Hey ok so if you ever see Amanda/Mandy its supposed to be Alice and if you see Allison its Bella. I'm sorry its by total accident and it's a long story why. I noticed I did that in the last chapter, but changed it. So again for any future times, I'm sorry.

I smiled at this memory, but was quickly pulled away from it, by a quick, mysterious beeping noise; I looked around and saw nothing wrong with the monitors she was hooked up to. But I soon realized that it was my cell, it had a strange way of randomly changing the ring tone without help of human fingers, so I always surprised when it rang.

I looked at the caller ID, it was Edward. I was expecting a call from him sooner or later. I mean he had never been alone with our son or a baby for that matter for more than an hour or two. And it didn't help that I had given birth only two weeks ago and Noah spent a week in the NICU because he was born a month and a half early, so Edward hasn't really had time to practice being alone with James alone yet.

"Hey baby" I answered

"He won't stop crying, I'm exhausted and I don't have a clue what to do!!" Edward screamed frantically, I could also hear James crying in the background. I couldn't help but smile, thinking of the face that my husband was probably portraying right now was priceless.

"Calm down honey, take a deep breath" He did as I told him "What have you all tried?" I asked.

"Well he woke up about an hour ago and I tried rocking him back to sleep but he just doesn't want to go back to sleep" he muttered

I smiled and looked at my watch, Oh my god! It was two in the morning, wow. "Edward did you try feeding him? He's probably hungry"

"No" he mumbled sheepishly.

I rolled my eyes. Don't get me wrong I loved my husband, he is an amazing man who is smart, sweet and such a gentleman, but when it came to babies he was clueless.

I get out a little giggle, "Just give him a bottle and call me if that doesn't work."

"Thanks love, when are you coming home, I miss you"

"I don't know right now, but I'll call you later with more details, I'm still trying to make sense of all of this."

"Ok baby just don't take to long I need you here."

"Alright, Love you"

"Love you" he responded, I closed my cell. I smiled, it didn't madder how many time he told me that I would never get over the shock of it. Someone loves me, something a couple years back I never thought possible.

I got up to look at this stranger; she was covered in bruises and scraps from head to toe, I grimaced. I was suddenly remembered the day that I got the first call that Mandy was in trouble…

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It had been the hardest thing for me to do, to say goodbye. Over the summer Alice and I had spent almost everyday together. We would go to movies, swim at our neighbor pool, baby-sit the younger Newton kids and of course, shopping - Alice's favorite pastime. I wasn't too crazy about shopping but if we were together, it was always fun.

Alice had only come to stay with the Newtons for the summer and summer was coming dangerously close to the end. So she had to go back to live with her mother, who I would say wasn't exactly the best role model.

She was constantly moving which was very hard on Alice, she also would leave Alice and her sister Cynthia home alone for days at a time, even when they were not old enough to be alone.

She was also a drunk and when stressed, did various types of drugs; such as cocaine, marijuana and sometimes even meth.

Child services had stepped in after their father died, but at that time it looked like their mother was cleaning up her act, so nothing was done.

Alice didn't really like to talk about it and I never really asked, but I always wondered why she had wanted to spend a three months away from her friends and family at home. And a week after she left I realized why.

It was around midnight when I heard the squealing of tires outside my bedroom window. Not long after that our phone rang.

"Hello?" my mom answered sleepily.

"Renee, It's Bobbie" It was the classic Bobbie greeting, I smiled and Bobbie continued, "I need to run down to the cities, Alice is in trouble"

My smile immediately turned to a frown. I knew that I shouldn't have been listening to this conversation but when I heard my best friends name I couldn't help but listen in.

"I left Laura in charge but if they need anything I told them to call you. Is that alright?" Bobbie continued.

Laura was Bobbies oldest, she was a year older than me and a year younger than Alice. When Laura wasn't being shoved off to the numerous camps Bobbie had signed her up for that summer, she hung around with me and Alice.

We were like the three musketeers. It was great, but at that moment I was scared to think of what might happen to our third musketeer.

Renee responded, "Of course Bobbie, what's going on? Is there anything I can do? What happened? How…"

She was cut off when Bobbie replied, "No being there is enough, I'll call you when I know more. Thanks Renee, I have to run, bye" And the line went dead.

I was worried sick. I didn't sleep at all that night, I mostly cried. When Renee crawled into my bed beside me drawing large circles on my back, trying to comfort me I barely noticed. My thoughts were with my friend.

Bringgggg, ringggggg, I froze as I saw who it was…Bobbie Newton.

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