Chapter Three:

"Bella, don't pay any attention to them. Their just mad because they didn't know exactly who you were as soon as they saw you. Alice sees the future and Edward reads minds, they get antsy when they can't use their powers." Emmett said quietly.

"I don't know how I have the shield but I assume it has something to do with my natural defenses. It's not like I can help it, I'm not going to go all crazy on the town; I may have been a part of the vampire wars but I never wanted to be I just wasn't ready to be on my own yet. Maria was like a sister I never had; I was venerable and needed somebody to teach me how to survive like this. It's not like I had much choice in the matter. I can't tell you how many times I've wished that she would have just killed me with Renée and Phil." Bella said with a chocked sob as Emmett pulled her against his chest holding her tightly.

"It'll be alright Bella; don't think about them, they'll come around and if they don't their missing out on something great. What you did took a lot of guts, both allowing Maria to control you and breaking away again." Emmett muttered as he held her outside of their next class.

"I see now, you like to go after men that are already taken, so I should start dating Jessica and then I can have you on the side?" Blondie said laughing at her outraged expression as he stopped next to them.

"Look Blondie I don't know what your problem is but Emmett and I aren't sneaking around Rosalie's back, just because I'd rather associate with someone that pays attention to the big head and not just the one attached to his dick doesn't mean we're fucking, just do us all a favor and go to hell, Kay Thanks." Bella said turning on her heal and walking into the classroom leaving Blondie staring after him in shock and Emmett laughing loudly as he followed her in.

"You are too funny Bella," Emmett said as they dropped into seats as far back as they could get.

"Thanks, but looks aren't everything." She said shrugging as she started working on the assignment their math teacher had forgot to erase from the last class.

"Hey! That's my friend you're talking about, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!" Emmett said glowering at her.

"Puh-lease, I could take you any day big boy. I've taken ten guys your size on at once and won. So don't go trying to get all macho on me, I'll kick your ass."

"Miss Swan, would you like to inform the rest of the class what is so important that you feel the need to share it with Mr. Cullen immediately.

"I was just explaining to him how if a limit never crosses something then it doesn't exist; it just wasn't sinking into that thick skull of his is all." Bella said smiling brightly at the man and batting her eyelashes.

"Very well, but if you wouldn't mind keeping quiet until after class; I would much prefer that any tutoring takes place on your own time." He said glaring at the two of them.

"Yes sir, it won't happen again." Bella said respectfully sending a wink to Emmett.

"Alright then, so as I was saying…"

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"Is this day ever going to end? This is so boring; back in Phoenix I had five classes, no need to take any electives if you didn't want to. I seriously had my four core classes and Spanish and then I was done for the day. Here you have to take gym and foreign language and all sorts of other useless crap, seriously when am I ever going to need to use anything I learn in gym? It's ridiculous," Bella seethed as she met up with Emmett after changing into her gym clothes.

"I don't know, but as far as I've heard from you your pretty hot stuff with this whole physical activity thing so it shouldn't be too bad. I mean we get to choose between Football and Soccer so if you can really kick my ass play football." Emmett said smirking at the girl as they headed out to the stadium where all of the guys were headed as the girls moved towards the Soccer field.

"You realize that you're headed for Football right?" A brunet asked as he walked up on the side opposite Emmett.

"No I had no idea, I thought I was fallowing all the little sissy boys headed to play Soccer while those girls over there were going to play Football," Bella said sarcastically.

"Okay, no need to get bitchy about it, I was just making sure, wouldn't want a pretty little thing like you getting hurt before someone can take you out somewhere nice." He said winking at her as he ran up ahead.

"You have got to be kidding me. Maybe I should go shopping now that Maria doesn't need me to lure in all guys I could wear some more normal clothes so I don't look like some ho bag that'll jump into anybody's bed."

"You don't, Mike's a jerk and tries to get every girl in the school to sleep with him and that guy that just left isn't such a bad guy actually he's really nice and treats every girl the way a real man would. He never even tries to kiss a girl on their first date, it's crazy I don't know how he does it but he's some sort of saint." Emmett said shaking his head.

"Whatever you say, come on their already picking teams." Bella said taking off at a pace slightly faster than a human would be able to.

Emmett was picked as soon as they made it onto the field and Bella wasn't picked at all ending up on the opposite team as Emmett only because they had one less player. She scowled at her friend as he smirked when the captain of her team groaned.

"I may be small but I'm fast and I can catch the damn ball better than all of you, so if you want to win this thing you'll pass it to me, just sayin'." Bella said calmly as she looked at her teammates.

"You hang out with Cullen?" The captain asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I do, and I promised to kick his ass today so if you wouldn't mind getting on with this?" Bella growled as all of the boys stared at her in shock.

"Good god you're sexy are you sure you want to play Football I wouldn't want you to get hurt, you look so small and fragile!" One of the boys on her team exclaimed after she had finished talking.

