Authors Note: I would like to dedicate this chapter to my niece, Ashlyn. I wish I could hold you honey!

You know how people when their depressed or angry have these weird little habits? Some people over eat, some people don't eat and others clean. I was definitely the cleaning type, I thought as I scrubbed at a shoe mark on the kitchen floor that just wasn't coming off.

I was dunking the sponge back into the bucket of water when my other hand slipped, tipping the bucket over onto the floor. Soaked, I sat there crying as the five gallons of water spilled around me. As if on queue, Jasper, accompanied by Alice, came in. Both of them were by my side in an instant.

"Are you ok, Bella?" Alice asked, giving me a rather suffocating hug.

"I…I…I spilled the water! The shoe mark won't come off the floor, and there is a piece of pizza behind the stove that Charlie has left there for God knows how long, that I will never get out! And to make things worse, I am in love with a man that just dumped me because he loves me! On top of that his sister told him to do it! It's all a little confusing. But no, Alice. I'm fine. Just tiptoeing through the freaking' tulips! Well, la de freaking' da people! Of course I'm not alright!" I said, letting out all of my bent up anger. "And Alice?"

"Yeah?"

"I can't breathe."

"Oh, right. Sorry." She said letting go.

Jasper stepped forward, and grabbed both of my hands. A sudden sense of tranquility came over me; I had the sudden urge to sleep. "Is there anything you need us to do? I can get that piece of pizza out if you want me to." He said with a smile. "We can help you with whatever you need us to do." With his thumb he wiped away the new tears that were coating my cheeks.

"It would mean a lot to me if you just cleaned the water from the floor with me." I said sleepily.

"We'll do that while you go up and sleep." Alice said, getting me a glass of water.

"Fine." I said, to tired to protest.

Mean while…

Unlike Bella, who cleaned when she got upset, Edward drove. He sped his way down to the western side of the banks taking the ferry, crossing the peninsula to the eastern side; he wound his way to the other side of the state. Edward stopped and got a hotel in the small town of Kettle Falls. The town was quaint, kids riding their bikes back and forth to the only store in town, Harvest Foods, and going to Jim's Video movie rental.

The hotel was the Kettle Falls Inn, a small one story complex that took up half of the city plaza; the other half of the plaza had buildings that were dusty and vacant, with just one coffee shop at the other end.

Wow, Edward thought. This town was smaller than Forks. It was a cloudy day, so Edward went for a walk around town. He past by the Happy Dell park and saw the cheerleaders doing routines on the lawn. He smiled, 'Bella had no coordination at all, she wouldn't come out of one of those routine's alive' Then he hung his head, he needed to stop thinking about her. It was over and done with. He vowed to never love someone again, and live a life of a hermit in Michigan.

Once he got to the grave yard, he stopped to pay homage to the lost; it was only out of the deepest respect, because he knew that he would never join their numbers, though he was already dead. Not just the fact that he was dead and had no pulse, but he didn't feel alive now that the one thing in his life that had kept him going, he had pushed away. He shouldn't have listened to Rosalie while they had been hunting, but he new that she was right.

Edward stopped in front of a head stone that had caught his eye. It had a drawing of Jesus Christ holding a baby. There was a garden stake with two flower baskets hanging from the hooks. The baskets were filled with brightly colored flowers and there were some vases and an angel statue of a child. The name read: Ashlyn Dayliee James, Edward did the math; the small girl buried here was just nine months and twenty-one days old when she had passed away. He felt guilty, that he should live a life literally fueled by blood and this infant die so young.

He turned as he felt a tap on his shoulder. A young woman, a few years younger than himself stood there smiling. She had long light brown hair that went past her shoulder blades, curious emerald eyes, and olive toned skin. Edward could tell that she was definitely native. She had a beautiful smile. She was a fit young woman, pear shaped; she wore blue jeans, with a white South Pole shirt.

"Hi." She said simply.

"Hello?"

"I'm Shelbie." She said, extending her hand.

Edward took it, "Edward Cullen."

"Hello, Edward. I was just wondering, what you were doing here?"

Edward furrowed his brows; there was no way of saying it without sounding weird. "I'm just looking. It sounds weird, I know, but many of these people don't get visitors any more. Even if I don't know them, it's still good to show respect."

"Oh," she said looking at the head stone, then back to Edward. "So that's why you stopped at my niece's grave?"

"I am so sorry! I'll leave now." As he turned to leave, he heard her laugh.

"It's alright, its flattering, to know that someone with no relation to us cares." She knelt down and cleaned the grass off of the stone. She then pressed her fingers to her lips and laid them on the indented surface of the name Ashlyn. "We picked this picture because it looks just like her."

"Oh, I see." Edward said awkwardly. He wanted to turn and leave, but couldn't. Though death was a hard thing and mourning long and tedious, he found it fascinating. He had never been to a funeral. Although he had lost his parents he had been to sick to see their funerals, and he didn't think of them as his parents anymore. Sure they brought him into the world, but he couldn't even remember their names.

Carlisle and Esme were his parents now. Carlisle was the one that had given him new life, even though he didn't know whether to thank him or not. Living this live was like being in hell, but even he had to admit, his times with Bella had been heaven. 'Oh, Bella, why do I miss you so much?' Edward thought, looking at Shelbie, 'And why does this girl remind me of you?'

