Hello again! Chapter seventeen took a lot less time than I thought, it only took me a few hours, making this the third up date in three days. Don't get to used to it though, sadly school starts again soon.

To 'cba to think of a name', I'd just like to say a few things, even though your more than likely not reading this. First, it says quite clearly in the summary of the story that it is a twilight reverse, if you don't like twilight reverse stories why would you bother to read this one? That's just common sense to me but whatever…. Second, I don't have any problem with criticism, it's more than welcome, and it's fine to have your own opinions, but don't totally insult a book that everybody else reading this likes, it's obvious that they're going to retaliate. I agree that Stephenie Meyer does have some issues with her grammar and writing, but if you ask me reading books with that problem doesn't 'ruin your english grades'. Reading Twilight has only effected my writing in the sense that I do it more now. I still get A's and B's in English and all of my other subjects, so I don't care if you're a teacher, don't make inaccurate assumptions. And third, how, pray tell, is Twilight pedophilic? There is no sex, no dirty thoughts and only mild kissing and that alone doesn't happen very often. But thanks for the fabulous writer stuff, maybe you can read past the first chapter next time before you criticize me and my story and you can see if I'm really any good.

Right, sorry about that guys, maybe I'm just in a bitchy mood today. Anyway, thankyou to everyone that reviewed, you fan-fucking-tastic guys got my to over one hundred 3.

Give a listen to the two songs mentioned in this chapter, 'I Want To Save You' by Something Corporate and 'Waking Up' by One Republic.

Enjoy chapter seventeen and keep reviewing.

-Sarah.

Chapter sixteen - It was with great regret that I went to the garage with Carlisle to be taken to my mothers house. I knew that Bella wouldn't be coming to visit me tonight, and that I would be going to school tomorrow alone, and, as dramatic as I was starting to sound, I had no idea who I was going to survive.

My mother greeted me at the door like I had bee at the Cullen's for a year, fussing over me and asking if I was hungry. She invited Carlisle in for a cup of coffee but, when I looked behind me to see if he was alright because it had taken him a little but longer to reply than what I had expected, I saw that he had gone still (more than usual), his posture showing that he was uncomfortable.

Because of this, I had expected him to say no.

Apparently, Bella got her knack at surprising me from Carlisle.

"Actually I would like that, if it's not too much trouble." He smiled at her gently.

My mother looked ecstatic, which was odd to say the least.

"Excellent, well, come in, come in." She said, stepping out of the way to let us in. It was when I turned to close the door that I saw the unfamiliar car parked on the street in front of the house.

I didn't get too much time to question this before I was ushered into the living room with Carlisle and saw the owner of the car. Sue Clearwater, along with her son Seth and Sam Uley sat on the two person couch and the armchair. I was shocked, and the sarcastic asshole part of my brain was aimlessly wondering how Sam, being half giant, managed to fit in the one man armchair.

I vaguely heard my mother saying something about making more coffee and when I snapped back into focus, I realized that Carlisle was no longer standing by my side but had moved over to the couch on the opposite side of the room from Sam, his nose slightly scrunched up before he shook his head, almost invisibly, and his face went back to normal, completely smooth. There was still some discomfort in Carlisle's topaz eyes though.

I wondered why Carlisle had chosen to stay. From his behaviour at the door he must have known who was here, and yet he stayed, even though they were enemies. I knew that Carlisle didn't trust the wolves anymore than Bella or I did, even if he put more effort into hiding his distaste. I thought about how worried that Bella had been when I first met the wolves, and realized then that that was why Carlisle had stayed.

He was worried about me.

I blushed, I couldn't help myself. It felt nice to know that somebody was concerned about me enough to sit here with their mortal enemies, or worried about me at all. I mean, I knew that Bella and my mother worried about me, but that was different than this.

I respected Carlisle a great deal and thought of him as family, as a sort of father figure, even though I didn't have the balls to admit that to anybody but myself. It was nice to know that he gave a shit.

The three visitors were all staring at Carlisle, their expression ranging from shock to anger. I noticed that Sam was shaking a bit, small tremors running though his torso and arms. With a stab of panic, I realized that he was angry, and that this behaviour probably meant that he was close to changing.

Fuck this has been an eventful week.

I was starting to miss boring.

Seth's eyes flickered over to me, and I gave him a small smile before making my way over to Carlisle. I liked Seth. He was nice, and trusting. If our families weren't mortal enemies, then maybe we could have bee better friends, but alas, our families hated each other, and I would choose the vamps over the wolves any day. I hoped that by sitting next to Carlisle I was letting the others know that I had chosen my side, and that I was staying there.

It worked.

As soon as I sat next to Carlisle, trying to show him some support and thanks by smiling at him, Sam growled. Quietly, but enough so that everyone in the room could hear. Sue closed her eyes, as if trying to collect herself or asking for patience, Seth jumped about a foot in the air and stared, wide eyed, at Sam. Obviously no one had thought to tell the poor kid that the legends were true, and that Sam had made the change. I thought that that was bad parenting on Sue's part, letting her son unknowingly be around a wolf without him even knowing the danger that he was in. The only reaction that Carlisle had was to tighten his eyes and angel his boy closer to mine, as if to protect me.

