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Chapter 10: Elizabeth Ann Swan

LPOV

"Girls, I think I'm ready." Bella murmured softly.

I felt confused; what was she ready for?

"Ready for what?" Rosalie asked, just when I opened my mouth to ask the same thing.

"Ready to tell you my story." she replied, a hint of a hidden pain in her voice.

Oh no, she's going to tell them about me. I thought to myself.

I didn't know if I was ready to hear this.

I could tell that Alice and Rosalie wanted to hear this even though they already knew the story; I guess that they wanted to hear Bella's side of the story.

I wanted to hear her side of the story too, but I just didn't know that I could take it. I scrutinized Bella's face closely. I could see that she really wanted to tell us about what happened.

"I haven't talked to anyone about it because I've never found anyone trustworthy enough to tell." she started, "When we first became friends, I could tell that we would become really close. I just… I just have some trust issues. I needed to get to know you guys before I could tell you this but now I know that you guys are keepers."

"Oh Bella, you know that we will always be there for you; you're like a sister to us." Alice exclaimed, her face so full of kindness that you just had to believe her.

"I know, it seems like I've known you guys all my life." Bella replied softly.

"You can tell us anything, and always trust us to keep your secrets." Rosalie added.

"Thanks you guys, you're the best." Bella murmured.

"We know." we replied in unison, trying to get Bella out of her shell.

Bella hesitated at first but then she started her story.

"Eighteen years ago, my mom and dad were together; they were in a good relationship but they were young. They didn't know what they were doing or getting there selves into." Bella started, "They got married at a very young age and after a year they had twins."

"The twins were identical; you could hardly tell them apart. They had Charlie's deep brown eyes and mahogany hair. The two girls had their mother's heart shaped face, fair nose and full lips." Bella paused taking a breath. "The young couple was ecstatic about the two new members of their family. Renee and Charlie named their little girls Isabella Marie Swan and Elizabeth Ann Swan."

Tears started to form in Bella's eyes. It killed me to see her this sad.

Bella looked closely into each of our eyes and then went on.

"The family of four didn't last long though. Renee and Charlie always got into stupid, little fights. Renee was the type of women who lives for now, she didn't like Forks because of the cold and the rain. She wanted to go somewhere where it would always be sunny. But Charlie didn't want to leave Forks because he likes this place and he couldn't give up the house because he had inherited it from his father, my grandfather." Bella went on.

"Renee was fed up with Charlie so one day she said that she wanted a divorce and she wanted full custody of the two six month year old girls. Charlie couldn't say no to Renee because he would do anything for her; that's how much he loved her. If Renee wasn't happy in Forks with him and if she wanted a divorce, he would quickly agree, which he did. Renee got her divorce, full custody over Isabella and Elizabeth and a place where it was sunny all the time." Bella sighed.

"Over the years the two girls came to Forks every summer for two weeks, they didn't like the place just like their mom so on their thirteenth birthday they made a choice to not come back. They knew that Charlie would be heartbroken but they couldn't stand Forks; Charlie never showed hurt on his face because every summer after that he came down to Phoenix to see his little girls." she said softly, a pained smile on her face.

"Elizabeth thought her name was mouthful just like me so we nick-named ourselves Izzy and Bella. Izzy was the complete opposite of Bella; she was hyper and lived for the moment like Renee while Bella was responsible like Charlie. Izzy loved to hang out, go to the movies, shopping, and she got all the guys. Alice you would have loved her." Bella said to Alice, flashing her a weak smile, "I was sometimes jealous of my sister because she always got what she wanted. She got the boys, the clothes, the jobs, and Renee's affection. Since Renee and Izzy were so much alike they would do stuff together like rock climbing, yoga, and loads of other things. I couldn't do any of those things because of a couple of reasons. First, I was clumsy like Charlie, second, there were bills to pay, a house to clean, and food to cook because I couldn't trust Renee or Izzy to do any of those things. If I put these responsibilities on them, we would have lost our house because they would have either gotten the bank to take the house away or they would have burned it down. Someone in the family had to be responsible, right?" Bella laughed quietly at her words.

Bella's words triggered something inside of me. I had never known that she was jealous of me; I had always been jealous of her. She was the responsible one; the one that took care of the family while I was a careless teenager.

"That's how life was. Izzy and I would hang out all the time; we were inseparable for most of the time. I would hate the moments when Izzy would get into her shopping moods; I hated shopping back then too. She would drag me around store to store and would sometimes forget that we were human. Her closet was like another mini department store; it was crazy." Bella murmured, shaking her head in disbelief.

"On our fifteenth birthday, around eight-o-clock, we told Renee that… that we wanted to hang out by ourselves. We told her that we wanted to see this movie that came out that day. Renee told us that we could go and dropped us off at the… the theater." Bella whispered, her voice cracking.

My dead heart ached in pain.

