I hope you guys enjoy this chapter, I had fun writing it because actually some of the events happened to me. Also the characters do not belong to me, the only thing that does belong to me, is the characters I made up and the story line, everything else is the true authors. This chapter is a bit longer, I just could not stop writing. Also, I just wanted to tell all my followers thank you for following me and that I hope you enjoy this chapter. I would like to hear what you guys think about this story, so please leave me a review if you can.

At the canoe place

Bella was helping her grandma Sydney out of her dad's yellow jeep CJ-7. Her grandma Sydney was her father's mother, and she was a shorter woman with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. She was also nicely tanned, her grandmother was British, and she did not have her accent anymore. Sydney had came to the states because she wanted to visit and ended up falling in love with Philip's father Andrew. She could see Emmett getting out of his jeep, along with Alice and Jasper and even Tanya. Bella wondered how that went, "Alice is probably ready to pull out her own hair or Tanya's," Bella thought. Her aunt Sofia and uncle Ethan were getting out of their 2006 black Hummer H1, along with Joey and Junior. Joey was Alice and Tanya's sixteen-year-old brother who looked every bit like their father; accept he had their mother's eyes and hair color. Junior on the other hand was a nineteen-year-old boy who was the son of her cousin Ralph who was the son of her great-aunt Barbara. Junior was tall at Emmett's height with his father's charcoal gray eyes and shaggy light blonde hair like his mom Charity's. Junior was also a sophomore at the University of Texas in Austin, his parents college. She watched them talk and scanned the area to see her cousin Ralph getting out his white 2009 Cadillac Escalade. He was an inch taller than his son, with the same eyes color, but instead of being blonde, he had sooty black hair. He looked every bit like her great-uncle Christopher. Her great-aunt Barbara had met Christopher while in college, he was planning going into the military and they had a fling that resulted in Ralph. Her aunt Madison actually followed in her aunt's steps, but it did not go over has well. Her great-aunt Barbara was now a physical therapist in San Antonio Texas, while her husband was a teacher at an army school down there. Ralph followed in his father's footsteps to a point; he became an attorney general in Austin, Texas. While his wife Charity was a police officer. She watched her great-aunt Barbara getting out of the Escalade with help from her husband. Barbara looked good for being sixty-five years old. She was a short woman like most of the Lockhart women, she also inherited the Lockhart's pale skin. She had ash gray hair that was once black like Alice's. They inherited their hair from Bella's great great grandma Antoinette. Barbara also had indigo blue eyes, while Christopher was the older version of his son Ralph, accept he was the same height has his grandson. She spotted Charity, Ralph's wife talking to Barbara. Charity was of Mexican descent on one of her parent's side. Charity had ice blue eyes with her light blonde hair. Junior was a really good mixture of both of his parents. She smiled has she watched her grandparents and great-aunt Barbara and great-uncle Christopher leaving. Normally Bella's grandparents would just go into Fairborn and do some shopping and lunch and then would meet back here after everyone got back from their trip. She could hear Tanya complaining to Amelia has they waited for the guy who ran the business to finish up their paperwork. Bella was not paying much attention to anything until she heard a car with loud music blaring, the car was approaching the parking lot. It was an orange 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T coupe. Bella knew whose car it was. It was Jacob Black's car, he had, had that car since high school. "What the hell was he doing here," she thought. She watched has he got of the car and started talking to her uncle Ethan. She spotted her mom standing off from the group.

"Mom." Bella said while walking towards her mother. "What is Jacob doing here?" Bella asked.

"Your uncle Ethan invited him…without asking me." Renée sounded annoyed.

"I thought it was a family thing."

"I just said…your uncle invited him without asking me." Renée harshly said.

"So great-uncle Charles isn't here." Bella said while changing the subject. She knew her mother hated when people changed things on her.

"Yes…he is very sick…your grandparents just got back from visiting him in the hospital." Her great uncle Charles is her grandpa Joe's younger brother and he lives in Chicago. Charles was a public relation specialist for a big company in Chicago. Bella did not like that side of her family, they always thought they were better than everyone else. Bella started smiling at the thought of her great uncle not showing up. "Bella." Her mother said while shaking her head. "He is sick."

