A year had gone by and they were still residing in Bella's little house. Bella had quit her job, and opened her own bar a few streets down from Tony's. He had gone out of business in three months. Alice made sure Bella didn't drink at all, and she herself didn't drink.

They were happy with each other, they played basketball nearly everyday, and they worked five nights a week. They had a few friends, and were active. They had a life together, and Bella was happy with that.

It was Saturday night, and their one year anniversary of when they had admitted to each other, Alice half naked, in the middle of the road that they loved each other. It was also the night that Alice's parents were coming down, and they were going to learn that Alice wasn't just dating a woman, but Bella.

"Come on babe, let Jordan handle it, we have to go" Huffed Alice as she looked at the clock.

"Do we have to?" pouted Bella, who really did not want to go.

"You promised, and we put it off for a fucking year. What did I ask you as an anniversary gift? It was to finally tell my parents. They're in town and they will be at the restaurant in twenty minutes," hissed Alice. Bella put her hands up in defeat. Fighting with Alice was like fighting the entire US army, navy, and marines, combined. It was a suicide mission, and one that Bella was not in the mood for.

"Jordan I got to go. You and Jake got this?" Bella asked wearily of her top employees. They nodded and began to shoo her away.

Alice and Bella quickly changed in the back room; much to Bella's dismay Alice was making her dress up in something other than work-out clothes or jeans. She looked at herself in the mirror and grimaced. She was wearing a white suit, almost like a man's, but Alice had quirked it to be slightly more feminine. She was going to complain about looking too girly and the fact she couldn't wear jeans, but when she glanced over at Alice's matching white dress she decided not to complain. Wasn't worth it anyway, she always lost those fights.

"See we got here before them, and we're only two minutes early," groaned out Bella as they sat in the fancy restaurant. She would have preferred a god damn McDonalds.

"Bella, just calm down ok?" Alice pleaded. She didn't need Bella getting heated up right now.

"I have to pee," muttered Bella as she started to stand up. Bella noticed Alice's parents on the other side of the room, and now she had to pee even worse.

"Just hurry up, they will be here any second." Alice shooed Bella out of the booth, and right after Bella had taken off, she noticed her parents coming towards her and she gave a glare towards the bathrooms.

"Alice!" Esme said as she hugged Alice tightly.

"Mom, dad" Alice said as politely as possible, as she was angry with Bella for escaping, even momentarily.

"So where's the lucky lady?" Carlisle asked as he slid in next to his wife.

"She will be here any moment; she had to use the restrooms." Alice did her best not to sound cold, but she didn't quite get there. Carlisle decided to let it go though.

"Alright dear," Esme said as she handed her husband a menu, and took one for herself.

Bella came back and slid next to Alice. She tried to give her a quick kiss since the parent's were looking over the menus, but Alice gave her a glare and Bella gulped. Alice let out a small sigh, and grabbed Bella's hand. Bella smiled.

"Mom. Dad. This is my partner, Bella," Alice said seconds before Carlisle and Esme put down there menus to get a look at the women their daughter loved.

"Oh my god," Esme whispered, shocked to see Bella Swan. Now Bella is a popular name, so she assumed it was someone else.

"Bella Swan?" Carlisle asked, his voice was full of disbelief.

"Bella Hawk actually," Bella mumbled, earning her a elbow to the ribs.

"But you look so much like… Never mind," Carlisle muttered, as he was now incredably confused, as was Esme.

"She is Bella Swan, but her last name is Hawk now," Alice explained.

"Well this is great, we are so glad she finally find you. Here let me dial your father," Esme said happily as she reached for her cell phone.

Bella quickly shot out her arm, and gripped onto Esme's wrist, perhaps slightly too hard. It was silent as Carlisle gritted his teeth at the treatment of his wife, and Alice glared at her lover. Esme and Bella stared at each other. For several moments this continued.

"Do not call him. Alice promised me that you would accept me for who I am, and accept my wishes," Bella said with no feeling. She did not want them involved. She was doing this for Alice, but beyond them no one was to know.

"He's your father, surely he should know you're alive," Carlisle said as Bella let go of Esme's wrist.

"No," Bella hissed at the man before her.
"Daddy, please. It took me five years to find my love, and a year to get her to allow you to know where she was, and that it was her that I was in love with." Alice used her puppy dog eyes on her father as she spoke.

"This is stupidity. I'm calling Charlie. He deserves to know where you are," Carlisle said, trying to assume authority.

"No. Bella has promised to think about telling Charlie, and to date she has still said no. I respect her, and if you respect me you will respect her," demanded Alice.

"And what else has she 'thought' of doing? What other empty promises has she fed you to keep you in her bed?" Carlisle demanded, slamming his fist onto the table as he spat the word 'thought'.

