Disclaimer : I don't own twilight or any of the characters *sob* but I can state my claim on Laura! Huzzah! Tehe ;)

Again I have no authors note. Strange isn't it. This chapter was written to Paramore, Decode. If you haven't heard it check it out!!!

Edward's point of view:

'There was no need to shout at me Edward. I just wanted to know what was wrong.' She said in a sad, defeated tone. She swung the door open. I had a feeling I knew what was going to happen next. 'You can have my Ferrari if you want it. Tell Alice she can have any of my stuff if she wants it. Actually just offer it up to your family. Take what you want.' She jumped out the car and ran off again. This time I didn't chase her. I slid across the drivers seat and revved the engine, pulling round and driving home.

I pulled into the drive and noticed that everyone's car was still here. Strange. Then again Alice may just have told them. I stepped out the car and trudged into the house just as it started to rain.

'Edward, what happened? Alice asked as soon as I walked in the room.

'I don't know. What did you see?' Everyone appeared in the lounge, even Rosalie, who we knew couldn't care less for Bella.

'All I can see is Bella alone in a forest, curled up in a ball, sobbing as she's listening to music.'

'Oh.' Ouch. This is all my fault and each time they say something its another stab. I get it! I'm guilty! Give me a break already! No, wait. Don't. Let me suffer. I deserve it.

'So what happened?'

'There was an awkward silence and I started thinking. And basically Bella asked me what was wrong and I kept saying no. she asked me a third time and I lost my temper. "Fine! You want to know what's wrong Bella!?! Since we met again you've held me away! You wont open up! I want to make you happy but you're keeping me at arms length! I'm not sure what's wrong but I don't feel on the same level as you anymore! I feel like I'm on a different wavelength!" I shouted at her. And it scared her. She just turned around and said in a real sad, quiet voice, "I just wanted to know what was wrong Edward. You didn't need to shout at me." Then she got out the car told me we could have her stuff and ran off.' There was a silence, everyone staring at me, mouths agape. Finally Jasper spoke up.

'Edward I really don't want to say I told you so but I did warn you. I did say after you saw her the first time that you had to be careful around her. How emotionally fragile she was. How easily she would scare. She's obviously been through some tough crap in the past that still scares her. I know she said she was scared for us but there's something else. I can feel it. Just let her calm down and then she'll come back.' I sat on the sofa and put my head in my hands. Alice came over and put a hand on my shoulder. I shook it off.

'I knew. I knew how unstable she was and I shouted at her. I've scared her off for good now. She isn't planning on coming back otherwise she wouldn't have said we could keep her stuff.' I hit my head as hard as I could. 'I'm going upstairs.' Esme touched my shoulder as I walked by and I turned around. She took a look at my face and her eyes widened in horror. I could hear it in her thoughts. She was worried I was going back to the way I was after I left the first time. I probably was. I didn't care anymore.

Somewhere in the forest. Bella's point of view:

As the song changed onto Hands held high by Linkin Park I stood up. I knew what I was doing. The one thing I did when I felt scared. I pulled out my phone and scrolled through the contacts, finding who I was looking for and pressing ring.

'Hello?' A golden voice rang from the other end.

'Laura! How are you!?!' I asked as soon as I heard her voice.

'Bella! Oh my god! I can't believe it's you! We haven't talked in ages! Sweetie, how are you? I've missed you so much!' Laura was so excitable.

'I'm not so great but never mind. How quick will it take you to get to our place? I feel like training again.'

'Oh, sweetie. What happened this time?'

'It doesn't matter. I'll tell you when we get there. How long will it take? You aren't to busy are you?'

'Sweetie. I'm never to busy for you. I'll be there in 10 minutes okay?'

'Sure. Thanks Laura.'

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I was sitting on a wooden crate in a big, empty warehouse in Anchorage. I was living here - Anchorage I mean, not the crate or the warehouse - when I'd met Laura. She was vegetarian as well but older, she was 22 and changed in 1879. We'd met at school where she was working as a receptionist and we were friends straight away. This was about 10 years after I was changed and it was the first time I'd lived so, well, publicly I guess. She'd brought me here and helped me with my power and taught me to fight. Not that I needed much help, I was better than her straight away, but she was able to offer pointers and tips.

The door creaked open and Laura stepped in. She was gorgeous, prettier than Rosalie even. She was beautifully thin and tall, around 5'8" with long chocolate brown hair cut into layers with a sweeping fringe. Her face was thin with amazing cheekbones, big, bright eyes and full red lips. Her legs were long and thin and her arms were thin but well muscled. She was the most beautiful person I'd ever seen apart from Edward.

