A/N: Thanks to those who have been reading and reviewing. This chapter is from Lilly's point of view, Bella and Edward's daughter.

Enjoy and as always, let me know what you thought.


*Lilly*

When school gets out I tell Larkin to drop me on the boardwalk and though he frowns, he says nothing. He knows where I am going, he knows what I do, but he keeps my confidence.

Its about a ten minute walk down the boardwalk to the neatly spaced rows of beach houses. I pass a tattoo parlor on my the path to my destination and I stop in. Why not? The young guy that runs the place is familiar. I see him at the beach sometimes. I would place him in his late twenties. He has hair the color of the blackest ink and his eyes are just as dark. His arms are covered in tattoos and I notice with some relish that his arms arm big and strong and I want to feel them wrapped around me.

"Help you?" He asks and I smile.

"Wanted to get my nipples pierced." I say suddenly. I never gave it any thought, but pain I am not only used to, but I am thrilled be. The scars along my thighs are testament to that. Pain makes me feel alive. It makes the world real and not just a horrible nightmare.

"You eighteen?" The guy asks raising a pierced eyebrow. "Yup." I say lifting myself up onto the counter and flashing him a dazzling smile.

"Uh-huh. Okay well, come on back." He says after giving my generously bared cleavage a good look. I smile again. He can look all he wants. Maybe more.

"Both nipples? You sure? How about your navel instead?" He asks as I take a seat in his chair.

"Oh I'm sure. Not afraid of touching my breasts are you?" I tease as I slip my shirt over my head and unbuckle my bra.

"Little girl, you think you know the game your playing." He says with a shake of his head and marks my nipples with a tiny marker.

"I'm not playing anything." I say and press forward so that my thighs cage one of his knees. He brings the needle through my nipple and the pain brings a rush of excitement making me press forward until I am almost riding his knee. He smiles and slips the ring into the first nipple then readies the second needle. He bounces his knee once teasingly before he punctures my second nipple with his needle. I rock forward on his knee unable to stop myself, his knee pressing hard where I need it. He puts the ring in the second nipple and gives it a flick with his finger making me wiggle again.

"You're a hot little thing aren't you?" He says softly, I nod as he cleans my nipples one last time then gets to his feet. He goes to the front of the empty shop and locks the door and I stay seated, watching him stroll back over to me.

I smile seductively, and scoot back into the seat reclining my body. He comes forward and automatically smoothes his hands up my skirt till he reaches the band of my panties. He tugs them down roughly and drops them to the floor and positions my legs on his shoulders. Without a word or a moments hesitation he licks me and I twine my finger into his hair as he savors me. His hair is thick and smooth and I tug on it some and he hums against me sending shivers through my body. He slips a finger inside and I come without much more provocation, my newly pierced nipples throbbing and tingling, my whole body hot.

I kiss him and get a taste of myself as I slip my panties back on then carefully buckle my bra and pull on my top.

"Maybe next time I'll give you more than a taste." I tell him as I head to the door, twisting the lock open.

"Next time?" He says dazedly.

"Well, I have been wanting a tattoo." I tell him and he smiles.

"Who should I ask for next time?" I shout back to him.

"Hayden. Ask for Hayden." He says and I wave without looking back.


"Where have you been biotch?" Kelsey asks from the sofa where she is spread out, a pipe in her hand. She has taken to smoking meth lately, something I won't try simply because those freaky meth ads with girls looking like corpses fucking a gross creep in the back alley for another hit leaves an undeniable aversion to the drug.

"Got my nipples pierced." I tell her and Corey hands me a bong and lighter and I take it from her without hesitation. I am feeling good from my time in the tattoo parlor so I lay back and rest my feet on Corey's lap to which she smiles. Corey is in love with me. I have known it for as long as I have known her and I may or may not use it to my advantage when the occasion calls for it.

"Nice, can I see?" Corey asks her honey blonde hair falling into her eyes. She has the face of a little baby doll, and sometimes I just want to see that baby cry.

