"I just don't see why you had to get them in assorted colours. Who's going to see them Jay?" I poked the Calvin Klein bag.

"You would be surprised how many people want to see these baby's. Anyway, did you enjoy our jog?" He laughed as he lay back in the seats of the cab we got. We were 2 minutes away from home and it had taken the journey from the store from the city to here to regain the use in my legs again.

"Yes Jay I did. It was very invigorating," my eyes drifted to the bag again.

"Your thinking about the boxers again aren't you,"

"No," my voice faltered, "I mean even Emmett isn't that conceited, 12 pairs of underwear in 12 different colours."

"Bella let it go," he smiled patting my hand. We had reached our street now and it was 3pm, on a Saturday afternoon, people didn't really have anything better to do than go shopping, so it was quite quiet. I looked out of the window. The sun beat down on the tarmac and the trees were swaying lightly in the breeze. Light bouncing off of the changing leaves. Those that had already fallen from their branches were dancing slowly on the ground. "Bella do you think that Esme has any food in the fridge? I'm starving?" he asked, bringing me back to reality.

"Me too. I haven't had anything to eat since last night," I rubbed my forehead, trying to remember what had happened the night before.

"Well Bella, seen as all you had was like, one piece of cake, then yes, I feel you would need to be fed. Come on we're here anyway." The cab stopped suddenly.

"That's $40, son." He looked at James in his rear view mirror. His eyebrows knitted together. James laughed. I went to get out of the cab when my cell phone rang. A private number displayed on the screen. I pressed accept.

"Hello?" I held my breath.

"Hey Bella. You at home?" the voice sung down the phone.

"Yeah, just got back. Why?" I asked walking down the street slowly. Towards Jay's.

"I just wanted to see you, and when I phoned your house phone, your brother used a lot of colourful words, suggesting that I don't call you again. But I thought that if I called your cell then he would never know." Caius laughed. I heard an engine in the back round. Was he on the Harley?

"Where are you Caius?" I continued down the street, looking behind me to see Jay bounding into the house with his bag. I raised my eyebrows. Putting my left arm across my stomach and holding the phone in my right.

"Well I am approximately 1 minute away from your street," he laughed "Are you decent?"

"I have just been jogging Caius, hardly the picture of beauty that I normally am." I sighed as I reached James' house and stopped to face it. Better here than at mine, where he would e ambushed by my family.

"Bella, I have seen you after Gym, nothing I can't handle." He laughed again. I liked his laugh.

"How? You are year above me? Unless you have been spying on me you pervert," I joked.

"Oh Bella, I am not the only one," he sighed, "I can see you so I am hanging up now," the line went dead. I turned around to see He had pulled into the driveway taking off his helmet. And throwing me a smile. "Hey Beautiful," He walked over to me, and planted his lips on mine; this brought back memories from last night. The passion that filled the kiss, but not the fire. His arms were on my waist and were making their way lower down. I pulled away when they reached my butt.

"Caius, is this the only reason that you came here? For a booty call?" I frowned; my arms were around his neck, looking up at him.

"Not the only reason." He smirked, "I closed my eyes trying to think of what had happened last night. Nothing. "Bella, what's the matter? You weren't like this last night,"

"Because I was drunk Caius, I don't know what I was like last night but I wasn't myself, that I can be sure of," I pulled my arms away and sat down on the grass. He sat opposite me.

"You don't remember what happened last night?" I nodded my head, "Anything?" he put his finger under my chin to make me look at him.

"Nothing," I looked at him.

"You want a reminder?" he breathed, getting closer to me.

"Caius I am not that kind of girl. The one who you pick up from a bar and puts out on the first date," I moved my head so that his hands were not supporting me.

"Then why don't we start slowly then. Like a date tonight, at the 'Sunshine Club'" he smiled. Caius was suggesting that we went slowly. Not me. Wow.

