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I finished the song and looked up at everyone's expressions, but before I could even lift my head, everyone had started clapping. I looked down and felt the warm creep up to my cheeks. Just then Edward came over and gave me a peck on the lips, I chose that song for a reason.

Just then, someone knocked on the door. "I'll get it" Esme said, walking towards the door.

"Hello, is Bella here?" A voice asked, I knew that voice all too well. Esme looked over at me, I was shocked. I couldn't believe my ears, I had to check to make sure it was him. I walked over to the door and nearly died.

"Brice?" I strangled out, I didn't even notice I was crying. I looked him over, he looked different somehow, then I realized what it was. Brice was a vampire. I immediately looked at his eyes and sighed, he was an animal drinker.

"Bella?" He also sounded strangled. "Oh, Bella!" He ran over to me, picked me up, and spin me around.

"Brice!" I exclaimed, hugging him like he was my life source, which, for a while, he was. Then a thought crossed my mind, How could he just leave me? He knew how much I needed him, and he left me with a ton of bills to pay which is partly why I was in debt. I was fine with it when I thought he was dead, but he was alive, and he did that to me? I pushed off of him.

"How could you just leave me? You knew how much I needed you. Not only that but you left me with a pile of bills to pay. I nearly had to sell my car to keep myself out of jail. I'm still not completely out of debt after that Brice! How could you?" I started off in a whisper, yelled in the middle and barely even said the last sentence.

He looked at me with the look of centuries of sadness, "Bella, I wanted so badly to stay with you, to help you through that mess, but I couldn't. If I did, I would have killed you, and I couldn't pay the bills because it would raise to much suspicion, but I did keep track of exactly how much you paid and have saved up enough to pay you back. Bella, I'm so so sorry." His voice broke on 'so'. I hugged him again, and he hugged me back.

"How did you find me?" I asked, it had been a year and a half since the accident.

"I'll explain everything, that is, if I'm allowed to stay…" He said raising an eyebrow at me.

"It's not my place, you'd have to ask one of the Cullen's." I said back. Then I remembered the Cullen's. "Oh my, I'm so sorry. Brice this is Carlisle and Esme, Alice and Jasper, Rosalie and Emmett, and my boyfriend Edward." I pointed them each out while saying there names, it didn't feel right calling Edward my boyfriend he felt like so much more.

"Guys, this is my best friend, Brice." I said smiling. They all smiled back at him and shook his hand.

"Come on in Brice," Carlisle said. Brice nodded and smiled and we all went into the living room.

All of the couples got a couch and Edward, Brice, and I got a couch. Edward draped his arm over my shoulder. He was showing Brice I was his, I could tell by the way he'd glance at him.

"How do you two know each other?" Esme asked.

"When we were about thirteen, we went to school together, we became best friends. I knew her dad would beat her, and I would sneak over to her house every night and make sure she was okay, and we'd just hang out for an hour or so, but when I was fifteen, my dad got a promotion and we had to move to a town right outside of Forks. I felt horrible for leaving her so I would call her every night at the same time I used to come over to her house, 10:37, and we'd talk for an hour or so.

"On the day of her sixteenth birthday, I called her to wish her a happy birthday. When she answered she said she had ran away, but I knew something wasn't right." He looked at me. "I told her to meet me at the state line, that she could stay with me. My parents had said it was fine. We lived together for six months, but our relationship was more like a brother and sister then Cole and her ever were." He spat 'Cole', he never liked how he would just let me take his beatings, and he never got over the time he lied to my father and I got cut for it.

"One day I was driving her to work, after much protest on her part might I add, when we heard a loud 'honk', we turned to look and a drunk driver was coming straight towards us, I swerved off the road and ran right into someone's picket fence. The owner happened to be a vampire and changed me. I stayed with him for a while, he was a human-drinker, but I never had a lure to it, and I couldn't just kill innocent people. I was running through the forest one day when I came across a herd of deer.

"The scent drove me crazy and I drank three large bucks. After I found that I didn't have to drink humans I told Stephen, the vampire that changed me, he called me a disgusting wimp and banished me, I was planning on leaving anyways, so it didn't bother me. I just roamed around for a bit, and then decided I had enough control to see you again." Brice finished his story.

"How did you find me?" I asked, he had never answered the one question I asked.

"I'm a tracker, and from what Stephen told me, a pretty good one at that." He said with a smirk on his face.

"No need to get Arrogant, Bricey-boo." It was my turn to smirk this time, he hated the nick-name I gave him when we were younger. Emmett burst out laughing, Brice grimaced.

"Yeah, Bricey-boo let's not get arrogant." Emmett teased. Brice shot him daggers and he shut-up. Just then, I yawned, I hadn't realized how tired I was. I knew he had been here for about an hour. I looked at the clock, 11:52, the exact time he would always go back home after sneaking over to talk with me. He noticed too, and smiled.

"You know I planned this, right? The whole coming over at 10:37 deal, but I wasn't expecting to leave at the same time I used to, too. It worked out perfectly" I said in a teasing tone, I made a face at him.

"Actually Brice, if you don't mind, I'd like to talk to you a bit about your power." Carlisle stated looking hopeful.

"Of course," Brice responded. He gave me one last hug, then Edward and I went upstairs.

We got in my room and I went to the bathroom to wash my face, brush my teeth, and put on some pajama pants and a tank top. I walked out and saw Edward laying on my bed. I walked over to him and gave him a kiss on the lips.

"I love you," I whispered in his ear. He smiled and wrapped his arms around me and pulled me on top of him.

"I love you, too" He said looking me in the eye.

"How do you like Brice?" I asked, biting my lip. It was going to be a problem if the two most important male's in my life didn't like each other.

"I like him, his thoughts were clean, the only kind of love he had for you was brother/sister love." He said

"I knew that." I said, kissing him again.

"Why did you tell him you ran away?" He asked.

"I don't know, I guess I just didn't want to be rejected, and he never trapped me like you guys did," I replied smiling at the last part. "I'll tell him tomorrow, I promise."

He nodded, and I laid my head down on his chest.

"Edward?" I needed to know something.

"Yes, my love?" I beamed at 'my love'.

"What does Brice think of you?" I whispered, not knowing if I really wanted to know.

"He want's to have a talk with me first to see if he likes me. Now you need to go to sleep, love. It's getting late."

I was off before he even finished his sentence.

(EPOV)

I gently placed Bella on the bed, under the covers. Brice wanted to talk with me, and I was on my way there.

"Edward, just the guy I wanted to talk to." Brice said motioning for me to come outside. We walked to where my family couldn't hear us talking.

"Now Edward, you seem like a nice guy, and I know that you love Bella, but if you ever hurt her in the slightest, I'm afraid I'm going to have to rip you into miniscule pieces and make you pull yourself together and then repeat the process. You got it?" Brice said trying to hide his smile.

"I would only ask for as much, but I can guarantee you that I would never hurt Bella." I said honestly.

"Good," He shook my hand. "Nice doing business with you vampirekita." He said with a sly grin.

"Same here Bricey-boo" I said returning his grin.

We're going to get along just fine.

AN: Yay Brice isn't dead and all is well... for now. Whoa a bit over-dramatic there but whatevs. The song in the last chapter was "I'm Your's" by Jason Mraz by the way. I wasn't going to write two chapters today, but I kind of couldn't wait to see what would happen, so yeah. The reviewers for the last chapter get a monkey that can do karate. Have fun with it, but be careful, monkey and sock a punch. :. Please review!