"Why do you care you said you didn't want her! You told her not to wait remember? Well guess what, she didn't actually she forgot you completely!" I grabbed the collar of his shirt and lifted my hand to punch again when calm spread through me.
"Damn it Jasper!" I snarled releasing hold of Zaden's shirt.
"It wasn't me!" he said bewildered.
Just then I smelt the sweet scent I love and turned to see Bella calmly, in the doorway.
EPOV
A blank expression was placed on her face as her eyes stared me down. They were gold with brown flecks now. The calm spread through me and I released Zaden and stepped towards her. as I did, her eyes went back to mostly brown. I stopped in front of her and reached out to stroke her cheek. Our eyes locked together. As soon as my finger touched her face, she slapped my hand away storming past me to Zaden.
She knelt down in front of him and was looking at his face; tears welled up in her eyes. I felt the familiar sting of pain as I saw her crying. Crying for him.
"Are you all right?" her voice strained, ringing with caring and fear.
"Bella, I'm fine don't worry." As soon as the words left Zaden's mouth, her head snapped back towards me. Anger overwhelmed her normally calm and innocent features and if not for the sudden rage I felt I would have shuddered with fear.
"Who the hell do you think you are? Coming into my home, beating up my friend!" she screamed as she pushed my shoulders as hard as she could. I stepped back, not because of the force she hit me, but because of the rage I was feeling. Why was I angry? She was right in a sense.
I looked over her head at everyone. Their faces held the same rage as I felt.
"Zaden. Use your power to calm her down! She's and empathy obviously, so shut her the fuck down before I break something." Raina growled, venom dripping from her every word.
I watched Zaden's eye's become fixated on Bella's back. I looked in her eyes studying her face waiting for the relief to come. But it didn't. Her face drained paler then I ever thought possible, creating her skin to look even whiter then a normal vampire. Translucent even.
"Bella?" I asked as she started to shake. Silently her hand rose to her head and then she let out an ear-piercing scream. Her knees gave way under her and I quickly wrapped my arms around her waist pulling her into me as I shrank to the floor so she was laying back on me.
She thrashed under my grip. Holding her head tears cascaded down her face as she screamed out in agony.
"What are you doing to her Zaden?" I yelled. I had expected my voice to be angry but the tone I had was fear. What was happening to my Bella?
"Nothing! As soon as she screamed I stopped trying to make her stop using her powers to piss us all off!"
"Bella, Bella shhh it's okay." I rocked her and held her tight until her crying stopped. She lay limp in my arms for a moment and then her eyes fluttered open and she looked in mine.
"Bella? What just happened?" she didn't respond for what seemed like forever. And then blush rose in her cheeks as she wiggled out of my grip. She stood and smoothed out her shirt.
"Zaden who are these people?" she asked somewhat embarrassed. Shock flowed through me as I step towards her taking her shoulders in my hands.
"Bella, it's me Edward! What's going on Zaden?" I roared.
"Did I know him Zaden?" she asked breaking free of my arms and walking over to Zaden. She was so close their chest almost touching. She stared up at him with an indescribable look on her face. Zaden never met her gaze.
"Zaden. Did. I. Know them?" he sighed
"Yes." Zaden said flatly.
"What do you mean did? Bella come on stop kidding around." Said Alice stepping to Bella.
"Their all vampires? And I knew them when I was a human? I thought I only knew you?"
"They are my, family so to speak."
"And you kept this from me why?"
"It doesn't concern you Bella," said Zaden quietly. I could tell he was trying desperately to avoid this topic.
"Yea why didn't you tell her about us Zaden?" asked Skyler his voice was calm, but his face looked angry.
"Wait what do you mean it doesn't concern me? It's my past, but I'm not supposed to know about it? I'm not supposed to have my memories?" her voice was rising as she was on the verge of livid tears.
"No, Bella you don't understand just leave it alone."
"Leave it alone?" she said disbelievingly as she took a step away from him backing up.
Suddenly I felt betrayed. I winced slightly and noticed that everyone else was to. Bella turned and walked towards her room. Zaden and I started after her but she turned and held out a tiny hand.