"The Sunshine Club? They require months of notice just for a reservation." I gasped. I knew this because Emmett had to book back in May for a Reservation for him and Rose for Christmas Eve. Rose didn't know anything about it.

"My family owns a portion of it. We have a permanent table set aside for special occasions, such as these. So will you come?" he asked again, raising my head with his fingers. How could I refuse?

"This doesn't mean that I will have sex with you," I told him.

"Yet Bella, yet," he whispered. I sighed.

"Okay, when do you want to-?"

"7pm at your house. Bring your dancing shoes. I like the Swing music," we winked and kissed me on the forehead, as he stood up. He took mine, so that we were both on our feet.

"I better get back, they will be wondering where I am," I went to turn around, when he grabbed my wrist and kissed my hand.

"Until then sweet Bella, I bid adieu." He turned around and walked back to his Harley.

I walked back up the street to my house. It seemed longer than usual. Maybe it was because my heart was hammering so much, that I had not really noticed the concept of time. It seemed to take twice as long as usual. When I finally got to the front door, time sped right back up again. I walked into the Hallway, putting my keys on the stand and opened the door to the living room. There I was met by four pairs of eyes.

"Hey guys," I said. It sounded like my voice had not been used in a while. They all looked at me then went back to their various conversations. Dad with James and Rose, talking about cars, and Mum with Alice and Jasper, talking about the pros and cons of the lengths of trains for prom dresses. I noticed that Emmett was not there. He and Rose were usually joined at the hip. I walked out of the room and into the kitchen, it was hot and I opened the window that led out into the garden. I held my head out of it and took in the fresh air. I saw Emmett pulling up some weeds near the woodland area of our home. Where it separated into a lot of trees. I sighed again. I turned on the tap and got a glass then filled it with water. It was cold and I welcomed it. I sat on the counter with one of my legs on it. I got my cell phone and started to play snake. Oh what a thrilling life I lead. It got to the third round before I was interrupted.

"Snake Bella? Seriously? Have you nothing better to do?" Alice asked, bringing in three other glasses.

"Well I have a few hours to kill," I sighed, closing down the game anyway.

"Listen Bella, I feel I haven't spent enough time with you since you got back, how about you stay around mine tonight. We can watch a chick flick, facials, the whole routine. Just like old times." She smiled bouncing towards me.

"Oh Alice, if you had asked me like, half an hour ago," I sighed, putting my head in my hands. It had finally hit me.

"What's wrong Bella?" she asked, stroking my head.

"I have a date with Caius Volturi tonight." I half groaned half whispered.

"What really? After last night's performance, I am surprised he only wants a date," she laughed.

"I don't think he only wants a date, that's the thing," I raised my head slowly.

"What do you mean?" she asked again.

"From the way he was talking, it sounded like he wanted to have sex with me," I said clearly.

"Oh my God. Bella, what are you going to do?" she half laughed.

"I don't know. I mean I don't want to do it with him, but he made reservations at the Sunshine Club, and he's taking me dancing." I hopped off of the counter. She gave me a hug.

"Oh Bella. What are we going to do with you?" she laughed.

"Because a night over at my ex boyfriends house is just what I needed," I laughed.

"Yeah me too," she giggled.

"Listen, this is what we are going to do. You will go on your date, and I will stay over here and we can dish about it later on. That way we can have a proper girly talk without all those weird ex-boyfriends around." She looked at me. I nodded.

"Alice that eliminates all of your things to do tonight. I can't ask you to do that for me,"

"I am sure that I will find a way to entertain myself," she smiled. Suddenly I heard a small smirk come from outside of the kitchen window. I narrowed my eyes. Alice heard it too. We walked over to the kitchen door to see who the spy was. I growled internally.

"Edward how long have you been standing there?" I growled out loud too.

"Not long." He stared at the floor. He too had a bag full of garden shrubbery. Obviously helping Emmett. How had I not seen that?

"You do know it's not polite to listen to other people's conversations right?" Alice growled.

