Alright so I know taht there was a wait, but because of this, I haven't even started my draft for school that is due tomorrow. See what I do for you lot. Reviews are better than apologetic siblings. Love Sarah.

Bella and I were ready within twenty minutes. We were both showered and dressed and then realized that we still had just over an hour and a half left, so we went back to making out. I wasn't complaining, but fuck I needed to do something about my….issue. Bella had it easy, she could hide her reaction. I was above jerking off when she was in the next room, so I hadn't been able to do anything to relieve myself earlier when I had shower. I mean come on, I did still have some self respect left. The male anonymity was completely unfair.

I couldn't stop kissing her, and she didn't seem to want to stop either. She'd already taken my shirt of, her cold little hands running up my chest and my hands were underneath her shirt on her ribs, twitching to move upwards. And then they knocked on the door.

Fucking cock blockers.

I pulled back from Bella and looked at the door, then back to her.

"Sorry." She mouthed at me as I reached over to get my shirt. "Come in." She said louder, though that wasn't really necessary. Emmett and Alice walked in quietly, both eyeing me warily.

"Hey Edward." Alice but whispered.

"Yer, hey man." Emmett nodded.

"Hey," I grinned at them, forgetting that I was meant to be angry. "Thankyou, for this, just by the way. The hangover is just awesome." I let the sarcasm saturate my voice.

"Yer…..sorry about that. We didn't really factor this part into the equation. Or the fact that you would puke everywhere." That perked my attention.

"What?" I looked to Bella.

"Oh, yer, forgot to mention that." She grinned at me. "I guess that it might actually be a good thing that you got that hair cut, I probably would have had to hold it back if you didn't."

"Yer, and that shit was nasty." Emmett's grinned, and I blushed. Bella smiled at me with adoration in her eyes. She loved it when I blushed. I, on the other hand, treated this particular habit with as much distain as my 'ungentlemanly reactions'. I guess that Bella and I would just never agree on some things.

"Is there anything that you would like to say to Edward?" Bella asked them, sitting up straighter with a grin tugging at the corner of her mouth.

They took a deep breath and I was reminded of little children. "We are very sorry that we got you intoxicated without your consent Edward. We ask that you forgive us and we both promise not to do anything like that ever again." They said, perfectly in time in monotonous voices. I took one look at them and cracked up laughing. They both looked and sounded so ridiculous.

"Prick." Emmett muttered as they walked from the room. Twenty minutes later we were all in the lobby waiting for Rosalie and Emmett to make an appearance and deciding who would be riding with whom.

"Well there's no way that I'm riding with these two." Jasper looked at me and Bella whilst wrapping an arm around Alice's little shoulders.

"Why, what's wrong with us?" Bella pouted. I, however, had a faint idea.

"Because with the amount of lust and sexual frustration hanging round the two of you, I would be bound to get a boner for the next three hours. That's not something that I'm looking forward to, so I'll go with Emmett and Rosalie."

Bella stopped breathing in my arms and I felt the blush creep up my cheeks. I knew what he was going to say, but that didn't make hearing it any less embarrassing. Alice snorted in laugher and in order to save face, I looked at her and rose an eyebrow.

"Jealous?" That stopped her laughing.

"Hey- " Jasper started to protest.

"We ready to go?" Emmett asked as he and Rosalie, who was still ignoring me, strode up to us. We nodded and headed to the parking garage.

"See you when we get back." Esme said to the others, looking regretfully between Bella and Rosalie. They weren't talking to each other either. Neither of them had gotten over what happened. I couldn't help but feel guilty about that. What Rosalie said had been out of line but shouldn't they have gotten over it by now?

We were back in Forks in no time, thanks to the Cullens crazed driving, and the fact that I slept through half of it because of the hang over probably helped to past the time too.

When we got back to the house my mother wasn't there. She had left a note on the kitchen table saying that Sue Clearwater needed her, and that she needed to talk to me when I got back.

I was in the kitchen, making myself some lunch when Bella broke the silence. "Hey!" She cried. I looked over to her, startled. "Today is the 4th of June!"

"Yes, dear ." I knew where she was going with this, and flinched internally.

"And your birthday is on the twentieth." Her voice sounded so excited but I would not look at her.

