Chapter 6: Identity

Hey guys I just wanted to say I am so sorry for not updating sooner. I know how much it sucks and I'm going to try and update more often now that it's summer. Anyways here's the new chapter and I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: As much as I wish I did, I don't own Twilight.

Tick.

I wonder how much of a disaster Saturday will be...

Tock.

Maybe I'm just overreacting

Tick.

or...

Tock.

Maybe not.

I glanced up at the clock and realized I still had another twenty minutes or so left in the class. I had been trying to come up with excuses as to why we wouldn't be able to attend on Saturday and so far I had come up with absolutely nothing. Zip. Nada.

'The fever? Nah what are the chances that all four of us would get it on the same day? And plus I wouldn't be surprised if Alice wanted to see a doctor note for each of us' I thought.

I audibly sighed, resting my head on the desk.

"We're screwed, completely and utterly screwed." I whispered to myself. I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen but I knew for sure that having my family and the Cullen's in the same room could not be good.

Falling asleep had been difficult to say the least; everything that had happened yesterday just kept popping up in my mind. No matter how many times I went over it or thought of an excuse that could explain our reactions to them nothing clicked. The other three were just as confused as I was and I knew for a fact that Dave had been researching through some old books in our study last night. I raised my head as the other students began speaking throughout the room.

"Hey Bella!" Jessica made her way over from across the room, taking a seat in the desk in front of mine.

"Hi Jessica, what's up?" I asked as I began putting my things away.

"Nothing really." She shrugged and looked around the room. "So I saw you and your friend sitting with the Cullen's yesterday."

"Yeah they're really nice." I answered as Jessica looked at me with wide eyes.

"Really?" She asked in a surprised tone.

"Yeah, why is that such a surprise?" I asked as I stood up from my seat.

"It's just that they've never really spoken to anyone other than each other. They've never really gone out of their way to make friends before." Jessica stood up following my lead.

"Maybe they just like their privacy." I said as the bell rang throughout the school.

"Maybe." Jessica answered as she followed me out into the hallway.

I walked through the hallways going over what Jessica had said in my mind. Why would they choose to talk to us and not anyone else?

"Hey there." Aiden said as he walked up beside me.

"Hi" I slammed my locker shut as soon as I had my binder and began walking away.

"Whoa no need to be angry, what's wrong?" Aiden asked as he jogged up beside me.

"I don't know, I guess it's just this whole thing with the Cullen's. I guess I'm just a little on edge, I mean this has never happened to any of us before. What the hell does it mean?" I asked dropping my voice so that no one other than us could hear.

"James said Dave's found something." Aiden kept walking as if he hadn't just dropped a bombshell.

"And?" I persisted. "What is it?"

"He didn't tell me but he said he found it while snooping through all those books we have in the study." We stopped walking as we reached my classroom.

"What do you think it is?" My mind was reeling at the possibilities of what Dave could have found.

"I have no idea but James said Dave is going to tell us tonight." He glanced at the clock across the hall and began walking away. "I'll talk to you later; I don't want to be late."

"Alright, bye." I opened the door to my math class and made my way to my seat. As I sat down Alice waved cheerfully at me. I smiled in her direction as happily as I could, hopefully she couldn't tell that I was internally freaking out about our family get together on Saturday.

"Hey there Bella, how's your morning?" Alice shot me her dazzling smile.

"It's good and yours?" I asked as the bell rang.

"Great! I just want this whole week to be over so it can be Saturday already!" Alice leaned across the row so I could hear her over the teacher's voice.

"Alice, you do know that it's Thursday right? Saturday is only a day away." I laughed quietly as she smiled.

"Yeah well I can't help it if I'm excited for our families to hang out. I really think we'll hit it off." She opened up her notebook in order to create the illusion that she was paying attention.

"Really?" I asked.

"Of course! I mean you're one of the most interesting people I've ever met and trust me I've met a lot of people. If the others are anything like you I'm sure we'll be great friends." Alice's eyes twinkled as if she knew something I didn't.

"I guess we'll just have to wait and see." I turned my gaze to the front of the room where the teacher was going over the day's lesson.

"You're welcome to sit with us at lunch if you want; we enjoyed having you there yesterday." She looked so excited that there was no way I could turn her down. Turning down Alice was like refusing to give a child their favourite toy.

"Sure I'll just tell the guys after class." I smiled as she clapped her hands and then turned her attention to the lesson. Well as boring as the morning had been I was sure Lunch would make up for the lack of excitement.

"So Alice invited us to sit with her family again today at lunch." I said as I opened my locker.

"Did you say yes?" James asked as he shut his locker.

I stayed silent as I placed my books in my locker and avoided the question. My silence must have been the answer to his question because James sighed in frustration beside me.

