DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM TWILIGHT. THEY ALL BELONG TO STEPHENIE MEYER.

I've had a couple of you PM me, asking what was in the package that my friend sent me, and to be honest, I was so taken aback by the letter that I'd forgotten all about it. I opened it last night and saw that she'd sent me the wristcuff Edward wears in the film. I phoned her to thank her and she told me that it was because I had mentioned the Cullen crest in "Saving Edward" and I was like awwwww. I haven't spoken to this girl for nearly eight years and she gets me this. She's so lovely. Yeah, I had a couple of you asking so I thought I'd tell you. It makes me grin when I look at it. :D

Anyways, on with the story!!

EPOV

If I told you that the next three weeks passed quickly, I would be lying. Whilst Bella was at school, forcibly mind you, the day went torturously slowly.

While the others were at school, I had to find ways to occupy my days. I spent a lot of the time walking in the woods that lay to the back of the house. There were a lot of trails out there, and I found myself being occupied for hours on end. I know it may sound girly and daft, but I enjoyed walking, being surrounded by the forests and nothing else. It made me feel like more than I am, in some way. It's hard to explain.

Today was the day of the party that was being held at La Push. I didn't know what was going to happen, but all I knew at the moment, Alice was creating a whirlwind in her closet, picking out clothes for Bella, Rosalie and herself. Apparently, this party was like the official start to the summer, and it was something everybody went to, not matter what your social status.

Bella thought that she would be able to hide in my room. It was working for the time being. She had shoved me into my room and locked the two of us in there together. I had to laugh at her panicked face when Alice had come thundering through the front door. Yes, even though she is small and pixie-like, she can still make one hell of a racket. On some level, Bella knew that she wouldn't be able to escape Alice's torture for long, but she was trying to delay it for as long as possible. I thought it was amusing that she was afraid of my little sister. But then again, on some level, I think even Emmett was afraid of Alice. Especially when it came to fashion and all that that entailed.

Alice had managed to abduct Bella from my room and had "held her hostage" as Bella called it for around an hour. She had also made it her mission to decide what us guys were going to wear. Something that Emmett and Jasper weren't too happy about and had fought her on. It seemed that I was the only one who realised that there was no point in fighting Alice on anything, as she always won. She grinned at me when I didn't put up a fight and Jasper and Emmett called me a wuss. I just turned around and said that I didn't feel like enduring any pixie-wrath today and they seemed to agree after a while.

Alice had laid out my outfit on my bed, and I noticed that she had taken the liberty of buying this when on her latest shopping trip as I didn't recognise any off it. She had given me dark blue button down shirt, which was rolled up to the elbow and a longsleeved white cotton t-shirt. I had to thank Alice for that. She knew that I was sensitive about my scars, but at the same time I knew that she was particular about how everybody looked. Not just the girls. She had paired these with some dark grey jeans. I put it on without a fuss and went downstairs, meeting Emmett and Jasper in the foyer.

I noticed that Alice had given them the same outfit as me, except Emmett was wearing a deep burgundy shirt and Jasper was wearing an emerald green one. I chuckled to myself and the other two grinned at me sheepishly, before turning to look at the stairs, their mouths falling open slightly.

I turned to see what they were looking at and my gaze fell immediately on Bella. She looked amazing. I could now see why Alice had chosen what she had for us guys. The girls were weaing the same, only they were the women's substitutes obviously.

I turned to look at Jasper and Emmett and saw that they were still staring. "Dudes." I called and they snapped out of it. "Those are your sisters."

"Not all of 'em." Emmett smirked, wiggling his eyebrows evilly.

"Hey," I pointed at him threateningly. "That's my fiancee you're talking about."

"I know, I know." Emmett raised his hands in submission. "She's looking fine though."

Scowling at him once more, I looked back up at Bella, smiling at her as she walked down the stairs. She was wearing a dark blue - a blue that I had named Bella-blue, as it suited her perfectly - shirt, with a white camisole underneath. She was also wearing dark grey jeans. Jeans that clung to her perfect legs in all the right places. I couldn't keep my eyes away. I knew that from my brother's reactions that my sisters must have looked good as well, but I didn't see them. All I saw was Bella.

"Hey there." She said as she got to the bottom of the stairs, wrapping her arms around my neck.

"You look beautiful." I whispered, pressing my lips to hers.

She giggled as she pulled away. "Thank you." She smiled at me. "You don't look too bad yourself." She giggled again, pressing her lips to mine softly.

