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~~~~~~February 1998. Bella is 10~~~~~~~

"Bella, you should go do something with your friends."

I looked up from my French book to look at my mother.

"I do things with Angela all the time."

I said friends. As in more than one."
"I don't have any others." I had made sure of that.

"Bella."

"Besides, I'm fine with Angela."
"Damn it, Bella! It's been five months."

I glared at my mothers. "Yes, mom. But let's aim for a little more than 5 months before I murder someone else, shall we?"

My mother glowered at me. "Bella, you're not-"

A horn honked.

"Got to go. That's Aaron." I had to remember not to just go through the door in my hurry to get out the door-which I slammed on my way out.

Aaron was now only recognized by his nice car. He never got out or introduced himself. Only dropped my off and picked me up.

I was fine with that. He would only attract more people and attention.

"What wrong?" Aaron asked as we pulled away from the house.

"Mom says I need more friends."

He winced but stayed silent.

I had already killed one friend; that was more than enough for one lifetime.

"Beware," he warned me as we pulled up to the school. "Knowing your mom, she'll probably try to throw a party or something."

"Great," I mumbled before getting out and heading over to Angela's and my meeting spot.

Besides me, she was probably the most perceptive girl in school.

And staying true to form, when I reached her she asked, "What wrong? You seem tense."

"Mom thinks I need more friends."

She frowned slightly but otherwise stayed silent.

She was partially in agreement with my mother as she had spent the first 3 months of our friendship trying to convince me of my innocence in Maddie's death.

I didn't budge on my standing.

But she also understood my caution, knowing how strongly I felt responsible for Maddie.

Sure enough, a couple weeks later I came home to streamers and balloons.

"Whose party?" I asked although I already knew the answer.

"Yours."

Like hell.

"You wish." I said heading up the stairs.

"Don't use that tone with me."

"Or you'll what? Ground me? Good. You do that. Then I won't have to go to this damn party."

"Where did you learn that language?" She demanded.

"From the kids you're so eager for me to be friends with." I snapped back.

I still had to go to the stupid party. But I didn't do what my mother wanted me to do.

Instead, I went and sat in a corner while the party went on.

After a while, my mom came over to me.

"This isn't going to end until you say hi to someone." She threatened.

I immediately called out to the nearest kid I recognized.

"Hi Brandon!" I turned back to my mom. "We done now?"

"Brandon, why don't you come visit? Bella wants to be friends." She wishes.

"No I don't."

She turned to me as Brandon walked away.

"Isabella Swan. You will make another friend or so help me I'll-"

"Renee?" A voice called from behind my mom. "Is that what this is about? Oh, Renee…"

So, Mrs. What's-her –name told mom she was doing more harm than good or something.

It didn't matter why to me.

I was just happy I wasn't going to have to fight my mom tooth and nail to have another friend besides Angela.

Aaron was happy too.

I didn't see him, but I felt Aaron punch the air in victory from outside my house.

