A/N Hey sorry for the long wait and I still want to thank my fans. It warms my heart to know that I have captivated ones of tens of people. Now on to business

Disclaimer: I don't own twilight.

The next day was September 13th, the day I had been dreading since, well if I was being perfectly honest. Phoenix. Before I had been excited to eighteen. It was like a right of passage. I knew that if I had stayed in Phoenix that my mom probably would of gone bankrupt planning a huge extravagant ball of some sorts. So Alice's party was the lesser of two evils.

There was still something nagging at the back of my head though. Alice's visions. I had never really gotten a proper explanation from Edward, so today at school I would try to get it out of Alice. I knew that it probably wouldn't it work, but I had one advantage. The classic But it's my birthday whine.

Edward was always there when I woke up, and since he had nothing better to do around dawn he would always get up and make me a gourmet breakfast. It was sure to be even better since it was my birthday, Edward wanted me to have as much human experiences as possible and since Charlie couldn't cook a "birthday breakfast" he felt obligated to do it for me. I sighed. The last thing I needed was more special attention from the Cullens.

So I woke the next morning smelling bacon, eggs, waffles, and basically any other breakfast item you could imagine. But it seemed to be much closer and more prominent. I opened my eyes and saw Edward's perfect face, but I sat up to quickly and found out that he had made me a "breakfast in bed". And since I sat up to quickly the tray went flying…along with the food. But Edward managed to catch the tray and most of the food. But some of the syrup got on the ground.

He chuckled, "You can't go a whole minute without spilling something can you"

"Ah be quiet Edward." I said grumpily.

"Just eat your food Bella" I only ate half of it and I was stuffed. I would probably skip lunch now. So I got up and went downstairs. To my dismay Edward had more surprises.

As I was walking down the stairs, still tired and rubbing my eyes. I failed to notice that there were streamers lining the stairwell. As I walked into the kitchen I did notice that there was a big, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELLA sign in there. I groaned. Then, all of the sudden a big and loud "HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELLA" came from 4 of the Cullen's excluding Edward who was just walking down the stairs carrying my breakfast tray.

Alice came bouncing over, "So Bella how do you like it?" she asked

I didn't want to hurt her feelings, it was great. Any normal kid who wanted to celebrate there birthday would have been thrilled. But even though Edward promised to have me changed next year, I still felt disappointed. I was officially one year older than Edward. Ever second I grew older put more and more space between us. But I think that he must feel even more distant, considering he's about a hundred years older than me.

"Bella?" Alice asked a million questions in her eyes.

"I love it Alice," I said enthusiastically.

"You do?" then a devilish grin came on her face "Then you'll love tonight" This time I couldn't hold back a groan. I thought that this would pass as my party.

"Alice come on isn't this good enough? You guys give me so many things, and you won't let me give you anything back."

"Ah come on Bella, don't ruin our fun. We haven't had a birthday party in years."

I sighed there was no winning against Alice. Once again I had lost to the practiced arguer.

"Bella go get ready for school, not that I don't love seeing you like this." Rosalie said.

Edward growled at her, but I just laughed. "Yeah, I forgot that I hadn't changed yet."

But before I could get up the stairs Emmett came over and gave me a big bear hug. "Happy birthday Bella" He said

"Yeah Bella, Happy Birthday." Jasper mumbled. He was still uncomfortable around me.

"Thanks you, guys. I really do appreciate it." I said.

I went upstairs and got ready for school. When Edward came up into my room I was already dressed in jeans and a brown sweater with a white t-shirt underneath it.

"Hey Edward" I said.

"Happy Birthday", Edward said, and then he kissed me.

"Thanks" I said. And I kissed him back. I had already say thank you about a hundred times this morning and would have to say about a thousand times tonight.

"So how did you decorate so fast without Charlie finding out?" I asked

"Oh the Chief has known about it all along. I really don't think Alice could have pulled this off without squealing in delight a couple hundred times before it was ready"

"Oh I should have known." I said.

Charlie had been acting a little shifty all night. He even went to bed before his big football game was over. It was the Seabirds opening game or something like that. Charlie was not known for keeping secrets.

"Yes you should of known Bella, your usually much more observant." He teased

"Oh be quiet Edward" I said

"Well we'll be late for school if you take any longer are you fully ready, or do you need a human moment?"

"No, no I'm fine Edward. Lets get going"

So we walked to his shiny freshly washed Volvo that was probably only going to be shiny for a couple more hours, because of course it looked like it was going to rain.

We arrived at school in a timely fashion. How could we ever be late with his manic driving? The other Cullens had taken Rosalie's also shiny BMW convertible.

Me and Edward went to our lockers and for that short time we were separated. I got my books as fast as I could and went off to see Alice. But before I could even close my locker Mike was there. With Roses.

Oh no.

"Hey Bella, Happy Birthday." Then he shoved the roses into my hands. Obviously trying to impress me once again. And then it hit me. Other people besisdes the Cullens knew about my birthday.

I had to craftily hide my horror. So I said, "Thanks, How'd you know it was my birthday?"

"Oh I looked it up in the school records."

Stalker

"Wow Mike, you never run out of surprises." He beamed.