I froze involuntarily. My muscles cramping. I felt like a statue. Out of the corner of my eyes I could see Zaden's face. Filled with confusion and wonder. Bella had frozen off our movement. She was using Zaden's gift.
When she noticed what she had done she dropped her hand and stared at it. I felt the tension leak away and my movement was empowered back to me.
"Bella, do that again." Said Raina stepping in front of Zaden and me. "Make me see something."
BPOV
I headed back to my room trying to hold back tears until I was hidden behind the sanctuary of my bedroom doors. What else hadn't he told me? As far as he led on I he was the only vampire I knew. The only other mythical creature I was told about was the werewolf that killed my father. Heard footsteps following me and I turned and stuck my hand out. I DON'T want them to follow me. As soon as I thought that, Zaden and the beaut- the boy who identified himself as Edward seemed frozen and place. I stared at them incredulously. I had wanted them to stop and they did. I dropped my hand and stared at it. What had I just done?
"Bella, do that again." Said a beautiful girl with shoulder length dark brown hair. Her bags started from the middle of her head and fell just above her eyes. "Make me see something."
At first I was shocked. How was I supposed to do that? But I tried. I focused on the girl. The only thing I could think of for her to see was rain. Slowly she looked around till her eyes landed on the window. She walked over and stuck her hand out side. When she bulled it back inside she examined her bare dry hand and then walked over to the blonde boy.
"Do you see it?"
"See what?" Jasper said
"The rain drops."
Everyone's gaze went from the girl and the boy, to me, to the girl and boy, back to me. I felt red creek into my cheeks again.
Raina turned and walked over to me and stared intently into my eyes. I shifted nervously until the blonde boy broke the silence.
"Alice!" he shouted wrapping his arms around her. Her eyes opened and she walked towards me as well.
"What did you see?" asked the big guy. Alice didn't reply instead she spoke to me.
"I'm sorry."
"What?" I asked confused at her abrupt statement. She just turned to Raina and asked her to use her power on me.
"But it never worked before her mind is like a steal cage."
"Just try it okay?" Alice was getting impatient. She stepped forward to my side and wrapped an arm around me. I looked back and forth between them until I felt it; the sharp pain in my head. I screamed. I felt my legs give way but the pain this time was different. It wasn't any weaker, but I felt like I was taking it better, as if I was getting used to whatever was happening to me.
"What the hell are you doing!" I heard a velvety voice cry. That voice seemed to calm me further as I fell into a quick darkness.
I awoke on the ground with everyone around me. I sat up and looked around.
"Try to talk to one of us."
"Huh? Um I'm pretty sure I can still talk," I started but Raina cut me off
"No. With your mind." I looked around the room to Zaden and concentrated on talking to him.
I thought we had always promised not to keep secrets from each other.
Zaden's eyes widened with surprise, mine would have to but I was too interested in getting an answer
Bella let's talk about this later.
"No! We're going to talk about this RIGHT now! All of you, I don't care who you are I want you to leave!" the others tried to talk me out of my decision but just ignored them. They slowly filed out one by one. I watched Edward as he ran his hand through his beautiful auburn hair and looked at me with beautifully sad eyes. Alice pulled him out of our room and shut the door. I wasn't expecting to feel a stab of loneliness when Edward left my sight.
"Who are they?" I said, my voice monotone and serious
"I told you."
"You didn't tell me all of it. What did you mean by 'didn't want me.' and 'not to wait'? Was, was I with him?" Shock registered on his face, then he looked worried.
"He left and told you he didn't want you and not to wait for him to come back." I looked down trying desperately to remember something but it was useless.
"What did he do to you on the roof Bella?" I looked up at Zaden, shocked out of my daze.
"I-I don't remember. I smelt something and I turned around, he said my name and I growled at him, then everything went black and when I opened my eyes he- he was kissing me and I pushed away and then pain, then more pain, and then I woke up here with you two beating the hell out of each other. Damn it Zaden tell me what the hell is going on. What the hell is happening to me!" I heard a knock on the door and before I could answer it swung open. Edward was in the doorway with a suitcase. I felt my stomach jump to my throat.
"He left and told you he didn't want you and not to wait for him to come back."
