Spend another Night –Billy Gillman

I walked out of the Airport I hadn't seen Jasper since I gave him my e-mail and was sadden a little bit by that and what I would be greeted with when I reached La Push. I was greeted outside the doors by Charlie and my best friend Jake. They both had solemn looks on their face.

"How is Sue doing?" I asked them.

"She's fine. Crying because she lost her husband but only when the kids aren't home." Charlie replied. "How is Renee?" he asked.

"She's fine. She remarried to a man named Phil who thinks that he's going to make it to the big leagues." I replied. I never really liked the guy because he always seemed kind of purvey to me.

"Your mom married a baseball player?" Jake said. "She hated baseball."

"It's not the size of the ball that she was attracted to it was the bank account." I said.

"Alright what's his name?" Jake asked tossing my bag in to the back of Charlie's cruiser while Charlie climbed on in.

"What makes you think there was a guy?" I asked.

"Because you would have never made a joke about a man's manhood unless a guy made you happy." Jake said. "I remember what you were like back in school at least the one year you spent here anyway."

"I did meet someone but we aren't dating." Bella said. "We sat next to each other on the flight." I said pausing. "I also gave him the e-mail I use for my writing."

"Oh have you gotten anything back yet?"

"Only rejections." I told him.

"Don't worry you will get someone to take your manuscript." Jake said.

"Have you even read my book?" I asked. "It's about a girl whose sister is killed and ten years later the suspected killer escapes. She also finds that she has a stalker not to mention she has to deal with her mysterious ex-brother in law and one of his ex-flings. All three of which might want her dead. Oh and she also has to deal with her former flame."

"Sounds like a romance novel." Jake said.

"And most likely why you didn't read it." I said to him.

"You would be right about that. I barely even read the hardy boys for those book reports back in sixth grade."

"No wonder you failed."

"I didn't fail. I got just go D's" Jake replied.

"Fine you almost failed."

"Are you kids done arguing?" Charlie asked "Because we have a funeral to plan."

"Sorry dad." I said climbing into the front. "What needs to be done?"

"Well everything has been taken care of but flowers."

"Why not do a Quileute arrangement. It'll reflect his heritage and you can find everything on the reservation. Plus they are small enough that he could be buried with them like you or I would be with roses." I suggested. I remember them from Jacob's mom Sara's funeral.

"What do you mean buried with them?" Charlie asked.

"You how you see people either through flowers into the grave well like that." I told him.

"Oh, I'll tell Sue it would be here choice anyway." Charlie said pulling his seat on. "Seatbelt Jacob."

"Got it." Jacob said from the back seat. He was smiling like a fool.

"Jake why are you smiling like a cat that ate a canary?" I asked only because it made him look like a serial killer with multiple personalities.

"It's just that this is probably the first time Charlie has had me in the back of his cruiser for not doing anything." Jacob replied.

"What in the heck did you do to get put in the cruiser?" I asked.

"Streaking."

"Gross Jake." I said shaking the mental images away. "Is he telling the truth dad?"

"Unfortunately yes. I gave the newest deputy at the time the job to clean and disinfect the back seat." Charlie told me.

"Dad I don't need the details." I said cringing.

The rest of the ride was quiet. I had continually thought about the e-mail Jasper had given me after I had given him mine. I could certainly make the first move or wait for him to make the first move but that was likely never t happen. It couldn't hurt to have a different point of view on things even when it came to my novel I could to some small bit editing and send it back to those that turned me down. The piece of paper in my pocket felt like it was burring. I was just itching t get it out and e-mail him. He was somewhere in Forks this week a part of her hoped that I would run into him shopping or something. I felt bad about thinking that when we pulled up to a small house on the reservation.

I assumed it to be where Harry and Sue made their life together. It was quaint house the type of house I would want if I ever had a family not the opulent house that my mother and her new husband bought.

The house was quiet when Charlie and I had walked in. Jake had decided to stay outside. Charlie looked around the small living room and kitchen and didn't find Sue. I figured she was in the bath room or bed room crying her eyes out like I would be if my husband of twenty plus years had died.

"Sue?" he called.

"Sorry. I was disconnecting the phone from the wall. The dam funeral home keeps calling about the flower arrangements." Sue told him after whipping away her tears. I had been right but I don't find solace in that win.

"Sue why not tell then you are having a grave side service and the flower arrangements are being handled by a friend of the family. You can have one of the other Quileute women to the Quileute flower arrangement. They are simple and everything can be found right her on the reservation."

"Oh that's a wonderful idea. I have no idea why I didn't think of that. Thank you for telling me about it."

"You should thank Bella she's the one who gave me the idea on the way here." Charlie told her.

