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**8/25/08**

Mike turned around looked at me.

"I'm not going anywhere."

"Fine, then I am." I yelled back at him.

I did the first thing I could think of I went and grabbed my overnight bag and filled it up, grabbed my cat (hey Chairman Meow is very important) and my photo album that was sitting on my night stand and booked it out the front do. I grabbed my cell phone and started to dial, I couldn't call Emmet, Jasper or Edward because they would want to physically hurt Mike, plus I really don't have their numbers with me and I felt embarrassed that I hadn't kept in touch with them, other than the occasional email. I needed to talk to someone with reason. I called Alice & Rosalie.

"Hello," I heard a overly chipper musical voice say.

"Al..Ali..Alice." I said.

"BELLA!" What is going on, where are you?"

I heard Rose get on the other line

"Bella, " Rose said. "Honey, where are you?" "What is going on?"

That's when it hit, the hurt, the pain, the understanding that I knew something like this was going on, that I never had the life I thought, that I was just living in my own bubble watching the world go by.

"Mike is having an affair." I managed to get out.

"What the fuck." I heard in unison from them.

"Mike is having an affair." I repeated.

"Oh Bella honey where are you now?" Alice asked

"I'm about two minutes away." I said

When I pulled up to the driveway all of the lights were on in the house and both of the girls were waiting in the driveway. No sooner did I put the car in park when my car door was ripped open and I was in their arms.

Once we sat down on the couch. "Bella, tell me everything." I didn't know if she meant tonight or if she meant everything, everything. So I looked at her puzzled, she read it correctly. "Bella, I know this isn't the first time something like this has happened, I'm sorry you know how I feel about Mike, he isn't good enough for you. " "He's a dog!" "I don't know how he ever landed a beautiful, intelligent, charming, sweet…" I cut her off "Alice I'm not, I'm just me, plain old me, nothing special." I said back to her. I saw Rose get up and then I could her in the kitchen putting on some tea and grumbling

"I'm going to rip his balls off, Stupid. Cheating. Mother. Fucker.

I couldn't help but laughed at Rose I guess I should have put her in the category of doing bodily harm to Mike like I did with the boys. A few minutes later, Rose came back in with the Tea..

Alice looked at me and said "Tell us everything from the beginning."

So I did, I gave her the back ground story on how I moved here, I told her about my first day freshman year and meeting Em & Jaz. When I told them about the retainer cases Rose started to giggle. "Did everyone have a freaking retainer in 9th grade?" She asked. I was puzzled. She then told me that she had a Transformers retainer case (of course she did, Rose does love her cars and machinery) She said that Emmett sounded really funny. When I got to the part where I told them about meeting Jasper and him calling me little lady, I thought Alice was going to pass out from swooning.

I looked at them both and decided that it was well time that my girls found out about my boys.

"You guys don't even know what they look like, come on." I said.

"Does it matter." the both said back. Well that wasn't a shock, I know you two don't just go after looks you need the whole package. I held up my hand and mimicked their mantra "Until i find the whole package, I am not settling." We all three giggled.

God it felt good to talk about them again, Mike had basically cut everyone out of my life, the only reason I was able to do stuff with the girls is because we worked together and saw each other there, if we did want to go to dinner or something, I would always have to clear it with Mike first. Many times Rose would say "He's not a baby Bella, he can make his own food and whip his own ass without you there."

I walked over and pulled out my photo album. The first photo was from our sophomore year, we were at a basketball game both Emmet and Jasper were on the team, once again freakishly tall. I had one on each side of me with the goofiest grins on their faces. I point to Emmet. "That's Em, he's a big teddy bear, he might look menacing but as soon as he opens his mouth its all over." I giggled Then I pointed to Jasper. "That's Jaz, he is about as much of a trouble maker as Em, but he seems to know how to filter his actions and comments before they go too far, he is very nice and both were always there to protect me."

"Hey Bella." Alice said.

"Yeah." I said back

"Who took this picture?"

I remembered that night, it was the first time Edward was allowed to go to a game without his parents coming along. Edward was in 7th grade and told them that he was old enough, with a little help from me telling them that I would be there and make sure nothing happened they agreed . We had so much fun that night goofing off making fun of Em & Jaz as they played and cheering them on.

