I can still feel you Chapter 9, a twilight fanfic

Okay, this is a chapter that I am not very happy about. I must have changed and rewritten this chapter at least ten times and I am still not very happy about how it turned out. Still it is now a huge change from the beginning. The hardest thing has been to decide when a certain event is going to occur in the story and that is the biggest reason for all of the changes. But now I feel that this chapter works with the following chapter and that it can turn out good in the end.

Now I don´t want you as a reader to too affected of what I think of this chapter. I am a perfectionist and therefore I have a really hard time to be completely happy with anything I write. And that is why your reviews are so important! You are all a wonderful support and I want to thank you all for that.

Now enjoy the new chapter :)

Chapter 9
Bella´s POV

I was sitting in the kitchen when I heard and felt how Charlie's cruiser parked on the driveway outside of our house. He was muttering something very low to himself and it was impossible to understand anything that he was saying. He walked up to the front door and brought out his keys to unlock it. I heard the clicking of the locker just before Charlie opened the door and said loudly; "Bella?"

"In the kitchen." I answered and I felt how his heartbeat slowed down a little. He wouldn´t be completely calm though until he had seen me and knew that I really was alright. But that didn´t interest me so I turned my attention back to the plate of meatloafon the table.

After Edward had left I had been standing frozen in the hall for a few seconds trying to calm my beating heart. Then I had finally woken up from my dreamy state and locked the door before I had made my way into the kitchen. Then I had begun tonight's dinner. A few years before I had figured out that my blindness wasn´t a problem when it came to cooking and thanks to my good senses I could smell and taste things a normal person never would discover. My mom always told me that I was an amazing cook and probably could measure with the chefs of world-class, but I always told her to stop exaggerating.

Charlie had now moved from the hall and was standing in the doorway into the kitchen watching me.

"Bella you haven´t cooked the food have you" He asked in a stern voice. Opps, I forgot that I had promised Charlie not to touch anything that I could hurt myself on and that included nearly the whole kitchen and absolutely knives. Then I came up with something.

"Of course I haven't dad. I got help." I told him. Charlie seemed pretty pleased with my answer and he sat down on the opposite side of the table, carefully smelling the food which was on the plate in front of him. I felt how his eyebrows rose and that he got a surprised expression on his face. Then he lifted his fork and took a bite of food, now a huge smile on his face.

"This is extremely good." Charlie said and I felt happy that he liked it. "I am pretty sure Billy doesn't know that Jake can cook this good, I have to tell him. Poor Jake won´t get any spare time anymore." Charlie said chuckling. I on the other hand saw what could be the beginning of a disaster. I had once tasted Jacob´s cooking and well… let´s just say it wasn´t something I would ever do again in this life.

"Uhm… Dad… it wasn´t Jacob who cooked this dinner." I said and knew I was now walking on land full of mines. One badly judged step and everything would explode. Just the way Charlie was watching me, suspiciously, told me that I was in trouble.

"I thought that Jake would drive you home from school, which means he should have been the only one here this afternoon if he didn´t drive home directly after he had left you here. Which I told him not to do." Charlie seemed to understand that he had said too much because his eyes widened a bit. I on the other hand was shocked.

"You mean you wanted him to babysit me?" I asked Charlie with a voice full of hurt and anger. Charlie winced at my words.

"Of course not Bells, I just wanted you to have a chance to take back some lost time." That he was lying was extremely obvious. His heart was racing, there was sweet on his forehead and he was radiating insecurity, unsure if I would buy his lie. Still I decide that a fight with my father now wasn´t the smartest move, I needed to keep him in a good mode. So I simply nodded my head. I felt how Charlie let out breath of air and that his heart slowed down.

"So if Jake didn´t cook this dinner; Who did?" He asked, back into full daddy-mode.

"Edward Cullen did." I was about to get interrupted but acted as if I had no idea that Charlie wanted to say something. "You see I sat with the Cullens at lunch when we found out that Mr. Banner was sick today and that biology was canceled. That meant that I ended two hours earlier and I didn´t want to disturb Jacob. So Edward offered to drive me home since he had no more lessons as well. I accepted and when we got here he helped me inside, you know made sure that I was okay. Then we started talking and suddenly it was late in the afternoon so Edward made some dinner before he left to go home."

"Did Edward eat here?"

"No Mrs. Cullen called and asked where he was, saying dinner was ready. Then Edward offered to cook something quick for us since you were coming home late and I can´t cook very well." Charlie seemed deep in thought for a moment. I knew that the story sounded weird but I had told him parts of the truth. Kinda.

"Hmm… I don´t like that you invite boys over that you barley know Bella, but Dr. Cullens kids have always been very polite. Thank Edwin for the help tomorrow." Then Charlie grabbed a hold of the newspaper, which lay on the table, and began reading the news. I was a little shocked that he had bought my explanation. I knew that he liked the Cullens, but still. This was my father we were talking about. Well I wasn´t going to say anything, nor comment that he had gotten Edwards name wrong. Something told me that he had done that on purpose, just as a small warning.

The next morning I woke up early. My alarm hadn´t even began ringing yet. Still I was wide awake and a feeling of excitement was coursing through me. Edward. I had been hearing his voice in my dreams and my mind had projected him into my dreams the way I had "seen" him. He was just a black shadow of lines and structures, but he was more alive than anything else I had ever dreamt of. Carefully I rose from my bead and walked over to the window. One night ago Edward had been standing there in the forest, looking for me. Was he feeling the same way I did? This strange excitement which made my heart beat and my blood to rush to my cheeks?

Then my alarm on my phone rang, telling me it was time to get ready. I took a quick shower, walked into my room and over to my small closet. I took one of the outfits Renee had made for me before I left and noticed that I would have to do some laundry. Now that scared me a little. It wasn´t very easy to mix the right colors when you couldn´t see them. But I knew I would have to do he laundry since Charlie obviously didn´t. I then slowly walked down the stairs and met my father in the hallway who told me that the breakfast was on the table.

