Reminiscing and a Phone Call

Izzy POV

I would like to say that everything was nice and peachy but after the Christmas Dinner Party that we all went to, I've been watched like a hawk.

I've been using foundation and cover-up for the bruises that were becoming bigger and I was so glad that it was always cold out here, because I have to wear long sleeve shirts and jogging pants to cover the bruises. They never noticed a thing, but I miss Daddy, Leah, and Seth. I miss rain everyday, I miss the way the forest smelled in the evening, I miss the peacefulness my opened window allowed me after Charlie's wraths. I miss the way I could sit on a stump at lunch time and read, as well as make time fly in the process of said book.

I miss a lot of things, but there is one place I wish to be again, with three certain people that I wish to be with again.

*MEMORY*

"Daddy, Lea and Bellie won't let me play scavenger hunt with them!" we heard Seth scream from outside our door.

"Seth, son, It's ok, you can help me outside in the garage." Daddy said to Seth.

Once I heard them close the door. I turned to Lea-Lea and got serious for once.

"Lea-Lea, I will never understand guys. For the rest of my life I will never, ever, ever, understand them, they are so weird. Especially Seth." I smiled.

She nodded her head a little and giggled along with me. We then went in search for the sacred feather of Lea-Lea and Bellie!

We had played that until we got bored, and then we just laid in the backyard waiting for momma to come home from working.

When momma pulled in the drive way I was at her car in an instant, along with Lea-Lea. "Momma!" we shrieked together.

"Hey girls! How was your day today with daddy?" she smiled her beautiful smile and everything was perfect again.

"Seth got mad at us cause we wanted to play together and when he wanted to play we were already in the middle of the game. So we told him no, and then daddy took him to the garage and we went to find our feather, and when we found it we climbed the little tree in front of Bellies' window and duct taped it to a branch, (it'll never blow away now) but we stopped playing on it when she got scratched, and then we laid in the grass till you got home." Lea-Lea talked continuously till we got to the living room.

"Wow, girls what an interesting day." She smiled again and kissed us on our foreheads.

"How was your day, momma?" I asked curious to know what went on in momma's days.

"Well I went to work and then I went to the bank in Forks, after that… you ready for this?" she asked and we nodded our heads impatient to know what she had done. "I got in my car and I thought, 'I can't wait to see my three beautiful, children!' and once that thought registered in my mind, I drove my car to my beautiful home just so I could see my lovely kids and my husband." She then started tickling Lea-Lea and I ran outside to get daddy and Seth.

When we walked into the house we heard Lea-Lea giggling loudly and we walked in to see momma on the floor tickling my sister and Seth kinda waddled over there and hugged momma from behind while I hugged onto daddy's leg, and giggled at my little brother and older sister playing with our momma on the floor of our living room.

*End of Memory*

Looking back on those days I wished I could go back to La Push and be with my little brother and my older sister, but I have no way of reaching them and I don't even know if they would want me back.

"Izzy!" I heard from downstairs.

I walked down the stairs to see everyone sitting in the living room. Aunt Nicole and Uncle Viktor were sitting on the love seat. Maverick, Jacy and Forrest were squished on the sofa and Paytah and Alexander were sitting in two of the game chairs, I sat in the third game chair and gave everyone another confusing look.

"Izzy, I'm just going to get right into it. You have taught us so much about life and how to appreciate the little things. We love you and you know that. It's time for us to take care of you. We want to give you your dad's house number. So you can keep in touch from now on. I know I'm too selfish to let you go just yet but if that's what you want, we will pay for your plane ticket and arrival." She said all the while I stared at her with an open mouth. Uncle Viktor was showing his support by holding her hand and rubbing circles on the back of it.

"Holy Crow, are you serious?" I started crying and I took the sheet of paper she gave me and just stared at it. I looked up to see them smiling at me, I grinned through my tears back at them. "My god this is the best thing-" I was completely speechless.

"Well, are you going to stay or go? I personally think you should stay but-" Paytah was cut off by Alexander popping him in the back of the head.

I giggled and sighed. "If it's ok I'd like to finish the rest of this year and then go. There isn't a point in starting at La Push High when I only have a few months to go." I stared at the paper in my hands and clutched it tightly as if it was going to blow away.

"I'm going to go call now." I whispered, getting up and walking to my newly finished room.

When I walked into my room I closed and locked the door. Then went in search of my phone, then for what seemed like forever I punched in the numbers to my fathers' house. It rang for a little bit and then I heard a manly voice answer the phone.

"Hello?" he said.

"I- Is this the Clearwater's residence?" I stuttered out.