"Oh Edward, Ems little brother." I said back.

"Did you just smile Isabella?" Rose asked.

"I don't know what you are talking about Rosalie." I said back to her.

"I do believe that you smiled a pretty big smile whenever you said Edwards name." Alice said.

"Oh shut up I did not, we are…well were friends he was like a little brother to me."

"Emmhmm." In unison again, ok that is just creepy

I proceeded to tell them about high school and about the first time Em & Jaz showed me Yahoo Chat. I told them about the Dirty old man in knee socks joke that Em always had. I told them about graduation, meeting mike and the confrontation at Thanksgiving that year.

Alice interrupted me at that point. "Bella, you do realize that Edward had a crush on you right?" I looked back at her "Oh shut up he did not we were friends." Alice sighed. "Yeah Em & Jaz were there as your brothers when Edward told you about Mike..but I can say that just by what you just told me, Edward was there on a whole different level." I looked at Rose with a –Is she really this insane glance- Rose just looked back and me and said "She's right you know Bella."

I just shook my head. "Anyways ladies I thought I was telling you everything from the beginning, if you keep interrupting me I will not get through this story until next week." I huffed and then set down the photo album.

I continued on, told the about getting married, losing my virginity-I got a disgusted look from them that we rented a hotel room that night and never had a honeymoon- I told them about the incident with Jessica88, told them about all the times that someone told me they saws Mike out with someone else (which I always played off as oh yeah he was out with so and so tonight they are good friends from high school, but I knew the truth) I told them about what I called "false advertisement" Mike only gave me enough of him in the beginning to get me to fall for him, he knew I didn't have any experience in relationships so in my opinion what would have made a "normal" girl walk away kept me there because I didn't know I should be getting more. Then after talking for about 5 hours I got to last nights events. I told them what happened, and I told them what was said and then I told them I left. I didn't know what I was going to do but I knew with them there.

I was exhausted by the time we were done talking, good thing tomorrow, well today is Saturday because I needed sleep. I told the girls that I needed a nap and that I was going to go lay down. When my head finally hit the pillow I started to dream, or flashback, I'm not sure which. I dreamt about that thanksgiving that Edward go so upset at me over Mike. I couldn't understand why he was so upset. When he came into the kitchen and we each said we were sorry, all I wanted to do at that moment was reach up and hug him and not let go. Edward had always been so very comfortable to talk to or hug, poke or just joke around with, he always treated me with respect and understanding, even if I was having a bad day..he made me feel safe. I woke up angry at myself that I allowed Mike to break me away from my friends. I was going to track down the boys and give them my best apologies and hope that they took them.

I walked into the living room with Alice & Rose poured over my photo album. "Hey guys, what's up." I asked. "Hey Bella, umm..do you know how we've been trying to get you on MySpace?" Alice asked. "Yeah, but I told you if Mike found out I had a MySpace page he would think I was up to something when really I wasn't. I just didn't want to have to deal with him." Alice looked at little off. "Um..well we decided to see if Mike had a MySpace page." Alice said. She had hurt in her eyes when she turned her laptop around to show me. There was Mike smiling like he won the lottery, he had a girl sitting on his lap, which wasn't me, his profile stated he was "single and looking to network or a relationship." And some of the posts and comments that were left on his page made me a firm believer that I was nothing more to him then the money that supported his ass for 10 years. You would have thought he would at least set his page as confidential..

"Alright ladies, sign me up!" I said.

They both squealed and we sat down and started my MySpace page. I have to say it looked pretty good, we had a nice background and we tagged some of the photos off of both Rose and Alice's pages so that I could put them on mine. My photo was from one night when we went out and had dinner, they had brought me to their house before and played Bella Barbie. It wasn't like I was hitting on people or anything that night, it just felt really good sometimes to get all dolled up and actually feel like a human. After hours with the MySpace page I stumbled across some of the people that I went to high school with and sent them friends request. I then located both Em & Jaz pages, both were set confidential so I sent them a request . After spending more time on the computer that I wanted to (it was Saturday I didn't want to waste away the day) I pulled back from the laptop and looked at my two favorite girls.

"So ladies, what are we doing tonight?" I asked..Alice screamed "Karaoke!!!!" I laughed, Rose rolled her eyes and I know we were in for a fun night.!!

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