To all those who have seen and have yet to see the movie, yay for you! I wont see it until Dec 17 but, well, there's nothing I can really do about it.

If this isn't juicy enough for you, the next chapter surely will. :) (by the way, i just graduated and finished my exams. so yaaaay!)

Jacob's POV

"What the hell is the matter with you?" I slammed my palms on the wheel and glared at her. Being a stubborn woman, she only glared at me, not even flinching at my outburst. "Are you really just being the possessive girlfriend that you are or do you now have a plan of giving my father a heart attack?"

I had parked my VW Rabbit by the beach at La Push where we used to hang out when we were kids. But the image in my mind wasn't of our childhood but of Leah barging into our house, screaming profanities and blue murder as she entered only to find out that my dad was sleeping in the living room and her antic had started him hyperventilating. Then she started screaming at my dad about him hiding me and whatever stupid things she could think of.

Despite herself, Leah's angry look turned into a look of pain as the sides of her lips pulled down. "I…"

"What?" I demanded.

That seemed to get her out of her sadness and she frowned at me as she yelled back, "What do you expect me to do, Jacob? Huh?" Her voice broke. "You're always at the Cullen's, you hardly even spend time with me anymore!"

Ouch. That hit home. "I do spend time with you, Leah! I try to spend as much time as I can with you…" I stopped.

"But what?!"

My temper flared again. "It's like you don't even understand what's happening to them right now!"

"Oh and you do?"

"Yes! Edward is my best friend, he needs me!"

"He has a wife for crying out loud! He has a whole family to take care of him. He doesn't need you as much as I do."

"How selfish can you get?!" Leah and I were practically yelling the roof off my car but we were oblivious to everything that surrounded us. Unlike other couples, Leah and I were most oblivious to our surroundings when we were fighting – which was most of the time. After going on and off for 6 years, it didn't look like our relationship had any future at all.

"Selfish enough to want my boyfriend's company, Jacob, that's for sure but because of obvious reasons you, are selfish enough yourself that you can't even divide your time for your priorities." Then under her breath she muttered, "That is if I'm still a priority."

"What do you mean obvious reasons?" I demanded, sidetracked by her tone.

She scoffed with a disgusted look at me, her eyes burning with rage. "Don't act all innocent now, Jake. You know what I'm talking about."

"I have no idea what you're saying, Leah." My voice was barely a whisper as my brows furrowed. I could sense meaning behind Leah's words and part of me wanted to know what it was but I sensed something bad was coming and part of me didn't want to hear.

"Bella." She said wryly.

I stiffened, my brows frozen in place. "What—"

Leah laughed bitterly. "Jacob, you're smitten with her! For God's sake, she's married! She has a daughter! She's put you in your place the first time you met! The first time she met Edward, yet here you are, eight years later, still –"

"Shut up!" I growled.

She laughed again but her eyes were expressionless. "I've struck a nerve. It sounds so much worse when someone actually tells it to your face, doesn't it, Jake? I doubt that the Cullens are as oblivious as you are; they're just too polite to point it out to you. I've seen the way you look at her." She shook her head, her eyes sad now, her head hung on her shoulders. "Stupid of me, really," She looked at me, her angry wall crumbling, "to think that you could ever actually look at me the same way."

I opened my mouth but a lump had built up in my throat and my mouth was suddenly dry, I couldn't say anything. I just stared.

Leah blinked and suddenly the wall was up again. "You know what?" She opened the door with a growl of frustration and stepped out. She banged the door making the car shake as I continued to be frozen.

"Leah," my voice barely audible as her angry steps made noises on the gravel. "Don't…" As if in slow motion, my hand reached out to where she had been sitting a few seconds ago. I wanted to say, Don't go. I wanted to say, Just stay. But the last comprehensible word I heard myself say was, "Stay." Don't stay.

Next thing I knew my head was repeatedly making contact with the steering wheel.

BPOV

I dreamed that things were okay. I dreamed that Edward woke up yesterday and things were perfectly fine and that my excitement just scared me and made me think that he'd lost his memory.

I shuddered. The dream was wearing out. I moved and I could feel light right behind my eyelids. I suddenly felt my cheeks grow hot and I opened my eyes to see Edward looking at me, his green eyes piercing.

"Good morning." He murmured.

I inhaled. "Edward…" I said slowly.

"Yes, Bella?"

I sighed and buried my face in his neck. "You remembered." I said.

I felt him touch my hair. "I promised I would."

I looked up and he smiled. I knew he was trying very hard but his smile didn't reach his eyes. I touched his cheek and his eyes softened.

Just then I heard a faint knock on the door. Both Edward and I looked. I reluctantly got off the bed and opened the door slightly. It was Alice.

One look at her face and I knew something was wrong.

"Alice?" I asked, poking my head out the door. I looked at the empty hallway, Alice's mood made me a bit jumpy all of a sudden.

"Can I speak to you in private, please?" she hissed.

