A/N: HaWOW! This is a pretty long chapter, you have um, well, me to thank for that and my extremely uneventful summer. It is actually going to become very eventful for the next like month but I will definitely update, promise. Um, about Bella asking so many questions in her head. That isn't specific to this story, I just figure that that's how people think and process, or at least how I do so, sorry if it bugs anyone its just how I write. Enjoy Chapter 9! I both laughed out loud and (almost) cried while writing it. (I don't cry like ever in books, or stories, or movies either really. Except for Pirates 3. I cried like a freaking baby.) Enjoy!!

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Bella's POV

I love you Bella Swan…It echoed through my head, bouncing into each section of my mind so that every part of me felt something. My previously pounding head cleared, pulse slowed, my breathing stopped.

"Bella!" He shook me, "keep breathing. Deep breath. Take a breath, please, Bella." His hands were almost painfully grasping my shoulders. Ouch, I thought and took a rattley breath. "That's right In…out…in…out." His relieved, smooth voice coaxed me back to sitting up right.

I swallowed a couple of times and leaned back on my hands, relieving the pain on my slouched back. "Why didn't you come earlier??" I croaked, my throat was dry from taking the huge breaths.

"Earlier?"

"You could have come back before graduation, during the summer before college, while I was in college. But you waited 18 years and now look at us." I gestured between his smooth, toned body and youthful face and my slightly older, more worn appearance. Not that I looked like an old lady but I did not look his age at all.

"I told you that no matter what, I would love you. I do. I never stopped and I know it sounds strange coming from me, now. But I want to be with you Bella, I need to be with you because you are my life."

"Answer my question." I demanded.

"I wanted you to experience a life without the constant danger of us being with you. And even if we were all like Carlisle and as strong as he is, there would still be others who came after you, others not like us. I didn't want you to constantly be worrying about danger and instead enjoy being human." His face was full of grief. "I wanted to give you time to adjust even though it killed me. I tried to pass the time but every second of every day, I thought of you."

A/N: Ok I cant figure out a way 2 break up this paragraph so im just gonna start a new paragraph and sorry ther kinda long but it's still Edward talking on the same topic and all that good stuff. Luvs, bitten.

"After a year, I couldn't take it. I knew that there was a possibility that you had moved on and decided that if I went back to Forks and you weren't there, then I would know. I thought that if you stayed in Forks, it meant you were waiting for me. I went to Charlie's and he was most likely at work but I knew that you were gone. Your scent was barely there, as if you had been gone for months. I left it at that, I had told myself that if you still needed me, you would be there and you weren't. I didn't stay long enough to see anyone or even find out where you were because I knew that if I knew your location, I would be compelled to find you so, I went home and all I did was run and feed." His eyes looked like they belonged in a corpse. They were blank and hollow, with no focus or emotion.

That was the hardest year of my life. I wanted to say but bit my tongue because I didn't know if it would make him angry. "Why did you come back now, then?" I decided it was a safer question.

His eyes awakened with a spark. "I'll show you." He leapt up gracefully to his feet.

I had been sitting with my legs out in front of me propped up on my hands. I folded my legs to my chest and attempted to push myself up with my hands. I succeeded but a rush of blood to my head caused my balance to shift and I began to fall. Edward's cold hands caught me. One on the small of the back and one at the base of my neck. If someone drove by and saw us at that very second, they would probably think we were doing some sort of dance. "Thanks." I breathed.

He pressed his lips together and stifled a laugh. "Nothing has changed."

He led me to the car and practically placed me in my seat. "Ok, so I am going to 'see' why you cam back to Forks shortly. So I will wait for that but will you tell me why you were at a grocery store?" I had been so shocked to actually see him that I hadn't actually registered that he was in a grocery store.

I wonder if they make vampire grocery stores. What would they carry? Frozen blood? I wonder if vampires freeze blood for later or if it's only good coming straight from a carcass. Gross.

"You'll see." He smiled that perfect, one of a kind, Edward smile.

"Not fair." I huffed and folded my arms across my chest. Oh crap. Claire. How long had it been? An Hour? Two Hours? She would probably be wondering where I was. But wouldn't she have called?

"How long is it going to take?" I asked.

He thought a moment. He perfect face interrupted by a deep crease in his brow. "Depends on how interested you are."

"If I am interested, how long will it take?"

The same contemplative look came over his face. "A while."

I suddenly remembered back to the car ride from Port Angeles. How old are you? I asked. Seventeen. He responded confidently. How long have you been seventeen? I inquired. His face twisted and he finally replied. A while.

"A while as in 90 years?" I joked.

"If you want." He said, off handedly.

