Okay, so this story is Post Eclipse, but Edward didn't send Jacob the invitation yet, so he didn't run away. So yeah! It's basically Eclipse without the whole epilogue thing. Thanks SO much for all the people that reviewed my story, and enjoy! Oh, and I lied. I guess I'm updating this even though I don't have 5 reviews...it saddens me! Please review this chapter and tell me if I'm writing these characters well!

"Love?" I heard a velvet voice call out. "Wake up, Emmett, Jasper, and I are leaving. Love, wake up." My eyes flew open the second his cold hands touched my cheek, and I stared at him. I sat up and pulled his head down to mine in a rough kiss. I wasn't even awake yet, and I'm kissing my fiancé senselessly! I pulled away and then realized that Edward wasn't the only person in my room. Jasper and Emmett stood there, a hand put up to their mouths, obviously trying to hide back a laugh or two.

"What?" I asked.

"Edward, you are one lucky bro. Seriously, Rosalie doesn't ever just wake up and kiss me!" Emmett said, and I stared down at my comforter.

I blushed my famous Bella blush (the one consisted of ten different blushes), while pulling at the strings that were coming out of the comforter.

"Emmett!" Edward growled, and I stood up, revealing my holey gray bed shirt that said 'The Clash' and my black sweat pants to them before walking over to my drawers. Edward appeared at my side, and I wrapped my arms around his neck. "I love you." I whispered, hoping that Emmett and Jasper didn't hear me.

"I love you too." He whispered back, brushing his lips against my ear, causing delightful shivers to run up and down my body.

"Come back soon, I want that topaz back." He chuckled, so soft; even I could barely hear it.

"I will. And as much as I trust you," He didn't seem very sure of himself, "Alice will come over and watch you."

"Edward!" I whined, pulling away from him. "I'm not a little kid! Treat me like a big kid Edward!" I stomped up and down, and Emmett and Jasper looked at each other before busting up, holding their stomachs as they fell on my bed. I slapped Emmett in the arm, but then regretted it as I watched my hand turn red. It stung. Badly.

"Emmett! Jasper!" Edward commanded, and they both stopped laughing. "Go to the car."

"Aw, Edward! Come on! I'm not a little kid!" Emmett wined, and I turned and glared at him. He looked at me in mock terror and then at Jasper. "Uh oh, Jasper! We better run! Ahh!" They screamed as they ran out of my room and down the stairs.

I rolled my eyes, and turned to Edward. "Edward, I really don't need a babysitter. You remember what happened the last time Alice and I had a 'slumber party'. That was not fun."

"Yes, I remember clearly. But those grizzlies looked pretty tame compared to what I came home to." He flashed me a crooked smile.

"Shut up." I mumbled, grabbing underwear, jeans, a bra, and a new t-shirt out of the drawer, shoving past him and towards the bathroom. "Have fun, hunting, Edward!" I called over my shoulder, shutting the door to the bathroom and locking it.

I stripped down and turned on the shower, the hot water calming my tense muscles and making me feel rejuvenated. After I rinsed out the pink shampoo out of my hair and turned off the water, I stepped out, quickly changing into my clothes and putting my hair up into a tight ponytail. As I was about to walk out of the bathroom, a small note propped up against the mirror caught my attention, and I grabbed it, a familiar elegant handwriting staring up at me.

Bella. It said. I opened it up.

Be safe. I'll be back Monday morning. I love you,

Edward.

I smiled, his beautiful handwriting etched into my mind as I set the note back down on the bathroom counter.

Eventually, I trudged over to my room and stared at my reflection in the mirror. "What should I do today?" I asked myself.

"Well we could go shopping!" I turned around quickly and groaned. Alice was sitting on my bed, dressed entirely in black designer clothes, and sitting cross legged in all her pixie glory.

"No." I said simply, and then started out of my bedroom and down the stairs towards the kitchen.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked as she 'magically' appeared in front of me.

"Getting something to eat. I'm starving." I said. "Can't I do anything without you asking me about it? I mean, come on Alice. I'm not a little kid anymore. Edward just needs to…calm down." I said, sitting down and pouring the Frosted Flakes into my cereal bowl.

She sat down in front of me and watched me eat.

"I know he needs to calm down. I wanted to go shopping with Rosalie today anyways, but I can't unless I take you."

"And I'm not going." I said, shoveling another spoonful into my mouth. "I hate shopping. You know that. I especially hate your shopping."

