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"Who bit you?" Jasper asked.

"Jasper, she doesn't want to talk about it yet," Rosalie said. I couldn't believe she was acting this way. She was upset for me and standing up for me. Maybe I had misjudged her. Jasper was looking confused. What could it hurt to give him a name? I turned around and lifted my hair to show the Cullens my scar. I could feel the sun on it and it felt wonderful. The sun no longer hurt my body when it hit my back and shoulder, not like it had in Pheonix. Now it tingled and it felt incredible.

"I was bitten by a vampire-"

"Well no duh, Bella!" Emmett boomed. I giggled a bit.

"Do you want me to tell you or not?" I challenged him. He made the hand motion of "zipping his lips and throwing away the key". I grinned at that.

"I was bitten by a male vampire. His name is…"

9. This Is My Story

"Is?" Edward asked. All I did was nod and when I opened my mouth to tell the name again, Edward's eyes flashed. "Bella, you mean to tell me that the vampire who bit you is still alive?" He was beyond angry. I took a step backwards; I was scared of him. He seemed to realize this and he relaxed his facial expression but it did not reach his eyes.

"Well, technically he isn't alive," I tried to joke. He just glared and I looked at my feet rocking them back and forth. Should I really tell them? They would want to keep asking questions and I would answer them, I knew I would. Was I okay with that? Should I withhold everything? It would be nice to let them inside my head a little bit, but I don't owe them anything. I feel that they need to know for some reason. I made my decision to just go with it. I didn't know how I felt about it deep down but I wasn't going to think about it anymore. This information about my past has been inside of me for too long and no one knows my story except me… and him. And I think that I might be able to trust these Cullens. It was impossible that only a few days ago I wanted nothing to do with them. What happened to my good sense? I shook my head. It's too late to turn back now on any account.

"It's alright, Bella," Jasper said.

"You can trust us, Bella," Alice added. They looked at me expectantly. I drew in a shaky breath and said, "Okay.

"His name is James Gigandet," I said.

"Why did he bite you?" Jasper asked. He seemed to be wanting all of the tough answers from me and I knew that I would answer every question willingly or not, mainly the latter.

"Because… Because I let him," I said in a low voice.

"You let him?!" Rosalie said, well, screamed at me. She was looking at me like I had totally proven her wrong about something. "Did you ask him to?!" she yelled at me. I was shocked and I cringed away from her. "Did you want to know what it felt like to turn into a vampire?!"

"No," I said quietly. I felt like crying because I thought she actually liked me and I was wrong. She softened a bit at my reply. This vampire is bi-polar, I thought. Then I rephrased, they are all bi-polar. "Then what was it?" she asked.

"He bit me because I was too blind to see that he didn't… love me back."

"You were in love with him?" Rosalie said, shocked. She looked upset about something. What did I say?

"I thought I was," I replied.

"I'm confused. Start at the beginning, Bella," Alice said. I took a deep breath.

"Well, I was in Pheonix. You would think that vampires wouldn't be in Pheonix. It explains why I never saw him in the day. He always scheduled our meetings for night," I started. "One night I was walking in the park because I couldn't sleep and I needed to get up and walk around. I was walking for a little while and I decided to sit on the swings. Some drunk guys came and they were really, really stoned. I was too scared to move and they were going to rape me, I knew it," I said.

"Oh, Bella," Rosalie said. She was sympathetic now? Huh.

"Well, they didn't rape me, thank God. But they did manage to knock me out. I woke up and I was on the ground. The drunken guys were all passed out around me and a cold hand touched my cheek," I put a hand on the right side of my face. "I jumped because, well, wouldn't anybody? I mean, his hand was stone-cold." I shivered at the thought of it, knowing what he did to me later that week. "I looked up and I saw his red eyes. I jumped away from him because he looked scary, but he was very handsome. His hair was blond and pulled into a ponytail that went down his neck. He was rugged and his clothes were torn. I remember he saw me looking scared of his eyes and he laughed. He said they were colored contacts he had just bought.

"I believed him. I asked him what happened to the guys and he said he 'took care of them'. They weren't moving and now I know why. It was because he killed them all, drank them dry, and I let him walk me home," I said.

"Go on," Alice urged.

"He told me his name and I told him mine. I mean, I owed the guy. He saved me from being raped, probably several times and then I might have gotten pregnant, or worse, I could have been killed. I didn't see him again until the next night. I went walking again and he found me. He said, 'Are you expecting me to save you again?' and I answered 'Maybe'. I was flirting; he was handsome," I explained. "James asked me things. He asked what I was doing walking around and if I did this often. I told him I did it when I couldn't sleep.

