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The escape from the castle was easy, because Michael had left to pick up his creator that second. I waved him off, then Me, Kayla, Antonio and Justin were gone. They didn't know where to go at all, so I suggested a very farmiliar, very cloudy town. A little town with very little people and a lot of rain: Forks, Washington.
Kayla inspected the house we would be living in, it was perfect. The house was in the middle of a forest, with no neighbors to witness any of our actions. It was perfect for me because it was far from where Charlie lived when he was alive, and far away from where the Cullens lived. It's been over a century since I was changed, no one would remember me.
And what surprised me was that there are no flying cars or robots that do everything so that you don't even have to scratch your own butt without help, much like peoples of the Before Years believed. People are still tugging around in 4x4's and mini vans. Supermarkets and forest are still dominant here, and there's still Mike's family sport's store. It'll be interesting, going to school with descendants of my old friends . . . without Edward there every day and every night- No! I mustn't think of him. He ruined my life, there's no way he should be important to me anymore! That thought is just rediculious!
Our story was that our adopted parents had recently died, and we decided that we were old enough to take care of ourselves and each other. The Forks Chief of Police, Kevin Matel, has agreed to sign as our gaurdian for the school. Ironic, huh? I felt a comfort by that, because I miss Charlie. I look the age of a sophmore- as some adults have guessed- so Kayla and I will be attending Forks high school as Sophmores, and Justin and Antonio will pose as Juniors. We weren't exactly sure that we should trust Justin around so many humans, but he didn't kill the townspeople yet, not at the market or furniature store or the department store. He didn't slaughter the citizens of seattle or Port Angeles, so we figured that he would have no trouble at a school of mere hundreds. Our gaurdian, Kevin, will check in with us every day after school and at 8 at night to make sure everyhing is alright with us. He will also wait at school every morning to make sure that we are attending.
I hadn't thought that everything in my life would go wrong, but it has. Several visitors have come to our house the day after we moved in. They thought us a threat, and a couple tried to kill Justin when he reacted to their accusation.
When I stepped out of the house, all eyes snapped to me. "May we be of any help to you?" I asked warily, knowing that they would not be saying anything mean to us anymore. "If you'd leave, then we'd appreciate it. We still have to hunt before school tomarrow."
"But Bells!" Justin complained. Jacob used to call me Bells . . . I wonder how La Push is. "They accused us of being savage!"
I laughed lightly. "You shouldn't believe anything the Cullens say, they lie more often than not." My coven froze.
"They're the Cullens?" Kayla asked, I nodded. "They're the vampires that caused all your pain?" Again, I only nodded. "We should kill them for what they've done! Of course, how would they know that you'd run into Michael Smith." Her voice was raising with anger and her sarcasm was bitter. "How would they know that he would change you and would force you and 19 other students to be slaves? How would they know that he would rip you to shreds over and over again every time you regenerated yourself all day, just because you would refuse to drink human blood? How would they know that them leaving would be the turing point in you down spiriling life?!" I could visibly see some of the more sensitive Cullens flinch at the melancholy story.
I laughed grimly. "Exactly, they never factored in Michael Smith or any of that." I agreed. "But then again, I don't matter to them, I never did."
"That's not true!" Alice choked out. I glared at her, and Jasper moved to defend her, which caused Justin to move to defend me. Antonio laughed.
"So it is true, your life is a living hell." He said, barely comtaining his amusment. I rolled my eyes, smirking, and he burst out laughing again. When he stopped he was serious, finding Carlisle and glaring at him. "But what you have heard is all true. Bella had joined an exchange program to Romania, like 19 of those other students. She had been Michael Smith's favorite creation. He changed her himself, and he taught her everything. But he was her personal satan, and his favorite thing to do was to tortue her. Bella's job was to gather humans for meals, to bring them to Michael, and make her watch as he sucked the life out of every one. He was angry that she chose, like myself and Kayla, not to drink human blood. He did not punish us, but she was shredded to thousands of pieces. All day you could hear him tearing her apart, and all because she chose not to be like him. He was upset, because Bella was his most cherished slave." I could hear Esme gagging, probably envisioning my torture.
