A/N: I AM SO SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! But I have a perfectly good explanation. Life's REALLY hectic. I'm in all advanced courses in school(and my dang schedule keeps changing! I've had 3 schedule changes!) I'm also on this student organization called "THE CREW" Its a group of the greatest leaders in school(hand selected by our Crew Leader). We work the money, concessions, etc. at dances, games, etc. Its all very frustrating! And then my Word Document erased my written chapters!

Good thing I had a back-up plan. I had also saved them on my USB/flashdrive(you can never be too safe! :D!) So I managed to get them back! THEN,(long story huh!) my intenet connection broke! I was internet-less! HOW TERRIBLE IS THAT? I just got it back...15 minutes ago. THEN(yes, there's more!) fanfiction erased my document! So I just created a new one...and here I am!

I am EXTREMELY sorry for not updating in months! I promise I'll TRY to update twice this week!

Now, onto the stressful life of Bella Swan!

DISCLAIMER: I, in no way, am Stephanie Meyer. Everything belongs to her. I own nothing, save for the plot!

Jackie quickly walked down the hallway leading to the library. She was going behind her sister's back, she knew that.

You're doing it for her, she thought to herself. Her sister deserved happiness. She was 99.99% sure that her sister's lover had left for the same intentions that she had. She mentally sighed. Her train of thought brought her back to her problem.

Israel was alive, well alive as a vampire can get, and she didn't know how she felt about that. She should feel sad that he had suffered through that. She felt sick at herself for feeling happy that he was here. She felt hopeful, very little, that maybe he'll understand why she had to leave him. And her heart filled with remorse at that thought.

Why hadn't she been strong? She should have been strong enough, and brave, to tell him. She knew she did what she thought was the only way. But now that she thought back to her human life, she saw all the many possibilities.

They could have over come it together, but she didn't want that for him. She expected him to grow up, have a wonderful life with someone else, but that hadn't happened. She did everything to protect him in vain.

She shook her head as if to erase all thoughts from her head, as she entered the library. She sighed again. Enough of her non-existant love life, she had to concentrate on her sister. Bella. Bella, of all people, deserved happiness. She had sacrificed so much for her. She sacrificed her perfect, spotless record of no human blood. She sacrificed fleeing the country. She sacrificed her sanity, because listening to people screaming as they burn is no easy task.

She had completed her favor. Jackie was so selfish. She had asked for her best friend, Eric, to be turned as so she wouldn't be lonely in this new, strange life. But you were saving him. He was dying., she comforted herself.

She made her way to one of the library's many computers and sat, oblivious to the topaz eyes that scrutinized her every move. She sat and stared at the blank screen, lost in her thoughts.

She moved her gaze to the window. It was ! She hated the wet and cold. It was pathetic, she knew it, her being a vampire, nothing really felt cold. She wasn't a normal vampire. She wasn't normal as a human, so why should she believe that becoming a vampire would give her any normalcy? Vampires weren't normal, they were abnormal, but she was more abnormal than any vampire.

Her special power made her hate the wet and cold. Well, it wasn't really hate. It made her feel uncomfortable, just like when she was around Charlisa. Her sister's power and her own were sworn natural enemies, fire and ice. Yet they managed not to kill each other.

Being a domestic vampire, consuming animals and interacting with humans, required the downcast as to not reveal themselves. While she felt discomfort, her sister was beyond powerful. Ugh! She hated feeling weak, which is why she pushed herself to control her power. Now, she could no longer feeling the icy discomfort. She felt warm and peaceful.

The topaz-eyed man watched as her expression turned from thoughtfully blank to happy and content. He felt a strange warmth envelop him. He used this warmth as power, and made his way to the young vampire watching the window.

"Jacqueline?" She jumped, snapping out of her reverie, at the velvety call of her name. She stared up and was met with dark topaz eyes.

"Oh!" she exclaimed, "Don't scare me like that!" He gave her a confused look. "I was thinking about things, and I didn't hear you approch, thus your arival scared the hell out of me."

He nodded, he himself had been doing that so many times in the past 58 years.

"Shall we talk?" He asked her. He needed her help, and she had said she would help him. It was her turn to nod. The walked slowly to a table, sat down, and simply stared off into space. Neither quite sure to what had to be said.

