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A/N: Alright finally, update! Whoo! Please read the authors note at the bottom, it's sort of important...you don't have to but pleeeasssee?
Alright, and on to the story...
I spent most of my time at the Cullen's, if I wasn't at home or school that was where you would find me. One day, however, Charlie decided that he wanted to spend time with his daughter. I laughed bitterly in my mind thinking of how he wanted to spend so much time with his vampire daughter. So, to not draw suspicion, I accepted and we went to go see a movie on Friday night, I couldn't exactly remember what movie it was I just remember it wasn't that interesting.
Saturday morning I waited for Charlie to go fishing before I left, after he did leave I waited another half hour before leaving myself. I was on my way to the Cullen's and made it there in record time, for me that is, and quickly jumped out of my truck. I walked up and knocked on the door, this time being greeted by Esme instead of Alice. Esme telling me exactly the same thing that I really don't have to knock.
As soon as I walked in I could tell something was different. I voiced this to Esme and she looked down worriedly at her hands. Before I actually had a chance to push the matter further Carlisle walked down the stairs. "Bella! I'm so glad you are here," he smiled warmly at me, like a father would. I knew I would have blushed at that thought if I was still human, I felt touched that they welcomed me into their family without any questions and so quickly at that too.
"It's nice to see you too Carlisle," I responded. My mind once again wandered back to the fact that something was defiantly strange here, so I asked "What's going on?" hoping I didn't so crazy, or paranoid, or anything like that.
"Is it that easy to tell?" he asked confirming my suspicions that there was something up.
"I don't know, just something feels off. Oh, I don't know how to explain it!" I got annoyed, I could tell something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.
"Well, actually there is something wrong. You see, its Edward...we can't tell what's wrong but he won't come out of his room. I went in there to check on him and he wasn't right, it's really worrying all of us, especially Alice, she can't even see what's wrong and its bugging her to no end," Carlisle told me. I froze as soon as I heard that something was wrong with Edward.
"Well, is there anything I can do?" I asked hopefully, I wanted to do anything I could to help out.
"You can go check on him; maybe he'll tell you what's wrong. He's not responding to any of us," he told me. I could see that both Carlisle and Esme were feeling helpless at that point in time. You could see that they both wanted to help their son, but could do anything unless he would tell them what was wrong.
"I can try," was all I told them as I ran upstairs to his door. I first tried knocking, but got nowhere with that, he didn't respond not even an indication that he heard me. Sighing in frustration I opened the door slightly so it was only ajar, I peaked in and was suddenly worried when I couldn't see him sitting on his couch or in my vision range threw the crack. I opened the door wider and looked around the room trying to find some sign of him until I was something move in the corner of my eye. I turned my attention to that direction where I saw...Edward, curled up in a ball in the corner.
I rushed over to him but he couldn't see me seeing as he had his head on his knees. I put a reassuring hand on his shoulder trying to catch his attention, and succeeding at that. He looked up and at me, and I could see that he was in pain. I panicked, not much could harm a vampire, or even hurt one and I looked around hoping to see, maybe something that could give me a hint.
"What's wrong Edward?" I asked hurriedly after finding nothing that could hint to what was up.
"So many...voices...won't stop...talking...migraine?" he muttered out. Now I could tell what was wrong, he didn't know how to handle his gift. I quickly thought of something that could help, maybe get him away from all the thoughts...but that would mean having to get him away from everybody. That was the challenge...where could we go that no one else would be? That's when I thought of the perfect place and smiled to myself. Edward, not knowing what I was thinking looked puzzled at my sudden change of emotion.
"Come on Edward," I whispered pulling him up from his spot in the corner. He followed without question knowing that I would never do anything to harm him. He knew I would only try to help so he followed swiftly behind me as I pulled him out the huge window in his room into the forest.
"Where are we going?" he mumbled. He was still in pain, that was obvious, and me dragging him along wasn't exactly helping...yet.
"Come on, you'll see. You trust me, right?" I asked. He started to nod in response, but when he did he flinched in pain and settled for muttering out a 'yes'.
I pulled him along at a slower pace than usual not wanting to cause him anymore pain than I already was. After a while we finally reached the destination my mind had thought of, and I quickened my pace slightly. I looked over to see Edward wasn't in as much pain as before and smiled to myself silently thanking my mental shield for once. We walked into our meadow and he looked around clearly not in excruciating pain anymore as he had looked like.
"Why did we come here?" he asked looking over at me. I sat down in the middle of the meadow, it was cloudy so there was no sun, but that didn't make it any less beautiful.
"There's no more voices is there?" I asked him smiling. "-and with me here too, there's still no voices and you don't have to be alone. That probably doesn't make much of a difference but..." I trailed off looking around. Edward was now sitting next to me and smiling.
"Very smart," he commented. "Also, it does make a difference," he added after processing what I had just said. I shrugged as if I didn't care and laid down on the grass looking up into the cloudy sky.
"Smart, maybe, but than how come I haven't figured out what we'll do after we go back. We can't just stay here," I told him.
