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3 It can't be

E pov

That quick glance of the mystery brunette had been more like my Bella than any of the girls I had seen, but I couldn't be sure it was my imagination had to be. 'Edward what's wrong?' Alice thought at me.

'It's nothing Alice, but,'

'But………'

'Did that Brunette look familiar to you, like someone we used to know?' I was insane, it couldn't possibly be her, she died and we left her alone, that was all there was to it.

'What Brunette there are hundreds of Brunettes in this school, actually that's a lie most of them are blonde, so again I ask what Brunette?' asked Rosalie as she sat with us at the table. She and Alice began to talk about the new family.

'The New kids, there's one who's very Kate Beckinsale.'

'Ohhh, Pearl Harbor?'

'No Van Helsing, kinda gothic and dark, but not totally into that, very cleverly done. Kinda purple, red Velveteen jacket, lacy shirt, very Victorian chic brought right up to date.' Rosalie made noises of approval, as the canteen went quiet and the new kids came in. Two of the girls came in first, a blonde and the Brunette, the guy who had been driving came in next with his arm around a girl with almost Scarlet hair. The family was striking and almost simultaneously we realized they were vampires too.

'This is impossible, how could we not know they were coming, and how can they be in the school?' I asked in a voice no human could hear.

'They're like us.' Said Alice, 'Veggies, and timeless too, I've never seen anything like them.' Alice was right, they were not only vegetarian, but the carried an imperceptible sense of age like a mantle that surrounded them. It wasn't something you could see, more something you could feel, no that's not quite the right word, you just knew how old they were, it was in the way they dressed, the way they carried themselves, and talked among themselves. It was just there, you knew. 'So Edward what's the story.' Someone asked, so I listened.

'The Brunette is called Bella, and the Guy is called Chris they're the oldest they were changed in Chicago by Chris' dad Alexander.' I paused surely it was a coincidence, Emmet waved at me to go on. 'Bella and the Scarlet woman –who's name is Cameron- met as nurses in Pearl Harbor, Cameron got injured and Bella took pity and changed her. The blonde was found in the seventies, and was changed by the father, she later became his mate. It's all very romantic!' Almost sickeningly romantic, and her name Bella, another coincidence or was I just going insane.

'Hey are you guy's listening to this?' Alice said, dragging me from my thoughts.

'You just let him raid our thoughts, Bella are you insane?' The bells were angry now, and I had to wonder why.

'Kristie, calm down he didn't raid yours it was only mine, and please like we don't know where your thoughts would be and please remember he's supposed to be our dad. And lastly at least this way I could control exactly how much He heard and what they know which is just the bare minimum.'

'But Bella what if…'

'What if what, this way they don't need to come to the house after school to find out, because they already know. You know Alex isn't ready to have guests in the house and to be honest neither am I. I know these people from somewhere I just can't place them.' Her voice was so soothing; we could all feel it, soft and gentle, and very persuasive. I looked at Jasper, 'Is she manipulating emotions?' Jasper shook his head and stared with Alice at her. 'She is just very calm, and persuasive, she knows these people, knows how their minds work and she's using that to her advantage.'

'Alright Kiddiewinks, It's time to blaze.' She said in that enchanting voice.

She was humming to herself as she walked out the door, and I just knew, I remembered lying on the bed in the hospital, fevered and delirious, with Bella sitting next to me humming softly as she embroidered something. My Bella had stayed with my family in the hospital to nurse us to the best of her ability, but she herself had fallen ill just before we all left Chicago, after Carlisle changed us we heard that Bella had died; now I knew that that was a lie. Bella had been changed, she was one of us, and she was here.*

The others noticed it at the same time I did 'No it can't be!' came from nearly all of my family apart form Alice who asked 'Are you ok Edward?'

'I'm fine Alice, we have to get to class, and tonight we will be paying them a visit.'

I drifted the rest of the day, not really paying attention to anything around me. At the end of the day as I drove every one home all I could think was that she was still alive, she had come back, she was one of us, and if I could just talk to he again would she really still love us, as the family that she knew before or would she hate us for leaving her alone while her parents died. Both Carlisle and Esme were waiting for us when we got back home; they had caught the anxious vibes that the rest of us had been throwing off since lunch time. Esme stood and took all of us in, in our varying states of preoccupation had walked right past her, stopping as they got to the stairs, realizing that we had to tell out parents. 'What is going on in this place.'

I turned to her and said in a steady voice that surprised me, 'Bella didn't die in 1901, she's one of us a vampire, and she's here with her family in Forks.' And just as I said that it really hit, the only person I had ever given my heart to completely was here in this god forsaken town only miles from where I was standing. 'We have to go to them!'

*you have no idea how tempting it was to not just leave it here.

There it is folks. Thanks to the people who reviewed the first chapter, I hope I don't let you down with the rest of this story.

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