AN: Thank you to those who reviewed! I LURVE ya all! I had a reviewer ask me about Cullen POV's... I am not sure yet. I don't really do other views... Maybe I will try to tell what they thought in this chapter in the next chapter, but I don't know... I will just have to see.

Disclaimer: I read this one girl's story and she had a disclaimer on how she owned Twilight and Starbucks. I love Starbucks, but we can't both own Twilight! I just own a little-bitty thing called iTunes…

When Charlie arrived home, we ate. He asked how school was and I tried to answer as honestly as I could, but made it seem that I was really enjoying myself.

As a lie in bed a few hours later, I fell to sleep seeing the five faces that I had made a pact with myself not to get involved with. One Cullen, in particular, was the center of my dreams. I always saw weird things in my dreams, but now it was beyond what I wanted to see. It was on the edge of suicidal and infatuated, neither of which I was.

I dreamt that Edward Cullen bit me, and it didn't bother me a bit.

3. Accidental Discovery

As predicted by moa, it was white outside. What causes white? Snow of course! How wonderful is snow? I mean, it's wet and cold and it makes you feel like a frozen treat! Snow is just wonderful!

Ick.

I dressed in a pink vest with a white sweater underneath it and thick jeans. I wore boots. It was icy outside so I would no doubt slide and fall several times. Today was going to be a great day. Snow kinda puts me in a snappy mood so please bear with me…

I fell. Twice. And I hadn't even gotten in my truck yet. Ugh. When I was in my truck, I noticed that I was running really early today. Oh well. I could sit in my truck and read until school started.

When I got to school, I took out my iPod and Wuthering Heights, but I got to wondering how the ride here was so smooth. I decided to get out of the truck and investigate. Turns out Charlie put snow chains on my tires! I couldn't believe how sweet that was of him. I'd need to remember to thank him this afternoon.

When I stood up, I noticed the Cullens standing beside their car across the lot. Edward and Jasper were standing on the steps beside their car while Rosalie, Emmett, and Alice were leaning against the doors. Alice's eyes were… glazed over, I suppose you could say, but she was frustrated and confused. She clutched her head; her family was asking about her, I guessed. Did she have a headache?

That's when I heard it. Jessica, Angela, Ben, Connor, Mike, and Eric were all walking towards me, chatting excitedly; they probably had some gossip to share. They didn't notice the blue van headed right to them! The tires of the van squealed and I saw that the driver was trying to gain control over the wheel again, but it wasn't working.

Without hesitation or thought, I sat down on the ground and crossed my legs. With my left middle, ring, and pinky finger I touched the crescent at the nape of my neck. With my right hand, I held it in front of me, palm up. I was still, and the time stopped. I opened my eyes and stood up. The van was about ten feet away from Angela. I began with her.

I pushed her frozen form over to a safe area in the grass. Then, I took the others one at a time to that spot. I never was used to seeing rooms or parking lots full of people being… still. Nothing moved. The vehicles that were coming in had suddenly frozen. I did that, and it never ceased to amaze.

It was then that I realized my truck was in the path of the van. If I moved it, he would hit a pole, if I didn't he would kill my already dying truck. So I moved my truck a few yards away from where the collision would be. I went to the truck and saw how afraid the driver was, but he hadn't noticed any of the students he was about to run over. Everything was fine, but I could feel my energy draining. As much as I wanted to stop him from crashing, there was no way I could help. I walked back to the place my truck had been. I looked around. For some reason, I looked at the Cullens.

They weren't frozen… They saw me. They were all looking at me wide-eyed and confused. Alice was smiling and she waved. I quickly sat on the ground and place the usual fingers to the crescent at the nape of my neck. I turned the palm-up hand, palm-down and time started again. I jumped out of the way of the blue van just in time and it crashed into a pole. I hit my head on the pavement, but it didn't bleed. There would be a bruise.

Angela and the crowd looked confused, wondering how they got into the grass. The Cullens were looking around at the moving things that were in motion again. They looked at me. I called Charlie and told him about the crash. "A boy in a blue van just crashed into a pole. He couldn't control the wheel-"

"In the school parking lot?"

"Yes."

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

A few minutes later, Charlie arrived with an ambulance. They loaded the boy, Tyler Crowley, I found out, onto a stretcher. He told the assistant that I jumped out of the way and that it looked like I hit my head. I cursed him in my head.

"You said you were fine," Charlie said. He was upset that I lied.

"I am fine, Ch-dad. It doesn't even hurt," I tried to comfort, but I knew that he would have me go to the hospital. "Don't tell mom."

"Why?"

"I don't want her worried about me. Promise you won't tell her," I said.

"If you will go get yourself checked up, I won't tell her. But, Bella, if they find something wrong, I am going to tell Renee," he said seriously.

"Okay."

Before I knew what was happening, I was in Charlie's car on the way to the hospital. They saw me, I thought. What did this mean? They were vampires. That must have been why they weren't affected… Wait. They weren't already in lunch yesterday when I arrived. Maybe they saw the day going by as I had. They were talking, confused and frustrated. They knew now. Or did they? I couldn't just go back and change it if they already knew. It wouldn't work on them anyways. Maybe they didn't know what they saw, only that they did see something. Why had Alice been smiling when only a moment ago she had been clutching her head in pain?

When we arrived at the hospital, I was put into a room with Tyler. He looked awful. I wished, again, that I had been able to save him from crashing, but it really was too late now. I couldn't risk the Cullens seeing it.

