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Me: Say what? *whistles innocently*
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Me: Must you ruin EVERYTHING??
Disclaimer: It's muh job.

I wanna say that if the zombie apocalypse ever comes back, *wipes forehead with back of her hand dramatically* that I'll still find a way to write the story in the afterlife.

I apologize profusely for not updating. I have no excuse, so please just accept my apology.

I have something important thing to say. I see since a bunch of people read this story that it would be an AWESOME witnessing opportunity if I shared some things with you all! This weekend I went to an awesome PlanetShakers concert and youth conference! That is a Christian band, and they have the greatest songs in the history of forever! Listen to their songs and think of Jesus.

BPOV till I indicate otherwise.

I have … syndrome, GOD HELP ME! You will be seeing a lot of … on the chapter.

Ah, enough rambling,

And God said let's get in on, so we got it on…

"Well, you see, I dunno if I am the one who can really tell you what happened. And if my Airhead of a big brother is listening instead of marveling how big my closet it, he'll come out here." What?

She smirked, and then turned around to face the closet door. After about a minute, she started counting down from 10.

Ten…

My heart started pounding. Of course I knew who it was, anyone would have. Edward was hiding in the closet? Well, that explains how he disappeared. He hid in the closet. But why? Was I that repulsive to him that he couldn't be in the same room as me? (AN: Sorry for any misspelling, I just discovered the Cha Cha Slide, and I'm dancing.)

Nine…

My heart was in frenzies palpitations as I tried to explain to myself that he left me, I wasn't supposed to react like this. Alas, no dice. My heart was trying to tell me I loved him, and however true this might be, I needed to put on a straight face and pretend that these were old friends that I was being reunited with.

Eight…

I couldn't believe this! The suspense was driving me nuts, so I said, "SevensixfivefourthreetwoonecomeoutEdward!" Alice laughed. Hard.

I looked over innocently and said, "What?"

She just looked over and said, "Nothing. Just I wouldn't have guessed you as a person that would do that. Oh well." Then she left. Actually left. O…Kay?

Then the closet door opened, and I'll tell you the truth, I wasn't really expecting him to come out of the closet. I thought Alice was lying. But nevertheless, there he was, Adonis in all his glory. He was trying to smile, but it wasn't reaching his eyes. And that made me sad. Why wouldn't the angel smile? I frowned, trying to get a response. But that just made him frown, too. Well.

"Bella? Are you okay?" Why was everyone asking me if I was okay? It wasn't like I got in a car wreck, was it? Then it all came back to me. Seeing the eyes, crashing, freaking out, and then passing out. Oh God, so this meant that my car was wrecked.

"Oh fiddlesticks…" I was still looking at Edward so I got to see the confusion and amusement flicker across his face, finally settling on amazement. Amazement? Oh yeah, he can't read my mind. Duh, Bella. Well, now what? Now that I knew what happened, nobody had to explain what happened to me. But then remembering that Edward, the guy that has viciously killed vampires and played with mountain lions like pets was hiding in a closet, everything wasn't as simply explained as a car crashing. And I wasn't completely stupid, he wasn't acting himself.

I sighed and plopped down on the floor and said, "Okay, on with it. What happened? I mean, I know what happened as far as me almost killing myself crashing my car, but what else is up? You aren't yourself, Mr. Cullen." He looked stunned that I had actually said all that, and then sighed and sat down next to me.

"Well, what happened was that when I left," He paused and took a deep breath. "When I left, it tore me apart. I couldn't go on without you Bella. It made me mentally ill, and I became a corpse (HAHHAHHAHHHAHHAAHHAHA No Pun Intended) with no life. My reason for continuing vanished with you Bella. Now, sitting here with you, it feels like nothing ever changed. I still love you Bella, don't forget that."

