JPOV

Damon laid Bella on her bed and Turned to me.

"I'm going to handle this once and for all. Stay with her." I nodded and he was gone.

Bella was laying on side, not looking at me, still crying. After a few minutes it drove me insane.

"Hey," I whispered, "Hey, come on Bells, it's not that bad."

"Yes it is." She said, tears still running down her face. "It really, really, is."

"It could be worse."

"How?"

"You could not have me, Damon, Elena and Stefan." I said. She laughed humorlessly and looked away.

"Stefan? He brought him back." She whispered.

"But I'm here." I said pulling her face up to look in her eyes. "I'll do any thing for you."

"Anything?" She asked.

"Yes."

"Even go downstairs and get the triple chocolate ice cream?" I laughed and nodded.

I got up and went down stairs and looked in the freezer. No ice cream. Damon must of hidden it again. The last time he got triple chocolate the girls went crazy and had a Johnny Depp Day, Pirates, Charlie and
the chocolate factory, blow, and Edward Scissor-Hands. I still don't get what's so speacil about him.

I finally found it at the bottom of the freezer in the basement. I went straight back upstairs, stopping only to get two spoons. Bella was better, she wiping her late tears away and smiled at me.

"Sorry." She said.

"No problem. Here." She took the ice cream then looked up at me.

"Silly Jeremy. You bought two spoons, I only need one."

"Ha, ha. Make room, little girl. You have to share."

"No! My ice cream." She jumped up and ran out of the room. I followed her.

I chased her for a good ten or twenty minutes, before I caught her in the kitchen. I pulled her close so she couldn't get away.

"Ready to share?" I asked, softly.

"No!" She started to wiggle, trying get out of my arms. I realized how close we were then, our faces, our lips, inches apart.

She must have realized it too, because she stopped moving. We starred at each other for a long moment, before we started to lean in, and-

"Bella, Jer? You guys home?" Elena called, causing Bella and I to jump apart.

Stefan and Elena came into the kitchen and Stefan looked at Bella.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"I've been better. But Jer helped a little."

Really?" He asked, turning towards me. "How so?"

"He got me Damon's triple chocolate ice cream." Bella looked at Elena with a smile. "Wanna split this and watch Pirates of the Caribbean?"

"Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and chocolate. Is it my birthday?" They grabbed spoons and headed to living room. I started to follow them.

"Stop." I did. "Turn." I did. Stefan was leaning against the counter, sleeves rolled up to his elbows and arms crossed. A small smile on his face.

"You like her." He said.

"So?"

"So, go for it."

"I can't...The guy she loved...I don't..." I couldn't find a good excuse.

"You can. She doesn't love him anymore. Jer, just do it. I'm going up, think about it. Night."

"Night." When he was gone I sat down and thought. I thought of Anna, of Vickie, and of what Damon told me the night I changed. About, how once you changed, you could pain off, stop feeling.

Why didn't Bella do that?