Author's Notes: To make up for you guys waiting over a week for an update I thought I'd get two out over this weekend! I hope you enjoy reading it aa much as I like writing it. As always thanks to my wonderful beta JenJenSon and if any of you like Harry Potter check out her story it's really hot!

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, the characters, book or film and make no money from this story it is pure fiction for fan purposes. They lyrics are from Wouldn't change a Thing from Camp Rock 2 (I am so cool). I just heard it and thought yes that is exactly Bella and Paul!

Chapter 8: Insane

Bella POV

I heard a car pull up the driveway and glanced out the window, it wasn't very often anyone came by car since most of the pack just ran so it was a bit unusual. My gaze focused on the car and my heart stopped. I would know that car anywhere; the car that had taken me all the way to phoenix when I was running for my life...Carlisle's car.

My heart both soared and sank as I stared at it waiting for the door to open, but as soon as I saw the dark haired pixie step out I was running for the door.

"Alice!" I cried out, running to her and throwing my arms around her stone body so hard I nearly winded myself.

"Bella!" she gasped in surprise.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to get so excited." I apologised stepping back. It felt weird feeling someone so cold after hanging around with the pack so much.

"Would you like to explain to me how you're alive?" she asked sternly, following me inside.

"What are you talking about?" I asked her, leading her into the front room.

"I saw a vision of you jumping from a cliff and then nothing Bella, your future just disappeared. I thought you were dead." She chided.

"No! You got it all wrong Alice I was cliff diving." I explained. "It's fun."

"Fun? I didn't see anything after you hit the water Bella. It's so dangerous to do something like that what if something had happened? What would Charlie think if he knew?" Alice obviously wasn't too impressed at my new hobby. My face dropped as she mentioned Charlie's name, Alice had always liked Charlie and Charlie had always liked Alice.

"Charlie's dead Alice." I told her quietly.

"What? How is that possible? I didn't see anything!" Alice protested.

"Believe me, it's possible..." I whispered.

"Oh God Bella." She said softly, pulling me into her arms again. "I'm so sorry, I wasn't really looking because Edward told me not to but something like that I should have seen."

"It's alright it was months ago now...I'm starting to deal with it better." I told her honestly. "Although I sometimes feel guilty...like I'm forgetting about him."

"Bella, he'd understand. You can't live in the past forever, you'll miss you life." She told me.

"What is she doing here?" a voice spat from behind us. My head whipped around to focus on Paul, Jake and Jared stood in the doorway to the living room. Paul and Jake had been a little odd around each other to start with when Paul and I started seeing each other but they seemed to understand each other about it. I'm glad someone did.

"I'm checking she's alright." Alice chirped.

"Well she is, no thanks to you." Jake hissed.

"Now you can leave." Paul added.

"She can stay as long as she likes." I said through gritted teeth.

"What do you mean no thanks to me? I'm not going to hurt her!" Alice protested.

"Didn't you tell her?" Jake asked, stepping closer until he and Alice stood inches apart. She looked tiny compared to him.

"Tell me what?" she asked in a low voice.

"It's your fault Charlie's dead. You and you're stupid bloodsucking family." He muttered.

"Bella is that true?" she asked, stepping around Jake before he could even blink and standing in front of me.

"Not strictly, he's over-reacting." I replied.

"Hardly! Tell her it was Victoria!" Jake snapped.

"Victoria?" Alice gasped.

"She was here for revenge on Edward." Paul explained.

"She was here for me." I corrected.

"Oh god...how didn't I see that?" she asked, then she looked up at the boys as if a brick had just hit her. "You're the boys from La Push aren't you? Damn it I can't see passed you!"

"What?" I asked her in surprise.

"Get out." Paul said, quietly but threateningly.

"She's not leaving. It's my house and I say she can stay as long as she wants." I told him.

"She's one of them." He insisted.

"She's my friend!" I protested. "I trust her!"

"She left you here too!" Jake added.

"You stay out of it." I told him. "She's my friend guys, and it's my decision."

"We can't protect you here Bella, if there's a Cullen here it's Cullen territory." Jake said quietly.

