(A/N okay you guys, as i said before i just adapted the names, so i noticed i put the names in wrong a couple of times the last few chapters. just so you know in case it happens again, Jenny-Bella, Brad-Mike, and Cameron (Cam)- Edward

Chapter 9

I woke up hearing a banging at the front door. I glanced at the clock, it was only 2:00 and the morning! "Great" I thought to myself "Who could be out there?" So I went to the door to see who it was.

As I slowly reached the door, the knocking became increasingly faster.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I yelled.

"Hello?" I asked to the two guys standing in front of my door, both wearing uniforms.

"Bella Swan?" One of the men asked.

"Yes, that's me. Who are you?" I asked with the confusion evident in my voice.

"We are from the army. We knew your father," They started.

"Knew? That's past tense…" I said thinking I might start to get what they are saying.

"That's right, Bella, I'm so sorry, but he's gone," They said sympathetically.

"No! This can't be happening! I just talked to him yesterday!"

"Jenny-" He started, but hearing him call me my nickname, the nickname my dad always called me, brought on a whole new round of tears.

"Jenny," They started again, "Here's his dog tags, I'm so sorry." He put a comforting hand on my shoulder. "It's going to be okay, he loved you so much. He wouldn't want you to cry over him. Just remember everything you guys did together."

"I know, but he was more than just a father to me! He's my best friend. I've lived with him my whole life. I tell him everything. I can't imagine my life without him."

"It will be okay Bella, it doesn't seem like it right now, but eventually, it will."

"Thank you, may I have his dog tags?" I asked.

"Sure, but we need to be going. Just remember, he has always loved you."

They turned to leave and I let the pain of losing him take over me. I leaned on the doorway and started to fall to my knees crying. Just before I hit the ground, I heard an alarm.

I woke up with a start, realizing I didn't have his dog tags, it was all just a dream.

So I went to the bathroom, to splash some cold water on my face. As I looked up and in the mirror I realized how red my eyes were. I looked like I had been crying all night. I decided that it might be a good idea to take a nice long hot shower. That would probably make me look better, and feel better too.

After I got done with a hot shower, I looked in the mirror, I still looked a mess, but nothing that a little make up can't fix. Then I got started blow drying my long brown hair. When it was dry I just pulled it back into a pony tail and got started on my make up.

When I was done, and I made myself look just about as good as it was going to get, I looked at the time. It was almost time to take Ellie to school.

"Ellie are you almost ready?" I called.

"Yeah, hold on," Ellie said.

Ellie emerged from her room wearing clothes that looked strangely like the ones I was wearing.

"Ellie why are you dressed like me?" I asked her.

"I wanted to look like you, you are my big sister."

"Remember we don't know that part yet." I reminded her.

"Yeah well even if you aren't, I'm still going to think of you as one." She told me. I couldn't help but to smile at that. We may not be blood related, but she really does care about me.

"Alright El, that's really sweet of you. Are you ready to go now?"

"Yeah, let's go. So… mom told me you and Mike went on a date…" Oh lord, here it went, she was going to pry for every detail of my life.

"Yep, what about it?"

"Just wondering. So is he still going to baby sit me?" She asked.

"Of course, why wouldn't he?"

"Because I was afraid that he might start spending all his time with you, and won't want to play with me anymore," She told me, hurt in her voice.

"Oh honey, don't worry about that, even if me and Mike start dating, we will always still play with you."

"You promise?" She asked hopefully.

"I promise. Mike is just a guy, you and I live together. Even when Mike isn't there, we will still have sister time. Tell you what, how about after I get home from school today, I will give you a make over. I'll do your hair and everything!"

"That sounds so fun! Thanks Bella!" She said excitedly.

It felt so good to make my little sister that happy.

So I pulled up to the school to drop her off then I was on my way to the high school. I went to Steph's locker to see how she was doing.

"Hey Steph, what's up?"

"Nothing much, you look awful Bella. Couldn't sleep last night?"

"No not really. I had an awful dream about my dad. I dreamt that he had dies and these soldiers had to come to tell me."

"Oh don't worry Bella. He's fine, he's still alive. There's nothing to worry about," She told me.