When he had walked out the door I did a small grimace, hopping that my breakfast would be something simple and luckily it was. It was a glass of juice and two sandwiches. Well Charlie isn't at least trying to stuff me with food I happily thought. There had been a period when my mom suddenly got the idea that I was eating too little. So from one day to another she saw it as her goal in life to cook her family a lot of food. This period only lasted a week though since Phil and I each day had to press down the burned and not very tasty food we were served, which Renee noticed.

I wondered if the Cullens ate. They hadn´t eaten anything in school and they were vampires so technically they would only need blood to survive. But then again none of the other myths around vampires seemed to be true so why wouldn´t they be able to eat food? I would have to ask Edward that. But I didn´t know how I would have time to ask him all of my questions. I had so many. How old was he? Where did he come from? Who changed him? Was his family really his family? And so on.

I had just finished my breakfast when I heard someone approaching my house before ringing the doorbell. My heart fluttered for a moment before I felt that it was two persons standing outside. Excitement was replaced by anger in a millisecond. The persons standing outside were Jacob Black and Samuel Uley. How did they dare to come here?

I literally flew up from my chair and stormed through the house before I threw the door open. Jacob had a very surprised expression and he was staring at me with his mouth wide open. Sam on the other hand who already knew about my secret composed himself very quickly.

"What are you two doing here?" I hissed and they both took a small step back. Good.

"Bella we´re here to take…" Jacob began carefully.

"If I didn´t make it clear yesterday on the phone I will say it now; I want you, all of you, to leave me alone."

"Bella you need to calm down." Sam said in a reassuring tone and against my will I did calm down. "We are just worried about you. The Bella we knew never would have forgotten to call us and say she was getting a ride with anyone else." That was so not true. I had never been a person who had told anyone what I was going to do. I had always walked my own ways and made my own decisions. That was also one of the reasons why my parents always had been so overprotecting. They never knew what I could come up with. I also heard a small trace of disgust in Sam´s voice, the same that I had heard in Jacob's voice yesterday. And then of course there was the way his body was reacting, screaming at me one thing. Lies.

"You are laying Sam, I can tell. This isn´t about that I didn´t call you yesterday. This has to do with the Cullens haven´t it?" I could tell that they hadn´t thought I would know about that detail.

"They are dangerous Bella." Jake said pleadingly. Just as he said that I could hear the purring of Edward´s car moving in the direction of my house. I felt my heart speed increase and somehow Jacob and Sam heard it as well.

"They aren´t dangerous. They have not done anything else than helping me since I moved here. And they don't treat me like a child." I added the last part with more force and I turned around to put on my shoes and grab my jacket. Still I felt how Jake began shaking and how Sam placed his hand on Jacobs shoulder, trying to calm him down I think.

"You are blind Bella, of course you need help. I don´t know how you managed to nearly run through the house but you must understand that the Cullens are tricking you. That's what leaches like them do, they are lying to you." His voice was desperate, but I didn't care about that. Something inside of me exploded. I swung around and my hand slapped Jacob over his cheek, hard. The same second Edward parked on the side of road outside my house and in less than a second he was by my side, holding his cold arms around me protectingly. For the first time that morning I felt peace.

Jacob and Sam on the other hand tensed and both of them began shaking. Pure hate was pouring from them towards Edward who seemed to be calm. He was tense yes, but pretty calm.

"I know everything." I said in a low voice turning my previous friends' attention to me. "Edward told me everything. I don´t know how you can know that Edward and his family are vampires, but it is obvious that you do considering how you are acting towards them. But I know enough to have figured out that you aren´t completely human either. Now if you excuse us, we have to go to school."

When I finished Edward let go of me so I could close and lock the door. It was as if he could read my mind. Then he placed his arm over my shoulders and started walking past Jake and Sam. But just as we passed, Jacob placed his hand on Edward´s shoulder, stopping him. I felt how Edward turned into stone and a deep grumble was heard from his chest.

"I don´t know what you have done to twist her mind bloodsucker, but we will not let you or anyone of your kind have her. We will save her." Edward didn´t say anything, instead he broke free from Jacob´s grip and led me towards his car where he carefully helped my inside before he materialized himself in the driver's seat, leaving my old friends and brothers behind.

Neither Edward nor I said anything for a long time. All that was heard was the sound of the engine. I felt sad for what had just happened and still I couldn´t feel bad for what I had said or done. No matter what Jacob and Sam thought this wasn´t just about Edward, even though he was a big reason, this was about me fighting to not once again fall back into the depression I had overcome a few years ago. I wanted the ones around me to see me differently, to trust and understand that I could take care of myself.

I had only known the Cullens for a very short amount of time, still I felt more comfortable around them than I ever had done before. That they were vampires didn´t change that.

"I am sorry for that you have to go through this because of me and my family. If you want to we can be gone tomorrow. I don´t want you to sacrifice your friends for us." Edward broke the silence, his voice filled with deep sorrow.

"Do you want me to accept that?" I asked breathless, if he didn´t want me I… I didn´t know what I would do.

"No of course not…" He said but I cut in.

"Then I would never dream of that. If those two can´t accept my decisions they are not really my friends. And this has nothing to do with your family. This is about me. Sometime everyone has to take charge over their lives and today was that day for me. I want to spend time with you and get to know you. I doesn't matter to me if you are a vampire or not." I told him and the tension in the car eased.

"I know I shouldn't be but I am happy that you think that way." He told me.

"I am too." I whispered, I felt how Edward looked at me but I had turned my head towards the window. "Now are you ready to answer some more questions?" He laughed at my question.

"I hope you haven´t been up all night thinking about what you wants to ask me." He said.

"No I haven´t, just half." I smiled.

"Okay then. Shoot."

"When were you born?" I asked him. He hesitated for a moment and for a second I was afraid that he would say he was born thousands of years ago. That would mean I was far too young for him.

