Andrea's POV

He dropped it at the foot of the tree, next to mine and without looking up, said:

"The bell rang, class has already started. You don't have to move though. I told the secretary that you weren't feeling good and that I would accompany you home. They had me call your mom and my foster mom, they said it was fine."

Then he did something unexpected, he started climbing the tree, with ease and once he was at my level he sat on one of the branches and just stayed quiet, looking out at the school grounds. After what felt like an eternity, I finally spoke:

"Thank you, you didn't have to I could of taken care of it on my own."

"Ya well you would of gotten detention" He said with a small smirk. I snorted, I could very well have dazzled that old fat secretarial lady, without even moving my pinky finger, and answered:

"Ya, I would have. Thanks." We soon lapsed into silence again, until he whispered:

"You can tell me if you want, you know, I'm not gonna go tell anyone else. I just know from experience that it's always good to let it all out." I stared at him for a while, trying to understand why this mysterious boy, who talked to absolutely no one had suddenly decided to befriend me. I shrugged it away and looked him in the eyes, seeing that he was sincere.

"Well, I just can't stand it anymore, too many things have happened in my life, and well I suppose I never really reacted to them how a normal person would, I would just push away all my pain, until now. I thought I had gotten rid of all the pain when I mourned Mathieu, but obviously not and well the pain, not only of loosing Mathieu but of everything else as well has finally got to me, especially when Bella started acting all, Oh-you-have-to-feel-sorry-for-me-the-love-of-my-life-that-left-me-is-back-and-begging-for-forgiveness-but-I'm-too-stubborn-to-accept-so-I'm-just-gonna-make-my-life-miserable-when-I-could-be-happy. It's soooooooo frustrating. Why can't she just be happy? Happy for all us who can't be happy." Amory looked down and then said:

"People have different ways of dealing with pain and with forgiveness. But in the end they all mean for it to be good. They don't mean to hurt others around them."

"I suppose, but it's just, I've never gotten in a fight with Bella and I don't know how to fix it." I said as I started swinging my legs.

"You could start with apologizing." He said with a smirk on his face.

"I could, I probably should, but I think I'll wait a bit, let it sink into Bella's brain that she really hurt me and well, also hopefully she'll realize that it's not only my fault."

"I'm sure she already has. We should get going, the bell's gonna ring soon and we don't want to still be here when school is let out." With that he started climbing down the tree and when he was down I started climbing down, being careful not to do anything vampire-like. Once we were both on firm ground, we picked up our bags and started jogging back to the parking lot. As I slid the door to my car open, I noticed that Bella's car was no longer in the parking lot, but shrugged it off, she had probably gone somewhere alone so that she could feel even more sorry for herself.

"Do you need a ride?" I asked Amory, since you're not supposed to be able to drive until you're 18 in France, luckily I got around that rule…

"Uh, sure, to the gare, would be good. Je prendrai le train." He answered as he slid into the passenger seat. As I pulled out of the long driveway leading to the parking lot and onto the road I said:

"You don't live in Maisons Lafittes? I thought you did."

"No, my foster family lives in Carrière sur Seine." He answered as he looked in to the back of the Ferrari. "You have one nice car!"

"Ya, the Parkins gave it to me when I turned 17. So I've only had it a few months." I answered as I passed the gare and took the road that would lead us to Carrière sur Seine.

"Wait! You missed the gare!"

"I know, I'll drive you home, it'll save you a ticket and I need to go for a ride anyways."

"Are you sure? I mean I have a train pass, it's not like I'll actually be buying a ticket, it's already paid for." He asked as he turned back in his seat to face me. Without looking away from the road, not that I needed to look at it in the first place, I said:

"Of course I'm sure." I then leaned over and turned on the radio.

"Ok then. So if you got this car for your 17th birthday, you only started driving it at 18, right?" he asked as he watched the houses pass by in flying colours.

"No I'm still 17, I'll be 18 next April."

"Then how come you can drive?" he asked, trying to see through my slight smile as I turned into the main street of Carrière sur Seine.

"Long story, short, I got my license in the US and I managed to get it to work here, so even if I get stopped by the police, I'm safe, I'm legal. Now what street do you live on?"


Three minutes later I pulled up in front of Amory's house. Behind the small stone wall, was a women, in her late 50s tending to weeds in her garden and as Amory stepped out of the car she straightened out and said:

"Amory, le lycée m'a appellé pour me dire que tu allais rentrer. Who is your friend?" She then looked into the car and smiled, I slid down the window and said:

"Hello, I'm Andrea, nice to meet you." As Amory crossed the road he told his foster mother:

" Oui, Andrea a offert de me ramener içi. I wasn't feeling well. But I feel better now."

"Oh well that's good. Andrea, dear would you like to come in and have a little something to eat? I just made a cake." Said the older women.

"Oh, no, I don't want to bother you!" I said as I started up the engine again. She dropped the weeds she had been holding into a large bag as Amory opened the front door and then turned back around to smile at me.

"Well, I suppose I could stay a while," I said as I turned of the ignition and stepped out of the car, "God knows I need to get my mind off of everything." I said that last part quietly and fast enough so that the two humans in my presence wouldn't hear or even notice that I had said anything in the first place. I then locked my car and stepped across the road. Once in the garden, I held out my hand to the women and said:

"Andrea De Boncoeur, and you are…?"

"Ohh, yes, yes I forgot to introduce myself! Anne Clary, but you can call me Anne. It's finally nice to meet one of Amory's new friends." She said with a huge smile on her face. Amory finally decided to talk:

"Hey, I've got friends… sorta, just because I don't bring them home doesn't mean I don't have any. I'm just shy." I snorted, but managed to hide it with a cough as Anne led us into the house. It was a decent sized house, with a large living room, full with a piano, covered with pictures of various children, 5 to be exact. As they led me into the living room, they talked aimlessly about the weather and once I was seated, Anne said:

"I'll just be a minute, I'll go get the cake and some ice tea. Amory, come with me."

