She kept an eye out for Edward the rest of the day, for some reason she was very curious about him. It was probably just the way he seemed to have been watching her. As soon as word got out that she was Charlie's niece and not his girlfriend, she seemed to be getting more attention from the boys, and less from the girls. One girl was still nice to her though.

"Hi Bella," She had said, as Bella took a seat in the English room. "Alice, remember?"

Bella laughed silently to herself, of course she remembered. "Nice to meet you."

"England, huh? Must be nice there. Wish I could go. Maybe I'll go there this summer. Maybe you could come! That would be amazing. So what's it like living with Charlie? Must be great! He throws awesome parties. I've only been to a few, my brother doesn't usually let me come. I think you met him. Emmet, the big tall guy. Yeah. He's dating Rose. She's great, except when she's in a mood, then you should stay out of her way. And I'm dating Jasper. It feels like we've been together forever, he's such a great guy. And my other brother.." Bella was glad that the bell rang, she was beginning to get a headache.

The day went smoothly from there, even gym went pretty well, they were playing volleyball, and she only fell once or twice. She kept looking up at the clock, willing it to go faster, All she wanted was for Charlie to pick her up and Take her home so she could sleep. She was glad she started school on a Friday, she would have the whole weekend to recover.

When the bell rang at the end of the day, she was the first one to run out of the building, Charlie was in front waiting like he promised.

"How was it?" He asked as they pulled away.

"Oh you know, school." She shrugged it off.

"Good, um... we're having a feel people over tonight."

The last thing Bella wanted was a party, but she knew that Charlie was giving up a lot to take care of her. She was supposed to move in with her grandparents, but she called Charlie and begged him to let her come live with him. The last thing she needed was her grandmother's constant nagging.

They pulled up in the driveway, and Bella started up to her room. "I'm going to call some friends." She said, making it clear that she needed some privacy.

"Okay, people will start coming around seven, you;re free until then." Charlie began cleaning up. The house was fairly large, and Bella considered helping, but knew he would understand that she really needed to talk to some of her friends.

She turned on the computer sitting on her desk and logged on. She saw that her best friend Max was on. She picked up her headset and put in on.

"Max?" She asked as soon as the connection was made.

"Bella! How the hell are you? How's America?" Max sounded excited, but tired at the same time.

"I'm okay, first day of school was today." Bella wished she had her video camera hooked up, so she could see him. "What are you doing?"

"Just finishing some homework, I want to get it all done, so I have the rest of the weekend free, then I'll probably go to bed.."

"Oh, Max! I forgot about the time difference."

"That's okay Bella. I''m just glad I got to hear your voice again."

Bella started crying. "I miss you so much Max!"

"I miss you too, and so does everyone else. How's Charlie?" She could tell he was trying to distract her, but he was failing.

"He's good. It's kind of weird though. He's in charge of me, but he's only a little older. A bunch of people from my school are coming over for a party later." She giggled at the thought.

"That should be fun." Max yawned.

"You should go to bed." Bella had always acted like his mother, "Make sure you take your medicine."

He laughed at her "Yes, mother. Oh crap!"

"What?"

"I haven't been taking it." Max laughed at himself this time.

"I'll make sure I remind you everyday. Will you do me a favor? Will you call me when you wake up? No matter what time it is?"

"Yeah, I love you Bella."

"Love you too." With that she logged off, and sat on her bed.

She missed Max most of all, but she had been constantly thinking about her other friends too.

After sitting in her bed for well over an hour, slipping in and out of her day dreams, she heard the doorbell go off. It wasn't even five, so it couldn't be the guests. She headed down to see who it was.

Alice and Rose were already in the living room, cleaning and decorating. Alice noticed Bella first. "Bella." She was suddenly wrapped in a hug. "We came to help get ready. I hope you don't plan on wearing that for the party tonight. We are going to make some homemade pizzas, do you want to help?" Bella backed away, hoping Alice wouldn't notice.

"I am not wearing this for the party, and I'm not very good with cooking. I fall down a lot."

"Don't be so modest Bella," Charlie said, coming into the kitchen, "Bella is a great cook, but I actually have a special job for her." He motioned for her to come in the kitchen with him, leaving Alice and Rose in the living room.

"Bella, are you really okay with everyone coming over?"

"Yeah, don;t worry about me, I'm fine. I just need to get some air that's all." He could obviously sense something was wrong.

"There's a path in the back, through the woods, stay on it and you should be fine."

She got up and slipped on her tennis shoes, and made her way to the trail. She started walking, but as soon as she saw that most of the ground was flat and clear, she started running. As she ran she was able to forget everything that had been going on, for the first time in two weeks, she forgot about her parents. She ran as fast as she could. She had always been a runner, she was much better at running than walking. It was a miracle that she didn't run into a tree in this forest, but it was nice. In London she only had the streets to run on, and occasionally her parents would let her go to the country to run.

The sun had started going down, so she pulled out her phone to see the time, it was almost time for the party to stop. She ran back to the house and ran up to her room to change.

