Chapter 13: Is that what you thought?

Bella POV

"Bella?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, Bella. Didn't you just hear what Angel said?" Nixie snapped at her.

Flame backed into me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Well, this is certainly…… unpleasant," I snorted as I finally came into their view.

"You look……" Rosalie trailed off.

"Taller, better, prettier, happy, alive?" I spat at her. They all nodded. "Yes I am and it's no thanks to you," I said harshly. Flame's grip on me tightened and I squeezed his hand in assurance.

"Bella, I'm so sorry if I – " I cut off Jasper.

"First of all, shut up," I ordered him. His head bowed down in shame and guilt. "Second of all, I didn't mean it that way," this time his head popped up and met my eyes with hope. "I never blamed you for whatever happened, understood? You reacted on instinct and when I started hanging around you, fully knowing what you were, I knew the dangers of it and that was only one of the many. Stop beating yourself up for something you couldn't control. I understood your choice to leave town. YOUR choice. Not theirs," I pointed to the rest of the Cullens.

"You sure about that Bells?" Angel and Ritz whined.

"Yeah cuz we totally want to kick some sparkly ass butt," Nixie and Nyte were cracking their knuckles while deeply glaring at the Cullens. I clearly saw Rosalie gulp.

"Stop it," Jenny scolded them. They stopped but it didn't mean they still weren't contemplating the idea.

"Yes I'm sure," I replied.

"Bella you have to understand that we did what we had to," Alice tried to defend.

"No, what I understand is that you made a choice that you all thought was best for me. What about me? Couldn't I make a choice that I think is best for me? Even if it meant hanging around with vampires? It was always what you guys thought and never mine," I hissed.

"Damn right," Terra and Xenon agreed.

"You were only human Bella. That life just didn't suit you. We had to get you out of it as soon as we could," Edward tried to rationalize.

"And you have the nerve to talk to me?" I asked appalled.

"Bella we still love you," Esme pleaded.

"How do you expect me to believe that Esme? How can I possibly believe that when you all left me to rot and die?" I asked, my voice breaking a bit.

Flame pulled me back softly and whispered soothing things in my ear. I relaxed slightly, but I was still full of anger.

"How can you be so cruel to Esme? We left for you own good and you treat us all this way?! You are an ungrateful – " I cut Rosalie off by making a vine tighten around her lips. Suddenly, all her sounds were muffled. Emmett looked shocked and he even glared at me!!

"You do not call me ungrateful," I seethed at her as I made the vine tighten even more. "Don't call me a bitch either, cuz you're one too. I was always thankful for whatever you guys did to me. You took me in and made me a part of your family. That is….. until you cut me out of it. Come to think of it, you bloodsuckers are the ones ungrateful. Now that I think of it, did you ever even appreciate my love for all of you? Or was I some pet that kept you entertained?" I nearly yelled. The vine was starting to catch on fire and Rosalie's eyes widened.

"Calm down baby, I got you," Flame cupped my cheeks and stroked it with his thumb. I leaned my forehead against his and took a deep breath. I pulled the vine away from her and she was gasping as she took unnecessary breaths.

"We do love you Bella," Emmett tried to say softly even though his voice was still full of worry for Rosalie and bit of anger towards me.

"You were never a pet," Carlisle added.

"How can you say that Bella? Of course we appreciated your love," Alice said with a hurt tone.

"If you appreciated her love then why did you leave?" Zephyra challenged.

"That bastard and you guys too, left her without any idea what was to happen to her next," Dimitri continued.

"Do you have any idea how she looked like when we first met her?" Terra asked.

"She was broken. She didn't smile. She was just there, but she wasn't living," Angel added.

"I would know. Death is a part of my element," Nyte snorted.

"Bella you have to know that I lied to you. I did love you and I still do," Edward pleaded.

"Don't. Tell. Me. That. You. Love. Me," I emphasized each word. "When you love someone, you'd be more than willing to go through anything with them. Even if it meant trying to conquer that urge to kill them. If you loved me, you would have still taken the risk, even if it meant risking my life," I growled at him.

"What if I did kill you then? What would you have thought of me?" Edward asked.

"Well, I guess that would have been my fault then," I told him.

"And who the hell is he?!" Edward yelled as he looked towards Flame.

"Don't tempt me asshole," Flame growled at him.

"Bella's mine!" Edward growled back.

"Excuse me?" I barred my teeth at him.

"I-I didn't – " I cut him off with a loud snarl.

"I am not some fucking possession do you understand me?" I shouted at him.

"But Bella you do belong to Edward! He's your soul mate," Alice defended in his name.

