A/N: Oh my gosh, I am so sorry about this chapter being really late! I was focusing a lot on dance and in the end, I think that it paid off because we won 'studio of the year' although I wish that I had been able to fit dancing and writing this fanfiction into my schedule. But now the dancing year is over and until summer dance starts up I can focus more on writing this fanfiction. That being said this chapter is longer than the rest as a sort of apology and I have written out the next two chapters so I should be able to post them all within a week. And now without further wait, on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight in any way, shape or form.

Previously:

"What I'm saying is that, according to my contacts and sources, you are neither human nor vampire. You are an elemental."

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I looked up and saw that there was ice creeping up the side of the wall.

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"You look like Elsa," he said with a teasing smile on his face and a glint in his eyes.

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I sighed again in irritation and ice started to creep up the inside of the cup. Yes!

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"Do I really have to wear these?" I asked holding my gloved hands in Alice's face.

"Yes," she replied smiling sympathetically at me.

I groaned and Edward chuckled before Alice suddenly froze.

Edward disappeared and seconds later I heard a screeching noise. I looked up in time to see a van spin crazily towards Bella's truck.

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"It's supposed to be sunny this weekend so I was going to go down to Port Angeles. Want to come?" I offered.

"Um, sure."

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I couldn't fall asleep and twisted and turned for hours before I finally drifted off to sleep. But now I desperately wish that I had stayed awake.

I had a terrible nightmare and even though I don't remember exactly what it was about I do remember the feeling of pure terror and waking up screaming.

I couldn't stop screaming and I wasn't taking in enough air.

I heard the door swing open and cold hands on my shoulders sitting me up and hugging me.

I was still screaming and thrashing around though and even when I could feel Jasper trying to calm me it wasn't working.

I could hear Alice and Rosalie whispering things in my ear but I couldn't make out their words.

Eventually, no sound was coming out when I screamed and my throat hurt so much.

Finally, after about five or six minutes, Jaspers gift slowly started to take effect and my screams changed to crying.

"Shh… you're okay. You're safe, nothing can happen to you here," Rosalie's voice whispered quietly yet soothingly in my ear.

Slowly I opened my eyes and wasn't really all that surprised to see that the room was back to being completely covered ice and It was crawling up Rosalie's arms as well as she hugged me and rocked back and forth.

"Y-your arm," I barely whispered my voice raspy from screaming.

"It's fine," she replied curtly before turning around for a second and mouthing something to someone.

Everyone besides Rosalie quickly filed out of the room and Rosalie moved slightly so that I was tucked into her side before she started running her fingers calmingly through my very messy hair.

"Wanna tell me why you were screaming so much?" Rosalie asked quietly yet firmly and I could tell that it wasn't really a question rather than a request.

"Bad dream," I mumbled into my hands which were being used to hide my face.

She easily pulled my hands away from my face and held them in her own instead.

"What about?" she asked referring to the nightmare.

I just shook my head as I felt more tears prick at my eyes.

I leaned heavily on Rosalie as she continued running her hand through my hair and spent almost an hour trying to calm down.

"Better?" she asked once my breathing had returned to normal and I had stopped crying. The terror was still there but it wasn't as strong as before and it was still ever fading.

I nodded into her side and she chuckled lightly before moving a little so that I was lying down on the bed and she was sitting beside me.

"Go back to sleep now that you have relaxed. Don't worry I'll still be here when you wake up."

I nodded and closed my eyes trying to do as she said, but I just couldn't fall asleep. Anytime I came near falling asleep I would always jolt back to reality my mind filled with fresh terrors.

I knew that this was probably starting to annoy Rose, but instead of letting it show she started rocking back and forth again moving me with her slightly as she began to hum a song that Edward had written for me as a lullaby when I first came to live with them.

When I woke up in the morning I was still leaning against Rosalie although now she was reading her strange philosophy book in some crazy language.

"R-Rose," I whispered and she looked down from her book before smiling comfortingly.

"Feeling better than last night?" she asked as she set the book down to give me her full attention.

