Chapter 4: Hard To Believe

Nessie

"Wait a minute," I took a slow and steady breath. "Are you telling me that you and I are siblings?" I asked in disbelief. I'd been listening to the bronze haired boy's story for the last half an hour. The bronze haired boy whose name I learned was Edward. He had just finished telling me that he and I were twins. That our birth mother had died giving birth to us and that we were adopted by Carlisle and Esme when we were babies.

"That is exactly what I am saying," I looked into the boy's eyes and I had the strangest feeling that he was lying to me. I was very good at reading people and I could usually tell when someone was lying to me. My spidey sense was tingling off the charts right now. I saw a flash of worry in Edward's eyes but it disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared.

"I swear I'm telling you the truth," he said in a tone that was very convincing. Maybe I was wrong and my sense was off. His story made sense. He and I looked a lot alike so it was easy to believe that we were biological siblings. What didn't make sense was why I looked so much like Bella as well.

A lot of things didn't make sense. Carlisle and Esme didn't look old enough to have adopted all of us seventeen years ago. They looked to be in their late twenties or early thirties at most. I was getting a headache just trying to figure all of this out. I had a hard time believing that they were my family.

I sighed. Looking at all of them I felt like such an oddball. Besides Jacob I was the only one who didn't have gold eyes or pale skin. I was certainly far from being up to par with their beauty. Yet they all seemed to remember me. Meanwhile I, on the other hand, couldn't remember them at all. As soon as they had gotten over the shock of seeing me Bella had basically attacked me with a hug that I thought for a brief second would crush me to death. She had started sobbing though no tears fell from her eyes. It took awhile for her to be able to let go of me and she had not stopped staring at me since.

I looked at the time and I realized that my parents would be home soon and if I wasn't at home they were going to start questioning where I was. "I'm sorry but I really need to get home,"

I was kind of glad because really, more than anything, I just wanted to get out of there so that I could go home and process what I had just learned and what it all meant. Ellie got up when she noticed me heading for the door. She had stayed by Jacob's side almost the entire time. He was the only person she seemed to feel comfortable being around.

I had a hard time paying attention to the road once I was driving home. My mind was reeling from all of the information that I had received and the feeling that I was being lied to. It was a miracle when I made it home without crashing into anything or anyone. Maybe if I were smarter I would have pulled over and given myself time to mull over the information that I had received without putting innocent strangers as well as myself in danger due to my current inability to pay attention to the road.

The smell of pizza met my nose as soon as I opened the front door. "Hey sis I ordered pizza. It just got here two minutes before you did," Mike said as I walked into the house. My brother was already stuffing his face with pizza. Judging from the red sauce on Bailey's muzzle Mike had already given him a slice.

"Thanks Mike," I went to the kitchen and grabbed a few slices of pepperoni pizza. I tore one slice apart and fed it to Ellie. Our dogs were spoiled in the house. Very spoiled indeed.

As soon as I finished eating dinner I rushed upstairs to take a shower. I hoped the shower would calm me down enough to sleep. After everything that had happened today my mind felt like it was on overdrive right now. I knew the only way I'd be able to sleep that night was if I took some cold medicine. An action that I did not normally condone. But I didn't want to spend all night tossing and turning and thinking about the Cullens. It was hard to think of them as my family.

When I felt the medicine kicking in I closed my eyes. I didn't wake up until my alarm clock went off the next morning for school. I took my time getting dressed and eating breakfast. Even though all I was having for breakfast that morning was a bagel and cream cheese. Then I rushed out the door to get to school. My brother had already left for school.

One of the first things I noticed when I pulled into the parking lot was that there were several new and fancy looking cars in the parking lot. I parked my car and shut off the engine just as I saw Edward and Bella emerge from the Volvo just a few spaces over to my right. Shit. Of course they would all be enrolled at my school. I saw them all walking together to the front office most likely to pick up their new schedules. Once I was sure it was safe to do so I got out of my car and walked into the main building.

Almost immediately I heard people talking about the newcomers. At least I wasn't the only person who noticed their inhuman beauty. It meant that I wasn't entirely crazy. I gathered the books I needed for the morning from my locker. I ignored the whispers about the Cullens as I walked to my first class of the day. Spanish. Spanish was generally pretty easy for me since I'd been speaking it for years. It was hard not to learn the language when your parents would send you to Mexico to spend every Summer with your grandparents. Perhaps it was a bit of a cop out to pick a class I knew I'd be able to pass easily.

I took my usual seat at the back of the class. The class was almost full when I saw Edward walk in. The teacher had no choice but to send him to the only unassigned seat in the room which just happened to be right next to me.

Edward looked very pleased by the arrangement. "Hi Nessie,"

"Hi,"

"How are you feeling? I know that was a lot we gave you yesterday,"

"I'm okay. I think," I said. "It was a lot. I'm still processing it all," and I still can't shake the idea that you're lying to me I added in my head but of course I couldn't say that part out loud.

My thoughts shifted when I saw Adam walk in. He was a handsome guy that swam for our swim team. It was stupid of me to still have feelings for the guy when he hadn't spoken to me in months. The last time either of us spoke to each other it was ugly. He yelled and screamed at me that it was my fault I got pregnant. Nevermind the fact that we used to fuck each other like bunnies every chance we got without using protection. But oh boy was the sex good. It was so g-

"Ouch! What the f-ouch! Oww! What the hell?!" I shouted at Edward for he had just pinched me extremely hard for no reason at all. He glared at me angrily with his arms folded across his chest. His eyes were no longer honey gold but they were pitch black. I cowered under his frightening gaze.

I took a deep breath. I could still feel the stinging pain of the pinch on my arm. I rubbed it hoping that would ease the pain a little. I looked at Adam again. He didn't even know that I ended up having a misscarriage. Perhaps he was relieved or maybe he didn't care. It was hard to tell. I wished I knew what he was thinking.