"Okay, if you guys are done with the current PDA, which is cute, I'll admit, shall we go?" Alice called and Bella and I broke apart, smirking. I looked at the others and saw that Alice and Rose were dressed the same way as Bella, only Alice was wearing an emerald green shirt to match Jasper's and Rose was wearing a burgundy shirt to match Emmett's. If we weren't all related, other than Bella of course, we would look very couply. It was relatively warm outside so we didn't bother with jackets at the moment, so we threw them over our shoulders and arms, ready to throw in the backs of our cars when we got to them, ready to grab when we needed them.

I walked hand in hand with Bella to my Volvo. I walked around to her side of the car, opening the door for her and she slid in smiling.

"Why thank you, kind sir." She grinned in the worst english accent I had ever heard.

"Anything for you, m'lady." I gave her a mock bow as I closed the door and she giggled. If only she knew how true those words were. I would do anything for Bella. Anything at all. I climbed in the drivers side and threw my jacket along with Bella's onto the backseat. I started the car and made my way down the driveway, not bothering to wait for the others as I knew that it would take forever for them to get themselves sorted. Besides, I had Bella in the front seat so I didn't have to worry about getting lost.

Bella took one of my hands off of the steering wheel and intertwined my fingers with hers, smiling at me.

"Is everything okay?" I asked her, seeing the guarded look in her eyes. She could usually hide this look from other people, but I knew her too well for it to be effective on me.

"Yeah." She sighed, looking out the window.

I squeezed her hand gently. "What's wrong love? And don't say "nothing" or "I'm fine" because you know I'll know you're lying." She raised her eyebrows at me, questioningly. "Honestly, love, you're not the best liar in the world, and you're talking to someone who has years of experience." I smiled at her again. "What's wrong?"

She sighed and looked at me. "Renee's been calling me nonstop for the last week or so. I picked up the first couple of times, but each time turned into a screaming match, so I've jsut been ignoring her. She's been leaving me messages and everything and I just....." She broke off and I could hear the tears in her voice. I hated the fact that I had caused her to feel bad by bringing it up.

I pulled her hand up to my lips and kissed her knuckles softly. "It's okay, love." I whispered and she nodded.

We continued the journey in comfortable silence until we entered La Push and Bella gave me directions to the cliffs. Getting there I saw that there were already a fair number of cars and people here. They hadn't been kidding when they said that everybody turned up.

"Argh!" I heard Bella fuming from next to me as her phone rang. I raised my eyebrows at her. "Renee! Doesn't she get the hint?" I held my hand out to her and she looked at me nervously. "What?"

"Gimme the phone." I waved my hand at her, insisting she give it to me before it stopped ringing. "Come on! Gimme!" She handed it over reluctantly. I flipped it open and placed it on speakerphone so that Bella could hear. I pressed a finger to my lips indicating for Bella to be quiet before I spoke. "Hello?"

"Who's this?" I heard Renee asking, confused.

"This is Edward." I said grinning at Bella, who looked terrified. "Who may I ask is this?"

"This is Renee, Bella's mother." She spat at me. "Where is my daughter? Why do you have her phone? I want to speak to her."

"I'm afraid Bella is unavailable right now." I put on a fake cheery voice, like the one you hear on a voicemail or a call centre and watched Bella as she stifled a giggle. I shot her a warning glance and she pressed her lips together, trying to be quiet. "Can I take a message?"

"No." Renee growled. "You can put my daughter on the phone."

"I'm sorry, but Bella is still unavailable." I replied in the same voice and it was my turn to stifle a laugh as I saw Bella beginning to turn different colours due to her attempts at not laughing.

"Where is she?"

"I'm afraid that information is confidential." I was working hard not to laugh as I saw Bella's reactions. She had placed her hand over her mouth, muffling any sound that threatened to come out. I mock glared at her and pressed a finger to my lips. She shot me a look that said "I'm trying". To be fair it was quite funny.

"What?" Renee sounded shocked at the idea that I wouldn't tell her where her daughter was.

"The information regarding your daughter is confidential, I'm afraid." I turned to look away from Bella, fearing that watching her would cause me to laugh out loud, something I couldn't do while Renee was still on the phone. "If you're unwilling to leave a message then I am afraid I'm going to have to end this conversation. I have many things that you're daugher wishes me to attend to." I added in a suggestive tone. I looked at Bella and saw her mouth drop in horror. It didn't last for long though as we heard Renee's reaction.

"What is that supposed to mean? What are you doing to my daughter? Where is she? I want to talk to my daughter, now! She has some explaining to do, especially after that last comment, young man!" She sounded angry and that only made it harder for us not to laugh. My sides were beginning to hurt from all the contained laughter, but miraculously I managed to keep my voice level.

