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

Heehee, a lot of people were a tad freaked out by the Tanya POV, which is the exact response I wanted :P Anyways, back to our beloved couple :D

BPOV

I woke up to unfamiliar sounds and smells.

The ocean? I thought, not opening my eyes. How the hell can I hear the ocean? Did Edward or Charlie get a new "sounds of nature" CD or something?

I opened my eyes to see that I was still on the beach. I looked around to see that I was lying on the sand, surrounded by the Cullens, the Denali's and their respective spouses. I tried to sit up, but was unable to due to the tightening of the arms that were wrapped around my waist. I twisted around to see Edward asleep next to me, a small smile touching his lips. The way his eyelashes created slight shadows underneath his eyes was adorable. I could see that his eyes were moving underneath his eyelids. He was dreaming. That thought made me smile even more.

I kissed the end of his nose and gently unwrapped his arms from around my waist. He was reluctant to let go, being strong, even in sleep but after a couple of minutes of wriggling I was able to get loose.

I stood up and shook all the sand off of my clothes and out of my hair. Looking down at the circle of friends I had fallen asleep in last night, I smiled to myself. Emmett and Jasper had managed to fall asleep sitting up, back to back. It was funny because they were both sitting there, legs spread out in front of them, heads lolled back on each others shoulders, mouths open, snoring. I took out my phone and snapped a picture of the two of them. I couldn't resist. Hey, maybe I could use if for future blackmail if it was required.

I looked at Rose and Alice. Those two were just cute. They were both curled up together, seemingly shielding each other from the wind and cold that was this morning. It was too cute. I didn't take a picture of those two. It was more than my life's worth to do that. And I knew what I would be subjected to if they ever found the picture.

The Denali's were all curled up together. Irina and Felix and Kate and Garrett were all curled up in each other's arms. They looked the same as I thought Edward and I must have looked before I got up. There were two other people I didn't recognise. There was another very pretty blonde girl and a dark haired guy lying asleep next to Irina and Felix. I supposed that must be Carmen and Eleazar, their other brother and sister. Hopefully, the other one had disappeared off the face of the planet because after last night, I really didn't want to deal with her.

"Bella!" Someone called me from a little way away. I turned around to see Angela running towards me, a slightly worried look on her face. "Bella!"

I walked around the log that Edward had been leaning against and jogged towards her, praying that I wouldn't trip. "Sssh, Ang!" I hushed her as she got closer. She looked at me in confusion and I pointed to the still sleeping group. Her mouth formed a little "oh" as she realised what I meant. "Let's walk." I suggested and she nodded. "What's up?"

"Um," She seemed reluctant to talk.

"Angela. What's wrong?" I asked her, stopping.

She turned around to face me, her expression telling me that she had an internal war going on in her mind.

At that moment, three guys walked past us, apparently taking an early morning dip in the ocean. They were all laughing and joking but when they looked at me their expression changed. They stopped laughing and looked at me with .... what.....pity? What was that about? I shook my head, ridding myself off the image and looked around. I noticed a lot of people were looking at me in the same way. Their eyes were flicking between me and the sleeping group that I had just left. What the hell is going on? I thought. Had I made a spectacle of myself last night? No. I couldn't have. I didn't drink anything last night. Maybe word had spread about our little confrontation with Tanya. That didn't explain the expressions on their faces though.

"Angela. What's going on?" I asked her and she looked at me with the same expression that everyone else was wearing.

"Everyone knows, Bella." She whispered simply, not looking me in the eye.

"Knows what?" I asked her. She didn't answer. She was starting to worry me now. "Angela? You're scaring me now. What does everyone know?"

"About Edward." She whispered, barely aubile.

I froze momentarily. I decided to play dumb. "What about him?"

"Everyone knows that he was in the hospital ..... for ....." She took a deep breath, still not meeting my gaze. "Anorexia." She whispered the last bit and I felt my eyes go wide.

"W-w-what?" I stammered. I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. It wasn't Angela's fault. It couldn't have been. She didn't know. "How?" I whispered. I couldn't make my voice work.

"I don't know how." She sounded like she was on the verge of tears. "People have been talking about it all morning. I just heard and I thought I should come tell you. I'm sorry, Bells."

"No, don't apologise, Ang." I was still trying to process what I had just heard. "Who told you?"

"Jessica told me." She said. "I don't know how she found out, but she.....she thought that it was pretty funny."

"She thought it was funny?!" I heard my voice getting louder and Angela flinched. "I'm sorry, Ang. I didn't mean to shout. It's just....a lot to take in....you know."

"You....you did know, right?" She thought that I didn't know why Edward had been in the hospital.

