Chap: 3

8 years later.

Chloe's point of view:

"What are you guys up to?" I asked as I walked into the gamming room. Every summer for two months my family and Andrews family rented a house on a lake. Andrew always brought along some of his friends, I didn't have that many so I never did.

"What does it look like doofus?" Andrew answered me back. Well at least he answered this time instead of ignoring me completely! I looked to see what they were in fact doing. Looked like video games to me.

"Can I play?" I asked taking a seat next to one of his friends. I think his name was Cameron. Cameron seemed to convulse away from me as if I was infested with cooties, I was used to this.

"Can I play?" Andrew imitated me in a shrill annoying voice. Cameron and jack laughed as if it was the funnies thing they'd ever heard. I knew jack from since I was five, he had come to the lake every year since. Jack liked to make fun of me a lot for some reason.

"I don't sound like that."

"You sound dumb is what you sound like." Andrew corrected. Again a wave of laughter filled the air. I felt my eyes start to water, I held the tears back because I knew if I they caught me crying now they'd never let me live it down and I would be known as cry baby till the end of the summer.

"I'm going to go swim." I informed them standing up quickly.

"We don't care." I ran out of the room and into mine. I buried my face into my pillow and let out the tears I had been harboring since this morning. Finally after what seemed like hours they slowed down to small sniffles. That's when I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in" I squeaked. The door creaked open. Rosalie peaked her head in.

"Hey Kid." She said.

"hey." I answered back. Rose was the person I looked up to, one day I wanted to be just like her. No one ever told her what to do or that she was stupid or ugly or weird, everyone respected her.

"Can I come in?" she asked opening the door a little more. I nodded quickly glad to have her want to be with me. She always seemed so busy. She closed the door behind her and then took a seat on my bed next to me.

"Are you crying?" she asked sounding sad as well.

"No I was just yawning." I lied quickly. She smiled but I could tell she knew I wasn't telling the truth.

"Was it Andrew and his friends again?" she already knew the answer. I nodded and looked down at my hands, I felt as though I had let her down, I shouldn't have let him get to me.

"Chlo, you really shouldn't let him ruin your summer. He's just a stupid boy, all boy's are dumb at that age. But you'll see one day all the boys will start being nice to you and then it's your turn to pay them back by not always being nice to them." She reached over and put an arm around me. Some people minded the cold of their skin but I reviled in it.

It had never scared me when I found out that my family was different from others, I knew that they would never hurt me, I had just accepted it as part of life. Sometimes I even forgot that not everyone could run at super human speed and read people's minds and predict the future.

"Now I know that you might not be in the mood right now but I promise that once you get into it you'll feel better, so how do you feel about going away for the weekend with just me Alice and Bella to go shopping!" Rose was almost bursting at the seams with the prospect of a little get away.

"But what about Tanya and Irena and Kate?" I asked, "Won't they feel left out?" Rose instantly deflated and I regretted imeadeatly ever opening my big mouth. What had I done? I had just given up and opportunity of having my favorite people all to myself! I hated myself right now.

Rose just stared at me for a few minutes as if deciding what to do before letting out a huge puff of useless air from her lungs.

"What the hell!" she cried frightening me. I jumper and turned to see her smiling her tooth paste add smile. "Let's just go anyway, I don't care if I hurt their feelings." I felt a smile creep back onto my face. Suddenly my door flung open.

"Did someone say shopping trip?" Alice asked. She looked frazzled and overjoyed. I started laughing and nodding. "Great, I'll go start the car!" and with that she was gone.

"We should go break the news to Bella." Rose said turning back to me. I agreed and we went hand in hand in search for Bella. We found her out on the porch with Edward. I jumped on his back and pretended to bight into his neck.

"AHHHH you got me!" he yelled terror washing through his voice. I laughed at how dramatic he was being before he flipped me over his shoulder so that I was sitting in his lap where he proceeded to tickle me.

"Stop! Stop!" I begged he finally slowed up on me and I regained my breath.

"So did you come here to deliver a message?" he asked, of course he knew what was going on since he could read my mind.

"Yes in fact we did." Rose said turning to face Bella.

"And…?" Bella asked. Bella had the most beautiful hair I had ever seen, I wanted mine to be just like hers when I was older. Everyone thought that Bella was my mom when we went out because I looked so much like her. I had the same dark brown hair the same dark brown eyes and I was almost as pale as the rest of vampire family.