"I'm afraid that no information concerning your daughter can be divulaged at the present time. I also regret to inform you that I have to end the conversation now. Your daughter's needs do keep me very busy indeed. Bye now." I closed the phone and we both erupted into laughter, holding our sides.

"Oh. My. God!" She panted in between giggles and gasps for air. "That was priceless." She turned to look at me. I could see that she had tears threatening to fall. I handed her a tissue before they could fall, knowing what would happen if they were to ruin her make-up. The wrath of Alice popped into mind. "That was genius." She sat up straight and whacked my shoulder.

"Ow!" I grabbed my shoulder in mock pain, even though it hadn't hurt at all. She rolled her eyes at me. "What was that for?"

"Things to "attend to"? "Your daughter's needs"?" She raised her eyebrows at me and shrugged.

"Well." I grinned at her and she laughed.

"You, Edward Cullen are incorrigible." She leaned over and kissed me.

"I try." I grinned.

"You do know she's probably going to phone back. Or phone Charlie and tell him what you said to her." She sounded wary.

"Well," I thought for a moment. "I think it's safe to say that I'm in better books with Charlie than Renee is, right?" She nodded. "Then, we just tell him what I said, and that I said it because I knew it would wind her up." I smiled at her.

"You think he'll go for that?" She bit her bottom lip. Yeah, you've definitely picked that up from her, I thought grinning.

"Probably." I rested my elbow on the back of my seat and rested my head on my hand. "I mean, he probably thinks that I'm too emotionally unstable for anything like that to happen, right?" She opened her mouth to protest, but I stopped her. "Look, Bella, I know he probably thinks that. All I ask is that he doesn't say it out loud, which I know he won't do. And besides, him thinking that makes sure I get to keep my head a little longer." She smiled at me. "It's okay, honestly. I know that people think that. Well, people who know anyway. And I honestly don't care. All that matters is that you and I know that that's not true." I leaned in to kiss her.

"And Alice." She reminded.

"Way to kill the mood." I raised my eyebrows at her and she giggled.

"I'm sorry." She placed her hands behind my head and pulled me in to meet her in the middle, pressing her lips to mine.

We were interrupted by someone knocking on the window behind me. I saw Emmett standing there grinning at us and turned around to see Bella flip him the bird. I stared at her and she shrugged nonchalantly. Who knew my girl had it in her? I climbed out of the door and walked around to open Bella's door for her, before we caught up to the others.

"You are so whipped." Emmett chuckled.

"Says the singleton." I grinned back and he stopped laughing.

"Hey!" He stopped and I kept walking, laughing slightly. "That's by choice."

"Right!" I called back to him and heard him running towards me. I knew what was coming and braced myself for the contact that never came.

"Emmett Nathaniel Cullen!" I heard Alice scream. "If you ruin those shirts in any way whatsoever I will make sure that it is not only burgers and sausages that are being barbequed here tonight. You got it!" I heard him slow to a walk behind me and I grinned down at Bella, who by this point was laughing as hard as she had been in the car.

"Lucky escape bro." Emmett growled as he walked past us, causing Bella and I to laugh even harder. He started to walk off before stopping and turning back to fall into step next to me. "Look, there's always alcohol flowing at things like these."

I rolled my eyes. Great. Here comes the big brother routine. I thought. "And?"

"I know that you know you can't drink on those meds." He said, an edge of warning in his tone.

"Then I won't drink!" I shot back. He didn't seem appeased. "Emmett, quit worrying. Okay?"

"Alright," He said, unconvinced. "But be careful, okay?"

"Yes, Dad!" I said sarcastically and he chuckled, slapping my shoulder.

We made our way towards the group that was forming on the cliff top. I saw Seth and Embry mingling with people there. They saw the six of us approaching and grinned, jogging over to meet us.

"Hey, glad you guys could come." Embry said, stopping in front of us.

"No way we'd miss it." Alice said grinning. Personally I think she had a little thing for Embry, but I didn't push it, knowing the retribution that would be awaiting me when I got home. "Who's here?"

"Pretty much everybody." Seth said, grinning and looking at us. His grin didn't falter when he made eye contact with me, but his eyes conveyed a different message. They said "I'm sorry," and I nodded slightly, smiling, showing him that I understood. His eyes immediately lit up again and he turned around, waving for us to follow. "Come on." We all followed the him, Embry falling into step with Alice. Yeah, she's definitely got a thing for him. I thought smiling. Bella tugged on my arm, giving me a questioning look and I nodded towards the two of them. She saw what I meant and grinned, nodding at me. My only worry was how would Emmett and Jasper react to Embry with their little sister.

"Hey, guys." Sam said, falling into step with us.

"Hey Sam." I replied. "Looks like it's gonna be big."

