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Chapter Twenty Six:

Partying is How Time Should Be Spent

"Bella… c'mon wake up!" squealed a voice and then I started to feel something moving my shoulder. My eyes didn't make a move to open, I was tired and plus this was the day of my party and I really didn't want it to come. I shook my head and buried my head more into the pillow.

"I can't get her up, can you try?" said the same voice to what I'm guessing another voice. I didn't really care I just wanted to sleep. I felt a shift on my bed but I held perfectly still, nothing was getting me out of my warm and snuggling blankets.

"Bella sweetie can you get up for me?" a velvety voice asked and as soon as I heard it one eye popped open.

"Edward?" I asked as I eyed that he was lying on my bed… with other people in the room. I turned to see Alice, Rose, and Renee watching with amused expressions.

"Yup c'mon we need to start setting things up," he said with a crooked smile plastered all on his face.

I shook my head and then covered myself with the blanket and then sighed. "Nope! The birthday girl doesn't have to do anything she doesn't want to which includes getting out of her bed!" I said and let out a huge yawn.

"Alright guys let her have a few more minutes," Edward said with a sigh and I felt him get off the bed. The door closed and the noise went away, and I thought I was alone again but then I felt the bed shift again.

I lifted the covers from over my head to see Renee lying on her side with her head resting on the pillow. "Do you feel any older?" she asked with her eyes closed.

"I never do," I said with a light laugh.

"I know what you mean I still feel like I'm seventeen at times. I mean how do you know what it feels like to feel any older?" she asked.

I sighed, "I feel older on days."

Her eyes opened and she questioned me on what I meant like that, "Some days when I'm cooking dinner for Charlie, Emmett, and I feel like I'm thirty and getting more middle aged every year. I know this sounds awful but I always wonder what it would feel like to be able just act like a regular teenager, and not some housewife that I've been since I was like twelve."

"I don't think it sounds awful," she said as she rubbed my shoulders. "I should have been here so that you could have that experience… I'll be honest with you I got so excited about this trip that I looked to see what schools you would go to if you came and lived with me for your senior year." Renee said with a sheepish smile.

"Wow… you had a lot of faith that we would get along didn't you?" I asked with a bright smile.

She shrugged, "I kind of just knew that we would get along, and I just had this nagging feeling to check out the schools and see what was going on."

We were quiet for a little bit longer until I sighed, "Renee how did you know about the Jacob thing?" I asked.

"Rosalie told me in the jeep, she didn't know if you had mentioned him in one of our phone calls so she wanted to make sure I wouldn't say anything to you about him. I of course said that I wouldn't but I pressed on about what happened and then Rosalie started to tell me the tale until Emmett told her to stop through gritted teeth, he looked like was about to kill something." Renee said as she rubbed soothing circles on my arm that was closest to her.

"This is going to sound weird," I said with a sigh. "But I can't really seem to fully hate him, I mean it's like I still wish him to be in my life, but then I don't want to because I'm afraid of him."

Renee laughed lightly and I looked at her with questioning eyes, "One of my many conquests used to beat me too once upon a time ago. I was a silly girl in love and I just hid it from everyone saying that it wasn't his fault and it was mine. I eventually broke up with him when he sent me to the hospital; to this day I still wish that I could just make sure he was ok. I don't love him anymore but he was still a big part of my life so I'll always care about him even if he scares the living crap out of me." She ruffled her hair out and smiled weakly at me. "What I'm trying to say is no matter who the guy is, if you loved him at one point in time you will always care about him even if it's just a tiny bit."

"Love is crazy like that it makes take such strong hold of a person that you just can't seem to ever want to let go even if it's been over for years," Renee said before closing her eyes again.

I smiled and closed my eyes after her- thinking what it would be like to live with her and her outlook of life.

Before I knew it I was in the small black dress with my hair and make-up down and the music was blaring down stairs. I was strapping on my way too high heels when there was a knock on the door.