"Yeah," I nodded and she grabbed my hands gently before lifting me out of the bed and holding be above it.

"Good," she smirked mischievously before dropping me back down on the bed so that I was lying on my back.

"Hey!" I laughed and she did as well before leaving the room to go get ready for school, even though she could be ready within five minutes.

I stayed laying down for a minute before sitting up so that I could get ready for school as well because it would defiantly take me a lot longer than five or six minutes.

Eventually, when I knew I couldn't put off getting up any longer slid off my bed and onto the floor.

I stood up and stumbled into the bathroom to run a shower.

After thirty-two minutes I had showered, brushed my teeth, and put on a moisturizer before exiting the bathroom.

I briskly walked over to my closet the cool air stinging my bare skin as I slide the vanilla white french doors open.

I grabbed the first outfit that I saw which happened to be a pair of dark leggings and a dark blue knee-length sleeveless dress. I pulled on the outfit and braided my wet hair before tugging on a dark brown pair of combat boots and leaving my room for the morning.

I decided to skip breakfast seeing as I wasn't really hungry after last night and instead went outside to get some fresh air. We would've to leave for school soon and I didn't think that I could take being cooped up inside for much longer.

I sat on the porch outside the cool yet humid air causing my hair to become slightly frizzy.

The air was cold but it still felt good and I found myself relishing in the rare sunlight that was streaming through the dark clouds.

Eventually, my siblings had also come outside laughing at me as I tried to absorb as much vitamin D as possible. I was supposed to rain later and I wasn't looking forward to losing sunlight. Again.

School had been complexly uneventful and the rest of the week had passed in the same dull, boring manner. The only difference was that we had at yet another rare sunny day and my siblings and I had needed to stay home that day. I didn't sparkle or glitter in the sunlight like they did but our cover of a family camping trip wouldn't really work if I still went to school.

Eventually, the weekend had rolled around and although Saturday hadn't been sunny it also wasn't raining for which I was grateful. I really did need to go down to Port Angeles.

Bella and I had texted back and forth for a while and we had decided that we would meet at the diner at noon and then she would drive us to Port Angeles.

Which brings me to the present. Alice had dropped me off at the diner five minutes ago and now I was sitting at one of the outdoor tables as I waited for Bella.

A second later Bella's orange truck pulled up in front of the diner the engine wheezing with effort.

"Hey!" I smiled at her as I climbed into the passenger's side and she smiled back.

"How are you?" Bella questioned as she drove away from the diner and towards the interstate.

"I'm pretty good, and you?"

"I'm fine. Glad it's not raining."

"Yeah, it was supposed to be sunny but I think we got the sun earlier on Thursday instead," I smiled to myself remembering Jasper and Emmett's wrestling match that day. Emmett had won but Jasper had been super close to coming in first.

"You guys when camping when it's sunny?" Bella questioned and I tried to remember what our alias for that day had been.

"Backpacking but that's basically the same thing as camping," I couldn't remember where Edward had said that we had gone this time.

"Oh. I could never do that" -I laughed lightly and she continued on with a new topic- "Jessica and Angela want me to meet them later so after we go shopping do you want to come out with us?"

"Uh sure. I was hoping you would drive me back to Forks after anyways. I'm fifteen, I can't drive."

"Really?" A look of surprise crossed her face. "So you're the youngest."

It wasn't a question but I replied anyway. "Yeah. Rosalie and Jasper are my older biological siblings and Emmett, Alice, and Edward are my adoptive siblings although they're also older than me." Or at least that was the story that we were telling right now. I had light blonde hair like Rosalie and Jasper so it made the most sense for me to be related to them.

"Large family," she replied smirking.

"Mm, but I love my family. Adoptive or otherwise." Even though my whole family was technically my adoptive family. "Do you have any siblings?"

"No. In Forks it's just me and my dad but back in Phoenix I have my mom and my step-dad."

"So what are you guys going shopping for?" I asked changing the subject.

