A/N: All Twilight related characters belong to Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 1-This is Bella we're talking about

BPOV

"Bella, you are getting fat chick! Look at that bulge you've got going on. You know what you need don't you? You need to put in a few workout hours with me and Alice out at the Voltura Fitness Center over on Cryler St. You know my mom is part owner and we all get to work out there for free. See no cost to you, so there is no need to fuss about it!" Rosalie said full of excitement and sass.

Rose had been on my case about going to workout with "the girls" every since her mother opened that place. I kept giving her and Alice one excuse after another but today she had a point. When I was getting dressed for school this morning I did notice my blue jeans were a little snug. No doubt a product of the over active appetite I've had the past few months. Charlie says I'm going to have to get a job and by my own groceries if I kept all this eating up. Of course I apologized. He said not to worry from what Sue Clearwater told him all teenage girls go through growth spurts and it would pass in a few weeks. Sue is my dad's go-to gal when it comes to him dealing with my issues. She was the one to help me when puberty found me and the one to help my dad when I had my first boyfriend and when he caught me making out with said boyfriend. She was the best, not-my-mom-but-should-have-been, person I knew. I just loved her, Leah and Seth too.

"Rose, I may just take you up on that offer. I've been thinking about it for a few days and, you are right I do need to lose a few inches." I replied with a smile.

"OMG did I just here Bella Swan say she would go to the gym with the girls?" Alice squilled as she approached us.

"Yep, you sure did. I can't believe it myself either." With a proud smile on her face Rose clapped Alice on the shoulder.

"You two act like I don't do anything with you. I go shopping with you. I go to the library with you. I go to parties with you. I do homework with you. We've even showered together before. We've done just about everything together since I moved here when I was 4 years old. MY GOSH! What do I have to do to please you two." Exasperated from my little rant I fell back to the arm of the chair.

"We just want you to come workout with us that's all" Rose said with a

sly smile, like she had a whole lot more in mind. oh great.

"Okay so are we going right after school or is there a certain time that you go?"

"Nope right after school is great. The guys are going today too. We will have a fitness room all to ourselves so we can play our music as loud as we like."

ahggg....Jacob is not going to be happy. "The guys" consist of Rose's twin brother, also Alice's boyfriend Jasper, brothers Emmet and Edward Cullen, and Mike Newton, though they only keep Mike around to do goffor work for them. I kind of feel sorry for him, he tries to fit-in with the cool guys and just isn't cool enough. They can really be mean to him sometimes.

In my most conjured up chipper voice and a smile on my face, I responded with "Great!"

I really didn't mind hanging out with everyone. We had always partied together and spent most of our summers together and any other extended vacation time we had. Alice and Jasper have been boyfriend and girlfriend since our freshman year and Rosalie and Emmet are on-again off-again and have been for several years. I had actually lost count on that relationship. I think at that moment it was on again. Edward and I were friends. We all often hung out at the diner on Green St. called The Meadow. They specialize in the traditional burgers and fries. My favorite, I hadn't been able to get enough of their famous fries. In the previous week, I actually beat Emmet in a fry eating contest. He had held the fry eating record there (6001fries)since he was 10 years old. I didn't break his record but I did beat him that day. Emmet would never give up regardless who he was racing so I know it had been a fair race. I was so excited when I bet him. I did the happy dance and all.

Alice and Rosalie were convinced that Edward and I should be a couple. Me? Well I would have loved that. Being with Edward had always been one of my highlights, though I would never had said anything to my friends for fear they would make fun of me. With every gaze he sent my way or every brush of his hand against me, sent my skin a light with tingles and fills my belly with butterflies. Just thinking about him would give me the feeling of butterflies in my belly. Oh that tickled. I reached down and held on to my stomach. But unfortunately, Edward had, either, never been brave enough or not interested enough to ask me to go steady as his girlfriend. That was why when Jacob Black asked me 3 and a half weeks, before that day, to be his girlfriend I accepted. Hey, teenage girls' hormones can only hold out so long before she starts wanting a boyfriend and I was so ready for a boyfriend when he asked.

