Again I am really sorry for a short chapter but I hope you like this.

(Spoiler) Next chapter is going to be very long as I want to treat you all like the fans you are and give you a look at what everyone has been doing for the past century.

Enjoy!

Chapter three

Jasper

Without warning a man stormed his way into Bella's apartment. Jasper almost moved into a defensive position when he felt Carlisle's hand on his shoulder signalling him not to attack, Carlisle was very wise in this decision.

"Bella, are these people who I think they are?" Richie said through gritted teeth.

"This is the Cullen family, I saw Jasper today in one of my classes and decided I should meet them again" Bella said quickly as if she only had a certain amount of courage per sentence.

"WHY? Why would you see them again after what they did to you?" he snapped.

Jasper wanted to slam Richie into the wall as Jasper had been raised to treat a lady with respect, respect was not a courtesy Richie was currently showing Bella.

"It was a century ago Richie, they have suffered like me so please calm down."

"I will not calm down, I remember how broken you were when Methos found you. We fixed so you could live a normalish life and you throw it away by seeing them, its an insult to me, Duncan, Methos and Joe. Your a selfish bitch."

Richie was breathing heavily while Bella's expression changed from fear to rage, Jasper felt the moment her emotions flipped. He knew that the door of trouble he had been fearing had been smacked wide open.

Bella

Bella's fist clenched and her body changed from casual mode to combat mode.

"Richie, I suggest you leave now before I give into the very powerful need to kill you" she said with a stoic voice.

Richie looked at Bella and knew he had crossed a line by mentioning Joe.

"I hope you know who you can really trust Bella " Richie walked to the door and opened it " By the way Bella be assured Duncan and Methos will be notified of this."

Richie slammed the door on his way out, the atmosphere within the apartment was tense. No-one spoke for about two minutes until Carlisle went to check on Bella.

"Bella? Are you ok?" Carlisle enquired worried for her. Esme moved to Bella's side aswell ready to offer support. Bella shook herself out of her daze and looked at the Cullen family.

"I'm fine, I'm sorry about all of that." she stuttered as if the last few minutes had finally caught up with her. Esme pulled Bella into a hug to sooth away all her worries. Bella had been so thankful for Esme and her ability for love passionately but she really wanted to be alone at the moment.

Carlisle motioned for the rest of the family to begin leaving.

"Bella we'll leave you to get some peace and rest and perhaps see you tomorrow" he assured her.

"Yes..um.. I'll see you tomorrow, it was lovely to see you again" she smiled.

Bella watched the vampires leave and suddenly realised how silent her apartment really was.

Edward

Walking away from the apartment was strange, he felt a sense of de-ja-vu. He realised that he was leaving Bella again and felt compelled to turn back and stay with her.

"Edward, we'll see you later. Don't act like too much of a creep though" Alice smiled. Edward peeked into her mind and saw a vision of himself perched on a tree outside the window of Bella's apartment. He was watching her going about her normal business.

The rest of his family gave him a nod although Rosalie was sending waves of hate in his direction, she thought he was stalker. Quicker than the eye could see he jumped up into the tree and peeked into Bella's apartment, he heard the soft sobs of a young women coming from the room.

He wanted to hold her and tell her she had done nothing wrong. Who was he kidding? He wanted to kiss her soft lips and smell her scent, a scent he had waited almost a century to smell again.

She was still his Bella and hoped that maybe deep down that he was still her Edward. Watching her wipe away her tears made him angry, he wanted to rip that bastard's head off.

"Bella, I miss you so much." he whispered knowing that only the wind would carry his words.

Edward stayed as still as a statue as he watched her go around the apartment cleaning it up, she always cleaned to make time go by.

Only one thought struck Edward at that moment.

Please don't leave me again he thought.

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