*Holds hands up in surrender* I know, I know. I'm a horrible author for making you wait so long but I only have three letters of excuse F. M. L. My life sucks lately and I haven't had much time to update, but I'm doing my best and thanks for sticking with me and being patient. You guys rock.

I know a ton of people were confused about the whole Jacob/Renesmee thing and I'm sorry about that, I guess I was a little too vague with it, so I'll try to explain it better in this chapter.

AND NOTHING IS WRONG WITH BELLA!!! You have no idea how many messages I got concerning that.

Quick question Edwards birthday is on the 20th of June right?? Sorry if its not.

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Confusion plagued my thoughts for the rest of the day, what had happened with Jacob? Why was Bella being so vague on the phone? I spent all day and night thinking about it and I couldn't even come up with a decent answer. Most of my solutions included Jacob being the devil incarnate and that he was incapable of love because his heart was pure black coal… obviously I needed to get out more often. And with Bella I couldn't even begin to imagine an answer, nor did I want to linger on it too long.

Jacob had, thankfully, gone back to Forks after I had kicked him out, he didn't even come back for his clothes or to say goodbye. I had thought of a real solution though, Renesmee had almost stopped growing completely, and after some research I found out the wolves imprint on someone who is the most likely to carry on the wolf gene. If Renesmee wasn't going to grow into adulthood then maybe Jacob would have to find a different imprint. I didn't voice my opinion to the family, but it was in the back of my mind most days. I would need to find more information but for now I decided to banish all thoughts of him from my mind and throw myself back into my routine. And so I did.

~Ten days later (Edwards Birthday)~

The day I had been dreading had finally arrived. My birthday.

The family was all excited and kept going out of their way to do things for me. Like 'Edward gets to pick what we do today' or 'what does Edward want to hunt?' or 'What movie does Edward want to watch?'. I knew their hearts were in the right place but I would have just preferred it be treated like any other day, any other miserable lonely day.

Alice had made tons of plans, most of which I had politely turned down. She was acting sort of strange though, like she was frustrated with me or something.

All day had been sort of strange, Renesmee had wanted to dress me and herself up, seeing as she thought today was a special occasion. So I had relented and let her pick out her clothes and mine.

All day everyone pestered me, asking what I wanted to do and in what order. And then there was Alice who just gave me a list of activities that she wanted to do and let me pick.

But in all honesty, I didn't want to do anything today. I wanted to wait around for Bella to call.

By midday I was about to go insane. I wasn't sure what to do with myself and I could tell my family was getting angry that I hadn't decided on an activity. I was hiding in my room thinking, their impatient thoughts swirled below me. Around 2 o'clock I decided I couldn't leave them hanging anymore so I put Renesmee down for a nap and with a sigh I heaved myself up and sluggishly walked toward the stairs.

Everyone perked up and looked toward the stairs from their various spots in the living room. Nobody said anything as I walked down the stairs ridiculously slowly.

Geez he's acting like he's walking toward the noose. Emmett thought, I couldn't help but laugh a little bit and pick up my pace. I sauntered into the living room and looked at everyone staring back at me. I sighed and ran my hand through my hair.

"Do you guys…want to play a board game…or something?" I said awkwardly. As soon as I said it the room exploded and everyone agreed with me like it was the most exciting thing they had heard in their entire lives. I knew their enthusiasm was only due to the fact that I was making an effort.

"What game, Edward?" Alice asked me with a smile.

"Monopoly…?" I said slowly. I hated Monopoly, but I picked it because it was the most complicated and long game ever. It would waste a lot of time.

Alice nodded and ran to get it, exclaiming to everyone that she wanted to be the little boot. Emmett called the boat, Jasper the wheelbarrow, Carlisle picked the train, Esme the iron (everyone had laughed a little at that,) Rosalie picked the bag of money. Then Alice had come back with the game and told me that I had to be the top hat. Yeah, because I was the epitome of class lately, but I had nodded and smiled along with them.

The game was pretty predictable, Emmett was out first but only because he got caught stealing money from the bank when he thought we weren't looking. Followed by Rosalie, Esme, and me. I could have stayed in if I wanted to, but I just didn't care enough to continue playing. Alice was only in because she knew how it would play out, and Carlisle and Jasper had always been the strategic ones in the family.

In the end it was Alice that had won against Jasper, just as I had predicted. And also as I had predicted it had wasted four hours.

"That was fun! What do you want to do now Edward?" Alice asked with a big smile for me.

"Hmm, I don't know." I said.

