Jailbait

Chapter one: Facing my past

"Come on Bella it's just one weekend and I haven't seen my brothers in months and when was the last time you even seen yours? I mean I see him more than you do." Alice begged me, sitting on a stool at my kitchen counter. I knew that Alice wanted to go home, to see her brothers but she had to have a screw lose if she thought I was going with her.

I really didn't want to go back to Forks for this stupid school reunion. High school was a painful memory that I was trying to erase and I was happy with my life now, I didn't need to think about those people, that place or Alice's brothers ever again if I could help it. Of course it didn't help that Alice was dating my brother who was best friends with her two older brothers. Talk about complications.

"Alice I wasn't even invited to this stupid reunion, you guys all graduated a year before I did." I tried to reason with her. She started to shake her head, a sly grin covering her face and she handed me an envelope. Scowling at her I snatched it from her hands and could not supress the grown are the glittery writing that sparkled up from the stiff card paper at me.

Miss Isabella Swan

You are invited to reunite with your class mates from Forks High school, Classes of 1999, 2000 and 2001. For a week fun and adventure, let's remember the good old days!

We hope to see you there,

Forks high school committee.

Looking up at Alice I felt like strangling her, she had to be kidding me right? The classes before and after mine were all going to be at this thing, that could only mean that even more people that witnessed the mess that I was in high school would be there to dredge up even more stories and memories.

I shook my head and threw the glittery card down on the kitten counter in between us, "Alice no, it's that simple I'm not going, you have fun chick, I'll stay home. Besides the fact that all those people know what a spaz I was in high school and all those people will have remembered it and seen it too. I'm staying here in the safe zone with my music and ice-cream." I smirked and opened the freezer to find said ice-cream.

Alice's face hardened, her eyes grew dark and I had to take a step back as she closed her fisted and stood up from the stool.

"Bella you are going, you are going to look amazing and you are going to show all of those people that everything that happened in high school meant nothing to you, that your life is perfect, you are successful, beautiful and rich and that they all still live in that two bit town that you could own if you wanted to. Bella how is it that you can stand up on stage every night in front of millions of people and sing your little hart out but a bunch of small town hicks can scare that shit out of you?"

I stood there for a moment staring at Alice, she was right, I am Bella Swan, world renowned rock star, I could do this! I would do this! I nodded my head smiling at Alice, putting my peanut butter ice-cream back in the freezer, Alice smirked and she knew she had me.

"You're right chick! I am a rock star and I could own that town! Not that I would ever want to but that is beside the point" I waved my hand in and off handed way.

"YES!" she screamed and threw her little arms around me, "look out Forks, Bella's coming home." She giggled and started making phone calls to get me some time off and plain tickets to get us from L.A. to Forks. She was like a little organizing machine, I laughed to myself as she started so order around her assistant on the phone to get our tickets.

I hadn't been back to Forks in 10 years, not since my dad had been killed just after graduation. I couldn't face them, the people that I had grown up with, that loved my dad. The town just reminded me of how the only person who knew me and believed in me was gone.

Seeing them all again would bring all that back, but it would all so give me the chance to visit him for the first time, well ever really.

While Alice did her manager thing I went up to the loft to find my box of things that I had kept from high school. I had only kept a few things, my year books, some photos, little things that showed how I wasn't always a spaz.

After a good hour of looking through the dust covered room I finally found the box I was looking for, pushed to the back and under a box of old show costumes that Alice had had made and I had refused to wear. I took the box down and to my room, brushing off some of the dust and settling myself in on my bedroom floor I opened it.

I tipped the box upside down and let the contents fall to the floor. Moving a few things around I found a smaller box that I knew held photos of our group, a smile took over my face as I opened it.

The first photo was of Alice and I sitting on the hood of her car down by the beach in La Push. Alice had long hair when this was taken, showing me that it was before her senior year, maybe the summer before, she had on a small bikini, sun glasses and looked like a super model, were as I had on a t-shirt and shorts, completely covered up, I was still a little chunky at this stage.

Alice had called it puppy fat, I just called it fat and so did everyone else at our school. Shaking my head I put that photo down and moved on to the next one, it was of Jasper, my older brother by one year and me, sitting on the stairs of our house, Jasper was making a funny face at the camera, while I was looking away while blushing, Jasper was wearing a suite in this photi, that's when it hit me, why I was blushing…..

Flash back 1999

"Jazzy Hurry up I don't want to be late." Alice yelled up the stairs. I laughed and sat down on them as all my friends got ready for their senior prom, I wished that I was going with them, but instead I sat and watch them. Edward had his camera and was moving around the house taking photos of everyone, his girlfriend Rosalie living it up and posing for him in stupid positions and laughing. I laughed at her as Alice ran to join her; together it was like I was on the set of a fashion show and not in my living room.