"You know it probably wouldn´t have surprised me, but I hadn´t thought you would begin with that question." He finally said with a sigh. "I was born the 20th of June 1901 in Chicago." I thought over his answer for a few seconds. It made a lot of sense depending on how he acted; he had been raised as a gentleman. Then something hit me. Edward was a teenager, otherwise he hadn´t been able to go to high school. That meant he had been changed sometime around 1920.

"The Spanish influenza." I breathed.

"What?" He asked stunned.

"The Spanish influenza, that was the reason you were changed wasn´t it? And your father is a doctor. Dr. Cullen changed you didn't he?" The realization just washed over me. It was the only logical explanation.

"You are right." Edward said slowly. "I was changed in 1918 when the Spanish influenza hit Chicago. I was 17 years old and dying. Carlisle had been my doctor since I became sick, back then he already was a vampire, and he changed me because my mother begged him to. Carlisle had been alone for 200 years and took the chance." There was a bitter tone in his voice.

"You didn´t want to be changed do you?"

"No. I am nothing, neither dead nor alive." I had no comment to that since what he was saying was true. He was alive, but at the same time he wasn´t. He was more than nothing though, a lot more.

"You said your mother begged Dr. Cullen to change you, right?" Edward nodded. "Then who were your real parents and how did your mother know that Dr. Cullen was a vampire?"

"My father was Edward Masen Senior and my mother was Elizabeth Masen. I was their only child and technically we all died during the influenza. How my mother knew that Carlisle was a vampire I don´t know and neither does he. He has told me that she asked him to do everything he could for me, that he somehow could do something the other doctors' couldn´t." Edward Masen, I like the sound of that I thought to myself.

"So Carlisle is the oldest in your family and then comes you?" I asked him a little confused. Edward was physically the youngest; it felt very weird that he would be older than Mrs. Cullen. Edward must have heard the confusion in my voice because he chuckled, making me smile.

"You are right, in a way." He said. "I am older than Esme, Rosalie, Emmett and Alice when it comes to vampire years. But when it comes to "frozen age" I am the youngest. Still I am more mature than Emmett and Rose. And even though Esme was changed after me she has always acted older so I have always seen her as a mother." My mind was working hard drive for a few seconds. It was so much to take in! Then I realized that Edward hadn´t said anything about Jasper.

"What about Jasper?" I asked voicing my question.

"Jasper wasn´t changed by Carlisle nor was Alice. They joined our coven a few decades ago. Jasper is older than me, since he was changed in 1862 and had a very different lifestyle than we had." Edward didn´t evaluate and I wasn´t going to ask anything more. Jasper´s story was his to tell.

I felt how the car we had been riding had stopped. School. I had no urge at all to walk out of Edward´s car and spend the whole day in a classroom. Instead I wanted, for the first time ever, to skip the whole day and spend it with Edward. Everything he told me was so interesting and I loved that he was being honest with me. I also knew that we weren't going to have any lessons together today since we had checked our schedules yesterday. With a deep sigh I knew this was going to be a long day.

Then I felt a cold hard hand under my chin lifting my head up and turning my face so I was "looking" at Edward. He had leaned down and we were extremely close. If I just leaned a few millimeters forward my lips would have be touching his. But no matter how much I wanted to do that I didn´t. I didn´t want to be to forward or test his control.

"Don´t look so sad, it breaks my heart." He said and I could feel that he was serious. That he cared for me made me smile and I acted on pure instinct when I moved forward gave his cheek a kiss. When I leaned back my lips was burning and Edward was staring at me, a goofy smile on his face.

"Now are you going to help me out of this car or are we going to sit here all day?" I giggled when Edward blinked fast a few times before he seemed to pull himself together.

When Edward opened my door I heard how the whole population of Forks High was whispering with each other. When I stepped out of the car there was a complete silence before the whispers became even worse than before. Everyone was trying to understand what they saw. Edward Cullen had given Bella Swan a ride to school? Not even if the government had announced on national TV this morning that everyone from now on would have to wear pink dresses (including the men) it wouldn´t have drawn as much attention as mine and Edwards's relationship obviously did.

I felt how every single eye was following us as Edward led me towards his siblings and I hated the attention. If I hadn´t known I would have gotten into trouble I would have punched some of the people we passed. But I managed to control my emotions and focus on Edward´s cold arm under my hand. When we reached his siblings there was a tense atmosphere which wasn´t the same as it had been yesterday. I realized that they knew that I knew their secret and that had put them in a situation they had never experienced before. They didn´t know how to act or if I was going to accept them.

"None taken." He said and I could hear the grin in his voice. That was all it took to break the ice. Alice who had been standing next to next to Jasper walked forward and laid her tiny arm around my waist.

"Come on Bella, we have the first lesson together. And don´t glare at me Edward you will have to learn how to share." I couldn´t help but giggle when I felt Edward's expression before I let go of his arm and Alice started to drag me towards the school entrance.

"She is not a toy Alice." He called after us, but Alice just turned her head and stuck her tongue out at him like a five year old.

"Bye Eddie!" I called back and waved my hand somewhat in his direction. We could both hear Edwards low stuttering, to low for humans, and both Alice and I laughed. I could hear that the rest of Cullens laughed as well.

"We are so going to be best friends Bella." She managed to get out through giggles as she led me inside the school.

"You know something tells me that I shouldn´t bet against that." I told her with a mischievous grin, telling her I knew about her visions. Alice didn´t seem to be faced by my knowledge though, instead she just told me that it was very wise not to question statements like that. As we walked through the halls towards our Spanish class we somehow got into the subject of fashion.

I had never cared about clothes. I couldn´t see, so why should I think about something I couldn´t see? I had always trusted my mom when it came to that part. When Alice asked me how I managed to dress as well as I did I told her just that and I felt how she got a concerned look on her face.

"But how are you going to do now when you live with your father?" She asked me and I gave her a weak smile, telling her I didn´t have any idea and that the worst thing was the problem I had with the laundry since I couldn´t see colors.