"I know, I just can't help but to be worried you know? I'm scared something might happen and I would never get to see him again."

"It will be okay Bella. Now listen, you need to stop freaking out because Brad is right over there. He's coming this way, don't worry you look fine, now go talk to him," She told me.

"Alright, thanks Steph." And with that I pulled her in for a hug.

I turned around and was surprised to see that Mike was standing right by me.

"Hey Mike, what's up?"

"Nothing. Just talking to a pretty girl. So I had a lot of fun on our date Saturday night."

"Me too Mike. Hopefully we can do it again sometime soon," I hinted.

"Yeah about that, what are you doing Friday night?"

"Hopefully having a date with the star football player."

"Oh so your not able to go out on Friday?" He said joking around.

"I thought you were the star football player. So that means I think we have a date Friday," I said smiling.

"Well alright then, I'll see you in math class later."

"Alright. Bye" He gave me a hug and then we went in our opposite directions for out classes.

I went to go dress out, and went to go sit down in our squads. Edward got up to talk to me.

"So you and Mike huh?"

"Yeah we went out on Saturday. I had so much fun Edward! He's so great," I gushed.

"That's awesome Bella. So where did you go?"

"We went to the movies. And guess what? He made a move, like we didn't actually kiss, but he put his arm around me and stuff. It was so awesome. And after the movie we were going to go out for ice cream but then we realized that it was almost my curfew, so he had to bring me home. We have another date this Friday."

"Wow, sounds like you had fun," He said, with the hurt evident in his voice.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked.

"Umm, nothing, don't worry about it."

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I better go sit down now, the teacher's coming and if I'm not sitting, I'll get in trouble."

"Okay, bye Edward."

After a long excrutiating hour of gym, finally the teacher told us we could go dress out.

I hurried to change, touched up my make up and sprayed some perfume. I wanted to look at least somewhat decent after gym class.

So I quickly went out of the locker room and rushed to the math class, and took my seat beside Brad.

"Hey."

"Hey yourself," He said.

"So how was gym?" I asked.

"No gym today. I had to go to health."

"Ah that's a real bundle of joy," I said sarcastically.

"Ha ha yep. Did you do your math homework?"

"Yeah, I did most of it waiting for you to pick me up on Saturday. What about you?" I asked.

" I did it in health. So I just finished it."

"Wow nice."

But after that I had to shut up. The teacher came in and immediately started teaching. All bell I kept sneaking glances at Mike, and could see him looking at me too out of the corner of his eye.

After that bell was over, I went to go find Stephanie to sit with her at lunch.

"Hey Steph, what's up?"

"Nothing, you feeling better than this morning?"

"Yeah a lot. Thanks for helping me this morning. That really meant a lot."

"Its no problem at all Bella. You're my friend and I'm always here to help you," She said with a smile on her face.

"So, Jonathon is over there, why don't you go talk to him about the band?"

"Um no."

"Why not?" I exclaimed.

"It was bad enough talking to him the first time, in fact that was killer. It had me so nervous. No way could I do that again."

"That's fine, you don't have to."

"Your not going to try and make me?" She said surprised.

"Nope."

"Why not?"

"Because he's coming over here."

"WHAT? Do I look okay?"

"Yes Steph, you look fine, don't worry."

Right about that time, Jonathon got here.

"So Stephanie, are you still wanting to be in the band?"

"Yeah…"

"Well, do you think that you could come by my place on Saturday? I will give you directions. There, the band can meet you and you can show us your singing."

"Sure, can I bring Bella with me?" She asked.

"Yeah of course. I'll call you later."

"Okay bye."

The last two bells just dragged on. But eventually, it was over.

When the last bell rang, I got in my car to go home. There, I was greeted by Ellie begging me to go ahead and do her make up and hair.

"Ellie I have a lot of homework and I'm tired. Go ask Mike to play with you, I'm sure he will."

"Okay, bye then Bella."

With that I went ahead and went upstairs. I did my homework, and after I was done with that, I went ahead and started on some reading. While I was reading I must have fallen asleep, because the next thing I remember is that I woke up the next morning to my alarm clock.