A/N: As always, I'm a terrible person and I'm terribly sorry. Work getting in the way as usual. Starting college isn't easy, especially as premed and engineering :P But, again, as always, I'm going to keep trying to work on updating faster… no promises though. I hope you enjoy chapter 6! :)

Disclaimer: It's not mine.

Chapter 6: The Meeting

Bella's Point of View

Walking into the lunchroom with Edward by my side, I anxiously scanned the room, looking for Nessie. I had been shielding her all day because she wanted me too, but it made me nervous to not know how she was getting along, especially since her nature blocked Alice from seeing if anything would go wrong.

It wasn't long before I spotted her across the room, smiling and surrounded by a bunch of kids, waving me over. I smiled at her and took a step in her direction, checking over my shoulder to see if Edward was following. But by the look on his face, I could tell something was off. Then out of nowhere he burst out in laughter and smiled at me. Puzzled, I gave him a questioning look, but he just shook his head and smiled even brighter. Rolling my eyes, I grabbed his hand and started pulling him with me in Nessie's direction.

"Hi Ness!" I exclaimed as I approached the table, "I see you've made some friends."

"Hi Bella!" Nessie answered. "Everyone, this is my twin sister Bella, and her boyfriend Edward. Bella, this is Brett, Devyn, Lizzie, Matt, Collin, and Angela," she explained, pointing to each in turn. After Nessie finished, the girl named Angela slowly turned around to face me and Edward.

"Hey Bella," she said quietly. I gasped in shock. It couldn't be her, she should be out of college already… but it was her. Angela Weber.

"Angela?" I whispered, still gaping. If it really was her, then maybe I hadn't been seeing things in the mall the other day.

"Yes it's really me," she replied. A million thoughts started whirling through my head at once. I had so many things to ask her. What had happened to Ben? And why did she barely look any older than when she was in high school?

Edward coughed and elbowed me gently. Pulled out of my daze, I realized Nessie's whole table, including Nessie herself, was staring at us and looking very confused. Flustered, I had no clue what to say to fix the situation. Luckily, Edward jumped in to save me.

"Wait Bella, is this the Angela you went to summer camp with a couple of years ago that you told me so much about?" Edward asked, looking first at me, then Nessie, then Angela, trying to get us to play along.

"Yes! Wow, Angela it's been so long," I replied. Angela smiled, and I knew she had caught on.

"It really has! That was an awesome summer. I'm so glad we get to go to school together now!" she exclaimed. Then glancing at Nessie, she continued, "Actually, when I saw Nessie in class today, I thought she was you. I meant to ask her if she had a twin, because I remembered you telling me about her and how she had decided not to go to camp. But right before I could, the teacher interrupted us." Nessie laughed and smiled, beginning to play along.

"So this is summer camp Angela?" Ness laughed. "Trust us to be the ones to magically make friends with the same people, Bella. Twin senses or something." At that the whole table laughed and the awkward moment was over. Nessie's friends started back on their conversation. Glancing quickly at Edward, I lifted my shield for a moment to see if he agreed that we should invite Angela to dinner to figure things out. After he answered with a quick nod and a smile, I looked back at Angela.

"Would you like to come over for dinner tonight? I'm sure everyone will love to see you again and we should probably talk things over," I invited. She smiled and nodded her consent. Nessie quickly pulled a piece of paper out of her bag and scribbled down our address to give to Angela.

"Come around 6:30," I told her, "Carlisle should be home by then."

"I'll see you later," Angela confirmed, picking up an apple from her lunch tray and starting to eat. "By the way, I'd appreciate if you only told the rest of your family what was said here, and nothing more, at least until the end of the school day."

"No problem," I agreed. She glanced at Edward and waited for his confirmation. There was a quick flash of shock across his face before he nodded consent. I waved goodbye to their table and Nessie, and Edward and I walked over to our family.

When we were out of earshot, I started to ask Edward what had shocked him, when he looked at me and said, "She knows I can read minds."

"What?" I asked, feeling as shocked as Edward had looked just a few moments before.

"She knows I can read minds," he repeated slowly. I rolled my eyes at him.

"I heard you. I just don't understand how she would know," I explained.

"In her thoughts, she asked me to stay out of her head for the rest of the day so she could explain things to all of us at the same time. I don't know how she knows, but I'm assuming we'll find out tonight," Edward told me. I just nodded in agreement.

When we reached our table, everyone was waiting with looks of apprehension, obviously having overheard our conversation from across the room. Alice looked like she was about to ask questions, but Edward intercepted her.

"We're just as shocked as you all are, but now really isn't the time to talk about it. We'll have to wait to we get home. She's coming for dinner tonight, and we'll be able to figure everything out then," he said. Alice sighed, but resigned herself to continuing to pick apart her slice of pizza.

"So how are everyone's classes so far today?" Jasper changed the topic and sent a wave of calmness over the table. Rose started ranting about Lindsay, the annoying girl from the mall, and how she had almost ran Rose over in between classes. This sent the entire table into a fit of laughter, and started a lively discussion about our new classmates and teachers.

A little while into our conversation, I looked over at Jake, who was sitting quietly and looking over at Renesmee's table. I knew he wanted to sit with her, but I also knew that he was afraid of inhibiting her ability to make friends. I thought it was a ridiculous notion, as Jake was one of the friendliest people I knew, but he was always overly concerned about everything when it came to Renesmee. He was concerned especially because we could all tell her friend Brett already had a crush on her, and although he wanted to eventually have a relationship with her, he didn't want to get in her way if she wanted something else. But sitting with her at lunch wouldn't cause any problems, and I knew that. Smiling gently, I softly called out to him.

"She wants you to be sitting with her, Jake," I reassured him, "Just because she made new friends doesn't mean she's already forgotten you."

"You don't know that," Jake grumbled. Edward, who had caught on to our conversation, contradicted him.

"I do," he told Jake, "who do you think she's looking for every time she looks over here? You're not benefitting her or yourself by not sitting with her. Trust me, just go." A wave of shock passed over Jake's face before he smiled slightly.

"Thanks Edward," he said, and got up to walk over to Renesmee's table. As soon as he got over there, Renesmee visibly relaxed, and immediately jumped up to introduce him to all her friends. I smiled at the sight, and then rejoined the conversation at our table.

Not too much later, the bell rang, sending us to our next class. Edward and I had our next classes with both Renesmee and Jake. We all sat together near Renesmee's new friends, and the periods passed by quickly. The rest of the day was uneventful in comparison to lunch, with the exception of a few death glares from Lindsay, who was in all of our last four classes. By the end of the day, I was so enjoying getting to interact with humans and be in school again that I had nearly forgotten about Angela, who had apparently left school early, until Edward mentioned her while we were at our lockers.

"So were you happy to see Angela today?" Edward asked.

"I think I was just shocked," I replied, laughing a little, "and confused. But hopefully, I won't be quite so confused after tonight."

"I hope so too," Edward replied. "Let's go tell Esme that we'll be needing dinner for three humans tonight. Not that any of them are really humans. Not even Angela."

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This was kind of short, but I have lots of ideas for the next chapter, which (hopefully) means it'll be easy to write, so hopefully you'll get one of those emails soon saying I added a chapter :)

-dancer92393 :)