"Well I can help you if you want to? I can type my number into your cell and then you can give me call if you are in a crisis, or we can decide a day to go shopping." She sounded as if she wanted nothing else in the whole world.

"I don´t know Alice, I am not very funny to bring shopping." I told her feeling hesitant. She just laughed at that and told me that I was being silly. In the end I accepted her help and it felt as if a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. One problem less to worry about. I gave Alice my phone and together we decided which signal she would have. She did not like any of the songs in my phone so she sent me a song with Avril Lavinge which, ironically, was named Alice. All she said when I commented that was: "Now there is no chance you can miss who it is." And I could only agree with her.

After Spanish I had learned that Alice talked fluid Spanish and even had more skill in the subject than the teacher. After half the class I had been so frustrated with the teacher for not understanding her fast and fluid Spanish that I had translated what she had been saying without thinking. After that the teacher had decide to test me and I had shown her that my Spanish was on an equal level with Alice´s. After that the teacher had given us a simple task. Talk about whatever you want as long as you do it in Spanish.

Alice then insisted on leading me to my next class. I couldn´t really argue with her so she started to lead me through the school when she suddenly stopped and stared right ahead of her.

"Don´t you have art next?" She asked me and I looked at her not knowing first what to say.

"Alice I am blind. I would be horrible in art. I have History with the seniors now"

"Hmm… I wonder why I didn´t see that before." She mumbled sounding very confused.

"Hey you can´t see everything." I told her and she gave me a weak smile before she turned around and started walking in the opposite direction of the one we had been walking before.

"Well some good news is that if you have history with the senior that means Jasper finally has a partner. He haven´t had anyone to work with the whole year." Alice said with an excited tone.

"Why didn´t he just ask for a partner?"

"Ohh he doesn't really like being near humans, control and all you know. He also says they are horrible at history and that a human would only slow him down." Her voice was as happy as ever and she didn´t seem to understand what she had just said.

"Uhm Alice… I am human, remember?"

"You do not go in the same category as the others at this school Bella. You are special and I have already seen that you and Jasper will get along perfectly." Then Alice did a sharp left turn which nearly made me fall over. Did she have to move so fast? We walked up to a closed door and Alice knocked at it loudly three times. The door was opened by a women who, from what I could judge, was middle aged with short hair, but she was tall. Around 180 centimeters.

"Ahh Miss Swan how good to see you." The teacher said getting nervous. "Miss Cullen it was very nice of you to bring Miss Swan to the lesson, now hurry away so you are not late to your next class."

"Mrs. Rees, I think Bella can need some help to her seat?" Alice said making her statement into a question. I could hear the amusement in her voice and I also hear how some of the students turned quiet laughs into coughing.

"Yes of course, how stupid of me. There is a seat free next to your brother Mr. Hale, Miss Cullen." Before Alice had time to say anything I cut in. I didn´t like that Mrs. Rees was talking to only Alice and not both of us.

"Thank you Mrs. Rees." I said putting a big amount of fake sweetness into my voice. Mrs. Rees backed several steps before she even had time to understand what she was doing. Alice and I ignored her and walked into the classroom. It became completely silent. I didn´t know what I looked like but something told me that I looked extremely pissed.

Jasper had risen from his seat when we reached his table and already drawn out my chair. Emmett and Rosalie were sitting at the table behind us. Jasper gave Alice a small kiss before she disappeared out of the door, not caring about the looks he got from the others in the room. Then he sat down I said one simple thing to him.

"If you slow me down, I will demand a table of my own."

The rest of the history lesson was… interesting. The whole lesson Emmett tried to make me laugh about the jokes he came up with about the persons in the history book and each time I would ignore him. Instead Jasper and I talked a lot, I had very quickly learned that he was extremely good at history and he seemed to find my own interest for the subject uplifting since I could keep up with him.

When the class was over I noticed how a group of guys had stopped outside the door and when I walked out with the help of Rosalie one of them put their foot out. I felt it of course and could have easily stepped over his foot, but a blind girl wouldn´t have known. So I took the step I was dreading and felt how I started to race towards the floor. Then strong cold arms grabbed a hold of me and lifted me of the ground.

Emmett! He lifted me up so I sat on his shoulders not bothered at all by my weight. I didn´t know what happened next, but I heard how three pairs of footsteps ran down the hall.

"You okay Bella?" Emmett asked me sounding very excited and happy.

"Yeah I am just fine. Uhm are you going to put me down?" I did not like just having vision through Emmett and not being able to get any information myself.

"No way blind girl. Edward would kill us if anything happened to you and now I have a chance to train those weak muscles of mine haven't I?" I laughed at what he said as we all began moving down the hallways.

"We both know that it isn´t going to any difference. You can´t get stronger than you already are." Emmett huffed at my response.

"How did you figure it out Bella?" Rosalie asked. I didn´t have to ask her to know what she meant. The only problem was talking in codes.

"I have a very special way to see the world." I began. "I am blind but I still can get information of what's going on around me and solid objects don't block my vision since there is a lot to see inside as well. Then I also guess I am just good at putting things together. I have always liked riddles and puzzles. When I was little I used to feel the edges of each puzzle piece and analyze them. In the end I had one unit."

Rosalie didn´t ask me more after that, instead she began complaining over the history teacher saying that she wouldn´t have been able to stand the hag one more year. Emmett agreed with her, but Jasper stayed silent. The eager and cunning person I had talked to during the lesson was gone; instead he seemed to be sad. Then I heard the one voice I had been longing for was heard.

"Emmett, why are Bella on your shoulders?" Edward voice was coming from behind us and we all turned around.

"Eddie, good to see you too. Well Bellie here wanted a strong and handsome man to take her to the cafeteria since you weren´t there." Rosalie reached up and slapped Emmett hard in the head telling Emmett to let me down this instant or else. She didn't however say that he should be gentle and Emmett quickly sat me down on the ground and let go of me. I didn´t have time to gain any balance and for the second time that day I lost the balance I had. This time it wasn't Emmett though who saved me.

