AN: Thankyou all for your wonderful reviews, it really made my day when I opened my inbox to see all the favourite stories, author and all the alerts.

This chapter is dedicated to you all, with a special mention to Titenanou.

IMPORTANT: Could someone please tell me when the American school year begins and ends. From what I can gather it begins in September and ends in June, is this correct?

Disclaimer: Don't own nothing but Bella's siblings, the story line and 'The Grandmother.'

Nate's POV

I couldn't believe Isy would think so little of herself. Charlie had told me she had taken the Cullen's leaving hard, now I could see why; she had actually believed him. I knew that I had to do something, anything to stop her hurting. I had to get her and Edward back together. My only problem was how.

I pulled up at the Cullen's house in L.A. it was huge of course. I knew they would all be home, it being daylight and to sunny for them to be out. I walked up to the front door and knocked. Barely five seconds later the door cracked open to reveal and eye.

"Nate." Emmett said moving aside to let me in.

"Hey Emmett, how are things?" I asked.

"Um, they're interesting…" I frowned, interesting.

"What's going on?" I asked suspicious. I followed him into the living room where the others sat, minus Edward. The all had the same look of annoyance on their faces

"Did I come at a bad time?" I questioned.

"Oh Nate, of course not you're always welcome here." Esme said coming to hug me.

"So then what's going on?"

"Tess" Alice spat.

I was shocked; I had never heard so much venom in Alice's voice.

"Who's Tess?"

"Edward's girlfriend" Jasper said.

"Girlfriend, but what about Bella?" (AN: The Cullen's don't know that Bella is Nate's sister, he does however know about her because they told him. He avoided their house in Forks when he knew Bella would be there.)

They exchanged looks.

"We don't know, one moment he was wallowing, then we forced him to go hunt and when he came back he brought her and was completely infatuated with her." Alice informed me.

"And you don't like her?" I asked.

"No." Alice said firmly.

"If it makes him happy." Esme said smiling sadly.

They others did not say anything, but it was clear they sided with Alice.

"What about Bella? Has he forgotten all about her, it has only been a year. How can he be so depressed one day and completely fine with it the next!" Alice said angrily.

"Alice, Bella's gone." Carlisle said softly. Gone? Well this was news to me.

"What do you mean gone?" I asked.

"Alice had a vision the other day of Bella jumping off a cliff and she didn't resurface." Jasper said wrapping his arms around Alice who was quietly dry sobbing. So Alice had seen just before Bella's transformation, but why hadn't she seen her resurface?

"Bella isn't dead." I said before realising my mistake.

"How do you know that Nate I seen her jump." Alice said. Damn, I needed an excuse and quick, I wasn't sure Bella wanted them to know the truth just yet.

"I was in Forks earlier today, I checked on her and she's fine."

"Why were you in Forks?" Esme asked.

"I go every now and then to check on her."

"Why?" Emmett asked.

"It's my job to protect you isn't it, I was making sure Victoria wasn't in the area." I said lying through my teeth.

"Was she? Carlisle asked. They all seemed to buy my lie. I could say yes, that way they'd all go down to Forks and reunite with Bella. No, I needed her away from the wolves and this Tess character might convince Edward to stay. I had to find a way to bring her to them.

"No she wasn't" I said.

"That's good then." Carlisle said. If I didn't know any better I'd say he looked a little disappointed. They all did, maybe they had thought this was a perfect opportunity to see Bella again. If I was going to figure out a plan, I was going to need help and I knew exactly who the most willing would be.

"Alice, I don't suppose we could go shopping after." I asked her. They all looked at my weirdly. They were all aware of my hatred of shopping.

"It's Anna's birthday next week and I wanted your help to find her the perfect gift." At least this was not a lie; it really was my wife's birthday next week. Alice smiled

"Of course Nate, I'd be happy to."

"Great. When are you free?" I asked eager to get my plan underway.

"The sun goes down soon and the shops are open late tonight so we could go now." She said.

"Great, I'll drive." I said a little too enthusiastically as they all gave me weird looks.

Edward's POV

I couldn't understand it. My heart still ached greatly for my angel, my Bella but when I had met Tess all thoughts of Bella had left me and I knew nothing but her.

We met when my family had forced me to go hunt, we were both hunting the same fox, unaware of the others presence. We had both lunged at the same time, shocked by the others presence the fox had managed to flee, but I didn't care all I could see was the angel in front of me. She was small, with blonde curly hair and the same golden coloured eyes as me.

"Uh, hi." I said

"Hi" she had shyly greeted me. From then on, I was gone. All logical thoughts were gone, and thoughts of this angel were all that filled my head.

Alice's POV

I knew Nate loved his wife but I had never seen him so eager to shop before. He reminded me a lot of Bella, (AN: he he) like her he absolutely hated to shop. There had to be another reason behind it all.

"So you want to tell me what this is all about, or am I going to have to force it out of you?" I asked him. We had been shopping for over an hour and he had still not told me. He glanced over at me.

"Ok, lets head over to the food court." He said.

We entered the packed food court and found a two-seated table. Sitting down I turned to him.

"Let's hear it then."

"Alice, there's something about me you don't know. You see my father's name is Charlie Swan."

"That would make you Bella's brother." I laughed,

"I am." He said. Very seriously.

"You're kidding, but wouldn't that make Bella…"

"A Protector." He finished for me. Lost for words I simply nodded my head.

"She is. She became a vampire protector yesterday."

"Nate are you lying to me?"

"No." he said.

My confusion was suddenly overtaken by another emotion, a stronger one, anger.

"Why the hell didn't you tell us? Edward wouldn't have left if he knew that, did she know?"

I demanded a little loudly causing people close by to look over.

"I told you we don't find out until our eighteenth birthday. I couldn't tell you, Bella wasn't suppose to know."

"You know what this means?" I asked ready to dance around the table.

"What?" he asked.

"Bella and Edward can get back together!" I said squealed and stomping my feet a little unable to restrain myself.

"How though, Edward's with Tess and Bella doesn't believe Edward loves her."

"Why doesn't she?" I asked.

"She believed Edward when he told her he didn't love her anymore." He said sadly.

"Well we're just going to have to do something about that aren't we." I said. He smiled

"I was hoping you'd say that."

Suddenly inspiration struck.

"Ohmigod, I just had a brilliant idea." I squealed, again a little to loudly and attracting the attention of several people.

"Well?" he asked.

"Weren't you saying just the other day that you'd like to spend sometime with Anna and Lizzie (AN: His daughter) before she started school in September?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Do you think it's possible that if you were to go on a little vacation your grandmother would arrange for another Protector for that month, like Bella perhaps?" I said grinning.

"Alice you are brilliant."

"I know." This was going to be great, I would get to see Bella again and Edward and Bella would realise they were still madly in love and get back together. God I was good.

AN: So there they are the Cullen's. I hope I did them justice. Hope you enjoyed it. Please review!