"You three really overexaggerate." I said, rolling my eyes at the truth that they layed out for the Cullens to listen to in horror. It would have been mean to laugh at the faces they all made - all ranging from horrified (Emmet) to sick (Esme) - but I did.
"And yet you were still averse to leaving Michael?" Justin wondered aloud, mild disgust in his voice. He knew the amount of devotion I held for Michael, but never had the stomach to understand it.
"She felt bonded with him, like she owed him her life. Though this was anything but true." Antonio sneered. He hated Michael, mainly because he felt as though I were a younger sister to him. He hated Michael even more for that, and had millions of plans on how to kill Michael, though he had never put any of them into action on my behalf.
"My business has nothing to do with them." I barked. "They don't care enough-"
"Bella." His musical voice called to me, tortured pain ringing clear. "Sweetheart, pl-"
"No!" Justin snarled at Edward. "You left her, you're the reason she was suffering for all these years! I don't want to ever find out that you've even looked at her again!" I chuckled.
"He doesn't need her, silly boy." Said a bell-like voice. She came from behind the one I had once considered my soul mate. She was a tall brunette, very beautiful. She wrapped her arms around Edward's neck and rested her head on his chest, looking smugly at me from the corner of her eye. "He has me for all his manly needs." She purred.
"Carol, I've warned you before!" Rosalie growled. "You stay off of him!" She lunged at the vixen, who danced out of reach. Rosalie seemed satisfied as long as the dark haired one named Carol was off of Edward. I wonder why she seemed very possessive all of a sudden. No, it's none of my concern.
"So, basically what you saying is you his hoe?" I laughed at Kayla's logic.
"Basically." Emmet agreed.
"Hmm, curious how you refused to change me, but here you have a new member hanging all over you." I accused them.
"That's not it, Bella." Carlisle interjected. It seemed as if it were very important that he explained it to me, to make me understand. "We had to change her because it was our fault that she was about to die."
"I don't want to hear your excuses!" I snarled. I flinched away from the redness that tinged the sight of my once-Father. I didn't like the thought of feeling hatred towards him, but I pushed the thought side. "All of you, just leave, and take that slut with you. I don't need any of you in my life! Why don't you disappear like you did all those years ago? You don't want to be in my life! You think I'd be better without any of you, so leave!"
"Bella, we said that when you were human." Emmet said and rolled his eyes, his old playful grin back. I wanted to smile too, but that would only welcome them back, and I didn't think I could afford the hurt if they left me again. "Now you're one of us, so that doesn't matter anymore."
"Like Justin said, you should leave me alone. I'm better off without any of you." I'm sure they heard the struggle in my voice as I debated with myself whether that was true or not. I wanted them in my life more than anything, all of them but Carol, but I was reluctant as a result of my trauma.
"Exactly, so let's leave the little brat alone." Carol pouted.
"I don't need you." Maybe if I kept chanting it to myself, I'd actually believe it. "I have my own coven, so none of you matter to me."
"Bella, are you sure about this?" Kayla asked. No matter how pissed she was at them, she still could read me like a book.
It took me a second to find it in myself to lie. "Positive." I said sternly. She nodded, knowing that I had not meant it. I turned to glare into Edward's pained expression. It killed me, not being able to smooth the creases out of his brow, to look at the hurt in his soft amber eyes. I could not lie to myself, not even when he and his family turned their backs on me and left. I was still in love with Edward, unconditionally and irrevocably.
Minutes passed, my coven stared at me as I glared the way the Cullen's left. Finally, I spoke. "Antonio, tell me what happened." I said. I knew he used his gift to figure out the truth of the situation.
"The woman was where they were hunting, when the one named Jasper was out of control. It took those called Emmet, Edward-" He said the name with distane- "and Carlisle to get him off of the woman named Carol. They took responsibility for it and invited her into their coven. Edward dislikes Carol, she is infatuated with him. Rosalie has attacked Carol numerous times, defending Edward from the vixen. Rosalie has done it for more than 30 years, knowing that who he belonged with was you."
