Next Chapter! Sorry it's taken so long but this is a long chapter. Thank my Beta, Golden Fantasies, again for she is awesome! Hope you enjoy this chapter.
EPOV
This was one of those times when I knew that whatever god was in charge out there had turned away from me. One of those times when I just wanted to know what I had done to deserve this. One of those times when I took comfort that my family hated Natalie just as much as I did.
When we had gotten home, after debating whether or not to break the treaty and go to check out the light source, Natalie had gone straight to her room and asked all of us to meet in the living room 30 min before school started. I had been so miserable after realizing, once again, that it had been fifty years since I saw my angel's face. I went up to my room and popped in a random CD and let my mind wander to my family's thoughts and to the steady downpour of rain coming from outside.
What's up with Natalie? She is flickering through different decisions so fast I can't tell what she is hiding from us… Ah well, we will find out soon! Hmmm… Jessica's kid will be there, ooh! Multiple children! Before she even got married! I always knew she was a whore…
There. Perfect. Edward will fall head over heels for me this time! He will COMPLETELY forget about her once he sees me! Put the contacts in, and wellah! Maybe he will like me so much we can get in a room by ourselves and…
I shuddered. I looked at my clock and noticed that it was 5:45 and the purgatory known as school started at 7. I reluctantly got up and dressed for the day knowing that it would just be another day of horny teenage thoughts. I shuddered, again. I walked downstairs to the living room to hear my family discussing the light again.
"For some reason I don't feel worried, even though we don't know what happened, I just know it was a good thing. It's like a miracle just occurred and we were there to witness it, almost like it was meant to be that way." Jasper was saying as I sat down.
"OK everyone ready for the surprise?" Natalie's voice said from upstairs. I could tell she was excited.
"This'll make every one forget about her for sure! This is perfect! Why didn't I figure it out before?
Now here was Natalie; standing in front of me in a light-blue top and jeans, but that wasn't the bad part. The bad part was that she was wearing contacts that made her eyes look a horrible shade of brown and she had died her hair from bleach-blond to dark brown resulting in a very bad contrast. It took us all a minute to figure out what she was doing and when we did we were pissed and I mean really pissed.
"So you think you can copy Bella and we will be just great with that? Oh yes, Edward will love you because you look like Bella! He will forget all about the personality difference, the attitude difference, and the fact she is probably dead! Because Natalie looks as cute as Bella, Edward can pretend you are the love of his life! That is all that was running through your mind?" Everyone was startled by Emmett's outburst; no one knew just how much Emmett had hated Natalie, although we all had a mutual hate relationship with Natalie. She nodded, slightly relieved for some odd reason.
"I think you are lying. I can feel the relief rolling off you, and everyone can see your crush on Edward. You just want to fuck him because he looks cute? Well get this straight, horny bitch, don't play with anybody's mind like that, especially my brother. You are such a manipulative whore that you will do whatever it takes, as long as you get what you want." Now it was everyone's turn to be surprised at Jasper, who, even if he spoke in a cool detached voice, had anger waves rolling off him. Alice jumped up and whispered sweet nothings into his ear to calm him down.
Apparently he had one more thing to say.
"Stay away from Edward."
"Now, it's my turn." This could be interesting…
"I may not have been as nice to Bella as I should have, but understand this. She is a member of this family, if only in spirit, while you, the spawn of Satan, the "part of our family", will never be a part of our family. You are a part of our coven, never the Cullen family. You don't even follow our rules. You just expect everyone to love you, no matter what you have done. You always want things your way. Listen up, darling coven-groupie, you can never be a part of the Cullen family, and have only pushed us farther away with this little stunt. Family members support each other, and help each other when they need help. Natalie Dulith, you will never be granted the title of Natalie Cullen, or even Natalie Hale. You are not even useful, you are a burden. Go back to your rock from which you came."
"Let's see Rosalie, you joined the Cullen family. Where did that get you? You don't even bear the last name of Cullen! You are just little old Rosalie Hale, who is too wrapped up in her own little vain world to notice that Edward and I are completely in love! You are full of lies, and spurt them whenever your precious ego is wounded. You are the worthless one here!"
The last words were barely out of her mouth before Emmett let out an ear-shattering roar. He charged Natalie with such a speed that no one could even see him.