Edward got a hold on me around my waist and carefully placed me next to him, his arm supporting me around my waist. I had a tight grip on his shirt and whispered out a small "thank you", red in my face. Then I turned to Emmett. HE was in SO much trouble! But not now, this revenge needed some serious planning.

The lunch went by quickly. I sat with the Cullens and they all treated me like an equal, meaning that they didn´t accept just me asking them questions. They wanted to ask some in return. At the end of our lunch though, Emmett stated; "Bellie now you know as much about vampires as a vampire." One thing that really had struck me was when we had started to talk about mates. Alice had told me that all of the Cullens had found their soulmate, except for Edward. When she said that I had felt how I was watched intensely by five pair of eyes.

Did they think I was Edwards mate? I sure wouldn´t mind to be, I had felt something for him the same second I "seen" him, but how would it affect my life? At the same time as the thought scared me a little bit it warmed me. I liked all of the Cullens, they were special and they understood me in a way no one else did. They accepted me for who I was and they didn´t want to turn me into someone else.

When I had asked the question what the Cullens "ate" it had been a small silence until Emmett had leaned down and whispered in my ear that they drank the blood of animals. At first I had been horrified at the thought since animals always had held a special part in my heart, but then my rational side had told me that there couldn´t be many options for a vampire. It was also during that period of time that I had noticed that Jasper had reacted to my feelings.

He had been staring at me worriedly and when I had calmed down he relaxed in his seat as well. Later I had found out that Jasper could feel and control emotions, that Alice indeed could see the future and that Edward could read minds. His power had frightened me, how much did he know. But my worries had turned out to be unnecessary because Edward had told me that for some reason my mind was closed to him. It had made me feel a little proud, even though I didn´t want to admit it.

Edward had then escorted me to my next lesson and he had stopped before we entered.

"Bella I have PE my next lesson and I know this is your last." He began.

"You won't be able to drive me home." I finished for him. I had felt how he got a big grin on his face.

"Actually I was going to ask you if you were willing to wait for me so I could drive you home." His said amused and I felt how my heart skipped a beat. The answer was obvious for me.

"I would love too and Charlie isn´t home so I could need some help getting around the house." I told him and he kissed my hand the same way he had before he left my house yesterday.

Now I was sitting in my math class not listing to one word that Mr. Varner was saying. In my thoughts I was nine years back in time. I remembered that day when my whole life had changed forever. It was so weird that one decision had had such a huge impact on my life. I never would have believed back then that the transformation would help me as much as it had done. When it didn´t work… BANG!

My only reaction to Mr. Varner smashing his fist in my table was a small sigh and me closing my eyes before starring right into his own. I felt how the discomfort now was rolling of him, but still he stood his ground. Brave man.

"Miss Swan you haven't been listing to anything I have said this lesson, nor have you answered the question I have asked you three times now. If you don´t listen I will have to give you detention." Mr. Varner said to me. I tilted my head a little to the side as if I was watching an interesting experiment. Searching in my mind what I had missed.

"4 382, 5"

"What?" Mr. Varner said confused.

"Is the answer to the question." Mr. Varner had no time to say anything because just then the bell started to ring. My whole focus was on colleting my books so I didn´t notice that someone had approached my table before the person spoke.

"Wow Bella you really got him." Mike Newton. Not the person I wanted it to be. I gave him a quick forced smile and grabbed my blind stick, acting as if I was trying to maneuver through the classroom. To my anger I felt how the idiot grabbed a hold of my arm, it wasn´t like when Edward helped me around. Mike tried to take control over where I was going instead of just leading me. Then suddenly he pulled at me so I crashed into his chest and he placed both of his arms around me.

"Careful there Bella, you were about to walk right into a table." That DAMN liar! I was not about to walk into a table! I was nearly in the doorway for carrying out loud! He was so going down.

"Thank you for saving me Mike." I told him with a soft voice and I felt how his heart nearly jumped out of chest and how his whole body reacted as well. "It was really nice of you." I moved forward as if I was going to kiss him, but when I was inches away I used all of strength to break free and my hand collided with his cheek. "But if you ever do that again I will report you for sexual harassment." With those words I left the room and was surprised to find Rosalie waiting for me outside.

"That was one good hit." That was all she said before she took me under my right arm.

"A girl has to know how to defend herself." Rosalie nodded her head with a serious expression, but I felt how she increased the pressure on my arm just a little bit before her grip once again became feather light. That small gesture of affection told me more than any words ever could and I walked with the help of Rosalie to PE to wait for Edward.

Edward´s POV

I sat in my car hearing the thoughts from my family who were inside the house. I dreaded the moment I would walk inside, they would throw themselves over me like starving vampires who had come across a human. It was not that they didn´t know I was back, they knew that very well and Alice had already sent me a warning thought that she would drag me inside if I didn´t come willingly within five minutes.

For a second I calculated my chances of escape and realized they were extremely slim even though I was the fastest. Alice still would have her visions no matter how fast I ran. I ran my hand through my hair and took an unnecessary breath before I walked inside to the living room. Just as I knew they would my family was sitting in the sofas and chairs that was placed in there. No one said anything, but I could see a twitching in Emmett´s lips and suddenly I wondered how much Alice had told them.

"How much did you tell her?" Rosalie was the one to break the silence. She had accepted Bella today at school in a way no one ever would have believed she could do with anyone, still she felt very protective of our secret. I shrugged my shoulder not knowing how to begin. I hadn´t really told Bella much more than that we were vampires, the rest she had already known.

"I told her what we are." I noticed how the thoughts of my family became worried, all wondering how she had taken the news. "Her reaction was outstanding. She accepted what we are without any doubt and told me that she already had known that we weren´t humans, she just hadn´t known what we really were." Everyone was staring at me in disbelief.

"What?" Rosalie managed to croak out. "She just accepted that we are vampires? Blood drinkers?"

"Yes she did. She said that she wasn´t afraid of us since we obviously controlled our bloodlust and never had hurt her or anyone else here in Forks."

