Hold Me Tight

Okay, so this chapter is going to be a little bit longer than last time… well it's long to me. Thank you Anne, selenavamsis, TwilightMACY, keana895, Adel Landman,Twilightroxas7, Clash969, and bamboothebear for reviewing! :) You're reviews really keep me going! To keana895 the lullaby is called Lullaby For a Stormy Night by Vienna Teng. The song Bella supposedly wrote is called My Immortal by Evanescence! It was perfect for the story1 :) Anyways… enjoy the chapter!

xoxo,

Alana

Chapter Three

Bella POV

70 Years Later

It has been 70 years since he left me. 70 years since I've had Rubye. 70 years since I was changed, and now here we were still living in Forks, and starting high school at Forks High. I was still Bella Masen, and I was a senior. Rubye was playing my sister who was a junior. Angela was now still Angela Riley. Ben was Ben Cheney and his little brother was Caiden Cheney. Angela and Ben were both seniors with me, and Caiden was a junior with Rubye. We were starting our first day at Forks High School, and everybody was excited… everybody like me. The last time I was here, I fell in love, and then got my heart ripped into shreds. I sighed as I got up, and went into the kitchen of our new house, which was even grander than the Cullen's house we first lived in. I got out all the ingredients to make Cade and Rube some pancakes. I was already dressed, in another dark blue velvet mini dress that went to mid thigh; I left my hair down once again, and had on some black stilettos. To brighten up my outfit a little bit, I put on some bright yellow earrings, and a yellow belt. I have to say, my fashion sense has improved immensely; especially since I have my own fashion expert for a daughter. Rubye came down the stairs first. She was dressed in a yellow sundress that went a little past mid thigh, black leggings, yellow flats, and a denim mini jacket.

"Wow, Rube you look so cute!" I said as I kept cooking

"Thanks mom! You look nice too!" she said smiling sitting down at our dining table. I heard footsteps on the stairs to see Angela coming down smiling brightly at me.

"Wow Bella, you look hot! Who are you trying to impress?" she laughed

"I'm not trying to impress anyone, and you know that, Ang. You look nice too." I said as I finished the pancakes and sat them on the table.

"Cade, if you don't want Rubye to eat all the pancakes, you better get your butt down here." I yelled up to him. I knew that would get his attention, he was probably playing video games… what else. He acted like Jasper, but when it came to video games, he was Emmett locked in Disney World over night. I looked up to see him sprinting down the stairs to the table grabbing a plate on his way, and planting a kiss on Angela and my cheeks. Sitting next to Rube smiling widely at her. She smiled back, of course. I could tell, it was obvious to anyone that they were in love. Angela and I both were hoping they would get together sometime soon. Ben came down the stairs last. Sitting down beside Angela, we didn't eat, just watched the kids. When they were finished eating, we left for school. Angela, Rubye, and I left in my new Audi. Ben and Cade left in Ben's Ferrari. We arrived at the same time, and walked into the office to the office to get our schedules.

"Hello, we're here to get our schedules." I said as I walked up to the counter. The woman looked up at me, and then glared when she saw whom I was.

"You're the new students?" she said in a nasally voice. She is defiantly an offspring of Lauren.

"Yes we are, I'm Bella Masen, and this is my sister Rubye Masen. That is Angela Riley," I said as I pointed towards Angela. "And they are Ben and Caiden Cheney." I finished as I pointed to them. She just glared at all of us, until she looked to Caiden and Ben. She smiled, fixing her shirt looking up to them under her eyelashes. She grabbed a few papers off her desk and handed us all of them. Never taking her eyes off Caiden and Ben.

"If you need any help like a private tour of the school, or even help with your work; come strait to me, and we can set up a private study session." she said as she leaned over the counter a little trying to show the boys her fake boobs.

"Uh… okay?" Caiden said as we walked towards the door. When we got outside, we all burst out in laughter.

"Can you believe her?" Ben asked

"I know, she looked like she was one step away from taking off her clothes." I chuckled.

"Yeah, she reminded me of Lauren." Angela said.

