A/N: ok no crazy excuse...just i had a hectic few weeks there and the outlook isn't much better. I'm actually super annoyed i havent been able to update the story so i apologise with this slightly longer than normal chappie!

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BPOV

"What the hell am I supposed to do with you Bella? I took you back thinking you had grown up. I didn't want the grief I had last time!" Charlie threw his hands in the air in despair. I knew he wasn't going to take it well. "From what your mom said you were starting to grow up a little bit, and from what I have seen when you were here in the summer it looked like you had. And then you go back to school and you turn into what you used to act like. It's not on Bella."

"Daddy..." wow I hadn't used that one in a while "I'm sorry. Just I...well I... well I can't explain why I skipped school but I can tell you I'm sorry." I looked down at my Manolo clad feet and bit back a smile as I admired them .God Focus Bella!

"What do I have to do? Enrol you at a Private Boarding school?" That sure snapped my concentration from my shoes to Charlie.

"What?! NO!! Dad no! I don't want to go to boarding school." I didn't want to be away from Edward for more than a day, I couldn't be. "Dad, I'll do whatever it takes. Please don't send me to boarding school!" I pleaded with him. I could feel the tears forming in my eyes, God thinking about being without Edward actually really upset me.

"Aw, Bella don't start the waterworks, they don't work." He sighed and shook his head at me but his voice had quietened from the blaring pissed off parent to the concerned parent voice. So I used this to my advantage and let the sobs come out as far as they would. And it was all real for once.

"Daddy, I didn't mean to ditch, it was really bad judgment on my part and I wish I could take yesterday back and do it all again."

"Bells, next time you don't feel up to school, could you at least tell me so I can let them know." What? What did he mean the next time I didn't feel up to school. The confusion I felt must have been written on my face as Charlie raised his eyebrows at me. "Mr Greene told me you had em...eh, PMS?" Oh Yeah! I had forgotten that had been my excuse after the boarding school nonsense. Under normal circumstances I would have found Charlie's embarrassment amusing but today I felt ashamed and like for once I could totally feel why Charlie was disappointed in me.

"I'm so sorry dad." I blurted out as I moved into towards him for a hug. He unsurly and awkwardly wrapped one arm around my shoulder and let the other one pat my back. "Dad I swear to you I will change next week. I actually mean it. Before you tell me you are disappointed in me let me just say I actually know why for once. I am a terrible daughter, the things I have put you through...God I'm so sorry." I pulled away from his light grasp on my shoulder and moved over the dining room chair where I sat and buried my face in my hands. "I am so ashamed of myself right now, I can't believe how stupid and irresponsible I can be." It came out all muffled I was surprised Charlie could make it out.

I felt his hand squeeze my shoulder firmly. "Bella, I'm glad your finally able to feel how I feel when I find out you have done something silly. But there is no use beating yourself up about it honey. It's done and there's nothing you can do about it now." His tone was so much more calm now, it was actually so calm it was slightly unnerving.

I sat up straight in the chair and turned to face Charlie who was wearing a small smile on his face...definitely something I did not expect.

"Maybe you should go clean yourself up and I'll order a pizza or something from a takeaway."

"What, no punishment?" I asked astounded. I immediately regretted it coming out of my mouth though, what if he now grounded me?

"Bella, seeing how upset you are by your own actions, I think that's punishment enough." He smiled reassuringly at me and squeezed my shoulder again before walking through to the living room to check the pin board for takeaway menus. I stared after him in disbelief and shook my head in confusion and then went up to the bathroom.

I suddenly realised why Charlie had told me to get cleaned up once I had looked in the mirror. My apparently 'waterproof' mascara had smudged under my eyes in big streaky marks giving me the whole 'panda effect' which was just not a good look. I grabbed a cotton wool pad and soaked it in water – I didn't have any makeup remover in here and was too lazy to get some from my room. I wiped way all the smudges from my face and binned the used pad.

Charlie was on the phone ordering a big Hawaiian pizza when I came down the stairs. The TV was on but was on mute so I watched the flickering pictures of some sort of fishing show as I sat down in the couch.

"You ok kiddo?" he asked me as he ended the call and placed the phone on the table next to him; replacing it with a remote.

"Fine dad." I smiled back at him. Which was in fact the furthest emotion away from what I felt. I was completely drained, tired and emotional.

Charlie however seemed satisfied with my answer and turned the volume up on the flatscreen, his attention now fully on his show. I stared at the screen not really watching it; just for something to look at.