"You're coming with us on a weekend shopping trip!" Rose announced.

"NO." was her only response. Rose then looked from me to her and back again, then they proceeded to have one of their vampire fast conversations. I hated it when they did that because normally it meant they were talking about me.

"Fine then I'll go." Bella said she even had somewhat of a smile placed on her face, though I wasn't sure how real it was.

Less than an hour later I was in the back seat of Bella's coop as we sped off towards the city. I had gotten used to how fast they drove I wasn't scared in fact when I was in my one friend lilies car once I had been scared when we were moving so slow I thought all the other cars would ram into us and kill us for sure.

"So Chloe what stores do you want to go to when we get to the big city? We can go anywhere you want!" Alice asked me from her seat next to me. Alice had trained me well in the world of fashion and every winter I got to walk the cat walk at fashion week in New York for all her designer friend's kid lines.

I rattled off a few names of stores that I liked and saw Alice look as if she could almost cry with joy at the fact that I had done so well. I was proud that I had not disappointed her.

Rose decided that we had to stay at the most expensive hotel in all of Seattle, no one protested.

"The presidential sweat please." Rose said barely paying attention the man behind the counter. I saw him look at us skeptically, we all looked pretty young, he didn't know how we could afford this.

"Are you sure?" he asked tentatively. Rose snapped her attention onto him and gave him a deadly glare. He cowered back a little though he wasn't sure why.

"Yes I'm sure!" Rose slapped down her platinum credit card and exposed her teeth a little. The man relaxed once he saw the card and quickly swiped it before handing over the keys.

"Thanks." Bella said as Rose stomped off towards the elevators after having grabbed the key out of his hand. The guy nodded and Alice pulled me away.

"Where are all the suitcases?" I asked, I had completely forgotten to pack mine.

"Oh we didn't bring any, I thought we said we were going shopping?" Alice answered.

"But-"

"Don't fight her." Bella advised me though I knew too well.

Hours later when we came back to the hotel with about a hundred more bags, I fell onto the couch.

I hadn't realized that I had fallen asleep but when I woke I heard voices.

"Yeah I don't know what's gotten into him, but this needs to stop." It sounded like Alice. I didn't want let them know I was awake because I knew they'd probably stop talking about it.

"Yeah Chloe was crying when I came into her room today, she been crying almost every night, I hear her when she thinks we can't." Rose added.

I felt my stomach tighten, I hadn't fooled anyone, I don't know why I thought I could. I almost felt like crying all over again.

"I had no idea it was that bad." Bella whispered. "What should we do?"

"I don't know I always thought they would end up together, you know how when they were little they were so close." Alice said. I couldn't even remember a time when Andrew had been nice to me, I must have been really little.

"Well maybe this little weekend will help her out a bit." Rose suggested.

"Yeah maybe." Alice agreed.

The next few days were great, I got a whole new collection of clothes for the new school year though I was sure that I would be getting more if Alice had anything to say about it. I also got my hair cut and nails painted during the spa day that Bella had prepared for us. I felt like a new and better person on my way back to that house.

Now that I had spent a few days away from Andrew I realized that I shouldn't let him get to me, he was like Rose had explained a dumb boy. No longer would I let Andrew Denali under my skin, same went for his friends.

"Ready to see everyone?" Rose asked skeptically, I knew that she was thinking of one particular person. But I was ready.

"Yup!" I answered cheerfully. We pulled into the driveway fifteen minutes later, everyone was there to greet us, well almost everyone.

"Hey Chlo Chlo!" Emmett yelled as he caught me in his arms, he swung me around till I felt like I was going to be sick.

"Nice hair cut." He complimented. I blushed, another reason they thought I was a mini Bella. "Man I love that Blush!" Emmett yelled pinching my cheeks. Bella rolled her eyes and ran over to Edward. I got several more compliments on my hair before I made my way inside.

There, sitting on the couch watching a movie and laughing were Andrew, Cameron and Jack. Andrew stopped laughing when I walked in and stared at me with a smirk on his face.

"Hey Dumbo!" he called out to me. I stopped and turned to face him with a smile, he seemed a little confused at my smile but went on. "Your new hair cut looks stupid." I winced but kept my smile in place.

"Shove it." I told him and walked away as his friends burst into laughter and for once it wasn't at me.

SO I know this is going kind of slow but I have to set everything up for when everyone is all grown up so bare with me please, if you have any comments I'd be happy to hear them just review!!! Thanks.