"I have an idea." Esme said suspiciously, I zoned out waiting until they decided for me.

"Oh! Your right Esme!" Alice exclaimed, " Lets open Edwards presents!"

My head snapped up.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no." I said shaking my head.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes." Alice said mockingly and nodded her head.

"I appreciate it but you guys don-" My complaint fell on deaf ears as everyone sprung up, cleaned up the game, and ran into the kitchen to set everything up. I sighed.

"Sorry." Jasper said. I nodded at him and got up. Esme came back in the room, smiled at me and went upstairs to get Renesmee. I patted Bella's cell phone in my pocket, it was about six, she might be calling soon.

Esme came down the stairs with Renesmee in her arms appearing to be a little grumpy. Renesmee looked at me and perked up. She smiled and jumped down out of Esme's arms, pranced across the room and leapt into my arms, she felt almost the same as she did yesterday, which was strange.

"What did you do today?" She inquired.

"Played a game." I responded.

She crinkled her eyebrows, disinterested, she didn't have the patience to play board games.

"Did you win?" She asked.

I shook my head. "I lost."

She smiled at me, "That's okay, you'll win next time." She assured me with a decisive nod.

I smiled. "Thanks."

With Renesmee in my arms I walked into the kitchen. I immediately noticed the mountain of presents on the table and my mouth dropped open.

Esme came up behind me and whispered in my ear "Most of them are for Renesmee."

That appeased me a little bit, but not enough that I was happy about it.

I put Renesmee down on a chair, she fell asleep again sometime during the whole celebration. I opened the presents calmly, thanking everyone. Esme was right most of them were for Renesmee, things like toys and clothes and a new quilt for her. The things for me were CD's, pictures for my room, and other things like that. Slowly I made my way through the mound of presents until there was only one left.

It was small and simply wrapped in white paper. Alice furrowed her eye brows.

"That came in the mail yesterday, I don't know who it's from." She explained, she walked toward it and pushed it slowly towards me, it slid across the table, the paper crinkling. I caught it in my hands and looked up at her, she did know who it was from? She didn't respond to my confused look, just gestured towards the box.

Slowly I ripped off the white paper on the box. Even the container for it was a simple brown cardboard box. Nobody spoke as I opened it.

I pulled the top open and cautiously peered inside. There was only a small piece of paper.

I pulled it out and held it so that nobody else could read it.

Open the door.

I furrowed my brows and looked at the door. I got up and dropped the paper on the table. As I walked out of the room I could hear the family rush forward and peek at it.

I got to the door and put my hand on the handle, but did not open it. My family stayed in the kitchen, giving me space. None of them had any idea what was on the other side of the door. I took one deep breath and threw the door open.

Nothing was there.

I exhaled and furrowed my eyebrows, disappointed.

I was about to just turn around and go back inside when I heard footsteps. They came from across the lawn in the forest. I looked on with baited breath.

Slowly a familiar woman emerged from the forest. She was dressed in a black trench coat that went to her thigh, with plain jeans underneath. Her face and hair was obscured by a wide brimmed black hat. She sauntered across the lawn toward me, never looking up. As she got closer I belatedly realized who she was. I bolted down the steps toward her. My family called my name from the kitchen, confused as to where I was going, they didn't see the woman. I ignored them and came to a stop in front of her. She stared down at my feet. Slowly, tenderly, I lifted my hand and pulled her hat off.

Her mahogany hair cascaded down and framed her perfect face. Slowly she looked up at me and I lost all ability to breath, or speak, or move.

"Sorry, I'm late." She whispered, her words exploded within me.

I broke out of my daze and put my hand against her cheek, she mirrored me. Her touch seemed to sweep beneath my skin and go directly to my heart.

"Bella." I whispered, and crashed my lips to hers with all the love I could muster from every pore in my body. She kissed me back just as fiercely, smiling and whispering my name whenever we broke apart.

"I love you. I love you. I love you." I told her between kisses, my hands roamed all over her, re-memorizing every curve. Somewhere in the back of my mind I wondered if this was real or not, but the front of my mind screamed who cares?!

Finally we stopped kissing and my hands moved to cup her face.

"You're home." I said.

She smiled back brilliantly.

I didn't want to ruin the moment but I had to ask. "To stay?"

"For a little while." She murmured back. I nodded, disappointed, but still unbelievably happy she was here.

She leaned up to kiss me again. I was about to throw myself back into the passion but she broke away for a moment to say something.

"Happy Birthday."

Surprised? Sorry its kind of short.

I really don't like monopoly.

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