"Emmett, there will be no murders committed today!" We could all hear Carlisle and Esme quite clearly, but Emmett showed no sign of stopping.
All of a sudden, Alice and Jasper sniggered at the same time for no apparent reason. That can't be good… I felt a wave of emotion sweeping through the room, but it was directed at Emmett… It felt weird… Almost like…
I whipped my head away from Alice and Jasper, to see the strangest sight I had possibly ever seen… What the? Emmett was … for lack of a better word, bitch-slapping Natalie…
"Well, that certainly lightened the mood!" Carlisle and Esme walked into the room at the perfect time to catch this moment. "Now, Natalie, change! We don't have time to dye your hair or take out the contacts."
After she had changed her clothes we all set out in our cars to get to school. I took my Volvo alone because I was too pissed to deal with anyone while Rosalie took her mustang with Emmet and Alice took her Porsche with Japer. For her own sake, Natalie ran.
We were almost half way there when a blue bike came and swerved around me trying to get by. I was so shocked that someone was actually going faster than my I swerved a bit and my car was spinning on the wet road in a 360 while I slammed on the brakes and stopped with my car horizontal to the road. Alice and Rosalie shrieked to a stop beside me. I was so shocked, for the first time in my 150 years of living I had almost crashed due to something other than Bella. I got out of my car to see the motorcycle had stopped and the person on it was staring at me, even thought this person's features were covered by a thick leather jacket and a dark helmet so I couldn't identify if it was a boy or girl.
Suddenly the bikers gaze went beyond me and to something in the distance, nodded to me and hopped back on her bike speeding away. I turned just in time to see another bike, a darker blue than the first one, speed up and proceed to jump over my car and stat chasing after the other yelling things in a language I couldn't understand, thought it sounded like Japanese.
I was too stunned to speak. I looked at my family to see what they were thinking.
"Who were they and when did they move here? I could have crashed my baby! I love my baby! They are sooo gonna pay!
"What!?! I can't see their futures! This is strange… They don't smell like werewolves either."
"I can't feel their emotions. That's never happened. Are they emotionless? Or are they immune?"
"I've got a feeling this days gonna be interesting. Maybe I can get a wrestling match with Natalie tonight, outside, to the death!"
"Is everyone OK?" I asked, probably paler than normal, if that is possible.
"I'm fine. I just don't know whether to be scared because we almost crashed or to go congratulate the person who finally achieved scaring a group of vampires." Emmett had a perplexed look on his face, like he was actually considering those options.
"Well there's no point in trying to figure out who they are. It'll probably just be a couple of trick riders anyways. Come on, or we'll be late." I said walking back to my car and finish the short drive to school.
When we entered the parking lot I immediately noticed the two bikes parked beside my usual space. I pulled in and got out of the car and reluctantly stalked over to Natalie who was waiting for us. "There are a couple of new students today." She said as she walked over to me and tried to attach herself to my arm. I immediately pushed her away and glared and continued walking into the building. The thought of people immediately entered my mind:
"Wow those girls are hot! Their prettier than the blonde senior who's part of the Cullen family."
"Where did they come from? I heard they were transfer students from Italy but no one said anything about them being models."
"Hello new girls!"
"What's up with that girl's hair? I bet it's dyed but Tom said she said when he asked that it was natural. We'll just have to see about that! HOW DARE THEY HURT HIM!"
I suddenly noticed that all mental images of them were blurs along with their names. I knew they weren't werewolves because I could see werewolves' images in people's minds. Two things that interested me most were; that they were supposedly prettier than Rosalie or than they were transfer students from Italy. Could they be….
My thoughts where stopped by the ring of the bell and I hurried off to my next class.
The morning was frustrating and I could tell it was for Alice to because she all visions of them came out blurry. We would talk about it over lunch. On the way, Natalie latched onto my arm again. This time I didn't even bother throwing her off.
When I walked into the lunchroom I was immediately bombarded with fuzzy images; apparently everyone was thinking about the new girls. I went and got some food from the line, really just props, and sat down at our table were everyone else was already seated.
I was looking out the window thinking about nothing when I suddenly smelled two sweetly addicting scents. One was that of lilies and vanilla but it didn't smell as good to me as the next thing that hit my nose: the familiar sweet smell of freesia and strawberries. I looked up to see my families shocked faces looking towards the cafeteria door.