She was a patient person, but silences, especially awkward ones like this, weren't her cup of tea.

"So...I need to know your back story. I know why you left her, but I need to know everything. Bella refused to tell me, it brought her pain, so I didn't push the subject. I can understand your pain, you know." She offered him a sad smile, "I was, am in your position."

"I left...because...I though I was...protecting her." His words came out painfully, she could see he was restraining himself from crumbling down.

"Edward...I know. Believe me I know." She could feel a lump in her throat. She blinked rapidly to keep the tears back.

"I understand your pain. It feels like the perfect paradise you had with her suddenly disappeared. It feels like the sea of happiness, turned into an ocean of despair and pain." Her nose stung and her vision blurred. She could faintly see him nod. She wiped the tears from her eyes.

"So that's why I'm here. I am going to do whatever it takes. My sister deserves happiness, and although she is in pain now, I know that you two were very happy and in love. Love never fades away, especially first love."

"Why would you help me? I put her through all that pain, she thinks I don't love her, and I made her a soulless monsters. She has every reason to hate me." He said sadly.

"No. Because of you, she isn't a monster. She has a soul, as do you. Don't give me that crap about not having a soul, because we do. We had two choices in this life. We could have chosen to live a life of misery, sucking the life of innocent humans. That's a soulless monster. We chose to conserve human life. We chose to help them. We aren't monsters, we're people. We have souls." Jackie ended her speech with a look that dared him to argue. He simply shrugged.

"I have my believes and you have yours." She rolled her eyes.

"Alrighty, now how about that story?" Edward launched into his life story beginning at the beginning and ending at the end of his world; leaving Bella. By the end, he looked up and saw that Jacqueline was crying.

"Sorry, I may look tough and mean, but in reality I'm really emotional. Little things can make me cry, but your story..." She shook her head, as if there were no words to explain.

"I apologize ahead of time." She said after she had managed to get rid of any traces of tears.

"Why?" he asked.

"Because, Bella believes that I can't stand you after you left. I have to act hateful towards you. Now, I apologize for my brother's behavior. Eric should not have acted like he did, nor should he have called you a bastard. It's simply that Eric was raised to believe that a lady should never be harmed or treated wrongly. As was Is..." She trailed off, unable to say his name.

"You said you understood my situation well. That you were in the same position, meaning you left Israel to protect him. Am I wrong?" He asked. His own brother deserved happiness, and the girl in front of him made him happy. He would get them together, return the favor. Jacqueline was risking Bella hating her for all eternity, the least he could do was pull a few strings.

"No, you are not wrong. That story is for another time. The bell rings in 2 minutes. Um...apparently your family wants to...discuss, some things with mine, so I guess I will see you later. And you and Bella deserve happiness, together. It was a pleasure, Edward."

"The feeling is mutual, Jacqueline." Being a gentleman, he opened the library door for her.

"Thank-you. By the way, call me Jackie. We're friends now." He nodded, and watched as she walked away.

He was getting his Bella back. He couldn't have been more thrilled.

Jacqueline walked down the hallways, glancing down at her map, making sure she was going in the right direction. She had Biology next, ew. She'd always hated any branch of science, yet she was good at it.

She thought back to her conversation with Edward Cullen. How was she going to keep Bella in the dark about her intentions? Bella could absorb Randi's mind reading! Then she'd be discovered, and her whole family would hate her! Ugh, she needed to stop being so dramatic.

She wanted Bella to be happy. She was doing all this trickery on her family, for Bella.

"You're going in the right direction." Her sister's voice broke through her train of thought, startling her. Her sister giggled at her expression.

She threw Bella a wicked grin and narrowed her eyes. "S'not very nice to sneek up on people, Bella. They might just want vengeance."

"Well yes, but those people wouldn't dare hurt their sibling. Especially, in any emotional way, because that would be real bad, Jacqueline. Hurting someone, going behind someone's back, and being naughty with a person their sibling despises." Bella's voice was light and somewhat in a teasing tone, but her words struck Jackie like lightning.

Shit! She knows! She fucking knows!

Jacqueline's eyes widened in horror and she felt her body freeze. She expected her sister to attack her in fury.

"What? You didn't do anything that bad. It's not like I returned his petty affections." She spoke so calmly.

"Y...you didn't?" It wasn't possible, it just wasn't possible! She cried almost every night!

