Emmett was standing in the front yard, along with Jasper and Alice when we got back to Bella's place. He almost ripped the hinges off of my car after we had parked and I glared at him for that. He just laughed, saying something about being threatened by the teenage human.

"Alright! So how long since Bella ate the food – I understand that you had ice cream?"

"Yes, and I ate all of the food on my plate – both times." Bella looked positively ill – clutching her stomach and biting her bottom lip.

Emmett boomed a laugh and patted her on the back, ignoring her moans of protest. I think that that was why he did that, he was too close to loosing the bet at this point because Bella only had about ten minutes until she finished the half hour. When I told Emmett so, he rolled his eyes and said that there was no problem, but I could see the caution in his eyes.

"So how was the night with the mother?" Jasper asked, leaning against Alice who glared at him, before shoving him to the right and laughing while he stumbled.

"I am not a leaning post!"

"No you're too short for that – Jazz is too tall. You could work for Bella though." She turned her glare on Emmett, who actually shrunk back a little bit.

"I'll be inside waiting for your apology which, just by the way, will be in fifteen minutes." And with that little Alice stuck her nose up in the air and marched inside, slamming the door behind her. Jasper looked distraught.

"Dude! Why did you have to go for the size, anything but the size! I'm gunna have to go there and sort that out when this is over jackass."

"Stop being such girl Jazz, watch me win the bet." Jasper rolled his eyes but turned his attention to Bella anyways.

"How much longer?" She moaned, letting go of my hand and wrapping both of her arms around her mid section.

"Only five minutes sweetie." I cooed to her, loosing a hint of manliness and wrapping my arm around her shoulders. She nodded against my side and turned into me.

"You are so whipped." Jasper smirked, looking at me. I shrugged, not unable to deny that because he could feel my guilt at lying and not at all troubled at him knowing that anyways. I could get a badge, you know 'whipped and proud' or something like that. That would make Bella laugh.

"Like you're any different Jasper, you run to Alice's every beck and call." Bella mumbled from my side. Emmett snorted. "And you, you deal with Rose's mood swings and follow her round like a little lost puppy, if that isn't whipped than I don't know what is." That shut him up.

"Whatever." He grumbled, crossing his massive arms across his massive body. He was like a giant.

"How much more now Alice?" Jasper said, as if she were still standing next to us. "Good."

"She didn't say anything." I said, confused as he turned his smirk to me.

"Not that you could hear human boy. We have vampire hearing, there is only two minutes left." I nodded, blushing at my ignorance, which caused Emmett to laugh again.

"What?" I questioned him.

"Your human reactions, there are so funny. The only thing that could beat the blushing would be if you were really clumsy."

"You mean like I was?" Bella grumbled from my side.

"Well you still are clumsy – but I had never seen you as a human. I imagine that seeing your constant blush and trip routine as a human would have made me laugh." He nodded seriously, sounding like this was the most obvious thing ever.

"Time's Up!!" Alice called from the second story window. The next few moments were a blur – all that I could comprehend was Emmett's loud swearing and Bella shooting from my arms and possibly in the direction of the forest.

"Emmett!!" Esme's surprisingly shrill voice came from the now open front door. "That's enough!"

"Sorry mum." He called, looking at his giant hands.

"Don't you pull the mum card Emmett!" She scolded him while Jasper and I were bent over in hysterics.

"But now I have to go to that medical conference with Carlisle!" He whined. He looked so close to stamping his foot, and that thought just made me laugh more.

"Hey what's wrong with that!?" Carlisle was now standing next to his wife with a look of rejection plastered on his features.

"No I didn't mean – it's not that I'm going with you…but - conference – those things are boring! I don't know anything about medicine!" Emmett chocked out, flustered.

"Well that's why you go – to learn."

"The funny thing is that I actually like them – me loosing wasn't that big of a deal Emmett. But you have fun alright?" Bella smiled sweetly at him as she came walking from the forest, looking much more better than she did a few moments ago.

"Bullshit!" Emmett cried while he ignored Esme's calls of protests. This was too much, tears were streaming down my face now, and having Jasper here wasn't helping either.

"Come on," Bella grabbed my hand. It was a good thing for her super human strength or she wouldn't have gotten me moving, but she managed to drag my still laughing form up the porch stairs and then the other two flights. By the time we got to her room my laughter had subsided but I was getting confused as to why we were here. Mum would by pissed if I wasn't home soon and Bella was planning on coming back to my place now anyways.