"Really? Me too! Maybe she is an offspring?" I suggested

"Yeah, maybe." I said as the bell rang and we headed off our separate ways to our first periods. Luckily, Angela and my schedules were the same. Therefore, we headed off to trig. Yay Not, not only was it just first period, but it had to be my worst subject. We sat down in the back of the room, but they still managed to look at us. Everyone who came through the door looked at us. We just kept our eyes down, talking back and forth in our minds. We had discovered that we had many different powers. Ben could control elements and peoples emotions. Caiden could read minds. Angela could control minds, and send thoughts to other people's minds. Rubye could project her thoughts into your head, control minds, and change her appearance, and I had many different powers. I was a shield, could read, control, and send thoughts to peoples minds, change my appearance and scent, control people to do what ever I wanted, I could turn invisible if I sat still, and I could see through anything. Ex. Buildings.

"I think Cade and Rubye might be in love." I said

"Yeah, me too. It's adorable. Their perfect for each other." she said smiling at me.

"I just wish that Rubye could at least meet her father, at least once. I just freeze up when she asks about him. I don't know what to say to her." I said looking down.

"I'm sorry." she said

"For what? You didn't make him leave me pregnant." I told her. I hated when she apologized when she had not done not anything.

"I know, but I still am sorry." she said giving me a small smile.

"Thank you, but you don't need to be." I stated looking back towards the front of the room. Class had just started and the teacher was handing out books. I had already learned what they were teaching, so this year should be easy. Maybe my life would start slowly going back to normal. However, I knew that my chest would never heal. The bell finally rang and we were supposed to go to second period. Psychics, I loved psychics. It was one of my favorite subjects. My next two classes after psychics went quickly, and before I knew it, it was lunchtime. Angela and I walked into the cafeteria, and quickly grabbed our trays and filled them with food. We walked to the farthest table from the rest and waited for Caiden, Rubye and Ben. I was bored, so I decided to play around with one of my powers. I sat still, made sure no ones eyes were on me, and changed my appearance. Now I had long black hair that went to my waist. It was as straight as a pin; I still had on the same clothes. Now my skin was a medium tan, I loved being able to change my appearance. I sighed as I changed my appearance back to the normal Isabella Swan, or now Masen. I heard the chair next to me move, and I looked up to see Rubye sit down next to me.

"Hey Rube." I said

"Hey, mom you'll never guess what!" she almost yelled

"What?" I asked

"I met another vampire, and she loves fashion and shopping and other stuff like I do. I invited her over after school! Isn't that so awesome?" she asked

"Yeah, that's cool. Um what is this vampire's name?" I asked

"She said her name was Alice." she told me. I froze, my mind working ahead of her.

"Did she give you a last name?" I asked trying to calm myself down

"No, All we talked about was fashion and shopping," she said looking at me suspiciously "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine honey. Where's Caiden?" I asked

"He and Ben are in the food line. I may have… uh… used my powers to cut…" she said smiling at me widely; giving me those puppy dog eyes.

"Rube…" I warned, "What did I tell you about using your…" I trailed off seeing Ben literally running towards us.

"Ben? Are you okay?" Angela asked

"Bella! Their here!" Ben breathed out heavenly

"Who is here?" Angela and I asked in accord.

"The Cullens, Edward, Alice, and Jasper." he said sitting down quickly on the other side of Ang. Pointing towards the doors, where they all walked in.

"WHAT!" I shrieked standing up, which only made them look over here. All of their eyes went wide as they took us in. Rubye put an hand on my arm trying to get me to sit back down.

"Who are they? Wait I know two of them. Their the ones I met this morning." Rubye asked (A/N: Que Twilight music, ha-ha jk)

"The ones who left Bella in Forks all those years ago." Angela said in her mind to Rubye dazed as she kept her eyes on them. My eyes; wide with pain could not leave Edward's. His honey golden eyes expressionlessly gazed back at mine.

"You mean my father?" Rubye screeched; standing up, I could see what she was going to do... She had eventually heard the stories. I mean, it is not as if I could keep them from her. "Which one is he…? I wanna give him a piece of my mind!" she said in her mind as she started to inch away from the table.

