"Oh I forgot you cant see them."

"Yes you can if you want." Edward said to me.

"What?"

"Oh, you don't need to stay?" he obviously read my mind.

"Oh forgot you got that mind thing goin on. Um I haven't decided if I want to stay here or just go home. I don't want to go home and fight, but I know that if I stay here were going to be fighting about it."

"Why would you be fighting about you staying here?"

"You know how it goes, how would you feel if Bella spent the night in a house full of werewolves?"

"Oh, I see."

"So what do you think I should do? Because no offense, but am I safe here?"

"Definitely. You forgot we don't sleep."

"Oh yeah."

"Would you be safe at home?"

"Yes…I think."

"You think?"

"Well, he has a very quick temper, even with me sometimes especially because we're not really together right now."

"What?" Alice asked me.

"I never knew you were together. What happened?" Bella asked me.

"Well, there's a lot to say so hold on." I thought of everything that has happened and put it into their minds. As they were watching it they made facial expressions that let me know they were mad.

"He did all that to you, and your still talking to him?" Alice asked.

"I cant help it, I love him!"

"When do you think your gonna take him back?" Bella asked.

"Well, I kinda already did, but im gonna sit down and talk to him on Saturday."

"Oh, ok."

"You know, I think im just gonna stay at home tonight."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. I don't want to add another argument to my birthday weekend."

"Your birthday weekend?" Alice asked.

"Yeah Monday's my birthday."

"Oh, well, happy birthday if I don't see you then."

"Thank you. I think im gonna head home now. Bella can you take me?"

"Sure." We left and she dropped me off at home. When I walked inside Seth was asleep and Whitney was on the floor in front of him.

"Uh…, what are you doing?" I asked her.

"Shhh!" she said turning around. I closed the door quietly and walked closer. She had put makeup on him. I grabbed my camera and took pictures. After a little while longer, we fell asleep.

I was the first one up in the morning. I got up stretched and turned on my phone. I had a lot of text's from my party people. I shook Whitney gently, she woke up.

"Hey today's party day!" she whispered.

"Yeah!" I went upstairs and put on my 'party outfit', the one that we got from deb. When I came back down Seth was awake, and yawning. Whitney walked out from my moms room dressed in her 'party outfit'.

"Hey, you guys look good!" he said.

"Thanks." We said.

"So are you excited for tonight?" he asked me.

"Hell yeah!" he laughed a little. The front doors opened and Jacob, Paul, Embry, Quil, and Sam walked in laughing. When Jacob saw me he stopped laughing and walked quietly upstairs to his bedroom.

"Wow, tension!" Whitney said.

"I know, I could feel it." I said.

"What happened between you guys?"

"Hmm, I wonder." I said looking at Sam.

"Its not my fault." He said.

"It's not?"

"No!"

"Then im curious, what um, what did you guys find?" he looked around the room. "Nothing? Shocking! And I forget, remind me again who said that you weren't gonna find anything?" he looked at his feet. "That's right, it was me." I shook my head and walked in the kitchen. I grabbed a bottle of water and stood there taking big sips and bending then straightening my knees, I was frustrated. I decided I would put this all behind me and call Emily. I walked back in the living room, grabbed my phone, and called Emily.

"Hello?" she said.

"Hey, Emily, its Sydney."

"Oh, hi."

"Um I was just wondering if you could do me a huge favor?"

"Sure, anything."

"Well, my aunt is bringing my cousin over and tonight is my birthday party, could you come over and watch her for me?"

"Yeah, what time should I come over?"

"Uh, like 4:00."

"Ok, I'll see you then."

"Thank you so much!"

"You're welcome." We hung up. I walked in the living room and sprinted up the steps two at a time. Jacob was sitting in his room on his computer. I walked by him and went in my room. As I walked by his door, he slammed his door. I rolled my eyes and looked around my room to see if I needed to clean up anything. I tried to not let the thing with Jacob get under my skin, but slowly it crawled deep down under. I walked quietly across the floor to his room so he wouldn't hear me. I grabbed his doorknob and threw his door open. He was already standing as if he were just waiting for me to come in there.

"You are not gonna ruin today for me!" I said.

"Ruin what?"

"Stop acting like you don't know."

"I don't."

"My birthday party."

"Today's Friday?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, I thought today was Thursday."