Two figures were staring at our table with curious looks while the whole cafeteria had gone almost silent taking them in. I thought I was staring at angels, and that my eyes where playing tricks on me.
I was staring at Bella, my Bella, but she was more beautiful than I remembered. Her face was still soft and heart-shaped but she had dark bags under her eyes and her hair had turned deep brown with black undertones and her eyes had turned the most beautiful blue I had ever seen. Her body was one to match Rosalie's and her skin was the same marble white as mine. It hurt to look at her; like I was looking at an angel.
Then she smiled at me, my angel smiled at me! Then a realization hit me hard; this couldn't be Bella. She was too young and looked to different and yet totally the same, a relative maybe. I fell into grief as I realized this could be her daughter or grand-daughter I was staring at. I felt like crying, but I had told her to move on. Suddenly she frowned and looked at the other figure who was observing the rest of my family with understanding eyes; like she knew our every secret.
When I let my eyes fully look at her, I gasped. I had never realized someone that compared to Bella exist though I found the one who looked like Bella more to my liking. She had the most peculiar color of hair and eyes: the color of the stars. The weird thing was that it looked totally natural. She was tall and had high cheek bones one a soft round face, while her skin was a pale moon-like color.
She looked back at "Bella" and then glared at Natalie like she was the most disgusting thing she had ever seen. I looked at my angels face and it was just as mad, I didn't think it possible for an angel to show that much hate and I wanted to make it go away and see her smile again.
BPOV-back to this morning
I let out a sigh as I dropped onto my bed. It was now four o'clock in the morning and we had just left La Push just a few minutes ago. After Layla said the words everyone got along fine for the rest of the night; laughing, chatting and just having a good time. Kyle hadn't let Layla out of his sight for the rest of the night, thought it's not like she would've gone far anyways.
"Damn Straight!" Layla said reading my thoughts and replying with her one of her favorite phrases while she was playing some random videogame that I knew Emmett would probably like.
Since school started at seven and I was currently was torn wanting time to either speed up so I could see Edward again or slow down so I wouldn't have to face him. To clear my head I put a random CD in my player and lied down on my bed to think. I smiled as I realized I had picked the CD with my melody on it which I had found under my floor boards when I was still human. I put it on repeat and let the melody carry me and I got lost in the flowing pattern on my ceiling.
Suddenly there was a knock on my door and Layla's voice carried into my room "Its five thirty and I know you usually take a shower and you tend to take a very long time it the shower so I though you might like to know." She then headed off to her room to let me think.
I decided that she was right and got up and walked to the bathroom. I got in the shower and let the steaming hot water relax me. I got out after about forty five minutes and went to my closet to pick out what I was going to wear today. I settled on some black designer jeans and a simple navy halter top with lace at the bottom and that hugged my curves and some navy blue boots from Gucci that I added to make Alice proud when she saw me.
I grabbed my gear and went into Layla's room to see what she was up to. I knocked and heard a muffled reply and let myself in. Layla was sitting on her bed glowing in the little sunlight there was. After midnight the clouds had moved in fast and it was now pouring onto the glass ceiling that covered Layla's room. I walked over to her and poked her to make sure she was ok. She opened her eyes and I noticed that one was glazed over while the other looked at me.
"I'm seeing what our boys are up to." She informed me in a semi-distant voice. When I looked confused her other eye looked at me and she chuckled. "I was checking on Edward and pup." She said using her nick-name for Kyle. "Pup's doing fine but his dad is frustrated with the thought of him imprinting on a vampire, the idea is still very new but it just makes another reason for him to accept vampires." I nodded begging her to continue.
"Edwards fine, just sitting in his room thinking about you, it's actually a bit depressing. The sooner he knows you're alive the better. He probably won't believe it's you at first because you look so different and he's convinced himself that there's no hope left in the world. I'm interested to see how he reacts when he sees what Natalie's planning. She got herself brown contacts dyed her hair brown and she is wearing blue clothes." I was puzzled for a minute but I couldn't help hide a smirk when I figures out she was trying to look just like me.