She sighed and looked down at the table. I must admit that that was a little mean, and I sort of wanted to take it back. But I didn't. I couldn't. I wouldn't. But I should. "You hate me?"

"What?" I asked, shaking my head no, "I don't hate you, I just hate going shopping. Period."

"But if Edward took you shopping…"

"Edward doesn't even like shopping, Alice. He wouldn't want to go." I flicked on the TV, trying to avoid talking to her, and the weather came up.

"…Looks like we're in for another cloudy day with a twenty percent chance of rain. A storm moving in from the east will hit by about Monday, and it's supposed to be a pretty nasty thunderstorm with winds up to around sixty miles per hour. Back to you, Jim."

"Thank you, Bill. In other News…"

"Aw, man! Too bad Edward, Emmett and Jazz are not here, we could have gone to play baseball today! Darn!" Alice pouted, and I laughed as I got up and placed my bowl in the sink, turning off the TV in the process.

"You know, Alice, as much as I like Jasper…"

"I don't know why you should." I didn't even believe that I heard that. Alice was telling me, her future daughter in law that I shouldn't like her husband? Even as a friend? "He doesn't look like he likes you that much. I mean, he almost killed you! And Edward almost killed him because Jazzie almost killed you…" She sighed and looked up at my hurt expression. "…but….I guess you can like him."

I blushed. Edward was so sweet! He was right. He wouldn't let anyone hurt me, even his own brother! "Anyways, I was saying. As much as I like Jasper…he's not that good at baseball. I mean, compared to the rest of you. He'd probably make it into the majors easily, but be in the minors in the 'Vampire Baseball League'."

She giggled. "You're so cute, Bella! Edward must have taught you a lot about baseball."

I shrugged. "I only saw you guys play once, and that was when Laurent, Victoria, and James were there." I cringed as I said each of their names.

Especially Victoria.

"Yeah…So, what do you wanna do today?" Alice asked, and I was glad that she didn't say anything about the three infamous vampires.

"I was actually just going to call Angela, talk to her for a little bit, see what she's doing, and then curl up on the couch with a blanket, a popcorn, and a good movie."

"That sounds so boring!" Alice complained.

"Yeah, well that's what my agenda is for today, oh, and then you can even watch me make dinner for Charlie! You can learn how to make chicken enchiladas! Doesn't that sound fun, Alice?" I asked, sarcasm dripping from every word.

"Oh yeah, fun." She rolled her eyes, "You're a girl, Bella. Shouldn't you want to go shopping?"

"No."

"Well what do you and Edward do during the weekends?"

"Well let's see. We cuddle up on the couch and watch movies…we talk a lot…and he seems to get enjoyment out of looking through my baby photos. Which I don't. Oh, and we…kiss. A lot." I squeaked the last sentence out.

"I'm glad I'm not over here when that's going on." Alice said, and then she glanced at her watch before gasping and jumping up.

"What?" I asked, confused.

"I forgot! I have a wedding planner meeting at twelve!"

"Oh god, Alice!" I said, shaking my head. "Come on!"

"I love weddings, Bella, and yours is going to be my best yet! I can tell!"

"Alice!" I whined.

"You'll be fine by yourself for a few hours, right?" She asked, and my face lit up. By myself? Without Alice? Yes!

"Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine. I'll just be watching movies the whole time anyways."

"You sure?" She asked.

"Yeah, Alice, I'm sure. Do you see anything? Anything bad?" I asked her, and she closed her eyes.

"No." She sighed, and then glanced back at the clock.

"Fine, I'll go. But don't get into trouble." She warned, "Or I'll have to tell Edward I left you alone." She said as she ran out the front door.

I'm free! At last!

I jumped up and ran immediately towards the phone, dialing Angela's number as fast as I could. I waited for someone to pick up the phone, and sadly, nobody did.

"Hey! It's Anglea! Can't come to the phone right now, I'm probably hanging with Ben, so just attempt to call me back again. Don't bother leaving a message. I'll never hear it. So yeah! Bye!" A long beep came after, and I sighed, pressing the end button.

I let my phone drop as I lay on the couch, staring up at the white ceiling. This is so boring! There's nothing to do! I stared over at the clock that read twelve fifteen. I had only killed fifteen minutes.

Charlie was right. I really didn't have a life besides the Cullens. Maybe I could call Rosalie, but that was a bad idea. She didn't even like me that much anyways. I sighed and stared over at the silver cell phone sitting next to me. As if on cue, it started to ring, and I stared at the front screen.

