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"So Bells, what you got planned for the weekend?" Cat wondered, they were walking through the corridors and, surprisingly, Edward wasn't currently with them. He'd had to go somewhere for a few minutes, though he had promised he would be back within five minutes.
"Well, I was planning to go down to LaPush" Bella admitted, she was whispering
"Really? I heard you only just escaped before? And will he let you? He seems to have something against LaPush" Sophie thought, Bella sighed
"Edward's going hiking." she explained
"Hiking?" the twins chorused, they looked at one another
"Hunting" they realised
"Yeah, they do it every now and then" Bella shrugged
"Well, why don't you come to our house? It's closer?" Cat grinned
"Plus you haven't been before" Sophie added, Bella seemed to think about it before she sighed
"I shouldn't. He worries about me even when he's gone". The twins frowned
"It's not like you're gonna be in danger Bella" Sophie sighed
"He's so protective of you, doesn't it drive you mad?" Cat wondered
"His hearts in the right place, he cares about me. That's all" Bella confessed
"Still" Cat sighed. She felt Edward approaching them then, coming up from behind them somewhere down the hall. He took Bella's hand and kissed her cheek
"What did I miss?" he asked
"We were wondering if Bella would like to come to our house for the weekend, for a sleep over or something. Especially seeing as she hasn't been yet" Cat grinned, Edward looked concerned about that, he glanced at both twins then at Bella before he masked his expressions. The twins rolled their eyes in unison as they entered the cafeteria
"Not only that Bella but, you haven't met my mother. My dad and I speak of you and Charlie all the time and yet she hasn't met you." Cat continued to convince
"And we've known you for ages and you haven't even seen our house" Sophie repeated. "At least if you came this weekend we wouldn't be taking you away from anything" her eyes flashed to Edward for a second. Neither of the twins missed the calculating look on Edward's face as he thought about all angles of the idea, looking for any dangers about the idea before his face went blank and he masked his expressions again.
"This is ridiculous" Cat fumed silently
"Tell me about it. He's way to protective" Sophie agreed before they began eating their lunch. Angela, Eric and Ben joined them not long later along with Alice. Cat talked to Alice about her sleepover plan and asked Alice if she'd like to come as well. Sophie was surprised about this offer, the twins were still 'in the dark' about their secret, Alice coming for a sleep over, not eating or sleeping might give a few things away. As expected though Alice declined, saying she was busy with something else and that she was sorry. Cat pouted and pretended to be disappointed, though she knew Alice would decline anyway.
The week passed quickly and Bella's mood only got worse, she seemed to be having a really bad week. The twins tried to cheer her up, Alice did too but none of it seemed to help. As the week drew to a close the twins had noticed Alice pipe up a little, she was like a child who had been given a present.
"Alice being excited can't be good" Sophie muttered in one of their classes
"Tell me, do you think Edward's going to do something to Bella?" Cat wondered randomly
"What do you mean?" Sophie asked as she wrote down a few notes
"Well, Edward is going away and the last time he did that Bella snuck off to LaPush, don't you think he'd expect her to try again? If so then he'll probably do something to stop her from leaving" Cat explained
"Good point" Sophie thought it over "You know, even if it has nothing to do with me, seeing him being so annoying and protective makes me want to punch him" she confessed
"I agree"
"You'd burn him, Blaze" Sophie smirked, Cat rolled her eyes, both Leah and Jared had started using the nickname now
"Why don't you have a nickname?" Cat wondered
"Leah doesn't like me" Sophie shrugged
"Cause you're boring" Cat shot, Sophie rolled her eyes and continued to scribble over her book.
The day ended and the twins wished Bella luck for work before going home in Sophie's convertible. Cat's phone began to ring and she placed it next to her ear
"Hey" she greeted
"Hey gorgeous" Jacob answered
"What's new?" Cat wondered, having only seen him this morning. Jacob only called when something new had happened otherwise he waited till he saw her after school to inform her of something.
"Emily's nieces have come down for a visit. Would you like to come and join us all?" he wondered
"Sure we'd love to" Cat grinned
"See you in a bit" and he hung up. Cat put the phone back in her pocket
"Change of plan, we're going to Emily's house" she told Sophie
"Alright" Sophie shrugged and headed in that direction. When they arrived most of pack was there, along with Emily's nieces. One looked around two the other about four
"Aww, they're so gorgeous" Cat praised
"What's with you and little kids?" Sophie wondered
"I just get along with them" Cat shrugged "You aren't exactly much different"
"So" Sophie said. Cat rolled her eyes and they walked inside, getting a greeting from Emily who introduced them to her nieces. The youngest was Claire, her sister Jade.
