The first time I met Edward he seemed to not like me, but he only wanted to drink my blood in the middle of class, even though if he did he would endanger his family. That's why I am still here today; he wanted to protect his family. I went hunting for answers when he saved me from Tyler's van that almost killed me, after he wouldn't tell me how he was able to do that. Then he saved me from those men when I went shopping with Jessica and Angela, that was the night when I figured everything out, and he told me. After that we started dating, and on my birthday his family threw me a party, even though I didn't want one, and Jasper almost killed me. After that Edward left me, in order to keep me safe, lying that he didn't love me. After that I started to hang out with Jacob, and Edward thought that I had killed myself and came to the Volturi to be killed, and I saved him. That was the first time that I met the Volturi, and they scared me extremely bad. I remembered Charlie, my father that had been left by my mother when I was a few months old, and I had moved back to Forks because my mother had remarried, and wanted to travel with her new husband, so I forced myself from the sun into the rain of Forks.

The last thing that I remembered was Edward proposing to me, I had answered yes, and I remembered having gone hiking so that I could decide how to tell Charlie. Then this happened, and I almost hurt Charlie extremely hard. I felt horrible, how could I forget everyone? Then treat them so horribly.

I realized that I was still conscious; I felt cold hands on me, trying to help me and calling my name. As the pain started to pass I opened my eyes, seeing that now everyone was in the room, but none of the Cullen family was there. I was helped up and escorted to my room by someone, but I never looked at their face, so I didn't know who helped me. Rachel came to help me in my room, with Alec in tow behind her. Luckily Rachel and Alec were dating, so she was able to make Alec absorb my sense of touch so that I couldn't feel the pain. Eventually I told both of them that I could deal with the pain, and if they could just leave so that they wouldn't have to see me like that was most likely the best thing they could do for me. By the time they left the room Alec's abilities wore off, and I was in pain again. I heard myself scream, and I remembered the time that Jacob bit me, almost turning me into a vampire. That pain was almost unbearable. Yet when I woke up from that Edward was there with his angel like face to help me recover.

This time thought I wasn't as lucky. When I awoke I was alone, the pain had worn off, but there wasn't anyone in the room to comfort me. I sat up, and looked at myself in the mirror, I looked horrible! I fell over laughing, knowing that I had been conscious during the whole thing, and now I looked like a mess. I went into the bathroom and took a shower, it was nice and warm, I could tell due to the steam that was coming over the top of the shower. I changed into a pair of skinny jeans and brown turtleneck sweater, that I honestly couldn't remember buying, and waited for something to happen. Which, luckily it did soon; my phone rang right as I wondered what was next.

"Aro let me go back to Forks," I screamed into the phone.

"Isabella," he said in a clam tone, "you must stay here for another month. Then you won't have to come back for a year." He seemed so pleased with himself, but I hated him.

"Aro, it's Bella again. At least let me talk to Edward! I miss him so much."

"We will talk about this in an hour; we will see what we can do to find the Cullen's phone number. Why don't you take the rest of the day off and stay in your room to calm down." With that he hung up and I was alone again.

I screamed out of frustration, all I wanted was Edward, to be able to pull him close in a kiss and know that he would always be there. I walked over to my bookshelf, hoping to find something there that would help. I found the photo album, and opening it I remembered taking every picture, or Alice taking some of the pictures, and this was the closest thing that I had to Edward. This was the first time that I found myself looking at the last page of the album, and I somehow found a small silver cell phone. I opened it and went to the address book, and somehow found that it was filled with several numbers in it. Everyone I could think of, besides Edward this made me growl from anger, but instead I found Alice's number instead and listen to it dial.

"Alice," I said when she picked up, "is that you?"

"Bella?!" She said surprised. Wow, I surprised the physic pixie.

"Yes, and Aro locked me in my room and said that I have to stay here for another month. Oh yeah, I got my memories back! Isn't that great?"

"Yeah, Bella's back, but we do have to somehow get you back here in sooner than a month or Edward and everyone else will go crazy without you! I'm already off the plane, so I'm back in Italy! I'll get Aro to do this, and if not, Jasper will knock everyone out with his emotion stuff and we'll be in Alaska before they all wake up!"

"So you'll be here soon?"

