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"Oh this is not good!" Alice said smacking her forehead and shaking it back and forth.
"I…well…you see…" Edward stuttered, scratching the back of his head and grimacing, he could hear everyone's thoughts in his mind, and he was having quite the hard time coming up with a decent excuse with all the yelling.
"Lie dumbass!" Emmett screamed into his brain.
"You are so screwed" Jasper's voice said pitifully.
"Looks like someone isn't so perfect anymore." Rosalie sung smugly.
"We, may have run into each other a few days ago…down at the lake." Bella answered for him, nervously. She was fidgety and looking down at the ground, a clear sign to any mother she wasn't receiving the whole truth.
"I was reading a book, down by where that tree is," She said, turning towards Esme and pointing behind her to a big walnut tree. "The walnuts kept falling and Edward caught me using my powers to avoid being hit in the head. We talked for a few minutes before my mom called me into the house."
"Is that true Edward?" Esme asked skeptically, Bella sure was a bit shaky for someone who was telling the truth.
Edward nodded his head as he swallowed, "Yes, ma'am."
"If you're lying Edward, I will find out, I always find out!"
"Now, back to the matter at hand. Bella, what I'm sure Rose was trying to convey, in a poor way I might add, is maybe you did something without realizing it. I'd like to do a bit of an experiment if you don't mind."
Bella's eyes widen and she felt Edwards fingers brush hers slightly as she backed away. She looked up at him and he gave her a reassuring smile, the exchange did not go unnoticed, but Esme at least didn't see the pairs index fingers that were now hooked together.
"Uh…what kind of experiment?"
"Oh, just a test is all, the kids and I do this sort of thing all the time," Esme replied, "no big deal, I want to recreate this situation again. See what happens, maybe it will help us figure out what exactly happened."
"Sure, I guess." "Wonderful, why don't you four get back to your game, I would like to talk to Rose and Emmett briefly before we begin." Esme said with a tight smile.
"I can not believe you would attack her like that Rose!" Esme hissed "It wasn't that long ago you were setting fire to my living room couch when your emotions were going out of whack. I would think you, out of all of us would show a bit more compassion!"
"She could have hurt him!" She argued back at her mother.
"Oh please, Emmett could knock down this whole forest without a flinch!"
"Well, she should have had more control."
"No, she shouldn't have, she has never felt threaten before, she has never met anyone beside her parents before, she had a normal reaction for being startled. Now, you are going to apologize to her. You are going to learn to be nice to her. Or I will be taking away the spa trip you had planned next month. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes." Rose said, pouting and looking down at the ground.
"Good, now you may go and join the group, tell Jasper to move over, I want you next to Bella."
Rose stalked off and rejoined the group as Esme turned towards Emmett.
"You are okay, right?"
"Course Ma! Just stung a bit, really felt like there was a wall there."
Esme frowned, "Really? Not like you were thrown?"
Emmett shook his head. "No, She didn't throw me, I don't think she even realized I was there until I was on the ground. Why?"
"Well, that just seems odd. I would have expect you to have felt thrown back, not stopped…."Esme trailed off, her mind coming up with several different ways to proceed. "You don't mind being a guinea pig again, do you honey?"
"Sure mom, no problem!" Emmett said with a smile.
" Good, I want you to sneak up behind Bella, make a small sound when you are closer to her, something to startle her."
With a nod of his head, he took off towards Bella. When he got behind her, he loud out a loud roar. Causing Bella to scream and spin around, her hands flying, and Emmett's body flew threw the air like a lifeless rag doll. Jasper, Alice and Edward burst out laughing, Esme jaw was practically touching the ground, Rose glared with her arms across her chest, and Carlisle and Charlie finally looked back from the lake to see what the commotion was about.
Of course Bella's hands went to her mouth when she realized what she had done and she started to rush over to Emmett, apologizing the whole way. Emmett sat up, looking stunned for a moment before he broke into a huge smile and started laughing.
"That was absolutely awesome! Do it again!"
"What!" Bella exclaimed "Are you crazy?"
"No darling, he has just ran into one too many buildings." Jasper chortled.
