So I´m back to writing again. :) I am already working on chapter four to this story so, hopefully, it will be out soon. ;) I am also working with chapter seven to my other story and hopefully I will post it soon as well. Anyway just enjoy this chpater for now.

Disclamer: I do not own Twilight. It belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 3
Bella´s POV

"I think these will do. Which color are they?" I asked Alice holding up a pair of shoes I had found in her huge closet. It hadn´t been my idea to find a pair of shoes that would look at least a little alike a pair of shoes I had at home, it had been Alice´s. When I had followed her into the house she had suddenly stopped and asked me if I wanted to borrow a pair of shoes since I wasn´t wearing any. Blushing I had told her that would be very kind if it wasn´t too much trouble for her. That had only caused her face to light up with a huge smile and, to my surprise, grab a hold of my hand before dragging me up the stairs. I was used to people holding a distance to me, why I didn´t know, so that this teenage girl wasn´t bothered at all surprised me. She was also surprisingly strong for her size.

As soon as I had stepped into the house I knew I had been right. It was huge and now that I could feel everything inside of it, I could feel that whoever had decorated it really known what he or she was doing. The only thing that occurred to me though, was that there were only three king-sized beds. Not seven of them or six smaller beds and one king-sized for the parents. That meant that either these peoples took turns sleeping or that six of them slept together while the last one was… sleeping on the couch or floor? Something told me that it was the boy with the velvet voice that didn´t have a bed. Carlisle, Emmett and the man with the calming voice had been so protective against Alice, her mother and her sister.

"Out of all shoes you could pick from my closet you mange to choose a black pair of Converse. Black!" Alice said and I felt how she was shaking her head, but smiling. I was actually happy with my choice. The most pair of shoes in Alice´s closet had been high heels and it had only been a few flats. I, myself, only had flats because as soon as I put on a pair of shoes everything around me became, well fussy. I couldn´t see things clearly and that always caused me to panic a little, becoming uncertain and sometimes fall over. I could still see most of the world, but small details near me disappeared, like seeing an ant, and everything which was far away disappeared completely. I could always make things a little better by using my hands more, but that always caused others to look at me, which I hated.

"Well I´m very lucky then, Renee bought me pair of black Converse before I left Phoenix." I said to Alice, smiling a little before sitting down in the chair that stood in front of table full of things I thought was makeup and hair products.

"Is Renee your mother?" Alice asked as she sat down on the king sized bead across from me. Thinking I started to put on the left shoe. I didn't like it when others knew about me, but this family had helped me when I needed their help.

"Yes she is." That was all I said and with a tone which told Alice that I didn´t want more questions on the subject and she didn´t ask me anything else before I put down my right foot on the ground a small sigh escaped from me. With the pair of shoes on my feet I could still feel the whole second floor, but other than that I was blind. I knew it would get better when I got outside, but it was still very frustrating going from sensing all the way to something I thought was a small cottage to just seeing one floor. Of course Alice noticed my sigh.

"You don´t like wearing shoes very much, do you?" She asked.

"No, they make the world unclear and they make everything fussy." I said and once again I felt how Alice waited for me to continue and once again I kept quiet. Right then I heard Charlie´s car stopping in front of the Cullen´s house. Even though I had lost parts of my "seeing" my other senses were still the same to my big relief. I heard how Charlie walked up to the front door and hesitated a few seconds before he knocked on the door. I heard footsteps walking towards the door and opening it. I shifted a little where I sat knowing that if I not had been wearing shoes I had known when the person standing at the door had entered the house.

"Chief Swan good to see you again, are you here to pick up Isabella?" I heard the voice Dr. Cullen. His voice held the precise amount of warmth and no surprise at all, like he really had expected seeing Charlie on his doorstep and like nothing was wrong with that. But I didn´t like that he said "Are you here to pick up Isabella?" it sounded like I was five years old!

"Uhm… yes." Was the only replay that came from my father, he sounded really confused. I understood him, I had been to. When my father said this I felt how Alice rose from her bed holding out her hand for me to take and this time I took it willingly. She put her arm under my own so she had me in a firm grip and then we slowly started to make our way downstairs. As soon as I came near the wall I put my free hand against it and relief flooded through my whole body. Finally I could see. Alice must had realized this because she picked up the pace and slowed down again when we reached the stairs. Once we had reached the bottom of the stairs I had to let go of the wall, something I did unwillingly. Alice lead me towards the door and I could feel two men standing on the doorstep and that the rest of the Cullen family was in the room as well, but I could only pick out Emmett, the rest of them were to similar for me now.

