Like I promised, I updated sooner than last time and it's not all that angsty either. ^^ but... it's I feel it's too short for my liking. :(

Coward. Coward. Coward.

That's all I could call myself, a coward. I felt horrible just leaving him there, but I also felt horrible about the part of me that liked to see that I finally got a piece of what I wanted. For the one person who caused me pain to also feel pain.

As I thought of how much of a coward I had been, I realized that I was now by my truck.

I got in and slammed the door shut. I drove in silence, but only because I was afraid that karma would bite me in the butt and play a song that reminded me of what I had just done. I was not going to push my luck, so I suffered in silence.

Fortunately before I could go insane from the silence eating at me, I arrived at my house. Angela and Jacob were already there and they came towards my car before I could even get out.

"So, what's wrong?"

"Tickets." Angela said simply. My eyebrows furrowed.

What?!

"Um…excuse me?"

"Alice," she pointed towards Alice, who suddenly appeared between Angela and Jacob, "gave us tickets to see some of your favorite bands."

I was still silent, internally wondering if my friends have gone insane.

Jacob continued for her, "You know that you want to see Paramore, Linkin Park, Muse, U2, Snow Patrol, and…The Fray! Come on, snap out of it!" He snapped his fingers in front of my face and I instantly snapped out of my reverie.

"Um…are you two ok? I mean, Jacob, aren't vampires your enemies? Why are you letting Alice, a vampire, convince you to go to a concert?"

He shrugged, "Hey, it's free, a free chance to see Linkin Park and Muse. I am not going to miss that."

I looked over towards Alice who wore an innocent, but slightly smug, smile. "Don't you want to come, Bella?" She asked innocently.

I bit my tongue. She doesn't think she can get me to bow to her will with tickets, does she? Although… Paramore- no, don't fall for her trap, Bella!

"Who's coming?" I asked suspiciously.

"You, Jacob, Angela, and I are going. Well, now that I think about it, I'm busy so maybe Rose or Edward can." She said quickly, so that I couldn't hear what she was saying, but I heard.

"Not so fast, pixie. I'm not going with Edward. I don't think he even wants to see me anyway."

She smiled deviously, "Oh I know he won't mind." She came closer to me so only I would hear, "He's not going to give you up and leave you again, Bella. He's going to stay."

I scoffed. "Sure sure, Alice, but does that mean I'm supposed to just go to him and pretend nothing happened? Pretend that he didn't leave me in the forest heartbroken." She winced "Pretend that he wasn't there when I almost died?" My voice was beginning to rise, but I calmed myself, realizing that I was being too harsh for my liking. I didn't want to hurt Alice, well...not that much.

"Bella," she said, her eyes showing sadness, "we just want to make it up to you. We didn't want to leave you, and Edward didn't want you to get hurt. Please, just give us this one last chance, and if we hurt you again or if it doesn't work out…we'll…" She was struggling to get the words out, which I understood, because a part of me didn't want to hear what she was about to say. A part of me wanted this to work out, but a part of me also burned with fury and rage when I thought of the possibilities of forgiving them.

I forced the words out of my mouth, "I-I understand. I'll…go." I saw the familiar gleam in Alice's eyes that I missed so much, and I couldn't help but to smile just a little. "So…when is the concert?"

"Oh, today at 7."

My eyes went wide, "What?! Are you kidding me?!" So soon?! I just basically broke Edward's heart two times and now we're going to a concert together on the same day?!

"Nope, I just wanted today to end in a good note." I winced as I realized what she had meant by that.

I sighed in defeat, "Okay, Alice, you win." Alice, Angela, and Jacob both started to squeal for joy. I giggled as they started to do their different and very hilarious victory dances.

I looked at the time 4:20.

Alice grinned and suddenly appeared in my passenger seat, "Yes Bella, I'm going to give you a makeover now." I groaned. This is one of the things I don't think I missed about Alice.

"Um…can we do it in my room?" I didn't want to run into Edward yet, not after all that happened, and I could see that Alice got why I didn't want to go to her house.

"Okay, Bella." She smiled kindly at me and hugged me before she got out my car. I sighed.

Thanks Alice.

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"Alice." I wined loudly. How could it take someone so long to do someone's makeup- not hair and makeup, just makeup-? And it's just a casual event, it's not like I'm going to prom, or a gala, or even a wedding! No, it's just a concert!

"Bella," she wined back, "it will only take a few more minutes," I interrupted her with a snort and she shot me a deadly glare.

"Watch it pixie, you're not the only dangerous being in this room." I countered.

"Yeah, you are dangerous, but I got a weapon in my possession, and your weapon is way out of reach."

Confusion overcame me as I looked around and saw that my weapon was in fact missing.

"Don't worry, it's in your trunk, didn't want you getting hurt now would we?"

I rolled my eyes as I looked to my right arm. I took off the cast since it was bothering me, and I thought I didn't need it since my elbow was already feeling better.

"Now, before I was so rudely interrupted," she glared at me, but this time more playfully, "I don't need to do anything special to your hair since its casual, but I wanted to do something with your makeup that brought out the new you."

I had a feeling there was a double meaning in her words, "Do you…know?"

"Huh?" She asked, innocently.

I sighed, not feeling all that well to nag the answer out of Alice...yet. I'll just see if she knew later.

I hope you all liked the chapter. I'll try to get the next one up sooner than the others. So...review, favorite, and alert. XD