A/N: Wow sorry it took me forever to update! My computer almost died and I was scared to touch it for a while. Ha-ha. And I had the dreaded writers block. EW.

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"BELLLAAAA!!!"

My head popped up from my coloring book. On either side of me, Jacob and Edward were standing, grinning at me like idiots.

"Hi Jacob-"

Wait! What was Jake doing here? He was in South Carolina with his mother… I cocked my face to the side and bit my finger, something I did when I was thinking about something that didn't make any sense.

"Bella?"

Edward was waving his hand in front of my face. I blinked twice, and then a huge grin broke out on my face. "JAKE!"

"Nice to see you, too Bella," Edward said, with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"What? Oh! Hiya, Edward! So wha-"

I was cut off by a shrill voice, and lots of giggling. "JACOB!"

It was Rosalie. Of course. Well, that was Rosalie for you. I rolled my eyes and wondered how many boys she liked.

"Hi there, Rosie!"

He waved at her, and she started to giggle furiously. I sighed and shook my head.

Suddenly, Jacob engulfed me in a slightly awkward hug, and mumbled, "Hi, Bella!" Then, he put both his arms around me, which made me slightly uncomfortable. Why was he hugging me? He never did that, even when he came back from his mom's house. When I decided I had had enough, I tried to pull apart, but he just squeezed me tighter. Holy Crow, I was going to suffocate. I looked at Edward from behind his shoulder, I was getting frantic.

He seemed to understand my expression, and the demand in my eyes, so he cleared his throat.

Jake didn't move, so I looked at Rosalie. Of course, she was steaming, and I gave up on her ever helping me.

Thankfully, Edward decided it was time to intervene.

"Bella, I think Alice is in her room, waiting for you." He sounded a little… irritated.

Finally, Jake let go, sighing. I ran up the stairs, careful not to look anybody in the eye. I looked down at Edward from the second story, a smile on my face. I mouthed, thank you. He smiled, and said, "No problem."

I went up the rest of the stairs, and tiptoed to Alice's room. The door was cracked open just a bit, the sunlight streaming through the door from the window that was her back wall, and I could hear Alice talking to Emmett. So as to not be rude, I tapped on the door.

"Bella!!!"

I poked my head in, and looked around the room, the walls covered in posters of various Movie and Sports figures. "Hi, Alice!"

She waved at me, and then scowled at Emmett. "Don't be rude, idiot, let her in!"

Emmett stuck his tongue out, and walked over to the door and pulled it all the way open. "Hi, Bella!"

I smiled and waved at him, and sat down on the end of Alice's bed. As I did, I noticed the fishing poles poking out from under the bed. That reminded me… "Oh, do you know when we're going fishing?" I asked him.

He looked at me, probably wondering why I was asking when they were fishing. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Maybe in an hour or so. You tagging along, then?"

I nodded my head enthusiastically, but then stopped and sighed. "I don't have a pole, though."

"I have some for us!" I looked at Alice, her bright smile made me wonder. "You're coming with us?"

She nodded. "But aren't you sick today?"

She shook her head, and said, "No. I haven't been sick since yesterday, and so my mom said I could go today!"

So I wasn't going to go by myself, the only girl! I practically ran to her and started to happy dance, and at the same time, we were chanting, "We're going fishing! We're going fishing!"

Emmett sighed, and mumbled, "Girls."

"Bella and Alice are coming?"

I stopped jumping up and down, and I saw Jacob and Edward standing in the door way.

Edward scoffed. "I think the fact that they're dancing up and down and shouting should be a bit of a hint."

Jake looked at Edward, with an odd looking expression on his face.

"Is that a problem?"

Jake sighed. "Edward, do you really want to take girls fishing? GIRLS?"

I started shaking, and I bit my bottom lip. It was the car conversation all over again.

Edward glared at him. "My mom can fish better than my dad can."

"So… you're saying that Girls can do things better than boys, right?"

"Well, yeah. I mean... no? No. No! Of course not!"

I looked at him. I though he supported my argument. Meeting Alice's eye, she obviously though the same thing. Humph. Together, we got up and pushed passed him and out to the hallway.

"Bella! Wait, that isn't what I meant!"

I ignored him and kept walking with Alice.

Jacob poked him and said, "Dude, that is exactly what you meant, and you know it."

"No, it wasn't, Jake! Quit putting words into my mouth!"

"I'm not! It's just that nobody seems to respect the things men do."

Alice gripped my arm, and turned us both around. She looked like she wanted to say something pretty darn bad.

"JACOB! You're seven years old!"

He looked at her, blinking. Obviously he didn't know how big of lungs she had.

"So?"

"SO I don't think that you know what it means to be a man." She shuddered at the use of this word.

"Because if you were really a man," I cringed. We're seven, for crying out loud, "you would know and respect that we can do anything you can do!"

"Sometimes even better!"

Emmett nodded when Alice said this. "Yeah, Jake, have you ever tried to walk down a flight of stairs in heels? I did, once, and I was in the hospital for a week." Emmett said, as if he were extremely proud of this bit of information.

I glanced at Alice, and she had a blank look on her face, her eyes bulging. "You!!! You broke my heel, didn't you?"

Emmett froze, and I could tell that he knew he was going to be in trouble with Alice. He locked his jaw, now regretting he had said anything.