Once they were out of the room and into the kitchen, I got a good look of the room and as I smelled the freshly baked cake, realized for the first time that I was thirsty, really thirsty, but not your normal kind of thirsty, no thirsty for blood. The last time I had been hunting was just before his funeral and normally I wouldn't be thirsty yet, but I suppose that was because of all the stress and pain I had been through. The smell of the cake and ice tea were making me sick and, well I was gonna have to get out of their soon, not because I was afraid of attacking them, because I definitely wasn't, I had never drank a drop of human blood in my existence and wasn't planning on it, and well Bailey's power was on the plus side. As I looked around the room one more time I caught my reflection in the mirror above the small table in the back of the room. My eyes were not the normal green they should be and were turning increasingly darker by the minute, they were now a dark green, on the verge of black, I would have to get out of there soon, before they noticed, not that Anne would, cause I would have arrived with dark eyes, but Amory had seen my normal eye colour t school that morning.

From where I was sitting I could hear their conversation in the kitchen, vampire hearing does come in handy from time to time.

"She's a very nice girl, Amory, and very pretty too!"

"Yeah, she is, but she's also just a friend, and she's been through a lot lately, I don't want to hurt or bother her in anyway."

"What do you mean a lot, she probably just broke up with her boyfriend."

"Uh… Anne, you know that boy in my grade that was hit by a car and passed away just before I moved here, he was her boyfriend."

"Ohhh, my god! The poor dear! How awful, oh I shouldn't of said what I just did."

"It's fine, now lets take this to her." As they walked into the room I pretend I had just been looking at a picture on the wall and that I hadn't heard any of their conversation, but I was a bit uneasy.

Anne handed me a piece of cake while Amory pored me a glass of ice tea. I accepted both gracefully and took a sip of ice tea, all the while resisting the urge of spitting it back in the glass and high-tailing it out of there and heading straight into the forest to hunt, but that would be rude. We talked for about half an hour, with me practically forcing the cake down my throat, about meaningless things and about each other, Amory and I, Anne didn't have much to tell us, but seemed to have gotten it out of her head to try setting up Amory and I together, which I greatly appreciated. I was just about to suggest I go, having come up with the excuse that my mother would be worried, when my phone rang. I pulled it out of my pocket and looked at the caller ID. Nothing ever good came out of these phone calls. It was Bailey.

"Hello."

"Andrea. You have to come to the Cullens' place right away, we're expecting guests!"

"What guests?"

"The Volturri."

"Oh, those mother fuck—I mean how fantastic!" At this both Amory and Anne looked at me with slightly shocked looks on their faces that said 'words like that coming out of such a pretty girl!'.

"Why did you cut yourself off in the middle of calling them bloody mother fuckers, we all know it's the truth. And it definitely ain't fantastic. Now get your pretty little ass over here."

"Yes boss!" I said with a roll of the eyes. "I'll be there in a few." With that we both hung up and I turned to the two other occupants in the room.

"I'm really sorry, but I have to go, we have some unexpected guests at home" Anne nodded as Amory stood up and said:

"That's fine, I'll walk you to the door." Anne smiled and said her goodbyes as her foster son led me to the door. We walked to my car in silence and once my car door was open and I was stepping into it he said:

"It was nice of you to drive me home and to stay for a bit, it made Anne happy, and well me too. I hope that we can do it again one day, just to get to know each other better and all."

"Sure that would be good, I have to stop hanging out with the same people all the time. Give them and me some space. See you tomorrow."

"Yaaa, à demain!" And with that I closed the car door, stuck the key in the ignition and drove off slowly at first, and as soon as I was out of their site I accelerated and was at the Cullens household in a few minutes, my hunting trip would have to wait.


Bella's POV

I can't believe that just happened. I just had my first fight with Andrea, with my best friend, with my sister. And over such a stupid thing, as well. I must admit that what I said was mean and uncalled for but I was upset, why can't she, and everybody else for that matter let me deal with my pain and my forgiveness issues on my own! If I want to torment Edward for what he did then fine, that's my choice. If I want to take my time to forgive him, that's also my choice! And no one can tell me what to do.

After Andrea left the canteen, I sat in my seat for a while, while everyone at the table looked at me and then stood up went to the secretaries and made up an excuse so that I could leave. Once I was away from the school, I drove into the forest and sat in my car for a bit thinking it all over. I would apologize for what I had said and could only hope that Andrea would apologize as well. We couldn't stay mad at each other, which would be awful and well pretty impossible, I think, I hope.

I was just about to leave and start heading home when my phone rang.

"Hello"

"Bella, you have to get over her, NOW! The Volturri are paying a little unplanned visit" shouted Alice into the phone.

"What the hell are they doing here?" I shouted back.

"I don't know but just get here!"

"Ok, I'm coming." And with that I hung up and started up the car and was in front of the Cullens' house in 5 minutes.

I pushed the front door open to see that they had already arrived, everyone had, except Andrea. I went to stand behind the coach where Carlisle, Esme, Arthur and Victoire were sitting.

Aro spoke:

"Where's Andrea?"

"She's on her way" said Bailey. Alice added:

"She'll be here in 2 seconds."

2 seconds later Andrea stepped into the house and said:

"What's all this about, Aro, you never visit, if it's to try and rope me into joining the guard, then you already know the answer." She stared the heads of the Volturri down for a good 2 minutes before they finally answered:

"No, no, we've given up on you joining, but my, how you've grown since we last saw you, oh that's right you were only 14, but let's talk about serious matters .It seems that Victoria is back, stronger and smarter then ever, and out for the kill."


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