"What's going on with you? You have been pretty distracted for a while now" Emmet said loudly as we walked side by side. "Huh? Nothing…Just thinking" I answered distractedly, Edward's thoughts were swirling through my mind since our last class.

'Did something happen?' he thought worriedly.

"No Em, everything is fine. That aside, you think we're right this time?" last time we thought we had been on the right path, we had been immensely disappointed.

"Positive" he said as we came to halt in front of an old building. Suddenly I sensed him, Emmet was right. He's here.

"He's here" he repeated my thoughts. "I know" I tried to open the door but it seemed to be blocked by something. 'Allow me' Emmet held his hand out to me and then blinked us both inside.

'Can you hear him?' he asked me, knowing the answer already. I shook my head. He pointed to the second floor of the building.

'You check this area, yell when you find him' I nodded and then he disappeared.

I started to walk to the back when I started to sense him stronger. He was close.

"Come on Embry, where are you. I know you're close" I called out to him. I sighed when I got no answer. 'What a smell?' I thought disgusted.

"Fuck no" suddenly I recognized the smell. I opened the back door and realized I was right.

"Emmet!" in a second he was next to me. "God damn it!" he yelled angrily. "I can't believe they got to him first" I muttered.

"Carlisle is going to be so disappointed" he groaned. "I know Em"

"What are we going to do now? He was the only one who knew how to get there" he continued. "I know. I guess this means we have to find another way" I sighed.

'what are we going to do with him?'

"Take him to Angela, perhaps she can find something in that stupid head of his" Emmet nodded at my words, picked Embry up and disappeared.

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"He died?" Carlisle's voice came over the phone.

"Yes, they got to him first"

"Damn it Bella, we needed that information! Vick told me this would happen"

"If Vick knew it so well then why didn't she try to hunt him herself? We did our best Carlisle so don't take it out on us besides isn't Vick the reason why Embry went on the run? He knew something about her Carlisle but he didn't want us to find out" I snarled.

"Nonsense, Embry ran because he was scared" he replied furiously.

"Whatever makes you sleep better at night" I couldn't keep the sarcastic tone out of my voice, he knew I was right but his stupid love for Victoria had blinded him.

"What's going on with you Bella? This doesn't sound like you at all" the anger was all gone now, and the Carlisle I knew came back.

"Right back at ya… You know I don't trust her Carlisle, I'm sorry but it's the truth" with that I hung up.

Victoria had turned up at Carlisle's weakest moment which had made him vulnerable and useful to her. He fell in love with her young spirit and looks but something had been off with her. She blocked me from her thoughts all the time, I couldn't read her.

Embry though, seemed to be on to something but he just wouldn't talk to us and then he suddenly disappeared.

'If only Esme came back…we both know that you need her Carlisle. Hell even I need her'

I decided to run to clear my mind otherwise I was going to end up blowing this stupid house.

Blocking other people's thoughts wasn't hard for me at all but it had taken me years to actually be able to do it. Suddenly it had occurred to me that Edward had no control of it all. He had to hear everyone's thoughts every freaking second of the day.

But why live nearby the campus then?

I started to run in the direction of his apartment. I hoped his place was empty, I needed to know more about him.

'For your own or for Carlisle?' I ignored my inner thoughts as I got closer to his apartment. Of course I was doing this for Carlisle, why would I do this for my own personal gain?

Okay Edward was handsome…let's make that immensely handsome, actually hot, sexy and ever-

'Stop it! You're on a mission here Bella!'

Sadly Edward was home. I could hear him talking to his mom, he was talking about…me?!

"She's so different mom… I can't hear her, it's so weird… No, she's my professor, what am I going to say to her? No mom, I'm not going to ask her on a date"

'She wouldn't go out with my freaky ass'

I chuckled at his thoughts, I liked his freaky ass but that chuckle soon turned into a frown. I wasn't supposed to like his freaky ass and secondly, his mom knew about his powers and accepted him? We got a special one for sure.