"Yes." He sounded irritated.

"Is this Harry Clearwater?" I asked again and shocked when he replied with.

"No, he's my father. Who is this?" the he I thought was my dad was my little brother Seth.

"Seth?" I asked completely ecstatic to hear his voice but sad that he was growing up and not the little boy of a brother I remember.

"Yea who is this?" Seth was getting really irritated now.

"It's Bella." I heard nothing from the other side.

"B-bellie? I-is it really you?" he finally questioned.

"Yea Seth, it's me Bellie. " I said almost on the verge of tears.

"LEA-LEA! DAD! COME HERE QUICK!" I had to pull the phone away from my ear he was so loud. I heard thumping of feet down steps and I then heard my sister yelling frantically asking what was wrong. "Come listen! Please!" I heard them come closer to the phone.

"Go on tell them who you are." Seth said to me. "Your on speaker phone." I smiled at his tone of voice.

"Hello Daddy, Lea-Lea." I listened very closely to any reaction. I heard what sounded like an intake of breath and I smiled. "it's me Bella."

"Of course we know who you are because you, Seth and dad are the only ones who call me Lea-Lea and unless dad has a secret kid we don't know about then I think we were okay to assume it was you." I laughed at Leah's comment.

"Yea you're definitely ok to think it was me. It's good to hear your voices, even if you sound different from when we were kids. I miss you guys oh so terribly." I said to them.

"Bells. Come home to us. Please. We miss you too, so much and I want all my kids back where they belong." Daddy finally spoke.

"I can't. I'm going to finish sophomore year up here and then me and my car are taking a road trip down to La Push sometime before the middle of June. So expect me." I couldn't keep the smile off my face, I was talking to Daddy, Lea-Lea and Seth for the first time since I was a kid.

"Where are you at? Why haven't you contacted till now?" Daddy asked.

"I'm in Chicago, pretty darn cold up here. As for not contacting you till now, when mom took me away, I didn't even know the house number and when I got older whenever I asked for it she would glare and give me the same speech about how 'I should want to get away from you and never want to look back and remember the life I had with you and how we just need a clean break sometimes.' Always the same conversation, me asking, her giving that speech, me crying and begging, her grounding me and keeping me on my couch, We lived in a one bedroom apartment almost the whole time. So when she got married to Charlie, I was forced to do nothing but what he told me to do, so I couldn't even have a conversation with mom, and when I was 13, she left me with Charlie and crap went on the same, kinda. I went through a lot and I was more thinking about how to get away from him. When the time came I was just sent up here. Even now it was ironic how I got the number, because just forty some minutes ago I was reminiscing about the day Lea-Lea and I told Seth he couldn't play with us and we ran around and taped that feather to the tree outside my old room. Then they called me down and told me that when I was ready they would pay for my ticket to come back home and then they gave me your number. I just had to call as soon as possible." I trailed off when I realized I was rambling.

"It's still there you know." I heard Lea-Lea say.

"Are you kidding, oh my god that's amazing!" I was smiling thinking about the soft black feather we duct taped to the tree.

"Yea, it's still halfway covered but the top part is worn away and lost all it's feather stuff." I couldn't help but think that was similar to us both. She was older, the bottom part of the feather, and still protected by daddy, I'm younger the outer part, or the top part of the feather, worn, and damaged by the harshness of the world.

"I bet, after all these years." I said.

"Bells I love you so much I wish you could come home sooner rather than later." Daddy said to me.

"Daddy it's three to four months tops and I'll call or you call every night and there is texting and email, and all this technology that we can find and figure out along the way. It'll creep up on us all and before you know it I'll be on the front porch steps with all my stuff and we'll be spending time together before you know it." I told him.

"Okay, we'll now that I know your planning on calling tomorrow I'm going to go to bed, we have a long day tomorrow." We exchanged "Love you's" and such. Then I was left alone with my brother and sister.

"Alright give it to us straight. What did he do to you, and how come he didn't let you come to us when mom left him." Lea-Lea said bluntly.

This was going to be a long night.

A.N./ im so so so so so so so so so incredibly sorry for taking so long on updating. I've been dealing with family drama on top of my Ex and then… more school work and… just stress really. And I know this is shorter than the other ones but the next chapter will be "Juicy". I hope and pray I didn't lose any of you and Brady and Leah and Seth along with the pack and The Elders will make an appearance within the next two chapters, So if not the next one, the one after that. PLEASE keep reviewing and reading. I love each of you! Thank you for your support and I hope you will Pm me if you have any questions pertaining to the story….