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"Its Mike"

"Mike?!" Rose asked and looked at me, whether to see if I was ok or just because she was surprised that he had shown up here, I would never know. I wasn't sure how to feel about Mike being here, my heart was pulling me into different directions and my brain was trying to rationalize with the part that wanted to run out of here and into his arms and take him back. If I had a choice between reliving today or letting it go on the way it was I don't know which I would choose, if I hadn't walked in on Mike and that woman today, would I have just caught him in the act later, after we were married or would he have given up that side of his life to live a long happy one with me. I wanted to know what he had to say to me but at the same time I wasn't ready to talk to him and I think Rose could see this when she looked into my eyes and saw my panic but she was waiting for me to say something, not wanting to speak for me herself.

"Yeah Mike, he said he wanted to talk to Bella" Emmet continued and looked at us, a little confused "what am I missing?" he asked but he looked at me when he did, this was my news and mine alone to tell him and he knew that and if I was being honest I didn't want someone I considered to be my older brother, to find out about this through someone else even if it was from my best friend.

"I don't want to talk to him" I hissed and looked around Emmet and towards the front door which appeared to be closed and I thanked what ever god there was that Emmet had the scene not to let Mike into the house, if he had come in I don't know what I would be doing right now. I looked at Rose and then back at Emmet "not now."

"What did he do" Emmet asked and I could hear the irritation at not knowing what was going on seep into his voice and I had the strong urge to tell him but not while Mike was still outside. Emmet had a reputation of having a short temper and while he might not lose it as often as he did when we were in high school he still lost it, especially when it come down to me and Rose and even Alice since he was so protective of us, and it got worse when we landed up being the only woman in his life when his mother died a few years ago in an accident, ever since then he took his friend, big brother and husband duties towards the three of us very seriously.

"I'll tell you later but will you please just get rid of him" I pleaded and by the look on Emmets face I knew he had already agreed to do it before he could actually say he would "thank you" I said and leaned back into the couch and watched Emmet walk to the front door and heard it close behind him. I brought my knees up to my chest in an attempt to hold myself together but it didn't stop the tears from streaming down my face. I was just about to say ask Rose if I could get a glass of water or something stronger when I heard Mike's voice come from out side and he didn't sound happy or very sober, I flinched slightly when I realised he had been drinking. I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it had been close to five since I walked in on him. I felt angry at him then, for being drunk but still I wouldn't go out there to talk to him, to see him.

"I want to talk to my fiancé man" Mike shouted and I flinched again. "so move aside" he finished and I heard Emmets muffled voice trying to reason with Mike but he would have non of it "Bella! I know you can hear me" he called out and I closed my eyes against his desperate calls "baby please I just want to talk" he called out again and I just sunk into Rose's side where she held me close and stroked my hair and whispered that I was going to be fine and that everything was going to be just fine.

"Mike she doesn't want to talk to you" Emmet said his voice rising slightly so that we could hear him now and I heard rose groan.

"i'm not leaving until I see Bella" Mike protested and I was just about to stand up when Rose beat me to it and moved quickly to the door, I heard to open and then close with a loud slam, I looked at Alice and she just shrugged her shoulders and took my hand in hers, the light caught the diamond's in the ring that was still on my finger and it sparkled against my skin, great here come the tears again. Alice noticed me looking at it and covered it with her free hand and smiled at me. Rose would have taken the thing off my finger but Alice knew that I wasn't ready for that step just yet, maybe when it sunk in a little more but not now.

"Listen here you arrogant piece of shit" I heard Rose's voice float through the front door and find it's way to us " you either willing get off my property or I will call the cops on your sorry ass and you wont have a choice" I could have laughed at that very second if I wasn't to depressed with my life.

"Well... thats Rose for you" Alice said and I couldn't help but smile even if I couldn't laugh. The front door opened and closed a few minutes after Rose's threat and the couple come walking back into the lounge. Rose looked pissed and Emmet just looked confused but he wasn't surprised that Rose had snapped at Mike like that, it was just who she was and that's one of the many reasons he had married her.

"Will you please tell me what's going on now" Emmet asked looking at me again when Rose had taken her seat next to me again and he had found the place on the coffee table.

"Is he gone" I asked and he nodded his head and the amount of relief and pain that hit me was overwhelming and I just started crying again. I hated crying and I was so sick of my confusing emotions, they were making me dizzy. I couldn't decide if I was sad or angry and it pissed me off. Emmet put his hands on my knees and I was forced to look into his eyes. For so many years I had found comfort in them but right now they just reminded me of why I needed to be comforted. I forced myself to stop crying and whipped the tears away, I smiled pathetically at him. Alice put her arm around my shoulders and Rose grabbed my hands like Alice had been doing a earlier.

