Okay, so here is the next chapter. Twilight is not mine. Oh, and I know we have all read the books but the first few paragraphs give a slight overview about Bella and the Cullen's. I'm sorry! I just couldn't hold it in! Plus these facts are relative to remember in the story. Anyway Sorry ahead of time if the character's are OOC and I really hope not. I also really hope that this chapter is good, and not a disappointment to you people. I want you to like it. Sorry if it is at all confusing! On with the story! Remember it takes place in Eclipse.

Chapter 1

"Thanks Esme." I grinned sheepishly as she handed me a large plate covered in very scrumptious looking pancakes, which were completely shrouded in maple syrup and whipped cream. The sight of it really warmed my heart, but I often felt very guilty, as if I was making the Cullen's go out and buy food just for me. I often told them that Charlie had plenty, and they didn't need to get so much for me. After all it's not like they would ever eat it, because vampires can't eat. The Cullen's were all vampires. I was the only human. They all desperately wanted to be human again though, so they really enjoyed having me around. That and the fact that Edward and I were in love, and could never live apart.

Especially after the horrible but rather recent experience where Edward left…

My mind trailed off as I reencountered everything, until I snapped back to reality. Esme prodded my shoulder. "I can hear their footsteps. They're on their way back right now." She chuckled.

"Ok, well that's good." I said. All the Cullen's had gone away hunting except for Esme. They satisfied their thirst off animals. They didn't hunt humans of course, if they wanted to be human so badly why would they take that away from somebody else? Kill them? The Cullen's were very warm hearted in fact. (AN Yeah ironic cause their hearts are cold stones. Lol.)

I looked down at my lap, slowly eating my pancakes, savoring them before they disappeared. Esme chuckled merrily from behind me.

"Hello my love. I missed you." I heard Edward's whisper in my ear. I looked up at him and frowned.

"You would think that after spending so much time around you guys I would be able to notice when you walk through the door, and sit down right there next to me. But you still went undetected. I don't know how you do it."

"Yes Bella, but your still human, no how matter odd of one you are. Besides, no one would have been able to see me. I wasn't making any noise and was going so fast I was invisible…"

"Except Esme, she heard your footsteps. She knew you were running on your way back." I muttered under my breath, knowing that he could hear anyway.

"Bella, you know we would all be human if we could. So don't be jealous. Vampires are horrible soulless things." Edward flashed me a dazzling crooked smile that left me temporarily stunned from his out of this world beauty.

"I just wish you weren't so much better than me. You're fast, strong, inhumanly beautiful… and so much more…"

Edward looked down before saying, "Well you, my love, are even more beautiful than I am. And I promise you that if it was possible to be human again… all of us would be taking that path without a second thought."

"Of course…sure, sure…" I muttered, knowing how unfair I was being. It was no secret that every Cullen wanted to be human with all their hearts. No lie either. I was just being stubborn now.

"Sometimes though, I worry that you wouldn't like me if I was human. When I'm average, just like everyone else. If I wasn't a vampire… if my skin was like yours… my face, strength… speed."

This got me angry. "How can you say that? You know we are meant to be! Besides, you've got to give me a little more credit than that. You can like me the way I am, weak and human. If you were human that definitely does not mean I would no longer love you. Your just like Jacob sometimes… he thinks I only like you for the money, strength… and beauty instead of for the beautiful person you are inside. You don't realize that yourself… you think you're a monster…you don't realize what a great person you are, just because you're a vampire."

"Let's continue this conversation later." He said seriously, frowning.

I sighed, slowly leaning over to him gently kiss on the lips. "You know I love you." I said softly, simply, not feeling a need for anymore words.

"And you're still my love." His velvet voice whispered in my ears, and I could hear the soft cool blow of air on them. I shivered, but still allowed him to put his arm around me as I leaned back.

Esme bustled in gracefully, smiling. "The rest of them are coming now, Bella, they're done hunting for another few weeks." She said happily, and Edward nodded beside me. I smiled, now we could finally hear that message for Carlisle that had arrived so long ago. The Cullen's had gone hunting far away about a day ago, all of them except for Esme. Right about an hour after they'd left someone called for Carlisle over the phone, with an automated message saying that no one other than Carlisle could hear it. We'd tried listening to the message anyway, but the phone apparently had to hear Carlisle's voice before it would play the message. It was weird; I didn't even know that the Cullen's phone could operate that way. We had Carlisle's voice recorded of course, but we finally decided that we could wait a day. It wasn't meant for our ears.

"I'm happy your back." I said to Edward, even though it's not like he didn't already know. "I know it's only by 20 minutes, but thanks for coming back before everyone else to be with me sooner." I said pleasantly.

