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A/N: YAY! I love how you all love my story! It makes me happy! Lol… anyways, I super duper hope that you all like this chapter and sorry that it's taken me so long to update it, I was hoping that it wouldn't take this long, but, unfortunately, it did and I hate that…dang…anywho, here ya go! Enjoy!

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Bella's POV:

"You know, I've found that your driving actually scares me, so I think I'm going to drive if that's alright with you," Edward announced as we reached his Volvo. I had the keys in my hand and was now set on keeping them clenched there in a vice grip. He tried prying them from my hand, but I just shook my head and suppressed a grin, but it somehow came out in the end. "Bella… Give. Them. Here," he said, holding out his hand. I shook my head again.

"No. Way."

And with that, Edward completely caught me off guard by pushing me against the silver car—hard, but it didn't hurt in the least—and forcing a kiss on my lips. And an intense one, at that. He stopped all of a sudden, leaving me breathing hard, and he walked over to the driver's side, keys in hand. I must have completely lost any grip on anything, or how else would he have gotten them from my hands?

I narrowed my eyes at Edward, who was starting to take his place in the driver's seat. "You are pure evil," I muttered as I sat down in the passenger's side of the Volvo. Edward chuckled and I just folded my arms over my chest. Two minutes later, as he was driving, I couldn't stand it anymore. "You drive too slow!" I complained. He was only going 115.

He took a double look at me, which was full of disbelief. "You're joking, right?" My head snapped over to look at Edward, who had taken his eyes off the road to stare at me, and then he shook his head slowly. "So, when you were human, you thought I drove too fast and it frightened you, and now that you're one of us, you can't stand my driving because it's too slow for you, is that it?" I nodded. "Yikes. My driving is never going to completely please you, is it?"

I shook my head. "Nope," I said, and then broke out grinning hugely.

Minutes later, we were back at the Cullen house. "I could've driven a lot faster than that, you know," I mumbled as we stepped out of the car, rolling my eyes.

"Your driving is insane," Edward replied matter-of-factly as he reached me. I nodded my head as I smiled. "But it's just one more thing that I can love about you." He took my hands in both of his, letting me fall back against the car once again and starting to kiss me, hoping to leave me breathless once again. But this time I simply did the opposite. I kissed him hard and passionately for what seemed like hours but was only minutes, flipping him over so that he was the one on pressed up on the car.

But, eventually, we were interrupted by a squeaky voice. "Bella! Edward! You're home!" It was Alice, I could tell.

"Alice," Edward grumbled into my hair after he finally found his voice. "Can't you see that we're a bit busy here?" he whined, his arms still snaked around my waist and went back to pressing his lips to mine.

"Well, maybe Bella would rather do that in the house…" she retorted. Edward pulled back to look at me for an answer. All I could do was just smile like an idiot. It was nice not having to hold back anymore. With a moan—saying he didn't really want to--Edward picked me up bridal style and carried me into the house, with me still smiling all the while, and sat me down on the couch. He joined me where I was and started kissing me again, his hands traveling all around my waist. Edward deepened the kiss as he pushed me down onto the couch.

Just then, we heard a male voice clear his throat behind us as he came into the room: Carlisle, with Esme and the rest of the family trailing behind him. I heard Alice giggle as we struggled to compose ourselves, but gave up on trying when Edward just sat me on his lap, an arm still around my waist. "Bella," Carlisle greeted me, "now that you two are home, I think we should test out your new powers."

I nodded silently. "What should I do, then?" What does he want me to do? How am I supposed to stop someone from using their own powers? Geez, this is confusing, I thought to myself.

Edward chuckled underneath me. "Bella, you are the one who stopped Victoria before. Just do the same thing." This was going to get annoying, the whole Edward-being-able-to-read-my-mind thing.

You aren't supposed to be able to know what I'm thinking, Edward. It's just not natural.

He laughed again. "Who said being a vampire was natural?" he asked.

I sat back against his chest, folding my arms, fuming with anger. Yup, definitely annoying.

"Bella?" Carlisle called my name, wondering why I was mad.

I smiled weakly. "Sorry." I paused. "Who do you want me to try it on?" I asked, as I rose from my place on Edward's lap.

"Er," he looked around the room at the rest of the Cullens, "how about Jasper? If that's alright with you, Jasper," he asked for his permission, turning to him. Jasper simply nodded. "Okay, then, Jasper, you try to make everyone in the room calm and at the same time, Bella, I want you to try to stop him from doing so. All right? Go ahead."