'Bella!' She squealed and ran forward, grabbing me in a hug and swinging me around.

'Laura!' She put me down and we laughed for a minute.

'I missed you so much!'

'I missed you too! What've you been up to? How are you?' We had been best friends almost straight away, totally inseparable.

'I'm fine and I've been doing the normal. But you called me here so you must have news. Spill.' I laughed and my troubles didn't seem that bad now.

'Well, ummm, so I moved to Wasilla and started school there and everything was fine. But I ran into the Cullens.' She gasped.

'No.' I nodded.

'Yep. So I ran when I saw Edward the first time and later that night I had a lovely visit from his sister Rosalie. Turns out he'd told them that I told him to leave and that I didn't want or love him. So when I finally cleared that up with his siblings it turned out his parents hated me 'cause they were so protective of him. Needless to say he destroyed my Ferrari so I destroyed his Volvo. And it was a bigger loss on his part. Then when he told his parents what had happened Esme asked about my past,' I heard Laura's sharp intake of breath.

'That can't be good. What happened?'

'I started hyperventilating and Edward took me up to his room and held me for awhile until I calmed down. Then Alice brought me a change of clothes because mine were covered in oil and when I asked him to turn around and close his eyes he said no.' She chuckled. 'And you know me so of course I got changed in front of him.'

'How much? I mean how much of your clothes did you take off?'

'All of them.'

'No.'

'Yep. On with the story. He asked me about my past so I ran back to my house, locked him out and played one of my songs about when he had left. He broke through so I ran off again and went cliff diving at that cliff at Wasilla, you know the one I mean.' She nodded. 'I got back and Edward was there and we took a shower together, if you know what I mean.'

'Bella! Shocked! You have to tell me all about it!'

'Another time, okay?' Yet again, Laura responded by nodding. 'Then as we were driving to school he started yelling about how I "wasn't letting him in" and that I "was holding him at arms length". Well, when he shouts it scares me, I mean, anyone else can kill me but my closest friends can leave me! It's so much worse! I ran leaving everything, telling him that he could have it, and phoned you. And here we are.'

'Awww, sweetie! It's okay! Everything's gonna be okay!' She hugged me and rubbed my shoulder reassuringly. 'Wait! Which of your powers does Edward know about?'

'Ummm, the death stare, telekinesis, that I can use other vampires powers if they're near and that I absorb them if I kill the vampire in question.'

'Oh so he doesn't know about the biting thing or the elements or the weather or appearances or anything?' I shook my head.

'No.' She sighed in ... relief? 'Can we please get down to some training now!?! I really want to take my mind off things!' Laura laughed.

'Of course sweetie. Come on.'

The Cullen's house in Wasilla. Alice's point of view:

I was drawn into the vision before I could stop it. Bella and a brunette vampire fighting in what looked like a warehouse. I caught sight of the name in the corner. "Anchorage storage systems, warehouse 2-11-48, unused". Then something caught Bella's attention, making her look away, and the brunette vampire made a leap Bella wasn't expecting and they crashed into a wall. I snapped out of my vision suddenly.

'Oh my god.' Everyone looked at me. We were all gathered in the lounge apart from Edward who was out hunting, literal translation: trying not to become clinically depressed again. 'It's nothing. I'm just going out for a drive, okay?' Everyone nodded and turned their attention back to whatever it was before. Jasper came over and took my hand. Such a gentleman.

'Want me to come with you, Al?' Awww, he was so worried for me. I loved him so much.

'No. I'm okay thanks Jazz.' He smiled at me and let go of my hand. I wandered out of the house and ducked into my yellow Porsche. The engine purred into life at the click of my key. I pressed "Anchorage storage systems" into my satnav and got a clear location. It would be a 30 minute drive. I reversed out the car and decided I needed music. I flicked on the CD player and was greeted by the album Fearless, Taylor Swift. It wasn't quite right for the mood though. I flicked through the CD's I had and found something else. A mix CD of Linkin Park songs. I shoved it in and "Somewhere I belong" came on. Depressing but right for the mood right now. I pushed my foot down on the accelerator and the satnav changed to let me know it was only 13 minutes instead of the 27 it had been. That was good. I settled down for the rest of the drive, knowing I couldn't push my little Porsche (even though it wasn't that little) any faster. I kept driving ignoring the time until my satnav beeped at me to tell me I was "100 metres away from my destination". Good. I swung down the little back lane that would take me down to the factory and checked the future to see where the warehouse was. It was second left, first right, third right and second warehouse on the left. I had followed my vision and parked the car in less then 30 seconds.

