Disclaimer: i only post this every few chapters i do not own any work belonging to JK Rowling or Stephanie Meyer and only use it to work my story with. Nor do i own the following 3 species: crickets, spiders, or grasshoppers. I'd like to mention a thank you to the newspaper staff i work with who suggest ideas and talk with me, the yearbook staffers who are always reading this when Kk isn't looking, and Hamber C. -you know who you are- for suggesting a funny idea that i'm working with in this chapter though i'm going to twist the idea a little in the chapters to come though i'm not sure yet what i want to do. thanks a lot everyone!

Bella stretched out under her blankets, letting her feet touch the edge of her bed with some joy. Today she was going to have a girl's day. She wasn't going to be anti-social. But just because she was going to have a girl's day didn't mean the men wouldn't be close by. She was being stalked after all by a crazy red head vampire that wanted to kill her.

A knock already sounded from downstairs and high squeaky voices –female obviously- were heard from below as they came tramping up delicately like an elephant. Bella was still in her pajamas but was quickly hopping into a pair of jeans when Emily, Jessica, and Angela walked in to catch Bella mid-way with her pants on.

"I didn't know they made underwear with grasshoppers on them Bella," muttered Jessica slumping onto Bella's bed before turning her face towards Emily with nothing but a measuring gaze in her eyes that challenged the new comer. When Jessica's eyes alighted on Emily's scarred half of her face Jessica shrugged and smirked a bit as if she knew she were better than Emily. My flinch clenched. "So who are you and how did you get that wicked awful scar?"

"This is my friend Emily," Bella replied pulling up the pants around her waist as she gave Emily a one armed hug. Angela hugged Bella as well causing Bella to throw both of her arms around hr 2 closest friends only to have her pants fall down to the floor. "Whoops."

"Who were those guys outside?" Was Jessica's next question.

"My boyfriend and his friends," replied Emily as Bella threw on a shirt over hear head and followed the girls down the stairs and out the doors only to view a stand off…

On one side was the La Push gang, hot, strong, tan, well muscled and crafted out of stone gods… drool worthy… nice black hair, all incredibly male, all either with muscle shirts on or without any shirt…a couple of Apollos… no make that a couple of Hercules characters…

And on the other was tall-rather-muscled-cute-but-looks-like-a-weakling-compared-to-the-La-Push-gang Mike Newton, beside Mike was tall lanky Tyler with a broken arm –oooh how intimidating, but this 1 wasn't caused by me, he'd slipped in a puddle… surprisingly thinking about this me and Tyler had a lot in common… I hope he has AFLAX-, and Ben whose eyes were only for Angela.

"So who are you riding with Bella?" Mike asked leaning against his incredibly sexy family van.

"Me," replied Jacob with a bright grin flashing at Mike.

"Who are you again?" Mike asked as if Jake wasn't important at all but a grasshopper on the bottom of this tire.

"I'm her ex-boyfriend trying to win her back, you're the guy who totally got me to start dating her the first time when you got sick," he smiled curtly as he shook Mike's hand enthusiastically.

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After buying a new computer Aro bangs on the computer as Jane keeps Caius busy doing the house work. The dungeons haven't been cleaned in 134.963 years. And counting. Caius had a frilly pink apron around his waist, a mop, and a bucket tied to his waist to trail after him. Every time he wanted to reach out to the electricity or if it seemed he was going to do something fishy Jane gave him pain with a bright smile on her face from the couch she was sitting in. An Italian cricket sat nearby trying to gain forces for the war going on in America with the crickets and spiders… Jane was also making posters of Bella and had gone so far as to make a life size version of Bella that stood beside her.

"I hate computers! Old age does not bring all-knowing knowledge-ness," growled Aro. Marcus moves Aro out of the way before he has a b*^%$ fit and sits down slicking back his hair, placing on a pair of glasses, and scanning his eyes over the computer.

In 5 seconds he leans back with a grin on his face. "Done, we've got tickets."

"How did you do that?"

"I hit 'Buy Tickets.'"