I frowned. I looked back at Edward who was sitting on the bed, looking at his piano on one side of the room. He met my gaze and smiled, this time with the crooked smile that made my knees week time and time again. I looked at Alice, torn. "Can't we talk in here? I don't want to leave Edward." I said, but I was whispering.

"It will only take a minute." She urged. As I turned to look at Edward I heard Alice mutter something like, "I hope," under her breath.

"One second." I said to her and closed the door.

I walked back to the bed and sat down slowly. "Edward, I've got to talk to Alice for a minute. I'll be right at the hall. Come out if you need anything, okay?" I glanced at the clock and was surprised to see it was already almost 10 am. "We'll get breakfast soon."

He nodded. "Take your time."

As I opened the door, Alice pulled me out of to the hall and started to pull me downstairs to her and Jasper's room. "Alice, wait. I told Edward I'd be right at the hall. Please, can't you tell me what's wrong?"

She sighed, "Bella," her hand still gripping my wrist. She jumped slightly on her feet and I knew she was agitated… but about what? "Aro didn't come alone."

I stared at her blankly. Of course Aro wouldn't be alone. I figured Marcus and Dimitri would be with him. Not only did they work together, they'd been friends with Carlisle too. They'd want to be here for him and his family.

"Ugh." She growled in frustration. "I said, Aro didn't come alone," She said through gritted teeth, emphasizing the last word.

I quickly pondered what she'd said. She obviously didn't mean Marcus and Dimitri. But if he didn't come alone, who could he possibly have—

I gasped.

Alice sighed. "I know!"

"But… h-how… why…" I stammered and then closed my eyes and heard myself growl.

"I'm sorry." She winced. "But I knew I had to tell you."

I was about to ask her where our extra guest was when she said, "She's in the guest room, they've already eaten breakfast. Everyone is at the living room. I don't know why she's locked up in her room."

I gritted my teeth. "The nerve of her… Why didn't Carlisle say anything to me about this?"

Alice frowned worriedly at me. "He's as surprised as we are, Bella. Even he thinks the timing – well, the person – is wrong on so many levels, but being Carlisle…" she trailed off. I knew exactly what she meant.

We heard footsteps come up the stairs, and Alice and I both stiffened. Rose and Emmet's blonde and brown hair came into view with every step both looking the same way Alice did. The same way I did, I bet. I relaxed a little when I saw Rose was carrying Nessie.

"She wanted to see Edward." Rose said as she gave Nessie to me who buried her face in my hair on my shoulders. "Did Alice…?"

I nodded.

"Damn her, Bells." Emmett murmured. Usually a comment like this towards a woman would have earned him a slap on the arm from Rosalie but this time, Rosalie pretended she didn't hear.

"Have you seen her yet?" I asked.

Both Emmett and Rose shook their heads. Alice nodded and her eyes turned into slits. "I hate her."

We looked to her for an explanation.

"I heard someone in the kitchen and thought it was mom preparing breakfast for all of us. I went down to help. She was preparing breakfast, alright, but it wasn't ours. There they were, Aro, Dimitri, Marcus and Victoria."

Her name made the hair on my arms stand on end. I wanted so badly to punch a wall at that moment, which surprised me slightly – I wasn't usually a violent person but then Alice continued.

"I greeted them, of course. Carlisle was there, too. Esme told me to check up on everyone, see if you guys were ready for breakfast so I headed out of the kitchen when I noticed Victoria following me. I didn't pay attention to her and she was quiet behind me."

"It was just at the top of the stairs when she spoke. 'Alice,' in her stupid syrupy voice, 'Carlisle mentioned you and Jasper had a baby. I wonder if he looks as dashing as his dad.'." Alice growled. "With the way she said Jasper and Carlisle's names I wanted to skin her right then and there."

"I can't believe her." Rosalie said. "She's here for five minutes and she's not even ashamed to show the b*tch that she is."

"You know she only shows it to us." Alice said.

"Girls," Emmett cut in but Rosalie silenced him with a look.

Then, Jasper came up the stairs with Jadis in his arms. Alice took Jadis from him as he gave her a quick peck during the exchange. "I see Alice has told you the news." He said placing his arm on the small of Alice's back.

"Yes," Emmett said. "Alice was talking about skinning her." He chuckled and Rose slapped his arm, even though he was as concerned as we all were, Emmett was still Emmett.

Alice, Rose and I all opened out mouths at the same time to talk when Jasper cut in. "Girls, calm down." His voice rang through the silent hallway and I felt my fist relax.

"I know you're not enthusiastic with our unexpected guest… we all feel the same way." He said as Alice glared at him. "But right now, there's nothing we can really do about it but be polite hosts."

"That's Carlisle talking." Alice grumbled.

"Yes, it is." Jasper said, "And me, too. We're his children, remember? Well, not children, but you know what I mean. These people are his friends. They're family, and Victoria.. well… she's just, Victoria."

The three of us still frowned.

"What I'm saying is that we should show them the same courtesy that dad has been showing us these past 2 months. They're here to help."

"Help, how?" Rose said skeptically.

