Bella ran over to where Alice and I were waiting for her, a huge smile upon her face. "What are you doing here?" She asked.

"We came when I saw that you were coming here, we wanted to make sure that you were alright, that you didn't do anything rash."

"You were following me?" She accused. It was absolutely true, even more so that she knew, but Alice played it down to her anyway.

"No Bella, not really" she said unconvincingly "Emmett and Jasper came too."

Bella followed Alice's gaze and found both of my brothers on the other side of the house. Emmett, casual as ever, started waving and smiling at her like a school yard friend. Bella smiled back, rolled her eyes then looked back to Alice. Ha ha, she likes me Emmett said to himself while giving Jasper a nudging elbow and a head nod, indicating to him to meet up with us.

"Well it was completely unnecessary, I'm not the crazed lunatic you all seem to think I am."

Her reactions and what she said always surprised me, so I shouldn't have been surprised that she wasn't angry or upset that we had followed her, but I was. She was excited, and that was surprising to me and the rest of my siblings, you could hear it in her voice, see it on her face, again we were all curious about this creature that was in our lives.

"Bella, we don't think th…" Alice was going to try and explain herself and us, but Bella cut her off.

"Alice, I don't care right now, I've made my decision. Let's go" she moved forward, all of us following.

"Bella, you can't be serious!" This is the first thing that Rosalie had ever directly said to Bella and I had to keep a hold of my own reflexes to not snap back at Rosalie. How dare her use that tone of voice with her, she has no right speaking to Bella that way.

"I am completely serious! You said that the final decision was up to me and you would go along with whatever I decided" Bella was holding her own, she looked around the room accusingly at the whole of us, she was right and everyone here knew it "Well, I've decided."

"Bella, sweetheart, this isn't what we meant. I don't see how this can work." Esme was trying her hand at talking Bella out of her decision.

"Bella, I agree, this isn't a possibility. We can not go along with this." Carlisle was both shocked and confused by her decision. She was surprising us all -all the time.

"You don't have to go along with it, none of you do. But I've made up my mind." Bella voice was strong and steady, her emotions the epitome of calm; she was confident in her choice. "I'm going home." She informed us all.

"This is ridiculous Bella, just because you were able to control yourself outside of the house for a couple of hours doesn't mean you have to ability to live in the same house with them!" Jasper was standing up and leaning on the table towards her. I knew he wouldn't hurt her, but his posture made me very uneasy at the moment. Settle down, I'm just trying to convince her that this is the wrong idea Edward.

"And how do you know Jasper, you were all so convinced that once I came into contact with a human that I wouldn't be able to control myself at all. But I did." Bella, still very sure of herself, stood up a mirrored Jasper.

"It's not the same. Being in the same house with them, the same room, day after day, it's completely different Bella" Emmett was trying to reason with her now.

Their wasting their breath, she's not going to change her mind. Alice was showing me what she meant when Bella's next sentence caught me off guard.

"Fine. Then lets go to Seattle and get me around some other humans. We can all go." I was all for her including me in her plans, but not this.

"What? No Bella we are not doing that."

"Why not?" she asked in response but still looked to Jasper. She must have realized on some level that he was the authority figure on this. Jasper had extensive experience with newborns.

"You want to go to Seattle and risk the lives of others to test out your theory? You would be willing to sacrifice the lives of innocent people?" This was shocking to him, he already considered Bella a reasonable and level headed person, and for her to suggest this was baffling to him.

"No" She looked him square in the eyes, emanating confidence "because there's not going to be a sacrifice. I can do this, nobody's going to get hurt."

"I know that you believe that Bella, your radiating confidence, I just...I don't know..." I can't figure her out, she's different from the rest..."Alice?" She has to see something...

Alice was smiling at him, rubbing his back as she shrugged her shoulders. We're doing this her way, there's no getting around it.

"You don't see anything?" Carlisle asked her when she didn't speak out loud.

Well, I wouldn't say that. She looked at me, there was a double meaning in there somewhere but I couldn't help the chuckle that escaped my lips, I saw all too clearly from Alice that this was a losing battle for anyone who was not on Bella's team.

"You're very stubborn aren't you." I looked right at her and couldn't help but smile at her, her resolution was endearing.

"Alice, do you see anything?" Carlisle tried to get a response again. One of you needs to answer me. And I was going to but just then realized that Bella didn't have a clue about any of our extra abilities.

"What does that mean?" She asked confused.

"Bella, some of our kind have abilities. I, for example, can see the future." Alice explained to her with a very satisfied tone.

"Of course you can, because this wasn't weird enough already." I laughed again, I couldn't help it, luckily I wasn't alone this time so she didn't pay much attention.

"So all of you have these...abilities?"

"No, not all of us. We all bring something with us to this life from our human one's. Some times these things come more powerfully that others. Carlisle brought his compassion. Esme her love. Rosalie her beauty and Emmett is strength." Emmett smiled at her and then flexed his muscle's, I rolled my eyes.

"What does Jasper and..." I held my breath...

"Jasper" Alice, noticing her inability to continue her sentence, cut in "is uniquely in tuned with people's emotions. He can feel what people are feeling and guide them if they need it, calm them down."

"And you've done this with me, I'm assuming."

"Yes, a couple of time's" he answered her in his calmest voice, which in itself had the ability to calm those around him.

"And Edward here" Alice continued to explain "he can read people's minds."

Just then Bella's breath caught, she was completely shocked and abashed.

I quickly assured her "I can hear everyone's thoughts in this room, apart from yours." Jasper began to calm her, a demonstration that she was visibly grateful for.

"Why?" Bella asked as she looked down at the table. I was elated, she asked me, not Jasper, not Alice or Carlisle, me. It shouldn't have made me as happy as it did, she had clearly hesitated and didn't want to ask, but I couldn't help but feel lucky.

"I have no idea, you're the only one I've never been able to read." I tried to keep my voice calm, but I knew I failed when all the silent chatter filled my head.

Idiot.

Kids got it bad.

Geesh, settle down, she only asked a question.

I wonder what that is all about?

It was quiet for a few moments while we let Bella think all this through. Alice was still getting flashes, but nothing that suggested that Bella or us would fail. It wasn't concrete, there were still too many undecided choices left to be made, but as far as Alice, Bella and I were concerned she would succeed in her quest.

"So...Alice, what do you see then? As far as my plan goes?"

"I don't see any problems Bella, that's why Edward thinks you are stubborn, once you've made up your mind, I don't think anything can stop you."

"Alice, you're not suggesting..." Jasper's was getting frustrated again with this "ludicrous" idea.

"That's exactly what I'm suggesting, she's different, she's proven that, we have to at least let her try." Alice cut him off, and placed a hand on his arm, trying to calm him this time.

"She hasn't proven anything." Rosalie sneered. I could tell this was something more than concern, she was hiding something from me, but her words were beginning to give her away.

"Any other newborn would have never been able to sit outside that window, Rose, Carlisle -and you know it. Let us just try, we can go to Seattle, I'll take full responsibility." Alice was just as confident, if not more than Bella now.

"I don't know Alice." Carlisle was not convinced. They all knew better when it came to Alice, but this was something new and in his eyes could result in a loss of life, it wasn't easy for him to accept so easily. Edward, I believe in Alice, of course you know I do, but is this wise?

I smiled at him, reassuringly "You'll never catch me betting against Alice."