A/N: Hey guys. This might be the last chapter for the week because of Easter. I have several different families that I have to go see so I am going to have a busy weekend. I am going to try and write another one on Saturday, so let's hope. I forgot to wish all of my Jewish readers a Happy Passover yesterday. Also Happy Easters to my readers who celebrate that holiday. Hope everyone likes how the story is going; I really loved Seth from the books so I wanted to make him a bigger part in this. Well have a great weekend and I will defiantly be posting a chapter on Monday!

Music: Timbaland: Shock Value and Pink I'm Not Dead.

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I woke up in the morning with a throbbing pain in my arm. I looked over and saw the cast. How I wish that had just ended up being a bad dream. The cast literally went half way up my humorous bone, because the last brake was so close to my elbow. The cast was heavy so I did have a sling to keep it in. Sue peeked into my room to make sure I was awake. I waver to her and she smiled and closed the door again.

I was going to have to wear loose fitting clothes to be able to get them over the cast. I found a baggy t-shirt. I would be able to wear a hoodie over it. I grabbed my clothes and went to go and battle the shower. I had a plastic wrap that I would be able to use when I took a show, but I decided on a bath, it was going to be easier then a shower to start with.

After a horrible long bath I was finally clean. Sue came to help me blow dry my hair, which I was glad. She also helped me get my hoodie on, but I was able to do the rest. Sue and I both smelled smoke at one point. We both had scared looks in our eyes and ran down stairs.

When we got to the kitchen we saw that Charlie was trying to cook. He had burned the pancakes that Sue had already made the batter for when she was done helping me. Sue ran over and pushed Charlie away to see if she could fix the pancakes.

"Sue what did you have in them? The one actually caught on fire!"

"Nothing that normal pancake should not have in them. Sweetie did we not agree that when we got married you would never try and cook again?" Sue coed at him.

I had to giggle at that. My father was almost as bad of a cook as my mother. The difference was that Charlie could grill a mean hamburger or steak. If Charlie ever tried to cook in the house it ended up like this. The smoke alarm always went off.

"I just wanted to help out because I knew Bells needed your help."

"I am glad that you tried to help, but please do not do it again," Sue said and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Well I guess eggs and toast it is," she said and reached into the refrigerator.

A few minutes later I heard Seth coming down the steps. He had gotten a quick shower when Sue and I ran from the bathroom. I went over and gave him a hug. I do not think Seth knew how much I loved what he had done for me, not only defending me but also not telling Charlie.

"Thanks sis, what's that for?"

"For being the amazing brother that you are," I said and went to the dinner table. Charlie was reading his paper and put it down when Seth sat down.

"Seth, me and your mother talked last night. I wanted to ground you, not for defending Bella but for fighting. Sue on the other hand said that is what brothers do. So I am going to let it slide this time. Please no more fighting, OK?" Charlie said in her serious cop voice.

"Yes sir," Seth replied saluting Charlie. Even laughed at that and breakfast was back to a light tone.

The rest of breakfast was a lot of joking and laughing. Charlie made a joke about how I broke my arm on purpose so that I would not have to participate in gym. When we where done I went to go do the dishes and saw that I could not wash them. Seth smiled and handed me the dish towel and we went to the sink. We where just about done when I heard the door bell.

SHIT! I forgot about Edward. I did not come up with a good excuse on how I broke my arm. I did not want to tell the whole truth because I did not want Edward to kill Jacob. Charlie gave me a dirty look and went to answer the door. He was not expecting a visitor this early in the morning. I heard Charlie talking to someone and then I saw Edward in the doorway from the kitchen to the hallway. He had a bouquet of white lilies for me.

"Alice called me. She told me you broke your arm. I wanted to make sure I had something to cheer you up," Edward said with a smile and walked over to hand me the lovely flowers.

"Thank you very much Edward. Seth could you please get me a vase from the top shelf there," I said pointing to the cabinet above the sink. I took the flowers that Edward bought for me and smelled them. They smelled wonderful. I smiled at Edward as Seth filled the vase and helped me put the flowers in there. I saw Stormy come around the corner and look at Edward wish a confused look with her head cocked to the side.

"Ready for school?" I asked Edward. I called good bye to my family and went out the front door. Edward did not say anything. I was going to hear about this in the car. Edward opened the door for me and then closed it. I did not fight about it because it was going to be hard for me to do things like this.

When Edward got into the car he brought the engine to life and pulled out of the driveway. "What the fuck happened yesterday? I get a call from Alice late last night telling me that you fucked up your arm. Her father told her it was one of the worst breaks he has seen in while."

