I drove the short distance back to our house with Nicolette in the passenger seat playing damsel in distress and whining about how she's going to die. Typical.

"Nicolette, I don't know exactly how to say this to you. I.. I.." I began to stutter. "The doctors honey, they don't give you much time."

"How long, sister, how long until the end of my sweet existence?" She asked nervously.

"Well, sweet Nicolette, they're only giving you another hundred years or so. Give or take six months." And then we both broke down into fake sobs.

Lame, I know. Eternity gets a little boring. We decided to call Daddy and let him know about our first day at school. Not that he really cared about the school part. He was interested in our meetings with the Cullens and the wolves. He knew the wolves would most likely be around, or spring up soon after our arrival, but he hadn't known the Cullens would be here too. That amused him. Ass. I was finally let off the phone with strict orders to keep up formalities with the wolves, at least until they knew who I was, and to not kill ANY of Carlisle's children. (Yes, I checked, that includes Edward too. Apparently he still considers Carlisle too good a friend for that.) I couldn't even do it ACCIDENTALLY!

The next call to place was to Jacob. Nico did the honors this time around -I probably would've broke down for real if I had to do it. She explained that we were a small coven of two that had recently settled into Forks and we would like to meet the pack to get familiar with the Cullen's treaty and sign it. Then he gave her directions to the treaty line, which I didn't need, and said he would meet us in half an hour. We removed our 'bling' and added black sweaters and smaller necklaces with smaller pendants. Keeping up formalities. I didn't mind looking crazy to the Cullens but that's not the first impression we want the wolves to have. Not before they knew who I was anyway.

Twenty minutes later we were standing at the treaty line waiting on the wolves.

Five minutes after that they showed up. Leah and Embry in wolf form and Jake and Seth in human form. I'm guessing they were trying to maintain even numbers to avoid violence. They really have changed. We did all the introductions, introducing ourselves only as the Volturi twins, and discussed the details of the treaty. Which I already knew. I didn't tell them that of course, 'cause I'm a sucker for a big finish. Several boring details later they handed us an old piece of parchment dating back over two hundred years ago and an old fashioned pen and ink. Yea, a freaking feather pen.

I signed first, after telling Nicolette silently to follow my cue. We placed our names under the Denali's (which I would so have to ask about later) and I smiled as I handed it back to Jake. He glanced it over and read the last two lines of script:

Princess Isabella Marie Swan Volturi

Princess Nicolette Isabella Dwyer Volturi

Then, within a second, he tackled me in a big wolfy man hug.

"Damnit Jacob, are you going to start licking my face now too?" I asked sarcastically, even though I was just as thrilled as he was.

That left Seth, Leah, and Embry confused as all hell. Until Seth picked up the delicate, centuries old parchment that had been carelessly thrown to the ground and read the last two lines out loud.

Then I had Jake, Seth, naked Leah, and naked Embry on top of me.

And Seth licked my face.

Jerk.

Guess they haven't changed that much.

When they finally got off of me I spoke up, "So I see you two gave up on the modesty huh? The look suits you," I said pointing to Leah and Embry who immediately looked at each other, then down, and then ran back into the woods.

The remaining four of us were laughing uncontrollably for the next sixty seconds or so. Then there were only two of us. When Seth and I finally stopped rolling in the dirt giggling like schoolgirls we focused our attention back to our small crowd. Where Jacob and Nico stood staring at each other grinning like idiots.

"JAKE! You are dumber than me sometimes do you know that?"

He looked at me, shocked for a moment, and then started playing twenty questions.

"So, Princess, where'd you get the fancy title?"

"The Volturi"

"Okay, smartass. I got that. Let me rephrase, how did you get it?"

"We asked for it." We replied simultaneously.

"Simple enough answer. You two know each other how?"

"She's my twin." Simultaneously again.

"Obviously not originally though, so explain."

"I got this, Twin," I said to Nico before looking back at Jake. "We are twins. During our human life we were half sisters. Renee and Phil had her about a year after Charlie died and I 'died'. Talk about replacement therapy, right?"

"Sorry again Twin," Nico interrupted.

"No big, Twin, I love them even more for it now. Anyways. The reason she's my twin is because she basically went through the same thing I did. That whole heartbreak by a mysterious creature thing. Except this idiot fell for a werewolf… Can you believe that? Of all things, a werewolf. At least I went the smart route to getting my heart broken. Anyways, Nico here being the drama queen she is, couldn't settle for things being just a little ridiculous."

"Not my fault, Twin" She interrupted again.

"I know, I know, but compared to you I got off easy. Keep in mind, all this happened in freaking-sunshine-and-orange-juice Florida of all places. Which apparently has an abundance of mythical idiots. So Idiot2 imprinted on Nico's best friend. Which sucks enough, right? A few months later Nico finds Renee and Phil in basically the same situation I found Charlie. Turns out, best friend's boyfriend was vampire who decided since Idiot2 got sucky-best-friend-2, he was going to keep Nico here to replace her."

"Then I woke up and ripped him to pieces." She said proudly.

"Didn't burn him though, so who knows what happened after that." I continued.

"I had no way of knowing. I didn't know anything about any of this until after I woke up. I went solely off instinct. My instinct provided absolutely no inclinations towards fire."

"Duh, Twin." I stated. "So here we are. Half-sisters, turned twins. Besides we look too much alike for anyone to argue.

"Were you in Florida when you found her?" Jake asked.

"Actually, she found me. Thanks, again, Twin. Like seven years later she found me in the woods around here being all crazy-meadow-Bella and slapped some sense into me. Six months later we were in Italy."

"Crazy-meadow-Bella?"

"A story for another day Jake. We have to go over to the Cullen's and not let them know who we are. I'd rather do that before the others got back from school. You know, cause they might figure it out if windows start breaking and shit starts flying at Edward's head, don't you think?"

All four of them started laughing at that and agreed. I gave Jake my number and told him we were back at my old house. He told me that Nico and myself (emphasizing he meant just us) would be allowed across the line anytime as long as we called first and were escorted.

Ha, we so one-upped the Cullens.

Seriously? Bella and Jake would never hate each other. They're best friends. Always, right?

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