Chapter 6

After breakfast I went upstairs to Alice's room to freshen up. I didn't want to go home smelling like I was in a bar all night. Thankfully I had remembered to send my Mom a text the night before telling her I was staying over at Alice's. For once a party over here was broken up by Charlie, I'm still surprised by that.

With my luck, I bumped into Emmett on my way out of Alice's room. I gasped and he caught me before I fell backwards.

"You never change, baby." He chuckled standing me upright. I frowned at him. I tried to go past him but he stopped me. "Can we talk?" He asked.

"Not right now." I shrugged past him.

"Bella, please?" He called after me but I didn't turn around. I walked down the hall and down the stairs to Jasper who was sitting in the living room waiting on me. He stood up and took my hand.

Jasper dropped me off a few houses down from my house so that Charlie didn't have a fit. If he saw me getting out of a boys car then I knew I wouldn't ever hear the end of it.

Sunday's were always slow and lazy around my house. So, it didn't surprise me that Charlie was already napping in his recliner. Sue was doing laundry. Seth was playing outside with his friend Quil while Leah sat in the living room flipping channels while our Dad slept.

"Hey, Bells. How was your night?" Mom asked when she walked out of the laundry room.

"Good. Kind of boring." I shrugged. "I'm going to read." I kissed her cheek then went upstairs.

I only read a couple chapters of Wuthering Heights when there was a knock at my door. Before I got up to open it the guest let themselves in.

Emmett.

"You do know you're supposed to wait until I say you can come in, right?" I crossed my arms over my chest feeling angry that he just walked in like that.

"You never used to care." He gave me a smile. He was trying to win me over with those dimples. It wasn't going to work. Not anymore.

"I used to be stupid." I shot back. Emmett rolled his eyes at me and walked over to my bed. He sat down and turned towards me.

"I miss you, Bella…" He reached out to touch my face. I jerked back quickly.

"Don't touch me." I said through gritted teeth.

"What's wrong with you?" He asked as if I hurt his feelings. I laughed at that. There's no possible way to hurt someone's feelings that doesn't have any to begin with.

"Nothing." I said simply.

"I thought you loved me." He said in an angry tone. "Guess I was wrong." He stood up and started to leave my room.

"You know what, Emmett?" I said in a loud voice. He turned around and looked at me. "I thought I did too, but I've realized that you're not worth my time or effort anymore. Anyway, I never loved you. I loved what I thought we were."

"We weren't anything." He shot at me. I knew he was trying to hurt me.

"We weren't. But, I was stupid enough to believe that you actually wanted me around for more then sex."

"I'm leaving."

"What did you want from me, Emmett? What are you even here for?" I asked getting up off of my bed. Emmett didn't answer me. He instead kept walking out of my room. I followed him down the stairs and out to his jeep.

"Tell me, Emmett. What do you want from me?" I stood on the porch as he opened the door to his jeep.

"Nothing, Bella. I don't want shit from you." He got in and slammed the door shut. He didn't take long to back out of the driveway and drive off.

Emmett had seriously just left me more confused then I had been before.

I spent the rest of my Sunday lounging around and trying to not think about Emmett. Jasper played a big part in my thoughts, though. I wondered what we were now…if we were boyfriend/girlfriend or if we were just friends. I knew I wanted more then just friends and I could kind of tell he did too but I didn't want to assume something that wasn't true. So, I figured I'd ask him at school Monday.

Monday morning I found myself extremely tired. I had tossed and turned the entire night not being able to sleep. Thoughts of both Emmett and Jasper kept crossing my mind.

"It's still hard for me to believe that my little girl is a senior." I was startled as I pulled on my sweater by my mom. She was leaning against my doorframe with a smile on her face. "And next year you'll be off to college…" She choked back a sob.

"That's not decided yet." I told her.

"Bella…" She sighed. I shut my eyes hoping that this wouldn't be another conversation about my future after high school. We seemed to be having those a lot lately. I just wasn't sure on what I wanted to do exactly so I wasn't going to get anyone's hopes up. "Renee had this plan for you, she wanted more for you then she had…"

"What are you talking about?"

"Renee and I were best friends up until she met Charlie." Sue stopped then went on. "Then she got pregnant with you and she started talking to me again. She told me that wanted more for then she ever had. I was in the delivery room when she had you…and she squeezed my hand really tight and made me promise that I'd see you have everything." I'd never heard that story before. All I had known was Sue had been my nurse and Charlie had fallen for her. This was a completely new things to me.

"So, you knew her?" I asked. I'd always wanted to know about Renee but I was afraid to ask Charlie. I was afraid that he'd get angry with me or get sad. I didn't want either of those things to happen so I kept my questions to myself.

"I knew her better then she knew herself."

"Do you mind…if I ask questions?" I bit my lip nervously.

"Not at all. But, right now you need to go because Jasper's waiting for you downstairs." She smiled then left me alone. I checked myself in the mirror one last time before grabbing my school bag and rushing downstairs.

Jasper was standing by the front door with his hands stuffed in his pocket. He instantly got a smile on his face when he saw me.