"Well thank you Bella."

"You are welcome Sue." I said giving the woman a hug I couldn't help but give. "It is good to see you again. I'm just sorry it had to be under these circum stances."

"Just make sure you come back sooner the next time you leave so it doesn't happen that way." Sue said letting Bella go after a small pat on the back.

I had left the room to let Charlie and Sue talk alone. I had known my dad had a crush on Sue. He had liked her back when they were teenagers but hadn't done a thing about it. He had met Renee and had me but only after Sue had married Harry. I also my dad would never make a move on Sue in the near future because her husband just died and that would be an insult to her character and his memory. He was the suffer in silence type like I was. We both kept quiet about things we wanted to happen but wouldn't and or didn't happen.

Once I was outside I spotted Jake talking to a girl. She was native like Jake was or at least looked like it to me. You know what assuming can do to someone.

"Hey Jake who is this?" I asked walking up to them.

"This is my girlfriend." Jake told her.

"Oh did you meet her before or after the streaking incident Charlie told me about?" I asked him.

"Streaking you never told me about streaking." The girl exclaimed. "Oh does your dad have pictures oh sorry that sound really creeper like."

"That's fine and if he did have pictures he couldn't give them to you because they would be evidence of his crime." I told her.

"I'm Renesmee by the way." Renesmee said. "I was named after my grandmas but you can call me Nessie like Jake here does. Well actually almost everyone does."

"Well cool Nessie. I would hang out with you longer but as soon as Charlie is done here I will be going home to catch up on the sleep that the babies on the flight stole from me."

"From what Jake was telling me it was a guy that stole your sleep not a crying baby."

"Jake the guy only took up a forth of the flight the babies took up three forth. So I blame it on the babies." I said smacking him upside the head.

Renesmee just giggled at him.

"Jake you are thirty years old is she legal?" I asked. "No offence." I added in her direction.

"That's fine and I am 29. I have always looked younger than I really am. I had people think I was twelve when I was really twenty one."

"That would totally suck at that age."

"I make it work for me." Nessie said.

"Hey Jake, Nessie." Charlie said finally coming out of the house. "You want to head home Bella?" he asked.

"Sure. I need to take a shower and change." I told him.

I slipped into the front passenger seat as I waited for Charlie to finish talking whit Jake. He was probably in cop mode telling Jake to be on the lookout for Sue and her kids Leah and Seth. I don't blame him there were a lot of sick freaks out there that liked to take advantage of a widow's depression to get something that wasn't theirs in the first place but Sue is a smart woman so I don't think anyone could pull something over on her. Charlie climbed into the cruiser and headed for home.

We pulled up I don't remember how long later. I got out and grabbed my bag from the trunk after Charlie popped it open. I walked up stairs to my old bedroom. It was redone. The memorabilia from when I was growing up was gone and put into scrap books. It was painted in a pale green not mint green like some would think.

"I changed it when I thought about selling it a few months ago. Someone told me that it couldn't be too personalized. I figured the purple would do that." Charlie said.

"No it's fine. I like it better this way too." I said. "No go so I can sort out things a girl's father doesn't want to see."

"Um… yeah I'll just go." Charlie said blushing red.

I smiled to myself. It was probably one of the only times I could get someone to blush as bad as I do most of the time. I moved my suitcase on to the bed and opened it and then little by little I put my clothes up in to the dresser. I then took the outfit I was going to wear to Harry Clearwater's funeral and hung it up on the back of the door.

I closed up the suit case and put it in a corner before turning on my laptop. I logged onto the internet and into my e-mail account for my writing. There were three e-mails two were rejections and the third was from Jasper.

It was a small note saying that he wanted me to see the family he was so anxious to see. There in the picture in front of a large white house were twenty three people. A few of them looked familiar like she had seen them around town on a visit or something. There was a second picture of Jasper with an older looking woman with auburn hair peppered with gray. It was this woman that Bella assumed to be Jasper's mother. She was a beautiful woman in her older age.

And that was what Bella told him when she e-mailed him back.

Bella's family tree.

1~Charlie/father

1~ Renee/mother –Phil/Stepfather

~~2~Emmet (R-C) –Rosalie

~~~3~Jared -Kim

~~~~4~Robert

~~~3~Sam

~~~3~Collin

~~2~Bella

~~2~Annie (from a fling Charlie had mother unknown).

1 Bella's mom, dad and step dad.

2 Bella's brother and sister

3 Bella's nieces and nephews

4 her great nieces and nephews

Bella is not related to Jessica or Mike because Rosalie had those kids from a relationship before she met Emmet who is Bella's brother.

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