Athena ended up taking me up to Mt. Olympus due to the fact that I had avoided anyone who would tell me to go home for the last day. I ended up getting yelled at for leaving the camp and for punishment I got a list of chores to do around the camp before Apollo's festival.

Clean the Pegasus stable

Repaint the weapon shed

Make three new swords for practice

Pick the strawberries that need to be picked instead of the other campers doing it

Deliver the strawberries to where ever you are told

Change the oil in the camp buses

Clean all the bathrooms

This list would take forever to complete, there was no way that I could do it before my father's festival next month. Everything took a day or more to do, and I still had all my camp responsibilities to keep up on. Yet, I guess that this is the punishment for leaving the camp without permission. With that I was dismissed, but not before Aphrodite realized what I was hiding.

"You still love him," she cried out when I turned to leave.

"Who do I love," I asked not turning back around. Dang, I hated that she was the goddess of love.

"That boy that you ran away from," she was now jumping over the table and was in front of me overly excited. "He was the one that left you though. Wasn't he?"

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"Yes you do," Athena said.

"I really hate this. Either way, it doesn't matter he doesn't love me. Besides he insulted you all by not believing me. I can't be with someone who doesn't like me family." I started to step around Aphrodite, but she turned me around and pushed me back to the table and sat me down on a cushion that appeared.

"Let's see what he and his family are doing right now," suggested Persephone from her seat between Hades and Demeter. A light appeared and it was like a window; it showed the Cullen family they were all just sitting on the front step of their house.

"Why didn't you go after her," screamed Alice as Jasper held her back by the shoulders, "she was my best friend and you made us leave her! Now she comes back and you have to set her off like that!"

"Alice calm down," Rosalie said as she leaned against Emmet for what seemed like comfort, "we all miss her. We all now know that she completed the family, but stop yelling at Edward; I think that he feels bad enough."

"We are still too dangerous for her," Edward whispered so that I almost couldn't hear. "I want her so badly, but we are too dangerous. She almost died on her birthday; I want to protect her and not let anything hurt her. I promised her that it would be like we never existed."

"Yeah right," Artemis said next to me, "once a boy is in your life you aren't ever going to forget him once you date him."

"Be quiet and watch," Aphrodite lectured Artemis.

"Bella was part of the family," Esme said still on what seemed like a window, "we all miss her."

"When are we going to that camp," Edward asked. "I just hurt Bella and I need to fix it. I don't want her hating me. I still love her."

"Whenever they call they never gave us a number to call," Carlisle told Edward while holding Esme in his arms.

"I don't want to wait that long. It could be a year before we hear from that camp. I need to find it; I need to find Bella."

"Aw," sighed Aphrodite, "he still loves you! You two should get back together!"

"I still don't like him," Artemis said next to me, "he hurt you badly. Do you really want to risk that again?"

"I don't know," I said getting up and putting my hands over my ears for a moment before closing my eyes and doing the only thing I could do now. "I'm dismissing myself. If you keep this conversation up after I have left that is up to you and I can't control it. I'll Iris message you in a few days; love you."

As I exited the Empire State building I shook my head, it was almost midnight. I walked to camp that night; and by the time I was in my cabin it was one am. I didn't care at that point and lay down in my bed with my clothes on. Artemis' hunters were going to arrive tomorrow and I would need to be up about noon. I soon fell myself asleep and luckily I didn't dream that night.

***

"Wake up Bella," I heard Percy say from far off when I realized that I was still asleep.

I slowly opened my eyes to see Percy and that Nico boy in my room shaking me awake. "How did you get in here?"

"Well," Nico started ready to explain something to me, "Since we are your cousins and a year younger than you Chiron and Mr. D decided that it would be okay if we came over and woke you up. We also needed to talk to you about a meeting that will be held in about a half hour. It's about that vampire family."

I threw the pillow at him, "I don't want to talk about them. So I won't be at the meeting or I will start to cry because they hurt me so much."

"You have to come," Percy told me as I buried my face in my other pillow and noiselessly sobbed into it. "You know the most about them and you were the one to tell them."