Alice and Rose walked in sheepishly with their eyes looking down. "Hey guys what's the matter?" I asked and I raised an eyebrow as Alice winced.

"Nothing per say, but there seems to be a lot more people here than what we invited…" Rose said looking over towards my desk.

"How many more?" I asked as I steadied myself on the heels.

"Try the whole school," Alice muttered still looking down at the floor. My eyes widened and I let out a gust of air.

"The whole school is here in this three bedroom one bath house?" I asked my rising up an octave.

"Not the whole school just the senior and junior class and maybe some sophomores!" Rose squealed defensively.

"That's more than half which is more than enough to freak out about!" I yelled as my face was probably turning a nasty red color.

"Bella calm down just try to have fun, and if it gets too crazy you can come and chill in the room for a few minutes," Alice said with a convincing smile. I sighed but nodded. I was wishing Renee was here she would probably say something witty and all my butterflies would go away seeing as Edward wasn't here to do the job either. In fact I hadn't seen him since this morning when he tried to wake me up.

I went down only to get screamed happy birthday by strangers, I made my rounds talking to people and saying thanks for coming and I even danced… with Jasper and Emmett seeing as Edward still wasn't anywhere to be seen.

I was walking over to the kitchen when I heard two girls who looked to be juniors talking near the entry way. "Did you hear about Bella's boyfriend?" one girl asked whose name I think was Natasha.

"No what?" asked the other that I knew was Rochelle.

Natasha looked around and I guess she didn't see me because she kept talking, "He got a call from his real girlfriend from Chicago and he hasn't came back since he took the call." My face all of a sudden got clammy. What were they talking about? That's not true Edward wouldn't cheat on me… I mean- I never thought Jacob would cheat on me either I thought. I shook my head, no she was wrong.

"You're lying he would never do something like that. I mean have you seen them together they're precious." Rochelle said and I could finally place where I knew her- English.

"I'm dead serious I over hear Alice telling Jasper, I know they're cute and perfect but I'm mean it was going to happen she's so out of his league." Natasha said and she was about to continue before I turned away. This wasn't happening I couldn't believe this… I thought… he was… supposed to be different… he was supposed to be knight and shining armor… and he was cheating on me with someone… wait no he's probably been with her longer… which means I'm the other girl… I'm the one who he's been cheating with. I all of a sudden felt really dirty because of this so I ran up stairs and into my room.

I threw my shoes off and fell onto my bed and I felt tears start to trickle down my face. This can't be happening I can't be like Jessica or Lauren. I felt something rising up my throat so I ran to my bathroom and threw up everything that was in my stomach. I was just like them; I was the slut that some girl's boyfriend cheated with.

After washing my face and getting rid of all the make-up I jumped into the shower and began scrubbing at myself. I didn't care if there was a party down stairs all I wanted right now was to be in my pajamas and in my warm comfy snuggly blankets.

I changed into some baggy sweat pants and in a loose t-shirt and walked back into my room only to see someone on my bed… Jacob. I closed my door lightly and he turned to me and smiled weakly at me and raised his hands in surrender. "I just want to talk, I won't go psycho I promise." He said with his toothy grin and I almost busted out into tears. This was my old Jacob the old guy that I was with. I had missed him so much when we had been dating.

"What are you doing here?" I asked my voice seeming to croak.

"Are you alright?" he asked eyeing my appearance as I cleared my throat.

"I'm fine… what are you doing here?" I asked again.

"I came to apologize," he said and I rolled my eyes at which he laughed at. "No in all seriousness I'm really sorry. What I did to you was horrible and I'm disgusted with myself that I did it. After it happened I went to Billy and asked him to get me some help.

"It turns out I'm Bipolar, I take my medication now and I go to anger management classes just in case I ever stop the meds." He said with a sigh as he ruffled his hair. "I didn't come here to get your pity, I came here to wish you happy birthday and to say sorry that I'm a douche bag." He said and I laughed internally. He stood up and I saw a small present on my bed.