"Well of course not! He was like a lost puppy dog, following me everywhere. I was so thrilled when he left!" Bella spoke with such a relieved tone that it discusted Jackie.

"So you lead him on? Making him believe you loved him, then acted distraught after he left! That's sick, Bella. Real sick." The angry seeped throughout her entire body. Edward deserved better! If Bella had actual felt like this the entire time, she was one hell of a good actress!

"What are you talking about Jacqueline? I never acted distraught after he left! When he left I was so happy! As were you, you said, and I quote, 'Good ridence!If I had known how clingy he would become I wouldn't have told , at least he's no longer a pest!'" She did a horrible imitation of Jacqueline's voice, but gave her a bewildered had she expected? For her to be okay that her sister was sick and cruel?

"I never said that about him! He's a nice guy, who doesn't deserve you or you're sick ways! Plus I wasn't even there when he left! You're just sick!" Jacqueline stomped into the Biology lab angrily. Her sister was a bitch for doing something like that! Leading somebody on, especially since that somebody was deeply in love with her! Poor Edward!

She felt a hand clasp around her wrist and pull her back into the hallway.

"Jackie, he's 60 by now. If I go apologize, the outcome wouldn't be good. Besides you should apologize to him, if anyone should apologize at all, because you told him that lie about my affections for him!"

"What are you talking about?" Jacqueline asked her, exsaperated. She hated math but she was pretty sure her calculations were correct. Edward was now 167!

"I'm talking about Brandon McCormick, Salem High School."

Fuck, fuck, fuck! I forgot about him! That's who she was talking about! Damn! Come on, Jackie! Lie your ass off!

Jacqueline gave her sister a mischevious smile. She forced herself not to flinch as her sister, lost her patience, and screeched at her. "What?"

Jacqueline had always been an excellent liar, unlike Bella, which just made her that much more believable. Bella couldn't usually tell when she was lying. So she forced herself into a mischevious expression.

"Did you enjoy my preformance? Personally I thought I did magnificient, but I may be biased. I also thought I over did the melodrama a little too much, maybe that's why you didn't look too fooled." Jacqueline fake pouted for good measures.

"I'm not that good with acting, but Jason dared me to try out for a play this time, so I felt the need to practice." Great! Her big fat mouth just got her into more trouble! Now she had to warn Jason, just in case, and she had to audition for the fucking school play!

"That was a extrodinary preformance, Jackie. I believed every second of it." She saw disbelief flash briefly in her sister's golden eyes.

Shit! She's on to me! fuck,fuck,fuck! I suck! hehehe! That rhymed! Oh my gosh! I'm turning into Jason!

"Thank you, thank you!" She blew kisses at an imaginary audience. Damnit! She was turning into Jason! Bella giggled at her antics.

" Now darling, go enjoy this marvolous hour to thyself and I will see thee in the canteen for some nurishment." She gave her sister is genuine smile. She loved to see the glee dance in her eyes.

"Have a nice class." And her sister walked away.

Jacqueline let out a breathe she didn't know she was holding. She was going to be a better actress if she was going to pull her plan off. That little slip up was going to cost her a lot. She walked into her Biology in a somewhat somber mood. She hated lying to Bella. Especially about something like this.

She sat at her desk and waited for the stupid lesson to start. Stupid teacher couldn't at least make it to his own class on time? How pathetic! The other students huddled in groups and chatted away, unbeknown to the danger they were in with her simple prescence.

She sighed. She hated the time she had to herself, which was a lot considering she had not mate, to let those kind of thoughts run through her mind. She thought back to what Edward had told her. I'm just a soulless monster! I kill for my satisfaction! Soulless, eternally damned!

She shook her head slightly, a human habit, trying to shake the thoughts away. She was not a monster. Monsters killed without remorse. She did not kill anyone.

"Jackie!" The vampire call of her nickname brought her back to her stupid classroom. Charlisa was staring at her, a perplexed expression on her face.

"What?"

"What are you up to?" Charlisa asked in a no-nonsense voice.

"Nothing." She replied, her tone like steel, "Why would I, of all people, be up to anything? Especially in a repulsive town filled with insufferable humans and bastardry vampires? Not really my type of venue." She relied sarcastically and full of venom. She wasn't naturally hateful, she just hated being accused and the presence of her sister didn't make the situation any better.