Edward hadn't spoken to me much since, which broke my heart, but I totally understood. To say Edward hates Jacob would be an understatement. The summer of our freshman year, Carlisle and Esme (Emmett's and Edward's parents), left the boys alone for an entire week trusting them to behave themselves. Big mistake! They threw a huge party every night their parents were gone. On about Wednesday or Thursday of that week Emmet decided they were going to have a big poker tournament and place actual bets. Emmet put up $1000 from his college fund, Jacob put up the deed to his Rabbit, Edward put up the deed to his brand new Harley Davidson motorcycle his dad had just given him for his birthday, Mike Newton put up a $1000 gift card to his dad's sporting goods store, which I think he is still paying back with interest. With bets placed the game began. None of us could believe that Edward had bet his bike against the game. For granted Edward is a superb card player, but still, he bet his only prized possession. We all thought he had lost his mind. The game was an all nighter, the chips got passed back and forth for several hours. Finally Mike and Emmet went all in with only an eighth of their chips left and lost, leaving Edward and Jacob. 5 hours later and a lot more of passing chips back and forth finally Jacob challenged Edward to go all in and both boys agreed. After all the chips were placed in the center of the table Edward flipped over his pocket Aces and Jacob flipped up a King and Queen of spades. The dealer then slowly flipped up the five cards in the middle of the table to reveal an ace of spades, nine of spades, seven of hearts, three of diamonds, and jack of spades. When the final card was flipped over everyone inhaled a ragged breath, Edward cursed very loudly and Jacob jumped up and shouted YES!. For several months after that Jacob would drive the, now his, Harley everywhere rubbing it in. A week later Jacob also won over Jessica Stanley's heart, oh did I mention that at the time Jessica was Edward's girlfriend. Hence, the reason Edward hates Jacob.

"Hey you guys if we don't leave for school soon we're going to be late and I can't have that on my record. So lets go." Alice said while making a jester towards the door.

Smiling Rosalie said "Okay, Okay lets go miss "my record has got to be perfect". We would hate to make you late."

"Hey I've got to have a perfect record and perfect grades if I'm going to go to college at UGA. That's a tough school not to mention Jasper has already been accepted there, so I have to get in." Alice replied frowning.

"I can't believe he is actually going back to Georgia to go to school. I told him that he can go to any college he wants to but he insisted on going there. Did you know that UGA is the only school he even applied to. He is so juvenile." Rose rolled her eyes while she said the last part.

As we got into Rose's candy apply red convertible BMW I noticed that Rose didn't have her book bag. " Hey Rose, where is your book bag?"

Nonchalantly Rose replied "Oh I'm skipping today with Emmet" "Why?" Alice and I said in unison.

"Sometimes a girl has to do, what a girl has to do. Besides we won't have another opportunity to be alone for the next several weeks so I'm planning on making the best of it." She said with a smile.

"Wow, did you make sure that everyone in the neighborhood would be gone. You two are the noisiest people I know when sex is involved. I'll never again make the mistake of being in the same place as you two while your having sex" I said. One night a couple of summers ago I had spent the night with Rosalie, nothing out of the normal I usually spent most all of my summers with Alice or Rose. That night was nothing out of the norm, we went swimming in her pool, then we got us some snacks and watched a movie, then we went to bed. I was having the most amazing dream. That I was with a beautiful guy. He was tall, muscularly toned, had that oh so sexy unkempt hair and the most gorgeous green eyes I've ever seen. He leaned in to give me a kiss. That is when I started hearing the loud moaning and grunting coming from outside. At first I thought that a large hurt animal had wondered into the back yard maybe looking for water. Scared silly, I got out of my bed to wake Rose up only to find that she wasn't in her bed. That's when I decided to go to the window to check it out for myself. To my shock and surprise I could see a very naked Emmet and Rosalie in the pool going at it like dogs in heat. She was bent over the side of the pool and Em was in the pool going at her from behind. At first it was a huge turn on but then I remembered that was my best friends out there doing that and it was just gross. About a hour later the grunts, moans and groans subsided and moments later Rose reappeared in the room to find me sitting in the middle of my bed, mp3 player in my ears, rocking back and forth to the current song playing. With a giggle she slid back into her bed saying something about being sorry if they woke me and that if they woke me she can't believe that her parents slept through it.

"Well, have fun and don't do anything that we wouldn't do" Alice gave Rose a wave and a wink as she stepped out of the car.

"I will and don't worry your the freaky one when it comes to sex, we all know that." Rose added with a giggle. I, too, waved good-bye to Rose after getting out of the car then reminded her to be back in time to pick us up for the gym. She had a way of forgetting all matter of time when she was with Emmet.

As Alice and I watched Rosalie drive away Alice asked "Well are you ready to get this day over with? I'm ready for the weekend!"

"Yep, I'm very ready to get the school day over with. Hey Alice have you been having any trouble with your stomach lately? I've been feeling kind of sick to my stomach for the last 3 and a half or 4 weeks now and I just can't seem to shake it. I threw up a time or two a day for the first 2 weeks but since then I've just been really nauseous all the time. Charlie says it is probably just a stomach flu or something of that nature. I don't know though. If it doesn't go away soon I'm going to have to go to the doctor and find out what's wrong with me. I'm not sure I can handle feeling like this much longer."

"My stomach has been just fine but I'll ask Mrs. Brown, when I go to the office to work this evening, if she has had to send students home with the stomach ache."

"Okay, thanks" with that Alice and I trudged on to our first class of the day, English.