I unfortunately do NOT own Twilight, I'm borrowing the characters, the amazing Stephenie Meyer created.

I've made this chapter similar to the way the graduation party is in the book Eclipse, using quotes from the book, the difference here is Bella is dating Jacob not Edward.

Chapter 25

Alliance

BPOV

A young looking girl with blonde hair stood at the back. She was dressed in a black cloak, but it wasn't her strange choice of clothes that made me gasp. It was her crimson eyes, staring straight at me.

I gasped as I realized she was a vampire. My head began to spin. I couldn't pass out, I crossed my fingers, please God, don't let me faint!

"Isabella Swan" my name was called out, suddenly I was calm and walked across the stage, shook the principles hand, collected my diploma and walked off stage. I heard a loud WOO come from the audience and looked round to see Charlie, Billy and the pack cheering. I reached the other side of the stage and Jasper Cullen was standing there, he held out his hand, which I gladly took, I was no longer calm, my legs were like jelly.

"Bella, are you okay?" Jasper asked

"No, what's going on?" my voice was shaky.

"It's okay, we're sorting it" Jasper must have put calm waves over me as I was able to make my way back to my seat.

Everyone had returned back to their seats and the school marching band started to play, there was a pause and everyone threw their caps into the air and cheered, hugging everyone around them. Edward didn't wait instead stormed straight towards the parking lot, Alice was close behind him. I looked to the back, the young girl was gone, in her place was a very angry looking Emmett.

I was surrounded by people cheering, crying and hugging each other, I pushed my way through the never ending crowd, desperate to find someone, I was getting random hugs from some of my friends.

"Bella!" A proud looking Charlie hugged me tightly and then my mom hugged me too.

"Where's Jacob?" I asked, my voice was shaky.

"I don't know we kind of lost him in the big rush" Mom explained.

"Bella" I spun round, Seth and Embry pulled me into a massive hug. "Congrats girl"

"Where is he?" I asked, desperate.

"Where's who?" Jacob spoke. I could have literally fell to my knees and started crying, I flung myself at him and Jacob wrapped his arms around me.

"Jacob, what's going on?" I spoke quietly knowing he would hear me.

"I'll explain later" Jacob whispered back and kissed my head.

I knew they were all keeping something from me. There was a reason that vampire was here and by the way everyone was acting it was a bad reason. Jacob joined me, Charlie and mom as we went for dinner at a local restaurant. Charlie and mom didn't really pick up on my quiet mood as they were busy chatting with other parents at table's next to ours, quite a lot of people from my year had come here for a graduation dinner with their families, before going to The Cullen's graduation party later tonight, which I knew the entire year was going too.

"Jake, I know something bad is going on" I whispered

"Bells, now is not a good time to talk about it" Jacob whispered back.

"What's up with you two? Bella you should be happy, no more high school" Charlie turned round.

"Yeah, I guess it's just finally sinking in" I made up a believable excuse.

"Are you two fighting, things seemed a little frosty when I arrived earlier" mom asked.

"No, everything is fine mom" I forced a smile.

"Jake, are you going to The Cullen's party?" Charlie asked

"Yeah" Jacob answered, I looked round surprised "I have to talk to them" Jacob spoke quietly so only I could hear.

Charlie paid for our dinner and we headed back to the car, the drive back home was silent, once we were there mom and Charlie headed back inside while me and Jacob got back in the car. Jacob drove saying that I didn't look in the right state to drive, to be honest I wasn't, I was dreading this party.

"Bells, everything is going to be okay" Jacobs hand gently squeezed my knee.

"I'll be glad to get this party over with" I mumbled.

Jacob turned down the road to the Cullen's drive, the trees either side were decorated with thousands of twinkle lights.

I rolled my eyes "Alice"

The first two trees weren't the only ones, every other tree was covered Jacob pulled up outside the Cullen's home and turned to me, his hand reaching to touch my face "I won't let anything happen to you"

"I know" My voice came out as a whisper

"Ready to celebrate?" Jacob asked

I groaned as I looked to the front door the steps leading up to it was lit by Japanese lanterns. Edward opened the door as we approached, my eyes widened as I saw the entrance hall. Everything had been cleared to make a dance floor and it looked like a real nightclub with a drinks and food bar on the left and a DJ deck towards the back.

"Unbelievable" I mumbled

"Alice will be Alice" Edward shrugged.

It wasn't long before the Cullen's entrance hall was filled with Senior year students who were all too nervous to arrive alone, some of the pack had arrived too. Seth was hanging out with Edward, they had a weird friendship, Quil and Embry were close by and Jacob never let go of me, I noticed that some of my friends seemed intimidated by him, but who wouldn't. Jacob had let go of me when Angela dragged me to the dance floor.

I saw Emmett look around before heading up the stairs, he was followed by Carlisle, Alice, Jacob, Quil and Embry, I headed towards the stairs, but Edward stopped me.

"Bella, where are you headed?" Edward asked.

I watched behind him desperately looking for someone "The bathroom" I lied.

"Could I please have a minute of your undivided attention, Miss Swan?" he put his finger under my chin and pulled my face to look at his.

"Keep your hands to yourself" I hissed.

"Sorry!" Edward jerked away.

"What are you hiding?" I asked.

"Nothing, go and enjoy the party.

