Remember Me: Chapter 11

Chapter 11

EPOV

"Edward stop pacing, you're drawing attention to us." Rosalie growled at me. Lately she had been acting very hostile towards me for some strange apparent reason. I was probably getting on her nerves, but damn it! She didn't know how I felt. How would she feel, knowing that the your only reason for your very existence's future had just disappeared?

"Chill Edward." Alice growled, rubbing her temples. She hated being blindsided like that.

"I see Jacob Black's car is here, she must have run into him or something." she said, still trying to catch a glimpse of Bella. She was beginning to give me a headache from all the glances she was trying to see.

"Or something." I mocked. "She's in there with a werewolf. That makes it so much better." I growled, earning a hard glare from Jasper.

"Well if she is, we can't go barging in there like madmen, or in your case an overprotective panicking maniac." she retorted, rolling her eyes and suddenly her eyes glazed over and I was met with a vision of Bella laughing and chatting with Angela.

"See? Now calm down." Alice huffed.

"Well excuse me for wondering where Bella was, when her future disappeared for 15 minutes." I responded. She was about to say something back, when my senses were met with the horrible stench of wet dog. We all froze as Jacob Black rolled his father Billy Black out the school building. I felt the hairs on the nape of my neck stand on end. I could see the hate for one another was mutual as Billy and Jacob both coldly glared at us, making Rose hiss in response. I felt my fist clinch at my waist as I read his thoughts.

Don't even think about it bloodsucker. Then the cocky bastard smirked at me. I wanted to rip him to shreds, but the treaty forbade us from attacking them and vice versa unless either one of us crossed the line. My siblings and I stood frigid, as he settled his father into his car, as he got behind the wheel. He smiled cockily at me and I was met with a sight of Bella laughing and blushing as she hugged him. I growled loudly, and felt Jasper grab my arm.

"He's not worth it." he said, and with a parting glance, I watched as Jacob pulled out of the parking lot and drove off.

"I hate those stupid dogs." Rose huffed, crossing her arms over her chest.

"The feeling's mutual." I said, earning a glare from Rose. What was her problem?

"Come on, the bell is going to ring in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." She laughed, as the bell rang.

"But Bella…" I trailed off, just wanting to see if she was okay.

"Edward, she's a big girl." You'll see her later, now go." Alice pushed, raising a perfectly arched eyebrow at me. Growling quietly to myself, I stormed past her, and I was met with the lingering scent of freesias and strawberries. I took in a few steady breaths breathing in her aromatic scent and headed to class. I sat there blindly as other students entered already counting the minutes until I saw Bella again.

BPOV

"Bella meet my dad Billy Black."

I stared at him shortly before I snapped out of my startled trance.

"Uh…Ni…nice to meet you." I stuttered, shaking his hand.

"Nice to meet you Bella." His gruff voice said, although I detected a bit of suspicion underlying his tone. He looked at me as if he had known me all of my life instead, of a few short minutes.

"Yeah dad, I was telling Bella of my little predicament." Jacob shrugged, looking at his feet.

"Boy, I tell you that boy never listens to me. He's lucky I'm still letting this boy celebrate his birthday this weekend." he said.

"Birthday? You're finally turning the big 18?" I smiled. Although I didn't like celebrating my own date birth didn't mean I didn't like congratulating others on theirs.

"Yeah. I'll finally be an adult. I invited the gang down to La Push for the party Friday night. You're invited as well. I hope you can come." Jacob smiled, and I was became blindsided as he put a huge puppy dog pout upon his face. I rolled my eyes and nodded my head, slightly startled as he wrapped his large arms around me. I instantly flushed and let out a nervous laugh."Do you need a ride? I can pick you up if you want." he said, releasing me from his strong grip.

"Um, I don't know. I'll have to ask Carlisle and Esme first." I said, and noticed a flicker of emotion shift between Jacob and his father. His posture stiffened and his eyebrow furrowed together.

"The Cullens? Why do you need to ask them for permission?" he said in a strained tone.

"They're my temporary guardians. My other guardian, my friend Jolie was killed in a car accident last weekend, and they offered to take me in." I answered coolly and noticed that Jacob's eyes seemed distant."So you're living with them?" He asked. I looked at him confusedly, but nodded my head.

"Are you okay Jake?" I asked. He was starting to freak me out.

"Um, maybe you can ride over with others instead. They're coming over right after school." he said, shuffling his feet.

"O…kay. I'll see you then. It was nice meeting you Mr. Black." I smiled, although it might have appeared as a grimace.

