Days past along that week pretty simple. I wasn't Bella with any one of the Cullen's. Well, except Emmett, of course it wasn't because I liked Emmett more than everyone, he was just easier to be myself around. Edward and I didn't talk much in English, then again it was my first week. Alice and I hung out a lot that week, although I had to constantly remind myself to stop being me around her. Finally Friday has arrived though that also meant tat Liam and Liz were leaving the next day.

"Brittany, up! Time to get ready for school." Rachel yelled from outside my bedroom door. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes then pushed my blankets off. Huffing I got out of bed and headed to the shower. This was going to be a long day.

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"Are we taking your car or mine?" Alice chirped at me, she was extremely excited that I let her straighten my hair.

"We can take yours if you want." I suggested kindly. Alice and I bonded well, like we always had.

"Mine." She smiled, getting into the drivers seat of her car. I walked around and got into the passenger seat of the shiny green Porsche.

"So, Britt, what are your plans for the weekend?" Alice asked while driving down the long drive way.

"Well, Liam and Liz have decided they want to go to Italy the old fashioned way so taking them to the airport is out. I think I'm going to a movie with Carter, Lily and Josh tomorrow night then we're having a study group but I'm not sure. How about you?"

"Josh? Josh Rain?" Alice asked. "Like the incredibly hot Josh Rain?" Alice wiggled he eyebrows around.

"Yes that Josh. My friend Josh." I emphasized, making sure that was clear.

"Are you sure he knows that?" She asked as we pulled into the school parking lot. He didn't even wait until we were completely parked. He started jogging over to the car.

I undid my seat belt and opened the door.

"Hey." I said in a fake happy voice. Maybe Alice was right.

"Hey Brittany." He said smiling. "Hey Alice."

"Oh, there's Emmett and Edward. I've got to go ask them about homework for English class, sorry. I'll Talk to you in Chemistry?" I waved good bye then jogged over to them.

"Quick Edward pretend like you're explaining something to me." I said jumping in front of them so they wouldn't go to first period early.

"What?" Emmett asked confused.

"She's trying to get away from that idiot Rain kid over there." Edward said looking over at him.

"I thought you couldn't read her mind." Emmett said giving Edward a weird look.

"I can't, but I can read his. He despises us both, he thinks we're flirting with her." Edward explained.

"Alright that's cool. So, what about that English homework?" I asked trying to get Josh to not stare at me.

"What English homework?" Edward asked.

"You are no help at all, you know that." I sighed then started walking toward my locker.

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"So, Britt, did you deal with Josh yet?" Alice whispered.

"Deal with him…?" What was that supposed to mean.

"Yeah, you know, drop subtle hints that you guys are great friends. Things like you're a really great friend and I never want anything to ruin our friendship." She shrugged and looked back at the teacher.

"Nope, but that's a good idea, I guess." I nodded and scribbled down the homework questions. I was already done most of them. I figured it would be easier to write them down and do them at the same time.

"Hey. You want to go shopping with me tomorrow morning? We can be back in time for your movie." Alice smiled. I inwardly groaned but hey what was I supposed to do? Say no and go against the plan?

"Sure! And you know you can come to the movie too." I smiled as if I was excited.

"Cool. We can shop and find some outfits for the movie and for school next week then we can go to the movie and I won't bring Jasper so that way when Carter and Lily are cuddling it won't be just you and Josh there and it will seem less like a date." Well, at least it was smart.

"Yeah, that's going to be so much fun." I smiled and wrote down the last question right before the bell went.

"I'll see you at lunch, right?" Alice asked.

"Of course. I'll meet you at the usual table." I replied gathering my books and heading to the door with Alice.

"See you later." She said giving me a very tight hug.

"Alice.. I still do need oxygen to function." I said laughing and pulling away from her death grip.

