adopted not too long after my dad and stepmom were married."

Paul rolled his eyes. "Cut the bullshit, leech-lover. If you know about us being wolves, then you damn sure know that your 'family' are vampires. So what's the real story?"

Bella glared at him with fury in her eyes. "You might as well know the public story. As for the real one, well you can figure that out at the meeting that you're forcing me and my family to go to. Just because I came back, doesn't mean you can continue to bully me around, Paul Hunter! None of the rest of the pack either!" She took a deep breath and clapped her hands over her mouth as she realized what she said.

Jacob looked as shocked as the rest of them. "What do you mean, Bella? We've never known you before today."

Bella's face fell. "Never mind, it's time to go anyway."

As she said this the bell rang and Emmett came over with a grin, picking her up and spinning her around before setting her down again. Everyone in the cafeteria was staring at them now. "Oh Bellsy, I missed you so much!"

Bella sighed and rubbed her head in frustration. "Em, I live with you and I was only gone for lunch."

Emmett sighed exaggeratingly. "Bells, it's no fun without you. Jasper was all mopey and shit and I had no one to help me plan pranks. I think you need to make it up to me."

Bella grimaced. "What do you want, Emmett?"

Emmett's eyes twinkled. "Nothing, I just wanted to give you a piggy-back ride to gym."

Bella laughed. "Uh huh, I'm sure that's the only reason why you want to go with me. It has nothing to do with seeing me make a fool of myself."

Emmett looked appalled. "How can you think that of me? Pleeease?" He pouted.

Bella wavered but gave up. "Fine."

Emmett grinned and immediately swooped her up and took off out of the cafeteria with a shrieking Bella clinging to him.

Quil turned to the rest of them. "That was some really weird shit."

Embry nodded in agreement while Jacob was still staring in the direction that Bella went. "And we still didn't find out how she knew about us."

Paul still looked angry. "And what the hell was she talking about. We've never met her before."

Jared shrugged. "Well, that's our only clue to figuring out who she is. Does anyone remember her?"

Everyone looked around at each other and shook their heads except for Seth who appeared to be realizing something.

Jacob glared at him. "Do you know something, Seth?"

Seth wouldn't look anyone in the eye and pretended to look down at his watch. "Oh no, look at the time. I don't want to be late for my next class!" And with that, he jumped up and quickly left.

Kim looked at the others. "You guys do know he doesn't have a watch, right?"

Jacob nodded. "He can run now. But eventually we'll get answers from him. He does have to phase."

A/N See guys, no cliffy. Next chapter will be the meeting. Oh and for all those who don't like that Jasper is with Alice, I promise that it's only temporary. Oh and should Bella phase or not? Press that green button down there and tell me what ya think.