They all knew she wasn't usually in a happy mood whenever they first moved to a new place. Every place was different, with different amounts of water, so it took time to adjust.

Charlisa narrowed her eyes at her. "Enough. I know moving is always hard on you but no need to be so damn hateful. I know you're up to something, Jacqueline. Something big. And I don't like it." Jackie winced slightly at the sour use of her full name.

"Easy for you to say! You're fucking walking through a pasture of roses! Now get the hell away from me! Go back to your damn class. And what I do isn't any of your business. If I were up to something big in this stupid town, it would probably be my own death! Now, leave."

Fire was fueled by anger and hate. Everybody knew that: her family knew better than anyone.

"Whatever Jacqueline. Just don't do anything stupid. Text Bella. Tell her she's being watched, so she can't take a drive. Tell her to go to the library, where I see her. Ignore the stupid bastard. Get her to the library." Charlisa gave her another hard look and turned to walk out the classroom door.

"Remember, I will be watching you, Jacqueline. I will see, and whatever I do see you do won't be irreversable." And with that she walked out.

Jacqueline, still slightly seething, ignored that stupid stares of the oblivious humans. She snached her cell phone from her pocket and texted Bella.

"Bella, Charlisa said 2 nt take a drive. Ur b-ing watchd, by who she didnt say. She culdnt call or txt bcuz she left her fone in her car. She said 2g2 the library, where she saw u and ignore the 'stupid bastard'. Who the bastard is she didnt say, eethr. B careful Bella. I dnt lyk the fact sum1's watchin u. I'd meet u in tha library but I dnt think cuttin class on tha 1 day will make my lyf easy. Sorry. I g2g, teechr dude cumin. Bye!"

She had lied about Charlisa. Bella didn't need to know about their encounter. She, however, told the truth about the teacher. Her Biology teacher, Mr. Burner, had chosen it was time for his class to begin. He quickly signed Jacqueline's note, and began his lecture. She felt her fone vibrate before it sounded. She flipped it open; it was Charlisa.

Nice lying, sis. Anyway, go get Bella. I c her havin sum difficulties. Say u gotta go 2 da office bcuz tha secretary t0ld u 2 go. Lie. C u lunch.

She held back a groan, but she complied. She shot her hand in the air.

"Yes Ms...Gonzalez?" Mr. Burner looked down at her name written on her note.

"I need to go to the office, sir. I need to finish filling out some paperwork, and the secretary at the front desk told me to do so before lunch." She made her voice sound sugary and innocent. She could hear her teacher's heart run into overdrive.

Ew. Couldn't people, especially married adults, have a little dignity? She was 17 years old! Actually she was 75 years old, but what people don't know won't hurt them.

"Of course. Here's your pass." She thanked him and walked out as fast as she could without looking suspicious.

Her text ringtone for Bella rang through the eerie hallway.

Why do we like to hurt so much?...That's what you get when you let win! woah! I drowned to the sound of its beating! And that's what you get when you let your heart win! woah!

The Volturi? Shit! Jacqueline had forgotten about them as well!

Wo's watchin me? R the Volturi aftr us again? Im 0n my way 2 the library n0w.

Good. She was on her way to the library. Jacqueline slowed her pace to a human walk. Then her fone blasted Charlisa's text ringtone.

And when it rains, on this side of town, it touches everything. Just say again and mean it.

God! Why her?

Go get Bella! She got side trakd, lyk i sed. go get 'er. she in tha student parkin lot, nxt 2 'er car. go!

Ugh! Damnit Bella! She quickened her pace to a fast human run. She quickly pressed her speed dial for Bella. It rang and rang...no answer. Damnit! Jacqueline called again. It rang and rang and rang until...finally!

"Hello?" Her sister sounded like the breathe had just been knocked out of her. Why?

"Damnit, Bella! I though you were on your way to the library! Anyway, S'to late now. I'm on my way to the parking lot. Just, stay there until I get there. I see you now. Bye."

She hung up and walked towards Bella. She was staring up at the sencond floor. Suddenly her expression changed to one of anger. She let out a growl.

"Down girl." Jacqueline chuckled, as Bella turned her glare at her. She stopped laughing and stared up.

"What, or who, were you staring at?" She asked Bella curiously.

