Everyone in the house got into a routine. Emmett, Rosalie, Peter, Charlotte and Randall would work on plans for the future and Jasper would call anybody who would help him. Me well I didn't really do anything.

The day after we got here Peter showed me to the gym he had in the house I spent most of my day in there. When I was wiped from the gym equipment I went to find Emmett so that we could play video games. I very rarely beat him but I was getting better I could wipe him out when we played the need for speed games. Whenever we played shooting games well I just plain sucked.

Edward helped me when I was playing against everybody on the video games because he thought that with their fast reflexes that they had an advantage so he helped me by telling me what they were going to do and if I was fast enough I would beat them. Most times though I lost but at least I was having some fun.

I spent most nights talking to Maria when it was near bed time. Most of the time someone would be with me because she would start talking in Spanish and the only languages that I had learned to speak were French and Japanese. Not that I remember much of them because I was in middle school when I learnt them.

So in between doing things during the day everybody took it upon themselves that they would teach me Spanish. It was fun learning with Emmett until he started to teach me how to swear then Maria told him that she would have a surprise for him when she saw him. Edward later told me what she had planned for him I still shudder thinking about it.

She's going to get him to help Jasper out with the newborns. The catch is he's going to be doing it with one arm and Rosalie will end up with them as well trying to get to Maria to get Emmett's arm back. He will get it back when he's learned his lesson. Which will be about two months before the Cullen's show up?

I really don't ever want to see them again if they are going to cause us any problems. Edward still won't tell me when I'm getting turned or by whom.

We still haven't figured out what is going on with the guy that is supposed to get to me because I'm surrounded at all times by my vamps. Charlotte has been looking into every guy that comes within one thousand feet of me. So far she hasn't found anything yet. She looks at every guy that gives me a second glance.

I've asked Edward if he can tell me what he looks like but he wouldn't tell me. He also said that he's already seen me and is watching me from afar. When I asked how he knows this and Charlotte didn't, Edward said that he was sitting just on the edge of her range when he spotted me one day. I told Charlotte that she needs to expand her field because the guy has already seen me and she told me it wasn't possible that he had already seen me but when I told her that Edward told me she wanted to have a chat to Edward anyway.

Last night I went to bed and they had a little chat so I pulled Charlotte into my 'Edward mind' and they had a nice long chat while I slept. A good thing about it was Charlotte was stuck until I let her go or Edward kicked her out. We figured that out when I accidently pulled Emmett into my dream one night last week.

Edward and I were just talking books and all of a sudden Emmett pulls up a chair and asks what we're doing. I didn't even have a chance to kick him out when Edward did it for me.

After that night we didn't let anyone into the 'dreams' that we didn't want there. We tried doing it with Maria but we couldn't get a read on her either. Edward wanted to try it out on people that we knew but that didn't go down well because there was no one that we could just pull in because no one else knew the secret. I would have pulled one of the wolves in but they all thought that I was dead from talking to the Cullens' and we didn't want to disprove that to them. When I asked Edward how they thought I died he told me that Alice concocted a story about me dying trying to save his life when Victoria got to close.

So not only was Edward killed that day but Jacob as well. I would have felt the guilt for all their deaths but Jasper was keeping me from feeling anything and at a really large distance as well. Edward told me that he was going to keep doing it until I was changed that way I could train with him to be his best fighter that he has ever made.

Aunt Maria agreed with this when I told her on one of our video chats. She told me that I won't be in any battles that she has ever because no one in her family should ever have to fight.

I hated being ganged up on but when Edward backed up what they were saying then I could see everyone's point. I still thought they were being ridiculous though.

The school year was starting again in a few days so I would be going to college with my whole family by my side.

Emmett and Randall were going to be posing as my cousins. Rosalie, Jasper and Peter would be posing as half siblings. Charlotte and I would be pretending to be sisters. It was going to be hard to remember all that but it would have to do anyway.