"Why are we up here?"

"I'll have a shower so that I don't have to come back in the morning."

"Huh, good thinking." What an articulate reply. Even since I moved here my vocabulary seemed to be limited – I blame the rain.

"Alright, I'll be done in five minutes – you don't have to stay in here if you don't want. Be right back." She kissed my cheek then blurred to the wardrobe, and then the bathroom – leaving me standing there with my hand stuck to me cheek, feeling not only the coolness but the electricity that still remained on the surface of my skin. I sighed wistfully and plopped onto her bed. This room still amazed me every time that I came into it, who could ever get sick of that view? The forest spread on for miles and you could see the river winding through the green trees.

I couldn't help but let my mind stray to the conversation in the kitchen, for some reason I couldn't stop thinking about that – the look in her eyes, the v between them and the way that her lips turned down at the corners. Then it hit me, the one person who would be able to tell me, or at least tell me if I needed to be concerned. Just as I decided to ask her, the little pixie herself appeared at the doorway with an arched eyebrow.

"Will you tell me?"

"Nope – but you don't need to be concerned."

"If I don't need to be concerned then why – "

"I answered one of your questions honey, be happy with that." I laughed at her, that was fair enough.

"What aren't we telling?" Bella asked as she walked from the bathroom and towards me and the bed, sitting gracefully next to me as she towel dried her hair – vampire style. I was sure that her hair would get knotted from drying that to fast, but maybe un-knotting was a perk to vampire hair. Why am I putting so much thought into hair?

"Oh nothing dear," Alice chimed, skipping from the room – looking more like she was floating. 'I'll see you two tomorrow at school tomorrow, I have an apology to accept." Just them Emmett's voice could be heard, calling out for Alice. Bella stared after her, before shrugging and turning to me.

"Ready to go?"

"As long as you're coming with me." I smiled at her, hoping that she could get a hint of just how much I loved her. Standing up, I offered her my hand. "So Emmett's really going to apologies to Alice?"

"Only because he just had a fight with Rosalie and he needs to know how to make it up to her. She probably won't tell him for a while." She laughed. When we got to the living room, Rosalie was glaring at her husband, I felt myself shrink back from that expression. She was the only generally scary one from the family. Emmett was apologizing profusely but I could only just hear him. He started to defend himself but that wasn't what she wanted to hear. She threw the closest available thing at him – a vase that was resting on the little table next to the couch. He didn't bother ducking and they porcelain shattered on impact with his body.

"Alright, time to go. By you two." She waved at Esme and Carlisle who had just appeared at the stairs. They waved back at us and Bella started to shove me towards the door.

"Do I even want to know?"

"Probably, but that's not worth talking about, They fight all the time, not a big deal anymore. Just as long as you're not in the house when they finish and then start to make up."

"Why what's wrong with that?"

"Erm.." She ducked her head as I looked over at her, sitting in the passenger side of the Volvo. "They tend to be quite….loud?"

"Loud? What do they need to be loud about?" She wouldn't look me in the eyes now, opting instead to stare threw the window and to the forest. "Bella? Oh….." I got it now. I'm sure that she could feel the heat of my blush from where she was, I chuckled weakly, trying to lighten the mood.

"Is your mum going to be angry that you're home late?"

"I'll just tell her that Esme invited me in – if that's alright."

"Of course." Bella smiled over at me.

Bella climbed up the wall of the house as I made my way inside and to the kitchen where my mother was making a coffee.

"What took you so long?"

"Esme invited me in, I hope that that's alright?" My response sounded more like a question. I didn't like having to lie to my mother and avoided doing so. I never really needed to until now.

"Of course, that's fine. You seem to be quite close to that family." She eyes me skeptically, it was times like this that I wished that I could read minds. That would be sure a cool gift, but I think that constantly having everything that everyone was thinking floating around inside of your head would be irritating, unless you could turn all of the voices off?

"Well they're all great people. Esme and Carlisle are both so kind and Emmett and Jasper are really funny." Mum nodded, still looking at me with a certain gleam in her eyes. "Well I am going to go and have a shower and then go to bed, I am stuffed." I smiled lazily at her. She bid me goodnight and I went to my room, kissing Bella on the forehead before grabbing my pajama's and going to take a shower.

