Secrets are made to be found out with time. -Charles Sanford

Bella's POV

I woke up lying on a small bed in a very messy room, I tried sitting up, but when I did I felt a pounding pain in my skull. I groaned, and let my head fall back onto the pillow I heard the door open. He was tall, with black cropped hair and dark eyes he was also very muscly..a bit like Jacob.

"Who are you? And, where am I?" I asked him.

"I'm Jared, and right now you're in Jake's bedroom." "Why, am I here?" I asked him, the last thing I remembered was Lenny and I..oh. "We saved your life," he said, "after you passed out we brought back to Jake's house," he continued. I nodded. "Thank you," I told him. If, it wasn't for them Lenny would have squeezed the life out of me within seconds.

"Where's Lenny?" I asked, they wouldn't have let him gotten away, right? "Who?" he asked, confused. Maybe they did. "Lenny, is the man who was strangling me," I told him. "Oh, yeah Jake killed him." My eyes widened, "What?" He scratched his neck, "It wasn't on purpose," he said, "he pushed him really hard and Lenny fell back and hit his head very hard against a tree."

I nodded, Jake sent Lenny flying into a tree and his head got smashed. "His brother won't be too happy about that," I muttered under my breath.
Jared turned to me, "He has a brother?" he asked, I stared at him. He wasn't supposed to hear that, how did he hear that? "I have heightened senses," he explained, "we all do," he added. I nodded, "His brother is a boxer his name is Henry, then there is Melissa they're both out to get me already, now we add Lenny's death to the mix."

I sighed. "Why were they after you in the first place?" he asked me, I looked down I was afraid he's ask that. "Just some things that happened at work." Jared gave me a look of disbelief, I didn't blame him you don't try to kill someone over something that happened at work. Plus, I think I made him suspicious with my vague and off-hand answer.

I sighed again, "Ok, that's not why but I just really don't know how to tell you, the only one who knows is Edward." He scrunched his eyebrows together, "Just tell us, we can help you." I shook my head, "If, I told you you'd never look at me the same way again no one would."

"Tell me, you can't keep it a secret forever." I decided to change the subject, "Um, what did you guys do with Lenny's body?" I asked, while looking down and playing with the blanket. I heard Jared sigh, he knew what I was doing but he answered me anyway, "We made it look like a bear attack and carried his body to the woods, he should be found soon that or a bear will eat his remains."

I wrinkled my nose, "That's gross." He smiled sheepishly, "Sorry." "One more thing, "he said, "we need to know if you can keep our secret." "I can do that," I told him. He nodded, "Can I go home now?" I asked him, he nodded. I got out of the bed, and walked to the door then I remembered something, "My car..I left it at the library." "Jake already took care of it, it's parked outside."

"Ok," I said, I went downstairs and hoped no one else would ask me too many questions, Billy nodded in my direction I smiled timidly at him as he wheeled over to me and gave me my keys. "Come by anytime you want," he told me, "your family."

"Ok," I whispered. I was about to walk away when a famaliar voice called me,"Bella?" I turned around, "Think about answering Jared's question." I nodded, and left. It was hard for me to look Sam in the eye and pretend that I didn't know him. I was just glad he didn't recongnize me because if he did then I would have a lot of explaining to do.

I drove back home, I'm going to have to tell the Cullens everything about my past, I couldn't hide this from them anymore and soon.

I spent the rest the week planning what to say to them and how to say it, I didn't want to just drop the bomb without warning. I missed Edward, he could help me so much with this. Sometimes Alice dragged me on shopping trips and she'd take my mind off of things but afterwards I will be filled with dread and nerves all over again.

It was no secret to them, that something was bothering me and occasionally it kept me up at night, and no matter how hard they tried to keep my mind off if it, it came back anyway. My thoughts were consumed with what I was going to do once Edward and his brothers came back from their two week long hunting trip.

"Bella?" I turned at the sound of my name as Alice poked her head in, "They'll be here in twenty minutes." I smiled at her, "Thanks." She returned the smile before leaving, I sighed.

Twenty minutes.

That's when I'll confess everything to them, I imagined all the possibilties everything that could go wrong and every now and then I imagined them taking it well. Mostly, I thought how wrong everything could go, how wrong everything would go when they decided they wanted nothing to do with me.

I also planned on telling the werewolves soon, I was even more unsure on they would take it since they hardly knew me, I thought about the scenario when one of them would ask me for proof.
Unfortunately, I was unprepared for that, I had no proof I had my gun but that's not much proof at all. Instead I hoped no one asked me that question.

I glanced at the clock, it's been fifteen minutes that means they'll be here in approximately five minutes, I drew a deep breath. Here goes nothing, I walked outside of my room and began to descend the stairs at first I was quick, thinking that I should just get it over with.

Rip off the band-aid and all that.

As I did, my thoughts took a different turn and I was nervous again thinking of their responses and my steps grew slower and slower..
"Move faster, Emmet is going to be home soon," a voice snapped from behind me. I turned to see Rosalie irritated by my slowness yet still looking as gorgeous as ever.