Suddenly I felt two arms warp around me and without even thinking a small scream escaped my lips and for a second fear rose inside in of me before I recognized my father. Immediately I felt how he let go of me, but still held both my arms by my wrists in his hands.

"I´m sorry Bells I forgot." He told me and I felt the concern coming from him.

"I´m fine dad I just didn´t know you where you were." I said feeling the usual lump in my throat.

"Good. Then maybe you can answer me why you left the house without calling me or at least leaving me a note?" Charlie's vice was firm and it felt extremely embarrassing being lectured by my father in front of the Cullens.

"You know very well that I can´t write, that is one of the problems with being blind, and when Alice came by welcoming me to Forks and asking if I wanted to come over I forgot to call you." I said this in the same calm voice as earlier and I immediately felt how Charlie relaxed, but there was also an edge to my voice I couldn´t keep out.

"Bella is right Chief Swan. I practically dragged her out of the house when she said yes, so she wouldn´t have had any chance to call you. I am sorry if we worried you." Alice said with a voice which held just the right amount of sorrow and quilt. They are good actors I thought.

"Very well then, I guess it´s okay, just don´t forget about it next time. Thank you for taking care of Bella for me." Dear god it sounded like I was a five year old again and I felt my face heat up from embracement and I also how the lump in my throat grew. Would everyone always see me as a baby?

"No problem Chief Swan." Dr. Cullen said with a warm voice, but I heard a small amount of concern in it as well. My dad carefully guided me out from the house and when we reached the small stair outside the front door he counted each step out loud so "I would know how many there was left".When we reached the police car Charlie opened the car door for me before he picked me up and sat me down in the passenger seat. I forced a small smile, but on the inside I was breaking and I knew that if things continued in this direction it wouldn´t take long before I was back in depression.

The atmosphere in car was so thick that it felt like breathing under water, but I was not going to say anything first.

"You know that I don´t like it when you leave the house Bella." Charlie stared.

"I know." I just said with a sad voice.

"Then why didn´t you call me?"

"I forgot."

"You forgot? You forgot?! Hell! Do have any idea how idea how worried I was?! I nearly called the station so they could start searching for you!"

"I´m sorry…"

"Isabella you don´t even know the meaning of the word! If you were sorry you would have called me before you left the house! From now on you are not leaving the house without my company!" Charlie said and I felt how tears started to fall from my blind eyes and roiling down my cheeks. Mostly I was angry, but also truly sad for causing my father pain. I hadn´t meant to! Then I heard how the car slowed down and finally stopped before Charlie warped me in a hug.

"I am so sorry Bells! I was just so scared, I didn´t want to lose you like I did nine years ago." He said and I knew he told the truth. Until nine years ago Charlie had nearly ever hugged me and he had had problems with expressing his emotions. Nine years ago all that changed.

"I really am sorry dad I should have told you." I whispered tears still falling.

"I know you are sweetie I just was so scared of losing you." He let go of me and wiped my tears away with his thumb. "And of course you will be allowed to leave the house without me."

"Thanks dad." I said before he started the car and started driving again. I knew both Renee and Charlie had been really scared nine years ago, but for me it had been the turning point in my life. A lot of things had happened then and one of them was that I would get closer to Charlie then I ever thought was possible. If I only could make him see that I could take care of myself! Sometimes I really wondered which one of us who really was blind and who could see. I felt one last tear escape my eye and roll down my cheek as I turned my face towards the window, seeing nothing but the usual darkness.

Edward´s POV

We all stayed outside as Alice led Bella inside. We heard how she asked if Bella wanted to borrow a pair of shoes and Bella´s replay. Emmett opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by Rose.

"She can hear you!" She whispered so low that we barley heard her. We all looked at her knowing what she said was true. We all heard how Charlie Swan´s car was driving closer to our house and somehow Bella had heard this too. If we said anything yet she would hear us. Instead Carlisle just showed with his hand that we all should go inside. I saw that Jasper hesitated for a moment before he followed us inside.

Inside our house Bella´s sent was even more concentrated and it took all my will power not to run upstairs and end her young life.

"You don´t like wearing shoes very much, do you?" We all heard Alice asking Bella.

"No, they make the world unclear and the make everything fussy." Bella´s voice came from upstairs and for some reason it warmed my dead heart to hear her voice. The mystery of Bella Swan really was a mystery. First of all I couldn´t read her mind, something that never had happened before in my existence. Then there was her weird behavior and lack of fears towards us. I knew that when I read about humans being blind many years ago I had read that almost everyone developed a sixth sense which would "protect" them from danger. Wouldn´t that mean Bella wouldn´t even had approached us?

