Chapter 3

Carlisle Cullen? Here?

So Carlisle was here and it seems he is a vampire.

Knowing that Edward and his siblings were in some way, even though it is the remotest of ways, related to the man who saved my life put me at temporary ease.

BUT, just because I trust Carlisle does not mean that I trust his children.

I mean, sure Alice was okay, even if she can be a little weird, Emmett was nice enough, and sometimes even Edward seemed fine; but Jasper and Rosalie...they were to be cautious around.

Jasper is too quiet for my taste and in the short while that I've been alive I have learnt that it's always the quiet ones you have to look out for. I did, however, trust him more than I trusted Rosalie.

Rosalie, well, she made it obvious if she didn't like you, and someone like her not liking me is not exactly something that I want. It means that she has noticed me and I'd rather go around unnoticed. So I was wary of her.

I knew that Edward was curious as to how I knew Carlisle, but since he didn't ask any more questions, I didn't elaborate. I presumed he thought that I knew him from a previous doctor's visit and I wasn't going to correct him. I was cautious as to whom I revealed my past to these days, especially after being hurt so many times before, and no matter how handsome he was my lips are sealed…even if he has those smouldering topaz eyes, with the perfectly messed up bronze hair I couldn't tell him about my past…WAIT! Wasn't his eyes butterscotch before? What was it Isabelle told me about their eyes changing colour…oh! He must be hungry…and that's when I realised that my guard was down and I put it back up. What was wrong with me today?

Damn it Bella! Be more careful! I scolded myself. I had to be more careful around this Cullen. I couldn't get lost in his dreamy eyes and ….STOP! okay don't look in his eyes.

Why was I acted like this? It was like I was being dazzled…that's it I was being dazzled by him, or at least that's what I told myself.

I didn't look at or acknowledge Edward Cullen for the rest of the lesson and no matter how many times I felt his eyes burning into the side of my head I never once looked towards him.

As soon as the bell rang however it wasn't me who ran out the door first it was him.

Who knows where he ran off to and really who cares…although I have to admit that I was a little curious as to where he ran off to, but I had more pressing matters to attend to, like where to find Carlisle without his family…except for maybe Esme she was always nice to me.

I realised that my best bet would be the hospital, but surely his family would already be headed there to inform him about me.

So instead of heading over to the hospital I went over towards my car, my gorgeous black convertible BMW, one of my favourite cars and got in, while the humungous crowd around it just watched with wide eyes and their mouths hanging open.

"You've got some spittle on your chin" I said to one of the boys, his name was Mike I think, as I drove past. He had a cute face with baby blue eyes. I remembered that he had gym, biology and English with me.

His cheeks turned red when he heard me and in my rear view mirror I saw him lift his hand up and wipe at his chin, while I quietly laughed in my car.

I decided to go home, change, have a quick shower, have something to eat and maybe go down to the reservation and check out the wolves…that or I might go and see Carlisle, depending on my mood.

When I got to where I would be staying I saw that the lightwoods and Jace were all outside with their bags.

Looks like something's up. I thought.

As soon as I was out of the car, the keys to the house were shoved into my hands along with all the phone numbers that I would need.

They told me that it was an emergency and that I was to stay here. They weren't coming back so I should call them if I have any trouble or any questions.

They told me to take care of myself and keep safe.

"Don't do anything Jace would do Bella." Isabelle said. "I may have known you for only a day but I know enough to know that you are SO like Jace that it isn't even funny, so take care and keep yourself alive."she finished giving me a huge hug. It was true me and Jace were similar.

"Yeah, Bells, don't do anything I wouldn't do." Said Alec.

"Awww, but that leaves me with nothing to do at all." I said in mock pain. He just laughed and gave me an even bigger hug than Isabelle.

"Yeah Bella, I agree with the others. Don't do anything that I wouldn't do." Jace said after giving me a hug and wink in his creepy way that works on nearly all the girls in school.

"I like Jace's advice the best. It's the best" then realising what I said I turned to Jace and said "Shut up!"

"Hey, I never said anything! You said it not me, besides it's just another thing that I'm good at. Just add it to the list." He replied with a smirk.

"Don't grow a head but, I think there is another thing you could add to that list" I said in a mock serious tone after hugging him "what?" he said in the exact same way. "Being an ass," I said and smacked him on the backside of his head.

Laughing he got in the car with the others and waved bye.

"STAY SAFE, Bells!" they basically screamed and then were gone.

"Looks like I'm all alone" I said as I walked into the house.

…..

After doing everything that needed to be done it was only 8pm so I decided to take a trip to the hospital to see Carlisle, my old friend.

I jumped in my car and made my way to the building itself. Once there I walked up to the receptionist and asked for a Dr. Carlisle Cullen.

She was a nice lady and gave me instructions on how to reach him. I thanked her and made my way towards his office with a smile on my face….the first genuine smile for seeing someone in years…since that fateful night 8 years ago…

EDWARD P.O.V

As soon as biology was over, I was out the door before the bell had even finished ringing, barely keeping to a human pace.

