My hand was resting on one of my mother's journals. I wanted to see if she had written anything on what they had went through when they found each other.

Not one signal entry for her journey with my real father was written in here. She started writing it when she found out she was pregnant with me. I felt as if I hit another wall. I had no help, and I was too weak to do this on my own. I didn't know what to do.

I sat at the table eating chips when Bella came in the kitchen. I had my hair in a bun with some SpongeBob pajama's on. Charlie laughed at me when I entered the kitchen. She put a beer on the table for him. Dad was cleaning a rifle when she blurted out, "I have a date with Edward Cullen."

Dad looked to me, but I held my head down hoping he wouldn't tell her. "He's a little old for you, isn't he?" sighed under my breath and looked back up.

"No, he's a junior, I'm a junior. I thought you liked the Cullen's." I watched them as I continued eating my chips. She was acting as if I wasn't there. She knew what the hell was going on.

"I thought you didn't like any of the boys in town." I snorted at that one. He looked at me with a glare. I guess he was upset at the fact I didn't tell him it was Bella.

"Edward doesn't live in town, technically." I full out laughed. My nerves were getting the best of me. "He's right outside."

Charlie looked towards the door. "He is?" I put poor Edward in a bad position.

They finished talking and Charlie turned to me. "Are you serious, Menah?" He sat down his gun. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I knew you would treat him bad if I told you Bella stole him from me. But I can handle this on my own." He just shook his head as I talked. He got up from the table to meet Edward.

This was all wrong. Dad would've been happy to see Edward with one of us if this stupid love triangle wasn't going on. Edward looked my way. With a sad smile I got up and went to my room not wanting to hear Charlie on what I did.

Today I was going to the field where I found that woman at. I was starting to feel sluggish and when I would try to use the elements, they wouldn't last and it worried me. I thought my time was coming faster than expected.

My little clearing in the woods looked the same, but the flowers were bloomed from the spring time. I put down a blanket so that I could sit on the wet grass. I didn't know what to do. I wanted to talk to her to. I need to.

I lifted my hands up to try for what happened the first time. I closed my eyes and focused on her. But no light came. I groaned and opened my eyes. She was right in front of me, smiling. Then she frowned while I jumped back.

"I see that you've come back, Menah." She stated the obvious.

I nodded my head quickly and said, "I need your help…well advice…question."

"Go on." she said in that soothing voice from before.

"I've been trying to call upon the elements. I've tried to use my powers, but they won't work and when I try I get so tired. What's going on with me?" I said desperately.

She tilted her head, observing me. "I can tell that you have not captured his heart. And that is why, my child. Each day you will grow weaker, so weak that your powers will fade. Along with your fast healing abilities. You will be more human." She now said in a deadly voice, "Your time is almost up."

"But I'm so lost without realizing it. Every time something good happens, it always get pushed back." I dry sobbed.

"It's the curse of our people. If you are one of the strong you simply fight. Or die."

"Okay…okay." I sat on the ground.

"Don't fret, my child. You can still restore the light within your heart. But you have so little time. Just think about it; how can you really know if someone loves you?" she told me and disappeared. I lay down and thought about what I could do.

When I got home I changed out of my clothes. I heard my phone going off. I found it in my purse and Edward's name was written across the top. I tilted my head and threw the phone on the bed and headed downstairs to get something to eat.

Charlie and I were on the couch watching TV when Bella burst in the house, "Edward I said leave me alone." She was standing in the door with Edward on the opposite side, "I said it's over, get out!" She ran upstairs followed by Charlie. I stood where I was to see Edward walk from the door.

Bella and Dad came back down the stairs and I just stare at them while they went back and forth. My necklace from my mother was hot and moved around as if trying to get away. When I tuned back into the conversation Bella said, "Like what? Watch baseball on the flat screen. Eat at the diner every night? Steak and cobbler?" She was listing of things. "Dad that's you, that's not me."

"Bella come on, I just got you back." He said, "How do you think Menah would feel about all of this?" I stepped closer to them. "We just got you back."

"And if I don't get out here now, I'm gonna get stuck here just like mom." She opened the door and left with a slam.

Tears came to my ears. Not from her leaving, but from her hurting her father, our father like this. I ran after here before Charlie come stop me. I pulled on her arm before she could get in her truck. She turned around and I slapped her in the face. She hit the side of the truck. "How dare you do that? This?" Charlie opened the door. "That's your father Bella. He did everything to help you and you gave him the same fucking line as Rene did. You know that I saw my father die in front of my own eyes and you get like this because of a breakup."

I paused in my ranting to look at Charlie back to Bella, "You've done so much to me without realizing it. Bella, I loved Edward, no, I still do, but you just have someone in your life to love you unconditionally." I laughed and said lowly, "I don't know what's going on here, but if you do anything else to hurt the people I love, you'll regret it Bella. Because you will get nothing from me anymore."

I turned back to the house and walked up the steps. I didn't look back, but Charlie was staring out the door. "I'm going to bed. I'll see you in the morning." I didn't have any emotion in my voice. I walked up the steps numbly as my necklace grew brighter.

The room was the same except for the dull lights in the lanterns around my ceiling in the room. I lay down on the bed to try and figure out what just happened. The necklace actually grew hot enough to burn me, but it flew up and pointed behind me. I turned around, but I was too late. Before I blacked out I saw blonde hair in my vision.

Bella's POV

I was packing my things when I got a call from home. I answered the phone and said, "Hey mom, I'm glad you got my message. What are you doing home?"

