I woke up to find myself staring at Edward's stereo system. I turned my head slowly to find myself looking into Edward's topaz eyes. He leaned forward and kissed me on the forehead. "Welcome back, baby."

"What time is it? What day is it?" I was so confused. Had everything been a horrible nightmare?

"It's 10:00 in the morning, on a Saturday. I have a surprise for you, if you're up to it. We could go later if you want to sleep longer." He smiled lovingly at me.

"What would we be doing? OUCH!" I yelled as I moved my left leg. So it was real. I looked at my shoulder, yep it was defiantly real.

Edward looked worried, "Maybe we shouldn't go, I think you should go back to sleep."

Though sleep sounded nice, he had sparked my curiosity. What was going on? "What do you have planned? I want to go; I don't feel like sleeping anyway."

"There's this fair and pow-wow down in Beaver, I wanted to see if you wanted to go with me, Jasper, Alice, and Emmett. Rosalie doesn't feel like it apparently." He rolled his eyes. "Are you sure you would want to go?"

"Yeah, it will be fun. We don't have fairs in Phoenix. You said pow-wow though. Like the Quileute pow-wow? Wouldn't that be breaking the treaty or something?"

"No, it's in Beaver, off the reservation. The elders apparently thought that having the pow-wow at the same time as the fair would bring more money in for the natives who sell crafts. We can go, people won't be happy, but we can still go." He gave me a wink and another kiss. "I'll get Alice in here to take you home, get a shower get dressed and we'll go to the fair."

Alice drove me to the house, I nearly cried when I saw how clean the kitchen was, but the real tears came when I looked behind the stove and didn't see the moldy piece of pizza.

"Are you okay? I told Edward that you wouldn't be up to going to the fair today, he just wouldn't listen." Alice said giving me a tender hug.

"No, it's not that. It's just that that stupid piece of pizza is gone." I sobbed. "I was afraid that I would have to live the rest of my life knowing that there was a gross piece of pizza behind my stove. I'm the happiest person in the world!"

Alice patted my back. "Maybe I should call Edward; I think you're going into shock."

"I'll be fine; I just need to take things slow for now."

Alice helped me up the stairs. I could walk fairly normal, even with stitches down the whole front of my leg; it was going up stairs that hurt. We made it though. I got my toiletries from my bedroom and went into the bathroom. Alice already had the shower going.

"Just call me in when you need help. I think I'll wash your hair for you, since you can only use one arm. Will you be fine until then?"

"Yeah, thank you Alice." Alice helping me in the shower was no big deal; she had done the same thing after my run in with James. My Dad was in love with Alice, he didn't want to be the one to help his grown daughter in the shower.

Once I was out of the shower, Alice blow-dried my hair and curled the ends. I told her that the curling was pointless, it would rain and all of her efforts to tame my hair would have been futile, but she insisted. Edward won't be able to control himself she told me. She also brought out some cover up. I wasn't so sure about putting it on; I didn't ware very much makeup. I couldn't understand why she was so insistent on having me where it until I looked in the mirror. I had a large bruise on my right cheek and around my eye; I had a smaller bruise on the other cheek. Alice was a genius though, with a few swipes of foundation here and there I looked like normal.

"This stuff is the best!" she raved.

"But you don't even need to where makeup." I pointed out.

"Yeah, but it's not mine, I swiped it from Rosalie's room. She never goes anywhere without some makeup product on, I swear, its ridicules."

I took a look at the foundation container, I couldn't under stand what it said, it was all in German.

Alice picked out a nice, yet casual outfit. A pink long sleeved shirt, I never wore it, it was very form fitting. She also picked out a nice pair of jeans. While looking through my droors she came upon the pink lacey night gown that my Mom had gotten me from Victoria's Secret a long time ago. She held it aloft and looked at me. I ducked my head down in embarrassment and we burst out laughing. She tucked it away again and never said anything more about it. She helped me get into the jeans, which still hurt even with her helping. The material rubbed against my leg and the stitches, but once in them, it wasn't so bad.

We packed into the car again and drove back to the house to pick everyone up. Emmett road with Jasper and Alice, they all thought that I would want some nice alone time with Edward. I grimaced as I got into the Volvo, but once I was settled, all was well. It took a person driving at the speed limit twenty minuets to get to Beaver, but since Edward was going 100 miles per hour, we got there in about five. I told him that he drove too fast for me to have a normal heart rate, when he commented that it sounded like my heart was beating double time. It was, of course, a lie. My heart was racing because he had his hand on my thigh, I could feel his cold hand through my jeans and the cool felt good on skin that was swelling around the stitches.

"Too fast? I was taking it easy for you. 100 miles per hour is nothing." He joked.

Alice pulled up along side us in a matter of minuets. Everyone filed out of the car looking at the throng of people before us. I honestly never thought that there were that many people living on the Olympic Peninsula. That of course was exaggerated, but when all you saw where the same people from Forks every day, you began to think you were isolated.

