Chapter six

Bella's POV

"Bella hurry up or we'll be late." Chris yelled up the stairs angrily.

"I'll be there in a minute." I said back, not bothering to shout, I knew he could hear me.

Sighing, I stood up and walked down stairs at a human pace, knowing that it would annoy Chris.

"Could you be any slower?" he asked exasperated.

"Is that a challenge?" I asked, trying to hold back a laugh.

"NO! It's not a challenge." He said, panicked.

"Good."

"But I bet I could beat you to the car." he smiled.

"You're on." I laughed. "Ready... set... GO!" I yelled and rushed off.

In an instant I was in the garage, beating him by ΒΌ of a second.

"Cheater!" he accused, pushing me slightly.

"Aww, is the poor baby upset?" I teased, he pushed me again, and we started wrestling.

"Children, stop it!" Maria scolded, smiling at our antics.

"Sorry." We muttered, still pushing each other slightly.

"Are they at it again?" Lexie asked.

"Yes they are, good luck with them in school." She laughed.

"Thanks." She muttered, watching Chris and I getting into another fight.

"Come on you two. We have to get to school." She sang, stepping in between us. "You can fight later."

We nodded, but continued to push each other while we went over to the car.

"Like talking to a pair of three year olds." She muttered.

"But you love us anyway." Chris claimed, and we tackled her in a group hug.

"Yeah, yeah, now get off." She laughed, giving Chris a small kiss on the lips.

"So... car or bikes?" Chris asked me. I thought about it for a moment.

"Car, we used the bikes yesterday." I said, with a small smile.

"Your just scared that I'm going to beat you." He smirked.

"shut up." Lexie said, hitting him in the back on the head.

"So you're on Bella's side now?" he asked, in mock hurt.

"Yeah, girl power baby!" she laughed, linking her arm with mine, and we walked towards the car. She stopped in front of the passenger side of the car, tapping her foot impatiently, with a smirk on her face. Chris quickly ran over and opened her door for her.

"Thank you." She said sombrely, and I laughed.

I loved my adopted siblings. Chris was a typical big brother, a bit of a bully but always there when you needed him. He brought out the competitive side in me that I never even knew I had, and was just fun in general to be around.

Lexie was sweet and caring. I could talk to her about everything. She was my shoulder to cry on, if it were possible for me to cry anyway, and was the fashion conscious one of the family. And made sure that we all looked presentable and never let us were the same thing more than twice.

We finally set off to school, and I knew if we drove at a sane pace then we would defiantly be late.

We were using Chris's car today, a black X6 M BMW. It was fast, but wasn't overly flashy which suited us, and kept us inconspicuous.

We all had different cars, Lexie had a Minnie Cooper and I had a Volkswagen Beetle, they had all been slightly modified so they could meet the speed we preferred to drive at.

When we got to school I saw a familiar silver Volvo and froze in my seat.

"Bella? What's wrong?" Lexie asked, as Chris scanned the area, probably expecting Victoria to jump out of the bushes and yell BOO at us.

It couldn't be... I thought to myself, not daring to move an inch.

Chris opened the car door, and we were met by a the normal scents of humans, but there were also five new scents of vampires. I quickly scanned the car park, and my eyes met a site that I never thought I would see again.

"Edward..." I muttered.

Edwards POV

I turned when I heard someone mutter my name, and my eyes went to a black BMW that had just parked in the school.

I quickly scanned their thoughts, but the second my eye's had focused on the occupants of the car, their thoughts were cut off.

It caught me off guard, this hadnn't happened to me for years. The only persons thought that I could never read where...

"Bella..." I muttered.

Three heads snapped towards me, and I could tell from there perfect white skin that they were vampires, but there eye's where yellow, just like my families. In the front of the car where a boy and a girl. The girl had long burgundy hair and the boy had sandy blonde, but I didn't spare them a second glance. I was staring at the girl in the back of the car. She had long chestnut hair, and I immediately recognised her as my Bella.

I couldn't believe that I had found her.

"Edward, what's wrong?" Alice asked, but when she saw exactly what I was looking at she gasped.

I could read in her thoughts, that she wanted to rush over and pull Bella from the car and hug her for a year or two, but didn't want to scare her.

"Bella, is that...?" the girl ask, and Bella nodded slightly in response, it seemed that she was frozen in shock.

"What do you want to do?" the boy asked, glaring at us.

She didn't respond, still in shock at seeing us.

"Do you want to go?" he asked. she nodded, closing her eye's, and wrapped her arms around her torso, like she was suddenly not feeling well.

With that the car rushed out of the school, taking Bella along with it.