"Hey jailbait why the long face?" Emmett asked, that goofy smile on his face, his dimples that no boy of Emmett's size should have showing, I looked down at my hands that were in my lap.

"Don't call me that, I'm not a jailbait." I told him, but it was barely above a whisper. I had had a crush on Emmett for almost two years now, but he only ever saw me as Jaspers little sister and the little kid that tagged along with their group.

"Cheer up sunshine it was just a joke, and don't worry, you'll get your turn next year." Emmett told me, thinking that I was upset over the fact that I wasn't going to prom. It wasn't that it was the fact that HE was going with Tanya, a blond bimbo that couldn't spell her own name, and was well none for being a little friendly if you catch my drift, even tonight she was wearing a dress that was cut so low on her back could just about see her ass and had to be at least a size to small pushing up her boobs so that they were just about popping out the top, slut.

"Ok Ok I'm ready." Jasper came down the stairs while trying to fix his tie. "What do you think Bells?" he asked, arms open so I could see all of him, I just smiled and nodded.

"Jazz, I'll I get a photo of you and jail…. I mean Bella." Edward shouted and that's how that photo came to be.

End Flashback.

All the boys and even some of the girls in the year level above me called me that, I was only a year younger than them but it was all they needed.

There were more photos of Alice and I, and some with Rosalie as well, Edward wasn't in a lot of them because he was always the camera man, until I would steal his camera and make him get in the photos so that I wouldn't have to be. The photo of all six of us at their graduation was the last one in the box, Alice had come back with Jasper for my graduation but the others didn't, the summer after they graduated was the last time all of us were together.

Alice had gone to Edward and Rosalie's Wedding, I had been invited but I was doing a show in Europe and could get back in time. I felt bad and sent them a really nice wedding present, Rosalie loves presents so I don't think that she was to upset that I wasn't there. Emmett was some big time football player now and Jasper was his manager, he and Alice were like two peas and pod.

I am the worst sister ever, I only see my brother every few months. He and Alice are still going strong and so in love, if it wasn't for her I doubt I would ever see him. He looks just like our dad that it hurts, I know that he must him as much as I do, they were close as well, had that father son bonding thing going on. I miss him, I miss both of them.

"Ok B, we're all set. I called the recording studio and pushed back your recoding of the new album a month, I told them that you needed time to get your head around things and you were going home to see your brother for a while, but we have to be back in the studio by April. We're booked on a flight tomorrow to Seattle and from there to Forks, we leave here at 6am sharp tomorrow morning missy so get some sleep, Hey, what you got there." I shook my head at the girl, sometime she just talked a little fast for me, and I swear to god the girl didn't need to breathe.

Laughing I told her what was in the box and she started going through her senior year book, and the photos I had spread out.

"Oh I remember this." She smiled and showed me the photo she had picked up. It was of the three of us girls from Halloween Alice's junior year, we were dressed as the sailor scouts from sailor moon. Alice had spent weeks making them, Rose was Sailor moon, Alice was sailor Mercury and I was sailor Mars, the boys went as gangsters, that thought that they were so cute with their toy tommy guns, I must admit that they all looked very good in their suites. I smiled at the photo, Emmett stood at the back making bunny ears behind Edward and Jaspers heads. I missed him too.

"That was a fun night" Alice cut through my mussing with her own "the school had done a decent job if I remember at decorating the hall to make it look even a little scary." She giggled and kept going through the photos. She picked up a photo that I had missed, it was of Emmett and I on a camping trip, he had his arms over my shoulders and was smiling down at me, I was smiling a big toothy grin at the camera, that was the first and last trip that Emmett had paid attention to me, even when calling me jailbait, it wasn't as bad, this shot was one taken just before they graduated. While Alice wasn't looking I put that photo in the pile with a few others that I wanted to keep close.

"I forgot about that trip." Alice mused, a small smile on her face, "You were so happy because my lug of a brother was paying attention to you." She giggled, "And he was so happy because you were talking above a whisper to him, and joking around. Did I ever tell you that Emmett thought that you couldn't talk for like all of your freshman year because whenever he was around you went mute." She giggled. I scowled at her and hit her playfully.

"Ok well we better pack and get some sleep. tomorrow is going to be a long ass day." I told her giggling as we put away the photos and year books. Alice packed for me after seeing that it was taking me much too long and I was getting nowhere. Once Alice left I hid the few photos I had kept from my box in my bag, I felt like I might need them.

I was both dreading this trip and also a little excited for it, who knows maybe I'll come out of it a different person, maybe even with a couple new songs and some shocked faces of some snaky bitches. Maybe I will even talk to Emmett Cullen.