"I'll race you to school." She challenged. I looked at the clock and noticed it was now 6:45. I nodded and we raced down to the garage. Since I felt a little evil this morning and knew I wouldn't stand a chance against Layla if we both started at the same time, I put a force field around her riding stuff and bike. Put mine on very quickly and spread out the door. I was off and racing down the road at about 200 mph.
I was so intent on beating Layla to school I barley registered the cars in front of me. I easily pulled around the first to but when I tried to swerve around the last one and the driver slammed on their brakes revolving in a 360 before skidding to a stop along with the other two.
I stopped to apologize and finally got a good look at the cars; a yellow Porsche, a blue Mercedes and…..a silver Volvo. The drivers slowly got out of the car in shock. I just stared as I was hit by a wave of nostalgia; there in front of me were the Cullen's. There was Rosalie, Emmet, Jasper, Alice and Edward. I was glad he couldn't see my face through my helmet; I looked so shocked to see him. He was more handsome than I remembered and looked more like a Greek god than ever.
"Don't get distracted! I'm coming up fast and right now isn't exactly the place you wanted him to find out you're alive is it. Besides you're about to loose Cheater!" Layla's thoughts come at me in a rush. I nodded at Edward then hopped on my bike and drove off. I looked back just in time to see Layla jumping over Edward's Volvo and speed towards me yelling curses to me in Japanese.
Even with my head start she still beat me to school. I parked my bike in the same space as hers to save space. She had parked right next to Edwards regular spot and I laughed at myself for remembering something like that.
We walked into the building and it seemed like everyone went quite. I couldn't help but laugh at their thought; some people thought that they had died and we were angels, some thought that they were still asleep, some thought they were daydreaming.
Hearing their thoughts through my mind, Layla also laughed one of her angelic laughs and I swear everyone who saw us pinched them selves. One of the boys finally got brave enough and approached us. "Hey! You two new?" He asked us. His thoughts were very disturbing and I frowned.
Layla just laughed again but this time it was meant to cover up a scoff. "Of course we're new! My sister and I here just moved here from Italy. It's so nice to meet you." She said in a polite voice. "I think she likes me! I've totally got a chance with her. How could I not, I'm irresistible!" I laughed again at his thoughts and Layla scowled.
"Are you by any chance related to Mike Newton?" I asked him, trying hard not to laugh.
"As a matter of fact I am! I'm his youngest; my siblings are all around 30." He answered by not apparently to thick to realize I just guessed his dad's name.
"What's your mom's name? Can I guess? Is it Jessica Stanly?" Layla said in a curious voice. The boy nodded. I could hardly contain a smirk as I looked in his thoughts for his family. WOW! Nine kids! Ha! Apparently Jessica had her first right after I left and she now had nine. She was 68. Ha!
"So I was wondering if you would like to go out sometime. Maybe I could show you around town?" He asked. This jerk was WAY too over-confident. I really wanted to smack him with all of my vampire strength included.
Layla let out another laugh. The boy looked confused. "Sorry we didn't catch your name?"
"It's Tom. Oh and is that you natural hair and eye color? It seems pretty fake to me."
Bad move. Layla stopped laughing and glared. "What would you say if I told you it was?" She asked. Tom apparently didn't see her face because he got too over-confident and forgot to think about his next words.
"I would probably call you a liar, but don't worry baby you can still accompany me on a date. I like girls who play dirty!" He responded while releasing his own laugh.
REALLY bad move!
"Screw you! For your information this is my natural hair and eye color you jerk! If you ever call me a liar I swear I WILL make your face look like someone ran over it with a truck! Here!" She said shoving the picture of her as a baby in her face. His eyes widened.
"Sweet! I like my bitches feisty!" He chuckled. This dude was asking for it and who were we to deny him it?
Layla suddenly punched Tom in the gut and he flew back about 2 feet and landed clutching his stomach in pain. This time I spoke and stalked over to him picking him up off the ground and holding him in mid air. "You EVER insult my sister again I swear I will make sure the next time she punched you she wont hold back! And as for that date I can assure you that if you ask her again the answer will be no! As for our names; FIGURE IT OUT YOUSELF!" I said before dropping him down to the floor again.
"Sorry about that everyone, we didn't mean to scare you all we just really don't like to be provoked." Layla said with a dazzling smile. With that we walked away to retrieve our schedule in the office. As soon as we turned the corner we let out a laugh and I blocked every ones thoughts from my mind so I could think about what to say to Edward.
