Chapter 3 – Mistakes Misinterpreted

This chapter is a bit long, but quite good, if I dare boast. ENJOY!

BPOV

Alice dashed into the same little triangle I was in. "What's wrong?" she asked.

I nodded my head once toward Jane.

She froze, feet moving, but nothing else was. Esme and Rosalie turned around to look for what we were staring at.

Jane looked over at us and smiled the look already on her eyes. The look that would send pain through everyone. Everyone but me that is.

"RUN!" I screamed. We took off. Out the revolving door and outside. The sun was shining.

"Damn it!" I cursed. That was not supposed to happen. Dozens of people outside the mall were stopping and screaming. "Damn, damn, damn." I kept cursing. Behind me Alice, Esme, and Rosalie were coping me. Our skin was reflecting the light. We looked like we were covered in small diamonds. I cursed again and kept running.

Jane was still behind us. They can't get away. That Bella girl is one of us now? Interesting. I wonder if she is still immune. A pause. Shoot, she is. I could try everybody else…but I can't get a focus on them. Damn.

We jumped into the Volvo and I jammed the keys into the ignition. I pulled quickly out and slammed on the gas pedal.

I pulled my new miniscule silver cell phone out of my pocket and quickly dialed Edward.

"Edward?"

"Hey! What's up?"

"It's Jane. She was at the mall. Dozens of people saw all of us in the sun, and Jane is following us home."

"The sun? But I thought…"

"Well apparently Mother Nature is pissed at us for some reason." I fumed, steering with one hand and pressing the cell phone to my ear. I shook my hair out of my eyes and looked in the rearview mirror. She was running. "She doesn't have a car." I said. "But she is still fast."

"How fast are you going?" he asked.

"Edging towards one-oh-five." I answered.

"I'll meet you at the edge of Forks." He said.

"Okay."

"Be careful." He warned.

"We will."

"Bye."

"Bye."

I slipped the phone back into my jeans and put my hands at ten and two, arms straight as sticks. I pressed urgently on the gas. "Damn Volvo." I said.

Alice was sitting quietly with her eyes closed.

"Rose." I said. "Wheel."

Rosalie leaned over the front and took the wheel. I kept my foot on the pedal and closed my own eyes. Jane had started to hang back and I couldn't reach her mind.

I rubbed my fingers against my temples and tried again.

They are so dead. Edward made the choice to kill those humans and reveal our secret, plus those girls just revealed it again.

"What is she talking about?" I said, taking the wheel back.

"What'd she say?" Rosalie asked.

I told her. "What?" She scoffed.

"I think she thinks Edwin was Edward." Esme said calmly.

Alice sighed and opened her eyes. "Edward will be hiding in the trees behind the Forks sign. We'll beat Jane there in enough time to form a plan."

I looked in the rearview mirror again. Jane was no where to be seen. I pressed my foot harder to the pedal. The stupid speedometer only read one-twenty.

Five minutes later we were screeching to a stop in front of the Cullen's house. Edward was still at the edge of Forks, waiting for Jane. We were leaving the Volvo and then going to him.

I tucked the keys in my pocket, motioned to Esme and Rosalie to go inside and get Emmett and Jasper, and leaned against the car. Alice and I both shut our eyes, trying to see the future events.

In seconds Jasper and Emmett were standing next to Alice and I. Rosalie, Carlisle, and Esme were staying at the house in case somehow Jane got past us.

It was still cloudy in Forks, so we ditched the jackets, hats, and gloves Esme offered and took off.

A minute later we stopped and surrounded the woods that marked the entrance to Forks. I squatted down next to Edward and waited. We conversed quietly.

"Hey." I said as I bent down.

"Hey yourself. I'm guessing you were careful? Considering that you're here that is."

"Yep. Reached the limit of your Volvo." I said proudly.

"Really?" I nodded. "I'm ashamed," he said jokingly. "That I didn't reach it first."

I laughed quietly and peeked between the trees.

Their around here somewhere…

"She's here." I whispered almost inaudibly.

Edward nodded slowly, trying not to rustle the leaves under or above him.

Jane walked slowly on the dirt road off of the road entering Forks. I turned and tapped Edward, pointing a thumb over my shoulder to the road. He nodded again and we silently crawled over to the trees lining the dirt road. I knew Alice, Emmett and Jasper were moving too.

Jane looked around.

Edward pushed me lightly in the small of my back. I stepped out from the trees. She couldn't attack me with her incredible power, so I was safe.

"Hello Jane." I said loudly.

She turned around quickly and smiled. "Ah, Bella. Hello! And, may I say, welcome to the family."

"Yes you may, and thank you."

"Sure, sure." She looked around. "Are you the only member of the welcoming committee?"

"Afraid so." I said with a small smile. "May I ask why you are suddenly blessing us with your presence?"

No you may not. I'm here to kill you and your precious family. She thought.

"Just popping in to see if they had acted on their promise to change you. I see that they have though,"

"Yes they have." I smiled.

Keep her talking.

"How is Aro?" I asked, stalling.

"Aro?" she looked surprised that I had remembered his name and more so that I had asked. I nodded. "Oh. He is…well."