I saw her in front of me. Her brown hair flowing down her back, and her heart shaped face along with her white eyes which somehow had shoe with life despite her blindness. My memory of this human girl overtook all my thoughts and it wasn´t before I heard a knock at the door that I could focus on anything else. My father went to open the door and there stood Chief Swan. To my big surprise had a problem reading his mind as well. I only got brief thoughts and feelings.

"Chief Swan good to see you again, are you here to pick up Isabella?" My father said silently cursing in his head. He thought it had sounded like Bella was just a small child and I agreed with him. I mean Bella had to be around seventeen years old and she had proven that she could take care of herself. Chief Swan got a very puzzled look on his face.

"Uhm… yes." That was his only replay, sounding just as confused as he looked. As he sad this we all heard how Alice and Bella started moving on the floor above us. To my surprise though it sounded like both Bella and Alice moved slow, Bella really had a problem seeing when she got shoes on, but why?

"Bella suddenly became very uncertain and uncomfortable Edward." Jasper thought feeling a little uncomfortable as well. Suddenly he "told" me that a flood of relief had washed over Bella but he didn´t know why. Then I saw her in the stairs. My memory hadn´t made her justice one bit. I stopped breathing this time before her sent reached me and Jasper did the same. What occurred to all of us though was that Bella´s expression had changed. She looked troubled and uncomfortable. Also I noticed that Alice was holding onto Bella´s right arm, guiding her.

Once they had taken a few steps into the hall Alice let go of Bella´s arm, but she didn´t seem to notice. Her father on the other hand took five long steps and embraced his daughter in a hug. To our big surprise we saw how Bella stiffened and a small scared scream escaped her before it looked like she connected the dots and relaxed. But her father had already let her go and was now only holding onto her arms. He looked at her like she really was a small child which he accidentally had scared.

"I´m sorry Bells I forgot." He said to Bella who just looked causal.

"I´m fine dad I just didn´t know you where you were." She said with a tone which matched her facial expression, but Jasper´s thoughts told me that he could read of slight pain and sorrow.

"Good. Then maybe you can answer me why you left the house without calling me or at least leaving me a note?" Chief Swan´s was firm and all of us didn´t know how to react. Should he really lecture his seventeen year old daughter for leaving the house?! Here?

"She is feeling extremely embarrassed." Jasper thought.

"You know very well that I can´t write, that is one of the problems with being blind, and when Alice came by welcoming me to Forks and asking if I wanted to come over I forgot to call you." When Bella answered her father's question it was in the same calming voice that she had used before on Rose and the result was incredible. We could all she how Chief Swan visibly relaxed and how his face softened.

"Bella is right Chief Swan. I practically dragged her out of the house when she said yes, so she wouldn´t have had any chance to call you. I am sorry if we worried you." Alice said with a guiltily and sorrowful voice. She wanted to lead the attention away from Bella so she wouldn´t get the entire quilt.

"Very well then, I guess it´s okay, just don´t forget about it next time. Thank you for taking care of Bella for me." All of us tried to hide how confused we all were. Chief Swan didn´t seem to realize, but it almost sounded like we had been, in the lack of a better word, babysitting his daughter. No wonder Jasper could feel that my angel became even more embarrassed and that Bella nearly started crying. Wait! MY angel? A little too early to become possessive Edward, you just met her. I told myself. But seeing Bella´s sad face made me want to comfort her, I wanted to see her smile again, like she had done before.

"No problem Chief Swan." My father said and I managed to tear my gaze away from Bella to look at him. He, just as everyone else, had noticed the sad look on Bella´s face. His voice was warm but we could all hear the concern in his voice. His fatherly instincts and compassion started to take over when he looked at Bella who now looked almost broken.

Chief Swan just nodded his head towards Carlisle and started guiding his daughter out of the door. When I heard him counting I moved so I was standing next to Carlisle in the doorway where I saw Chief Swan counting the steps for Bella who only could walk very slowly because of his strong grip on her. Once they reached the car, Chief Swan opened the door to the passenger seat before lifting Bella into the car. I heard how she thanked her dad, but the smile I saw on her face was everything than happy before Chief Swan closed the door, started his car and drove away. All I could do was watching how my sad angel disappeared.

When we couldn´t hear Chief Swan´s car any longer Carlisle closed the door and made his way over to Esme, warping his arms around her waist. Emmett and Rose were sitting in the love seat and Alice now sat on Jasper lap in the armchair. Looking at all the couples made a strange feeling of loneliness to wash over me. As I tried to figure out why, I saw how Jasper´s eyes flashed over to look at me before he focused on Alice again.