"I went to use the bathroom. When I came out Jake cornered me. I called to Seth and he came right over. I tried to explain to Jake that there was no need for us to talk anymore. We where done there was nothing more to be said. He grabbed my arm and told me no. I asked him to let go. He twisted my arm and told me no. I screamed from the pain and Seth leaped at Jake and knocked him over. From the impact of the fall and my arm being twisted my arm broke in three places," I pointed to where Dr. Cullen had showed me. "Do not be mad at Seth. He was protecting me."

"I know. I want to do something to thank him. That was amazing of him to do that."

I smiled glad that Edward was not mad at Seth. I thought he might blame him for the break. The rest of the ride was in silence. It was my left arm that was broken so it was hard for Edward and I to hold hands in the car, but we where able to. Edward helped me get out of the car and put my book bag on when we got to school. Alice was waiting for me with a balloon and a card. I hated how she had to make a big deal out of everything.

"Hey Bella. My dad told me about you. So I got you some presents to cheer you up!" she sung and walked over to give me a hug. As she gave me my hug she tied the balloon strong to my book bag with I knot I would not be able to get out.

"Did you already let everyone know?" I jokingly asked her.

"Yes, but we do not know how this happened. I am excited for the gossip about this. I am guessing that it was the Black boy? Like from the part?"

"Yes Alice it does. Ask Edward I am tiered of retelling this story." I looked over and saw Edward whispering to Emmett. I saw Emmett's eyes start to blaze with hate. My new surrogate big brother was getting mad that someone attacked his little sister. Then I saw Rose come up to me and give me a hug. Rose and I where not too close, but she was still friendly with me. Jasper gave me a smile and mouthed "feel better."

Alice was whisking me to my first class. I called to Edward, but he was still talking to Emmett. Well that was going to be interesting. Alice helped me get my books from my locker and walked with me to our first class. When we sat down Alice gave me the card. It was a corny get well type card but it was signed by all of my new friends so I really did like it. I smile and gave her a hug. The day went by slowly. I saw a lot of people looking at me and asking about my arm. My simple explanation was I got in the middle of a fight. People did not want to ask anymore then that.

When I got to history with Rose she was eager to talk. This was not normal Rose behavior. "So how did Edward react to you telling him?"

"Alice had called him last night to let him know I had a bad break, but he was calm when I told him the reason why."

"Oh. Well Emmett is fuming. He is talking about driving down to the reservation and kicking the shit out of the kid."

"Rose he can not do that. Listen we all just have to pretend like this never happened. It is done and over with. I know my dad asked Billy not to bring Jake back to my house for a little while so we are in the clear."

"You are going to have to talk to Emmett himself, and also Edward. He wants to go with Emmett. That was what they where talking about before school today."

I nodded to Rose and then the class started. Our teacher told us that he would be breaking us up into groups of four and we would be assigned an event in history and we would have to do a large paper and presentation about it. She started calling out names, so I paid extra attention.

"Group four will be Isabella, Rosalie, James, and Aro. Group five…"

I looked over at Rose next to me and she had a pissed off look on her face. When I scanned the room I saw the two boys who where in the Outcast group. James looked at me and smiled. I looked past him. The teacher told us to get in our groups, James and Aro came to sit by Rose and me.

Both of the both of the boys just sat down and waited for our packet. When our teacher came to us he sat down and handed us our packet. "OK. Your guys are post WWII. I want you to talk about the end of the war and the effects it had on the United States. Along with the seven page paper I want you guys to take mock up photos of the time. You will also recreate a famous picture, which is in the packet. Lastly you will also give a presentation to the class, as a group."

We had four copies of the packet. I flipped though just to see what was what. I stopped when I saw the picture we where going to have to recreate. It was the famous kissing sailor picture from when he came home from WWII. I felt my stomach drop. I looked over at Rose and showed her the picture. She also made a sound. Unless we could get these two boys to kiss, Rose or I was going to have to kiss one of them. She had dark hair so I might loose this battle.

"How do you want to divide up the work?" I heard Aro speak.

He was in one of my other classes and I never once heard him speak. He was the silent member of the group. His voice was deep, firm, and sounded wiser beyond his years. His face was soft and I wondered why he would hang out with someone like James.

Rose spoke next, "Bella and I could get the information on the U.S. after WWII if you boys want to get the ending information of the war and maybe how it affected the men."

"The picture?" James said, pointing to it in our packet.

"We will figure that out later," I said quickly.

We spent the rest of the class discussing exactly what we wanted to get and who was going to get that information. It seemed that James and Aro where willing to do their side of the work, even though it was not as much as Rose and I had. We where also going to make power point to show the class.

