Chapter 6 – Introductions

Thank you Pale Face of Night, what would I do without you.

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Out of the corner of my eye I could see a very tall tanned man standing on the other side of the line, I ignored him and focused my attention back on Edward. However a moment later I was fully distracted by the man, as he was no longer a man, he was a... well... wolf. In those short moments where I was unfocused he reached out and picked me up bringing me onto his side of the line then ran off with me into the forest.

I was still furious with Edward so I made no attempt to break away from him, although he smelt absolutely terrible.

"Jacob what are you doing?" A male voice screamed from the distance. "You can't bring her here!"

Then we were on a beach surrounded by tall men, Jacob put me down and changed back into a human.

"Sam, don't worry I was only saving her from the Cullen's." He said talking to the man who had just shouted at him, who I guessed to be the leader.

"Who are you and where am I?" I demanded as soon as he joined the circle of men around me.

"I am Jacob Black, second in command of this werewolf pack, and you are in La Push."

"Also once you leave here you are to never come back again." Sam instructed me.

"Erm okay, but may I ask who the Cullen's are? Oh and are they dangerous?"

"The Cullen's are those people you were just running away from and they are the least dangerous of your kind, yet the most." Sam replied

"Huh?"

"Basically, they're not dangerous to us cos they only eat animals and stick to our agreement. But they're dangerous when they want to be cos they all stick together, work together and have weird powers." Jacob explained

"Oh okay, but what did you mean when you said that you saved me then?"

"Well it looked like you were in some trouble with them or something so I sort of pulled you out of it cos they can't come after you if you're here. You hunted on their land or something?"

"Erm no, nothing like that."

He looked at me meaning for me to go on, but I just shook my head. "Long story."

We stood there in silence for a minuet and I focused my gaze on the ground trying hard not to inhale there disgusting smell.

"Well if you wouldn't mind leaving..." Sam begun trying to break the awkward silence.

"Yeah I guess, and erm thanks Jacob..."

"No problem. Want me to walk you back to the line?"

"I guess you could if you wanted to..." I said and blushed as I quickly looked back at the ground.

We walked back the way we had come, then just before we got to the line I remembered a question I had been meaning to ask earlier.

"What exactly am I?"

He chuckled before replying, "Don't you know? Ha-ha well, you're a blood sucking vampire."

"Yeah, I always knew I was a monster." I thought out loud.

"What's your name?"

The question seamed random but I answered. "Bella Swan."

"Bella, you are a monster but you're the nicest most beautiful monster I've met, I hope we can meet again."

"Erm yeah." I said as I realised we'd reached the line.

"Goodbye." He whispered as I crossed to the other side.

"Bye." I whispered back as he disappeared into the distance.

He was such a nice, but horrid smelling guy I thought as I wondered hopelessly back to where I lived.

I turned the key in my lock and pushed the door open. Oddly, there sitting in my front room was the small dark haired girl I'd seen with Edward earlier today.

"Hi Bella, I'm Alice, Edward's sister!"

"Ugh, Hi."

"Yeah I know Edward is a jerk, but give him a chance to explain..."

I opened my mouth to answer but before I had the chance she jumped up and hugged me.

"Thank you!"

"What? I haven't answered you yet."

"Oh Ha-ha yeah, I can see the future."

She grabbed my arm and lead me back out of the house into her yellow car, and before I knew it she was speeding away down the road.

A minuet later we stopped outside a lovely modern house.

"Come on, Carlisle and Esme can't wait to meet you!"

Nervously I followed her into the house.

"Guys, meet Bella Swan, soon to be Cullen!"

"What?!" I shouted before I could stop myself.

"Oh sorry, I just though cos like you said yes 100 years ago..."

"Bella, I still love you, please let me explain everything to you?" Edward said catching my attention and making me swirl round to look at him.

Images from a hundred years ago came back to me. I smiled, then my smile fell as I remembered once again his heart breaking words.

"You have a lot of explaining to do."

Edward reached out for my hand but I pulled away, instead he put his arm around me waist and lead me up the stairs.

(A/N The moment you've all been waiting for, where Edward explains everything to her!)

We went through a door to his room, there was no bed, a load of classical CD's which I loved and a large window with a lovely view. He directed me over to the couch and let go as we sat down.

"Please wait till I finish before you interrupt or react."

I nodded and he continued.

"The day I told you to go away forever was the day I made the biggest mistake of my human and vampire life..."

I opened my mouth to speak but closed it again remembering my promise.

"I said it for your sake, hoping to save your life and for you to get over me, I loved you so much, and still do. But I found out my mother had caught the Spanish influenza, and I was weak so I caught it off her in a matter of moments, but I knew you were stronger, however I couldn't let you catch it so I told you to get out of the house and never come back. It pained me to see you go but I knew it would have hurt me so much more to see you dead.

