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Chapter 2 Are you real?
It took them a few moments to register that I wasn't a figment of their imagination.
But hey, how could they have known?
Every member of the Cullen family just stared at me.
But the emotions that showed on their faces varied.
Esme and Carlisle were completely and utterly shocked senseless.
Rosalie looked like she was seeing a ghost but that was easy to believe since they thought I was dead for the past 50 years.
Alice.
Poor little Alice looked like she was about to break into tears, for what I'm not so sure about, but it hurt me to see her so upset, while Jasper, well, he honestly looked a little scared.
But why be scared of teeny-tiny me?
Then there was Edward.
So many emotions were flicking across his handsome face. They went from longing to despair -probably because I was now a vampire- to joy and relief and then a deep ancient mask of sadness.
But there looked like there was another emotion that I couldn't decipher.
To me it looked l a little like love, but that unfortunately could never be true.
We lost that long ago.
With everything I had witnessed, I wasn't too sure which emotion I preferred.
But I knew I didn't want him to be in pain or hurt.
Seeing him made all of the longing come back, but I also knew that the most we could be was friends and nothing more -because one-sided love never works.
I just wanted to comfort him.
But I was in no place to do that because he didn't love me anymore and I had no idea at where I stood at the moment.
The silence was becoming deafening as the minutes slowly creeped by and it became more and more awkward for me.
They just kept staring.
No one blinked.
No one moved.
And everyone stopped breathing the moment I appeared.
Ten minutes later I couldn't take it any more with the looks on all their faces, so I ran to Alice (who was sobbing uncontrollably) and gave her a hug that would have surely shattered any human's bones. I told her everything and everyone was fine as she dry sobbed into me. I told her not to worry and that it was all going to be okay.
"Alice, you're alright. You're going to be just fine. I'm so so sorry if I made you cry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry Alice." I repeated over and over again as I rocked us back and forth trying to calm her down, but becoming more frantic with each time I repeated it.
Thankfully, to my pleasant surprise, Jasper was the one to snap out of the little trance and gather his thoughts, the quickest out of everyone.
"B..Bella is that really you?" His voice quivered as he asked.
"Yea Jasper, it's really me, in the flesh." I responded. "Who else could it be?"
"But... you...we thought... No offense, but uh shouldn't you be like…six feet under and dead right now? Not that I'm not happy to see you and how di-" Emmet asked.
He was becoming more and more confused with each passing moment.
"Yeah, we went back to Forks for you funeral and Alice saw the car and then saw that it burned." Rosalie interjected.
"Well did you see me burn? Or me even in the car? But this is really beside the point, don't you think?" I asked.
"Bella's correct. We should just be happy that she's alright and alive. So to speak." Esme said as she gave me an awkward hug (for I was still holding onto Alice) and a warm sincere smile, flashing her perfect white teeth.
"B...Be...Bella, I can't believe it's you. You're alive...I'm... You're...OH MY GOD BELLA!! I'm so happy…" Alice bursted out and then choked off saying.
I hated seeing her like this, she was supposed to be laughing and smiling... not like this.
"Well I'm happy that you're happy and that I am indeed alive." I joked, whipping my eyes out of habit.
"But I should have seen you and all the times after I tried. How come it didn't work?"
"I'm not too sure that now is the appropriate time, and there will be plenty of time for in-depth explanations for all those willing to partake, in listening to me ramble on. But we really should get moving, the sun is going to rise in a few moments and we shouldn't be without cover. Come on."
As they all followed me back down the alley silently, I turned to see that Edward hadn't moved an inch from where he stood. I smiled warmly, making it reach my eyes, and said "Hey, Edward, aren't you coming or you going someplace else?", trying to lighten the air between all of us.
I really hoped he was coming because as much as I knew that he probably wanted to be as far away as possible from me, I knew that I still loved him, even though it was only a one way connection compared to what we used to have for each other.
I hoped he could stand being around me if only for a little while.
I knew that seeing him only confirmed that I was never good enough, nor would I ever be good enough, even as a vampire, to even think of him as mine.
My boyfriend.
Or even ...my...my soul-mate.
But as luck would have it, he quickly collected himself and said "Sure.", giving me that crooked smile that I loved so much -my memory didn't do him justice.
And I swear if my heart hadn't stilled all those years ago, it would have been beating so hard all vampires within a 5-mile radius would hear it and my face would have gone a red as my dress.
Oh well. I knew I was just getting my hopes up in vain and most likely to get hurt again if I let myself hope or have any type of faith.
But at the moment I just didn't care.
I would hope and have faith until he left again.
Then I would know he was happy and way better off than he could ever be with me in his life.
As we walked back down the alley way, Edward seemed to become more and more hesitant around me.
It didn't help that we all were in complete and utter silence.
The silence soon became deafening again and I couldn't bear the way they just kept watching me.
The tension was so thick you could have cut it with a butter knife.
I hated that we all felt so awkward toward each other, even Alice (my best-friend) wasn't sure how to start a conversation, but to my immense relief, she had stopped dry sobbing and was walking to my right holding Jasper's hand.
I couldn't bring myself to look at Esme or Rosalie for I know if I even attempted I would have burst into tears -figuratively speaking of course.
Emmet, Carlisle and Edward were all walking calmly behind me, probably speaking together in some private conversation.
I used my power to try to listen in on them.
"She's so beautiful" -Edward
"I'm so glad she's alright after all this time. She has our diet I see from her eyes but what exactly has she been up to? And she was such a peculiar human. I wonder what powers she has now" -Carlisle
"Why? How? Who? When?" -Edward
"Bella's quiet. I wonder if everything is alright. I want to comfort her but is that my place? How does she see us now? Are we still a family to her or just..." -Esme
"THANK GOD SHE'S alright, but how come I couldn't see her when I tried so many times? Was she blocking herself from me? Is she even capable? I hope we are still friends even if we haven't seen each other for the past 50 years" -Alice
"Well, this is something isn't it? Little Bella has returned...-sigh- I hope she will be able to forgive me for how I reacted to her all those years ago. I maybe like a sister to her if she would let me. I just don't know how to." -Rosalie
"Wow, look at Bella. I wonder if she'll wrestle? Hmm… Why are we so quiet? I should do something to lighten the tension. But what? Well, I could do that but I know I shouldn't ... I really don't want Rose mad at me any time soon."- Emmett
I chuckled silently as I heard their thoughts.
Thinking that after all this time, they hadn't changed in the slightest way or form -obviously.
I knew that they would always have a place in my heart no matter what.
Little did I know at that time how big their places would be and how strong all our bonds would be with each other.
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