A/N: I know that it has been over a year since I last updated, and I really do not have some totally spectacular reason for not updating, other than a new job, and moving again, and the fact that I lost the urge to write for a while, I choose not to send this chapter to a beta because I do not have one at the moment, plus I did not want to make you wait any longer, if anybody is interested in being a Beta on this story for me please message me, so enjoy.

CH 9

B Pov

As I got ready for school for the day, even going so far as to wear one of the outfits that Alice had bought me, the feeling of being watched persisted, at first I had just thought I was being paranoid, but now this feeling was getting more annoying by the minute. Also something about my room felt off, but nothing looked out of place, all of my books were where I put them, even my clothing from yesterday was still lying on the rocking chair in the corner.

Deciding to give into my over active imagination for the moment I went over to my night stand where I had left my wand when I had gotten up, or rather when I had fallen out of bed this morning, picking it up I mutter under my breath.

"Homenum Revelio"

When after a few seconds nothing happened, I knew that there was nobody watching me it was then that the thought that not everybody in this small town was humane, for just a moment I had forgotten about the Cullen's I really was not sure that this spell would work on them, I mean yes in the most basic sense they were human, but at the same time they were not human, my question was, are they human enough that this spell would work on them. I would have to find a way to test this theory out soon I guess.

Deciding that for the moment at least that I was alone, I continued to search my room, because I still felt as if something still was not quite right, I know I must sound paranoid as I said earlier, but I would rather be a little over paranoid and be proven wrong then not look and risk my safety and my secret, after a once over of the rest of my room I had found nothing to indicate that somebody had been in here with me at any time, shrugging and deciding to give up and get to school I walked over to my closet to grab a jacket, because a per usual for Forks it was a cold morning.

When I opened my closet I noticed right away that somebody had been in here, I clearly remembered leaving my broom leaning right next to the door frame of the closet, and now it had been moved so it now leaned further away, to anybody else they may not have noticed that ½ inch or so difference in placement, but I did, you did not touch another witch or wizards broom if you valued your life, the same went for their wand as well, so of course I notice the minute change in position, this prompted me to search my closet further, totally forgetting about the jacket I originally been after. Other than the fact that my broom had been moved the front of the closet remained the same, it was not until I reached the back of the closet that I noticed anything else out of place.

In the back of the closet I found that the robs I had hung in the back of the closet the day I been cleaning the entire house had been moved aside, who ever had moved them had done a pretty good job of attempting to put them back in the right places, but they had left a corner of my trunk uncovered that had been covered before. The reason I had the trunk cover up was so prevent anybody from seeing it and going through it, because I left my potions and most of my spell books in it and did not need anybody accidentally going through it.

I immediately pushed the rest of the robes covering it aside and threw open the lid, yeah somebody had been in here, but once again nothing was really noticeably out of place, it just a matter of being minutely shifted around. The only conclusion that I could reach was that yes somebody had been in my room and had gone through my room, but whoever it had been was not a muggle or even a human, so that left only one option, a vampire had been in my room.

It must have been one of the Cullen's, but witch one had it been, my bet was that it had been Alice, from what I knew of the other Cullen's I had had any kind of contact with, she just seemed the most likely, because of the three that I knew anything of, one was away, and I had the feeling that the other would not have gone so far as to search my room, she would have just out and out asked me.

So that meant that Alice knew my secret, I was a little upset that my secret had gotten out, but I could not be really be angry about it, because didn't I know there secret as well, as for Alice being in my room uninvited and going through my stuff there again I was upset, but at the same time I was also guilty of spying of the as well. The one thing I did know was that I would now have to get Alice alone and talk to her and ask her to please keep my secret I could always threaten to hex her, but I really did not want use threats on my friend, yes I consider her my friend, I only hope that she felt the same and would on the bases of our new found friendship to keep my secret from the rest of her family.

I quickly shoved my trunk back behind the robes, and backed out of my closet, that was a bad idea I wound up tripping over my shoes and falling into the wall, bumping my elbow as I fell, I could already feel the bruise that I would have later, as soon as I escaped from my closet, I pulled my phone out of my back pocket.

