Previously on Evergreen ...

"I had found it hard to find someone that was suitable, and I had been looking for over a month but eventually I found Catherine. I looked at her, and I knew that she was the one I needed to be my mother. I explained to her what this entailed and she agreed.

"But something went wrong, to this day I still have no idea what happened. Every single time, other than that day, my rebirth worked and both parents live but I don't what I did, but Catherine died the day she gave birth to me. And I'm really sorry about this, and everything else, and the fact that I can't even tell you anything else."

I stared down at my hands, too ashamed, guilty and scared of his reaction to look up at Carlisle.

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Silence.

It was something alot of humans were afraid of. It was probably why Jessica Stanley never stopped talking, because she was afraid of silence. In my existance, I had encountered millions of humans and the majority of them would turn on their ipod when left alone in the house, or in less modern times, sing to themselves. Not because they were crazy, or because they were mad, because they were afraid.

I was the opposite. I always had been, ever since I had been created. Personally, silence had always been something to cherish, probably because it was so hard to come across. With so many other people's thoughts in my head, silence was something hard to find. Perhaps that was why I had no neighbours for many miles, why in school I never talked to the humans or the vampires unless I wanted a little bit of amusement, and was that so wrong?

And now? We were sitting in complete silence. Even the clock's ticking seemed to have stopped to listen to what was happening. It was like a typical scene from one of those stuipid, cheesy movies. I was playing the rebellious daughter who had just done something terrible, awful, something no adjective in the dictionary was bad enough to describe, and had been caught. Then there was Carlisle. The father, who could not believe that his daughter had done this and was wondering whether he could ever forgive his daughter for what she had done.

Except it was so much worse than in one of those movies! I had known for years, since Carlisle was changed that he was alive, or one of the living dead, whichever you prefer, yet I had never even tried to contact him. That was the first unforgivable thing that I'd done. Plus the fact that I wasn't his daughter, yet had pretended to be for the last, oh three hundred years. Yeah, totally forgivable!

The silence now, however? I was afraid to even meet his eyes incase that would make him start yelling at me. I was afraid to talk, because I thought he would start shouting at me. Even fidgeting, or making the slightest sound, I was afraid of making. Yet, I was also afraid of the silence. It was funny actually. After all these years, something, though I had understood, I had always mocked in my mind, I was experiencing.

It wasn't fun to be afraid, and it was a emotion I wasn't used to, and I hoped wouldn't get familar with. Was silence not good? At least he wasn't yelling, that was something right? No, anything would be better than this disappointed, disgusted silence that was currently occuring.

It may have been an hour, or maybe it was ten. Perhaps it was only a second, or it could have been sixty, before Carlisle finally spoke.

"Bella," he sighed. I don't know whether him not speaking, or him speaking was worse. I didn't want it to be silent because I hated the suspense and the guilt dripping off the situation like maple syrup on a pancake but when he spoke, I was so scared of what he was going to say that I was afraid to even look him in the eye!

"Bella, look at me," I slowly looked up into his topaz eyes, wondering what he was going to make me do. "I - "

I think Carlisle would have finally said what had he thought if it wasn't for two things. One, I was about to interrupt him, and two the door of my house fell down with a loud bang.

Perhaps I'd been too guilty to hear the sound of people breaking and entering into my home, and maybe Carlisle was too deep in thought of how to punish me that he didn't hear it either. If it was any other vampire, I might have thought he'd planned it all but Carlisle was much too honourable to ever do that.

Carlisle immediately stood up and sped faster than any vampire I had ever seen, in front of me with his arms out, knocking over his chair in the process. I, though I knew there was predators at the door, was touched by this gesture even if he was still super angry. I quickly blocked his mind from everyone.

We looked up at the same time to see five pairs of topaz eyes staring at us, well more staring suspiciously at Carlisle and glaring at me. It didn't occur to me to look into their mind, and see why they were there, I was too fixed on the enemies, who had once been allies in my home. How did they know that I lived here? Did they know that this was my home? And did they know how me and Carlisle knew each other? Or exactly what Jane had mentioned was about? Did any of them remember?

Carlisle was giving a sigh of relief, but I was still ready to attack, my legs crouched. The Cullen children were too - Rosalie and Edward especially. Jasper was standing protectively in front of Alice who was standing with her eyes narrowed, glaring at me like I was some sort of filth that had landed on her shoes. Emmet was ... Emmet looked murderous. It was almost hard to imagine Emmet, the big teddy bear, acting angry but he was always ready to fight when there posed a threat. Yet never, in any of my years had I seen him so angry, and wondered what I had done!

My eyes almost watered at the thoughts of what it had been, but I ordered myself to keep calm, and not cry. Carlisle was the only one who noticed, as he looked curiously between me and his family. "Have I missed something?" He asked.

"Why are you here with her?" It was a sentence that could have been thought of as a simple question, yet how Alice emphasized on 'here' and 'her' like I was scum, it was worse that an insult. She looked me up and down as she said it, glaring at me with intense loathing in her eyes. I didn't glare back, but just looked at her.

"Is there something wrong with Bella?" Carlisle asked them.

"Oh, so are you friendly with her? Cheating on Esme?" accused Rose.

"No! I know Bella from the past." Carlisle said.

"And how do you know her? Did she steal money off you or something? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised!"Edward exclaimed.

With that Carlisle wrapped his arms around my shoulders, glaring at his children, "How dare you!" I was actually scared of Carlisle and how menacingly he snarled those three words. "I go to meet Bella one time! And then you guys come in, you don't even knock or phone to check its okay! As if that isn't bad enough, you start throwing insults at her as if she was filth! Me and Esme raised you to know better than that."

"You don't know what she did!" Emmet yelled, pointing his finger at me.

"Yeah, what did I do?" I growled at them menacingly, and I saw fear in their eyes before Jasper quickly gave out waves of calm.

"She made us eat human food!"

"Get out of my house!"

"Why!"

"Make us!"

"Oh, I'll kick your fat butts out of my house if you don't leave in ten seconds!"

"Are you threatening my family!" Emmet yelled at me.

"Hmm .... Yeah, I suppose I am!"

With that, Emmet dived forward, his fist raised to hit me square in the jaw. I could hear Carlisle screaming for him to stop, and behave, and the others cheering him on. I don't really know what made me do it. It was probably because I had, had enough of the treatment I was recieving. So I made them eat a piece of pizza? So sue me! I didn't care how nice they were in their past lives when I knew them, this was now, and an entirely different case!

I sped out of the way at the last second, so fast that none of the Cullens eyes registered it - one minute I was there, the next I was over here - and Emmet crashed into the floor, and out through my window. I jumped out after him, grabbing his shirt mid - air as we both fell onto my garden bushes. I raised him into the air with my eyes, and watched as he struggled to get down. His family watched screaming.

"Are you going to stay away from me?" I asked him calmly.

"Yes!" He screamed as he fell to the floor.

"Get out of my house." I gave him, and his family a digusted look, and walked calmly back into my house, picked up Wuthering Heights and began reading.

Dum, Dum, Duuuummmmmmmm. Okay, so harsh of Bella but she was getting angry with the insults. It sort of shows you just how powerful she is, much more than the vamps! Anyway, so I did my part and updated, and by the way yes this is the story I'm keeping because it got heighest thing on the poll! Sorry! To anyone who picked a different one, believe me I was sort of disappointed too - I wanted to do X Factor while X Factor was on if you know what I mean! lol! Plus, I had a really amazing plot line set up for it as the story got longer, but oh well ... (sigh) Anyway, who's excited about X Factor tomorrow? I know that I want JLS or Alexandra to win! What about you guys!