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"We're here." I said, pulling up to a beautiful white mansion. It was covered with vines. I figured Esme must have done some work to it. We all got out of our vehicles, and listened.

Not a sound was heard, no breathing, no talking, nothing.

"I guess nobody's home?" I looked over to Darien. "They must be gone hunting."

I knew there were people inside the house. More importantly, vampires. And a lot of them. I tried sensing them and counting them. Edward told me of the Denali coven, five of them. And seven Cullen's. That's twelve, but why was I sensing fifteen altogether?

Chapter 38 (Bella's POV)

I had no time to think about it before a figure was coming at me. I stepped to the side, but they were after Darien. They tackled and the person, yelled at Darien, "I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!"

They were slammed into the viper and ruined it. That was my car! My baby! My –urgh. They're going to die!!! "YOU IDIOTS!! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!! YOU KILLED MY BABY!!! YOU RETARDS!!! I'M SSOOOO----"

I stopped as I realized the person, "CAIUS!!!!"

I tackled him off of Darien in my own bear hug. "CAIUS!!!OMG!!!I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!HOW'VE YOU BEEN????OMG!!!!"

"Wow. Didn't think you liked me that much. Where did that come from?" Caius said, smiling.

I replied with a smile of my own, "Of course I like you. You're the best." I gave him another squeeze and let go. I looked back up at him and he looked like he was going to cry. Nobody said anything. So I broke the silence, "Soooo, what are you doing here?"

I gestured to him and his brothers. He laughed and put an arm around my shoulders, guiding me to the house. I saw Edward and the rest of his family. I smiled at them, showing that I was fine and they gave me a weak smile back. I wondered what was going on.

As we sat on the couch together, Marcus joining me on my other side, knowing I didn't want Aro anywhere near me. I grabbed both Marcus and Caius's hands that were beside me and held them in my own. The rest of the vampires gathered in chairs and the other ones went about the room, finding a place to sit or stand. I did a quick count, and found out there were twenty-three people in the living room. Wow. Hopefully they're not going to kill me. I chuckled lightly, bringing everybody's attention on me. A lot of it was anyways. I immediately shut up after that, letting someone else start the conversation.

When no one did, I looked at Caius, wanting him to start. He looked away. As did Marcus when I did the same thing. I looked at Aro, but he merely stared back, as if not seeing me. I rolled my eyes and looked at Carlisle. He looked uneasy and I didn't think he was going to speak, so I was about to burst with anger, when Caius finally spoke, "So, what happened?"

He was looking at Darien when he spoke. "I thought I told you and your brothers to leave Bella alone?"

I realized something, "HAH!!! SEE!!! HE CALLED ME BELLA!!NOT ISABELLA!!!!!"

Everybody was surprised by my outburst. I laughed at their expressions. I was trying to distract myself from Jake, and this was the perfect way.

"Bella, what are you laughing about?" Caius asked me softly, gently.

"You guys!!" I laughed. But then calmed down. "See, Darien called me Isabella, like Aro always does, and he said that my name wasn't Bella. It was Isabella. Because that's what everybody called me back in Italy."

"Oh." The reply was short. He was looking at me like I was crazy. I was sooo not. Just off balanced. Jasper broke my concentration when he started laughing so hard. His laughter spread to everybody else, except more powerful. Nobody was sitting on their seats or standing up. They were on the ground, rolling around with laughter. Soon I was too, but I wasn't influenced by Jasper's power. Nope. I was laughing at them.

I calmed down, and went to Jasper to calm him. Sensing he was never going to stop. Everybody else tried to compose themselves as the mirth died down.

"Jasper, what was that all about?" Rosalie asked, peeved that her hair was messed up. Emmett wrapped her up in his arms. I looked away, not wanting to see love when I didn't have any.

"He was thinking about Bella." Edward said, looking at Jasper.

"What about me?" I asked, since he didn't elaborate.

"That you would find hilarity in the situation. And that you haven't changed at all. That you wouldn't ever." He said the last sentence, with a dark expression over his face. I looked away and back to Caius. Getting off the subject of me.

He started before I even got the chance to open my mouth. "Why did you bring her, Darien? She was suppose to—"

"We found her in the woods, surrounded by wolves." Yeah. Right. That was soo not how it went down.

"Okay." Carlisle said. They must have thought I was with the La Push pack. Guess again. "So why did you take her?"

"Carlisle, I was not taken, do you think that they—"

I was interrupted by Edward. "She was with another pack. She came upon them when they were about to kill Jack." He pointed to the little boy in the corner. He wasn't really little. Probably fourteen, but he just looked little compared to all the wolves. "Apparently, she saved you guys from that pack."

"Read his mind?" I asked, dryly.

"Yes." His eyes narrowed. While mine widened. JEEZ!!! I didn't mean to be mean. He takes things to seriously. I mean, JEEZ!!!

I looked away and slotched in the couch. "So, is your power also strengthened when I'm around?"

"Yes, so is Alice's." I wonder how. He answered my unasked question, "I can read minds more further and Alice's visions are right every time. It's quite useful for Alice, not for me."

I thought about that for awhile, but Caius and Marcus broke my train of thought when they stood up.

"Let us go into my office and talk. The rest of you stay out here and converse." Elezar said. He took one look at me, then was gone. Along with Darien, Carlisle, and the three Volturi.

The tension was so thick, you could cut it with a knife. I looked at Jasper. Hmmm. I could have fun with this. I thought of something funny….

HA!! Got it. I remembered we were having a pack meeting and Quil and Paul were wrestling who would be in charge in case Jake had to go someplace. The others didn't even bother arguing. They just laughed at them. I was too, until they took out my truck. I didn't think anything could hurt my truck. But they did.

That was exactly one month before they kicked me out. I knew Jake loved me still, and the pack was uncomfortable with me around. I was going to leave soon anyways. Just not as soon as I thought. I looked down, but then remembered that I was supposed to be thinking of something funny. Oh yeah. My truck. I was thinking of trying to reach Jasper and remember the indentions in my truck at the same time.

Jasper started laughing, which led to everybody laughing. It wasn't quite as strong as last time. I tried to make it so that they were on the floor again. After all, I needed practice.

"JASPER!! STOP IT!!!" Edward wheezed out.

"I can't!!!!" He could barely speak. He was getting the worst of it.

"BELLA!!!!" I immediately stopped as I heard my name cross his lips. I stood up and looked outside. I went over to the window, looking at my second beat up car. I frowned. Both my cars were totaled by mythological creatures. I shook it off and looked around, my eyes seeing everything. I could see in the reflection, the family's looking at me.

I didn't turn around as I spoke, "So, what are your names?"

There was no sound. Not that I expected there to be. I turned around, "Are you guys going to speak to me?"

No answer. I stormed out of the house, into the night. I ran until I realized that someone was following me. I stopped, nearing a lake. I walked to a bare spot and sat there, Indian style.

"Bella?" I didn't turn. Just knowing the voice, I smiled.

Sorry if the characters are off, I wrote the next couple chapters during my very stressful week, but I finished the story!!!!!!Chapter 41 is the very last chapter!!!YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!I still haven't figured out yet what my next story is going to be, I don't really want to do a sequel-SORRYYY!!I just want a fresh start. I just need an idea. Oh well, I'll think about it. I'm making a movie for my school in the next few weeks,...so, I'm going to finish this story this week, like I promised and then the movie and hopefully start on a new book/story.