a/n: I know that its been forever since I updated. But I have a really good excuse; I fell off a horse so between doctors appointments and physiotherapy, plus my Godmother being pregnant and having to go to England for two weeks; so as you can see its been rather hectic and I just haven't had time to write. But now I'll try to update once a week (every two weeks at least), at least until my end of year exams start (but don't worry they will only take up a week or two and then I'll be on summer holidays and providing that I get reviews

I should be very inspired to write a few chapters in a week….

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight nor charmed. The only thing I do own is the plot.

Chapter 12

The next week Bella went back to school; if she stayed home any longer she would slowly but surely go crazy; between her auntie Meryum's constant worry and nagging and her father's futile attempts at finding who had done this to her.

"Bella, hi, how are you?" Rosalie rushed up to Bella and embraced her as soon as she had vacated her car; Rosalie's voice was thick with worry and Bella didn't think she had ever seen Rosalie act so open with her emotions.

"And here I thought you would never speak to me again…" Bella chuckled giving a sad smile; she had been rather apprehensive about coming to school at first, she had been sure that Rosalie would be furious with her for hurting her brother and that Bella would be left friendless and alone, forever to remain the social reject, the exception, or at least until graduation; sometimes Bella felt that compared to high school hell was a piece of cake.

"Why wouldn't I speak to you again?" Rosalie frowned confused. She couldn't imagine what on earth would possess Bella to think that she wouldn't want to speak with her; I mean she had visited her in the hospital after all.

"I don't know… Because, well I kind of broke up with Edward and I guess I thought maybe your family loyalty would get in the way of out friendship; of course I would totally understand if it did…" Bella mumbled. She was afraid that now she had pointed it out Rosalie would realize that she probably shouldn't be talking to Bella. Bella really did think the whole situation was quite comical; here she was one of the elite and most powerful demons in the underworld, yet she was getting so stressed out and worked up over something as trivial as high school politics. I mean if she told any of her demon friends that lately she had been stressed about her social status, her boyfriend now officially ex boyfriend and her jealous and controlling ex boyfriend, to top it all off she was also fretting over the fact that she was quite sure she would find it incredibly hard to find friends or even companions when the hottest guy at school probably hated her (of course she was still the hottest girl but girls could be jealous bitches when they wanted to be, she should know); of course in actual fact things were a lot more complicated then this, but this was the fine print.

"Listen whatever drama that's going on between you and Edward is between you and Edward; can we please just keep our friendship out of it." Rosalie urged smiling. Bella nodded in response; she was thrilled that through all the James mess she hadn't lost everything.

Later during the day, lunch hour to be exact, Edward was about to walk into the cafeteria when he stopped; he couldn't just walk in there and pretend that all the drama with Bella hadn't happened, he had heard from Rosalie's mind that Bella was back at school and his suspicions had been confirmed when he caught a whiff of her in the hall.

Edward decided that the best course of action to take in a circumstance such as this one, would be to just wonder around the halls until lunch was over. For example it's easy to avoid conversation and visual contact in class, all you have to do is pretend to focus on the teacher and be interested in the lesson; whoever if he bumped into her in the cafeteria there would be no distractions or any way to ignore her with out causing a scene, after all he had no idea if he could have a conversation with her yet without breaking down and begging her to take him back.

Meanwhile Bella was making her way towards the cafeteria after much consideration. At first she was wary, as she knew she would see Edward; however she realized how ridiculous she was being, after all she was the demon of fire and ice it would be absurd for her of all people to shy away from bumping into an ex in the cafeteria; besides seeing him was inevitable, I mean they went to the same school for goodness sakes and the town was so tiny that she was bound to see him somewhere.

"Bella…" Bella heard her name being called from the other side of the hall and turned to see the face of the owner of the velvety voice she new she would never forget. Edward silently chastened himself for calling out to her, he realized that if had hadn't opened hi mouth she may have passed without noticing him and saved him the bother of whatever was going to happen next.

"What do you want?" Bella snapped, but Edward knew that this cold and indifferent front Bella was putting up was just acting; this front was something she was perfected while in the underworld in order to survive and fit in.

"You know what I want Bella; I want you!" Edward insisted, he thought he better get this out of the way now when it was just them in the hallway rather then later when they could possibly have an audience.

"Why can't you just let me go?!" Bella screamed, although she didn't want anyone to hear and to attract attention to them she was also becoming beyond frustrated with this. It was all so repetitive and it felt as though they were running in circles.

"Because I know you love me… If you don't want to be with me then tell me you don't love me." Edward prayed to the heavens above that she did still love him, at least a little bit.