Whoa whoa whoa. WHAT!??!?! Okay, not the explanation I was expecting. I was expecting a simple nothing, and that would be it. I didn't see how he just said all that, either. So I decided to have a little payback. I knew it would kill me, but I couldn't resist. After all the hell he put me though, he needed someone to stick it to him.

"I am dreaming. I must be. Where do you come from, being all happy go-lucky and saying crap like that? Okay, no. That's not it." I jumped up and pointed a finger at him, shaking my head. "You left me, I cried myself to sleep for months and turned to a zombie almost, and now when I'm a fraction normal again, you come and tell me that you love me? I'm not falling for it. I think this is all something that you enjoy doing, pretending to love me and then leave. I do not believe it."

I turned around and walked out the door to see all the Cullen family sitting in the living room trying to look busy. I looked over at alive and asked her, "Will you drive me home, Alice? There's nothing keeping me here, and I want to leave." Now that was sure to hit him, if nothing else.

She looked at me and said, "Sure, Bella. Whatever you want." She turned to Jasper and talked vampire speed for about half a minute and then walked with me out the door, making sure to grab her keys on the way out.

We were pulled up in front of my house when Alice leaned over the seat and said, "I know that my brother does love you. But I see why you are doing this, and I won't tell." Then she gave me a hug. I pulled away and said, "Yeah, thanks Alice."

(So tempting to stop, but no. I don't want to. Feel lucky.)

I hopped out of the car and ran up to the steps of my apartment, looking back to see her already gone. And for some reason, that bugged me. Even though they all hurt me, I still loved them. All of them. So when she left so quickly, it made me feel alone all over again. So I did what I always did when I wanted to get my mind off things. I cleaned and danced to music. I know, clean? But I loved music.

I plugged my iPod into (whatever you call them, since I don't have an iPod, I'll just use speakers till someone points me in the right direction) the speakers, and lost myself in the music. I was in the kitchen singing The Sharpest Lives, scrubbing away last night's dinner when there was a knock on the front door.

Well now, who is this, I thought.

I rinsed my hands and opened the door to see Mike on the front step, swaying ever so slightly from side to side. Oh no, not now. I don't need this, I thought. I tried to close the door and lock it, but then he walked (well, almost fell) forward and pushed the door wide open.

He's been doing this a lot. Usually he just goes home after watching TV and nothing happens, but my intuition sensed he was going to go farther today.

"Now babe, don't be like that," He slurred. "Don't you want to have some fun? I do…" He pushed me onto the couch and started to kiss me, but I pushed him off and said, "Michael Newton, go home. I don't want to be around you when you're like this."

He raised his hand and was about to make contact with my face when I heard my front door slammed open and I saw Edward and Emmett standing there, looking very pissed, if I do say so myself.

Edward came over and pulled me into his arms and said, "Bella, I really am sorry. Could you ever try to forgive me?" Well, let's see. Not forgive him and be miserable for the rest of my life, or forgive him and have him to myself for forever. I melted against him and said, "I don't think there was ever anything to forgive." I pulled back a little bit and saw my favorite smile pull itself across his lips.

Then I remembered that Emmett was here, and I looked over to see that Emmett was standing over Mike who looked about ready to pee his pants.

"Emmett, let him go." I said trying to hold back a laugh. Emmett just had that effect on people.

I felt lighter now that I said those words that put everything back again. It was like Edward said; nothing had changed now that I was around the people I loved.

"Aww, Bella. Please?"

"No." I smiled. "But, you can escort him back to his house, if you know what I mean." He looked up and almost looked like he would explode from happiness.

"My pleasure, Come on, Mikey." Emmett picked Mike up by his shirt collar and was gone in the blink of an eye. I then heard screaming. I smiled.

"Bella," I head his honey smooth voice call me. I looked up to see him leaning into me and I closed my eyes and leaned up to touch his lips to mine.

Everything was normal again.

Interesting fact: If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19.

Love anyone who reviews, and I didn't run this through my Beta, I wanted to get this out! I was thinking of you.

Tft616.