Chapter 4
50 years later
We were just on the way to the airport. It was a last minute decision, to get settled again. The last 20 years were living like nomadic people. But now we thought of going to school again and to live in a house again. After we made the decision of settling down, I had the idea to move to Forks. I really wanted to be back at the place were I used to live as human, and I wanted to visit Charlie's grave. So we just went to the airport to flight to Forks. When we got there, they told us that there wasn't a flight to America today, but thanks to Antoine's abilities to detect if somebody is lying and our unending amount of money we still got first class tickets. Antoine's power was really helpful several times. He can see the aura of people chance when somebody is lying, so we always know if our ambience is saying the truth.
When we got to Forks we where soon running to my old house. I didn't even need to think about the way, but I wasn't sure if somebody was living there or if it still stands. But my doubts were unnecessary. There was my beautiful old house, of course quit scruffy but we could handle that.
So the first couple of weeks we were just repairing the house. We did it all by our self, of course we could have called a building firm, but it was fun actually. After we finished the house we applied for the school. For the first time in more than a hundred years I was really excited about going to school. Perhaps there were some ancestors of my friends from my human life. It would be good to have some familiar things around us.
Antoine had a really hard time since he was a vampire. Of course he was like a son me, and I replaced somehow his mother, but the Vampire called Andrew never got hold of me. He was following me after I left Paris but he did never came near enough to fight when Antoine was still a newborn. But than he started to came closer. So we had to fight him back, which was easy because I could expand my shield over Antoine. We were two and he was one, and he couldn't effect us like any other. So he soon gave up and we thought he wouldn't follow us anymore. We settled down and went to school, just like the Cullen's used to. But one day, probably 20 years ago, he found us again. And he wasn't alone. There was a vampire with him, and when Andrew tried to use his power on me, I noticed that my shield was weak. I needed to concentrate just on me, I couldn't even expand my shield. But he was still very close to control my mind. So I decided to run away with Antoine. And since than we were hiding from Andrew. We came to the conclusion that the other vampire must have the power to weaken the powers of others or something like that. But we didn't make him try again. After 20 years of hiding we decided that we lost him, and I don't think that they were really that forceful. I mean, I'm not that interesting. And now we got settled in Forks and I love it!
We just needed to think about our relationship in school, if we would pretend to be siblings that were living alone in a house, it would be easier in school, but we couldn't stay very long in Forks, because how would it look like if two siblings are living in a house and doing nothing out of their live? SO we thought about pretending to be in a relationship, even it was weird because we felt like mother and son. We would say, that we lived in another city, and we were in a relationship, but our parents didn't let us to be in one so we decided to be emancipated and live somewhere else. This would probably work fine.
There was just one more Problem. The wolves. I didn't know if there were still here but I needed to find out to live save right here.
So I decided to go to meet the wolves, alone, because if they weren't peaceful, he needn't to be in any danger. When I came close the reservation I could smell wet dog again. I looked around and saw 3 wolves coming in my direction. When they were close enough to hear me I tried to speak to me. Somehow I had the feeling that they could understand. So I started to explain myself.
"Hello, I'm Bella. I know you probably don't remember me, but I used to live here when I was human. And I also know that you want to kill me because you need to save your area, but I want to talk to you about that. More than a hundred years ago, the Cullen's used to live here, there were vampires as well and if you both lived in peace I think we could as well. Me and my partner are just like the Cullen's. We don't eat humans, we're vegetarians. We won't harm anyone. So I would like to make a contract. That you don't harm us, if we don't harm you or any humans."
I hoped I did my best to explain that we weren't dangerous. But I wasn't sure if they understood. I was now curious about they reaction.
But than the one in the middle went back in to the woods. After some minutes, he returned, but he wasn't a wolf anymore, he was human. And he just reminded me of Jacob. Than he started to speak for the first time.
"Hello, I'm Billy Black. I'm the alpha of the wolves." I was shocked, did he really just say Billy Black? Well than he must be an ancestor of Jacob.
"I'm sorry, but did you just say Billy Black? Well you know, I was friend with Jacob Black when I was still human and Billy Black used to be my dads friend. So what is your relation to Jacob?"
"Oh, he is my Dad, but he died a couple of years ago. He got really old actually." Just a couple of years, well I could have met him if we decided to come here earlier. But that's past and I was sure that he didn't want me to see like that.
"Well, that's a pity, he was a really good friend. But to come back to the topic, do you think you could deal with two vampires living in Forks?"
"Of course we can, we just redo the treaty from the Cullen's." Than he explained the particulars of the treaty to me and we ended our conversation with a handshake and I went back to Antoine. Now was nothing standing in our light anymore to live for some while peaceful in Forks.