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After gym, Hayley and I had English together. We were walking down the hallway, towards the room, laughing. We walked in the room and sat at our usual desk which was roughly in the middle of the room. The desks were in two's, so we instantly knew we would sit together. The table next to us was where a girl named Sadie sat. We talked often, she was really nice. I felt a breeze beside me and noticed that Alice and Jasper were sat at the back at the class, talking quietly to each other. I turned to Hayley and raised my eyebrows slightly and she chuckled.

Sadie sat down at the desk, and I noticed she was stealing glances at Alice and Jasper. I heard her sigh.

"Hey, Sadie." I said to her.

"Oh, Hi Bella." She said, turning to face me.

"You ok?"

"Yeah. Although I should be asking you the same question." She said and I raised an eyebrow. "My friend, Willow is in your homeroom. She told me you didn't look well this morning."

"Oh, I just felt dizzy. I'm alright now though." I said and she smiled.

English passed quickly, and then our next two periods were Cullen free. Our next period was lunch, so Hayley and I made our way to the cafeteria. We sat at our usual table and waited for Leo and Josh to turn up. I noticed the Cullens were sat in our line of view, probably on purpose. I was waiting for one of them to say something to me, but they had just stared at me like I was in a freak show or something.

I looked up and noticed that Leo and Josh had sat down and were blocking the Cullens view of me. I smiled gratefully at them. They always knew what was bothering me.

"I'm gonna go get some food." I said, standing up. One of us would just go and buy enough food that would feed 4 humans, to keep appearances. I walked up to the queue, behind a boy who I couldn't name. The queue was pretty long, so I took out my phone and noticed I had a text from Jacob. After Jacob had found out what had happened, he said he still wanted to be friends, even though I had been changed. For obvious reasons, we haven't seen each other face to face in a while but we texted all the time. He still wasn't aging, as he hadn't found his imprint yet, and wanted to find her so then he can stop phasing to grow old with her. It was kind of sweet, really.

Hey Bells how are you? Up to much? You're probably at school but I don't care because im on patrol and im pretty bored.

I texted him back saying:

I'm alright. I need to talk to you though. Don't worry, it's nothing big. Just want to chat. I'll ring you later sometime. And yeah, we're at school. But it doesn't matter. How are you?

I sent it then put it away back in my pocket. I was near the front of the queue now, and I picked up a tray to pile the food onto.

I grabbed some pizza slices, crisps and 4 bottles of water. That should do it.

When I went to pay, the woman at the counter eyed up the tray.

"Oh, one of the Devines?" She said, adding up the cost. "That's $5."

I just handed her a $10. "Keep the change." She raised an eyebrow but put the money in the till anyway.

I was walking back to the table when I heard a voice behind me.

"Bella?" I heard and I stiffened.

"Who's asking?" I said, not moving around to see who it was.

"It's Emmett."

I turned around slowly. We just eyed each other down for a moment, and people were starting to notice our exchange and were staring.

"What?" I said.

"You're alive…" He said. "We went to Forks."

I frowned.

"Charlie told us your truck had rolled down a hill, while you were in it." He said.

"Well that didn't happen." I said simply.

"What did?" He said hesitantly.

"Is that really anything to do with you… any of you?" I said, motioning over to the table where the rest of them were sat, watching us closely.

"I don't see why not… you're my little sister, Bella."

I raised an eyebrow, scoffed, and shook my head slightly at the same time. I didn't reply, I just walked off and back to our table. I sat next to Leo, dumped the tray on the table and I felt him pull me closer toward him. I tried to pull away but then gave up so I rested my head on his shoulder. He rubber my shoulder, comforting me.

"Why don't you call Rob?" Hayley said.

"He'll be working right now anyways." I said.

We just stayed in silence for the rest of lunch, and then we made our way to Calculus, which we all had together, and were Cullen free.

When the final bell rang for the day, we waited in the hall for the car park to clear. When we walked out into the car park, the Cullens were still stood around their two cars, waiting for someone. Emmett wasn't there; they must have been waiting for him. I noticed where Leo's car was, there was another car next to it. I noticed it was Robert's car. I turned to glare at Josh.

"You called him?" I said, frowning.

