Okay I was told by a faithful reviewer that there was a big loophole in my story :S Since Alice and Bella are twins, Bella's birthday means that it is Alice's Birthday too. So I have thought of a solution. Thought I don't know if this still means that they are twins or not? But it would sort of work. Okay so the solution will be somewhere in this chapter…

Chapter 2:

"You're getting married to Charlisle and Esme's son."

I stared at them unable to form any coherent words.

"This is all a joke. Surely it can't be anything more than an awful
birthday prank." I thought

I laughed out loud, humorlessly. Searching my parents face for signs that
this was all a joke.

They stared back at me dead seriousness on their face. I looked over
to my twin sitting next to me. Her face, serious and composed, not a
single sign of her usually joking demeanor.

"This is a joke right? Mom...? DAD! This can't be happening."

I stood up searching each face in the room. Why? Why, are you doing
this to me! Today's my birthday! You're supposed to give me a gift and
me and say happy birthday! Not this!"

I yelled in their faces. I looked over at Renee. She was leaning
against Charlie's chest a reassuring arm wrapped around her. She was
sobbing uncontrollably and somehow this made me angrier.

"Why!"

I collapsed back onto the couch crying as well. I felt a hand reach
over for my hand, but I smacked it away and glared at Alice.

"Don't play the innocent one. How long?"

I didn't need to tell het exactly what I meant. She just knew it.

"Since we were 5. I h...heard them."

"FIVE!"

I turned my glare back to my parents willing them to explain exactly
what happened and how they could possibly do this to me.

"W...we had no choice. Honey, you have to understand!"

Renee's voice was filled with urgency. She wanted me to understand,
but how? How could I when I don't know what happened?

I breathed on through my nose and let it out slowly trying to compose
myself.

"Explain."

At that moment I wasn't sure if I could say anything else without
getting angry all over again.

Renee sat up and wiped away the tears that still remained on her cheeks.

"Honey, do you remember the time when your father and I left you with
your aunt when you were 5?"

I nodded my head and she continued staring anywhere, but at me.

"W...well your father and I didn't go to the place we said we would.
Originally we were going to go to visit your uncle. But then some
friends called and asked if we wanted to go hang with them since we
rarely visited."

"At the time, your father and I thought it was a great idea and so we
agreed. We ended up going to a casino. It wasn't bad at first. We
played a few rounds and then we started drinking. The next thing we
knew we were playing poker and kept on losing. We owned them a huge
dept hon. we didn't have money like we do now back then."

I knew this was going and I couldn't believe it. My own parents? The
two people I looked up on my whole life? I shook my head unable to
believe what they were going to say next.

"W...we promised them that as long as they let us leave then we would
give them our first born."

They agreed with some insistence from us. They also gave us money to
start again. T...they were nice."

I couldn't hold it in any longer. I stood up and bolted. I heard
people calling my names and some apologies, but I didn't care. I
opened the door and walked out running at full sprint down the street.

As I ran the cool air hit my face and body making a shiver run through
my body. I ignored it and kept running. I was rounding the corner when
I tripped over a rock falling flat on the ground. I struggled and
sat up in a sitting position and started to cry.

Dry sobs escaped my lips and my body shook with the violent sobs. I
coughed and grabbed onto my chest, the feeling of not being able to breathe coming to me.
The only thing that ran through my head at the moment was.

"HOW COULD THEY!"

I cried for what seems like hours until I heard a horn honk. I looked
up and a car was comic at me. I continued to cry not wanting to move.
At the moment I thought,

"Dying, dying sounds like a good idea. I don't have to marry the guy
and my parents will know what they did to me. How they pushed me into
dying."

I closed my eyes and prepared myself for the impact. It never came
though. Instead, I felt strong arms underneath me and lifted me up off
the ground. I heard the car whoosh past and a driver yelling out the
door, a string of profanities escaping his mouth.

I slowly opened my eyes and was met with the most stunning pair of
blue eyes. They stared down at me concern evident in their depth.

"Are you alright? Why didn't you move?"

His voice was deep and masculine. I found myself wanting to hear the
voice again.

"Yeah, I'm alright."