"So what were you going to say earlier tonight, before my mum came home?" I asked her as I stretched out beside her on my bed. She bit her lip as she curled into me and I automatically wound my arms around her waist, pressing my face into her hair. "You promised that you would tell me." I reminded her.

"Why do you want to be a vampire?" She asked me quietly.

"I've told you, I want to be able to be with you."

"You can be with me as a human."

"Not the same. I want us to be equals."

"We are though." She protested.

"Not completely. I don't want to be the vulnerable human that you always have to worry about, I want to be able to protect you, I want to be able to help you and run with you and hunt with you." She flinched when I said that. "What's wrong with what I just said?"

"The thought of you watching me hunt is……..strange to say the least. I get that if you get change you will definitely see that, but as a human that would be too dangerous, and it's difficult to think of you hunting as a vampire."

"I think that watching that would be interesting." I shrugged, meaning every word. "I don't just want the living forever on earth part, if it weren't for you I probably wouldn't want this at all. But this is what you are, I want to be with you here as long as I can."

"So you don't just want me for the vampire part?" She whispered, tensing. I froze, my mouth opened as I looked over at her. After I didn't reply for a few moments she looked up at me and, upon seeing my shocked face, quickly tried to amend her words. "Look I know that you don't just want that –"

"No!!"

"What?"

"How could you even think that, you think that I would really just pretend to love you so that you could change me?!" I tried not to let her see how that hurt me, but of course she did. The next thing that I knew she was straddling my waist with her soft hands on either side of my face.

"I am sorry Edward it's just that," She struggled to find the words. "I have just gotten so used to the thought that I would never find anyone – that I was un-wantable, unlovable and that I would never find someone to love me or a mate. The thought that someone like you could love someone like me is just that strange that I find myself wanting to make sure that all of that is real." I put my hands on either side of her face and kissed her with as much passion as I could muster up, pulling her further up so that she wouldn't feel just how much this affected me. She did though, I felt her gasping against my lips and then she kissed me more forcefully then ever.

"You know that I only want this because I want you."

"I know." She smiled my smile, that smile, at me and kissed me again. I spent that night wrapped up in Bella, kissing her until well past midnight and sleeping with my arms wrapped around her torso, hers wrapped around my waist.

Today was mine and Bella's one month anniversary – the best month of my life. My relationship with Bella was getting better and better by the minute – I was so in love with her that my chest hurt, I felt like I was going to burst with the amount of adoration that I felt for her, her smile that lit up my world, her sweet bell-like laugh, those wide eyes that I lost myself in more then I would like to admit and just……..her. The family, which I sometimes mentally referred to as my family, were more excepting then ever. Rosalie didn't leave the room every time that I entered one and Alice had even tried to drag me shopping. Bella had to remind her that I wasn't a girl that she could play Barbie with for a week – Alice said that she knew that, she just wanted to play Ken. I tried to run away from her then, even though I knew that that was practically pointless unless Bella stopped her from following. I beat Emmett at that messed up chess game where I have two Kings and beat Carlisle at guitar hero. I think that my mother was developing a crush on my Bella, she always wanted her to come over and too have dinner with us – which proved difficult for Bella but we still managed, we just made sure that we cleaned up afterward, either that or we would swap plates after I had eaten most of mine and we would serve her less. I always slept less those nights because I was so full that I couldn't sleep, on the plus side that meant lots of time kissing – she didn't seem to mind. Those nights though she would have to hunt, but she was almost always back by the time that I woke up. She was everything.

I hadn't brought up the conversation of the whole 'vampirism' thing even though I was more sure then ever that that was what I wanted, I wasn't going to give up and if she thought that I was she had another thing coming. I hadn't spoken to any of the others and I had decided to speak to her about that. I met her at my bedroom window, sweeping her up to my arms and kissing her good morning, again.

"Well good morning to you too!" She giggled, breathless, even though she didn't need to breathe.

"Good morning to you love." I muttered, whilst my face buried itself in her neck, scattering kisses all up her neck.

"Mmmmm," She murmured

"Happy anniversary." I continued to kiss her, not bothering to tell her that we had to leave now or we would be late.

"Seems like more then a month doesn't it love?"