"Well," He said. "The rest though I was coming back early to tell you ahead of time…"

"What?" I asked, feeling very confused. Telling Esme and I about what? It didn't matter though, Edward didn't answer, because at that moment Alice walked through the door, followed by everyone else. Her eyes had the similar, confused yet relieved look that they always have right when she gets out of a vision, back to the real world.

"Could you think it for a sec?" Edward asked her. "I missed your vision. I was talking to Bella."

Alice sighed drastically, before saying, "It was the same as my last one."

"Aliiice!" I dragged out the word. " Edward?! What?" I asked, really miffed and frustrated. My hands were tight fists. It aggravated me even more that it looked as if Esme didn't even give a crap. I also had the strange feeling that this was all somehow related to the mysterious message.

"How was it?" Esme asked, just looking happy that her family had returned.

"Fine." Rosalie said curtly, seemingly very pissed.

"Guu-uuys!" I yelled. "Tell me what's going on!"

"Well," Edward sighed, "Last night Alice had this vision. We were gonna call you guys, but weren't in the mood, so we decided to wait. She's been getting similar visions ever since we left two days ago. Since a few hours after we were gone…"

"It's so frustrating!" Alice said quietly, bouncing on her toes in annoyance and frustration. "I keep on having practically the same visions all day ever since we left, and absolutely no answers! Just tiny leads that confuse me more! Apparently, from what I'm getting, Caius, you should remember him from Italy Bella, has made a certain decision about us. He's decided to make some sort of offer to us…? Its most likely really concerns us because of the way I keep on getting visions about it. We have a big part in this decision he's made. I also am getting a feeling that we can't exactly turn this offer down… that he won't take no for an answer. He's decided that he will have us visit him… and there's this object that he's decided to use… this strange object… it might be the offer… I just wish I could figure out what this freakin offer is, not knowing is killing me! And what that object is…it seems really dangerous, but it's covered…" Alice was talking to herself now more than to anyone else.

I let my ears drift away from Alice rambling to herself at a speed very hard for me understand. I was very sure that these strange visions were definitely related to the message somehow… "What do we think of this guys?" I asked, but no one answered.

Alice finally finished talking. "All I know is that we should watch out for Caius. And when the time comes that he gives us this offer, we should be very cautious about what we say. He may make it sound great to us at first… but it will end up a burden. We should choose carefully." Alice finished with a big huff, and crossed her arms, frowning.

"We should all understand it now. You've explained enough." Edward said to her, smirking.

"Oh dear." Esme whispered as she sat down beside Edward. "Should we worry about his? Or would be making too big a deal out of it? It's just a decision Caius made that could always change… it may be a good thing."

"That's what I've been trying to ask for Pete's sake!" I said loudly, exasperated. Edward lowly hushed me. I crossed my arms.

"I agree with Esme. Why worry about it? That would be stupid." Emmet boomed after silently listening for a while, smiling and shrugging the whole thing off.

"Yes but-" I started, but got interrupted. Shoot. The Cullen's continued talking around me, but I stopped listening, letting their voices turn into senseless noises. Each second I got more and more panicked that this was definitely a bad thing… bad news… my body went into overdrive, and I slowly wiped away sweat with a shaking hand. My body was tense too and prepared to leap up and attack incase Caius jumped out on me… But this was stupid. I was human for crying out loud. The strong Cullen's would deal with Caius, surely, they are vampires… of course they would. I looked around with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. This was silly. I was just sitting in their living room! Evil, old vampire rulers were not just gonna pop out of nowhere and attack at me!

"Guys." I said, loud and confident. No one responded, as expected. Why was everyone ignoring me now?

"Guys!" I yelled. "The message!"

"Oh yeah," Esme said "This offer might be linked to the message."

Finally someone remembers!

Beside me, Edward stiffened as he read Esme's thoughts.

"What message?" Alice asked in a rush.

"Tell us about this." Edward said, turning to me.

"Well…" I began. They're finally listening. "After you guy's left, the phone rang of course, but when we tried to pick up, it wouldn't let us. It just took us to an automated voice that said the message would not play unless Carlisle was there." I glanced at Carlisle before continuing. "We tried to listen anyway, but it needed to hear Carlisle's voice. We decided to wait for you to come back, Carlisle." I continued to look at him. "I think that it's from Caius, now that I'm hearing about these visions. Or someone close to him, at least. And maybe whoever sent it to us didn't mind if me and the rest of the Cullen's were to hear, but wanted Carlies voice to activate it so no one that wasn't Carlisle or us could listen to it. The sender probably doesn't want some random person just happening to hear it."