Just then I noticed the warmth of his body against mine and his arms
still wrapped around me. I fidgeted uncomfortably and a blushed crept
on my face. He noticed, and softly let me down.

I brushed myself off and looked up to see the man staring at me. He
couldn't have been much older than me. Probably in his early 20's.

"Thank you."

He shrugged his shoulder and turned around continuing down the street. I found myself pondering for a second before running after the strange man, wanting to find some company. Company of anyone, but my family member's.

I matched his stride and wiped the stray tears from my face and looked up at the man. The street lights illuminating his face making him look mysterious and handsome.

His jaw was defined and strong his nose slightly crooked, but matched his face well, his dark blue eyes big and deep. As if by staring in them you could find the answer to any question in the world.

Just then he looked down at me and I noticed for the first time that I was staring at him.

"Sorry." I said a blush creeping up my face.

I heard his deep seductive chuckle beside me and I looked up to see him looking at me still.

I turned away uncomfortable by his gaze.

"What's your name little girl? Aren't you afraid to be out here by yourself with a stranger?"

I looked up at him a scowl on my face at him calling me little girl. I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest.

"I am not little!"

I sounded like a little kid at that moment and I blushed at the realization.

I let out a sigh and turned to him giving him one of my heart melting smiles. He cocked his eyebrow at me an amused smirk on his face.

"Hi, my name is Bella. What is yours?

He laughed again and I tilted my head to the side wondering what was so funny?

"Y..you… sounded…l…like… a little girl!"

He managed to say this between his laughter. Just for his amusement I stomped my foot and walked ahead of him.

A few minutes later I heard his laughter disappear and footsteps running to catch up to me.

"Sorry, you're just too funny. I'm Jasper by the way."

I didn't acknowledge him, feigning mad and continued to walk until I reached the place which held the most of my childhood memories.

I stopped in my tracks and stared at the abandoned park in front of me. At the sight of the park my earlier worries returned and I found myself having to blink hard to keep the tears at bay.

Jasper leaned over and stared at my face and then the park a look of recognition on his face.

"What's wrong? Why are you crying?"

His voice was filled with concern, but I couldn't help myself from getting mad. Who was this guy to see me cry twice in one day? Who was this guy to see my weakest moments?

"I AM NOT CRYING!" As I said this the tears started to flow rapidly down my cheeks.

Tears of betrayal, tears of anger, tears of sadness. The all ran freely down my face making my vision blurred.

Again I felt the strange feeling of not being able to breath and I clutched onto my chest tightly as if it would hold me together somehow.

I felt someone grab me on my underarm and lift me up off the ground where I was now sitting.

I felt strong arms turn me around and pressed me against something warm. I grabbed onto the shirt that was in front of me and cried. I cried for what seemed like hours. When they finally subsided I pushed myself away from the chest that I was leaning on and wiped at my cheeks.

I looked up at the friendly face of Jasper and the down at the now soaked shirt.

I blushed and mumbled,

"Sorry. I couldn't help it."

He shrugged nonchalantly again and just stood there staring at me. He looked as if he wanted to ask what was wrong and why I was crying, but in the end he just turned away and looked at the park again. I found myself grateful and went back to staring at the park again.

"This place held the most childhood memories for me. The first place I learned to ride my bike, the first place I learned to roller blade. The place where me and my sister went for privacy. The place where me and my sister went to hide from those hard times."

I found myself lost in a memory. It was the day of my birthday and the day before Alice's:

Alice was crying and she was mad at me because although we were twins we had different birthdays. Hers was on the day after mine. This was because on the day that we born I was born at 1:30 pm. 45 minutes after Alice arrived. By that time though it was already the next day, so we technically were twins, but had different birthdays.

"Mom and dad always loved you more!"

It was the day of my 8th birthday and Renee had to leave for a business trip and Charlie decided to accompany her.

"Why would you say that Alice? They loved you equally as much."

"No they don't! They remember your birthday, but they don't remember mine! And its only the next day!"

I reached out for her, but she huffed and turned away.

"Alice, they're busy, so don't blame them. And they will probably bring you back something nice on their business trip."

"You think so?"

