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One life to live
One love to give
One chance to keep from falling
One heart to break
One soul to take us
Not for sake us
Only One
Only One

Just you and I
Under one sky

- Alex Band "Only One"

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Chapter 2

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That night Edward had told us about a young human girl by the name of Isabella "Bella" Swan. Most of my family new bout her, but since I was new I knew nothing about this human. She was apparently the daughter of the police chief here in Forks, Washington. She had figured out that my family was vampires, and I could tell Edward cared for her. He wanted to introduce her to everyone tomorrow, and that she was anxious to meet us.

The next thing I know Rosalie is there and the next she's running outside, I guess that means she doesn't like Bella very much. Emmett sighed, patted Edward on the shoulder and went and followed Rosalie outside to settle her down.

"We would love to have her over, son." Carlisle said.

"What time is she coming over tomorrow?" Esme asked.

"In the morning, right after she eats breakfast," Alice said. "And you'll love her!"

"Well, I can't wait to meet her," I said walking up to Edward smiling. "If she's that special to my new brother, than she's a friend of mine."

"Thanks, everyone."

"Ugh!"

Everyone's faces flashed to Alice, who had her face in a pout and that the same time looking very annoyed.

"What wrong Alice?" Jasper said and was by her side in an instant.

"I can't see you, Lily!" Alice said looking at me, now. "Why is it whenever I try and look into your future, I can't see you?"

"Oh, umm," I was shocked, she never saw me? "I guess it's because of my invisibility, it hides me from anyone searching for me. Again it acts as a defense, that's my best guess. . ."

"Well, it's annoying." Alice sighed.

"I'm very sorry, Alice," I apologized to her.

"Well come on," Alice said pulling me up the stairs.

"Ah, Alice. Where are you taking me?"

"To your room, we're going to have to plan now what you're going to wear!" She said without even turning to look at me.

"Must we do this really?" I sighed. "Wouldn't it be fine just to wear a plain t-shirt and jeans?"

"What!"

Alice stopped in front of my door finally deciding to turn to look at me, eyes narrowed.

"I mean, sure Alice," I started, not wanting to cause a fight. "Let's decide now what I'm going to wear."

"That's more like it!"

And so for the next few painful hours I tried on clothes after clothes.

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I felt Jade nudging me awake. Lily you have to get up, I heard Jade say to me in my mind. You don't want Alice to come up here and wake you, do you?

And with that I bolted right up, and poor Jade who was on my chest trying to wake me took a tumble down and nearly fell of the bed if she hadn't used her claws to keep from falling off.

"Sorry about that Jade."

With that I raced to my closet and hurried to put on the outfit. I changed into my black skinny jeans that Alice had bought me on the shopping trip. I put on the light blue dress shirt on and tied the black ribbon around the back, and finally slipped the white flats on. I went over to my dresser and put on the jewelry I had on yesterday. I'll let Alice and my Aunt Sarah change my wardrobe all they want, but I would never let them changed my jewelry. Running my hands through my hair and finally it went into a perfect wave.

"Why are you always so lazy Jade?" I teased her. She was behind my back, in her place on one of the pillows.

I'm a cat what do you expect, it's not like I can go roaming outside. Now can I? Not with those vampires around. She replied to me, with another big yawn she went back to sleep.

With one last look at her I raced downstairs.

On the way down I passed at the open door, peering in I saw Carlisle sitting behind a huge mahogany desk reading some papers.

"Come in," Carlisle said not looking up from the papers.

"Morning, Carlisle," I greeted him with a smile.

"Good morning, dear," He smiled back, closing the folders. They were probably patient files.

"Nice room," I said looking around, most of the room was covered in bookshelves, my gaze stopped on a picture of him and three other vampires. "Who are they?"

"They are the Volturi, I lived with them for a short time," Carlisle comes up from behind me and puts a hand on my shoulder, and then pointing each one out. "Aro, Marcus and Caius."

"Why did you leave?"

"They had no respect for human life." I looked at him noticing that he had a semi sad look in his eyes. I didn't want to bring any bad memories up.

Before I could say anything his cell phone rang. So he could have the call in private I excused myself from the room.

