Just then, like clock work, Alice was back. Only this time she had a couple of guests. She had Jasper and Emmett with her. "BELLA! Nice digs!"- "Oh thanks, Emmett. When did you guys get here?" It was Jasper that answered "Well, Bella, first of all we wanted to come see your home and how you've done for yourself. Secondly I need to speak with you alone if that is at all possible." I was trying to find a reason in his eyes, but there was nothing there to see. He had no emotion on his face. Oh great…what did I do now? "Ok, Jasper, sure thing. We can walk inside if you would like or the others could excuse us here." I gave a questioning look at Emmett, Edward and Alice. Alice answered for them "Definitely! We'll wait inside. When you're done we're going hunting." – "Thanks, Alice. We'll see you soon."

I watched one by one, my new, yet old family filing into my house. To leave me alone with Jasper. Obviously a lot had changed and Jasper wouldn't want to kill me now, at least not for a reason I could imagine. I wonder what's bothering him.

"Jasper?" He took a breath and his faced softened as he did then he said, "Well, Bella. There's been something that has been bugging me for the past 4 years, and I never thought I would be able to do this, but now that I have my opportunity I'm not going to let it slip away. I want to apologize for my behavior on your birthday, back in Forks. I know it was 4 years ago, but I have felt awful ever since and I never got a chance to tell you how sorry I was, still am actually.

"It's because of me that this happened to you the way it did, and that you've had to live alone for these years. For that I will always be sorry. I would like to ask you to forgive me, though I know it would be a hard task. Will you accept my apology and forgive me, please Bella?"

This was the most I'd ever heard Jasper say in one 'sitting'. I feel bad that's he's been feeling so guilty for so long over something as minute as this.

Silly Jasper, is he really apologizing? Well there was nothing to say but, "Jasper, I forgave you the moment it happened. I don't blame you at all for this. I want us to be able to be great friends and I would never let something silly like that keep just that from happening.

"I'm very sorry that you've been suffering from this for 4 years. Please! No more. From this moment on it will be as if it never happened!"

Then, Jasper smiled and I'm not sure if I was so happy to see him smiling, with me or if I was just so happy with everything that's happened. Either way, we were both smiling and it felt amazing, to be so at ease with life, well, existence.

"Thank you so much, Bella!" Then the unthinkable happened, Jasper hugged me. So, I hugged him back with all of my strength. "achum."-Alice. "And just what do you think you're doing with my husband, Bella Swan?" She tried to look serious and did a good job at first, but after only a few seconds we just all burst out laughing. This felt great, too. "Shall we go hunting now? If you two love birds are done?" –"Very funny, Alice. Yes we may go hunting."

With that we joined the two other Cullens inside my house so that I could escort them to my nearest and favorite hunting spot. It was very different to hunt with the Cullens, my family here. I felt almost self conscious. Silly I know.

After we were done we decided we would go back to the Cullen house. I swear Alice would make me live here if she could. That would be fine with me, I'm so sick of being alone. I would of course keep my house, just so I have somewhere to go for quiet time if need be.

We sat around talking and reminiscing until about 8:30 that night. Even Rosalie had begun to warm up to me a little bit. Not much, I'm sure she still couldn't stand the sight of me. But enough for us to have a civil conversation. Then surprisingly, it was her that suggested, to my dismay, that we go 'out' tonight. Out? What would I wear? I don't have any going out clothes. And where could we possibly go that would hold any interest for a bunch of vampires?

"Well, where is there to go around here? I'd like to go out." I lied. It was Alice that answered me. Sounding so excited that she could have possibly exploded. "Poison Playpen! Oh! It's great Bella! You will have so much fun! I can't wait! We have to find you something to wear!"

"Whoa, slow down there, Alice. Did you ask Bella if she wants to be your personal Barbie doll again?" Edward questioned, in a humored tone. Alice just looked at me, with her big pleading eyes, and of course I couldn't tell her 'no'. "Thanks for trying, Edward. It would happen whether I agreed to it or not." I couldn't help but laugh, knowing it was true everyone else laughed with me.

