I'm back! I got you two updates in a single week as a way of apologizing beforehand for the likelihood of no updates for up to two and a half weeks. I own Ian, Amber, and Amelia Masters. The rest of the characters are owned by Meg Cabot or Stephenie Meyer. I would also like to thank animegrlsteph, cullens-little-sis, LexieFang makes Fexie, vampiredoll88, iNSOMNIAC-rEADER-2010, and iamnessie for their reviews.

Jesse P.O.V.

Carlisle looks at me, then Ian, then Susannah, then at every member of his family, and then finally at Amber and Amelia. "Before I can reveal anything I must know a few things. First, do all three of them have the same ability as Susannah?" I nod, so he continues. "Second, can we trust them?"

I glance at Susannah. She nods, so I answer Carlisle. "Yes."

Carlisle P.O.V.

"What I am about to tell you is confidential. Like a patient's file, except you all are not allowed a consult. Because this isn't just one 'patient;' it's at least nine people in this room, as well as many others who wouldn't lose sleep over killing a human."

Jesse immediately picks out the key words. "A human?"

"We're vampires. Although we don't drink human blood. That's all there is to it. That's our story. That's why Bella looks so young, when she should be Suze's age. Nessie—the story we've told everyone, about her being Edward's brother. She is actually Edward and Bella's daughter. Since 1918, my family has traveled the world, never living in one place for more than four or five years at a time. Every once in a while, we'd add another member to our family. Bella and Edward fell in love, married, had Nessie. We basically secluded ourselves from the town until Nessie was grown. Then we moved here. Oh, and Jake is a werewolf. More accurately, a shapeshifter"

Jesse, Susannah, Ian, Amber, and Amelia all stare dumbfounded at me. Finally Ian speaks. "Bella was telling the truth. The truth. Vampires, all of you." He looks slightly faint.

"How do we know you're telling the truth?" Susannah asks.

I stretch my hand out towards her. "Touch my hand." She does, then jumps back slightly, the shock of the temperature of my skin frightening her. "Jake? You want to do a demonstration of a more obvious nature."

He grins. He enjoys the look people get when they find out he can shape shift into a wolf at will. He kicks of his shoes, and takes of his shirt. When he phases the gasps of alarm that sound around the table make Nessie laugh. She then presses her hand to my face. How about we tell them about our… abilities?

I nod. "Just not Edward's. Not yet."

"Watch this you guys!" she nearly shouts then, without warning, places one hand on Jesse's face and the other on Suze's. Their eyes widen as they realize what they are hearing is her thoughts. She repeats the process with Amber and Amelia and Ian. And still surprised by this, they are suddenly overcome by a strange acceptance. And suddenly, we are all laughing hysterically. Pretty quickly it stops.

"What was that?" Suze asks me.

"Jasper can feel—and manipulate—the emotions of anyone he's in the same room with."

"Can you all do stuff like that?" Ian asks.

"No, but Alice, Edward, Jasper, Bella, and Nessie all can. You've seen—or felt—Jasper's and Nessie's. Bella's is difficult to display; basically any vampire abilities that affect the mind don't work on her. Alice—what'll the weather be like tomorrow?"

She closes her eyes. "Fairly sunny until around 10:30 in the morning, at which point storm clouds will roll in. At around six, it will rain and hail."

"Alice sees the future. I don't want to explain Edward's ability right now."

"Okay." Jesse says. "How are we going to prove to you that our story is true?"

"That," Edward answers, "is not a problem."

Jesse pauses before nodding. "As Susannah has already told you, she can see ghosts. She has always been able to see ghosts."

"Wait." Edward says. "Could Suze tell us instead? It would just work out better that way, trust me." Yes, perhaps that would be best. Edward had explained to me how Jesse's thoughts have a strange cloudiness to them.

Suze continues where Jesse left off. "Jesse can see ghosts now, but he couldn't for the first twenty years of his life. When I met him, he was a ghost himself. I fell in love with him, and went back in time to keep this kid from saving his life. I thought I wanted him to be murdered, otherwise I would never meet him. But when I saw him I couldn't do it. I tried to keep him from being murdered, and succeeded, but then a fire started in the barn. I accidentally brought his body back with me to the present. Then the ghost that had been wandering the world for a hundred and fifty years was sucked back into the body, and now he lives. And sees ghosts." Suze's face says clearly how much she loves him, and how little she takes for granted the fact that she can even be married to him.

"Edward?" I ask.

The look of shock on his face is concealed as he says quietly, "They're telling the truth."