"Dammit Bella, why did you agree?" James stood leaning against his locker, his face turned in my direction.

"Sorry! She just looked so happy I couldn't say no! I doubt anyone could say no to her." I grumbled as I braced myself for his answer.

"It's alright, we can sit with them but if anything weird happens I'm out of there got it?" He answered as he pointed one finger at me.

"Okay, okay I understand and I highly doubt anything is going to happen it's just lunch." Aiden and Dave walked up right as I finished my sentence.

"Sweet, who are we having lunch with?" Aiden asked as he leaned against his locker.

"The Cullen's." Both James and I answered.

"Are you sure that's the smartest idea?" Dave asked.

"I hardly think anything is life shattering will happen. You guys make it seem as if they're dangerous, we don't even know anything for sure yet. The least we could do is give them a chance before we go off and judge them based on something we didn't even know existed until yesterday." I crossed my arms as I stood my ground.

"I'm not accusing them of anything but-" Dave stopped mid-sentence.

"But what Dave?" I asked.

"I just don't want any of us to get hurt. We can go to lunch but we have to be careful alright. I know they may not seem dangerous but we don't know who the hell we're dealing with." Dave stepped forward and wrapped an arm around me, giving my shoulder a reassuring squeeze. "Don't ever forget Bella that everything I do I do because I care about you."

"Oh alright you big sap all you had to do was agree to lunch." I laughed as we began our walk towards the cafeteria.

"Bella!" Alice jumped up from her spot at the table and danced over to where I stood with Aiden, James and Dave. "I'm glad you guys came!"

"Thanks for the invite." James said as he took a seat at the table.

"No problem man. I don't think we've met, I'm Emmett." They shook hands as the rest of us sat down. Names were exchanged and soon everyone was immersed in a conversation. The boys sat at one end of the table talking about video games while I sat with Alice and Rosalie discussing our upcoming shopping trip.

"So since we had to postpone this Saturday how does next week sound?" Alice asked.

"That's great, I mean I really don't know anyone either than you guys so my schedule is basically clear." I answered before taking a sip of my coke.

"I've been dying to go shopping again, it's been too long." Rosalie said as she pulled her purse out from underneath the table. I had noticed that she seemed to be a bit nicer to me than she was yesterday; hopefully she was beginning to warm up to me.

I kept quiet as Alice and Rosalie bickered back and forth about whose cosmetic line was better. I took the opportunity to glance down the other side of the table where the boys sat laughing over some joke Jasper had just told. My eyes wandered over to where Edward sat beside Emmett. His bronze hair was as messy as it was yesterday but damn did it look good. I bit my lip as my eyes raked over his defined jaw and toned body. I almost died as I heard his laugh cut through my thoughts.

"Earth to Bella!" Alice waved her hand in front of my face.

"Yeah?" I turned my head toward her and noticed that both she and Rosalie were smirking at me.

"What?" I asked as I felt myself blush at the thought of being caught.

"Oh nothing." Alice answered with a wave of her hand.

We all stood as the bell rang signaling the end of our lunch.

"See you later!" I waved to Alice and her family as I walked through the cafeteria doors with James. Aiden and Dave lagged behind still arguing over something I didn't really care about.

"So you like them?" I turned my head in his direction.

"Yeah they seem pretty harmless and I could definitely see us being really good friends with them." He said nothing more but I knew jus by his tone there was more to it.

"But?" I asked as we reached our lockers.

"But what if we don't trust this, this instinct and it ends up screwing us over. Bella I've already fucked up once and look what happened. Our parents forced us to move to the middle of nowhere. I just don't want to do something that'll affect our lives in a negative way especially if it means that one of us could get hurt." He sighed as he closed his locker.

"I guess I understand where you're coming from. It's just I've never really had a real girl friend you know? Someone to just paint my nails with or just go shopping with. Every girl that's ever been my friend has always had one motive: to use me to get close to one of you three and I feel like Alice is different." I sighed as I looked down the hallway. I had never told any of the guys what had happened with girls in the past but I'm sure they had guessed at some point or another.

"I'm sorry." James whispered as he pulled me in for a hug.

"Don't be. I'd honestly rather have you as a best friend than some skanky whore that just wants you for sex." I smiled as he chuckled. "Plus it was kind of fun seeing them work for your attention." He full on laughed at that one.

"Alright well I'll see you after class." He ran down the hallway in order to meet up with Aiden and Dave who were still in full on argument mode.

I made my way down to the hallway internally preparing myself for Biology class. I opened the door and made my way to our table at the back of the room; Edward was already sitting there looking as good as always.

"Hello." He smiled as I sat down beside him.

"Hi" I responded as I felt a small blush creep onto my cheeks. Whatever confidence I had had when I walked in immediately vanished as soon as I heard his voice.