"Are you ready?" Shelbie asked interrupting Edwards train of thought.

"Ready for what?"

"To leave. I didn't think you would want to stand in the graveyard all day. Your new around here aren't you? I knew you were I'd never seen you before. Do you want to come with me and pick my friend up? We could show you around, that will take about ten minutes, and then you can be on your way."

"Ok. I'll go with you. How did you know I wasn't from here?"

Shelbie gave him the 'are you blind' look. "Have you seen where you are? You can go down every street in Kettle Falls starting here, and finish in thirty minuets. Believe me, my friends and I have tried. We even stopped a couple times to pick people up." She started walking down the street where Edward had come from. "In this town, every one knows everybody else's business. You can't get away with anything! I've lived here my whole life, known most of my classmates since preschool. It's nice, sometimes."

They started to walk down another street, Shelbie pointed to a two story house with green shutters. "That's my brother's house." they walked a little bit further, "And that's Mrs. Berg's house. She was my kindergarten and first grade teacher."

Edward and Shelbie soon came up to Happy Dell Park; she started walking toward the group of cheerleaders that had just finished practice. She came close to Edward's side and whispered into his ear. "My friend Elizabeth is a cheerleader. But she's fine. So are Destiny, Jessica and Stephanie. It's the others that we need to steer clear of."

"Hey, Shelbie!" One said waving causing everyone to turn there attention to the pair approaching. Jaws dropped as soon aseveryone saw Edward.

"Hi, Destiny! What's going on?" Shelbie said casually as the group came closer.

"Nothing. Who's this?" Destiny said pointing to Edward.

"This is my friend Edward, Edward this is Destiny, Jessica, Stephanie, Caroline, Elizabeth, and Jess Shimals." Shelbie said pointing out every person.

Edward nodded his head to every person, "Hello." Edward didn't know, but that one word had sent the girls' hearts to thundering madly in their chests. But, he did hear their thoughts. Some of those girls were really rude. In their minds they started thinking things that would surely make Shelbie cry. But none of them where as bad as the thoughts pouring out of Jess Shimals.

"Wow, Shelbie, I didn't know that a face like that could pick up a guy like this." She said in a mock friendly tone. "He must have been hungry, you know what they say: ugly fat chicks always know the quickest way to a meal." Jess said glaring.

"Come on Liz, let's go." Shelbie said, her head held high, but Edward could see the hurt in her eyes.

"I'll help you with your bag Elizabeth." Edward said grabbing the bag.

"Thanks." She said, grateful that she didn't have to carry her cheer bag across town.

"I'll talk to you tomorrow Shelb." Said one of the cheerleaders, who Edward remembered as Jessica, giving Shelbie a hug.

"Ok. Talk to you guys later."

"It was very nice meeting you girls." Edward said to Jessica, Destiny and Stephanie.

While they were walking away from the cheerleaders, Shelbie could feel their eyes stabbing daggers into her back. Suddenly Edward put his arm around her. Shelbie smiled. She knew exactly what he was doing, making Jess mad as hell.

"Nice touch with the arm thing." Shelbie said stepping out of Edwards hold.

"Yeah, that was good. Did you see the look on Jess' face! Oh, I wish I had a camera!" Elizabeth smiled. She was glad about anything that went wrong with Jess. Elizabeth was always a target to Jess' temper tantrums, not to mention that they all hated Shelbie.

Elizabeth was a very pretty girl with a kind round face and rosy cheeks. She had brown eyes that were pools into her true nature, caring. Her hair was thrown up into a sloppy bun to keep her dark brown locks out of her face during practice. She still wore her practice shorts and shirt.

They made it back to Edward's hotel room where Shelbie made a call to her friend Coby to come and pick them up. "Coby gets off of work in a half an hour. He's gonna swing by here and take us home."

"So, Edward, where do you live?" Elizabeth asked, curious.

"Down in the Olympic Peninsula. In a small town called Forks."

"Oh, wow. You traveled a long way. Are you going to visit family here or…?"

"No, just passing through on my way to Michigan."

"That's pretty cool. I have family on the reservation down in Pinconning. It's a really nice place." Shelbie added.

The half an hour passed by so fast that the girls nearly missed it, before going out the door Shelbie gave Edward a kiss and a hug. "Good luck Edward Cullen, have fun in Michigan. Here is my number," Shelbie said writing it down on some of the hotel stationary. "If you are ever in Kettle again, look me up."

"Good bye Shelbie, It was very nice meeting you."

Edward lay down on top of the bed all night laughing and crying silently, thinking about Bella and all the times they hadshared. The memory that brought tears to his eyes was when he had found Bella in that mirror room. Lying face down in a pool of her own blood. He couldn't get the image out of his mind. The moment when he thought he had lost her.

The morning came and as Edward was putting his suitcase in the car his cell phone rang. "Hello?" He said opening the door to the car and getting inside. What he heard was so shocking, so terrifying, he dropped the phone into his lap and sped off for home.

Authors note: I just thought that it would be fun for Edward to come to my home town. supercheergirl and I are featured in this chapter. Along with some of our friends (and enemies). I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing this. If you have any questions what so ever don't be afraid to ask. I will happily answer them. Can you guess which one is me?