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Nessie had arranged the sleep over for this Friday, Esme had filled the kitchen with junk food, Alice had bought plenty of make up stuff and Rose had chosen some DVD's, now all we had to do was sort out the sleeping arrangements, we knew they would probably get up during the night, so we couldn't all be seen hanging about the sitting room and not making any sign to go to bed, and as most of us were pretending to be juniors we couldn't actually be seen in each others room so this was also adding to my concerns,

Friday morning came and we headed into school, Edward and I in the front, Jake and ness snuggling into each other in the back, the two of them had been inseparable since they had gotten back from forks, if that could be possible, they were becoming as bad as Edward and I,

we headed into school Jake squeezing nessie hand before letting it go, this was the exact opposite situation for them, than for Edward and I, when we had started dating, school was the only place we could be together, but since Jake was a Snr and Nessie a Jnr it would have caused to much attention, things had even gotten that bad, Edward had asked me to shield Jake and Nessie's mind whenever they were around him as the thoughts they were having about each other embarrassed him, he said if he could blush his face would be permanently beetroot,

I sat in my usual seat next to Alice who was positively gushing about the sleep over, Nessie had cleared it with the others that Alice be allowed to join them in their activities, I thankfully had been excused from this fate, Carlisle had pulled off an extra shift a the hospital, Jasper was staying near by to keep everyone in a nice calm mood and the rest of us were just to act normal, so that should be easy I thought,

In science Edward was moaning because I hadn't shielded Nessie's mind and he had sat through her gushing about Jake for the past hour he was convinced I had done it on purpose, he kept moving my books out of the way and knocking my pens on the floor and the only reason he had stopped was because I had threatened to not shield any of them again,

Lunch time was not much better, although we could hear nessie speak to her friends she was thinking about Jake and kept sneaking little peaks at him, Jake was smiling from ear to ear,

"Have you decided on where you having your wedding?" Alice asked Kj

"im not sure we were thinking forks, but I was thinking about my mum and Seth isn't to bothered where we have it," "well if your inviting mortals we are pretty limited" I said "I know but most of the mortal that would be coming know what we are anyway, so its not going to be that big a problem" Kj answered,

Alice stroked her chin, "Esme, Nessie and I were thinking about a place but we weren't sure if Jake and Seth could handle the heat, more so Jake as Seth would have you"

I looked over at Alice "are you thinking were, I think your thinking?"

Alice smiled and nodded "the very place", just then Edward nudged my arm "what?" he looked at Nessie "what?" I asked again "your shield" he replied, I hadn't realised that well I had been caught up in Alice's conversation with Kj, it had recoiled and Edward was getting full Nessie and Jake channel again,

"Sorry I hadn't noticed," He smiled at me and returned to his conversation with Emmett, I turned back to Alice and Kj, "so what happened? did you tell her where your talking about?" Kj nodded "yeah she said Esme Island; I think that would be great the only problem is your dad, would he be ok seeing you sparkle? I mean, I don't think Seth's mum would mind, after all I only sparkle he turns into a walking fur coat"

She looked at Seth, who pulled at her hair,

"I think it will be fine, just in case, I will talk to him first and get Edward to show him what I would look like,"

Alice clapped her hands "then it's decided, Esme will be so excited, she had work going on in the house making it larger since our family has almost doubled in size"

The lunch bell went, we all got up and headed to our class, I noticed that Rose had been very quiet during lunch, "Are you ok?" I whispered, as she passed towards the door, "yeah, just wondering about one of Nessie's friends," I looked over at them "who are you talking about?" she looked at the group leaving with Nessie, "Gemma," she replied

"Why are you worrying?" I asked looking at the girl,

"she is trying to hide a lot of bruises with make up, Edward said she was trying not to think about them and was pushing them to the back of her mind" I looked over at the girls again, Gemma had her hair pulled down the side of her face, "I will look in history she sits in front of me,"

We both headed out of the canteen to our classes, Edward was waiting just outside the canteen doors, "I was wondering when you were going to join me?" "I was speaking to Rose, sorry honey" he took my hand and we headed to gym,

I noticed in history the bruising that Gemma was hiding, it looked as though someone had pushed her into something, Edward said she wasn't thinking about what happened so he couldn't tell, the class passed quite quick Nessie and Gemma spent most of it passing notes about the sleep over,

