A/N: I DONT OWN TWILIGHT i only own Dustin Ryder and Cory.

next chapter up ASAP

CPOV

I woke up slowly until the realization from the night before hit me.

"it's missing something." I said groggily as my eyes drifted close.

"I think it just need's a second guitar." A voice said.

I forced my eyes open to see a beautiful face hovering overtop of me. I looked into the deep blue eyes with the red and gold flecks as I felt soft fingers graze my cheek and jawbone. Before I had time to react or even scream sleep took over.

My eyes snapped open as panic washed over me. I sat up and looked around expected to see the living room. Instead I was upstairs in my bed, blankets wrapped around me. My guitar case was up here too and my sheet music I was working on. I looked at it and noticed a piece that wasn't mine; or at least I don't remember doing it, but the writing was surprisingly like my own.

Second guitar: picking until double chords; along with first guitar as intro.

I pulled out my pencil and etched lyrics on the page. I played the finger picking to hear it. It was strange, really good but strange, this couldn't be mine, I wouldn't have thought to put these chords with that melody of picking.

Ghosts couldn't do that could they?

With that the bedroom door flew open causing me to jump. Bella flew into the room jumping on my bed with a huge smile on her face.

"Take it you had a good date?"

"Amazing date!"

"Good I'm glad. Did Ya kiss him?" I asked teasingly. Bella's face turned crimson and I laughed.

"And I met his family…"

"Ooo getting serious?"

"Maybe." Bella laughed

"What time is it?" I asked yawning a little.

"2:30 am." I had been asleep since at least 11 am, that's 15 hours

"Must have been a good date." I said filling the silence.

Bella threw off her clothes and put on her pajamas and hopped into her bed.

I could hear her breathing slow and become rhythmic showing that she was asleep. I stood up and went to the window and looked out once again. I looked to the street and saw Dustin walking casually down the street.

I am finding out that maybe I was wrong
That I've fallen down and I can't do this alone

Stay with me, this is what I need, please?

Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you
We could sing our own but what would it be without you?

I am nothing now and it's been so long
Since I've heard the sound, the sound of my only hope

This time I will be listening.

Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you
We could sing our own but what would it be without you?

This heart, it beats, beats for only you
(It beats, beats for only you. My heart is your's)
My heart, my heart is your's
(Please don't go now, Please don't fade away)
My heart, my heart is your's
(Please don't go now, Please don't fade away)
My heart is your's
My heart is your's
(Please don't go now, Please don't fade away)
My heart is your's
My heart is...

"I like it." said Edward. We were sitting in our living room. Charlie had to work overtime so he wouldn't be back for a couple days. Edward had been here every night. He would sleep beside Bella. They didn't think that I knew till a couple days ago when I told them they didn't have to whisper so quietly I could still sleep with noise. Bella was surprised that I didn't care; but I didn't care, not if he made her happy and wasn't going to hurt her.

"There is a festival in Port Angles in two weeks on a Saturday, I'm going to play it."

"Really? That's awesome!" said Bella

"Yea, but I need a guitarist for the second part. Mike, would help me." I said waiting for the scoff coming from Edward

"Mike." Edward grumbled.

"You know what Edward, find me a new guitarist then, Mikes the only one I know."

"Hey Cory can you play that song that you wrote for the bonfire?" Bella asked. Edward grinned at Bella.

"Sure I said as I shifted my position in the chair."

"Oh God, why did I ask?" Bella whined as Edward lifted her off the couch he spun her once and then pulled her into him as I played the first song they danced to.

I played the chords slowly and sang quietly. It sounded pretty good until I got to the chorus. Then everything, my world as I knew it came crumbling down.

I shifted my position and hit the chords but they never rung true. For the next three chords, every string I hit didn't sound. It was obvious I wasn't pushing down hard enough. I froze and so did Bella and Edward.

"Cory?"

I looked up at her angrily telling her to be quiet as I repeatedly hit the strings. I could feel the tears welling in my eyes as Bella pulled the guitar away from me and pulled me into a hug. I stared over her shoulder at my hand. For the first time since I was six, my sister saw me cry.

"We'll what's going on Carslie?" Edward asked his dad as Dr. Cullen looked at a cat scan.

"Cory, I'm afraid that the nerves in your left hand are starting to deteriorate. You can still use it, for most things; as for playing the guitar, I'm sorry but I don't see it as a possibility anymore." I just sat there nodding my head.

When we left the office Edward drove us home. Charlie had just came home as we pulled up.

"Cory honey I'm sorry!" he said pulling me into a hug. I didn't hug back, I just left my hands limply at my sides.

"I'm. Fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes." I lied as I pushed past him into the house.

The next three days were quiet for me. I skipped Music Theory Thursday and Friday and it was now Saturday about 6 at night.

