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Chapter 3: Surprise

POV: Bella

I had been with the Denali's for just under two years now; there were six of us Carmen and her mate Eleazar were away on another honeymoon when I had arrived. Carmen took to me straight away, she was very nice. I wasn't as close to her as I was to Kate but that could have had something to do with the fact that Eleazar did quite approve of me staying with his family, I was a new born after all. He tolerated me and I thought that he now even may like me. He didn't glare at me when I waked in a room anymore. That had to be a good sign.

The Denali's were extremely nice to me; they gave me my own room and treated me like part of the family. I was closest to Kate; she had always seemed to trust me more in the beginning and she never pried unlike the others. They always wanted to know more about my human life, it was after all not everyday that they came across a human that knew about vampires. I never told them to much or anything that could link me with the Cullen's. I could not remember all my human memories very well, I was constantly worried that I would forget things; there were things that I never wanted to forget, Charlie, Rene, Jacob, the Cullen's… Edward.

It was a Friday afternoon and Kate and I were getting ready to go hunting, we would not get back until Sunday as we were heading north to take care of a mountain lion problem. Just thinking of mountain lions made me want to sob tearlessly. Although I was slowly getting better sometimes small things reminded me of them and I was a wreck.

"Ready to go Bella?" Kate asked me standing at my bedroom door. I smiled at her and nodded my head not trusting my voice. She looked concerned but let it drop, I knew she would ask when we were alone, but if I told her I didn't want to talk about it she would leave me be.

We had been running north for an hour before she spoke again. "What's up Bells?" she asked looking at me concerned. Should I tell her? Maybe it would help. I had not spoke about it ever, not truthfully at least but now this was my chance, Kate knew Edward was a vampire there were no secrets I had to keep from her. I took a deep breath and began to explain.

"I'm in love with a vampire…" she looked shocked she didn't know what to say, so I continued. "I met him when I was human, when I lived in Forks. You know him actually." I threw the last bit in casually. I saw her eyes widen as she put two and two together.

"The Cullen's… you were the human girl Edward fell in love with?" she spluttered. I nodded; I could tell she was feeling sorry for me. "They told us so much about you; they all love you so much."

"They obviously did not love me that much, they all left me." I said not looking at her as I broke down in sobs.

"Bella, shh… its ok, everything is going to be fine. I'll phone them, then you can see them and …" I cut her off before she could continue.

"No they left because they didn't want me anymore, they don't love me." I sobbed. "Please don't tell the others I don't want anyone else to know." I begged her, she nodded and hugged me. After that our trip was mostly silent as Kate left me to ponder my thoughts. I was grateful for this, I needed time to think and clear my head. I hadn't broken down like that in almost a year; I thought I was finally moving on.

We were heading back to the house now I was so full I didn't think that I would need to go hunting for at least two weeks. My eyes were a healthy golden colour, I was so glad they were not red anymore. We were about two miles from the house when Kate asked if I wanted to race, I agreed so we sped off towards the house. I was the fastest in the family so I was winning, I came across a smell that I did not recognise leading to the house but I could hear Tanya and some others laughing so I could not see how there would be any danger.

I ran into the living room and was met by ten pairs of golden eyes staring back at me. "Ah Bella your back. These are the …" she was cut off by a high pitched excited voice.

"Bella!!! Is that really you? I don't believe it, I never saw this coming. I am so sorry for leaving, we all are. We have been miserable without you." Alice danced up to me and threw her arms around me.

"It's fine Alice." I said weakly returning her hug. I saw Kate in the corner of my eye looking at me with concern, probably wondering if I was going to break down in endless sobs again. I looked up to find the rest of the Cullen's staring at me with their moths hanging open. That's when I realised that they were one missing. Edward.

"Can I ask what is going on, Bella how do you know the Cullen's?" Tanya asked, I could tell by the tone of her voice that she was annoyed. I did not know what to tell her, I wasn't sure if I would be to speak if full sentences yet. Alice seemed to realise that I was unable to answer.

"We met Bella in Forks." Alice explained, I knew that just like Kate, Tanya would work out that I was the human girl that Edward supposedly fell in love with. But before Tanya could say anything Kate spoke.

"Tanya, Carmen, Irina, Eleazar, I could use all your help for a moment, outside." Tanya looked slightly annoyed at missing all the drama, but Kate was very persistent and eventually they all left, leaving me and the Cullen's alone. I would have to thank Kate for that.

Esme was the first to approach me after Alice, I could see the emotions that I was feeling flying across her face. Happiness, concern, sadness, worry and I thought I even saw some love there to. She smiled and threw her arms around me; we stayed like this for a few minutes until she loosened her grip on me and looked me in the eye, keeping a firm grip on my shoulders. "Bella what happened? How are you a vampire? Who did this to you?" I wished that she wouldn't ask too many questions I could hardly take in that they were really here.

"Laurent. Laurent attacked me." I thought that this answered all her questions, it was the best I could do at this moment. After that everyone rushed forward to greet me even Rosalie, she actually seemed genuinely pleased to see me. I was happy to see them all to but I was desperate to know where Edward was, why wasn't he with them? Was he ok?

When everyone had settled down, with a little help from Jasper, I proceeded to tell them the whole story, well what I remembered. They all looked shocked; I think they were feeling guilty for leaving me, like it was there fault.

We chatted to each other for the next hour, although Edward was never mentioned once, this worried me. Had something happened? Or were they only keeping quiet so they didn't upset me? I wished that they would tell me where he was. Before I could build up the courage to ask Jasper said something about needing to hunt. Everyone but Alice agreed to go with him. I was glad; she was the one person I could ask anything to.

We were sitting on the couch chatting about my life over the last two years when suddenly the worry got to much or me to handle. "Where is he, Alice?" I blurted out. She looked at me like she had been expecting this reaction for a while now.

"He left us a week ago, don't worry he does that a lot. Wonders off for a week or two, then comes back." She sounded like she wasn't telling me the whole truth.

"Where does he go?" I asked her, this must have been what she was holding back from me as a look of awkwardness crossed her face. Then she sighed and answered me.

"He heads towards Forks." She whispered. My mouth dropped open at her answer.

"Why?" Why did he do that, he didn't love me, well at least not in the same way that I loved him.

"Isn't it obvious Bella, he goes to see how you are doing, to make sure that you are happy but he never gets all the way there. He cannot bring himself to ruin your life again. I had a vision earlier of him; he will be here in two days." She said with a big grin across her face. "I'm so happy, Bella and Edward together again!" my eyes felt like they were popping out of their sockets.

"What? Alice, where not getting back together." No matter how much I wanted to. "He made himself perfectly clearly the last time I saw him." I told my best friend sternly.

"But you love him right?" she asked me with her eyebrows raised, as in daring me to deny it. It was no use she could see right through me. I simply nodded. "Well there what's the problem?" she asked me.

"The problem is it isn't like that for him anymore, Alice." I murmured, not wanting to get into this right now, I was just so happy to have my sister back. She went to say something else but I stopped her. "Please Alice, can we talk about something else." She nodded although I could tell that I had not managed to convince her.

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