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Chapter one.

One year later.

Bella looked down at the cupcake she had bought for herself with a lone candle stuck in it. "Make a wish," she told herself and blew it out, closing her eyes. There was only one thing Bella would wish for. To be safe. To have a family. She was tired living looking over her shoulder waiting for the Volturi to catch up with her.

Alice had got her number before she left town and promised to call if they made the decision to come and check Bella had been changed. No such call ever came but Bella had felt like she was being followed for a while now.

Bella had arrived in Santa Carla two days before. She didn't plan on staying more than a month but she needed to get a temporary job here to top up her dwindling cash supply. Bella threw her bag over her shoulder and looked down at her jeans and red sweater. She looked hire-able she thought. She stepped out of her hotel room letting the door swing shut behind her locking automatically.

Bella wandered through the streets and reached the boardwalk just as the sun set. She stopped for a few minutes listening to a live group and swaying to the music before she moved on. The boardwalk was alive with a whole variety of different people. Bella was eyeing up a wanted sign for a waitress when she spotted them.

Her heartbeat hammered in her ears. Fifty feet away from her two people stood looking in the opposite direction wearing long black cloaks. The Volturi! How the hell had they found her here? Bella panicked. Acting entirely on instinct she bolted into the video store.

She didn't see the blonde until she barreled into him sending them both to the ground. Bella blew her hair from her mouth and pushed it back off her face looking up at poor guy she had knocked over. "I'm so sorry," Bella said, looking up into the most gorgeous blue eyes she had ever seen. She pulled herself up and walked back over to the door oblivious to the three other boys and shop owner watching her. She peeked her head round the door, quickly finding the two figures. Felix and Demetri. "Shit."

"You okay, girl?" the blonde she had knocked over asked. Bella spun looking at them alarmed. She eyed the boy and his three friends. Her eyes flickered over the shop owner and all the unsuspecting humans. None of them knew the danger they were in.

"I have to go," Bella said. Paul could hear her heart racing in fear and he took a step forward. He could sense her fear. Bella was already backing out of the shop and let out a piercing scream when she backed straight into someone.

Paul and the other lost boys frowned as they looked at the two day walkers standing in the video store doorway. "Felix, Demetri," Bella whispered backing into the store now. The five night walkers eyes widened as they realized she knew them. "Please, I don't want this. Don't do this."

"You have to Bella," Felix said as they advanced. "You know the law."

Paul looked looked to Max who nodded. Paul moved to stand in front of Bella and Demetri and Felix stopped. "We didn't know this territory had been claimed."

"Well, it has," David said, moving with Marko and Dwayne to stand in front of Bella as well.

"Are you taking responsibility for this human?"

"Yes," David told him. Demetri and Felix eyed Bella for a longer moment before they left. Bella let out a sigh of relief, she backed up and slid to the floor when her back hit the counter. "You okay, girl?"

Bella looked up to face the four boys. "Yeah," she croaked and then cleared her throat. "Yeah, I'm fine now. I'm not sure how you got rid of them but thank you." She put her head in her hands took a few deep breaths and then stood up.

"You want to explain what they wanted with you?" David asked.

Bella flickered her eyes across them and they stopped on the blonde she had knocked over initially. He was gorgeous. He smirked when he saw Bella looking and she blushed. "It's a long story. I'm not sure you'd believe me."

"Maybe we should take this somewhere more private," David suggested. Bella nodded and followed the boys from the store. David and the others got on their bikes. David held his hand out for Bella. She accepted it and climbed on. David pulled away and the others followed.

They all came a stop and Bella was going to ask why but a girl with dark curly hair climbed on behind the dark haired guy and the blonde she was staring at earlier helped a little boy on the back of his bike. He looked up and winked at her. Bella blushed looking away. Paul smirked when he saw her blush, he could smell her blood and it made his mouth water. He bet she tasted amazing. Bella could sense the tension as David stared down a dark haired human boy before he pulled away.

They rode along the beach, speeding all the way before coming to a stop on the edge of the cliff. David helped Bella off his bike and she followed him down the wooden steps that hugged the rock face. He led her passed warning and danger signs into a cave. Dwayne cut in front of them and lit a couple of fire pits lighting the place up. "You live here?" Bella asked looking around.

Marko walked passed her and sat down on one of the couches. Bella looked around, she was stood beside an empty fountain. There were two beds in one corner of the room which she noticed the girl retreated to looking afraid. "This was a resort eighty years ago, when the big one hit San Francisco the ground opened up and swallowed this place," David told her.

"He loves telling that story," Paul whispered in her ear as he passed her. She shivered when his breath fanned across her skin and she looked down blushing furiously.

"So, you want to fill us in?" David asked, sitting down in a wheel chair. Bella pulled her eyes away from Paul who was standing on the fountain edge with Dwayne and Laddie.

"You know I don't actually know any one your names," Bella observed as she sat down.

"Where are my manners?" David said smirking. "I'm David. This is Marko, Dwayne, Laddie and Paul. The chick in the back is Star."

Bella smiled at Paul for a minute. Somehow knowing his name made him even sexier. "I'm Isabella," she told him. "But people usually call me Bella."

"Well, Bella, you feeling like sharing?"

"You'll think I'm insane."

"Try me," David said leaning back casually.

A/N: Posted on 27/09/2015. All outfits are on my profile. Violet x.