"Well, Aro—"

"We know about Aro." Alice cut in. She looked at all of us. "She's a witch." Her look was so serious that I didn't know whether to laugh or gasp at the news. It's not like I ever pictured Victoria otherwise.

"Hypnotherapist." Jasper corrected in an exasperated tone.

I took it he'd done the correction more than once before.

"Hypnowat?" Emmett frowned.

Alice sighed. "Emmett, for a business tycoon, you can be pretty daft."

Emmett rolled his eyes. "That was a rhetorical question, Alice. But what is the witch doing here?"

"She's a hypnotherapist." Jasper shrugged. "Apparently that's one of the tests Edward has to go through."

My eyes widened and I held up my hand. "Woah. Stop. I am not going to let my husband be hypnotized by that, that.. witch. No way." I shook my head.

Everyone sighed. I looked at all of them, my sisters and their husbands. In their faces I saw the same look of frustration that I knew was held in my own. Despite our dislike for Victoria, if she was here to try to help Edward, then we couldn't really try to push her away. As frustrating as it was, it seemed like we weren't left with much choice.

We were silent, deliberating, when Edward's bedroom door opened. Nessie obviously heard it because her head snapped up instantly and she started to twist herself so she could go down.

"Daddy!" she squealed and ran, crashing into his legs.

EPOV

I stayed in the bed, trying hard not to think about what I was missing. I stared at my piano again when Bella closed the door behind her. I started to feel a gnawing ache in my chest and I tried to pinpoint the cause but my mind seemed to be skirting around the reason. It had to be obvious.

All I could remember was Bella's face, her hair that shone in the sunlight, her lips that moved slowly as she murmured, her brows furrowing and relaxing as I watched her sleep when I had woken up.

I remembered how she opened her eyes and she said, "Edward?" My name through her lips rang in my ears.

"Yes, Bella?" I said to her.

Then, an action that comforted me more that it should shock me, she buried her face in my neck and said something like, "You remembered."

I remembered how I smiled to myself, she really was oblivious to her importance to me, so I touched her hair as I said, "I promised I would." I smiled wider when she looked up just as I was thinking to myself, Just how much did Bella matter to me? If she mattered to me now, like a blind man seeing the sun for the first time, how much more back when I could still remember everything about her?

Then I remembered. I remembered why there was ache, why there was uncertainty.

I remembered that I couldn't remember anything and the pain started clawing itself in me again. I clenched my fist. I wanted to hold Bella in my arms again. It felt like she was the one who was keeping me together, like the pain in my chest was a gaping hole opening wider each time I was reminded of my situation. But having Bella in my arms, the hole disappeared and there was nothing but her, my Bella.

I breathed deeply and I relaxed my fist. I stared at the room again, sweeping around it. I saw nothing, all I saw was the door. All I knew was that Bella was beyond that and right then I wanted nothing more but to see her again.

I got off the bed and walked one step at a time towards the door. I opened it slowly and looked out.

"Daddy!" an angelic voice squealed. I opened the door wider and saw my family standing outside. Then, Nessie crashed into my legs and she looked up at me, arms outstretched so I picked her up.

I hugged her and kissed her hair. "Angel," I whispered.

"Good morning, daddy." She said, hugging me tightly. "I missed you." She said slowly, then, "I played with Jadis at Auntie Rose's room last night. You should've come, daddy, you went to bed too early." She wrinkled her nose.

I looked away from Nessie, smiling and I saw Bella standing right in front of me, her hand on my left arm, her other hand on Nessie's back. "Are you hungry?"

I held her eyes and I lifted my hand to touch hers. "I just wanted to see you." She blushed and I grinned.

(Guess who's) POV

I lay on my bed, staring at the ceiling as I slowly replayed the events of the morning in my head.

Carlisle had welcomed us graciously, as usual. When he opened the door for us, though, something flashed in his eyes but I'm not sure what it was. Still, he was very accommodating. It made me wonder if my father even told Carlisle that I would be coming.

My doubts about my intrusion into the household were dashed though because they Esme had a room ready. But the room was not what I chose my thoughts to linger on.

I smiled as I remembered Carlisle opening the door to Edward's room. He and Bella were lying peacefully. One would almost think that things were normal, even though they weren't – not for them, anyway. I was very, very excited to see Edward again.

I also smiled at my encounter with Alice right after breakfast.

"Alice," I said slowly. I smiled to myself as she stopped and slowly turned. "Carlisle mentioned you and Jasper had a baby. I wonder if he looks as dashing as his dad." The hairs on my neck stood on end as I remembered Jasper looking breathtakingly handsome on his wedding day. I held back a shiver as I recalled how I wanted to pull him to one side…

I was cut out of my reverie when Alice turned swiftly and marched away from me, fists clenched. I shrugged. I wonder what her problem was. I just shrugged again and walked to my room.

I sighed and closed my eyes. Our trip was long, but the destination, I told myself, will be very much worth it, I would make sure of it.

I let sleep take over then.