"I left after that," I confessed into my pillow. "He made me mad and sad; I left after he said that he didn't believe it and I showed him the sword. I don't know what happened after that."

"You still need to get up Bella," Percy said picking me up off the pillow by my shoulders. "Your sister and the huntresses are coming in two hours and Chiron wants you at the meeting. He also said no excuses."

With those last words I watched the two leave. When they were gone I took a shower and changed my cloths so that I was wearing a jean skirt and a white V-neck and some pure white sneakers. I also put on some gold colored bangles just for more color to the outfit.

When I walked downstairs I found that Percy, Nico, Annabeth, Dionysus, Chiron, the leader of the Ares cabin, and the leader of the Hephaestus cabin were all just sitting around talking. I joined in their conversation about their pasts. Between Dionysus's past and Nico's past you had a long story that took up way too much time to tell. Luckily the other cabin leaders showed up and the meeting started.

"Okay," Chiron said when everyone was seated, "Dionysus, Bella, what happened at the meeting with the family of vampires yesterday?"

"Nothing," I said after a short silence, "absolutely nothing happened."

"Jella," Dionysus said simply, "you have to be more grown up about this."

"How am I supposed to do that? We haven't had the best history." I had to admit this and I knew that if I didn't want to talk about it no one would question me because they knew that it would be bad. "I get extremely frustrated about half way through the meeting and walked out. So after the initial shock wore off I don't know what happened."

"They agreed to work with us and come here for a week visit whenever it would be continent to us."

"What," everyone seemed to scream at once. I was a little louder than the rest of them due to the fact that they would be staying here in the Zeus cabin due to the fact that it was the most modern cabin and had the most rooms.

"Maybe they should come and spend Zeus' festival week with us. That would most likely be the best week due to the fact that we would all be in shape after the festival. Bella, you will go and tell our new allies and see if that is a good time for them to come and visit."

"Their father works nights at a hospital," I protested. "He can't stay here if he needs to leave every night."

"We can provide transportation for him to get to his job," Mr. D said calmly.

"Well why does Bella need to go tell them," Annabeth questioned. "She seems to be not to fond of them."

"No," I said as a breath, "I'll tell them, but Percy, Annabeth, and Nico get to come with me."

"That's fine. You all are dismissed as long as we all agree that this is acceptable," Chiron finished. Everyone nodded with the exception of me, but I didn't count.

"Ready to go," I said when the four of us had gathered after the meeting to leave. They all followed me as I left the camp. We walked most of the day due to the fact that all of us were horrible with direction in the woods. By the time we found the long driveway that lead to the house; only to be greeted by a very jumpy Alice with an umbrella to block the sun.

"She looks like a pixie," Nico murmured in my ear.

"Bella," she said jumping again. I noticed Jasper walking out of the woods with an identical umbrella and came closer to Alice. "You're back! You were supposed to be here a half hour though. Who are your friends?" I took note that Jasper was standing protectively beside Alice, and making contact with someone to my right. I looked over my shoulder to see that Annabeth had her knife drawn and ready to attack; Alice had come to fast for Annabeth to be comforitable with.

"Put the knife away. That's just how they are," I told her. (Italics are when people are speaking in Greek.)

"I still don't like it," she said simply putting the dagger away.

"The two are mates. Jasper is just like that because of the knife. They are safe." I turned back to my former friends. "I'm sorry Jasper; I promise you that Alice won't be hurt by any camper from Camp Half-Blood. These are my cosines Nico and Percy, and my friend Annabeth."

Alice seemed to be excited about something. "Bella, please stay longer this time! Edward really wants to make things right with you. Be careful though he refuses to hunt weekly and only hunts monthly; he still doesn't drink enough for him not to have black eyes."

"Is Dr. Cullen here? We only want to ask him a question then we will be on our way."

"No," Jasper said straightening himself up, "he's out hunting and won't be back for at least another hour, but why don't you four stay here and wait?"