"I'll talk to you later…No please, it's okay. Don't worry. Yeah, I love you too" he was close with his mom, I didn't need to read his mind to know that.

'Perhaps I could ask her on a date. Okay no, that's not happening, dude she's your teacher! I wonder how old she is, she doesn't look old. I wonder if she's really like me…'

I stopped listening to his thoughts after that. I had to come up with a plan because,

"I want Edward on our team" I said to Emmet later that night, he didn't really looked shocked to be hearing my statement. "If you're sure then do it but we'll discuss that later. Rose is coming over, please don't scare her" I scoffed loudly, I wasn't scary.

'You are scary Bella and you know it'

"Yeah yeah whatever" I grumbled. Two minutes later I started to hear the new girl's thoughts. "She's almost here" I told him. A huge smile formed on his face. He really liked her.

A minute later there was a knock on the door.

'Fuck I hope I'm not making any stupid decisions' the girl was nervous as hell. Perhaps I could have a little fun with here.

"Don't you even dare" Emmet said when he saw my smirk. I shrugged acting like I didn't know what he was talking about.

Time to have some fun.

"Hi, I'm Rosalie" she wasn't shy or nervous when she introduced herself to me but unfortunately for her I could also read her mind.

'I hope she doesn't notice that I'm nervous…Fuck, she's so intimidating and beautiful. I hope she and Emmet never-'

"Hell no, I've known Emmet all my life, he's like a brother to me" I told her disgusted by thoughts. Her eyes widened at my declaration.

"You heard that? You can hear whatever I think?" Gone was the nervousness, she was amazed and enthusiast.

'She's like me. I'm not alone'

"You're not Rosalie, there are a lot more people out there like you. We're just one of them. How old were you when you started to make fire?" Emmet relaxed when he realized that I had skipped the teasing or scaring her part.

"I was five… I had gotten so angry that my mom didn't get me the toys I wanted. I threw a tantrum and suddenly the doll in my hands got on fire. Mom was so freaked out. When I turned seven they sent me to a boarding school. They were scared" her anger for her parents had made her bitter over the years.

"It's okay Rose, we are your family know. Has Emmet told you about us?"

Emmet shook his head 'Perhaps it's better to show her?'

"You're right Em. Rose would you mind leaving the faculty? Emmet is going to take you some place, show you our world. Afterwards you can decide on your own if you want to stay with us or not-"

"I have already decided. I'm with you guys" she interrupted quickly.

'I can't stay away from Emmet'

"As much as I like hearing that, don't decide too quickly. You don't know what you're getting into. You will lose all this, you can't come back here once you decide that you are with us. Don't let your hearts ehh matters decide for you, choose wisely"

"She's right babe" Emmet mumbled softly but Rose had already made her mind up. She wanted this, she didn't care about all the other stuff. She knew this was her destiny.

"Emmet take her with you. Oh and give Carlisle this message will you" Emmet looked in question at the envelope I handed him. "Just do it" I shook my head at him, not wanting to answer his questions. He nodded and then took Rosalie in his arms.

"It was nice to meet you Bella" she smiled one last time at me and then they both disappeared.

Time for class, I thought and got ready to leave.

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'I know what I'm going to do. Only this way I'll find out if she can really read my mind or not' Edward's thoughts peeked my curiosity, what was he up to now?

"Class dismissed" I yelled. Everyone quickly stood up and started to leave, except for Edward. He didn't get up and just watched everyone leave.

"Is there something I can help you with Mr. Masen?" I asked loudly since he was sitting in the back of the class.

'Okay this is it, god I hope this works out like I want it to'

"Yes Ms. Blake, there's just this one thing I want to try" He said as he got up and started to descend the stairs, getting closer to me with every step he took.

'I'm going to come downstairs and kiss you miss Blake' he thought while a smirk covered his face.

I tried not to react to his thoughts but in the inside I was bursting with excitement, fear and curiosity. He wouldn't really do it, right?

"What can I do for you Mr. Masen?" I asked with a straight face as he came to stand in front of me.

"Well miss Blake…"

'I'm going to kiss you.'


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