A/N: Hey guys, sorry this one took so long. I had a hard time figuring out the last chapter of my other story and felt the intense need to finish it before I moved on to the next chapter of this one. However, I have now finished that one and can devote the rest of my time to this one. I would like to take a minute for a shameless plug, though. If anyone is interested in reading a Bella/Jacob story, where Edward is the bad guy, then you should give White Horse a read. It is an all human story with a very evil and twisted Edward. Please check it out if you get the chance. Now on with Second Chance.

BELLA

I guess talking everything helped a lot more than I thought it would. I managed to sleep through the whole night without so much as a whisper of Edward or Jacob for the first time in months. It was nice to be able to sleep through the night for once.

I woke up the next morning to the feel of cold fingers brushing hair off of my forehead. Curious, I let my eyes open to find Jasper laying next to me with his head propped on his elbow staring down at my. His beautiful golden orbs were full of love, concern, and several other emotions that made the Jasper box that had locked up nice and tight rattled. I found myself wanting to allow it to spring open and close the distance between our lips. He leaned forward slight, as if he wanted to do the same thing. I quickly pulled myself away from him before either of us had a chance to do something that we'd regret. However, I couldn't bring myself to look away from his beautiful eyes.

I saw hurt flash across them as I settled myself on the other side of the bed. He bit his lip in slight embarassment without breaking the eye contact.

"I'm sorry." I said hurriedly trying to cover the awkwardness. "I'm still not use to the cold fingers touching me in the morning."

"Right, of course. I understand." he replied trying to sound like it didn't bother him. I wasn't fooled. His eyes still held a small level of hurt and a slight bit of embarassment. I held the eye contact trying to figure where the hell his emotions were coming from.

I didn't break the contact until someone behind me cleared their throat. I jumped about a foot in surprise and whipped around to see who else was there. Alice was sitting on the couch directly behind me. My heart rate picked up slightly. What if she noticed the awkward moment between Jasper and I? I didn't want to cause a strain on anything especially after just getting back into the family.

Alice, however, simply giggled at my reaction and gave me a kind smile.

"Esme has breakfast ready for you downstairs." she said in her usual perky and happy voice.

I surpressed a groan. I wanted to say that Esme didn't have to do that for me. However, I knew that cooking was something that Esme had enjoyed immensely as a human. She hated the fact that she had to give it up and loved it when Edward brought me around. I gave her an excuse to do what made her happy and allow someone to enjoy it. It would be stupid and nesty of me to give her a hard time about doing something that made her happy, especially after everything that I had done to them in the last five months. I settled for a grimace to show that I was still uncomfortable with the idea. Alice, however, ignored me.

"Then after you eat, Carlisle would like you to speak to you in his study." she continued just as happily as ever.

My heart rate picked up a little as I though about what he wanted to talk to me about. What if he changed his mind about letting me back into the family? I knew I would deserve nothing less than that, but I didn't think I could survive losing them again.

"Relax." Jasper stated placing a reassuring hand on my shoulder. He had, no doubt, felt my fear and panic. "It's nothing bad, just important."

I nodded and slid out of bed. It was a good enough excuse to get away from the physical contact without hurting his feelings again. I looked down at myself and realized that I was still wearing the same sweatpants and cami that I was wearing the night before. I didn't have to see my hair to know that it looked like a rat's nest.

"Hey, Alice, do you have any clothes that I can borrow for the day?" I asked wanting to get out of the dirty outfit.

Alice simply smiled her evil smile and jumped off of the couch. She grabbed my wrist and dragged me over to one of the wardrobes and threw it open. It was full of outfits, shoes, and accessories. I looked at the whole thing with my eyes bulging in surprise.

"Alice, what did you do?" I asked.

"Well, I every time Rose and I went shopping we picked up anything that we thought you might like or that would look good on you. We wanted to be able to give you some kind of welcome back present for when you finally came home." she explained.

"You guys didn't have to do this, you know?" I couldn't help biut said it this time. It was just way too much.

"I know but we wanted too." Alice stated. "Besides, I've seen some of the stuff you've been wearing in the last five months, and you really needed a new wardrobe."

I suppose I really couldn't argue with her there. I had been wearing mostly p.j.'s when I wasn't oat work. I had gotten rid of everything that reminded me of Edward, including my clothes. Which didn't leave me with much.

"Thank you." I said with a small smile.

"That's what sisters are for." Alice replied slinging one arm across my shoulders. "Now, why don't you go take a shower, get dressed and go have some breakfast. I've already put your favorite shower things in there for you."

"Thanks." I said again hugging her.

She just giggled a little before pulling away.

"We'll see you in a couple hours." she said as she and Jasper walked out the door hand in hand.

I sighed and headed to their bathroom. Sure enough, Alice had a bottle of strawberry shampoo and conditioner, as well as a bottle of moutain breeze body wash sitting on the ledge for me. She had also placed a stack of towels and a wash cloth on the sink for me.