"Izzy and I bought our tickets and went inside to get settled. We got there just in time; when the last preview had just ended. The movie started and about ten minutes into the movie, Izzy said that she was going to get us popcorn and drinks. I mumbled a quiet reply and turned back to watch the movie. I was so into the movie that I didn't notice that Izzy never returned; I finally realized that Izzy was not sitting next to me at the end of the movie, at the end of the movie!" she cried, a look of horror on her face.

Bella quickly wiped a tear away before going on, "I didn't think much of her disappearance because Izzy would always do that; if she didn't like the movie, she would leave me and go to the bathroom or to watch something else. So I got out the room and went looking for her. I went into the bathroom, she wasn't there, I looked into the different rooms where other movies were playing, but she wasn't inside any of them. I decided that I would call her to ask her about her whereabouts. I hurried into and empty room and dialed her number. I heard her ringtone from somewhere in the building, but she wasn't picking up. I guessed that her face was being smothered by some guy. I followed the ringtone outside. I found her cell lying on the side of the building; I still didn't think that… that there was something wrong. I guessed that she was just playing a game; that she was just… just trying to scare me. I called her name but there was no answer. 'Izzy this is not funny anymore, just come out so we can go home. It's already ten-o-clock.' I had called again; but there was still no answer; that's when I really started to worry."

I wished that I could cry right now. I felt like someone was jamming their hand inside of me, grabbed my dead heart and started to squeeze it with al their might. I was having a hard time breathing, even though I didn't need any air.

"After a few minutes, I still wasn't getting an answer from her so I called the police. After I was done talking to the police, I called Renee. She drove as fast as she could and got to me at the same time as the police. She was frantic; I had to stay calm for Renee, I couldn't show my emotions now. We waited in front of the theater for two hours. The police brought in a search team for Izzy but they didn't find anything. They told us to go back to the house and that if they found anything, they would call us. Renee and I slowly drove home. When we walked in, I called Charlie and told him the terrible news that Izzy… that Izzy was missing. At my words, he said he was booking the next flight to Phoenix right then and there. While we waited for the police to call, I started to clean the house. Cleaning was the only thing that keeps me calm when I'm nervous, scared, frustrated and horrified. I was scared that I would never get to see my sister again." Bella sniffed, "After a few hours, there was a loud knock on the door. Renee and I jumped up from where we were sitting and ran to the door, hoping that it was Izzy, but it was Charlie. He ran in and grabbed Renee and me in an awkward hug."

"Charlie sat in the living room with us and he started asking me questions in an strained voice, taking charge; he was the chief of police back at Forks. I answered all his questions and then he picked up his phone and started to dial some numbers. The next thing I knew, he said that he was going to go talk to the Phoenix police; he was out the door in no time. It was five in the morning when Charlie came home. He told us that they still hadn't found anything. Renee started crying on Charlie's shoulder. She kept on saying 'My baby, my little girl, how am I going to live without her, she was my everything.' I knew that both of us mean everything to her and that she loved us both equally but at that moment I felt unwanted." Bella sniffed.

It killed me to see her in this much pain; I wanted to take it all away from her.

"The search was going on for a couple of days and on the tenth day the police told us that they had no choice but to give up; they closed the investigation. Renee and Charlie lost hope just like the police, but I didn't; I knew that my sister was out there somewhere, I knew that she was alive, I…I could just feel it in my heart." she mumbled softly, placing her hand on her heart.

"I have to tell you guys this, I didn't even tell Renee or Charlie about it. Don't call me weird or anything but in the first few days that Izzy was missing, something… something weird happened. On the second night she was missing I felt like… like my sister was in pain. I was lying on my bed, trying to go to sleep, but… but I just couldn't. I suddenly felt like someone was biting me on my neck, arms, and legs, and the next thing I know, I felt this… this weird sensation inside of me. This burning sensation, it wasn't bad, it didn't hurt… but it just felt like every single organ inside of me was burning. I didn't know what it was; I just thought that this was how my body was handling Izzy's disappearance. This burning feeling lasted for three days; those were the longest three days of my life." Bella whispered in one breath.

Alice, Rosalie, and I sucked in a breath.

How can that be possible? How can she feel the burning feeling of the transformation? Was it a twin thing? I asked myself.

"But after those agonizingly… weird three days I knew that Izzy was okay because on the third day I finally fell asleep and I had a dream. Izzy came to me in my dream and told me that she was fine and that I should stop worrying about her and that everything was going to be awake. Even after Renee and Charlie gave up I still held on to the hope that I would see my sister again someday; I know that one day I'll come face to face with my sister and I know that that day will be the best day of my measly, old life." she mumbled urgently, a look of fierce determination in her eyes.

"Throughout those two years, I put myself into my school work, into keeping the house in order and taking care of Renee like I always used to. Renee found herself a guy that she really liked, his name was Phil and he was a minor league baseball couch. She married him in about a year. In those two years I had a feeling that Renee blamed me for losing Izzy, she never said it to my face but I had just… I just had a feeling that that was what she thought. I totally agreed with her; it's all my fault that Izzy is missing… it's al my fault; I should have kept an eye on her. I should have went with her when she said she wanted popcorn. Some nights, I would stay awake and ask myself why I didn't go with her, or why I wasn't the one that went to get the popcorn, then Izzy would have still been alive with Renee and I could have been the one that disappeared, then everything would have been okay." Bella mumbled softly.