"Yeah, I did." He said, backing away from me. I punched him on the shoulder lightly, and then nearly ran to see Rob. Robert was literally my father. He'd practically raised me, as he'd been my fatherly figure for 50 years now. More than I saw Charlie. I think he enjoyed being my dad. He told me once that he'd been more of a dad to me than he was to Leo, Hayley or Josh. They didn't need comfort or reassurance as much as I had. He got out of the car and I ended up in his arms. He hugged me close and kissed my forehead. We didn't say anything else but we got into his car, and I sat in the passenger seat, and I felt Hayley get in the back, whilst Leo and Josh drove in Leo's car. When the Cullens were out of hearing distance, Rob turned to me.

"Josh told me what happened today." He said. I sighed.

"It's nothing." I said. "I don't care about them anymore. You guys have made me realise what a real family is."

He grinned widely and I smiled back.

I heard Hayley gasp and take a deep breath behind us. I turned around.

"What?" I said.

She hesitated.

"You saw something, didn't you?" I asked. "What was it?"

"They're gonna pay us a visit tonight…" She whispered.

I groaned loudly.

"Don't they get the point?"

"You haven't told them, to be honest Bella." She said. "If you just want to be friends with them, then tell them."

"I don't even know if I trust them enough to be friends." I whispered. "They're all really nice people and everything but…"

"Tell them that, then." She said. "If they're nice people then they'll understand. Just be honest."

I sighed. "Okay then, I'll try to."

When we got back, Leo and Josh were already home and were lying on the couches. I just sat on Leo's legs, and he groaned. I sniggered and lay on top of him.

"So we have visitors tonight?" He asked. He must have heard us talking.

"Sounds like it." I replied.

"I think they'll be here in about an hour." Hayley said, sitting on the other couch.

"Who exactly?" I asked quietly.

"There were 6 in my vision." She replied. That means one person wasn't coming. I couldn't think who that might be.

"I thought there were 7?" Robert said.

"There is." I replied, pursing my lips slightly.

I shrugged and sat up off of Leo. He sat up too, letting me sit properly.

Josh asked me if I wanted to play video games with them and I decided to just watch them.

After about half an hour of watching them play, it was 3:30. Hayley said that the Cullens would be coming around at about 4 o'clock. I stood up and Hayley, who was playing with Josh and Leo, looked up at me.

"I'm going hunting." I explained and she turned off her controller and stood up to.

"I'll come too; I was going to go later." She said and we made our way out of the door and into the forest.

We hunted for a while, and then decided to head back to the house. When we got to the house I noticed another car outside. I stopped in my tracks, and looked at my watch. It was 4.03. I felt Hayley catch up behind me and put her hand on my shoulder.

"Just remember what I said." She whispered to me. She took my hand and pulled me inside.

Leo and Josh were stood against the window, Robert was sat in the armchair, and the 6 Cullens occupied the two couches. Hayley squeezed my hand and I sent her a grateful smile.

Robert moved up slightly in his armchair, leaving just enough room for me to squeeze on the chair with him. I sat next to him and leaned on him slightly. He put his arm around my shoulders, giving me a comforting squeeze. I eyed the Cullens, counting them. There were 6 of them. I looked to see who hadn't come, and noticed that Edward wasn't here. The silence was turning awkward so I tried to break it.

"How did you find our house?" I said bluntly.

The Cullens looked at each other before Carlisle spoke.

"We traced the scent. They could remember your scent from seeing you today and so we used that." He explained.

"Why did you come?" Josh said sharply.

"We were just curious as to how Bella is a vampire. That's what we wanted to prevent." Carlisle continued and I heard Leo, Josh and Hayley scoff.

I shifted uncomfortably, not saying anything. Robert rubbed his hand on my shoulder.

"Well that's just stupid." Hayley said. "She wouldn't be a vampire if she didn't meet you."

I heard a few of them take a breath and I buried myself deeper into Rob's grasp.

"Bella?" I heard Esme say.

I didn't reply but looked up at her.

"What happened after we left?" She asked.

I hesitated for a moment before replying quietly.

"A lot."

"Let's start with this." He started. "Why were you changed?"

I heard Hayley growl.

"Laurent had…" I started. "Come to find me, as a favour from Victoria. She sent him to kill me, for revenge. After… Edward killed James."

"I don't remember what he did, I just remember being in a lot of pain. Then they found me, killed Laurent and changed me."