I ignored him and instead pushed past him, I found everyone in the kitchen.

JPOV

I watched Bella with her friend Angela, Bella was looking around at all times, she looked frightened and upset, though she was trying to hide it. I saw the big Cullen, Emmett look around before heading up the stairs, I then watched as Carlisle and the psychic followed. I got up and walked up the stairs. Quil and Embry followed me. The psychic was having one of her vision things. Bella walked into the kitchen followed by Edward and Seth.

"Sorry, I tried to stop her" Edward apologized.

"What is going on?" Bella demanded.

"Bella, sweetie go back to the party, this is nothing for you to worry about" Esme smiled.

"I have the right to know what's going on as it obviously involves me" Bella was getting impatient.

"That girl you saw at graduation that's Jane from The Volturi" Alice gave in.

"What is she doing here?" Bella asked.

"I don't know, my visions are not working because these stupid mongrels keep getting in the way" Alice moaned.

I growled, Bella turned and glared at me "What would the Volturi want here?" Bella asked

"You" The psychic answered.

"What?" I hissed.

"The only thing they could possibly want in Forks is Bella, they found out about her when Edward went to Italy, they enforce the law that humans must never find out about our kind, that law has been broken" Psychic explained.

"We have to fight them" Embry spoke.

"Fighting the Volturi won't make anything better, it wouldn't be even" Edward growled.

"What do you suggest we do then?" I snarled.

"We'll have to coordinate" Carlisle said "It will be difficult and dangerous"

"We're in" I agreed not having to think about it.

"Coordinate?" Bella repeated.

"You didn't think I was going to stay out of this?" I asked.

"You are staying out of this!" Bella shrieked "Edward, tell him, they'll get killed!"

"Bella, we could all get killed" Despite his words Edwards voice was soothing.

"Jake, no" Bella begged, I looked away pained by Bella's pain, I fought against the urge to wrap my arms around her and listen to her, but this was for her safety.

"I think this is enough discussion for one night, Jacob you should take Bella home" Carlisle spoke.

I put my arm around Bella to walk her away, but she shrugged me off "No! I have had enough of this secrecy, stop trying to protect me and tell me everything you know!" Bella snapped.

"Bella" I sighed.

"Shut up Jacob! I'm not a kid, I can deal with whatever is going on"

"You're a human who knows entirely too much about us, they could kill us all" Blondie seemed to be unafraid of letting Bella know the truth.

"What are you going to do about it?" Bella asked.

"We'll be prepared to fight, but The Volturi don't fight unless completely necessary, so we could have a chance to make them stop and listen" Carlisle answered.

"We should get back to the party, people are starting to notice our absence" Edward spoke.

"Of course" Esme smiled and led the way.

I pulled Bella into a hug, this time she hugged me back instead of shrugging me off. I knew my overprotective side would come out and I would be with her at every possible second, and when I was apart from her I wouldn't be able to concentrate, worrying about her and her safety. Quil and Embry headed back to La Push, I told them to tell the rest of the pack what was going on. Seth stayed at the party with Edward and I stayed with Bella, I was sat on a chair and she was sat on my lap, we watched as Seth started a massive conga around the dance floor.

"He's such an embarrassment" I moaned.

"Seth is such a carefree guy, I love him" Bella smiled, I looked at her and she laughed "I don't love him like you, I love him as a friend"

"Nothing effects him" It was true, we had basically just agreed to be present when the most powerful vampires alive came to town intent on someone's death and now he was leading a conga around a vampires entrance hall.

"All these people in here are in potential danger because of me" Bella sighed.

"Bells, we're going to get through this" I pulled her closer to me.

"What if we don't what if I lose you or one of the pack" Bella's face scrunched up in pain.

"Bella, listen to me, I won't ever leave you, I don't know what Carlisle is planning to do, but I promise that I will come back for you"

"Come back for me? I'm not letting you go and fight without me" Bella sat up.

"Isabella, are you insane!" I used her full name for effect "These Volturi people want you dead, it would take them seconds to kill you"

"I'm not letting you all fight for me, while I just sit at home waiting" Bella shook her head.

"Bella is right you know" Edward spoke

"What do you want?" I hissed.

"The Volturi won't listen to us, it would take them seconds to wipe us out, with Jane's power and it wouldn't take long for Demetri to track Bella and then kill her, she has to be with us" Edward explained.

"What good would that do?" I asked.

"I don't know if you remember me telling you, Bella is a shield, she's not affected by powers, they can't hurt her" Edward answered.

"You want her to be there when we fight?" I asked.

"Don't you ever listen mutt, there probably won't be a fight unless we start one and you are very stupid if you start a fight with The Volturi" Edward growled.

"Shut up! Both of you, tonight is my graduation party. I'll only ever have one, you and Alice will have loads more, can we forget about The Volturi and just enjoy what's left of the party" Bella stood up and put her hands on her hips.

"Of course" I nodded and stood up with her.

Bella dragged me to the dance floor and we found Angela and Ben. There was a faint smash in the distant, one that would be impossible for humans to hear, but I heard it with my wolf senses. I looked around and noticed that none of The Cullen's were present. What now!

Esme and Edward reappeared. Esme looked very sad and if it were possible looked as if she would be crying. Edward scanned the crowd and caught eye contact with me, he looked worried and pained, something had happened, again.