"You shouldn't be here." Sam growled. Seth looked petrified.

"This is Forks, not La Push. This is on my side of the boundary line, I have every right to be here, and I have every right to ask you to leave." Carlisle let them absorb that and I watched Seth and Sue's eyes widen, and Sam's tighten, shaking increased. "But I won't do that, you are friends with Elizabeth and are here as her guest, and this is not my house. But I will stay here until you leave Sam, Edward is my family and I want to know if he's alright."

"Because he would be safer with a blood sucker then with a wolf, is that what you're trying to say?" Sue sounded out raged. Before either of us got the chance to reply both mine and Carlisle's phones started to ring. I had no idea what Carlisle's ring tone song was, but Something Corporate's 'I Want To Save You' started to come through my phone. Bella.

'She wants to hear she's beautiful, she beautiful.

I want to save you, I want to save you, yeh.

I need you, save me too,

I want to save you'

I fished my phone from the pocket of my jeans and answered at the same time as Carlisle.

"Hello?" We both said.

"Edward! Oh Thank God! Where are you! Alice went looking for the two of you to see when Carlisle would be back and she couldn't see anything, are you alright?"

"Bella we're fine. Carlisle is at my house having coffee with my mother and Mrs. Clearwater. Her son and Sam are up here too."

She was silent before – "Leave, leave there now, get Carlisle to bring you over. I don't want you around them Edward. Are they angry?"

"Yes."

"Well what do you expect? I am sitting in the same room as a leach and a human boy that's been sucked into their world." Sam growled. I hadn't realized that they had such good hearing.

"It'll be alright Esme, I won't be long." I could hear Carlisle saying. If shit kept happening I think that Esme is going to have a panic attack or something like that.

"It's alright Bella, Carlisle is here, and with my mother here as well nothing bad will happen, no one wants any more secrets to be revealed today." I said to her as my mother walked back into the room. Everyone managed to compose themselves before she saw anything thing. Carlisle was now smiling, as was Sue, Seth's face was blank but I didn't know if that was by choice, and Sam had stopped trembling. "But I will talk to you later alright," I said, pretending for my mother's sake that everything was alright and that she wasn't about to have a giant wolf in her living room. "I hope that you're feeling better."

"Please be safe."

"I love you."

"I love you too." Then we hung up, as did Carlisle.

Mum gave a mug to Carlisle before sitting on the other arm chair. "Carlisle have you met Sue, Sam and Seth?"

"Just Sam, though it's a pleasure to meet you two." Carlisle smiled at them politely before taking a sip off coffee. Poor guy.

We spent the next twenty minutes making awkward conversation, my mother smiling along seemingly oblivious to the tension in the air. When all the coffee had been drank and Sue announced that they best be going I offered to clean up the mugs and Seth jumped at the chance to help me, or maybe the poor kid just wanted to get away from the angry werewolf man.

"You knew," Seth said once we were alone. "You knew all along and you never told me!"

"I only found out about the wolf's from," I nodded in his direction. "and I already had a suspicion about the Cullens."

"I can't believe this. Vampires are real!" Seth was wayyyy to pale.

"Seth it's alright."

"Are you serious! I just found out that the legends that I've spent fifteen years laughing at are real, and I just spent twenty minutes in the presence of a vampire, and who knows how long Sam's been a wolf for! When he was trembling before, that was because he was gunna change right?" I nodded. "Shit, wait, did Emily really get attacked by a bear?" I shrugged. "But Sam wouldn't hurt her, he loves her wait! That's why he left Leah isn't it! He imprinted on Emily didn't he!"

"I've got no idea what you're talking about." I said.

"Yes, Seth, that's what happened, now come, we've got to go." Sam said, appearing at the door way.

"Alright then, cya Edward."

"Bye." I said, waving slowly.

"Will I be one?" I could hear Seth asking Sam as they left the room.

"I should be going to," Carlisle said as I went back to the living room. Sue and her group had already left. "Esme will want me at the house."

"Oh, alright then." Mother said. "But how is Bella?"

"She's alright, just a few scratches on her chest and upper legs." Good going Carlisle. Bella wouldn't be expected to show the scratches if they were there. "She will have to wear a bandage on her should though, a sling to more than likely. The scar there will more than likely be permanent, she isn't too happy about that."

Was he serious about that?

"Well tell her that I wish her well." My mother still looked worried, so Carlisle smiled reassuringly and told her that he would. I walked Carlisle to the car and thanked him for staying.

"It's no problem son." He said, clasping my shoulder with his large hand before stepping into the car and driving off, leaving me shocked in the driveway with the rain falling lightly, slowly but surely drenching my hair.

"Edward?" My mother said from the porch. "Why are you just standing there? Come inside."

I turned without saying anything and made my way into the house. Has he meant it that way? Had he meant that he saw me as a son or was it just a figure of speech or whatever?