"Okay," Esme said, holding up a hand, once she regained her shock, "It's alright Bella, I told Emmett to do that, although, I did say a small noise, Emmett."
"Sorry mom," Emmett said, no remorse in his voice.
So Emmett, I'm guessing that wasn't the same feeling you felt the first time Bella stopped you?"
"No," He said, shaking his head. "Like I said, the first time was like a solid wall, this time I definitely felt like I was pushed."
Esme frowned and nodded her head. Trying to decipher what the difference was between the two incidents.
"Everything alright over here?" Charlie asked as he and Carlisle walked over.
"Oh everything is fine, just having some fun with the kid's powers." Esme replied. "Bella's gift is quite remarkable."
"She sure is special," Charlie agreed. "Hey Bells, you gonna be ok for a few minutes, I want to go call your mom, make sure she isn't going to surprise us or anything."
"Sure dad, I'll be fine."
As Charlie walked back to the house, Alice's face grew blank and then a smile broke out.
"Mommy?" Alice asked, if a much too sweet voice.
"What ever you are going to ask, the answer is no Alice." Carlisle answered with a smile.
"Aww, but I just wanted to take Bella out on the four wheeler, explore the woods a bit, we will stay on ours and the Swans property. Pretty please." She said, giving her mom and dad the best puppy look she could muster.
"Fine, but you all stay together and within range, Edward, that way you all no when you need to come back." Esme conceited.
"Excellent! Bella you can ride with Edward." Alice replied gleefully, jumping up and down and clapping her hands.
As the kids walked over to the vehicles, Bella leaned into Edward, "Is the pixie up to no good?"
Edward laughed, "No, she actually is making it so I can have a minute or two alone with you."
Bella blushed and smiled as she got onto the back of the ATV and wrapped her arms around Edward.
Edward looked over to his siblings and nodded his head with a thankful smile as the engines started to roar. Emmet and Jasper followed Edward into the woods until their parents were out of site, then one by one, they broke off, giving them all some privacy. When Edward came to a small meadow he killed the engine
"Wow! Look at this! I didn't even realize this was here." Bella breathed as she took in the serene setting.
As Bella turned in a circle looking at their surroundings, she couldn't help but be slightly overcome with the eerily feeling she had been to this spot before. She furrowed her brows, turning once again, but drawing a blank as to why this place look familiar.
"Neither did I, but it looked like a good place to stop." Edward replied. He got off the four wheeler and held a hand out to Bella. Walking her over to a plush grass part and sitting down.
"I'm sorry I didn't come last night, there were some unforeseen events."
"Oh?"
"Yea, my mom and dad finally caught Em and Rose in a compromising position. As a result, we are all kind of on lock down."
"Ah, so that means no more night time visits?" Bella asked, disappointment clear in her voice.
Edward shrugged and slowly put an arm around Bella's shoulder, smiling, "No, that means I just have to find a way out of the house first."
"I don't want to get you in trouble."
"Hey, what's the fun of being a kid, if you never get into trouble?"
"Another one of those experience things?"
"Yep! By the way, thanks for saving my butt back there, I thought for a second I was going to be sentenced to the basement like Emmett and Jasper."
Bella gave him a curious look, not understanding what he mean. Edward of course explained in detail everything that had happened the night before, causing Bella to let out an angelic laugh.
"I can't believe they would do that with your parents home!"
"Wasn't one of their finer moments. But, thanks for trying to save me, you could have just come clean."
"No problem, she bought it right?"
"Sort of, I'm definitely going to have to be on high alert, but for now, our secret is safe."
"Mmm, that's good. She won't tell my dad will she?"
Edward shook his head, "Probably not. There wouldn't be a benefit for that, except make him upset, and my mom really wants to get to know your parents."
"Hey, where did they all go off to?" Bella asked after a moment of silence snuggling into Edward's side and resting her head against his shoulder.
"Alice and Jasper are farther to the left of us" Edward said point to a dense area of trees, "You don't want to know what they are doing. And Emmett and Rose, well they are to the right and hopefully, no trees will be coming down anytime soon."
Bella laughed and looked up at Edward, "So I guess the sneaking away was for their benefit too."