We had finally contacted Mary and Alistair so they were on their way to us. They would be posing as the parents of all of us according to the school.

One good thing about have the badest Aunt in the south was she had influence everywhere so we got into college with no problems.

I shared all my classes but one with Emmett who was taking all the same classes as me. We quickly figured out where I was going to be taking from but not the when or who.

"Isabella, you're very deep in thought over there?" Jasper said. "Want to talk about it?"

"No Jasper, just thinking about what Edward and I have talked about all this week. Also all that has happened this week it's just a lot to take in. I'm still not happy having all my emotions taken from me either." I said looking at him.

"Well Isabella you heard what your Aunt said the other night about them being your worst enemy at the moment so you have to suck it up and learn to live with it." Jasper said while walking into my closet to find me something to wear. They all had turns dressing me in whatever they wanted for the day and if someone didn't like it they got to play 'Bella Barbie' the fun edition. It was more fun with everyone here than it ever was with Alice. Edward complained once or twice but because it was only me and Charlotte that could hear him so he didn't get a say.

"Now hurry up and get ready Mary and Alistair should be here shortly. Charlotte cooked breakfast for you this morning. Emmett wants a rematch on the X-Box later and in his words gets ready to go down." Jasper said handing me my clothes for the day.

Half an hour later found me downstairs eating my breakfast and talking to Randall he was telling me a story about the time he meet Elvis we were both laughing when we were interrupted by someone knocking on the door to the kitchen. Looking over I saw Jasper standing there with two vamps that must have been Mary and Alistair.

"Hi there my name's Isabella 'but you can call me Bella' Higginbotham. My Aunt Maria said that you were able to help us. If you would excuse me I have to find my cousin Emmett and have a rematch with him." I said as polite as could be.

"Isabella. Finish your breakfast then you can go to Emmett. You will behave or I will make you behave." Jasper said into my ear so the other vamps couldn't hear.

"Yes Jasper." I said sadly. I really didn't feel like being pleasant for some reason. "Hey Jasper are you still keeping a tight rein on my emotions?"

"Yes Isabella I am but what you are feeling now is all your own I have no influence on them now. Just don't be surprised if you can't feel it soon." Jasper said as I walked back to the table to finish my breakfast.

"Mary and Alistair are going to be staying here until it's time for us to go to Maria's so they can help you with your gift's that you seem to have accumulated over the years." Jasper said.

"You were right to call me Jasper because you are going to have your hands full with Isabella as it is. She not only has your power but your brother's as well. She also has a bit of succubus in her as well. Has she at any stage in her life come across Tanya Denali or her sister Irina?" Alistair said.

"As far as we know she has only come across Kate Denali but not the other two. Edward might be able to help us figure something out if he can remember ever having them near her." Jasper sighed.

"Edward Cullen you mean?" Mary said suddenly.

"His name is and forever will be Edward Masen. He doesn't like the Cullens even in death and doesn't want any association from them anymore. He hates everything they ever did to him and I and he would rather not be counted as a Cullen anymore." I said defending Edward to these people.

"Wow Isabella tell people how you really feel about them when they can hear you and talk back." Edward said.

"Oh cut the crap Edward you're just jealous that I said what you were thinking but couldn't tell them." I said looking at him.

"Can she see dead people as well?" Alistair said as he looked back and forth between the spot that Edward was standing in and me.

"No I can see him as well. Edward she was right you know you were thinking that." Charlotte said coming into the kitchen. "Oh Sshhhh Edward no one likes a bossy boots. Well it serves you right for trying to do something that you can't do anymore unless you are in the 'Edward dream mode' stop trying it won't work it's locked tight even I can't get through and into his head. Yes I tried that. What do you think I'm doing Edward? Isabella can you control him because I really don't think that I can handle him anymore today."

"Edward behave or I'm bringing Emmett with me tonight." I hissed to Edward. To which Edward shuddered and stuck his hands up in surrender.

