I climbed as high as I thought I should and scanned the area around me. There was no sign of the mutant wolf or anything else. Maybe I had heard a normal wolf or a dog or something. I dropped my eyes, but movement had my head snapping back up. I could see Emmett and Rosalie walking toward my tree. I sighed and starting climbing down. I knew that he would be the one to find me. I dropped the rest of the way, which wasn't that far and landed just as they made it to the tree.

"What were you thinking running off like that? Everyone is frantic." Rosalie's voice was cold, but I knew that she had been worried too. I hadn't thought about how my running away would affect them.

I stared up into her eyes and shrugged, "I'm sorry that I worried you. I didn't think about that. I just needed to go."

"Carlisle didn't mean to frighten you. No one is leaving, including you." She sighed, "He didn't want to tell you that until he knew for sure. As a family we have to discuss things and make decisions together. No one wants you to leave."

I walked into her arms and let her hold me. I couldn't fight the emotion that had been sitting right under the surface any longer. Emmett scooped me up and let me cry into his shirt. He carried me back toward the house. This walk showed how far I had really traveled and Emmett seemed to be amazed that I had made it all that way on my own. Everyone was sitting in the living room when we walked in. Edward stood before everyone else and turned toward us. Esme gasped and rushed to my side.

"Is she alright?" Her eyes darted to Edward's face, "You said that she was alright."

Emmett sat me on my feet but kept his hand on my shoulder, "She is alright, tired and emotional, but she's alright."

Esme reached up and brushed something from my hair, "You are never to do that to us again. We didn't know what to think. I was so terrified that something bad had happened."

I saw that Alice and Jasper also looked worried. I took in all the anxious stares and tried to smile, but failed miserably. Esme pulled me into her arms and held me there. Carlisle was standing off to the side staring at the floor. Esme turned to him, "She is fine, that is all that matters." Her voice was comforting and I could see that he needed it.

He looked up and the sadness in his eyes broke my heart, "I am so sorry that I didn't reassure you. I should have made you feel better and not worse."

I pulled away from Esme and walked the ten steps to him, "I shouldn't have left like I did. That was really stupid." I stepped into his embrace and let him know that it was alright. He didn't need to be sad, "I won't ever leave again, unless you send me away. I promise."

"We will never send you away." He kissed my hair and sighed, "That is a promise that I will make to you. You are part of our family now, no matter what."

"Tomorrow we will sit down and talk about all of your thoughts or suspicions about us and we will disclose everything you need to know." Esme patted Carlisle shoulder, "You need to understand that there may be things that you do not need to know though."

I nodded and yawned. It had been a full day and I was ready for it to end. I knew that this would be my family and they all would take care of me. I also knew that there wasn't anything that I wouldn't do for them.

I slept the entire night, but my head was filled with nightmares about huge wolves and my mother. I woke to sun shining through the big windows feeling terrified. I took a deep breath and tried to shake them off. She wasn't coming for me. I was safe here and she wouldn't ever be able to hurt me again.

I walked to the bathroom and got ready for my day. I brushed out most of the tangles in my wet hair, but gave up on the bigger ones. I grabbed it all up and put it in a pony tail. That would have to do. Alice had stocked my closet with so many clothes, but I found the jeans and t- shirts hidden in a chest of drawers at the back of the closet. I really wasn't a frilly dress kind of girl. I loved looking at them and thinking about putting them on, but I couldn't imagine running around outside with one of them on.

Breakfast smells filled the house and pulled me toward the kitchen. My stomach growling told me that I was starving. I bounced down the steps and skipped to the dining room. I froze when I realized that everyone was sitting there watching me. I took a deep breath and sat in the empty chair. Jasper stood at the back of the room with a look of contempt on his face. I wished I knew what he was thinking.

"Good morning, Sam. I hope that you like eggs and pancakes." Esme couldn't help but be motherly. All mothers should have to take a class with her. That would eliminate anyone becoming a mother that shouldn't. She could pass and fail them according to how well they preformed. I smiled at the vision that filled my head.

"Did you sleep well?" I looked up into Carlisle's face and saw the same sadness that was there last night.

"Yes, to both." I picked up the fork, "At least it smells like I will like it." I scanned all the faces and took a bite.

The room was completely still and no one broke the silence. I would look up between bites to see if they were all still there. It was unnerving how quiet they all were. I pushed the plate away and decided that I should start, "Jasper, you don't want me to know anything do you?"

I had thought about this while eating. He was the only one who was standing and the only one that looked angry or frustrated. "I don't think that it is safe for you to know about us. I love you being here, but Jacob was right about you being in danger."

I searched his eyes and that was when I saw it. He was fighting himself. He knew that I shouldn't be here, but he didn't want me to leave. I smiled at him, "I know that you wouldn't hurt me. You saved me from a way worse fate."

He shook his head, "I wish that I could say that it was just about us, but it is more complicated than that."

Bella winced and I wondered what she was remembering, "What makes it dangerous, the secrets? If that is all then I don't want to know about them." I smiled at every face, "I don't want to get any of you in trouble."

Carlisle's smile was refreshing, I was worried that he would never find his again, "Esme said last night that there would be things that you can't know. So I think that any theories or guesses you have about us should be kept to you for now."

