I sat on the couch waiting for my parents to return home. Alice came and sat next to me putting her arm around my shoulders. "Don't worry. It could be worse."

I looked at her with a blank stare. "You could be suspended for two weeks" she shrugged.

"Thanks" I said flatly. Carlisle was waiting outside to explain the situation before they jumped to conclusions. I heard a car coming up the dirt road to the house and my stomach twisted into knots. Esme came and sat on my other side while Jasper stood behind us.

I heard murmuring out of the front porch and I tried not to listen as I stared at my feet. I'm so, so very sorry. Please forgive me I thought, I looked up and my parents were watching me while Rosalie and Emmett walked over and sat opposite me on the other couch. My father looked up at Jasper and winced. Suddenly he was in front of me crouching by my knees.

"Show me everything" He said. So I did. I showed him my stupidity, I showed him my cleaning, and I showed him my moment with Jasper. He winced again and I knew then Jasper had told him how bad I felt. I showed my mother the same thing and she had the same reaction.

"Come here" She said and he pulled me up into a hug.

"I'm so sorry momma" I whispered

"I think you've beaten yourself up enough" she said. And that was it. End of conversation.

The next few days moved slowly. I spent them alone doing homework and chores around the house as punishment for the way I acted, everybody thought I had beaten myself up so much that I didn't need punishment so I enforced it myself.

Jacob was grounded so I hadn't heard from him since Thursday. It was killing me; I needed him so badly that I had only said about three words in the past few days.

"If you keep scrubbing, you'll put a hole in the table" Emmett said

"Oh, sorry" I mumbled, and begun to wipe down the table.

"Stop" Emmett insisted but I ignored him. I was so out of it he easily swiped the cloth and spray out of my hands. "You need to get out"

"No, I'm fine" I whined

"Too late" He said as he grabbed my hand. "Rose, Alice, Jaz!" He called out as we flew out the back door. The others met us out there a second later.

"What's up babe?" Rose asked

"I thought that little Nessie here needed to get out"

"Way to point out the obvious there" Alice said

"So I thought that we might go for a little swim" he finished.

"Swim?" I asked. But there was no point; everyone already knew what he was talking about. We began to run towards La Push.

"Swim?" I repeated on the way.

"Yeah. Before you were born, Bella gave us a little scare when Edward went away." He explained. My mother had told me about her dark days when my father had left her.

"Oh!" I exclaimed when I realized what he was referring to.

We quickly reached the cliff. The ocean was crashing below and I could smell the salt.

"Have you ever done this before?" I asked, looking over the edge.

"Once or twice" he grinned "Who's first"

"I'll go" Alice hopped around excitedly "coming?" she asked Jasper

"Like I can say no" He smiled as he took her hand. They backed up about ten metres, then sprinted to the edge of the cliff and flew off the end. They soared for about sixty metres then splashed into the water.

"My go!" Rosalie called out and ran to the edge. She flew about fifty metres before she hit the water.

"Bet I can go further" He grinned at me then sprinted to the edge. He went about eighty metres then crashed into the water.

My turn. I turned around and gave myself about fifteen metres for a run up. I slowed my breathing and calmed my nerves.

"GO!" I yelled at myself and sprinted for the edge. I pushed myself off the edge and sailed through the air. A scream escaped my throat and my eyes watered. The air was cold but it felt good on my skin. Suddenly the water came up to meet me and crashed around over the top of my head. I floated under the surface of the water for a moment feeling it press against me, then I kicked hard and broke through to the air. I looked around and realised that I had gone further than Emmett. I began to laugh as I paddled to the beach.

"Wow" I laughed.

"Yeah, wow!" Emmett said "You went so far!"

"Yeah, I really wanted to beat you" I laughed

"Lets go again" Alice squealed

"Totally" I grinned. I felt alive again.

We kept on jumping all afternoon. Alice Rose and I held hands as we flew, I jumped onto Emmett's back and we leapt off. We started having a diving contest to see who could make up the strangest dive.

When we got home it was starting to get dark, I was exhausted and we were all soaked.

We walked into the kitchen and my mother looked up from the history book she was reading. As soon as our eyes met, her face lit up. She jumped up and hugged me.

"Your back." She whispered in my ear, and I had a sneaking suspicion she wasn't talking about just today.

"Yeah, I'm back. I promise." I smiled at her

"So where were you?" She asked, and I showed her our day.

"Good" she said when I finished. Suddenly I smelt a scent that I had been longing for, at the same time Rose made a gagging sound.

I walked into the living room and my Jacob stood up, a grin across his face. I ran to him and he swept me up in his arms. We were kissing when I realised that this wasn't really what I wanted my family to see. I pulled away and turned to look at them, Emmett coughed trying to disguise a laugh and everyone else just stood there smiling at us.

"So?" I asked "How did you escape?" I asked

"He released me" Jake laughed "I was moping around missing you and dad said I was too much to bear, so he let me go"

"Just like that?" I asked

"I really missed you" he said hugging me closer