A doctor, if you could call a model a doctor, came in then. My jaw dropped… far down, I might add. He smiled. He was a vampire, no doubt. Then, the Cullens came in. Tyler was knocked out for good with pain meds so it was just me, Dr. Carlisle Cullen- it's what his nametag said, and the Cullens. This must've been their father.

"Ah, Bella Swan," Dr. Cullen said. He was looking at my charts. "You hit your head rather hard didn't you?"

"Not really. I'm fine," I said. He looked up at me, curious. I looked down. I couldn't even acknowledge the Cullens. I noticed Carlisle breath the air around me, and he too looked confused by it.

"Let me see," he said. He came over to me and I wasn't surprised by his cold hands. I didn't flinch. He moved my hair out of the way to see my bump. I fell on my right side and the bruise was under my right ear. "What is this?" He asked. I realized that my hair was not covering my back anymore: my crescent was exposed. I quickly moved away and faced him.

"What's what?"

"There is an interesting scar at the base of your neck, Ms. Swan," he explained.

"Oh, that… right, uh, it's from a bike wreck," I said lamely.

"You are a terrible liar, Bella," Edward said from across the room.

"I am not lying."

"Are too," Alice said. She was smiling widely.

"What's with the smile? Okay… You were all 'ouch my head' one minute and all smiles the next," I said in a rush. Alice just smiled more.

"Would you let me see the scar again, Ms. Swan?"

"Call me Bella. It sounds so formal the other way," I said. It was a lame attempt to change the subject but I had to try. I couldn't let a vampire see the mark on my neck… he already recognized it. One more look and he would know. "Dr. Cullen-"

"Please, Bella. I insist that you call me Carlisle," he said with a smile.

"Carlisle… My head is okay, right?"

"Yes. You have a bruise, but it will be just fine with some rest and some medication," he said.

"Does that mean I can leave?" He looked at me for a few beats.

"You may leave when you desire, but I really would like to see that scar again."

"I'm sorry," I said. I meant it. Carlisle seemed to really care… Wait. Hold up. He had gold eyes too.

"What's with the gold eyes? Seriously," I said. I shouldn't have brought it up. Carlisle looked taken aback.

"I beg your pardon?"

"You're eyes are gold. Edward and everyone had black eyes my first day of school. I would be willing to bet that you did, too. And now you all have golden eyes. What's up with that?" Carlisle observed me a few seconds.

"Bella," Jasper said. I looked at him. "You know something. You know… something," he said. I looked down. I was in a pickle. I shouldn't have had so much contact with the Cullens; I should have stayed away like I had planned. Jasper moved towards me and I looked up. It was subtle, but I could see it… His skin had little crescent marks on it like the one on my neck. Subconsciously, I touched mine. I didn't understand why I could see the marks on him now when I hadn't seen them earlier. My strength was going away from me; could that have something to do with it? I stared at all the marks, mouth slightly parted. I blinked a few times to see if it was a trick of the light, and when I realized it wasn't, I looked at his face. He was studying me, as were the other Cullens, Carlisle included.

"You can see them, can't you, Bella?" Jasper asked. I looked away. "See what?" I asked. He rolled his eyes. "You can see them. I know you can. What I want to know is how. Only my family and… relatives… notice the marks." When he stopped on relatives, I laughed. I couldn't help it; he referred to other vampires as relatives.

"What's so funny?" Carlisle asked. I just shook my head.

"I can see them. Big deal," I said.

"It is a big deal," Alice said. Still, she was smiling.

"Okay, Alice, the smiling is really starting to scare me more than you usually do," I said without thinking. She tilted her head. "I scare you?" She asked.

"You're just… you know, always so… hyper," I replied. She laughed.

"You really are a terrible liar, but it makes it so much easier for me. You know that we are vampires don't you?" She asked. Her family looked at her aghast. Edward looked about ready to kill her. They all looked at me. I looked down again.

"You do!" She said. I didn't look up. "Bella, I told you that I thought we would be friends! I was right…" Alice seemed happy to know she had been right, like she hadn't known for sure but signs pointed that way.

"I don't know what you are talking about," I said. Alice rolled her eyes at me.

"Now, since you know about us, you can tell us about you," she said.

"Nothing to tell," I said. It sounded surprisingly convincing to me but I doubted that any of them would buy it. How had I gotten myself into this?

"Bella, it's killing me-"

"Alice," I laughed, "You're already dead, remember?"

"Yeah, yeah," she smiled. I couldn't help but smile back.

"I want your word that none of you will try to eat me. One bad experience was enough," I said. I was serious now. I let too many things slip with these vampires. It was only my third day at school and they were about to learn the biggest secret that I have. I couldn't let that happen no matter how much I liked this family. It was like I could tell them everything that was going on inside me and that was a dangerous thing to feel.

"We wouldn't eat you, silly human," Emmett said.

"Okay… You think I don't notice you vampires sniffing me?" I said.

"I told you guys... I told them they were freaking you out, Bella," Alice said.

I realized it then. I realized that I was becoming friends with this family. "I'm sorry," I said. I looked at each of the Cullens' faces, Carlisle's too, and I made eye contact. I tried to get them to realize that I couldn't do this, be their friend. I hoped that they would understand. They didn't try to stop me. As I walked out of the room, I made a pact not to talk to any of the Cullens, at all. This would be the last time.

I found Charlie and he took me home. I went to sleep in my bed and had a dream about Alice, and in the dream, she could see the future. It may have been my subconscious putting pieces together… It may have been just the freakiness that all my dreams have, but it really didn't matter.

I was done with the Cullens; I was done with Edward.

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