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JPOV-

When the lights come back on, Edward thanks me as he moves out of my embrace and goes to stand.

"I'm sorry for the hell you've been through." I say before thinking. Edward freezes half standing, half sitting on the couch.

"Wh… what, do ... - you know?" His voice cracks as he speaks and I can tell he's nervous again, as I curse myself for being an idiot.

"I um…" I'm unsure, where to start, as I take a minute to decide. Edward is now sitting back on the couch, staring at me, his eyes looking sad as I jump into what I know.

- July 2nd-

Alice had been on the phone for almost thirty minutes as Emmett, Rose and I just stared at her.

"I think we should go to the hospital and wait for some news." By saying we, she meant all of us, even though she knew I despise hospitals after Rose and I lost our mom less than a year ago.

"But Jazzy you have to come!" She practically whined. "So you're coming and I won't hear another word against it." I reluctantly agreed, knowing never to bet against Alice. She just gave me a knowing smile as she grabbed her purse and the three of us followed her out to Emmett's Jeep.

I leave out the fact that we read his poems and saw him at the hospital as I tell him about what happened when we got back to the Cullen's house.

"Emmy Bear, what happened to him?" Rose asked as we all took seats on the couches.

"His mom had full custody of him. We don't really know much, but we know that they abused him." Emmett's normally happy face was full of sadness as he spoke.

"They?" I ask before Emmett could continue.

"His mom Elizabeth and step dad Phil. They," Emmett paused seeming at a loss for words, which never happened. "They abused him in every way." Rose let out a gasp as it sank in, what Em meant by every way. "He's literally has been through hell." Em finished as anger escaped him.

I wait silently for Edward to say something, anything.

EPOV- present day

I sit there staring at him, hardly able to believe what he actually knows about me.

"You've known all this time?" I'm finally able to say after a few minutes of silence.

"Yes." He whispers out, not meeting my eye. Silence falls between us as Jasper waits for me to talk, I decide to get off this subject and onto a new one and ask a question, I've been wondering since our kiss.

"Does everyone know?" I ask, when he gives me a confused look, I continue: "Does everyone know you're gay?"

"No, Rose knows, so does your family. My dad doesn't know, he, um… he wouldn't be ok with it. My mom knew." He replies, looking slightly sad as he mentions his mom.

"Knew?" I ask, confirming that he speaks in past tense.

"Yes, she died a year ago." He quickly says.

"I'm sorry." I whisper and let it drop, though I know there is more to the story, but I don't push him for answers.

"Hey guys." Alice says bouncing into the room, setting up candles that she says are battery operated and taking a seat between us. The three of us don't say anything as an awkward silence falls upon us. Thankfully just when I am about to explode from said awkwardness my phone rings.

"Hello?" I say not even bothering to look at the caller id as I answer the call, causing Jasper and Alice to turn their attention towards me.

"Hello… Edward this is Carlisle…"Static was breaking up the call as I strain to hear him. "Esme and I are sta…. ave a hotel…. See…. Tomorrow…." The line goes dead as our power again shuts off. I'm suddenly thankful that Alice has placed the battery operated candles around the room giving us enough light to see by.

"We got cut off and I could barely understand them, but dad and Esme are staying in at hotel tonight." I finally say when I realize both Alice and Jasper are waiting for me to say something.

"Well that's better than them driving in the storm; yeah my cell doesn't have any service either. Storm must have busted a cell tower near here." Alice said pulling at her phone and examining it. "Jaz you'll stay the night right? It would be best not to drive in this." I can feel my heart do a flip as Alice asks Jasper to stay.

"Uh, yeah sure." He says as Alice starts to clap her hands and practically jumps up and down.

"The three of us will have so much fun, we can do makeovers!" Jasper and I both freeze as Alice says this.

"Ali, what makes you think we want to do makeovers?" Jasper asks, sounding slightly scared at the thought of getting a makeover.

"But it would be soooo much fun!" Alice says not getting any further as Jasper lets out a sigh and I say a loud "no!"

"Alice just because we're gay doesn't mean, we want to do makeovers." I say in hopes that Alice will listen to me.

"But…." She starts to pout as she talks. From downstairs we here the front door slam shut.

"Hey anyone home?" Emmett's voice booms through the house.

Saved by the arrival of Emmett and Rose. I thought as the three of us make our way downstairs, Alice has set up multiple lights around the house and again I find myself being grateful towards her.

"Hey." I say in greeting from the stairs as Alice and Jasper hug both Rose and Emmett.

"Jasper has already agreed to stay the night, you'll stay too Rose, right? We could have one big sleepover." Alice says pulling away from Rose.

"Yeah sure." Rose says as Alice starts to jump around, saying something about getting the air mattresses and sleeping bags.

The five of us end up setting up a sleeping area in the entertainment room. We each have a twin sized mattress seeing as the "Cullen" family rule is that if you're dating you can't sleep together under their roof.

AN: I'm sorry for the longer than normal wait. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'll try to update by Friday. Please Review, reviews make me want to update.