"Bella?" I asked going into the attic. She was reading a book. She looked at me surprised. I refused to come up here since three days ago.

"Yea Cory what is it?"

"You should go out with Edward tonight."

"Cory-"

"No I'm serious Bells, I'm really very much okay now. I'm still upset but I'm past it. I have plans tonight anyways. The guys asked if I wanted to get out of the house." She eyed me skeptically but when she couldn't find what she was looking for she sighed and stood up embracing me in a hug.

"Alright, but if you need anything or are upset just call Edwards and I will be over right away okay?"

"Okay I promise. Go have fun. Thank you, for everything, being there for me through everything."

"Cory, you're my sister and I love you. I just want you to be happy."

"I'll hold you to that." I said teasingly as Bella went down the stairs to get ready.

"I love you too." I whispered once I heard her leave the bedroom below.

I have been playing the guitar since I was six. Since the day I first found out that I would die in about fourteen years. I am now 16 with only four more years to go. Little did I know, and little did the doctors inform me that I would surely die at twenty yes, but in the last four years of my life, I would be slowly be loosing the two most important things in my pathetic excuse for an existence; My hands, and Bella.

So now here I was sitting on the beach with my guitar looking out into the night, listening to the waves crash against the rocks, collecting myself and urging myself to stand and walk out into the ocean to rest for all eternity.

I had nothing to live for now anyways, I couldn't play guitar anymore; the disease had taken over the nerves in my left hand, soon it would be my right, and then my legs, then soon I wouldn't be able to sing, I will live in a hospital bed like a vegetable and have to spell out words by pointing to a board with the alphabet on it just to do something as simple as tell the nurse that I needed a new IV or something. My twin sister Bella would visit me everyday, but I would know where she really wanted to be, out with Edward, her boyfriend.

Now don't get me wrong, my sister deserves love more then anything. I'm just glad she found it before I was dead and gone, then she wouldn't miss me as much and would be able to move on.

I had never been afraid of death; Even now as I sit on the beach looking at the water that I would soon be drowning in, I wasn't afraid, well I was a little, but I knew I wanted to do this.

The tide was high now, and the waves were crashing violently like they were angry. It was now, or never.

I stepped out into the ocean; the cold water caressing my ankles. I felt a few traitor tears rolled down my face but I wiped them away quickly. With my guitar in hand, I kept walking out into the water until I was on my toes to keep from going under.

"Bella, Ch- Dad, I'm sorry." I muttered as I pushed my self out a little further to where the undertow was waiting for me.

BPOV

I lay with my head on Edward's lap in the Cullen's living room. A movie was playing but we weren't watching it. We were watching Alice sitting by Jasper on the love seat. She was having a vision, and from the twist in her face it wasn't a good one.

We waited in silence for her to come out of it. I could feel Edward tense so I knew it would be soon.

"Bella, c-can Cory swim?" Alice asked her voice quavering as she opened her eyes.

"No, she's terrified of water." I sat up quickly "She wouldn't," I started but before I knew it I was on Edward's back flying through the forest.

I let my tears roll silently down my face and onto the crook of Edwards's neck. How the hell could I think Cory would have been okay? Music was everything to my sister, and since three days ago she hadn't been able to play.

I had asked her to play a song for me and she did, but her chords got sloppy because she wasn't holding down the strings hard enough.

"Cory?" I asked her, she looked up at me, her eyes furious telling me to be quiet. She kept strumming the same chord over and over again but it never rang true. I got up and pulled the guitar away from my sister and pulled her into a hug. She cried, for the first time since she was six years old that night. Three nights ago when she started to loose her left hand.

After we went to the doctor to confirm it, she kept saying that she was fine. Depressed but fine. I wasn't going to go to Edward's tonight but she said that she had plans and that I should go and enjoy my self.

We reached the beach and Edward slid me off his back. I ran forward looking out into the ocean I could see her guitar off in the far distance floating on top of the water.

"CORY!" I screamed as I ran to the beach. After a few steps I saw her lying on the beach, dripping wet with an equally dripping wet being on top of her. She lay motionless as the boy placed his mouth on hers and then did compressions on her chest.

The moon was glistening off of his pale skin. His messy dark hair was dripping and his clothes clung to his very toned body. He was magnificently beautiful; probably just as beautiful as Edward. He just had to be a vampire, which would explain the snarl that erupted from my boyfriend's throat as he ran forward to attack.

I ran after them but when I got close Alice held me back. That's when I noticed that the boy whom Edward was fighting, his eyes were ruby red.

"Cory!" I cried as I knelt beside her body. I shook her a few times as I could hear the growls and cracks coming from not far away.

"Please don't die, Please!" I begged as I cried onto her shoulder. I heard a crack that made me look up. Edward has the Boy pinned against a tree. I watched the struggle until I heard coughing and sputtering summing from my sister.

