Hiya everyone! Here is how Edward found out that Bella knowing. Like I said in the last chapter, I didn't plan it to be that way, so this chapter is kind of lame, but I wanted to fill in the blanks.

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Chapter Eleven
On the Same Page

I didn't normally have long conversations with humans, but Bella's friend, Alex, was easy to talk to. I filled him in about what had been happening so far - which was not much - and then the conversation turned to college. Alex told me he was majoring in Chemistry and Biology, which surprised me a little.

Bella was quiet, busy on her laptop not really listening to us. She didn't know it, but I was barely listening too, as I was more focused on her. I watched every detail of her profile, I watched when her eyes narrowed on the screen, when her eyebrows furrowed at something she had found, when she subconsciously played with the ends of her hair every so often, and when she bit the inside of her lip. I watched while she read the screen, and when she lightly tapped on the keys as her eyes darted down the screen, skimming the words.

I watched her, because it was the only way I could get to know her. I couldn't read her mind, so I read her body language. It was so frustration that I hit a brick wall when it came to her mind. Her silent mind mystified me. I could not explain why I couldn't hear her, nor could any of my family, but as much as it was frustrating, I couldn't dwell over it.

Alex hadn't noticed that I was hardly listening to him and when Bella break his flow of conversation, I sat up in my chair to listen to her silky voice.

"There are none in Forks," she said with a sigh. I had been keeping track of her searches, so I knew what she was talking about, but Alex didn't seem to be on the same page as us.

"None what?" asked Alex.

"Families with the name Sanders in Forks," Bella smiled a little. "Keep up Alex."

"Well sorry, none of us are mind readers here!" Alex replied sarcastically. I was about to laugh at his joke, but I saw Bella freeze, staring at the screen, almost in horror. She didn't look away from the screen, but I could see her cheeks fill with blood, and I could practically feel the heat coming from her. If it wasn't for the blood, I would have fully appreciated the beautiful colour that tinted her face so often.

"Try Port Angeles, and if you can't find any Sanders nearby, then try the other two boys. We can't go on a wild goose chase, for all we know none of the families even live in Washington anymore," Alex continued, not noticing Bella's odd reaction.

I frowned to myself, as I didn't understand why she reacted so badly to that comment. It was if she knew about my ability…she couldn't possibly know though, it was impossible.

"Mmm hmm," Bella mumbled and started bashing the keys quickly, still not looking up from the screen.

I studied her for a while, trying to figure out why Bella was acting so weird. It frustrated me even more that I could not read her mind to find out what hidden secrets she had locked behind those impossibly beautiful eyes.

My own mind was racing, as I had an odd feeling in my stomach, and it annoyed me that I didn't know why. I tried to shrug off her reaction and causally kept the conversation going. "A simple phone book would suffice, it might even be quicker," I said nonchalantly.

"I don't have a phone book," Bella said still not looking up from the screen. Her cheeks were still a light shade of red. "Besides I think I have found out where the families of all three boys live. Alex, you were right, there are two Sanders families in Port Angeles, and there is one Benson family in Forks, as well as one Jackson family in Forks. All three families are nearby, but it doesn't mean that the ghost belongs to any of them..." she sighed, as if the world is sitting heavy on her shoulders.

"We'll find the boy's family," I said softly. "And we will help them so the boy can move on."

Her body language changed when I said the word 'we'. Her shoulders picked up, and even though she didn't look up, she smiled brightly, looking pleased. I couldn't help but feel pleased too; just seeing her smile made me smile too.

Just then, Alex's cell phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and read his text message.

"Yeah, speaking of 'we', I am afraid you will be one partner in crime short. I have to get back soon," he said.

From his mind, I saw what the message says: Now the books r rearranged, it's getting worse. Wen u coming bak, ur missing classes an I am missing u! Is ur ghost hunter friend coming bak to sort out this ghost? Love you xxx

Alex's girlfriend, who I found out from his mind was called Holly, knew about Bella too, and Alex himself seemed to have a ghost of his own. Unless I missed something, then I didn't think Bella knew about his ghost. I wondered why he hadn't told her.

Oh God, it's getting worse. Can't tell Bella yet, she has too much going on… Alex thought just as Bella asked, "Everything okay?"

Not really. "Yeah, I just have college work to do and things," Alex half lied as he puts his cell back in his pocket. I decided to leave to give them some time to speak without an audience but as I was about to tell Bella I was leaving, something from down stairs caught my attention.

