A/N: Hey, guys!

I am so-freakin'-sorry that I didn't update sooner, but I had a lot on my plate these days. It was my birthday on the 16th of May, and I went to an AC/DC concert a while ago. It totally rocked!

EPOV

I couldn't get that girl out of my head. She just... She seemed so familiar.

What was wrong with me?

We were back in our house. Nobody spoke. It was incredibly quiet.

That was until Emmett called us.

„Hey, everyone? Come down in the living room for a sec." He yelled, even though we would've heard him even if he whispered.

„What is it?" asked Esme when we went downstairs.

I didn't bother to look into his thoughts. From time to time his thoughts were so... scrambled that it was better for him to tell me himself.

„I..." he trailed off. „I'm... I'm leaving" he finally said.

We all just stared at him.

„What? " screamed Rosalie. „What do you mean 'you're leaving'?"

„I mean that I can't stay." He answered. „I just can't stand all of you anymore. You disgust me. And you are the worst, Edward. You just don't understand what you're missing. And you people aren't so much better than him, you know. You watch him destroy his life, destroying all of our lives in the process. Well, except for one. Yours." he looked at Rosalie. „You never liked her. I can't imagine you being happier. But can't you see it's at our expense? And at Bella's. Bella. Have you even thought about her? Can you even imagine what she's been going through? I doubt any of you know the pain of losing so much of the people you love all at once. You-" he was interrupted by Carlisle.

„Emmett. Now you're being absolutely stupid. You know very well that we all lost our families when we were turned."

„Maybe 'losing' was the wrong word. Do you know how painful it is to be abandoned by the ones you counted on? The ones you called family? I doubt you know that kind of pain. I know it, though. I have been abandoned. I undestand her pain better than you can imagine." He said. What was he talking about?

But I got it immediately after.

His human life. A story he's never told any of us. Even me. He just never really thought about it, or probably thought of it when I wasn't around. Either way, we didn't know anything.

„You haven't told us any of it." Carlisle said. „What happened?"

Emmett didn't answer. We all raised our eyebrows at him.

„My family left me, okay?" he shouted. „They all just left one day without saying goodbye while I was at school. That's why I didn't want to leave Bella; you can't imagine the pain she is going through."

„What do you mean 'I can't imagine'?" I yelled at him. „Do you know what I've been going through? Do you think it's any easier for me?" I was losing my temper, and fast.

„Of course I think so!" he yelled back. „You still have your family!"

„She does, too! Your explanations suck!"

„Umm, have you grown too attached to Charlie? Or Renée? You guys were like siblings to her! Well, maybe except Rosalie, but still. Alice, especially you, who were like her sister, how could you allow this?" he asked.

„But I... I..." she tried to explain, but apparently words escaped her.

„You what? You had as much a right to stay as Edward did, and yet you still left!"

„I was trying to protect her!" she screamed. „You think I don't care about her or what? I love her every bit as much as everyone here does! And I always knew that Edward wouldn't allow for her to be turned, I couldn't let her suffer just because of us! What did you do about it, anyway?"

Emmett looked ashamed.

„Because Edward got the better part of the family on his side. And I didn't want to lose my family again. We don't even act like a family anymore. Seriously, how could you think it would be better? It's tearing us apart, it's obvious. So I'm going to find her. I can't stand it anymore."

„I'm coming with you." Said Rosalie desperately.

„No. You're not." He said firmly.

„But - " she started to protest, but Emmett cut het off.

„No buts. It's decided. And don't try to follow me." He added when he was next to the door. And then he was gone.

About 7 years later...

The Volturi castle

BPOV

„Bella? Where are you?" asked Katie.

„I'm here!" I yelled back from my room.

„When are we leaving?" she said, coming into the room.

Butterflies fluttered in my stomach again.

„Umm, in ten minutes, I guess." I said. „Nick!" I yelled and he immediately appeared in front of me.

„Yes, dear?" he said, kissing my lips.