Edward shifted and placed his hands on the table, "I will go first." He took a deep breath, "I can read thoughts. There are only a few minds that are closed to me, yours and Bella's included."

Bella shook her head, "Ours are the only ones he can't hear."

"So that's what you do with all of them. They talk to you in their heads?" I was baffled by that. I should be a detective or something. I had gotten that one right in my head.

He nodded his head and turned to Alice, "Okay, well, I can see what is going to happen in the future."

I had no idea that Alice had ability too. I was even more shocked that it was very similar to my own. She continued on when I didn't respond, "I see the path that people take, but if they change that path then my vision changes. I also can't see you or anything to do with you."

"You can't see my future?" I pushed myself back into my chair, that had to be bad or was it because I could change it myself?

"No, I don't know why. I also can't see the…" Someone had kicked her chair under the table, "Sorry, I guess that's not a need to know."

It must have been Edward because she glared at him now, "Sorry, but that isn't up to us."

Jasper cleared his throat, "You pretty much know what I can do. I can feel the atmosphere around someone and change it." I nodded and waited for the others, but no one else spoke up.

"That's it?" I checked each face and then turned to Emmett, "You have a way of finding someone right?"

He shook his head, "What makes you think that?"

I tried to soften the confusion on my face, but couldn't. "You always find me. Even when I ran away you were the one that found me."

"Actually, Rose and I were just the closest one to you. Seth was the one that found you." He cocked his head to the side and squinted at me, "Speaking of you running away, I couldn't stop thinking about how far you were. How did you get that far away?"
I shrugged and dropped my gaze, "I just walked."

I could tell that no one believed me, but wasn't sure what they were thinking. I wished I could ask them about it, but I didn't want my face to give away the truth if they guessed right.

"I know that you must have questions and we would like to answer them, but we have to be very careful about it." Carlisle's hand found Esme's and they sat hand in hand watching me.

"Why did you really come for me? You aren't really my mother's sister." I watched her face, but was unable to get anything from it.

"Actually, I am related to you mother and have been trying to keep tabs on her. There is no record of her having a child or I would have taken you a long time ago." Esme smiled over at me.

"So my mother isn't my mother or you just can't find when she had me?" I was confused about this. I had always wondered about that. I didn't look anything like her, but I could look more like my father.

"I don't know how she came to be your mother. I suspect that she might have stolen you or something. I don't really think that you are related to her at all."

"I know that you aren't. Your DNA doesn't match hers." Carlisle shook his head and then scratched it, "It does have some similarities to Bella, but not a close relation. I was thinking that maybe Charlie was your dad because the two of you look so similar."

This was a lot of information to take in. If that wasn't my mother, then who was she? Who were my parents and how did I end up with her? I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples. I didn't know what to think of this.

"Can I ask you something?" He had leaned across the table and was studying my face, "Is there anything that you can do?"

He looked curious, but I wasn't sure if it would be a good idea to tell him about everything that I could do. I decided that I could tell them about the visions. I was curious about those too. I wanted to know how it worked with Alice.

I turned to look at her and met her curious gaze, "I have visions too."

The shock spread across her face and then was replaced by a smile, "What do you mean, visions?"

Okay, just tell them the truth about this. They will understand, they will love you anyway, "If there is any danger entering my path then I have a vision. I am able to change my path so that I am not hurt."

"It just happens with you and no one else? When was the last time that it happened?" Alice couldn't keep the excitement out of her voice.

I noticed that everyone at the table was staring at me with wide curious eyes, "Well, the last time was right before Esme came for me. I had just gotten home from school and was standing in my front yard. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I was looking down at myself lying in the grass somewhere. A man from the neighborhood was standing looking down at me." I swallowed and took a deep breath, "When I closed my eyes again and reopened them I was back in my yard. I just knew that I had to tell my teacher what was going to happen."

Bella's ragged breathing was the only sound in the room. I looked over at her and saw the tear slide down her cheek. "It didn't really happen, I changed it."

I didn't want any of them to be sad for me. I was fine. I was away from all of that and now was safe with them. "Is that the only time that it happened?" Alice's voice was so low I couldn't be sure if she had even spoken or I had imagined it.

"No, there were two other times. The first was when I was really young, a toddler. I was outside alone and I saw myself walking into the road. I knew to stay in the yard. The other was when my mother stopped feeding me. I don't know how long it had been, but I saw myself starved and then I knew to go to the neighbor's house. Something in my head told me that I could trust them and that they would help me." I shrugged.

Carlisle laughed, "That is truly fascinating. You have all of these instincts to keep yourself alive."

Edward laughed with him and added, "And Bella has none at all. She is pulled into the dangerous situations as if she is looking for them specifically."

I looked over at her and saw that she was blushing. I couldn't keep my smile from my face. I remember seeing her stumble up to the porch. She also had a horrible choice of friends. She was dating a vampire and her friend was something else entirely, but also dangerous. She was really asking for trouble.

Esme shook her head and turned back to me, "Is there anything else that you want to tell us or that you would like to ask of us?"

"There are a lot of things that I want to ask, but I don't know if it is a good idea. I would like to pick Alice's brain if that's alright. I want to know how your visions work." I watched as she stood and smiled.

"I would love to talk with you about it."