When the pizza came we just ate in silence while the TV blared the best way to catch some sort of slimy fish. I couldn't have cared less and felt like mocking anyone that did care.

I had long since given up on trying to eat anymore when Charlie threw his piece back in the box feigning he was stuffed. He patted his stomach a few times and I laughed at him...how could anyone be proud of having a gut like that?!

"Bells, I can't help but think that maybe me and Sue getting engaged may have made this slightly odd for you? Is that why you have been acting out again? When you didn't come home that night last week I thought it was a one off act out."

"No Cha...dad. that has nothing to do with it." He raised his eyebrows at me as if I wasn't believed. "Honestly."

"Bella are you sure? I don't want you feeling uncomfortable in the house or anything..." I didn't let him finish.

"Dad, I like Sue, I really do. And I like Seth too. The only Clearwater I don't like is Leah." I spat her name out, my voice full venom. Charlie looked slightly taken aback by my outburst.

"You do realise that that is entirely your own making that you hate each other? You bullied Leah when she you were both younger." He pointed out.

"I know, I know. Still who holds a grudge that long?" I asked incredulously. Charlie laughed at me.

"You'll learn to get along. Anyway you'll be growing up and moving away to college soon. And I'm going to lose you all over again." His happy face suddenly turned downtrodden before he smiled again so quickly I wondered if I had imagined it.

"I would still come and visit you dad!"

For the first time in years, I was getting on with my dad again. I knew everything behind my sudden change in behaviour had something to do with Edward, another thing I had to thank him for. He had helped me and Charlie patch things up slightly without even knowing about it.

After dinner we watched a pay per view film, something Charlie had always been highly against but I had managed to twist his arm and he sat patiently through Definitely Maybe. Everynow and again he would add a "That's so stupid" comment. Typical man right there though.

I called it a night pretty early and went up to bed to text Edward. After realizing that he meant a hell of a lot to me I was finding it incredibly difficult being without him.

As soon as I sent the text my phones started ringing with Alice's name flashing across the screen.

"Hey Bellybee!"Alice shouted down the phone. I groaned thinking that the stupid nickname had now stuck but decided to just grit my teeth and deal with it.

"Hey Ali. Whats up? How'd Greene go on you?"

"I got detention for lunch from now until next week." She moaned, as if that was the ultimate punishment for skiving off school.

"Alice do I need to remind you I got suspended for two days?"

"Oh yeah" she had only just remembered...great friend that one was. I thought as I rolled my eyes at her own self-importance. "how'd Charlie take it? Cause we have plans tomorrow night which he is not going to ruin for us."

"We do?" this was the first I had heard about anything. I was glad Charlie hadn't grounded me now.

"Yes indeedy we do! Jasper is having a party over at his house. We are all going! I can't believe it's at Jaspers, we can't not go! Anyway his parents have the biggest booze collection like ever!"

Ah Jaspers. That could be a problem.

"Oh, I, I eh don't know Ali. I don't think Jasper likes me much..." I tried, but she was having none of it.

"Bella, I'm not taking no for an answer, we are going and that is final. Plus you have got to have one big last final blowout before committing yourself to Mr geeky boringness you are infatuated with."

"Ali, don't call him that." I scolded her. "I don't want to go Alice." I moaned, knowing I was never going to win over Alice on something she really wanted to do. "Why can't you just go with Rosalie?" the pig whore I thought to myself making sure I didn't say it out loud. I still hadn't figured out whether Alice liked her or just put up with her.

"Because I want to go with my bessie, AKA you Bella. Get a grip, your coming out, you know you are so don't even try get out of it. I will be coming for you tomorrow after detention. You need to come round to mine to help me get ready first of course."

I sighed, of course I would never get my way where Alice was concerned. She may be small, but what she lacked in stature, she more than made up for it in persuasion.

"fine Ali, come get me after school. I will be ready waiting for you." I resigned.

"Yay! Ok I need to go Bellybee but I'll phone you before I leave school kay?"

"sure, see you later." I hung up and checked for any received texts. There was none, so I decided to be impatient and annoying and text him again.

And then I decided a text wouldn't do so hit the call button over Edward's name and listened to the ringing on the other end. As I was about to hang up he answered, very out of breath.

"Bella?" He asked confused.

"Eh, yeah? Were you expecting someone else?" I teased him. "Why are you so out of breath?"

"Because I was running round my room looking for it. I thought Charlie would have taken you phone off you or something. How did all that go tonight?"

"He is fine. Thinks it's his fault for some reason."