We'd taken the half of the mall where all the clothes were, the guys had opted to go look at bikes and video games –with Mike, Tyler, and Ben following after them. It seemed that Ben was keeping peace between them by goofing off with Jake and trying to get Tyler and Mike to speak to Embry and Jared.-, and were having so much fun already. Well 1 of us was. Jessica. And at Emily's expense. Angela was uncomfortable it was clear as she quietly pushed through the clothes on the rack her head down and eyes shielded. Emily had been sitting in a chair in front of the mirror as Jessica walked towards the mirror with a bright pink summer gown covering her body. I was standing by Emily with my hand on her shoulder. And I was ticked though trying to hide it from the 3 people standing near us in the clothes racks. Two boys and one girl, she had bright moon shining hair, a boy with messy hair and looked rather lanky, and one who had his arms crossed over his chest bitterly leaning against the wall. Didn't want to cause a scene though they were dressed rather oddly and spoke with accents, and the girl was rather odd, it was warming up to spring and she was trying on a winter hat playing with the bobbed end and had sunglasses over her eyes muttering something about checking the ball for snargles.

"Jeez that must be tough for you to have." Jessica said bunching up her hair on top of her head as she spun around in the mirror preening at her image vainly. Jessica and Rosalie could've been best friends. But Rosalie would've bitten her. Then again that wouldn't have been a bad thing. I clutched onto Emily's shoulder, Emily looked up at me with solemn eyes and just shook her head as if to say, 'I don't care.' But her face said it all. Emily was sad and her eyes looked as if someone was trying to prick them to get them to water. She was close to tears with the sheen over her warm brown eyes. I could hear the guys down the clothes aisles coming to look for us. They were hungry. And then Jessica said something that knocked me off balance and really snapped the last grasshoppers back.

"Doesn't your boyfriend mind that scratch? Didn't you ever think of getting it fixed up?"

"Shut the hell up Jessica," I cried as the guys rounded a bunch of coat racks and the other 3 people looked up, the blond boy falling over and catching himself, "You're the ugliest person here! Just because Emily has a scratch on her face means nothing! Emily's got a heart of gold that you can't even touch with a 10 foot pole! Her heart makes her so beautiful and yours is so rotten it makes you the ugliest person on the face of the earth! You can only wish to be one-fifth as beautiful as Emily is. So if you have nothing nice to say at all then shut the hell up and get over yourself," I hissed my eyes glowering at Jessica who stood there with widened eyes after getting so thoroughly chewed out. I turned towards Angela with a hand over my temple. Jessica was a migraine. The blond boy smirked, the blond girl smiled a bit as I placed an arm around Emily, the other boy stepped away awkwardly, the guys just stared as I said in a very commanding tone that was at the same time rather calm having taken a breath of air to settle me down, "Angela take Jessica to the changing room. We'll meet you in the food court and I hope you're whistling a different tune by then Jess." I grabbed Emily's hand as Angela walked past us giving me a small smile and reaching out to grasp onto Emily's hand with warmth in her eyes before bringing the speechless Jessica into the changing room. The guys stood ahead of us, Sam immediately wrapping Emily in his arms and kissing her forehead.

"Sometimes I can't stand Jessica," I hissed crossing my arms. "Though I've already got few friends as it is."

"You've got me," whispered Emily reaching out and pulling me towards Sam and her.

"Thanks Bella," Sam smiled and for once I didn't feel any hostile feelings at all from him.

"If you still want to be her friend why are you giving her time to chill? Why aren't you talking things out? I thought that's all girls did," said Embry, "at least that's what they do on Friends." All of the guys turned to stare at Embry.

"You watch friends," murmured Mike crooking a brow at Embry. Even Tyler seemed a bit more manly from that admittance from Embry.

"Because a friend doesn't talk things out when she's mad and that's what I am. Ben I think you, Tyler, and Mike should stay with Jessica and Angela. They'll need company on the way back and protection," I said casually moving past them. Mike grabbed hold of my arm and pulled me back.

"They only need 2 protectors and that's what they have."

"But I have 1 too many Mike."

"No Bella you're a klutz, lets face it, you need as many as can spare," replied Mike with a smirk.

"No I'm not," I hissed turning abruptly to stumble into a pale haired teenager that had been watching us with 2 of his friends. When I knocked him over he hit a clothes rack that knocked another and another and so on until 6 racks had fallen, the last rack had knocked a dummy whose head had tottered off and rolled down the escalator hitting a grandma in the back and making her fall into the lap of a man named Voldemort who was at the mall looking for a convention.

