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I stood with tears running down my face as I looked at the five vampires that were the cause of my current state of being. Damion was getting madder by the second at my blatant disregard to listen to him and move.

"D-Damion…it's okie…I…um…"

"She knows us." Alice said bounding up to me and giving me a long hug.

"Hi Alice." I said weakly.

Damion stood at my side, then the realization lit up in his face and be began looking at them each.

Edward looked right at Damion with a hate that I'd never seen before on his face when he saw Damion's hand circling my wrist.

"You're the one." Damion said simply at Edward and managed to put so much hate into his tone that goosebumps rose on my arms.

"Bella…" Edward said his voice sounding ancient and dead.

"Edward." I said and my voice cracked and I hit myself silently for letting him see me so weak. "You look good." I told him, that was such a lie. He looked just as bad as I did.

He let out a humorless laugh and smiled slightly.

"BELLA!!!!" I winced at the loud voice as I was swept up into a pair of bear arms.

"Emmett." I said wincing unable to breath. He laughed again and put me down.

"I've missed you so much sis." He said happily.

"I missed you too Emmett." I said.

"Bella, it's nice to see you again." Jasper said with a smile.

"You too Jasper." I said smiling.

"Bella." Rosalie said simply.

"Rosalie." I said back.

We all stood there for a minute before Alice broke the silence.

"So who is this Bella?" She asked looking at Damion.

"He's-"

"I'm Damion, her boyfriend." He said simply and I let out laugh, a real one. He looked at me with a smile. Edward on the other hand looked pissed.

"This is Damion, the liar." I said smiling at his attempt to stir up problems.

"Nice to meet you Damion!" Alice said shaking his hand. "I hope you've been taking care of our Bella." She said smiling.

"Your Bella?" Damion asked incredulously.

"Mhm!" She said and wrapping her arms around my shoulders and smiling and I just rolled my eyes.

"Well, I find it interesting that you all decided to come back to visit your snack after just leaving her." He said and I turned to glare at him, he was saying too much.

I looked over at Edward and he was clenching his hands, and I could tell he was close to going off.

"Um, Damion, can you give us time? I'll see you in class okay?" I said with a smile, I wasn't sure how Damion had become my best friend all of a sudden but it was nice to have him there when they just showed up, I probably would have has a heart attack on my own.

"Sure, talk to you later, babe." He said with a wink and walked away.

I laughed again and then turned back to face my vampire family, them all staring at me wide eyed and confused.

"I just met him today if you can believe it." I said as honestly as I could while looking at them warily. We all just kind of stood there in silence before I finally got up the nerve to talk.

"So…why did you guys come back?" I asked. It was the one thing that I wanted an answer to above all else. Edward left me, and he didn't love me anymore. I was just a toy to him, and I was a nice little show for their entire family, so why would they even care to come back?

"Bella, we all owe you an apology." Alice said stepping forward. "We all left because Edward said you guys had broken up and that it would be rough for you to see us around school. He never told us that he broke up with you because he was worried about your safety."

"He broke up with me because he doesn't love me anymore..." I said my voice rising. "…Look it's nice to see you guys again I admit, kind of confirms that I wasn't going crazy, but I have to get back to class and Damion will probably come back out here to kill you if I take much longer talking to you. Besides I have class." I said standing there awkwardly.

"Bella, please just listen to me." Edward said his voice on the edge of hysteria.

"No, Edward I'm through listening to you and your lies. You left me, and I won't lie, I was miserable, but I will admit that it made sense for you to leave me. It's not like I'm something special, just a regular human." I looked him in the eye and saw all the sadness that he wasn't letting out, the rage that he was keeping inside and a minor hint of

jealousy. I saw everything now that he was in the current state he was in; when we were together he was always so composed and secretive with his emotions, looks like he really did only hide his emotions from me.

"Like I said, it was nice to see you again, but I have to get back to class, I can't be late again." I turned and tried to run to the door, but that's just the thing about vampires…they're just a little bit faster than me.

Edward caught me by the arms by the time I reached the door and flipped me around pinning me to it.

"Edward, listen just-"

He cut me off by pressing his lips against mine with urgency that he never kissed me with before. His hand twined in my hair and he pressed himself to me closer than we ever had been, almost like he didn't mind crushing me.

I struggled as his arms pulled around me for a breath of air, but found none. Finally and not a moment before I was about to suffocate he pulled away, his breath ragged and his eyes intense.

And suddenly I was mad. My hand shot up and I applied as much force as I could muster and delivered and smack across his face. I knew it wouldn't hurt him physically, and I really didn't hurt me much, but I knew that he'd get the idea.