We headed to the house and got ready for our visitors, Esme had remembered to turn the heating on, she had arranged plates on the dryer as though we had just finished dinner, she had been very careful with each detail,

It was just after 8 when the first of the girls arrived, nessie kissed Jake then went to the door, it was Becky, she had brought a scary film about a man trying to murder everyone in Uni, nessie made a face and commented on how things like that scared her, Karen, Jane and Liz were the next to turn up. Jane's mum dropped them off and within seconds she was a life long friend of Esme's, who was playing Nessie's mum, we could hear them talking about feeding teenagers and Esme said her boy Seth could possibly eat a whole pig, Kj had to put her hand in her mouth to stop laughing out loud, then Gemma arrived still with the heavy makeup, her dad dropped her off, she kissed him goodbye and headed into the house nessie took her up the stairs to her room, we could hear the music on, it sounded like they were dancing about,

Edward appeared at the door of the sitting room, "it was her brother that hit her," he said as he sat down beside Emmett, we had all been told to keep away from each other,

Rose looked round at him "what, how could a brother do that to his own sister?" she hissed a little in disgust, "it wasn't her that was thinking about it, it was her dad he feels bad he cant control him, he told Gemma just to say she fell down the stairs if any of us ask"

Emmett pulled his hand into a fist "I would like to get a hold of this boy and show him some brotherly love" jasper patted him on the shoulder "easy big guy, we all would"

we heard someone coming down the stairs, they were taking each stair one at a time, we assumed it was human,

Rose flipped on the TV and some music thing came on, Alice appeared at the door with Gemma beside her, we looked round at them "guys this is Gemma, Gemma these are my brothers and sisters, she stared at us, we all nodded and smiled "Rose we were wondering if you could spare us a moment please?"

We looked round at Rose, "hmm, I suppose so, sure Alice" Alice beamed at her then at Gemma, "told you she would help you," the three of them disappeared from the room,

"What was that about?" Emmett asked looking at Edward, "she wants Rose to show her how to hide her bruises properly, Alice wants to see if Gemma will confide in Rose, after all she know how it feels to be beaten up"

Emmett gripped hold of the sofa as Edward finished his sentence, "I hope I meet this Royce guy in hell"

I looked at Emmett his face was raging, we could hear more people bouncing about the house, Emmett was still trying to calm himself, I reached behind me and took one of the scatter cushions that Esme had littered our house with and threw it at him, he looked over at me "you didn't just hit me with a cushion did you?" I shook my head "nope, why have you been hit with one lately" he bounced of the sofa and caught me as I tried to run out the living room, we had been well warned about moving at normal speed and this was how he caught me, I tried to wriggle free even using a bit more strength than I should but it didn't work I could feel him picking me up and taking me out the door to the snow,

"Edward, somebody" I yelled into the house, "who's Edward somebody?" jasper called after me,

"Jasper, help please" Edward and Jasper wandered out into the hall

"Well you shouldn't hit people with cushions then should you?" Edward commented as Emmett put me in the snow and started covering me up with it,

"Emmett im going to kill you," I shouted through mouthfuls of snow, Kj came out behind him and jumped on his back pulling him over and letting me sit up, "ha got you" but before I could run Seth caught me and carried me back to Emmett, Emmett was rubbing snow in KJ's face when he swapped her for me, Seth sat on Kj and wouldn't let her up, Emmett tried to bury me again, "Edward please" I looked at the door, Jasper was holding Edward by the arms "sorry, I cant help you" just then Jake appeared and I thought he was coming to help but he just helped Emmett cover me in snow, I was yelling now at the top of my voice for him to get off me, even using all my strength I couldn't move him,

"Hey has anyone seen my little sister Bella? She's about this high" he pretended to shout for me "Bella, Bella, where are you?" just then Edward broke free from Jasper and ran at Emmett knocking him of me

"oh no you don't little brother" Jasper shouted as he tried to grab Edward again, I pulled my self up from the snow and jumped on Jasper, just as Alice appeared at the door, before I knew it she was across the grass at a very human speed and was hitting me with snow balls, I jumped off of Jaspers back and noticed that Nessie, Rose and her friend's were standing at the door watching us,

I picked up a snowball and aimed it at Nessie she ducked and it hit Rose, "you little witch" she yelled, I now had Alice and Rose throwing snowballs at me,