"Nice to meet you. My name's Cat" Cat smiled
"Cat, meow" Jade giggled, Cat smiled and turned to Claire
"Can you say Cat?" she asked
"Cat" she said a little funnily. Cat smiled and nodded
"This is Sophie" she said, pointing to her sister
"Sofie" Jade repeated, Sophie took her small hand and shook it gently.
"Nice to meet you" Sophie smiled
"You're pretty" Jade said
"Aww" Cat smiled and picked Jade up cuddling her, Jade happily hugged her back "Jade do you like flowers?" Cat asked her, Jade nodded "What's you're favourite colour?"
"Pink!" Jade cheered. Cat held her hand out, it was empty, she closed it and pointed her palm down before raising her hand, a pink flower grew out of the air under her hand, growing longer as she raised her hand until the pink petals formed. It was a pink cosmos flower, Jade beamed as Cat handed it to her she turned to find Emily, Cat put her down and Jade ran to Emily to show her the flower. Emily crouched down at her before looking up at Cat who smiled innocently. She saw Claire watching her sister and bent down next to her she put her hands together and flared her fingers out, a flower grew out of her palms, this time it was pink Alstroemeria flower. Claire beamed as Cat slipped it into her hair were it stayed
"You look very pretty" Cat smiled sweetly. Claire ran over to show Emily and her sister her flower. The wolves looked a little surprised, they didn't know such a hot head could have such a sweet side. Cat walked over to them
"Woah" Jared said, Cat looked at her confused
"What?" she wondered
"That was totally out of character for you" he explained, Cat rolled her eyes
"I'm a wild fire on top and a sweet smelling flower underneath." she repeated grinning at Jacob who smiled back at her "You think that's sweet, you should see Sophie with birds" Cat said looking at her twin who shrugged
"You're good with woodland animals too" she reminded her, Cat shrugged in response.
"Where's Quil" Cat realised
"He had patrol, he'll be here later" Embry informed
"Does he hate it yet?" Cat wondered, the boys all sighed or rolled their eyes causing the twins and Kim, who was standing with Jared's arm around her, to grin.
"Let me guess, Leah's with him and Seth's home?" Sophie guessed
"Yeah"
"To easy, it's not difficult to guess where we may all be" Paul said, he'd lightened up a little in the last few weeks
"It's not difficult to tell were we might be either. Just you may not be able to find us" Cat smirked
"That doesn't make much sense, Blaze" Jared grinned
"Makes perfect sense" Cat disagreed before walking inside. They sat in the living room with the two little girls Cat kept making flowers for them every time they asked for something different, she did something. She made shapes out of her light powers, they weren't dangers, and the birds she made flew around the room.
"Are you sure this is alright?" Jacob asked
"Jake, by the time they've grown up they would have forgotten all about this or thought it was a trick. Will you calm down, they're toddlers." Cat assured him. Jacob didn't look convinced but it was Cat's secret so he didn't argue
"Can you do somefing?" Jade asked Sophie, Sophie was a little cautious. She could make ice sculptures of all sorts but they were cold, and she was still mastering how long they stayed unmelted for. They could make things out of wind by pressurising the air, plus there were her illusions.
"Alright" Sophie thought for a minute, she waved her hand and a little bird appeared out of thin air. It flew around the girls and they chased it around the room
"How did you do that?" Embry asked
"It's just an illusion. It isn't real" Sophie explained, "By controlling the air particles around us I can do that, with anything"
"Burdy" Jade giggled, Claire tripped over as she too chased the bird, but Cat was next to her
"Hey, you alright?" she asked sweetly, Claire had tears in her eyes "Don't cry. When you cry you make other people sad, it's much nicer to see your beautiful smile. You know when ever your sad, it helps it you do something makes you feel happy. You could say a rhyme you really like, or sing a song. What's your favourite song Claire?" Claire sniffed
"She likes twinkle star" Jade said standing next to Cat
"Will you sing it with me, Jade?" Cat asked, Jade nodded
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Claire sniffed and wiped her eyes
"Do you fweel betta now?" Jade asked, Claire nodded and her sister gave her a hug. Cat smiled and turned to find everyone else trying not to laugh at her, she rolled her eyes ignoring them.
"See, all better" Cat smiled the door opened and everyone turned to see Leah and Quil walk in through the door. Paul and Jared sighed before standing up, Jared said good bye to Kim, giving her a kiss also before the two left the house.