I got in the shower and quickly washed rinse and dried off. It took me several minutes to find a suitable outfit because anything the girls thought I would like was in the very back of everything they thought I would look good in. It took me twenty minutes to find a simple pair of tight jeans and a dark blue tank top that didn't reveal most of my boobage. I then slid on a pair of dark blue flip flops to complete the casual outfit. I brushed through my hair quickly and threw it into a messy bun.

I looked myself over in the mirror and had to admit that I looked much better than I had in months. Finally being able to talk about everything helped a lot more than I thought it would. I sighed at my reflection and headed downstairs for some breakfast.

When I got into the dining room, I found Esme sitting at the table with several plates of food in front of her. There were pancakes, waffles, eggs, toast, bacon, sausage and a glass of milk and orange juice.

"I wasn't sure what you'd want, so I made a little bit of everything." she said upon seeing my shock. "You don't have to eat all of it, if you don't want to. Just take what you want and I'll get rid of the rest."

I wanted to tell her that this was too much and she didn't have to do it. However, I reminded myself of the promise I made to let them do for me whatever made them happy. So, I smiled and slid into the chair, instead of, complaining.

"Thanks Esme, it looks great." I said.

She smiled her warm motherly smile as I began to pile the food onto my plate.

"You have no idea how happy I am to have you back Bella." she kissed the top of my head before heading back into the kitchen.

Once again, I had no idea how hungry I was until I had started eating. By the time I was finished, I had eaten half, if not more, of everything that Esme had made me.

When I finished, Esme told me to go see Carlisle and she'd take care of the mess. I offered to help, but she said it was more important for me to go see Carlisle. I sighed and headed up to his study.

When I got to his door, I knocked tentatively.

"Come in, Bella." he replied in his usual calm and serene manner.

I opened the door, slowly and a little shakily, and stepped inside. Carlisle was sitting behind his desk reading something on his laptop. He looked up when a walked in.

"Hello, Bella." he said with a kind smile. "I must say, you're looking much better than you were last night. How are you feeling?"

"Much better that I did last night." I replied. "I guess talking really does help."

"So it does." he replied. "Why don't you have a seat?"

I took a seat in the armchair that was across from his desk. He closed his computer and placed it off to the side. He stared at me for a long moment and I got the impression that he was trying to gather his thoughts. I kind of felt like this was a conversation that he didn't want to have with me. Finally, he sighed and said,

"Charlie called after you fell asleep last night."

My heart picked up in my chest. I knew that Charlie wouldn't be happy about my decision to come back to the Cullens. He was angry with them simply because it was their son/brother who left me a month before we were supposed to be married.

I knew I couldn't blame him for those bitter feelings. I mean, had it been Angela with Ben or even Jessica with Mike, their father's would've felt the same about the boys' families. Charlie was only feeling what was right for any father. Still, I couldn't help but hope that he hadn't embarrassed me.

"What did he say?" I asked.

"He was pretty upset that you were here." Carlisle replied with a sigh.

"I knew that he wouldn't be happy about it." I replied nodding.

"To be completely honest, he was downright furious." Carlisle amended. "He wanted us to wake you up and bring you home that minute. Alice told him that we weren't going to do that. We all know how bad you've been sleeping lately, we didn't want to distrubed what could've been and turned out to be a peaceful night."

"He didn't like that very much, either, did he?" I asked.

"Not at all." Carlisled shook his head. "He told Alice that if we didn't bring you home, he was going to come over and arrest us for holding you against your will."

"He didn't?" I questioned outraged. "I'm so sorry, Carlisle."

"Don't worry about, honey. We all know what Charlie thinks happened and he has every right to be angry and want to keep you away from us. Besides, it was just an empty threat. There was no way the charge would stick."

"So how did you keep him from doing it, then?"

"I absolutely refused to wake you up for something so trival as taking you home when there was no reason you couldn't stay here. I also told him that I bring you home when you were ready because there's a lot the three of us needed to discuss." he explained.

"And what exactly do the three of us need to talk about?" I asked catiously.

"You're cutting and what we need to do to stop it from happening again." he replied calmly.

"NO!" I practically yelled. "I can't tell Charlie about this! It was hard enough to talk to you guys about it. And you know the truth of what really happened. Charlie will think that I'm just some dumb lovesick girl who can't let it go. Besides, just hearing that I do it is going to kill him. I can't Carlisle, please don't make me?!"

"Bella, breathe." he said suddenly looking a little panicked about my mental health. "I know it's going to be a difficult thing for you to do. And yes, it's going to be extremely hard for Charlie to except. But this is a situation where you have your number priority. Yes, Charlie isn't going to like it anymore than we did, but telling him is a major step in the recovery process. As your father, though, he has a right to know. Besides, he's going to find out sooner or later. Wouldn't you rather tell him the truth now then have him find out by accident later?"