Edward looked down at her, but didn't answer back, he was lost in her eyes, as they stared at each other. Ever so slowly, he lowered his head until their foreheads rested again each other and his lips softly moved to hers.
Bella's eyes fluttered closed with the contact and her lips parted on their own accord. Like colors mixing together, their movements blended into one, as their lips danced and tongues peaked out, Bella let out a moan as Edwards hand traveled to her hair, he slowly lowered her body into the grass, his hand cradling her head, as he leaned with her. Bella's arms wrapped around him, her fingers playing with the hair at the nape of his neck. Too caught up in the moment, Edward didn't hear his sisters frantic voice screaming in his mind. Bella did however hear movement near by and her whole body froze. Edward broke the kiss and looked at her with confusion.
"Are you alright?" He asked, concern laced in his voice, at the same time they heard some else talking.
"Edward we have to…Oomph!" Jasper started to say before falling on the ground.
Bella and Edward scrambled up into a standing position, trying to situate the clothes that had become slightly rumbled. Alice, who was behind Jasper, looked up curiously from where her boyfriend was sitting.
"Bella's dad is on his way back!" Alice said. "Why are you sitting down Jazz?
"I think the same thing that happened to Emmett happened to me." Jasper said confused. "I was walking towards them and it felt like there was this invisible wall there."
"Well, we don't have time for this now! Charlie wont be too pleased to see Bella and Edward riding together if we stay any longer!" Alice said turning to go back to their ATV. "EMMETT! ROSE!" Alice shouted, "TIME TO GO!"
Edward and Bella hopped on their four wheeler and headed back the way they came. Charlie, Carlisle and Esme were all sitting and talking as the kids road up. Charlie's eyes narrowed as he saw his daughters hands wrapped around Edward.
"Have fun Bells?" Charlie asked as his daughter took Edward's hand and dismounted from the machine.
"Yea, these things are so cool!"
"Good, glad you're having a good time. But, your mom's on her way back, we should probably be heading home."
"Already?"
"Apparently, she had a bad feeling so she decided to cut the trip a bit short." He replied staring at the hand that was still intertwined with his daughter
Edward swallowed audibly as he heard the threats running through the chiefs head. He quickly let go of Bella's hand took a small step away.
Bella didn't miss the nervousness that radiated off of him and shot her father a look after one quick glance in Edwards direction.
She said her goodbyes to Carlisle and Esme, and hopped to see them again soon, to which Esme replied she would be looking forward to it. Emmett came up and gave her a hug, Rose didn't hug her, but gave her a genuine small smile and said she would see her soon. Jasper gave her a hug as well and said it was a pleasure meeting her. Edward looked at the chief and just said goodbye to Bella, sadness written in his eyes. Alice was last and bounced over to her, pulling her into a tight hug.
"Don't worry, he'll be there tonight!" She whispered before pulling back and smiling broadly.
Bella broke into a huge smile and Edward gave her a wink when Charlie's attention was diverted. Then, the two Swans made their way back to the house.
"You have a nice time?" Charlie asked as they walked towards their house.
"Mhmm."
"Had fun on the four wheeler?"
"Yep."
"You and uh Edward seemed quite cozy when you drove up."
"Just holding on so I wouldn't fall." Bella replied nonchalantly, her eyes diverted down to the ground.
"Sure, sure." Charlie said with a frown, thinking about the grin on that boy's face when he helped Bella off of the ATV. Chief Swan knew that look all to well, it was the same kind of smile he gave his wife whenever she entered the room.
"So, you want to see them again I take it."
"Yeah, I'd like that."
Charlie grunted.
"Are we going to tell mom about seeing them."
"I don't want you to lie to your mom. But I think in this case, it'd probably be best just not to bring the Cullen's up. At least till I figure a way to bring it up, that won't make me permanently living in the family room." Charlie answered as he opened their back door, just in time for Renee to pull into the driveway.
When the Cullen's got back to their house, all of the kids filed down to the basement.
Emmett smack Edward on the head as soon as Jasper the closed the basement door. "I thought for sure you had blown it, dumb ass."
"Well if Rose hadn't been acting like a bitch, I wouldn't have felt the need to defend her!" Edward argued back as he rubbed his head.