"You said she had already known we weren´t human Edward? Did she tell you how she knew that?" Carlisle asked trying to understand what we could have missed that had made a human able to figure out our secret.

"I don´t think it we have done anything wrong Carlisle." Then I told them the exact words that Bella had told me when she said what she knew about our family.

"How could she ever have known?" Carlisle whispered. No one could give him a good answer though since no one knew.

"Carlisle, do you remember that we looked at Bella's medical record?" He nodded while Esme got a sour look on her face. She hated that we had invaded Bella´s privacy. "In there it was a huge amount of accidents until nine years ago and there was this one thing I reacted on when I was over at Bella. Chief Swan had photos of her since she was a little baby and there were two photos taken the Christmas and the summer when she was eight years old."

"So?" Emmett asked everyone listing intensely to what I was saying.

"On every single photo, including the Christmas photo when she was eight years old, Bella had brown eyes." The temperature dropped several degrees at that information. We all knew it wasn't normal to lose your eye color and we were beginning to wonder what Bella Swan really was.

"And the in summer?" Esme asked.

"They are white and Bella had changed as well. It´s extremely hard to describe but she looked more of a human before that photo, as if she had changed somehow."

"That´s so typical you Eddie, when you finally find a girl it have to be something freaky about her. At least she is hot." Emmett whimpered when Rise hit him with all her force in his head, glaring at him. Neither Carlisle nor Esme said anything, instead they both thought that Emmett only had himself to blame. He knew how Rose was, we all did.

"We told you in the car this morning that you should watch what you were saying around Rosalie Em." I said grinning evilly against him. I had always loved revenge and when I saw the furious face of my sister it all just felt even better.

"What?" She hissed through clenched teeth and Emmett started stuttering something that sounded like an apology. He didn´t get far though because Rosalie glared at him and stormed out of the house. I could hear her furious thoughts slowly disappearing through the forest. My whole family was staring at me, all of them wondering why I had said anything. Well everyone except Jasper.

"Revenge always tastes sweet Emmett." I told him before I went up to my room. Downstairs I could hear Alice laughing while Esme was lecturing my brother.

As I drove over to Bella´s the next morning I felt nervous. Last night everything had been so easy, but how would it be today? Now when she had had time to really think over what I had told her. Maybe she had come to her senses? It hurt just to think about that.

The whole morning it had been a tense atmosphere. Mostly because of the frosty tension between Rose and Emmett, but also because everyone was having the same doubts that I had now, how would Bella react? We all knew that humans sometimes needed time to take in and understand information, now my angel could have changed her mind. Alice had promised me that everything would be alright, but her visions had been strange each time she looked into Bella´s future. It was as if nothing was certain and that the future was changing from one second to the next.

When I was few blocks away Bella´s house an uncomfortable feeling came over me. Something was up. I increased the speed of my car and I heard how the motor purred in response. Then I heard the minds of two dogs and looked through their eyes. I saw Bella standing in front of them, her jacket on and her backpack on her back, looking extremely angry. I heard that the dogs had heard the sound of my car and that they were horrified over the fact that Bella was protecting my family.

"You are blind Bella of course you need help. I don´t know how you managed to nearly run through the house but you must understand that the Cullens are tricking you. That's what leaches like them do, they are lying to you." I heard from the dog I had met before saying just as I turned around me last block. He was desperate to make her understand. Instead I saw how Bella´s face turned furious and how her hand flew out colliding with the dog's cheek. It wasn´t a girly slap in the face. Bella had her hand clenched and if the one she was hitting hadn´t been a werewolf it would have hurt badly.

I felt extremely proud and terrified at the same time. I didn´t trust that the dogs could control themselves so I parked my car and moved the fastest I could to Bella´s side and warped my arms around her protectingly. Also I was showing the dogs that she was my territory. I felt how Bella leaned into my side and relaxed, the dogs' didn´t miss it either. They were both visibly shaking and their thoughts were pure hate towards me. But with Bella at my side I felt that I could control the monster in me, I was still on my gourd though.

"I know everything." Bella then said at my side. "Edward told me everything. I don´t know how you can know that Edward and his family are vampires, but it is obvious that you do thinking how you are acting towards them. But I know enough to have figured out that you aren´t completely human either. Now if you excuse us, we have to go to school." The dogs were staring at her, then at me. Their eyes switching from hate to sorrow.

Then I felt how Bella moved a little in my arms and I realized her from my grip. For a moment one of the dogs thought of an idea where he grabbed a hold of Bella and ran away with her to La Push. But the coal black look I gave him made him realize that would mean a battle here and now. When Bella had locked the door I placed my arm over her shoulders, but we had only taken a few steps when the younger of the mutts placed a hand on my arm.

The warmth was an extreme contrast to my own cold skin and I felt how the hate spread through me. If Bella not had been there I had ripped the dog´s arm off, literally. Now I managed to stop myself. But I could not stop the growl in my chest or that my eyes did turn darker than hell.

"I don´t know what you have done to twist her mind bloodsucker, but we will not let you or anyone of you kind have her. We will save her." Stupid, naive child. I thought before I broke free from him, walking with Bella to my car and helping her inside. What was amusing was that the dog was certain that my family had put some kind of spell over my angel. Yeah right.

As I was driving I kept on looking at Bella. She looked as if she was in deep thought and I felt very guilty for what had happened. The people from La Push had been her friends her whole life, no matter what I thought of them and it did not seem fair she would have to give them up for me. I knew that if Bella choose me she would have to leave everything behind and she would never be able to meet any of her friends ever again. Was that something I could do to her? Could I take her away from the normal world just because I wanted to?

The answer to that question was no, I couldn't do that. But at the same time if Bella wanted that life, it suddenly was different. I had to give her the opportunity to decide.

"I am sorry for that you have to go through this because of me and my family. If you want to we can be gone tomorrow. I don´t want you to sacrifice your friends for us." Deep sorrow filled me, I felt bad for that she had lost her friends to protect my family.