"Yeah…but they do act like they are better than everyone else." Renée tried not to smile at Bella was saying. She knew how her uncle acted and even how his wife always acted snobby. "See you agree with me."

"Oh Bella…you are bad." Renée laughed.

"You're the one laughing." Bella laughed too. "So mom…why am I in a kayak?" Bella asked.

"Because that is how it came up." Renée explained.

"But…you know how clumsy I am…and Alice said she wanted to be my partner."

"Yes…but Tanya did not want to be by herself."

"So I get stuck with the kayak?" Bella asked. She was becoming annoyed with her mother.

"You should have showed up earlier…then you would have had more say." Renée harshly said.

"You damn well know where I was at…it was your own fault to begin with." Bella hissed before turning around to leave.

"Bella." Renée hissed back, but Bella kept walking. "Isabella Marie…get back here now."

"Bella." Her father's gruff voice said. "Listen to your mother." Bella spun on her heels to face both of her parents. Her father had not changed; he still had light blonde hair and baby blue eyes. He also was about the same height has Jasper. Her father was everything a small town mayor was. He had been her world while growing up, she wished she had not found out that everything she believed in and thought was wrong.

"What?" Bella said in annoyed tone.

"Your mother was talking to you." Phil said to his daughter. "You will listen to your mother young lady."

"I have it under control Phil." Renée said while smiling at her husband. She loved her husband but not has much has Bella's real father.

"Okay sweetie." Phil said before leaving.

"Mother…I thought you really cared about me…but what you just said…it makes me wonder."

"Bella…I have done everything for you…damn it…I was once…I was like Alice…Bella." Renée said. "I was artistic and bubbly and just so full of life…and I never really planned on marrying Phil…because he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps of becoming town mayor…I wanted to travel and paint…then you came along and I changed myself…I became a mayor's wife…to protect you." Renée explained. "So do not tell me that I do not care about you…I care about you so much…that I changed myself."

"I am sorry you had to change yourself…but still." Bella fell silent before walking away and this time Renée let her. Renée wished her daughter had not found out and that she could live the life she was supposed to live. Bella watched has another car pulled up; it was a greenish-yellow Chevy Spark.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Bella could hear Jasper ask the people.

"What I can't come see my baby brother." Bella shook her head when she heard Peter's voice. She turned around to see Peter getting out of the car.

"I thought you were in Austin."

"I was and then your dear wife told me that you got back and would be going with her to visit her family and would only be here until Monday." Peter said while hugging his brother. Both Jasper and Peter looked the same with their honey blonde hair and gunmetal blue eyes and tan skin. Peter was a just a bit shorter than his brother with more of a stocky build to him and his hair was not curly like Jasper's, it was more straight and short, almost like a crew cut. "I thought I would come visit." Peter was three years older than Jasper, and Jasper was only twenty-five. Peter was also a military man too.

"Glad you're here…so are you staying?" Jasper asked his brother.

"Well I am not flying back yet…do you know how much plane tickets cost nowadays?" Peter laughed. "We would have been here yesterday…but are plane got delayed…something about storms." Jasper smiled at his brother. Peter was the person that he looked up to, ever since he had been a little boy. He was also the reason Jasper went into military.

"Charlie." Jasper said while hugging a young woman. "I see he managed to drag you along."

"He better…I am always stuck at home with our two little boys." The woman named Charlie said smiling and laughing. She was a pretty blonde with light brown eyes. She could give Rosalie a run for her money.

"Good thing…I only wanted to see ya." Jasper laughed. Charlotte giggled while she hugged Jasper back.

"So you didn't want to see me?" Peter asked.

"Oh hush brother." Jasper said while shoving his brother.