"So…" Emmett began, but then stopped as all of us stared at him.

"So what?" Rose snapped at him when he didn´t continue.

"What just happened?" He said with a slightly confused voice.

"Charlie Swan just came and picked up his blind daughter, that´s what happened." Rose said with a cold voice.

"No, Emmett is right!" Alice said. "What just happened? We all know that a father doesn't treat his seventeen year old daughter like that! Or do they?" Alice said turning to our father. Carlisle looked very thoughtful.

"In my years as a doctor I have many times been shown how protective parents can be when it comes to their children, but it is very unusual that it comes to this extent when the "child" is in Bella´s age. The few times I have met parents with such a protective stance towards their teenage child is when something has happened in the past or if the child can´t take care of itself to any extent, something everyone who is blind can." He said. "Also Bella showed us very clearly that she could take care of herself when she emerged from the woods." He finished.

"Why do you think she was so calm meeting us? I mean we are vampires." I asked my father. For some reason I felt hope at the thought that Bella could accept us.

"I don´t know. But do you remember how she said she was special?" Carlisle said.

"Maybe she can discover mythical creatures!" Emmett said his eyes shining when he came up with this new thought. "Think about it, in just a few minutes she reviled more of our secrets than any other human have done before and that would explain why she wasn´t afraid of us."

"That is one theory Emmett but wouldn´t she just have told us that she knew we were vampires instead of just telling some of our special "symptoms"." Jasper said with a mocking tone.

"You always spoil the fun" Emmett muttered.

"You are just mad because she insulted your strength and told you that it should be embarrassing for you not to be able to beat someone half your size."

"I am NOT!"

"Okay!" Alice nearly shouted. "You two can argue later! Was it anyone else except me who thought about that Bella never called her parents "mom or "dad". She just said Charlie or Renee."

"How do you know she called her mother Renee darling?" Esme asked Alice. Now that I thought about it she was right. I saw the moment when Alice asked Bella if Renee was her mother playing in Alice head. Why wouldn't she call them mom or dad?

"Bella said that Renee had bought her a pair of shoes before she left Phoenix and I asked her if Renee was her mother." Alice said.

"Hmm… Bella seem to give us more questions than answers. Another is for example how she could "see" so well and she could have such extremely good knowledge of what was going on around her." Carlisle said. "Another thing is her extreme hearing and actually her good looks." This caused us all to look at Carlisle and he shifted a little, uncomfortable.

"Jasper and Emmett you reacted on Bella as well thinking she was beautiful." The words escaped me before I could stop them and Rose´s eyes snapped in Emmett´s direction, glaring a thousand daggers, while Alice didn´t seem to care. Instead she just said; "Well Bella was very beautiful." The tension in the room now was really thick and our father cleared his throat trying to ease the tension.

"Alice do you see anything in the future?" It helped a little but Rosalie was still glaring at Emmett. The rest of us watched Alice as she closed her eyes focusing into the future. Then a vision came to her.

Bella was walking towards us. We were all standing on the parking lot of Forks High around my silver Volvo. Bella was holding Alice´s shoes in her left hand and a blind stick in her right. She moved slowly and seemed very concentrated. When she stood a few meters away from us she stopped and stared straight forward. Not looking at us like she had done today.

"I wanted to return your shoes and thank you Alice for letting me borrowing them. Also I wanted to thank the rest of you for helping me yesterday." She had friendly smile on her face.

"No reason to thank us Bella." Alice said as she walked forward and carefully took her shoes. Then she took Bella´s hand.

"Bella is going to return my shoes tomorrow at school. I think she will do it when the school day is over but I am not sure." Alice informed the family. Then she tensed, a new vision coming to her.

I saw myself from a distance. I was holding my arms around a beautiful young woman who stood in front of me, very alike Bella. Suddenly I whispered something in the young woman's ear and the young woman turned her head around. It was Bella´s face with the most beautiful, caring and loving smile I had ever seen. But one thing scared me to no end, Bella´s eyes were no longer white. They were crimson.

"No Alice!" I said my voice sounded strangled. The thought of that my angel should be turned into one of us hurt me more than I thought was possible.

"It is meant to be Edward. I have already seen how you look at her and none of my visions have ever been so clear before." She thought.

"It will not happen Alice because I will not allow it." I growled before I ran out through the door into the woods leaving a very confused family behind. I heard how Carlisle told my brothers and sisters to keep an eye on Bella the next day in school and try to figure out anything about her, but all I felt was the fear of that vision becoming true.

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/Lysistrate