"I'll see you at lunch." I laughed walking to my next class. Government and Spanish past brutally slow. I did my work, my homework, the last question I had for trig and read the rest of our English book all in Government. It was, as I said, brutal. Fortunately, I was used to having extra time and always came prepared. By the end of Spanish I had finished all homework and assignments I had for any class and I had finished Sense and Sensibility.

By the time English rolled around I was fully prepared to ditch because of the coward I am.

"Hey Brittany." Edward smiled as I sat down next to him.

"Hey, what's up?" I asked, I decided to play nice and talk to him. It caught him off guard a little, I could tell.

"Nothing really." He scrunched his brows together, probably trying to read my mind.

"Oh, that's cool. So, what are we doing in class today?" I asked casually.

"That's hardly fair." He chuckled.

"Neither is living forever." I pointed out.

"That's true." Edward nodded his head in agreement. "Well, we're watching the movie of the book we were supposed to finish." Well, good thing I had all that spare time in Government.

"Ugh, I've seen this movie so many times." I huffed then thought. Something fun. Something sneaky. Something totally un-Bella. It went along with my plan to be the opposite of well, me. "Did you maybe want to skip with me?" I asked

"What?"

"You know, leave when the lights go off then be back by the time the movie is off. Come on no one will even notice."

"What if they do notice?" He asked as the teacher told us what we were doing.

"Who cares, its not like we would be the first people to skip class and its not like you couldn't get that off your record anyway." I reminded.

"Well… I guess."

"If we get caught I'll tell them it was peer pressures, I made you do it." I giggled. So, when the lights turned out Edward ran out the door first then two minutes later I did.

"See, no one even noticed." I smiled. I had to start being nicer to Edward, people noticed that I didn't take to him very well, and they would be getting even more suspicious.

"What did you want to do?" He asked me walking farther away from the building.

"Well, why don't we listen to music in my car? Wait, we took Alice's car this morning." I suggested then remembered that Alice was enthusiastic about taking the Porsche.

"We can go in my car and listen to music." He suggested as we headed toward the parking lot. After a long hour of listening to music and discussing what which we liked the best we headed back to English class just in time. After I slid through the door and took my seat, the teacher turned off the movie then turned the lights back on.

"That was enlightening was it not class?"

"Very." I smiled then collected my school bag and headed out the door. Edward and I walked silently into the cafeteria to find Alice arguing with Emmett about what food to buy.

"That stuff looks disgusting." Emmett told Alice.

"It's healthy." She spat back.

"So? What's the point of eating healthy if the food just makes you gag." He argued back

"Um guys? You don't even eat." I whispered when I'd gotten beside them

"Oh, this is for you." Alice smiled.

"Oh, yummy." I replied looking down at the sad excuse that apparently passed for food in this cafeteria.

"I told you Alice, people don't enjoy eating mushy green things." Emmett said, successfully pulling the bowl of… well, mushy green stuff, out of Alice's hands and back on the food display shelf.

"Here Brittany." Emmett handed me the tray he picked for me, it had a lot of food on it, a slice of pizza, an apple, strawberries, chocolate milk, a burger, tators and something that looked like a brownie.

"I can't eat all of this." I looked at all the food in awe.

"Sure you can." Emmett smiled as we walked to the table. We all sat down in our usual seats then started to talk. Emmett picked at a slice of pizza I decided to veto. I started to eat the tators while conversation was bubbling. I zoned out for a minute, thinking about random things but when I started paying attention the conversation was a little… odd.

"Well, don't you want to know?" Alice asked timidly.

"I don't want to talk about this." Edward replied, depression colouring his voice.

"We could go to the library and look at old news paper clippings." Alice suggested.

"What and bring me back down? Alice I'm getting better, can we please just let this go?" Edward asked harshly, getting up from the table and stalking out.

"I've got to get to class." I mumbled getting up and leaving quietly. I looked at my shoes as I walked. I intended on going after Eduard but of course, because I'm me Josh started to jog towards me.

"Brittany!" He yelled and I felt obligated to turn.