Nessie was standing laughing when a snow ball flew over my head and hit her smack on the nose, I could hear Jake laughing behind me Nessie walked down the stairs and threw one at Jake missing him and hitting Edward, I burst out laughing and so did the other girls, "think that's funny do you?" Edward shouted and threw a snow ball at Becky, before long we were all throwing them at each other we didn't seem to have any sides it was just a free for all, everyone was laughing, even Gemma was joining in, she was aiming snowballs at Emmett with Rose,

Emmett lunged at her and she fell into the snow, he covered her in it, then caught Rose and did the same to her,

"right you lot get inside its freezing out here" Esme's voice came from the front door, we all stopped and looked at her "yes mum" we all chorused, then burst out laughing,

Becky offered me her hand to get up, I noticed she was just as cold as me, even Gemma didn't seem to notice how cold Emmett was when he put her under his left arm while Rose was under his right as he carried the two of them inside, Seth had picked Kj up and she was now sitting on his shoulders pulling at his ears, Liz and Karen walked beside Jasper and Alice and Jane walked with Nessie and Jake,

Edward was last in, shaking the snow on him over Esme before getting a clip on the back of the head, we were all laughing and joking, "I leave you all for 2 minutes" Esme looked at us all in the hall "who started it?" she looked at us all, nobody said anything, "let me guess, Emmett you and somebody else?

Emmett beamed at her "yes mum, but whom?"

I looked round and everyone was staring at me "what?"

"I might have guessed", she looked at Nessie and her friends "you lot up to the room and get into dry pyjama's, they all ran upstairs with Alice joining them,

"You lot had better go get changed as well and be careful when your in the rooms you don't get caught"

We all walked upstairs slowly, still sneakily punching at each other, it was easy to get into the rooms as everyone was busy in Nessie's room,

"I feel really sorry for her" Edward started as I stared at his naked chest "sorry for whose chest?" I asked, he looked at me "I didn't mention chest," "what?" I asked

"Bella when your finished staring at me" I moved my gaze to his shorts but this wasn't helping, I shook my head "sorry what did you say?"

"I was saying I feel sorry for Gemma," "

I know but we can't intervene"

"I know but she was surprised to see us all having fun, even the bigger brothers joining in, especially Emmett its his size that draws her to him and he was carrying on with us not hurting us I don't think she could understand that" I looked at him, "maybe Rose will get her talking"

we could still hear the noise coming from the girls along the hall, there was a little knock at the door, I looked at Edward, he pulled on his shirt and sat on the bed, I sat at the bottom,

"Come in" Edward called, Emmett opened the door "Emmett you pest we thought" "I know, the look on your faces" I scowled at him,

"What is it?" he came over and sat on the bottom of the bed tucking me under his arm and ruffling my hair,

"That Gemma girl, she's got more bruises than on her face"

I looked up at him from under his arm, "how do you mean?"

He let go of me and I sat up pulling myself up beside Edward were it was safer,

"When I picked her up, she winced, think it's her ribs or something"

Edward growled quietly "we have to do something"

I looked at him "Edward we can't get involved it's to dangerous for all of us"

"I know but we can just let it happen" I looked at Emmett then Edward "we will speak to Carlisle when he gets home"

the rest of the evening passed with nessie and her friends charging about the house from her room to the kitchen, Esme overloaded them with junk food and fizzy juice, Nessie kept leaving hers down and Esme kept emptying the glass or throwing it in the bin so nobody noticed she wasn't eating much of it, eventually they finally settled down in Nessie's room and watched a film, the rest of us disappeared into our rooms and pretended we were going to sleep,

I lay on the bed next to Edward, "maybe we could have a word with him or check out his mind and see what his problem is?"

"Well it's worth a try"

I could feel his arm wind round my waist "do you mind we used to do this all the time?" I asked,

"Yeah I would cuddle you till you fell asleep then listen to all your secrets" I dug him in the ribs,

We listened till it was only the others whispering we could hear, we got back up and flitted down stairs,

"I'm going to check out the brother, see if I can hear anything" Edward said, as we headed into the sitting room,

"We'll come too; jasper and Emmett said getting of the sofa

"Ok, we won't be long" Edward said as they flitted out the door,

I looked at Rose "did you find anything out?"