Robert interrupted. "When we found Bella, he was just about to bite her, and kill her. We acted just in time and pulled him off, and didn't hesitate to kill him. We killed him, then realised that she was in such a bad shape that she wasn't going to survive. Our family wasn't getting along well at the time, so we were hesitant to invite her into our family at first. But when she woke up, she fit perfectly, and she kind of made our family into an actual family. Without her, we didn't get along as well and we didn't feel like a family."

I looked up and saw that the Cullens looked devastated.

"Bella, if we had known that Laurent was going to-"Alice started.

"No." I said cutting her off. "I'm not going to deny that I'm glad how things worked out in the end."

Hayley turned to grin at me and I laughed. Alice looked hurt but she quickly recovered out of curiosity when Carlisle asked us something.

"Do any of you have powers?" Carlisle said, and we all nodded our head. "All of you?"

He sounded surprised; it was quite rare that every member of a coven had a power.

"It's not something we're proud of." Leo said from behind. "Our powers combined are quite powerful, the Volturi have tried to capture us many times, which is why we have to move more often than we like."

"May I ask what your powers are?" Carlisle asked.

"I'm a mind reader. Like the one in your coven." Leo said.

"Rob can heal humans who are injured, but not those who are near a state of death." He continued.

"Hayley can see the future, like a member of your coven, Josh is a shape shifter and Bella is a shield."

"A shape shifter?" Emmett said. "Sounds awesome. Care to demonstrate."

I looked round and Josh was grinning.

"Don't do what you did last time, okay?" I said and he stopped grinning. Last time he shape shifted in the house, he turned into a wolf and nearly tore the house down. On purpose, just to annoy us all.

In the blink of an eye, Josh was gone and in his place was a wolf. The wolf leaped up onto the arm chair and sat on mine and Rob's laps, spread out between the two. He rested his head on my arm and looked up at me with his black eyes. I grinned at him, and ruffled his fur. Then I tapped him lightly and he rolled off.

"Shoo, no dogs on the furniture." I said to him and he growled and changed back. He walked up to me and playfully nudged me on the shoulder then tickled my stomach. He always did this when he wanted me to do something, or if he just wanted to annoy me. My stomach was really ticklish, and he knew it.

I laughed loudly. "Josh…"

He chuckled then went back over to the window next to Leo and sat up on the window sill.

"And you're a shield, Bella?" Carlisle asked and I nodded. "What's that?"

"I can block out powers." I explained. "And I can put it around people too."

"That explains why Edward couldn't read your mind then?" Jasper asked and I shrugged.

"That also explains why Edward couldn't read your minds in gym?" Emmett asked and I nodded.

"I can see why the Volturi are so interested in you." Carlisle said. "You must have a hard time."

We all nodded. "It's been extremely difficult." Robert said.

"Especially when they took Bella." Hayley said and I looked at her. About 20 years after I had been changed, the Volturi literally kidnapped me while I was hunting. I was lucky enough to get away, after they had left to sort out an issue with some newborn vampires.

"They did what?" Esme said.

"For some reason, they're very interested in her power, and they kidnapped her while she was out hunting." Hayley explained. "We did everything to try and get her back, but we weren't successful. It was 2 months after, and she just appeared back here. She'd managed to run away."

"And Aro didn't just take her again?" Jasper asked.

"He let her, claiming that it didn't matter. He said our powers weren't needed yet, so keeping her would be useless of now anyway." Hayley continued. "She still has the scars."

I sighed eying the bite mark that was faint on my arm, not the one by James.

The conversation was interrupted by my phone beeping. I grabbed it out of my pocket to see it was Jake again.

I'm good. Sorry, didn't reply quickly. My battery died and I was in the middle of the forest. Hope everything is ok down there. Tell everyone I said hi and that we should meet up sometime soon. (:

I smiled, and replied.

No worries (: And yep, everything good. I'll call you later, can't call you right now. And yeah we should all meet up for a week or something. I'm sure Josh would love to fight with you in wolf form again. Maybe he'll beat you this time.

I sent the text and turned to tell Josh but he was looking over my shoulder.

"I did beat him already." He whined.

"Nope, he won fair and square." I laughed and Hayley nodded her head.

"But to be fair, he's used to being a wolf." Leo said, backing Josh up.

"Josh is still stronger and faster than him in wolf form, it shouldn't be an excuse." Hayley argued.

