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Recap:

I literally fell into bed and I heard chuckle from behind me. "Shut up! I'm pregnant and uncoordinated," I told him while I threw a pillow at him.

"And I'm a vampire and amused," he replied in a playful tone. I stuck my tongue out at him and crossed my arms over my chest.

He chuckled again, "Go to bed Bella," he said.

"OK, I love you Edward," I said.

"I love you more," he said.

"Not possible," I managed to say before falling into a nice sleep.

BPOV

I woke up in Edward's arms and immediately remembered everything that had happened the previous day. Seeing Mike in the mall. Aro Volturi visiting Carlisle. Charlie finding out that the Cullens were vampires.

Wait!

Charlie knew Edward was a vampire! What if he won't let me be with Edward? I can't lose Edward! I can't! He's helped through hell, he still is helping me through hell! If I lose him I won't be able to make it through life.

"Bella, love," Edward's velvet voice whispered in my ear, "you're heart's racing! What's wrong?" I turned to face him and sucked in a breath.

"What if Charlie won't let me be with you? What if he doesn't like the idea that his only child is in love with a vampire? I can't lose you Edward, I can't!" by the time I was finished talking my voice was frantic. Edward pulled me closer to him and rubbed circles on my back.

"Shh, Bella. It's ok. I've read his mind. He's not super excited about us, but he's realized that I've saved you and he's going to allow it," he told me while smiling my favorite crooked smile.

I felt my heart sore once those words left his perfect mouth. I flung myself on top of him and my lips against his stone cold lips. At first he was shocked, but after a few seconds his lips moved with mine.

Too soon I heard someone clear their throat and we broke apart. Alice, now in the doorway, said, "I know first kisses are important and all, but Carlisle needs to talk to you Bella." She was laughing and I blushed deeper than I ever have before. Edward was just smiling.

Still looking into my eyes, Edward said, "Tell Carlisle she'll be there after she has her human moments."

Once Alice left, I said, "Do I have to go? I'd much rather stay here with you." I used to puppy dog face on him, he just chuckled, and kissed my head, "Yes, love, you do. You're going to talk to your lawyer and I'll be there with you."

"Crap! I was supposed to talk to him last night, wasn't I? Oops," I said, feeling stupid for forgetting about talking to him and going to bed early.

"It's OK Bella, Carlisle rearranged the meeting to this morning. Now go have your human moments," he said, getting up and carrying me to the bathroom.

I turned the shower up to as hot as it could get and hopped in. I let the water beat on my back to relieve the stress of yesterday and the days to come. When I felt less stressed I shampooed my hair and lathered myself in bubbles and rinsed.

I got out after about 20 minutes and noticed an outfit was already picked out for me. Hanging on the door was a pair of black dress pants and a 3 quarter sleeve white collared shirt. I quickly dried myself off and got dressed.

I was brushing my teeth and I felt that all too familiar nauseating feeling in my stomach. I ran over to the toilet and emptied whatever was in my stomach. I realized that Edward was holding my hair. "I will never get used to that," I said, resting my head on Edward's chest.

"I know love," Edward whispered in my ear. "Are you ready to go talk to your lawyer? He just arrived," Edward asked me.

I stood up very slowly and reached my hand out for him to grab, "I'm as ready as I can be," I told him, while he took me hand and walked me to Carlisle's study.

As we were walking I thought about our kiss. There were so many sparks I could of gotten electrocuted. I couldn't help but to smile at that memory.

Edward looked down at me, "What are you thinking about that's making you smile like that? I've never seen you smile like that before," he said.

"The kiss," I told him, "and I guess before I met I never had a reason to smile like this." I hadn't realized we had stopped walking until Edward's lips were on mine. We broke apart when I couldn't breath anymore and I mentally cursed myself for having to have to breath.

When we got to Carlisle's study I didn't even have to time to knock on the door before I heard Carlisle say, "Come in Bella and Edward."

Edward opened the door for me and I walked in and sat down. I noticed a well dressed man sitting in the room as well, and I assumed he was my lawyer.

"Bella," Carlisle spoke, "This is your lawyer, Mr. Lewis, the best in the state of Washington."

I stuck my hand out to him, "Hello, Mr. Lewis, I'm Isabella Swan, but I prefer Bella. And you have no idea how much this means to me,"

He just shrugged his shoulder, "It's my job," he smiled at me and I could tell he was a good guy, "Now, Bella. I know you don't want to do this, but I need to know what Mike did to you. You don't have to go into details, but I need to know the basics."