I took that as my cue to attempt it. I inhaled a deep breath, closed my eyes, and concentrated very hard on preventing Jasper from making the rest of us calm. Stop. Don't do it. I opened my eyes, still not breaking my concentration, and looked around the room. "Did it work?" I asked uncertainly as I felt my body grow feeble.

Carlisle walked over to me and put his hands on both of my shoulders, staring at me intently. "Yes…and still it's hard for me to believe it."

"So…no one feels calm or anything, then?" I asked, looking around the room.

"Well, no. Alice over there is squealing with joy. Bella, you do know that this means you are one of the most powerful of our kind, don't you?" His eyes seemed to be searching mine.

"I am? How so?" I asked confusedly, and I started to breathe unevenly.

"Well, think about it, Bella. If anyone tried to use their own gifts on you to make you do or feel something and you happened to be in a fight, then you could use your gift to your advantage. You would be disarming them."

"Is there anything else to it? What I mean is, if I can stop them from using their gifts, does that also mean that I could borrow their gifts?"

"Well, I'm not sure," he responded and paused. "Why don't you try? Concentrate very hard and try to read…Emmett's mind." I noticed then that everyone else had been silent throughout our whole discussion.

"Hey, wait a second, why does she have to use my gift?" Edward blurted out. I looked back at him for a moment before smiling at how childish and adorable his outburst was. I went over and kissed his forehead, as he had done so many times to me.

"It'll be fine," I soothed. "I doubt it will even work, so there's no reason to worry," I said glumly and sat, once again, on his lap, my feet hanging over the arm of the couch, my back supported by Edward's arm. I took my hand to his arm and let it go so that I could fall back, just lying on his legs, and closed my eyes, instantly comfortable. "Alright, Emmett, think something," I ordered him, but my voice was soft.

That's so cool that she can stop others' powers. I wonder if she can stop Edward now that he can finally read her mind…

"I know, it's awesome, isn't it?" I answered his unspoken comment, smiling ear to ear, and opened my eyes. Then I realized…I had actually read someone's mind! Wow! This must be what it felt like for Edward if he ever replied to someone's silent remark and they didn't know that he could do that. I sat up abruptly to look around at all of the Cullens. They were all staring at me, speechless, even Edward. I, too, must have looked shocked.

I knew what all of them were thinking. Each and every one of them. Some were more pessimistic than others—namely, Rosalie.

Oh, sure, I was jealous of her before because she was human and now that she's a vampire I'm even more because she can do cool things with her powers. That's just great, another thing for me to hate about her.

I glared internally at Rosalie and moved on. Hmm…maybe I could get her to stop hating me if I used my first power on her…maybe that'd work…. I tried to make a plan for the next time I saw her.

I turned to Edward as he interrupted my thoughts. Don't try it. She may end up getting even angrier with you and that would just be horrible for her to have even more reason to hate you for all eternity. He rolled his eyes, making me smile at how cute he was when he did that.

The rest of the Cullens' thoughts were much more optimistic than Rosalie's…much more.

Oh, wow! This is so cool! I love, love, LOVE that she's one of us now! Oh my gosh, I need to take her shopping with me soon! Well, that is if Edward will ever let go of her…stupid, possessive brother, Alice silently cursed Edward. Edward and I exchanged looks and laughed.

Don't worry, I'll never let you go. I know how much you hate it when we buy you things. But, he paused in his thoughts, maybe I'll just have to take you alone, just the two of us, he started forming a plan. My face was filled with a look of horror. Edward chuckled. I'm only kidding.

I glared at him and went back to the Cullens' thoughts.

Carlisle's thoughts were along the lines of, So now we can actually have two mind readers in the household. This shall be interesting. He kept smiling at me as he thought it. Esme was standing beside him, thinking practically the same thing.

You know, Jasper was thinking, I'm a little peeved that she can stop our gifts, but it's sort of cool that she can use them, too. Carlisle's right; she really is powerful. His thoughts were stunned.

I smiled a little and looked over to Edward, who was under my legs. I was still on his lap. By this time, I was about to pass out—again.

Edward's POV:

Oh my God. She looks like she's about to die, even though that's impossible for us. What's wrong with her?

"Bella? Bella? Are you all right?" And with that, she slumped back, passing out. I held out my hand to catch her head in it so that she wouldn't get hurt or anything by the impact of her head colliding with my leg. I looked over to the rest of my family, who all had looks of concern on their faces, as they sauntered over to mine and Bella's place on the living room couch.