"Are you alright?" She asked me, probably wondering why I looked so confused. I hummed in response, hoping that she took that for a yes. "Well I'm going to cook something to eat, you go take a shower." I nodded again and did as she said, not bothering to grab clothes because Bella wasn't here so I could get dressed in my room. And just like that I was miserable again.

I didn't pay much attention at dinner. I knew that I should have been, my time with my mother was limited, even if I still had another year or so, but I wanted to savor it. Who knew what would happen to her after I left.

"Sue and the others were acting rather strange today don't you think?" Mother mused. She immediately had my attention. "I mean, they were perfectly fine until you and Carlisle got here, and then everything got all tense." So she had noticed, I should have known. "Do you know why they were like that?" She favored me with a sly glance.

"You know that they don't get along." I muttered.

"Yes but why?" She set her fork on her plate and looked at me. "You spend all your time with them – "

"And you spend all of yours with Sue."

"Surely you've got to know."

"Mummm." I groaned, rubbing a hand over my face. "I've heard some stuff… I think that the Cullen's had some family that lived in the area, like, in the forties or something like that. They met the Quileute's and they didn't get along or something. The…. animosity hasn't gone away. I don't really know." That was kind of close to the truth.

"Huh."

"What?"

"I was just thinking, Sue keeps on telling me that I should keep you away from them."

"What?" I asked her in a monotone. How dare she! How dare that woman tell my mother that I shouldn't be seeing my own family or the woman that I loved!

"She keeps on saying that the Cullens aren't very good people to be around and that I should stop you from seeing them. She says that they are dangerous, that they could hurt you."

"She hasn't even spoken to them before, just Carlisle today. All that she knows are the roumers."

"I'm not saying that she was right or that I'm going to stop you, I just wondered why she thought all of that and…."

I waited for her to continue. "And….." I prompted.

"Just….can you promise me that you're not going to disappear."

I stilled, shocked. How much did she know?

"Edward, son I love you, I want to be apart of your life. And you're almost 18. Promise me that you won't elope or runaway with Bella. I want to know where you are and I want to see my son get married."

"Bella's not 18 till September." I said quietly, and I sounded chocked. That wasn't the right thing to say. He eyes widened, but acceptance washed over her features. Did she think that I had already asked Bella to marry me and not told her? Did she think that I was even capable of that. Bella and I, as far as the community were concerned, were just dating and most of the time I could barely refrain from screaming that she was mine, I wanted everyone to know. Did she really think that I could keep my mouth shut when I finally got her? Besides, I love my mother and if I were to get married, scratch that, when I got married I wanted her to be there even if I did have to wait a bit longer to change.

"So you have asked her." She said, nodding and looking at her plate. Did I see hurt in her eyes?

"No, I haven't, not yet, but I will soon, before we graduate probably. After her birthday I was thinking. And when we do get married, because I have got no doubt that we will eventually will, I want you to be there. I love you mum and I want you to be there for stuff like that."

"Thankyou Edward." She said with tears in her eyes then leaned over to kiss me on the cheek. I was just glad that she didn't bring up running away. I didn't know how to respond to that.

"Are you nervous?"

"About what?"

"About asking her."

"Yes." I gulped. She didn't have any idea how nervous that I was.

"Good."

I looked at her and laughed, happy that she was still able to tease me. "What! Aren't you meant to be supportive?"

"A man should be nervous when he proposes."

"Yeh well I get all shaky whenever I think about it."

She grinned at me. "Do you know what you're gunna say?"

"Nope, something about love?" I said slyly.

She was staring at me strangely, her head cocked to the side, her bronze curls falling over her shoulder, somehow looking graceful. How can hair look graceful?

"You're so like you are father some times that it scares me." She said quietly.

"I am?" I wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

"Not always, but sometime, yes. Just the way that you act or the things that you say, you remind me of him. It helps." She said, shrugging.

I wasn't altogether happy that I was like Edward Sr.. I mean sure, he was a decent guy I guess, he cared about us but he wasn't around that much. I didn't want to be that way with my family, even though kids would never be in the picture.

We didn't talk much for the rest of the night but I knew that she was thinking about dad. My suspicions were conformed when she went to bed at eight. I asked her if she was alright before she made her way up the stairs and she nodded sadly at me, patting my head as she went by. I played the piano to pass the time, enjoying the way that Bella's lullaby sounded and wondering when I would play for her. I thought that she would like it but whenever she bought it up I would always say 'later' or 'next time that we're at my place' or something like that, I was to nervous. I sighed, giving up I started to play waking up by One Republic, I loved that song.

Needless to say that I didn't get much sleep that night. I went to bed at 11 and left the window open, wishful thinking, whatever. The last time that I checked the time was at four am and when I finally did get to sleep my mind was full of strange dreams but I was used to that by now. This happened whenever Bella was gone and she went hunting far to often as far as I was concerned, though I knew that it was necessary. I couldn't wait until I was able to go hunting with her.

Alright, so there was chapter seventeen. And most of you already knew that Edward wanted to propose because I had mentioned it before but now it's definite. But I have a question, should Elizabeth give Edward her wedding ring to give to Bella like they did in the original series or just some random ring that she had, should the ring be one of Edward's grandmothers or should Edward buy a completely new ring?