ISABELLA MARIE SWAN

AND

EDWARD ANTHONY MASEN CULLEN

TOGETHER WITH THEIR FAMILIES REQUEST THE HONOR OF YOUR PRESENCE ATH THE CELEBRATION OF THEIR MARRIAGE.

SATURDAY, THE THIRTEENTH OF AUGUST

TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN

FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING

420 WOODCROFT AVE

FORKS, WA

P.S: Please come Filene, you are my sister and I need you here with me.

I honestly didn't know how to react.

To be truthful I scoffed over the added text on the card by no other than Isabella.

"So, she is finally going to get turned." Is what my brain decided to say. "Guess Edward finally gave in to her request, dumbass."

"Wait." Bree takes the card from me. "She wants to be a vampire?"

"And why didn't she invite us to?" Riley looks over Bree's shoulder with a sneer. "What? Did she think we would leave you by yourself?"

"She has wanted to be a vampire since she realized that she would be a year older than her beloved statue." I answer, rubbing my face in exasperation. "Now that I think about it she has been wanting this since first meeting him if I am being honest. I just didn't think she hated her family that much to just kill herself off... oh gods dad! What is he feeling right now?"

"Now tell me if I am wrong but I'm guessing you do not like your sister all that much?" the gypsy man points out crossing his arms.

"Well by jove! I think the witch gets it!" I exclaim smacking my knee in pretend celebration.

He frowns. "Sarcasm does not become you Ms Swan neither the bitterness I feel seeping from you."

"Oh forgive me witch if I am not fond of the person who sent me this, who is suppose to be my family go behind my back to the man I thought was my imprint get all hot and heavy with them!" I shout before getting up and head out the door. "Not to mention the facking assholes who let it happen and not tell me a single thing to me so excuse me if I am not leaping with joy! Bad back and all."

"Filly!" I hear Bree cry out before I slam the door.

I didn't go far, just to the parking lot and took deep breathes trying to calm myself and hold back the tears from my face.

'It still hurts.' I whimper in my head. 'it still fucking hurts!'

If I could go to the comedic route and show my heart in a hospital bed with my brain dressed as a doctor while hormones was mourning beside the bed. I think I could bring out a laugh from me and the others.

Not now though, I must decide if I want to watch Isabella get married and maybe see Jacob burst into the church to stop the wedding like some romance movie as I wallow in self pity, or simply travel more of the world... like Egypt, Ireland or even Russia.

I wasn't surprised when I felt cold arms wrap around my waist and another pair around my shoulders.

Riley is behind me, letting me lean against his front as his arms steady me from the shoulders and sweet Bree is beside me, holding me together with her face pressed against my side. They maybe cold statues of themselves, but compassion and comforting another person has not disappeared.

"You alright?" Riley asks rubbing my arms.

I take another breath. "I will be."

"We don't have to go Filly." Bree mumbles against me. "I just know you miss your dad though and I thought maybe..."

"I do miss my dad... but I don't want him to be pulled into the supernatural like Isabella and I were." I smile down at her. "And besides, I phone him and send post cards to him remember? He knows I am safe."

Bree smiles up at me reassured before frowning in thought. "Well we sort of figured out what is going on with you... what do you want to do now?"

I look out into the darkness, watching as cars drove by the motel. "Hmm well now that our searching is over maybe this time around we can actually tour the world!"

"That sounds like an epic idea." Riley agrees beside my head.

"Yah!" Bree expresses excitedly. "Can we go to London, Paris, Shanghai, Cairo or even Mumbai!"

Riley and I stare at the excited girl in surprise before looking at one another and start to laugh.

"What?" She looks at us in confusion.

"I didn't realize you had a list of popular cities in the world in your head." I tell her and I know without a doubt if she had blood in her veins she would be blushing. "Come on you lot let me sleep the night away and we can begin exploring."

"I don't suppose you got an extra space for me in your adventure?" The witch's voice shouts.

The three of us look over at him as he leaned against the door frame.

"Um what?"

"Well you make it all so exciting and disney like with your little family how can I not want to come with you lot?" He comments with a little smirk.

"... You do realize that there are two vampires that can kill you in under one second and then there is me." I inform him getting out of my little group hug. "With my silver bat."

"What no silver hammer Maxwell?" he jokes.

"... I don't usually like someone so fast but you just pulled a Beatles reference that nobody caught on... fans." Filene looks back to her readers.

That was met with silence.

"Don't mind her, she does that a lot but she has a point." Riley steps in taking attention from Filene.

