EPOV

After class I was going to try to stay a little to hear what Mr. Brandon had to say to Bella. Alice wanted me out of there as fast as possible it seemed. She took my hand and dragged me out of the room. I for one did not like this brooding Alice. She should be happy, jumping up and down. She should really be jumping up and down today with Bella being back and all. This is so wrong. I looked at Alice and she looks so, I don't know. The best way to describe is like a sad little girl, I think. The reason she looks like a little girl right now is not because she is short, it's all in the look on her face.

Her eyes look so lost and hurt, really all of her looks hurt. She has her arms wrapped around herself. Like she is trying to keep herself from falling apart. The worst part of all of this, is that the person that has done this to her doesn't even know she did it.

"How was class?" Jasper asked as he come up to us. Guess he hasn´t seen Alice´s face yet. Alice looked up at Jasper and he immediately put his arms around her. "That bad? What happened?" Alice just stood there in Jasper arms without saying anything. This was not my place to say anything. Alice was the one that had to tell him it was her decision. We just stood there for a little while, until Jasper couldn't take the silence any more.

"Alice what´s wrong? Can you please tell me?" Jasper asked.

"She´s in my class. In my stupid class and even worse, she sits right next to me!" Alice was about to say something else, when Bella walked right past us. I looked at her, I would never get over just how much she changed. She was a new Bella.

She looked different from this morning, her eyes were off. They had been so playful this morning and in class they were cold like she was trying to hide something. You could also see that she was nervous. Now they looked hurt, sad and something else I just couldn`t place. She looked at the flour with her shoulders down. She was nothing like she had been this morning in the parking lot.

What had happened? Did this have something to do with her talking to Mr. Brandon? Had she heard what Alice had said?

Then again it could also be something else. Bella hadn´t looked like she cared that Alice or I was in the class.

Bella disappeared and I wanted to follow, but what would Alice say if I did? I had to stay, Alice needed me now. My eyes followed Bella until she rounded a corner out of my site.

After I couldn't see her anymore I turned back to Alice and Jasper. Alice had this lost look in her eyes, she come to me and put her arms around me for comfort.

This is weird.

She never comes to me for comfort when she had Jasper close by. This had to be bad. I put my arms around her as well and patted her one the back.

"I lost her, haven´t I?" Alice said sadly. I didn´t know what to say to her. I wasn't sure if she had or not. "I should have just ran to her when I first saw her and gave her a big hug." I could hear that she wasn´t far from tears now.

I told Jasper to go to class. Jasper said that he would give the teacher a reason why. I took Alice out to my car. I needed to talk to her to really hear what she thought about all this.

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Once we were in the car Alice just sat there. At first I didn´t say anything but then I couldn't let the silence go any longer.

"She recognized me" was all I said. I had to see how she would take that.

Alice just looked at me while she processed what I said to her. Looking into her eyes I could see that she didn´t know what to believe.

"Your kidding me right?" I didn't get a chance to answer because Alice kept going. "Don't answer that. Of course she did, your Edward Cullen! Who cares about me? I'm just your stupid sister. I was her friend for eight years. Her Best Friend might I add. I tried to keep in touch, I -I-I.." she was crying now. She even hit me a few times. "I was her friend, not you. You didn´t even like her, or at least you acted like you didn´t. This isn´t fair!" She just sat there for a little while. Tears running down her cheeks. She finally wiped the tears away. Alice turned around and looked at me before saying,

"how do you know she recognized you?" I went with what made me 100% sure she remember me and recognized me.

"She stuck her tongue out at me." Alice laughed a little and I started telling her about how she was in the parking lot. Keeping the part of me liking her 'new body' to myself.

"I guess it's my turn now right?" Alice said after I was finished.

"If you want to. It´s all up to you Alice." We sat in the back seat with my arm over her shoulders.

"I was standing just down the hall from the office talking to Rose and Jasper. Rose said that the new girl was down the hall. I turned around, kind of happy but also nervous. You know what if she didn´t recognized me. When I turned around I see her walking to where we stood. What I saw was not Bella. At least not my old BFF Bella anyway. She had no emotion in her eyes or on her face at all. When she first looked at me it was like I was a nobody. All she asked, in this cold voice was if this is the way to the office." Alice kept playing with my fingers. "I just couldn´t be there. Not with her looking at me like that and talking in that voice. It was hell and I for one didn´t even know what to say. I just stood there looking her up and down and when or eyes meet I just ran."

Alice finished with a little laugh that sounded so sad. One I have never heard from Alice before.

She turns to look at me. "I could have said something. Like nice to have you back or good to see you, you look great. I mean anything really but no I just ran. This is hard.

That's what I have been saying!

To make matters worse I think, she thinks that I hate her back."

"Can I say something?" I waited because I didn´t want to say something if Alice didn´t want to hear what I had to say.

"No..." she said shaking her head, then she looked at me and said, "come on Cullen out with it." I laughed "Cullen huh? Don't know if I want to tell you now Cullen." She laughed to this time.

"Come on Edward" she looked at me and I couldn´t say no to her.

"Maybe she didn´t know what to say or do just like you. Plus you had both Jasper and Rose there with you Alice. We both know that Rose can be scary. So with that plus the part where she left without saying goodbye. She didn't keep in touch with you. I would bet that she was just as scared as you were." Alice just looked at me like I have five heads or something. It started to creep me out. "WHAT?" I couldn´t stand this.

"You are definitely defending Bella now." Alice said, "It's just weird, to hear you do it. Now that I heard what you have said, you may be right. It could be weird for her too, but she could have at least said 'hi' or something."

We went quite after that. I put some music on and we didn´t say anything more before the class bell rang. We then made our way back inside. Alice found Jasper and I went to my locker to get some books

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After the class I and Alice skipped not much happened.

That is, not before lunch anyway.

I was walking alone to the cafeteria, I was meeting up with Alice and the others. I saw Bella sitting in a corner of the hall alone. I thought about asking her what was up with her and why she acted the way she did to Alice. Then I heard her talk, she was on the phone with someone.

"They hate me here." she almost whispered. She listened to the person on the other end of the line. "But this is hard." She went quite for a long time I thought maybe she had hung up when I heard her say,

"I wish you were here Emmett. I need you here. I can´t do this, the one that came up with this idea should be shot." She was quite a little longer before she kept going. " Yea, yea. You love me too much."

Did I hear right, loves her too much? Who is this Emmett guy? What a stupid name.

Then she started to talk again."Of course I love you to. See you when I get home." Then she laughed this beautiful laugh. It sounded like angels. If it wasn´t for what she just had said to this guy on the phone, I would be in heaven. "Yea bye Em" she put her phone away after that. I watched as she Put her head on her knees and sighed. I walked out of the building fuming, that was not what I wanted to hear.

I sat down on one of the benches and tried to figure out all of this stuff running around my head.

Who was this Emmett guy?

Why did he love her?

The thing I wanted to know most was; Why did she love him?

Did she have a boyfriend?

Did he move with her?

Was he living with her now?

Was she living with him? She did say she would see him when she got home.

I for one did not like any of this. Why did she have to love someone already?