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Chapter Two

"Okay," Bella said taking a deep breath. "Two years ago I moved from Phoenix to Washington to live with my dad. I hadn't been there long when I met my teenage boyfriend, Edward. I knew there was something a little off about him right from the beginning. Edward and his whole family were… are vampires."

Bella looked up at David to find he didn't look shocked, she was half expecting him not to be. Bella continued with out any prompting. "We were together for a few months when a few nomads passed through. One of them, James, decided he wanted by blood. Chased me all the way to Phoenix to get it. He used my mum to lure me to a ballet studio, but it was trick when I got there she was already dead." Bella began rolling back the sleeve of her jumper. "James bit me before Edward could stop him."

David shot out of his chair and the boys all looked curiously. "How are you still human?" David asked.

"Edward sucked the venom back out. He wanted me to stay human, said he wouldn't condemn my soul." Bella shook her head. "He liked to make decisions for me." David sat back down, this girl was getting more interesting by the minute.

"Go on," he encouraged.

"Edward and his family killed James but I got beat up pretty badly in the process. After I got out of the hospital in Phoenix and safely back to my dad Edward and his family left. He abandoned me in the woods alone, said I had been nothing more than a distraction. I was devastated. I'd lost my mum and I managed convince myself it was okay because I got to be with Edward but he took that away from me when he left. Then Victoria, James's mate, turned up. She wanted to kill me. A mate for a mate. I fell in with a wolf pack that lived in the next town from me. They kept me safe. It all came to a head one day when she attacked. She was waiting for me when I got home, my dad was already dead. She tossed me through the back window. The wolves killed her before she could do any more damage." Bella paused to catch her breath as tears welled up at the memory of her dad. "Edward's sister Alice, she has this gift. She can see the future based on peoples decisions, but its very subjective, her visions can change as people's decisions change."

"Okay," David said. "Carry on."

"She 'saw' Victoria toss me out the window but she couldn't see the wolves so my future went dark when they arrived. Alice assumed I was dead, Edward's other sister Rosalie told him. It turned Edward had been lying that day in the forest, he had loved me. He left to keep me safe. So when he found out I was supposedly dead he went to Italy. I assume you guys know from tonight who the Volturi are?"

"No, we've never encountered they guys we met tonight," David told her.

"The Volturi are basically their leaders. They enforce the rules, or rule if you want to be specific. Keep the secret, no human can know they exist. Edward was going to them so they would kill him, he couldn't live knowing I was dead. That's what he told me after. Alice turned up at my door and begged me to go save him. I didn't think twice about it. We caught the first flight to Italy and I managed to stop him but it came at a price. Aro, Marcus and Caius, the three kings, let Edward go but in exchange they secured the promise that I would be turned or they would hunt me down and kill me. Edward agreed. When we got back to Washington he asked me to marry him in exchange for him turning me. I turned him down. Once I had buried my father I fled Forks. For the last year I have been moving from town to town across the states, dodging Demetri and Felix."

"That's quite a tale," David said. Bella nodded looking down.

"Now it's your turn," Bella told him, sounding braver than she felt. "How did you get rid of those two tonight?"

"It sounds like the education you got from this Cullen family is woefully incomplete. There are more than one species of vampire."

"Are you guys vampires?" Bella asked bluntly. David turned and nodded to Paul who jumped down off the fountain. Bella stood up as he approached. He towered above her and Bella couldn't help but observe how attractive was again. He had on a tight black shirt under his jacket and boots over his jeans. Bella see his toned chest and stomach underneath his shirt. She raised her eyes and they lingered on his lips for a moment. She wondered what it would be like to kiss him. She raised her gaze further and that's when he let the change happen.

Bella stepped backed alarmed for a moment before she closed the distance between them again. She raised her hand hesitantly to his face but paused asking with her eyes if this was okay. Paul nodded and she ran her finger tips over his vampire visage. "You're so different to them," Bella told him quietly. Paul looked at her heatedly, his face returned to normal and she was looking into his deep blue eyes again. Paul's face was inches from hers and he breath caught in her throat. She wondered idly for a moment what it was about vampires that seemed to draw her in. Paul was attractive in a way Edward wasn't. Edward had been perfect and boyish but Paul was undoubtedly a man. Stubble ran along the edges of his strong jaw which Bella could easily imagine leaning forward and kissing across.

The moment was broken when Bella's cell phone rang. "Damn it," Bella cursed looking away. She crossed the room back to where she had been sat fishing it out of he bag. The boys all smirked at Paul, they had never seen him this way with a girl. "You have got to be kidding." Bella pressed a button on it and raised it up to her ear. "Yes."

"Bella," Alice said urgently. All the boys could hear easily. "The guys your with they are…."

"Vampires I know," Bella said.

"No, that not it. Bella it's not safe for you with them," Alice told her.

"You know what, Alice," Bella hissed into the phone. "I have had it with your family deciding what is or isn't safe for me. I've lost everything because of you. Now may I politely suggest that you back the fuck off and let me make my own decisions." Bella didn't hang up before she threw the cell at the wall with enough force to shatter it.

"Damn," Paul whispered too quiet for Bella to hear. He found her little display kind of hot. David, Marko and Dwayne chuckled quietly at him.

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