"Yes, I know." She flashed next to me.

"So what do you want to do?"

"Nothing." I took a bite of my sandwhich.

"Nothing?" She looked at me blankly.

"You heard me."

She rolled her eyes. "Alright, me and Alice can take care of that."

"But I don't – "

"What about a present then? You've got to help me with this, I suck at buying presents."

"Nope – no presents. You've already given me enough."

"Edward- "

"Alright, I know what you can get me."

"And what would that be?" She asked me excitedly.

"You can change me."

"Edward," She moaned. "Why bring that up, come on, there's got to be something else – anything."

"That's what I want."

"I'm already warming to the idea anyway, I just – " She looked away and bit her lip.

"Just what?" I asked as I put my arms round her waist and got her closer to me.

"I don't want this to be something that you regret, you can't take this back."

"I won't want to take it back."

"Later, your mother is back, but I will be getting you something."

"You know, for somebody who was so against birthdays when they were human you seem quite enthusiastic."

She grinned at me. "But this isn't my birthday, this is yours. And besides, the last birthday that any of us had that signaled any real change was Emmett and that was in 1935. You can't blame any of us for being a little bit enthusiastic."

"Oh." How do you respond to something like that?

"Edward!" My mother thrilled. "And Bella too!" She gave us a hug and a kiss each.

"Hey mum."

"It's good to see you again Elizabeth."

"Do you want anything to eat?" I asked her.

"Oh I ate with Sue." She grinned. "But, I do need to talk to you." I nodded and hopped up to sit on the bench, wrapping my arm round Bella's waist as she got up to sit next to me.

"What's up?"

"I got a call from your Aunt Caroline." I chocked on air, and Bella rubbed my back soothingly. "You alright?" I nodded, so my mother continued. "She's back now, and she was talking to your grandmother, and they want everybody to catch up soon, and it's the perfect timing because it's the summer. We'll probably have to go to Chicago in July for it. Isn't that exciting!" My mother loved my dad's family, obviously she missed them more than she let on. Mother loved social gatherings, not as much as she used to for obvious reasons, but family reunions were one of her favorite things. Me on the other hand, not so much. I didn't really get on with my family, my cousins were all completely different than me, my aunts and uncles all thought that I was delicate or gay just plain weird. I never brought a friend or a girlfriend to any of these things, and never really interacted with them, so I was abnormal. But how is it my fault that I never had or wanted a girlfriend, and that I hadn't had any real friends? So what if I liked reading and piano more than acting like a dumb shit with my stoner friends like some of my cousins did? Apparently I wasn't a normal modern day teenager. Maybe that was why Bella and I got on so well. Even if I wasn't normal, I didn't like having to sit alone for hours on end, getting criticizing glances from my relatives and pretending to make small talk with them when we ate. But, I didn't have to be alone this time. I had a girlfriend this time, a loveable girlfriend that was bound to make the rest of the family adore her. But said girlfriend is a vampire, and Chicago is sunny in the summer.

"Oh." I said, my voice not displaying any of my inner turmoil.

"And yes you are going." Then the phone rang, so she nodded and went to get it. I thanked God that it was a cordless so that she would leave the kitchen.

Bella and I sat in silence for a moment.

"Will you come?" I asked her softly, not wanting to get rejected. "I know that it will be sunny, but it would just be so much easier if you could go to." I had told her about the family reunions after we got back from the whole James thing and she new how the rest of the family treated me.

"There would have to be something that we could do so that I could come, assuming that I am even invited."

"Of course you are!" I told her, shocked that she would even think that she wasn't. Mother already thought of her as a daughter and anywhere that I want she was welcome to.

"I'm sure that we could work something out with the sun, ask your mother the dates and I'll see what I can do." Mother walked back into the room then, smiled as she put the phone back in the cradle.

"Who was that?"

"Rosemary." That was my grandmother, on my dad's side.

"I was just wondering what dates we were going."

"July first to the forth. Do you think that you would be able to come Bella?" Mother looked up at Bella, who looked shocked to be asked though I just told her that she could come.

"Well, I….I would have to ask my parents of course, but there shouldn't be a problem."