"Yeah. Yeah, of course I knew." I ran a hand through my hair. Something I had unconsciously picked up from Edward as he was constantly doing that. "That's where I was those few months I wasn't in school." I explained. "I was in there with him." I pinched the bridge of my nose. Another trait obtained from Edward. "But how? How could people have-" I stopped as realisation dawned on me. "Tanya!" I spat.

"Who?" Angela sounded confused.

Some part of me knew that it was Jessica who had spread the story. It wouldn't surprise me if Lauren had had a hand in it too. "Angela. You have to tell me. Did you see either Jessica or Lauren talking to a blonde girl last night?"

"Um," She thought for a moment. "Yeah, come to think of it I did."

"Shit!" I ran my hands through my hair again, clenching my hands into fists, pulling on my hair almost painfully. "Just great." I took a deep breath. "Come with me. Please." I looked at her and she nodded. I walked back over to where the group was still sleeping and gently woke Irina up. She mumbled something about cheese and I couldn't help but smile, even with the severity of the situation. "Irina? Irina, come on wake up." She opened her eyes and looked at me grumpily. "We have a major situation."

Her eyes snapped open immediately and she sat up as far as Felix's arms would allow her to. "What's wrong?" I glanced at Edward, who was beginning to stir. She looked between the two of us, a perplexed look on her face. "Bella?"

"Let's just say, your sister is going to die." I hissed, my voice laced with venom.

That got Irina's attention immediately and it seemed that she was even more alert than she had been. Impressive considering she had been awake all of a minute. "What's she done?" She growled.

"Yeah." I heard a sleepy voice call. I turned around and saw that Rosalie and Alice were waking up. "What's that bitch done now?"

"I think everyone needs to be awake to hear this." I said softly. Even though I didn't really want Edward to know, I knew he had to. It affected him more than it did everyone else.

Irina got to work waking up her family. It seemed that Kate was even harder to wake up than Rosalie was when she didn't want to get out of bed. She mumbled and slapped out at Irina sleeply, which caused a few giggles. But like Irina, when Tanya was mentioned she was straight up as was Garrett, Felix and who I guessed were Carmen and Eleazar.

I walked over and gently woke Edward. He mumbled sleepily and slowly opened his eyes, before smiling at me. "Come on, sleepyhead." I cooed and he grinned at me. "There's something serious I need to tell you."

"What's wrong, love?" He immediately sat up, a look of worry on his face. "What is it?"

"Everyone needs to be awake to hear this." I said, settling down next to him. He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me onto his lap and I looked over to where Jasper and Emmett were still asleep, leaning on each other, in the exact same position they had been in when I woke up this morning. I picked up a small stone and threw it at Jasper, hitting him on the chest. He woke up and groggily looked around.

"Whoa!" He cried as he noticed Emmett's head on his shoulder. He stood up faster than I have ever seen him move, causing Emmett to fall backwards, his legs flailing in the air. He stood there staring between the group and Emmett who was now spluttering and spitting out a mouthful of sand, trying to sit up at the same time. It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. And being around those two conjured up a fair share of funny moments.

"What? What? What?" Emmett mumbled groggily, looking around at everyone who was laughing at him.

"Oh, somebody should have got a picture of that!" Edward said, chuckling. I pulled out my phone and showed him the picture that I had taken. He laughed out loud and Jasper and Emmett looked at me, Jasper in annoyance and disbelief, Emmett in confusion. That was another picture worthy moment, but I thought I'd better not push my luck.

"Okay, everybody." Irina said, still giggling at the two brothers. "Bella has something that she needs to tell us."

I gulped, not wanting to have to do this, but knowing I had no other choice.

"What is it, love?" Edward asked, gently kissing the soft skin just behind my ear.

"Um," I looked at Angela and she nodded for me to go on. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. "Everybody knows ...... about Edward." I whispered and I felt him go rigid beneath me. I opened my eyes and saw the looks of shock and disbelief that were pasted onto my friends faces. "They know everything."

"How?" Edward hissed in my ear. "How do they know?"

"Tanya!" Irina growled. "That bitch!"

"I agree." I said sternly. I looked at Edward and he had an indescribable look on his face. I kissed his cheek and he looked at me, pain in his beautiful green eyes. "It'll be okay. We'll sort it." He nodded blankly.

"Where is she?" Rosalie growled in the same manner as Irina, standing up and looking around.

"She won't be here now." I stated. "You really think that she'd sleep on the beach?"

"No I guess not." Rose admitted. She walked over to Edward and I and sat on the log next to his shoulder. "What are we going to to?"