"What's going on?" Leah asked
"Emily's nieces" Cat smiled as Jade sat in her lap
"So your second cousins" Sophie informed her
"Great" Leah muttered
"Don't be such a sad sap" Cat scolded "This is Jade, and Claire" she said, no body said anything and Cat looked around at them all, that was when she noticed Quil. He seemed dazed
"Uh oh" he was watching Claire, their eyes weren't glued like Sophie's had been at first, nor were they like Cat and Jacob, both feeling odd, it was a little different to the 'love at first sight' thing. Everyone was silent for a while, while Jade was looking around confused, she turned in Cat's lap and reached up
"Why evwyone quiet?" she tried to whisper, that broke the silence
"Guess we just didn't have anything to talk about" Cat smiled, she looked at Quil and jested for him to come sit with her, he did and Claire backed up a little
"Claire, this is Quil" Cat said softly, Claire watching him for a while
"Nice to meet you" he smiled and held out his hand
"Shake his hand" Cat smiled, Claire had one of her fingers in her mouth but she held out her free hand and took Quil's index finger, Quil moved his hand up and down in a shaking motion. After that silent chaos broke loose, everyone was completely stunned that Quil had imprinted on a two year old, also the fact that imprinting was supposed to be a rarity and now five wolves had imprinted. Cat and Sophie kept the girls entertained while the pack talked to Quil. It turned out that he didn't love her which was good, well not in that sense. He cared about Claire, but at the moment he was like a protecter, a big brother, he'd always be there for her.
"It's kind of lucky for Claire if you think about it" Sophie thought
"How?" Cat wondered
"She's going to have Quil there her entire life. He's going to be her brother, her best friend, her boyfriend eventually, her protecter, she's never going to have to go without him. Imagine having a kind of guardian angel like that" Sophie explained
"Guess that's a good point" Cat muttered "It's not for Quil. He has to wait for her"
"But he will be happy" Sophie reminded her
"But that's only cause of the imprint. If it didn't force you to be happy no matter what your imprint was, I'm sure no one would really like this" Cat admitted
"Good thing the imprint says he does then" Sophie sighed
"I don't know whether that sounds nice or not" Cat mumbled. It wasn't long before the twins had to leave, they said good bye to the two little girls before they got back into Sophie's car. The roof went up as it began to rain and the twins sat in silence. When they got home Cat began to dial a number into her phone
"Hello?"
"Hey Charlie, it's Cat" Cat smiled
"Hey Cat, how are you?" Charlie asked
"I'm good and you?" Cat answered
"Not bad, so what's up?" Charlie wondered
"I was wondering if Bella was there?" Cat asked down the phone
"Oh no, she's spending the next few days with Alice. Some huge slumber party as all the boys are gone or something" Charlie answered. Cat looked confused for a while
"She didn't tell you?" Charlie asked
"No… that's alright, it probably just slipped her mind that's all, I'll just call there" Cat said, putting on a cheerful voice
"Alright, take care Cat, and say 'hi' to your father for me" Charlie said
"I will" and she hung up
"What's up?" Sophie wondered as she came up the stairs after putting the cover back on her car
"Bella's spending the next few days at the Cullens' house" Cat answered dialling the Cullens' home phone number
"So?" Sophie questioned
"So I was going to call Bella and ask if she wanted to come here, try to convince her but she's at the Cullens instead" Cat said, almost disappointed
"Hello?" a beautiful number answered the phone
"Hey, this is Cat Mitchell, I'm a friend of Alice's. I was told Bella was at your house" Cat said
"Oh yes, Alice, Bella and Edward have spoken about you. You're one of the Mitchell twins right?" the women asked
"That's right" Cat nodded
"My name's Esme, I'm Edward and Alice's mother" Esme said
"It's nice to… hear you Esme" Cat said, Esme laughed, it was just so perfect.
"You too. Now you said you wanted to talk to Bella?" Esme asked
"Yes please" Cat said politely
"Bella, there's a friend on the phone for you" Esme called
"Who?" Bella said in the distance approaching the phone "Hello?" she asked
"So I called your house but your dad said you were having a sleep over at Alice's so I just decided I'd call here" Cat said
"Cat" Bella sounded relived
"You might want to move the phone away from your ear for a second" Cat advised, she heard the phone move "Alice Cullen you awful person! You stole my idea! I was going to have a sleep over! How dare you!" she yelled
"Opps" Alice said in the distance
"Will you pass that along for me?" Cat said more sweetly
"I'll give her the message" Bella said
"Thanks. So you wouldn't come to my house, what did Alice do to convince you?" Cat wondered
"She didn't" Bella answered annoyed
"What happened?" Cat said monotone-ish-ly
"She kidnapped me. Till Saturday" Bella said
"Kidnapped you? What about school?" Cat questioned
"She's going to drive me to and from" Bella sounded very irritated
"You've been kidnapped by that little pixie?" Cat said trying to sound confused
"She's stronger then she looks" Bella sighed
"This wouldn't have anything to do with you wanting to come to LaPush would it?" Cat asked sitting down on her window seat in her room
"Yeah." Bella answered simply
"He has gone so far as to make Alice kidnap you? Jeez how does this not drive you crazy?" Cat questioned
"He's being protective" Bella admitted
"Too protective. Why'd Alice agree to it anyway?" Cat wondered
"Edward bribed her" Bella answered
"How?"
