A/N: So I've had relatively good response to my story, except no body is reviewing. :( Please review guys, I need to know if I should continue this story or scrap it. Thank you to those who have reviewed, and added my story to their favorites!!
I also want to say thanks for waiting an incredibly long time for an update. Last weekend I went out of town, then my friend had a baby!!!, then I got sick, and finally I needed a wisdom tooth pulled. All that and I still needed to work, so I was pretty busy. Which was why I was so eager to get two chapters out to you yesterday and another one today. If I can help it you may get one later tonight as well.
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"She knew." I couldn't believe what I was staring at, it couldn't be possible. But there it was in my hands, no less. A picture of me, Angela and Edward, from our wedding. And as if I needed more proof that it was real, in Angela's familiar handwriting, were our names and the date. Too many questions were going through my mind for me to even pick out just one to focus on. All I could think about was getting back to Edward. I scurried with all the evidence of our previous existence and ran back towards the school. Just as I ran back onto school property, I realized I didn't have the keys to the Volvo, so I made my way to my locker and stashed everything in there for the time being. When I walked back into class, I took my seat next to Sarah.
Alice always told me that I was a horrible actress, but I tried my best anyway to pretend like nothing was wrong. It was harder to do, since Edward kept giving me the side eye wondering what was going on. But could I tell him, or anyone? With the Volturi coming, I couldn't risk them finding out that Sarah knew our secret. Aro's gift would ensure that they would find out, and they would insist that she be destroyed. Though usually the rule is to either become one of us, or die, I was sure just know the Cullen's by association would guarantee her death. I couldn't let that happen to anyone of Angela's family.
But she knew. Somehow she pieced it together. I replayed the conversation with the note passing yesterday, she must have been asking me what were we really, but lost the nerve cause she thought she was crazy. Her thoughts. How did Edward not hear this? If she thought we were the same Bella and Edward from the photo, she would have had hundreds of questions going through her mind, how didn't he hear any of them. And Alice, I'm sure at some point Sarah made a decision to confront me about the photo, why didn't she give me a warning?
The bell rang and I gathered my things like the rest of the student body. The questions were still going through my head when Sarah's voice cut through them sharply. "Bella, would I be able to partner with you for the project? I know you could always be with your boyfriend, but I was just thinking maybe since you're new and none of my friends are in this class, maybe we could be partners?" I honestly didn't know what to make of her.
"Yeah, umm, sure," was all I could muster. I didn't even know there was a project assigned. I must have been gone longer than I expected. I'll get it from Edward. And with that, she was out the door.
Me and Edward were the last students to leave the classroom. We walked quietly to lunch. At first Edward tried asking me what was wrong, but I didn't know how to word it properly. My initial reaction would be, we need to move. But I knew Carlisle wouldn't like that idea for the fact that we wouldn't know what Sarah would say once we were gone. At the cafeteria we sat together, again, minus Renesmee. I was glad she was finding her own friends, I didn't want to have to pull her from school. No we were staying, that much I was sure of. I kept shaking Jasper's gift off of me. He was trying to flood me with peace and contentment. But I didn't want any of that right now. I wanted resolve and I wasn't going to get it with fake emotions. I didn't even bother with the props in front of me. I only kept my focus on Sarah. I kept looking at her while she was at her table, but se wasn't really paying attention to me or my family. I needed to get to the bottom of this.
"Alice, do you see me doing anything in the future?" I wanted to talk to Sarah, but I wanted to make sure that nothing bad would happen.
"Yeah, you're having lunch with that girl over there. You're talking and she seems a little scared, but the conversation is hushed, I can't even make out what you're talking about. Even the vision is hazy, like you haven't fully committed to having it yet. Why?"
"I don't know yet." Without warning, I stood up and walked over to Sarah's table. When I was behind her, her friend nudged her and Sarah looked back up at me. "Sarah can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Errr, sure. I'll be right back guys." She followed me over to an empty table and we sat down facing each other. "Wassup, Bella."
"Well, I umm, don't know what I want to say exactly, so just bear with me okay?" She looked at me puzzled but nodded and smiled at me. Okay great the girl thinks I'm crazy. "Yesterday you asked me what I was, but it seemed like there was something else behind the question. Like you weren't really asking me if me and my boyfriend were sophomores. I was just wondering what you were really trying to ask me."
At that moment I could see she was scared. She took a huge gulp, one I don't think she meant to be heard, but it was really just like in the movies, and her eyes got really big, like a deer in headlights. She started fidgeting with that ring. "Well, umm, I, I won't tell anyone. I promise I won't say anything."
"Sarah, what is there to say?" I was hoping she was still in a talkative manner and just give me one theory of what she was thinking.
