"Please speak softly, for they will hear us
And they'll find out why we don't trust them
Speak up dear cause I cannot hear you
I need to know why we don't trust them

Explain to me this conspiracy against me (yeah...yeah)
And tell me how I've lost my power (Ohh, yeah)

Where can I turn? Cause I need something more
Surrounded by uncertainty I'm so unsure
Tell me why I feel so alone cause I need to Know to whom do I owe

Explain to me this conspiracy against me (yeah...yeah)
And tell me how I've lost my power (ohh, yeah)

I thought that we'd make it
Because you said that we'd make it through
And when all security fails
will you be there to help me through

Explain to me this conspiracy against me (Yeah....yeah)
And tell me how I've lost my power (ohhhhhh....)

I've lost my power"

Conspiracy by Paramore

"Here," I tossed the newly broken bracelet onto Edward's lap.

"What do I want with this?" he knocked the bracelet off his lap so it fell onto the floor.

"It's the bracelet, the one I picked up from the clearing," I bent down and picked it up and held it out to him in my hand. He took it from me by the end and dangled it off from his fingertips; he swung it back and forth like a pocket watch.

"So this is the supposed broken bracelet?" he arched his eyebrows with curiosity.

"It's not supposed it is the broken bracelet I lost in the forest." I was getting frustrated with him not believing my lie.

"You could have broken that yourself you have to strength too."

"Just because I have the strength doesn't mean I did."

"Really Bella this is poor work if I do say so myself." He laughed before taking both my hands placing them together with his wrapped tightly around them. He slipped the bracelet into my hands. I tugged them out roughly.

"You know all about faking it, you've never done one honest thing in your life." I hissed back at him.

The smirk on his face fell, "I wouldn't be so quick to judge Swan."

"Neither would I Cullen but as long as you are under my father's house I make the rules."

"I think you'll find you're just like me another puppet in our parents games for world domination."

"I'm nothing like you," I turned away and looked at the wall.

I felt his hand press around the side of my neck tightly, he brushed my hair away from my ear before whispering into my ear, "Your exactly like me, I think you forget we are both vampires. Equal in everyway, except one."

I turned back to him; his hand remained around my neck. "One way?"

" I am a Cullen and you are a Swan." He traced his fingers across my cheek.

"Only by birth right but by legend we are all children of blood."

"Shame on me lets not forget the blood."

I sharply removed his hand from my cheek, "Don't make fun of what I say."

He laughed, "I'm sorry but you're words are straight from my fathers mouth, when I was a child it was all about blood. He taught me every detail about how we are all linked by blood, we feed from animals but can survive on one another as long as the other feeds." He sighed deeply, "He is such a hypocrite we are linked by blood yet he raised me to kill my own kind."

"My father taught me the same thing are you calling him a hypocrite too?"

"If that's what he told you yes."

I acted before I realised what I was doing, my hand collided with Edward's left cheek.

He jumped back, "What's your problem?"

I walked right up to him and hissed, "Don't insult my family." I turned away and walked out leaving Edward standing there still in shock.

EPOV

She slapped me.

The flipping girl slapped me.

What right did she have to slap me, NONE!

I was right though they are hypocrites, the lot of them. Bella was blinded by her love for her father and I can see why he taught her everything she knows. My father taught me everything I know and I don't know why I was suddenly questioning it but I was.

Did I really know both sides of the story?

Was what my father told me really the truth?

I could never really know the whole truth to the full but I could try and get both sides.

BPOV

I walked down the corridor making my way to my mother's drawing room; she had a thing for painting. Well it was more than a thing the entire house was decorated in her amazing creations, the ones she painted of me I made her hide them away or she could hang one or two of them in her drawing room. She wanted to paint me again today she said she needed to paint my growth. Although being a vampire I don't grow much in fact in a few years I should stop entirely. I get to the appearance of maybe mid twenties at the oldest and stop. My parents looks so young, youth is a easy for vampires.

I knocked lightly on the door before entering; my mother was setting up her workstation. She flicked her long hair from her face so she could look at me. "Darling go sit on the window seat."

I loved it when nothing was formal between my mother and me.

"Sure thing," I flopped down into the seat and watched her pace around the room.

"Ok I'm ready you on the other hand are not. Undo your hair and..... hang on your useless at fixing it let me."

She came over and started fussing with my hair, "Ok stop stop."

"Fine but keep still."

She walked back to the side and started to mix paints, "So to make this go quicker how about some light conversation to make the time go faster."

"See I knew there was a reason you wanted me here."

"I have no idea what your taking about anyways how are you taking things?"

"Things?"

"Ok Edward, it must be hard for you since what your father told you about his family."

"I'm ok he's just very stubborn."

"So are you."

"I know that but he is taking stubborn to a whole other level."

"Well I'm sure you two will be fine eventually."

"Erh no mom he's a Cullen and I'm a Swan we don't get along."

"Who says that?"

"Dad."

"Your dad is wrong to a certain extent."

"What do you mean?"

"I was friends with a Cullen once Esme Cullen to be accurate and so was your father."

I nearly jumped from my seat, "That's Edward's mum."

She smiled, "Stay still and yes she is."

"How?"

"I was pregnant with you around the time she was with Edward, although he is older than you by a few months."

"Are you saying what I think your saying?"

"Yes, Esme and I were childhood friends when she married Carlisle I married your father. Both yours and Edward's father fought together against the wolves, after that they spoke of gaining power together but like all partnerships both men started to suspect the other was going to betray them. Thus begins the war, me and Esme tried to remain friends but Carlisle kept telling her things and Charlie told me things eventually we couldn't talk like regular vampires anymore. So we just stopped meeting and now there seems to be so much hate."

"I wasn't thinking that at all but wow. Why has dad never told me?"

"He didn't want you to have any relationship with them after the war began. He had a feeling you would want to know them more if they were are friends from the past."

"Why are you telling me this?"

She got up and came towards me. She crouched in front of me and took my head between her hands lightly; she turned my head to the window. Outside I saw Edward was pacing in the garden, " I wanted you to make up your own mind now. Your old enough to know what's best for you."

I was raised on a lie.