"Hmm, maybe." I say closing my eyes and take a hit from the bong.

"Where the boys?" I ask choking on smoke.

"Getting liquor and pills." Kelsey says dismissively as she burns another hole in the couch with her lit pipe and giggles. I swear she is going to burn herself alive someday with that fucking pipe, lucky the weed masks the smell of burning velvet and meth.

Kelsey and Corey are cousins and Kelsey's step-dad owns the beach house we play in almost everyday. He doesn't seem to care as long as she isn't home getting on his fucking nerves. Kelsey has half her dirty blonde hair shaved and enough piercing to be a pin cushion.

"So what made you want your nipples stabbed huh? And how did you get past those consent papers?" Kelsey asks.

"Well it helped that the guy who pierced me wanted to fuck me. But I felt like getting something pierced and since my mom would cry if I pierced my face, nipples won out." I explain.

"Did you?" Corey asks anxiously.

"What?" I reply, playing dumb.

"Did you let that guy fuck you?" She asks and I laugh.

"Of course not." I say and Kelsey laughs loudly.

"Oh sure! Of course not! You never let anyone fuck you, we know. But what was your payment huh?" Kelsey says with a grin. It is widely known that though I am not opposed to sexual acts, that I don't let anyone have actual sex with me.

"I may have let him have a taste." I reply with a smirk.

"We may have to go back and visit this guy if that's the payment he settled for." Kelsey says. She is the oldest of us girls at eighteen. She shares most of her classes with Larkin, who is advanced.

"Well I did tell him I wanted a tattoo." I say and Kelsey jumps up and down excitedly.

"Really! We should all do it!" She says and Corey nods in agreement.

"What are we all doing?" Finn asks from the doorway, his arms toting several bottles of liquor. He is tall and blonde and every bit the California surfer boy he appears to be.

"Nothing that concerns you caveman." Kelsey says and he kisses her deeply as Damian, Tristan and Caleb follow behind him all carrying bottles of liquor.

"What's with all the booze?" I ask and Tristan stops in front of me and shakes a bottle of my favorite tequila in my face.

"Well a little birdy may have told me that its your birthday Saturday." Tristan says with a smile. I smile back but I don't really like Tristan, and like it even less that he is planning my birthday.

"How old are you gonna be little girl?" Damian says snatching the bottle from Tristan who in turn chases the bigger boy around the couch. Damian pushes me closer to Corey and smushes himself into the small space on the couch. He is well over six foot and built like the football player he is so me and Corey are smashed together.

"I will be fifteen, and I ain't your little girl." I reply brushing away his heavy arm. He could be Finn's double, except maybe he is a little better looking. Neither are on my radar.

"Tristan won't shut up about your damn birthday, we thought you were turning eighteen! Thought your were going to be legal like us. Your just a baby Lilly Cullen." Damian teases.

"Too bad your too old for me." I say shoving him and getting to my feet.

"Ooh, I would risk jail time for a piece of that ass." Damian says with a laugh pulling an uncomfortable looking Corey closer to him on the couch. The thought makes me slightly sick.

In the kitchen, Tristan blocks the way and it seems he has something he wants to say. He pushes the locks of black hair that are just a little too long, out of his eyes and I wait for him to speak or move.

"I hope your not mad that we're planning this for your birthday. I thought it would be fun." He says with a smile and I notice that he is handsome if he didn't give me the creeps. He has a nice smile, his lips are pouty and pink all the time and his eyes are sharply angled and pale blue. But something about the way he looks at me makes me want him away from me.

"Its cool, it was nice of you guys." I say and attempt to move past him into the kitchen but he stops me.

"What? You gonna let me by?" I ask and he shakes his head.

"Will you let me give you a special birthday present?" He asks and I frown.

"Now?" I ask becoming increasingly impatient with him. I've got to leave in a few hours and every minute I am lingering in the kitchen with Tristan, I am not enjoying myself.

"No, of course not. At the party." He says with a smile and I smile back just to get him out of my way.

"Sure, now let me by." I say and he scoots to the side.

