This is my very first twilight fan-fic! I hope you guys like it!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters in my story; they are all the product of the amazing Stephanie Meyer.

A/N: This is my alternate version of New Moon, the start of it will seem similar in getting it's grounding, but worry not, the story wont be the same.

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"open mine and Edward's next," Alice said, so excited her voice was a high-pitched trill. She held a small, flat square in her hand.

I turned to give Edward a basilisk glare. "You promised." [quote from "New Moon"]

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Edward chuckled at me, "Bella, I promise that not one dime was spent on this present for you." His look was full of sincerity so I put on my best happy face and took the gift out of Alice's hand. I tore the paper off and stared at what was in my hand. It was a CD case with a blank disc inside. "What is it?"

Edward smiled at me, "that is a CD that Alice and I made for you with my compositions on it."

I felt my jaw drop open as he spoke. "Y-you made me a CD?" I stuttered in astonishment. That was easily the sweetest gift anyone had ever given me and he had even kept his word and didn't spend any money on it either.

Suddenly a worried expression came over Edward's face, "Bella if you don't like it you don't have to keep it, I just thought that since I wasn't aloud to spend money on you and you always say that you like hearing me play the piano, that-"

He was suddenly cut of by me bursting into hysterics, but I quickly sobered up at the sight of the hurt expression he wore on his face. "Edward, this is the best present I ever gotten in my entire life! I love it and you most certainly will not be taking it back from me!" His face instantly relaxed into relief when he realized that I loved his gift. "Come on let's go put it into your CD player!" I exclaimed as I turned for the stairs to go up to Edwards room on the third floor. But I was stopped before I had even gone two steps.

"Bella, as happy as I am that you like your present, I think it would be more polite to finish unwrapping your gifts before leaving the room" Edward said with an amused expression on his face.

I sighed and walked over to Alice as she handed me the last present. I ripped the paper open to find that I was staring at two pieces of paper with an obscene amount of writing on them. I took me a moment to process what they were. "Jacksonville? I'm going to Jacksonville?".

"We're going to Jacksonville." Edward smiled at me.

"But how can you go to Jacksonville with me Edward? It's sunny over there, you'd have to be inside constantly…"

"Bella, I'm willing to do that for you. Especially if it means you get to see your mom, I know how much you miss her."

I couldn't think of any way to reply to that, so I turned to Carlisle and Esme and thanked them. At that moment I just stood there staring at all these people who loved me- well most of them- and smiled. I started thinking maybe this party wasn't so bad after all, until Alice start jumping in place shouting about cake.

"Come on Bella! It's time for Cake!"

I was about to argue but Edward shot me a look so I just put on a smile and went along with it. I followed Alice over to where the cake was sitting and she pushed it in front of me.

"OK Bella, eat!" Alice was practically bouncing out of her skin.

"Ummm, Alice… you have to cut me a slice of it. I'm not just going to eat the entire cake like that."

"oh right! Sorry Bella, sometimes I forget things like that… so how big of a piece would you like?"

I couldn't help but laugh at her enthusiasm, "a really small piece Alice". I wasn't really into to cake, but Alice had gone through all the trouble to make it for me.

After the cake Edward manage to convince everyone- well mostly Alice- that I'd had enough party and that I needed to get home. As we drove back to my house I began thinking about bringing Edward to Jacksonville and him meeting my mother- he'd already met her once before, but this time would be under better conditions. I thought about the warm sun and seeing Renee again. I was surprised to find myself extremely excited about a birthday present and decided that I couldn't wait to go. "Edward, when are we going to Jacksonville?"

Edward looked over and smiled at me, "whenever you'd like to Bella."

"I want to go as soon as we can!"

"alright, well how about next weekend?"

"that sounds great, now the only thing is that we have to talk to Charlie about it." I said with a grimace.

Edward noticed my worried expression and tried to sooth my fears, "worry not my sweet Bella, it will be fine. Charlie can't argue with you wanting to visit your mother."

"It's not really the visiting my mother that I'm worried about asking, it's the fact that I'm bringing you too. Charlie is going to flip."

"It will be fine." he said with a note of finality.

When we got to the house we found Charlie in the living room watching the television. "hey dad." I said, my voice was slightly shaky from being nervous, but he didn't seem to notice. He was too into his game and just mumbled a quick hello to Edward and I. When a commercial came on, he turned to look at Edward and I.

"How was the party Bells?"

I took a deep breath a decided to just jump the cliff. "it was fun, Alice got all super excited and decorated everything within her reach" I laughed, more from being nervous then humor. "I also got some presents." I continued, "One of my presents were tickets from Carlisle and Esme to visit mom in Jacksonville."

"tickets? As in more then one? They couldn't have possibly paid for you to go down there more then once, that would be utterly ridiculous-"

"no dad. They paid for one trip. There's one ticket for me and one ticket for… Edward" his reaction was just as bad as I feared it would be.

He immediately jumped out of his chair and began yelling. "ABSOLUTELY NOT! YOU ARE NOT FLYING ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH HIM!" he roared.

"Why not dad?" I was trying to stay calm, getting angry wouldn't help my case. "It's not like we're flying away for a weekend alone together, we're going to see mom… she has just as much parental authority as you do." I pointed out in hopes to make him see reason.

His faced turned into a sort of grimace with the realization that I was right. "ok Bella, but I'm not happy about this."

"You have no reason not to be dad. Anyway our trip is next weekend, so I need to start packing." Taking that as a good window to leave since he calmed down, I went up to my bedroom to get ready for the trip. I couldn't wait for my mom to really meet Edward.

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ok, that was the first chapter... what did you think? the next chapter will take place on the visit to Renee. I know this one wasn't very long, but i didn't want to start the stuff for the next chapter on here, because then it would have been too long...

I'll get the next chapter up as soon as I can. The more reviews I get, the faster it will come.