"He bought her a porsche"
"A porsche? All this for a porsche?" Cat questioned
"She loves it. He threatened to take it away from her too"
"Isn't that going a little far?" Cat wondered
"It's for every time he goes away" Bella explained
"This is one paranoid boyfriend you've got" Cat sighed
"His hearts in the right place" Bella said
"Jeez" Cat muttered
"Sorry." Bella apologised "I'll see you at school tomorrow?" Bella asked
"Absolutely. I'm surprised he's letting you go to school without him" Cat admitted
"Wouldn't surprise me" Bella said
"See you Bells"
"Night Cat" and they hung up
"Bloody Hell!" Cat swore the second she hung up
"What?" Sophie asked immediately at her twins door
"Edward bribed Alice with a car to kidnap Bella until he came back from his hunt. Alice is driving Bella two and from school and making her sleep at the Cullens' house" Cat explained
"Are you serious?" Sophie asked her eyebrows raised in disbelief
"Yeah, Bells just told me. Actually she told me a lot for someone who's not supposed to know anything" Cat realised
"Whatever. Jesus christ. He's so…" Sophie began
"Paranoid" Cat repeated
"Worse" Sophie pointed at her
"Jeez, I can't believe he thinks the wolves are that bad" Cat admitted
"I'll say" Sophie agreed
"Girls, dinner time" Caren called up
"We're coming" Sophie said and the two trudged out of the room.
"Can you believe this?!" Jacob paced around Cat's room, Embry and Sophie were cuddling on Cat's window seat while Cat lay on her bed facing the celling
"About Bella being kidnapped?" Cat asked, the boys had only just got there, Jacob looked at her
"You knew?"
"By an hour. I called Bella to ask if she had decided whether she wanted to come here for the weekend. I even told Alice about my plans…" Cat began
"Which is probably why she stole your idea" Sophie admitted
"It's Alice she probably would have done it anyway" Cat muttered "And all for a stupid car"
"What?" Embry asked
"Edward bribed Alice to keep Bella prisoner by buying her the car she wanted" Cat explained
"That's a bit much for one weekend" Embry muttered
"It's for every time Edward goes away" Sophie muttered, Jacob opened his mouth but Cat had her hand over his mouth before he could say anything, well before he could yell and alert the girls parents of his visit.
"Try not to yell" she said before removing her hand. Jacob's trembling had calmed down a little
"You know, we could kidnap Bella tomorrow" Sophie suggested
"We can't, Alice would see it" Cat sighed before collapsing back on her bed
"Do you think we could block Alice from seeing our futures?" Sophie wondered
"Well, she can't see the futures of the wolves, so maybe she can't see us anyway" Cat shrugged "If she could she might have already known about us"
"Valid point. Maybe we could choose if she saw our future or not. Like we can choose whether Edward reads our minds or not" Sophie suggested
"Awesome if we had that much power" Cat muttered
"I still can't believe he's going through so much trouble to stop her from coming down here" Embry admitted
"Got that right. All because he thinks you lot are dangerous" Cat agreed
"And they're not?" Jacob raged
"My thoughts exactly" the twins chorused
"I mean you don't see us getting hurt" Sophie said
"You know I've just realised something." Cat said sitting up and looking at them "The Cullens, or Edward at least, knows that Sam and the pack don't like outsiders getting involved right?" she asked, everyone nodded "Then hasn't he become suspicious as to why we are still involved with you lot? Without knowing the secret?" they all thought about it
"That's a good question" Sophie agreed
"They can't be that clueless" Cat thought, the boys raised their eyebrows and Cat rolled her eyes.
"Girls" Caren said, they heard footsteps approaching the door
"Don't move!" the girls hissed at the boys as Sophie clicked her fingers. Caren poked her head in through the door and the boys looked frozen, Jacob was still standing in the middle of the room and Embry was tucked behind Sophie
"We have some left overs for dinner would you like them for lunch tomorrow instead of buying it at the cafeteria?" Caren wondered, the boys looked confused
"Sounds good. Thanks mum" Sophie smiled
"Thanks. But are you sure you or dad wont want it instead?" Cat asked
"That's alright, we don't mind." Caren waved the thought off
"Well if you'd like it then I wont have any but otherwise…" Cat shrugged
"Alright" Caren nodded and shut the door, leaving the room, they listened to her walk down the stairs and the girls let out a sigh of relief
"She didn't even look at me?" Jacob said pointing
"Sophie's illusions abilities. They really come in handy" Cat emphasised
"It was good you stood still, it might not have worked otherwise" Sophie grinned
"You are amazing" Embry said to her, she smiled at him before he leaned down to kiss her. Cat groaned and laid back down, turning over to bury her face in her pillows
"Now I half know how Sophie felt" she thought
"Not nice is it" Sophie answered
"Go back to kissing" Cat said annoyed, Sophie giggled as she did so. Embry pulled away to look at her confused, she shook her head smiling and started kissing him again
"What happened to my shy sister" Cat muttered
"You' obviously rubbed off on her" Jacob grinned lying next to her and pulling her into him
"That can't be good, I'll no longer be unique" she whined
"You'll always be one of a kind" Jacob smiled at her
"You have to say that you imprinted on me" Cat muttered, he chuckled before he also kissed his girlfriend.