"Alright well you let me know and then I will get the flights. Rosemary can't wait to meet you, which is saying something because she really didn't want to meet me." My mother snorted before leaving the kitchen, leaving behind a shell shocked Bella.

We went up to my bedroom after that, my head still throbbing and Bella now smiling shyly at 'being accepted by my family' or something like that.

"How much does it suck that we still have to go to school." I sighed. Everybody apart from the class that had just graduated still had to go to school for another week, which was a complete waste of time because apparently we didn't even do anything – we had already had all of the tests, I figured that we would ditch most of the time.

"Hmmm that's true but think about it, this time next year we would have graduated."

"Hopefully that's not all that would have happened by this time." I muttered, hoping that she didn't pick up the double meaning in my words.

"What does that mean?"

"Ah, nothing." I found it kinda funny that she still didn't know that I wanted to marry her. Normally I couldn't keep anything from her.

She looked up at me but shrugged, then snuggled into my chest.

The next day Bella picked me up at ten to go to the Cullen's place. She had gone hunting with Alice, Esme and Carlisle last night, and was going to consult Alice about the weather later today.

So I heard a knock on the door and went to answer the door, expecting a smiling Bella to give me a kiss hello. But imagine my surprise when instead of affectionate, happy Bella I got a stressed looking Jasper. The shiny Mercedes wasn't in the drive way either, instead a sleek looking black Ducati motorcycle.

"Hey." I said, trying to mask my surprise. Sure I was happy to see Jasper, but was something wrong with Bella?

"Hey, you ready to go?" I nodded and called a goodbye to my mother, than we made our way to the motorbike, where he passed me a helmet.

"Don't you need one?" I said, completely not thinking. He gave me a disbelieving look, then smiled when a looked of understanding crossed my face. "Oh, right." I put on the helmet and got on the back of the bike after him, my hands gripping the sides, I wasn't gunna put my hands round his waist, that just would have felt weird.

"Not that I don't wanna see you or anything, but where's Bella?" I asked him once he revved the engine. Jasper turned round to look at me, then shot a glance at the house.

"I'll tell you in a minute alright? Let's just get away from here first."

"Alright then." I was still curious, and I knew that he knew that.

"Hold on tight." My grip tightened in anticipation and we shot off. It wasn't what I expected. I had never been on a motorcycle before and had never really cared to try. Pictures of smashed bikes and even more smashed bodies had always kind of turned me off the idea. But this, this was amazing. The speed was exhilarating, almost as good as Bella running, and I immediately wanted to try it without the helmet on. We got about half way to the Cullen house and there were no hours that we could see, just forest. There were a few dirt tracks that branched off every now and then and I wondered if there were houses there or something else that was at the end off the trail.

I was more than confused when Jasper turned off into one of the pathways.

He turned off the engine and tapped my leg signaling me to get off, which I did, taking off the helmet once I was standing. Jasper was pacing in front of me, running his hands through his blonde hair. He was tense, I could feel it radiating off of him. Trying to break the silence, I said –

"You didn't bring me out here to kill me with an axe did you?" I smirked. He looked over at me slowly with raised eyebrows, and stopped pacing.

He snorted. "As if I would need an axe."

"True." I shrugged. It seemed to work though. He stood in front of me but was looking over the top of my head.

"Rosalie and Bella got into another fight." He said quietly. I stared at him, shocked. I knew that they were still pissed at each other, I knew that. But the last that I knew they weren't even talking. Though I agreed that not talking at all was worse than not trying to fix the situation, but why did they have to fight?

"But not like the last time." Jazz continued. "We were in public then. Bella was angry but she knew that she had to be discrete. But this time neither of them had to hold back.

"They were louder?" I asked my brother.

"Not just louder." I knew what he was implying.

"Are they alright?" Jasper sighed before he answered the question, but if there was one thing that I liked about Jazz it was that he always got to the point if it was an important issue.

