BELLA P.O.V

Once I let Edward go Alice pounced on me and I fell onto the floor. 'Bella, Bella, Bella, Bella, Bella, I missed you, look at you, you look so different, I never would have guessed it was you!'

I laughed same old hyper Alice.

Rose came over to me next and pulled me into a hug 'I'm glad you have come around. I couldn't even begin to imagine seeing you everyday and not being able to talk to you.'

Emmett grabbed me from behind and pulled me into a tight brotherly hug that took my breath away...literally. 'Emmett, you know what's fun breathing,' I gasped out.

He put me down and laughed ruffling my hair 'I'm glad to see you again now I have my favourite source of laughter back.'

I glowed at him and went over to Jasper who gave me a sweet hug and when we pulled away he smiled at me telling me it would be okay.

'So I guess we should catch up,' I said nervously.

Alice jumped up and down at this idea and grabbed my hand. 'Yes we do, but not here we will go out to a resturant near by, but first we need to get changed.'

'Why,' I whined. 'What's wrong with this.' I gestured to my casual jeans and shirt.

She scoffed and rolled her eyes. 'Do you want me to answer that?'

'No,' I sighed and allowed her and Rosalie to pull me away.

It turns out Alice and Rosalie's dorm was on the floor above mine. There room looked the same as mine but a bit more girly with all there clothes and pink stuff.

'Okay Bella so what do you feel like wearing?' Rosalie asked looking through her closet.

'This,' I said.

'Okay so a dress sounds good, okay. I have the perfect one,' she said ignoring me.

'Hey!' I argued. 'I dont want to-'

'Don't even try Bella my minds made up and you know you can;t change my mind when it is made up.'

I glared at Rose who threw the dress at me and Alice pushed me into the bathroom. 'There are spare towels under the sink,' she called through the door.

I knew being stubborn wouldn't get me far in this situation so I decided to do as they said. It felt good to have a shower it woke me up, and relaxed all my musles. I felt relaxed by the time I came out and slipped on the midnight blue dress. When I opened the door I was immediantly pulled to a chair and forced into it.

'So Bella,' Alice said. 'How long have you and Joe been friends. When I saw you yesterday run out of the caferteria her look very worried about you.'

'Yeah why did you run out of the caferteria anyway,' Rose asked.

I sighed and stared down at my lap. 'I ran out because I saw you guys and I paniced. I've known Joe sice I was 15 after I left we kept in contact but I never would have imagined seeing him here. Hell I never imagined seeing you guys here either.'

'He really understands you. When you guys were arguing he looked really concerened.'

'But he was right,' Rose said after Alice finished. 'We would have wanted to know you were here.'

'I know,' I mumbled. 'I overreacted I do that alot.'

'Well it is in the past, now we have to concerntrate on the future and that means tonight!' Alice squealed.

'Aren't we getting a bit to dressed up for dinner?' I asked warily as I watched them do my hair through the mirror.

'There is never such a thing as too dressed up Bella, you will learn that,' Alice said sounding like some teacher. I chuckled and rolled my eyes.

'What ever you say Alice.'

...

An hour later we met up with the guys in the parking lot. Somehow we all managed to pile into Emmett's jeep and began our journey to the resturant.

'I love car trips they bring us all together,' Emmett laughed as he looked at us all squashed intot he backseat.

'Not funny,' Edward said.

It was a resonably quick drive to where ever we were going. By the time we got there I practically fell out of the car from being squished into the side. 'Woah there,' Edward said catching me. 'You haven't changed a bit have you.'

'Shut up,' I said blushing. Of course Emmett thought this was hilarious and his booming laugh was heard as we walked towards the building.

When we entered the front doors my mouth dropped in awe. 'I thought you said we were going to a resturant.'

'Yes and here we are.'

'But it's, so, so...Posh...'

'Oh come on Bella you can't say you have never ben to a place like this before,' Rose said as the waiter lead us to our table.

'Actually, no I haven't,' I said quietly.

We were lead to a 6 seater table that look gorgeous. There were candles and red roses that matched the colour of the seats. I felt so out of place being here I fiddled nervously with my napkin. I looked up to see Edwad eyeing me and he reached over to grab my hands to make me stop. I felt myself blush as my heart sped up. He looked so hot tonight, in his loose white dress shirt and black jeans, It took all my will power to look away from him when we were at the car. And it didn't help that I had to sit next to him in the confind space of a car.