"Dresses for the girls choice dance. I'm not going but they wanted me to come with them."

"I'm not going either. Something that Alice is probably going to hate me for," I mentally cringed imagining Alice seeing me not going. She was most likely going to be mad when I got home.

"Alice?" Bella questioned.

"Yeah, my older sister is into parties and she likes playing dress up and dressing everyone for all of her crazy parties."

"Good to know."

We both laughed and just talked on the way to Port Angeles. The ride was great and the time passed really quickly.

In Port Angeles, we had gone shopping in two different clothing stores and then we had eaten a very late lunch at Burger King.

Around four-thirty or five Angela had texted Bella telling her what dress store they were at.

As we drove down the boardwalk and to the store Bella ran one hand through her hair. "More shopping. How did I get dragged into this again?"

"Welcome to my world," I smiled. Alice and Rose would constantly drag me along to go shopping with them although I never really understood why they couldn't just go by themselves. It's not like they asked my opinion or anything like that.

Bella laughed as she pulled into the parking lot as the trucks engine stuttered slightly.

"You sure this thing is safe?" I teased lightly and Bella sent me a fake glare. "Don't hate the truck."

I held up my hands in mock defense, "Sorry, sorry."

We both burst out laughing.

I was still trying to contain my giggles as we walked into the store and Bella looked around.

"Bella!" I heard Jessica Stanly's high pitched voice as she waved Bella over to the juniors section.

"Oh," Jessica looked shocked when she spotted me walking beside Bella as we headed over to her friends. "I didn't know that you invited someone."

"Yeah, sorry about that, I forgot that we were supposed to go dress shopping today."

I smiled shyly at Angela and Jessica and Angela smiled back while Jessica just glared openly at me. What did I do to her?

"Hi I'm Elizabeth," I greeted trying to ignore Jessica's obvious displeasure.

"Nice to meet you I-"

"We know who you are," Jessica cut her friend off, spite evident in her voice.

"Guys," Bella interrupted in an exasperated voice, "Aren't we supposed to be shopping for dresses?"

"Yeah right, I like totally forgot," Jessica gave Bella a fake smile before pushing me out of the way and pointing towards the racks of dresses.

Jessica eagerly lead us over to the dresses while Angela hung back slightly to talk to me.

"I'm sorry about her. We're glad that you came. Oh, and I'm Angela by the way." She smiled slightly and I smiled back glad that she wasn't acting like Jessica.

"It's fine and it's nice to meet you, Angela. Sorry for kidnapping Bella from you. She was helping me escape from my siblings for a day." Not that Alice wasn't probably closely watching my future right now making sure that I stayed out of trouble.

"No problem. I can't imagine having five siblings, it must be crazy."

"No, you're right, it is crazy and although I love my family to death sometimes I just need to escape."

Angela looked like she was about to say something else when she was suddenly cut off by Bella's yelling.

"He said what?" her voice came out choked and instantly drew the attention of another small group in the same section.

"Told you it wasn't true," Angela murmured and I was confused. What were we even talking about?

"What's happening?" I questioned Bella and she turned around looking irritated about something.

"Tyler is saying that he's taking me to prom." Oh, I'm sure Edward hates that.

"That's why Lauren doesn't like you," Jessica cut in giggling as she grabbed Bella's attention again.

Bella ground her teeth. "Do you think that if I ran over him with my truck he would stop feeling guilty about the accident? That he might give up on making amends and call it even?" Bella sounded way too hopeful as if she was actually considering the idea.

"Maybe," Jessica snickered annoyingly. "If that's why he's doing this."

By this point, Angela and Jessica were picking dresses from the small dress section and Bella was commenting at the appropriate time from one of the low chairs in front of the dressing room although she looked like her mind was miles away.

Jessica was torn between two dresses- one a long, strapless, basic black number, the other a knee-length electric blue with spaghetti straps. Bella had encouraged her to go with the blue.

Angela had chosen a pale pink dress that draped around her tall frame nicely and brought out the honey tints in her light brown hair.