All of the craft booths were run my Indians, selling what they had made by hand, asking for very little money for what they worked so hard on. There were tourists running around taking pictures of everything. I waved to Billy; he was sitting at a booth with some of the elders, selling raffle tickets. At first, he waved in greeting, but once he realized whose hand I was holding and whose company I was in, he frowned and whispered to the man sitting next to him. Soon the whole table sat there glaring at me. Nice people, I thought.

I ignored their stares and took a better look around me. There was a Tilt-a-Whorl ride, lots of booths and food. This would actually be fun. All the booths and stands were set up in a large circle, in the middle of the ring there were ten people with drums, giving an enchanting beat that seemed to thunder in my chest, there were some women surrounding the men, their voices forming into a chilling chorus that made the hairs on the back of the neck stand up. There were people in the circle, beautifully dressed in ceremonial dress. They danced to the beat of the drums, spinning, and twirling this way and that. It was beautiful.

There was a small stage where a band was setting up. I glanced at Edward, he seemed amused at something, and he was looking at the stage. I looked there too, I didn't find anything that was particularly funny, but a few booths away I saw Jacob at Indian fried bread counter with two other guys. I saw me and waved. I paid for his food and walked over to us. Edward squeezed my hand as Jacob came closer.

"Hi, Bella! What are you doing here?" He was much taller than when I had seen last, all baby fat gone, I was looking at grown up Jacob.

"Oh, nothing, just taking a look around. Is it me or are you taller?" I asked, looking at the two guys on either side of him basically jumping to get an introduction. Edward took his hand out of mine and put his arm around me.

"I'm 6'5" now." He said beaming, running his hand through his hair, it was the first time I had ever seen Jacob without his hair in a ponytail. One of his friends gave a polite cough and nudged Jacob's side. "Oh, and this is Quill and Emery." He said pointing.

There was a loud noise, and then a girl's voice came over the speakers, "Check, 1, 2, 3"

All of the boy's heads turned at the sound, they stood there gazing at the stage, looking at something. Edward was laughing silently beside me. I looked again and finally noticed what they were staring at. There was a girl on the stage, she had beautiful russet skin, her hair was a soft brown color, and it was loose and cascaded past her shoulders. She had a really nice figure; all around I thought she was pretty. I asked Jacob who she was.

"Her name's Shelbie, she came down here from Kettle Falls up in Northeast Washington. Her dad brought her down her to take a look at the guys. She's apart of a tribe some where, I can't remember…" Jacob's eyebrows furrowed together in thought.

"Down in Michigan, she's Chippewa. The Isabella reservation, she has an uncle that lives in Pinconning." Edward said nonchalantly, shrugging his shoulder.

"Yeah, how did you know that? I didn't even know the uncle part, and it's all my Mom has been talking about since yesterday." The boy named Emery said, starring at Edward in awe.

"I've met her before, very nice girl. Her dad wants to find her a good native husband. She's kind of being forced into it."

I glanced from Edward to the girl on the stage. "She's very pretty." I said.

"The whole marriage thing explains why my Mom talked to me about it too." Quill added.

"My Dad told me about her too." Jacob said, still looking at the stage. All of the boys seemed to be thinking about this latest development inwardly.

"Let's go and say hello." Edward said, pulling me away from the boys and steering us over to the stage.

"Do you like her?" I asked. I couldn't help it; she was just so, I don't know, beautiful.

"As a friend yes, she is a very nice person. You'd like her. She's been through a lot in her life, sometimes I'm surprised she even smiles the way she does.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I read her thoughts, lots of deaths in her family, her Dad has cancer, and he had a stroke a little while back." He said. "I met her at her niece's grave."

I looked behind us, to find that Emmett, Jasper and Alice had left to go and look around. I also saw that the boys were still standing where we had left them.

When I turned around, we were already to the apron of the stage. The girl was sitting on the corner and jumped up as Edward and I approached.

"Hi, Edward!" She said, flashing a big smile at both of us. She was even prettier when she smiled.

"Hello, Shelbie, I want you to meet someone. Bella, this is my friend Shelbie. Shelbie, this is my girlfriend Bella." He smiled.

"Hi, Bella. How has your day been so far? Do you like the pow-wow?" she said making conversation, smiling, shaking my hand. She was nice; I couldn't help but like her.

"The fair has been pretty good so far, we kind of just got here, but it's been great."

"I get to do my bit in a little while. I'm going to sing some songs, ya know…" she said, her head held down, she was obviously embarrassed. "I'm kind of nervous though. I feel like I have a hundred butterflies zooming around in my stomach right about now." She smiled.

"I'm sure you'll be great." Edward smiled, encouraging her.