"I'm sorry," I muttered leaning away from the boy and trying to pat his… robes?… clean. I glanced back at Mike. "Wipe that smirk off your face Mike Newton!" At this moment Jake and Mike shared a moment… they high fived and cracked up laughing.

"No its okay," replied Malfoy rather shocked as he stared down at me for a moment, it was as if a confused squirrel had crawled into his brain with the startled look on his face. "I'm… I'm fine really. Just be more careful and keep them in line. Though I think you're doing a good job at it."

"You've got to watch out for your friends," I just muttered nodding towards his own where the young girl was standing in front of a perfume woman asking to look through her hair for snargles. And I left

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Malfoy watched the young woman leave and just stared after her for a moment before rushing towards Luna and dragging her away from the perfume woman. "But she might be infected with snargles."

Malfoy, "If you really want to check for snargles I believe that woman in the changing room has loads of them."

"No she's just suffering from alohamora-phob-snarka-doodle-da-da."

"What the hell is that?" Malfoy asked.

"She's a bitch," replied Luna calmly as she tilted her head with a shrug, her radish earrings bobbing. Neville came over with a winter hat on his own head.

"Get those things off your heads. You don't blend in," replied Malfoy.

"So we're friends now," replied Neville with a small smile.

"How do you think that?"

"I don't know… that girl told you to watch after your friends and you're watching after us."

"I just… I just need you guys to keep me sane in this muggle world though now that I think about it…" He replied with his voice trailing off as Luna pulled out a pair of binoculars to look across the room. Luna just smiled and so did Neville as Malfoy smirked a little. As odd as the two other teens were Malfoy was starting to get along with them. Maybe he was insane already.

"Hey let them go on ahead," Jake murmured as we walked towards the food court. We slowed our pace a bit and Jake lead me towards the elevator where no one was walking next to a bunch of vending machines in its own alcove of the mall. "That was a nice thing you did for Emily."

"She's my friend. I wasn't going to let Jessica be that way," I replied.

"Bella can we talk about us for a moment while they're ahead?" My heart jumped at this topic that was broached but then again I knew it would only be a matter of time before Jacob brought it up. I nodded in agreement. Better now to talk to him than never.

"Bella you know how I feel about you."

"Oh… and how is that?" I asked being a little decisive as I leaned against the soda machine. I wanted to hear it.

"I care about you Bella. A lot. And I want to know if you care about me too okay? Its been a long time since Edward left." I didn't cringe. Fear of a name wasn't me. I wouldn't fear his name considering what he'd done. "Just tell me your heart is beginning to move on. Or if you have a change of heart let me know… I want you to be my girlfriend."

"Jake, I'll let you know tonight," I smiled back up at him and wrapped my arms around myself and walked out of the alcove towards our party that sat at a grouping of tables. I could already see Angela asking for Emily to forgive her and them making up. Maybe Jessica wasn't so bad after all. Maybe some things did change.

At that moment Alice's eyes go wide as she slams on breaks causing a traffic pile up behind her… she looks to Jasper and speeds towards the garden party Esme was throwing outside with the family which was only 5487 miles away…. She got there in 2 minutes… don't ask… many spiders were killed because of her….. Alice jumped out of the car with Jasper trailing behind her and Edward fell out of his seat with the thoughts pressed upon him from Alice.

The Volturi are after Bella! –images swarmed Alice's mind of the Volturi going to America and Aro's mouth on Bella's neck, his eyes red, and then her mind flashed to Bella lying in chains against the wall, blood dripped from her mouth in streams of crimson, she looked tired, a bruise was on her knee, and a stream of words escaped her lips, "He needs my help and I... I've been without him but I still love him…"

Edward got his things in 25 seconds and was mid-way throwing them in the trunk of the car when Carlisle said, "Stop! What's happening?"

"Nothing if I can help it," Edward said as Alice explained everything in a quick stream of words that came out in only 7 seconds killing a small nearby Chihuahua that heard her voice in such high pitch quickness. And then she had one more vision that exploded her mind.

"They're already there," she whispered. "They're in America."

………………..The Cullens left in a matter of 29.543 seconds with Carlisle calling ahead to reserve a flight out for them.