I gave off a little laugh as I watched everyone leave.

~~~March 1998~~~~~

The next week I got sick. My mom called up Aaron to come watch me while she went to work.

Any other time, I would have resented her for dumping me on someone else-even if it was Aaron-when I was sick, but I didn't complain this time.

Bells were going off in my head again. I sobbed into my pillow when I woke up.

Whatever it was, it was going to happen within the next day or two.

I called Angela and told her I was really sick and to stay away.

When Aaron came over and my mom left, I pummeled his chest until my hands were sore as tears kept up a continuous stream.

Whoever this vampire was had better not touch Angela or I was going to burn him from the inside out and dance around his pyre as he burned and screamed.

I was over being sick, but when I woke up a few days later, chills encompassed my entire body making it nearly impossible to move.

My mom called Aaron up again and told him I had gotten worse

He came over again and instantly realized what was wrong.

"It's today, isn't it?"

"Not just today," I whispered as I clung to him. "It's here. At the house."

At four o'clock that afternoon, my worst nightmare arrived.

Angela came with cookies.

I tried to put on a smile that was genuine but being Angela, she of course saw right through it and immediately asked what was wrong.

I allowed her into the house.

My reasoning was that maybe I could protect her better in the house than outside in the real world.

Never before had I wished that Vampire's really did burn in the sun.

"So, are you okay then?" Angela asked as she sat down.

I pulled up a chair next to her; hopefully I could put myself between the vampire and my new friend.

"Yeah, totally. I just had a slight case of chills this morning so mom told me to stay in bed in such. Aaron came over a little bit earlier to check on me. But, I'm good now. I might be contagious though…."

My panic was growing which each passing second. Each second that passed, the bells in my head got louder.

I just prayed that they wouldn't go silent.

As we both stood up and I went to put the cookies on the counter, the warnings fell silent.

Crap.

I froze in my tracks-afraid to move even a little bit.

I heard Angela gasp at the same time I heard Aaron scream, "BELLA!"

My automatic reaction was to turn and fling myself at Angela-sending us both flying across the room and knocking Angela out cold.

But as we were flying through the air, I felt teeth graze my ankle. Not enough for venom to get in, but enough to confirm that it indeed was a vampire that was out for the kill.

I flipped myself off of Angela and came to face the vampire-female.

I heard some crashes from upstairs but I focused on the female in front of me.

Cause said female had a gun.

She fired all the shots quickly-all pointed at my head.

With a quick upward jerk of my arm-I brought a wall of air in front of me that easily blocked the bullets.

She growled and threw the gun aside and crouched.

I responded in kind.

"I'm gonna kill you, b****. You're gonna suffer for what you did."

I opened my mouth to respond but never got the chance.

I still don't know what she did to me. All I knew was my last thought before the floor meet my face and I fell into unconsciousness.

Bastard had a girlfriend.

I woke up in very much the same situation as with her boyfriend.

No Angela in sight.

That had me worried. There was no way that she had left Angela on the floor.

I leaned my head back in order to try and search for her when I knocked heads with someone.

Angela.

We were back to back.

That made everything easier.

The girlfriend came though the front door a little while later. A second metal door came down in front of it.

Crap.

She had long black hair that came down mid-chest in slight waves. She was pretty tall but not abnormally so. She obviously had a stunning figure…

And furious red eyes that were trained on me.

I stayed quiet as she came up to me.

"I'm a bit smarter than my mate was. You're vampire champion isn't here. Isn't anywhere close. And even if he does get free, he has to get through that metal door before I hear him and kill you and your friend."

She stepped back and went over to her arsenal of weapons.

I knew I couldn't escape with Angela intact, so while vampire's back was turned, I used the Air to completely knock out Angela so there was no way she would wake up.

Vampire chick walked back over to me with a metal rod in her hands.

"Let's begin."

I cried out as I was slammed into the floor. All I knew was pain. It had been a week since Angela and I were captured. I managed to knock her out each time the Vampire came in and by the time she was done Angela was starting to wake up.

The Vampire knew what I was doing but she only smiled overly-sweetly at me.

The Vampire came in at least once a day, sometimes twice depending on her mood.

Still no sign of Aaron.

The Vamp had managed to knock me out at several times. I had chunks of my hair missing and I was a bloody and bruised mess.

She didn't touch Angela though and for that was grateful.

As she brought her metal rod up-her favorite beating tool-to swing down on me I heard the most glorious sound in the world.

Metal screeching. Aaron had finally broken free and arrived.

"Impossible." She whispered.

I gave her my bloody smile. "You obviously haven't met Aaron then."

She looked between the bending door and me before she smiled cruelly.

"Too bad he never read the prophecy."

I didn't have time to ask her what she meant before she had bit my neck. She had two pulls before she was yanked off.

But the venom was still in my system.

I struggled to reach up and pull the skin away from my neck but my arm wouldn't move.

Where she had bitten began to heat up and then burn.

I cried out and clawed at my neck as the heat started to spread.

In some part of my mind, I registered the smell of incense-she was ash now too.

But, the fire was spreading through every part of my body.

I had heard to the stories. From Aaron and from Leslie. The venom took a bit to get to your heart.

So how did it manage to get to mine in less than 10 minutes?

I felt I small set of cool hands under than me and then I was in a lap. But this wasn't Aaron. But he wasn't growling so they were good.

"Bella? Bella, can you here me?"

I controlled my convulsing to shaking and twitched and tried to force my eyes open. All I got was a squint.

But I could see a small blonde haired girl in what little vision I had. I could hear voices swimming around me but I could only hear the girl's voice above me.

"Alex…is?"

She smiled. "It's me, Bella."

I screamed as the fire surged…and then fell silent.

I could feel the energy drain from my body as I slumped in Alexis' lap.

"Bella?" Leslie's frantic voice was beside my ear. "Open your eyes, Bella."

They opened, but they felt as if they were being weighed down.

"What's…happening…Lez?" My voice came out raspy and weak.

I felt myself being transferred to a different set of arms that I immediately recognized as Aaron's.

"I don't know, hun. Aaron, I don't know how but I think she's dying. Actual dying, not changing. You have to get the venom out of her now. Alexis will stay with you while the rest of us get the other girl."

"Angela!" I gasped out.

"She's fine," Someone else said. "Just a couple of bruises. Not even close to how you look."

"Hurry Aaron." Alexis said as the others went to Angela.

"I'm sorry," Aaron murmured. My eyes closed.

And then he placed his mouth over the other vampire's bite mark.

At first I didn't feel anything, just the drifting I felt after the 10 minutes of burning.

Soon though, the feeling started to fade and my eyes started to reopen.

The floating feeling faded and I gasped in pain as the burning returned full force.

I jerk my lower body up and hooked an arm around Aaron's neck in an attempt to keep myself to him and not pull away.

His arms came around and help my back as I struggled not to scream.

Still, a couple screams escaped before the burning faded completely and Aaron pulled away.

I slumped back into is lap and looked up at his now crimson eyes.

I touched the circles under his eyes. "You have to hunt before you return me."

He shook his head as Alexis handed him a glass of red liquid. I was too out of it to be disgusted.

He quickly downed it and I watched in fascination as he eyes turned back to the mixed golden crimson I first knew him as.

"Lion's blood," he explained. "Its richer so it changes our eye color faster."

I nodded as he helped me stand. As my touched the ground I shook my head and was immediately back in his arms as he walked out of the place. I was still too light-headed to walk.

As he carried me away I asked, "Is anyone still in there? Or anything worth keeping?"

"No," Alexis said. "We're going to come burn it down tomorrow."

I nodded but I didn't agree.

It was harder when I was weak, but my rage made me strong. With a burst of anger, the building exploded in flames.

They jumped in surprise as I smiled. "No, it's coming down tonight."

Aaron smiled down at me as I was transferred to the ambulance I didn't realize was there.