"Bella got most of the damage. Rosalie is a better fighter and Emmett," Jazz hesitated. "The thing that you've got to understand that it's in our instinct to protect our mates. Emmett loves Bella but she attacked Rose and Emmett couldn't help himself." My fist clenched, and I was grateful that Jasper didn't laugh at my human anger. "It was two on one, and they are both better fighters than Bella, but she had more of a reason to fight I guess, so she did some damage too. Emmett's got a few scratches, Rosalie almost lost an arm and Bella – " I could feel the panic start to choke me. If Rosalie had almost an arm and Bella had gotten the worst injury then what was she like? Jazz, feeling this, put a hand on my shoulder and I felt reassured that she was alright and calm. "Bella's all scratched up and Rosalie got her right arm off. By that stage I barged in and saw what was going on, although I swear that I could feel the fury for miles, that's what got me back to the house. I had gone for a run. I think that Emmett had started to realize what was going on because Emmett was just kind of frozen and standing there."

"Why the fuck didn't Emmett stop them then!" I shouted, pissed off at the whole situation and worried sick.

"Think that the poor guy was in shock. But anyways, I tackled the two of them and then Emmett grabbed Rosalie and I got Bella and the arm and we dragged them away."

"But, Bella, but what about…..is she – is she alright?"

"Carlisle was tending to her when I left. The fight only started about an hour and a half ago, went for about an hour, mind you this is including the verbal attacks, but Alice, Esme and Carlisle only just got home about five minutes before I left, and Bella got first priority because she had much more serious injuries. You know that we can reattach ourselves but something as big as an arm can take awhile. It should be about three days before she can fully use the arm like usual, but it should be fully attached by the end of the day. The only thing is that it would make them heal so much quicker if they could hunt but neither of them are in any condition to hunt." Jazz sighed. "But the fight – you know that they were on rocky terms after the last one, but I just don't see how they are going to bounce back from this one. I mean, they were never overly close, not like the relationship that either of them have with Alice, but still, even if they have fought they have never gotten physical, not even when Rosalie was a new born. Though they didn't really get on then either."

"Why?"

"Bella knew what she was getting herself into when she changed – to some extent. Not as much as you do obviously, nobody can know for sure, but she still knew. Rosalie always thought that Bella was stupid for taking the opportunity." Jasper sighed.

"But this is bad, this is really bad. I mean, yer, Emmett and I fight all of the time, but only play fighting and most of the time 's not even fighting, just wrestling. But we never get this far, shit, we wouldn't want to. We don't really want to hurt each other. Esme is absolutely distraught and Carlisle's trying to help the other three and then help to calm Esme. I mean, and can help with the injury stuff coz' I know all about it what wit' the wars and everythin', but none the less, Carlisle is still better. I offered to come to get you because really I'm the only one fit to. Alice is sad because she can't see the out come of this, and if she can she doesn't like what she does."

"Well what can I do to help?"

Jasper grinned. "I can calm everyone, for sure, but nothing works like a mate does, empathic or not."

"So I've gotta go to help Bella." I was just happy that I could help her at all.

"Yer. That's the general idea."

"Well then what are we waiting for?" I went to stand by the bike again. Jasper nodded and sat before I swung my lag round and straddled the bike, putting on the helmet. "Jazz?"

"Yer?"

"What was the fight about?" Jasper turned to look at me.

"Not all of it was about you." That relieved me slightly. "But the main catalyst from what I can get is that Rosalie bought up the whole 'spending time apart' thing like what happened at the cafeteria." I groaned. Jazz revved the engine, spun us round and we headed back to the house. When we got to the garage, I jumped straight off the bike, took off the helmet and went straight to the house. I went through the side door that lead into the living room and was stunned with what I saw. The normally spotless room was covered in feathers, wood and bits of broken china. There was also an Emmett sized dint in the wall right next to the door. But that's not what shocked me the most.

Esme was sitting on the loveseat, shoulders shaking and her hands over her face sobbing into them, trying to muffle the sound as to not alert Carlisle. Knowing that there was no way that I would ever be able to leave her in this state I walked over and sat next to her, wrapping my arms round her shoulders and using the spare hand to pry one of hers from her face. She looked at me with shinning eyes and bite her lip, before letting out a sob and leaning into me, her head finding place in the crook of my neck. I couldn't stand seeing her so sad, people like Esme's weren't supposed to be sad. She was to kind, to sweet to be sobbing, and that just made me angrier at Rosalie.

"Esme, you know that it is going to be alright." She nodded and Jasper flashed to our side, sitting on the other side of her.