"You expect me to sit here while you socialise with a bloodsucking leech that ruined your life!" Paul said, lowering his face so I could feel his hot angry breath brush across my face.

It's like he doesn't hear a word I say,

His mind is somewhere far away,

And I don't know how to get there...

You and me, we're face to face,

But we don't see eye to eye...

"You don't understand." I said.

"No you're right, I don't. After what happened to Charlie I don't know how you can stand to even be in the same room as one of them or expect us to for that matter!" he shouted.

"I'm not forcing you." I said lowly. "You know where the door is."

"You're choosing her over us, when we picked up the pieces?" Jake asked. "Choosing a Cullen over your boyfriend?" I glanced up at Paul to see nothing but anger in his eyes and felt tears prick in mine.

"I'm not choosing between anyone, you're the ones with the problem, you're the ones trying to make me." I replied, turning back to Alice. I felt the heat of Paul's body retreating away from me and then heard the massive cracking sound as the front door slammed behind him. I glanced guiltily at Jake and Jared.

"Sorry Bella." Jared shrugged.

"We don't belong here anymore." Jake said, as they both turned to leave quietly.

I slumped on the sofa, for the second time this week Paul had turned and left. Maybe we would never really understand each other. I looked up at Alice.

I got their point, I knew how they felt but I wasn't making them be best friends, I just wanted a chance to talk to her while she was here.

"I guess now I know why you're future disappeared." Alice said ever so softly, sitting next to me. "You love him, he's your future and I can't see him."

"How can he be my future when all that happens is this?" I sighed, covering my face with my hands in frustration. "Every time something serious happens he's out that door."

It's like all he wants it to chill out,

He makes me want to pull all my hair out,

Like he doesn't even care...

"Maybe he's just trying to protect you?" Alice asked softly. "And like someone else I know, doesn't really know the best way to do that."

"That's why he left isn't it?" I asked, although I really didn't need to. I had suspected several times but never quite believed it...after all it never made sense for someone like Edward to love someone like me.

"Of course. He loved you Bella but...you know how boys don't mature as fast as girls? Well Edward may have lived for over a century but he's still a seventeen year old, he'll always be a seventeen year old." She said quietly.

"Well Paul's not seventeen he just has tantrums like a six year old and sulks." I sighed.

"And you're not sulking now?" she asked softly. She had a point but I was going to ignore that for the moment.

"Alice, what they said...I don't really blame you guys for what happened." I told her.

"So what did happen exactly?"

So I retold the whole story, leaving out the shocking details that stayed firmly in my head no matter how hard I tried to forget them.

Paul POV

How could she choose a bloody leech over me? Over all of us? Surely she knows if it wasn't for them Charlie wouldn't have died! Victoria would have never had anything to do with Bella in the first place.

How could Bella and I ever be a serious thing if she remained friends with the Cullens? They were our enemies! But how could I live without Bella? Even now I could feel that urge, pulling me back towards her. I resisted it, no matter what she meant to me I couldn't make nice with a parasite.

Oh god...without realising it I was already heading back towards the house. No...there was nothing I wouldn't do for her. She was my whole world no matter how mad we drove each other.

Like fire and rain

You can drive me insane

But I can't stay mad at you for anything

Bella POV

"So, are you going to call him?" Alice asked, a few hours later.

"Probably." I sighed. As much as what he'd said hurt, and his leaving had really really hurt...I couldn't force him to like the Cullens. The most I could ever hope for is to convince him to be civil...could I throw everything we had shared away because of something he couldn't help? He was born and raised to believe that vampires were his enemies...it was in his blood...

He temper may drive me mad, and he may never listen to me when he's throwing a tantrum but I tend to get easily offended and fight back just as hard...

At the very least, even if I spent the rest of my life with him...I'd never be bored.

We're like Venus and Mars,

We're like different Stars,

But you're the harmony to every song I sing,

And I wouldn't change a thing...

Author's Notes: I hope you like! Well done to all of you who guessed it was coming! Let me know what you think xx