When I saw what time it was I began rushing out of my room, if I did not leave right now I would be late for school, and I really wanted a chance to try and talk to Alice in private away from her family before school began, it was not until I was about to run out the door that I realized that I had left my book bag and jacket up in my room, I really didn't have time to run back for them, so I pulled my wand from my back pocket.

"Accio book bag"

My book bag flew into my hands.

"Accio blue jacket"

My favorite blue jacket also flew into my hands.

I rushed out the front door, instead of taking more time to lock the door with the key hidden above the door; I chanced using more magic for a moment I already knew there was no muggles around.

Pointing my wand at the front door I whispered to myself

"Colloportus"

This effectively locked the front door, the only hitch was that I would have to beat Charlie home because now I was the only one that could get the door open, but I would just make sure to do be the first home today, luckily my truck started quickly this morning, I pushed my truck faster than normal in my effort to get to school as quickly as I could.

Luck must have been with me for the moment because I pulled into the school parking lot and had just parked when the Cullen's pulled in and parked only a couple of spaces away from me, so it hopefully would not be too hard to get Alice's attention, I slowed down a little in my effort to get out of the truck giving them time to get out of their car and head this direction. When I looked up I was momentarily thrown for a loop when I noticed for the first time since my first day last week, that there were once again five vampires instead of the four I had become adjusted to seeing every morning getting out of their car.

In the time I was frozen with this discovery and the shock of seeing Edward once again, they had almost walked right past me, but as if she knew I wanted to talk to her Alice turned to the blond male beside her.

"I'll catch up with you in a little while"

She told him right before giving him a quick hug and kiss, I could tell he wanted to protest, but in the end he didn't he caught up with the others after only a moment, at the same time I noticed that Edward was looking at me as they passed, this made a slight shiver of fear to slither down my back, the last time I had seen him I was sure he had wanted to attack me for some reason.

"Hey Bella"

Alice said when she reached my side, she seemed a little subdued today if I had to pinpoint it I would say that she seemed contrite towards me, did she know that I knew that she had been in my room, no she couldn't know that not unless she was some kind of mind reader or physic.

"Hey Alice, can I talk to you"

"Yeah what do you need to talk about?"

"Can we talk somewhere more private?"

"Yeah follow me"

"Ok"

I followed behind Alice across the parking lot towards the forest that surrounded every place in this small town, at first I was apprehensive to follow her into the forest, but I knew that I could protect myself if I needed to so I continued to follow her, we walked just far enough into the trees so as not to be disturbed.

Alice was the first to speak

"You don' have to worry Bella, I won't tell anybody that you are a witch I promise"

This threw me for loop for the second time in less than 10 minutes, my first instinct and reaction was to deny the fact that I was a witch.

"What makes you think I'm a witch Alice?"

"Come one Bella don't try that one on me"

"Ok, but how did you know that that was what I was going to ask you"

At this Alice hesitated, I'm going to guess that she didn't yet know that I knew her secret as well so she was going to try and deflect me.

"Umm I'm a good guesser"

Was her lame attempt to avoid a more complete answer, I just looked at her with a raised eyebrow, letting her know I was not buying it. I let her squirm for a moment more before I decided to let her off the hook.

"For a vampire you sure do suck at lying Alice"

I had the momentary feeling of victory at the look of shock on her face when I told her this.

"How did you know I was a vampire?"

At that moment I decided our conversation was going to last a while and we would be talking about some serious subjects, and I really didn't want to chance being discovered by anybody.

"Hang on just a moment Alice; I want to make sure we can talk in absolute privacy first"

"Ok" was her hesitant reply

Before she could ask me how I was going to do that, I pulled my wand out of my sleeve and proceeded to do what I could assure us the most privacy and protection possible, I began walking around the small clearing we were standing in muttering spells to myself, I cast a Intruder charm to start with, now if anybody got to close we would know right away, next I cave inimicum to help keep out anybody we didn't want near us, lastly I cast a muffliato spell so on the off chance that anybody got close enough without us noticing right away they would not be able to hear what we were saying.

"Ok now we can talk"

"Wow what was all of that" Alice asked

"Oh I was just making sure we would be safe to talk out here is all, nothing special just a few simple charms and spells"

"What all did you do?"

"Let's see I used cave inimicum to protect us from anybody we don't want near us, then I cast an intruder charm so I would know if anybody started getting to close, and lastly I cast a muffliato spell so on the off chance anybody got past the other defenses they won't be able to hear what we are saying"

"That's a lot of magic"

"Not really when you know what you are doing, now back to our original subject"

"Oh yeah right, so how did you know I was a vampire?"

"Well in the first place being a witch it's not hard to believe in other mythical beings"

"You are right on that count, but that only proves that you believe that we exist, how did you know I was a vampire?"

"Don't you mean how did I know your entire family was vampires?"

She just raised her eyebrow at me, seeing right through my attempt to talk circles around her and avoid telling her how I knew she was a vampire, just because one may believe in vampires does not automatically mean you know how to spot one.

"Ok, I could tell you and your family were vampires because I have run into vampires before"

"You have? Where?"

"Back home in Arizona, right before I moved here with my dad"

I unconsciously began rubbing my upper arm where my scar from said vampires was, Alice gave me a sympathetic look when she noticed this.

"I'm guessing that it wasn't a pleasant meeting?"

"No I just barely managed to escape, but not before one of them bite me"

"You were bitten, how are you still human then?"

Alice asked with a look of horror and awe on her face.

"He just barely managed to bite before I was able to blast him off of me, my intention was to blow him up but that did not work I wasn't strong enough right then, after that I used a shielding charm to keep them away from me."

"But what about the venom from his bite?"

"He did not manage to get much in me, I was able to get it siphon it out with my wand, then I apperated home so my mom could finish patching me up"

"Wow"

Was Alice could manage to say.

"Ok now it my turn to ask questions"

"What do you want to know?"

"First is it true that your eyes are gold colored because you drink animal blood"

"Yes, how did you know that?"

"I did a little research through some of my books, and one of my books mentioned the possibility of your kind of vampire existing but there is no hard evidence to prove it"

"You don't do things half way do you?"

"No I don't, now it's still my turn to ask the questions, how did you know I wanted to talk to you?"

"I can see the future"

"So your physic?"

"Yes I am, but I'm more accurate than your typical so called physic"

"That's cool, how does it work?"

"I get visions of what may happen when a person makes a decision, but my visions can change if they change their mind"

"Yeah that would defiantly make you better than a normal physic, do you like it"

"Yeah most of the time but sometimes it gets annoying"

Just then somebody set off the silent intruder spell I had cast around us.

"Shh somebody approaching us"

At that Alice was immediately on edge.

"How do you know that?"

"They just set off the silent alarm that goes with the intruder spell I cast"

"Oh"

Suddenly Alice seemed to blank out, but I couldn't worry about that now, I raised my wand arm and began walking towards where the intruder was approaching from, I was trying to be as silent as possible, when all of the sudden Alice popped up right next to me. This made me jump and almost drop my wand.

"Alice don't scare me like that, I could have hexed you clear into next week"

"Sorry Bella, but I figured you would want to know who you are looking for"

"You know who it is?"

"Yep" she said very casually

"Are you going to tell me?"

"Yeah it is my brother Edward"

"Oh really"

"Yeah he was concerned with how long we had been in the woods"

"Uh huh, well your brother is not my favorite vampire right now, how would you feel if I played with him a little"

"Oh go ahead; it really was bad manners to treat you how he did last week"

"Yeah I feel the same way, can you tell me exactly he is at this moment"

"Yeah he is in the trees above us a little to your left"

I knew that even with his vampire hearing, Edward still couldn't hear us because we were still under the protection of the muffliato charm, so I now pointed my wand in the direction that Alice said her brother was in and gave the tree a slight blast so that it shook and with luck knocked Edward from the tree. As soon as I saw him I pointed my wand at him.

"Mobilicorpus"

I stopped him a few feet from the ground and let him hang there for the fun of it, but he didn't even looked shock at what I was doing, instead he was glaring at his sister, and they seemed to be having some type of conversation that I could not hear. I had enough of all of this surprise and secrecy, I would get the answers I wanted one way or another today, Alice face went blank once again, when her vision ended both her and her brother looked at me.

"Ok guys enough with the silent conversation and all of that crap, what is going on here?"

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter, at the moment I will not make any promises about when I will update again, but I can say it will not be a year again before I update, so until next time. LD