Downstairs I found Esme rearranging some flowers, while Emmett and Rosalie where nowhere to be found. Meanwhile Alice and Jasper were still upstairs. And Edward was gone, probably with Bella.

No sooner had I thought that I heard a very extremely loud noise, that I guessed would be Bella's car. I looked to find Esme no longer there, but heard her up stairs. Before I decided to go upstairs, the door opened. There stood Edward and who I could now but a face to the name, Bella.

She was very pale for a human; she had long straight dark brown hair. She had a combination of dark and light large brown eyes. What caught me off guard was the smell of her blood. I never liked the smell of human blood for some reason, but her's didn't smell too bad. Edward looked at me with wide eyes, almost expecting me to pounce on her and drink her blood. She may have better smelling blood, but I still doubted I wouldn't like it.

Don't worry, Edward, I'm not interested in testing my theory, I thought to him. I saw him finally relax.

That's when I noticed that Esme and Carlisle were standing there the whole time, ready to greet our guest at the piano. How did I miss that . . . .? I must be getting s-l-o-w.

I heard Edward give a slight chuckle at my joke.

"Carlisle, Esme, Lily," Edward started breaking the silence between us five. "This is Bella."

Carlisle was the first to welcome here, carefully approaching her. He raised his had tentatively to her, until she stepped forward to shake his hand. After their greeting, Esme was the second to introduce herself, I could tell that Bella was shocked by the beauty of Esme - and Carlisle, but it looked like she was prepared for the beauty of the rest of my family - but I couldn't blame her, my new family was beautiful, like all vampires.

"Hello, Bella," I said taking the same human passé as my parents had, extending my hand for a handshake. "It's very nice to meet you."

"Hello, it's nice to meet you too."

I saw the shock in her face when she saw my blue eyes and that my hand wasn't as hard as it was with my new family. I looked into her eyes and let my mind open, but to my surprise I got nothing from her. I tried again, but still got the same result.

"You're not going to be able to read her mind, Lily," Edward told me. "It's the same with me."

"I see, just thought I would give it a try," I replied not looking away from her. "I didn't mean to be rude; it's a reaction of mine."

"Oh, it-it's okay," She told me, still a bit shocked and now confused.

"Yes?" I encouraged her.

"Why are your eyes blue? I thought that the rest of Edward's family had gold eyes. . ."

"Lily is different," Edward chuckled. "She's not like the rest of us vampires."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not 100% a vampire," I smiled at her.

"You're not?"

"No, I'm half," I told her, again seeing the confusion in her face. "1/3 human, witch and vampire."

"There are witches?!"

At that everyone gave a little laugh, "There are more supernatural beings out there than you think, but the witch hunts rarely got a real witch. Most of them were humans that were accused by other humans, some for personal gain, some out of jealousy, and the list goes on. But not all of us are bad like they say we are. You have nothing to fear from me." I assured her, giving some history of witches.

"Where are Alice and Jasper?" Edward asked us, but just as he asked the two people in question appeared at the top of the stairs.

"Hi Edward!" She called enthusiastically. She then ran down the stairs and inhuman pace at that, coming to a sudden and graceful stop in front of Bella. In the corner of my eye I saw Carlisle and Esme shoot warning glances at her.

"Hi Bella!" Alice greeted her as she bounced forward and kissed Bella's cheek. I could tell everyone was shocked, but this is Alice we're talking about. I might not have known her that long, but I know in this short of time that Alice is anything but predictable. For the second time today I saw Edward stiffen at Bella's side, his expression unreadable.

"You do smell nice, I never noticed before," She commented to Bella.

"Alice, what are you. . . " Edward responded, clearly wanting her to be quiet so she wouldn't make Bella feel more uncomfortable.

"It's okay," She tried to reassure Edward. "Bella and I are gonna be great friends."

"Hello, Bella," Jasper greeted her. Though he kept his distance from her and didn't offer to shake her hand.

"Hello, Jasper." She smiled at him shyly, and then at the rest of us. "It's nice to meet you all . . . you have a very beautiful home," she added.

"Thank you," Esme said. "We're so glad that you came."

And we were, well most of us anyway. My thoughts went to Rosalie, why she was so adamant about Bella not coming over.

I noticed Carlisle giving Edward a meaningful look, so I opened my mind.