I started at him dumbly. 90 years, that's a long time. Most people don't live 90 years, and I most certainly cannot live until I'm-. Oh…OH! Oh my god. Is he serious? Was that a joke? Do I want to be changed? He has been back for like 2 days. But I've lived without him for 18 years. Eternity is a long time. Claire…would he change Claire too? Who do I want to be with more?

He probably noticed my confused, worried expression because he immediately grew concerned. "Bella. Relax. It was a joke." He smiled but his eyes were hurt that I was so worried.

Was he seriously considering it? If he's considering it, I want to be with him. I love him, I've always loved him, even when he left, I wasn't angry, I just couldn't believe I loved someone who didn't love me back. But he does.

I, I was about to say when I looked out the window and realized we were at the Cullens'. Crap. I cant just leave Claire at the mall. What if this takes hours? Days?

"Can Claire come?" I gave him an apologetic smile but with his maniac driving, it wouldn't take more than 10 or 15 minutes to get there.

"Does she know?"

"Um. I told her but I'm not sure she believed me." I saw the inquisitive look on his face and added, "Well she saw you in that grocery store, where you shouldn't have been in the first place because you don't need food and then I stupidly blurted out your name. I mean how else do I explain" I waved my arm up and down at his body. "that?"

"Well you could have-"

"Oh get this. I did try to cover it up I told her you were a vegan." He let out a huge laugh that I was sure would alert the others that we were here but no one exited the picturesque white house.

"That's wonderful and when that failed you told her I was a vampire?" He laughed quieter that time but it still shook his tall frame.

"Yeah. But in any case, she knows. I really don't want to leave her at the mall until 10:00 tonight." Or for 90 years. I thought. "What is this thing that you have to show me? Why cant you just tell me?" I saw him cringe and the word thing. Well, if it wasn't a thing, what was it?

"You'll see. Claire can come but if Rosalie didn't like you knowing, she is not going to be happy about your daughter knowing either." He looked amused, exactly how a younger brother looks when he taunts an older sister by pulling out her doll's hair or telling the boy she likes exactly how much she likes him. But instead, Edward found a bigger, riskier secret just as amusing. "If she is, in fact, like you, she wont tell anyone, right?" His amused expression was replaced by deep seriousness.

"No. Absolutely not. I threatened her, I'm good at that." No I'm not. What exactly did I tell her? Did I threaten her? I don't think I did. She probably would have laughed at me. But I knew that she would never tell anyone.

He, once again, laughed at me. It was actually pleasant, hearing him laugh again. If I didn't look in a mirror, I felt 18 again. "I'm sure you are." He smirked. And with that, we backed out of the Cullens' drive and headed for the mall.

I searched through my purse to find my phone. They should make a phone pocket in those stupid things. I pressed the 5 button down until I heard it beep. And held the phone to my ear.

She picked up on the second ring, "Have fun?" She didn't even bother saying hello.

"That's not exactly how I would describe it." Emotional. Maybe. Pivotal. Yes. Fun. Not so much.

"Rough?" She offered.

Edward let out an astonished laugh to my left and I glared at him.

"Don't start." I warned.

"Exciting? Different? Exotic?"

"Cl-" I tried to stop her but she pressed on.

"Chaotic? Maniac?" O god I thought here we go. " Crazy? Wild? How about Hot?"

My eyes grew wider with every word. "Stop it." I said quickly.

"Nasty? The good one, not the bad?"

Edward was in hysterics beside me. Every time he tried to calm himself, she kept going and he would bust out laughing again. If he could cry, there would have been tears streaming down his face from how hard he was laughing. Unable to find the humor just yet, I kept myself from screaming and soon felt the hot sensation of blush seeping into my ivory skin.

"Claire. We went for a drive and talked." I tried to reason with her now but it was to no avail.

"Oh I see. You did the nasty talk not the nasty walk." Holy. Good. God.

Edward snorted beside me. I slapped his shoulder in a futile attempt to stop his incessant giggling.

"Claire, that makes no sense and we are picking you up and going to see…something." I tried my best to ignore her inappropriate babble.

"Um. I want to know what this something is or I'm not getting in the car. That's kind of creepy. I think I'll just stay here."

"Tell her it's a Mercedes CL-Class." Edward whispered beside me, still smiling hugely unable to completely stop his laughter.

"Hold on a sec." I said into the phone and covered the mouthpiece. "She wont know what a Seal Class is." I hissed back at him.

"Well of course she wont because there's no such thing, Its CL class not Seal." He snorted again.

I rolled my eyes and returned to the phone. "It's a CL-Class?" It was more of a question than a persuasion.

"Mercedes?"

Edward nodded his head. "Uh yeah." I said.

"Sweet. I'll be right down." The phone clicked and she was gone.

"She's my daughter. How did you know she would like the car?" I demanded.

"Because all teenagers like cars Bella. I'd know."