The bell rang and class was over. Rose helped me with my bag and when we walked out the door Edward was waiting for me. I smiled at him and we walked hand in hand to lunch. Edward got food for me and him and carried it to the table for me. I hated being cared for, but I knew it was inevitable.

Our lunch table was buzzing with information about me. Everyone wanted to know the whole story of what happened. I looked at Edward and he decided to tell the story so I would not have to. When Edward spoke everyone was quite and listened. I saw Alice and Rose both whine when Edward talked about my falling and my bones breaking.

"I am gonna fucking kill him!" Emmett shouted which got the attention of everyone in the lunch room.

"Shhh," I said grabbing his arms, "No you are not. You are going to be a good friend and just let this blow over. I do not want to have to worry about Charlie coming to arrest you."

"Do not worry about anything Beauty, things are going to be fine," Edward cooed to me. He started to run his fingers in my hair, which felt wonderful with me all stressed out. Alice started to talk about something else to direct everyone attention away from me and onto her. I loved when she did that.

Lunch was too short, but I had my next class with Edward so I did not mind. Edward helped me out of my seat and led me off to class. I called goodbye back to everyone and they all did the same to me. Everyone in the hall ways made room for me as to not hit my cast.

We got into the classroom to see that we where going to have to do a lab. I hoped it was not too hard since I only had one arm to use. Edward was my lab partner so that would make things easier. We where going to be looking at the different stages of mitosis, super easy.

Edward and I got our lab done well before the rest of the class so we had time to talk. I looked over at Edward and gave him a large smile. I loved to look at his perfect features. Edward was writing out names on the worksheet.

"Please do not go down and start anything Edward," I begged.

"Beauty, dear, do not worry," he soothed back to me.

"No really Edward, I know that you want to be the big man and protect me, but please Edward."

"Do you want to come when Emmett and I talk to him? Will that make you feel better that we will not hurt him. We are just going to scare him and make some threats."

"Edward I do not want you doing that."

"Listen, you are my girlfriend, I have to protect you. Since I can not hurt him, I will talk to him. Emmett is just going to be there for show. He is kinda scary I hear."

I laughed when Edward said that. Emmett was really scary when you first see him. He was built winder then any other man I had seen. He was also very tall. "Fine, but I will be there too."

"Like I said, you can be there," Edward smiled at me and kissed my bandaged left hand.

It was time to go over the worksheet with the class. Edward and I had every answer right like always. We both had done this work before. The rest of the class was slow. When it was over Tanya walked past and rolled her eyes. I hated how she was such a bitch.

Edward walked me to gym. He did not walk me to the locker room doors, but the doors to the gym themselves. Edward told me to meet him at his car when I was done class. Emmett was going to drive with us. Edward kissed me hand and again he was off.

Once I handed my script to the teacher he had me go and sit on the bleachers. I would have to write a two page paper about each sport that we would play while I was out of gym. That sounded wonderful to me. I mostly watched Emmett play basketball while I was sitting there. I did not have anything better to do. Class was over and I decided to wait for Emmett before we went to Edward's car.

Emmett gave me a hug on my good side, "We are going to make sure that this punk never comes near you again."

"With no physical force. I will know, because I am going."

"Fine, with no physical force…" Emmett grumbled. I know he wanted a fight, but I would not allow it.

We met everyone out in the parking lot. Alice was sitting on her car talking with Rose and Jasper. Edward was not out yet; he seemed to always be the last to show. Rose and Alice talked about a possible karaoke bar visit in the future and I rolled my eyes.

Emmett went over to give Rose a large kiss and talk to her about his plans. She looked at me and the nodded in agreement with Emmett. Alice was now whispering to Jasper and both of them laughing. Alice had a sexy look in her eyes so I am guessing they were going to have a fun little afternoon.

Edward came up from behind me and wrapped his arms around my waste. I jumped and let out a little scream. Edward let out a raspy light laughter in my ear. I felt his hot breath on my neck and immediately my hormones went into over drive. I felt feelings that I had not had since last summer.

"Ready, Beauty?" Edward whispered.

"As ready as I can me."

"OK then" Edward placed a small light kiss on my neck, and called Emmett over. Edward opened the front door for me to get in.

"Let Emmett sit in the front, it has more room."

"He is fine in the back; he likes to sit there,"

I huffed and get into the front seat. It seems that with Edward I will never really be able to get what I want. I sat in the front seat and let my mind wonder while we drove down to La Push. I heard the boys talking but I did not want to focus too much on what it was. I was hoping this would be the last time that I would have to see Jacob Black in a sad situation.

As we crossed the town lines Edward shook my shoulder and asked me, "Where do you think that he will be?"

"Um his house, or around the beach area."

"OK we will drive around see if we can find him," Edward said. Well he did not have to drive around for too long. Jacob was in his front yard with his two best friends Quil and Embry. They where there yesterday.