"Call me Billy, and it was nice meeting you Bella. Come on Jacob. We have places to go and people to see." he said, although I detected more emphasis on people. Billy gave me one final look over, before gesturing for Jacob to grab the handles of his wheelchair.

"Bye Bella." Jacob waved, rolling his father down the hallway.

"Bye!" I hollered, and went towards my locker. That reminded me, I needed to find Angela and see if I could borrow her notes so I could catch up in any missed work from the previous two days. Luckily, she was by her locker talking to Ben.

"Bella!" she smiled, grabbing me into a hug.

"Hey Ang, hey Ben." I waved. Ben was quiet as Angela and gave me a timid smile.

"I missed you. I haven't seen you these past two days. I hope you're okay." she said her tone full of concern.

"Just personal stuff." I answered, looking down at my books.

"So you heard about Jacob's party?" she asked, quickly changing the subject. That's what I liked the most about Angela; she didn't pry.

"Yeah. Are you going?" I asked, praying that she answered yes.

"I don't know. That sort of thing isn't my scene, but I already told him yes." she shrugged.

"Please go. I told him yes without really thinking, and I really don't want to suffer a party around people I don't know." I begged, she just smiled and shook her head.

"Okay. We can protect each other from Lauren and her little cronies. I swear she's become unbearable lately. Even Jessica's trying to stay out of her warpath.

"You want to ride over together, because I have no clue where La Push is." I said, leaning against the lockers.

"Me either, but I can ask my father. He makes weekly trips down there." Angela answered. Her father as she told me was a Pastor and made bi-weekly trips down to their local hospital to pray with patients. We were broke from our conversation, when the bell rang signaling us to go to our first period class.

"I'll see you at lunch?" I asked, trailing backwards.

"Not today. Ben and I are going to study in the library." she said with a hint of a blush.

"Sure studying. Bye Ang." I smirked and waved, still walking backwards. Bad idea. I managed to fall backwards, and brace myself for impact against the floor but it never came. Huge arms caught me at the last minute, and I heard a loud burly laugh. I didn't even have to open my eyes to know who it was.

"Thanks Emmett." I blushed, looking at the amused smile upon his face.

"You're welcome Bella. Now get to class, before you cause yourself anymore harm." he laughed again, he laugh echoing down the hallway causing other students to stare at us.

Blushing, I scurried down the hallway, nearly tripping over my feet, as I hurried to class.

My classes were extremely boring, and it felt like time was standing still. I even stared at the clock all throughout my Algebra II class, wondering when I would be free from this torture. I couldn't stop thinking about that strange picture I found, and the coincidence that I just so happened to run into the very man in that said picture. I had so much running through my mind. There was doubt in my mind, that it was him. How did he know my father? Did he know who I was? I mean even I could tell the resemblance was obvious between my father and I. Did that mean Jacob knew something? Did he know about my parents' deaths or my brothers? I could go ask him, but how would that conversation even start? There was so much to consider. My nerves were shot, and my legs were bouncing rapidly, causing a loud patter against the ground nearly disrupting the class.

Even though I felt slightly agitated from earlier, a part of me was also anxiously awaiting to see Edward. He was the only person that was able to soothe my nerves. What was there to say about Edward? If it weren't for him, I don't know where I would be right now. He was my best friend, more so now that Jolie was gone. I was on the brink of a headache and I just wanted to relish in his touch. It was amazing how one person, could change your life in a matter of days. Although I didn't know if Edward felt the same towards me, there was just some odd connection between us; almost kismet, whether it was romantic or just simply platonic. It was an odd thing really. How could a person fall for someone in just a short period? Maybe I was just being silly. It took people weeks, months, years to fall in love in someone. I don't even know why I pondered the thought.

By lunchtime, I was nearly bouncing in my seat waiting for class to be over. When the bell finally rang, I nearly tripped over Mike's feet in the doorway in my haste to get to get out of class.

"Whoa, I always knew I would have beautiful girls falling at my feet." Mike laughed, steadying me."Ha ha, Mike." I answered, shrugging my bag over my shoulder. I was about to turn away when he stopped me.

"Hey Bella?" he grinned, rubbing his neck with the back of his hand.

"Yes Mike?" I sighed, hoping he was going to make it quick. The hallways were beginning to empty, and I looked around frantically for a flash of bronze hair, but no so luck.

"You heard about Jacob's party down in La Push?" He asked, and I nodded my head.

