I do not own The Twilight Saga or it's characters, they belong to Stephanie Meyer.

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Rosalie stopped and turned her head, she looked at me and sneered, "What did you just say?"

"Babe, think about it you have been pretty unfair with Bella." Emmett tried to reason with her. "Edward I think you need to get Bella out of here." he said looking at Edward.

Before anyone could move Rosalie had me pinned to the wall, "Answer me, Bella. What did you just say to me?" I had my hand on hers at my throat and looked into her beautiful caramel eyes.

"Coward." I repeated. I could see that she thought I would back off but she had another thing coming. I was sick and tired of her ugly looks and snotty attitude.

"Let her go Rosalie. NOW!" Carlisle demanded. He took her arm and pulled her away from me.

I looked around, massaging my throat, and saw that Emmett and Jasper were holding Edward. Edward was livid and he was fighting the hold they had him in. Alice came to me and looked at my throat and gently examined the skin where Rosalie had been holding me.

I looked at Rosalie and smiled at her as she was taken into the next room, I saw Edward's attention shift to Rosalie, I knew if they let him go he would go after her. I walked over to them and laid my hand on Edward's cheek surprised he turned his gaze at me.

"Are you okay? Let me go, so I can see to her," he told his brothers. Jasper let go but Emmett held on not sure Edward wouldn't go after Rosalie.

"He won't Emmett." Alice reassured him. Emmett was still not convinced and looked at Edward.

"I'll talk to her Edward, this won't happen again, but Bella did have some blame here too. I sorry Bella but you know it's true." he said to me.

"Yes, I have blame, but she has been rude to me for no reason. Tell her for me Emmett, I won't sit around and allow her to treat me like a piece of trash stuck on her nice shoes. I'm going to be Edward's wife. If she wants respect from me then she has to give it to me too." He was about to turn, "Emmett I am sorry for causing all this mess." He walked out of the room to look for Rosalie.

Edward turned to me and tipped my head back to look at my neck. "I'm okay, really I am." I smoothed the worry lines on his beautiful face. I took his hand from my neck at kissed his knuckles.

"Bella you could have been seriously hurt, don't you understand that? If Rose wanted to she could've killed you." he said tightly.

"Edward I was wrong to provoked her, I'm sorry. Do you want me to apologize to her for defending myself?" I answered .

Rosalie came back in with Carlisle and Emmett, Edward moved in front of me, ready to defend me.

"I was wrong to treat you like that Bella, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." she said.

"I'm sorry too Rosalie, I shouldn't have insulted you." I replied

Carlisle stepped up and took both our hands, "I think you two need to talk alone and come to an understanding, about this. Rosalie you were wrong to treat Bella in such a fashion and Bella you were wrong in calling her a coward." He looked from her to me and back and sighed, "You two go talk alone. Boys, we've seen that Bella can defend herself, but I know Rosalie won't do anything to her."

We walked up the stairs to her room and shut the door. She sat at a vanity and started combing her hair, I rolled my eyes and started for the door.

" You know that I didn't choose this life Bella. Do you have any idea what kind of life you'll have being one of us?" she asked just as I put my hand on the door.

"No I don't, but I do know that my life now would be incomplete without Edward. Tell me Rosalie what's so wrong with this life? Why do you hate it so much?" I asked.

"We can't bear children ,we never die, unless someone rips us apart and burns us, we have to keep moving around every few years or when someone thinks they know what we are." she said sadly.

"That would be bad, but have you ever considered what you do have, Rosalie?" she looked at me in her mirror. "You have Emmett. Are you seriously going to tell me you wouldn't want him in your life? Yea, you can't have kids but you also won't ever change, you'll stay beautiful forever. You won't ever have to worry about Emmett being alone if you die. He won't have to see you get old or sick or frail. If you could would you leave him now? If someone offered you the chance to be human right now would you take it?

She looked at her hands in her lap and after a long while she looked up at me.

In a quiet whisper she answered "No." I walked over to her and sat on the sat at her feet to look her in the eyes.

"That's why I choose this life." I told her. Then she did something I never thought she would ever do, she pulled me up and hugged me. "Friends?" I asked her.

"I'll try." she replied with a slight smile. We went back to the living room, Edward was pacing and Emmett was half paying attention to the TV. Edward saw me first and looked at Rosalie, some silent words passed between them and he smiled and hugged her. She went over to Emmett and whispered in his ear, he perked up and followed her out of the room.

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This was a short chapter, but it took me a while before I could get my thoughts together. I wanted Rosalie and Bella to get to an understanding….you'll see why in the next chapters.

Thank you guys for reading my story. I love all the characters of Twilight , and I think Rosalie is great even though in the series she was mean and uppity.