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Chapter 24 Back to reality

Last chapter: "What are you doing here?" It took a great amount of effort to keep my voice level but he didn't say anything. Anything at all. He just looked at me with those empty cold eyes… that I have caused.

Bella's POV

"You're making the biggest mistake of your life." His voice was flat, emotionless.

"Jacob." I chocked out. I felt like my throat was closing up on me and I couldn't breath, I swallowed down hard. "I know what I am doing. You are not in charge of my life anymore." I spitted out. He flinched obviously hurt by my words.

"But a vampire, Bella?" He looked over at Edward with pure hatred and disgust. "What would the leaders say? Your parents?"

I froze in place at the mention of my parents. A million things and memories were running through my head. I almost jumped at the sound of Edward's voice behind me.

"Get out of here." Edward said between gritted teeth. I didn't have to turn around to tell he was mad, no, furious.

"Don't tell me what to do, Bloodsucker." Jacob took one step forward and Edward did the same, he was now in front of me completely blocking my view of Jacob. His hands were in fists by his side, his knuckles completely white. Edward's jaw clenched and a tendon in his neck was straining under his pale skin. "If Bella weren't here I would kill you, ripping off your limbs one by one and have a smile on my face while you burn to ash in front of me." I shuddered at his words, but Edward didn't seem at all moved by it.

"It seems like you have put a lot of time into that vision."

He ignored Edward's comment. "Give her back to me. All you're going to do is hurt her, I took care of her before perfectly fine."

"Perfectly fine? How could you have the nerve to say that! You bastered!" I moved from behind Edward to yell at Jacob. He barely looked at me as I yelled in his face. Edward took my wrist and slowly pulled me back towards him.

"Get out of here, Jacob." Edward said again. But this time he listened.

"Are you okay?" Edward asked after a few minutes of silence. I walked up to him and smiled slightly.

"Yeah, I think I'm okay." After another moment of silence I said, "What do we do now Edward?" I looked up at him and he creased his eyebrows, he was deep in thought.

"As much as it hurts me to say this, but we can't tell our families about… us." He looked pained and it broke my heart, not only at his pain, but the meaning of his words. We couldn't tell our families about our love for each other, we couldn't express it.

I took hold of his hand and squeezed it gently, he looked down at me and I smiled. "It will be our secret until things get better around here." He gave me his beautiful crooked smile and made our way, slowly to the big white house.

When the house was in view I slowly removed my hand from his. We looked at each other wordlessly before we entered the house. Jasper was with Alice as usual in the living room but Emmett and Rosalie accompanied them as they watched TV but Rosalie didn't seem to be paying attention. I could hear Carlisle and Esme upstairs, but I didn't see any of my coven members.

"Hey." I said to no one in particular while sitting down on the other side of Alice.

"What's up Belly button?" Emmett asked in his usual booming voice. I laughed at the nickname he gave me a few days ago. Rosalie still being the bitchy vamp she is, ignored me and focused on her already perfect nails. "Oh, and hi to you to Eddie." He added hitting Edward on the back. Edward growled at him but Emmett ignored him and laughed.

"Nothing much Emmett. Where is everyone else?" I asked looking around once more, but with the same results as before.

"There all in there rooms somewhere. We've been waiting for you two to come, Carlisle wants to speak to all of us."

We had decided a few days ago that it would be best if we moved in with the Cullen's, they had enough guest rooms down stairs for all of us. We gladly agreed. I am so proud of how wonderful we have all been acting towards one another, but we do occasionally get into arguments. We're just human… We'll we're not but you get the point.

Before I could respond Carlisle came downstairs with Esme holding her hand. I felt a pang of jealously go through me that I couldn't hold Edward's hand that way in front of people. Jasper turned to look at me perplexed at my sudden change of emotions. I need to keep my emotions in check. I scowled to myself.

Suddenly my coven emerged from the stairs also to join us in the living room. Jacinda and I still haven't spoken to each other and I can see people start to catch up on our weird behavior towards each other but they never let their thoughts be spoken out loud.

Nina sat down next to me and gave me a quick smile, Peter sat down on the other side of Nina and he put his arm around her. I averted my eyes from the couple and looked at Edward as he sat down with Jasper and Alice, he locked eyes with me for a second before I looked away. Jacinda and Gale sat together silently with Emmett and Rosalie. We all focused on our attention on Carlisle and Esme as they sat down alone together.

"Okay, I wanted to let you know that all of you will be going to back to school tomorrow." There was a slight pause; clearly that wasn't what anybody thought he was going to say.

"Why?" Jacinda and Rosalie were the first ones to reacted, and not very well I might add.

Carlisle answered calming. "We can't just be sitting here all day waiting for someone to come after us. The humans will start to get suspicious and the last thing we need is attention." Everybody knew Carlisle was right, but nobody wanted to admit it.