"No."

"Oh, well then we'll continue this tomorrow."

"Good, now get your but downstairs my aunt will be here soon."

"Ok." I walked downstairs and he followed me. we all sat on the couch and watched T.V.

"Crap I forgot." I said. I ran upstairs and threw on a pair of pants, and a tee shirt. I grabbed some sweats and a shirt and sprinted back downstairs.

"Why'd you change?" Whitney asked me. I threw the sweats at her. "Whats this?"

"Put it on over your clothes."

"Why?" Paul asked.

"Because when my aunt comes it would probably be best if we weren't dressed in barely anything sitting with a bunch of pretty hot lookin guys! I mean if you were my aunt would you like the way that looked?"

"Yeah good thing you changed!" Paul said. Whitney stood up and put them on over her clothes. She rolled up the bottoms of the pants because im taller than her and they were LONG. About and hour later [2:00], my aunt arrived.

"Hey Tt." I said opening the door for her.

"Hey."

"Hi baby." I said to Alexie.

"Hi Sydney." I picked her up and gave her a hug. My aunt dropped a few bags on the floor and handed me an envelope.

"I'll call you in a few hours to check up on her."

"Ok." She picked up Alexie and gave her a long hug and kiss.

"Bye, mommy." Alexie said.

"Bye, baby I love you."

"I love you, mommy." She set her down and left. She saw Whitney and ran over to her. Whitney grabbed her and tickled her.

"Hi, Lexie!"

"Hi." She said laughing. I walked over and sat next to them and Jacob.

"Oh, and I want to remind you guys, don't cuss in front of her."

"Yeah, no cussin round mee." She said in her toddler voice. They laughed.

"How old are you now?" Whitney asked her.

"Four." She said holding up four fingers.

"So, baby, you ready for a party tonight?" I asked her.

"A party? Where?" she asked excitedly.

"Here."

"It's youwr party?"

"Mhm."

"A birtday party?"

"Yes." She started dancing in Whitney's lap.

"Hey, you… got, your DS?" she asked me.

"Go, sit over there in that chair and I'll go get it."

"Yaaay!" she hopped off Whitney's lap and ran to the chair. I went upstairs and grabbed my DS and walked back downstairs. She clapped her hands and smiled really big when she saw me. I handed her the DS and looked at Whitney.

"You ready?" I asked her.

"Yup." She said nodding.

"Hey Mama, your gonna sit there and play DS, right?" I asked her.

"Yup." She said looking at the screen.

"Good." I ran upstairs and grabbed some bags from my closet. I went back down stairs and Whitney came over to where I was. She grabbed some streamers from the bag.

"Oh, my god, do you remember the day?" I asked her.

"Yeah how could I forget?" we started laughing remembering that night.

"Do you think they will?"

"They better, or im not gonna be friends with them anymore!"

"Me either!" the guys just looked at each other. We started hanging up the streamers teal/aqua, lime, orange, hot pink, and black. We put them everywhere. Then we grabbed the balloons out of the bag, they were the same colors as the streamers.

"I hope you got a tank." Whitney said.

"It's in the garage, be right back." I opened the kitchen door and walked out to the garage. I grabbed the helium tanks and carried them into the house.

"Helium tanks?" Embry asked.

"Uh, yeah! How else are we gonna get the balloons to float?" Whitney said.

"That's all it's for?"

"No." she mumbled quietly under her breathe.

"We're gonna suck the helium out later."

"Out of the tank? Jacob asked.

"No! we're not retarded," Jacob raised an eyebrow at me, "let me finish. We're not retarded all the time." He laughed.

"You guys are going to do it too." Whitney said.

"Hah! Your funny. Why would we?" Embry said.

"Because you're some-what normal teenaged boys."

"Some-what?" Quil asked.

"Normal?" Paul asked.

"Teenaged?" Seth asked.

"Boys?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah." Me and Whitney said at the same time.

"Psht! We'll show you some-what." Quil said.

"Normal." Paul said.

"Teenaged." Seth asked.

"Boys." Jacob said.

"Ok." I said.

"Let's see it." Whitney said.

"Not right now." Jacob said looking at Alexie. Alexie looked up and smiled at us. Me and Whitney laughed. We blew up a whole bunch of balloons.

"Hey I need you guys to do me a huge favor." I told them.