"Bella's gonna be in a really bad mood today" Cat muttered as they drove to school
"Maybe we should try and cheer her up" Sophie suggested
"How?" Cat wondered
"I don't know, I hadn't gotten that far" Sophie confessed
"Helpful" Cat sighed. They reached the school and sure enough Bella was walking away from Edwards volvo, driven by Alice.
"Hey" Cat greeted
"Hi" Bella sighed
"Guess being kidnapped isn't as fun as it sounds" Sophie thought
"Definitely not" Bella nodded
"Hey girls" Alice grinned
"Well I can see you're enjoying it" Cat noticed
"What?" Alice wondered, pretending she hadn't heard their conversation
"Kidnapping Bella" Sophie answered
"Well Edward paid me off. Plus slumber parties are meant to be fun" Alice said shooting Bella a look
"It's only fun if you don't need to get up the next morning" Cat corrected, she was still annoyed at Alice for stealing her sleepover plans but, she knew Alice didn't really have much of a choice if she wanted to keep the porsche.
"I'm sorry for ruining you weekend plans" Alice apologised
"You could have at least invited us too" Cat crossed her arms, Sophie rolled her eyes and Alice sighed
"I'm sorry" Alice pleaded to Cat, Cat gave her a look
"Fine, I forgive you", Alice grinned and gave Cat a side, one armed, hug.
"I'll see you guys later" and the pixie skipped off to her next class
"How do you put up with her hyper-ness for so long?" Cat wondered
"The same way I deal with yours" Sophie mumbled, Cat shot her a look
"I'm not that bad" she protested
"I'm only with Alice at school, and sometimes after but not very often, surprisingly" Bella confessed
"Must be good to get away from her at school, specially seeing as you're spending two nights with her" Cat grinned, Bella shrugged
"It's a good thing I sleep during that time" she said, the girls grinned, not letting her know they picked up on Bella only referring to herself.
"Do you think you could apologise to Jake for me?" Bella asked Cat as they sat in english
"Sure I can. Does he know you can't come?" Cat wondered, pretending to be curious
"Yeah, I called and told him yesterday." Bella nodded with a sigh
"Bet he wasn't very pleased about that" Sophie grinned, Bella shook her head
"Can't blame him. Your boyfriend wont let you go see your best friend" Cat admitted
"Are you sure he's not jealous?" Sophie raised an eyebrow, Bella shook her head
"I asked him. Angela thought the same thing. He said he wasn't, but…" Bella began
"But…?" the twins egged her to continue, unfortunately for them Bella just shook her head again. The twins sighed
"Gotta try harder" Sophie muttered
"She'd tell us if she knew we knew about them all" Cat remembered
"Oh well" Sophie mentally sighed.
"Edward just doesn't like Jacob does he?" Cat asked, Bella shook her head
"And Jacob doesn't like Edward" Sophie said
"Or any of the Cullens" Cat added
"And the same for Jake's friends" Sophie nodded, Bella looked at them both a little surprised for a while before trying to contain her emotions. She wasn't as good at it as Edward was, but the girls didn't ask about the surprised look so Bella guessed she'd done a good enough job. The bell rang and Bella didn't get up with much enthusiasm. The twins guessed that her day without Edward, and another slumber party to look forward to with Alice, was weighing her down. Mike was holding the door open to Bella when they walked through, he walked down the corridor next to Bella, the twins on her other side.
"Edward hiking this weekend?" Mike asked sociably. They exited the building and walked into the light rain that was falling from the clouds above.
"Yeah" Bella answered
"You want to do something tonight?" Mike wondered, the girls rolled their eyes. Bella was never going to break up with Edward and yet Mike still tried to push for a relationship. The same thoughts flashed across Bella's face for a second too.
"Can't. I've got a slumber party" Bella grumbled in response. Mike glanced at the twins who shook their heads but didn't say anything to answer his questioning expression.
