Ok, all symbol reference in this is untrue… I just added it so that the story would run smoother!!

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There is two parts to this chapter. Now I was going to make this one longer instead of making two chapters but I got a bibt behind with the story and only got so far with it and so had to put it up. The next one will be up a bit sooner though.

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Enjoy…

Bella's POV

I can't believe Alice noticed the tattoo, I thought, biting my lip as I slipped into the car.

Well, of course she would notice it Bella.

What. The. Hell. Why was he back now? This wasn't even anything to do with Edward! I thought as the Angel interrupted my thought pattern. Alice was now speeding down the freeway back to Forks, humming happily to herself.

What do you mean? This has everything to do with Edward! It's just a good job Alice doesn't know anything about the Volturi, or she would have realized what the tattoo meant, he told me sternly. I knew, deep down, he was right. Look, I can see you have gotten yourself in too deep now, but let's try and be sensible with it at the least shall we? For a start, you need to make sure Alice doesn't let Edward or any of the other Cullen's find out about it…. NOW! He shouted at me when I hesitated.

"Alice… about the tattoo…" I paused, unsure about how I was going to continue with the sentence.

"You don't want me to tell Edward about it, right?" she gave me a knowing smile. But, of course, she knew nothing, which is how I hoped it would remain. It hurt having to lie to them all, especially Edward and Alice.

"Well… anyone really. It's just it is a bit embarrassing and I don't…" I drifted out of the sentence. I had never been a comfortable liar before and this particular subject put me on edge, making it even harder to bend the truth.

"Don't worry Bella, you can trust me with your secret… but may I ask you something?" oh no!

"Yeah, sure you can Alice," I told her, but wanting to turn and run as I knew what was coming next.

"What does it mean? It looked like an ancient symbol or something," she had deep curiosity in her voice. I knew that there was an Arabic symbol that looked very similar to the one on the base of my spine, unfortunately it meant something very embarrassing; though much better then the truth. I had looked this up, as I knew that one day that someone would see it and would ask question, and so I just had to prepare. The truth would crush them, as it crushes me to even think about it.

"It is Arabic for… beautiful," I blushed and looked down as I said this, "Of course my mates made me to pick that one, or so they tell me. I can't remember a thing from that night," I looked up though my lashes sheepishly. I saw Alice with a disapproving look but also very amused.

"Well, the symbol applies, but I'm not sure about you mates," she grinned down at me, and I looked back down at my lap, feeling the blush slip up again at the complement.

"Thanks Alice," I mumbled shyly. We spent the rest of the journey back to Forks talking about what we had bought, well Alice did most of the talking and I just nodded at appropriate intervals. It wasn't until we missed the turning off to Forks that I realized we weren't headed to mine.

"Alice…?" I gave her a questioning look and she replied it with her 'I-don't-know-what-your-talking-about' one. At that expression I knew what she was up to. I sighed and sat back into my seat. "A little warning would have been nice," I told Alice, accusingly.

She beamed at me and said, "Nothing gets past you Bella. Edward didn't really want you to know because… well-"

"He thinks I'm going to leave running and screaming," I finished her sentence for her with a disapproving tone, then couldn't help but mutter, "idiot" under my breath. Once I said this Alice burst into a fit of laughter, I had forgotten about her super sensitive hearing, which was unusual for me.

"He just doesn't want to hurt you Bella," she told me once she had calmed down.

"Still doesn't stop him from being an idiot," I muttered again, resulting in another fit from Alice.

"I'm telling him you said that," Alice smiled at me smugly.

"Good, maybe it will get into his head that he can't get rid of me that easily."

Easier then he thinks. Just one phone call from the wrong place, asking you back, the angel echoed through my head.

No, I still have a year left. Stop thinking like that. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, ridding myself from any unwelcome thoughts.

When I opened my eyes again Alice had turned down a drive, hidden by an over growth of shrubs and bushes, if we hadn't of just turned down it I wouldn't have thought it there. The road was a couple of miles long and when we finally reached the house at the end of it I could hardly believe my eyes. There was a huge house sitting right in the middle of a grassy clearing; I was all over white. You could tell it was obviously very old yet there had been a lot of work on it meaning that it now looked extremely modern. It had a homey sort of feel to it that I really liked.