"Rubye, sit down." I said sternly

"Sit down? Sit down? Are you freaking serious? Their the reason you cry on your birthday, their the reason you lay in your room the week of your birthday, their the reason for all of your pain, and you want me to sit down?" she all but yelled

"Rubye, please calm down. Calm please, look at me." Caiden said standing up in front of her, putting his hands on each side of her face. She froze and looked into his eyes.

"Take her out of the cafeteria; we have already caused a scene." I told Caiden in my mind. He nodded at me and they left slowly, as he took her hand pulling her away from us.

"Gosh, that was embarrassing." I said covering my face with my hands

"It wasn't that bad," Angela said as she pulled my hands away from my face. "She's just concerned."

"I know, but we caused a huge scene and…" I trailed off again when I caught Edward's gaze from across the room. I looked down again; I had to get out of here. I could not stay in a room where I could feel his eyes on me. I stood up abruptly; grabbing my bag to leave I sent a message through my mind to Angela and Ben saying I was going home. They both just nodded, Ben flipped me his keys so I could take his car, because they all would not fit in it. With that, I left the room; I did not know when I was coming back to this school. I unlocked the door when I got home and went straight to the piano. I was having some inspiration.

I've tried so hard to tell my self that you're gone,

But though your still with me, I've been alone all along,

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears,

When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears,

And I held your hand through all of these years,

But you still have, all of me.

I had finished it! I read the song once again, before I played it and sang with it.

I'm so tired of being here,

Suppressed by all my childish fears,

And if you have to leave,

I wish that you would just leave,

Cause your presence still lingers here,

And it won't leave me alone,

Theses wounds won't seem to heal,

This pain is just too real,

There's just too much that time cannot erase.

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears,

When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears,

And I held your hand through all of these years,

But you still have, all of me.

You use to captivate me,

By your resonating light,

And now I'm bound by the life you left behind,

Your face it haunts,

My once pleasant dreams,

Your voice has chased away,

All the sanity in me,

Theses wounds won't seem to heal,

This pain is just too real,

There's just too much that time cannot erase.

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears,

When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears,

And I held your hand through all of these years,

But you still have, all of me.

I've tried so hard to tell my self that you're gone,

But though your still with me, I've been alone all along,

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears,

When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears,

And I held your hand through all of these years,

But you still have, all of me.

I had written a song! I felt so proud to have it finished with. Maybe I would write another one. I got off the piano bench and walked up stairs to my room where I laid back on my bed… then finally broke down.

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I had managed to quit crying by the time my family got home. They all looked at me wryly as I sat down on the couch as they came though the door.

"Are you okay, mom?" Rubye asked me sitting down beside me.

"I've been better." I said giving her a small smile.

"I'm so sorr-" Angela started to say

"What did I tell you about apologizing, Ang?" I asked her

"Sorry." she said biting her lip

"Mom remember that vampire is coming over after school, like I told you, but I have a feeling you wont want her to come over. It's Alice mom." she said looking down. I sighed I would have to see them soon enough, mise well get it over with eventually.

"It's fine." I said giving her a hug, then standing up. There was always a chance she could get lost? Yeah like, I believed that.

"Really, oh my gosh! Thank you!" she said jumping up shrugging her hair out of her face, then grabbing Cade's hand pulling him up the stairs with her.

"You didn't have to do that, she would have understood if you didn't want Alice coming over." Ben said

"I know, but I will have to face them sooner or later if I didn't, why not just get one of them out of the way?" I asked

"Your right." Angela said I wrapped myself up in a blanket and rocked myself back and forth. Alice shouldn't be here for a while right? I didn't care if she saw me like this anyway. I started to try to cry again, it was hard as a vampire; it was really just the air hitching in your throat. Then the doorbell rang. Crap on a cracker!