We walked into the front office I was still deep in thought so Layla did the talking but I looked up long enough to see the expression on the secretary's face. "Hello, out names are Bella and Layla Volturi. We are the transfers from Italy." Layla said with a smile.
The secretary looked up startled after hearing Layla's voice and was shocked when she saw us.
"Wow. These young ladies must be related to the Cullen's." She thought.
After coming back to earth she looked at Layla's hair. "I'm sorry dear but this school doesn't allow any bright hair colors." She said looking down not wanting to offend Layla "You can be excused for it today but I will ask that it be your natural hair color tomorrow."
Layla smiled sweetly "This is actually my actual hair color." The woman looked shocked. "I get that a lot so I carry around a picture. Here." She said holding out the picture to the woman. She took it and stared at the picture of a baby with star colored eyes and hair. "Birth defect." Layla said to the stunned woman.
"I will inform the teachers but for now carry around this note. Here are your schedules. Please have your teachers sign this slip and return it to the office at the end of the say. You have almost all your classes together except for two. We wanted to keep you together because this is a new country. By the way I'm Ms. Brooks, welcome to Forks!" She said, giving us a warm smile, which we returned.
"Ms. Brooks, I know this is our first day but we might have to go home. Due to my birth defect I have a rare illness that hadn't been discovered and I have to take meds regularly and might need to return home if I get too stressed." Layla said. I knew what she was doing; she was taking precaution incase I had to go home after seeing Edward. I mentally thanked her.
Ms. Brooks just nodded and we left the office. We looked at our schedules and discovered that we had all our classes together except for the ones after lunch; she had art and chemistry while I had double period biology. We noticed we had English first and walked off to the class, Layla made sure where the Cullen's were before we walked out into the hall.
We headed into the building and to the class. We walked in and noticed that only the teacher was there and walked over to his desk. "Excuse me are you Mr. Carter?" I asked in a sweet voice.
He looked up and stared. I had to block out his thoughts because of where they were going. Layla spoke next knocking him out of his reverie. "We are the transfer students. We were asked to tell you to sign this and before you say anything please read this note." She said, he signed the slips and looked at the note concerning her hair and nodded.
"You may sit in the back of the class today. We are reviewing today so pay attention. I won't make you introduce yourselves but if you could wave when I say your name. If you want to say anything, feel free." He said. We smiled at him, and I swear, he almost passed out.
We walked to the back of the room and chatted quietly until the bell rang and people started coming through the door and getting seated. Then the gossip began.
"Did you hear about this morning? Tom got punched by a girl! No joke! Right in the stomach! That girl is strong! Maybe she will join in a sport? We could really use her! Our sports teams SUCK!"
"Guess, like, what! The new girl, Lola or Lila or something, has natural silvery, like, starry hair! That is like sooo cool! And her, like, eyes! Even, like, better!"
They seemed not to notice we were right behind them. Then Mr. Carter called the class to order. "Before we begin I'm going introduce two new students. They're transfers from Italy so please give them a warm welcome. Meet Isabella…" He said nodding to me.
"I go by Bella." I said with a smile.
"…and…I'm sorry but I can't pronounce your name, how do you say them?"
"Layla Volturi. Just in case you're wondering, this is actually the natural color of my hair and eyes. I have a rare birth defect that affected the tint of my features." She said.
"Thank you Layla. Now….." After I realized I knew all of this, Layla and I started chatting mentally. After the class ended we picked up our stuff and went to the next one.
The reaction to our appearance was basically the same in our next three classes: health, trig and Italian. We took it so we could have an easy time, considering we both knew just about every language. We have to know every language incase a war arises when the people only speak their native language.
Finally it was lunch and as we made our way to the lunchroom I knew this was it. Edward would finally know I'm alive. "You ready? Natalie is in there clinging to him but ignore her, he just can't get her to let go of his arm." I nodded and we entered the lunchroom. I almost laughed when I heard everything go almost quiet. I looked around the room until I saw the Cullen table. I'm sure the other Cullen's were there to but I didn't notice anyone but Edward, my Edward. I smiled as I heard his thoughts and he knew it was me. I was so happy.