Umm, yeah, me and Nick had got together three years after I came to Volterra. He was being so good to me, and one day he confessed his love to me; I couldn't turn him down – I felt like I owed him for being so nice to me.

But then I started falling for him... and fast. In no time I told him that I loved him, too.

Eleazar and his family came to see what my powers were and I immediately liked all of them. They all liked me, too, well, except Irina – she was jealous that I knew her boyfriend, Laurent – but she'd loosened up a bit through the years.

A few days before they left, we went hunting in the woods behind the castle. We split up, but then I came across a human trail. Before I could stop myself, I was following it, and I stopped in front of a beautiful little girl, about 10 years old. Her hand was bleeding; she probably fell on a branch or something like that. But I couldn't control the thirst; I bit into the girl's neck. She cried out in pain, but I kept drinking. That's when everyone else came. They shouted at me, but I couldn't stop. But when I finally realised what I was doing, I pulled back, but the girl's breathing was ragged and shallow, and her heartbeat was almost unaudible. I cursed myself mentally and kept repeating that this could not be happening. Tanya tried to calm me, but it was no use. I decided that turning her was the only way to save her.

The first few years were tough, yes, but we got through them. Now both my and her eyes were now the oh-so-familiar butterscotch.

And here we were, like one happy family. Although Katie still called me 'Bella' instead of 'mom', I couldn't blame her – I wasn't her real mother. She'd given up her family seven years ago, because of me, and that's what I couldn't forgive myself for.

You know, I kind of understood Edward's logic now that I was immortal (my mind worked more quickly now). I felt incredibly guilty that I probably took away her soul forever, almost as guilty as I felt for leaving Renée and Charlie without saying a proper goodbye.

And that's why we were going to Forks. For a few days, at least. I wanted Charlie to forgive me, I couldn't stand not seeing my own parents!

I had discovered quite a lot new powers of mine – I could change my appearance whenever I wanted to. Actually it was pretty cool. That way Charlie didn't have to notice that anything in me had changed – the eyes, the skin, everything.

„Heey, Bellaaaa..." said Nick, trying to get my attention.

„Yeah. Right. I'm just a little nervous, what if he doesn't want me anymore? What if he thought he couldn't trust me anymore?" I started to hyperventilate. This was totally different. It was one thing to leave my parents and know that they miss me, and completely different for them to kick me out, saying that I wasn't their daughter anymore or something like that.

„Bella!" he said again, a little frustrated. „We've talked about this a thousand times, they're your family, for crying out loud! They can't just shut the door in your face – they have some kind of, I don't know, a parents' duty to look after you no matter how old you are."

„Parents' duty? That's the best you could do?" I laughed.

„Hey, give me some time to think!" he complained.

„Uh, yeah, right. Let's get going!" I said.

„Finally!" sighed Katie.

We went down to the throne room, where Caius, Marcus and Aro were sitting, along with Jane and... Alec.

I cringed a little when I saw him.

It's not that I didn't like him, he just... He had some sort of a stupid crush on me. And it was even worse, because I could feel what he felt, hear his thoughts... He'd developed it about three years ago, and it hurt me because until then I've always thought of him as a brother. It was all just so strange.

„Are you leaving?" asked Aro.

Caius and Marcus just smiled at the three of us.

„Yeah, we were just heading out." I explained.

„Okay, my dear. I'll see you soon. I don't know how we'll get by without your extraordinary gifts for so long."

„And now he reveals his ulterior motive..." I muttered.

They all laughed.

„Well, bye." I said and headed to the door, dragging my suitcase behind me.

„Bye!" yelled Katie and Nick in sync. They were so much alike that sometimes it was comic.

When we were on the plane, I thought about my old family. Had Charlie changed? I looked in their future, and Renée hadn't changed at all, but Charlie... His future was like... a blur. I couldn't see anything, it hurt my head to even look.

And I was travelling to my dad's house right now, to see if he was going to forgive me...

A/N: Sorry again for the delay, I promise to update sooner this time!

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