"Who are you -" he began after processing her mood. He was cut off however by the sound off a roaring engine. Everyone turned around as a black motorcycle pulled onto the sidewalk, the engine still snarling. Cat grinned as Jacob waved over to them, Sophie and Cat waved back
"Run, Bella!" he yelled over the motorcycle
"Go! Before Alice turns up" Sophie ushered Bella. Bella was frozen for a second before she seemed to grasp what was going on. Cat ran over to Jacob, he kissed her on the cheek
"What are you doing?" she asked
"Well, Sophie said yesterday that we could kidnap her?" Jacob shrugged, Cat grinned
"You genius" she complimented
"I try" he smirked. Bella turned to Mike quickly
"I got really sick and went home okay?" she pleaded, her voice filled with excitement, she looked at Sophie who grinned and nodded
"Fine" Mike muttered, Bella pecked Mike on the cheek
"Thanks Mike, I owe you one!" Bella said and sprinted over to the bike
"Have fun" Cat nudged her as Bella climbed onto the back of the bike. Jacob grinned
"See you later" he said to Cat, she smiled and nodded. Bella wrapped her arms around Jacob's waist before she spotted Alice, frozen, at the edge of the cafeteria, she did not look happy. Bella sent her a pleading look causing Cat to turn around and Sophie to look in her direction
"We'll talk to Alice" Cat said to Bella
"Thanks" Bella said
"No problem. Just don't break him" she grinned, Jacob rolled his eyes and Cat stepped back away from the bike. Jacob revved the engine and sped off out of the parking lot so fast that Bella clung to him tighter. Cat waved them off before walking back over to join her sister
"You scared to face Alice?" Cat muttered, Sophie nodded before they turned to glance at her. Alice looked furious, which was strange seeing as she was always hyper. The twins walked up to her
"Alice?" Cat asked
"How could you let her go!? You knew she was under house arrest!" Alice almost shouted at them, she managed to keep her voice low enough that not everyone near by could hear her
"We knew you had been bribed to kidnap her" Sophie said
"And now Edward's going to take my porsche back!" Alice worried, becoming sad
"Alice, if it's that big a deal, and he does indeed to that, then we'll buy you another one. The same one" Cat said. Alice looked at her surprised
"We bought one. We can buy another. You aren't the only family that's curiously loaded" Sophie reminded her
"Curiously?" Alice wondered
"We don't know where all that money came from" Cat shrugged admittedly
"You'd do that for me?" Alice asked
"Sure. It can be a late christmas present or something" Sophie suggested
"But only if you calm down. I'm sure Edward wont take it off you. One; you're his sister, he's meant to be caring towards you. And two; It's not your fault, it's ours. We are the ones who just let her go. And she also went on her own accord. It's not like you let her go" Cat tried to convince Alice, to calm her down and stop her from worrying. Alice took a big, unneeded, breath in
"I know. But he still told me to look after her" Alice sighed
"Why? It's not like she's in danger" Sophie said, Alice looked at them both before seeming to remember they 'supposedly' didn't know anything.
"Right" she muttered
"If you're that worried, we'll check on them later" Cat shrugged "It's not like it's out of our way"
"Thanks" Alice said
"No problem" Sophie smiled "Now, unlike Bella, who has ditched out, we have class to get to" and she pushed the two girls towards their next class, which they conveniently all had together.
The girls waved good bye to Alice and told her everything would be alright and to calm down before jumping into Cat's car to drive home. They had Cat's phone plugged into the car and to was playing music so the girls didn't speak. They got home to find the house empty, their parents were both out, their father at work and their mother doing what ever it was she was doing. Caren had started helping out several people in Forks and LaPush. She'd been up to Port Angelus for a few jobs as well but, so far nothing had become permanent. The girls lazed around in the lounge room for a while before there came an unexpected knock on the door. Cat got up to open it, only to find Edward standing there.
"Edward…? Um… aren't you meant to be out, I don't know, hiking? Till tomorrow?" Cat reminded him, Edward didn't seem to really care about his cover story
"I came back early" he answered
"Yeah right" Cat didn't believe him, crossing her arms "You know I never recall telling you where I live… and Bella doesn't know either. And I know Charlie doesn't like you, so he wouldn't tell you…?" she began to think
"Cat, can you please do me a favour?" Edward began ignoring her suspicions
"You want me to go and get Bella?" Cat said simply, Edward looked at her a little surprised before he masked his expression again "Well the answer is no" she said firmly
"Look, Cat. I know I may seem a little over protective but…" Edward began
"A little?! You're blowing this way out of proportion. If I was Bella, you would have driven me mad by now" Cat admitted
"It's not how it seems" Edward began again
"You bribed your sister with her favourite car, so that she would keep Bella under house arrest, and away from her best friend" Cat reminded him. Edward sighed, he knew this was a difficult request to ask of someone who was clueless to the dangers.
"Cat…"
"I am not driving down to Jake's house, just before my parents come home and cook dinner, just so you can limit the amount of time Bella actually gets with Jake" Cat said strongly "I don't understand. Bella said you weren't jealous but, you sound jealously paranoid" she continued "Edward, if Bella was going to leave you for Jacob she would have done it ages ago, like, when you all came back from Italy ages ago"
"Not that that would have been possible seeing as he imprinted on me a day later" she remembered
"It would be easier to convince him, if you just told him Jake was interested in someone else" Sophie muttered from the other room. The annoyance slipped into Cat's expression a little and Edward's eyes glanced towards the living room where Sophie was. Cat tried to control her expressions seeing as she wasn't meant to be able to hear Sophie from so far away.