~~~End of April 1998~~~

A month later I returned to school with my hair cut to shoulder length. I liked it better, but I was worried about how Angela would react.

To me, not the haircut.

I hadn't seen her in the month I was at the hospital and confined to bed.

I needn't have worried. When Aaron and my mom-she insisted on coming though we still took Aaron car-dropped my off with a hug and kiss to them both she ran up to me and gave me a tight hug.

I hugged her back just as fiercely.

She looped her arm through mine as we went inside the school.

At the end of the day she turned to me.

"I don't blame you, you know."

I turned to look at her with an eyebrow raised.

"I don't. I know you blame yourself cause it's the second time in five months but I think the universe is preparing you for something. Major loss and troubling times. It could have happened to anyone."

I hugged her fiercely before I hopped in with Aaron and he pulled out.

We exchanged not-quite smiles.

It didn't happen to anyone nor could it. It would only happen to me because of who I was and whom I hung around with. But I was nervously happy.

I was nervous because Aaron's siblings were in town. All of them. I got to meet them in about a week. I wasn't allowed to go over to his house yet and having them all come over would scare my mom.

I also intended to figure out what prophesy that vampire girl was talking about and how it was relevant to me. It was obvious that she had known what I was before I was captured.

And knew exactly how to kill me.

Happy because I still had a very much alive friend.

Angela was alive and well and our friendship was stronger than ever.

Life-for now-was good.

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