"And Alec?"

I am well. I heard a second voice enter my thoughts. Too bad she won't be soon.

"Alec is very good. Very, very good." She smiled.

BEHIND YOU!

I spun around in a few circles, dodging Alec as he jumped from behind.

He got up and stood by his sister.

"I see becoming one of us has made you more sensitive to your surroundings." Alec marveled.

I smiled. "Yes, it has."

We're closing in. Distract Jane. We can't let her use her power.

"What are you doing here Alec?" I asked pleasantly. "Does it take two of you to check in?"

No, but it takes more than two to kill the whole damn Cullen's family. Plus you and your stupid vampire self. Your boyfriend will be killed before your damn eyes. Stupid –

I closed off Alec's thoughts before it got too out of hand and smiled as Jane answered.

"No," she smiled. "We just haven't been able to…what do you twenty first century people call it…hang out…just the two of us in a while, so I invited him to come with me."

"Ah, I see. Sorry, but am I supposed to be surprised, and scared that Felix is there?" I stepped out of the way, pointing, as Felix jumped from my left, from the trees where Edward was hiding.

"What the hell?!" Felix shouted, pushing himself off the ground.

"Or that Heidi is there?" I pointed to my right and Heidi emerged from the bushes. Without her blue contacts in you could see her red eyes.

"Or that you have a group of…seventeen...spread out?" the seventeen individuals stepped from the woods where my backup was hiding.

"For some reason I don't think you came just to check on me." I smiled sweetly.

"How did you…" Jane gasped.

Alec's jaw was dropped and Felix was still cussing under his breath.

"And Aro isn't doing well is he?" I said. "Because you," I pointed at Heidi, "Haven't been bringing in enough to fill his thirst? Isn't he threatening to 'get rid' of you?" I asked with an apologetic smile.

She grinded her teeth.

I turned to one of the seventeen to my right. "You," I said. "Cassie right?" the frightened young vampire nodded. "You miss your family. You didn't want to be a vampire. You just wanted to go to the movies with Alec. The boy you thought was human." She trembled. "Sorry dear, nothing personal." I smiled. She gave a quavering smile back.

"Cassie, don't fraternize with them."

"Oh, we aren't fraternizing." I said, turning back to Jane. "Just chatting. So, are you going to try and do what you came here to do? Or are you going to leave and pretend like checking in on me is all you came for?"

Jane, Alec, and Heidi were all grinding their teeth and scowling.

"You shouldn't be so cocky. Your all alone right now, we could take you." Felix said with what seemed to be a wicked smile, that or he was incredibly constipated.

"First, you couldn't take me. Second, who said I'm alone?" I grinned; mine was wicked, not constipated.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Jane asked.

"Aren't you supposed to be the brightest of the group? And Aro's favorite?" I asked. "I mean, it can't be Felix, too stupid," he started to argue, "it can't be Alec, he doesn't have the best 'sneaking' skills," he opened and closed his mouth repeatedly, "and I know is isn't Heidi, because she is such a failure to Aro." I smiled. "But then again, you have no idea what I'm talking about do you?"

She looked like a fish out of water. She was in my territory. We weren't in Volterra anymore.

"Where is your boyfriend? The one I can cause so much pain to?"

"Oh, he figured since you were so stupid and wimpy and weak against me," I stopped and smiled. "He'd let me handle it." I shrugged.

"That was a mistake." Alec said.

"Was it?" I pretended my fingernails were suddenly the most interesting in the world.

"Yes. It was."

He sprung forward and Edward attacked, knocking Alec to the ground and snapping at his face.

I smiled at the pair wrestling on the ground, and then looked up at Jane.

She was glaring at me. "What?" I said innocently. "Did you really think he would let me come alone? No matter how stupid or wimpy you are, he wouldn't."

"I wish he would have." She motioned towards me. The seventeen began to close their circle, Felix stalked into the middle of the circle of newborns with me, smiling.

"What? Your not calling dibs this time?" I asked.

His smile disappeared. "No need." He said, still frowning. "You're all mine." Emmett burst through the circle, knocking over five poor newborns.

"No," he grinned. I loved Emmett, he was like a giant evil teddy bear. "You're all mine."

He attacked. I walked through the gap in the newborns. None of them dared to attack me. "Wise." I smiled.

Jane growled at me. "You don't know who you're messing with."

"I was about to say the same to you."

Alice and Jasper appeared from the trees, smiling and couching behind Jane. She twirled around.

"Your newborns, their too scared to fight and they won't." I said, after blinking and trying to see the outcome of the fight. All I saw was the prediction I had just given to Jane, plus werewolf interference, considering that part of the vision was blank.

"You don't know what your talking about." She said, not taking her eyes off of Alice and Jasper as the three of us slowly closed in on her.

Her voice shook as she replied, but she tried to hide it. "You won't win this fight."

I blinked a few times. I saw fire burning, newborns standing around with me and the rest of the Cullen's. "Actually, we will." I nodded once toward Jasper and he leapt at Jane. She moved swiftly out of the way. Alice jumped and knocked Jane to the ground.

I smiled bleakly.