YAY CHRISTMAS BREAK!!! I think the first thing I shall do is sleep for 32 hours and then maybe eat some and sleep for a little more. Of course I will write some so expect more chapters soon!

Bella was exhausted when Alice and the others got home. Teaching the guys was much harder than Alice and Rosalie. Emmett kept cracking jokes that made Jasper and Carlisle self conscious about their dancing. She had made some progress but it was a long and laborious day.

Edward was massaging her back, wincing as she talked to him about the day. He had been inside providing music from the piano. She wanted him to learn the dance too but for some reason he was unwilling. Although she didn't let on, it hurt her to see he wouldn't learn from her.

Alice came in slightly downhearted but Bella had no chance to talk to her alone. Alice sat on the couch next to Jasper staring hard at the floor as if searching for something. Bella frowned but tried not to think about it.

"Bella, love," Edward asked her quietly, "do faeries have special gifts like vampires do?"

Suddenly everyone's attention was turned towards them. Bella smiled. "Where would you get that assumption?"

Edward smiled deviously back, "Oh you know, the fact that faerie transformation is similar to vampire change. It takes three days and you get a new body in exchange for whatever pain you went through."

Bella shook her head. She had gone into very little details about the three days that led to her new faerie life. It was hard for her to talk about, just as the vampire transformation was hard for Edward to talk about. It wasn't that she didn't want to tell him but she just couldn't express the words.

"Okay it has its similarities. Why don't I just show you?" Bella asked. She pulled Edward outside with the family following. She took a deep breath, trying to expel the exhaustion from her body.

Then she started to sing to herself, a trick she had learned long ago. It helped her concentrated to the level she needed. It was the lullaby that Edward gave her, dredged up from her memory in times of need.

She knew it was working when collective gasps came from the Cullen family. She opened her eyes and smiled. "Now you see me, now you don't."

She was camouflaged into the forestry around her. She moved cautiously behind Edward trying not to alert him to her presence. He was completely at a loss. She wrapped her arm around his waist, "Boo," she whispered.

He turned sharply around and she came back into view, only to fall into hysterics. The rest of the Cullens were also having trouble not laughing. Edward didn't look amused, but Bella could see that it was all an act.

"I snuck up on a vampire." Bella said through laughter fits.

Then Edward sprung at her. He wrapped her up in a ball as they flew in the air. They landed softly in the grass. Bella waited for her head to stop spinning.

Edward looked at her curiously, "Was that bad?"

She laughed faintly, "Let's just say that I'm a little disoriented." Edward stood up and helped her off the ground. He wrapped an arm around her waist and held her close.

"Don't worry," he whispered in her ear, "I won't let you fall."

They all walked in the house, the spectacle over. "That was amazing Bella!" Alice said, back to her perky self.

"How did you find out about that?" Jasper asked.

Bella smiled, "I was singing to myself when someone noticed. It was a little unnerving but whenever I wanted to get away from everything I could just disappear and no one would see me. It was a great relief to be alone."

Everyone sat down on the couch waiting for a story. It became a nightly ritual for Bella to tell a little bit of her story. As she sat down Esme asked, "Bella, could you tell us about when you met the faeries? I love hearing your adventures about the various mythical creatures but I would love to find out how you got in this mess."

Bella felt a spasm of pain as she thought about it. Her heart constricted at the thought. Esme saw this and quickly apologized, "I'm so sorry, if it is painful, feel free to not speak about it."

Bella gave a small smile, "No, no it's fine." She grasped Edward's hand for support, "It's hard but you guys deserve to know…"

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It's been two years. Two long years since she started this search. Bella was tired and she could feel the hopelessness creeping into her bones. She met tons of creatures of myth but none of them provided the answer she was looking for. She wasn't even sure what she was looking for.

She was in Northern Canada now. So close to home yet she wasn't willing to go home. She curled under a giant oak and watched as nature played under the bright sun. How could nature be so carefree when so much was going wrong with the world?

Images burned in her mind of the Cullen family. It broke her heart as whispers of their voices tore through her ears. She let out a choking sob. She started singing to herself the sad lonely song of the phoenix that had never left her.

Suddenly there was noise in the forest around her. Bella looked up sharply to see small people with wings on their back. She stood up quickly, self-conscious of her tears.

"What do you want?" she demanded, her voice cracking, betraying the emotions that ripped through her just moments before.

A man stepped forward. He held golden-burgundy dragonfly wings on his back and jet black hair. "Are you the one looking for escape?" he demanded

Bella nodded. She had gotten used to this question because she had somewhat became famous within the mythical world. For a lot of the time she didn't have to look for mythical creatures, they came to her.

The leader looked back, a look of disgust on his face, "Then we would like to offer you our escape."

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Bella paused, trying to command her eyes to open fully. Edward laughed at her attempt and she pushed at him playfully.

"I'll go put her to bed." Edward told his family.

"I can take myself," Bella said defiantly. She stood but swayed so dangerously that Edward caught her. "Okay, so I'm a little wobbly. That's why I have wings."

Bella was out of it before they reached the stairs. Edward carried his angel to their room and as he laid her down she had barely enough consciousness to pull him with her. Once again they slept in each others arms.

This is a really cute chapter I love it!

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