Note: I just realized that I did not mention where Leah was at the mall. I must have deleted that sentence by accident.

If anyone was curious, she was at the Borders.

Don't worry, there will be lots of Leah once they get to La Push. Which should be soon.

Xxx

Mila shut the door to the dressing room and sank to the floor.

There was no way she way she was going out there while Jennie was still there. While she could deal with a lot of things, Jennie was something else all together. Mila was afraid of beating the organs out of her former friend or crying. The latter was worse, because at least she would be seen as a badass in some circles if she beat Jennie up. Crying would just make her lose face.

For a while, Jennie had been her friend, and at work, her best friend. She had known that Kyle and Mila had been a couple, and she had still gone after him. The news of what had gone down at the prom had spread quickly. Mila had found out when someone she barely knew had posted a link on her wall. The link had been to a Youtube video of the couple banging in a limo. Needless to say, Mila had been scarred for life and the next day had been the fry basket incident.

Mila didn't have any female friends. Most of her female high school friends had gone to college out of state and she had drifted apart from the rest. So when she had seen the video, it had felt like she had been hit in the stomach with a 2 by 4 or by a moped. Both had happened and the feeling was much, much, worse.

So she was going to hide in here until Jennie was gone.

Out in the store, Jennie was waiting for Mila to come out. She pretended to be shopping, but everyone could tell that she was just waiting for another chance to play the Libby. Well, everyone but Bella.

"Don't you have to meet Kyle at the food court?" one of Jennie's minions asked her. She was silenced with a glare.

"She can't stay in there forever," Jennie muttered. A normal person wouldn't have heard her. But Rosalie, Alice, Embry and probably Bella did. They all exchanged looks and Rosalie was the one to take care of things. The clerk wasn't paying attention. He was dozing at the counter. Embry would have, but his threatening Jennie or appearing to would have a million unfortunate implications. Plus Rosalie could be scary. Alice had always suspected that her true power was scaring people while looking totally normal.

"Go. Now," Rosalie instructed in a low voice.

"Why?" Jennie asked.

Rosalie just smiled and kept it as she spoke. "Mila happens to be someone I actually like, rather than tolerate. And you are spoiling a perfectly good afternoon out. So just go and stuff your face with food you're going to make yourself vomit anyway. That sound good?"

It worked. Jennie was soon gone

Xxx

At the house, Beth had taken to her room. Dr Phil was on TV, though she was focusing more on her Bloody Mary than the large headed 'doctor'. It wouldn't be long until she was free of the madness. All they needed was a ghost or a unicorn. Beth looked over her shoulder to make sure there wasn't one in her room.

Her phone rang as the theme song played. Before she answered, she closed her eyes and prayed that it wasn't the mall or even local police.

"Hello?"

"Lizzie?"

Beth nearly dropped her phone. "Charlie?"

"Yeah. Is this a bad time?"

"No, no. how did you get this number?"

"Billy gave it to me. I heard Bella was visiting you."

"She's at the mall now. All of them are."

Beth began to chew her lip, her heart pounding and her palms sweating. She had been head over heels for Charlie as a teenager, not that she had told anyone. She always suspected that her sister had known, but Sarah had never said anything. There was a squeeze in her throat at the thought of her sister.

"All of them?"

"My girls, Bella, Jacob, Embry, Leah, those Cullen kids and Nessie." She paused, wondering how much he knew exactly.

"Do you know?"

"Yes. After Embry…got attached to Mila, it all came out, about Jacob and the others. They told me everything when Nessie and Mila got into a fight."

"You okay?"

"Yeah. Once I get over the shock."

There was a long pause.

"It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"Over 20 years is more than a while."

"Yeah." Another pause. "I missed you."

"Really?"

"You were a good friend."

A friend. A good friend, she repeated in her head.