Alice POV

We were back in Forks, again. I was so excited! This was where we first met Bella, and out lives turned around, then Edward left her of course. I hated him for doing that, but I could see he was hurting too. Oh Edward, where do I begin? Ever since he left Bella, he has not done much of anything, only coming out of his room when he absolutely had to hunt. We literally had to drag him to Forks, he would not come out of his room, we had already packed our stuff, but he refused to leave so we had Emmett and Jazz drag him out. He put a fight too, Edward had never been much of a fighter, but he sure did not like being dragged out of that room. He said some very awful words, which made me wonder if he would ever be the same. He has not touched his piano since we left, and will not read any more, or listen to music. It's like he left his heart in Forks. I missed Bella so much too, I even thought I saw her many years ago after we left Forks. Jazz and I were in Seattle, at a local mall. They were having there annual blow out sale, and I had begged him to take me. We were just about to leave, passing though the food court to get to the front doors when I saw her. She looked exactly like Bella had. Only this girl was a vampire. She was sitting with another girl with straight black hair, and they had two kids with them. A little girl and a little boy. Bella didn't have a child, let alone been a vampire, and I knew she wouldn't have been caught dead at a mall. But I still hoped so did Jazz, he felt so bad for what had happened to Bella on her birthday. So we had made our way over to them, and I really thought she was Bella, her eyes went wide as we approached and I knew if that had have been Bella she would have ran into my arms, wouldn't she have? I asked the girls name and she stuttered out Morgan. I felt my no longer beating heart sink, I had almost been sure that she was Bella. Now here we were 70 years later, starting Forks High School once again, another school without Bella. We were all ready, and kind of excited well except Edward. He was already sulking, sitting on the couch with his face in his hands. I walked over to him and sat beside him. He looked up and gave me a soft but artificial smile. I dug around in my bag till I found my binder. I had been planning on giving him a photograph of him and Bella, now was the perfect time. I had made a bunch of copies of this picture. It was the picture I took of them at her birthday party. I looked at it quickly then handed it over to him. He took the picture in his hands tracing his fingers over Bella's face. I could hear his breath catch in his throat. I gave him a hug telling him that it was okay to let it out.

"Thank You, Alice." he said. Looking back to the picture.

Then we left to travel to school. Edward looked out the window the whole time. Keeping his hands positioned on his binder in his lap. He had put the picture on the cover of it. How sweet! We made it to school right on time. We got our schedules then headed to our first period. I had gym with Jazz and a bunch of juniors. We were all posing as seniors. We walked into the familiar gym and went to sit on the bleachers. We sat at the top so we could have a good view. A girl walked up the stairs and up into the bleachers. She looked so familiar, where had I seen her before? I looked at what she was wearing, and I absolutely loved it! This girl defiantly had a good fashion sense. Her bronze hair hung down past her shoulders and you could tell it was out of control. She ran a hand quickly through her hair then decided where she would want to sit. For some reason I felt like I had a tie to this girl, and I wanted her to sit with us.

"Hey!" I said waving at her, I figured she wouldn't hear it since I didn't say it very loud, but she looked straight at me. She looked behind her, then pointed to herself. I shook my head yes. She made her way up the steps towards us, then I heard her unusual heartbeat. It sounded like a humming birds wings.

"Would you like to sit with us?" I said as I gestured to Jasper and I. She just nodded sitting down next to me.

"Sure, thank you." she smiling at me, then she studied me curiously. Trying to get her mind off of it I asked her an honest question.

"I'm sorry, but I have to ask. Did you pick out your own outfit today?" I asked her

"Yes, why? Does it look okay?" she asked me looking down examining herself

"It looks amazing! I absolutely love it!" I told her

"Really? So you're into fashion too?" she asked me

"Of course!" I said gesturing to my outfit.

"Do you like to shop?" she inquired.

"Omigod yes!" I said. I could see this was the start of a beautiful friendship.

"Me too! We should go sometime." she said

"Yes we should. I'm Alice by the way, and that's Jasper." I said pointing to him, he bowed his head southerly and said.

"Nice to meet you ma'm." I watched as she looked over to him, smiled said a quiet hello, then said.

"I'm Rubye Masen." she said smiling.

"It's so very nice to meet you Rubye." I said

"You too!" she spoke.