"So um..." I paused not sure what would be the right way to tell him, I really didn't want to go over the details again and if he wanted to know more Rose could fill him in later I just had to tell him and be done with it. " Mike... he cheated on me" I said and he seemed to be frozen in time, his face then changed to shock and I shrugged my shoulders and sniffed, his face then went angry and I could see in his eyes that he wasn't just angry but fucking pissed off.

"He did what!" he exclaimed and jumped up glaring at nothing and then heading for the front door, I was a little startled by his reaction and Rose was giving him her signature 'are you stupid look' not that he noticed it anyway.

"What are you going to do" Rose called out but she didn't get an answer "really Emmet don't be so dramatic, I don't need to be bailing your ass out of jail tonight on charges of assault!" he still wasn't listening to her and I heard him grab his keys and open the front door, Rose rolled her eyes and sighed "Emmet Cedric McCarthy, you get your big ass back in this house or your sleeping on the couch for the rest of the month" I gigged at her threat which seemed to make her smile as well and Alice bust out laughing. A second later the front door closed and Emmet threw his keys back into the bowl at the front door and came back into the lounge looking a little less pissed off but the anger was still there.

"Cedric" Alice laughed and when I turned to look at her she was on the verge of crying. "your... second name... is.. Cedric" she gasped out and Emmet glared at her and shock his head not finding her funny at all. He hated his middle name and Rose knew it, but Emmet also knew if she used his full name, like she just did, he was in a whole shit load of trouble.

"Yeah haha very funny Alice" he said and crossed his arms across his chest but I could see he was trying to hold back a smile of his own. I just smiled at them and felt very tired all of a sudden, another reason to hate crying I always landed up feeling so brained. Emmet sat on the single couch across from us and rolled his eyes but when he looked at Rose his eyes softened and I looked away.

As much as I loved them and was grateful that they were here for me I needed to be by myself for a while so that I could think things over, so I excused myself and made my way up stairs to the guest bedroom where I normally stayed when I came here. The second my head hit the pillow and the light was out I started crying and feel asleep like that, clutching one of the extra pillows to my chest for dear life.

When Bella was up the stairs and out of eat shoot I looked back at Alice and Emmet with sad eyes. I had never seen her like this in my life and it was understandable but I was worried about her. She had gone though a lot of shit in her life and she stayed strong through it all but now it was like she just came crumbling down after so many years of being so strong.

"iIm worried about her" I said and Emmet rubbed his eyes with his hands like he was trying to clear his head, I cold tell he was still pissed and while it should piss me off that he was so protective of Bella it didn't, I knew that there was nothing between the two of them and that there never would be, its just that they shared a close bond and that bond made them more like brother and sister than it made them friends. I actually had Bella to thank for me and Em being together so he could be as protective of her as he wanted to be.

"So am I. I've never seen her so upset before" Alice said and it seemed we were having the same thoughts. "I just cant believe he would do that. He seemed so..." she trailed off not sure how to finish the sentence and I scoffed at it .

"Yeah I also thought he was mister golden boy" I said and rolled my eyes. I could think of a few places where I would love to shove my brand new six inch hells into said golden boy, but that would just have to wait.

"If I ever see him again" Emmet said and I could see he was working himself up again but I stopped him with one stern look that spoke volumes as to what I would do if he went over board again. I had so much to do for tomorrow. I had to cancel the church, the reception venue, the florist and the caterer, I would leave Bella to tell her parents that the wedding was off and I would email the rest of the wedding party that the wedding was off due to 'unforeseen circumstances' and if the fact that Mike had cheated on Bella spread around so be it, the asshole deserved whatever he had coming to him. I could only imagine how pissed his mother was going to be. That woman adored Bella and considered her more of a daughter than she considered Mike a son. Hell it was like he was marrying into his own family.

I could just tell though that all of this was going to put a lot of emotional and physical strain on Bella and it would pain me to see my best friend in so much pain and then an idea popped into my head.

"We need to get Bella out of the city for a few weeks" I said and Emmet and Alice both gave me the same, 'what are you talking about looks' "it would be good for her, to get away from all of this, just until all the drama dies down. I have the family house near the lake so we could all go" I smiled at them and Alice nodded her head ,seeing what I was seeing but Emmet didn't look so convinced.

"We could pull a Sexy in the City on her. Only it wont be Spain and she hasn't paid for the whole thing" Alice offered and I liked that way she thought, Emmet on the other hand looked so confused it was cute.

"Exactly!"

"I'm in" Alice said and I turned towards my loving husband and gave him my puppy dog face, he actually did try this time before eventually giving into me with a sigh and a slight roll of his eyes followed by a small smile that graced his lips. Oh how I loved those lips of his.

"Fine ok" he said and I broke out into a huge smiled and hopped up and down in my seat and Alice giggled at me. "but please don't go over board and you have to give Bella time to heal on her own don't push her" he said and it was my turn to roll my eyes and smile.

"Deal"