Chapter 13

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Bella's POV

None of them wanted me here, especially Alice and Rosalie. I walked up the porch and knocked lightly on the door. Esme opened the door not saying anything. Soon the rest of the family joined her in the doorway.

"Why don't we talk outside?" I said. I didn't want to destroy their house with me still in it if I got to angry. Carlisle nodded and I walked back they way I had come making sure I took the same steps that I had before.

"What are you doing?" asked Jasper looking down at my feet.

"Nothing." I replied waving a hand.

"So you guys wanted to see me?"

"Well actually I wanted to ask you if you could show me some of the things you can do." Carlisle said.

"No." I said not bothering to hide my clear dislike to being here. For the second time today Edward asked me, "What the hell has gotten into you?"

"What has gotten into me, you ask? Oh dear Edward, I have just realized many things since your sudden disappearance." I said.

"Bella, I still love you." Edward said looking at me as if those words would bring back the old Bella. I looked him in utter shock and a high pitched cry came from me. I didn't understand what was going on. But before I knew what was happening the Cullen's were bound against their house. I stepped up to Edward and whispered the last words that he had spoken to me.

"Bella, I don't love you, never have, never will. All those things I said were just me trying to find something to entertain myself…I have a very good memory." With that said I turned and walked towards my car. Before I could open the door a gust of wind blew by me and I smelt the distinct scent of the one and only Victoria. A small smile formed on my lips and I tore off my shoes not even bothering to put them in the trunk of my car.

"Bella, I didn't mean that. I was trying to protect you." He said. I looked at him and I could feel something leaving me. It was as if I had lost my heart. I could no longer feel it inside my chest. Not in the literal term, I could still feel it beating away but it was as if it had no purpose other than to keep the blood flowing through out my body.

"He's telling the truth," Jasper said. "The Volturi came and said that we could either change you into one of us or leave you be." I turned my head to face Jasper. I could tell by the look in his eye that he was telling the truth but it was too late for that.

"You choose to leave me." I said and turned away from them. I left before anything else could be spoken. They had been telling the truth but it didn't really matter anymore. The damage had been done and now I had lost both my soul and heart.

Alice's POV

As soon as Bella left our sight the invisible ropes holding us against the house broke and we all fell to the ground. I couldn't seem to forget that lost look in Bella's eyes. We had hurt her more by leaving than we would have if we had stayed. I had tried to tell Edward that but he would not listen. I should have tried harder to change my stubborn brother's mind.

All of a sudden the scenery around me disappeared and I was in another part of the forest. It was a beautiful meadow but I couldn't concentrate for long on that because it seemed as if Victoria and Bella were fighting in the middle.

I shook my head trying to vanish the vision from my thoughts and looked at Edward. His face looked horror stricken. Before I could stop him Edward ran off chasing after Bella. Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, Esme, Carlisle, all looked at me in confusion. I quickly told them what I had seen, pushing back the quiver in my voice.

Even though Bella had called me… that word, I couldn't deny that I still loved her like a sister. We chased after Bella and Edward, hoping that we weren't too late. As we ran I could still hear the words that she had whispered to Edward ringing in my ears. Her voice had been filled with hatred towards all of us. I couldn't imagine Jasper saying those words to me, it would be unbearable. Jasper was my life, just as Edward had been Bella's life.

I understood Edward's intentions for leaving her but in the process he had ended up leaving both of them broken.