"Well are you going?" he asked

"Yeah, I told him I would come." I answered, shuffling my feet. The hallway was nearly empty now. Didn't he realize I didn't feel like speaking to him? My face probably held a huge grimace.

"Do you want to ride along with me? I mean…of course with the others we're taking my dad's van." he said with a smile. Mike could pass for cute with his spiky blonde hair and baby blue eyes, but he just wasn't my type.

"I'm riding with Angela. She and I are going to drive down there ourselves." I answered, and saw his smile falter.

"Oh." he breathed, Awkward.

"But I'll see you there then?" I nodded my head.

"Is that all?" I asked, hoping he would leave me alone.

"Actually…" he started, but a high-pitched voice stopped him.

"Hi Bella!" Alice chirped from beside me, nearly giving me a heart attack. Where in the world did she come from? One moment there's no one in the hallway, and then she's right here beside me the next. I waited my heart rate to lower, before giving her a soft smile.

"Hi Alice, Rosalie." I didn't notice her there either. Maybe I'm becoming unobservant.

"We're here to escort you to lunch." she smiled, although it didn't reach her eyes.

"Yeah, I'll see you later then Mike." I said quickly, as Alice and Rosalie looped their arms through mine.

We headed to the cafeteria, and I looked over her spiky little head and was disappointed to see that others weren't there.

"Where are the others?" I asked, grabbing a slice of pizza, and a bottle of apple juice.

"Uh, Jasper wasn't feeling too well so Emmett was going to drop him off at home, but Emmett's jeep broke down on the trek there so Edward left to go help them." Alice said putting a bowl of grapes on her tray, while Rosalie just grabbed a bottle of water.

"Not hungry?" I asked, and she nodded, her head.

"Will they be back soon?" I asked, as he we headed to a table.

"I don't know. Emmett had sent me a text message five minutes ago; that they were still waiting on a tow truck and that it might take awhile. So there probably wouldn't be any point in returning to school." she shrugged. I took a bite out of my pizza slice, not realizing how hungry I actually was, and was soon eyeing Alice's grapes hungrily. She just rolled her eyes, and pushed her bowl forward. I smiled at her sheepishly.

"So you guys heard about Jacob's party?" I asked through a mouthful of grapes, and noticed Alice's eyes narrow a bit, and Rosalie's lips shift downward into a tight line.

"Yeah." Rosalie huffed, through gritted teeth."Are you guys going?" I asked, curiously. "Maybe we can all ride down there together." I suggested.

"We um, have plans that night." Alice said quietly.

"Oh okay. What kind of plans?" I asked.

"Just stuff." she answered, her eyes slightly glazed over.

"Do you think Esme and Carlisle would mind if I went?" I asked nervously. It was somewhat wrong of me to accept an invitation without asking my guardians for permission.

"No they wouldn't mind." Alice said a bit tight lipped. I had an odd feeling that she was hiding something, so I studied her eyes for a moment. They were darker, almost black, darker then my chocolate brown. I quickly looked over at Rosalie and noticed her eyes were the same. That was odd. How does a bright topaz change to dark amber color, to nearly black?

Rosalie must have noticed my staring, because she quirked an eyebrow at me.

"What?" she asked.

"Nothing. I just thought there was something different about your eyes. Are they darker?" I asked quickly, and it didn't stray my attention the panicked glance she gave Alice.

"It's probably just the lighting." Alice chirped quickly, standing up.

"Come on, the bell's about to ring, and Rose and I need to stop by the office." she squeaked, grabbing Rosalie's hand and pulled her out of the cafeteria.

"Well that was weird." I mumbled aloud. The lighting in here was just fine. I knew it wasn't my imagination that both of their eyes had gotten darker. I sat there shortly, before the bell rang. I watched on as other students gathered their trays, before dumping them in the trash bins. I felt myself in odd daze. I didn't even mumble a hello to Jessica who tried to engage me in conversation in history, since we had a substitute. Convinced, I was going to answer her, she promptly left me alone, and I rested my head upon my arms. Now I really had a lot to think about.

Not only, was I convinced that Billy Black knew something about my parents, and possibly my family, but now that the Cullens were possibly hiding something from me.

EPOV

"Edward!" Jasper hissed, from across the room. We were both sitting here listening to our English teacher Mr. Berty ramble on about Romeo and Juliet's iambic pentameter for the last twenty minutes. Although this was our first time, being back in school since the change it was hard listening to the same things you learned already.