"Yeah she was a little shy to talk at first, I told her I was adopted because my parents beat me, so that's how I knew about the bruising," "what did she tell you? Alice asked,

"she said its her step brother, her own mother died when she was young, her step mum was killed a few years back, a wolf caught her and ripped her apart, she never seen it, it was her brother that was with her when it happened, she thinks his temper is caused by seeing his mum die, sometimes he's ok, other times he is really moody, he say's she makes him angry, he threw her at the wall when she said she was staying with Nessie, he doesn't like us say's there's something not right about us, that's why her dad ran her over, it was so he wouldn't know, he normally has loads of friends hanging about but recently he's been on his own,"

We all stared at each other, "you don't think he's one of them? Do you?" Esme asked,

Rose shrugged, "it's possible, but we will need to wait and see his mind first,"

I looked at Alice, "can you see his future?" she closed her eyes and tilted her head back, "nope nothing its as though he doesn't exist,"

We all stared at each other, I grabbed the phone from the table and dialled Edward's number, it went to machine,

"He'll have it off if he's in the house" Esme said looking worried,

I hung up and tried Emmett "hello," "Emmett, it's the brother, he's the wolf. Get Edward out of there", the line went dead,

What seemed like ages was only a few minute's, then the three of them appeared in the house,

"The brother wasn't in, but I was reading the dad's mind, they had a huge fight tonight and he stormed out, the dad is nursing a couple of broken ribs"

"What are we going to do about Gemma she's in danger" Alice asked,

"I don't know we need to wait till Carlisle comes home" Esme answered,

"Was there any scent of the brother around here when you came back?" Kj asked, Edward shook his head,

"I think we should do a patrol just to be on the safe side, im going to go wake Seth up" she flitted out of the sitting room,

"I need to see his mind, but I don't think he goes to school" I shook my head, "no I haven't seen him think he's older than us, well you know what I mean" Edward smiled,

Seth and Kj came back in "I go to sleep for 5 minutes and all hell breaks loose, we're going to go for a walk just check things out"

"Bella and I will come with you" Edward looked at me, I nodded at him,

"I will go spend the night in the girl's room, will just pretend im sleeping" Alice got up and wandered upstairs,

"Jasper go and get Jake up, I will phone Carlisle" Esme leaned over to the phone,

"Rose and I will check the grounds and the garage just in case he gets passed you lot"

We all agreed and headed our own way,

We had covered most of the town and the surrounding area, he wasn't near the house either, we had gone to check on Gemma's father, when the noise of a car in the distance caught our attention we disappeared into the trees and waited, the car pulled up and a young guy about early 20's got out, he looked about him and slammed the car door shut,

Edward looked round at me "I can't hear anything" I frowned at him "what do you mean?" he looked back and stared at the boy "I can't hear his thoughts"

I looked away from Edward and over to the boy, I threw my shield out towards him, I saw Edwards light first followed by Kj and Seth but when my shield reached him, nothing it was just darkness, I pulled it back quickly shivering from the empty feeling it gave me

"What's wrong?" Kj asked taking my hand when she noticed me shiver

"I can't see his light under my shield, Alice was right it's as though he's not there"

the boy stormed up the path and in to the house, we listened but there was nothing, it looked as thought he had just gone to his bed,

We headed back to the house, Carlisle was home when we arrived, Jake and jasper were standing by the large glass doors, Rose and Emmett where just crossing the snow at the garage heading home as well.

"We found him" Edward told the others, "he's in his home, I couldn't see his mind, its shielded the way Bella's is" he looked round at me,

"When I shield your mind I see you're light so I know I've got you, he didn't have any light it was as if he didn't exist"

"I didn't know werewolves had gifts" Emmett said looking at Jake and Seth,

"We're not werewolves Emmett, remember we're only shape shifters and when Edward met Bella we didn't know she was going to be a vampire and she already had her gift" Emmett nodded thoughtfully "suppose so what do we do now?"

Carlisle stood up, "we wait, that's all we can do if he suspects us then he will probably attack, im surprised he didn't attack with the others"

Edward looked at Carlisle "what if he did, and I just didn't hear him, maybe he saw the others loose and decided against it, maybe he will try to make more of his kind"

Esme let out a little sigh, Carlisle put his hand on her shoulder "we'll be fine honey, we'll just be ready for him this time,