"What so your off scot free then?" he asked sounding happy and surprised.

"Yup." I answered, popping the 'p'. "Get two days off school and I'm not being punished. Its kind of awesome!" I smiled to myself as I thought I had cut myself a good deal there. Except for one thing. "Oh, but I don't get to see you..."

"I know. I'll see you on Saturday though, we could maybe go out somewhere this time?" he asked me, his voice hopeful.

"Of course! That actually sounds really good. What we going to do?" that stumped him. The line was silent for a few seconds.

"Eh, I dunno. Ladies choice?" trying to palm off the decision on me. To be honest I would be happy just spending the time with him, who cares where we were?

"We'll just see what happens on Saturday." I suggested.

"Sure, well, my dad is home tonight so we're having family night. My mom has decided we don't do enough as a family, so this is our new thing. It's going on again tomorrow. Fuck knows what she has in store for us." I laughed a little bit at his predicament.

"Well, good luck trying to get out of that one. My mom tried that on me too before. I escaped out the ground floor bathroom window." I remembered getting stuck and James having to pull me through. I was pretty sure my Renee must have known what was going on. We had been laughing loud enough for the whole street to hear. Thinking of those times we spent together I was a bit upset at how it all ended up between us.

"Hmm there's an idea." His voice was thoughtful and far off; please don't tell me he was really considering that as an option?!

"Alice is dragging me out tomorrow." I blurted out. It was probably better he knew I was going out than lying to him about it.

"Oh, where you going?"

"Eh, don't know yet." I lied. I didn't know if Edward had heard anything about my recent rendezvous with Jasper, but it didn't take an idiot to piece it all together.

"oh. Well you can phone me when you get home if you like?" I liked the idea if his voice being the last I heard for the night.

"Sure. I'd better let you enjoy family night." I snickered.

"Thanks Bella." He moaned sarcastically. "You going to sleep or something?"

"Yeah, I'm just going to get an early one I think. Get a nice long lie in tomorrow too."

"Sounds good."

"You can come join me if you like." I put on my sexy come hither voice and I could hear him gulp down the line.

"Night then Bella." He shot out, putting an end to my fun of getting him all bothered and flustered.

"Night Edward."

And I settled down amongst my pillows, relaxing, I could feel myself drifting off to sleep. Yes I could get used to Edward being the last voice I heard in the night.

******

"Uh Alice, what the hell?" I moaned at the pixie crossing my room digging through drawers and leaving a mess as if a hurricane had been through my room in her wake.

"Bella, I have to borrow that top. Now where is it?" she demanded.

"Look, Ali, I don't know! I wore it weeks ago...and now you've made such a mess it's going to be ten times more difficult to find it. Just wear something of yours...it'll be too big on you anyway!" I tried reasoning with her, but as usual it resulted with me falling flat on my face and letting her do what she wanted. I perched myself down on the corner of my bed which didn't have makeup, brushes or clothes strewn all over it and surveyed the damage.

"Hold these." I was instructed as Alice threw a pile of clothes at my face. "Hey you better get in the mood tonight girl. I will not have you bringing me down." She told me as she stared at my sour face.

"Well, maybe I just shouldn't go." I was just met with Alice's stern glare.

"You. Are. Coming."

I sighed heavily "Fine." Why was it we always did what Alice wanted to do now? Why was I the one being pushed around?

"Why don't you want to come anyway?" she asked me curiously as she was digging her way through my drawers.

"I just...don't. I guess I feel up to it." Which was in a sense true, I had grown tired of all the crap I used to like.

"Ah, found it!" she shouted as she stuck her arm in the air and pulled the blue strappy top out the drawer and started waving it around.

"That was what you wanted?" I asked in amazement. Why on earth would Alice wear that?

"Yes! It's so cute!" I shrugged my shoulders at her and got up to start tidying up the mess that my room was now in courtesy of my best friend.

"We could just get ready here Bella?" Alice suggested and I agreed with her. I couldn't be bothered going from one house to another to another.

Two hours and a phone call later, we were ready to leave and I had found out that Charlie was going on a fishing trip and forgot to tell me last night. That excited Alice somewhat.

"You can come stay at mine!" Still the one for sleepovers then apparently. I had never been a sleepover girl, I hated them but put up with it.

Jaspers house was one of the biggest in his street. The big white modern building reminded me a lot of a smaller version of Edwards even though they were in two opposite ends of town.

Alice parked her car and locked it.