"Carlisle, what happened!" I practically screamed at him. "Why does this keep happening? What the hell is the matter with her? Something is wrong."

Carlisle was staring intently at Bella. "Yes, something is wrong. This shouldn't be happening," he stated incredulously. "No one should get this worn out. We'll have to talk to Bella when she awakens."

How could he be this calm about what was happening! Wasn't he concerned, not even in the very least?

I tried to calm myself down, but it didn't work. But a moment later, I felt a sense of calm wash over me. I looked over to Jasper and gave him a look of gratefulness, and then rested my head against the back of the couch, waiting for Bella to wake up, closing my eyes. The rest of the family had left me alone with Bella.

Twenty minutes later, I felt Bella stirring on my legs.

"Hey, you," I whispered, and added a smile. "Feel better now?"

She nodded and her hand moved to cup my face. "Much better," she said and grinned.

I changed the subject. "We need to speak with you about some things, the rest of the family and me. She's awake now," I called to let them know that they could come down now.

Carlisle, Esme, and the rest approached us. Carlisle sat down on the couch next to us and started to speak. "Bella, I think you know what's going on with you by now-"

"I do?" she asked, interrupting him.

"Well, even if you don't, we do. Or, at least, we think we do. It seems that your powers have…side effects." Carlisle paused to look at us before continuing. "Now, don't get me wrong, it is strange and unusual—well, more like unheard of—but it is the only reason I can think of for why, whenever you use your gift, you seem to get weak and end up passing out on us." Carlisle smiled a little, even though, to me, this was no joking matter. He composed himself and went on. "You will need to learn to control yourself, Bella. You may be powerful, but your powers also have limitations. You need to control them before they have a chance to control you. Do you understand, Bella?" His voice was full of concern. Carlisle's golden gaze bore into Bella's. His face softened some and he continued. "Well, at least you'll learn in time. It may take some time, but, don't worry, we will all help you become accustomed to our lifestyle, along with your gifts. And as for school…well, we may need to home-school you for a while; at least until you can control your powers—and yourself, for that matter, too—and can become strong enough to stop passing out on us each time you do use them. It can be done, so there's no need to worry." He smiled sheepishly before he and the rest of the family left the room.

I stared at Bella, hoping that she would look at me, instead of blankly look around the room, like she was doing right now. "Bella?"

She turned to look at me, breaking out of her reverie.

"Did you catch all that?" Even though I knew fully well already that she actually did. Still, she nodded her head, but in sort of a sad manner. "Good. Now we can get to what Carlisle was talking about. About the whole controlling you thing, I mean." I cocked my head to the side to indicate to Bella that she should follow me to where it was that I was headed. "So…you actually won't mind having to be home-schooled for the time being?" I asked as we walked up the staircase to my room.

Being with you all the time, every minute of every day…? Uh-uh, she thought. I know that, had she still been human, she would have blushed big time for thinking that, out of pure and utter embarrassment. I chuckled at her thoughts. Bella smiled bashfully but kept walking, but I stopped abruptly as I started seeing things…a vision, through Alice's eyes.

Bella is in the living room of Charlie's house, talking about non-important things with him. There's a knock on the front door and Charlie walks over to it, letting Billy and Jacob Black inside the house. Billy asks to speak with his friend, and Charlie leads him into the kitchen so that they can talk privately, leaving Bella and Jacob alone and uncomfortable in the foyer. The two of them can hear a heated conversation between Billy and Charlie, while they stand in an awkward silence. Billy is trying to convince Charlie that the Cullens are, in reality, actually vampires, but Charlie won't believe him. He thinks his friend is going crazy, mostly because of his age, is what he thinks. Charlie is growing angrier with every passing second, and ends up ordering Billy to leave, which he succeeds in doing so.

Bella put her hand on my shoulder. "Edward? Are you okay?" Her voice was full of concern.

Great. What are we going to do? It seems that the Blacks are going to rat us out. This is definitely not good.

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A/N: ooh ooh a cliffhanger! Well, sorta anyways…muahahahaha! Je suis evil! And, if ya don't know French, it means, I am evil lol but that's besides the point of this author's note…anyways, I hope you liked this chapter…it took a little longer than I expected it too and ive been working on it for a while now but, oh well, hopefully it was good, but I cant be sure, so you need to review review rEVieW! Lol j/k but actually, yes, please review and give me feedback cuz I could really use it lol ill let you go now…that is all…carry on….buh bye! love, trinatwilight11