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Chapter 4 - Family Ties.

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"Alice! Where the hell are you taking me? I need to get back in there, Pete will go nuts if I don't go back!" She was still dragging me towards the back door with me struggling to pull my arm free. I wasn't doing so well, she was stronger than I thought.

"Pete? I thought it was Asher?"

"No, Pete's the one who was at the bar with me, he'll wonder where I am if I don't go back. I could get him into trouble too. Alice let me go!"

"The guy at the bar?" I heard her giggle quietly but I could have been mistaken. "Trust me, he understands." By now she was out of the backdoor with me dragging along behind her.

"What? What the hell does that mean? Alice? Alice stop right now!" I grabbed hold of the nearest secure thing I could - the doorframe - and held on as tight as I could. Considering I only had one hand to hold on with (and my foot if I tried really hard) I did pretty well stopping us from moving.

"Bella can we move on please, everyones waiting back home." She rolled her eyes and pulled on my arm gently, but I didn't budge.

"Not until you tell me what's going on." I pulled her back through the door and shut it, sliding the lock across as I did.

"You know, if I wanted to I could easily get out." She said, smiling the true Alice smile.

"Your not going anywhere. What the hell is going on? I thought you all left?"

"We did." Ok so I wasn't going crazy, they did actually leave. "But not for long. Rosalie said you were in trouble. We came back but you weren't here."

"Yeah, I went away for a while." I had spent so long looking for them, searching everywhere I could think of. I knew they wouldn't go somewhere they had already been, they couldn't, but I also knew where they had been thinking of going next. England. I remember Emmett saying it was always wet there so it would be easy to blend in. Charlie called me stupid at the time, but I spent months travelling around England, searching for them everywhere. I never found them, and eventually I gave up. "So what are you doing here now?"

"I had a vision a few months ago. It was of you, which is weird because Carlisle said it would be impossible, being so far away would lessen any connection between us. I saw it more and more often and then Rosalie started seeing it too, exactly the same. We came back and then…" She stopped, looking straight at me. "Can I explain the rest later? Edward's waiting for us."

"Edward?" Did I want to see him after so long. He wont have changed, but I have so much, Im not the person he knew. Im not the person he's waiting for. While she had been talking, Alice had loosened her grip on my hand, making it easy for me to now slip my hand away. "I cant." I started walking back across the room to the bar.

"Bella, please don't do this. He really wants to see you. They all do."

"This is my life now. I miss you all so much, but I cant keep looking back on the past. Ive done that for too long."

I could feel tears started to force their way out but I tried to hold back. My heart was screaming at me to shut up, but my head was telling me I was doing the right thing. If I went back, they would just leave me again. I would have to pick up the pieces and move on and I wasn't sure if I could do that yet again.

As I turned to reach for the door, it swung open and Pete stepped out. "Im coming back in now. Alice was just leaving, you don't mind if she uses the back door do you?" Was that really my voice? It sounded so quiet and lifeless.

"Its ok Im coming too." His words bounced around me, making it hard for me to understand what he had said.

"Did you just say…"

"Yes I did. Shall we go then?"

My head was spinning. What the hell was going on?! "Hold on, how the hell do you know Alice?" It'll just be a reasonable answer, they were school friends or something.

"Family ties. Lets just get going and Carlisle can explain." It was Alice that spoke, but it could have been either one of them. My mind was reeling. How did he know Carlisle too? This was just getting too weird.

He couldn't be…

"Yes, I am."

"Oh my god." He can read my mind?

"Yes, I can."

"Holy Shit!" I stepped back and my hand shot up over my mouth. Why the hell could he read my mind? Edward never could, so why can he?

"I don't know." I really should stop thinking about anything. I saw him briefly smile and knew he had heard me. "Like I said, lets just get back and Carlisle can explain everything." He must have noticed I wasn't actually moving, was I breathing? "Bells, we're as shocked as you are, ok? Can you come with us please?" He held his hand out to me but I hesitated.

"I have to get back to Asher." My feeble excuse was barely over a whisper and for a moment I wasn't sure if he heard me.

"He's gone home. I told him you left already, girly night out with Celia and the clones."

Asher wouldn't go home without me. He knows that if I was going anywhere I would ask him first, or tell him at least. Nothing got past him, especially when it came down to me. "I don't believe you."

"Bella?" I heard the voice behind me but didn't turn to see who it was, I knew who it was. Instead I closed my eyes and dropped my head towards the ground. If I couldn't see him, I wouldn't feel anything for him again, right?

"Hello Edward." Footsteps rang out behind me, along with whispers and the door being slammed shut again. I hadn't even realised it had been opened.

"Open your eyes." Edward whispered close to my ear. It shocked me and I jumped slightly, but still held my eyes tight shut. His cold fingers traced my chin, tilting my head up towards him. "Open your eyes." It was louder this time, and not right in my ear so I knew he was stood in front of me. "Isabella Marie Swan, open your eyes now."

"Ok. Jeeze you don't have to full name me." I tried to think of a way I could open my eyes but not have to look at him, and the only thing I could think of so far was to cover my eyes. So I did. Its incredibly childish I know, but I had to do something. Even that couldn't work forever though.

"Bella, this is stupid." Was he laughing? He finds all this funny? "Yes I do actually."

I gasped and dropped my arms down to my side.

Did he really just read my mind? The sudden twinkle in his eyes gave me my answer.

He can read my mind.

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Im not sure I like this chapter. Im not in a very good writting mood today and I was doing a million other things too, learning 2 songs for tomorrow :S writting my script out for drama and writting an Essay for another subject! Im a busy girlie, but I thought Id get this out, havent updated in a while. You know what you have to do now though dont you? Review and tell me how crap this chapter is, and how I can improve it XD Please