"Nobody of great importance. Let's go." Her sister's voice was cold and bitter. She only reserved that tone for one person...aha! Edward Cullen. She had been staring at Edward Cullen with a lovely expression on her face! That was good.

Jacqueline gazed up at him and made herself sound angry, "Bastard." She stomped behind Bella back inside the building.

She gave Edward a sympathetic gaze, her way of apologizing for what she had said. They shared a knowing look, and Edward nodded his understanding.

Jacqueline was completely oblivious to the fact her sister had seen the entire encounter.

Jackie stomped behind her sister with a frown plastered on her face. Her plan was going to be difficult to complete, she was gunna need help. It was obvious they still loved each other, but Bella wasn't accepting her feelings. Jacqueline had known it wasn't going to be easy, but still, she hated difficult situations.

She turned her glare from her cute ballet flats to her sister. Bella walked fiercely in front of her. Jackie couldn't see her sister's face but she was positive she was glaring at the floor with such intensity.

The hallway was quiet, or as quiet as you can get being a vampire and all, except for the almost obnioxious booming sound of their omnious stomping. They turned a corner and stopped in front of the library. Jacqueline felt her stomach churn with guilt as she remembered the last time she'd been here. Not even an hour ago she was conversing with the person Bella hated more than anything in the universe like they were the best of friends.

"Bella, I can see what this town is doing to you. You can't handle seeing them again. Maybe we should leave...we could hide on a desert island or something. Please, I hate seeing you in pain." Jacqueline felt bad about playing her sister like that, but she couldn't afford any mistakes.

"No. We stay here. The Cullens toyed with me once, but I'm not the naïve little girl anymore. I'm more powerful than they could've ever imagined. I will not fall for their tricks anymore!" Bella's topaz eyes burned with the intesity of her words.

In that moment Jacqueline realized, truly, how difficult this task would be.

Shit! Jacqueline nodded in fake agreement. She needed to master up all her courage and acting skills. She forced a devious smirk on her face instead of a frown.

"What?" Her sister's voice was honey and her eyes danced with curiousity.

"From what I know, which is a lot, the entire Cullen Clan have P.E. with us. Also in my vast glory of knowledge, they hold the records for fastest lap times, and greatest number of team victories. I think its time we...educate them on the true meaning of sports. Jackie style." Jacqueline said. She really didn't want to harm the Cullens, and would've told Edward of this plan first, but she needed their expressions to be true and it was a spur-of-the moment idea.

Jacqueline watched as the humor appeared in her sister's honey eyes. She let out a tinkling chuckle before nodding.

"Yeah. Do that, but there's only six of them and seven of us."

"True, sister dear, but you have not counted on my awsomeness! I'll simply make one of us sit out. Probably Randi, 'cause she's lame and doesn't like violence. But then again she hates Edward's guts so...I don't know, yet. Maybe Eric." Eric needed to not play. Eric would intentionally hurt Edward and Israel. One, Edward must not get hurt...too much. Two, she wasn't sure if she could stand the sight of Israel hurt.

"Have I told you your devious and conniving?" Bella asked in a playful tone.

Jacqueline gave a fake gasp. "Why sister? How could you ever think so low of me?" Her sister's tinkling laugh bounced of the walls.

RING!

"Time for lunch." Bella stated, her previous joyous expression replaced with an empty one. Jacqueline nodded back.

She understood her sister's almost bi-polar moment. They were going to lunch. Seniors and juniors ate together so that meant their family would be eating together. That also meant the Cullens were gunna be there.

And cue the 'dun, dun, dun!'

A/N: OKAY! So we know now what Jacqueline's up too. NAUGHTY GIRL! But you gotta admit, its for a good cause! Anyways...what about this devious plan of Jacqueline's? Hm...
Anyways...what do you think Jacqueline's power is? If you can guess(through review and/or PM me) you get 2 previews of future chapter(s). Yupp. A clue?

CLUE: Shaunee.

That's it. If you know who that is, you probably know what I'm talking about. And have good tast in books! ;D! So im in my house, and am sitting here bored, doing nothing because of the weather. It's too cold to go outside. So its dark out, its night, and I'm getting my Friday night on... watching reruns of George Lopez! ;D!

(I think italizing things in unrated! :D!)

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