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JadePOV

Who would have thought? My sister, my best friend, my Izzy, had a dark, messed up past. The Cullens had told me the story, and I could tell it was the truth. Izzy, or I guess its Bella, had fallen in love with a vampire while she was human! The phenomenon of the century! But then I heard what ended up happening. That that one Cullen, Edward, left her. They said that he made the whole family leave. They said he left to protect her from his kind, our kind. I know I should feel sympathy for him, but the only reason I didn't massacre the whole family and then go stake him out was because Rosalie and I became such good friends. That guy however, had better watch his back.

They said that they had been depressed since leaving. Esme had felt like she had lost another child, well I guess you could say a third since Edward never left his room except to hunt once a month. Jasper had basically taken over explaining how everyone felt as best he could. I feel kind of sorry for the guy, having to bare all of those feelings every moment of every day. I felt bad for them. Not Edward, he still has to pay, but the rest of them did nothing wrong.

And finally their story came to an end. It was their turn to ask the questions. There was a lot. Then again, they hadn't seen or heard from her since September. In exchange for how much they had told me, I tried to tell them as much as I could, yet Izzy had never gone far into her human life, her transformation, how she had stuck to the diet as a newborn, or her life before joining Darren, Mika, and me. I was able to answer Alice and Jasper's question on why couldn't she see her and what Izzy's cryptic little comment in the pub meant.

*Flashback*

"If you don't mind Jasper, I'd prefer keeping my current emotion…"

*End Flashback*

I had explained that she was a shield and could stop the powers of others from working if she wished. As I went over this, a light of understanding was ignited in Carlisle Cullen's eyes. When I asked about it he had told me that Edward never could read Izzy's mind. Even as a human, he had described it as her never even being there if Edward had tried to read her thoughts.

Now I stood on the back porch of our house. All of this new information was running through my head. At last all of my thoughts settled and I came up with one conclusion.

I have to talk to Izzy.

I needed to hear her side of the story. I needed to know about that big blank gap between her time with the Cullens and her time since I had met her. And then I realized I felt a little bit betrayed. Why had she never told me this? We told each other everything. If she had been hiding this, what other things has she been hiding? I felt myself getting angrier and angrier. And then I thought, Why had I never asked why she always seems to break down after some of her songs? Why did I never ask why she even CHOSE the songs that she does? I started thinking of her most "relatable," as she calls them, songs. Single Ladies, Forever & Always, Since You Been Gone, My Happy Ending, Tell Me Why, What Hurts the Most, White Horse, Because of You, and much more of the same nature. They all carry the same message.

She sings only the songs that she relates to. And I'm just now making all these connections. God, I feel so stupid!

"Gah!" I need to quit talking to myself and get Izzy's side of the story. I'm just getting more and more frustrated.

"Izzy Marie Swan!!!!!!!" I shouted into the forest, knowing she could here me, "GET YOUR DEPRESSED, LOVELESS ASS BACK HERE THIS MINUTE!!!!!!!!!" Okay I was more ticked off than I thought. Oh well, to late.

She knows what would happen if she didn't get back to me within three minutes of that kind of shout. So of course, 2 minutes and 34 seconds later, she was hanging on the branch of an elm tree about 2 yards in front of me, a look of fear, worry, embarrassment, and hurt all thrown together in her eyes.

"You have a lot of explaining to do sis," my voice came out low and menacing.

She simply nodded slowly. A solemn expression came upon her face and she looked down as she started speaking in a soft, pained voice.

"I know that they'll have told you the start of this. I know that you know the end. I know that what you want is in between, but it's a long and painful story. But you deserve to know." Izzy sighed and then looked up. "Darren? Mika? I know you're there. You two deserve to hear this too."

I turned to see my "brother" and "sister" come out from behind the corner. They were obviously eavesdropping. "Sorry Iz," Darren mumbled.

She just sighed again and continued,"After they left me, I was broken. I did nothing. Charlie was the only reason I even got out of bed in the morning. And though Jacob tried to help, it wasn't enough to keep the pain away. Jacob was the son of Charlie's friend Billy Black. He was a good friend to me while I was in the depression. But he too, ended up avoiding me. Only hurting me more. I never found out why but he was always busy with another group of boys. He was different from the Jake I once knew.

"Then one day, I decided to visit the meadow, His meadow. I wondered foolishly if maybe there'd be a message for me from him there. Like I said it was stupid. As soon as I had stepped through the trees and out into the sun, I nearly blacked out. The dam I had tried so hard to build to stop from thinking of them broke completely. I lay curled up in a ball for a long time, violently twitching from the pain. Then," she paused briefly, "I saw a familiar figure. The vampire that had decided not to join James on his task of killing me. This vampire's name was Laurent. He had been intrigued by the Cullens' way of life and ventured up north to the Denali coven. I thought he had taken up the diet. I stupidly called out to him. Only then did I notice the color of his irises when he locked eyes with me. They were the darkest of reds."

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Don't kill me!!!!! I'm sorry for another cliffy but I had to cut this off somewhere. Review please!!! Ideas always welcome as well as and questions, comments, or concerns. Love you all! I hope to get another two chapters up by next weekend, but my mom never lets me know until the day of an event that we're going. I'm sorry! Love ya!

Courtney