"Feels like forever." I grabbed her tighter. This was the perfect opportunity for the vampire conversation. "Speaking of forever…." Smooth Masen real smooth.

"You still want to talk to the others." I nodded. "Later today, after school?" I nodded again. "We can tell your mother that you're coming over for dinner." I grinned. I had wanted to take her out to celebrate, but what do you do for a date when the girl can't eat? I couldn't take her to a restaurant, there wasn't anything cultural within a four hour drive (If she drove) and she didn't really like going to the movies because of the smell.

"Great." She kissed me again.

"Now come on, our we'll be late." She giggled.

"Do we even have to go, I'll learn all of that next time." I groaned after she had pulled me from the window.

"I'm not going to drag your grades down."

"But I have already done all of this – still!"

"Well……..whatever, we still have to go. Me and the others need to save up all of our absent days for when it's sunny."

"But this is Forks." I laughed. "How often is it Sunny?"

"I'm taking Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off because of the sun, which is strange because there is going to be a storm on Wednesday night." Today was Tuesday.

"What! But that's the rest of the week. What am I meant to do without you at school for three days." She shrugged in reply. "Bella!" I wined, pulling on her hand and leaning in to kiss her soft neck.

"Then skip with me." She shuddered.

"Really?" I asked. I had been planning on doing so anyway, but it was nice that she offered.

"Of course, three uninterrupted days with you."

"Will they call our parents though?" I couldn't convince my mother to let me have three days off of school – unless I told her that I was camping with the Cullens. But would she let me?

"Well, we can ask her if you can come camping with us for a few days, that way you could stay the night, if that's what you wanted." My heart leapt and possibly stopped for a few moments. "Or if she says no then we can just get Esme to impersonate her voice and then call the school and tell them that you're sick."

"I'll ask her about the camping tonight." I nodded, probably too enthusiastically because she giggled at me. "We could even get Jazz to throw persuasion or acceptance or something like that at her." She giggled again.

"Alright, well we'll ask Alice later if that works, but for now where going to be later so lets go." She picked me up and then we were at the door.

"I am getting used to that." I nodded at her, opening the door for her and then locking it behind us when we had left.

"That's good, wouldn't want you to get sick every time that I ran with you."

"Are we going to be doing that often?"

"Well, they is a storm tomorrow night, there will be thunder and lightening there and Alice doesn't see the nomads turning up." There had been three nomads running through the area, there had been a few murders up in the woods and some closer to town, the human police where blaming them on an animal attack but me and the Cullens knew better. They where all distressed about the loss of lives and about any possible threat to them and the rest of the humans. When I asked, they said that they could easily fight and win with their numbers, but that if anyone got suspicious that they would have to leave, which needed to be avoided now more then ever. When I asked why they said that they couldn't leave me behind, they said that I was family now. That had been a great day, Bella had taken me to this beautiful meadow just before and I had been allowed to stay the night. I almost teared up when they said that though, being in love was making me loose my balls.

"So?" I questioned, coming back from my musings to see Bella looking at me, confused. I must have zoned out for longer then I realized. I smiled sheepishly and blushed, again.

"So," She giggled, letting me open the door for her before sitting. I closed the door and went around to the drivers side. She continued for me. "when there is a storm with thunder and lightning we play baseball."

"You play baseball?" She nodded. "Why can't you do that anytime?"

"Because with the force that we hit the balls, it's too loud. The noise sounds like thunder and lightning and that would be to conspicuous. We have a whole heap of bats and balls because they only last a game or two with the force that we hit with."

"Wow." That was pretty impressive.

"We will probably play tomorrow, and you can come watch if you want. Otherwise we can stay home."

"Oh no, this is something that I have got to see." I grinned widely, the superhero worthy stuff that vampires can do constantly amazed me.

"Alright," She laughed. "I'll make sure that we play." We pulled into the car park then and were greeted by Emmett pulling open Bella's door and shouting into the car.

"We get to play baseball tomorrow children!"

' Says the man that acts like a child, and that can't use big words.' I thought dryly.

"So, Edward, our baseball is a little different to yours…."

"Ha already knows Emmett." Alice's voice floated through the car and we watched as Emmett started to pout.

"Bella! I wanted to tell him!"

"To bad Emmett, move." She shoved her giant of a brother from her way and started to leave the car. I chuckled at their antics and than followed her example. There was nobody around when I looked, and I turned to them, my adopted family.