"Jacob…" I said but he just shook his head and smiled again.

"I actually also want to say thank you, because of you I'm getting better… I just wish it wasn't you that had to take the punch. And also I know that you won't probably take my advice but from what I saw outside your new boy doesn't seem all too loyal also…" Jacob finished as he looked down.

"What?" I asked seeming to gasp at which his head snapped up.

"He was on his phone talking to some girl it seemed. I could hear her from the side because she was screaming so loud."

"Jacob if this is some joke or something I swear I'll hunt you down and shoot you with Charlie's gun." I said and he just laughed seeming care free for the first time in a long time.

"You wouldn't be saying that if you didn't trust him. Bella how do you plan on being with someone that you don't trust?" he asked getting serious on me.

"After what you did to me I think it's expected to not trust people," I said and winced at my low words.

"Yeah… and with that I'm out." He walked over to the open window and then climbed down the old oak tree. I walked after him and closed my window only to see Edward in the distance on his cell phone at which my heart seemed to sting at. After slamming my window down I walked over to my bed and grabbed the red wrapped gift Jacob had left and I ripped it open.

Inside was a charm bracelet with a one charm on it of a brownish reddish wolf carved out of wood. I held back tears as I traced the small creature. Jacob used to make me these before we had gotten together except they weren't as good because he never had the patience to ever finish them. He had always promised me that he would give me a finished carving before he died. He fulfilled his promise…

I sat there still with the carving in my hand as a knock came to my door. "Hey Bella can I come in?" asked a shaky voice from outside my door. I closed my eyes and let one lone tear shed before I wiped it away.

Emmett seemed to always be the guy that always told me boyfriend was cheating on me. He walked in and smiled sadly at me. "Not liking the party huh?" he asked and I shook my head as I looked down at the wolf.

"Who gave you that?" Emmett sat down next to me as he took in the carving.

"An old friend," I said looking up and at the window. It was true that guy that had been waiting for me in my room wasn't my ex boyfriend, no it was the guy that I knew before we dated… my old friend.

"That was cool of them… so sorry about Edward not being able to be by your side all night long…"

"It's fine Emmett I'm just really tired could you maybe end the party a little early my head starting to pound from all the music." I said as I laid back down on my bed as my feet hung over the edge.

"Yeah sure sis…" he said and got up. The music stopped about five minutes later and I heard tires screeching on the wet asphalt and honking down the road. Another five minutes went and I came down the stairs with an idea in my mind to see if this was all true. Edward seemed to have just come in seeing as he was talking to Jasper and Alice intensely so I jumped in.

"Hey Edward can I use your phone real quick?" I asked he eyed me for a second before he questioned me.

"Why can't you use yours?" he asked with a quirked up eyebrow.

"You have Chris' number from biology, I don't and I saw he left something of his so I need to call him." I said and he nodded and dug into his pocket before he handed me his silver cell phone.

I went up stairs and sat on my bed so I could have some privacy before I went to his recent phone calls and saw one from a Tanya that was over two hours long. I shakily pressed dialed it into my phone so Edward's number wouldn't show up on her caller ID and then held my phone to my ear. "Hello?" asked a melodic voice that seemed like it could be from a super model.

"Hi is this Edward's girlfriend?" I asked in a calm voice.

I heard her giggle into the voice and I almost threw up, "Yes it is… why is he finally sending me those red roses for our four year anniversary?" she asked and I felt my heart break in so many pieces that I couldn't even count how many.

"Yeah…" I said with a sigh. "They'll be right on their way…" I said before I hung up and threw my phone to the ground.

AN: Ok before everyone freaks out... yes we are getting to the end of this story and yes they're will probably be only one more chapter of this story... but have no worries there shall be a sequel! NOW YOU MUST REVIE AND GIVE ME IDEAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!