"She's been protecting him for me?" I whispered sadly.
"Yes, she has. She cares about you. Though she may have acted otherwise, she felt as though you were a sister to her. She will not accept Carol as family, insisting that the position belongs to you."
"And that man?" Kayla asked icily.
"Edward Cullen still loves Bella, they all do, and they want you back."
"But I don't need them." I finished with my own thought. "They are the past, and I should only look to the future." Kayla nodded vigirously, and Justin seemed satisfied with my answer. Antonio didn't really mind what I did, as long as I was happy with my decision- which might have been why he stared at me worridly. "I'm going to go the market."
"We already di-" Antonio put his hand on Kayla's shoulder, stopping her short, and shook his head. I left my car behind, running the opposite way of town. I needed time to think rationally. It wasn't long until I got to where I wanted to be, where I knew she was waiting for me. I came up not 5 feet from where she stood, her face twisted with pain and abandonment.
"Bella, I've missed you." Alice sobbed, throwing herself into my arms and crying dry saddness. "I never wanted to leave you! I had no idea that this would happen to you! I was watching, then your future disappeared and I couldn't see you anymore so I didn't know that those kinds of things would happen to you! I wanted to come back but Edward wouldn't let me and I told him that your future disappeared and he was heart broken and he tried to kill himself but we didn't let him and please forgive us Bella! We all missed you so much and even Rosalie was crying when you future was gone and begged to go and check on you but Edward forbade it and we're all so sorry Bella! Please don't act like this, we all love you and want you back!"
"Geez, was I that mean?" I whispered to myself. "I know you do, but I have my coven-"
"That doesn't matter!" She cried. "We want you back, Bella!"
"Grow up Alice." I said sternly. "Antonio already told me everything, and I don't blame you or anyone for what happened in the past. I've decided to let go of the past."
"So what does that have to do with you coming home?" She said home as if I had been one of them in the first place.
"In my life, the Cullens are the past."
"You can't let go of us." She wheezed. "Bella, you just can't!"
"I will get along with you, Alice, because we are still friends. And tell Esme and Carlisle that I apologize for how I acted." Maybe, if I tried hard enough, the Cullens could be part of both my past and my future.
"It was Carol, right? You were mad because she was hanging all over Edward? Rosalie-"
"Has been protecting Edward's from Carol's efforts, I know." I sighed and led her to a tree. I sat on the ground and leaned back against the trunk, Alice refused to let go of me, as if I might disappear if she did. "Tell Carlisle that he should come by sometime. Antonio has a gift, to always know the truth. I'm sure Carlisle would love to study it, and I'm sure Antonio wouldn't mind at all. I think that those two would get along well, and Kayla shares many of the same interests as Esme. Justin is a joker, so I'd appreciate it if you'd introduce him to Emmet and Jasper."
"What about you?"
"I will stick around for a while." I promised. "I have to, Cheif Kevin expects all of us to finish school."
"You could get Carlisle and Esme to- . . . No, that wouldn't help you settle yourself, will it?"
"No, but thanks anyway." I stood up. "I will not hold a grudge against any of you, and will treat even Edward as once before. You are all just friends to me, except Carol."
She laughed. "The only ones who actually like her are Esme and Carlisle. Even Esme has problems with Carol." I chuckled. "Thank you, for not just leaving."
"I couldn't do that to my Cov- my family. We just got here, so I don't want to have to make them leave."
"Just like Edward when he discovered you all those years ago." I grimaced, and she quieted. "Sorry."
"No, it's alright. I know you mean well, but I just have to take all this in slowly. Just let your family know that I am trying."
"Our family." She insisted. I only nodded, fearing that I'd say another thing that would upset her. "I should go and tell them, and you need to hunt before school."
"Would it be too much to ask for you to watch Justin? He's new to all this, like, very new, and I don't know what'll happen."
"Anything for you, Bella." She promised. "Just stick around, because we defiantely will." I nodded, and she left. After a few minutes of silent thought, I picked myself up and went back to the house.
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