Alice stopped the car just outside the house and was out the car while I was still unbuckling my seatbelt. My door opened and I expected to see Alice to be standing there, yet was surprised to see Edward with a relieved look on his face and I hand held out to me. I started to remember that I had had to have a go at him for opening the door for me and was slightly pissed at him doing it again.

"I swear we had this conversation the other day," I said, taking his hand and then letting it pull me out the car. He pulled me gently towards him and then slipped his other hand carefully round my waist.

"We did, I just chose to ignore you," he answered with his crooked grin pulling up onto his lips. He was so prefect in every way I couldn't help it but my heart accelerated at a touch, I could not understand how such a god like creature could love anything like me. I just smiled up at him and shook my head. "You ready?" he asked, looking at me with concern.

"You make it sound like I'm on trial," I told him jokingly. I saw his concern deepen as I said this. "Edward, stop taking life so seriously. You won't make it out alive," my grin widened as I made the obvious joke.

"Oh clever, telling the joke to a vampire." Now it was his turn to shake his head in disbelief.

"I thought so too," I replied with a fake serious voice and nodded my head in agreement. This time he actually laughed, which made my smile grow wider, if it was possible. His laughter was like bells and I anted nothing more then just to melt into him, though I was under no illusion to think his family wasn't listening to us and so didn't want to embarrass myself. "Come on," I told him, as I didn't want to keep them waiting any longer. So I took his hand led us up to the house.

Edward POV

Emmett had made sure that I stayed in his view the whole time, scared of what Alice would do to him if I managed to somehow get out of the house and follow them. So I settled for sitting on the couch silently, waiting anxiously for my beloved to come driving down that lane, not really fancying being ripped limb from limb by Emmett.

"Calm down Edward, what's the worse that could happen?" Emmett asked, seeing my obvious discomfort. Oh, god. The worse that could happen is… bad, very, very bad.

"Bad question, Emmett," Jasper mumbled, flinching from my rise in distress.

"Come on Eddie, Bella's coming here to 'meet the family' soon," Emmett used my nickname. I used all my self-restraint to stay seated, I could see that Emmett had good intensions but was going about it in the wrong way.

"Seriously Emmett," Jasper looked at me in panic. "Edward is extremely close to ripping off your head right now. So the jokes would be good at a minimum." I sudden wave of calmness drifted through the air blissfully and I accepted it gratefully.

All I needed was to calm down and realized that Bella would be fine. As I thought this I heard a car pull into the drive and a speed up it at a ridicules rate, Jasper noticed this to and lifted up his head slightly in anticipations to Alice's return. I, however, reacted in a slightly difference sense, racing to the window to catch the car drive into view. The car stopped and I watched as Alice got out and climbed up to the door.

All yours, she thought to me smugly. I was too absorbed in Bella to worry about Alice right now, I could tell she was hiding something from me, but that would have to wait until later. I could see that Bella was reaching down to undo her seatbelt; with a curtain of hair that hung as a barrier so I could not see her face. A wave of relief came over me as I watch this but I was still anxious and wanted to look at her properly. Zooming out the front, I headed towards Bella and before she had even finished unbuckling, I had opened the door. Her smell flooded to me and I felt like a drowning man who had finally been able to breath after being held under for too long. I didn't realize how much I had missed her, but now that I saw her delicate form once again I could really not understand why I let Alice take her in the first place.

She looked up at me, her soft, chocolate brown eyes staring into my hard, golden ones. It took all my will power not to grab her into my arms and hold her to my chest, and so I just settled for holding out my hand to her.

"I swear we had this conversation the other day?" she said taking my hand and letting me pull her out the car. I pulled her gently towards me and slipped my hand around her waist. I was so relieved to finally have her back in my arms where I could protect and love her, keeping her safe from the world. I barely noticed the loud thoughts coming from the house. Everyone had a view as to what was going on outside, I had to subside the urge to shout out at them to all mind there own business, because doing that would be slightly hypercritical considering that I was in there minds most of the time anyway.

