Just a little more, just a little more. Crap, is he still breathing? I let go of the man I was drinking for and he sunk to the ground. Guess I took too much. I sighed and dragged the body to a nearby dumpster and threw it in, along with a match, and left before the smell of burnt flesh hits my nose.

I was concentrating to more on Edward and his family. Two days passed by and I didn't dare go to work in case Edward decided he couldn't wait three days to try and get more information. Lestat isn't worried one bit and ignores Louis who was practically ripping his hair out trying to piece together information that would not give us away and yet would not make them suspicious. Lestat just tells me to erase their memories again which isn't such a bad idea if only Louis agreed. He said its risky erasing memories and then had to remind me of the time I erased a chick's memory three times and she ended up not knowing anything. Not my fault the chick kept waking up earlier than expected.

As I was thinking I ended up bumping into someone rather hard. Ready to retaliate I smelt the air and the gasped as I looked at the vampire before me. Of all the people to bump into...

"Watch where you are…no way." I looked into Rosalie's wide eyes. I rolled mine. "Yeah yeah soak it in. Next time watch where you're walking. To think vampires had better coordination." I turned when I heard a growl and soon was being pulled back. "I don't care if you are Edward's girl I will beat you to a pulp and hearing that you are not like us then it makes it easier Claudia."

I smirked. Same old Rosalie, wait, Edward's girl? "Guess no need to hide it so go ahead, and for your information I am no one's girl." Turning around to face her I noticed she was alone. "Why are you by yourself? Emmett run off?"

She glared and that's when I cursed myself for mentioning more of my knowledge. "So you do know more then you are telling. Since you do know Emmett did run off with Edward somewhere and I decided to take a walk." She then grabbed my arm and began pulling me down the street.

"What the hell do you think you are doing?"

"I wanna talk now that I had finally found you. Three years of nonstop wondering who the hell you were and now listening that when Edward did find you you want nothing to do with him. Sounds fishy to me."

Not in the mood to fight I let her drag me to a nearby park which I forgot the name where she stopped and let go. "So, Claudia, what's the deal?"

"It's none of your business what is going on."

"The hell it isn't." Ugh, why did I have to run into her? "Can't you wait until tomorrow like the rest of your family?"

"Then answer me this one question?" I could feel the tension in the air. "Did you love him?"

That took me by surprise. "What?"

She sighed and seemed to have relaxed a bit and crossed her arms. "As long as I've known Edward he has never felt something more than family for anyone else but that one picture shows something else. All he ever thinks about is that one small picture that seemed to have changed his life. None of us know just what it means but it has our "mother" Esme worry with hope and fear that the girl in the photo had changed his life and something happened. The way he smiled," she looked up at the sky, "it was something we have never seen on him before. Now knowing that girl is you I wanna know for my brother's sake. Did you love him?"

I was afraid of this. Edward couldn't move on because me. I tried to make it a clean break that way he could live and find someone else who did not have so many problems like I do. Someone who didn't have to watch her back everywhere she goes. I never answered but let my head hang. No tears ever came out as expected but I still felt the pain in my heart. The same pain I've felt for three years.

"Well?"

Staring up into her eyes I could not help but for the first time in a long time, feel so vulnerable. I felt my cheeks heat up and my head slowly nodded.

"Say it." She pressured.

I wanted to crawl under a rock. This sudden feeling was so new and yet so familiar. It was something I felt before, a time long ago where I was a clumsy human girl who fell in love with a vampire and his family. Now I am a vampire type who locked away her humanity to keep herself sane, only living until the day I complete my revenge.

"Out loud."

So what do I do now? Now that they are back in my life whether I planned to or not. Could I really turn Edward away again as I go off on my suicide mission? Could I ever get back what I gave up out of my own selfish needs? Could I really put Edward in danger again?

"Say it."

"I never stopped." I whispered so softly that even with vampire hearing I'd still be surprised if she heard it. Looking up I saw I took her by surprise. "Happy?"

It was quiet as she looked into my face before she laughed though none of this was funny. "Wow, what the hell did we get ourselves mixed up in. You're something else Claudia." When her laughter died off she still was smiling only this time it seemed genuine. "Edward's not going to give up. And knowing him he'll look into my head as I am thinking of this meeting and he is going to be even more determined to get back whatever you guys had."

Crap. Edward could not know what I had just said. I looked at my hand. It shouldn't be too hard to do it. I held my left hand up. "Edward can't know, and neither can you."

Rosalie grew tense and she crouched in a defensive position. "And what do you think you are doing?"

"Erasing your memories." Her eyes grew wide. "It won't hurt you; you came out fine the first time I did it." She gasped as it seemed she connected everything. "So that's why…"

"I'm sorry." Just as I was about the freeze her a pain shot through my body and I brought my hand back to hug my body, dropping to the ground. "What the hell?" I coughed as the pain continued.

"What's happening to you?" I didn't look up at her as I did the only thing that came to mind, I ran. Ignoring the pain I was able to make it back to the apartment before collapsing on the floor.

"Bella, Bella what happened?" I heard Louis ask as I was lifted from the floor and put in my coffin. "What is going on Lestat?"

"Her power came from Armand, meaning it's not hers which leads to the fact that it has a time limit. She used up most of it when she decided to erase all the Volturi as well as the Cullens and those wolves plus all the humans throughout the years. My guess is she tried to use it one last time and that's when she was cut off. Bella can no longer erase people's memories."

I couldn't? But then…before I could think the pain hit me again and I grunted and hit my head on the side of my coffin. And then the top was closed on me. "What's going on?" I tried to push it open but it wouldn't budge. "The pain will be gone by the time you sleep and once it does you'll be able to open it." Damn him.

"This is too much Lestat." I heard Louis say. "We still have to figure out who's memory she was trying to erase."

"We'll figure that out in the morning. For now let her body rest. She must be tired." Just as he said that I found myself slipping away until I fell into peaceful darkness.