"Has the bell already rung?" They nodded at me, explaining that Emmett wanted to tell me about the baseball match and that Alice hadn't seen Bella explaining until just before she actually did, and then that they decided not to tell their brother. Bella laughed at them and then grabbed my hand, pulling me towards the english block for our form classes. Alice skipped up to meet us.

"Have a good night you two?"

"Don't you already know?"

"I was busy last night." She answered me, winking. I shook my head and looked away.

"At least you don't have to live with her." My love muttered, sending a sly glance my way.

"Yet." Alice said smugly as she skipped to her class, she was in the last classroom, Bella's english class.

"I'll see you soon." I kissed Bella lightly, squeezing her hand as then letting her go so that she could go to class. I walked to my classroom and apologized to the teacher for being late. He marked my name off of the list and continued on with his announcements. We were finishing the 'Romeo and Juliet' section of the english program, and the teacher was giving us our final grades for the project. My A was mainly due to Bella, she had that play memorized and could help me whenever I asked for her to.

I gladly met her at the history classroom, taking her hand on top of the desk, not caring about the teachers disapproving stare. We were watching another video today, so I didn't have to release my hold on her for the whole lesson. This teacher made us watch way too many videos, but I got to keep constant contact with Bella opposed to writing notes, so who was I to complain?

Unwillingly, I let go of her after walking her to the foreign languages class before going to my trigonometry class. We passed each across campus as we switched blocks, stopping to say hello before hurrying to get to our next class. It would be so much easier if one of us just swapped our trigonometry class so that we could be in the same one, then we could be in the classroom next to each other when we had foreign languages at the same time. I know that there is another Spanish class at the same time that she was French, Eric Yorkie was in that class.

'Just do it.' I thought. 'Ask her if it's alright and go see if it can be done.'

"Edward!" She threw herself into my arms as we met at the math building. I chuckled and kissed her lightly.

"Miss me?"

"Of course." She grabbed my hand and started to walk towards the cafeteria. Most of the student body didn't stare anymore, either they got used to me and Bella being together or they realized that staring was rude.

We met Jazz and Alice outside of the brick building and they led us inside and to the food line. I scrunched my nose up at the selection of foods, if possible they got worse today then usual.

"What about food?" I asked as Bella kept walking from the line and towards our table.

"Your mum left early today, so I made you something. You're always saying how horrible this stuff tastes so I figured, how bad can I screw up a sandwhich?"

"Thankyou," I whispered, knowing that she would hear me, and wrapping my arm round her waist – pulling her closer to me and placing a kiss on her cheek.

"Anytime." We took our usual seats facing away from the crowd and she pulled out the tupperware container from her bag. "This is yours just so that you know." She smirked up at me. She placed it in front of me and I pulled up the lid, ignoring Emmett's remarks about Bella stealing my mothers plastic good, and saw the chicken, lettuce, cheese and mayo sandwhich that she had made. Without wasting anytime, I picked it up and started to eat, smiling at the taste. This beat shitty cafeteria food any day.

"Did I do it right?" She asked from next to me, her gold eyes staring up at me with worry.

"It's perfect love. I mean, how can you screw up a sandwhich?" I threw her earlier words back at her, enjoying how her eyes melted into humor at my words.

"Good, see I can still cook!" She threw at Emmett.

"You put stuff on bread, that doesn't count as cooking Bella. Anybody can do that."

"But it might not taste the same."

"It does smell better then most of this repulsive stuff." Rosalie chimed in, stabbing at her chicken patty with a plastic fork. I almost chocked. Rosalie was talking near me?

"Does food really smell that bad?" I already knew, but I wanted to see if she would talk again.

"Absolutely horrible, like something died." She nodded, not making eye contact but alas! The blonde speaks!

"Well that's going to suck." I mumbled. She glared at me than, and I cowardly resumed eating my sandwhich, not wanting to met her eye and wince away.

"You still want to do this?" She asked coldly. I threw her a questioning glance. "This," she gestured to herself, Bella and Emmett. "this half life. You still want to be like us?"

"More then ever, what's wrong with that?"

"Because you have a choice! Nobody would choose that!"

"I would, it's what I want" I refused to let her get me worked up. Bella put her hand on my thigh, rubbing soothing circles with her thumb. Her stance was rigid though, and she was glaring at her sister.