"God if some stupid douche throws up on this I think I'm going to cry." She whimpered as she left her 'baby' in the driveway for the night.

"Just find out who it was and rub there face in it tomorrow. They will regret picking your car instantly." I suggested which caused Alice to emit a loud laugh, entirely unlike her.

"Alice, whats up with you?" I asked, knowing there was something.

"I'm nervous." She told me before she bit her lip so hard it looked like it was going to bleed. She had picked up my mannerisms again already.

"About what?"

"Well, I was going to ask Jasper out tonight." Shit.

"Oh." I watched her as she wrung her hands, another trait of mine and started playing with her hair trying to make it stick out more I guessed. "well calm down or he will never say yes." How hypocritical trying to tell her to calm down when his mere name from her lips caused my heart to speed up so much I could almost hear it in my ears. I still felt so guilty.

"I heard at Ty's party the other week he got with some skank though. Lauren said she had her head pressed up against Ty's parents room and could hear it all."

Oh shit, fuck, piss! Please don't know it was me, please don't know it was me.

"He hasn't said anything about it though. I just hope he's not seeing anyone. I hate the fact he was with someone last week though. I wish it was me." She moaned her eyes trained on the ground.

"Hey, maybe it will be you this week!" I tried to cheer both of us up.

"No, Bella, I don't just want a fling...I want a relationship. I really, really like him."

Oh god could she make me feel any worse?

"Off you go and find him then. I'll be fine on my own." I shooed her away with my hands and walked through the hall as we parted ways. The scene was typical; the couches were starting to fill up with bodies slumped in partial unconsciousness, or couples wrapped around each other, too drunk to realize they should claim a room upstairs, just to save the rest of us from having to witness their groping. I realized I hadn't checked the time since Alice came round to my house but from the view in front of me I figured it must have been pretty late. Anyone who had been left standing was starting to wobble precariously and bottles were being held haphazardly allowing the booze to splash out the top whenever the owner moved.

I walked through to the kitchen to see the island laden with bottles of booze a soft drinks to dilute things with.

"Hey B! You want a drink?" I noticed Mike running over to me and figured it must have been him shouting me.

"I'll just have a beer." I said pointing to any of the brands. I had no interest in getting drunk tonight. I had no desire what so ever to be ill tomorrow when Edward was taking me out so I took the bottle of Bud Mike had opened for me with his bottle opener attached to his keys.

"Wild party" he went on, leaning against the wall beside me and bobbing his head in time to some new song.

"Hmm, I guess. Did I miss anything good?" I couldn't really figure why he thought it was wild, to me it looked like any underage drinking party.

"well actually Dave over there." He pointed to a tall brown haired boy with a swollen lip and a bloody nose. Oh dammit I had missed something. "Well he tried to snog Rose and Emmett saw! Haha it was priceless, he just went beserko on the dude. Started laying him to the ground. Shame you missed it, it was quite comical. Dave was nearly crying for his mommy." He laughed and I couldn't help but join in, Emmett was always really jealous and protective.

"Mike!" I heard some girl shout over the music when she saw him.

"Later Bells. Have some important business to take care of if you know what I mean!" he winked and elbowed me playfully while I rolled my eyes at him.

The teenage party scene was definitely something I was getting bored of. I chugged the last of my beer and decided I didn't want to be here. The noise was too much, the dull beating of the bass line of the current song was enough to make my head split. The smell of smoke and weed was also making me feel ill as was the sound of retching from someone standing over the sink. Somehow I could still hear that over the loud music.

Maybe this was going to turn into a wild party later judging by the state of some people. I clocked the time on the cooker as I walked past it, 22:46. Maybe Edward would be free and his 'family night' would be over? I pulled my phone out of my jeans pocket and saw it was out of battery. Which was just freaking typical.

I knew that I didn't want to be here anyway. Wasn't Edward's house closer to Jaspers than mine was? Well that's what I was going to believe anyway. To be honest I had no idea where Edward lived and how to get there, but that didn't matter right now. I pushed myself off of the wall I was leaning on and tripped up over someone's foot. Fuck I had only had one beer and was starting to feel drunk! That's what I get for not having any dinner.

I pushed past the throng of people trying to find Alice asking folk where she could be.

"I think she went upstairs with Jasper" a girl a year younger than me told me. Well that would keep Alice occupied for a while, I had probably been forgotten about if that was the case. I managed to make my way through the crowds of people that had decided it would be a great idea to congregate outside the front of the house. Just as I ran down the stairs at the front a few of the guys from my year spotted me.