"I think that we should come back," Nico said suddenly, "We don't want to take up your time any more than we have to."

"Agreed," Percy and Annabeth said at the same time.

"Settled than," I said with a smile, "we will come back later today If that fits into your family's schedule."

"No," Alice said coming forward and grabbing my wrist, "I want everything to be right again. Please Bella."

I pulled my wrist out of her grasp and took a step back and turned around. Unluckily I found that Emmet and Rosalie were standing there blocking our exit. "I can't stay for that long; we all have chores to do back at camp."

"Your friends are free to go," Rosalie said with a smile. "It's only you that has to stay for what we want to talk about." She took a step to the side to allow everyone else to leave, but she wouldn't let me pass.

"Go," I said to the three. "Stay close by in the woods though. When Dr. Cullen gets back I want to get this over with."

Percy was the first to speak, "We aren't leaving you to deal with a family of vampires alone. WE will come to."

"Come on Percy," Nico said quietly, "you know that she will get us to leave eventually." With that I watched the three walk down the drive way and out of sight as I followed Jasper into the house with Alice pulling me by the wrist and Rosalie and Emmet making sure that I didn't run away.

"I won't try to run," I said to them quietly, "I know that if I did you would just catch me and drag me back."

Emmet laughed behind me, "That wouldn't stop you from trying."

When they lead me back into the living room that we were in the other day I found that Carlisle, Esme, and Edward were there. I didn't fuss though instead I just stood in the door way as the rest of them sat down, somehow leaving the only open seat next to Edward.

"Please sit," Esme said almost begging.

I shook my head and stayed where I was. I knew that my emotions were running wild, I felt tears stinging my eyes and I wasn't sure how I felt. I was mad (because they lied), sad (because they had left me), happy (that they wanted to work this out), love (well, I still did love Edward and his family), and excitement (that I was really back here with those that I loved). I still fought back the tears; I didn't want them to see me cry, even if I was having an emotional breakdown.

"Bella," Edward said getting up. He most likely heard Jasper thinking about my emotions and how they were all over the board. He came over closer to me as if to give me a hug and comfort me, but instead I took a step back and folded me arms across my chest and looked at the floor.

"What did you all want to talk about," I asked after a moment.

"We wanted to talk about the mistake that we all went along with," Carlisle told me.

"What mistake?" I smiled and looked up, "Edward made it pretty clear what I was to all of you when you all left."

"What exactly did he tell you," Alice questioned.

"I think that he can tell you that. I don't think that it's my place to tell."

I didn't listen as Edward explained what he said to his family. They all seemed shocked, what was the big deal? He said that he didn't love me, that I wasn't good for him, that I was just a toy that he would play with and throw away when he was done.

"No wonder you've acted like this," Alice screamed when Edward was done. "How could you be so evil Edward!"

"It was what was best," Edward said simply.

"What was best," Alice questioned again. "Bella, what happened after Edward left you in the woods?"

"I just ran after him," I started after a deep breath, "I knew that I couldn't catch him, but I just felt like I had to try. After a long while of running I collapsed on the ground and was later found by Sam who carried me back home because I couldn't walk."

"What! Didn't it rain that night?"

"Yeah, it did. Either way; since I am now here it was most likely what was best so that I wouldn't have you all looking for me. The Fates still seem to be working against all of us due to the fact that I am now standing here."

"Edward," Esme said strictly, "tell the truth; right now so that she knows the truth."

"Bella," he said once again coming close. He took my hands in his gently, "you have to believe me when I tell you that what I said in the woods; it was a lie. I left so that you could be safe, and I forced my family to go with it so that I knew that you were safe. I'm sorry Bella, for all the trouble that I caused. I still love you and want to be with you."

I paused for a second, trying to make sense of everything that happened in the last few minutes. I heard Aphrodite screaming for me to tell Edward that I love him back in my head, but I just couldn't get myself to fully trust him, he had broke some of the trust I had for him.

Yeah! Cliff hanger! Okay, so I hate these things to, but I really just had to write one!

I promise to update soon!