Chapter Seven: England

I looked at the large house in front of me. I could smell them, but I wasn't sure if they were there. I sighed, and stepped up to the porch. I raised my hand, and lightly knocked on the door.

"Coming!" I heard Esme call in a sing-song voice. I smiled. She must have thought it was a human.

When she opened the door, she froze.

"Hi Esme." I whispered.

"Bella?" I nodded. She smiled. "Alice called me earlier and told me about what happened. Are you okay dear?" She asked as she guided me into the house.

I noted that his piano was there. I sat on a sofa as Esme sat next to me.

"No, not really. I was pronounced dead, so I can never go back to my family. My best friend, Jacob, and his pack of werewolves hate me now, because I'm a vampire. I'll outlive my parents. And, he hates me too." I said. I wanted to cry. Oh how badly I wanted to sob into Esme's shoulders and let it all out.

But I couldn't. I was dead. And the dead didn't cry.

Esme smiled sadly. "He could never hate you dear. He'll love you for as long as he lives." She said. I sighed.

"I don't think so. Not after how he reacted." I said.

"What do you mean?" She asked. Obviously, Alice hadn't told her about how Edward had run away from me.

So I told her. I tried to keep the pain from my voice, but it wasn't working. By the time I had finished telling her, and she had finished trying t console me, it was almost three, and she said that Carlisle and Jasper should be getting home soon.

Sure enough, almost right after she said that, Carlisle walked in through the door, followed by Jasper.

They froze when they saw me.

"Bella?" They asked in shocked unison. I nodded.

"Yeah." I replied.

"How…?" Carlisle started, but stopped when Esme shook her head.

"Later." She said. He nodded.

Suddenly, I felt a little better. I glared at Jasper.

"Just trying to help." He said apologetically.

I sighed. "Sorry Jasper. I've had a bad week, that's all." I said.

"You're only a week old?" Carlisle asked, astonished.

I nodded. "Yeah. Vegetarian since day one." I said, smiling at him. He smiled back.

"That's very good Bella." He said. Jasper nodded.

"I'm glad you guys are way out in the country though, because otherwise I would have never been able to come. Humans are too…" I couldn't find the right word…

"Tempting?" Jasper asked. I nodded. We shared a quick smile. I noticed that I was felling better again, not so depressed. But I decided not to call him on it this time.

"So…how've you been since…we left?" Jasper asked cautiously. I shrugged.

I looked around, and noticed that Esme and Carlisle were gone. Probably discussing my change.

"Bad." I said simply. He nodded.

"Who changed you?" He asked.

"Laurent. He caught me in the woods, alone, and bit me. Before he could kill me, he was attacked by werewolves and killed." I said matter-of-factly. As if I was explaining why two plus two didn't equal three.

"I see. Why did they let you live?" He asked.

I thought about that for a moment.

"I was best friends with one of them. Actually, he was probably a little in love with me. So he stopped them." I didn't want to explain t anymore. I think he sensed that, because he changed the topic.

"Does Alice know? If not, then she'll be very mad when she finds out." He said.

I laughed. "Yeah. She was the first one to find me. And then…" My voice trialed off and I closed my eyes. Even Jasper's powers couldn't take away the pain of Edward rejecting me like that.

"It will be all right Bella." He said soothingly, trying to calm me.

I looked at him and smiled a smile full of pain.

"How can you be so sure about that?" I asked.

He shrugged. "Because, he's my brother, and I know him very well. I know how much he loves you." I sighed, and was about to speak, when a song by Skillet started playing.

Jasper smiled sheepishly. He pulled his phone out of his pocket, and opened it.

"Hello?" He asked. I tried not to, but I could clearly hear the voice on the other line.

"Jasper, its Edward. I need to talk. I'm in a bad way." He said in his velvet voice.

"Edward…" Jasper tried, but Edward interrupted him.

"I missed her so much. I went back to see her, but at her house, they were mourning for her. So I was going to leave. I was going to go to Italy. To die. But Alice found me and took me to the old house, and she was there. Bella was there. She's a vampire now Jasper! And I…I was so shocked, that I just ran! I'm sure she hates me now! I just had to talk to some one!" Edward finished, his voice frantic.

"Edward, there's something you should know." He said softly. I froze as he looked right at me.

"What?" Edward asked.

"Bella…she's here, in England. Right here." He said. I stared in shock at him.

"She is? Can I…can I talk to her?" He asked hesitantly. Jasper looked at me, and I nodded.

He handed me the phone.

"Edward?"

OH! I'm an evil bith. Sorry about that! Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! More soon!

-Edge of Darkness

P.S. MWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!(My evil laugh!!)