"What?" Rose said innocently, "I wasn't that bad too her. Besides, she started it when she used her powers, I thought I was being fairly nice, its not like I threw a fireball at her."
"Something not right with this whole situation," Jasper said, taking a seat next to Alice on his bed. " She moves things, not blocks them. But the same thing that happened to Emmett happened to me."
Emmett shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe she can block things too."
"She would have mentioned it." Edward said shaking his head.
"Well, what if she doesn't know." Jasper pointed out. "Both times she was caught off guard, and both times I could feel the fear.
"She was caught off guard when Emmett came up behind her and she threw him." Rose pointed out.
"Yea, but she knew something was going to happen. Esme told her." Alice chimed in.
"It's still crazy," Edward said, shaking his head, "Have any of you ever heard of someone with two powers? It doesn't work that way."
"Maybe we should get Uncle Eleazar down here. He'll be able to tell what her powers are."
The conversation drifted off for a bit before Edward turned to Alice. "So, how exactly am I going to break out of here?"
Alice's vision had only shown Edward and Bella down by the lake, in the same clothes they had been wearing earlier today. Not the actual escape act.
"Think of some different ways, and I'll tell you if it works or not."
After several failed attempts, Edward finally thought of a decent one. Esme, rarely went into her office, next to Carlisle's study , after dinner. She preferred to work first thing in the morning. The windows wouldn't trigger the alarm system, so all he had to do was go through one of the windows in there, and no one would be any wiser to the missing person, or the window left open.
That night, the plan went off without a hitch and Bella smiled widely and squealed with delight when she heard the pebbles bouncing off her window. The couple stayed out until the sun just barely peaked out of the horizon. However, both Edward and Bella paid the price the next day as they walked around like zombies.
The next night, Edward met Bella and the two decided with school being the next day for Edward, they would have to only meet Friday's and Saturday's. Neither was happy about the choice, but never the less, it was best for both of them. Unfortunately, now that Bella was no longer staying up at night, she kept having very odd dreams. After the third night in a row of the same dream, she finally spoke to her mother about it.
"Why don't you try to follow the dream honey, see how it progresses, instead of getting frighten and waking up. Most dreams, are your brains way of telling you something, or working out a problem. I bet they will make more sense and not seem so scary if you just go with it."
Bella didn't feel that was necessarily true with this dream, but decided to give it a try anyway. So that night. When she went into her dream land and heard the familiar singing, she didn't hesitate to walk towards the voice. Quite to Bella's surprise, instead of coming across the scary man who held her mother captive, she was greeted by a warm looking woman, who almost could have been Esme, except instead of long caramel, wavy hair, she had short, deep brown curly hair.
"Welcome, child, I knew you'd be ready soon," The woman smiled and extended her hand.
Bella looked warily at the woman, and glanced around at the surroundings, she was still in her forest, in a small clearing, exactly where her and Edward had been several nights before. Bella bit her lip and looked nervously at the woman.
"Who are you?" She asked in a shaky breath. "What do you want?"
The woman's smile faltered a bit before she responded, "Who I am isn't important, dear, I'm here to show you how things could be."
Bella took a step back and eyed the woman up and down, "What do you mean?"
"I know you're trapped honey. Stuck in the same place, never being allowed to go anywhere. Not truly living your life, not having any friends. I could change that, let me show you."
Bella started shaking, "Your wrong, I'm not trapped, I'm quite happy, I have family and friends. I…I want to wake up!"
The lady gave a sad smile and her eyes darted back and forth. "We will be back my dear, maybe you should see what I have to show you now…"
"I said NO!" Bella shouted, and before she knew it, she was sitting up in bed, gasping for breath, sweaty and shaking.
Later in the morning, while Bella was suppose to be working on her Geography assignment, she was debating whether she should tell Edward, or Esme about the dream. Bella had an uneasy feeling about the whole dream, like it wasn't just a normal nightmare. But, she was slightly embarrassed that a strange dream was getting her so worked up. In the end, she decided she would just leave it alone, and try to take her mother's advice again. Vowing to herself that if anything else screamed danger in her dream she would then go to the Cullen's with her fears.
