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I pause, wondering if anyone noticed the extremely happy atmosphere. No one seems to notice, except for Alice, who meets my eye and raises an eyebrow. I smile, grateful that she didn't say anything. Jasper has gone back to his blank state, not meeting my eyes. To brake the semi-awkward state, I turn my attention back to Carlisle and state loudly, "Well, are we gonna just stand here like sparkly penguins, or are we actually going to talk about anything?"

Emmet bursts out laughing, and then almost yells, "I LOVE this kid! Mom, can we adopt her?"

Esme chuckles, and then shushes her 'kid', while smiling at me apologetically. I smile back, and turn my attention, one again, to Carlisle. Carlisle smiles and gestures to the now-dry couch, indicating for me to sit. I do so, and the rest of the family follows.

"So, Marie, how much do you actually know about us?" Carlisle starts.

"Everything," I say dully, looking at him straight in the eyes. I hear the rest of the family gasp, obviously not knowing that I can hear them. Again, very quickly in words I am not supposed to hear, Edward says,

"I'm not getting anything, I can't tell if she's telling the truth or not. Jasper?"

"Nothing." Jasper hisses sharply. I can tell that he is very frustrated. I smirk slightly, amused that they still do not understand that I can hear them.

"Oh yeah, apparently I have a shield around me that blocks powers, so you can stop complaining. Sorry Alice, Edward, Jasper." I say, hoping that they'll figure out that I can hear them.

The Cullen's eyes bright up with realization, but Tanya wants to pretend she doesn't know what I mean.

" Like, what do you mean? We, like, didn't say, like, anything." She says, looking smug and raising and eyebrow. I roll my eyes, and prepare to say something to really annoy her.

"Jeez Tanya, for a Vamp, you're pretty slow, aren't you? Okay, I'll spell it out for you." I then started talking really slowly, as if speaking to a baby. "I," I point to myself, "can hear," I gesture to my ear, "you." I slowly point to her. "Okay? Can you understand me?" I say, nodding slowly. "Good." I smile, then turn my head away.

I know she is fuming behind me, but frankly, I don't care. Unfortunately, I do care what Jasper thinks, and he is bout to care for his 'mate'. I quietly sigh and turn towards the rest of the family.

"Listen, I know everything about you, you know almost nothing about me, now this would be great for me, if it wasn't for the fact that I know almost nothing about me either. I'm just as confused as you are. I smile at them regretfully and say, "If you can help me, I will be really grateful, but if you don't want to involve yourself with me, I understand and we can pretend that today never happened."

I ended my speech and sat gracefully on the couch and waited. I looked up, and saw that they were leaving the room to have a family discussion. I looked down again at my hands, and watched as I gathered a bit of water out of the air and swirled it around my fingers, forming shapes. I'm trying to form the perfection that is Jaspers face, but every time I try, it is never as perfect as the real thing.

I let the water in my palm evaporate into the air, leaving only a slight wetness on my hands. I look up and see all the Cullens sitting there again, and for a second I feel a blush coming on, thinking they saw what I was doing, but I realized that they came in just now.

I made contact with them each, one by one, and I saw that all of them had looks of happiness in their eyes. Well, all except Tanya, she looked furious, and Jasper, who wouldn't meet my gaze. I took a deep breath and said,

"So?"

So heres chap 10! I won't plead you to review, but if you liked the chap, I'd like your opinions. Hope ya liked it. Next ones coming soon. I hope.

-BellAdell