We just stood there staring at each other breathing, but both of us were breathing for different reasons, he was breathing because he was trying hard to control himself, whereas I was breathing because he had almost suffocated me.

"Bel-"

"Save it." I interrupted in my voice trembling. "Just save it and put it with every other lie that you've ever told me, and leave." I muttered and I turned around and swung open the door to the school, and pulled it closed again behind me. It was better this way. This big grey door that I couldn't see through…it was fitting that it should be here between us, and keeping us apart.

I turned around and pressed my back against the door, closing my eyes.

"Bella…" I looked up and saw Damion standing in the same entranceway as me leaning against the wall as if he'd been there the entire time.

"D…Damion…" I whispered as a tear ran and fell from my eye. He came to me and wrapped his arms around me and just let me cry…and I did.

"Bella…I'm so sorry." He whispered into my hair hugging me tighter.

"I…I don't know why they came back." I said my voice cracking as tears ran down my face and onto his shoulder. "I don't understand anything anymore. He left me Damion, he left me and told me he didn't love me so why…why would he kiss me?" I said more so just to talk and calm myself down, I wasn't expecting him to answer.

"He kissed you?" He asked whispering in my ear, I didn't answer. "Bella…I shouldn't have left you there with them, I should have waited somewhere they wouldn't see me…I should have-"

"No…it's not your fault." I said wiping my eyes and separating myself from him. "It's no ones fault but mine, I shouldn't have talked to him…" I smiled and thanked him again and tried to walk away but he pulled me back.

"Why…why don't you just stay with me for a while. Incase he comes back! I mean not cause I want you to…well I mean I do…it's just-"

"Damion…it's okay, Edward is a nice man and he will not try anything weird on me." I said smiling and reassuring him.

"Edward, is the one that sent you in here crying because he kissed you. Isn't that right? What else wouldn't he do to you just to get something he wanted?" Damion asked his voice rising, he was getting angry.

"How dare you! You don't know anything!" I yelled. "He's one of the nicest men that I've ever met in my entire life!" by this time I was full on yelling.

"Fine, do whatever the hell you want then!" he yelled then was quiet for a second before he sat down against the wall. "Dammit, Bella." He breathed resting his forehead on his knees and holding the back of his neck with his hands.

"I'm going back to class…thank you for what you were trying to do for me Damion…really. I still think that it's best that we stay apart as much as possible during school. It's not good for you or others of your kind." I whispered and he started shaking his head back and forth like he was going to start to say something but I interrupted him.

"Look, its not that I don't like you, because I do, you're a nice person and I think in another life we could have been friends, but I've been through too much, and I've seen too much of a world that I was never meant to find. I can't be a part of that world anymore, it's not mine." I laughed. "But I guess where I live kinda draws your type in, huh? Nice and cloudy, not much sun…maybe I'll move back to Phoenix with my mom…all sun." I realized I was thinking out loud now and I shook my head to clear it.

"You can't leave." Damion said simply his red-brown eyes filling more and more with anguish.

"Look, Damion this doesn't have to be as hard as you're making it to be right now. We'll just simply stay away from each other until I can make plans with my mom to go back to Phoenix, then you can have the whole place to-"

"YOU'RE NOT LEAVING!" he screamed over me, and I stood staring at him with wide eyes. When I had finally managed to recover I took a deep breath.

"That's not up to you." I said and turned finally and proceeded back to class.

I got to class late as I knew I would and just took my seat in the back. All the other seats had been taken except for a few in the back row so that looked pretty good to me. My teacher gave me a slight nod and pointed to the tardy sheet then back to my seat as she taught.

The door to the classroom opened again as I took my seat and Damion walked in, and I couldn't repress my urge to sigh.

"I'm sorry Mrs. Grander Miss. Swan was showing me around the school up till now, I'd appreciate it if you didn't mark her as tardy, it was really all my fault." He said looking at her and handing her his new student form he was urged to use every period if he was late.

"Of course." Mr. Grander said as she scribbled out my name on the tardy sheet. "Just take a seat in the back." She said with a smile at him, and I rolled my eyes. Why was everyone attracted to vampires?

I was expecting him to sit next to me, maybe part of me wanted him to but I still found it weird when he did.

"You didn't have to do that." I said not looking at him.

"It was the least I could do." He breathed in a hushed voice, and I could still hear the remnants of pain that lingered in his tone.

"Look, Damion. You don't know me, so don't pretend to. You don't need to act like your upset that I'm leaving, and I don't need your sympathy." I sighed. "Truth is, now that they know where I am I think it would be better for me to leave before I fall for him again. It's not healthy for anyone like me to get snared into that world."