"What?" I asked. It was easy to have small conversations like this. To the human ears and eyes, it would like nothing, but for vampires it was the easiest way to have a conversation without disrupting class.

"Alice just messaged me. The wolves called a meeting. They want to speak to us. Carlisle is going to check you, Emmett, and me out so we can go down there." he uttered quickly.

"What about the girls?" I asked, panicking slightly. I hated the thought of leaving Bella alone, even if it was in the company of my sisters.

"They'll stay here with Bella. Alice already came up with an excuse to tell her. They'll accompany us later." he muttered, and soon the intercom buzzed.

"." Mrs. Cope said.

"Yes mam?" his aged voice answered.

"Please send Jasper Hale and Edward Cullen to the office to check out." she said.

"Yes mam. Thank you." he said, and the intercom buzzed off. Jasper and I gathered our belongings and exited, oblivious to the curious eyes that watched very step we made.

Emmett met us in the hallway.

"Damned wolves." he grumbled, and the three of us walked to where Carlisle stood pacing.

"I figured it was going to happen soon enough." he said, as we all headed outside toward our parked cars.

"Figured what soon enough?" Emmett asked.

"The wolves don't really love the idea of a teenage human girl living with a house full of vampires." Carlisle said He had a point. As he told us, the wolves hated vampires long before we were even born. The gene being triggered ever so often when a vampire crossed their paths or in our case, when a coven of seven vampires decide to move to Forks.

The meeting was in about an hour, so we stopped to drop Emmett's jeep off and pick up Esme. The three of them would ride with Carlisle in his Mercedes, while I drove my Volvo so I could pick up Bella after school. In trek down to La Push, a yellow Porsche we all knew belonged to Alice trailed behind us. With our speedy driving, it wasn't long before we approached the treaty line where a slew of young Quileute boys stood. Two of them were in wolf form, while the two elders Ephraim and Billy Black stood off to the side with the leader of the pack Sam Uley and Jacob next to him.

"You wanted to talk." Carlisle said calmly.

"Yeah we wanted to make sure the treaty was still in tact." Billy said.

"We did nothing wrong!" Emmett huffed, earning growls form the wolves.

"Relax Emmett. He is right. We did nothing wrong." he said.

"Yes you did, you let Bella live in a house of you stupid bloodsuckers." Jacob growled, and Rose took a step forward, earning a growl and glare from the only female of the pack Leah Clearwater.

"We're her guardians. She no more safe in our care then she would be in yours." Esme said coolly, although her thoughts were raging. She hated anyone who tried to insult our family.

"At least she'll be with humans." Sam growled.

"Human? You're no more human than we are." I growled.

"We're the one with a heartbeat not you. We're more human then you'll ever be." Jacob huffed, his fists clinched at his waist.

"Does she know?" Billy asked. I knew what he was referring to so I answered him.

"No she doesn't know…yet." I said through gritted teeth, trying not to breathe in the horrible scent of wet dog.

"And then you lie to her. She's just perfect living with you." Jacob said sarcastically."And like you haven't?" I muttered.

"She's perfectly content with us." Esme added, and he and Sam just laughed.

"Stupid mongrels." Rose growled.

"She should still be with people of her own kind. Someone in relation to her." Billy said.

"Her own kind? Someone in relation to her? Mind you, that her brothers are right there." Alice chirped pointing to Emmett and Jasper.

"She's not related to them. It's impossible. I told you those bloodsuckers were stupid." Sam laughed, causing them all to laugh, except for Ephraim and Billy.

"You're the stupid ones. Jasper and Emmett are her biologically her brothers." Rose huffed, flicking her blonde hair over her shoulder.

"How? Vampires can't have children." Sam said in a tone of disbelief.

"We "died" twelve years ago. She was five. It makes sense. Even you dummies can see the resemblance between the three of them." Alice answered. It was silent for a moment, a look of contemplation across everyone's faces until Billy broke the silence.

"They lost that right, when they became these things." he gestured, and we had to restrain Emmett from the loud growl he emitted.

"We lost that right?" He growled. Jasper and I were both at his side as the wolves began to get on the defense.

"That's my baby sister. My brother and I are more related to her than anyone here. Just because our hearts don't beat and we don't have human blood running through our veins doesn't mean we lost that right, and I'll kill someone before I'll ever let that happen." he snarled. Jasper had to use his power to calm him down. We didn't need this going any further than it already had.