I grab myself a bottle of lemonade from the fridge and Tristan is watching me intently as I take drink until he hears the chatter in the living room.

"No shit! Let us see those new piercings, little girl!" Damian shouts and Tristan goes back out to see what they are talking about.

I take another drink and roll my eyes. Back in the living room, they all look at me expectantly.

"What?" I say.

"You gonna show us?" Finn says with a lewd grin and I wonder not for the first time why I associate with these people when I just want to go home and hang out with Larkin, but then I remember that they provide me with the drugs.

"Uh, no." I say simply and pull on my jacket for good measure.

"Aww look at the little girl getting embarrassed." Damian says and I hate his face.

"I'm not embarrassed, I am just not going to give you a free show." I say easily.

"You know what I think?" Damian says.

"Don't hurt yourself now Damian." I reply and he shakes his head scolding.

"I think little girl here is still a virgin. That true little girl? That why you don't let anyone fuck you?" He says and I want to hit him for trying to embarrass me like this.

"Just cause I wont fuck you? I just have standards." I tell him.

"So are you or are you not a virgin? Cause we can make this a very special birthday if it needs to be." Finn says and Kelsey shakes her head but doesn't say anything in my defense. I shouldn't have to justify myself to any of these people.

"Why don't you guys just shut the fuck up already. You sound like children babbling about someone else's sex life." Caleb says, speaking up for the first time since he got here. His voice is deep and soothing and never rises above a conversational tone but I don't let myself look at him. I never really look at him anymore. I know I will see the same smoldering dark brown and mysterious eyes and hair the same shade of brown. His skin, always tan from his days at the beach.

"Oh I forgot. You have a thing for her too." Finn says and I look over in time to catch Caleb as he smirks, his full lips turning up slightly and his thick brows furrowing.

"She is the only one here with a brain, of course I have a thing for her." Caleb says easily and my heart pounds in my chest. Everyone laughs off his insult but I smile at the ground then at him. He nods back and takes a seat on the floor next to Corey and she whispers something to him and he laughs.

"What's so funny." I ask sitting next to him but looking up at Corey who pets my hair.

"I was telling Caleb that Damian cried last night when we got drunk." Corey says quietly and I laugh loud, throwing my head back.

"About what?" Caleb asked softly and his voice thrills me.

"Okay, apparently he isn't getting into his dads uni. He is pretty depressed about it." Corey whispers to us and I laugh again. He deserves as much, the bastard.

"What about you Caleb?" Corey asks with a smile.

"I'm a junior Core." He says kindly. Corey is an idiot, but she has a good heart. And Caleb is always a good guy when it comes to it.

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Corey says with a giggle and I laugh. She and I share almost every class together and she cheats off me in almost every class too.

"You want to smoke Caleb?" Corey says holding up the bong again. He nods and takes it from her and his arm touches mine. He wordlessly hands it to me next and I take it without hesitation. Corey talks for the most part and I listen to her, trying to ignore the annoying chatter from Damian and Tristan, the obscene moans coming from the room occupied by Finn and Kelsey and the loud thudding of my heart as I sit suddenly pressed side to side with Caleb who laughs at something stupid Corey says. She always has something stupid to say.

"Lilly?" He asks suddenly.

"Huh?" I say. I must have gotten stuck for a minute.

"It's six-thirty." He says softly. He always speaks softly, his voice holds authority though, if he were to yell everyone would piss themselves. He can be scary.

"What?" I say again.

"It's six-thirty." He says. Oh! I have to leave at six-thirty. He remembered.

"Do you want me to drive you home?" He asks gently as I scramble to my feet.

"Uh, n-no. That's okay. Corey is taking me home right?" I say. She didn't say she was taking me home, but as the closest thing to a best friend I have, she won't refuse.

"Oh yeah, sure. Lets go!" She says getting to her feet. She is very high, but she is always very high and therefore I trust her driving.

Caleb gives me a small smile and waves goodbye as make my way out the door with Corey. I don't bother saying goodbye to anyone else, cause fuck them.