I'm sorry about the lack of updates... I know, it's saddening. I wrote this up about a month ago, and I finally remembered that I could update. So, I am very sorry. Please excuse my lack of a life.

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This is chapter 12 from Edward's point of view :D Enjoy and please review!

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"Bella seems to not remember anything, so she puts our secret in huge danger. But, Bella did know our secret before she was changed, so she must be responsible," Aro explained. I tensed, hoping for the best. His thoughts were relatively calm. He did not want to hurt Bella and me, but he did want to make sure that she was not a threat to vampires all around. I figured that I could persuade him if Caius didn't get to him first.

"Aro, we must exterminate her. She isn't able to be trusted," Caius said, crushing my thoughts. I wanted to growl, but I knew that Bella would be scared. After all, she did understand anything at the moment.

"Bella can be completely trusted. I trust her with my life. So far, nothing has happened to make me regret that decision," I said, rebutting him. I wanted to make sure that they understood that Bella was my life.

"And yet you end up in here," Caius argued. I was going to argue with him until the end, and both of us knew it.

"There was a problem with communication in this situation. It had nothing to do with Bella," I said, not being able to control the growl that erupted from me.

"Gentlemen, enough. I took both of your thoughts into consideration," Aro said, realizing that he would have to break us up. "If you would excuse us, I would like to talk to my brothers," he continued, only to us.

He turned around and conferred with his brothers. To give them their privacy, I decided not to listen. I just hoped that the turnout would be good.

Edward watch this, Alice commanded. It was the same room as the room that we were in.

"We have come to a decision," Aro said, only loud enough for vampire ears to hear. "We have decided to use everyone's thoughts into consideration. Therefore, Bella will stay in Volterra for two weeks. If she has not remembered, she will be exterminated. If she has, she will be changed, depending on her memory capabilities. There will be accommodations made at the nearest hotel for Bella to be comfortable. If you leave, there will be consequences that will be taken into action," he said.

After I finished watching, Aro repeated those words. Knowing that this was as generous as the Volturi would be, I decided to word my response carefully. "Yes, Aro. Thank you for your generosity regarding this issue," I said, struggling to word myself carefully, hoping that we would not be killed. I knew that any wrong move meant that Bella, Alice, and I would be dead.

"No problem, my dear Edward. I will see you in two weeks, no more. You will be staying at the Villa Porta all'Arco in Volterra. It is going to be room number 350. I will see you later. For now, Heidi will be coming," he said, alerting me that we need to get out of here soon.

"Why thank you. We will be leaving now. See you soon," Alice said, while we were being walked out by Demetri.

"Alice, how long do we have left?" I asked, glad that we were out of the ears of Aro and his brothers. I wonder how we could get rid of Demetri.

"Not long, Edward, not long. I don't think we will make it out before Heidi comes," Alice replied, showing me a vision of us being stuck here.

I quickened my pace, hoping that Alice's vision was wrong. Unfortunately, Alice was usually uncannily correct. Heidi came in with a bunch of people, one with a rosary. I heard Aro greet them to their death as they were in the hallway. Of course, Demetri stopped and had to talk to Heidi.

"Hello, Heidi. Nice fishing," Demetri said.

"Thanks. Are you coming?" she asked, her teeth showing to make her smile more frightening.

"In a minute. Save a few for me," he said.

I held Bella's sleepy form closer. I tried to get my hands around her ears, but it did not work. She could still hear.

When we were in the lobby, the receptionist gave us the room key. She also said that there was a car in the front of the building waiting for us.

Alice smiled as she seen the car. I wondered why until she told me about the fact that that had been the car that they had stolen in the airport.

Alice was driving the car while I held Bella in the backseat.

"Edward?" the beautiful voice that I missed so much asked.

"Yes, my love?"

"Why did you try to kill yourself when you thought that I was dead, but you had not seen me for a long time?" she asked.

"Bella, I couldn't live in a world without you. Even if you had not been in my life, my life would be meaningless without you. Also, I had come with Alice to see you when you had left with Jacob. I was going to formally introduce myself after I got off of vacation," I said honestly.

Edward, you are soo sweet, Alice's thoughts chimed.

"Oh," Bella said, clearly unconsciously.

"We're here!" Alice chimed from the front seat. "Let's get settled in. Bella, we need to go shopping," she said, hyper.

"Come on! We can all go. We need clothes for the two weeks that we will be staying here," she added, making me want to just skip out. Both Bella and I hated shopping.

"Come on, love. It will be fun. I'll go with you, and we can be together," I said, hoping to make the shopping trip a little better. Maybe she will remember something while on our trip. Her face seemed to brighten a bit at the idea of the two of us, which made me smile. Some of my Bella had not been completely forgotten.

"Fine," she grumbled, grabbing my hand.

"Let's try to see if we can jog your memory while we are there," I said. I didn't want her to see the neediness in my voice, but I can tell it was there.

"Fine," she said, tired. I wanted her to get some sleep, but I could tell that Alice would not let.

"Why don't you call Charlie first?" Alice said. I hadn't even thought of that.

"Okay," she said. Alice dialed the number, knowing that Bella would not know it.

"Hello?" Charlie picked up on the first ring.

"Dad, it's Bella. I just wanted to let you know that I am okay. We are held up right now. It may be a few weeks before we are able to come home," she said.

"Bella, are you really okay? What is going on?"

"I'm fine. Edward was in trouble, so Alice and I went to get him," she said, making me smile. She was covering up for me when she really didn't know why.

"I don't know why you bother with him. He's trouble, Bella. Tell him that there will be trouble if he walks through my doors ever again," he said, making Bella fume with hatred.

"No. Edward will go where I go. It was all a misconception," she said, her voice filled with hate.

"Since you are already stuck in this mess, call me when you come home," he
said, clearly upset.

"Will do. Bye," she said, hanging up before Charlie could give her another
talk about the danger of being with me. I was glad; I doubt that I would have been able to take that talk.

Alice bought a lot of stuff from the stores. Bella and I merely sat in the
mall holding hands. It was really nice. Alice had worked magic and bought a
lot of bags. It was Bella and my job to bring them to the car frequently. I didn't mind. We were doing it together.

After it was time to go, we all went back to the hotel room. I had a picture of the meadow in my hand, hoping that she would recognize the picture. I handed it to her when we got to the room.

"Do you remember this?" Edward asked.