Bella had complemented them both graciously while Jessica had rather rudely ordered me to return all of the reject dresses to their proper places.

After the girls had chosen their dresses we moved on to shoes and accessories.

While they tried things on I had simply sat in another low chair as Bella critiqued them half-heartedly.

I had tuned out the conversation but I tuned back in when I heard Bella call Angela's name.

"Yes?" Angela held out her leg so that she could clearly see the pink, strappy heels.

"I like those." I could tell that wasn't what Bella was originally going to say and I was now intrigued. What was going on?

"I think I'll get them -though they'll never match anything but the one dress," Angela mused quietly.

"Oh go ahead -they're on sale," Bella encouraged and Angela smiled placing the lid back on the other box if shoes.

"Um, Angela…" Bella's voice sounded stance and Angela looked up curiously.

"Is it normal for the… Cullens to be out of school a lot?" Bella's voice was really interested and I was instantly confused. Did she forget that I was here? That I was a Cullen?

Bella looked at both of us but it was Angela who answered first. "Yes, when the weather is good they go backpacking all the time- even the doctor. They're all really outdoorsy."

Angela looked at me for confirmation and I nodded before adding on. "Mom and dad love to go hiking and camping and they managed to get us interested in it as well. Everyone but me is amazing at school so whatever we miss Edward or Alice will help me catch up on. I don't think that I would be passing right now if it wasn't for their help."

"Oh," Bella dropped the subject as Jessica approached us with rhinestone jewelry and silver shoes.

After everyone was finished shopping we decided to go eat at a little Italian restaurant on the boardwalk in an hour and I had two choices. Go with Bella to a bookstore or go with Angela and Jessica to drop off their dresses and accessories at the car. Naturally, I chose the first option.

Bella and I were walking down the streets that were filled with end-of-the-workday traffic and eventually we came across a little bookshop filled with dream catchers and crystals.

Bella and said that wasn't the type of bookstore that she was looking for and so we passed the little shop to continue looking.

We rarely went shopping in Port Angeles and so I was letting Bella lead even though we both really had no clue where we were going.

I was absorbed in my own thoughts and so I hadn't really noticed that we were moving away from the inhabited streets until a loud, rowdy group of four men turned the corner heading towards us.

"Hey there!" one of the men called out to us as we passed his deep voice sending chills down my spine. Something was off about these men. They were dressed too casually to be coming from work but they were far too grimy to be tourist.

I chose to ignore him and Bella called out a soft 'Hello' before speeding up her walking pace.

"Hey wait!" the man called out but I quickly followed after Bella taking long strides to make up for my slightly shorter height.

I turned the corner and Bella sighed slightly before grabbing my hand and dragging me along behind her.

I tensed at the sudden contact but slowly relaxed. I wasn't used to anyone besides Jordan or my family touching me without warning.

The sky suddenly darker and I turned to look at the offending cloud when I noticed two men following us less than twenty paces behind us.

I tugged on Bella's hand and she turned around also noticing the men. She walked even quicker on the verge of running as she continued to drag me along by my hand.

We turned a few more corners until I could hear cars. Bella sighed in relief but my breath caught in my throat. The other two men from the group were standing in front of us.

I skidded to a halt as did Bella as the men advanced forward.

"There you are!" A dark haired stocky man boomed looking into the distance behind us. The sound of his voice made me tense up. He sounded just like my biological dad.

"Yeah," a loud voice called from behind us. "We just took a little detour."

I was frozen in terror as Bella tried to get me to move.

My whole body was shaking and I could feel tears welling up in my eyes.

"Stay away," Bella warned in a quiet voice.

"Don't be like that, sugar," he called to Bella and the raucous laughter began again.

I was still frozen as Bella planted her feet gripping her purse as she let go of my hand for the first time.

By that point the men were surrounding us in a circle and tears were being to flow freely down my face now.

"Which one first?" the thickset man asked and one of his friends pointed to me. "The terrified one."

He smirked and pushed Bella aside causing her to land roughly on the sidewalk just outside of their circle.