I nodded my head and started my story, "My mom died when I was 14, so I moved up here to Forks to live with my dad. My freshman year, I met Mike Newton. I instantly had a crush on him. Right around winter break, he asked me to be his girlfriend, and I instantly accepted. Everything was fine until about half way through our sophomore year. That's when he first hit me. It was just a small slap on the cheek.

"I thought of it as nothing, it barely even stung for a minute. Every now and then he would hit me, but I saw it as nothing. Before I turned sixteen, he proposed. I accepted. Charlie, my father, said we should move in together.

"That's when it got worse. Anything I did wrong, he's beat me for it. Once I couldn't handle it anymore, I started cutting myself. After the Cullens moved here, Mike accused me of cheating on him with Edward, he saw us at school together and he assumed the worse.

"That night, he raped me. And now I'm pregnant, he doesn't know though. The next day, Mike came back to school, he had dropped out to work with Charlie at the Police Department, that night he nearly killed me.

"I couldn't even get through the door before he slammed me into a wall. After that he just threw stuff at me, kicked me, and punched. At some point Alice came and saved me. Now I'm living here," I finished my story, impressed with myself that I wasn't crying, but my voice was a little shaky.

"OK, it looks like we have a case of assault and battery and rape. There is one issue though. The baby. Do you know what you're going with it? Have you considered an abortion?" my lawyer asked me.

"Yes, but this baby has does nothing to me. It doesn't deserve to die," I said while rubbing my stomach.

"OK, if Mike wants custody of this child, he could very well try to claim it, but if we put him jail, he can't. On the outside chance he doesn't go to jail, there's a chance he'll get sole custody," he said.

"I won't let him touch this child. All he'll do is abuse it. I will not stand for that," I said with venom in my voice.

Edward put his arm around my shoulder, "Of course you won't. None of us will, we're going to win this battle. He will go down and you will have justice," he whispered seductively into my ear. I shivered.

"OK, Bella, that's all for today, I'll be checking in with you from time to time and I'll notify you of the court date when it's set. Have a nice day," Mr. Lewis said, before leaving.

I walked out of Carlisle's study only to be attacked by Alice. "Bella!" she screamed in my face, "We need to finish our shopping! Since Mike ruined our day yesterday!" she looked like a three year old on Christmas morning.

"Alice, I don't know. I think I have plenty clothes. I don't see any need to go," I told. She gave me the puppy dog look. How could I ever resist that? Within the next few seconds, I caved. "Fine. Let's go," I sighed.

Alice turned to Edward, "Edward, loosen up. My nose will open with Mike's scent and if I even get a small hint of it, I'll bring her home. Got it? I love her as much as you do," Edward and I cocked an eyebrow at her, "oh, you know what I mean! Come on Bella!"

She picked me up and ran me to her car. I felt nauseous again. We were pulling out of the driveway faster than you could say llama.

Alice drove like a maniac this time. She didn't listen when I told her to slow down this time. My eyes were wider than plates, my hands gripped the seat so hard I was sure I was hurting the interior, and my back and head was pressed firmly against the seat.

When we finally got to the mall, I let out a sigh. I was happy I was out of the car, but I wasn't to crazy about being at the mall. Alice ran, human speed, over to my side of my car and literally ripped me out. "Come one Bella! So many stores, so little time," she skipped to the doors gracefully, while I, not so gracefully, walked behind her.

Once we were finally inside she pushed into the first store there and I didn't even catch the name of the place. After about ten minutes Alice came at me with an armful of clothes. I sighed, not willing to argue and walked over to the dressing room.

It took me a half hour to try all the clothes on, and of course, Alice bought all of them. It was the same routine with the next few stores. At about 12:30 I said, "Alice, stop. The Humans need to eat," I placed my hand on my slowly growing stoamch.

"OK, let's go to the food court," she pulled me in that direction and told me to sit. She was going to get my lunch. A few minutes later she came back with a salad with fat free ranch dressing and water. "You need to eat healthy," she told me.

We talked about random things for about ten minutes before I heard, "Oh my god, is that you Bella?!" I instantly recognized the voice as Jessica Stanley's. I shot Alice a save-me look and put on my best fake smile. "Hey Jessica," I saw Lauren standing next to her, but I didn't acknowledge her.