"Wait, this couldn't be Bella. She was too young and looked to different and yet totally the same, a relative maybe. NO! She moved on….she found someone who deserved her….this is what I wanted isn't it?" I heard his thoughts and frowned. How dare he think he didn't deserve me! If anything it was the other way around! My rant was thought by Layla who was now glaring at Natalie and sending me a memory, from Natalie. I gasped and joined Layla. How could someone be that cruel? And to her own coven!
I glared daggers at her. I wanted to rip her throat out and get her away from the Cullen's! I wanted to…… "We have to wait. We have no choice if we don't want to attract attention. Even if I really want to kill her…."I nodded and stole one last glance at Edward who was looking sad. How could I prove it to him? That this was really me and I hadn't moved on and loved him and only him? We went and got some food and sat down at a random empty table. Maybe some food would help me think about a way to prove it to him. I watch the Cullen's eyes bulge and their hearts sink as we started to devour the food in front of us.
"I knew there was no way that it could be Bella." Edward thought to himself
His voice sounded so sad. Where was all the happiness and love that was like music to me...?
That's it! I thought to myself a looked up at him again which startled him. "What blue eyes." He thought. When he finished the thought I started to hum a melody, my melody. His eyes looked as if they were melting. "Bella?" He whispered at vampire volume. I didn't have time to reply as some random girl who was wearing a lot of revealing clothes and A LOT of makeup stepped in front of me blocking my ray of vision. In a split second he managed to convince himself that I was my daughter and that I had thought my daughter the tune. I mentally cursed and wanted to rip the girl to shreds.
"Excuse me new girls but this is our table so move." She said in a bitter voice a bit too loudly because now everyone was looking at our table. I looked behind her to see a group of eight people. I recognized Tom from this morning along with some grandchildren of the people I used to know. I smiled at the girl who bared a striking resemblance to Angela and she smiled back. I looked back at the girl who had spoken to us, I recognized her as Lauren's daughter who was in pretty much the same situation as Tom concerning her parents.
"Tell me your name." Layla demanded. "Shelby." She replied immediately.
Layla suddenly went down under the table and looked along the bottom acting as if she was searching for something. She finally got up and looked at Shelby again "Sorry but I found your name nowhere on this table so I'm afraid it's open to everyone, so if you would please move along I'm trying to keep my food down and the smell of your cheap perfume is making me nauseous." Layla said simply. The whole cafeteria was having a laughing fit. Even the Cullen's were smirking or, in Jasper's and Emmett's case (Jasper because of all the humor in the room and Emmett because... he's just…well…Emmett), on the floor laughing.
"Oh no you…" Shelby started but she was cut off by Layla.
"Don't even say it. That saying annoys me to no end and obviously makes no since considering I just did!" Layla replied sending the entire cafeteria in another uproar.
Shelby looked like she was about to blow what really amused me is the fact that she did. She actually tried to karate kick Layla. Shelby walked around the table stood about two feel away from Layla and tried to kick her using a round kick. Knowing that Shelby would probably break her leg and rouse suspicion, mostly because of the suspicion, Layla simply spun around gracefully on her heel, at human speed, and caught the kick.
"You know being a violent bitch isn't the answer for everything…" Layla smirked. "…because sometimes it can be used against you." With that she gracefully let go of Shelby's leg just to duck down and trip Shelby, catch both her legs and spin her around so her landed on the floor with a thud.
That was one thing that always interested the Volturi about Layla; her fighting style. Unlike normal vampire, who attacked in an animal like fashion, Layla looked like she was dancing when she fought. She spun and twirled while she attached, it was deadly and unpredictable. While she was using her vampire speed she looked like a vortex of light. She had found a way to add her powers when she fought by surrounding her arms and legs in light and using it to attack and she taught me this, thought I had to use water vapor. My style, thought not as lethal and graceful, was even more unpredictable. I would spin my arms and legs in random directions and Layla had compared it to the changing motions of the tides. In addition we were both faster than normal so no one really stood a chance. What really impressed me is that Layla could make it appear like she was just really strong in human standards, it took amazing control.
"You still hungry, Bella?" She asked me. I looked at the Cullen's and saw a shocked look on their faces after learning my name. I shook my head. "Good because I've suddenly lost my appetite. When we went to dump our trays and were headed out the door when Tom called "I still haven't learned your name, we have no classes together." He said.