Carlisle and Esme were in his office, arm in arm. There was a deep happiness from both of them as to the fact I had found someone; Esme was almost bouncing on the spot to meet Bella. Rose and Emmett were in their room, Rosalie desperately wanted to go but Emmett couldn't wait to meet Bella and so Rose humored him. Jasper had a very ecstatic Alice curled up in his arms in the living room, he was very scared that something might happen to Bella with him around and so planned to keep a distance. I was very glad about this for if something were to happen to her there would be hell to pay.

As she spoke her voice flooded through me like ice water, it was so pure and holy I couldn't think why such an angel as her would want to be with a monster like myself. I had missed the gentle chime of it, but I knew the note would always hold in my heart in one way or another.

"We did, I just chose to ignore you," I said answering her question. I gave her one of my crooked grins that I knew she liked and had the satisfaction of hearing her heart accelerate. She shook her head at me and smiled. "You ready?" I asked her, now turning serious. I knew she would fit in perfectly with my family yet I was still concerned. I didn't know whether it was the fact of a human, especially my Bella, stepping into a house full of vampires, or the 17year old boy I had always been, worried about his family meeting his girlfriend. But either one, I was nervous.

Bella seemed completely at ease, and I took this as a good sign. She was even making jokes, which surprised me even more. I couldn't believe how at ease she was round us and it worried me slightly. But I guess her mom was a vampire and so she would have grown up knowing about us, though I couldn't help feeling there was something more, and Bella's defensiveness about her past only confirmed it. But I was going to take Alice's advise and leave it be, if Bella wanted to tell me she would in her own time.

In the end it was Bella who ended up leading the way up to the house. My family had now all gathered in the living room, apart from Rose who refused to, and Bella and I were now a moment from entering it. Why was I so nervous?

We entered the house together, I refused to let go of Bella and so still had my arm neatly around her waist. My family where seated comfortably on the sofa and everyone smiled up at us as we came into view. Esme stood up in one swift moment, shortly followed by Carlisle, and walked over to us at a slightly faster pace than a human would. She had a warm, welcoming smile on her face.

"It is lovely to meet you Bella," Esme told her genuinely. She carefully held out a hand to Bella, still unsure about whether or not Bella was comfortable with us.

"Like wise," Bella replied, taking Esme's hand without any hesitation. Esme felt overjoyed with the acceptance and I could already see that she was starting to see Bella as one of her own.

"Bella, it is good to see you under better circumstances," Carlisle said, stepping forward and standing next to Esme. He also held out his hand and Bella took it again without a second thought, I could tell that Carlisle was very curious about this.

"Thank you Dr. Cullen."

"Please, call me Carlisle."

"Of course." She was very comfortable in our environment and it shocked Jasper. He was sitting furthest away from us but he could clearly tell that Bella wasn't scared in the slightest by being in our presence, and this confused him even more.

"Hey Bella," Emmett called from the couch.

"Hi Emmett," Bella answered back, smiling. Emmett replied that with a wide grin and then continued watching the muted football game on the TV.

"Bella," Jasper's voice came from the wall, Bella looked up from Emmett and smiled back to Jasper, I could see sympathy in her eyes and I knew she understood what Jasper was going through.

Edward, I should probably warn you now that there are vampire's in the area, Carlisle mental voice gently entered my mind and I looked over at him with a both questioning and panicked look. Don't worry; Alice hasn't seen them heading this way so we have little to worry about. I just suggest you keep Bella close, though by the looks of it you would be doing that anyway

I looked down to Bella and found that she was looking up at me curiously. "Would you like a tour of the house?" I asked her.

"That would be nice." She smiled at me happily and I smiled back crookedly. She obviously saw I was about to do this and so looked away quickly as to not embarrass herself, though I small blush crept onto her cheeks.

Oh Edward, she's wonderful. You two are obviously made for each other, Esme's voice chimed in my head.

"This way then." I gestured for her to move over to the stairs and she complied. Esme went to go sit down again and Carlisle followed her, but before he did he gave me a meaningful look and thought, I'm happy for you son, after 100 years you have found your mate. He sat down next to Esme and put his arm around her shoulder. If I had seen this before I had met Bella I would have been full of self pity that I didn't have a special 'someone', but now I had a mate myself not I signal bit of jealousy was there.

I truly loved Bella.

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