Sorry for the long wait. The only time I time I have time to write is during work...so thats what I do lol. I finished Breaking Dawn a while back...and I have to say I was pretty disapointed with it. Dont get me wrong, it was a good book. It just wasnt a great book, like the others in the series. There was too much going one..it was to busy and confusing...and just, ya. Anyways. Origanlly this story started before the book came out, so I had my own plans on what everyone looked like, what her powers would be(even though it was eerily similar to what they actualy turned out to be) and stuff like that. So I decided to just go with what I had originally thought up. I now have an idea as to where this story is going...but I have no clue how long its gonna take..so bear with me :D Im a college student know, it keeps me pretty busy.

Anyways, heres the next chapter. Enjoy :D


The prolonged silence was becoming somewhat awkward. We just stood in the doorway, staring at each other. Jasper wasn't looking at Alice anymore; his intense golden eyes were fixated on me and me alone. I don't know why, but I was starting to get uncomfortable. It felt like an unseen someone was looking at me. You know that annoying feeling you get when you think someone was watching you? It was just like that, but worse. Every fiber in my being knew that someone was watching me, but what really irked me was that I could not see the person.

Jasper's brow furrowed like he was concentrated really hard on something. When he did that, the feeling intensified. Now I was just getting plain annoyed. If he stared any longer I was going to hit something.

A few more minutes passed and I snapped.

I placed my hands on my hips and glared at him. "What!" I yelled in his face, causing him to flinch away from the sudden noise.

He shook his head and with a small smile he walked up to me and embraced me. I froze. Never before had Jasper hugged me. Never before had he really ever touched me. He had always kept his distance. And while I appreciated his extra precaution – he was after all, still tempted by the sweet smell of human blood, it had always irritated me that he would never get close. And now he was hugging me. His long, strong arms were wrapped around my torso and I was pulled flush against his body. After a few moment of hesitation I relaxed and hugged him back.

The embrace didn't last long, but it was enough to ensure me. I now knew that he had, in fact, cared for me all this time. It warmed my non-beating heart and spread the warmth throughout my body. For only a split-second I was on fire. Not the pain ridden fire of my change, but a nice slow heat. Like I had sat in front of a fireplace to thaw out and now my body was pleasantly warm. It was such a foreign feeling to this new body.

For just one short moment I was alive again.

I pulled back from Jasper and smiled up at him. He smiled back and laughed – a full, throaty guffaw. The noise startled me so much that I took a step back. I thought only Emmett could laugh like that. He continued to laugh and soon Alice joined in. Her light, bell-like voice offset Jasper's deep baritone so well that I found myself laughing along with them. My voice sounded like honey and soared high above the other's laughter.

Suddenly the laughter stopped. The silence in its place sounded so much more deadening than normal. The only noises I heard were the billowing of the wind and the sound that the snow made when it hit the house. A few creaks came from upstairs, like someone completely silent was tiptoeing around. It was only then that I remembered who else was in the house. Tanya and her family were vampires that I had never met before.

The silence continued.

It was finally broken by Jasper. He took a step towards Alice, than all of a sudden they were in each other's embrace. They were simply hugging, with their heads bowed and their foreheads touching, yet it felt like I was watching them make-out. The moment was too intimate and I looked away to give them their well disserved privacy. After all, they were mates and they hadn't seen each other in who knows how long.

A shadow to my right caught my eye. I turned and watched as five vampires, four females and one male, walk one after another down the stairs.

They were all intently looking at me, but the male had a funny expression on his face. It was a cross between a smile and a grimace, but it looked almost like her was constipated.

A chuckle sounded behind me and I whorled around to find Alice and Jasper walking up to me. Jasper was looking at the other male and smirking, while Alice just smiled. They both came to stand behind me.

Tanya's family walked up and stood in front of me. More silence. Except this time it's an awkward one.

I kept imagining scenarios where the other coven killed me. Each one getting more extreme and unrealistic until I thought I was going to explode. I kept hoping that Jasper would feel my emotions and rescue me from myself. The sudden relief never came.

Tanya broke the silence by walking up to me and putting her arms around me. Again, I was shocked by another hug. This one was almost more unexpected than Jasper's had been. She smelled like lilacs and honey. The combination was wonderful. With a small smile I lifted my arms and wrapped them around her torso, carefully minding my own strength.

She was taller than me, by a good six inches and her long strawberry-blond hair cascaded down past her shoulders to her butt. And or course she was unimaginably gorgeous. She was tall, slender, blond and pale. People would literally kill to have her as their model.

Her eyes, like all the others, were golden with a dark tint to them. She was hungry. I was briefly aware that the last time I looked at my reflection, my eyes were violet. Even I knew that that was unnatural for a new born, or any vampire for that matter. Suddenly I became self-conscious and pulled away.