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Aro had been in America for 2 reasons. One, to find Bella. And secondly… on business. There was an International Convention for Evil Baddies of the World in Forks. Who knew? As he perused the weapons of mass destruction area watching the new models being tested out he ran into a pale figure with a snake wrapped around his shoulders and a mask covering his face–after realizing the convention wasn't in the mall Voldemort had found it 3 miles away in a boy bunny warehouse, though the bunny thing was a cover up-.

"Fiend what are you doing bumping into me," hissed Aro angrily as Jane tensed at his side ready to beat the crap out of Voldemort.

"I'm looking for a group of evil villainssss to join forcessss with. Sssso get out of my way," hissed Voldemort.

"Do you have a lisp?" Caius asked. He'd been dragged along. "What sort of villain are you?" Voldemort pulled off his mask to reveal the very snake-like visage.

"A terrorizing villain."

"Really cause you don't look that creepy. I've already seen theatrics like this before, you know phantom of the opera and such. Your deformity doesn't creep me out at all."

Voldemort stomped his foot angrily, "Dammit."

"Do you know the site ?"

"Know it? I'm a fan of it," hissed Voldemort.

"Well I'm planning on kidnapping her. You want in?"

"Its better than trying to capture a boy that'ssss for ssssh-ure," said Voldemort shrugging his shoulders. "She'ssss a babe. He'sss just an arrogant brat who thinks he hass problemsss when I'm the victim really."

"Deal?" Aro asked holding out his hand. Voldemort looked at it for a second before clasping hands with him.

"Deal! Letsss capture the babe!" Voldemort, Marcus, Jane, and Aro all hugged with warmth at the comradeship as Caius stared on with a tilted head and an annoyed raised brow.

"Idiots you don't know where she lives other than Forks."

"We're vampires stupid," hissed Marcus tapping his nose with obvious meaning. "We're bloodhounds."

Alice blinked in her seat near the cockpit, she'd been too busy trying to focus on the plans as Edward ran back and forth through the plane trying to bribe the captain with money to speed it up causing Edward to be barred out of the cockpit and strapped down in his seat… like that could keep him down.

"He's joined forces with a wizard of great magic and they plan to find Bella this week. I give them 2 days."

"We've got 2 other planes to change," cried Edward. "We might not even get there until 2 days later."

"You'd think with all the studying you do and being a Mr. Know-it-all you would've gotten your pilots license or at least built a better airplane by now," hissed Emmett form his seat as Rosalie petted him like a puppy.

"Poor Bella… at least if she does get wounds she can treat them," breathed Esme incredibly worried about Bella as the others looked at Esme wondering how Esme could lead such a secluded life.

It was late as we all drove back in 2 separate cars. Mike was flexing muscles with Paul in his van, Tyler was joking around with Jared in the van, Paul and Jessica chatted in there as well, and also in the van was Ben who was completely hung up on Angela. Sam and Emily were in their own little bubble in my truck with Jake and I.

When we reached home Emily and Sam hopped in their own car together that they'd left at my house. We were left alone walking around my house. All the seclusion had been managed because Jake could easily run home if he wanted and I didn't have to worry at all about the rest of the La Push gang since they could do so as well, I also knew Mike would drop off the girls and Tyler and Ben.

"Well its getting dark. You should be going to bed soon," smiled Jake, he was quaking in his boots with nerves as we walked along the side of my house.

"Jake I've got an answer for you," I breathed taking hold of his hand as we walked together. "I'd like you to be my boyfriend," I replied calmly smiling to myself as I was jerked back suddenly by Jacob's frozen feet.

"Really?" I laughed at his shocked face. "You actually mean it and you're not running a fever," he breathed placing his hand against my forehead. I chuckled and pulled his hand to my face resting it there for a moment with a grin. I couldn't beat around the bush. I couldn't not admit my feelings otherwise I'd be some hypocrite idiot for lying that I didn't feel something towards him.

"I mean it."

"Prove it. I still can't believe it!" I leaned forward and kissed Jacob on the lips a small testing kiss and then it became a warmer sweeter kiss that lasted longer as he wrapped his arms around me. A small bit of heat crept up my neck as I wrapped my arms around his neck and was nestled against his chest kissing him. I quickly pulled back with a blush on my cheeks that burned like fire. "Knew you couldn't resist me for long," he grinned before slowly walking me back to the front door with an arm wrapped around my waist keeping me close by his side. Maybe I could finally start a new chapter. As long as I knew I would never see Edward again maybe this would turn out well.