Edward? If you can hear me, can you please come down, I need show you something! Carlisle's thoughts were urgent so I stood up abruptly.

"I will go and see what Carlisle is up to, see if he has found out anything else," I said quickly.

Bella looked up at me then, and I almost sat back down, ignoring Carlisle's urgent thoughts. I was so drawn to her and I didn't want to leave her side.

"Okay," was all she said but didn't make eye contact.

I left the room, took the stairs down and glided through the corridor to Carlisle office. Out of courtesy, I knocked on the door then slid in, closing the door behind me. Carlisle was standing at the window and when I entered, he turned. I got a flood of thoughts, but nothing quite made sense.

Without a word, Carlisle handed me an A4 sheet of paper. I looked down to see printed in large bold letters printed all over the page: BeLLa KnOwS WhAt yOu ArE!

Like something on a ransom note, the letters were different sizes, but the message was clear.

"Where did you get this?" I askd finally.

"It printed itself out. I was doing some paper work and the printer sprung to life. I went over to see what it was, and I got half a dozen of them," Carlisle pointed to a small pile of paper with the same thing written over it.

""Bella knows what you are!"" I quoted slowly. Then my eyes drew wide. "She knows what we are," it started to hit me. "A ghost, a sprit, sent this…Ryan?" My mind raced as I tried to process this information. So many things ran through my head, and I didn't like anything I had floating through my brain.

We would have to move; we had been exposed and not only were the family in danger but Bella also. However, it would hurt, almost impossibly so, to leave her. I was not sure I had the strength to go. I didn't even know how to describe how I felt about her, as I don't fully understand it to the full extent myself, but I didn't think I could leave her, not now, not ever.

Carlisle watched me, his thoughts running along the same as mine. I slumped in the chair opposite his.

"I can't," I whispered. "I can't leave." Carlisle sat down opposite me.

"I know, Edward, but what else can we do? Our whole family will be at risk. Bella will be at risk…" he was full of sympathy as he seemed to know how I felt towards Bella.

"She hasn't said anything to anyone," I said clutching at straws before Carlisle said we had to leave. "We could just wait; I mean no one is in danger if she doesn't say anything." Even to my ears I sounded desperate.

Carlisle doesn't answer but I could hear his thoughts. I don't want to leave either, but if a human knows then…it's going to be hard for us all, but we have to do what's best…still…maybe…

Just as Carlisle was weighing out the options of what was best, the printer on the desk sprang to life. Carlisle and I both stared at it, as if it was a bomb waiting to go off any second.

Before it could fully print, I looked over to see what it said: She won't tell.

It was different than before, all the letters were the same size and it was only on one line. Carlisle and I exchanged a look over the desk.

"She won't tell?" Carlisle mused. "We can't be sure Edward. I know how you feel about her, but we can't just risk it all."

I took the print out and stared at it. I wished I could see the spirit that was doing this. I had a feeling that it was that boy Ryan that threw the cup at Bella, but I couldn't be sure.

"I know this is going to be hard Edward, and believe me if I thought there was a better way, then I would say we could stay. Only we can't be sure she won't tell and it's not a risk I want to…" A shrill ring thrilled through the room interrupting Carlisle. He glanced at the caller ID on his desk phone and a weight lifted off my shoulders. If there was anyone in the world I wanted to speak to right now, then it was Alice.

Carlisle answered his phone, and put it on speaker phone.

"Alice?"

"Hi Edward, Carlisle," said Alice. We could hear the purr of what sounds like Rosalie's M3 in the background. "Just calling to let you know that we are not moving."

I tried not to smile while I shared a look with Carlisle. I wondered what Alice.

"How's that, Alice?" asked Carlisle sounding a little relieved.

"Well, we were leaving, I saw the decision you made, but then that vision got stamped on and I saw that we stay…I even saw a few weeks from now and Edward and Bella are very happy, and she knows about us…or at least I assume so, as Edward was in the sun. Bella didn't flinch or run around the town screaming Bloody Murder. I don' quite know how she knows, but I know she does and she is keeping tight lipped and I think we should just accept that she has accepted us. We are in no danger, and if we were, then I will go pack our bags right now." I could hear the smile in her voice, as we knew that there was not point contradicting Alice.

A long sigh slipped through my teeth and I beamed at the phone.

"Thank you, Alice, that's confronting to hear and such welcoming timing!" I said with gratitude. I didn't think she would ever know how much I was grateful for her vision, but something told me she did know, or she wouldn't have called in that precise moment if she didn't know I was struggling with wanting to be with my family and wanting to be with a girl that I barely know, but the girl I didn't think I could ever leave.