"What?" Jacob asked.

"Go get the pizzas and cake."

"Right now?" he whined. I walked over and kneeled next to him on the couch. I faced towards him and put my hand on his shoulder and looked at him.

"Please?" I said looking at him with a sweet face. I felt Alexie climbing on my lap. She put her hands together like she was begging, widened her eyes, and stuck out her bottom lip.

"Please?" she begged.

"I can't say no to you guys. I guess I have no choice, do I?" we shook our heads.

"Ok."

"Yaaay." Lexie said. she hopped off my lap and walked back over to her chair and kept playing the game. I got up and they all left except for Whitney and Alexie. I walked in the kitchen and grabbed chips, s'mores stuff, candy, pop, and grapes. I put it all on the dinning room table.

"How long do you think it will take the guys with the food?" Whitney asked me.

"Hopefully only like thirty - forty-five minutes. I already ordered and paid for it all."

"Oh." It was quiet for a minute. "I got a question." Whitney said out of no where scaring me.

"Oh my god," she laughed, "What?"

"When do you think your gonna take Jake back?"

"Tomorrow."

"Oh, ok." An hour passed and the guys finally got back home.

"Hey, what happened to you guys?" I asked.

"What do you mean?" Seth asked.

"I didn't think you guys would be gone for an hour." Quil and Embry put the pizza's on the table.

"Oh, sorry. There was an accident and the pizza place was kinda crowded." Jacob said putting the cake in the freezer.

"Oh, ok." There was something in Jake's pocket. "Hey Jake…, whats in your pocket?"

"My car keys." He said and went upstairs. I looked on the table by the door and picked up a pair of car keys.

"He has his keys?" I asked jingling them. The guys were all quiet.

"Ok, this doesn't add up. Whats really in his pocket; and why were you guys late?"

"You guys better not tell her!" Jacob yelled from his bedroom. They laughed. I gave them dirty looks, they laughed. I turned on the T.V.

"Is my show on?" Alexie asked.

"I don't know." I told her.

"Look!" I looked on the guide on the T.V.

"Blue's clue's, or Dora?"

"Dora!" she put the DS on hold and ran over to the couch. She sat on my lap and made everyone else watch it with her.

Jacob came out of his room with a huge smile on his face.

"Hey smiley." Paul said to him.

"Heeyyy." He said all loopy and high like.

"What did you do?" I asked him.

It took him a minute to answer because he was starring at the ground. "Huh?" he finally answered. I looked at the guys.

"Dude, are you baked?" Quil asked him.

"Psht…noooo…" he whispered laughing "Psst." He said looking at me. I got up and walked over to him.

"I cant believe you! I mean it's your choice if you wanna get baked, but today? Really?"

"Im not…baked though." I looked at him in disbelief. "I gotta tell you something."

"What?"

"They gave it to me."

"What are you talking about?"

"They drugged me or something."

"Who?"

"The people." He wasn't making any sense. 'JACOB!' I thought.

'I can hear you now, whats going on with you?'

'that guy that was in your room and some blonde chick was in my room. the guy held my head still and mouth shut, while the chick looked into my eyes. I don't know what the hell she did, bit I cant talk right or do anything.'

'what color eyes did the girl have?'

'Blood red, but im pretty sure they were vampires, they stunk!'

'Alice is here.'

'what, why?'

'she saw the ones that attacked you come, disappear, and then leave; she knows they came here. She's gonna help you.' I snapped out and Alice barged through the door.

"Can you fix him?" I asked.

"Yes." She replied. She walked over to him and worked her magic. He was back to normal, well not normal, but back to how he was before.

"Thank you." He said squeezing her in a hug.

"Your welcome." She said breathlessly, he let go. i didn't think it was possible to knock the ind out of a vampire.

"Can you catch them?" I asked her.

"No, they're long gone."

"Oh."

"I have all the information I need so im gonna go now." She said starring at Whitney.

"What was that all about?" Whitney asked after Alice left.

"I um… oh my god its 3:30." I said smiling, quickly trying to change the subject.

"I know!" she said, it worked.

"Lex, you hungry?" I asked her.

"Yea." I went to the table grabbed a plate, and put a slice of pepperoni pizza on it, I handed it to her.

