I don't own Twilight.

Bella POV

My heels echoed through the silent halls of a place I'd once known so well. I scrunched up my nose at the sterile smell. That smell you make yourself forget but that brings back memories good and bad the minuet it hits your nose. I pulled the heavy wooden door open and walked into the carpeted room that even now at twenty three made me shrink a little in fear. Obviously I wasn't there because I was in trouble. No I was there because my baby sister had once again found herself smack dab in the middle of the principal's office.

"Miss Swan it's good to see you." I can tell he wants to add a once again to his sentence but doesn't. I take his hand before settling down in a chair across from him briefly glancing at Alice. I want to shake my head I want to snap at her ask her what is wrong, why she always has to get in trouble, what did she do this time, why now, she knew I had an important test to take in the morning that I desperately needed to study for and that my shift at the diner started in an hour but I bit down hard on the words not letting the flow from my mouth. I turn my attention to the principle and give him a weak smile.

He looks at me and I can see the sympathy residing there. He knows me, he's known me since I was a child. And then again when I came back in High school. Of course he did Forks was a small town and it was hard not to know people. "So Why are we here today Principle Banner?" I ask just wanting to get this meeting over with.

"Well Miss Swan it seems that Miss Cullen here has decided that school is just too much for her and has cut the last three days. I hate to call you in. I know how busy you are but Carlisle is working and you're the only one available on her contact list."

I sighed of course I was Renee was in Florida with Phil and Bree Esme I was sure was at her job site I know she had a big job going in Seattle right now not that mom would have even allowed Esme Cullen on Alice's emergency contact list and as for Emmett Cullen the son of Carlisle and Esme he was in New York last time I knew finishing med school. I'd heard Alice mention something about him getting a residency in Seattle but when it came to Emmett Cullen I tried not to think on it too much. I turned to Alice and stared at her I could almost feel my foot wanting to tap and my arms wanting to cross. I could feel the reprimand of young lady what do you have to say for yourself on my tongue. But I held all that back and just shook my head. "I guess I'll be driving you to school and picking you up every day and you'll be handing the keys of your car over to your father. She pouted and slumped in her chair but I wasn't going to deal with her wild child antics today. I turned back to Principle Banner. "What is her punishment from the school?"

"One day suspension." I nodded and stood up. "Alice come on I'm going to be late for work." I walked out throwing a wave to the secretary Mrs. Cope and looked behind me briefly to be sure that Alice was actually following me. I slide into the driver's seat of my car and waited for Alice to get into the passenger side before driving out of the school lot and towards the Cullen house.

"Alice why?" I ask glancing over at her. Her arms are firmly planted in front of her as she glares me and at that moment as in many moments before I wish with all my might that Alice didn't have so much of our mother in her. I even wish she wasn't born for a split second. A second that makes the guilt pour over my soul. I park in front of the Cullen house and turn in the seat to look at her. "Well." I know she can hear the frustration in my voice.

"Maybe I don't want to be here, have you ever thought of that. I liked it in Florida. I liked it with mom and Phil."

"Yeah because they let you get away with everything and anything." I scoffed.

"Jealous." She shot back.

"Oh yes I'm so jealous of my seventeen year old sister who drank so heavily she had to be rushed to the emergency room, my sister who almost flunked out of school last year. I'm so jealous." I snapped back sarcastically.

She just glared at me. "Fine you don't want to talk about it out then just get out. I have to go to work anyway." She glared at me once again before slamming out of the car. "I will be talking to your father." I yelled at her back as I pulled out of the driveway.

I knew what her issue was everyone did. She was mad that mom had gotten married. She was mad that mom had another child with said new husband and she was mad that she got sent to live in Forks with her father. I could relate. Oh how I could relate. I'd had a similar experience. As Alice different in many ways but still so similar. I thought back on my childhood as I pulled into the diner parking lot. It was happy for the first five years and then the Cullen's moved to town. With their fancy cars and happy smiles. Smiles that didn't stay in place long. It was a badly kept secret in our little town that my mother and the Doctor Carlisle Cullen were having and affair and it was an even worse kept secret that the child she had birthed only a year later was in fact a Cullen. She hadn't stuck around and my father hadn't fought the divorce as she'd packed up me and a baby Alice and fled to Phoenix.

