A/N: Thank you all for your great reviews! It's such a huge compliment, and I appreciate every last one of them. The more reviews I get, the more chapters I post. I'm big into bribing. LoL.

Also: ICanSeeYourFace, you were right. Emmett is the only Twilight character I could ever imagine saying the word douche bag.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, any of the characters in Twilight, or anything related to the books and/or movies. If I did, I would be way too busy- doing dirty things with the Cullen boys- to sit down at my laptop and write this story. The scenes that I did borrow from Stephenie Meyer have been revamped to fit my story.

Learning to Live Again

Chapter Thirteen: Family Reunion

I smiled as I saw Emmett and Rosalie standing side by side a few yards away from where Jasper and I were on the ground. Emmett had a fierce snarl on his face aimed at Laurent. Rosalie was staring at Jasper and me, confusion and hurt lacing her face. We really didn't have time to get into this right now.

"I told you to get away from my brother and sister," Emmett repeated, and was in front of Laurent in a flash. Emmett reached for Laurent's throat and held him in the air. "Get the can, Rose!"

It was then that I noticed the can of gasoline she was holding. The rain wasn't coming down very hard so if we could find some leaves to cover a small area, we should be able to keep a fire going long enough to burn Laurent. I looked for an area with some overhang but noticed that Emmett and Jasper were already dragging Laurent to one. Rosalie was following them, opening the gas can.

I didn't see them actually tear him apart, but I heard the screams that came from Laurent before he finally gave up on fighting back. I did see the flames shooting up toward the sky as my family stayed near the fire, making sure that all of his was burnt. I placed my hands on the damp ground, using them as leverage to help me stand. My hand hit something hard in the dirt and I looked down.

Jasper's cell phone was covered in dirt, but I noticed that the light was flashing, signaling that he had a missed call. I remembered pulling it out from his pocket and tossing it to the ground when we were kissing. I looked at the screen and saw that his missed call has been from Alice. I shook and slowly sank back onto the ground.

My head was pounding. I don't know if it hurt from all that had just happened with Laurent or from me using my new powers so much or from the pain that I was feeling from having just betrayed Alice with Jasper. I started sobbing, pulling my knees against my chest and resting my head on them.

"Bells?" Emmett was the one that spoke, but I looked up to see three strikingly beautiful vampires looking at me with concern. Well, two of them had concern. Rosalie still looked confused and angry. I know that she was being protective of her sister, and I understood that.

"Yeah?" I choked out, my voice cracking before I started sobbing again. My eyes were becoming blurry, so I couldn't make out who was walking towards me but I knew who it was before his strong arms were wrapped around me, picking me up from the ground and cradling me to his chest.

"Come on, Bella. Let's get you to our house so that Charlie won't ask any questions," Jasper explained as he started running toward the Cullen house with Emmett and Rosalie close behind him. I clutched onto his shoulder as I buried my head in his neck, planting a soft kiss on it. I just needed to know that he was real. That we were real.

"We'll figure everything out, Bella. I promise," he whispered into my ear. I smiled against his chest. Although my head was still pounding and I felt weak, I couldn't help but be comforted by Jasper's words. He promised, and I knew that he would not go back on a promise.

We reached the Cullen house and followed Emmett and Rosalie inside. It felt like ages since I had been here, but in reality it had been less than a month. The furniture was covered so Emmett quickly took the covers off and discarded them to the side of the room so we could all sit in the living room. Jasper sat down but kept me in his lap, not concerned that his brother and sister were with us. I was grateful.

"So what's new?" Rosalie asked with a snide voice.

"Ease up, Rose," Emmett cautioned. I had always loved him like a big brother, protecting me even against his own wife.

"I just need a minute," I started, "and then I will explain everythi-" I had looked into the foyer next to the living room and caught sight of Edward's piano. It was covered with cloth as well, but I knew what was underneath. I slowly untangled myself from Jasper and walked into the other room.

I placed my hand on the white cloth and balled it into my fist, pulling it off the piano and bench and shoving it onto the floor. I saw a tear fall from my eyes and onto the piano, leaving a wet spot on the beautiful wood. Sitting on the bench, I poked at a couple of the keys, not playing anything in particular but just listening to the noise.

I had been so consumed in my new feelings toward Jasper that I hadn't been thinking about Edward a lot lately. Seeing the piano that he had spent hours playing for me had sent me into another emotional rollercoaster. I could hear the chords of my lullaby in my head and I slowly began humming along with them.

"Are you okay?" Rosalie asked softly as she sat beside me on the bench. I was surprised that it was her who had come to comfort me but also glad. Jasper had enough to deal with, and I don't think Emmett was ready for all this emotion.

"I don't understand anything that's going on right now, Rosalie," I whispered before turning my face to meet her gaze. "I miss him so much; I miss you all so much. Part of me has already realized that I need to move on, and I am genuinely trying to take steps forward in order to do so. But there's this part in the back of my head that tells me that I should be miserable without him and that I have no right to feel the things that I'm feeling right now."

"Bella, you can't control what you feel. You're not meant to. You just have to follow your heart and hope that everything works out the way that fate planned." Rosalie stopped and looked over her shoulder at Emmett who was speaking with Jasper, trying to make it look like they weren't listening to every word we were saying. "I never dreamed of becoming a vampire and there are times that I hate it, but if Carlisle hadn't found me while I was dying and turned me, I never would have met and fell in love with Emmett. And he's made me happier than I ever thought possible."

Rosalie and Emmett shared a soft smile with each other. Jasper turned his head up to look at me and winked. We would get through this. We would find a way to get through this and everything would work out.

"So since we've skirted around that issue without really touching it, let's move on to the other matter at hand here," Emmett instructed. "How the hell did you throw Laurent across the forest without touching him?!"