"I saw the pictures, but I didn't think of it at first, but then, I saw you and Edward walking into the school, looking the same. I wanted to know what you guys were, because it's impossible for someone, let alone two people, to look exactly like people who existed over 100 years ago. I was shocked. So last night I went through more stuff of my great great grandmothers and found some diaries of hers, but there wasn't really much on you or Edward. I just wanted to know more about her, and it looked like you and her were friends. I don't know how it's possible but it did, and I thought maybe you could help me with that."
I looked in her eyes for any sign of deception. I didn't know what to do. Letting her know about Angela meant letting her know of our secret. The danger that would be involved in her life because of curiosity, would find me guilty for the rest of my existence. I let my shield down and asked Edward what I should do, but when I looked over at the table, he simply shrugged. Since my husband and my sister in law weren't being too forthcoming with any suggestions. I said the only thing I could say.
"Sarah, what are you talking about, what pictures?" I tried saying it as confused as I possibly could have been. I figured maybe this way she wouldn't think I had anything to do with their sudden disappearance. But Sarah may have been too perceptive for that.
"There's just too much to explain. Can we meet after school? I'd really like to speak with you but lunch is about to end." She was so timid, but I knew she was right, she needed to explain so I agreed.
"I'll meet you in the parking lot by Edward's car." I said low enough so that she could hear. I walked back to Edward and sunk into his arms. I kissed him on the cheek and said, "We have a problem." I let down my shield and showed him the minutes I had to steal Sarah's stuff, no Angela's stuff from her house. Next were the images of me stuffing the items in the closet and my meeting with Sarah. "What should we do?" I looked at him so worried, but I couldn't help it.
Edward took his hands and smoothed out my face. "You'll wrinkle dear," he said chuckling. How on earth could he think of joking about a time like this? "Alice has started to see visions that Sarah won't give us any trouble, and she'll be okay with you taking the pictures. Eventually." He started to pinch his nose, he only did that when he was deep in thought about something.
"What? What is it?" I looked up at him and wondered what it was that got him lost for words all of a sudden.
"Alice," he looked over at Sarah's table before he continued, "saw her becoming one of us." I looked over to Alice and the way she looked at me confirmed it. Sarah as a vampire?
"NO!" I hissed at Alice, low enough that no one would know what was going on except the vampires at the table. "Not her." I could feel the rage building inside of me as the bell rang signaling the end of lunch. I could see some of the students grabbing their books for the next period and start to filter out of the cafeteria. I allowed myself to calm down, because I could see that Jasper was frustrated that his gift wasn't working.
Between not being able to control my new gift, Alice's vision, the threat that Sarah posed, and the Volturi, I was beyond frustrated. I completely grabbed my things and stormed out. Renesmee and Alice will just have to catch up to me in Spanish.
I was the first to arrive in class, but soon Alice and Renesmee were there also. Alice sat down next to me on my right, and Renesmee grabbed the seat in front of me and turned around. "Alice, please tell me you did not see her as one of us. Please." She was Angela's family. I know Angela is long and gone but I couldn't bear knowing that my only link to my one human friend would become a vampire. Don't get me wrong, I love the life that I've built with Edward and my new family, but like Carlisle, I wouldn't wish this life on anyone that had a choice. Sarah had that choice.
"I'm sorry Bella." Alice looked truly sorry as well, I immediately felt guilty for hissing at her earlier. "But the vision showed that Demetri came before the rest of the guard. I guess as a scout. At some point he realizes that there is a human that knows what we are, and he tells Aro. He wants to kill her but you're the one who changes her."
"Alice, how far into the future did you see Sarah as us?" Something I thought earlier was on the tip of my tongue and I couldn't quite formulate what it was yet.
"Hold on a sec." Alice then turned into her mind and had the outward appearance of daydreaming as she was having her vision. A few seconds later she fazed out of her vision. "It changes, sometimes it's in the winter sometimes it's just before the Volturi come. For some reason, someone's decision keeps making it flip flop."
There were so many variables that could be effecting her visions. I know she gets aggravated when her visions aren't precise. She hates doing anything blind.
If Sarah is a vampire before the Volturi come, would they attempt to try to kill us knowing there was a newborn on our side. Of course in order for her to be on our side we'd have to teach her our ways and show that we're not real monsters. The strength of one newborn vampire will overpower Demetri and Felix's strength and that would leave the Volturi with a weak guard. Jane, Alec, Renata and the three brothers would be left. Oh I wish jasper was here, he was the military strategist.
"Alice, what do you see if I made the decision to turn Sarah myself, before the end of the school year?" I expanded my shield around her, just in case Edward decided to listen in to her vision. There was so much at stake and I needed to keep it from Aro. Alice closed her eyes and smiled.
"Bella you are a genius, that might work."
