A/N Ok I know it has been forever. I have plenty of excuses, but I know you guys probably don't even care. If you really want to know, then PM me. A quick thanks to all those who reviewed, even when I wasn't updating. It's a little longer then other chapters, sorta to make up for the long time since I've updated. Thanks to dazzle1901 for beta-ing. Here it is.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters. If I did I would be writing Breaking Dawn, which, by the way, comes out August 10!!!!!!

I also don't own the Energizer Bunny.

Edwards POV

We ran to the house. Alice was looking really nervous. It was just a little party, but she was glancing around like something was going to jump out and kill us. I had tried to get in her head many times but each time she would block me out. It was starting to make me nervous.

I stepped forward and knocked. Almost instantly, the door opened, though there was no one there. It was freakishly fast, even for a vampire. I listened.

"I know you can read my mind. Come on in." It was the girls "voice," Cami. How did she know my power? I hadn't told her. I stepped inside and saw her in the kitchen doing dishes. Dishes? What kind of a vampire does dishes?

Cami was average height, maybe 5'6", with shoulder length, honey blonde hair. She looked like a fairy-godmother, only younger, skinner, not wearing a puffy dress, no wand, and she was a vampire.

"So, I guess that she wasn't kidding when she said you could read minds." She spoke aloud this time. I stared at her questionably, poking around in her brain, looking for clues as to who 'she' was. I was left empty handed. She walked around the counter and shook my hand.

"Let's see, you're obviously Edward." She stepped around me to see the rest of my family. "Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, Esme, and last, but not least, Carlisle."

She les us into the living room, talking as she went. Her mouth never seemed to stop moving. It just kept going, and going, sorta like the Energizer Bunny.

"It's so good to finally meet you. Leroy is especially excited to see you Edward." In her mind, she chuckled, enjoying some sort of inside joke. Leroy was the one who had run into Carlisle, but why did he want to meet me? Was it because of my power? How did HE find out? "Bells and Leory are upstairs, but they'll be down in a minute. Austin, my mate, is out hunting. This should be him now."

I turned, almost simultaneously with the rest of my family, to see a male vampire enter the room. He was about 6'1" and very brawny, more then me, but not even close to Emmett, but then again, who was? His sandy hair fell into his golden eyes.

Two more followed him into the room. The first, Leroy, looked the same as he had in Carlisle's mind.

I did a double take. The second, a female, looked so much like Bella that I chastised myself for bringing up that image. I was still in pain from leaving her. I couldn't take it anymore after about 4 months and went back to find her, only to learn she was dead. This vampire was the most beautiful person, if you could call us people, that I'd seen since Bella, maybe even more beautiful then Bella.

Her chocolate brown hair cascaded down her back. When her bright topaz eyes connected with mine, she gasped. Her forehead creased, her mind deep in thought, though inaudible to me. Then t hit me, that was my Bella! It took all of my self control to not reach out and touch her. Instead, I followed her into the room, taking a seat on the ground while she crossed the room and sat down next to Leroy, still confused.

Bellas POV

I crossed the room in a daze, sitting down next to Leroy. He put his arm around me and pulled me closer to him. Normally, I would have pushed him away and scolded him, but I was to lost in thought to care at the moment.

Could that really be Edward? The Cullens? I thought I would never see them again, hoped, deep down, that I would never see them again. I still somehow loved him, but he had caused me so much pain, without even caring. I briefly wondered how many other girls he had hurt. I felt their pain, felt sorry for them. Leroy's voice brought me out of my mind and into the real world.

"Thank you so much for coming. Why don't you introduce yourselves?"

"As you know, I'm Carlisle. I'm a doctor at the local hospital." I nodded my head in agreement. They hadn't changed physically. It was almost like they had frozen for the last 100 years.

"How do you manage that?" Austin peered around Cami, sitting on his lap, to stare at Carlisle curiously.

"I've perfected my control to the point where human blood no longer effects (A/N affects?) me."

"That must be nice," he mumbled. I grinned. We had left Russia because Austin had slipped and killed a little girl. Austin turned to look at me, guessed what I was thinking, and growled. Edward smiled, but the rest of his family looked on in confusion.

"I'm Esme, Carlisle's mate. Compassion is my power."

"I'm Emmett, freakishly storng." He sent us a huge smile.

Looks like you have a competitor, I spoke in Austin's mind. He grinned and nodded. Rosalie spoke next, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

"Rosalie. I'm with Emmett." To extenuate this point, she cuddled closer to Emmett.

"I'm Alice. I can see the future." She was almost bouncing out of her chair. She reminded me so much of Cami. I wondered if she had seen all of this. All of a sudden, she stopped bouncing and I felt strangely calm.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Jasper. I can control and read emotions." Austin sighed again. He had killed the little girl out of rage more then bloodlust. I reached over to rub his arm soothingly.

They're not really that great. Very heartless, even for a bunch of vampires. He turned and nodded a me in comprehension. He had heard my story.

"I'm Edward." Leroy let out an audible growl. I smacked him. I was just as mad as he was, but I was going to be polite. "I can read minds."

Leroys POV

"I'm Edward." Figures. That jerk. He ruined my Bella's life, almost killed her, and he just waltzes right in, probably doesn't even remember her. By the sound of Bella's story, he was probably just bored. He'll never touch me Bells again.

"I can read minds."

Bella looked pointedly at me after a couple of minutes, trying to tell me, but I was so mad that I couldn't concentrate.

"I'm Austin. And I can…" He vanished. I smiled. Way to show 'em. I was always as proud of Austin's talent as a dad was of a son who had scored the winning goal of a fame. He reappeared.

"nice Emmett nodded approvingly.

"Names Cami." She levitated Emmett up in the air with Rosalie on his lap. He startled, then laughed.

"Nice again." Cami smiled and nodded in thanks. Me next, I guess.

"I'm Leroy. At the moment, I'm just spending time with the family, but I'm usually a stock broker. I can control nature. More rocks, make fire, create wind and life.

"Wow! That's quite something." Carlisle was amazed, I could tell. He was being quite modest though. Completely immune to human blood? That amazing. Bella took a deep breath.

"I guess everyone knows me, thanks to your amazing memory." She sneered the last part. "I can talk in peoples heads. Not everything they're thinking, like Edward, more like have a telepathic conversation with them."

"Bella?"

A/N ok so how did you like it? I already have chapter 5 typed and ready so as soon as I get hmmmm 17 updates, (that's my lucky number) I will put it up. By the way, I accept flames, one word review, reviews not even having anything to do with the story etc. In fact, if you can't think of anything to say, tell you your favorite or lucky number. Thanks!