Alice has informed me that there are some visitors coming soon. They know we're here and they're curious about us. I heard Carlisle think to Edward.

Thank you, I understand. . . Edward thought back.

"All right, I'm gonna take you on a tour of the rest of the house." Edward said to Bella, leading her towards the stairs.

"Okay."

"Well, I'll see you soon." Alice said to Bella as Edward led her up the stairs.

"Cute." Esme said to us, looking toward Alice.

"I know." Alice replied to her, with a little squall of her own.

"I think that went well," Carlisle said looking at us with a smile on his face.

Carlisle went back upstairs and from what I could hear, back into his study. Esme went into the living room picking up one of her books up from the coffee table. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw Alice and Jasper disappear as well.

Hey Esme, I'm going to go out for a few minutes, I'll be back soon. I asked through the link.

Okay, dear. Where are you going? She asked me.

I have to go buy some food for Jade, don't worry I have the money. I replied, remembering that I was running low on food for Jade.

Lily, before you leave. I think it will be best for you not to mention your last name in town until we figure out a background story for you. Edward said to be before I walked out the door.

Okay will do, Edward. I replied, my tone somewhat sad. But to help my family I would.

And with that I got into my Camaro and drove towards town. Good thing I remember the way from when I went shopping with Alice, Esme, and Rosalie.

-In Town-

I drove around for a few minutes trying to familiar myself with the town. I got a bunch of stares, of course they couldn't see inside to me, thank goodness. After finding where the High School and Hospital was I went to fine a store so I could get Jade her food. Unlike normal cats, she didn't eat cat food. She had the diet of a normal leopard rather than a house cat.

Finally I found a small grocery store. Walking inside, I went up and down each isle looking at all they had. At one point I wasn't watching were I was going and bumped into someone making me fall. I looked up to see who I bumped into, to find a young boy that couldn't be older than fourteen or fifteen, and had long, glossy black hair pulled back with a rubber band at the nape of his neck. His skin was a beautiful russet color; his eyes were a dark brown and still had a bit of childish roundness left around his chin.

"Are you okay?" He asked me, extending a hand to pull me up.

"Yes, thank you. I'm so sor-," I blushed reaching up to accept his out-stretched hand, and before I could finish his hand touched mine, I felt an electric shock.

I could tell that he felt it too, since his eyes mirrored the same shocked look.

"It's okay, no need to be sorry," He replied forming a blush as well. "My names Jacob Black, what's your name? I haven't seen you around here."

"Hello, Jacob," I said with a small smile, I couldn't explain why I was feeling like this. "My name is Lily."

"So, what are you doing here if Fork, Washington?" He smiled; it was so contagious it made me smile even more.

"I just moved here, going to be going to Forks High School soon," I admitted, I don't know what it was about this human, but he made me want to admit everything to him.

"Really? I have a friend that is going to Forks High School now," He said looking excited. "Her name is Bella Swan. What year are you going to be?"

"I'm going to be a junior," I said. Though I was home schooled by Selena and Sarah, and graduated college.

"How old are you?" He said looking surprised.

"Seventeen," I replied. "Why?"

"Nothing, it's just you don't look that old." He said again blushing.

"How old do I look?" I said trying to act offended.

"Fifteen." He answered sheepishly.

"Jacob, I found the -"

I looked around Jacob to find an older man in a wheel chair coming towards us. He was heavyset, with a deeply wrinkled face and dark russet skin, with dark eyes similar to Jacob's.

"Hello sir," I said extending my hand.

"Hello." He greeted me back with a smile, but his eyes widened once he took hold of my hand. Her hand is hot! The same temperature as Sam Uley, she couldn't be one too, could she? His thoughts floated into my mind.

"Sorry, I guess I have quite a fever," I said thinking of the first excuse I could think of. "I better get what I needed and go."

"No, wait. You don't need to -" Jacob started looking at me with sad eyes the moment I said I was leaving.

"It was very nice meeting you."

Rushing to the back of the store at a human pace, grabbing two steaks, I went up to the front of the store and paid for them. Once I got to my car I tried my best to calm down. What did he mean by, she couldn't be one too? And who was this Sam Uley? Pushing the event that just happened out of my head, I started the car and drove home. The whole time I was thinking of one person; Jacob Black.