"She promised many things, and she has failed at none. She stopped stripping. She had been a drunk for five god forsaken years, and for a month she lay by my side in withdrawals, but for me dad. For me she did not give into the desire for a drink. For me she stopped showing her body, for me we started our own business. She has given no empty promises," spat Alice, who was now regretting telling her parents.

"Now dear, please. We have known the Swans for years, you delivered the girl yourself, a week from our own daughter. Calm yourself," Esme said slightly sternly to her husband.

"As she said, she is not a Swan, she is a hawk," said Carlisle smugly. Esme gave him a sharp elbow to his ribs.

"I think it is time we take this to a private location" Esme said. Carlisle nodded.

"As if that's going to help anything," snorted Bella as she stood. Alice gave her a sharp kick to the ankle. Bella gave her a small glare.

Bella waited in her old beat truck, Esme waited in the rented Porsche, as Carlisle and Alice had a heated argument. Of course they kept there voices low so neither of their partners could hear them. After a few minutes Alice turned on her heel huffed and got into the truck. Carlisle glared in there direction for a minute then got into the drivers seat of his own vehicle.

"So, where to?" Bella asked of her obviously frustrated girl.

"The courts," Alice muttered under her breath.

"Uhm.... you do realize that we're in dress attire, right?" questioned Bella as she started the engine.

"And I also know that you have a gym bag in here somewhere, and that even if you don't, we can play fucking naked, I just need to play," snapped Alice.

"I might. Are you ok?" Bella asked. She reached over and rubbed Alice's shoulder.

"I didn't mean to snap. I am just angry at my father, he's being a pig," Alice said as she leaned into Bella, wrapping Bella's arm around her body.

"It's fine. I know you're not mad at me, and remember all those times I snapped at you and I threw tantrums? Those were worse, babe. I love you. Only you," whispered Bella as she reached down and kissed Alice's head.

"I know, but he told me you don't, that you're playing me, that you're keeping me here, and from my family, but you're not. You do love me," Alice talked as Bella's hands clenched. Bella heard the doubt in Alice's voice.

When they arrived in the court, Bella found an old gym bag with two sets of her work out clothes. They smelled a bit, but they wore them anyway, and they started to get out their anger on the court. Basketball was something they both fully understood. It was their art.

What started out in anger soon turned to fun, and then Bella quickly turned it into a sexual dance. In the final act of their play on the court she grabbed Alice from behind and twirled her to face me and roughly kissed her right there in the middle of the court, under to the moonlit sky.

Alice kissed back with a passion. She didn't need to be asked twice, she slowly pulled Bella to the ground, each of them pulling off the others clothing. They didn't generally lose control in the middle of the basketballs courts, but sometimes a little outdoor sex was needed.

"Carry me?" Alice whispered, after they had spent close to two hours on the hard concrete.

"Of course," Bella smiled as she scooped her personal pixie, then carried her to the car.

"You gonna drive naked or go back for clothes?" Alice asked Bella as she opened the driver door.

"There old anyway," Bella said before Alice sent her a 'go back or no more sex' glare and Bella turned around and grabbed the discarded items off the ground and the gym bag containing Alice's dress and her suit.

After Alice was fast asleep Bella slowly unwrapped her arms from around her. She quickly threw on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. She grabbed the keys to Alice's white ford, as it would not make any noise. She quickly scribbled a note about going to check on the bar, and headed out.

Bella pulled in front of the hotel that Alice's parents were staying at. She threw here hair into a quick ponytail. She walked in and told the front desk that she needed to see her parents, the Cullens. Not being the brightest teenage boy alive he gave her the room number. She pounded on the door until Carlisle answered. He glared as she pushed past him.

"You have no right to come into her life and dictate everything, as if you know how we are. As if you know everything," Bella growled out at Alice's father.

"She's my daughter, and you're a runaway who is still running. Your father deserves to know your safe," Carlisle argued.

"I am a grown woman who is living a life. I have a business, a successful business. I made my life better for her, and I'll never claim to be good enough. I don't think anyone ever can be, but god damn me if I don't try every day of my existence." Bella stood two inches from him, her arms crossed. He mirrored her image.

"And yet you don't give her what she wants!" Carlisle huffed. Bella internally winced.

"She has asked for several things, and I have broken down on every single thing, except for one," Bella hissed at him.

"What have you given her then, what!?" He demanded of her.

"I gave up my entire life. I gave up drinking, stripping, I gave up my freedom, and I gave her reign of my money, my bar. I give her everything. I let her dress me, and after a year I caved and finally decided to allow you into my life, our life. I am doing my best to make it as wonderful as possible." Bella was not going to give into the man in front of her.

"You should move back home, with your father, where you belong. A name change and a few years don't change where you belong." Carlisle tried to sound soothing; however his voice just aggravated Bella.

A/N: I do realize that I am insane for stopping there but I did. Sorries. Also I got out of checking for mistakes myself becuase I had my freind Beta it for me.