"While it is none of your concern my name is Layla and this is my sister Bella; Layla and Bella Volturi." I looked at the Cullen's again to see confused expressions on there faces.
I saw Edward look from Layla to me. I just nodded and we walked out of the cafeteria.
"Should I be sick?" Layla asked me in a concerned tone. I just shook my head and we walked down the hall. She was about to say something when the bell rang. She shook her head and thought "We'll talk later. Hurry to biology." I nodded as we went our separate ways.
I walked in and the teacher signed the slip and told me to sit it the back where there was the only unassigned seat. I nodded and went to sit down. A wave of nostalgia hit me as I realized I was sitting in my same seat from 51 years ago when I first came to Forks.
I smelled a familiar sweet scent come into the room. Thoughts on two things; one of them being me and the other was how glad he was to be able to think with out having the impulse to punch Natalie.
Then he noticed me sitting next to his seat staring at him, as he locked eyes with me I could see the pain and hurt begin to fade until they showed love and hope. I smiled at him and now happiness joined into the mix. He came to sit down by me when the teacher started class and we didn't look away from each other the entire time we were sitting there. Actually it was more like we couldn't without causing each other pain. He still didn't completely believe that I was still the Bella from all those years ago but I knew that would come with time and after we had talked. I knew two three word sentences that could set everything straight between us; I love you and I'm a vampire (technically it's four words but I count contractions as one word.)
After the two hours were up the bell rang and I finally turned away from him to get my bag inwardly groaning. When everyone else left I tuned to walk out the door when I heard something, "Please don't go." I looked around to see Edward sitting there looking as if he was going to cry. He was so confused and torn inside but still didn't want me to leave, who ever I was.
"I never had a reason to go in the first place, but that's what scared you, isn't it?" I answered back wanting to know the answer but instead got another question.
"Who are you?" He asked like that answer to that question would determine his entire future. I looked in his mind and discovered it actually was; he planned to kill himself if I was dead.
"You already know. I know you do. You are always saying what a monster you are and how you don't deserve to be happy, but Edward; everyone deserves to be happy until the only thing that makes them happy is to see others suffer. That's what makes people monsters; the fact that you find pleasure out of others pain. Now tell me do you find pleasure in others pain?" He could do nothing but shake his head.
"Then you are not a monster, and I want you to promise me something." He nodded. "I want you to promise me that you will never, even when nothing is going right, refer to yourself as a monster. Do you understand?" He nodded again and lifted his head. His eyes were filled with so much joy and all I could do in return was smile.
"Thank you." Was all he said to me but that was all he needed to say and I knew he would keep his promise.
"Good. I have to go now and you need to get back to your family." I said as I reluctantly turned to leave but I was stopped by a hand on my shoulder. I didn't even have to read his mind to know what he was thinking. I slowly put his hand on mine to let him know that I was really there and not some figment of his imagination. I then look his hand in mine and we walked out of the classroom. The halls were basically empty as I went to get my motorcycle gear.
When we walked outside, in stead of the down pour it was this morning, there was a light mist over Forks. I looked to see Layla standing lazily by our bikes and the rest of the Cullen family standing by their cars. They were all shocked and delighted as me and Edward came walking out hand in hand. I notices Natalie wasn't there "I told her to go home for her own sake I thought I was going to tear her to shreds here on the spot." I heard Layla's thoughts and chuckled. "Alright boys pay up." She said holding out her hand to Japer and Emmet who grumbled and reached into their pockets, pulled out some cash and handed it to Layla. "Emmett's idea, I just went along with it." I laughed at Layla's thoughts, but this was no time to be goofing off.
"I know." She answered me out loud and turned to the Cullen's "You probably have some questions that you would like to be answered but I will let you come to us for answers. It's your decision whether or not you want to be given answers. You know where to find us."
I squeezed Edward's hand telling him I need to go but he just held on tighter. "I won't be far. Trust me when I say I don't want to either." I said lifting the hand up and kissing it. He reluctantly let go and I put on my gear and got on my bike.
I looked up and saw his shocked face. "Yes Edward, I'm still the only thing that has ever made you crash." I said with a smile. He returned it, and we drove off. The last thing I whispered to him was; "Don't be too long."
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-MRS