'Bella calm down!' he whispered.

Our waiter came over again and took our drink orders and everyone turned to me and began to ask me questions.

'So Bella,' Jasper started. 'Tell us what happened after we left? did anything interesting happen?'

I laughd darkly to myself. Interesting, that's one word for the hell I have been through these past years. They looked at me confused when they heard my laugh.

'Well after you left I began to go from Foster home to Foster home that's how I met Joe. I met a lot of...different people. When I turned 18 and found out I had access to my bank account I ran away and came on the next plane here. And well here I am.'

I know I was being vague but I couldn't afford to tell them the truth, they didn't need to know that...no one did.

'Oh, well meet any cute guys?' Alice asked.

I grimaced and looked away. I immediantly thought of HIM when she said that. The man who haunted my dreams.

'Bella,' Edward said. 'Are you okay.'

I turned back and put on a fake smile 'Yeah I'm alright and yeah there were some cute guys but none caught my eye,' I lied.

The others accepted this but Edward still looked at me intently. I decided to stir the conversation away from me and to them.

'So what about you guys how have you been after all these years?'

'Not much considering,' Edward shrugged. 'School, family things like that.'

'When did you guys meet up again?'

'Umm, a year after we left they moved down the street and turned up at our school one day. Ever since then we haven't left each others side.' Rose smiled.

I nodded at this 'So I heard Joe and the others have told me all about you. From what I heard your quite popular.'

They shrugged. 'We don't really care to much for popularity,' Alice said. 'I don't even see why were popular we hardly care.'

I grinned at her face. 'See it sucks being the centre of attention. Now you know why I hate it,' I said smugly.

'Why did you run away from the orphanage I mean, from what I remember it was okay? Did something happen.'

Trust Edward to think to hard into what I say and cut straight to the point. 'No,' I lied. Thinking of an excuse quickly. 'I left because I was ready to start my life by myself...and it didn't envolve th orphanage,' Lie.

Lucky for me the waiter turned up to take our dinner orders and the topic was forgotten. I will admit I had fun that night with my old friends. I felt my happiness from all those years ago come back to me as I laughed at Emmett make a fool of himself, or when Alice and Edward fought over stupid things.

In the car trip home we sung old classics that came on the radio with the windows down. People walking down the street would stare at us and shake there heads. When we got back to campus we wondered around for a while slowly heading to the dorms.'Oh Bella I never asked, can you sing for us again sometime, you have a gorgeous voice.'

Alice said giving me puppy dog eyes. I smiled and hoped she would forget about it. 'Sure some day.'

The others ended up parting with us in the lobby so it was just Edward and I heading for our dorms. I felt myself go self concious while we stoof very close in the elevator heading to my floor. 'I know you were lying.'

I jumped at Edward's sudden voice and turned to him. 'What do you mean.'

'In the resturant you where lying and constantly trying to advoid the converstaion to be about you. Just because we haven't seen each other in years Bella doesn't mean I won't pick up on these things.'

I felt the colour drain from my face as the doors opened to my floor. We walked in silence until once agin he decided to break it. 'I'm sure you have a good reason for keeping what ver it is to yourself Bella, but then again I know you enough to know it takes alot of effort to get you to talk about yourself. But I won't push you on this because from the looks of it, it is a sensitive subject for you. But I want you to know if you ever wan tto talk I am here.'

I turned to face him and gave him a greatful smile. 'Thanks Edward I appreciate it alot.'

He pulled me into a hud that I happily returned. 'What are best friends for?'

I smiled. God, I love him.

I let go and opened my door slowly. 'See you tomorrow Edward.'

'Bye Bella, I'm glad your back.'

I watched him leave and then entered my dorm. I didn't even have time to put down my hand bag when Joe popped up out of know where and pushed me over to the bed.

'So,' he bgan grinning like a fool. 'Who is the smartest, bestest, awesomest, brother you could ever have.'

I laughed and kicked off my death heels that I had stumbled in all night and pulled him into a big hug. 'YOU!'