A/N: I need to thank my French teacher ( even though I despise her) for not giving me any homework so I could post this!

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Chapter 3- Bad Memories

"Bella, are you ready?" Edward asked me as I followed him back into his room.

"Yes, where are we going?" Curiosity was getting the better of me. He grabbed a pair of car keys of a shelf and headed out of his room.

"I think we should go to the forest that surrounds the meadow." This pained him. I wanted to be able to end this pain.

"Why? Isn't that near where I crashed?" I could totally understand if he never wanted to go back to there ever again.

"Yes, and that is why. We need to get your truck, and throw it over a cliff with your clothes so people will have evidence of your death. Also, it is the closets place to hunt, and we need to leave soon." We were on the main floor now. And at the door, the men from the picture stood. Waiting.

"Emmett, Jasper" Edward acknowledged them.

"I presume your coming to get the car?" I said carefully. Emmett laughed and Emmett suddenly seemed to shrink and transform into the most terrible person I had ever known. He jumped out of his straight, scary posture and pounced on me. Edward and I both knew he was being playful but since my real death, I could tell he would be overly protective. Edward immediately was covering me for the impact. Emmett sent Edward and I flying through the air and my back loudly thumped against the shoulder of the piano. Edward held me protectively into his chest, Jasper was trying to help Edward up without letting go of me. I was trembling in fear, remembering to clearly what had happened last time someone had pounced on me. It had been late March the last time it happened, and I was in a dance studio in Phoenix Arizona, my last home before I had moved to Forks. An evil vampire had been trying to kill me. Edward had been at the airport where I had just ran away from. Not wanting to cause him, or his family any more discord. But little did James know that Edward, Carlisle, Emmett, Jasper and Alice were racing to stop him from hurting my mother or I. James had pretended to have my mom and threatened to kill her if I didn't come to him, alone. I had left, and when I arrived at the dance studio, our rendezvous location, it turned out he didn't have my mom. He had been intent on torturing me to death, he also was recording every minute of it. He had pounced on me after breaking my leg and 4 ribs by, painfully, kicking me into a mirrored wall. Edward arrived just as James bit me, pulling him off, saving me. Edward had sucked out the venom for fear of losing me. And now here I stood in his arms, dead, as a vampire. This time he had saved me from myself. I cringed into Edward as he started yelling at Emmett.

"Emmett! What was that for? You know that she almost dies when people do that. Do you really want to inflict that much more pain on her after she was just changed." Edward was furious.

Edward, I'm sorry, I was just enjoying the fact that she is one of us now and I don't have to worry about hurting her. I was only trying to be funny. Emmett's thoughts were sincere. Jasper tried to use his calming influence on Edward and I. Mostly directed at me is supposed seeing how I could hear his thoughts.

Edward, normally I would be worried about you losing your head over this sort of thing, but you should really pay more attention to Bella right now. I was unnaturally calm, but that wouldn't settle the fact that I was still trembling. Edward carried me over to the couch, I saw the dent were my head and shoulder had smashed into the grand piano. It hurt a little, but not as much as I had expected.

"Bella, Bella. No one is going to hurt you." Edward soothed me.

"It's him, I thought you had killed him!" I was sobbing tearlessly, pointing at the thing that had once been Emmett. Edward looked at me as though I was crazy. He came into my thoughts.

I thought the thoughts of what had just happened through my eyes. He transformed into him, he wants to kill me! Please don't let him hurt me. Edward saw in my mind eye Emmett changing into James, even though I was the only one that had been hallucinating. I went into Edwards mind now, hoping to find out if the man in front of us was really Emmett.

Bella, you have no need to worry, what you saw was a reaction to Emmett acting like James. James is dead Bella, dead. DEAD. Emmett would never hurt you. I looked up at him skeptically, he knew what I was referring to.

"Emmett was just having some fun. He does it to everyone." I could tell Edward was lying a little bit. Jasper interrupted me as soon as I opened my mouth.

"Edward, Esme and Carlisle want to see Bella." He paused "Now,"

Edward pulled me into a little ball and hugged me to his chest.

Bella, your fine. If you want, I'm sure Esme could come instead of Emmett and stay with you while Jasper and I take care of your truck?

We entered a different room, I had been expecting to go to Carlisle's office but instead we headed into a light baby blue bedroom. Carlisle & Esme were on a small couch and Esme got up and ran to me. She laid her hand on Edwards and he gave me to her. She floated to the bed in the middle of the room and laid me there.

"Bella, sweetie, are you all right?" she asked quietly. I opened my mouth to tell her no, but when I tried to speak I couldn't. I was suddenly panicked. Why couldn't I talk? This was bad really, really bad. Edward realized what had happened, so I started to think.

Edward, I can't talk! Tell Esme that I'm fine with the exception of the back of my head and shoulder.

He automatically bent over me pressing on the back of my head to find tenderness of an injury. I growled at him and he stopped.

"Ohh, yes. For some reason, Bella can't speak at the moment so she would like me to tell you that she is fine with the exception that the back of her head and shoulders hurt." Esme sighed in relief and sat down next to me.

"Bella, how did he know what you told him if you can't speak?" she asked me. I didn't need to think it for Edward to know.

"Now that she is one of us, I can hear her thoughts, but they're fuzzy a little" Esme seemed pleased with this explanation. Suddenly, someone knocked the door. I smelled the air for the first time. It was sweet, and everyone in the room contributed to it. Edward smelled of a cinnamon essence. Esme like tulips. Carlisle smelled like a mix of ginger and oranges. The next smell was like a Black Eyed Susan. I wondered who it was?

"Emmett, Rosalie" Edward said. I stiffened and quickly pulled the covers over my head as they walked into the room. I had no desire to have Edward talk for me to him.

He's here. I told you! I told you! I hope he will spare you, Carlisle and Esme. I love you. I thought. Edward pulled back the covers and cradled me in his arms.

"Silly Bella, its Emmett, there is nothing to be afraid of. I will protect you." I looked into his black eyes. He was thirsty, and because of me, he had to wait to go hunting. I felt terrible, and it wasn't just the guilt of me keeping him from dinner. The faint fire in my throat had grown sufficiently until now it hurt to move my chest, my anything. I cringed in its fiery grip.

"Bella?" it was Carlisle, he leaned over me examining the dent in my back.

"The injuries are minor, but she'll have some bruises on her neck and shoulder for awhile." I was glad that there was nothing fatal. That would have been bad.

"Bella, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." Emmett burst. I forgave him. The things that had scared me was the fact that I might have never seen Edward again.

Edward, I need to hunt. It's killing me, please. Emmett can come as long as we go hunting. Edward understood and placed me on the bed. I jumped down and walked to where he now stood talking to Emmett, Carlisle, Rosalie and Esme. It was agreed that Esme, Rosalie, Carlisle and Alice would stay and finish packing ( which I still didn't understand), Emmett and Jasper would get rid of the truck, and Edward & I would go hunting.