-Back at the house-

"Well it's about time you got back!" Alice said to me the moment I got in the house.

"Hello to you too, Alice," I said back to her smiling. "Hey Jasper."

"Lily." Jasper said with an incline of his head.

"We're going to be playing baseball," Alice told me, following me into the kitchen where I put notes on the meat saying 'Jades food'. "So you need to get changed as soon as you're done!"

"But Alice. Wouldn't the teams be uneven if I join?" I questioned her.

"Well, if you prefer you can sit out," She started. "But only this once. But you're still changing!"

"Haha, yes ma'am."

Once again I was standing in front of my mirror, having the uniform Alice had got me on the shopping trip, unknowingly. It was mostly looked lot like the one Alice was wearing. Dark blue and grey long sleeved shirt, Black skinny pants. White socks that went to the middle of my calf, and white shoes. And to top it all of a white baseball vest with skinny dark blue lines going down it. Putting my hair in a low ponytail I put on the dark blue baseball hat with a yellow "C" in the middle.

You're going to play baseball? Jade thought sitting on the round lilac chair in the middle of my closet.

Is that so unbelievable? I've played it before . . . not quite the way they're going to play it, but similar. I thought back, picking her up.

Yes, but that was with witches and wizards. She sighed. I just have a bad feeling about this is all, Lily. I think you should stay here.

Everything will be fine, Jade. I tried to reassure her, putting her back down. I don't know why you're so worried.

Just than the mirror I had just been looking into started to vibrate, flashing rainbow colors around the edges. Out of all times Selena decides to contact me know? I wave my hand over the mirror, my image being replaced with Selena's with Sarah in the background.

"Hello dear," Selena said, laughing a bit when she saw what I was wearing. "You're not going to play baseball, are you?"

"Hello, mother," I replied. "No I'm not going to play, but Alice insisted me wearing this. She's like Aunt Sarah when it comes to clothes."

"Hey!" Sarah exclaimed. "I'm not that bad! But it does seem like I'm the only one in this small family of ours that has any style."

"Sarah, please," Selena said, trying to shut her up. "Well, I hope you have fun, even if you're not going to play."

"So what's with the call?" I asked, anxious to get to the field where the rest of my family was.

"We wanted to check up on you, see how you were doing."

"Jeez, are we starting to annoy you, my little star?"

"No Aunt Sarah, I just want to go have fun with my new family," I told her, rolling my eyes slightly at her nickname she gave me when I was young, all because of my middle name Estelle.

"Well, alright we'll let you go now. Just don't forget to study!"

"Will do, mother."

And with that her image disappeared until all I saw was myself in the mirror. I raced downstairs to find Carlisle alone waiting for me. "Are you ready?" He asked with a kind smile.

"Yup!" I said, in an instant I was next to him. "Thanks for waiting for me."

"Anytime," He said. "Shall we get going?"

And with that I followed him to a beautiful clear field. The moment we got there Carlisle started to mark the bases. As I was watched him I heard Edward and Bella coming up from behind.

"It's time," Alice said after a bolt of thunder and lighting.

And the game was on its way. So far it looked like Edward, Emmett, and Alice were winning. Everyone was having a good time, until Alice yelled "Stop!" I watched as she and Edward looked at each other with shocked eyes. Opening my mind, I saw Alice's vision. Stepping out of the fog were three figures, not needing to look at their eyes I knew right away that they were vampires.

Without another thought, Edward was beside Bella. Everyone else gathered around Alice.

"What is it Alice?" Carlisle asked with the calm voice of authority.

"They were leaving. Then they heard us," Alice explained.

We all looked at Bella, fearing for her.

"Less than five minutes. They're running - they want to play." Edward scowled.

We were anxious to get Bella out of here, but I knew Edward and Bella wouldn't make it out in time.

My family formed a line getting ready to "greet" our visitors, though I didn't need to look into Emmett's mind to know what he was thinking; Emmett almost always thinking about fighting, felt he could take them all on and come out the winner.

"Get your hair down," Edward said in a low, even voice to Bella as to not frighten her more than it looked like she was.