"Why not? Right, they'll start to wonder if we died," he thought. I laughed and turned my attention away from the clouds back to him.
"So, what are we going to do than? Hearing everyone's thoughts all the time will take it's toll over time. It's not like you can turn it off, and you haven't learned how to tune them out yet," I thought out loud.
"I don't know. If it wasn't for you, I'd probably still be curled up in a ball on my floor. You can't think when you have a headache, did you know that?" he tried to lighten the mood. It succeeded because I started to laugh slightly.
Just than Edwards' phone rang, he paused momentarily to look at the caller ID than answered it. "Hello?" he asked, even thought he probably knew who it was.
"Hi Edward. Esme was just wondering where you two went," Carlisle's voice rang through the phone. "When she asked Alice, she went into a vision. However when she came out she didn't tell us where you were, she just told me to call you...what's going on?" he continued.
Edward recalled everything that had happened, and the reason why he was hiding in his room, in detail. As he talked I thought about why Alice would tell Carlisle to call us. That's when I had an idea, and knew why Alice would tell him to do something like that.
Once Edward was finished his explanation, and before Carlisle could respond, I took the phone from Edward so quickly he hadn't registered what happened until I was already asking Carlisle "Do you have any ideas of how to stop this from happening?"
"Well...tell me where you are and I'll be there soon," Carlisle answered after a moment of thought. I handed the phone back to Edward seeing as he would have a better idea of how to give directions to this particular spot.
Carlisle came quickly and was there after only about 15 minutes. "So do you have any ideas?" I asked before he could get a word in. I was hoping he had wanted to come because he had an idea of what to do.
"I think I do. I brought Alice and Emmett with me in hopes they can help too," Carlisle said as Alice and Emmett walked threw the forest.
"So this is where you guys hide all the time!" Emmett exclaimed. "Finally, for the longest time we had no clue where you two were running off to," he added smiling.
"This will work," Alice stated knowingly. "It will help him with no doubt," she smiled.
"I hope. Okay so first, Alice, Emmett, think of as much as you can as...loud...as you can," Carlisle instructed them. I could they started because Edward flinched every now and again. Carlisle seemed to take note of this because he than turned to me. "Bella, can you lift your shield and do the same?" he asked unsure if what he was asking me was too much. If this was going to help Edward, I could do it.
"Anything to help," I nodded and focused on lifting and keeping my shield off of me. I started to think of miscellaneous things as loud as I could...I hoped this worked because it hurt to see Edward starting to flinch even more.
"Now Edward, I want you to try and tune them out by focusing on anyone of our thoughts, only them and don't worry about anyone else's," he told him. I think that meant that he was also thinking in the same fashion of whatever came to mind. At first it didn't look like Edward was getting it, but than I noticed that his flinching was lessening, until he stopped all together and looked almost entirely at ease.
"Is it helping?" Carlisle asked noticing the same thing I saw.
"Actually it is, significantly," he responded sounding almost in awe at this new development. "-but, what can I do when I don't want to focus on anyone's thoughts?" he asked starting to fidget. I remembered that most of the time he didn't want to intrude on other's thoughts and focusing on one person's thoughts would be doing just the opposite.
"That is the next thing I want you to try," Carlisle told him. "Next, instead of focusing on someone else's thoughts. I want you to focus on something else. Whether it is your thoughts or someone else, or maybe even an object," he instructed. "Alice, Emmett, Bella, I want you three to continue doing what your doing," he told us. We nodded in unison before going on with our thoughts.
At first I saw that Edward started to flinch again and he was having trouble getting it. After a while thought as the last time he started to flinch less...before he wasn't flinching at all. He caught on to the concept quickly and once more looked at ease. "Is that working?" Carlisle asked him.
"Surprisingly, yes," he smiled looking around at us.
"Do you think you can handle everyone's thoughts again?" I asked worriedly, this might be working but what would happen after when there were more thoughts to have to block out.
After he thought for a bit he turned to us all and nodded saying "It shouldn't be much harder right?"
It sounded optimistic, but it worked. We didn't have anymore issues, Edward got his power under control and we continued on. Except...um, a year later things took a turn for the worst...
A/N: Okay, chapter two is officially up. Sorry for taking quite a while to update, but no body reviewed to the last chapter. I don't want to sound whiny or demanding but usually I get at least one review, and I'll take that one review. When no one reviews it feels like no one is reading this story, and it gives me no desire to want to continue writing. If I get just one review I'll update, if only for that one person I don't want to ruin it for said person. Also, it's getting hard to update because one, no one is reviewing to this story so it's making hard to get into it and two, its been kind of sad and hectic in my life right now so it's not helping with any desire to write, if anything it's just making it worse.
You know, in my one story I once asked for five reviews before I updated again, well I'm setting my standards slightly lower. Seeing as no one reviewed to the last chapter, I will update if I get 1 review, as long as I know at least 1 person is reading and enjoying this story I will update. Anymore than 1 review will just make the update quicker, so be nice, review and tell me what you think...please?