Silence followed as everyone thought about what all this meant, and Edward smiled and shook his head at what someone was thinking.

"Well." Carlisle said. "Let's hear this message, shall we?'

(AN okay I was thinking about ending here… but decided not to.)

We crowded around the kitchen table as the automated voice said from the phone: "Carlisle. Cullen. Repeat. Name."

"Carlisle Cullen." Carlisle said.

"You. Have. One. New. Messages." The robot voice said as Carlisle clicked PLAY. A young woman's voice came over the phone, and it sounded very familiar and human. So maybe this whole thing wasn't about Caius…? I thought long and hard, and finally realized that this voice belonged to Gianna, an assistant at the Volturi who I'd met when I was down there over in Italy.

"Hmmm" Gianna cleared her throat, and the message continued to play. I couldn't help but think that she was trying extra hard to sound all efficient and what not. "Hello Cullen family. I am Gianna, an assistant working for the Volturi. I have a message for you from the strong and respected Caius." Carlisle put the message on pause.

"Well it looks like we know what this is all about now." He sighed. "I just hope Gianna will tell us what this whole offer is, and about the object."

"I just hope you will un pause it." Rosalie snorted impatiently. Carlisle gave her a look, but played the message.

"Caius," Gianna continued, "has told me to invite you over to the Volturi castle. He nicely wants consult with Carlisle, his old friend whom he has not seen in ages as well as getting to know the other Cullen's better."

"Awww! Will she stop playing good guy and beating around the bush or what?!" Emmet interrupted. I glanced over at him, and noticed Jasper next to him. Jasper has been very unusually quiet since he got back… I wonder…?

"He also wants to present a very special offer to each one of the Cullen's while you're visiting... He has found a very special source, and he promises this offer will be impossible to turn down, that it's everything all of the vampire Cullen's have ever wanted. He is nice man and knows what will make you all happy. He is prepared to give that to you. You must come to us, Caius says that you all just must catch up and he must give you this special offer! We will be expecting you at the castle by at least next weekend. But please, by Caius's request, the very kind vampire who invited you, DO NOT bring the human mate of the mind reader Edward Cullen. Anyway, Marcus, Aro, and Caius in particular all look forward to your arrival and remembering the good old times. And no refusing visiting us!" Gianna said very cheerily as if she wasn't forcing the Cullen's to come. "Goodbye for now, friends and we all wish you a good, safe trip to Volturra!" And with that, the message ended.

"Oh my God." Both Rosalie and I said at the same time. It was kind of strange now that you think of it.

But I wasn't thinking about it. I was thinking about how rudely Gianna had specifically pointed out that I couldn't come, clearly on Caius's orders. I fumed, biting down fiercely on my lower lip.

"What!" I yelled. "What the hell?! Oh God, is she serious?! I can't believe it! I'm not allowed to come?!" I ranted on angrily, pounding my fist on the kitchen table. I mean seriously, how rude can you get?!

"I'm just weirded out at how lame Gianna sounded." Rosalie said. "She was all goodbye for now friends! I mean come ON!" Rosalie complained. "It hurt my ears to hear her voice!"

I didn't hear Rosalie, my eyes just angrily flitted around, until they rested on Jasper. He was a silent, unmoving statue amidst the hectic kitchen with everyone complaining and talking at once, just standing there in the corner of the room, a quiet, nonexistent shadow. Something was definitely up with him.

For a moment I was distracted from my fury as I wondered endlessly. I would definitely have to keep an eye on Jasper…

"Bella!" Edward shouted in my ear, and I turned around to see his eyes seeping into mine slowly, filled with blazing hot burning fury, deep and wide.

"How dare they be so rude to you!" He whispered fervently. I was about to reply in agreement, but was interrupted by Carlisle's loud, authority voice taking over the hectic room. Everything was suddenly quiet as Carlisle said,

"Well guys, it looks like we're off to visit the Volturi castle."

Yayayayayayayayaaayaya! Done! I hope it wasn't confusing. There is a chance that this may not be true and I am wrong, but from what I can tell when I published this story it didn't even go on the first page of the Twilight archive! From what I saw it went straight to #40 on the second page! I was like what the hell? And I was so pissed it was like an empty hole of blackness… lol not really but still! Anyway all the usual stuff: I hope this chapter was not a disappointment to you with all my heart. I apologize also for any wrong grammar, misspellings, OOCness, or confusing-ness. Okay so when I get reviews I have much more confidence, and write better, faster, and more fluently. SO REVIEW! Also when you review tell me if you think that I should make this story DRAMA-ish or HUMOR-ish. The only problem with humor is that I will worry if it's lame or not. Sorry if this chapter is too long. Lol this AN is waaay to long!

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