"What do you means Bella? You know the Volturi?" everyone again was staring at me and I began to fight with my conscience. I had kept it a secret for far to long and now I was going to share it and hope that I wasn't putting them in any danger, but I had no idea how much danger I was putting them in.

Coming Clean

"Bella? Do you know the Volturi?" Rosalie asked for about the third time. I had to tell them and hope they would understand.

"I have known them for years, but I couldn't tell you." I saw Edwards face change from worried to outraged, not something I saw very often. He calmed down before he spoke.

"What do you mean you have known them for years?" I really didn't want to tell him, but I had no other choice, "Bella?"

"Umm... it started when I was seven. They came to my house on a hunting trip when my parents were out and when one of them touched me he saw my future." I had to stop because everyone suddenly looked very curious "they said that I had to make a choice of joining them or dying right there on the spot." Edward suddenly looked at Alice and I could only assume they were having a private conversation. I suddenly realised that they were looking at me because I had stopped.

"Um… they said that if I joined them I would live forever as a princess. I was only seven and didn't realise what I was agreeing to so I said yes." Suddenly Rosalie shouted out and broke the silence.

"You stupid girl! They must have explained what they were going to do!" Emmett stepped forward and tried to calm her down.

"Come on babe. She was seven she didn't know what she had done." That didn't seem like a good enough reason for Rosalie.

"At the age of seven, I would understand, but as she got older she must have realised what was going on?" she stopped and looked directly at me "so instead you decided to run and lead them to us." It wasn't a question. She was quite sure what she was saying was the right answer.I didn't like the idea of her shooting her mouth off about what had happened so I told her what really happened.

"Actually Rosalie you could not be more wrong. I came here because I had nothing left in Phoenix." She was staring at me, as was everyone else. "On my 16th birthday the Volturi came to my house to make sure I kept my promise, but I said no. They said I had no choice and killed my mum and her new husband Phil. I stayed at the house for a while, but I found it too painful and came to Forks. Charlie filed a missing persons report, but that did no good. So Rosalie do you still think you gave the right answer?"

She said nothing and there was silence until Alice spoke,

"I believe you Bella, but I don't understand one thing. You said Charlie filed a missing persons report, why did he not start a murder investigation?" I knew one of the Cullen's would ask me.

"They had no evidence that there was a murder. The volturi didn't leave my parents bodies. They took them away to feed from."

They were all looking at me with no emotions and I suddenly had an idea.

"It doesn't matter now. They will be here in one week and I plan to be long gone by then so if you don't mind I would like it if we get all the shouting and screaming done so I can pack my things." No one moved except for Edward who came over to me and hugged me.

"You aren't going anywhere because they will follow you." Sometimes Edward was really thick.

"Um…Edward that is the point. If I leave now they will follow and leave you alone. I don't want anyone else dying because of me." He suddenly held me tighter.

"You aren't going anywhere. Whether you like it or not we are going to help you get away from them and I now everyone else is thinking the same thing," he leant into me and whispered into my ear, "even Rosalie."

I didn't want them to help me, but I really didn't want to argue with seven big, strong vampires. So I accepted there help and hope the Volturi wouldn't be too angry when they arrived. Now all I had to do was make sure Charlie was out of the way and that would be easy.