I nodded my head and Alice turned back to me a eager look on her face.

"What do you think they're going to get me?"

I laughed at her change of attitude and went and hugged her tightly. She returned the hug and the rest of the afternoon was spent discussing what Renee and Charlie could get her.

It ended up being Renee and Charlie did get her something for her birthday on their trip. They got her this nice outfit that she really liked and the some nice heels that she always wanted.

I shook my head remembering that Alice was still a fashion freak way back then.

Renee and Charlie always did like me more, now that I thought of it, could it have anything to do with this arranged marriage? Was it guilt that led them to treat me better?

I shook my head trying to push the thought out of my head.

"A penny for your thought?" Jasper's voice rang, successfully distracting me from my earlier thoughts.

"Nope."

"Aww come on!"

I laughed and shook my head again. He laughed again, but this time his voice completely serious.

"You know it's getting really dark out. You should probably head home."

I looked around me and for once I noticed that it was really dark out and Jasper and I was the only one out on the streets still. Just then a cold breeze came by and I wrapped my arms around me a shiver running down my spine.

"Yeah, I guess I should head home."

"Do you want me to bring you home?"

I looked around the streets and noticed how it was deserted. Even though this was a decent neighborhood, but I didn't want to take the chance of walking home by myself.

"Yeah, that would be great."

The walk home was mostly spent in comfortable silence. A few comments here and there from Jasper that earned him a scowl from me.

"So this is your house?"

"Yep."

He nodded his head and said,

"Not as big as mine, but it's pretty good."

I raised an eyebrow at his remark. "Not as big as mine?"

"s'cuse me, but my house is the biggest in the entire block. How much bigger can his house be?" I thought bitterly.

I looked at him and for once I noticed what he was wearing. He wore lose fitted black jeans and in the dim light of the street lights I couldn't tell which brand they were. He had on a grey v-neck shirt with a brown leather jacket. He also had the look of a rich spoiled guy.

"How could I not notice this?" I thought to myself.

I shook my head and mumbled a whatever. Before waving a good bye and walking into the house.

I stepped in and looked back at the retreating figure of Jasper and wondered how he seemed familiar to someone. I shook off that thought thinking that I would remember him if I saw him before.

I turned around and there stood my parents and Alice.

Renee's face was red and her nose was so red that you could put a tomato right next to it and her nose would be redder.

Her eyes were bloodshot from all the crying and she was still leaning against Charlie his arms protectively around her. Alice was standing a little bit behind them a pleading look in her eyes.

I couldn't look at her or anyone in this family right now so I adverted my gaze and started to walk around them.

"Bella Marie Swan. You stand right there!"

I stopped at the sound of Charlie's raised voice, but instead of turning around and staring at him. I yelled out,

"WHAT!"

My voice was loud and it rang out loud and clear in the house bouncing off each wall. Renee's sob and sniffle quieted down and so did everything else in the house it seemed.

After a minute Renee's sob continued and it only got louder.

"Your mother and I had no choice and you have to understand that."

Understand that?

Understand the fact that they went out and party their hearts out. Get drunk and then sell their daughter off to get out of their dept?

How could anyone with a soul possibly try to understand that in one day?

I turned around the full force of my stare landing on Charlie and the miserable looking Renee.

"How could you tell me to understand when you guys are the one to sell me off? How could you tell me to understand when you guys are the one to go there and gamble get drunk and have fun while Alice and I are at home being abused and tortured by our own aunt?"

I heard Renee gasp and Charlie's face became a mask of anger.

"Baby, they abused you?"

I ignored the question and continued letting all my anger out in my next words.

"I HATE YOU GUYS! I WISH I WASN'T BORN!"

And with that I stormed upstairs and slammed my bedroom door.

What a fantastic birthday, I thought.

Okay so this is the next chapter. Sorry if the about the chapter and sentences in the chapter being shorter and smaller than the ones in the bottom. If you know what I mean. I wrote that during a party at my cousin's house on my ipod so the format is smaller since the ipod screen isn't as big as a computer… obviously.

Also sorry for any grammatical errors I tried to edit it, but my editing skills aren't the best.

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