"I uh.. Have a question." she asked

"Shoot." I said

"Are you guys vampires?" she asked shocking me, my mouth hanging open.

"No… what would give you that idea?" I asked trying to stay calm

"Because you don't have heartbeats." she said smiling then chuckling a little.

"A-are you a vampire?" I asked awestruck. She just laughed then nodded.

"How do you have a heartbeat then?" I asked

"It's a secret… I cant really say, I'll have to ask my family if I can tell okay How about you come over after school today?" she asked

"Okay… cool" I said smiling. Then we spent the rest of the hour after the coach had explained the rules, talking about fashion and shopping. The bell rang to soon and we headed off to second periods. I didn't have Rubye in any more of my classes before lunch. When fourth period bell rang for lunch Jazz and I walked to the cafeteria where Edward was waiting.

"Edward guess what!" I said

"What Alice?" he sighed as we walked into the chow room, and stood in line.

"I met another vampire!" I said quietly

"What? Here? In Forks High?" he asked

"Yes Edward, where else… keep up. Anyway I had her sit with Jazzy and me in first period, but there was something odd about her." I said looking down now.

"What?" he asked curious now.

"She had a weird heartbeat." I said right as we heard a loud "WHAT?" from across the room. We turned our heads naturally to see who it was. There stood none other than our Bella standing up looking over at us, Rubye put one hand on her making her sit back down. So this was Rubye's family. I quickly examined them, two brown headed guys, and a black headed girl along with Rubye and Bella. They black headed girl and one of the brown headed guys looked familiar too… the other brown headed looked kind of familiar too! I heard Edward catch his breath! Bella was ALIVE, and a vampire, and if she picked out her own outfit I'm going to be so proud. Bella, Rubye, and the black headed girl looked like they were having a silent conversation. Then Rubye stood up and screeched out "You mean my father?" what did she mean by that? She stood up, then looked back at Bella. "Rubye, sit down." Bella said sternly

"Sit down? Sit down? Are you freaking serious? Their the reason you cry on your birthday, their the reason you lay in your room the week of your birthday, their the reason for all of your pain, and you want me to sit down?" she all but yelled

"Rubye, please calm down. Calm please, look at me." the brown headed boys said standing up in front of her, putting his hands on each side of her face. She froze and looked into his eyes. The boy looked over to Bella, nodded, then took Rubye out of the room. She glared at Edward as she walked out of the room.

"Wow." was all Jazz said

"I know right! That was so confusing." I said as we sat down at the table across from Bella. Edward kept staring at her, like if he would look away he would die. Bella stood up abruptly looked towards the girl and boy, they nodded as if she had told them something silently. The boy flipped her his keys, and she left the room. I couldn't wait to talk to her tonight though.

"What do you mean talk to her tonight?" Edward asked

"Stop listening to my thoughts, Edward! Rubye the girl that left with the guy asked me to come over tonight." I sighed

"Can I come too, please?" he all but begged.

"Fine." I muttered. I would have said no, but he would have kept pestering me. The rest of school passed quickly, I dropped Jazzy off at home, then Edward and I went over to Bella's. It was a beautiful house, very big and Victorian like, I couldn't wait to see inside of it. Esme would love it! We walked up to the door, and I knocked on the door. I heard footsteps then the door opened reviling a smiling Rubye. Till she saw Edward behind me.

"What is he doing here?" she asked

"He wanted to come, I'm sorry." I stated, she glared at me, looked behind the door, and into the big room, then sighed.

"Well I guess it was kind of an open invitation, come in." she said stepping back. We stepped into the big room, that was like a living room, I spotted Bella sitting on the couch facing away from us. I could hear the air hitching in her throat. She was crying and it was all our fault. I started to step towards her, to apologize, but Rubye waved me upstairs. I could tell that the wave was just for me to follow. So I told Edward in my head to stay down here, and try not to cause any trouble. He just nodded.

Soooooooo… there is chapter three! Hoped you liked it! Please please please please please review and read my other stories and review! Thank you!

xoxo,

Alana