"Always is." He grinned. "Every kid from Forks and La Push High School's turn up each year. It gets wilder and wilder each year. It's gonna be great." He looked at me. "Don't worry. Jacob's not here. That I've seen anyway."

"I'm not worried." I smiled at him and he grinned, hearing my confidence. Hell, I'd just made a fool out of Renee on the phone. I think I could handle whatever Jacob threw at me, knowing that he wouldn't start anything physical. Not with everybody here especially my family.

"Trust me, Sam." Bella told him, leaning her head on my chest as we stopped near a large crowd of people. "He's just put Renee in her place, so I think he can handle Jacob." I looked down at her. It was like this girl could read my mind. Wait, she couldn't could she?

"Serious?" He asked, looking between me and Bella. "What happened?" Bella told him about the phonecall we had received upon arriving at the cliff a few minutes before. Before she was finished, Sam was in fits. "I gotta tell you man, you've got guts. I've met Renee and I would never have said anything like that to her." I shrugged, showing it was no big deal. "You've got guts, though."

"Yo, Sam!" Someone called and I saw someone familiar running towards us.

"Hey," Sam grinned as the guy reached us. "Yo, dude this is Edward and Bella. Edward, Bella, this is my cousin-"

"Quil!" We both cried, grinning.

"Oh my god!" He stood there in shock, a smile forming on his lips. "What the hell are you guys doing here? Wait! Never mind that for now, come here!" He pulled me in for a quick hug, remembering my aversion to contact, but not being able to resist. He pulled Bella in for a longer hug and she giggled. "Now. What the hell are you guys doing here?"

"We live Forks." I said, and he thought for a moment. He grinned as he remembered. "What about you?"

"Sam here," He clapped a hand on Sam's shoulder. "Is my good ol' cousin. He invited Claire and me down for a few days."

"Claire's here?" I asked, grinning as Bella squealed, jumping up and down and clapping her hands in a very Alice-like moment.

"Yeah. She's over there somewhere. I'll go get here. Stay here." And with that he disappeared, going to find his girlfriend.

"Um..." Sam sounded confused. "What the hell?"

"What? Oh, yeah." I realised that he didn't know where Bella and I knew Quil from. "His girlfriend Claire was on the same unit I was in the clinic. She was actually one of my closest friends in there." I tried to gauge his reaction, looking for some kind of anonymity. But all he did was smile.

"Oh, yeah." He laughed. "Claire was telling me about the clinic. Don't take this the wrong way, but I asked her 'cause I'd met you, and I wanted to try and learn all I could about it, without asking you directly." He sounded sheepish, but I shook my head, waving off his worries. In a way, it made me feel better knowing that he wanted to learn about my experiences. It showed he really wanted to know and not to be polite or mocking. "Anyway, she kept mentioning some guy called Edward, who came from around here. But me being me, didn't think to put two and two together." He laughed and I couldn't help but join in.

"Edward!" I heard a familiar screech just before, someone jumped on me. I knew this little bundle of energy to be Claire. She grabbed around my neck with her arms and I felt her legs wrap around my waist as she squeezed me tight. I felt myself tense up, but willed myself to relax, telling myself that it was just Claire as I wrapped my arms around her still tny waist. "I've missed you!" She mumbled into my shirt.

"I've missed you too, Clarey!" I whispered back, before she unwrapped her legs from my waist and I placed her back on the ground.

"Bella!" She squealed and the two of them embraced. "Oh my god!" She broke away from Bella and looked at the two of us. "I've missed you guys so much. How are you guys? I see that you're still together. You're so cute together. So, how have you been? What have you been up to? What are you doing here? You guys live near here, right? Where is it you guys live? I can't remember. Oh, well, anyway moving on. How-"

I placed my hand over her mouth, knowing that that was the only thing that was going to get her to shut up.

I looked over at her boyfriend. "Quil, how much sugar did you give her?"

"I haven't given her any sugar." He held up his hands defensively. "Do you think I'm that stupid?"

"Well, no." I said, looking back to his hyperactive girlfriend. "But someone gave her sugar and-" I looked over at Sam to see him not looking at anyone. "Sam?" He looked up at me. "Care to explain?"

"What?" He looked confused.

"Okay, Sam. I'm gonna say this slowly." Bella said, skirting her way around Claire who was grinning into my hand and bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet again. "Did you give Claire sugar?"

He shook his head. "Wasn't me?"

"Then who?" Quil asked him. "I know you know man."

"Seth." He admitted.