"Ah it's Bella!" One of the taller burlier ones shouted, that I was pretty sure was one of Emmett's friends.

"Hey." I replied cheerily hoping that would be it. But no. I felt one of the guys arms around my waist drag me backwards.

"where you going sexy?" the owner of the voice twirled me round to look at him. And he was definitely old Bella's type.

"Nowhere." I smiled sexily back at him. He sat down on the wall around the flowerbeds and pulled me down into his lap, his beer still in his other hand.

"Isabella...you definitely don't seem drunk..." he said disappointingly.

"neither do you." I pointed out.

"I got practice tomorrow. What's your excuse?"

"Eh, my dads the police of chief...what more of an excuse can you get?"

"True, true. You not going to be staying at Brandon's tonight then?" he asked me as he tipped his beer towards me offering me to take it. I eyed it up suspiciously not really wanting to drink anything his mouth had been on.

And that was enough to snap me out of it. I jumped up off his knee and looked around me.

"Hey, where you going?" the guys shouted after me.

"eh...home. tell Alice I wasn't feeling well." I shouted over my shoulder as I hastily left through the gates at the front entrance to the driveway. I stopped short when I got onto the street. Now which was to Edwards house?

I looked around myself trying to get my bearings. Alice had driven up from the left, which meant my house was somewhere to the left, which meant Edwards house was somewhere to the right. I decided that was probably the best course to take.

After three trips into people's gardens and an hour and a half later I had arrived at the street which I was sure was the beginning of Edwards. Fuck I wished I had a phone full of battery. Unfortunately the street was up a hill. Not too steep a hill, but just big enough for me to feel like I was going to die when I reached the top. Never had I been so glad that I had chosen to wear pumps instead of my ridiculously high heeled shoes.

Just when I felt the street was getting longer and longer I spied lots and lots of greenery and a white walled house with glass along some of it poking out from behind the trees. I had found it!

I practically sprinted up the rest of the hill to get to the gates which I hoped didn't need some sort of fancy device to get through them. It looked like that sort of security conscious street. But then I remembered there house backed onto the forest...and much worse could come out the woods than a fancy street.

There was just fancy wrought iron gates which were easyish to climb over...or so I thought. I had climbed to the top of one and couldn't get my other leg over the top bar. Shit.

Please don't get stuck here!

I tried to pull my leg over while holding on for all I was worth onto the black bar until I lost my footing and I was left dangling from the top of the fence. Oh holy hell. At least no-one could see the predicament I had found myself in. Looking down the fall didn't seem too bad. If I hurt myself what better a place to do it than a doctors house anyway. Although I didn't fancy telling Dr. Cullen that I had fallen from his gates while trespassing to sneak into his sons room late at night.

I closed my eyes tight so I couldn't see what I was doing and lowered myself to the ground, well tryed to, except I had no upper body strength so I just fell. I could feel an odd stretching sensation in my shoulder and no sooner had I realised this I heard the almighty tearing of my print t-shirt. Well at least it was only Abercrombie I thought as the side of it ripped open. I did a quick check to make sure I hadn't cut myself when I landed and regained my composure.

I sprinted round the side of the house looking for the trellis marking Edward's room. All the lights in the house were off so I figured it was a good bet his parents were in bed.

I grabbed onto the wooden trellis and put my feet on the bottom trying to pull myself up. I managed to climb a few steps up before looking down and realizing that I had actually climbed quite far. For some reason I felt more drunk than I actually was which just wasn't helping with the coordination of the footing.

Next time I was going to do this I was going to be sober!

No hold on? Next time? No, no, no. I ain't doing this again. As fun as I thought it was going to be...it really wasn't.

I started tapping quietly on the window but heard no movement from his room. Trying not to tempt fate I pulled the window slightly and it opened. Oh Hallelujah. Trying to reverse my movements from the escape from the room I stepped lightly onto the window ledge and tried to climb through the window daintily. Unfortunately that wasn't how it played out as I almost fell backwards when putting a foot through the window. Trying not to kill myself I pushed forward hoping that gravity wasn't going to win and get the better of me. I fell in through the window crashing into something as I went. I jumped upright as soon as I landed happy that I hadn't fallen the other way when the Adonis himself shot up in his bed.

"Bella?"

A/N: Ah fun times lie ahead.

Quick question is there anything anyone would like to see in this story before it wraps up? I'm guestimating maybe another 5 or so... Let me know guys and I'll see if I can write it in anywhere.

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