I had to talk to my siblings.

It seems as though Bella knew Carlisle. It could just be from a hospital visit or he could have treated her somewhere before, but it seemed like something more from the smile on her face when I said Cullen.

I know that he would never hurt Esme in anyway, but it looked as though it was a more than a friendly hospital visit between him and Bella.

I was the first one there and not long after Alice showed up with a look of fear on her face and Jasper just barely keeping her calm.

Before they got to me however, Rosalie and Emmett showed up with smiles on their faces. They quickly disappeared after one look at our faces.

Once all my siblings reached me I turned to Alice and asked : "What's wrong? I couldn't make any sense of your thoughts."

"She had a vision in class, just before the bell rang and she's been like this ever since" Jasper told me "I can't calm her."

"Alice", I said, "this is important, what's wrong?"

"Carlisle," she spoke in a scared voice "He-he just disappeared. I can't see him. I mean, I can, I can see him in the hospital, but I don't see him come home."

"Try to look further, maybe he is just late." I suggested. But Alice just shook her head.

"I've tried, he-he doesn't come home tonight and Esme she-she leaves the house after a call from Carlisle, but she doesn't come home as well."

After a minute it clicked, and I had made the connection.

"It's her, Bella, it must be!" After seeing the looks on their faces I asked, "well who else could it be? Listen, Alice can't see her future and I can't read her thoughts."

After a while Jasper said "now that I think about it I couldn't really feel her, if that makes any sense."

"Exactly, she is different, listen, she's my singer." I told everyone.

"But then how is she still alive?" Rosalie asked.

"He resisted, his Edward. He couldn't live with himself if he killed an innocent person." Alice piped up.

"But is she innocent?" Jasper asked

"You guys didn't let me finish." I said.

"You mean you killed her?" Emmett asked, for which everyone gave him a "WTF" look.

"When I was in biology a wind blew in from the door and blew her scent towards me and it was so delectable that for a second I was planning everyones death in my head, but then I caught her looking at me. There was a frown on her face and then for a second there was look of realisation in her eyes, before her scent disappeared completely. I think that she knows about us."

"So let me get this straight, you didn't kill her?" asked Emmett, who was ignored by everyone.

After a minute a look of realisation dawned on Jaspers face. "You're right," I said in answer to his thoughts. Eventually Rosalie cleared her throat, "not all of us can read minds." She said annoyed.

"Well, at lunch you know how there was more people than normal?" Jasper asked and everyone nodded. "Well, you would expect the scent of human blood to be more stronger than usual, and for a while it was. But then the scent got weaker by a reasonable yet mostly undetectable margin. You guys didn't realise it but because I find it harder to resist I did." He told everyone.

"That's not all" I said when we were almost at home and for the first time in my life I realised that I had stayed within the speed limit. "In biology she asked me about Carlisle, and when I mentioned Cullen she got this smile on her face. I thought it was happy at first, like she was glad to see him, but now… maybe I was wrong." I told them all.

We had finally reached home and told Esme everything that we had found out, and she decided to come with us to see Carlisle.

We all got into my Volvo and I drove us to the hospital. Once there we said a quick hello to the receptionist and headed over to Carlisle's office. He wasn't there though so we waited for him.

When he finally returned it was already 7:30pm.

He was surprised to see us here and knew that unless it was urgent not all of us would be here.

"What's wrong?" he asked getting straight to the point.

And so we started our story…

When we finished telling it, it was half past 8 and there was a knock at the door.

I tried to read their minds but couldn't hear anything and my eyes widened in surprise.

"It's her" I said to my family and their own faces morphed into the same expression as mine.

After a while she knocked again and Carlisle opened the door. He turned to us and warned us not to do anything rash.

When she stepped inside her face looked the same as ours had a minute ago.

"Well", she said "I wasn't expecting this."

BELLA P.O.V

I wasn't expecting his entire family to be here. It made things a little more difficult; so I chose to ignore them and just address Carlisle and Esme, who thankfully, seemed to recognise me.

"So, your wife seems to remember me Carlisle, but do you?" I asked him with a smile, and after a while his face graced a smile of his own.

"How could I not? How have you been Isabella my dear child?"

"I go by Bella now" I told him. "And things have been better. But they have been worse as well" I replied and hoped that no one noticed the tremble in my voice. But of course it was in vain. "Come we have a lot to talk about" Carlisle said in a worried voice.

"Actually" I said "I was hoping that it would be just you me and Esme."

"Of course, of course. Edward, why don't you all go home? Everything will be fine." He said with a look on his face which said 'do not argue.' They all left even if it was grudgingly.

"Now Bella, tell me what has happened since we last saw you."

"Humph" I sighed. "A lot has happened Carlisle and not all of it good."

"You can Trust us Bella you know you can." Said Esme in her motherly tone.

"I know Esme, that's why I'm here." I said "it's a long story…."

"We have time" they both said at exactly the same time.

Sitting down I sighed and began my story….

AN:: ok so I know that I haven't updated in ages but here is the next chapter enjoy!