A/N: Special thanks to Cakeyy! Haha.

I arrive home and Charlie expresses that he missed having me around, especially my superb cooking. He avoids mentioning the Carlisle incident and I snicker to myself. "And how is your mother?" He asks, shoveling down some pork rolls.

"She's as erratic and harebrained...as ever." I say. Charlie chuckles and I stare at the wall.

"Oh Jacob called while you were gone." he grunts. It's a pleased grunt though. "He called several times! It must have been a bad hit. You should call him back."

"Okay." I clear my plate, wash the rest of the dishes, yawn, and read a book. I feel so excited. I dial Jacob's number and lock myself in the bathroom so Charlie can't overhear me. God, he's so overbearing. I mean I'm eighteen. I'm an adult.

"Jacob!" I squeal when I hear his deep rusty man wolf voice.

"Bella?" He sounds surprised and I don't understand why so I keep talking.

"Jacob, Edward is here and he's coming to kill you because he hates you and he loves me!"

"WHAT?"

"Hehe, just kidding!"

"God, are you… did he... are you okay?"

I breathe and smack my lips. "Yes." I decide.

"Okay, bye."

He hangs up! I partially indignantly slam the phone into the hook and snail up to my room. It is moments later, when I'm looking up pictures of Edward Cullen on Google, that I theorize that Jacob thought that Edward had turned me into the vampire! How amusing!

"Hi Bella!" Alice plops down next to me at lunch and gives me an enthusiastic little hug. I nibble at an apple and watch her with my deer eyes. She doesn't have a lunch because vampires only eat blood. She's so beautiful and small, with her black pixie-hair-cut and perfect pale skin. I noisily eat my apple, fuming with jealousy, as she goes on with a one-sided conversation about what she's wearing to senior prom. I spot Edward and wave him over hurriedly. He comes and sits down next to me, enveloping me in amazing beauty. Rosalie and Emmett come next, their arms around each other. Emmet is huge and muscular and beautiful, but rarely around. Also there's something about him that is kind of transparent. I don't mention it though because Emmett is threatening and booming, but nice. Rosalie is classically gorgeous, with long blond hair and giraffe eyes, plus she's tall and lovely but mean to me! I still don't understand why she has so much repugnance for me, and it makes the ends of my eyebrows turn down. Next is Jasper, who's twitchy, blond, and bug-eyed. He hobbles up and sits down next to Alice and eats a pudding. I reach my spoon over to try a bite. Jasper protectively bats my grabby hands away.

"That's blood, Bella." Edward says, bored.

"Oh. Well, you know that it's okay. When I become a vampire the five of us will be eating blood all the time together! Right guys?" I chuckle. They all stare at me.

"Well of course!" Alice puts in, nudging Jasper. He coughs and adjusts his cowboy hat and bandanna. "I feel like everyone in this room thinks that's a wonderful plan."

I grin because speaking of becoming a vampire makes me emotional. Edward takes my face in his hands and I touch his hair. Love.

SUDDENLY OUT OF THE BLUE…there is Jacob!

"Jacob! What a surprise." I gasp, blinking. The vampires all tense up. Edward looks uncomfortable but it doesn't register in me as I leap up into Jacob's arms.

"Bella, I've come strictly on business." He roars softly.

"It better be." Edward growls protectively. I climb out of Jacob's arms and scold him.

"Jacob, remember. We can only be friends."

He cries into his hands "No no no no no no no!" Then he quickly regains himself. "I've come about Bella's safety in Forks. I don't think it exists."

"Shut up." Edward says majestically.

"What?" I blink, but I feel very calm. It's that Jasper again! I almost-glare at him and he looks embarrassed before burrowing his face into the pudding-blood.

"Bella, I guess you should know our true motives for taking you to Florida." Alice murmurs.

"Yes! Tell her! How dare you keep her in the dark about her own life?" Jacob growls.

"No, she doesn't need to know. I thought she needed to see her mom, that's what happened. She needed to see Renee and there are no hidden motives so don't come in here and ruin the carefully constructed lie!" Edward shakes, shimmering.

"Edward. Tell me the truth." I whisper softly, touching his hair. He huffs.

"Victoria is back."

I gasp and fall on my face. I'm so clumsy. I get up very red-faced. Jacob and Edward both scoff. I'm left stunned and frightened.

During Biology, as I am speedily identifying potatoes and glasses of water, I feel a little poking on my elbow. I look over and see that Edward is sending tiny little paper airplanes through the air towards me. "Yes, Eddy?" I ask lovingly. He makes a motion suggesting that I open the airplane. I do. It says, "eeee. whatcha think of the news?"

-i think that it's a scarreee story, Edward. I write back.

-you should be scared all the time, you know. when you're around me, I am the biggest threat of all, bella swan.

-don't talk about yourself that way.

-but i'm a monster. i am. don't look at me.