I looked back to Claire. "Okay Clarey. I'm going to take my hand away now, and I want you to be quiet, okay?" I asked her as though I was talking to a five year old. She was so hyper she probably couldn't hear anything other than a buzzing in her ears anyway. Surprisingly, she nodded and I slowly took my hand away from her mouth. She stood there, grinning at me and continued bouncing. "Now." I judged her reaction. "Tell me, what did Seth give you?" If we knew what it was that she had had it would be easier to determine how long she would be this hyper. I only hoped that it wasn't-

"Skittles!" She cried. NO!!!! Skittles and Claire did not mix. Ever ever ever!

"I'm gonna kill him!" Quil cried, running off to find Seth in the crowd. Claire noticed that Quil had disappeared and looked at me with a shocked expression.

"No! Quil don't hurt him!" I heard her yell as she followed him into the crowd. I couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity.

"What's so bad about her having Skittles?" Sam asked, watching the two of them go with a perplexed look on his face.

"Because, that," I pointed towards Claire's retreating form. "Will last for hours. She won't calm down for another, hmmm, judging by the state of hyperactivity......ooh....anothre four hours or so." His mouth dropped. "And that's without the aid of any more."

"Jeez." He whispered and I nodded watching Claire following Quil, trying to get him not to hurt the boy who had given her her Skittles. It was quite amusing to watch actually.

The three of us made our way over to a makeshift seating area that had been set up. It consisted of large logs and tree stumps. There were quite a few people sat there, all laughing and joking around with each other. The atmosphere was so relaxed and it felt nice. Moments after we sat down, Sam got called over to take part in a football game that was starting between the two schools. He eagerly joined them after bidding us farewell. We told him that we'd see him later on and he jogged off happily.

"I'm gonna go get us some drinks." Bella said softly, kissing my cheek, before walking off to find us some drinks.

I looked around at the people sat around me. Most of them were couples, sitting and talking to each other. There were some who were kissing softly and the others, well PDA wasn't quite enough to cover it. I avoided looking at those couples, as I knew looking at them, would make me want to refuse any food I was offered later. I knew that would worry Bella and my family if I did that, so I was against it happening.

"Well, well." A voice said from behind me. "Someone's looking lonely."

I looked up to see a blonde girl standing next to the log I was sat on. She was pretty, but she didn't hold a candle to Bella. The amount of make-up and the outfit that she wore only served to take away from what looks she did possess.

"No," I smiled at her, in a friendly way. "Not really."

She sat down next to me, probably trying to look sexy. It really wasn't working. "I'm Lauren."

"Edward."

"Well, Eddie." She spoke the dreaded nickname and my opinion of her just dropped several points from its low starting place. She placed a hand on my bicep, not caring when I shied away from her touch. "Why don't you and I find somewhere a little more....private." Her tone suggested that she was trying to be sexy as well, but again, it really didn't work. I cringed internally at the thought of going anywhere with her.

"Um actually, Lauren I'm waiting for-"

"Lauren!" I heard Bella call as she walked up to us, holding a cup in each hand. "Funny seeing you here. I didn't think that these things interested you." I detected the fake sugariness in her voice as she glared at Lauren, who didn't seem to notice.

"Trust me, when there are treats like this around," She replied, indicating at me. "I'll always be interested." I shot Bella a pleading look and she glared at Lauren, who still had her hand on my arm.

"Well, Lauren." I could hear her tone changing. "Maybe you should look elsewhere-"

"Back off, Swan!" Lauren snapped, cutting her off. I knew better than to get invovled as I knew what Bella could get like in an argument. And personally, I wanted Lauren to get lost. She was really getting on my nerves. "I saw him first."

"Really?" Bella challenged. "You know, I really think you should get your hands off my fiance and look elsewhere for guys who are more.....your type."

"Fiance?" Her head whipped between me and Bella. Bella smirked and I nodded.

"Yup." I confirmed, pulling Bella gently into my lap.

"Bye Lauren." Bella handed me a cup and waved at Lauren who scowled and stormed off.

We both burst out laughing at her reaction, taking a few minutes to recover.

"Thank you." I mumured, nuzzling my nose into Bella's neck.

"Anytime, love." She twisted her head around and kissed my forehead as I placed a kiss on her collarbone. She giggled and I smiled, before pressing my lips to hers, in a soft, sweet, lingering kiss. "Anytime."

Isn't that cute :P
I thought that I'd give Lauren a chance at getting knocked back haha! Cos I'm like that :P
Btw, that stuff with Claire, that's taken from a friend of mine. It actually does take hours for her to calm down after a bag of Skittles. Just the one small bag of Skittles and she's insane for hours on end.
Anyway, continuation of the party next chapter. I'm not sure whether or not to do EPOV or BPOV next chappie. Let me know in reviews or PMs and I'll work it out.
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