DISCLAIMER: 80%+/- of the characters ain't mine!!!

Alice POV (earlier)

"But Alice, I swear, it's the truth!" Emmett whined for the millionth time today. "I swear that I saw Bella as a vampire."

I noticed Bella's family straighten up. The other girl, whose name I found out was Alyssa hissed at Bella. That was all I saw before I got hit by a vision.

Bella was outside the canteen when she was grabbed from behind by a vampire. I could barely hear what the vampire was saying but it as unmistakably true that he said "Aro".

By the time my vision ended, Bella was storming out of the caf. "Bella, wait!" I yelled but she didn't hear me.

Her family gave me menacing glares. "Alice, what are you doing?" Rosalie whispered.

They were all paying so much attention to me that they didn't notice Edward get up from his seat and make his way towards the door.

That was when we all heard Bella scream.

Bella POV

I struggled to get out of the vampires grip.

Then, I stopped, focusing only on transforming into a vampire.

In my vampire form, I grabbed this vampire's hand and bit it off. I knew I couldn't deal with him alone because my human lunch was not really appreciated in my vampire body. I screamed.

Circe POV

"BELLA!" I gasped as a scream echoed around the hallways.

I dashed out of the homeroom and ran to the cafeteria. Bella, no, no, no, not my Bella.

Bella POV

The vampire snarled and grabbed my neck, choking me. I forced myself to turn back to a human and swallowed the human food. The cafeteria door burst open and revealed Julius.

"Julius..." I barely whispered.

He took one step towards me before crumbling to the ground, yelling in agony.

One name appeared in my head.

Jane.

Julius was also followed by my family but they were held down by various members of the guard. Julius and Peter were being tortured by Jane, Alec took care of Alyssa and Demetri held onto Louise.

Felix and a few other guards I didn't recognize were blocking the Cullens. The humans in the cafeteria all dropped like dead pigeons, they were surrounded by some kind of white gas.

"Jane, shall I take her back to Aro?"

Jane didn't get a chance to answer before the vampire holding me fell to the ground and I was taken from his grip.

Jane snarled. "Retreat!" There was a blinding white light and everything went black.

* * * * *

"Bella?" someone whispered and my eyes snapped open.

"Edward?!" I was sitting in the cafeteria with Edward sitting on my left and my family in their usual spot on the caf table, all of them looked shocked and disoriented. "What happened?"

"The Volturi... Alec... The light..." Alyssa muttered.

"In other words, we have no idea," Peter summed up.

"Hey, what's Edward doing here?" Louise hissed.

"Now, Peter, be nice..." Circe warned, joining us at the table. "He saved your sister and you should be grateful."

"Fine... But is it just me or wasn't it 9.45 a.m 15 minutes ago?" Louise observed.

"No. The Volturi did something to the time. Notice how the humans are acting as if nothing happened," Edward pointed out.

No one said anything and my family was giving me looks.

Oh, right, clueless act. "Uh, Edward? Why did you refer to the students as 'humans'? And who the heck are 'the Volturi' and 'Alec'?"

I felt Edward stiffen. "I better go join my family." He left.

Louise spoke. "You know, Bella, you never really thanked him properly for saving your life. Why don't you give your Prince Charming a little, you know..." Peter began to make kissy noises next to him.

Julius growled. "We can't get too comfy with them, Louise. You know our mission," I pointed out, trying to calm him down but it had the opposite effect.

Julius stiffened. "Guys, there's something I have to tell you about the C--"

"Uh, hey... I'm, like--" Peter and Louise snickered as Julius banged his head against the table.

"Yeah, we know, you're Lauren Mallory." Julius sat up as he said this.

"Oh my god! You've heard of me, I'm, like, thrilled! Hey, you guys wanna' hang out sometime?" she asked, looking directly at the guys.

"I'm taken!" Peter announced, kissing Alyssa passionately.

"Get a room," Louise complained, causing the sweet couple to break apart. He noticed Lauren looking at him expectantly. "Oh, you wanna' go out with moi?" Louise 'flicked his hair'. "Sorry, I'm, like, gay..."

Lauren glared at him then turned to Julius, batting her eyelashes. "How 'bout you?"

"Sorry 'bout this, Bells," he whispered quietly. He turned to Lauren. "Sorry, but I'm also taken." He turned to me and kissed me.

Wow. That was unexpected.

But, hey, get this, I kissed him back. And so far, I'm not regretting it...

Until I pulled away. This was going to kill me.

"So, you guys are dating? Aren't you siblings?"

I looked at Lauren. "No. I'm adopted."

As soon as she left, Circe hugged me reassuringly but I barely noticed anything other than the pain-filled eyes of Edward Cullen.

And I don't know why affected me so much.