"Don't move sugar," The shortest man teased Bella before turning back to me.

He reached a dirty hand out and quickly pulled on my button up shirt causing two of the buttons to pop off and my shirt to fall down around my feet. I was vaguely aware of the ice that immediately began to coat the soiled, pink shirt.

The cool air burned my bare skin but I didn't have time to think about that because suddenly a pair of headlights rounded the corner and the man pushed me down in surprise.

My head hit the corner of the sidewalk and black spots appeared in my vision before vanishing just as quickly.

"Get in!" Edward's voice was furious but it instantly allowed me to relax a little. My brother wouldn't let anything happen to me.

The men backed away from the car and Bella quickly sprung up grabbing my arm and pulling me into Edward's car.

Bella lead me into the backseat and I choked on my breathing as the tires on the car squealed before Edward peeled down the street at a hundred miles per hour.

"Bella, Elizabeth, put on your seat belts," Edward commanded but his voice sounded far away.

Bella obliged but I couldn't get my hands to move.

"Dammit!" Edward banged his hands on the steering wheel and I was sure he was going to break it.

It was getting harder and harder to breathe and I could feel my lungs heaving with the effort.

"Bella, talk to her, she's having a panic attack." Edward's tone was livid but I didn't really register what he was saying.

"Wh-What? How do I help?" Bella's voice was coarse and raspy.

"Distract her."

"How?"

"Just prattle about something unimportant until she calms down. It's the best we can do right now in a moving car."

"Hey Lizzie," Bella comfortingly wrapped her arm around my shoulders and I leaned into the touch. "Remember how I said I was going to run over Tyler with my truck? You should help me. Make sure we don't get caught," Bella joked lightly trying to follow Edward's orders but I barely noticed.

Edward sped into the restaurant's parking lot before climbing out of his seat and appearing beside me a little too fast for a human.

Bella quickly moved away from me as Edward pulled me into a hug.

"You're safe here," he whispered comfortingly. "Look around, your family is nowhere near here. You're safe. shh, it's okay." He must of read my mind.

Edward continued to whisper in my ear and eventually I started processing what he was saying as my breathing slowed down.

I clung onto Edwards jacket while he continued to whisper in my ear before I finally was able to stop crying.

Bella had gotten out of the car to give us what little privacy she could and Edward had grabbed a spare jacket from somewhere before draping it over my shoulders and zipping it up. I had left my shirt somewhere on the side of the road.

"Shh," he whispered as he helped me out of the car. "Alice is on her way, she'll be here soon."

And true to his word, Alice had arrived a few minutes later in Rosalie's convertible at the same time as Bella found Jessica and Angela.

Edward had told Alice to take me home and make sure that I ate something and he would stay with Bella.

The car ride home was silent aside from Alice's constant reassurance that we would be home soon.

When we had gotten home after another minor freak-out Alice and mom had managed to make me eat a little bit of soup before I showered multiple times and changed for bed. Yet I couldn't fall asleep. Sleep evaded me and for once I was glad that it did. I read random books and worked on homework to keep myself from thinking about tonight.

It was somewhere around nine o'clock when Edward got home and I was still struggling to focus on reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when he had come up into my room.

My mind kept wandering off to the events of today and I couldn't keep the terror from flooding my body. No matter how hard I tried to focus on my least favorite Harry Potter book.

Edward had said something about needing to face my feelings but he also wanted me to go to sleep. He was at a dilemma. Have Jasper make me fall asleep or let me work through my terror and fall asleep on my own time.

Apparently, he had chosen the former because although I don't remember actually falling asleep I do remember the sudden feeling of calm and fatigue.

As I finally drifted off to sleep with Harry Potter still lying open on my nightstand I wondered how this could have gone from being a great day to a terrible day where I had multiple panic attacks and yet another nightmare to add to my rapidly growing collection. I wondered how everything could have changed so much in the blink of an eye. Little did I know that this was only the beginning of my misfortune and not the end.