"Mmm, my favorite!" she said. I went upstairs and took one last look in the mirror. I kept my senses alert for anyone or thing that might be up here. I went in my room and made sure it was somewhat clean. There was no point in making my room spic and span when we were just going to mess it up. I went back to the living room and saw Emily playing with Alexie.

"So I see you two are getting along." I said.

"Yeah, she's so adorable." Emily said. Alexie hugged her, then grabbed Emily's cheeks and said, "Ouoouhh, your so booiful!" Emily laughed and said,

"Thank you."

"I can see you two are gonna be good friends."

They nodded, "I want one." Emily said to Sam. Everyone stopped.

"Uh...we'll talk later." Emily just laughed at it. We couldn't tell if she was joking or for real. There was a knock at the door. Jacob answered it, it was Alex. They starred at each other.

"Yeah?" Jacob asked him. Alex looked him up and down took a gulp and talked.

"Um, I don't know if I have the right house, but im here for Sydney."

"Sydney?" he asked in disbelief. I walked around the corner.

"Alex?" Jacob turned half way around and looked at me. Alex peeked around Jacob and gave me a shy wave. "Come in." Jacob turned back around and stepped aside so he could get through. Alex had a bag in his hand.

"Where can I put this?"

"On that table over there." He put it down. He walked back up to me.

"Uh, your body guard over there looks like he's gonna snap me in two, is it safe to give you a hug?" he whispered to me. I saw Jacob starring at us. I opened my arms and gave him a full on hug. Jacob looked like he was pissed! I was glad though; we already went through this, Alex is my friend and he knew that. If he wants to get his panties in a bunch for nothing, I'll let him. We let go of each other.

"Um, this is Quil, Embry, Seth, Sam, Paul, Emily, and my cousin Alexie." I introduced him to everyone except Jacob.

"What about him?" He asked me.

"He can introduce himself." Alex turned to him. Jacob glared at me.

"I'm Jacob."

"Alex." Jacob held out a hand and Alex reached out and shook it.

"That's a tight grip." Alex said to Jacob. I could tell by the look on Alex's face that Jacob tightened it after he said it. I walked up to them, grabbed their touching hands,and pulled them apart. I looked at Jacob and grabbed Alex's hand and sat down on the couch with him.

"Alexie, you wanna watch Mickey with Emily in the other room?"

"Yeah!" they left and went in my mom's room. I handed him the

remote.

"Here, watch what you want for now." I walked over to Quil, Embry, Seth, and Paul. "Hey guys, could you try to hang out with Alex. I don't want him to feel rejected or anything because of the thing with Jake."

"Yeah, totally." Embry said. "Dude, wanna play some football?" he asked him.

"Yeah, sure." Alex said and they walked out the kitchen into the backyard. Me and Whitney waited for everyone else to come.

[ALEX P.O.V]

We walked outside and I was scared for my life! They were all so big and scary looking. I mean that Embry dude seemed pretty cool, but Jacob looked pissed off! When I hugged Sydney he was shaking and glaring at me.
"Tackle ok with everyone? Good let's go." Jacob said and charged right towards me. He tackled me to the ground without letting anyone answer his question; I didn't even have the ball.

"Dude what the hell!" I said.

"What? You cant handle a little competition?" he got off me all the way and Embry helped me up.

"So who's on what team?" Embry asked Jacob.

"Me, Paul, and Quil on one team and Embry and you," he said looking at me, "on the other side."

"Dude we might hurt him! Us against him and Em? It's uneven."

"What, now your choosing him over me too?"

"What?"

"Your just like her!"

"Who?"

"Sydney!"

"How?"

"You're worried about him, and plus you cant see that I obviously have something against him, but yet you feel the need to protect him!"

"Your out of your mind!" I said.

"You stay out of this!" He screamed at me.

"You are though!" Quil said.

"Am I?"

[REG. SYD. P.O.V]

I walked out the kitchen door because I heard yelling. I see the guys standing around and Jacob's going nuts.

"Hey! What the hell's going on out here?" I yelled.

"Jake lost his mind." Paul said. Jacob gave him the most evil looking look I ever saw in my life.

"I think im gonna go." Alex said.

"No, why?"

"I don't think im welcome here."

"No. You are my guest. And if anyone doesn't like that, they can leave." Jacob looked at me quickly and then ran off into the forest.