"Do you want me to accept that?" Bella whispered and she got a pained expression.

"No of course not…" I began but I never had time to finish.

"I know I shouldn't be but I am happy that you think that way." I honestly told her.

"I am too." I barley heard the words but sure enough had she said them. I looked at Bella but she was turned towards the window. It did not change the feelings I felt inside though. "Now are you ready to answer some more questions?" I could not help to laugh. Of course she would bring that up.

"I hope you haven´t been up all night thinking about what you wants to ask me."

"No I haven´t, just half." I shook my head smiling as I saw the mischievous grin on Bella´s face.

"Okay then. Shoot."

"When were you born?" Her question wasn´t the one I had expected. I had thought she would be more concerned about my diet.

"You know it probably wouldn´t have surprised me, but I hadn´t thought you would begin with that question." I sighed at the end, realizing that I probably never would fully understand Bella Swan. "I was born the 20th of June 1901 in Chicago." She didn´t respond at first, but when she did I didn´t know what to say.

"The Spanish influenza." She just breathed out the words and she sounded as if she had just had found the answer that she had been searching for a long time.

"What?" I managed to get out. It wasn´t possible that she could have done the right connections, was it? No one had ever been able to figure out why I was changed and it should have been nearly impossible with the amount of information Bella had been given. Still she had shown that she was exceptional when it came to understand and see connections.

"The Spanish influenza, that was the reason you were changed wasn´t it? And your father is a doctor. Dr. Cullen changed you didn't he?" She said telling me that she indeed had been right.

"You are right. I was changed in 1918 when the Spanish influenza hit Chicago. I was 17 years old and dying. Carlisle had been my doctor since I became sick, back then he already was a vampire, and he changed me because my mother begged him to. Carlisle had been alone for 200 years and took the chance." I couldn´t keep the bitterness out of my tone. I wanted more than ever to be a human since that was what Bella deserved. I couldn´t give her a family.

"You didn´t want to be changed did you?" She said, immediately noticing the tone of my voice.

"No. I am nothing, neither dead nor alive." She didn´t comment that and it hurt a little knowing that she couldn't say anything to not make it true.

"You said your mother begged Dr. Cullen to change you, right. Then who were your real parents and how did your mother know that Dr. Cullen was a vampire?" After that I decided to leave my depressing thoughts behind and enjoy my time with Bella.

I told her about my parents and why Carlisle had decided to change me. When we got to the subject that concerned the age of my family members I noticed that she seemed to become very confused for a moment but after some thought she had seemed to understand what I meant. What was the most amazing thing was that she accepted that each person should have the chance to tell their story. Not once did she ask me about the circumstances around my parents or siblings changes. Not even when I told her about Jasper.

When we had reached the school though Bella´s excited face turned sad. She let out a deep sigh as if she just wanted to disappear and turned her face away from me, "looking" down at her lap. I felt extremely bad when I saw her sad face and I reached my hand forward, lifting and turning her head so that I could see her white eyes. We were extremely close and for a second I wondered if I would dare to kiss her. But I diced against it, I didn´t want to push her into something she wasn´t ready for.

"Don´t look so sad, it breaks my heart." I said and I didn´t expect my voice to sound so soft or contain all of the emotion that I felt. To my great happiness though I saw how Bella´s face turned into an angelic smile and I was dazed by beauty in that moment. Then she leaned forward and gave me kiss on the cheek. It was short and very soft, but it felt as I was burning inside. She really had to be an angel that was the only explanation.

"Now are you going to help me out of this car or are we going to sit here all day?" She giggled her cheeks the most wonderful red color. I had to collect my dazed mind before I could step out of the car. Maybe she was not an angel but a vixen? No she was to kind hearted to be anything else. When I opened Bella´s car door I became aware of the whispers of the students. Even though the whole population of Forks knew by now that I had given Bella a ride home from school yesterday, I don´t think anyone in their wildest imagination would have even considered that I would drive her to school the next morning as well.

Nearly everyone now already considered us as a couple and that I must had been dating Bella earlier. They thought that we must have met sometime when my family had been in Phoenix for vacation or something. They couldn´t think of any other solution since this explained why my family had accepted her so quickly and why I never had dated anyone.

Then there were others, like Lauren, who thought that Bella was some kind of man stealer or that she was a witch who had put a spell on our entire family. Both options were born out of jealousy, but the second was extreme even for Lauren. Most of the guys though were making plans on how to make Bella to notice them. They believed that the only reason Bella was showing me any kind of attention was because I had "snatched" her away from them and that she would forget all about me and my family if they showed her real men.

And lastly there was my family who was looking at us tensely. That Jasper already had told them that he couldn't sense any feelings from Bella that could be signs of fear didn´t help. They were all still worried about how Bella would treat them now, and more importantly, how they should treat her? When we reached my family Alice was still debating if she should give Bella a hug, but apparently Bella had already decided what to do.

"Well now at least I know why you lost the battle against Jasper, Emmett. So I take back what I said before. But it is still embarrassing that you lost since you should be stronger than him, extra strength or not if you ask me. No offense Jasper." We all found it very amusing that Bella just had apologized to Emmett, but still she hadn't. It was obvious that she didn´t like it and therefore she had twisted her apology so she both apologized and kept on mocking Emmett.

"None taken." Jasper said to her, smiling like the rest of us. All the questions were long gone and suddenly everything was as it had been before. Alice now moved forward and placed her arm around Bella´s waist as if it was the most natural ting in the world. Still I couldn´t help to become irritated, she was going to decrease the time I had with Bella even more by taking her away.

"Come on Bella, we have our first lesson together. And don´t glare at me Edward you will have to learn how to share." I was a little surprised that Alice expressed herself so freely, even though Bella had accepted us. Bella didn´t seem to mind though, instead a giggle escaped her lips and it sounded like hundreds of bells in perfect harmony.

"She is not a toy Alice." I called after them as I saw them walk away from us. I didn´t care if the other students heard us. Alice just turned around and stuck her tongue out at me, acting like a small immature child.