Then I was saved by the bell. "Uh-oh I'm going to be late for class. Again." I quickly stuffed the roses into my locker and went off to government.

"Ok see you in English" Mike called after me. Ugh English I had two classes with Mike biology and English and if you counted lunch, three.

When I went to government Edward was there trying really hard to hold back a laugh.

"You didn't" I said almost yelling.

"I couldn't help myself. I thought that Mike learned his lesson yesterday, but it seems that human males never know when to quit." He chuckled

I sulked for the rest of the class still a little bit mad at Edward.

When class got out we headed to trig. I was really worried that Jess had found out about my birthday from Mike, but since she was still a little bit cool with him I doubt that she would know.

Thankfully I was right. "Hey Bella" was her only greeting. This justified my theory about the break up with Mike. If she did know about my birthday, she refused to acknowledge it.

The rest of the day went uneventful and I was disappointed because I never did get to talk to Alice about her vision since Edward or Mike was always hanging around. I would have to corner after school. But she probably knew what I was trying to do and avoided me as much as possible.

Alice did talk to me in the parking lot after school to make sure I was still coming to my own birthday party.

"So Bella are you going to go to the party or what?" she said jublulently.

I had decided that I could not win this fight so I just sighed and said "What time should I come over?"

"Oh I'd say sixish? That should give me enough time to put up the decorations"

"You need three hours!" I said shocked. "Three hours is a really long time for a vampire. I mean the decorations at my house were to much and you did that in like what? Thirty minutes?"

"Oh you mean those little streamers? Oh those are just confetti compared to what I have in store for you." She winked.

I groaned in horror.

"Don't worry Alice," Edward said. "I'll make sure she comes over."

"Edward that's not necessasary. I already decided to come over without a fight."

"Oh, but you humans can never be trusted" Edward said sarcasticly.

So two hours later I was getting ready for my party. I put on some of the clothes that Alice had gotten me in Los Angeles. I put on nice black pants with a sweater shat was the shade of blue that Edward loved on me. Edward had already taken care of Charlie, and we got into his "special occasions" car and drove off to the Cullens.

To my horror the outside of the house was decorated as well as then inside. The porch railings were lined with streamers. And to my dismay there was an even bigger version of the HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELLA sign hung over the house.

The inside was a thousand times worse. There were about five hundred balloons. Streamers hanging from the ceiling, and many other foreign birthday decorations, but to my extreme horror there was a big stack of presents.

Edward laughed "Well theirs no restraining Alice."

"You're telling me."

Alice ran down the stairs so fast she was a blur ran right behind me and whispered in my ear "Happy Birthday Bella" I jumped back and Emmett laughed and I immediately turned a bright shade of red.

Esme and Carlisle walked down the stairs gracefully. "Hello Bella, Happy Birthday." They both said. "Thanks, you guys."

It was basically like a regular night at the Cullen's. We played some games and as usual I didn't win a single one. It was really the same…..until it came to opening presents.

Alice's gift was wrapped in brightly colored, shiny, shimmery, sparkly paper. I opened it hesitantly, and of course she had bought me one of the most expensive MP3 players on the market. "Edward said that your casset… I mean CD player was a little out of date" she laughed.

"Alice you really didn't have to get this" I pleaded, already knowing that I would end up with it anyways.

"Well if you think that that's bad wait till you see the other gifts." Edward laughed.

I opened Rosalie's gift next which was a simple silver box, which contained a very expensive pair of flat bottomed shoes. "Rosalie, well you remembered that I can't walk two feet in high heels, Thanks"

She smiled. "Your Welcome."

Next, I opened Emmett and Jasper's gift went together, Emmett had gotten me a new computer very high tech looking, and Jasper had gotten me the best internet connection available. This was a gift I would really use.

"Thanks you two this will get a lot of use!" I said really excited.

The next one was from Carlisle and Esme. I had been hoping that this one was a practical necessasary gift that wasn't that expensive. But once again I was wrong. I opened it and there was a small silver cell phone, like the one he had given everyone before Phoenix.

"Wow, I really like this one, now I can talk anywhere I want."

The last gift was the one I had been anticipating the most. The gift from Edward, what wonders could be in store for me this time around.

Before I could open it, Edward said, "Don't worry Bella I didn't spend anything on this gift."

I opened it and there contained a CD. It was called, Songs about Bella.

"It contains all the songs I've written about you." He said quietly.

"Thanks." I whispered quietly. My eyes where welling up.

"Bellllaaaa" Alice said from across the room. "There's one more present."

"Who is it from?" I asked.

"I don't know it doesn't have a name on it."

"Well give it here and we can find out."

I opened the present. All that was inside it was a piece of paper folded up. I assumed it was a poem or something from Edward.

I opened up the letter and silently read it.

Dear Bella,

I am writing this to you as a request. If this request is deined then I will be forced to take action. You and your beloved Edward have had 3 months to enjoy each others company since the death of James. Now that is all going to end. I will be merciful though. I am giving you an option, Leave Edward Cullen and the rest of his family alone or suffer the consequences. As I said before this is a request. Happy Birthda.

I looked up in horror as I struggled to figure outwhat to do next.