I shook my head and swallowed my stomach back down to where it should be.
"What are you doing here, get out!" I said. I couldn't believe how hard it was to force those words.
"Actually I'm now living in that room. So I'm allowed to be here." breathed Edward pointing to room number 1, and stepping close to me so we were almost touching. I looked up at him trying to be angry, but his scent was too enchanting. If what Zaden said was true, he left me, he didn't want me, he hurt me. I should be angry right. I stoped breathing as to avoid further distraction. And I think he noticed because the corner of his lips twitched upwards.
I felt hands on my hips. For a second I though it was Edward; but I was jerked backwards into Zaden. His arms had me in a protective grasp.
"Stay away from her Cullen." He shoved me into my room and shut the door. Holding the handle to keep me inside. I pressed my ear to the door to listen.
ZPOV
I knew Bella was on the other side of the door, leaning trying to listen. i banged on the door loudly and sure enough i heard a scream and then i heard her foot steps over to her bed.
"What right do you have to push yourself back into her life?" I roared at Edward. He just simply put down hi bag and sat on the couch.
"I lo-"
"Don't even say it! You left her Edward. You didn't have to stay with her day after day watching her starve herself. She barley talked, she hardly slept and if she did she would wake up of nightmares of you leaving her again!" the months after he had left flashed through my mind. Pain flashed over Edwards face as he dropped his head into his hands. I knew he saw it. The dullness of her eyes, how I hadn't seen her smile until the night I changed her.
"I will make it up to her."
"Well it's too late she forgot everything after the change. Now the onlything she knows about you and your family is how you left, and told her you didn't want her. How could you say that to her Edward."
"I was trying to protect her from myself. It was better for he-"
"That's bull shit and you know it. You didn't leave cause you thought it was better for her. you left cause it was easier for you not to have temptation around you all the time."
"You know that's not true."
"No, what I do know though is that I was the one by her when she needed me, I was there when Victoria came, I was the one who kept her safe all this time. So you better not force your self back into her life cause I swear to god, so much as a frown from her, I will tear you from limb to limb." I pulled open the door to her bedroom and she was sitting on her bed with a scowl on her face. I shut the door and walked over to her.
"What?"
"Why can't I remember anything?"
"Don't even bother to try Bells, you have mostly pain in your past. Don't try to find what hurt you again." I knew my words had double meanings. I was just really scared that she would fall for Edward again. It was silent for a long time. Bella just staring out the window into the dark blackened sky
"So what exactly is my power?"
APOV
"So she can use the powers of vampires around her?"
"Not exactly Jasper. When a power gets used on her, she learns that power, even if the power never worked on it in the first place. Now I called Carslie and he and Lily talked about it. They figure that since Bella always had her brain on lock down, every time she learns a power, it pushes against her walls causing her a lot of pain. But from up on the roof and when Zaden used his power, her reaction was more severe. When Raina used hers it still hurt, but I think her brain was starting to get used to the added pressure. The more powers she learns, the less pain. It will still hurt, but she will be used to it enough to not black out from the pain and only wince." I explained
"Wow, she's powerful." Jasper said in awe
"Too powerful, what happens if the Volterra hear about her gift?" Skyler retorted
"I guess were just going to have to stick with her."
"But she doesn't remember us." Raina whined as she pouted her bottom lip.
Jasper spoke up.
"Her brain doesn't, but her heart does. That's why she kissed Edward on the roof. She still loves him even if she doesn't know it. And same will go for us."
"We should probably call the others to come. I think we will be staying here for a while."
"Yea I think so to."
ZPOV
Bella and I sat on the couch and put in the guardian. Edward had left early that morning probably to pick up the family who undoubtedly were notified last night. I wasn't looking forward to this.
Suddenly I heard a phone ring. No it can't be. I got up to the kitchen and pulled out what was making the entire racket. Shit. I flipped open the phone and put it to my ear.
"H-Hello?" I stuttered.
"Meet me at the warehouse by the pear at midnight. Don't bring your precious Bella. We need to have a talk about our deal." The phone rang out in a dial tone as I slammed it shut.
To night, I had to meet Victoria. And I was 100 sure I wouldn't like what I was going to hear.
