A/N: This chapter is dedicated to Noble Korthedron because I really love the fact that you aren't shy about saying what you really think about the chapters.

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Bella's POV

We pulled up in front of the house at 10pm and all of the lights were on in the house.

"Welcome home." I looked over at Edward. I liked that idea that this was my home now kind of. I grabbed the bags in my right hand and Edward took my left. We walked up to the house and I could hear the murmur of people talking inside. He opened the door up and we went inside.

Esme was the first person next to me.

"Welcome back you two." She grabbed us in a joint hug.

"Hi Esme."

Carlisle came up behind her "Welcome back. Bella after you guys get settled I will show you where we have the hospital stuff set up for you."

"Okay thanks Carlisle."

Emmett was playing a video game on the TV and I heard an explosion sound then Emmett screamed, "Oh CRAP!"

"Die again Emmett?" Jasper said as he and Alice ran down the stairs.

Emmett ran over and punched him in the arm. "Maybe."

They kept on bickering as Edward, Alice and I went upstairs.

"Bella, we bought such nice clothes for you why are you just wearing a t-shirt and jeans?"

"We were going to be driving in a car for 12 hours I didn't see the need for a dress."

"But still it would have looked so nice on you."

"Well Alice than you are going to love tomorrow. I will be wearing sweats and a t-shirt with bandages over my face. And I don't read fashion magazines but I am guessing hospital bandages aren't the new black."

She smirked at me and left.

"You can put the clothes in my closet if you want." Edward ran over and from the sound of it moved some of his clothes around.

"Thanks." It took about two minutes to put everything away and then I headed to Carlisle's office.

As I knocked I heard Carlisle's voice, "Come in Bella."

"Hi. Wow." The last time I was in his office there had been a desk at the end of the room which had been replaced by a hospital bed and most of the pictures were taken off the wall. The only thing that seemed the same was the bookcases.

"You think Charlie will believe we did this all in a day?"

"Yes, if you tell him you are wizards. I'm kidding he will believe it. So I take it this is where I will be when he gets here."

"Yes. We have bandages to put over your face and hands. We will call Charlie at about 11am and say that you are hear and set up. Edward and Esme are going to have to go in the woods behind house while he is here but other than that we should be good."

"Seems simple enough." That wasn't true. We both knew that my self-control might be shaky and it was going to be hard having Charlie so close to me.

"You will do fine tomorrow. If you survived being in the store with a couple of people you can survive Charlie. It will get easier over the next couple of weeks."

"Thanks Carlisle."

"I do what I can to help out my family."

I walked out of his office and down the stairs. Edward and Emmett were all playing video games. Jasper was sitting on the couch watching them, and Alice was on the computer shopping for shoes. I went over and sat beside Jasper. "Who's winning?"

"Edward."

"That's only because he is cheating." Emmett interjected. I started to laugh. I had watched them all play video games before and every time Edward beat them they said he cheated. They said the same thing about Alice too. I figured it wasn't cheating since they knew Edward could read their minds and Alice would see what they were planning to do right before they did it.

"I'm going to go for a run. Do you want to come Bella?"

"Sure." This was odd. Jasper and I were never that close, but that was mostly because he had a pretty hard time with the whole self-control thing.

We went out the back door and headed into the woods. I sniffed the air every couple of seconds to make sure no humans were coming nearby though I didn't see why anyone would be out in the woods this late.

I heard Jasper start talking to me, "so how do you do it?"

"My control." I looked over and he nodded. "I really don't know. I am extremely tempted when I smell blood but I seem to be able to stop myself right before I hurt people."

"Amazing."

"Why do you ask?"

"How much has Edward told you about me." We stopped running and were just standing in the middle of a cluster of trees.

"Not much. Just that you were changed while you were a soldier in Texas and met Alice in a dinner in Pennsylvania."

He spent the next hour telling me about the beginning of his vampire life. Jasper had always seemed guarded but I didn't realize it had more to do with his past than I knew about. I knew that it was unusual for me to be able to control myself around humans but talking to Jasper made me realize how dangerous I should be.

"I smell a deer nearby I think maybe I should hunt a little before morning." I figured I couldn't be too full with Charlie around.

"Okay, I am going to hang out here for a while."

It didn't take me long to find the deer. I snuck up behind it and snapped its neck. Once I drained it of blood I was overly full. I ran back to where Jasper and I had been and he was sitting on a rock.

"Ready to go home?"

"Yep. How many remotes do you think Emmett has smashed sense we left."

"Probably enough that you will need to buy more if you want to play any games tomorrow."

"You are probably right." We ran the rest of the way home in comfortable silence. I had a feeling Jasper and I were going to be good friends.

We were right. When we got back to the house there was only 2 remotes left (when we left they had a drawer full).

I was surprised to find Rosalie in the living room when we got back. She was sitting on the sofa with Emmett. She glared at me when we walked in. Edward was at the piano so I went and sat by him. He was working on writing a new song. I listened to him play for a while and before I knew it, it was morning.

I looked over at the clock and it was 10:30am. "I guess I better call Charlie." Edward could read the tension in my voice.

"Everything is going to be fine. Esme and I will be right outside and Carlisle, Alice, and Jasper will be there with you."

"Thanks."

I went and grabbed the cell phone off the coffee table and dialed my house phone. When he didn't pick up I tried the police station to see if he had gone into work. He wasn't there either. I tried the house once more and after a couple of rings he picked up.

"Hello." He sounded out of breath.

"Hi Dad. I just called to let you know that I am at the Cullens. You okay?"

"Yeah Bells I'm fine. I went down the Blacks' house this morning. Billy and Jake were worried about you when I told them you had been hurt."

Of course. The Quileute tribes believed the legends about the Cullens. Jake had been the one to tell me that they were vampires. I figured Billy didn't believe that I was actually caught in a fire but he had tried to bad mouth the Cullens to Charlie before and it didn't work so I wasn't worried he would try again.

"Oh, how are they doing."

"Fine. They say hi and they hope you feel better. I will be over there in a half an hour."

"Okay. See you then."

"Bye Bells."

"Bye."

A/N: Hey everyone. Sorry this chapter took me a little longer than normal. This chapter is a bit of a filler chapter but the next one will be better. I really need to take some time and outline the rest of this story so that I can avoid having a bunch of chapters that not much happens in. I will be working on the outline for a while so it may take a couple of days to upload, but I think it will make the story better if I know where it is going.