"TURN HER ON HER SIDE! IF YOU DON'T SHE WILL CHOKE AGAIN!" I looked at the person. As he said these words Edwards decided to slowly let go of him.

"TURN HER OVER!" he screamed as he pushed past Edward running at not so vampire speed towards us. He pulled Cory onto her side as water poured out of her mouth as she gagged.

"We have to get her to Carslie Edward. I can barely hear her heart." I stared at him confused.

"How do yo-" Edward started but then his eyes slowly widened in understanding.

The boy picked up my sister in his arms and handed her to Edward.

"Your faster then I am. I'll take Bella." Edward was quick to agree which made me confused. "Come on get on my back Bella." I was about to protest but Alice tossed me on his back. I clung to him for dear life. He wasn't as fast or as graceful but he was a strong and powerful with each step as Edward was.

"Carslie!" Alice shouted once we got to the house. The boy put me down as I raced after Alice up the stairs. I reached Carslie's room to see him giving my sister a needle. I looked back and forth between them till some one spoke.

"It's adrenaline, to get her heart rate back up." I turned around to see the boy standing be hind me. His t-shirt was soaked through. But now his eyes weren't red; they were a deep blue with red and gold flakes.

"Oh my God. Dustin, Y-your alive?" I turned to see Carslie, paler then I thought could be possible. He walked forward reaching out to Dustin. I shuffled out of the way and backed into Edward's awaiting arms. His arms held me tightly to him as I trembled with fear and exhaustion.

It was strange watching Carslie loose composure. His hands were trembling as he grabbed hold of Dustin's shoulders.

"Hey Carslie," Dustin smiled shyly.

"How, I don't understand…"

"I'll explain everything later don't worry. Is she okay? Will She be okay." I watched in amazement. The red flecks in Dustin's eyes grew making his eyes red, a glossy film made his eyes look teary.

"Yes I'm sure she will but ho-" Carslie's eyes widened as he pushed him back out of the room. "You were who she was seeing? You've been watching her?" was all I heard before Edward pulled me out of the room reluctantly.

"Bella don't worry she is just sleeping, we will be able to hear her when she wakes up it's fine." I was reluctant but let him pull me down the stairs. Alice followed behind into the living room. Dustin sat in the chair with Carslie across from him. Edward sat in the love seat as he pulled me into his chest arms wrapped around my waist pulling me as close as possible.

"Okay, explain everything. From the beginning." Carslie said seriously. Dustin took in a breath about to speak when Esme, Emmet, Rosalie, and Jasper, who I hadn't noticed was missing since we got to the beach, came running in.

"Bella Jasper told us what happened, is your sis- Oh my, Dustin?" Esme stopped dead in her tracks. Dustin smiled and stood walking over to her and wrapped her in a hug.

"It's good to see you too." Esme pulled away placing a hand on either side of his face looking into his eyes.

"It's really you." She said happily as she looked into his eyes. He nodded once and pulled free from her hands to face Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmet.

"Hey guys. Long time no see."

"I can't believe it, last we heard you died!" Emmet gasped.

"Technically…" Dustin said smiling slightly

"Dustin, tell me what happened."

"Start from the very beginning. I haven't the slightest idea what's going on." I said raising my voice. Everyone looked at me at me like they forgot I was there. Dustin just smiled.

"Carslie was a doctor at a hospital I was volunteering for, going on hospital runs, I shadowed him. We got really close; I got close to his family too. They went to the same school as I did. One day I was driving to the hospital and a semi ran a red light and side swiped me. I was in the hospital, on the fence of life and death, but Carslie being my Doctor, I wasn't worried. He told me that I would be fine, but then he got transferred.

In his place there was a doctor, or well at least he portrayed him self as a doctor."

"Things aren't looking well for you my boy." Said the translucent white figure. He glided with such grace towards me holding my medical records. His long black hair was pulled back.

"What are you talking about, Carslie said that my recovery would be fine, just take a long time." I wheezed. Breathing had become somewhat of a chore. I had broken a lot of my ribs, which resulted in a collapsed lung. He let out a musical laughter that sent chill down my spine.

"My boy, you should not believe what that man had to say, he left you, not because he was transferred, but because he knew you were dying and couldn't bare the thought of watching you die." I kept shaking my head furiously; Carslie would never do that to me. But the more I tried to talk myself out of these delusions my new doctor was pounding into me, the harder he talked me into believing that I was indeed dying. I let a few stray tears fall from my eyes as I lay back against the pillow.

"You don't want to die do you?" he asked I could feel his breath, telling me he was close even though I had my eyes squeezed shut.

"I can save you Dustin, would you want me to save you?"

"More then anything."

