Disclaimer:Familiar characters belongs to Stephenie Meyer. So does Twilight.

I woke with a pain in my ribs. Every breathe I took was painful. Without meaning to, I let a loud gasp escape through my lips. Jasper was standing at the door the second afterward holding a glass of water and two pain pills. He handed them to me and I immediately took them and drank the water down.

"Thank you," I said softly. I was trapped in his eyes when I looked up. I guess I had stopped breathing because he instructed me to breathe. I immediately exhaled. I realized that I was in serious need of that air because my lungs tried to do a little happy dance. If that was even possible.

"No problem. I ordered you some lunch."

"Lunch? What time is it?" I asked. There was absolutely no way I sleep that long. I never slept longer than a few hours, but if it was lunchtime, I had to have been out for at least thirteen hours.

"It is almost 1:00. You've been sleeping like a baby." Jasper said with a smile.

"Oh no!" I threw my legs over the bed and tried to stand, but I staggered and Jasper caught me. "Thank you."

"I don't think that you should be out of bed so soon. Esme and Rosalie still want to take the girls to the fair and I was going to come and wake you to ask if that was okay?" I needed to think about that for a moment. It wasn't long before I had reached my decision.

"Of course," I said. Then I heard two little squeals of excitement. And to more adult laughs. Val and Ness peeked around the corner with smiles on their faces. I motioned for them to come in.

One after the other, they skipped to my bedside.

"Hello,girls," I told them. I leaned in to give them each a kiss on the cheek. They smiled and laughed.

"You slept for a long time mommy." Val said.

"Well mommy was very tired. I didn't mean to sleep for so long. I won't sleep that long anymore. How's that sound?" I reasoned with her and her sister.

"Okay, but we had fun when you were sleeping." Val said.

"Really?" I asked. They both nodded.

"Grandma Esme and Auntie Rose took us to the playground that Uncle Em built for us. It was fun." Ness. Said. I gasped in exasperation.

"What did you do?" I asked sounding over interested.

"We slip down a BIG scary slide!" Val said.

"No way! No way!" I said looking at them with wide eyes.

"Way!!!" They shouted in sync. I laughed at the cuteness. I heard several other laughs from Jasper, Esme, and Rosalie.

"Mommy?" Ness asked.

"Yes?" I inquired.

"That's not all we did." She answered.

"Really?" I asked leaning towards her like she was going to tell me a secret.

"We played on the swing set and beat Uncle Emmett up for being a bad dragon monster." Ness giggled and I laughed.

"That's so cool! Now how about you let mommy talk with your grandma and your aunt?" I asked. They nodded and went off to do whatever they do together. Esme and Rosalie walked in right after the girls left.

"Hey Bella."

"Hi sweety."

"Hey you guys?" I said in response.

"I'm so glad you didn't change your mind about letting us take them to the fair." Esme said. I shook my head and Rosalie spoke.

"Yeah and I hope you didn't mind about Emmett taking them to play."

"I don't mind that so much as I mind what they might have been exposed to." I said inferring.

"You won't have to worry to much on that. We sent them to a different location for a week or so. Edward won't stay away for much longer without answers." Esme said. She sat on the bed next me and continued to speak. "Carlisle and I are really sorry about Alice and Edward's behavior. And I'm sorry we left. And I'm sorry you had to see him again. And—," I cut her apologies off.

"It's fine. I'm over him. I'm over it. I just don't wont the girls to be around that sort of stuff. You are all forgiven, so long as nothing else is kept from me." I said. They both nodded eagerly.

"Thank you, Bella. I hope this didn't ruin that potential friendship that we were talking about." Rosalie seemed fearful for a moment. In all my days of knowing Rosalie, I have never seen her look fearful. She was always either angry or nonchalant.

"Of course, it didn't Rosalie. It 's all fine. I promise." I said causing Rosalie to give me a grateful smile. I threw her the best smile I could give her, but my smile turned into a yawn. Jasper—who I hadn't noticed—let out a laugh and said, "Maybe you guys should get going. Her pills are kicking in. She needs her rest. And her lunch just arrived."

"Oh, pish posh. I'm not going to sleep. It was just a little yawn." I said. Then my body betrayed me, and I know again. I heard him chuckle again and Esme rose from the bed. As if on cue, the door bell rang.

"I'll go and get it." Rosalie dashed out of the room and I assume she got the food from the delivery person because she brought it back. I smiled my thank you and sat back against the headboard.

"We're going to get going. Is there anything you would like us to remember when we are with the girls?" Esme looked to me for answers.

"Ness is allergic to mushrooms and Val is allergic to bees. Other than that, there is nothing else." I told her. They nodded. The girls came in to tell me goodbye and they were off.

"I hope you like Chinese. I wasn't sure what you might want or like." Jasper made it sound like a question, but I knew it was a statement. I also hadn't had Chinese food since the last time, Logan took me out with his friends. That was at least a hundred years ago.

"I love Chinese food. Thank you." I told him.

"Your welcome, Isabella." Jasper said. I normally hated when people called me by my first name, but when he said it, it rolled off of his tongue like smooth waves rolling in the ocean. It was beautiful.

I stuffed some of the Lo Mien noodles into my mouth and couldn't prevent the moan that came out of my mouth. My eyes opened in surprise to see that Jasper was staring at me in curiousity.

"What is it?" I was hesitant in asking.

"Well I was just wondering when you were going to ask me questions about Alice and Edward." He admitted after a moment.

"Oh. I don't think that was going to happen anytime soon, but since you brought it up... How long has this been going on?" I asked, jumping at the opening of the discussion.

Sorry for the delay. If any of you are following my other stories, there will be updates within the next two weeks. Puppies are hard work. She is a Lab mix and her name is Cinnamon Harris. :D I'm training her now. She's officially 9 weeks. And she is paper trained. Okay so this chapter was pretty much an opener for the next chapter. The next chapter is the chapter where all the background information is revealed. Stick around.

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