"Well when one of them involves my sister then I think all rules of etiquette go out of the window don't you agree Alice?" he smiled. I rolled my eyes.

"Like I haven't heard you before." She snidely added. He narrowed his eyes. I could see a domestic a mile off. If I could just discreetly slip out of the room...

"Well Bella shouldn't have opened the window, or I wouldn't have heard anything," he reasoned.

"Oh yes Edward, forgive me if I don't think that creepy people would be lurking underneath the window sill." I crossed my arms.

"What, I tried to block it out, but some things are just hard too,"

"Ugh Edward. You need to get a life of your own instead of trying to butt into ours," Alice replied.

"I have to get ready, you two carry on," I walked out of the room. Not bothering to look behind me. I entered the living room again. Mum talking to Jasper about something irrelevant. I sighed and walked up to my room, lay on my bed and burst into tears.

OOOOOOOOOOO

I looked fine. The dress was a floaty yellow fabric which swayed when I moved. My hair was nice, curly. My shoes were black flats. No heels for a while. I turned around quickly. I was presentable, nice enough for the Sunshine club anyway. I looked around my room. The stacks of DVD's were still covered. Never to see daylight. I laughed to myself. Mum and Dad had gone to the opera, good luck with that dad, and they knew I had a date, just not who it was with. I walked to my bedroom door and I opened it. I was immediately met with a shouting match. Between Emmett and Edward. Great.

"WHAT ABOUT WHAT I WANT EM? WHAT IF I'M TIRED OF JUST DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN!" Edward shouted. It sounded like he was pacing too.

"BECAUSE EDWARD, YOU OWE US. WHAT HAPPPENED OVER THE SUMMER. YOU KNOW YOU DO, I KNOW YOU DO AND JASPER SURE AS HELL KNOWS TOO!" Emmett retorted. Good for him. I started to walk down the stairs slowly, not wanting to disturb them. What had happened over the summer?

"I AM TIRED OF LOOKING AFTER YOUR LITTLE SISTER! IF SHE CAN'T KEEP HER UNDERWEAR ON THEN THAT'S HER PROBLEM, NOT MINE! WHAT IS SHE TO ME? I FEEL NOTHING FOR HER ANYMORE! " Edward returned. Ouch that hurt. And suddenly I couldn't help it. The anger rose in me and instead of merely moving onwards towards the door. Just as I was to open it, ii didn't feel the need to.

"DUDE THAT WAS OUT OF LINE" James joined in. It didn't work in the way that I had hoped it would and went in anyway.

"YOU KNOW WHAT EDWARD. JUST FUCK OFF. I WAS TRYING TO BE CIVIL WITH YOU, FOR THE SAKE OF ALICE AND ROSE. BUT SEEN AS YOU CAN'T LOOK BEYOND THE PAST I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE. NOBODY WANTS YOU HERE!" It stunned him. Good. Emmett smiled at me.

"Bella, you heard all of that," he sounded concerned, his eyes suddenly looked guilty, but I was beyond caring.

"YES EDWARD, I HEARD IT. I HEARD IT ALL. NOW I DON'T CARE IF I DON'T EVER SEE YOU AGAIN. THERE WAS A TIME, QUITE RECENTLY, THAT I WAS GOING TO TRY TO BE FRIENDS. BUT SEEN AS YOU DON'T WISH TO EVEN KNOW ME ANYMORE I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE," I cried. There was a honk of a horn from outside. Caius.

"Bella, I'm-"

"Get out of my house and don't ever come back," I looked straight into his eyes. For the longest of moments then turned away. Jasper looked shocked, Emmett looked proud and Rose and Alice were looking at each other. "I'll see you tonight Alice," I walked through the door and made my way to the front door. I felt a grip on my upper left arm as I opened the front door. Caius was a few feet away and saw me and walked towards us with a smile on his face.

"Bella please I am so-"

"Sorry? So am I Edward. So am I," I pulled away from him and towards Caius, trying with all my might, not to burst into tears again.