When I looked at the rest of her family they all had smiles on their faces. The male, smiling, was still looking at Jasper. His left eyebrow was raised in question and every once in a while his eyes would move, almost too fast for me to see, to my face and back. It was slightly unnerving. Tanya moved to Alice and gave her a sisterly hug.

"Welcome friends," Tanya said in a voice that sounded as much like honey as she smelled. "We have been looking forward to your visit Alice." She looked curiously at me, "and pleasantly surprised by our visit from…" Tanya waited for my reply, though I knew she knew who I was.

"Bella," I supplied for her and reached out to shake the offered hand.

She smiled again and motioned for the others to come forward. Leisurely they came. The smallest one was first. She came up to me and bent low in a curtsy, her long black dress flowing out from behind her.

"Hello," she said in a very thick Spanish accent. "My name is Carmen and this is my mate Eleazar." With that the male walked up to me and I kissed me cheek. "Hello Bella, it's a pleasure the finally meet you." His deep baritone voice vibrated pleasantly through my body.

I was only a little shocked that he knew about me. I had guessed early on that the Cullens told the Danali coven about me, but it was another thing all together to hear that it they had.

"The pleasure is all mine," I said polity. "And what a beautiful house you have." I meant it too. The house was amazing, and so far I've only seen the entrance.

At the same time, almost as if they were one being, both Carmen and Eleazar went over to welcome Alice.

I felt my heart clench tightly as I watched them walk away. Even without being obviously together, you could still tell just by looking at them that they loved each other. Maybe was the way he, whether unconscious or not, protectively walked a step behind her. Or the way their hands lightly brushed the others. Or it was all of that and more, but whatever it was you could tell they were together.

It hurt.

It hurt so bad knowing that I could have had that. The man could have been Edward and the woman was almost me. I was so close to having the same kind of togetherness that they had. So close, yet so far away.

I felt the tender wound in my heart brutally rip open. The gaping hole in my chest became a void, which shut all the light out.

I wanted nothing more than to curl up in a ball on the floor. But I could no longer cry and I had acting to do.

With a sad smile I turned away from the couple. Walking up to me was another woman. She wore a tight purple dress and her black hair hung straight at her hips. Stopping right in front of me she held out her hand.

With a huge, radiant smile she introduced herself. "Hello Bella," she said in a sweet alto. "My name is Katie.

"It is nice to meet you Katie," I replied. Her smile was so sincere and happy that I couldn't help but smile back. Even thought I felt like dying all over again.

With a laugh that echoed off the walls she grabbed my face in her two hands and kissed each of my cheeks.

Stunned, I could only stand still.

With a giggle and a wink she twirled around and all but danced over to Alice. Her movements were so graceful it was maddening. I wasn't even close to that yet. Even though I wasn't a klutz anymore, I would never be considered graceful.

Knowing there was one more vampire to be introduced to I turned back. Surprisingly enough, the last woman wasn't coming towards me. In fact, she looked as though she would rather be anywhere else then here.

What's her problem? She looks like she swallowed a sour grape. If she isn't going to come to me, then I'm going to have to go to her.

I set my shoulders and all but marched up to her.

I put on a sweet smile and attempted to great her.

"Hello, my name is –" she interrupted me. "Bella. Yah I already know," her high-pitched girly voice was clouded with disdain and her pretty butterscotch eyes burned with hatred.

What had I done to her?

I tried being nice to her again. "What is your name?' I asked politely.

"As if I'd tell you," she spat. "It doesn't matter anyways, because you're leaving."

To say I was stunned would be an understatement. I was completely shocked. I had done nothing wrong to her, yet here she was treating me like dirt. She was so rude and it pissed me off.

"Excuse me," I all but growled at her. "I don't know who you think you are, but I haven't done anything to you. So why are you acting like such a bitch?" I was actually a little shocked with my outburst and I could tell she was taken aback too.

In a blink of an eye Alice was beside me and Jasper was just one step behind her. There was that damn protective step again, and for some reason that just made me even madder.

She started shouting at me, but I didn't hear a word she said. I was too busy trying to control the sudden, uncontrollable urge to for bloodlust. I wanted to rip her apart piece by piece and it didn't help that I knew I was stronger than her. In fact, it made it worse.

The feeling was consuming. My sight zeroed in on just her and everything else went black.

The power behind my anger was growing and I didn't know how much longer I was going to be able to control it.

A couple words seeped through my concentration.

She was still yelling, her high-pitched voice was almost earsplitting. "My name is Irina, and your fucking werewolf pets killed my mate."


Hope you liked it. Please review :D They keep me happy and will motivate me to write more. But like I said before, I pretty much only write the story at work because my job is hella cool like that...so I wont be able to update ober often...probably the same about of time...maybe even sooner then before. There is nothing else to do at work lol.

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Until next time

Black Widow