"Good." And with that he laid an ice hand over my mouth as he bit down on my neck.

"His name was Aro, he is the head of the Volturi. Though he wanted me, well let's just say he got tired of attempting to control me."

"What do you mean, I'm confused. Why would the Volturi decide to change you in the first place."

"Carslie do you remember the night that I finally woke up from the accident, and I told you that that was the first time in my life that I felt I really had no control?"

"Yes…" Carslie said raising an eyebrow waiting for Dustin decided

"Aro told me he had been watching you waiting for the opportune moment to talk to you to get you to join them. At first he saw me as a bargaining chip, until he thought I had something to be worth changing for. A power he thought would be useful if I indeed had it."

"Which would be what?" Emmet asked impatiently

"I have the power of control. Not over other people, but myself. I can control my thoughts, actions, learning capacity, body image, anything having to do with me, I can will it, just you name it. The Volturi started me on their diet, which I obeyed until a member of the Denali coven came to visit. I talked with one of them Tanya, and she told me that she fed of animals. That night I refused to drink from humans. For months they kept me locked in a room and would keep sending children in waiting for me to drink them but I never did. I controlled my thirst. Finally he gave up and let me go. He said do whatever you please. So I traveled from place to place until I came to Forks on the night of the Bonfire."

"That's the night Cory had told me she first saw you." Carslie said, his voice held a hint of question as if urging Dustin to explain which he did.

"I saw her on stage and I was amazed. Her voice, her playing; It was, captivating. I had to talk to her. Opportunity called when she was the odd person out with her group going on the Ferris wheel. We talked a bit and she- the only words to describe it would be 'La Tua Cantante'. I have never felt like being around some one would make my stomach want to jump out of my throat. She ended up breaking down before the sun came up. I put my hoodie on her and comforted her until the ride moved. Then I willed myself out of the ride and into the forest. I told her I would never let anything happen to her, so I have been watching her. I was going to come here and see you hopefully to ask if I could join your coven when I saw Edward walking with Bella, but I don't know why, I just didn't."

"Wait I- what is the Volturi?" I asked confused. I would have asked earlier but I didn't want to cut in.

"The Volturi are a family," Edward explained, his eyes remote. "A very old, very powerful family of our kind. They are the closest things our world has to a royal family,

I suppose. Carslie lived with them briefly in his early years, in Italy, before he settled in America-do you remember the story?"

"Of course I remember." All fell silent as all vampire head whipped towards the stairs.

"She's waking up." Alice whispered. Dustin got to his feet and headed towards the stairs.

"Dustin you can't," Carslie said grabbing him by the elbow.

"She saw a picture of you in my office and asked who you were. I told her your were a patient that passed away when she came to see me about hallucinations she was having, she probably thinks she was seeing the dead."

"So what, we can tell her, we can tell her that were all vampires and since Bella accepted this so should s-" Carslie ran a hand through his hair.

"Dustin, that's not such a good idea, we didn't tell Bella, she guessed."

"If you expect me to play dead, I wont I'm sorry. It's hard enough watching her from a distance."

Carslie let out an unneeded breath as everyone watched him as he thought.

"Dustin, you have been watching her, do you know where the pill bottles I gave her are?"

"Yea…" Dustin tilted his head to the side confused.

"Find them and your hoodie, were going to make it seem like she imagined you, and that she never came to my office, she is going to think you did."

"Wait hold on! Your going to make Cory think she is crazy? Don't you think she has gone through enough!" I jumped to my feet off of Edward's lap leaving him stunned. My voice was strained on the verge of angry tears but I held them back.

"Bella," Dustin started as he took a step towards me to grab my hands. I saw Edward tense in the corner of my eyes, but that was it. He stared intensely in my eyes causing my heart to beat erratically, not in the way Edward did, but like he was searching my soul and that kind of gave me the shivers. "Please. It may be hard for you to believe, but the way I feel for your sister, is the way you feel for Edward. You can understand that can't you?" his eyes grew soft as the gold flecks swirled with the deep blue until his eyes were topaz with blue flakes. I turned to look at Edward who gave me a small smile.

"If you hurt her I will pay some vampire to kill you." I said trying to keep my voice calm.

"Thank you." He said letting go of my hands. "I'll go right now." He turned towards the door when Carslie stopped him.

"Dustin, if this is going to work, you are going to have to pretend you don't know who she is, and that you never seen her before. And if you want to be a part of this coven, your going to have to go to school with them." A smile played Dustin's face.

"I wouldn't want anything more."

A/N: im on a role but i thought here would be good to stop... i realize some parts were really rushed but i REALLY want to get Dustin into school and let the romance begin, hopefully if Cory doesnt go all weird, but we will see. i have like little scenes all planned out but i need mush inbetween so ill get it done ASAP