So sorry. I forgot I had this chapter on my computer! The next one is going to be a little difficult considering it's the first meeting and I really want it to match up with your expectations.

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Tress Blues.

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Chapter 10. Show time.

Edward's POV

Alice and Emmett found us we ran back to the house. Everyone was tense and worried as Alice quietly told Carlisle and Esme what had happened. Esme immediately came after me but I had already slammed the door shut to my room and was silently fuming. Who was torturing us like this? Making me think Bella might be alive. I left so she could be normal! And now that defiant thought that had held me back from visiting her was being doubted and weakened by that scent. If she really was alive now, there was no chance she had been normal and no reason I couldn't have seen her. It had all been for nothing.

Mentally I saw her face, the last time I'd seen her. She looked so fragile and broken; it'd taken all my self control not to turn back. But I did it in the end. I left her. No matter how I tried to justify it that face haunted me forever. For the first time in years I was glad I couldn't sleep. Because all my dreams, all the rest would be corrupted with that pale heart broken face. It wasn't right to put her through it but I'd done so in her best interests.

But I pushed it all away. Every memory of her, I pushed back. It was emotionally painful to visit, to relive. I cursed my vampiric memory. I could remember every detail of her and yet I wished she would just disappear from my head. At least that's what by conscious self told me. Another part of me was grabbing at the remembrance. Dragging it back to punish me some more. I'll just have a look at school today, see if there's anything there…Alice's thoughts, faint as they were, drifted from downstairs. In a second, I was beside her.

"Alice. No." I said and she frowned, stubbornly.

"Edward, I just want to know if…something's going to be there. I promise nothing more than a few hours…" she trailed off but I shook my head.

"Alice, you promised me you wouldn't keep looking for her! You swore that you wouldn't!" I hissed. She squirmed, her brow crinkling. "Alice I can hear your thoughts. That promise was iron clad, you can't get through it." I told her. She huffed. She was trying to think of ways to do it accidentally but nothing would work. I'd already covered all the loopholes. "Alice…"

She groaned in frustration. "Fine! I won't look. We'll find out sooner or later. School's in fifteen minutes anyway!" she said, adding the last part smugly. I scowled at her and she danced back upstairs to change.

Fifteen minutes til I had to go back to high school. Fifteen minutes til I had to go back to the place I met her.

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Bella's POV

I love my car. It's a sky blue convertible big enough to fit my entire family with the top up or down. Of course, in Forks, it was always up. "Bella? Are we going by Swan or Matthews this time?" Andrew asked as we all piled into the car. Normally we'd take Andrew's and mine cars but his engine had been busted up in the shipping. Andrew was completely furious of course. He accidentally ripped off the door and it was officially broken beyond repair.

I saw five pairs of topaz eyes sparkle in the rear view mirror. "Vee, can you and the twins go by Mathews and Andrew and I will go by Swan? I think that's how I arranged it with the school. Chen, of course you'll have to go on your own." I said. Vee, Jenna and Max could be siblings, they looked so similar. Jenna and Max had light blonde hair but it gave off the same sort of texture as Vee's anyway. Andrew and I both had darker hair so not many people doubted us as brother and sister. Chen, from his Asian heritage, always had to go on his own. He grinned at me.

"Sure I think I'm going by Chen Dracula this time." He said and everyone groaned. Chen had the worst humour when it cam to choosing last names. In England, he'd gone by Bond and before that he was Chen Winsinorionton. The third. Of course, he thought he was hilarious.

We were going under the impression that we were all living together, as both families were friends. Chen was adopted into the Mathews family but, to avoid confusion, he always kept another name. I'd told the school that our parents travelled a lot so they wouldn't be available for much of the parent interviews or meetings. She seemed to buy it; the signatures I gave on the forms were very convincing.

I put the car into gear and drove down the main road to Forks High School. "Jeez Bella, could you drive any slower?" Andrew teased and I rolled my eyes. Even as a vampire, the habits of a policemen's daughter were hard to break.

"Seriously, ice glaciers are going faster than we are!" Jenna complained and thumped against the back seat. I laughed.

"That may be but did ice glaciers have a father telling them to respect the speed limits every time they turned the keys?" Vee pointed out. Jenna huffed. I'd told Vee all about Charlie. Her own parents were divorced and she hardly ever saw her dad anymore. She loved Charlie from my stories even though she'd never met him.

"Okay guys, ground rules. No smelling, biting, upstaging or showing off, Andrew." I gave him a stern look. He shrugged, sheepishly. Andrew may have been married to sweet, quiet modest Vee but that didn't stop him from being a complete show off. The last high school we went to we had to leave because he'd run the huge cross country track in 30 seconds flat. Subtle huh? "And we have to be really careful, even though it's been a while I don't think the legend of the Cullens could have faded completely. Anyone asks we don't know them. Never heard of them. Also keep your thoughts to yourself, Jenna." She scowled in the back seat.

"One time! You let a few words slip one time and no one lets you forget it!" she protested and everyone started laughing.

"One time? Jenna you told a human boy he smelled good enough for you to eat!" Vee spluttered, still laughing. Max had then pulled her out of the classroom before she could follow up on her words. Luckily the kid just thought she was flirting with him but unfortunately we still had to move or risk exposure.

"I think that's it for now but lets just keep a low profile okay?" they all nodded and before I knew it, we were at Forks High School.

Show time.