"I don't know, I like singing…in the shower, in the car, in church, in other words, when I'm basically alone. But it was my Dad's idea really." She said shrugging.

"So how's the man hunt going?" Edward chuckled.

Shelbie rolled her eyes. "My Dad is trying to make my presence here known, to everybody. He told one of the elders, the one in the wheel chair about what we were doing here, told him to tell other parents of kids my own age." She sighed heavily. "It doesn't seem to be working though. It's like I'm invisible to every guy here. I don't know whether to be happy or sad." She laughed.

"Oh, I wouldn't say you were invisible." Edward said, looking back to Jacob. "Give them all time, they'll come running, trust me."

An old man walked across the stage, leaning heavily on his cane. He gently tapped Shelbie on the shoulder with it. "Pomjanook, you're time slot is here. One of the elders will introduce you." Shelbie nodded her head. "That means get up here." He said.

"Yes, sir." She said, jumping up onto the stage. "You'll guys watch me right?" she asked still unsure of herself.

"Of course, I wouldn't miss it for the world." He said smiling.

We stood back a little, nearly running into Emmett. "Hey, you two, what's going on up here?" he asked.

"Mini concert. I know the girl singing." Edward informed him.

Mmmm, had been his only response. An elderly man walked up to the mic. "Hey everybody! I hope you're all having a good time here this morning. I'm here to thank you for your generous donations in buying the raffles for a monument to the Great Wolf, thank you." I looked at Emmett; he snorted and muttered something about dumb animals under his breath. "I'd like to introduce, our sister from the Chippewa tribe, Shelbie James. Shelbie's going to sing some songs for us today. Lets give her a round of applause." He stepped away from the mike, clapping.

Behind us, there was great roar and a few fox whistles, it seemed that every native boy from 14-17 had turned out for the concert, each competing to see who could make the most noise. As far as I could tell Jacob Black was winning.

"Thank you!" Shelbie said, smiling. Edward began to chuckle a little. "This song is called 'Stay'"

"What are you laughing at?" I asked.

"When she came to the mic, all of the guys here basically had a heart attack. Ha, I told her."

There was a little guitar intro, then Shelbie put her lips to the microphone and started singing. Her voice was honest and angelic.

"How can I bare to wake up and you're not there

What will I do when I turn and reach for you?

I'll lay my tears on the windowsill

I'll only cry till I get over you

But how long will it take me

Won't you save me…?

Edward took my hand and pulled me close.

"Will you dance with me? It's a slow song; you usually are supposed to dance." We started going around in slow circles, he was obviously not taking no for an answer.

Stay

Just a little bit longer

Till I'm a little bit stronger to take all his, and…

Stay

Just a little more time

Till I can find a way

Please stay

Will I ever smile again?

When losing love takes my best friend

To wonder where, wonder how

Wonder what you're doing

One more night just before you break me

Hold me safely

I leaned close to whisper in his ear, "this was how I felt when you left. Do you know that? I would have let you go, as long as I would have had one more night with you."

"Bella, I was going to come back, I couldn't imagine my life without you. Rosalie had talked to me while you were sleeping; it made sense, for a while. After our fight, I had to go and think, so I left, I was going to come back…I'm so sorry Bella" His voice sound pained.

I kissed his cool lips. "I know. I know you would have come back." I laid me head on his shoulder.

So I'll be a big girl and close my eyes

As you walk away don't say good-bye

God save me

Please won't you

Stay

Edward and I spun around again and again, but then something caught my eye. A face, in the shadows, I knew that face.

"Alessandro." I breathed. We stopped spinning.

"Who do you see?" Edward said, getting defensive, taking a protective stance in front of me. Alice, Jasper and Emmett came closer to us, sensing the change.

"What's wrong?" Emmett said in Edward's ear.

"It's Alessandro." He said simply.

"Alla-who?"

"Alessandro, he was chained in the meadow with me. Victoria thought that if she let him go, he would feed on me, but he attacked her instead, he was not…human. An animal, he was a Beast." I said, still looking in Alessandro's eyes. His face showed no sign of ever being clawed. He nodded once and disappeared.

"Just ignore it, he won't hurt anyone." I said, turning Edward around to continue to dace to the remainder of the song.

Stay

Just a little bit longer

Till I'm a little bit stronger to take all this

Stay

Just a little more time

Till I can find a way

Please stay"

Everyone stopped dancing to clap, fox whistle, some where in the crowed a kid yelled "Pick me".

Edward laughed, but he was still tense. I leaned forward and kissed him again. "I love you." I whispered.

"I'm going to love you until the day that I die, Isabella Marie Swan." Edward replied. My eyes filled with tears, I new he spoke the truth.

The tears started to brim over, I couldn't help it. Edward just smiled and kissed them all away.

Authors note: Hey Nick, my guessed wrong, six pages, my bad. Yayer!