"He'll behave now Charlotte." I said looking at her.

"Yeah I caught that as well. What's the problem with Emmett being there?" Charlotte asked.

"You know how you have the on/off switch with Emmett well he doesn't." I said and she made an 'O' face.

"Jasper can I go play video games with Emmett now please?" I may have pouted a little just to help get my way.

"Isabella what have you been told about pouting?" Randall said pointing to the corner.

"That I was not to do it and that I am to stand in the corner and think about what I want without resorting to the pout." I said going to the corner. I picked up my smokes on the way there and lit one up so I could have a smoke as always after breakfast.

"Isabella put that smoke out this instant." Came the familiar voice of my Aunt.

"But Aunt Maria I always have a smoke after breakfast. Then I don't have one for another couple of hours." I may have pouted again but she's always a sucker for my puppy dog eyes.

"Fine but don't let me catch you smoking again little girl." Maria said as she was shaking her head. "Mary, Alistair so nice of you to join the Whitlock's as they are looking after my niece. I wanted to check in with you this morning because we have a battle coming up and it looks as if it will go on into the night. Don't worry about me Isabella I will make sure that you are the first person that I tell that it all went my way."

"You just be careful then Aunt Maria." I said hopeful that she makes it out alive.

"I will be Isabella now you be a good girl for Jasper and try not to give him a hard time today he's only doing what's in your best interest even Edward agreed with me on this one which was a surprise." Maria said.

"How did you talk to Edward?" I asked surprised that she talked to him.

"He came to and let me see him not long after his chat with Charlotte this morning. He's a very nice boy and now that I have talked to him I can tell just how much he meant to you and if he was still alive then I would have been okay with you seeing him." Maria said. I looked over to see Edward blushing.

"You're making him blush do you know that?" I told Maria.

"Oh he's such a stunning boy if you didn't want him if he was still alive and I was just a couple of years younger I would take him in a heartbeat. But there's nothing that we can do about it now. I'll talk to you tomorrow hopeful it all depends on how we go today." Maria said.

She then disconnected the link and Peter moved the computer but I didn't even notice him come in.

"Oh crap I have got to take a better look at my surroundings I didn't even see you come in Peter." I said.

"Oh I know you didn't see me because I was the one that brought Maria in so she could tell you off. As for not noticing me Maria does that all the time. She has this way about her when she's talking to you she's the only one that you notice. It's happened to the best of us. How do you think she's been able to get the upper hand on the Major all of those years ago to rip limbs off him? She puts you under some sort of spell or whatever and then she gets one of the higher ups to rip the limbs off and most of the time you don't notice until you have finished talking to her that they are gone. She's very sneaky when she wants to be." Peter said guiding me back to the corner.

I forgot that I was in the corner when Maria came on the screen. I sat in the corner wondering how I was going to get the upper hand on anybody if I can't pout anymore. Under handed tactics that's it play one against the other? Oh this will be so much fun but I'll have to wait till I get to know Mary and Alistair first before I try anything. I'll leave it for a week and see what happens after that.

After being in the corner for what felt like hours Jasper came to see what I was doing and told me that Emmett was waiting for me in the games room and he would bring me lunch shortly. When I said that I wasn't hungry my stomach growled. Jasper told me that lunch would be ready shortly.

Charlotte looked at me funny and then asked if I was alright because she couldn't hear anything from me and it was as if I was thinking about anything at all but I was actually thinking a lot of things all at once and she couldn't hear them. That means that I can get away with anything during the day but at night I'm back to being vulnerable. I'll just have to make sure to lock everything that I don't want her or Edward to know up in my brain so they don't warn anyone of my new plans.

As I passed Jasper his phone rang which was nothing new but I got a look at the display before he could turn it away from me. It was Alice's number. How had she gotten his new number that was barred except from people who had the number and they had to have the pin to make it ring on his side otherwise it just went to voicemail.