*Skip a few months*

"Is that how you felt?" Bella asked, "Is that what it felt like to want to die?"

"Yes." Her sister replied. Bella was depressed, then she found a new friend in Jacob but now that he's left her she's back to square one.

"How did you do it?"

"No."

"What?"

"I'm not telling you." Alex said sternly. "It's not a story to just tell. It's more of a nightmare." Bella nodded as she walked upstairs to dry herself off. Alex asked her why was she wet and Bella told her that she had been cliff diving and told her how it felt. Hence the questions before. As she stood up to got to the kitchen to make tea someone had knocked on the door. Alex sighed as she answered it and came face-to-face with someone whom she hadn't wanted to see for a while as anger was still fresh, "Hi." Alice smiled.

"Alice? What are you doing here?"

"Where's Bella?"

"No, you do not get to ask about Bella! You haven't cared so far, why now?" As Alex's voice rose, Bella came back downstairs warm and dry.

"Bella?"

Bella looked at the familiar voice and broke out in a smile as she ran to her, "Alice! Is everyone else with you?"

"No. How are you alive? I saw you jumping off a cliff. Bella, why would you try to kill yourself?"

Bella let go, "I wasn't trying to kill myself. It's called cliff-diving. It was... Fun." She smiled.

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Alex sighed again as tried to call Bella again but was getting no answer, "Damn it Bella!" Alex had decided not to go to Italy since she wouldn't know what to do with Edward if she saw him. Kill him probably. But right now, she was more focused on Bella. She tried one more time and this time got an answer, "Bella?"

"Hi, Alex." She said, cheerily for the first time in a few months.

"Where are you?"

"Just heading up to the Cullen's house. Why?"

"No reason. Just making sure you were okay. Cullen's house you say?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"No reason, bye." Oh, there was a reason. With her heart racing she jumped up the steps into her room and got dressed in jeans, converse and a t-shirt. She wasn't sure how it would go but she definitely wanted to be some casual and something she could move in. She grabbed Bella's car keys and got into her truck. She was always one to abide by the laws but for now, her adrenaline was running as she sped to the Cullen's home and did an emergency break before she crashed into a shiny, silver Volvo. She turned off the engine and raced up the steps, coming to the front door. She waited until Emmett came bounding down the inside steps and opened the door, as well as his arms ready to hug her but she pushed right past him softly, muttering "Where is he?"

"Assuming how mad you look I guess you're talking about Edward?" Emmett laughed as he followed her up to the living room and stopped suddenly as Alex spun on him and glared, "Do not laugh."

"Alex." Bella's voice rang as Alex turned to look at her and then to the person beside her,

"You." She glared at the man, responsible for all the stuff that's happened. "You think," Her voice was dangerously low, "that you can go, leaving my sister in the state she was in then come back as if nothing happened?" She turned fully to face him. She heard sniggering behind her, then a whack as someone got hit then silence.

"Alex." Carlisle's soft voice spoke, making her turn to him.

"No. Do not 'Alex' me." She turned on Edward again, "You think it was okay what you did to her?"

"No, bu-"

"But what? But, you left her in the woods, left her to her own devices. You don't know what's in those woods and you think it's reasonable to have left her there?"

"No, I don't." Edward looked upset.

"Then why did you do it?"

"Because we had to leave. It wasn't safe for us to be here."

"AND YOU THINK IT WAS SAFE, LEAVING HER IN THE WOODS BY HERSELF?" Alex screeched, now advancing on him, "Why did you come back?" She asked with a deathly glare.

"Because it would kill us to not be together any longer." He replied, calmly.

"And you couldn't have thought of that before, no?"

"I thought it was for the best."

"...'You thought it was for the best'." Alex chuckled humourlessly, "Of course. Classic answer." She stopped smiling and stared at him, "Do you now realise how stupid that was?"

"Of course."

"Do you understand that if you weren't a vampire, I would rip your head off within this minute?"

"You can still do that." Emmett's laughter broke the tension as another whacking noise sounded and he shut up.

"I do." Edward said, and as no one said anything he looked up, to see Alex still glaring at him. "And of course you would be angry. I left your sister -"

"For dead." Alex finished. "If I was Bella, I'd never speak to you again but as it is in Bella's nature to forgive so easily, that is her choice to do so. Me? You're going to have to prove to me that you are never going to do that again. You almost killed her Edward!"

"I know and for that, I'm sorry."

"Damn right you are. Just wait until my father hears that you're back. You'll be lucky to leave with just a gun shot wound to the head."

Edward nodded as Alex turned to face the rest of the family.

"As for the rest of you." They looked at her, seriously. "I can't believe that you would stand by and let this happen between the two of them!"

Carlisle looked at her, "It was for yours and Bella's safety." He said but Alex put her hand up and shook her head,

"Don't talk about my safety. I was fine. It was Bella that got hit in the heart. But not just that, you let your son stand by and not do anything? I don't know what happened when you guys were gone but I'm pretty sure Edward felt like dying as well?" They all nodded. "Then how could you, Carlisle, be that stupid not to force your son to come back? You've worked with people who wanted to die. You know how far people can get. and yet, that didn't register to you?"

"It did, Alex. I swear it did. But-"

"No. No but's. There's no excuse for that."

"I can see a nice butt right here." Emmett commented looking at Rosalie's rear and as Alex turned to him she saw Rosalie whacking him on the head. Alex's serious posture diminished as she breathed a laugh but straightened up again,

"No, Emmett." She shook her head, "Just no." She sighed and looked at them all, "You know how angry I am right now?"

"Actually Jasper does. As you came in he tried to calm you down but it didn't work so he let you have it." Edward announced as Alex looked at Jasper,

"Really?" Jasper nodded and suddenly as everything clicked into place her anger disappeared totally. "So that night of Bella's birthday party." She glared at Edward before looking at them all, "I'm assuming that you all smelled the blood and felt hungry?" They all nodded apart from Carlisle and Bella. "So then that's why you acted how you did! It wasn't just your hunger it was everyone else's! I'm sure that you wouldn't have done it if it was just your hunger alone." Alex finished and everyone looked to Jasper who nodded.

Carlisle was the first to speak then, "We never thought of it that way."

Alex shrugged, "Now you do."

Emmett was the only one who noticed Alex's change in her manner, "You do all realise she was angry, now she's fine?" Whack! Another blow was sent to the back of Emmett's head by Alex this time.