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OMG I love this chapter! My favorite so far.

Chapter 3

Edward paced across his room over and over again.We were at his house waiting for Carlisle to get home.

"Edward, please come sit down and tell me what is so wrong," I pleaded with him. He just ignored me and continued muttering to himself.

One moment he was at the window and the next he had left the room, Carlisle must be home, I thought to myself. I went down the stairs very slowly, attempting not to fall flat on my face. Two more weeks I kept saying to myself, and I can get this wretched thing off.

I finally made it down the stairs and saw Edward talking in a very fast whisper that was too faint for my ears, but I knew that everyone else in the room could hear him crystal clear. Carlisle looked at him with concern, he didn't even need to whisper for Edward to hear him. I looked across the huge living room and say Alice and Esme standing unusually still. I knew something was very wrong, it was much worse than "not good" as Edward had told me earlier that day.

I stood there waiting for them to finish, once they did Edward when and sat silently on the piano bench while Carlisle hurried up to his office.

"Are you going to tell me what is wrong?" I asked as I sat down next to him.

"Not now, Bella, first we need to get you out of here."

"But wh…," I didn't even finish my sentence before he threw me over his shoulder and brought me out to his car. He drove me home faster than usual. Once we were parked outside my house, he was out of his car and carrying me inside without saying a word.

"Bella, I need to go back home for a while, there are some things Carlisle and I need to figure out."

"But…"

"I will be back before you wake up in the morning, and I will explain everything to you then. I love you Bella, I will be back soon, I promise."

"I love you too." He pressed his lips against mine, and he was gone before I could blink.

I slept horribly that night, I couldn't get Edward out of my head, I wasn't used to going to sleep by myself, and I didn't like it. When I woke up in the morning, Edward was there as he promised. I turned over in my bed to look at him.

"Good morning," I whispered to him.

"Good morning," he said with a grin.

"So are you going to explain to me about last night?"

"Not now, you need to get ready so we aren't late for school."

Ugh, school I had completely forgotten that it was Monday.

"Alright fine, give me a human minute," I said as I grabbed some clothes and went to get ready. I wondered if Mike would be at school, I knew Jess wouldn't be she would be in too much pain without all the medications being pumped into her. I got ready as fast as I possibly could, I desperately wanted to know what Edward already knew.

"Ok, I am all ready, let's go."

"Not so fast, you need to be fed first," he said as he brought me down to the kitchen. I ate my cereal my cereal with out protest and quickly washed my bowl.

"There, can we go now?" I asked irritably.

As soon as we were both in the car I asked him, "So what is going on?"

He didn't answer, "Edward, you promised."

He hesitated, "Remember how I told you I haven't always lived with Carlisle?"

"Yes."

"Well, while I was away from him I met some others of our kind. They were so different from Carlisle it shocked me, but I was fascinated by them at the same time. I didn't really know how to drink with out attracting a lot of attention to myself, I was alone and very confused until I met Katherine and Lydia."

"Well what happened to you when you met them?" I asked desperate to know what was going on.

"Later. Right now we need to go to class."

I hadn't even realized we were at school. We got out of the car and headed towards building 3. "You are going to finish telling me at lunch, it is driving me crazy, I hope you know that."

"Be patient Bella," he gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and went off to his own class.

The rest of the morning went by in a blur. Everyone around me was talking about the accident and prom, people kept asking me about Jess and Mike since neither of them showed up to school. I never answered though, I was lost in my thoughts, they had no clue that there was something bigger going on here than they realized, and I wanted to know what it was. Finally the bell rang for lunch. I left the Spanish class room so fast I ran into Edward outside the door.

"You should slow down, before you injure someone," he said as he grinned at me.

"So are you going to finish telling me about Katherine and Lydia?"

"Yes, as soon as we get you some food."

"So what happened?" We were now at our usual lunch table.

"Well as I said, I was lost and confused, until I met Katherine and Lydia. They took me in for that year I was away from Carlisle."

"How come you never told me about them before?" I interrupted.

"Bella, would you like to know what happened or not?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, please continue."

"Anyways, they took me in and showed me their way of life, the more "natural" way of life I suppose you could call it. We never stayed in one place for more than a week or two, there was too much of a risk of getting caught. I never really got to close to them, I didn't want to, they were terrible people, half the time they killed just for the fun of it, they enjoyed watching people in pain, especially Katherine. Katherine was sort of a leader to Lydia and I, she loved having people do whatever she wanted, and they usually would do what ever she wanted, that was her gift Bella she was very persuasive and could manipulate the mind.

After I had lived with them for about 10 months, Lydia started to feel guilt for what we were doing, and she started to plot her escape, she was going to leave Katherine and start a different life, not necessarily a "vegetarian" one, but at least a less cruel one, she didn't like hunting for the fun of it like Katherine did.

About a week before he planned escape her and Katherine got into a huge fight, they were arguing about where we should go next. Lydia wanted to continue south as we had planned, but Katherine wanted to change course and head west. Lydia pleaded with Katherine to continue south, because that was a very important part of her escape, if they went west she would not be able to leave us. Katherine on the other hand wanted to go westward to explore some territory she had never been to. Lydia continued to argue and Katherine didn't like it, she wasn't used to being challenged. She knew that she was no longer controlling Lydia, she had somehow become immune."

"Why didn't she have control over you?" I asked before I could stop myself.

"Well she did, just not as much as she would over a normal person. Since I can read minds, I knew that she was evil, but yet I stayed, which was most likely her doing. She made me stay with her, but when I started listening to Lydia's mind and about her escape I realized how right she was and that I too, needed to leave. Anyways, back to their fight. It ended very badly. Katherine was so angry that she no longer had control over Lydia that she got rid of her. Of course I was there and saw everything, but Katherine just used her gift and I stayed with her for another couple of weeks until one night she went hunting by herself. She was gone for and unusually long time, which gave my mind time to clear up and realize that I needed to leave. So I left and went to find Carlisle for help and he took me back in."

"Well did you ever see her again?"

"Bella, will you please stop interrupting me."

"Sorry."

"It's alright. So I lived with Carlisle and the family members that soon joined us until about 20 years ago. At the time we were living in a small town in northern Canada. We had lived there for about 3 years and Rosalie and Emmet had just gotten married again. Strange accidents started happening that could not be explained. Humans were killing each other and not even realizing it or knowing why they had done it. We had to leave, there were too many accidents for us to handle, to much open blood, and we didn't want to get figured out.

The night before we left Katherine showed up at our house looking for me. Carlisle told her where I was without a fight, he didn't know how to fight off her powers. She found me and we got into a huge fight, she wanted to get rid of me as she did Lydia, she didn't like people who could resist her, and who went against her. The fight was a mess and I hardly made it out alive.

That is when we decided to move to Alaska, we had found a group of "vegetarians" up there, and went to them to ask for help. They let us into their home without hesitation. One night a few years ago, Alice had a vision that Katherine was coming after us, she knew where we were. So we left, we didn't want to, we loved it in Alaska, but we couldn't stay there and risk harming are the family that had let us into their home. First we went back down through Canada and to the East to throw her off our trail and we swam completely around North America and came here. Now she has found us again, but I won't run from her again Bella, I can't leave you."

The final bell to be in class rang and I realized we were late for biology.

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