"Good Mornin'." He reached for my hand.

"Morning." I said back letting him pull me out of my house. He helped me in his truck then we started for school. I had a feeling I could get used to this, Jasper driving me around everywhere. Or just Jasper being around in general.

Jasper reached over and let his hand rest on my thigh. I sighed in contentment. Yeah, I could really get used to Jasper.

Once at the school Jasper got out and walked over to my side but I had already gotten out before he could help me. He frowned.

"I'm capable of doing things on my own." I smirked.

"I know…I just enjoy doing them for you." He wrapped his arm around my shoulder. "You smell amazing." His nose grazed my neck. A shiver went through my body.

We walked together towards our group of friends. Emmett was standing behind Rosalie with her leaning against him. He looked at Jasper and me then leaned over and whispered something in Rosalie's ear.

"Bella!" Alice's shrill voice yelled from behind me. I turned around and found her running towards us.

"Hey." I smiled at her as she reached our group out of breath. "What's up?"

"Just wondering if we were still up for after school?" She raised an eyebrow at me. At first I wasn't sure what she was talking about but then I remembered that she had a doctor's appointment to find out if she was pregnant or not.

"Of course." I nodded. "Wouldn't miss it for the world." I smiled then was being pulled towards school once the bell rang.

I think that I was more nervous then Alice was as we sat waiting for the results to her pregnancy test. I was nervous for Alice, of course. This was going to change everything.

Alice looked over at me and then at the door when it opened. I chewed the inside of my lip as her gynecologist sat down on a stool across from Alice.

"Well, Alice it looks like you are indeed pregnant."

An hour later found us sitting on Alice's back porch as Alice ate a bag of gummy worms and I sipped at the Pepsi we were sharing.

"I wonder how my parent's are really going to take this." Alice spoke up. We were the only one's home so it wasn't like anyone would hear our conversation. Which meant we could talk about the pregnancy as much as we wanted.

"I don't know. It's hard to tell with your parent's." I shrugged.

"I think they'll be angry but I think Emmett will want to kill James." Alice chuckled. "Good thing he's in California." Sunday afternoon James left for rehab. He promised Alice that when he got back everything would be better again. I wasn't so sure about that. Considering he had no idea that Alice was in fact six weeks pregnant. "Holy shit, Bella. I'm going to get fat! I'm going to topple over…" She laughed.

I guess it was better to joke about the pregnancy then anything. Alice was all cried out, anyway.

It was still crazy to think that my seventeen year old best friend was pregnant. It just wasn't a normal occurrence in Forks.

"So, Bella-Bee, what's going on with you and that gorgeous Texan?" She smiled throwing a gummy worm at me.

"I don't know, honestly. I like him…a lot but we aren't official or anything."

"Well, hurry up and make it official, girl. You don't want to let him go." She said then started talking about her pregnancy again. I guess she was just trying to actually believe it. She said she didn't feel any differently then before, except for the crazy morning sickness she was already suffering.

Our girl time was interrupted by a loud Emmett entering the house.

"Has your brother always been this annoying?" I laughed keeping my voice low.

"Always." Alice nodded.

"How is it that I never noticed before now?" I joked.

"Because you were blinded by love!" Alice said it loud. I widened my eyes knowing that Emmett had heart our conversation just by the look on his face as he walked out of the sliding glass door. I blushed and hid my face in my jacket trying to control the laughter that was going through my body.

"Hey, Bella mind if we talk?" I lifted my head and shook it while I rolled my eyes at him. I was tired of him always wanting to talk to me. I wasn't in the mood, I doubt I ever would be.

"Not today, Emm. I'm going home. Call me later, Al." I left their house quickly wishing that I had asked for a ride, somehow I had completely forgotten that I didn't drive myself.

I pulled out my cell phone once I was outside and called Jasper. He was happy to pick me up.

I sat on the McCarty's front porch waiting for Jasper when I heard Emmett's loud voice yelling through the house.

"What the fuck, Alice?!" I scrambled up from my spot on the ground and ran inside. I found Emmett pacing the living room and Alice curled in a ball like she'd been hit, but I knew better then that. Emmett would never hit a girl. She was just frightened by the tone of his voice.

"What's going on?" I demanded but Emmett left out the front door not even bothering to answer me.

"I told him…" Alice spoke in a little voice crying. "He's angry." Of course he was. I didn't doubt that one bit. I rushed over and hugged Alice. I told her that he would come around eventually. She was his little sister. He loved her so much, he could never stay mad at her.

Jasper showed up a few minutes later but I suddenly wasn't ready to leave Alice. I told her everything would work out one last time before leaving with Jasper.

"Jasper?" I ran my hands over my legs nervously as he drove me to my house.

"Yeah?" He looked over at me.

"What are we? I mean…are we together or are we just friends? Or what?" I said it in a rush.

"I'd like to think we are together. That is if you want to be with me?" He smiled big.

"I can't think of anything more that I'd want." I said smiling back at him.

"Good, because I can't either.