Edward.

"Hello?" I asked, and the sweet velvet voice came through the phone.

"Bella, love! Are you all right?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" I asked.

"I…well you didn't properly say goodbye to me."

"Prude!" I heard Emmett yell in the background, and I giggled.

"What?" Edward asked, and I shook my head.

"Nothing. I'm bored. I'm thinking about renting a movie. What's a good one?"

"Romeo and Juliet." He said quickly, and I could tell he was smiling that amazing crooked smile of his.

"Prude." I heard Emmett and Jasper say in the background, fainter this time.

"No, Edward, I can't watch that."

"Why not?"

"Because that's our movie, Edward. Remember, you're my Romeo."

"Yes, and you're my Juliet, but we don't kill ourselves."

"We almost did." I reminded him, and I could tell him didn't want to talk about that by the growl that I heard through the phone. So I changed my wording. "Yeah, that's the twist on things." I laughed, and his sweet chuckle came through.

"Is Alice there with you?" He asked, and I gulped. I had to lie. But if I said that she was, he may want to talk to her! Think of a good lie! Think! Think!

"Actually, she's not." I could hear him tense up.

"Emmett, turn the car around." I heard him command.

"What? Eddie, are you crazy?" Emmett asked. "No way!"

"We're coming home." Edward told me.

"No! No! Look, here's the thing. I'll tell you the short version. Okay, so Alice came over and then Esme needed her home to help her with some wedding things, so Rosalie's coming over right now. That's okay, right?"

"Rosalie?" he asked, and I nodded my head.

"Yeah."

"Well, call me when she comes over."

"Edward!" I scolded. "I can take care of myself, you know that. And someone hasn't tried to kill me or track me in two weeks, it's a new record, you know that."

"Yes, I know, but Bella, I'm just concerned about your safety. It comes first, you know."

"Yeah, yeah, well my safety is also concerned when I say that this hunting trip is mandatory. You're going to hurt me if you don't hunt. And don't say you won't."

He sighed in defeat. Defeated by a human! Hah! And a human girl at that! Hah! Hah! "Fine. I'll see you in two days. I love you."

"I love you too." I said, and then hung up the phone.

Around three o'clock that same day (after Edward called me three more times), Alice called and told me that she trusted that I was home (she hadn't seen any danger) and that she and Rosalie were going to go shopping in Port Angeles.

I told her I'd be fine, I mean, it wasn't like I had any other plans for today anyways. Besides, I liked the peace and quiet on my Saturday.

After watching a couple of old episodes of CSI, the phone rang at around five thirty.

"Hello?" I asked, and a familiar, male voice came through the other line.

"Bella!"

"Jake!" I smiled. "How are you?"

"I'm great, you?"

"Super bored." I moaned.

"Great! That's exactly what I wanted to hear."

"Huh?" I asked, confused. "Don't you want to hear me happy?"

"Well yeah, but you'll be happy after this!"

"After what?"

"Okay, so the pack and I are throwing an insane party down at the beach today, it's gonna be amazing. We weren't gonna invite you, 'cause you know, Edward…." He growled at his name.

"Yeah…?"

"But when we heard the stiff was gone, we decided that we'd invite you! So wanna come?" He asked, sounding very excited. Maybe too excited for my comfort with Jake.

"Wait, how did you find out that Edward was out hunting?"

"We got our secret ways."

"Billy?" I asked, realization finally hitting me. Charlie probably told Billy that Edward was going hiking this weekend, and Billy probably called Jake to tell him to call me to ask if I wanted to do anything this weekend.

"Well…yeah." Jake said, and I could tell he was smiling sheepishly. "So you coming or what?"

What about Alice? What about Rosalie? What about Edward? If he found out that I disobeyed him…again and practically lied to him in front of his face, he'd be pretty pissed off.

"Bella?" Jake asked. "You there?"

"Yeah, I'm here." I said.

"So you coming or not?"

"When is it?"

"Starts around eight down at the beach. There's gonna be a bonfire and everything. It's gonna be one kick ass party."

I sighed. "I'll be there." I've gotta find some way to ditch Alice and Rosalie after they come back from shopping.

"Hey, you wanna drop off the Rabbit though?" I asked, an idea suddenly hitting me.

"Why? What's wrong with your truck?"

"It's just got a dead battery." I lied. It's just too noisy. I need a car that isn't that noisy for Alice and Rosalie to hear.