Edward parked the car in front of the house and got out of the car. I heard Emmett get out too. I deiced that I would get out also. I think that Edward has assumed I would want to do this. He came over and opened the door up for me. It has been raining all day in Forks so it was nice to see that it was just over cast over in La Push. I did not want to have to stand in the rain.

"Hey Bella," Embry and Quil said together. They were like twins with how they did things.

"Hey guys," I said back to them. I looked over at Jake and saw his face. I could not believe how much damage that Seth had done. Jake had a black eye on his right side. His nose was all busted up, along with his lip.

"Hello Bella," Jake said.

"Hi."

"So you brought in the cavalry to finish off what Seth started?"

"No Jake this was not my idea. This was theirs."

"Hello Jacob," Edward said.

Jacob nodded his head. Jacob nodded at Emmett and he nodded back. They did not feel the need to speak to each other.

"Well let's start this," Jacob said.

"Jake we are not here to fight. We are here to talk. I do not want you speaking to Bella again. You can not be in the same area as her. The last two times you have seen her you have hurt her. Once emotionally and the second physically. If I do find out that you have been around her I will come here and kill you. I am not joking Jake. Next time I will not let Bella talk me down. The reason why I am not beating you not is because of her. Do you understand?"

"Yeah. Can I ask you something?" Jake asked.

"Maybe."

"Can I talk to Bella one last time? You all can hang around, just out of eat shot, but in eye sight. I just want to get this all out in the open."

Edward looked over at me. He wanted to see my decision. I nodded once to Edward. He nodded back and moved away with Emmett. I saw Quil and Embry move back to.

"OK Jake lets get this over with."

"I am sorry about last summer. I am sorry about what I did. I was young and stupid. I just thought that if I started things you would want to. I did not think that you really did not want to. I mean you have to see it from my point of view…"

This is when I cut him off. I was doing a good job keeping myself composed. "Jake I told you several times that I did not want to do that. I told you before to stop. You punched me. Do not play the whole I thought you really wanted to card. Jake what happened was horrible. What you did to me you can never take back. You stole from me. This is something that can not be forgiven. I am sorry Jake."

"Yeah. Well whatever Bella. I tried to apologize. I guess I will see you around or whatever."

"Yes Jake whatever. Good bye," I said and walked away back to Edward's car.

Edward opened the door for me and I got in. Emmett got in after me. Then I heard Edward get in the car too. I kept my head against the window and looked at the passing road. Edward dropped Emmett off and then took me back to my house.

"Are you OK?"

"Yes Edward I am fine," I lied.

"I am sorry about that. I do not know what he said but I am guessing that it was not good."

"He tried to say he was sorry and said that he thought that if we started I really would want to."

We were at my house now. Edward parked the car and turned it off. I looked over at him and leaned in to me. He held me in an embrace. I did not care I just needed to be held. He held me for awhile. When I was done I pulled back and looked at Edward in the eyes. His eyes where screaming at me.

I could not control myself. I leaned in and finally kissed Edward. I am glad that he did not pull away. He did the opposite. He held my face in his hands and kissed me even harder. I let out a soft moan. Edward pulled back.

"Sorry," he said.

"For what?" I asked.

"You made a sound. Did I hurt you?"

I giggled. "Edward that was a good sound. That means I liked it."

Edward's eyes light up even more then they were before. He leaned back in and kissed me again. It was a long and deep kiss. I felt my lips part and so did Edward's. I felt his tongue slip into my mouth and another moan escaped my mouth. Edward held me closer when I made the sound. After a few minutes I had to pull back. I needed to catch my breath.

I gave Edward my biggest smile and he gave me his crooked smile back, "WOW," I said.

"Yes, wow explains it wonderfully."

"I will see you tomorrow?" I asked.

"I will pick you up at the same time."

I smiled and got out of the car. I went into the house and smelled dinner. I looked at the clock and noticed what time it really was. It was just about dinner time. I went into the kitchen and saw everyone was in there waiting for dinner; thank god it was not ready.

Dinner was ready about a half an hour later. After we ate Seth washed the dishes and I dried them. I did not talk too much. I was wrapped up in my own little world. I took my flowers and went to my bedroom. I sat down and did my homework, trying to keep my mind off of everything.

After my homework was done I looked over to my flowers and smiled. They were on my nightstand. I got changed and went over to my bed. I sat on my bed and smelled my flowers. I smile to myself and realized that I had very intense feelings for Edward. He had done all of this for me in the few days that I knew him. He was so much to me. I lay down on my bed and started to drift to sleep. I could not be in love with Edward, could I? Then I was asleep.