Hello!

Now I just want to say one thing; someone asked me why did I have to use another cliffy last chapter. The reason- because on my Microsoft page, each chapter is about 4 pages long, and I want to keep around that same pace. Now there will be some chapters that will be a lot longer then that, but for now, it'll stay with about 4-5 Microsoft pages.

Like always, I don't own the name gideion or anything that is from the Twilight saga. I own the idea about the gideions in this story, the Melda and Morwen family, and anything that goes directly with them, but that's it.

Ch. 3

Angelo, Stella, and Selena. They were all dressed properly for this meeting tonight; Selena in a dress exactly like mine, but in a pale blue color, Stella in a Kelly green blouse and black knee length skirt, and Angelo in a pale blue button shirt and black slacks.

"Hello Isabella. You look very lovely tonight," Angelo said.

"Thank you Angelo. You guys look amazing. Come on in," I said as I stepped to the side to let them in. We all went into the living room and took a seat, and not even two minutes later, my family came down the steps.

Mom, Stacy, and Maria were all dressed in simple looking summer dresses; Mom in a simple blue, Maria in hunter green with her pin attached to the strap and Stacy in dark purple with a bright yellow belt around her waist. Dad, Connor, and Max were dressed in black slacks and a button shirt that matched their wife's dress, but Connor's shirt, of course, was an even darker purple; almost black.

So we all started talking for a bit when we heard the doorbell.

"Hmm," Mom said as she looked up at the grandfather clock. "They're early." She got up from her seat and walked over to the door. I decided to follow her. Might as well get this over with I thought. But instead of it being the Cullens behind the door, it was…

"Jake!" I squealed- yes squealed, as I jumped into his arms and hugged the life out of him.

"Hey Iz!" he said as he returned the gesture. "How are you feeling now? You ok?"

"I'm better now, thanks. I just needed to get a bit more sleep is all," I said with a wave of my hand as he set me down on my feet.

"Hey Iz, what's with the get up? I thought that we were going on a patrol, not to a ball."

"Oh crap!" I said as I smacked myself in the forehead.

"Language Isabella!" Mom scolded me. I just turned and smiled sheepishly at her. I saw Selena come into the hall out of the corner of my eye.

"Jacob!" she cheered as she jumped into his arms like I did seconds ago.

"Selena! I didn't know you were going to be here!" he said before he pulled back enough to kiss her. I'm sure they would have continued their little make out in my hallway, if Selena's dad and mom hadn't came into the hall her dad cleared his throat loudly, causing the two of them to jump back. I had to stop myself from laughing, and when I thought about tonight, it worked.

"Sorry Jake, but there's no patrol tonight. At least, not for me," I said glumly. Jake looked like a wounded puppy.

"Why not?" he whined. As I was about to answer, the doorbell rang a second time.

"This is why," I said as I brushed past him and opened the door. And standing there were the Cullens. The rest of my family had came into the hall, smiling.

"Hello there," Carlisle said. "My name is Carlisle Cullen. This is my wife Esme," he gestured to her and Esme smiled ever so slightly, "and my children, Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, Alice, and Edward." Each of them nodded when their name was called.

"It's a pleasure to me you. My name is Patrick Morwen," Dad said as he reached out his hand to shake theirs. "This beautiful woman right here is my wife Sophia," he wrapped his arm around her waist as he said this. Mom reached her hand out too and shook theirs. "And these are our children, Connor and Max and their wives and my daughters, Stacy, Maria, and Isabella."

"And we are the Melda family," Angelo said. "I am Angelo, and this is my wife Stella, and our lovely daughter, Selena. And this is her boyfriend, Jacob Black." At the mere mention of his name, the Cullen children all seemed to glare at him.

"What are you doing around here mutt?" Rosalie hissed out.

"Visiting my friend Izzy. You want to make something of it, leech?" Jacob growled out. Not wanting there to be another rumble today- one was more then enough- I jumped in between.

"Whoa there! Everyone just chill alright?" I asked. They relaxed from their defensive postures, but they still were glaring at each other. Sighing, I looked over at Jake. "Hey Jake, I'll see you at school tomorrow. We'll go on patrol before class, ok?" I asked him. He grumbled under his breath, but nodded his head. With one last look at the Cullens, Jake walked past them, running into the trees and a howl erupted into the night. I shook my head and looked back to the Cullens.

