JPOV

Nikki came catapulting out of the hallway leading to her room at my parents house screaming for all she was worth.

"Daddydaddydaddydaddydaddy, you're back!" I smiled, Nikki was just so cute.

Scooping her up in my arms, I lifted Nikki high above my head and spun her around.

"Hello, darling" Bella gasped and ran out of the room as fast as her heels would allow.

I set Nikki on the floor and she looked up at me, her big blue eyes filled with curiosity, and asked me in that sweet little voice of hers,

"Daddy, who was that lady?"

I stared whistfully at the door and whispered to silently for her to hear,

"Your new mommy, I hope."

I didn't try to follow Bella that night. I knew that it would only make matters worse. Instead I tried to call her cell phone.

The first time that I called her it was about three minutes after she had left. That time her phone didn't sound the ring, it gave me a busy signal instead. I just took this to mean that Bella was calling Edward to come and get her.

That night I must have called Bella a million times, she never answered and I left a message every time.

When she didn't answer my heart dropped lower and lower in my chest. I could only imagine what Bella and Edward were up to.

Bella would spend her night crying her eyes out into Edward's pillow, while he rode out the torrent of tears holding her in his lap.

The idea of Edward comforting Bella, MY Bella, sent waves of jealousy through me. He was probably relishing every moment he had her away from me, stroking her hair and caressing her-

NO! I couldn't even let myself begin to think like that. Bella would never let Edward do that to her. Would she?

I tried to convince myself of Bella's devotion to me, as I tried her number one more time. Still no answer.

Throughout this intense calling session, I had been laying on the bed that my parents kept for Nikki, with her lying at my feet. Now it was half past midnight and Nikki had passed out, with her little arms curled around my calves.

I sighed, I obviously wasn't going to get through to Bella, at least no now. I put my phone on Nikki's pink night stand, and lay down to put my head on her fuzzy fuschia pillow.

That night I fell into a shallow, fitful sleep. Nothing in my dreams seemed right that night, my dreams kept drifting over to what Bella and Edward were probably doing at the moment.

It wasn't pretty, in fact, now that I was taking the time to think about it, the things that I saw in my dreams that night where probably what Bella thought I had done with Nikki before she discovered that I wasn't cheating on her.

Oh God, please don't let the dreams come true.

Wow that was short. Only 1 ½ pages typed. Don't worry the next chapter will be longer I swear.