The Cullens had been able to patch up their marriage where mine hadn't and I think they had even became stronger because of it. Carlisle made sure to fly out to see Alice and I resented that. Oh I knew Charlie loved me but he wasn't one for leaving his tiny town and only did so on rare occasions. Of course Renee sent both me and Alice to Forks for the summer starting when Alice was three and I was nine but the tension in the air was always thick. The stares I got where always accusing even at a young age as if I carried the sin of my mother. Even though Alice had been the one born of the affair. People didn't bother her because she was younger or maybe because they were awed by the Cullen wealth. Oh Charlie tried to protect me and it worked some I mean he was the chief of police he could be intimidating but still I resented my mother I resented Alice and then I'd been sent o Forks at sixteen because mom was moving to Florida to live with her new husband and just couldn't keep up with two kids. I was thrust into the Forks High with all the kids who picked on me every summer and the one kid who couldn't even look at me. Emmett Cullen. He was a senior the year I showed up and I was thankful that I didn't have to stay in the school with him for more than one year. I was shook out of my thoughts as I walked into the diner and grabbed my apron and note pad and started to take orders. I smiled at my dad as he slide into his usual booth and was so busy I hardly looked up as I took a customers order an hour later.

"What can I get for you?"

"How about a hamburger?" My eyes shot up and my heart stopped as I looked into the eyes of Emmett Cullen. I froze pen poised on paper. My tounge darted out to wet my lips and I'm sure he thought I was crazy as I stared at him as if he had three heads. I quickly jotted down his order and hurried to the kitchen walking through the doors I tried to catch my breath. I placed his order and grabbed his drink as I walked back to the table sitting it down in front of him.

"I thought you were in New York?" I bit down hard on my lip after asking that question not even believing that I had. I was sure there was probably blood at this point.

"Came back today, I start in Seattle in a week thought I would spent some time with mom and dad, heard Alice was around too." He smiled at me slightly and I felt jumpy.

"Yeah Alice." I grumbled. I looked around cursing my luck that the flow had slowed down and no one seemed to need my help I had no way to escape for the moment.

"What did she do this time?" He chuckled and I scowled at him.

"Skipped class." I bit out. I didn't want to be angry with the man in front of me. But at the same time anger was the only emotion I could feel towards him. He had everything I wanted. He had a stable family, he had the opportunity to follow his dreams. And worst of all he had my heart.

Oh I didn't want him to have that but it was something I couldn't seem to control. For Emmett Cullen had stolen my heart when I was just a child of five. I know it sounds stupid and I wish it wasn't true. I wish I could hate him. I wish I could make my heart not jump in my chest every time I saw him, but it was no use I should know I'd been trying for years now for almost two decades. I sent a silent curse at my mother as his blue eyes seemed to pierce into my very soul.

He didn't say anything about Alice and I didn't know what else to say myself as I let out a relieved breath seeing someone walk into the diner. "I have to go." I hurried towards them glad to have an excuse to leave the man who mad my life hell without even knowing it. He left an hour later leaving a good tip and a sending a wave and by the time I was done with my shift for the night my feet were killing me and I wanted to cry. I made my way back to Charlie's house and collapsed on the bed. I didn't want to think about what was going on in the land of the Cullens but I didn't have a choice. I got up and got a glass of wine and thought about life. It was just me in the house as Charlie was working the night shift and I let the quite envelope me.

A/N so this is my newest Emmett and Bella story I don't know where it's going to go I don't know how long it's going to be but I do know that it will be emotional but there will also be funny tender moments in there too. Reviews welcome.