"So you excited for Saturday?" Edward asked as he looked in my direction.

"Yeah but I'm pretty sure your sister is way more excited than I am." I smiled as he chuckled quietly. The rest of Biology was uneventful seeing as I was too nervous to even try and make conversation with Edward. The rest of the day passed quickly and soon I was in the car driving home with the boys.

"So Dave anything you want to tell us?" I asked as stuck my head in between the two front seats.

"Well I'm sure that you already know I found something that I think may solve our little mystery. But I'd rather wait until we were home so I could tell you." As he answered I felt the car speed up no doubt due to Dave's anxiousness.

As soon as the car was parked all four of us jumped out and rushed to the door. Once it was open, Dave sped past us running upstairs to our study while the rest of us sat down in the living room, anxiously awaiting his return.

"Alright so as you know last night I was looking through some old books in the study, and came across this." Dave walked in holding an old tattered book and held it up.

"So what did you find?" Aiden asked on the edge of his seat.

"While looking through it I found a chapter on this feeling, or instinct we've been having, and the possible reasons as to why. The thing is there are only three things that have ever triggered this in other warlocks and witches." Dave sat down as he sighed.

"Well what are they?" I asked.

"In the past the only things that have ever triggered this are the presence of a vampire, werewolf or another warlock whom you don't know. The thing is that the last reason isn't valid in our case because-" Aiden cut him off before he even finished.

"Because we would have known about anyone else in the area." Aiden sighed and leaned back.

"Exactly." Dave answered. "So that only leaves two possibilities."

"So you're telling me that the Cullen's are either vampires or werewolves? You're kidding, right?" James said as he stared at Dave in disbelief.

"It's not that hard to believe, I mean we do have magical powers James." Aiden wiggled his fingers as he spoke.

"I guess but how are we supposed to know which of the two they really are?" James asked.

"Well after finding this little tidbit of information I searched for anything that could tell me the characteristics of both of these creatures. Once I had read over the information it all pointed to one possibility, and that was that the Cullen's are-" Dave stopped short as I cut him off.

"Vampires." I answered as all three of their heads turned in my direction.

"How did you know?" Dave asked.

"Remember that summer where all I did was stay locked in my parents old study?" They all responded by nodding their heads. "Well I kept myself busy by reading some old books my father had inherited from his parents, and they spoke about tales of old. One in particular had descriptions of creatures which are only known as mythical to humans, for example vampires."

"So what exactly did it say about vampires other than the fact that they drink blood?" Aiden asked.

"If I remember correctly I think it said something about them having extremely pale and ice cold skin which also reacts somehow when in the sunlight. I think it said something about their eyes but I'm not sure what it was." I answered.

"Apparently due to the blood they ingest their eyes are supposed to be crimson but the Cullen's lack that one characteristic." Dave sighed as he sat down.

"So you're sure we're dealing with vampires?" Aiden asked.

"I'm not entirely sure but it's the closest answer I've found that fits." Dave leaned his head back on the couch as he responded.

"But how do you know they match everything written in that book." Aiden pointed to where it lay sitting on Dave's lap.

"Wait, remember when I shook Emmett's hand today at lunch?" James turned in his seat so that he could see us better.

"Yeah." I answered.

"Well his hand was really cold, and at first I just blew it off but now that you mention it I realize his body temperature was way too low to be normal."

"So what are we supposed to do? Just go up to them and say 'Oh hey guy's we were just wondering are you guys vampires by any chance?' " Aiden sat back with a frustrated sigh.

"I think our best bet right now is to just be careful. During the time we've spent with them they haven't seemed like they're a threat to us but that doesn't mean we can let our guard down." Dave said as I stood up and began pacing back and forth.

"Should we say something?" I whispered.

"Are you crazy? What if we're wrong?" James threw his hands in the air.

"And what if we're right James? What then?" I turned and glared at him. "We wouldn't be alone anymore; we wouldn't be the only ones in this god forsaken town keeping a secret about their identities." I said as I sunk back down onto the couch.

"How about we wait until Saturday to figure out what we're going to do. We can give ourselves a bit of time to take this all in and really think about what we want to do." James stood up as he spoke and headed toward the stairs.

"I think that's for the best." Dave answered as he followed right behind.

I watched as the two headed up to their rooms and sighed.

"So you still excited about Saturday?" Aiden spread out on the couch so that his head was cradled in my lap.

I looked down and began playing with his hair. "Honestly? I have no fucking idea what to expect and I don't know whether to be excited or scared."

"Me too, Bells." I kept quiet as I went over everything we had just discussed. Hours before if you had told me that there were vampires in my town I would have laughed in your face, but now I didn't know what to think. What the hell happens when you put three warlocks, one witch and seven potential vampires in one room?

I guess we were going to find out.

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