A frantic Rene answered the phone, "Bella? Bella? Where are you?"

"Calm down, everything's fine. I'll explain everything later." The phone was being moved, "Mom are you there?"

A voice answers the phone that sends a shiver down my back. "It was just too easy for Victoria to find your previous address. It's a nice house you have here. I was prepared to wait for you, but mom came home after she received a very worried call from you dad. It all worked out quit well."

My eyes widened in fear. I can hear her in the background, "Don't touch her, just-"

"You can still save her, but you're going to have to get away from the rest of your friends. Can you do that?" he paused, "Oh I almost forgot to mention, your dear sister decided to join me. From the display I've seen earlier, I don't think you would care what happens to her."

She was never going to forgive me for bringing her into this. "No, leave her out of this."

"She stays with me, unless you're willing to come and save them both." He said slowly into the phone.

"Where should I meet you?" I said.

"How about your old belle studio? And I'll know if you bring anyone along."

Menah's POV

I woke up with my temple throbbing. My eyelids were heavy, but I managed to open them. The walls were glass. The old belle studio Bella and I used to go to. I tried to sit up and the world started to move and I groaned. Footsteps made their way towards me.

"Now look at you. I was starting to get bored." I turned my head to the side to see a tall, blonde haired man.

"I don't know who you think you are, so why I must ask. Why am I here?" I tried to move my arms, but they were tied behind my back.

He ignored my questioned. "What are you?" I looked at him confused. I was going to say something, but he stopped me.

Before he could answer he shushed me and pushed me into a hidden corner. And he covered my mouth with a cloth. He went to a supply closet and played a video with Rene calling for Bella.

A door opened and he was gone. I hear someone running in the studio, but I couldn't move from where I was. It was Bella; she opened the door to see a TV with a video on. She turned around to see the blonde haired man.

He pushed her against the wall and started to whisper something to her. I tried to burn the rope that was holding my hands and feet together, but I was too weak. My powers were fading. It caused me to struggle more. He held up a camera. "Where is Menah?"

"Oh she's somewhere, watching." He told her and opened the camera. "It'll break Edward's little heart."

"Edward has nothing to do with this!" She yelled at him.

I tried to talk, but the cloth didn't allow any movement. I look up to see Bella spraying the man. He only opened his eyes. He wasn't human. But he did smell the Cullen's, but different. I just noticed that he has red eyes.

He walked in my direction, angry. He picked me up so fast that I didn't realize it happened. He held me up and he jumped with me in his arms. We flew right in front of Bella. He slammed me to the ground and hit Bella so hard that she hit the edge of a pillar.

"You know what, I have a question before I feast on the both of you." He turned the camera on me. "Bella I'm just dying to know what your sister is." He grabbed me slide me over to Bella. "Earlier I was just going to have a snack, but I had gotten this strange feeling as if I didn't need anything to eat." He moved closer and sat in front of me. "But now I don't care. I just want to know how her blood tastes, just looking at her makes me…" he just smiled.

He pulled me towards him. I moved in his arms, but he held me down with a bruising strength that I've never experienced before. I screamed out from the pain and closed my eyes tightly. He sat the camera down. "I think your little family would love to see a video of your last moment." He moved my hair to the side and bit my neck.

I was expecting pain to radiate from my neck, but all I felt was lust. It made me feel disgusted that it wasn't Edward. A moan slipped past my lips. The man bit down harder. I scream out. From out of nowhere I ripped the ropes from my wrists. I punch him in the face and move away from him.

His head snapped back to me and he swung his arm and I went flying to the back wall, shattering the glass. The air in my lungs rushed out. I laid out on the glass covered floor. He growled and said, "I'll come back for you." and turned back to Bella.

He grabbed her leg and she screamed. I tried to get up, but I had a glass in my lower abdomen. Each time I moved it would cause me pain.

As the man was yelling at Bella a blur knocked him over. I forced myself out of the glass and quickly took out the huge piece of glass in my abdomen. Edward was still fighting with the other man. They were both one blur. I walked over to Bella and move her close to me.

Edward was thrown right to me. I was thrown back with Edward while his arms wrapped around me. James had his mouth close to Bella's arm. With my last strength I shot out fire from the palm of my hand and blasted him.

It misses Bella and blows the man back. Edward face is full of shock, but I push him gently to get him to go attack whatever that man was.

My body fell to the ground as he ran away. I glanced up at the blurry ceiling trying to keep my eyes open. A song came into my thoughts; Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey. I was so out of it that I didn't notice when some of the Cullen's came into the studio. Each lyric would pop into my head and I would laugh and weep with each one.

Someone came into my sight. My eyes cleared a little, trying to focus them. It was Alice, with a worried face.

"Oh my god, Menah. You're bleeding…everywhere. Can you hear me?" I just stared at her and moved my head searching for Edward. She guessed what I was doing, she left.

A second later Edward appeared. I was smiling, but he looked ready to cry when he seen how I looked. I'm starting to guess it was bad. He sat down and pulled me towards him. "I can help you. You can live, Menah." He stopped for a minute. "You can be like us."

I shook my head to the best of my ability. "I can't Edward. You deserve better…Bella." I started to cough, "She will make you happy." The light was dimming in my eyes.

Edward was crying, but no tears came. "You can't leave me." I put my hand on his cheek. "I…love you." He finally said it, but maybe it's too late.

I closed my eyes and my hand fell from his face. He started to shout, but I was too far away.

The woman's words came back to me. How can you really know if someone loves you?