I was speechless; I could not believe that Bella actually thought that; I could tell from the look in her eyes that she actually believed her the stupid words that she was speaking.

"Bella, it isn't your fault that Izzy went missing, you couldn't have watched over her forever, she was old enough to make her own decisions." Alice cried.

Bella held up her hand to silence her and went on, "One night, after I was done with my homework, I laid in bed trying not to think about her when the telephone rang. I was frustrated because I couldn't get a minute of piece. I let it ring a couple more times hoping that Renee would get the phone, but no one got it. I grumbled and got up and ran to the hallway. I picked up the phone and heard that Renee finally did get the phone and that she was talking to Charlie. Renee was complaining about me, saying that I didn't do anything but sit around the house. She told him that I didn't go out much, that I hardly even did anything; she was worried about me. Charlie told her to let me come to Forks for a while to get a fresh start. Renee declined the offer, saying that I wouldn't agree to it. They talked for a couple more minutes and then hung up. I went back into my room to think. Then the phone rang again, I went to get the phone, I heard Renee talking in a gooey voice so I figured that it was Phil. I listened in on Renee's side of the conversation from my doorway. I could tell that she missed him so much and that she would love to be with him so I made up my mind to come here. I called Charlie and told him my decision and booked a plane ticket to Fords. The next day, I went and told Renee what I did and after two weeks. I came here to Forks."

"When I came to Forks high school that first day and saw Liza, I saw my sister Izzy, Liza looked exactly like Izzy but different in other ways." Bella finished shooting me a quick glance.

"Oh Bella." Alice cried, rushing over to hug Bella.

Rosalie went up to Bella and hugged her too.

I was too shocked to do anything. Bella went through so much pain because of me. I brushed away some imaginary tears and slowly walked over to Bella. I hugged her tightly. I heard some piercing shrieks and realized that they were coming from me; my whole body was shaking with dry sobs.

"It's okay Liza, I know it will hurt but I'll heal someday. And hey I got you and Alice and Rosalie right by my side to help me through the pain." Bella murmured, trying to comfort me.

I'm supposed to be the one comforting her, not the other way around! What kind of sister does that make me? I scolded myself.

"Bella sweetie, no matter what, I will always be there for you. Whenever you need a shoulder to cry on, I'll be there, when ever you just want to hang out, I'll be there for you." I promised her.

"No Bella, we will be there for you." Rosalie answered, correcting me.

"We love you Bella. You are a sister to us and you always will be, no matter what anyone else says. It does not matter that we don't share the same blood, we will always be sisters forever." Alice declared urgently.

"I love you guys too." Bella exclaimed, sounding very tired.

"Why don't we go to sleep, it's three in the morning, and Bella looks like she is going to fall asleep right there on the floor." I mumbled softly.

"Okay, let's go to sleep." Alice agreed.

"See you in the morning Bella." Rosalie called to Bella quietly.

"Kay, see you in the morning." Bella replied, stifling a yawn.

Within minutes, Bella was sound asleep. I watched her for a few minutes and then went downstairs to join the family.

"Hey everyone." I whispered quietly, not wanting Bella to wake up, even though she was on the second floor; she had always been a quiet sleeper.

"Hey sweetie, don't worry about it, come sit here with us." Alice said to me, patting the seat next to her.

I slowly trudged over to her and sat down.

"Hey, Emmett, Jasper, thanks for the fun today. I needed that sister-sister bonding time with Bella. You guys are the best." I murmured softly.

"No problem sis. That's why we're here." Emmett replied, laughing.

"I feel so bad for leaving Bella two years ago. I should have never left her all alone in that movie theater; I should have just stayed where I was. She is always blaming herself for everything." I complained, sobbing quietly, cursing myself for my stupid mistakes.

"Shh sweetie, it's not your fault and it's not Bella's fault. The fault goes to the vampire that took you. And hey, you got your revenge didn't you? You killed him without even knowing what to do. And you haven't even tasted a drink of blood. We're happy to have you as a part of our family and Bella is as much a part of this family as you are." Rosalie cried earnestly.

"But Bella can never know that I am Izzy, that I am her sister, that I never actually really died, just like she thought. She can't know that I'm a vampire." I whispered frantically.

"Yes, that is true but as long as we're here, she is going to be with us. And then next year you guys will say that you are going away to a faraway college. That way, you would have a reason to not to see her anymore." Esme reasoned.

"Yeah I guess, but I know that it will hurt really badly when we have to leave." I cried.

"I know sweetie, but she is a human, she will get over it." Carlisle replied.

"Yeah, I know." I answered, placing my head on Alice's shoulder.

We sat like that and talked for a couple of hours. Around six-o-clock, we heard a car pulling into the driveway.

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