"Whether she's related to them or not. I'm more concerned for her wellbeing." Ephraim said, in a croaky voice. He was almost 90 years old. I was surprised he was even standing. I listened to his thoughts, and he wasn't as hostile as the others towards us.

"As my wife said, she is perfectly fine with us. Carlisle breathed, his nose wrinkling a bit as he inhaled the horrible stench.

"You might try and eat her." Jacob blurted. I let out a small laugh. He glared at me.

"You already know, my family and I only drink the blood of animals." I replied.

"That doesn't mean that the temptations there." he huffed. Answer that bloodsucker. Ha ha. I wonder what Bella sees in him.

"I never said that it wasn't. However, none of us would ever put Bella in the position, that it would ever cause her harm and you know it. Stop coming up with reasons that have no plausible answers. You're just mad, that Bella would rather spend her time with me than you." He looked at me startled. How did he know that? He thought.

"I know many things, and I know Bella wouldn't go for it." I answered. Can he read minds? He thought and I smirked at him.

"I am a man of many talents." I grinned as he growled at me."Stay the hell out of my head." He growled shaking.

"Edward stop." Carlisle thought and I nodded my head.

"Is there anything else we need to speak of? We have already established that Bella is in perfect care at our home, and we wouldn't do anything to compromise that." He said sternly.

"Why yes there is." Ephraim breathed.

"As you know there have been a few deaths in Seattle and the toll continues to rise." he started.

"And..?" Emmett pushed, earning a growl from one of the wolves who I know knew as Jared.

"Relax." Sam called.

"We caught two scents that belong to one of your kind." he said.

"You think we have something to do with this?" Carlisle asked, and he shook his head.

"I know it wasn't you, besides the treaty forbids it. We've been following the two scents and they always lead towards Forks, and we need your permission to patrol the area." he said.

"Shouldn't we do that ourselves?" Emmett asked.

"When it's at the cost of human lives it's our business as well." he said.

"Then what's the point of asking permission if you're going to do it anyway?" he grumbled.

"Look do we have your permission or not?" he asked, more so directed towards Carlisle.

"Yes you do. But we will like to do our own patrolling ourselves, and would like it if the wolves stayed out of our way." He said.

"That works for us." He nodded.

"This meeting is adjourned." Billy said, and Carlisle nodded his head and turned around. We were all more then willing to leave from here. The horrible stench of dog was probably all over our clothes and I really wanted nothing more than to take a bah, but school was almost out and I needed to pick her up.

I told the others that I would meet them at the house, and headed back to Forks to pick her up. By time the bell rang, I had parked my car and was leaning against the car door waiting for her to leave. Students poured out, and I looked around until I saw those beautiful brown eyes and a she strolled over to me. I gave her a tight hug, and breathed in her floral scent immediately removing the dog scent that was once there.

"Is Jasper okay? I heard he was sick." she asked, as I open the door for her.

"Yeah he's feeling better. Emmett decided to stay with him." I smiled, getting into the car.

"What about Alice and Rosalie?" she asked, fastening her seatbelt.

"They already left. When they saw you had a ride they took off." I grinned, pulling out the parking lot and headed to the street that led to our house. Our house. I love the way that sounded.

"I hope their fine. They were acting pretty strange." she said looking down at her fingers.

"That's them. Knowing the two of them they were probably thinking about a sale at the mall." I lied. I knew perfectly well they went hunting. Bella had noticed there eyes fading. It was about time for me to hunt so I hoped that she didn't notice. Alice said she still wasn't ready to hear the truth yet, and we were all anxiously waiting for the right moment to tell her the truth. We soon pulled into the driveway, and I helped Bella out of the car, grabbing her book bag and throwing it over my shoulder.

"Carlisle's home already?" she asked.

"Yeah he got off early today." I lied, opening the door. I could already smell the revolting scent of food cooking, so Esme must have been in the kitchen preparing dinner, and Carlisle wasn't around so he was probably studying.

I had barely closed, the door when Emmett came barreling towards Bella and grabbed her into a bone-crushing hug.

"Well hello to you too, Emmett." she laughed, and I was glad to see that she wasn't uncomfortable by his touch. Emmett just stood there with his arms wrapped around her breathing in her scent and Jasper gave me a quick nod and smile; the two of us knowing that Emmett needed this. Jacob's comment had hurt the two of them, but Emmett more so. Emmett had tried for years to get Bella back, but we weren't ready. He was already denied of his big brother role for twelve years and I leaned back against the door with a smile of my own as Esme came and stood beside me a smile of her own plastered across her face.

Who was I to deny him this?