I wrote this at like two in the morning so just keep that in mind as you are reading!

And also if you are Justin Bieber fan I would just like to say sorry.

And if you are not a Justin Bieber fan then I would also like to say sorry.

And if you are fortunate enough to live under a rock and do not know who

Justin Bieber is and then because of this story go and Google him. Then I would like to extend a heart felt apology for being the one who popped your Beib cherry…lol ok and now I would like to apologize for that disturbing image…*shudder*

Right enough of that Read and Review super fantastic readers! ^_^

Alice Pov

"So are you finally going to tell me why you didn't show up to school today?"

It was just after dinner and Jasper had decided to call an emergency family meeting, although he waited for Bella to get in the bath before doing so which was strange, because usually family meetings involve the entire family…

I noticed during lunch time at school that my oldest brother was absent and when I text him he wouldn't reply then when we all got home he wouldn't tell me why he didn't show up, it was so unlike him to skip school he was a perfect A-grade student and I was even more shocked that he didn't at least drive Bella to school.

"So are you going to talk or what?" I crossed my arms and stared at Jasper who was standing a few meters away with his hands behind his back just staring at us with that worried look on his face.

I was sitting in between Edward and Emmett on the couch and I could sense them starting to get a little impatient.

"Come one bro I ain't got all night" Emmett fidgeted with his top like a little kid whilst Edward remained completely still.

"Ok…" Jazz cleared his throat and I sat up ready to hear what kind of explanation he had for missing a day at school, Carlisle and Esme wouldn't be very happy if they found out.

"Wait shouldn't we wait for Bella?" Edward interrupted

"No, sh-…well….I…"

"Spit it out" Jasper was interrupted again only this time by Emmett.

"Ok you three shut up and listen" My blonde haired brother spoke sternly and all three well mainly just me and Emmett stopped fidgeting and focused our attention on Jasper who now actually looked like he was in pain. The only times he had that look on was when there was some really bad news, like when Carlisle's only brother passed away.

This was definitely important.

"The reason why Bella and I didn't make it to school today was because she was too upset to leave the house." Both my brothers were instantly alert at this and I saw Emmett open his mouth to say something but Jasper quickly cut him off.

"From what little she told me I think that someone from the school is hurting her, but im not completely certain. She wouldn't tell me much the only things she did tell me was that she had to keep it a secret and that if she told anyone, then he would be very mad with her"

What the hell? Where did all this come from? I thought we were going to get a lecture or something…but this was completely out of the blue. What was my brother saying? Someone was bullying Bella at school? Someone was hurting her?

And who the hell was this he person?

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Emmett summed it up in three words he was sitting right on the edge of the couch now looking like he was in shock; I was still trying to fully process what Jasper had told us.

"What do you mean hurt?" Edward asked his voice and face a mask of calm but I could see his hand clenching the arm of the couch in a death grip.

"Like bullying her in the playground?" I asked actually sounding hopeful that that was the case.

"…No…I think it's more then that…" Jazz shock his head grimly and I felt my stomach drop.

Emmett was on his feet instantly "There is no fucking way! No fucking way !" he was pointing his finger accusingly at Jasper.

"That's fucking sick! There is no way in hell that Bella's been hurt like that, not like that!" My biggest brother was trembling with anger and I could see his neck starting to go a slight pink colour.

"Look I'm not saying it's true, but from what she told me I think it's a strong possibility that someone is hurting her, someone who is Male and made her keep it a secret!" Jasper replied, he didn't want to admit it either.

"That's why she's been having all those nightmares" I thought out loud.

"And why she's been so moody lately" My eyes flicked to Jazz who looked grimmer then death.

"We need to find out who it is!" Emmett spun round on his heel but before he could take one step Jasper grabbed his arm and hauled him back around.

"NO. She's too fragile at the moment, this morning when I tried to get her to tell me she nearly had a panic attack; I had to chase her through the forest. We can't all go asking her questions and stressing her out even more"

"WE HAVE TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH!" Emmett yelled pulling his arm out of Jaspers grip and my brother grabbed him again and they began to struggle.

"Stop it you two!" I jumped up but before I could even take a step I was being pulled behind Edward and made to watch as he attempted to get between my two oldest brothers.

"STTTOOPP!" I yelled at all three of them before someone or something got broken. That seemed to do the trick because they all turned to face me and then quickly released one another; nobody was hurt thankfully.

"I'm sorry Al" Jazz straightened his shirt and ran a hand through his blonde locks apologetically.

"This isn't helping the situation" I crossed my arms and Edward came back to my side and wrapped his arms around me sensing I was getting upset.

"Well what are we meant to do then?" Emmett threw his hands up in frustration.

"Maybe you could go talk to her, she might want to tell you more" Edward squeezed my shoulder and I nodded a little uncertainly.