"Edward I love you; you know this. But I can not be with you." Bella sobbed.

"I don't understand… If I love you and you love me then why can't we be together?" Edward stumbled on his words unsure of what she would answer.

"We are just too different… It would never work." The more Bella tried to explain to him the more she realized that she may have let her fear of losing Edward over power her logic when making the deal with James. She could protect Edward from James and she believed that her father wouldn't hurt Edward if she properly explained to him what he meant to her.

"Bella please, I'll do anything to prove to you that it would work. I beg of you, just tell me what to do…"

Five long hours later Bella sat at dinning room table with her father after confessing everything. From the look on his face at the moment the only two people likely to get killed by Barbas was James and Bella herself.

"Bella when you were little do you remember what I used to tell you? I told you that you were to marry a demon, the most powerful demon we could find. Well that was an order Bella, not just some mere, meaningless human advice." Barbas seethed trying to keep his anger in check.

"But daddy you can't help who you fall in love with. It's something we have no control over." Bella pleaded.

"No, its something weak little humans have no control over. Regardless of that by blatantly disregarding my marital request you disobeyed me." Barbas could feel his calm façade slipping more by the minute and he fought to regain control.

"Daddy, I am going to be with Edward whether you like it or not…" Bella tried to explain to her father.

"How dare you disobey me!" Barbas had never felt more furious with his daughter in all the years since she was born. As far as he was concerned she had brought dishonour to the family and that was something that he could not condone.

Bella was crouched in the corner of her room crying her heart out. She cried for what seemed like forever. What had happened to her she used to be so strong,

Then just as suddenly as it had started she stopped crying. She wiped her eyes with her sleeve and stood up. She was the demon of fire of ice; demons didn't love; this was a game to her, it had to be, that was the only logical explanation. And she was only sad because… because it was game over and no one likes it when there fun is over,

She doesn't belong here; she never did. This was never supposed to be permanent. She had to get out; while she still could, she was getting too involved with this game. James had always looked out for her, as had her father; they both cared about her and saw that she was forgetting that this was real, that she was pretending to be something that she wasn't; they tried to warn her, to stop her. That is why James did what he did; it was all in her best interest so she could remember that she was neither a weak little pathetic human nor a pitiful vampire.

As if on cue Edward climbed through the open window at the other side of her room.

"I know you told me not to come here but neither your father's nor your aunts cars were outside so I figured that you were the only one home." Edward tried to ease her when he saw the anger in her eyes. "So did you talk to your father?? What did he say? Was he angry?? What did you tell him?" Edward rushed over to her when he noticed that Bella's eyes were puffy where she had obviously been crying for a while now.

"My father said that I am no longer permitted to see you." Bella stated with indifference. Her eyes and facial expression both void of any and all emotion.

"What a joke! Your father never permitted us to be together before and that never stopped us then, so why should it stop us now?" Edward laughed misunderstanding her.

"No Edward, my father has a point, as did James. They both have my best interest at heart." Bella informed him as though she was explaining something that he should know already.

"Bella what on Earth are you talking about? James did not have your best interest when he almost beat you to death, nor did he have you best interest when he blackmailed us both." Edward frowned wondering what the hell was going through her mind. He had never been so frustrated about not being able to read her mind as he was then at that moment.

"On the contrary, he did those things because he cared about me. He was trying to remind who I am… what I am. He was trying to remind me that I don't belong here and that it is not a good idea to get attached to beings so temporary and weak and dramatic vampires." Bella clarified as if she were talking to an incompetent child.

"Bella…" Edward tried to think of the words to say; but the words wouldn't form a coherent sentence in his mind, they were just all jumbled up and confusing.

"Although I did learn a lot, for example before I came here I never new how gullible vampires could be." Bella giggled viciously, adding salt to the wounds so to speak.

"Bella I don't understand what you are trying to say… or at least I hope that I don't understand what you are trying to say…" Edward murmured dazed. He wished and prayed that this was all just one big nightmare, but then he realized that it was futile as vampires did not sleep so this could not possibly be a nightmare. Then he started to hope with all of his might that this was all some sick demon like joke; the type of joke that would have been hilarious in the underworld, but was obscene here.

"I am leaving. It is the only way. If I see you again, don't think that I won't kill you." Bella replied with carelessness, as if she was telling him that she had to go to the shop to get milk.

--------------------------------------------5 years later---------------------------------------------------------------

"What are you doing?!"

"What does it look like I'm doing?"

"You're supposed to love me!"

"I loved you. Loved not love. Past tense."

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