"We have to dispel the rumours as soon as possible." Jasper said, running a hand through his hair as be began pacing. "People ask us, we'll deny it all."

"You think that will work?" Alice asked, looking at him.

"It's all we can do." He said. He stopped pacing and took out his phone. "We have to tell Mom and Dad. They need to know." He opened his phone and pressed a couple of buttons. He held the phone to his ear and waited for either Carlisle or Esme to pick up. "Dad?....Yeah, I know it's early, I'm sorry. But we have a serious problem." He took a deep breath. "People know about Edward, where he's been and what for." He waited for a response. "I don't know. I really don't." He paused again, listening to his father on the other end of the line. "No. We've only just found out." Another pause. "Yeah. Okay. We'll see you soon." He snapped the phone shut and looked at us all. "Dad wants us to go home. Now."

We all nodded and stood up. I looked at Edward and he looked so lost. It was as if eveything that he had worked for had been stripped away from him. In some ways it had. He had wanted to put everything behind him and live a life filled with some sort of normality. That was gone now. All of it had slipped away just because of one stupid bitch that couldn't keep her fucking mouth shut.

I took his face between my hands and pulled him down so that his lips met mine. "It's going to be okay." I whispered and he nodded slowly. "I'm gonna make it okay."

He kissed my forehead and pulled me close to him. "I love you." He whispered against my hair.

"And I love you," I kissed his neck gently. "More than I could ever express." I looked up at him. "Let's go home." He nodded and we all quickly walked to the cars, ignoring any pointed looks or remarks that were coming at us from all sides. I stopped at the Volvo and looked behind me at Irina and the others. "Do you guys want to come to the Cullens'?" I looked at the others, making sure it was okay with them and they all nodded, looks of fury still on their faces. I knew it wasn't directed at any present company. It was directed at the one missing Denali sister. The one who was going to have her head ripped off the next time I saw her. "Get cleaned up and everything."

Irina looked around at her family. "Only if that's okay." The Cullens' all nodded at her and the others again.

"You remember the way?" Rose asked and Irina nodded.

"Yeah," She confirmed. "The others can follow me if that's alright with you guys." This last statement was directed at her family, who nodded in response.

We climbed into our respective cars and began the drove home. Edward was silent for the whole journey. I reached out and took one of his hands off of the steering wheel and gave it a tight squeeze. He glanced at me and smiled. I didn't release his hand, but let our intertwined hands rest in between us, comfortably and unspoken conversation happening between the two of us. He needed to know that I was there for him, that I wasn't going anywhere. He had to know that. I made a decision in my mind in that moment.

I would have to talk to Charlie when I got home.

We pulled up to the house and got out of the car. We waited for the Denali's to appear in the driveway before we went inside. I wanted to get out of the cold and get washed, seeing as I still had a good amount of sand in places I really didn't want them. I had my sneaking suspicions that the others did as well.

Walking through the door, we were met with an anxious Carlisle and Esme. They rushed out of the kitchen and met us before we had even had time to pull off our shoes.

"What happened?" Esme gasped.

"Calm down, dear." Carlisle placed an arm around her shoulders, attempting to calm her down. It really wasn't working. "Bella, you need to tell us what happened."

We walked into the living room and waited for everyone else to join us before I told them what had happened. I started with our meeting with Tanya last night, earning a couple of death threats and hisses from Rosalie and Irina. Carlisle may not have been able to say anything to Irina about it but he reprimanded his daughter who didn't respond. If I knew Rose as well as I thought I did, I knew that she was imagining the many different ways she could torture Tanya to death. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't thinking the same thing. I went on to say about my second meeting with her, something that Edward wasn't too happy to hear about, and then what I had been told when I'd woken up that morning.

"This is something that needs to be stopped." Carlisle stood up and ran his hands through his hair. Hmmm, I wondered whether that was where Edward got his habit from. Something I would have to watch for later on. Focus, Bella. I scolded myself. Focus! "Now."

"How are we supposed to stop it?" Alice asked, her voice full of worry. She wasn't bubbly and bright this morning, as she was most mornings and it was unnerving.

"In any way we can." Carlisle turned to face us all. "I'll try to stop the gossip at the hospital. Esme, if you could convince, say, the parents and that that you meet up with, that what they're hearing isn't true." She nodded. Esme was a member of various clubs that took place in Forks. It had started off last year as a way of meeting people, getting to know the other mothers and people in the town. Now she did it through enjoyment. She enjoyed everything she did. The best thing was, Jessica Stanley's mother was in all of them, and probably a bigger gossip than her mother. If Esme could get to her, then there was a good chance we could stop this. "You kids are obviously going to run into people that you know from school over the summer. If they say anything to you, which knowing kids they will do, do whatever you can to convince them that what they think they know is wrong." We all nodded. "Edward, Bella, you two probably have the hardest job." We looked at him apprehensively. "Acting like there is nothing wrong."