She huffed impatiently, and like a breeze of wind she passed me and before I could turn my head back around she was already at the bottom of the stairs and walking towards the couch. By the time I was downstairs, Alice was skipping downstairs and opening the door before Jasper could knock.

"Hello, darlin'," he drawled, his southern accent becoming more prominent. "Jasper!" Alice squealed, and hugged him before stepping back so he could walk inside, "Hello, Bella," he told me, before he was pulled by Alice upstairs. "You need to change," she told him.

I chuckled, poor Jasper. I turned my attention to the doorway, searching for my bronze-haired beauty when I was swept off my feet and I felt cool lips kissing my cheek. "My Bella," he breathed, my eyes instantly lit up when I saw him. He smiled, "I missed you."

"I missed you, too can you please put me back on the ground now?" I asked. He set me down, and smiled down at me before he furrowed his eyebrows, "What's wrong?" I asked. "We need to talk," he told me, before taking me upstairs.

"Alice tells me you have been out of it since you came back from La Push," he told me. "How did she know I was there?" I asked, I didn't tell her. "Your future disappeared," he answered, simply.

I nodded. "What happened?" he asked. "Lenny, a co-worker he used to work for Preese." He nodded, "He came here,and we got in a bit of a dispute," I told him. He frowned and his eyes went dark, "I'll-"

"Then, Jake and his friends came and saved the day after I passed out," I finished quickly. "I think, I want to tell them what really happened Edward, I've been thinking about it ever since Saturday."

He nodded, "Are you sure?" he asked, I nodded. "Bella, they might already know," he confessed. My eyes widened, "What?" He winced, "You said Jeff was killed by Tanya Denali it so happens to be that we know them and we think of them as an second family we asked them about Jeff, Bella we never go on two week hunting trips."

"You lied to me."

He hung his head in shame, "Bella, I'm sorry but they were already tracking you in case you were going to try to kill them too, Alice had a vision about it, I had to tell her and I had to tell them too, before they went too far."

"So, they already know, everything?" I asked, he nodded, "So, you can stop talking to me in code now." The corners of his lips twitched into a smile before he frowned again, "I'm sorry."

"It's alright, but...do they hate me?" I asked. He shook his head, "No, no one hates you." "Then, it's only fair for me to tell you in non-code form what happened between Lenny and I."

He nodded. "First, I have to tell you when Teri called me." "Teri? The nurse?" he asked. "You remembered?" I asked. He nodded, again. "Anyway, after everyone left Teri stook around and found the door that led upstairs."

"She roamed around, and then she went into Preese's office," I grimaced, "she saw his body there, found some files that contain information about every single person Preese hired and the completes assignments he'd given us."

"So, she called you when she found yours?" Edward asked. "Hey, who's telling this story me or you?" I asked. He smiled, I continued, "We decided to meet at the diner, she needed answers she told me that some people weren't happy about leaving these people were Lenny, his older brother Henry and Melissa."

"She told me that some weapons were missing from the Artillery Room, she also told me that she locked up the place and decided to give me the key, after that I went to go find Brenda she was at a sandwich shop on her lunch break."

"She identified Lenny and his partners told me the things she knew about them, she also gave me the tad bit of information that everyone knew I was the one to kill Preese."

Edward frowned, probably knowing what that meant. "Apparently everyone heard the gunshots but they didn't help out because they didn't want to get killed by Preese either except we use the term 'fired' anyway they knew I killed him when I ended being alive and sending everyone homefree."

"On Saturday I left to go to the bookstore where Lenny found me, he had a gun with him I had no choice but to let him lead me outside to his car, he asked me why I killed Preese, I told him I was saving my own life."

"He asked me why I didn't become the boss instead, kept the buisness going instead of letting everyone go he sees it the way Preese wants everyone else to, the way I think Henry and Melissa do."

"Which is?" he asked. "That as assassins it's our job to go and kill all the bad people in the world, that by doing that we're saving lives and such he was mad because now there's not many assassins left, he told me I letting all the bad guys get away."

I shook my head, "I tried telling him, that we shouldn't do that he wouldn't budge after that he tried making me an offer help them or die." Edward growled, I put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down he relaxed, a bit.

"We fought, eventually he started to strangle me sometime after that the wolves came in and I passed out, when I woke up I was in Jacob's room."

"They wanted to know how I knew Lenny, why he tried to kill me I couldn't tell any of them that, I left in a hurry as soon as they let me go." "I'm going to kill, Lenny," he promised me. "Jacob beat you to it," I told him. He frowned, "I guess I owe that dog a lot now."

"Edward!"

Edward rolled his eyes, "I know he's your best friend Bella but he hurt you, Alice told me that you two got in a fight, and that you ended up drinking."

"Traitor," I muttered. "Bella," he warned, I sighed. "Technically, Jacob got angry because we're together so we didn't fight and I swear to you I wasn't drunk!"

"That's besides the point what if you were? You wouldn't be able to think straight and then-"

"But, I wasn't," I told him firmly. He sighed, "I was worried the whole time I was away, I'm never leaving for a two week hunting trip again."

"Good."