She waited with anticipation for the dream to appear, but for several nights nothing happened. One Saturday evening, after Bella and Edward had gone to the lake for star gazing and more talking, Bella had snuggled into Edwards side, and both fallen into a deep sleep. This time, Bella didn't fight with the warm welcoming woman, and walked farther into the imaginary woods with her until they had come to an enormous clearing. It looked like the garden of Avalon to Bella, the scenery in front of her screamed serenity.
"You can use your powers all you want here, there are no restrictions my dear. This place is here, to grow and learn. To have friends that are exactly like you. You never have to worry about a thing. Come, let's look around."
Taking a deep, shaky breath Bella took a slow step ahead of the woman, towards the several people, playing in the meadow.
"All of these people have powers?" Bella asked, as they passed a group of children floating around.
"Yes, you may not be able to tell with all of them, but we all have some unique gift. We only allow gifted people to come here" The dream lady said with a smile.
"You never did tell me your name…" Bella said.
"You can call me Dora." The lady replied hesitantly.
"Dora, why did you bring me here?" Bella asked after a moment of observing three small children levitating.
"To see this is where you belong, dear." She replied like it was an obvious response.
Bella shook her head, "it's a very lovely place, but I don't belong here." she protested.
"Oh, of course you do dear. You'll see, why don't you look around some more. There are a few kids over there by that raspberry brush that have a similar gift to yours." Dora responded, pointing Bella to the left.
Bella stared at a boy and girl who were laughing and smiling flinging a ball back and forth between the two of them, but never touching it. She felt Dora push her a little towards the two, but at the same time, she heard in the far distance, someone calling her name.
"Bella! Bella!"
She looked back to Dora who was still smiling at her, then turned all around to see who the mystery caller was. The image of the serene meadow was becoming blurring and Bella was having a hard time focusing on her surrounds as the voice grew louder.
"Bella, come on, Princess, you have to wake up."
Ever so slowly, Bella's eyes started to flutter open. She no longer was in the meadow but laying down on the embankment by the lake, looking into Edward's beautiful emerald eyes as he smiled and stroked her hair.
"There you are. That must have been one hell of a dream! I've been trying to wake you for a good five minutes." He said with a smile.
"Oh it was something alright." Bella breathed. "I had the strangest dream, I…."
"I'm sorry Princess, but it's going to have to wait. Your dad is up and I'm pretty sure we are gonna get busted if we don't move it."
Bella shot up, ignoring the bout of dizziness she felt from moving to quickly and the pair took off towards her home. The house had just come into view, when Edward grabbed Bella's arm.
"He knows."
Was all Edward had time to say before Charlie Swan flew out of the backdoor, slowing down and breathing in a sigh of relief when he saw his daughter, before glaring at Edward and shaking with anger.
"Get inside the house Isabella, before your mother wakes up." He said through clenched teeth.
"Dad, I can explain.."
"I said go into the house. We will talk about this later."
"But!"
"NOW!" He bellowed.
Edward squeezed Bella's hand, before letting go and nodding, as she looked back at him
"You!" Charlie started to say, wagging a finger in Edwards direction. "You got a lot of nerve sneaking my daughter out of the house. Consider this your one and only warning. You come anywhere near my daughter and I will not hesitate to shoot. I have a lot of land to hide a body on boy!"
If Charlie's words weren't enough, Edward had heard the chief's thoughts loud and clear, enough to know that he meant business. With an audible gulp he nodded his head and murmured an apology.
"I suggest you get home, you're parents will have heard about this by the time you get there."
"Yes sir." Edward said before starting to turn around. "Sir?" He said, stopping and turning back to Bella's father.
"We didn't do anything, I swear, we were just talking. Sometimes, you just need someone you can confide in, and well, she's that someone to me, and I for her. Please, if she cant see me, don't take away the rest of my family, Bella needs them." Edward beseeched, after hearing an errant thought of cutting off all contact with the Cullen's.
Charlie grunted, but said nothing as he turned and walked away, his mind only running through memories of Bella's childhood. Edward was left standing there, debating if he should go home straight away or prolong the inevitable punishment he would now be receiving.
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