I threw myself out of the car and ran into the warehouse. Just like my vision the brunette and Bella were fighting.

'Bella!' I called. Bella turned her head to me, distracted, and the brunette made the fatal leap that would be the end of Bella. 'Crap.' I groaned. I had to act quick or the brunette would kill Bella. I couldn't lose my best friend like that!

I was just about to pounce on the brunette when she was flying back into the wall. To my surprise she started to laugh.

'Bella! Remember our agreement! No powers when we're training!' Training? Bella stood up, laughing as well.

'Not my fault Laura! Alice distracted me!' Wait, they were talking about me and I wasn't included in the conversation? Damn that's unfair!

'Alice?' The brunette - was her name Laura? - asked in confusion. Bella gestured to me.

'Alice Cullen.' Laura snarled at my name, rather my surname. 'Relax Laura!' Bella laughed. 'Alice is one of my best friends!'

'Oh, sorry Bella.' Then she turned to me. 'Sorry as well. It's just from Bella's some stories about the Cullen's ... well, you're her friend you'll understand.' I nodded my head at her and wandered over to Bella's side, grabbing the tops of her arms so she looked at me.

'Are you okay? I saw you two fighting and I didn't want you to get hurt.' Bella laughed, sounding happier than I'd heard since ... well, since before we'd left.

'Relax mom. We're just messing around. Me and Laura do that all the time. And I can't lose.' She turned to Laura who flew upside down, as if she was being hung up by her ankle. 'See.' I was about to reply when Laura started to roar at her.

'Bella! Remember our agreement! Put me down now!' She laughed and Laura was suddenly falling but she turned and managed to land on her feet. They both burst out laughing.

'Bella, what's going on?' I asked, unsure of a lot of things.

'Oh! I forgot you didn't know! This is Laura. She's my - well, I'd say best friend but that doesn't quite fit - she's my sister. We train together all the time. We met about 10 years after I've changed and we've been damn near inseparable ever since.' Then she turned to Laura. 'This is Alice Cullen. Edward Cullen's sister. She's my best friend and sister as well. Formal introductions over, what's up Alice?'

'Like I said. I had a vision wanted to check you wouldn't get hurt. And I wanted to ask, no, beg you to come back. Please Bella. Edward's going frantic over you. He can't stand it when he doesn't know if you're safe or not. And he's really sorry he shouted. He hates upsetting you but you know what his temper's like. And I miss you too. Everyone does. But I miss you most apart from Edward. At least, I don't go insane when you're gone.' She nodded thinking it over. But then Laura spoke up.

'There is another option for you to consider, if you want. If you don't feel like going back to the Cullen's or living on your own come live with me and Mark.' Bella laughed.

'Me and Mark? Living together? Well, that's a match made in hell.' She laughed again and this time Laura joined in.

'We could kick him out for a bit. He was saying how he wanted to go visit his other family in England anyway. And you promised you would tell me about that thing later ...' She trailed off suggestively and Bella hit her shoulder.

'Laura! Shocked! I thought we had an agreement!' Okay, now I was starting to feel like a loser. I mean, their cryptic way of speaking was so confusing! And I was left standing by Bella totally clueless. Laura laughed.

'So, Bella, how about it? Please come back. We have a spare room you can stay in or you can stay at yours. I'm pretty sure you could even share with Edward is you wanted and if you want to stay at yours I might just steal a bed. Please? I miss you so much when you're gone.' Bella looked torn. She was biting her lip swinging her head between me and Laura. After a few seconds she stopped and sighed heavily.

'I've decided...'

Bella's point of view:

'I've decided where I want to stay.' Both of them looked at me hopefully although Laura seemed to be asking me more out of spite to Alice than anything else. 'I'm going to move back home and Alice if you aren't in the bedroom next to mine at least once a week I will be annoyed.' Alice let out a peel of delighted laughter and threw herself into my arms. I caught her and she hugged me tightly. I looked at Laura who looked ... Well, somewhere between annoyed, relieved and happy. Strange. Alice let go eventually and I turned to Laura with puppy dog eyes. She laughed and hit my shoulder.

'I'm happy for you. Now bugger off and go get your man!' I laughed and let Alice pull me to her car.

I was going to end this chapter just 'I've decided...' but then I realized how much cliffies annoy me so I just added that bit on the end. And again we have our happily ever after setup and again I'm not sure whether they should kiss and makeup or something else should happen. I'm leaning towards something else and I have an idea but it needs some work ;) Update's coming soooooon! Tehe!

Smiles! Xoxo!!!