"You go see Bella but tell Carlisle tell come." Jasper said. I nodded and kissed her cheek before walked up the stairs. On the second flight I walked past a sullen looking Emmett.

"Edward, man I'm so, so sorry for what – "

"Save it." I snapped before side stepping and walking up the last flight. I didn't look back.

I but ran to Bella's room but stopped when I got in and saw her on the bed. Carlisle was bent over her and she was kicking her legs somewhat. I heard a grunt and Carlisle say "Sorry." Before she let out a small scream. I made a strange whimpering sound and his head slashed over to me. Carlisle smiled at me lightly.

"Esme needs you." I said as I walked over to Bella and Carlisle. Carlisle's eyes widened and he looked at Bella.

"You all set for now?"

"Yer, literally." She let out a breathless laugh.

"Then I'll be back." Carlisle nodded then flashed from the room, leaving me in clear view of Bella.

My breath caught in my throat at the sight of her. "Oh Bella." Her clothes were ripped and there was a scratch on her face that wasn't completely healed yet. Her pant leg had been ripped off and there was what looked like wire wrapped round her leg. But her arm, that was the worst. The wire the had been used on her leg was wrapped round her, started about half way between her shoulder and her elbow, making its way it to the shoulder joint then it moved so that it went round her chest but then came back to her shoulder. She saw me staring at the wires, the pain in my eyes to see her like this and she opened her mouth to talk to me as I started to walk forwards again.

"The wires meant to help to set the bone in my leg, doesn't help a whole let but still works. Plus we need it to hold the arm on so that I don't have to as much, not like at first." She smiled at me. "How's Esme?"

"Distraught." I said shortly, not wanted to sound angry at her, though I probably did.

"And Emmett and Rosalie?" My eyes snapped to her face and narrowed.

"No idea and quite frankly, I couldn't care less." I sat beside the bed and stroked her face, wishing that I could take the pain for her.

"Edward this is as much my fault as theirs." I didn't answer her.

"Are you in pain?" I asked her eventually. She just shrugged.

"Are you alright?" She asked me.

"What?"

"Are you alright?"

"You had your arm ripped off not yet two hours ago and you are asking me if I'm alright. Seriously?"

"But you're upset."

"And you're arm was ripped off!" My voice sounded slightly hysterical. I felt like an idiot because she was the one that was calming me.

"I'm alright honestly, I will be back to normal in no time."

"That's not the point." I sighed ad leaned up to kiss her on the lips lightly. She smiled into the kiss but I sighed and pulled away. "What's all the sticky stuff?" I said, going in to touch it.

"Don't touch that!" She exclaimed. "Could get into your blood system somehow. Don't want to take any chances."

"So that's you venom?" I asked her and she nodded. I couldn't help but to be fascinated by the clear liquid. I was thinking that in such a small amount of time, that her venom could be flowing through my body, that sooner rather than later I would be producing my own.

"Are you alright?" She asked me again. I sighed and nodded.

"Is there anything that I can do to help?"

"I'm thirsty and I need to clean up, but I can't move either way." She sighed, and an idea came to my mind.

"Emmett?" I called, and he was by me right away. Looking at the two of them, the repent in Emmett's eyes I knew that the two of them had already spoken, and that she had already forgiven her brother.

"Yes."

"Do you think that it would be possible to bring blood here? I mean, either bring the animal back here, or somehow get the blood here?"

Emmett looking confused but calculating. "You mean in a drink bottle or something like that?"

"Yer. Would that work?"

He started to nod slowly. "I can get some for the both of you." I knew that he meant Rose. "Alright. Alright, I'ma' go get some drink bottles." Then Emmett was gone.

And Bella was giving me the strangest look.

"What?"

"Only you would think of that."

"It's like take away for vampires; we can call it 'McVamps.'." I grinned and was greeted with laughter from her and from other various parts of the house. I saw Emmett run to the forest with a backpack on his should that I presumed was full of water bottles. I suppose that they just never threw away the ones that I used here.

We were silent for a little bit and I couldn't hear anything else from the rest of the house. "What happened?" I asked her quietly.

She sighed and took a deep breath. "Do you really want to know?"