"You don't know what you're asking for."

"That's why he's gong to talk to everybody first – before I agree to change him." Bella growled.

"You're going to change him? Not Carlisle?" Emmett asked, eyes wide.

"I don't know yet, but I think that I can handle the taste. And it's not like I'll be alone, somebody will be there if I needed to be stopped. Assuming that you're alright with that?" She looked up at me now, and I smiled at her, nodding. I hadn't been aware that she wanted to change me. She had explained to me the siren call of my blood to her, and ever since I had expected some else to bite me.

"That's exactly what I wanted, but are you sure?" She only nodded in response, looking back at Rosalie, who was fuming.

"What?" I questioned. Emmett started to shake his head at me but I barely noticed, for Rosalie's eyes, which were a light gold this morning had turned black as the night.

"What are you thinking!?" She hissed at me, her voice almost a whisper. "This isn't a life that you should choose for yourself. You can talk to however you want but you won't really know what this life is like until you've tried it yourself. But by that time, it will be too late for you!"

"I can handle the bad parts as long as I get the good parts as well. Doesn't having Emmett in you life make everything bearable?"

She paused for a moment, nodding slowly. "Yes, he makes this existence worth living, but I would do anything to be human again. Think about what you've got before you throw everything away child!" She hissed that last part before pushing away from the lunch table and storming from the cafeteria. Emmett got up and followed her, after throwing me a glace that clearly said 'sorry'.

"Wow, not even I saw that." Alice said. I jumped, not realizing that her and Jasper had joined us yet. They were staring after their siblings, Alice's head was tilted to the side and for some reason she had the plastic spoon from her fruit cup in her mouth. Jasper shrugged before looking back at his food, spreading the 'special ravioli' around the box.

"Sorry." I muttered. Jasper snorted, Alice rolled her eyes and Bella shook her head.

"You didn't do anything wrong Edward. That – " She gestured to the doorway. "is Rosalie." Bella finished smiling. "I am sorry though, if anything that she said upset you."

"Oh, I'm fine."

"Do you still want to ask about the next three days?"

"Which will be sunny! Which means……..camping!" Alice started with a bright voice but faulted just before she said camping.

"And baseball tomorrow night, don't forget about the baseball." Jasper reminded her, putting the fork with the box and leaning back. He winked at me. "I have got a wicked curve ball."

"What do you need to ask about though?"

"I want to skip with you guys, but we need to know if my mum will let me go 'camping' or if we will need to call up every morning and pretend to be her, saying that I am sick or something."

"Hmmmm." She nodded. "Just let me see." Her eyes glazed over for a few seconds before they returned to focus. "Everything's fifty fifty right now, but there has to be something that we can do to change that."

"Well what if we got Jasper to go and push persuasion of something at her, if that's alright with you of course." I nodded at him, and he smiled back.

"Of course."

"Great."

Alice's eyes glazed over again, and this time she returned to us with a bright smile on her face

"Yer that works!"

"And you are sure that nothing bad will happen at the baseball game right?" Bella asked and Jasper straightened up.

"I don't see anything bad happening. I think that they are leaving now." Alice nodded at her.

"Alright, great. So we'll go to yours after school, I'll run you back to my place, you can have food and talk to the others and then Carlisle can drop you off at your place and then tell your mother about the camping trip. Jasper do you want to stay outside or do you want to come in?"

"I'll come in with you guys, I'd like to meet your mother." I didn't know why he would want to meet my mother but whatever worked for him.

"How will Rosalie react to me staying over?"

"She probably won't be happy, but what can she do?" Bella shrugged.

"She'll go hunting for most of the time." Alice shrugged too, and Jasper rolled his eyes.

"She's always so moody. Seriously being a vampire isn't that bad, just coz she wants kids and wants to get old and die. Pfft, over rated." Jasper was looking at the window.

"Do you like being a vampire?" I asked him.

"Sure, this lifestyle has perks. I get my family and my wife. But the thirst is my only real problem. I know all too well what human blood tastes like, even if the….thrill….was dulled by the emotions of fear and what not by my meal. The thirst hurts but the others try to make it better for me, my control is much better now."

"Have you ever slipped up?"