"Sorry about that. Jake can be a bit… of a pain at times, but he's still like that brother that you can't help but love, ya know?" They just looked at me like I was crazy.

"Ok, well this weirder then seeing an elephant in a tutu," Stacy said, relieving the tension somewhat with her joke. Everyone laughed and Mom gestured for the Cullens to come in.

,:~:,

We've been talking for the past two hours. Well, my family's been talking with the Cullens and the Meldas. I've been rather quiet. We're talking about our past lives. Besides me, there was only one other person that hardly talked tonight, and it was Edward.

"So Isabella-" Carlisle said.

"Please, Carlisle, call me Izzy. Only my parents call me Isabella," I said.

"Well Izzy, I was going to say that you've been rather quiet tonight. Is there something wrong?" he asked.

I shook my head. "No, nothing. It's just that I don't like talking about my past that much. I mean, I will talk about it, but it isn't that great of a story."

Esme reached over and patted my knee. "Nobody will force you to say anything sweetie," she said reassuringly.

"Thank you Esme, but I can talk about it. Just don't expect a perfect happy ending for my past life.

"It was almost 80 years ago. I was living in a small little town a lot like this one. I was living with my birth dad. He was a police officer so I didn't really get to see him all that much. My mom had moved to another city far away and was getting married a second time around.

"Anyway, I had started dating this really great guy one day. He was the sweetest, kindest, and most caring guy that you'd have ever met. He acted like he was going to take a bullet for me or would gladly be thrown in prison for protecting my honor. But one day, he broke up with me, saying that he didn't feel the same way anymore, and left with his family after that.

"I became a total mess after that day, but it only lasted about two weeks. You see, my new Mom had found me when I had gone for a walk," I said as I looked over at Mom and smiled happily at her. "And she told me about who and what I really was and now, to put it in one sentence; my family rocks, I've never been happier, and I wouldn't wish for anything else in the world," I finished. I had put my past out in the open for them, but left out enough information that they would not know who I really was.

"I'm so sorry, Izzy," Alice said to me. "I can't even begin to imagine how hard that would have been for anyone!" As she said this, I noticed a sort of sarcastic sound in her voice. Wanting to know what the hell she was up to, I decided to look into her head.

You know what I'm talking about Edward Cullen! I knew that if you left, Bella would go through the same thing that Izzy went through, and you didn't care! She thought, almost screaming it in her head. As she finished her train of thought, Edward jumped up from his seat, mumbled a quick apology, and ran out of the house.

"Whoa! What's with McGloomy?" Maria asked. No one seemed to know. Carlisle was about to go after his son when I got up and held my hand up.

"You stay Carlisle. I'll go get him," I said before I changed to gideion form and ran out the door, following Edward's scent. I spent about four minutes following the trail north before it suddenly shot straight up into the air. I looked up and saw Edward sitting on a thick branch, the leaves of the trees almost hiding him completely. I sighed and used my powers and levitated up to be at the same eye level as him.

"Mind if I join you?" I asked. Edward nodded sadly and looked the other way. I sat down on the branch in front of him and pulled off the high heels I was wearing and let my feet dangle off the branch.

"So, do you mind telling me what that was all about?" I asked him. He sighed deeply before looking at me.

"I'm sorry. It's just that… well, let's just say that I don't get as well along with my family as I once did," he said.

"Yeah, I heard." He looked at me like I was weird for the second time tonight, and I just tapped the side of my head. "I read minds," was all I said, and he simply nodded in understanding.

"So do I. So I guess that you heard what my sister said to me?" he asked.

"'Said'? More like screamed. That girl has a set of lungs in her mind!" I joked, but Edward didn't even crack a smile.

"I've got a question about that, if you don't mind me asking," I said to him. He looked hesitant, but he nodded for me to continue.

"Who exactly is this Bella person?"

Ooh! I know I'm mean, but I have good reasons for ending this chapter the way I did. Please don't throw flames or come after me with pitchforks! Just read and review! The more reviews I get, the faster the story will fall into place!

Nancy (aka megamatchmaker)