"Like that'll help," Rosalie started in a disgusted tone. "I could smell her from across the field."

It only took seconds for our visitor to appear as they emerged together from the forest edge. The tallest one holding the baseball, he was darker than the rest of them, his dark hair in dreadlocks. The man on his right was only slightly shorter than him, blond hair that was tied in a low ponytail, with a leather jacket. The last of them was a female; she had long, curly, brilliant orange hair that reminded one of fire if they looked at it, was wearing some kind of fur shawl.

"I believe this belongs to you," The tallest one said, holding the ball up and then tossing it to Carlisle.

"Thank you." Carlisle said, not missing a beat to catch the ball.

"I am Laurent, and these two are Victoria and James." He gestured to himself and then to his two companions.

Looking at the three of them the one in the middle, Laurent, didn't seem as dangerous as Victoria and James. I've seen other vampires before and have many friends that are one. But something just told me that I didn't want to mess with them.

"I'm Carlisle, and this is my family, Emmett and Jasper, Rosalie and Lily, Esme and Alice, Edward and Bella." My father greeted them, gesturing to himself before pointing out each of us out in groups, deliberately not calling attention to individuals.

"Hello," Laurent greeted us, looking at each one of us. He seemed to do all the talking there for making him look like the leader, but I felt something wasn't right, like all the super hero comics; the villain was not directly showing himself, but instead hiding behind the muscle.

"Do you have room for a few more players?" Laurent asked sociably.

My father matched Laurent's friendly tone, politely turning them down saying that we were just finishing up, but asked if they would be staying long. The tense atmosphere had slowly subsided into a casual conversation; no doubt Jasper's doing. My father and Laurent kept chatting, but I tuned out most of it. Something about James wasn't right, and something told me I didn't want to look into his mind.

I watched as Carlisle and Laurent chatted. When Carlisle had told them about our home we have here, Laurent looked intrigued to say the least. It seemed everything was going well between the exchanges.

"We'll show you the way if you'd like to run with us - Emmett, Lily and Alice, you can go with Edward and Bella to get the Jeep," Carlisle casually added.

But the wind had different plans for us, just as Carlisle had finished his sentence the wind blew softly, ruffling Bella's hair, blowing her scent towards the direction of our guests. I cursed myself for not being a stronger witch; a more powerful witch could have stopped the wind from blowing on Bella with the learned spell of element manipulation.

James whipped his head around. Of course he smelled that, I thought. Starring at Bella like she was the icing on the cake that they planned to have for desert with his nostrils flaring.

We all went rigid as James lurched one step forward into a crouch. In an instant Edward was in front of Bella, head to head with James with his teeth bared and with a feral snarl ripping rom his throat.

Bella was pushed back even more and was finally safely behind Esme. While the rest of my family and I matched Edward's defensive crouch in front of her.

"What's this?" Laurent exclaimed in open surprise. Neither side relaxed their defense and aggressive poses. James trying to find a weak place in our line to get to his prize, but Edward matched his every move.

"She's with us." Carlisle told James firmly. It seemed that Laurent didn't quite catch Bella's scent, but awareness now dawned on his face.

"You brought a snack?" he asked, his expression incredulous as he took an involuntary step forward.

That didn't sit well with Edward, snarling even more ferociously, harshly, his lip curling high above his glistening, bared teeth. Laurent stepped back again.

"I said she's with us," Carlisle corrected in a hard voice.

"But she's human," Laurent protested astounded.

"Yes." Emmett was very much in evidence at Carlisle's side, his eyes on James. James finally, yet slowly, straightened out of his crouch, but his eyes still stayed glued to Bella. Edward stayed as tense as a lion in front of her.

Laurent was the one to speak again out of the three of them, trying to use a soothing tone to defuse the tension that had befallen upon us yet again. "It appears we have a lot to learn about each other."

"Indeed." Carlisle replied, voice still cool, calm and collected.

"But we'd like to accept your invitation." His eyes flickering between Bella and my father. "And, of course, we will not harm the human girl. We won't hunt in your range, as I said."

It seemed like he was telling James more than he was telling us. James glanced at him in disbelief and aggravation and exchanging another brief look with Victoria, whose eyes flickered between the two.