"Are you sure? I'll come and fix it."

"No, no. See, Jake. I have to sneak out to come to this party." I sighed.

"Oh, does lover leech have bodyguards for you or something?"

"Alice and Rosalie, yep. And the truck's too loud. They'll know if I took off in it. So come down here really quick, drop off the Rabbit, and you can take the truck back up."

"What will you tell the bloodsuckers when they notice that your car's gone?"

"That my car got a dead battery and I had to take it to the mechanic." I simply said. "Park the Rabbit in the woods to the right of my house. I'll jump out of the bathroom window and take off."

"Nice plan, Bells. I'll see you in five with the Rabbit."

"Yeah, well you better hurry up. They could be home any minute now. Oh, and do you have a movie with you, like a war movie that's really loud? Or a car movie that's really loud? Or some movie that's really loud?"

"Yeah, why?"

"I need to put it on so that they don't hear me take off."

"Why? You gonna trip and fall?" He joked.

"Probably, yeah. I am a klutz. So bring the movie and the Rabbit, okay?"

"K, bye Bells."

"Bye, Jake." I said, and then ended the call. Alice called just seconds later.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Hey Bella! How are you?" Her preppy voice came through.

"I'm fine. Just incredibly bored. My stupid truck died today. The battery blew, so I had to take it to the mechanic. Besides that, it's been a pretty boring day."

"Why'd you need to use your truck?"

"I was just going to go over and hang with Angela for a little bit, but obviously that didn't happen." I lied, but she seemed to buy it.

"Oh. Well Rosalie and I are going to be at your house in about ten or fifteen minutes. We're like right outside La Push."

"Okay!" I said as I saw the flashing of headlights shine through the window and into my living room, where I sat on the couch. It was Jake. "See you then! Bye!" I said, and then hung up the phone, running outside and into the arms of my best friend. I laughed as he squeezed me. "Can't…breathe!" I gasped, and he set me down, placing a friendly kiss on my forehead.

"Here's your movie."

"Saving Private Ryan." I glanced at it. "War movie?"

"Yup. And it starts out really loud, so I thought it was a good one, besides it was the first one I found."

"Great, thanks Jake."

"So where you want me to park the Rabbit?" He asked, and I pointed to the trees.

"Over there. That way, they can't see the car at all."

"All right."

"You better hurry up." I said, handing him the keys to the truck. "Alice just called. She'll be here in less then ten minutes."

He sighed. "Fine. But I'll see you tonight. Love ya, Bells."

"Love you too, Jake." I practically had to spit out of my mouth as I got into the passenger seat of the car. (Just so I could know where he parked it.) I could barely see the road from where we were parked, and he handed me the keys as he killed the engine.

"See you tonight. It's gonna be an amazing party. Oh, and make sure you wear a...nice...dress tonight. You know, something that shows off your body."

"Um, Jake? I have a boyfriend, you know that, right?"

"Yeah. But just do it, Bella. For me?"

I sighed. "Fine."

"Great! See you later." He said, and then kissed me on the cheek before dashing out of the car and into my truck. I got out and ran back towards the front steps of my house just as Jake was driving away, the loud grumbling echoing as he went down the road.

I smiled at my fool proof plan.

Slowly, I opened the front door and sat back down in my position on the couch, staring at yet another episode of CSI. I shoved the keys to the Rabbit inside my pocket and put the movie on the table just as I heard Alice and Rosalie pull up in Rosalie's red M3. I smiled and was about to go and greet them at the door, when I sniffed myself. I smelled like a dog. Alice would know that something was up, she'd call Edward, and I couldn't go to that 'amazing' party of Jakes, and my fool proof plan would be cracked.

Shoot!

I ran up the stairs (tripping up half of them in the process), and rubbed a bar of my strawberry soap all over my body, and also squirted some of the perfume that Alice told me to wear for Edward on me.

I heard the front door close, and I ran down the stairs, and tripped down half of them again, putting on a fake smile, "Hey guys, what's up?"

"You didn't do anything stupid!" Alice smiled at me. "I'm so proud of you Bella! But you know who will be even more proud of you?"

"Who?" I asked, even though I knew what her answer was.

Edward.

"Edward!" She squealed, bouncing up and down. "That would be a first! You haven't run away or anything!"

Alice squeezed me harder, and winced into her hair.

Edward won't be proud if he finds out that I'm sneaking away to a party hosted by werewolves.

But he's not going to find out.

No.

He's not.

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