"So, how does she know?" asked Alice while Carlisle paced his office, trying to tell himself that Bella knowing would turn out to be okay.

"Carlisle got a note from a spirit, or we think it was a spirit. It said: Bella knows what you are. Then we got one that said she wouldn't tell anyone, straight after we were talking about having to leave," I ran a finger down both print offs, musing how spirits could actually do such things.

"Cool," said Alice accepting the weirdness of it. "So, Bella has known for a while…and she hasn't said anything…" Her tone was devious. The only time she sounded like that was when she had seen the future and she wanted to mess with it. In other words; she wanted to have fun.

Carlisle noticed her tone too, and stopped in his tracks. "What ever you are planning, Alice, forget it."

There was a silence on the other end, apart from the purr of the BMW.

"Please, just for once, let's just let our hair down. Bella knows what we are, she isn't telling anyone and it's obvious she is afraid of telling you that she knows what we are, she is probably afraid you might kill her or something, so why don't we…or you, Edward, have fun and let her know subtly that it's okay that she knows, just so she is not frightened."

I stared at the phone in disbelief. I couldn't play Bella, I couldn't play around with something as big as that, it was not fair to her and someone could get hurt.

"What do you mean, Alice?" asked Carlisle.

"Just give small hints away, nothing big, just tiny subtle hints that will make her think and it can help her accept it more, as she will be seeing it with her own eyes and it will make it real for her, but in a non-scary way. She knows about us, she knows it, we know it, but she won't see us any differently than the other humans do, so show her things that…isn't quite human…but nothing too out there or it will give the game away," the excitement in Alice's voice was mounting and I felt myself getting trapped in her childish game.

"We can't Alice, it might expose us to others," said Carlisle putting doubt in my mind.

"Oh, come on, Carlisle, when will we ever get to do something like this again, we can do things in front of someone that won't question it out loud and if she does we can just shrug it off…please, please, please? It will be fun." Alice pleaded and I could practically see her puppy dog eyes.

When Carlisle looked at me to take his firm side of going against the idea.

Edward, this could go very wrong…

I listened to Carlisle's logical thinking of how this could go wrong, but I agreed with Alice, it was going to be easy if we do it subtly. Only a person that knew about us would see that the things we did was not quite right, otherwise humans tended to look the other way. Normally I would be with Carlisle; why risk exposure? However, with Bella already knowing, and like Alice said, probably worrying about telling us what she knew, then I thought making light of it should put her at ease.

"I don't see why not, Carlisle, just something subtle to keep her thinking, and to hopefully make her see that her knowing is not the end of the world and we won't harm her," I shuddered at the thought of any of us hurting her. She was safe and we wouldn't have to leave, at least if she wouldn't tell anyone. Thankfully, according to Alice, we were not in danger of public exposure.

Carlisle was thinking along the same lines as me again. I suppose it won't hurt... Bella knowing might be the best thing that has happened to our family….Edward has not been this happy since….ever….

I tried not to look him in the eye, but we both know I heard his thoughts. He was right though, I hadn't felt that happy with Bella around, in…well, like Carlisle said, I hadn't felt that happy ever.

"I take it this long silence means you are having a one way conversation?" said Alice making the room come alive again, as we both forgot she was still on the phone. "So, will you do it? Will you leave hints for Bella, even though she already knows?"

Carlisle nodded, and answered her questions. "Yes, Alice, I suppose so. However, like you said, nothing big, just small things that might not make her think twice if she didn't already know."

There was a squeal from the speakers of the phone. "Yey! I will be there soon; I am not far from the hospital! I want to leave a small hint that I have a gift! I bet she doesn't know about that side of being a vampire!"

"And how are you going to do that?" asked Carlisle, having more doubts.

"No idea, but it will be subtle, like we agreed!"

Carlisle looked like he was going to change his mind. He was too old to want to have fun like that, it was our exposure she wanted to have fun with, but he shook his head with a heavy sigh. "Fine, do what you like, but, Alice? You're going to school straight after. It's bad enough that Edward is skipping school without reason, so I don't want you here too long or people will talk about my kids running around out of school with no authorisation."

There was silence of the other end, and we could virtually see Alice's scowl at the phone.

"I mean it, Alice, you're in and then out," said Carlisle with authority.

"You spoil my fun, Carlisle," she huffed. "Fine, see you soon!" The phone clicked so I disconnect our end.