I started giggling, and Jake opened his mouth to talk. "So you can't walk in heels. And?"

Wow. Jake was really making me angry today. Gur.

"And you're ignorant."

I turned around on my heels, and I heard him mutter something under his breath. I didn't know what he had said, but I knew it was about me. And I was tired of everyone talking about me like I didn't exist.

Before I turned around to yell at him, I heard a thud.

Edward was standing there, trying to control his breath, like he was really angry. Then, I looked at Jacob, and he was standing there, holding his nose. I looked down at his t-shirt. It had little fleckles of red on it, like someone had painted a toothbrush splatter on the canvas that was Jacob's shirt. I looked back at Edward, and his fist was still clenched.

I started to smell the blood, rusty and salty in my nose. I closed my eyes, and started Breathing deeply through my mouth.

"Bella? You alright?"

I tried to shake my head, but then the room started spinning in circles, and then… nothing.

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"Bella? Bella, honey, you alright?"

I smiled. Daddy was here. "Hi, daddy."

I heard my mother start to sob, and so I forced my eyes open. "Mom?"

"Oh, Bella! Don't do that to me again!"

"Renée, careful. You don't want her to black out again," Daddy chuckled.

I blinked a couple of times, recognizing that I was on the Sofa, with a tableside fan sitting on the coffee table, blowing air into my face, for which I was greatful.

"Hi, Bella! Are you alright?" Emmett asked. I could only nod, because I was looking at everyone's face. Charlie, Renee, Esme, Emmett, Rosalie, Alice, Jasper. But then…

"Where's everyone else?"

Alice started fiddiling with her thumbs, and Jasper refused to meet my gaze. Rosalie looked at me, and she looked like she was about to cry. Emmett just turned around and was quiet, for once.

"Honey, Edward and Jacob got in a fight earlier. They're outside, having a good talking to."

They had been fighting? Fights aren't good. "But what happened?"

Esme sighed, and said, "Bella, Jacob and Edward were arguing, and then Jake said something, and I guess it made Edward really angry. So he hit him in the nose, and I think it might be broken."

Ohh! I remembered now. "Mom, he called me a-"

Mother cupped her hand around my mouth, and said, "Shh… Bella, I know what he said. This isn't the place to repeat it." She smiled weakly at me, and I nodded, though kind of confused. I was just about to say "He called me a name," but I didn't know which name that was. Oh well.

Just then, Carlisle, Billy, Jake, and Edward walked through the back door. Carlisle and Billy both looked extremely disappointed at something or other, Jake wouldn't meet anybody's eyes, staring straight forward all the time, and Edward was marching like he had just won a state final football game.

Billy pointed at me, but he was looking at Jake, and then Jake came over to the sofa.

As he walked over, the room quietly filed up the stairs, all but Jake.

"Bella, I'm sorry I said that." He looked at me, and I sighed. I didn't want to deal with this, but it was now or never. "Yeah, I know Jake. You're forgiven." I sort of lied. I wasn't ready to forgive him yet, for calling me a name, but I had to get him off my back. I think he knew that, too. I shut my eyes again. "I… sorry." but then he sighed, and turned away, up the stairs. I could only tell because I could hear his footsteps fade.

I felt someone sit at the edge of the sofa couch, and on my feet, Edward. I guess he had come down the stairs when he saw Jake go up.

"Hi, Edward."

He chuckled. "Hiya, Bella!"

I smiled, but then I told him, "You didn't have to do that, you know."

He smirked. "Yeah, I know. But it felt good, just the same."

I yanked my head up. "Are you kidding me? You hit your best friend in the nose, and you come and say that it felt good?"

He just shrugged his shoulders. "Yep."

I just rolled my eyes at him. Sometimes there were times I understood boys, and times I didn't. This was one of those times. I know I didn't understand one thing, so I sat up slowly, and when the walls stayed where they were supposed to, I asked him, "Why'd you do it?"

He looked aghast, "Because he called you a name."

"What's your point, Barbie doll?" I asked him, using his nickname for me.

He laughed, and then when I raised my eyebrow at him, he cleared his throat and looked at me. His emerald eyes looked like they were in pain, and then slightly amused. It was hard to explain what they looked like.

"My point is, Bella, that Jake said something that was not just a silly nick-name. This was a grown-up word," he said, his voice was grave.

I froze. Now I understood why my mother had not wanted me to say what she though I was going to say. The dreaded grown-up words. I shuddered. Now I knew I couldn't forgive him for a long time.

But how could he do this? I was one of his best friends. Was. That was the key word. Was, was was was was. I sighed. My bottom lip started trembling, and then I couldn't control it any longer. I broke down and started crying.

Edward sighed and got up, and came over to me to give me a hug. It felt nice, and not as awkward as my hug with Jacob had been. I smiled, and hugged him back. The silence was nice, but I had to say something.

"Thank-you."

He pulled back, and a crooked smile was plastered on his face, making me loose my train of thought for a minuet. "You're welcome."

I just stood there, gaping at him like an Idiot.

He laughed and said, "Let's go fishing!!!"

A/n: Okay, again, sorry it took me forever!!!

Well, I was going to go in a completely different direction this chapter, but it just kind of came out.

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