AN:OMG IM SORRY!! Here's the real chapter 10!

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Chapter 10: I Give Up

FINALLY! No more secrets, no more walls built around my mind so that I couldn't get close to anyone. The threat of death no longer hung so heavily above my head. The Cullen's were here, and I would finally be saved.

Just as loud as my joyous thoughts were my dubious thoughts. Would the Cullen's believe that I was truly Bella? Or would they think that Renee and Phil were trying to trick them? Hopefully we could convince them of the truth.

Phil turned off onto a nearly invisible path. Phil had gotten used to them after all of the isolated houses we had checked. When the infamous Cullen mansion came into view, I could see that it was almost identical to the house back in Forks.

As soon as Phil stopped the car, I hopped out and waited impatiently for my mother and Phil. They joined me and my mother kept a steadying hand on my arm to keep me from sprinting up to the door. Once on the porch my mother rang the doorbell a single time. The sound echoed through the large house. Not a minute later, the door opened.

"BELLA!" Alice shouted enthusiastically. "Renee, Phil?" Curious now. The others appeared in the doorway behind Alice… almost too fast to pass as human. Though they were only acting human because they didn't know who I really was.

"Renee, Phil… what a pleasant surprise. Please come in," Carlisle said while ushering the three of us in. He led us straight over to the couches. I wound up on a sofa squeezed between Renee and Phil.

"So… this is Bella…" Carlisle had to almost force the name from his mouth. Great, he had given up on the idea of me coming back. This could be a little more difficult than I had originally thought.

"Yup," I replied happily.

"Bella, let's go play Wii!" Alice said happily to draw me away from the conversation that would take place. I glanced quickly at my mother and she nodded to me, signaling that I should go with Alice while they talked to Carlisle. Though I desperately wanted to stay and have them finally know the truth, I followed Alice into the game room. Emmett joined us of course.

"Bella you're going down!!" He yelled enthusiastically as he pulled out a racing game.

"In your dreams," I replied. By the time I was called back into the front room, I had beaten Emmett 10 times. We had played 10 games. Emmett sulked behind me as we joined everybody else.

"So Bella," Renee said casually. "Carlisle would like to know your past."

"Ok," I replied calmly though I was very excited. FINALLY! "So when I was three my parents split up and I lived with my mother," I started slowly. Nothing unusual about the start, but they would soon realize where I was going with this. "I lived in Phoenix with my mother until I moved to Forks Washington to live with my father…"

"Enough," Edward cut me off angrily. "We wanted to know YOUR life not the real Bella's. How could you even think that you could pretend to be Bella? She was perfect, and she's dead and gone. So why don't you stop fooling around and tell us your real story," he snapped angrily.

"You want to know the real story? YOU'RE GETTING IT YOU BONEHEAD! I'm BELLA! Isabella Marie Swan. I was born September 13th. I moved in with Charlie. I met you. We feel in love, James tried to kill me, Laurent and Victoria tried to kill me, you left me, I went to Volterra to get you back.

"We were finally settling into a NORMAL life, and then I got sick while you were out hunting. You and Carlisle took me to the hospital to find out what was wrong with me. It was some stupid nonexistent disease. You tried changing me to save my life.

"It didn't work. You promised me that you would not kill yourself. I told you that I would come back again someday. I watched over you for a year. Carlisle was the only one who actually believed in my promise to return. You gave up on life but you couldn't bring yourself to break your promise. My grandmother pulled strings and I was returned to Earth January 9th, 2007. I was 10.

"I called my mother from the orphanage that I was placed in front of and she got me out of there. She took me to your house, but you had already left Forks. We stayed with Charlie for a day and he gave us the huge envelope of money that you gave him. We searched everywhere. Maine, Alaska, Oregon, and every state that wasn't sunny.

"When I turned 16 we gave up and settled here. We gave up on trying to keep myself from dying again. Only you changing me can stop my looming death. 2 years is all that I have left. And now I'm here telling you all of this and you won't believe me. I'm so sick and tired of nobody every believing me! I'm tired of fighting a losing battle. I don't know why I'm even trying anymore. I should never have come here," I said standing up suddenly from where I was seated.

"I should have just stayed in heaven and watched over you guys like my grandmother told me to. But I just had to be stubborn. So they sent me to show you that you do have souls and you aren't frowned on by everyone, but if you want to be a bonehead that's your problem. I'm done fighting."

Complete silence met my rant. Even Renee and Phil were completely silent. Finally, Alice moved from where she had frozen standing by Jasper's side. "Bella…" She said brokenly. "You're so different. How were we supposed to realize that you were YOU?" She asked, more to herself than to me.

She hugged me tightly to her small form. "I've missed you so much Bella." If she could cry she would be right now. Esme soon joined the hug. Then Carlisle, Emmett, Jasper, even Rosalie. The only one missing from the hug was who I wanted to accept this the most; Edward.

He remained where he was, merely looking blankly at me. My outburst had upset him deeply, and his face was unreadable. The other Cullen's released me as I took a step towards his still form. "Edward, I told you that I would come back. Why is this so hard to believe?"

He looked up at me with pained eyes. "Because I gave up on everything a long time ago."

"Well do you know what Edward? I. Give. Up." I turned on my heel and walked out of the house and ignored the calls of everyone. I listened for Edward's voice, but he remained silent. I ran past the car and into the surrounding forest, away from everything. Maybe they would just leave me to die alone… or somebody would track me down eventually.

I stumbled my way through the forest as roots and tree limbs threatened to trip me. As I came across a huge log, I stopped and slid to the muddy ground. What I had said was true; I was giving up the fight.

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