"I'll try"

Jasper nodded "Anything to help Al" I could see the panic in his eyes and I felt my own nerves try to take over, I don't even know why I was so nervous? I think it might have to do with the chance that there could be something seriously bad happening and I would be the one to try and find out what it was. I don't know if I was strong enough now…

"Who the hell could it be?" Emmett fell back onto the couch and me and Edward joined him.

"One of the kids in her class?" Edward put forth and I shook my head. When I was her age we didn't even know about the birds and the bees and all that stuff, and Bella would be able to defend herself against someone her own age.

"It has to be someone older" Jazz paced back and forth deep in thought.

"One of the kids in a grade above her then" Emmett was starring daggers and I could see his fists were clenched tight.

"It's a possibility" Jazz stopped and bit his bottom lip.

"It could even be a teacher or a member of the staff?"

"NO! It's gotta be a kid in a grade above her" Emmett ground his teeth, I think he was saying that because if it was a kid then there would be the chance that she was only getting bullied. With an adult it was way worse…

It made me sick to my stomach especially because on the news there had been those stories of kids being abduct and sexually assaulted in Port Angeles. I don't know what I'd do if Bella was been hurt like they were, she was so sweet and innocent. Why would someone want to ever harm her? Harm a little kid?

"Don't cry Al" Edward whispered in my ear, I didn't even realize I had tears streaming down my face until now; he swivelled around and pulled me into a tight hug.

"I'm sorry" I breathed into my brother's shirt, now I felt stupid acting like a baby in front of my brothers especially seeing as it wasn't me that should be crying.

"I know it's hard but we have to be strong" Edward whispered in my ear and I nodded and took in a deep breath trying to swallow back my emotions.

"We have to act like normal in front of Bella I don't know how she'll react if she finds out we know something" Jazz came over to me and sat on the edge of the coffee table.

"I don't know what you guys are thinking, but whatever it is? Didn't happen!" Emmett abruptly jumped up and looked angrily at all of us then swiftly exited the room, none of us dared to stop him and I heard his loud footsteps thud all the way up the stairs.

Jasper sighed and rubbed his face tiredly, he looked ragged

"It's harder for him" Edward broke the silence.

And I nodded silently; Emmett always thought of himself as the big protector, the one to keep everyone safe and I know it killed him that he might have failed in his self appointed responsibility.

"What are you all doing?" Bella padded into the room fresh out of the bath and clad in pyjamas and I nearly jumped out of my skin, if she was only a few minutes earlier it could of turned into one ugly scene.

"Nothing darling, just talking about classes" Jasper was instantly up and the pained expression on his face was turned into a cheerful one immediately.

He took a seat next to me and pulled her onto his lap taking the hairbrush from her hand and started delicately pulling it through her long wet hair.

"Can we watch cartoon network?" she didn't seemed fazed or curious about the situation.

"Ok but only for ten minutes then you have to go to bed" Jazz gave in and Edward grabbed the remote and flicked the TV on.

Everything seemed to have gone back to normal like we'd never had that meeting or anything. It was weird to see my brothers acting so normal, I couldn't help but flick my attention to Bella every five seconds, to see if I could spot anything that was out of the ordinary, any bruise or scratch that I hadn't noticed before. Anything new that would indicate there was actually something horrible going on, but there was nothing, well nothing that was showing anyways. Her pyjamas covered most of her body.

I felt someone nudge me in the side and I turned to glare at Edward who gave me a stop-being-so-obvious look, I silently huffed and focused my attention back on the screen where sponge bob square pants was playing I wanted desperately to look away but I forced myself to stay focused.

"Alice? Alice?" My attention was snapped away from the screen and I didn't even notice the credits for the end of the episode were already rolling, I must of zoned out.

"What?" Jasper was looking at me like I'd gone crazy.

"Didn't you hear a single work I said?" he frowned and I just shrugged innocently.

"I was saying that you should take Bella up to bed seeing as you were going up to do some study" He gave me a knowing look.

"O yea! Sure, come on Bells" I plastered a smile on my face and hopped up, my little sister now had her hair pulled back into two perfect French braids.

"Night Darling" Jazz wrapped his arms around her and kissed her cheek then let her clamber over to Edward, who narrowly managed to protect himself as she landed in his lap and threw her arms round his shoulders.

"Night sweetie" he smiled squeezing her tightly and I saw breathe with relief when she scrambled off of him with no damage done.

"Night guys" I held out my hand for her to take and my two brothers gave me encouraging looks as we left the room, great this is going to go just fantastic…not.

"Aren't we going to say goodnight to Emmett?" I felt a tug on my hand as we passed his room.

"Not tonight Bells he's writing a really important essay at the moment" Bella looked suspiciously at me for a second but then shrugged and carried on. Phew.

I don't think he was in the right state of mind right now to talk to anyone.

"Make sure you leave the door open" my little sister looked up at me as we walked into her room and I assured her that I would.

"You have clothes sorted for school tomorrow?" I pulled back her covers and waited for her to climb in she froze for a second but then continued on.