"Alex don't worry about it, he's still just pissed because Sydney broke up with him." Quil told him.

"You guys broke up?" Alex asked me.

"yeah."

"What happened?"

"Um…come here." He followed me over to the porch and sat down next to me; they guys kept playing football.

"Well, he cheated on me with his best friend's sister, minutes after he asked me to be his girl friend and gave me a promise ring. Then he said im worth nothing to him and then made out with Whitney."

It took him a minute, "Oh." He finally said, taking it all in.

"Yeah, ever since that, we've fought a lot and understand each other better."

"Why are you still here?"

"What do you mean?"

"If I were you and he did all that to me, I would have left and stayed at someone else's house.

"Oh. I wanted to, but they," I nodded towards Quil, Seth, Embry, and Paul, "begged me to stay. I was thinking of taking him back tomorrow, but if he's gonna disrespect my friends, then I don't know."

"Syd, Michelle, and Jazmyn are here." Whitney said sticking her head out the door.

"Well, I guess I gotta go. Stay…for me?"

"Of course." he opened his arms and gave me a hug. I got up and walked into the kitchen. As soon as I opened the kitchen door Michelle attacked me.

"AHH!" I screamed.

"Happy Birthday!" she said.

"Thanks!" I said laughing. She let go and was smiling, huge.

"You okay…?" I asked her.

"Yup! Im just a little…," she paused and looked at the ceiling. She tapped her foot and crossed her arms and said, "HYPER!"

"I see that."

"Do you have any c-o-f-f-e-e?"

"I don't think you need any coffee."

"Why?" she whined.

"Your hyper enough.

"Nuh-uh!" she giggled like a little girl and grabbed three pixie stix; she ate them all at once. "Maybe now." She said and skipped out of the kitchen.

I laughed. "Where's Jaz?" I asked to anyone.

"Bathroom." Whitney told me. My phone rang, I grabbed a slice of cheese pizza and answered

"Hello?"

"Hey its me, um I kinda got lost, a lot." Sabrina said.

I laughed, "Do you know where you are?"

"Not really, but all I see is trees."

"Ok, um I'll send someone for you, ok?"

"Yeah."

"It will most likely be a guy."

"Ouoouhh, okay." she laughed. I heard some girl laughing.

"Who was that?" I asked.

"Hi Syd!"

"Hey Amanda!"

"Hey girlie."

"I thought you weren't coming?"

"My dad changed his mind at the last minute, like literally ten minutes ago."

"Oh." I laughed. "Well, stay put, someone should be there soon."

"Okay." I hung up with her and went outside.

'JACOB!' I thought.

'Hey, where are you?'

'Trying to calm down.'

'Oh.'

'Look, im sorry I don't know what got into me before.'

'It's okay, you didn't charge and tackle me though.'

'Not yet.' He thought quietly.

'what?' a small smile playing on my lips.

'Huh? Oh nothing.' I could hear the smile on his face.

'Im not the only one you need to apologize to.'

'I know.'

'Im really sorry to do this, but Sabrina and Amanda got lost.'

'I'll go find them.'

'Thanks, you're the best!'

'Mhm.' we disconnected. I saw that the guys were bonding well.

"Who is that?" Jazmyn said from behind me.

"Hey!" I said.

"Hey! Um…who is that?"

"Who?"

"Him!" she said pointing to Seth; shirtless Seth.

"Oh, that's one of my best friends, Seth."

"Mmmm." At that moment, Seth looked back at us. Jazmyn blushed and smiled at him. He smiled back at her and she looked at me.

"Oh, my god! Did you see that?"

"Yeah! You want me to call him over here?"

"NO!" I gave her a wicked smile. She knew what that look meant.

"Seth, come here!" I yelled.

"Dude! What the hell are you doing?" she screamed/whispered at me. he dropped the ball and ran over.

"Whats up?" he asked a little out of breath, from running over here.

"Hey, I just wanted you to meet my friend Jazmyn." He looked her; she looked at him.

"I like that name…Jazmyn." She laughed and he smiled at her. "It's nice to meet you Jazmyn.

"You too, Seth." They shook hands.

"Well, im gonna go finish the game. I'll see you later." I looked around Seth and saw all the guys looking at them.

"Yeah." He smiled and ran back. The guys were spread out and threw the football to Seth.