"Yeah, but I don't know how we are going to do this," with that she said goodbye and hung up.

I think that it was only a little while before one of the boys that I hated in the mansion kicked open my door and threw me over his shoulder. I pounded on his back and yelled at him, kicking his chest, up none of that seemed to faze him as he literally threw me into the throne room against the opposite wall. I moaned in pain and felt many eyes on my, but when I looked only Aro was by my side. He helped me up and with pain in my eyes I watched him walk back to his seat, and I had no choice but to follow and stand behind him. I let my eyes travel upward to see the Cullen family in the middle of the room, Edward being held back by Rachel, Alec, and Renata, Alice being held back by Jasper who held her close trying to calm her, and Esme being held back by Carlisle holding her hand and holding her close.

I couldn't look at them, all I wanted to do was run and be with them, they were like family to me, and one day they would be my family, but if I were to defy the Volturi they would kill me. With pain in my eyes I looked at them, I wanted to dry sob, but I just waited like a normal girl, and listened to the conversation numbly. The whole time I was looking at Edward, and he was looking at me.

"So, you want Bella to go back to Forks with you," Caius said, leading this from going down some path that couldn't be good.

"Yes, that's correct," Carlisle releasing Esme's hand.

"She has responsibilities here Carlisle. She can come and live with you if she chooses to in a moth," Aro told him. "This is not up for discussion."

"She belongs with us," I heard Edward roar. "She doesn't belong here. She still has a father, who is living that cares about her. Without her he will never be at peace, everyone has been changed without her; her parents, her stepfather, her friends, all of us, some of those dogs of mortals; everyone that knew her as a human wants her back." He seemed mad at this, and I remembered all of them, I knew how much this was hurting everyone, but how could I fix it?

"She has promised to stay here one month of the year, so that she wouldn't have to completely leave this family, but she obviously wants to go with you," I heard Aro say. I realized that he was holding my hand, and I quickly pulled it away so that he couldn't figure out what else I was thinking, like hitting him over the head for all of this.

"Why can't that be in like a month or two," I asked, "I don't want to be without Edward, please Aro." Okay, so I was begging, but there wasn't much of another choice. I was on my knees next to Aro begging, and there was only one answer that I could hope for.

"Why doesn't Edward stay here," Marcus suggested. "He would have to be a partial member of the Volturi though."

"No," I said in only a whisper, "No, Edward! Please, I know what you think of the Volturi, don't. I couldn't ask you to do that!" I was now in front of Edward, his hands in mine begging him not to. He hated the Volturi, and my stupid mistake must have made them him hate them even more. "Please, I broke a promise that I made to you, not to go into the woods alone. I made that promise when we first met, and I broke it, I have to fix this, but please don't."

"Bella," Edward said as he pulled me close to him, "I've always let you have your way, but," he took a staggered breath. "I've lived without you for twenty years, the hardest of my life, and I won't be without you for another month, that will kill me." He kissed my forehead, pulling me even closer, and just held me there. I didn't want to let him go, I was dry sobbing into his shirt. I didn't want him to sacrifice himself so that he could be with me, I wanted to be with him, but there was no way that I was going to let him do this.

"No," I murmured like a little girl, I didn't want to let him go.

"Aro you," He didn't have time to finish his sentence, I placed my lips over his, stunning him for only a moment. The moment that I needed to let him get what he really wanted.

"No Aro," I said for him, "Edward won't do it. We can find another way to be together for a month rather than him staying here. We can find a way." I looked up at him, pain and despair in his eyes. I was sure that mine were the same, but I wouldn't let him do it. I just couldn't watch him do that.

"I think that you all need a few moments alone. There is a small room unlocked down the hall, Bella, you know the one, you can talk there," Caius told me.

I lead the Cullen family out and to the room, where I was hugged tightly by Alice, who wouldn't let me go until Jasper pulled her off of me. Emmet hugged me next, and then Esme and Carlisle hugged me as if I were their daughter, Jasper only nodded at me, still seeming to regret the fact that he had almost attacked me on my birthday, while Rosalie shook my hand. I remembered the Cullen family always telling me that I was like family to them, and I easily believed them due to the fact that I thought of them as my family. Edward brought me back into his embrace, whispering to me that I shouldn't have said no for him, but he was somewhat thankful that I did.