"Yes I'm sure dammit! Don't underestimate me, I've been through hell and back and come out without a scratch so just give me the damn ball if you want bragging rights against Emmett Cullen!" Bella said before storming out to take her place on the field.

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"I gotta hand it to you Swan you're a damn good athlete, I never would have pegged you for a Football player, you seem much more like the Volley Ball type but you played better than our entire starting team put together." Her captain, whose name she had learned was Jason, said slapping her on the back shaking his hand as he pulled back looking at her in shock. "Good god girl, you're hard as a rock, no wonder nobody could take you down, you've gotta be one hundred percent muscle!"

"I guess I ate a lot of Wheaties this morning," Bella said smirking at him before catching site of Emmett. "Excuse me Jason my bestie over there is looking kind of down I think I'll go tell him a story of an awesome Foot Ball game."

"You're one evil little girl you know that?" Jason called after her.

"Yeah, but that's okay it makes life more interesting," She said turning around so he could see her wink at him.

"Emmy-Bear! Can you believe that I did so well? I mean who would have thunk somebody as small as me would be so awesome at football?" Bella sing-songed as she bounced up to Emmett's side grabbing onto his arm and letting him drag her along.

"Yeah, yeah; I get it your awesome at everything even though you're smaller than my pixy of a sister. Anything else you'd like to rub in squirt?" Emmett asked swinging Bella up over his shoulder so he wouldn't knock her to the ground while he walked and she hung onto his arm for the ride.

"Not right now, is there anything else I can beat you in later though just so your head doesn't get to big?" She asked sweetly.

"Nope, I'm perfect at everything else; maybe Jasper will make you sleepy though so I can draw on your face with a permanent marker though."

"You're mean you know that? Every other guy in this god forsaken school has been telling me that I should be more careful because they'd feel really bad if somebody as pretty as me got hurt, I think you should take lessons because I honestly don't know how Rose can stand how turrible you are!"

"Did you seriously just say turrible? What are you some wanna-be gangster?" Emmett said laughing loudly as he set Bella in front of the girl's locker room.

"I ain't no wanna-be yer just jealous of my mad football skills, because I won and you lost!" Bella yelled before running into the locker room before he could grab her.

She laughed gaily as all the other girls looked at her like she was insane as she walked through the room covered in mud from the football stadium.

"Did you seriously play football?" Some preppy looking girl asked looking at her in a mixture of disgust and that I'm-better-than-you-so-tell-me-look that "Queen Bee's" get when talking to other girls.

"Yeah I did, is that a problem?" Bella asked calmly not even sparing her a look as she started changing back into her street clothes.

"Yeah, it is. The rest of us worked hard today and you think you can just go and join the guys and get away without doing anything the entire period! If anyone should get to hang around watching Emmett Cullen then it's me not you. I mean come you're like what a sophomore? I guess I can let it slide since your knew but Emmett is off limit to everyone, even me and I'm the queen of the junior class so back off before his girlfriend come after you."

"Oh good, you're a junior. I guess I can let this slide since you're not accustomed to having anyone tell you you're a stupid bitch. But for future reference Rosalie and I have met and Emmett's my best friend, plus I'm a senior as long as I can get my credits since in case you were unaware I was kidnapped my sophomore year and missed my junior year. And I'll also have you know that I actually played today and I kicked Emmett's ass so if you'll excuse me I need to be going so the two of us can go find Rose and get the hell outta here." Bella said smiling sweetly at the girl before turning and walking out of the room.

"God she's a right bitch…" the girl muttered after her but Bella pretended not to hear.

"You're getting quite the reputation here today Bella," Emmett said smiling as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders walking her towards a shiny silver Volvo that Rosalie and Jasper were standing buy.

"How was your day," Rosalie asked smiling at Bella as she latched onto Emmett's free arm while the other girl ducked out from his protective stance.

"Too long," Bella muttered smiling back at the girl before going over to talk to Jasper so she and Emmett could have a moment alone.

"Hey Bella, I tried to find you after you left at lunch but you and Emmett just disappeared, I wanted to apologize for how Edward and Alice acted. They aren't usually like that, well Edward is sometimes but he's like that with everyone new." Jasper said quietly hoping that she would be able to forgive them.

"Its fine, I just wish they would have thought to ask me instead of talking about me like I wasn't there. I know it's nothing personal against me, it's just that you guys have built a home here and they're your first line of defense and I'm blocking them, even if I don't mean to and it freaked them out."

"I'm sorry to eavesdrop, but if I may interject I would like to apologize for my earlier actions it was very rude of me and I am sorry that I didn't not treat you as the gentle man I was raised to be," Edward said suddenly appearing beside her as she and Jasper talked.

"Its fine, I'd have probably acted the same way if I had the type of thing you guys did. What are you guys anyway? I've never seen anything like it, I've only ever been exposed to things like the armies and I've definitely never seen anyone as close as all of you seem to be other than in groups of two or three like Maria and I."