"Just a few times in the earlier days, all before the whole Emmett-singer thing happened." I nodded, thinking over his words. I finished the Bella sandwhich and a bottle of water that she had thought to bring for me.

Our biology two teacher was away today so we had a substitute. He obviously had no idea about any kind of science and gave us a worksheet to complete, not offering to help anybody and just asking the question on the sheet and telling us to look through our books if somebody asked a question. Bella and I finished quickly enough, and enjoyed being able to talk about nothing for the next forty minutes. Of course, some of the things that we talked about were important.

"So do you know who will talk to me tonight?" I asked her whilst the substitute teacher tried to make himself sound smarter by turning Mike Newton's questions around on him. Newton was such an idiot that I think that that tactic was working.

"I was thinking about Emmett, but maybe Jasper. He was pretty clear about everything at lunch today so I'll ask him later."

"I don't want to be any trouble." I muttered.

"But you're not, I've already asked all of the others if they are alright to do this, and they all said yer. Even Rose."

"Rosalie?"

"She wants to warn you. She might not tell you about her human past but she will probably tell you all of the things that she doesn't like. Granted, that probably is a good thing – for somebody who doesn't want this life to tell you about everything, as apposed to all the people that want you changed and enjoy this life."

"Well Alice was pretty honest about everything, that she sometimes felt lonely and whatever."

"That's true. " She nodded.

"You still won't change my mind." I told her.

"I know." She sighed. "But I want you to be as prepared as possible."

"Rosalie's right." She said after a moment. I looked at her, stunned and confused. Did she not want me to be changed? "There isn't any going back after this. You really do need to be 100 percent sure about all of this."

"I know love."

"Edward…….."

"I'm sure about you. I know that there are bad bits to this life, but I will have you right?"

"Of course."

"Than as long as you're there I can handle all of the shit parts." She laughed at me lightly.

"I love you."

"And I love you too." I kissed her lightly, giving the finger to the kid that wolf whistled.

/*&*/

Rosalie was already sitting in the car when we walked up to the car.

"I'll be more than willing to speak to you tonight Edward." Jasper nodded at me after we were standing next to him.

"Thankyou." I let him feel my gratitude, and he smiled at me.

"We'll see you later back at the house." He nodded again and opened the door for Alice and letting her in before closing the door and walking around to the other side. Emmett waved at us before sitting in the passenger seat and the car pulled from the car park. I opened the door for Bella and than went to my side so that I could drive us home. The drive was only short and filled with a comfortable silence. As soon as we got from the car she turned around and looked over her shoulder at me.

I pouted at her. "You know I can't wait till I can carry you and run at a vampire speed." She just laughed. I climbed onto her back and after she had secured me to her, she took off at a sprint but still not going at her top speed. She never did if I was there. The run to her house took almost as long as the drive home and before I had time to get used to the feeling of my body pressed against her we were at her house.

"Hello!" Esme greeted each of us with a hug just as we stepped over the threshold.

"Hi mum." Bella kissed her cheek.

"Good afternoon Esme." I hugged her back, noting her smell. She smelled like sugar and cookies and flowers, but not overpowering.

"Is there anything particular that you would like for tea?" She asked me sweetly.

"I don't want you to go to any trouble. I can just make toast or something."

"Edward I'm the mother of five teenage vampires. I never get to fuss over them too much and I never get to cook for them. Let me fuss." She smiled at me, still being sweet.

"Alright then." I blushed slightly.

"So no preferences?"

"No, whatever you feel like making will be great, it always is." I smiled up at her and she positively glowed.

"Aren't you sweet." She bounced a bit and than walked of to the kitchen, a little bounce in her lithe step.

I smiled after her, enjoying how even the little things that I could do made her so extremely happy.

"Come on, let's go up to my room." Bella tugged on my hand. I took her up the stairs and sat on her bed. She sat next to me, kicking off her shoes and crossing her jean covered legs, sitting ' Indian style ' . "Homework first, talk later?"

"Yer, I've only got like, two trigonometry questions to do anyways." I shrugged, grabbing my bag ( that was lighter then usual thanks to most of my teachers surprising me with no homework – that meant no textbooks. ) And kicking off my shoes, lifting my legs up onto the bed and turning to face her, mimicking her position. "What are you staring at?" I asked her, cocking my head to the side. She seemed to snap out of her trance because she shot her eyes up to mine and said –

"Hmmmm?"