"Oh, hey." I said plastering a fake smile on my face.

"Where you off to?" He asked as we walked out of the cafeteria.

"Class." I replied casually.

"Oh, but it doesn't start for twenty minutes."

"Er, I want to get there early."

"Alright, I'll walk you there then." He smiled big and bright and I inwardly groaned. Great, just what I need, Mike Newton all over again.

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The rest of the day I didn't talk much. I mean, there really wasn't much to say and when I got out of Gym and met Alice at her car I was more than relieved to have the weekend to spend by myself.

I went on with my after noon as planned, went to the er my house and made super, watched mindless soap opera's until I fell asleep and didn't let one thought of the Cullen's pop into my head. When I woke up, screaming from my nightmare on the coach with some infomercial urging me to buy kitchen supplies blaring from the television.

"Brittany!" Rachel yelled coming down the stairs. "Are you alright?" She asked sitting down beside me. I ran my fingers trough my hairs as I sat up, trying to remember what I was running from this time.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." I whispered as my heart rate went down to my usual hummingbird sound.

"Are you sure?" She questioned, I merely nodded and sat up all the way. "Ok, well Liam and Liz are on there way here and they have a surprise for you." Rachel smiled going back to her usual bubbly self.

"Oh, great." I groaned then tried to be cheerful and like surprises. I went up stairs and to my room, going through the usual morning routine. By the time I was done and walking down stairs Liam and Liz were just coming through the door with a… dog?

"What's this?" I asked looking at the husky. It had blue eyes and was different shades of gray and white.

"It's a puppy. Like you suggested. Remember when you said a puppy was a surprise." Liam explained. Though cute I never really had any pets, other then my goldfish that lived about three days each.

"And, here." Liz smiled handing me a first edition copy of Pride and Prejudice.

"Wow, um thank you." I looked down at the dog that was stumbling around the kitchen.

"Your welcome." Liam said giving me a hug. "We'll be back before you know it sweetie."

"Call us anytime." Liz said. I loved Liam and Liz but they weren't like Esme and Carlisle, they didn't lack compassion for there kids or anything but they loved traveling and we wanted to go to school and graduate and live in one place as long as we could.

"I will," I promised though I wouldn't actually bother them, I would wait until they called me.

"Goodbye honey, we love you." Liz said kissing my cheek then walking over to Rachel and Connor. Then that was it. They left. Leaving us here with the Cullen's, if only I could forget that ever happened like they all have…

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"Hey Brittan- whoa what is that?" Emmett asked as the three month old husky toddled along behind me. He instinctively moved away from vampires when they came near but seemed to have warmed up to Rachel and Connor.

"It's a puppy!" Alice exclaimed as she came into the room. We were still in the doorway but the dog didn't run back out. It seemed to like Alice's energy and ran up to lick her face.

"Why is there a mutt in our house?" Rosalie asked as her and Edward joined us.

"Rose, don't speak that way about this cute little dog." Alice exclaimed then started with the cooing and baby talk. "Hello, how are you? Aw you are just adorable aren't you!"

"Alice, it's a dog, it can't understand nor respond no matter what kind of voice you use." Rose said crossing her arms over her chest and looking at the dog.

"Whoa, that's a dog!" Jasper pointed out as he entered the room.

"We are well aware of that Jasper." I responded and noticed everyone was looking at the dog. He seemed to be getting nervous and started backing up towards me.

"Oh it's alright." I said picking him up. Connor came in through the door and we all moved to the multitude of sofa's in the living room.

"So, I guess that's your puppy?" Edward asked looking at me. I nodded and started rubbing his tummy while he laid on my lap. "What did you name him?"

"We've been trying to-" Connor started but I cut him off. I smiled and looked up at Edward.

"Jake."

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guh !! my town is being soo depressing right now, its never sunny, its always raining. But then again it did snow on Easter this year, anyway thanks for readin.