Me and my mother were taken into hospital and not long later she died, but before she died she told our doctor to do whatever he could to save me. So he bit me."

I gasped "And you became a vampire?"

"Yes and my doctor was Carlisle, one of the men downstairs.

So finally a year after he bit me he trusted me to find you without killing you, but when I went looking for you all I found was your gravestone. It broke my heart, especially since you would have died not knowing that I still loved you. Now can you fill in your side of the story?"

"Okay. Basically after I became a vampire I couldn't remember any of my life after going to the dance with you until I looked into your eyes earlier today. I remembered that after you told me to leave, I..."

We were interrupted by a large man who came running into our room.

"Eddie just get her story from her thoughts, come on we all need to be introduced to her."

"Well Emmett the thing is for some reason I can't read her thoughts." That confused me but I forgot my confusion as soon as I looked back into Edward's eyes.

"Really? Wow, Bella you're sooo lucky." He said as he ran back out of the door "And come on down guys." He called already half way down the stairs.

"We'll have to finish talking later, come on lets go down and introduce you." Edward said reaching out for my hand again, this time I let him take it.

"Everyone this is Isabella Marie Swan, better known as Bella. She is the love of my life and the reason for my existence..."

"Ewe Edward enough of the soppy stuff, hey Bella I'm Emmett, the strongest vampire like ever!"

"And I'm Rosalie, Emmett's wife, and you wont ever see anyone prettier than me."

"Ha-ha you're still as vain as ever Rosalie. Well I'm Alice and I can see the future, and I can see we're going to such great friends!"

"I'm Jasper, Alice's husband, and I can feel and control emotions."

Then as if to prove it he sent fear and frustration over me then soothed me with calmness.

"I'm Esme and I'm so happy you're here to finally make our family complete!"

"I'm doctor Carlisle, married to Esme and the reason why Edward, Esme, Rosalie and Emmett are vampires."

"You already know me, but you might not know that I can read everyone but your mind."

I gasped "Why not mine?"

"We don't know, but it might be your power to block mind powers?"

That got me lost deep in thought, I might possibly have a power? Maybe I wasn't such a monster after all.

"We're all vegetarian vampires and by your eye colour can tell you are to, how come?" Esme asked breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Oh, I just couldn't stand eating what I once was, plus I always wanted to be less of a monster."

Jasper sighed unhappily.

"That's great, and don't worry Jasper just hates being the least controlled at not drinking human blood." Alice said running up to hug me.

"There's a thunder storm coming, let's teach Bella how we play baseball!" Alice shouted excitedly while letting go of me.

Esme was going to be the referee as apparently the Cullen's were very competitive and cheated. I was going to sit out for the first round to see how they played, then I would swap in with Carlisle and join the team of Edward and Jasper, who would be playing against Alice, Rosalie and Emmett.

"Guys stop!" Alice said after I'd been playing for a couple of minuets.

Everyone crowded round Alice, we were all puzzled Edward.

"Two vampires were passing and heard us playing, they're coming to join us, there'll be here in 30 seconds."

We stood arm in arm with our lovers, everyone was facing the way Alice said they would come from apart from me, 30 seconds later two vampires appeared from the trees. I recognised the scent of one of them but I couldn't see who it was as I was facing Edward.

"We heard you playing and we wanted to join you." A woman said.

"You're welcome to, I'm Carlisle and this is my family, Esme, Emmett and Rosalie, Edward and Bella, Jasper and Alice."

I was shocked but happy that he included me in his family, as it was only moments ago that I was introduced to everyone.

"Nice to meet you all, I'm Victoria and this is James."

The name James sounded familiar and it matched the familiar scent.

"Bella? Victoria, I think it's her!" James whispered as I looked up.

As soon as I saw him I remembered exactly who he was.

"Bella!" He said wickedly as he also saw clearly who I was.

"You know each other?" Carlisle asked puzzled.

"NO!" Edward and Alice screamed at the same time. Edward rapped his arms tightly around me and Alice jumped out in front of us, then Jasper jumped in front or her.

"Can someone explain what is going on?" Rosalie asked still hugging Emmett tightly.

"Nothing, I just happened to have met Bella before when she was human, I doubt she remembers me."

"I do actually..." I begun to say.

"...And you can't fool us, I can read your mind, and I can clearly see you want to finish off what you were going to do when Bella was human." Edward finished off for me.

Then without warning Emmett let go of Rosalie and jumped onto James.

"You will never dare to hurt my little sister!"

Then everyone followed, ripping James apart, while I just stood there in shock and Victoria ran away.

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