I couldn't think of anything to say so, I just stuck my tongue out at him. Mature, Bella- crap Iz, I though to myself. I need to figure that out.

"You're in a grumpy mood." He fake-furrowed his brow.

"You're in a good mood." I countered.

"Well, I'm with you. I missed you." His face grew more serious and simultaneously older. It was amazing how quickly he could make me see that he isn't just a boy, that he has experienced trials of life that I could never even fathom.

"I missed you too." My voice broke. All of the humor that had surrounded us before was sucked out of the car and tears sprang to my eyes. He reached across and wiped a single stray drop from my cheek. His thumb traced my cheekbone to a strand of hair that had escaped from behind my ear and tucked it back. From there, his fingers trailed down my jaw, one by one dropping away.

A/N:OK about that last part. I don't know if I thought of it in my brain or read it somewhere and just stored it and think its from my brain. So if its from someone's story or Twilight/New Moon sorry, sometimes I don't know what I thought of or if I read it somewhere and forget I read it and think it's mine ; )

A sharp wrap on my window snapped us back. It was only 5:00 but it seemed like midnight. It felt like I should have been in bed 4 hours ago because of how draining the day's events had been. I blinked adjusting to the outside light. It was dulled by the huge spread of clouds covering the sky but was still brighter than Edward's dimly lit CL-Class.

Edward tapped a button on his door and the locks flew up. I pushed the door open and stepped onto the uneven blacktop. Claire bent the seatback forward and pulled the base toward the dash so that she could crawl into the backseat.

"What's this? A 500?" She sounded very knowledgeable, I was impressed at least.

"550." Edward looked insulted that she would think it was less.

"How do you get it to be so shiny?" I then realized that she had not developed any new knew knowledge of cars since she was 10 years old and we had wandered through parking lots at fancy restaurants and boutiques in old town and looked at the "pretty" cars. We knew nothing about the guts or anything inside. The extent of our knowledge was that the higher the number the cooler the car.

Edward courteously answered her few questions because we were soon at the Cullens'.

"You drive really fast." Claire moaned, her face almost as pale as Edward's. "Where are we?"

"This is Dr. and Mrs. Cullen's house. They live here with Edward, Alice and Emmett Cullen and Jasper and Rosalie Hale." I explained. "Or at least they used to." I said more to Edward than Claire. Are they all here?

"And they're all like your, uh, friend here?" She said in a tiny whisper and used her eyes to point at Edward on the other side of the car.

"There is no point in whispering in the Cullen household." I said, "They can all here you anyway."

Edward was at my door before I even realized he was out of the car. He gently pulled the door open and as he grabbed my had to help me out, he said, "Yes. We are a family. We do not share chromosomes or DNA or blood." He and I both snickered but Claire was horrified. "It's ok. We're a family because of who we are. And we would never do anything to disrupt or ruin what my father, Carlisle, has built." He said it in his sweetest voice and offered his marble hand to her shaking one. She took it and stumbled out of the car.

"NO WAY!!!! OH MY GOD! JASPER! EMMETT! OH MY GOD! NO WAY! CARLISLE!! ESME!!" I heard Alice's shrieks coming from the house. She wasn't scared. "BELLA!!!!!" Oh.

"She didn't see us coming?" I asked Edward as he, Claire and I stood awkwardly beside his car.

"She trained herself away from seeing you at all because it was too painful for all of us." He said stepping in front of Claire and I. "Stop right there, Alice. They are only human so you are going to need to calm down a minute." He warned his sister in a voice not above a normal conversation level. She was most likely just on the other side of the door.

I was getting anxious too and began to beg him to allow her to come.

Claire stared at him as if he were crazy. "Is she like invisible or something?" Claire whispered. I stifled a laugh.

"Yes they, Bella and her daughter." He explained.

"HER WHAT?!?" I heard her high pitched scream again. "OH MY GOD!! JASPER! EMMETT DID YOU HEAR THAT?"

"Please Alice. There really is no point in shouting." He flinched.

"COME ON!!!" I begged. My hands were dancing on the sides on my leg.

"You guys can come out as long as you are civil." Edward grimaced and closed his eyes.

I took a deep breath and stepped in front of Claire so that She, Edward and I were now in a sort of vertical line.

I heard the huge door slam against the side of the house as it was thrown back by vampire strength. "Move Edward!" Alice said from only 5 feet away.

He refused so, I went around him. There she was. Unchanged, of course, by time. Her uneven spiked hair still jet-black. Her golden eyes were electric with anticipation, The light accented her bright white teeth biting her lower lip. Her tiny sprite-like frame was actually shaking, her delicate little hands balled into excited fists. I took her in within a matter of milliseconds because I heard a scream that many would associate with white light and I was in her arms.