The night was pretty boring considering no one slept and I never got a chance to be alone with Edward. This morning Esme had told us that if people ask about where we were these past 2 weeks, we tell them there has been a sickness going around the family and that was why Alice had not come. Jasper put up an argument not wanting to leave Alice but after an hour of speaking to Carlisle he finally agreed to go.

With Jasper's bitter mood in the car there wasn't much talk… verbally at least.

Bella. Gale said to me through his gift, I waited for him to say more but he didn't.

Gale…?

I'm getting real worried about Jacinda. His words left a bitter taste in my mouth.

Why is that? I tried to say as calmly as I could.

We can't have her closed off like this. We have to focus on all our safety when the Volturi and leaders come. Of course Gale's mind would be focused on the Volturi and leaders. To tell you the truth I'm sick and tired of Volturi acting like there some god or something and they have control over us. And the leaders with their mysterious ways, cruel tortures and strict rules have us all on edge with what they want. And then there is Alice. We don't even have a slight clue with what is going on with her and obviously we can't take her to the Volturi to tell us what is going on with her, I just hope that she does wake up soon.

I sighed out loud and Edward looked at me from the corner of is eye. I'll talk to her later if it makes you feel better. He wasn't happy with my answer but honestly I didn't give a shit. After saying bye to him I cut off the connection between us and took pleasure for the silence in the car and my head.

All to soon we entered the school parking lot and the students looked at the car stunned. Edward parked the Volvo in his usual spot and him, Gale, Jasper, Jacinda and I got out of the car, while Rosalie parked her BMW in the spot next to her and the remaining people got out.

I swear I heard people gasp when the saw us with the Cullen's. Jacinda rolled her eyes, obviously hearing the student body. They quickly started whispering to one another even though we could all clearly hear them. I did the smart thing by not listening to their thoughts but I felt sorry for Edward, knowing he couldn't turn his power off like I could. I looked up at him and his eyes were hard and his lips were set in a tight line; is jaw locked tightly also.

I quietly whispered to him so no one else could hear. "What's wrong?"

He looked down at me and his eyes softened but his jaw was still locked tightly together.

"I've gotten use to only hearing the thoughts of our families, that I was overwhelmed at first, but then I heard some of the thoughts of the males as they looked at you." He said to quickly and quietly I had to stain my head to hear everything. Once he was done I started giggling quietly to myself.

"The Edward Cullen got jealous?" I kept giggling but once I calmed down some I added. "You don't have to worry about them Edward, the only guy I'm interested in is already mine." I said with confidence. He smiled at me, and whispered so quietly "I love you." I smiled big before I said, "I love you too."

The stupid bell rang announcing class would start in a few minutes. "Lets get to class." Peter said already walking away to his history class. I could only see his beach blonde hair in the crowd of students. Everyone else started drifting off to their first hour and Gale, Nina and I headed to English together.

Class passed slowly, the ticking of the clock mocking me as it took its time around the circle. When the bell finally rang I was free to go but only to go into another class and stare at the clock all over again.

I walked out into the hall ignoring the stares I got from the students and entered my last hour before lunch, art.

This class could have been tolerable if it wasn't for Jessica also being in this class. I sat at my table and started to set up my paints for class when Jessica came skipping at my table.

Oh, joy. I thought to myself. I didn't have the patience to deal with humans today.

"Hi Bella!" she said in an over excited voice.

"Hey." I didn't even look up at her, putting all my attention on the brownish greenish paint stain on the table.

"I missed you! Where have you been?" I almost laughed out loud when she said she had missed me.

"There was a sickness going around my brothers and sisters and we accidentally gave it to the Cullen's." I could tell she took a small step back from my table. "But we're okay now, except for Alice." I said looking back down at the table, waiting for her to leave.

But she just stood their, expecting me to say more. What else did she want? I thought annoyed.

"Oh, well then why did you ride with the Cullen's today?" I was starting to wonder why the teacher hadn't told Jessica to sit down. But when I looked towards the teacher's desk she wasn't there. And Jessica wasn't the only one out of her seat.

"Are you and Edward going out?" Jessica spitted out, getting my attention back. "What? No, we're not going out. My family and the Cullen's became pretty close and they offered to give us a ride." I lied smoothly.

"His he a good kisser? Have you been in bed with him yet?" Jessica asked apparently not believing me.

"Of course I haven't kissed him, or had sex with him because I'm not dating him. We are just friends." I said slowly as if I was speaking to a 2 year old.

"Mmm, whatever. But I'll be watching you guys." Jessica said turning away from my table and going to her own, her brown curly hair bouncing while she walked.

I sighed while silently begging the clock to go faster.

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