Carlisle studied Laurent's open expression for a moment before he spoke. "We'll show you the way. Jasper, Rosalie, and Esme?" he called. They gathered forward completely blocking Bella from view. Alice intently next to Bella's side, while Emmett and I fell back slowly, Emmett's eyes never leaving James as we backed toward Bella and Alice.

"Let's go, Bella." Edward's voice was low and bleak.

Edward had to pull her out of her trance. She was no doubt too scared to move. Alice, Emmett, and I were close behind them. We had to get her out so fast, I didn't listen or see if the other party and made their way towards our home. We moved as fast as humanly possible, when we made it to the woods, Edward scooped her up onto his back and rushed to the Jeep, with us on his tail.

Emmett strapped Bella into the Jeep in the back with him, while Alice was up front with Edward who was currently starting the engine. I was planning on running alongside the Jeep, but before Edward could start the Jeep, Emmett jumped down and picked me up and strapped me in to the seat next to Bella. He stood in front of us with his hands holding onto the crow-bar.

"Where are you taking me?" Bella asked Edward.

"Listen to me. James is a tracker, the hunt is his obsession." He told Bella, trying to keep from yelling. "I read his mind. My reaction on the field set him off. I just made this his most exciting game ever."

"He's never gonna stop." He said and I could only imagine his face. But I didn't take my eyes away from the forest that was passing by; look out for James or Victoria, as were Alice and Emmett.

Lily, what is going on? I heard Jade ask me. Why aren't you home with the others, there's one other here; someone new.

"What should we do?" Bella asked lost.

It's okay Jade. I tried to convince her, but in reality of it all I was trying to convince myself this. I'm with Edward, Bella, Emmett, and Alice. We'll be home shortly, but tell me who is there?

"We have to kill him," Edward responded. "Rip him apart and burn the pieces."

You were always a terrible liar. And you still are, my Lily. Jade told me in a worried voice. I'm not sure, I haven't ventured out of the room, I can just tell by the smell.

"Where are we going?" Bella asked a second time.

So I've been told. I always knew I wasn't a good liar, as much as I practiced it just seemed impossible. Can you try to venture out and see? If my memory serves me right I left my bedroom door open crack. I know how vulnerable you are in your small form, but if you can will you get me a look of who it is?

"Away from Forks." Edward said simply. "We'll get a ferry to Vancouver."

As touched as I am for your concern for me, I'm no scaredy cat. Jade told me. I'll get you that look.

"I have to go home, now!" Bella told him, "You have to take me home."

I waited for the image to come. One thing I was always thankful of, having Jade as a familiar. If we were apart she could show me where she was just by the connection we share. It's the same with all witches and wizards and their familiar. But I must make sure never to use it in public, since I've been told that one of my eyes or both will go red and the pupil will slant into a sliver like a cat; the same eyes that were Jades.

By the time I got done with the conversation with Jade and out of my thoughts we were in front of what I could only guess was Bella's house. It was a small white two-story house, parked in the front of the house was a sheriff cop car, the lights where all on, which meant her father was home. Edward, Alice, Emmett, and I got our guards up, ready for James just in case he decided to jump us.

"He's not here," Edward said tensely. "Let's go."

Emmett reached over to Bella and helped her out of the harness, I waved my hand over the harness he had put on me when he set me in the seat. He must have feared that I would fall out, or that I was as fragile as a human. One by one the buckles came undone, and I was free before Emmett got the first buckle undone for Bella.

Pushing his hands out of the way I did the same for Bella, who gasped. She looked at me to shocked, her mouth opened and closed a few times, until finally she got two words out. "Thank you."

"Don't worry, Bella," Emmett said to her in a cheerful voice to her while helping her out. "We'll take care of things here quickly."

"Alice, Lily, Emmett." Edward's voice was a command. And with that we soundlessly slithered into the darkness, disappearing from their view. As soon as we got into the forest, the imaged that I was waiting for finally appeared before my right eye. I was a bit blurry around the edges, just as it always was, but in the middle was clear as day. I saw Jade was on one of the steps on the staircase, in a small group near the living room was Rosalie, Esme, Jasper, and Carlisle. But Carlisle was talking to someone, it was Laurent. But what could they be talking about?