"This is a bad idea, Edward," said Carlisle as he collected all the print outs from the unknown ghost.

"Yeah, I know, but it could be fun, and a once in a life time thing to do…besides, according to those notes," I nodded to the pile in Carlisle's hand. "Bella already knows, and that means she has been keeping that secret for…well, for however long she has known for, and Alice is right, she will be scared to admit what she has been told about us."

Now I thought about it, it had been obvious that she had knowing…

"Hey, she knows that I can read minds!" I said suddenly making Carlisle freeze over the paper shredder.

"What? Is there another note?"

I got up from the chair and paced the room, thinking fast. Bella froze up when Alex joked that no one could read minds, and she did the same when she joked that she could read minds when Ryan was around. We all did, because both Carlisle and I thought she was being serious.

"No, there isn't another note, but it makes sense now," I said slowly. "Remember when she joked to Ryan, that she could read minds, and we both thought she was serious? When we froze, she did too and she tried to cover it up quickly. But why would she? Why would she think there was a reason to make an excuse for that comment?" Carlisle didn't seem quite convinced, so I went on, "Her friend, Alex, who knows about her gift, is visiting and he joked that no one in the room could read minds, and Bella completely froze up again, she wouldn't even look at me. I didn't think much of it, as she…well, she kind of does that when I am around her," I allowed myself a school boy smile. "But now, well, it makes sense; she knows I can read minds!"

Carlisle stood up straight, still holding the notes. "She was told that too? How much do you think this ghost knows about us? He, or whoever it is that sent us those notes, then they could know everything about us, and I mean everything." Carlisle first thoughts were full of worry.

"Who is a ghost going to tell? What would they gain by telling someone…and who would believe them?"

"Bella believed them," Carlisle reminded me.

"Yeah, but she hasn't, and isn't going to tell anyone," I said confidently. "She has her own gift, her own secret and she is used to the supernatural."

Carlisle couldn't argue with that. At least she is good with…different. He thought. And if they are both on the same page then it will make everything much easier in their relationship…

I let Carlisle keep his thoughts his own and I took a listen upstairs and I found Alex's thoughts easily. He was still with Bella but he was getting ready to leave.

"Her friend is going soon," I said. "Do you still agree to this? The quicker we find out what she knows and who told her, then the better it will be for all of us, Bella included."

Staring at the notes in his hands, Carlisle ran through all the things that could go wrong with admitting to Bella that what she thought we were was correct.

But Edward is happy, Alice is thrilled and I am sure the others won't be against her knowing when they find out what she means to Edward…and she isn't just any human, she is special, she has a secret too…this could be a more of a good thing than it could be a bad thing…

"Okay," Carlisle said eventually. Okay, Edward, go for it. Be happy. She is a lovely girl, she is special in more ways than one and I won't stand in your way, I will back you all the way through this.

"Thank you," I whispered. I knew that he wasn't just approving Alice's little give away game, but approving me wanting to hopefully be with Bella in the future. It was what I wanted, but I didn't know if it was what Bella wanted.

"Don't thank me, son, you deserve happiness and she is perfect," he smiled then went to shred all the notes.

"Wait, I want them both," I said. Carlisle gave me two of the print outs, then shredded the rest of them.

I use my gift to find Alex, who was still in Bella's room but he was just leaving. I could see Bella though his eyes. She was every bit as beautiful as she was in person. I followed Alex as he walked out of her room, past the nurses' station and stood in the corridor waiting for the elevator. His was thinking about a friend, and trying to remember an address.

"Bella's friend is gone," I told Carlisle. "I will go and see her now."

"I will be up later; I want to tell her that Dr Warren has agreed to discharge her today. He is still puzzled; he still can't get over her miraculous recovery. She died for three minutes, yet there is no medical cause for it. I would still be scratching my head over it if Bella hadn't filled me in. I am still trying to process that a ghost did it to her, but I do believe her and when she has a second I want to ask her questions about what she can do." Carlisle mind was back on Bella's gift and how fascinating it all was.

I nodded distantly, agreeing, but my mind was only on Bella.

I am not that good at Edward's POV so I won't keep going with it. I might have the odd chapter here and there but that's it…unless it's requested for whatever reason.

I have started the next chapter and it picks up from the chapter Food Analogy. I was going to keep going with EPOV for that whole chapter but I couldn't get into it, but if you want I could try and we can see what Edward was thinking when he was telling Bella what he is, well in his own weird way.

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