He wasn't looking at me, but I knew he had caught every word I said. He was calculating in his mind in the same way that Edward always used to. Trying to think of a way out of something I had just said.

"What would make you stay?" he said finally.

"We're in class." I said as I listened to my art teacher lecturing about a dead Italian painter.

He growled, but still let the topic drop.

The bell for the class rung and we were set free for lunch. I wasn't expecting what I found there.

But everyone was talking and I couldn't deny what I saw.

Jessica came bounding up to my and looped her arm through mine. "So, your man came back to town I see, all the Cullen's did. Great, huh?" she said with a bright smile and I felt myself being ripped into two.

From across the room I saw Jasper visibly cringe, and his eyes shot to me. Everyone else followed his eyes to the reason he cringed and found me.

I knew where I should go and sit, but I didn't want to go and sit with my regular table and hear them talk all about the Cullen's, and I really couldn't sit with the Cullen's like I used to mean…I was so stuck.

I stood there with my feet rooted to the ground where I stood with my eyes on them, and no where else to go. Edward stood up, and almost in the exact moment someone looped their arm through mine.

"Come on." He said, and I saw Edwards face flare up in anger.

"D-Damion!" I breathed as he pulled me to a table that was empty and just the two of us sat there. We were both quiet until I spoke. "Thanks." I said.

He just nodded and got in line for lunch. Which was odd to me, but I guess he has to keep up the charade too. I just sat there with my bottle of water, and with my head down. He was back quickly and he slid the tray of food in front of me.

"Eat." He said simply so I picked up an apple and took a bite.

I let my eyes drift back to their table again only to see not just Edward but all of them mad. I guess they thought Damion was treating badly, Ha! That's nothing compared to what they did to me and they knew it.

"Bella!" Alice's happy voice chirped from in front of my and I almost choked on a little piece of apple.

"Alice…" I said my throat hoarse from coughing.

"Bella, why don't you come sit with us! Just like old times, Edward promises to behave." She said giving me a sly wink.

"Thank you Alice, but I don't think so." I said with a small apologetic grimace. "I really do miss you Alice, but I can't be pulled back into his life like that, he can't just come back into mine. It's time for me to be serious, that life isn't mine." I said being honest with how I felt for once, Jasper probably had something to do with that, because I definitely didn't spill all of that out of my own will.

"But, Bella-"

"Alice? Was it?" Damion broke in. "It seems as though you're distressing Bella can't you leave her in peace?" he asked with a smile somehow making the polite words seem threatening past his smile and happy tone of voice.

Alice regarded him with careful eyes again then sighed and stood up straight. "Think about it Bella, please, for me if not for him." She said then she went back to her seat. I saw her lips moving fast than a normal persons and I knew she was relaying everything we had just said to her to them word for word.

Then Edward looked over at us seething and I knew he had caught everything through her mind, and he caught the unedited version. He got up again and came over to the table, alone this time.

He stood instead of sitting down, looking down at us with a million unreadable expressions on his face, the most prominent being outrage.

"May I please speak with you Bella?" he asked his fists clenching.

I looked down at my tray of food and fiddled with my bottle of water. "I…I don't think that's…that that would be the best idea." I said tears forming in my eyes.

"Bella, please." He begged in a voice that only brought more tears to my eyes.

"I can't Edward." I said finally looking up to meet his eyes.

"Please." He said again. "Just for a moment, just…humor me?" he said with his small adorable lopsided small. I stared at his face, and that little smile pulled back so many memories for me. It reminded me of a time when I thought that he really loved me. But he didn't.

I quickly looked away from his smile and shook my head briefly, just once, I knew he would catch it though.

"Bella…" he said in a pained voice. "You must know I never meant to hurt you."

"Well you did." I said emotionlessly not looking at him, and I never looked until I felt his presence from the table was gone.

"Are you okay?" Damion asked putting his arm around me and hugging me to him.

"I'm…I'll be fine." I said removing his arm and scooting away. I didn't want him to be so close to me when I would soon be leaving.

"I care about you Bella. I really do. So please, think about staying." He said looking at me. And I just nodded, I'd give him a little piece of comfort for today I suppose, and I'll just stay home tomorrow and pack my stuff and the next day I'll be gone…I'll make him happy just for today.

"I'll really think about it Damion. Thank you for being there for me." I smiled at him and squeezed his cold hand in mine, and he smiled a little.

"That's all I ask for." He said and let me continue to eat my lunch.

Today would be my last day of school.

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