His words made a lot of sense to me. I knew how much it helped me to just talk to them about my feelings. It may help to talk to Charlie about them. Evcn if I couldn't be completely honest about it. And the truth was that I had wanted nothing than to tell Charlie for as long as it had been going on. I worried that one day he would walk in on me doing it and that'd make him feel like a failure. Which wasn't the case.

I was about to tell Carlisle that he'd won until another thought hit me. If I tell Charlie that I did this because Edward left me, what would he do about the Cullens? Surely, he'd stop my from seeing them. Hell, he may even go as far as moving me away and sending me to a shrink. I couldn't have handled that. I needed the Cullens. They were the only ones who could truly understand what I was going through.

"All that maybe true Carlisle. But if we tell Charlie that I did this because Edward left me, he'll be even angrier at the family. He'll forbid me to see and I realize now that I can't get through this without you guys. And if I tell him it's because of Edward, he'll make me stop seeing yopu guys. Which means I'll never get any better. Hell, he may even send me to some shrink that'd I'd have to tell more lies to. And they'll probably put me on anti-depressants - that I don't need - and not be able to help me at all. I'll be right back where I was yesterday. Hell, I could end up worse. I don't want that anymore."

"Bella, calm down." He said walking over and kneeling in front of me. His topaz eyes were full of a calmness that I couldn't help but feel as I made eyes contact with him. "You're nineteen now, Charlie can't stop you from seeing us and most certainly can not make you see a therapist if you don't want to. You are an adult now, able to make you're own judgement calls. Charlie needs to understand that. There's nothing he can do to stop you from handling this problem the way you want to. He needs to know that."

"You're right, Carlisle, I am nineteen now and there's nothing he can't make me do things I don't wanna do." I said slight sarcastic. "However, he can forbid you guys to come near the house or me while I'm at his house. And he can arrest you for trespassing on his property. Oh, and let's not forget that he can kick me out. And if he does that then I'll have nowhere to go, which will definitely make things ten time worse!"

"Stop, Bella." I could see that Carlisle was clearly getting frustrated with me. He even had to walk away to keep his frustration under control. "First of all, if he forbids us to come to the house, you know that you're more than welcome to come here anytime. Our door is always open for you. You should now that by now. And we'll just do what we have to do to help her from here. As for Charlie kicking you out, which I doubt he will, you know very well that you won't have nowhere to go. Because if that becomes an issue, than you'll just move in with us."

"I couldn't do that, Carlisle." I protested, "I've already been enough of a burden on this family."

"Bella, don't even go there." he replied, "You have never ever been a burden on this family. You've never been nothing more or less than one of us. Hell, you were a Cullen long before the day Edward brought you home to us. If I not mistake, you reached Cullen status the day Edward saved you from being crushed by Tyler's van. The point, though, is that once you're a Cullen, you're a Cullen forevcr. It takes way more the a couple of sadistic vampires or a jealous, volitale, adloscent werewolf to get you kicked out of this family. Hell, it takes more than the loss of one of our own or walking away from us to protect us to get you kicked out of this family. You're one of us, forever, Bella, just get used to it." I nodded. "Now, I have some research to finish. Once I'm done, you and I will go over to Charlie's and talk about this. Then, we'll plan thingas according to Charlie's reaction, even if that means having to move you in with us."

I nodded trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to spill over. It was amazing that I could still have my family even after all the shit that I put them through. Carlisle was here and willing to help me talk to my father about what had happened. He was going to make this ten times easier on me juust by being there. I felt like I could almost do it, I would just need two more things.

"Um, Carlisle?" I asked tentatively.

"Yes, Bella?" he replied.

"Could we bring Alice and Jasper as well?" I asked.

"I don't think that's a good idea." he answered. "We don't want to overwhelm, Charlie."

"Please!" I implored. "I need them both there. They're my moral and emotional support. I don't know how I would've gotten through that last two days without Jasper or last night without Alice. And besides, it would be helpful to have Jasper there, just in case Charlie's temper gets out of hand and he adores Alice, she could be able to sweet talk him, if she had to. Please, I need them there."

Carlisle stared at me for a long moment. He was obviously weighing the pros and cons of bringing the two of them. After what seemed like forever, he sighed and said,

"Fine, we'll bring those two, but that's it."

"Thank you, Carlisle." I all but yelled and ran to him. "For everything."

I threw my arms around him. He seemed shocked at first, but relaxed and put his arms around me after a minute. He patted my back a couple times and said,

"You don't have to thank me, it's what father's do."

I couldn't help but shed a few tears knowing he still considered me his daughter, even after everything I put his family through.

A/N: So what do you guys think. I know it kind of seems like filler, but I needed to show that the Cullens accepted her back with open arms. And yes, I know I left Emmett and Rosalie out, but that's just because I've got something else planned for them. You'll find out what, in a few more chapters. Please, review!