"You are wearing that?" Alice asked, as Bella came down the stairs in her jeans and a black shirt.

"Is something wrong with this?" Bella asked, looking down at her outfit.

"No, not if you're going to your grandmother's." Alice pulled her back up the stairs and into her room, flinging open the closet. "Are you a nun?" She asked, "My mom wears more revealing clothes than this." She said, flipping through the shirts.

"I went to private school." Bella replied. "Uniforms."

"That must have been hell." Alice pulled out a shirt and held it up to Bella, "This should be okay, but we really need to go shopping. Well, put it on."

Bella waited for Alice to leave, as soon as the shirt was on, she realized what it was. Her mother had given it to her for her birthday. This was the first time she had worn it. "Thanks mom." She sighed, and then made her way back down stairs. There were many people already in the living room, and she could smell the finished pizzas coming from the kitchen.

"Bella, you look nice." Rose said, setting a steaming pizza on the table in the middle of the room.

"Thanks, Alice helped."

"Of course." Rose rolled her eyes. "You'll get used to her. She really isn't that bad. You just have to learn to control her."

"Control her? You make it sound like she's a dog." Bella laughed.

"Well, she can be quite the bitch." Rose replied quietly as Alice came out of the kitchen with another pizza.

"Told you it would work." Alice said taking pride in the fact that she had, once again, created the perfect outfit.

"Thanks Alice." As the words slipped out, she noticed the door open, and Edward Cullen walked in the room, he made it all the way to Emmet, who was standing in the corner with boy Alice pointed out to be Jasper, before he turned to look at her.

They locked eyes for just a moment. Before Bella pulled away. She tried to get her mind off of him, by introducing herself to the other party guests. She was doing pretty well. At about ten o'clock, she decided it was time for some air. She stepped out the back door, leaving the guests and heading back onto the path in the forest.

She chose not to run this time, but instead walked carefully along the path, enjoying the fact that it was still fairly warm.

She came to a clearing, and the moon light it up brightly. Laying down on the grass, she could see the stars. She drifted into a light sleep, but she did not have nightmares, instead she had pleasant dreams, visited by the new people she had just met. The most frequent visitor of all being Edward.

She awoke when her phone rang. "Hello?" She answered, still tired.

"Hey Bella!" It was Max, "You asked me to call you when I woke up."

"Yeah, thanks," She checked the time. "Shit! Umm, Max. I have to go, I think I'm in trouble."

"What's wrong?"

"Oh, I just fell asleep in the woods, and now it's 2am. And Charlie doesn't know where I am."

"Why are you out in the woods so late, and by yourself?" He sounded really worried.

"It's just the woods behind my house. I'm fine. I can be back there in five minutes." She reassured him.

"Okay Bella, I have to go, my mom is calling me. Call me later okay?"

"Okay, Love you."

"I love you too." And with that they hung up.

"What are you doing out here?" A voice asked from behind her.

She spun around to face Edward. "Um, I fell asleep. Is Charlie mad?"

"I don't think so." Edward said laying down to look at the stars.

"Why are you here?" Bella asked, laying down, a few feet away from him.

"I saw you leave. I had to make sure you were okay. You were gone for almost four hours. It took forever to find you."

"My personal super hero, coming to the rescue." Bella giggled.

"I'm not a super hero. I'm more like a bad guy." He said seriously.

Bella turned to face him. "I don't believe you." She said, scooting a little closer.

"So who was on the phone?" Edward asked, he must have heard the whole conversation.

"My friend Max, in London."

"Why did you move here?

"Um, my parents died." he didn't expect her to go on, but she did. "They were in a car accident, two weeks ago."

"I'm sorry." Edward didn't know what else to say.

"Yeah. They were out late. I thought I heard them come home, so I was shocked when the police showed up at the door. It was either move in with my grandparents or move in with Charlie."

"I think you made a good choice." Edward said. Bella started crying. Edward put one arm around her, and pulled her closer.

"I'm sorry, it;s just been a long two weeks."

"I understand." Edward said, "When I lost my parents, I was a complete wreck. But remember, "When all is lost, everything you need is right in front of you." My mom used to tell me that."

"You lost your parents? I didn't know."

"Yeah, Alice, Emmet and I are adopted."

"Wait, you're all siblings? You look nothing alike."

"No, we aren't really siblings."

"Oh." Bella said, feeling dumb.

"And Rose and Jasper live with us too. They're cousins."

"Wow, your family is confusing." Bella was still trying to figure out who was related to who.

"Yeah, well everyone thought you were dating your uncle." Bella couldn't help but to laugh at this.

"Yeah that was pretty funny." They sat in silence, looking at the stars, and Bella felt herself drifting back to sleep. "My super hero." She said again, making sure Edward was still with her.

"No, not a super hero. Don't trick yourself." Edward was trying to warn her to stay away from him, and trying to convince himself to stay away from her. But she was too beautiful, and too kind. She was perfect.

A/N Thank you all so much for reveiwing. I have chapter three finished, and I will try to put it on later today. Chapter four is also almost done, hopefully up sometime this weekend!