"He walked me home again and asked if I wanted to see him the next night. I asked him why it had to be at night and he said he was a vampire," I laughed out. "Of course, I didn't believe him. Vampires don't exist," I said as I looked at the Cullen family. I shook my head. "I didn't see how honest, brutally honest, he was being with me in everything I asked him. I was blinded by his charms.

"I continued to see him every night. Every night I would walk and he would be there and we would talk. He was interesting in a dark and mysterious way. Two days before he bit me, he started acting strangely. He would look at me differently. It was like he was bored but staying because of something I couldn't see. He would look at my neck often and I didn't know why. I was oblivious to all of the signs I should have seen coming. It was all right in front of me.

"The night I was bitten, I walked to the park and hid behind a building. I saw James talking to a woman with fiery red hair. She was beautiful. He… He kissed her, passionately," I said. "I didn't know that that was when I should have run away. It would have saved me if I hadn't made a noise, just run away from it all. But I did not. Instead, I gasped and walked over to him. The woman made a cocky face at me and kissed him again. My heart broke because I really thought that I loved James. When they finished he looked at me and said, 'You smell delightful tonight'. I didn't know what to say to that. The woman just looked at me and laughed, 'Hello, my name is Victoria. Bella, I can't believe you have fallen for my mate'," I sobbed. I gained composure and continued, "'Your mate?' I had asked. She nodded and made baby faces at me. I felt so humiliated. She walked over to me and sliced my neck with her fingernail," I said. I showed them the cut that was under my chin.

"Victoria walked away and left me with James. He was smiling. 'I told you I was a vampire, did I not?' he asked. I nodded because I didn't know what else to do then. He shook his head at me, 'Don't you know, Bella that you aren't supposed to talk to strangers?' I remember asking him why he even bothered saving me if that was how it was going to play out, that he was going to kill me. I remember he said 'I like to play with my food sometimes'." I was full-out crying now, and they were red tears. I smeared them away.

"That is so awful. No wonder you are afraid of us," Esme said. She came up to me and hugged me. After a moment, I hugged her back.

"Do you feel up to continuing?" Carlisle asked me. I nodded.

"James walked up to me and put a cold finger under my neck where his mate had cut me. 'Mouthwatering' he had said. I had shivered at his touch and the coldness of his voice. He had my blood on his finger and he licked it. I noticed that his eyes were black, pitch-black like onyx. He grabbed my neck and I tried to run. That's how he bit me on the nape of my neck. My back was to him and my hair was in a ponytail. I had dressed up for him that night," I said. "He bit me and I passed out," I finished.

"That's it?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, I woke up the next day on the grass in the park and I wasn't changed. I didn't understand anything about vampires that day; I found out all this afterwards. I did wonder how I was able to live through it, though. I went to the library that day and researched vampires for several hours. None of the information seemed like him and then I came upon a site about vampires and it seemed like James, if fit well with his personality and traits. I learned how a vampire can change a human by biting them and letting the venom spread for three days. I was shocked that I hadn't been changed. I was left and the venom should have spread," I shook my head.

"I will never know what happened. But the way it looks right now, I am changing into one of you," I finished.

"That is quite interesting. It is as if it has taken you three years to change instead of three days," Carlisle mused.

"I suppose," I said.

"He shouldn't have done that to you!" Edward yelled. I jumped.

"Edward, stop it!" Alice said.

"He shouldn't have, but he did," I said. "I can't change that, but I am changing," I laughed.

"There is nothing funny about this!" Edward continued. "This shouldn't happen to you, Bella. It shouldn't! It is wrong," he said. He came up to me and shocked my by pulling me into his stone arms and embracing me. I was stiff. Our bodies felt like they were meant to do just this. It was bliss for me and I hugged him back. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the surprisingly warm hug. Wasn't he supposed to be cold? It's another thing that is changing, I suppose, I thought.

"Awe," Alice and Emmett both cooed. I blushed. Well, dang, I could still blush.

"Thank you for telling us that story," Edward said. He pulled away and I frowned slightly. He smiled his crooked smile and walked over to his family.

"We should be going," Alice said. They didn't argue and I didn't stop them. Rosalie came over to me and hugged me before they went and whispered, "I would like to tell you my story sometime, if you'll listen."

"Okay," I whispered. She gave me a sad smile and ran with her family. I was just picking up my towel and book off the ground when Edward came back with a whoosh of air. I raised up, surprised and he laughed. I was still shocked when he swiftly kissed me on the cheek and ran away.

It was wonderful and I dropped the towel and the book from my hands.

AN: Sorry it isn't longer but it was meant to be this way! I am still working out the plot in my head. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I hope dearly that it cleared up the confusion I have caused to come upon many of you.

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