"You hurt me little brother." Peter said laughing and turned to face Bella. "So are you going to give me a hug Bella?" Peter said while wiggling his eyebrows suggestively at her. She knew he was joking, but that still did not mean that she wanted to give him a hug. The first time she met him was at Alice and Jasper's spring wedding, from first expressions she thought he was a very sweet guy like his little brother, but she soon changed her mind when she caught him shacking up with one of Alice's other bridesmaids and then after being caught by her, he started flirting with her. She could hear Alice squeal when she saw Charlotte, Peter's wife. Alice had quickly become friends with Charlotte, which is not hard for Alice. Everyone that knew Alice loved her. Charlotte was more down to earth and every bit a country girl.

"Nope…fine right here." Bella said while shaking her head. "Last time you were around me…you wouldn't quit flirting and trying to touch me…no thank." Bella laughed.

"Wait a minute…when did this happen?" Charlotte asked her husband, she knew her husband could be flirty with other woman, but he had never touched them, has far has she knew. Peter had a look on his face, like a little kid that had been caught stealing. Jasper and Alice just watched them.

"I am joking." Bella said quickly covering for Peter, even if he is a manwhore. "He flirted, but I don't think he knows how to flirt…the whole time he was flirting…he was telling me I was pretty but not has pretty has his beautiful wife." Bella laughed.

"Oh your sweet." Charlotte said while smiling at her husband. Bella just rolled her eyes behind Charlotte's back and began to walk over to the bus when Jasper stopped her.

"Thank you." Jasper said when he caught up to her. He touched her shoulder, making her turn around to face him.

"What for?" Bella asked while looking down at the ground. "If I had just kept my big mouth shut, then I would not have had to lie," Bella thought.

"You know for what…I know you lied."

"I didn't lie." Bella said while looking away.

"You forget…I know my brother…he was once not like that…him and Charlie have dated since middle school…but after his accident…he hasn't been the same." Jasper said while running his hand through his hair. He wished his older brother would come back to him. The brother who believed that you treated your wife like a princess and you never cheated.

"Okay…yeah he did do what I said…I also caught him fooling around with Alice's friend from college." Bella said while looking up at Jasper. Jasper did not look like it bothered him. "What accident?" Bella asked.

"He was once a Naval aviator…damn good one…he went to school that is best known has TOPGUN…he graduated top of his class…one day he was out training and something happened...the plane malfunctioned or something...he ended up a mile from where his plane crashed and he seemed fine...and fit for duty but his eyesight got damaged…he has never been able to live it down." Jasper looked sad while explaining what happened to Peter.

"Oh…wow." Bella said while biting her lip. "Sorry I caused any problems."

"Its fine…my brother is an asshole anyway." Jasper laughed and slung an arm around Bella's shoulder while dragging her back to where everyone was standing beside the van that they all had to load into, so they could be shuttled down to the part of the river were they would begin. The ride their was bumpy has hell and scary. Bella was sitting across from Alice and Jasper. Jasper was almost falling sleep, until they hit a bump in the road and he hit his head on the window. Alice and Bella could not stop looking at the wide eyed Jasper who was rubbing his head. Has soon has they made it to the drop off, Bella was helped into a kayak and she felt so nervous because the kayak started moving. Bella began to row and was slowly checking up to Alice and Tanya's canoe. She could hear them bricking back and forth.

"Tanya…just steer the damn canoe…or we are going to run into something." Alice shouted at her sister. She was already annoyed with her sister.

"I thought you were suppose to be doing the steering." Tanya complained. "This is too much work."

"Tanya." Alice shouted at her sister. "You are up front…like you wanted to be…I am the person that makes the canoe move...I am doing all the damn work not you…just steer the damn canoe." Alice sighed, "She sounds so annoyed," Bella thought.

"How's it going?" Bella asked while trying not to laugh. She could see Alice glaring at her.

"Oh shut up." Alice grumbled, which made Bella start to laugh. Alice glared at Bella. She was annoyed with her sister and now her cousin and best friend was getting enjoyment out of her being annoyed.

"Mary Alice…be nice to your sister." Sofia said. Sofia was just the older version of Tanya with forest green eyes and she was a bit taller than Tanya. Sofia was just like Tanya, more of a beauty queen than anything else. She was a model until she found out she was pregnant with Alice it all changed. She became a stay at home mom. Of course Sofia was dressed nicely, