When I woke up I was in a familiar place, but there was yelling from a far off space. I sat up and looked around, I was in my room I Forks, but how did I get here? I listened closer to the voices; one was Edward, but the other one I didn't recognize. More voices blended into the mix of yelling, and then there was a thud and even more yelling.
I got up and ran down the stairs, and go figure, I tripped and fell.
"Stupid cursed house," I murmured to myself as I got up and walked to the living room, but what I saw I couldn't believe. Edward was there screaming at Sam Uley and his crew. "What's going on?"
"Bella," Edward said running over to me, he stood in front of me and looked at the visitors. It was as if he was guarding me from something.
"What's going on? How did I get here?" I didn't really care who answered my questions, but whoever was going to better tell me why I'm across the country from where I should be. I looked out the window and saw that the sky was darker than I had ever seen it before. "Sh**." (No swearing in my stories!)
"Bella," I heard Sam say as I was looking out the window, "Come over here."
"Why," I asked looking over to the group to see Sam motioning me over. "There's nothing wrong."
"Step away from Edward; he's dangerous to you."
"No he isn't, besides I can defend myself if he becomes dangerous." I fingered my necklace again just to make sure that the last two weeks hasn't been a dream. When I felt the necklace I knew that they hadn't, and that my dear father was really mad.
"Bella," another said. I recognized the voice, it was Jake, but he didn't look like Jake. "Please come over here. I don't want you to get hurt."
Edward responded before I had a chance to think. "Like she's any safer with you; you all are just as dangerous as I am." What did he mean by that? A bunch of the reservation residents are as dangerous as Edward?
"She's safer with us," another one of them shouted. "She should come with us; not stay here with you."
"This is my house- um, I believe- and I will stay here. I'm not going any whereuntil I calm my father down!"
The group looked at me like I was crazy as I started searching for my stash of drachma that I kept in the house, to bad I had hidden it five years ago and didn't remember where the world I put them. Luckily I found them on the bookshelf in a hollowed out book about Greek mythology. That was an original spot.
"I'll be back," I called over my shoulder as I went to the closet to get a coat.
"Bella," Jake stopped me as I started to the door. "Stop and sit down." He brought me to the couch and sat me down. Edward was growling and being held back by tow of the people in the group as he watched this. How were they able to hold him back? "Are you feeling alright?"
"Yeah," I said getting up again. "I feel fine; just let me go calm my father down."
Jake pushed me back down onto the couch. "Bella, why don't we take your temperature? I think that you might be sick."
"I'm not sick Jake!" I looked around to see that Sam was also uneasy, he motioned for someone who was just standing around to go and I think that he ran off to find a thermometer. "Why are you all looking at me so uneasily?"
There was a pause, Edward was still growling and Jake was looking at me still uneasily, but he was the first one to speak. "Bella, don't' you remember?" The guy who ran out of the room and gave Jake a thermometer, Jake looked at it and told me to open my mouth.
I opened my mouth and watched as Jake took my temperature. Apparently I was sick because I had a fever of 110, but I think that it was just because I was mad.
"I think that with a fever that high she may just be delusional," Sam said as he was talking with Jake. They thought that I was far enough away, but I could still hear them loud and clear. "What do you think blood-sucker?"
"She does have a fever, you just proved that, and she may be delusional, but why don't you just let her go and see what she does. I think that it would be in all of our best interest." I heard a bang outside, and I saw a tree on fire due to lightning.
I sprung up from my place and tan to the door where my small bag of drachma sat and ran outside in to the rain. I took out a drachma and looked around. "Please Lady Iris, allow a rainbow to appear." I looked around and spotted on, it was just barely there, but it was a rainbow. "Oh, Iris, goddess of rainbow, accept my offering. Lord Zeus, king of the skies, Mount Olympus."
"Where is my daughter," my father roared. He was in a council of the gods, and he was roaring at Hades.
"Bella," I heard from behind me. Jake was screaming out into the rain. "Bella!" You couldn't see two feet in front of you in this rain and Jake was trying to find me. "Bella,"he said when he finally found me, "come back inside. You're sick and need to rest."
"Isabella," my father called from the IM, "where are you?"
As Jake put his arms around me I found that I was extremely cold, and he was just so warm I let him come close. I heard Edward screaming inside the house, but I couldn't do anything to comfort him. "Jake," started but when I looked back to where the IM was, but it had disappeared.
"Bella, we need to get back inside, you're sick. You shouldn't be out here." Jake picked me up and there was a flash of lighting, but it didn't scare me. I looked up to the sky and muttered a sorry.
Jake took me back into the house, muttering something about me being hurt and about taking me to a hospital, but I didn't catch it all. Jake put me on the couch, the others were yelling again but I couldn't make anything out. I did realize that I was cold when Jake let go of me and I couldn't feel his heat. I sat up, but was yelled at my Jake and Edward to lie back down, but I just sat up and slumped back in the couch and folded my arms across my chest.
"You shouldn't be here," Sam yelled at Edward who was still being held back.
"I'm here because Bella was in trouble back in New York," he responded.
"Why would she be in New York," Jake yelled back.
"She was there at a camp!"
"School is still in session, she couldn't go to a camp!"
"I was there on my own," I screamed at all of them. "I was there because of my job."
"What camp," Sam asked. He luckily wasn't yelling like the other two at the moment.
"A family camp; my mother and father sent my brother to come and get me. I had to go back. It was a deal."
"Bella," Jake said in a sigh, "you should go lie down. You still have a fever. Aren't you cold?"
I got up and grabbed a blanket. I put it around my shoulders to keep warm and sat back down. "That solves on problem. Now why are you looking at me like I'm crazy?" That's when I realized it. They believe that Charlie was my father, a tears rolled down my cheek as I remembered his funeral only a few weeks ago.
"Bella, Charlie's dead," Jake said even though I barely heard it. I felt Jake take my one hand and Edward take my other. They both said comforting words; telling me that Charlie was a great man and saying that they were sorry that he died.
After only minutes there was a knock on the door, I didn't have to answer the door to know that it was a god. I got up and ran to the door; I knew that it would be Aphrodite, she's always wanted to see Charlie's house. When I opened the door I saw here there with a sad look on her face as she pulled me into her arms.
"You should lay down," she murmured to me. "You do have a fever." She guided me inside and set me down at the table while I still cried my heart out. Why didn't the world ever work out the way I wanted? Charlie had still died due to something that I was sure wasn't an animal, even though his body was only torn up enough for it to be an animal.
"Do you want me to make you some tea Bella," Aphrodite asked me after a moment. I nodded yes, but it was only a few moments later when she spoke again, "how do you make tea?"
Through my tears and sobs I laughed, Aphrodite never did know how to cook. "Never mind," I said through the sobs, "could you just get me some water?"
That was one of the only things Aphrodite could do was make water, so I quickly had a glass sitting in front of me on the table with Aphrodite sitting on the other side of the table with her hand over mine. "He's okay. Hades told us that Charlie found his way and is safely where he is supposed to be. Don't worry about him."
This seemed to help a little because my sobs quieted and now only silent tears fell on down my cheeks. I wondered quietly what all the boys were doing in the other room, but right now I was just happy to be with Aphrodite for the moment.
"Bella," I heard Jake say gently from the door frame. "Are you okay?"
"I'll be fine Jake," I saw out of the corner of my eye Aphrodite straighten up and look excited. "This is my relative, Aphrodite."
"Nice to meet you," Jake said with a nod. "You should really get some sleep, you are sick."
"Oh yeah," Aphrodite chimed as she got up. "Your mother is very concerned about you Bella, and you need to Im when you feel better. I've been aloud to stay the night to help you a little, but I have to leave in the morning."
"How did you get my dad to let you do that," I wondered out loud.
"Bella," Jake said getting defensive again, "we just went thought this, and no matter how many times you keep talking about Charlie as if he was alive he isn't coming back."
"Charlie's safe," I repeated more to myself than anyone else. "he's where he should be."
"I'm confused," Jake answered again. "I'm really confused."
"Bella," Edward said coming into the room and taking a standing spot next to me with his hands on my shoulders. "You're in soaked cloths, go change I can explain to Jake."
I nodded, I couldn't speak anymore. Jake would be devastated that I had lied to him for so long, but I couldn't risk him putting me in a psycho ward. "You two have to explain it together," I said before making my way to the stairs. The other boys were sitting silently around the living room, and looked at me silently as I passed them and went up the stairs. I took a warm shower and then changed into pajamas before I went back down stairs. I hadn't noticed that everyone was yelling at each other in the living room, except that Hermes had come and was now yelling at everyone.
"What are you all fighting about," I screamed at everyone. The fever had set in and I started to feel horrible, but I had to stop this fighting.
"They are all saying that you're adopted," Jake screamed again. "That you aren't Charlie's biological daughter and that you've gone back to living with you biological family like you did during the summer a few years back!"
"What's so hard to understand about that," I asked calmer than he was. "It's true Jake, just accept it!"
Jake's face changed from anger to devastation. Why was he so sad? I was still Bella; I just wasn't Charlie and Renee's biological daughter. The rest of his group just looked stunned. They had come to know me as Charlie's daughter, but why was it so much of a shock? I went over to the couch where the blanket I had earlier was lying and took it back up to my room.
I fell asleep while listening to Jake and his friends leave. I heard Hermes and Aphrodite talking to Edward, most likely Hermes was just being an older over protective brother. I really didn't care; Edward said that he didn't love me. Now all I needed to do was figure out if he was lying in the woods, or if he was lying to my face right now.
