Chapter 3

Disclaimer : I live in a semi detached house and have to save up to buy stuff, if I owned anything twilight or made money from writing this story then I would be rich and living in a mansion. LOL!

AN: I know practically everyone says this but anyways I am really SORRY that I made you wait so long for this. ENJOY!!!!!

I killed the engine and strode over to the Cullens.

"Nice house" I wasn't lying either. In front of me stood a huge building at least eight bedrooms. It looked old, maybe Victorian, but it had a modern feel to it. I followed them and stepped into a bright hallway. On the left was a beautiful but simply furnished living room. Dark leather couches faced the flat 50 inch screen. Mirrors covered one side of the room and a huge bay window was letting the green scenery into the room. In the kitchen the back door opened and a beautiful brunette danced into the room.

"Hi Esme, this is Bella" Alice introduced me. "She's come here so she can explain what she knows and so that we can help her"

"Make yourself at home Bella. Carlisle will be home soon" then she bustled back outside.

We all sat down on the couches, a necessary habit, and I asked "Just then you said you can help me, what did you mean?"

"Well there are things that you need to know, don't worry everything will be explained" Rosalie replied.

We spent the next few minutes on the x-box. It was quite amusing watching them all and I noticed that I didn't feel nervous or shy around them anymore. I blinked and I felt the remains of my lenses dissolve, so my eyes returned to their radiant red. Just as a handsome blonde male strolled through the door, Dr Carlisle Cullen. He smiled at me as though it was normal to come home and find strangers in his home. Then again it's not a normal thing to have a house full of vampires!

Carlisle strode outside and returned holding Esme's hand, they sat down opposite me and then he addressed me

"Now I'm assuming you're a vegetarian vampire seen as you've been close to humans all day, so that means you must be a newborn to still have red eyes, am I right?"

I nodded.

"Do you have any special gifts?"

"I have a mind shield and super self control which allows me to almost ignore the smell of human blood"

He looked surprised.

"I've never known anyone with a gift of self control around humans, I do know someone with a shield but it will be different as no two gifts are the same."

"What do I need to know?" I asked eager for the conversation to steer away from questioning me

"Well have you ever heard of the Quileute legends?"

"Nope never" I replied wondering where this was heading.

"Well there's an old tribal family that live up on the Quileute reservation not far from forks. They've been shape shifting into wolves for generations…

"Wolves!" I butted in "but they're our enemies. How can you live so close without fighting?"

"I'm getting to that bit. We aren't exactly friends with the wolves but we have come to an agreement. The shape shifting skipped a generation as there was no vampires near but when we moved here we started the chain again. The only way to get along was to set some ground rules, so we drew up the treaty. The treaty states that if we bite a human whether to change or to feed then they can kill us."

I absorbed the information and then asked "do I have to go and find them and sign anything or.."

"No. We aren't allowed on their lands anyway that's another rule, besides they will know you are here even if they don't know you're a vampire, as I assume that Charlie will have told Billy and Jacob…"

My head started spinning, an unexpected experience as a vampire. Now it all clicked I had heard Quileute before that's were Jacob lived.

"Is Jacob a … wolf?"

"Yes he's the alpha wolf"

I'm not sure why I was so bothered that Jacob is a werewolf, it had been a few years since I'd last saw him, we had kept in touch and stayed friends, but this wouldn't effect that friendship would it?

"Are you ok Bella" Jasper quizzed.

"Yer I'm fine, it just I know Jacob and he's a good friend, I cant imagine him as my enemy."

"I'm sure you'll figure some way to stay friends." Esme reassured me.

I suddenly remembered something I had been curious about before.

"Where is Edward?"

"How did you know about Edward?"

"Friends at school mentioned him"

"Oh well Edward is away with the Volturi"

"Why is he with them, does he work for them or something?"

"No, he was invited to join them for a gathering of some sort"

Just then my cell phone rang.

"Hello"

"Hi Bella" Charlie answered "I was wondering when you would be home cos you got some visitors here"

"Ok I'll set off soon then, Bye"

"Bye Bells"

I turned to look at Alice but before I could speak Jasper asked her, "What are you worried about Alice?"

"Cos I can't see who the visitors are which means it's a wolf"

I turned to Jasper. "Do you have a gift as well?"

"Yes I can control emotions"

Suddenly I felt overwhelming happiness and a smile plastered my face and I laughed out loud then it was gone.

"Well your mind shield doesn't work for mine or Alice's gift, hah Edward will be very frustrated if he cant read your mind!"

"Edward reads minds!" I gasped.

"Yer gets kinda annoying, the whole no privacy thing." Emmett put in.

"Right well I best go then and meet the wolves" I joked.

"Wait" Carlisle said " me and Jasper will follow you and stay in the forests just in case

"I'm not going to be in any danger you know" I mumbled as I headed for my truck "I can take care of myself, besides this wont turn into some kinda of fight or anything."

"We know, this is just a precaution"

I arrived at my house and I could sense that Carlisle and jasper were hiding somewhere in the nearby trees. I opened the front door and strode into the living room. I instantly recognized Jacob even though he must of grew at least 2 feet since I last saw him.

I began to panic as I realized they recognized me for what I am, but that didn't cause me pain neither did the scowl of shock on Billy's face. No what caused my pain were Jacob's eyes. They were overflowing with hatred and repulsion.

There you go, bit of a cliff hanger there for you!!

Chapter 4 should be up quicker than this one as I am already half way through it.

Soon you will find out Bella's secret….

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