~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER 4 NARRATOR'S POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bella walked over to where Carlisle, and Harry stood.

"What?" she asked brightly. She always seemed to be in a good mood, lately. That was soon to come to an end.

"We think we might know why Edward can't read your mind.," Carlisle said.

"Really?" Bella asked excitedly.

"Yeah. Do you mind doing a little test for us?" Carlisle asked her.

"Uh… what kind of test?" Bella asked nervously.

"Just hold this," Harry said, talking for the first time. He handed her his wand. She took it tentatively, as if she expected it to blow up. "Now, visualize water, flick your wrist," he showed her how, "and say, 'Augwimenti'" Harry told her.

"Augwimenti," Bella said, following Harry's instructions. A strong surge of water burst from the wand's tip. Harry had never seen such a strong current, especially not on someone's first try. She was definitely a witch, and one of her parent's had to be really powerful.

"Well, that answers that," Harry said. "Definitely a witch."

"What?!" Bella screeched. "Me? How can I be a witch?"

"Well, Bella, most of the times people, or in your case vampires, are only magical when one, or both of their parents are. Sometimes, though, they can come from to non-magical, or muggle parents. However, your power is so strong I think at least one of your parents had to have been a witch or wizard. I suggest you research that. Start with you mom, since you know she gave birth to you," Harry said, trying to explain the situation to her.

"Carlisle, can vampires faint?" Bella asked in a weak voice.

"No," Carlisle replied, looking at Bella like she'd just asked if he had eight heads.

"Good. I think I need to sit down, though," Bella said, and she did so, her head spinning wildly.

ONE HOUR LATER

Bella had, finally, got off the couch, and walked over to the kitchen phone. She dialed her mother's number so fast her fingers blurred, even to her with her vampiric sight. She had to concentrate much harder than usual on not pressing the numbers hard enough to break the phone.

After only one ring Renee answered.

"Hello?" she said as she answered, and Bella could hear her turn the volume down on her radio as she did so.

"Hey, mom," Bella replied, trying to make her voice sound rough, or at least less musical, but, despite her best efforts, it came out tinkling and beautiful.

"Bella? How are you?" Renee asked excitedly. Bella hadn't called her mother much since she had been turned, so Renee was obviously pleased to hear from her again.

"Mom, are you and Charlie really parents?" Bella asked her quickly, so quickly, in fact, that Renee only head you, and parents.

"I'm sorry, Bella, honey, could you repeat that?" Renee asked, bewildered that her daughter could even speak so fast.

"Are you and Charlie really my parents? This is really important, so I need you to be completely honest, and spare my feelings," Bella repeated.

"Well- um, I don't really know how to say this- no, we aren't. We adopted you when you were one year old. You're real name is Sara Lily Potter, but we changed it when we adopted you. The adoption agency told us your parents wee killed on Halloween, and that you had a twin, but we couldn't adopt you both. Why do you ask?" Renee said, nervously, hoping her daughter wouldn't be upset with her.

Bella hung up without answering, and turned to face everyone, who had all walked in when she was on the phone. They were all looking at her in shock, all of them having had heard the whole conversation. Harry, on the other hand, was looking at her in confusion, having heard only Bella's side of the conversation.

"I was adopted. My parent were apparently killed on Halloween, and I have a twin," Bella explained. These facts shocked Harry, but he still didn't think that she could be his twin. No one had ever mentioned a twin to him. "Oh, and my real name is Sara Lily Potter."

"P-P-Potter?" Harry stammered, looking pale.

"Yeah, Potter," she said questioningly. Then three things happened at once: the first was that Harry looked at Bella once more before fainting right there in the kitchen (Carlisle caught him right before he hit the ground, and gently laid him on the floor), the second was that Bella figured out what had made Harry act the way he did, and she would have gone into shock, if she had been human, and the third was that Alice and Edward both gasped at the same time.

"It has to be a coincidence," she blurted out, and everyone besides Edward and Alice looked at her, confused looks on their faces.

"What are you talking about, Bella?" Esme asked her in a gentle tone.

"Harry's last name being Potter, and us being the same age, and wizards," Bella said, losing confidence in it being a coincidence by the second. "Carlisle, see if you can wake Harry. I need to speak with him.