"Is it true?" she asked. I was confused. Did someone spill my secret about Mike? Or worse-the baby? She could tell I was confused, so she said, "That you cheated on Mike with that new hot Cullen guy? People say you slept with him."

I couldn't speak. I knew this was the work of Mike. He wanted me to look like that bad guy. All I could manage to say was, "No!"

A smile crept its way onto Jessica's face. "Good," she said, "Because, Edward is mine. I suggest you back off," she looked at Alice, who was now smirking, "and you better watch out too pixie. Lauren would make a much better match for Jasper than you would."

I saw Jessica and Lauren's faces fall and I felt two cool arms wrap around my waist and Edward said, "Hello love," into my ear. He kissed me on the top of my head. I looked over and I saw Alice and Jasper reflecting us. I smiled and turned around and planted a full kiss on Edward's lips. Something I had wanted to do since we broke apart this morning.

Jessica said, "Liar! You said you didn't cheat on Mike! You so are!" she looked pissed.

"I never did cheat on Mike. Mike and I were over when I started going out with Edward," I told her. I assumed Mike was telling people that he and I still went out. I rolled my eyes at that thought.

"Well, Mike's saying different. He says you two are still going out. That you dropped out of school so you could work while he learned," Jessica told me. I snorted.

"Mike and I are history. I never want to see his ugly face again. Make sure to tell him that, ok?" I said, before turning away to leave. Edward followed after me.

"Are you ok?" he asked, searching my face for any negative emotion. I shrugged my shoulders, "A little pissed that Mike still thinks that we go out, but besides that, I'm fine."

Edward put his arm around me and started walking towards the exit. "What do you think you're doing?" Alice screeched at him. "We weren't done yet!"

"You've had her long enough. She's mine now," he said. I rolled my eyes. Him and Alice got into a heated argument over me and I notices that Jasper had left. All of a sudden both him and Alice got really stiff.

"Bella, you're leaving, now," Edward said. He took my arm and started walking. Alice wasn't to far behind us.

"Bella," I heard a voice say. I stopped dead in my tracks.

I turned around and saw Mike standing not five feet away me. "Let's go Bella!" Edward said. I shook my head no. "I need to talk to him," I said.

Edward looked at me in disbelief, "No, Bella, I'm taking you home," he said. I let out a sigh of frustration.

I ignored him and took a step forward. "Mike," I said. "What doyou want?" Edward took a hold of my arm, but Alice stopped him from doing anything else. "Let's give them some privacy Edward,"

Edward's eyes almost popped out of his, but Alice pulled him away. I felt a little nervous. "Bella, I came to apologize," Mike said.

At first I didn't believe him, but I looked into his eyes and saw nothing but truth. "Oh," was all I could say.

"Bella, I'm so sorry about everything I've done to you in the past. I know that doesn't do much, but I want you to know that if I could go back in time I wouldn't of done any of it. You really don't know how much I beat myself up about it.

"I'm going to see a therapist to get help that I need. After everything that has happened I knew I needed help. Once I woke up after that one night and you were gone, that's when I realized what kind of an animal I was. I had lost my angel and I felt no need to live.

"The next day all I did was stay in bed curled up in a little ball, staring at a wall. Feeling nothing but hate. Towards myself. Bella, I don't expect you take me back. I know you don't want to, but I just want you to know I still love you and I'm so sorry for every ounce of hurt I've cause you. And in court, I'll plead guilty and confess to everything and get the fate I deserve"

Once Mike finished his speech I didn't know what to say. I was shocked. It took me about a minute to put myself together, "Mike, I accept your apology. I don't forgive you at the moment, but that doesn't mean I won't in the future. You weren't always a bad guy, and I can see the good in you coming out. Don't beat yourself up about it."

"Thanks Bella. I've got to go, but I guess I'll see in court," he said before he waved and walked away. I saw Edward and Alice walking back towards me. Before Mike went fully away he turned back around and said, "Edward, you're a lucky man," and walked off.

Edward's arms wrapped me and he whispered, "That I am," into my ear.

A/N: There ya go! Mike's being nice again :D. but will he stay that way?

since i haven't updated in a while i'm going to post another chapter later today. also because it's a snow and i have nothing better to do with my time.

R&R!!!