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Bella POV

I wasn't sure why Emmett had shown up at my door, but at that moment as I sat and watched him I couldn't say that I was mad. It was nice to have someone who understood. Someone who knew what it was like to live in Forks and be a child of a cheater. A person who knew what it was like to be the sibling of Alice Cullen.

"So How it being back in Forks?"

"It sucks." He leaned back against the couch.

"Yeah I bet." I tried to hide my smirk. Now he knew what it was like for me. At least he got a chance to leave. I'd been stuck here since High School. "Bet you can't wait to get back to Seattle."

"You can say that again." He leaned his head back against the couch. "I only spent about five minuets in the presence of Alice today and I wanted to strangle her."

I almost choked on the wine I had been drinking. "Oh My." I sputtered. I held my hand to my chest. "I know how that is believe me though I'm not sure I've ever put it so bluntly."

"Yeah well…" He sighed and just then I remembered something.

"Crap I have to call your dad." I grabbed my phone and quickly hit Carlisle's number.

"Why?" He whispered as I held the phone up to my ear." I held my finger to my lips to shush him as the phone rang.

"Bella is everything okay?" I heard the sound of Carlisle's voice coming through the phone.

"Oh yes I'm sorry Carlisle I just forgot to call you earlier between everything I had to do." Okay I may have said that sarcastically so sue me. "Anyway I wanted to tell you that I will be picking Alice up in the mornings and taking her to school and I'll also be picking her up at the end of the day. She had been instructed to hand her car keys over to you. Oh and she's suspended for one day so no school for her tomorrow I mean really what kind of punishment is that you skip school and then you get to stay home. Anyway you should probably ground her. "

"Okay." Carlisle said but I heard the indecision in his voice.

"Carlisle don't waver on this she needs to learn she can't skip class."

"You're right of course." He sighed. "Thank you for calling Bella and thanks for handling everything."

"Yes well you're welcome goodbye Carlisle."

"Good by Bella." And with that the call was disconnected.

"Anyway I'm sorry about that." I said as I turned back to Emmett.

"Are you sure you're not Alice's mother instead." Emmett chuckled darkly.

"Oh eww Emmett." I scrunched up my nose. "But.." I sighed. "With a mother like Renee I had to learn to grow up fast and Alice was brought along for the ride. I was her mother because Renee loved us in her own way but she does not know how to be a mother. Poor Bree" I shook my head thinking of my littlest sister.

"But my dad just let you dole out Alice's punishment and he didn't even seem to bat an eye."

I took a deep breath and let it out. "Carlisle has his own issues. He loves Alice maybe a bit to much. He wants to give her everything and so he's easy on her. But you know Alice isn't a bad kid Alice is just as much a victim in all of this as the two of us and maybe she's more of a Victim." I swirled the wine in my glass staring down at the red liquid. "Me and you knew where we belonged in the grand scheme of things. We had a clear family oh sure my dad was in Forks and my mom in phoenix but I was part of one clear family unit. Your parents had their issues but they stayed together and you had a mostly stable home. But Alice…. Alice didn't have that. Alice doesn't know where to belong is it with my mom. Is it with her dad or maybe it's with me but she doesn't have really clear boundaries between the families not like us." I finished off my drink and sat the empty drink down on the table. "Yes Alice has her own issues."

He looked at me for a minuet finishing off his beer and sitting it beside my glass on the table. "It wasn't easy for any of us. But me and you turned out okay. I admit I had my own wild years but I pulled out of them and I'm sure we'll get Alice through them to. I'm back now. Maybe I'm not in Forks but I'm in Washington and only a couple of hours away. I'll be busy there is no getting around that what with starting a residency but I'm here. Alice is my sister to and I won't let you carry this burden all by yourself anymore."

I looked at him I wasn't sure what I was hearing. It had been so long since I'd had an actual conversation with Emmett that it was a bit of an out of body experience I almost pinched myself to make sure it was real. "Yeah well thanks." I said I wasn't going to get my hopes up not right now anyway. Words were meaningless most of the time in my life. lets see if he was going to back that up with some actions.

"You are going to have a long day I'm sure and I'm sure my mother is wondering where I've disappeared to so Bella I'll say goodbye now." He stood up and pressed his hand into my shoulder in a sign of comfort.

"yes Thank you Emmett." I sighed standing up to show him to the door.

"No no stay sitting I can show myself out." I watched as he walked out the door and I sat in the living room thinking of the conversation we had just had as it ran through my head. I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I remember is Charlie coming home and waking me up. I made my way up to my bed falling into a restless sleep.

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