"I'm not worried about Bella choosing Jacob" Edward finally said
"Oh, you're not" Cat disagreed, she knew he wasn't, but she also knew that Edward still didn't like Jacob, one of the reasons being because Edward thought he still wanted Bella. Cat turned and left the door walking towards the kitchen. She left the door open and Edward took that as an invite inside, he shut the door behind him and followed her through the big house. It was more of a maze then the Cullens' house. Cat poured herself a glass of water and leaned against her bench
"So. Are you going to explain to me why you're so paranoid?" she asked finally. Edward stayed silent "If you're not jealous that is"
"I don't see why he should be, seeing as Jacob's interested in someone else" Sophie confessed walking into the kitchen
"You aren't doing a good job at keeping secrets at the moment" Cat shot at her
"Why are we keeping it a secret?" Sophie wondered
"Good question" Cat muttered. Edward looked at them both a little confused
"And you know this…" he began
"Well seeing as we see him everyday. You'd think we'd know" Cat admitted
"Doesn't mean you're right" Edward reminded them
"No, the fact that Cat's dating him does" Sophie finally admitted, Edward looked at Cat
"Guilty" she shrugged taking a sip of her water. "And yet you don't see me getting jealous that they're hanging out together"
"Since when has Jacob liked someone else?" Edward wondered, he was now curious, Jacob's mind was all about Bella, he wouldn't just forget about her with a click of the fingers. Something clicked in Edward's mind then, remembering about the imprinting that the wolves did. He eyed Cat for a while and she just watched him
"He…" Edward began, Cat just raised an eyebrow as Sophie sat at the bench, she had paused halfway through turning the page of the magazine she was reading and was watching her sister and the vampire.
"You know, I didn't hear or see your car, how'd you get here?" Cat finally asked, a fake confused look on her face.
"When did Jacob-" Edward started slowly
"Start liking me?" Cat finished, "Let's see" she looked at Sophie "A day after they came back from Italy wasn't it?" Sophie thought and nodded
"Yeah, you went to find Jacob after we heard they were all back. It was the first time you'd seen him since he and Bella had started fixing those motorcycles wasn't it" Sophie remembered
"After he'd cut off all his hair and gotten that tattoo and started hanging with Sam and his gang" Cat nodded
"The first time after that?" Edward interrupted their thoughts
"That's right" Cat smiled. Edward eyed her, he didn't know how to ask if she had been told anything, without giving it away incase she didn't. Cat rolled her eyes and put the cup on the bench "There something you want to say?" she asked "I thought this information would be a benefit to you, you don't need to worry about him trying to take Bella from you"
"And yet she's still going down to hang out with him" Edward reminded her
"Well durr, they're best friends, and Bella doesn't know that Jake's dating me. Or at least I don't think she does" Cat confessed
"What do you mean?" Edward interrogated
"Well I haven't told her. But I don't know if Jake has" Cat shrugged
"Why not?" Edward continued
"Never came up" Cat admitted
"Edward will you stop beating around the bush and just say what's on your mind" Sophie finally spoke, Edward looked at her and then at Cat who also gestured for him to speak.
"What do you know about Jacob, Sam and their 'gang'?" Edward asked
"A lot" Cat answered "You're gonna have to be a little more specific"
"Well… did they tell you how Emily got her scars?" Edward decided
"Course they have, she has three huge scars on her face. They had to explain sometime" Cat answered, she thought that was a silly question but she wasn't going to tell him the truth unless he asked her directly
"What did they say happened?"
"They said she was hurt by a wolf" Cat answered simply a serious expression on her face
"You know, don't you" Edward finally asked
"What? I know a lot of things" Cat pressed, Edward pressed his lips together in annoyance.
"Cat" Sophie disapproved, Cat glanced at her sister and so did Edward. Sophie raised an eyebrow at her twin
"Come on, can we just tell him already. I'm sick of pretending I'm clueless" Sophie confessed, Cat sighed
"Yes, we know" she said and turned back to Edward
"Know…"
"Everything" Cat cut him off again "Is that what you want to know?"