That would be hard. It would be hard to see people looking at Edward the way they did and to not do anything about it. But if I did, then there was a good chance that they would realise that what they had heard was in fact the truth. We had to do everything we could to get rid of the rumours and talking as quickly as possible. And it was something we would do.

For Edward.

I hated to think of what this was doing to him. He had hardly spoken a word all morning. I hated seeing him like this. I had never really seen him this way before. Even in the past, when he has been unresponsive to the people and flurries of movement around him, there was always some recognition in his eyes. But today there was nothing. I couldn't see anything. His eyes had returned to being the blank, lifeless green that I had first seen almost a year ago. I couldn't handle that. I needed the new Edward back. I couldn't handle having brought him this far, to have him finally believe in himself for once to have that all stripped away.

Everyone was still talking in the living room when I excused myself. I needed a shower and I needed one now. I felt incredibly uncomfortable and dirty at the moment. Note to self, I thought as I walked up the stairs. Never fall asleep on the beach again.

As I reached Edward's bedroom I noticed that the door was open. I couldn't remember leaving it open when we left. Had we? Edward normally never left his door open. I shrugged as I walked in, thinking that Carlisle or Esme must have been in there for some reason and not shut the door properly. But then, Carlisle and Esme never went into any of their children's rooms without their permission. As I closed the door behind me I knew that something wasn't right.

I shrugged it off and walked over to Edward's walk-in closet, opening the door and walking to the section that Alice had created for me. Her argument was that I spent so much time here anyway, I might as well have my own section in Edward's closet. I didn't really complain, purely because I knew that it would do me no good whatsoever. She never listened to anyone else's opinion when it came to matters of fashion. I didn't blame her for that. It was just Alice.

I grabbed a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, all Alice-approved obviously, and some fresh underwear before exiting the closet. I grabbed a towel and walked into the bathroom, locking the door in case anyone else, other than Edward, came into the room. I didn't really mind if Edward did, seeing as he was my fiance, but anyone else, I'd rather not have them looking at me like that.

I let the hot water relax all of my muscles before I washed my hair through with my favourite shampoo. Looking at the bathroom, you would definitely know that it was a shared bathroom. It had a lot of my stuff in it. It had my favourite shampoo and conditioner, as well as my body wash and lotions that were mixed in with Edwards. There were two toothbrushes in a single glass next to the sink and various soaps and razors on the shelves that we both used.

At least we know that we'll be able to work out bathroom space when we get a place of our own. I smiled at that thought. I relished the thought of spending the rest of my life with Edward, even though I knew he would seriously doubt that now that people knew. I hated knowing what he could be thinking. I knew that he would be thinking that I didn't want to be with him now that everybody knew. I would have to show him that I didn't care, and that I wanted to be with him no matter what.

Definitely need to talk to Charlie. I thought, rinsing off my hair and turning off the shower.

I stepped out and towelled myself dry, pulling on my new clothes. I dried my hair using the hairdryer that Esme had had built into the wall when I started spending so much time here. I thanked her for that. It was a blessing. After I had dried my hair, I walked out into the bedroom and dumped my dirty clothes and used towel into the hamper that was just outside his bathroom door. I walked over to the bed, hoping to relax a little before I had to go back downstairs.

I lay back onto the pillows and inhaled the scent of Edward, smiling. But there was something off. I looked over to the side, looking at his bedside table. I wanted to see the picture of the two of us that I loved. The one of him and me at the clinic, laughing and smiling. But there was something wrong.

It was gone.

Where the hell was it?

Would he have moved it?

No, he wouldn't have done that. Edward loved that picture as much as I did. There was no way he would have gotten rid of it. To him, it symbolised the first day that he had felt somewhat whole and loved. It showed the two of us as a united front. Ready to take on the world. He loved that photograph.

Where the hell was it?

I looked around the room, searching for it, but I couldn't see it amongst his books and music collections. I was getting worried now. Something was clearly not right. It had been here before we left last night, and yet it wasn't here now. Where the hell could it have gone? The only ones that were here last night were Carlisle and Esme and there was no way that they would take that photo, unless they were getting it copied for some reason. And even if they were, they would have asked first.

"Looking for this?" I heard someone ask.

I whipped around and saw who it was standing in the doorway to the closet.

"What. The. Fuck. Do. You. Think. You're. Doing?" I hissed slowly and menacingly. Rosalie would be proud of me.

This had to end.

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