"Guys, just stop." Josh said. "I won, clearly."

He laughed and walked out of the room.

"He's delusional." Hayley laughed.

"He couldn't beat Jacob or any of them if he tried." Leo said and even Robert nodded.

"Shut up!" I heard Josh yell from upstairs and we all laughed.

"You're still friends with Jacob then?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, we were really close before I was changed, then after we kept in touch and meet up every so often." I said smoothly, leaving out that I was depressive and that Jacob helped me out of that.

"That's nice." Esme said. "That you were able to stay in contact with someone from your human life."

I nodded sadly, thinking about Charlie. I wouldn't be as sad about it, but I had spent my last few months with him as a depressive shell, when they weren't worth being depressed over. I knew that now, I should be thankful for what they did, they helped me find my real family but I still couldn't help but feel angry at them for lying to me, and telling me that they cared enough to invite me into their family.

"When were you all changed?" Carlisle asked.

"I was changed in 1878." Robert said. "And I changed Leo first, in 1973, then Josh in 1981, then Hayley in 1996 and then Bella, in 2004."

"Oh, you changed them all?" Carlisle asked.

"Yes, I did." He replied. "I only did so because it was a last resort. With my power, if they are basically seconds away from death, it doesn't work so the only other option is to change them. I also wanted to create a little vampire coven, portray human life and become a close family. I had heard of families doing that and it was always something I wanted.

"Unfortunately we didn't really feel like a family until I changed Bella, she's like the missing piece of the puzzle."

I smiled up at him and he smiled back.

"Anyway, enough about us." Robert said. "Im interested in your way of life."

So Carlisle went ahead to explain the powers of their coven, when they were changed, and told him who are mates. According to Carlisle, Edward is single. Was Tanya not good enough for him?

"So, you're all mates who live together?" Robert said. "I don't think I could live with one couple, let alone 3."

Carlisle chuckled. "It does get irritating at times, but we're used to it."

"Are none of you in a relationship?" Alice asked, and I knew she was just asking about me, but didn't want to make it obvious.

"Nope." Leo answered. "We plan to keep it that way."

We all nodded at that. We'd all had bad experiences with 'love'.

"So, how long have you been living here?" Esme asked, changing the subject.

"Not too long, about 4 months now." Robert replied.

"We were travelling for 5 years before this, before we decided to settle down here for a while." Leo continued.

"Travelling?" Jasper asked. "Where did you visit?"

"Basically everywhere." Josh replied. "We went to the sunnier places during winter. We spent a few weeks in Phoenix over Christmas."

I smiled, remembering the time that we spent there.

"Isn't that where you were from, Bella?" Emmett asked.

"Yeah, that trip was interesting, actually." I said. "I found out that Renee had twins about a year after I was changed. They're about 48 now, but it's nice knowing about them, they both have children too, so I have 2 brothers and 5 nieces and nephews."

"Oh wow, how did you find out?" Esme asked.

"Rob went through the police records; I wanted to know that she had had a happy life after I 'died'." I said. "She called them Joseph and Harry. I'm just glad she was happy. She's still alive now; we check the records a lot. She's getting old now though, so she's already had a long and happy life."

"What about Charlie?" Alice asked.

I flinched, and they all noticed.

"He…" I started. "He passed away not long after I did."

"Oh, Bella." Esme said and sat on the floor next to me and rubbed my arm gently.

"It's fine." I said. "He had a heart attack about 2 months after I 'died'. Jacob told me when it happened that some people thought it was stress, after everything that happened but the doctors reckon it was bad diet. Too much steak, apparently."

"He did eat a lot of steak." Alice said sadly.

"I can't help but feel like it's my fault." I said.

"I don't think it was stress related, considering his diet." Carlisle said. "Besides, you can't help dying, can you?"

"It wasn't just my death…" I explained. "Stuff happened before that, but that doesn't matter."

"What happened?" Esme asked.

I shook my head. I didn't want to look weak. If I told Esme that I was depressed over her son for months on end then I was afraid that she would think I was weak, and couldn't handle a break up. I was weak, and I couldn't handle it, but I didn't want them to know that.

The silence was disturbed by Josh coming back downstairs, walking past me while ruffling my hair.

"Anyway I'm up for visiting Jake again." Josh announced and I laughed.

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