He buries his face in his hands and when I try to poke him back into a sitting position, he pins me against the wall with a marble fist. I kiss and caress this fist as I scribble another note.

-edward, you can't keep this kinda thing from me again. it's not completely okay.

He nods gravely. "k." he writes. But we're behind on Biology! We've moved on to peppers and dogs. "That's a dog." I say smartly, pointing at the canine. "I was waiting for you to say that." Edward says quickly. "Okay." I say. "I hate you." He murmurs. "And that's a pepper."

It was a bad week. It was bad because, as I watched my boring human associates go about their lives, I realized that they had no idea what type of mortal danger I was in. Why, they probably wouldn't even care if they did!

I zone out in class all the time, because I already know everything anyways. What's-her-face will try to make conversation with me sometimes, but I just pretend like I'm listening. Really, I'm daydreaming about swimming across the Atlantic Ocean with Edward, and drinking whale blood and riding on the backs of dolphins, while watching the moon and touching faces. Maybe even holding hands!

Today, I'm waiting outside my class for Edward to walk me to his car. We are going to his house. I don't have to wait long-there he is, walking in slow-motion towards me. The hall parts like the Red Sea.

"Hello, stranger," I say.

"Human," He greets, touching my shoulder romantically. I breathe.

He continues. "This weekend, I'm going hunting with Emmett. Not Jasper, because the History Channel is having a Civil War Weekend, and he's having a marathon with Esme. You know how he gets with that sort of thing."

I nod, signifying that, yes; I do be au fait with the situation.

"So I'm leaving Alice to guard you." He says.

I'm not feeling too bad because, while Alice alone is annoying, Alice with Jasper is not so much, because then she'd spend less time with me and more fixing his bandana. Then I selflessly realize something! "Edward...you and Emmett makes two!" I gasp.

His brow furrows. "What are you getting at, Bug Eyes?"

"Well, Victoria is out there!" I whine, magnanimously. "She could hurt you."

Edward throws back his head and giggles. I purse my plump shell colored lips-they're so ugly.

"Oh, Bella, you're so...human." He says, "With your worrying about your vampire fiancé so much!"

"Vampire what?" I ask.

"Well we'll talk about that later." He says.

"But," I begin, rebelliously.

"Later." He says, commandingly, giving me a little eyed scowl.

I shut up. Edward is boss.

The rest of the car ride is in silence. When we get to the house Edward carries me in like a bride. The word "bride" makes me want to regurgitate.

The Cullens are sitting around their living room doing nothing except staring at the door, waiting for us to come in. Rosalie keeps trying to pull Emmett away, saying, "Want to do something?" But he says no, he'd much rather do nothing until Bella and Edward return home. My heart surges with love for my soon to be brother. We enter the room and Edward puts me down. I smile tentatively.

"Bella!" Esme cheers, zooming over to try to shove homemade cookies down my throat.

"Bella!" Carlisle says, looking relieved and doctor-like, before leaving the room.

"Bella!" Alice trills, dancing across the area.

"Bella!" Emmett booms, shaking the house.

It's silent. Everyone looks expectantly at Rosalie. She crosses her arms and glares at me. "Bitch."

There is an awkward silence. Then, Jasper luckily crawls in. "I could feel that Bella was here." He says, bugging his eyes out and chewing on his fists. He crawls out. Carlisle comes back in a moment later.

"Ok now that everyone except Jasper is here, I just want to say that I'm concerned." I say importantly as well as humbly. Edward pulls me down on to the couch and onto his lap.

"But why, Bella?" Esme asks worriedly, as the Cullens sit in a bunch around my feet, staring up at me with matching giraffe eyes.

"I'm just so worried about Victoria. She could hurt you guys." I say honestly.

They throw back their heads and laugh. "What?" I yell, insulted.

"There are seven of us, Bella, and one of her! We can take her down." Carlisle says, intelligently.

"I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. You're so funny, Bella." Emmett booms.

I blush. I feel affectionate towards Emmett again. But...why? Edward is the only one I care about! I imagine his cold, stone, round belly. Not that I've ever seen it. Well, I actually have, in the meadow when he unbuttoned his shirt. Ooh.

"But Edward and Emmett alone aren't safe." I begin.

"Oh, Bella, they're incredible fighter beasts. It's probably safer with them anyways!" Alice sings, brightly, twirling into a pole.

"Oh, phone!" Carlisle says, imagining the ringing of a telephone, I guess. He runs out. Jasper crawls back in, nervously.

"I can feel that it is safer to go with them." He snivels. "Sorry Esme." He apologizes. She looks motherly and pats his poufy head.

"Yay now I have Bella all to myself!" Alice woots, while running up and down the walls.

"Boo." I say flatly.

"Hush, love." Edward murmurs.

I hush.

Hu-hu-hu-huuuussshh.