With that, Alice dragged me up the stairs and into her huge room, with her enormous closet. Why did I agree to this? I brought it on myself. I know I did. Oh well. At least Alice will be happy. She went to work on me immediately. Finding the perfect outfit made me close my eyes as she game out with a rustling bag from her closet. I was already in my underwear, so she just slipped something over my head, spun me around and zipped it. A dress. Always a dress with Alice. It felt very nice, silk. I could smell the scent of the fabric. She told me I could open my eyes but not look down, so I did as I was told. She stepped in front of me looking me up and down, with a puzzled look on her face. Then she smiled. An evil little 'up to no good' smile, then I was scared. "Alice, what's wrong with what I'm wearing? Can I see please?"-"Ok fine, you can look. But I'm not done with you yet."

I walked over to the big mirror that was her wall and saw a beautiful dress. Blue silk. His favorite color on me, why was Alice doing this? The dress had a halter top, that was very low cut, all the way to my sternum, with the blue silk bunched up over the breast and also bunched around the torso area of the dress. Then from the lower right thigh and very high up on my left thigh, down to my shins, ruffles of silk. It was a great dress and I loved the way it fit my body. It did look great on me, if I could be honest. Just then as I was thinking of how much I liked the dress too fast for me to know what she was doing, I heard rips and tears of fabric. Oh no! What was she doing to my dress. I look down and the ruffles were no longer on the dress, instead they were being flung around the room like confetti. "Alice! What are you doing?" What the hell? "Just be patient please, Bella. I'm making you stunning!" So there I stood, hands on my hips, irritated to death, because Alice ruined my dress, when, knock knock. "Come in Rosalie." Alice all but shouted. "Alice, may I ask what on earth you're doing to that dress?" Rosalie asked. "Why, sure, Rose. I'm fixing it, what does it look like I'm doing to it?" "I guess, if you consider ripping up a dress fixing it, then that's what you're doing."

I tuned out their bickering for about the next 5 minutes Then when she was done, she stepped back, appreciating her work. "There. That's so much better for where we are going." I turned back around so I could look in the mirror. It did look much better, in a very provocative way.

She had ripped off the ruffley part of the dress on the bottom to expose the very top of my thigh on the left leg and about mid way up on my right thigh. Needless to say, this dress left a lot of skin exposed all over the place. I have to admit, I liked the way it made me look.

Alice breezed through getting my hair and make up done. Before I knew it, we were both dressed and ready to go, minus shoes. I had noticed earlier two shoe boxes, I was afraid to see what Alice was going to put on my feet. Last minute she grabbed one of the boxes and slid off the top. She then pulled out a very dangerous looking pair of heels. They were very pretty. Silver metallic open toe stilettos. There was a single buckle that was about an inch above my ankle. I will say, they were sexy shoes. She slipped one, two on my feet and buckled me in. She the took out her own shoes and fastened them on before we made our way down the stairs.

When we got to the bottom of the stairs, and I thanked my lucky stars I didn't fall on my face, everyone else was there but Edward. He sure is absent a lot. Maybe he doesn't want to go out with us. That sucks.

"Wow." I spun around on my heel to see Edward coming down the stairs, buttoning the last button on his white shirt. "Bella, you look..-Well, you look amazing" It was very strange. Him looking at me the way he was. Looking at me like, a man. A man in lust. I would have blushed if I could have.

"Thank you, Edward. You look pretty great yourself." He looked more than pretty good. He looked like a God, in a seductive black suit that fit his body perfectly. There's no way Edward could ever be mistaken for a human, looking the way he looks right now. He could barely pass as one before, but now, there wasn't a chance. "Thank you." Then he smiled my favorite crooked smile, that I had longed for, for so long.

"So what is this, Poison Playpen like?" I can't imagine having very much fun at a place with the word Poison in the title. But I guess, once again…I got myself into this.

"Well, it's an exclusive club for vampires, actually. We found out about it about 30 years ago when we were here visiting." It was Rosalie who answered me. "And what exactly does a vampire club consist of exactly?" This time it was excited Alice. "There's music, and dancing. They have karaoke. Big screen TVs for the sports enthusiasts, they pretty much have something for every taste. It's great. You can socialize and get to know other vampires from all over the world. Most of them don't live here. There's only us and one other small family within 500 miles. The rest are out of town-ers. You'll have so much fun, Bella. I know you will, Now, Let's go!"