"Everything?" Edward asked again
"Yes everything, what about the definition of everything do you not understand?" Cat wondered. Edward breathed deeply
"We know that you and your family are not human. We know that Sam and his pack are not human. We also know the real reason you don't want Bella with Jacob." Sophie explained
"Which, by the way, is stupid because he's not dangerous. You don't see me being injured" Cat confessed
"How long?" Edward asked
"I've known since the day before I met you all. The day before you came back to school" Cat answered
"I've found out a few weeks later" Sophie answered
"Why didn't you tell us?" Edward wondered
"You never asked" Cat said simply
"So, Jacob…" Edward questioned
"Jacob isn't interested in Bella anymore, because he imprinted on me" Cat finally admitted "But she is still his best friend and he is still against the idea of her becoming one of you"
"You know about that?" Edward asked
"What part of everything confused you?" Cat repeated
"So then why was Sophie allowed to know?" Edward asked, knowing how secretive Sam was about the wolves
"Embry imprinted on me" Sophie answered "Kind of gives me the right to know"
"They told us about your little gifts. So we knew Alice had that vision about Victoria. After a few more observations it was obvious what was going on, so we told Sam and that's why they were also prepared to Victoria's visit" Cat explained
"How did you know about that?" Edward questioned
"Well, Alice zoned out. You looked worried, we told Emily, who told us about James and Victoria. Then you forced Bella to go away for the weekend." Sophie began
"Alice see's the future, you only worry when it concerns Bella's safety and you made her leave that weekend. Put all that together, it's not really difficult to figure out what was going on" Cat explained
"We had the right to know you knew about us" Edward said
"We also have a right to having our thoughts to ourselves" Cat answered crossing her arms
"You don't need to worry about that" Edward admitted
"Can't read our minds huh?" she grinned "Must be how we kept our knowledge of you a secret for so long"
"I can sometimes hear snippets" Edward admitted
"Really? I wonder why" Cat said not at all subtilely
"What's it like?" Sophie wondered
"Like something's keeping me out" Edward answered before glancing at Cat again
"What?" she asked noticing him
"I don't understand how I can sometimes hear your thoughts, and they always seem to be directed at me." Edward continued
"You're saying we do understand?" Sophie questioned
"No. I'm asking if you do" Edward corrected her
"Think we should just tell him everything?" Cat wondered
"Don't know. Should we? And if we do explain it again, wouldn't you rather only have to do it once more?" Sophie wondered
"Good point" Cat admitted
"So how do we tell him that?" Sophie realised
"Say maybe"
"And cause a heap of questions?"
"That we will answer later" Cat assured her twin "Yeah. We do know"
"Why? How?" Edward wondered confused
"It's a bit of a long story. And wouldn't you like us to tell your family too?" Sophie asked
"It would easier if we told you all at the same time" Cat shrugged "Now. It's time for you to run home before our parents turn up"
"Or before Jacob does" Sophie reminded her
"That too" Cat nodded
"Bella…" Edward began
"Will get home without you noticing if you don't hurry up and leave" Cat said
"Then you'll continue to be paranoid while she's sitting at home waiting for you" Sophie agreed
"You know, the boys are gonna smell that Edward's been here anyway" Cat remembered
"Oh yeah" Sophie sighed. Edward stood their for a while, Cat rolled her eyes and let out a small groan before pulling her phone out of her pocket. She rang Jacob's home number, it rang before Billy picked up
"Hello?"
"Hey Billy"
"Cat, how are you?" Billy wondered
"Good and you?" Cat asked
"Fine. Fine." Belly answered
"So I was wondering if Bella was still there?" Cat jumped to the chase
"She isn't she left a while ago on her motorbike" Billy answered "Something you needed?"
"Yeah I needed to talk to her about school stuff but didn't want to interrupt her and Jacob's limited time together" Cat lied
"Fair enough. Well she left about an hour ago, oh and Jake's on patrol right now so…" Billy began
"That's alright. Thank you Billy" Cat said
"See you later Cat" Billy and Cat hung up and Cat looked at Edward
"She's already back at your house, see we told you" she snapped
"Thanks" he said simply
"You're welcome" and he was gone, the door opening and closing as he passed through it. The twins stood in silence for a few minutes
"Well that was fairly painless" Sophie admitted
"Didn't expect it to be painful" Cat confessed
"I know. But now we're gonna have tell them what's up with us" Sophie sighed
"… do you think Alice saw us decide to fess up. And decide to finally tell them everything?" Cat wondered
"If she did then we might not have to explain anything anyway" Sophie smiled
"That would be handy" Cat nodded
"But if she hasn't then we should decide now when we want to tell them. Then she'll definitely know" Sophie explained
"Do we want them to know?" Cat asked "I mean, what if Edward starts telling Bella we're dangerous?"
"We go to school with her and have classes with her, and she can't change out just before finals, so he doesn't really have a say in that matter" Sophie remembered
"Good point. Plus how would he know if we were or not. The only reason he says the wolves are dangerous are because of their lack of control. We have heaps of that" Cat rambled
"We shouldn't worry about it till it comes to that" Sophie decided
"Well, if they think anything down about us, like Leah thinking she was faster than me, I am definitely going to prove them wrong" Cat said firmly
"I'll help you" Sophie nodded in agreement.