"We are a very large coven; in fact apart from the Volturri I think we are the largest in existence. There are actually two more members to our group and they act as our parents, as far as the rest of the world is concerned we are a family of foster children taken in by a kind young doctor and his wife." Jasper said calmly.

"You really must meet Esme Bella!" Rosalie exclaimed as she and Emmett come to join the group of three.

"Where's the annoying little pixy so we can go?" Emmett asked looking around trying to spot her.

"She went home after what happened at lunch to see if Esme could help her think more clearly so we do have extra room in the car now." Edward said calmly, pulling his keys out of his pocket.

"Then let's go your dad won't be home yet anyway. You can come meet Esme and leave before he gets off work and he'll have no chance to worry." Emmett said pulling Bella into the car next to him as Rosalie climbed into the passenger seat.

"So Rosalie did Emmett tell you how awful he is at football?" Bella asked casually as they sped toward the outskirts of Forks.

"What are you talking about, Emmett's the best player Forks has, the coach of the team is always bugging him to join the team." Jasper said confused.

"His team was terrible today in gym though! He was the first one picked and first they lost the rock, paper, scissors game to see who would start off with the ball and then they didn't score a single point!"

"Because your team cheated, if I had known that you were going to be using your unfair advantages I would have been able to stop you! While the rest of us were going at nice human paces you were going vampire speed not to mention every time someone tried to tackle you they seemed to float over your head or bounce off before the got a foot away from you!" Emmett growled glaring at her.

"Hey I can't help the shield part, I was born with it and have no idea how to take it down and you never said I couldn't run faster than a human. How else was I supposed to get my team to give me the freaking ball! Besides you were running faster than a human too, you're just mad that my shield wouldn't let you touch me." Bella said sticking her tongue out at the man.

"You lost a game of football to a girl smaller than Alice?" Rosalie and Edward asked at the same time as they turned to look at each other.

"Yes he did, I told him I could kick his ass and he didn't believe me. I have to admit I was a little worried about how I was going to explain the whole people bouncing off of me part but Jason slapped my back and about broke his hand and passed it all off as muscle so it turned out okay in the end." Bella said smiling smugly.

"For you maybe, I'm going to be the laughing stock by tomorrow." Emmett said pouting.

"Don't worry Emmett, I'll kick that little preppy bitches ass in Soccer tomorrow and save you the humiliation of being beat two days in a row." Bella said smiling sweetly at him.

"Who's she talking about?" Edward asked startled by the look of pure loathing in the girl's eyes as they climbed out of the car.

"Jessica Stanley," Emmett said laughing loudly. "Told her that since she was a sophomore she needed to stay away from me because she was next in line if Rose and I ever broke up, plus she called Bella a bitch."

"Little bitch, just because I'm short doesn't mean I'm a freaking sophomore! I'm a freaking senior dammit, like Emmett would ask somebody as plain as her out after being with somebody as beautiful as Rosalie." Bella scoffed as she was dragged into the huge house in front of her.

"You must be Bella," a woman with long honey colored hair and golden eyes said giving her the same warm motherly smile her own mom used to greet her with after school.

"Yes, you must be Esme, I'm so happy to meet you." Bella said quickly getting over her shock and pushing away the memories of her mom and step-dads deaths.

"Alice says you're from the south, how different this must be for you to wander around in the day time instead of being forced to leave only at night!"

"Yeah, it's great. I kind of wish I could go up in the mountains, above the cloud cover, for a while though it's been so long since I actually saw the sun. It feels like a century when it's only been a year." Bella said quietly.

"Maybe you would like to come hunting with us sometime, Emmett likes to go up past the clouds because that's where he can find the best game." Esme said kindly.

"I see, I was wondering why your eyes were so different. I'd never seen anything like them before, but it's because you don't hunt humans do you. You hunt animals, I didn't want to sound rude or anything but I was curious."

"Yes, we do and we must ask that you do not hunt in town or around this specific area while you are here because it could expose us to everyone." Alice said speaking for the first time.

"No worries chicky. I don't plan on eating anyone; I don't usually hunt very often any way. One of my natural defenses I suppose, I've never had trouble controlling my blood lust. It's almost nonexistent. I don't know why or how, but for some reason it's true. When I need to hunt I'll hunt animals so you have no need to worry, I only plan on staying in Forks for the remainder of the year so you don't have to worry about me ruining your life much longer I'll be out of your hair in no time at all. But I needed Charlie to know I was safe she he wouldn't have everyone and their uncle after me." Bella said calmly wondering why this girl seemed to dislike her so much.

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Ummmmmmmm…well I hope you liked it and all that good stuff. I worked really hard on it so let me know what you think and I'll try and post you another chapter soon

Love Always,

Emily Rai