Yes chapter three!!!!!!
Chapter 3We were in the living room talking to Charsile and Esme when Alice and Jasper came back from their hunting trip. I jumped off the couch and ran over to them and gave both of them hugs.
"I've missed you guys so much," I said. If I could have cried I would have.
"Yay my best friend is back!!!" Alice exclaimed, hugging me again.
Just then Emmit waltzed in the door and pulled me into a fierce bear hug. I laughed and hugged him back.
"It's good to see you again sis." He said, "though your paler than usual."
I laughed again and looked around his big arms to see Rosalie standing behind him. To my surprise, and joy, she came over and hugged me too.
As soon as every one was sitting around the room on various pieces of furniture I stated talking
"So what have you guys been up to?"
"Mostly the same thing we did here in Forks. Charsile has been working in hospitals and the kids have been going to school." Esme informed me. "How about you?"
"I spent all of these years with the Volturi." I told them. "I was finally able to convince them to become "vegetarians"." I smiled at the memory.
"Your kidding?" Charsile said, a happy look on his face.
"Nope," I grinned at him.
"It's about time! I've been trying to convince them to drink form animals for over four hundred and fifty years!"
Halfway through my laugh I froze.
"Bella what is…." I shushed whoever was talking and sat still, there it was again. A low but constant scratching. I growled.
"Victoria," I hissed and was gone before they could say another word.
Within seconds I was in a clearing in the woods crouched and glaring across it at Victoria. She smiled wickedly and winked at me as the Cullens came up behind me.
"Stay out of this," I said to them, and then to Victoria, "ready to finish what you started?" I asked this with playful hatred.
"Would I be hear if I wasn't?" she sneered, then went into a crouch across from me. I stepped out of the way as she jumped at me. She missed and slammed into a tree. She stumbled a bit as she turned around and fell over. I doubled over laughing.
The Cullens looked from one to the other completely confused and not just a little bit surprised. Then suddenly I some thing slammed into my side, smashing my face into the moss covered ground. I rolled over and looked up to see Victoria standing over me. This time she was laughing. Just as I jumped up to push her back Edward lunged at her. Then, suddenly, when he was about to reach her and drive her into another tree, there was a flash of light and she was gone.
Just seeing the look on Edward's face as he stared at the spot Victoria had just been standing, made me fall to the ground laughing again
We were back at the Cullen's house crowded around the dinning room table (which, or course, was just for show). They were waiting for me to explain everything that had happened in the clearing. We'd been sitting there for at least ten minutes. Nobody was talking; they were all just staring at me. It was kind of unnerving.
"What are you waiting for?" Edward asked. He could be so impatient some times.
"I'm trying to decide where to start," I told him.
"How about at the beginning," he stated unhelpfully.
"You don't want to hear the beginning, Edward Cullen,"
I frowned slightly trying to think. Should I start from when he left me, when Jake became a werewolf , when Laurent came, or when Victoria saved my life? I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, then let it out.
"I guess I will start at the beginning." Though I'd leave out the parts Edward didn't need to know I thought to myself.
"Bella," Alice said. Obviously she had seen some of what had happened to me.
I breathed deep again, this time holding it in for a while(I could have held it indefinitely) and let it go, before starting.
"After you guys left I started hanging out with Jake and, to my supreme luck, he turned into a werewolf about a month later. A week after that Laurent came."
I shuddered just thinking about it. Edward noticed and slid his arm around my waist and held me close to his side. I gave him a quick smile before continuing.
"I'll save you guys from the gory details. Basically what happened was that Laurent was going to kill me until Jake and the pack showed up. They chased him when he ran away. They eventually caught up with him and killed him."
I closed my eyes. It was so hard to go on. What happened next was the worst memory I had from my human life. Even worse than Edward leaving me. The all waited patiently for me to start talking again.
"Six months after Laurent was killed I was rapped while out shopping in Port Angeles with Jess. After a lot of thinking I decided to keep the baby. When she was born a swore that I would always love her no matter how she came to be or what she did with her life when she got older. So I named her Juliet."
I smiled remembering the first time she ever looked at me, she had been smiling, making me love her, if possible, even more.
" Then one day, when Juliet was nine months old, we were attacked by a werewolf—and no it wasn't Jake or any one in his pack," I said, hearing Edward growl, "That's when Victoria showed up, and it was almost to late. Within seconds of attacking us the bear had killed Juliet and I was very close to joining her in death. Victoria saw this and, for some reason, instead of letting me die she saved me. We've had a weird kind of friendship since then."
It hurt so much to remember how Juliet died that my voice was barely audible, even for a vampire. As I finished I heard all of them gasp. I looked up to see their eyes wide with horror at whit I had been put through. I felt a wave of calm role through the room and gave Jasper a small appreciative smile.
"I really feel exhausted, do you guys mind if I go home and rest for a while?" I asked them.
"No we don't mind, go ahead. We'll see you tomorrow, Bella" Charsile told me.
"I'll come with you" Edward whispered in my ear.
We said goodbye and made our way slowly to my apartment above Mike Newton's old sporting goods store. Well, slowly for a vampire at least.
I hope you guys like this chapter. It took me a while to think of it. Don't forget to review!!!