The guy smirks at us before lifting up his hand and... setting it on fire. "I think I can handle myself, it is not my first rodeo with you cold leeches and it will not be the last."

I look to my other companions still hesitant to have him join us since we just only met him today.

"I do not feel anything from him." Bree reports with a shrug. "If that means anything."

"It usually does but this guy is a witch, he probably has something to block you from reading him." I say to them quietly. "If he does I may ask him that I can have some for if we ever cross Aro or Edward that would be nice."

"And there is your side effects."Riley reminds me. "What if something happens with the spirit despite him saying you are fine we would have to call the Cullens for him again and again. Better to have him close for a little while we can. Plus he doesn't smell appetizing as an actual human,"

"Yeah he smells more like incense than anything." Bree concurs looking over her shoulder at the guy who was now trying to put out the fire from his hand.

I think all three of us pretty much raise a single eyebrow as he started blowing at his hand hard to make the fire disappear before looking back at with an innocent smile and shrug.

I give a deep sigh before rubbing my eyes with my fingers. "Well I already have two vampires, why not throw in a witch into the mix? Hell maybe we'll pick up some werewolves and goblins to!"

"Now let us not get too wild." Bree giggles to me.

"Righteous!" He shouts before reentering the room. "I'll take the couch then?"

"... Did he just say righteous?" Riley asks.

"Yep." Bree and I reply.

"We have a rock star on our hands... a rock star witch." I add before heading back inside myself.

With the others following me I take one last look at the card that was in my hand before scoffing I shred the card and throw into the trash can. "You have lost your right you as a sister Isabella Marie Cullen."

In the darkest part of my mind, I hoped Alice saw and heard what I did and relay the message to her soon to be sister.

Tea and snack break readers!

It took a couple of months of touring the world that we finally reached Cairo, Egypt. It also didn't take long for Jeri to become tightly knitted into the group despite him looking like he is about to break out singing Acid Queen at any moment of our life.

"So how exactly do you know the Cullen family?" I ask him one day.

"I don't" he answered. "My... many great grandmother was saved by Dr. Cullen from a bunch of wankers who thought they could punish her for a crime she didn't commit cause she would rather marry a fisherman rather than the Preacher's son. In return she swore her family would help him in any shape of form."

I was shocked. "Your family must love how she just threw everyone in slavery of one vampire."

He snorts. "Oh believe me, when he called my mom to help you, she nearly cursed my dad's family for bringing that upon us. Thankfully, me helping you with your wolfy problem is the last job that we will be doing for him so hopefully when I go home I won't find my dad hanging upside or something."

"Well your welcome." I say with a smile before hooking my arm with his. "Now come on, we need to find a hotel that is right for our friends when they get back from their feeding... I just realized how stupid it is for us to bring them to this bright and sunny place."

He shrugs. "Believe it or not Egypt one of the few places that little to no vampire activities despite what has been going on."

"Really but I thought vampires go to war for the feed since no one would question it." I thought out loud smiling at the children running by us.

"From what I gathered." He continues. "With so much death happening over here, those vampires whom actually were born here have requested to the vultures that vampires stay away from here to at least bring the population back to a normal rate which as you can tell is not going to happen for a long while."

Vultures being the Volturi though an insult to the animal fit them perfectly in my book.

"So there is a legit King of Egypt somewhere?" I say in surprise.

Jeri smirks. "Well not a king since if Aro caught wind of such a title he would come with an army to destroy them. Nah he is more of a 'head' of the household and he has both vampires and other human to be on the look out for any trouble... they probably already reported sighting you here."

"Don't you mean us?" I corrected with a raised eyebrow.

He smirks. "Nope I was right, you; Do you think Carlisle didn't have close friends all around the world?"

I roll my eyes with a sigh. "I can't escape them can I?"

"You can try." he says with a shrug. "But unfortunately you are a human who not only knows about us, but is also related to the soon to be family... or the now family since the wedding was last month."

That hurt a little, I mean I had every right not to go and watch as my sister surrendered her life for a bit of cement dick and immortality! However she was still my family and I let her down, not to mention the long messages I got from mom for doing so. Funny enough it was Dad who actually asked what had happened between us rather than accusing me about it.

I gave him the edited story between Jacob and her on the 'camping trip' and let us just say... I got a text from Rosalie reporting how Charlie had come to the house and dragged my sister before they left for the honeymoon; giving a tongue lashing of her life despite Bella trying to explain why she had done it.

It was good to know Dad was on my side for the day.

I was about to make a reply when a movement caught the corner of my eye and made me look.

There, leaning against an opening of an alley way was a man hiding in the shadows.