"You know what Alice? Fuck you too! I don't give a damn if you're some freaking future teller!! I know for a fact that Flame is my soul mate and I have every goddamned element in this world to prove it to you," I screamed at her.

"Bella," Jasper whispered.

"I'm sorry to you Jasper, but I'm not sorry about anything I've said to Alice. She's acting like a fucking bitch right now and I'm not in the mood to be pissed off even more," I hissed towards Alice.

"Why are you being this way Bella?" Edward asked in pain.

"Why am I being this way? I have every right to be livid at all of you. You left me to die and now you come back expecting me to welcome you with open arms?! That's stupid of all of you to assume!" I explained to him in my pissed off voice.

I turned to Jasper and made my eyes looked softer. "This doesn't apply to you by the way," I assured him. He nodded in understanding.

"How do you forgive him but not us?" Edward asked.

"Because it was only reasonable if he had to leave because he needed to control himself again, but it was not reasonable for all of you to leave too!" I shouted.

"Bella, please you have to believe me when I say that I love you," Esme cried.

"You love me? You. Love. Me? If you loved me, you would've stayed regardless of what Edward had forced you to do. If you all loved me, all of you would've stayed and stood your ground, instead of submitting to Edward's orders," I can't believe I'm saying this, but I growled all of this to her.

"I think I speak for all of us when I say that you should all stay away from Bella," Damien tried to say calmly but I could tell that he was biting his tongue from saying anything snappy.

"With the exception of Jasper," I mumbled against Flame's chest.

"With the exception of Jasper," Damien agreed.

"That's not fair!" Alice whined.

"You know what else is not fair fucking pixie?" Nixie shouted at her.

"Leaving Bella in the dust, when you knew that she couldn't live without you," Angel finished. My eyes widened and I could also feel Flame stiffen. I turned back around and stared at her with wide eyes.

"You knew?" I whispered. Her eyes were looking everywhere but me. "YOU KNEW?!?!?!" I yelled in anger. She nodded shamefully. "That's it! I want you out of my life!! I don't want to see your face. I don't want to talk to you. You. Are. Not. And. Never. Were. My. Sister," I shouted.

Edward was also slowly backing away.

"Oh hell no! Of course you fucking knew! You all knew yet you still left! What the else did you see? Huh, Alice? Did you goddamned see me almost being killed by Laurent? How about Victoria? Have you already seen my death and yet you're keeping it to yourself because you're so fucking selfish!!" I spat at her angrily.

"How am I selfish when I did what I did to save you?!" she shouted back.

"To save me? Is that what you all thought you did? Use your damned visions and tell me again that you saved me!! You did something way worse that saving me. You tore me apart limb by limb and killed my soul," I hissed.

"I love you. I love you. I love you," Flame was restraining me with his arms as he whispered this chant in my ear.

"Don't speak to us that way," Edward said.

"I'll speak to all of you any way I freaking choose to," I snarled at him. He shrunk back under my glare.

"Leave," Flame finally said to them.

"What if we don't want to?" Emmett challenged.

I could tell that Flame finally had enough of them hurting me. His fists clenched as he let go of me. A ring of fire surrounded the Cullens. They all backed into each other as they tried to escape their death.

"I've had enough of you hurting my Bella," he shouted protectively. "You have no right to have taken yourselves from her in the first place, but I must say that I'm thankful. If you never left, she never would have been mine and now that she is, I'm never letting her go. Mark my words, I will stop at nothing to kill all of you once I find out that you have done something to hurt her again after this encounter," he growled and all the Cullens nodded.

"We all will," Nyte agreed.

"Now don't make me say it again. Leave," Flame said firmly. He put out the fire and all of the Cullens scattered away. My eyes were drooping from all the stress they caused me in only 45 minuted. I lomst my footing and fell back.

Flame caught me and carried me bridal style. "Hey honey," he whispered softly as he stroked my face. "Are you alright?"

"I'm just tired," I whimpered.

"Let's go home," he concluded.

He ran me back to the house and carried me up to our room. He laid my gently on the bed. He slowly took of my sandals off of my feet and took of my shirt, revealing a dark blue tank top. He then rose up to lie down beside me. He wrapped an arm around me then placed the sheet on top of us. I grabbed his hand and entwined it with mine. I sighed.

"I'm sorry," I mumbled.

"For what?" he asked.

"Was I too harsh? I was just so mad," I admitted.

"No, you weren't too harsh. They deserved every single bit of it," he assured me. I finally nodded.

He started to kiss my bare neck with open mouthed kisses. "I love you," he whispered. His hand slipped under my tank and began drawing lazy patterns on my stomach.

I turned around and face him. I looked up at him through my lashes as I also planted kisses up his jawline. "I love you too," I whispered before fully kissing him on his lips.

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