"You know it wasn't my idea to leave right? It was all Edward. He wanted to leave. He wanted you to have a "normal" human life. Which I guess is ok except it's not. But I had to go with Jasper because I love him but I wish you could have gone with Edward because you love him too. And Jasper is so sorry. He feels so awful. He'll tell you. You'll see him. And Edward loves you too, he loves you so much. He has just depressing to even look at without you. OH I MISSED YOU! I love you too Bella. You know that right?" She was speaking so fast and with so much enthusiasm, it was hard to believe that she was the living dead.

"I know Alice…I understand…Jasper's…the love of your life!...and there is nothing else…that you should have done…than to go with him." It was becoming hard to breath she was holding me so tight. "Um…This is…Claire." I tried to free one of my arms but failed.

She set me down carefully and walked up to Claire who recoiled when Alice held out her hand. "It's ok, I don't bite." Alice smiled a wide, open smile, showing off her gleaming pearly whites. Claire shuddered.

"Damn." Alice muttered. "Does she know?" She looked at us.

Edward and I nodded at the same time. Poor Claire's eyes were as wide as grapefruit.

Alice glared at Edward and turned back to Claire. "I owe you a huge apology. I would never have said anything like that had I known you were privy to our little secret. You see, I like using things like that that everyone says but its really funny to me because you know, I actually do bite-" Claire gasped.

"Alice, that's enough." Edward said, jaw tight, nostril's flared. "Claire, this is Alice. She is really excited to meet you. She's the sister that I told you about, the one who loves to shop." He added hoping to help.

Claire gave a tiny smile. "Nice to meet you Alice."

Alice took a breath clearly about to say something. "Alice. Not now. Please." He begged. "Ok. Alice says she's sorry she scared you and hopes you can talk later because she thinks you could be friends." Alice nodded her head as if asking him to add something else. "We're getting to that. Now, lets get inside I'm sure everyone cant wait to see you Bella." He grabbed my hand and I reached back for Claire's. We walked up the drive toward the Cullens' house.

When we stepped in the door I saw four glowing faces, one who couldn't care less and an unfamiliar, nervously smiling one. I closed my eyes, opened them again and she was still there. Everyone jumped up, except for the unfamiliar girl and a reluctant Rosalie who took her time stretching one perfect leg out at a time in preparation to stand up.

Edward never let go of my hand. "Sit down please." He tried to contain the small, but very strong mob. "Sit down." He said more sternly.

"EVERYONE DOWN NOW." Alice growled.

I felt their various arms detach themselves and untangle from each other on my back.

"Thank you." Edward rolled his head back on his shoulders. "I'm sure we will have plenty of time to trample Bella in a minute but right now, we need to introduce some people." He glanced at me and then Claire, my cue to introduce her. I felt slightly embarrassed to be standing in front of a room of people who last saw me when I was 18 years old, introducing my 18 year old daughter when they all look exactly the same.

"Hello everyone. I cant believe how um not much you guys have changed." I said nervously. "This is Claire, my daughter. She just graduated high school in Phoenix." She smiled at the 5 vampires in front of us. The strange girl was very pretty but definitely human, she was far too tan and had vibrant green eyes.

I turned to face Claire, "Claire. Carlisle, Esme and Emmett Cullen." I freed my hand from Edward's grasp and motioned to each of them. Carlisle smiled and nodded his head. Esme couldn't contain her maternal love and jumped up to give Claire a quick hug and Emmett looked as if he were about to laugh but he smiled at her all the same.

"And Jasper and Rosalie Hale." I waved at Jasper and kind of rolled my eyes at Rosalie on the far end of the room. My hand immediately found Edward's again. Jasper and Rose both nodded and Jasper gave Claire a warm smile. I saw her shoulders relax and her eyes lighten. Thank you Jasper. I thought even though he couldn't hear me and smiled at him gratefully. He smiled back. There was a lot of smiling going on because we weren't allowed to technically say hello yet.

Still holding my hand, Edward introduced the new girl. "Bella, you may have noticed that we have a new addition to our family, sort of." Edward glanced at the girl. "This is Shane." She rolled her eyes, "But she prefers Shae. She's from Vancouver."

A/N: YAY! Long chappie, new "Cullen" sort of except she's human. Her story is next chappie. Sorry about the abrupt shift from humor to serious in the middleish but that always seems 2 happen so yeah. And I didn't want 2 make a new guy because I didn't want Claire 2 like fall 4 him cuz that's just too perfect and those poor cullen girls would be drowning in testosterone (I mean it would b 5 boys and 3 girls) so Shae (and yes I purposely spell it like that I don't like spelling names traditionally) evens out the numbers…for now. I think most of Ch. 10 is gonna be in Claire's POV. What do u think? Well, as always, review plz! I know the A/N is long but don't forget to review the story 2 ; ) and thanks everyone for reviewing so far! I love u guys!!!