"Nothing." I smirked at her.

"Hey guys." Jasper said as he opened the door, little Alice trailing after him. They were each carrying their bags, obviously they were hoping to join us.

"Much homework?" Alice asked.

"Nope."

"Not really."

"Lucky friggin juniors. I have two essays to write." Jasper muttered.

"But you have three days off, and vampires can do their work really fast. You probably already know all of the information anyways." I pointed out to him.

"Yer but that aint the point kid. I can't stand doing assignments. The english one is on some shitty book that I don't even want to read and the history one – I already know everything about the subject, I was alive! And I can't even say some parts of what really happened, because the stupid human history records don't know that stuff!" He seemed really worked up.

"What are you studying?" Bella asked him, looking at her own Trigonometry homework.

"World Was Two – supposedly we're studying this in detail. Bull shit."

"You really don't like the human history classes do you?" I asked. He shook his head.

"He wasn't always like this."

"Bella don't." He growled.

"It happened in the sixties."

"Alice seriously!" Jasper whipped around to look at his beaming wife. She took a few steps forward and then jumped up onto the bed.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Do we really have to do this?"

"Yes." The three of us replied.

"We were studying the civil war, which always got him worked up, but this time he decided that he would put some more information into his essay." Bella started.

"He put in all of this stuff that the human history books never knew about, but that obviously happened." Alice continued.

"He put so much effort into the project," Bella kept on going. " making sure that he didn't give away too much but still made sure to be informative. He went like, four thousand words over what that approximate recommendation was – "

"Which would have gotten anyone else extra points." Jasper insisted.

"But the teacher yelled at him for making up so much false information. The whole thing was so funny. We were all in the history class, it was a composite class with Juniors and Seniors together, this assessment was huge for the final grade."

"And the teacher, Mrs. Hennings I think that her name was, she yelled at him in front of the whole class about telling the truth and not making up false facts. She even gave him detention for a week and got Esme and Carlisle to come up to the school. They raced up expecting that something bad had happened, only to meet the rest of us giggling in the hallway and pointing them to the classroom." Alice said, breaking off into giggles at the mere memory.

"She made him join the creative writing team from the english club, he had to do that for the next term and ended up failing history. After that assignment there was only one term left till he graduated. Jas got a d+ or something like that." Bella started to laugh too now, and I joined her.

"She held a grudge against me! Everything else I did for that year I failed, even if I only wrote from the text book!" Jasper exclaimed, throwing his lanky arms up in the air.

"You should have just done that in the first place." Alice giggled.

"Well I do that now don't I."

"Has anybody else ever failed a class?" I asked them.

"All of us have every now and then – whether because we didn't try, lost a bet or something else ridiculous." Alice answered.

"There was this one time, also in the sixties – where it was mandatory for all females to do classes like home economics. Every woman had to know how to be a good wife, ya know? I think that the year was 65' and It was our second school for that decade. Rosalie was pissed that she had to do the class, every school that she had ever been to made them do that stuff." Jasper started.

"Granted, by the sixties things were better. We could do some decent classes and at least we could go to school at all." Bella shrugged.

"Anyways, senior year Rosalie decided that she wasn't going to do that shit anymore and didn't do any of the work. She failed the class and Esme and Carlisle got called back up to the school because the strict, old fashioned headmistress was 'scared for Rosalie's future as a woman' or something like that. Rosalie was so angry that whole time, she had to take 'lady lessons' or something like that didn't she?" Jas looked back at the girls that were sitting together on the bed.

"Yer, with the headmistress or she wouldn't be allowed to graduate. " Alice said.

"She only put forth a little bit of effort but she was allowed to graduate." Bella finished, it was like they had this whole conversation choreographed. I snorted at the idea of a Rosalie, dressed up like a sixties teenage, taking 'lady lessons' from a stern old woman.

"I can't imagine you guys dressed up like people from those times – especially you Jazz." I smirked. "Tie die wouldn't be your thing."

"He looked quite good wearing tie die actually." I whipped my head round to Alice, mouth agape.

"What!?!?"

So this chapter is a little bit shorter, but still long. Thankyou for all of the people that are reviewing and pming me, ttyyyytt, Blue eyed halk and black eyes halk. Give my other story 'A Second Chance' a read, you might just like that one too.