A nod was the only reply and I tucked the blankets tightly around her then knelt down beside the bed.

"All ready?" I touched her cheek and her lips turned up but the smile didn't quite meet her eyes.

I sat there for a second trying to think of what to say. How to bring up this awkward topic without making it look suspicious?

"Gosh you look so grown up" I started not exactly sure how this was going to go.

"You'll be eleven in a month" I forged on.

"27 days actually" she grinned and I raised an eyebrow, I remember being a kid and telling everyone I was nine and three quarters, the three quarters part was compulsory, I was never just nine or ten or eleven I was always ten and a half or eleven and two quarters I can't remember what age I was when I stopped doing that.

"That's not far away, what do you want for your birthday?"

She looked up at the ceiling deep in serious thought

"Justin Bieber poster!" I was waiting for her to say that and mentally shuddered the only downside of having a kid sister was having to listen to their music, last month it was Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers but now it was strictly Justin Bieber only.

"He's pretty cute?" I winked at her and her cheeks instantly turned pink, if Edward heard me say that he'd hold it against me for the rest of my life, possibly even disown me as a twin…

"You got a boyfriend at school?" I wiggled my eyebrows and Bella hid her face in her hands and shook her head from side to side.

"Gross!"

"What's so gross about having a boyfriend? Emmett is Rosalie's boyfriend" I mentally shuddered again.

Bella lowered her hands and turned onto her side to face me. "But they're grown up" she scrunched up her nose "and anyway Emmy said I wasn't allowed to date until he had one foot in the grave" she repeated his words back in all seriousness.

I had to hold back a laugh, trust my brother to say that, he was seriously dreaming.

"If I told you something would you promise not to tell anyone?" I leaned in and Bella's eyes went wide with anticipation. God I can't believe I wasn't going to tell her this, I really hope this doesn't backfire on me…

"I cross my heart promise" she whispered

"Ok but you can't tell anyone ok? You're the first person I've told, I haven't even told Edward" She nodded excitedly and I cupped my hands around her ear and whispered into it.

"…I have a boyfriend" as soon as I said it Bella squealed and I quickly put my finger over my lips.

"Shhh it's a secret remember?" my little sister clamped her mouth shut and made a zipping notion.

"What's his name?" she quietly asked looking both excited and a little grossed out.

"His name's Embry" I made sure to check that no one was listening in at the doorway first before I told her.

I meet him a few months ago when I was dropping Bella off at Jacobs, on the way home the stupid car got a flat tyre just as I was leaving the reservation and Embry was driving by and helped me out, it kind of just blossomed from there.

If my brothers knew they'd have a total freak out he's like nineteen years old, every time I told them I was going to Port Angeles with friends I was really just going to hang out with Embry, what they didn't know couldn't hurt them right?…

"I know him! He's from where Jacob lives!" Bella grinned triumphantly.

"I know I met him when I was dropping you off one day…You know one day Jacob might be your boyfriend"

"EWW GROSS!" she immediately scrunched up her face in horror filled disgust

"Why not...or is there already somebody at school you've got a crush on?" I raised an eyebrow and tweaked her nose.

"All the boys in my class have germs" she said in an all too serious manner. Yup that definitely sounded like one of Emmett's little theories.

"What about a boy in one of the other classes?" I continued to pry while the mood was still upbeat she shook her head instantly and made another icky face.

"So there's no one you've got a crush on?" She smiled and continued to shake her head.

"What about Justin Bieber?" Her cheeks instantly flushed with colour at the mention of his name and I laughed.

"Don't worry I won't tell him" I winked at her and she giggled into her pillow.

"So you don't have a crush on anyone at school? But do any of them have a crush on you?" Bella kept her face buried in her pillow and I heard a define No.

"What? I don't believe you!" It was true Bella was absolutely beautiful she just didn't know it yet, in a few years time she'd be beating them off with sticks or most likely my brothers would be beating them off…

"They don't" she turned to face me again but I could see most of the happiness had left her eyes.

"Come on I bet at least one of them does?"

"No they don't." she replied a lot more assertively then before and I just nodded silently not wanting to provoke the situation.

"I'm tired now" she turned onto her back and faced the ceiling abruptly ending our little conversation for the night.

"Ok then sweetie, see you in the morning" I leaned over and kissed her forehead.

"Night Al" she yawned and snuggled down into her blanket.

I walked over to the doorway and flicked the light off then stood there for a few seconds watching my little sister drift slowly off to sleep thinking about what we had just talked about.

As soon as I mention somebody having a crush on her, her mood instantly changed and I knew it was a bad sign.

Now I had to go tell Edward and Jazz who I could guarantee were waiting impatiently downstairs, it wasn't looking good.

I definitely had to find out whoever this person was first before my brothers did, because if I didn't and they did, then shit was definitely going to hit the fan big time and I didn't want any of my siblings going to jail…