"Bye Eddie!" I then heard Bella´s voice and she waved in Emmett´s direction more than mine. I didn´t know how to replay and it wasn't until I tried that I heard myself stuttering; Eddie… what… why… Eddie… you… trying to understand why she had chosen that nickname out of all. All of my family was laughing, even Bella and Alice who was now walking through the school entrance.

"We are so going to be best friends Bella." I heard Alice voice say before I, Emmett, Rose and Jasper followed them into the school and I knew that I shouldn´t doubt Alice on that one.

The day was very boring. I did my best to keep an eye on my angel by constantly checking the minds of the students. What I noticed was that everyone noticed her; even if it was just a glimpse they saw of her in the end of a crowded corridor. But what confused me was that yesterday barley anyone had noticed her. The first day she had been the new student. The shining new toy for a small child and everyone had been excited to see Chief Swans long lost daughter, but the excitement had died too quick. The next day Bella had only spent time with Angela and no one had tried to interfere. It was not normal, at least not for Forks High. Normally Bella would have been center for all attention a month forward and no one would have left her alone even if she wanted to. And now they were suddenly seeing her again.

Then throughout the day I started to notice some small changes. She moved in a different way. Her back was a little straighter, she talked freely with Alice and she nearly always had a smile on her face. It was as if she was more comfortable when she was spending time with my family. Still I hadn't seen that same person who had emerged from the forest. Then it had been a special glow around her and she had moved with a confidence that wasn´t showing in school. The question was why? And was she even aware of the changes herself?

Then again something similar had happened the first day in the cafeteria. When Lauren and the three duchbags had started to argue about my family and Lauren had tried to defend our honor. Bella had walked away with Angela, disappearing into the crowed so that no one even noticed her leaving. That day it must have been intentional, which meant that Bella somehow could draw all unwanted attention away from her. But how? Could body language be the easy answer to that question?

I looked up on my way to lunch and the sight in front of me was a little of a shock. Bella was sitting on Emmett´s shoulder, him holding onto her ankles so she wouldn´t fall, while Rose and Jasper walked next to them.

"Emmett, why are Bella on your shoulders?" I asked him trying to understand the situation, since I couldn´t read anything interesting from his mind, at all. They all stopped and turned around. When I saw Bella´s face I saw the similarities between her and Emmett for the first time. You could have believed they were siblings and that was nearly what it looked like. A little sister getting carried around by her older brother.

"Eddie, good to see you too. Well Bellie here wanted a strong and handsome man to take her to the cafeteria since you weren´t there." Rosalie reached up and slapped Emmett in the head, but not as hard as she had done before. She was starting to forgive him, even though he had to be careful so she didn´t change her mind.

She was also telling me another story in her head. I saw how a couple of seniors stood waiting outside their history lesson and how one of them put his foot out so that Bella fell. Another senior was standing; ready to save her from the fall. Emmett was luckily faster and grabbed a hold of my angel before he sat her on his shoulders. All three of my siblings were glaring at the seniors who were looking into the eyes of three vampires ready to kill. They had done the right thing, they had run away.

After that Emmett haven´t let her out of sight and she is not hurt in any way. Rose thought to me, while Jasper was analyzing the feelings of protection coming from Emmett when he sat Bella down on the ground. He had started to see her as a sister. He was a little quick though when it came to placing her on the ground and Bella didn´t have time to adjust before he let her go, causing her to lose her balance. This time though I moved forward catching her by her waist. It was nearly impossible to understand how much I had missed her. The moment I touched her it felt as the whole world feel into place.

Unlike my brother I carefully help Bella to her feet, but kept my hold around her waist. The beautiful blush on her face was back and she whispered out a small "thank you". But if I hadn´t been able to read Jaspers mind he would have been the only one aware of the feelings of revenge that he felt coming from Bella towards Emmett. They would have been perfect as siblings. I thought to myself.

I was standing in the gym waiting for Bella and Rose to show up. She had offered to take Bella to this class and I had listened to Alice when I made my decision. She had told me that Rose and Bella would need the time to bond. Why she had refused to tell.

I felt good to know that Bella now knew everything about vampires and my family. They hadn´t told her their stories yet and she hadn't asked. It also felt better to know something about her. She had talked freely with us, told us about the difficulties of being blind. When Alice had asked how Bella could register the world around her though, Bella had looked a little panicked for a second before she had said that was not a subject for now. No one had put any pressure on her, but we had all wondered. I didn´t like that there was a part about her life that she didn´t want to share with me, with us.

Still she had accepted my offer to stay at the school so I could drive her home, so she must have wanted to spend time with me. Then I saw how Rose and Bella walked through the doors into the gym. They were both talking quietly with each other, deep in conversation. They were talking about a very strange subject. How you deafened yourself when you couldn´t see. Bella said something about "feeling the bodies movements" and Rose nodded her head. Then as they sat down, Rose carefully helped Bella.

Like a younger sister she thought and then her head snapped in my direction. If she could blush she would have, but I just nodded my head in approval. Rose gave me weak smile before she turned back to Bella, the only one ever that had been able to break trough Rosalie´s shell. She truly was something extremely special. One of a kind. My angel.

Yeah I know, I know a little jumpy but that was the only way that I could build up the chapter. Now I am not going to torment you with writing every single day that they spend in school, but I will neither just leave it all behind. How I have been thinking will be reviled in the next chapter ;) Which I am going to love to write :D I am actually very excited, but I am not going to publish it before I am happy with it. Which means it can take some time but hopefully it will be worth the wait.

But right now I am even more excited to find out what you thought about this chapter in the story. Did you like the confrontation between Bella and the werewolves? I actually got the idea when I read one of your reviews so that scene wasn´t in the story originally, once again showing that everything can chance and that you can have influence over story if you have an idea that I find interesting. Also please tell me what you thought of the moment with Rose in the end. I debated for hours before I decided to put that in.

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