It took us about 50 minutes to get to Poison Playpen. I was a little wary when we pulled up. There were several car and motorcycles in the lot, all very nice and very expensive, but the building looked old and run down. I would have guessed in it's earlier days it was some type of warehouse. There was nothing else around, a bunch of other big brick buildings but no other cars anywhere. Even for me as a part of the supernatural world, it was creepy. But when we walked in it was, nothing short of amazing. Very medieval. There were a lot of shades of red. From the walls, to the floors, even the chairs, surrounding black marble tables. There was silver trim on everything possible. It was very upscale. We walked in and Emmett and Rosalie went off to speak with the other vampires there that they knew. Edward, Alice, Jasper and myself walked to the bar where they were….drinking blood from wine glasses? Am I seeing this correctly. This is way too cliché. Well, whatever works. It seems like a fun place. There was a very pretty brunette vampire on stage singing karaoke, she was very good. Then, out of nowhere Alice squealed so loud I thought my eardrums would burst. "Bella! We have to do karaoke!" –"Absolutely not Alice. I let you play dress up with me and tonight that's where I draw the line." She started to pout, but made a quick recovery. "Fine, then I will by myself!" She ran off to sign herself up and pick a song. Jasper laughed adoringly at his pixie haired wife and followed after her.

Just then it hit me like a ton of bricks. Standing here with Edward. Feeling so at ease with him here. It was like he was never gone. Like none of them had left me in the first place. I still loved Edward with every part of myself. I would never get over him no matter what happened to me, or what he pout me through. He would always be my one and only love. I had thought maybe there was chance for us to be together again and act like nothing had ever happened. I wanted that more than I ever wanted anything, but how? How could I trust him not to leave me again. If he really loved me, he would have never left me in the first place, right? So why would I think that he would want to keep me forever after all of that. How could I trust him to? Then the pain that I hadn't felt since the Cullens came back into my life rippled, ready to strike through me at any moment. This cannot happen. I can't lose him again, but how can I make him stay forever. And if he says forever, how could I believe him? He could always change his mind again.

"Bella? Bella!" It was Edward who pulled me out of my horrible thought process.

"Yes, Edward?" Seemed like the best response. "Are you feeling ok? You look a little paler than usual. You were really out of it there for a few minutes."

"Oh I'm sorry, I was just thinking. I'm fine"- "Ok, well I wanted to ask you if you'd like to dance…with me, of course." Just then Alice walked onto stage and the band started playing the music for the song she was singing. It was a slow, but upbeat song. I really liked the music so far. "Sure, let's dance." Edward reached to take my hand, starting with my finger tips and inching his fingers farther and farther up. The electricity that surged between us was undeniable. I looked into his eyes and I knew he felt it just as strongly as I did. I was curious as to how long this would last, but for now, I would enjoy it.

I fully took his hand in mine and let him lead me to the dance floor. Once we got to the floor he spun me out and pulled me back into his arms tightly and just held me there, as we swayed on the floor. There were no particular steps to our dance, although I knew that Edward knew every step to every kind of dance there was. We just made it up as we went. There was a little bit of the Waltz, the Salsa, the Tango. It was all sprinkled around. It felt like time had stood still. We were the only people in the room. Noone and nothing else mattered. There was just me and there was Edward. "You and Alice set this up didn't you? You knew I wouldn't sing but you didn't want to make it too obvious. You're good. You almost had me there for a second." He just gave me that crooked smile and laughed a small breathy laugh. It was then I really felt the sweet scent of his breath wash over my face and wanted nothing more than to press my lips to his and never leave that moment. But of course, my worrying mind halted me in my tracks. 'It won't ever happen, Bella. Just get over it.' I told myself. I started to slightly pull away from him. Just to let myself come back down to earth.

Just then he slid his hand from the top of my back, down, down, and down. All the way to the skin of the very small of my back that was exposed like most of my skin in the devilish dress. Apparently I wasn't the only one who was tempted here tonight. Then he pulled me so much closer to his stone chest, than I had been before. I could feel him breathing and taste his breath on my lips. It was pure bliss and way too much for me to take.

I pushed myself away from him and looked to the front door which was packed. So I looked for a back exit. I had to get out. Found one. I put up my shield and took off.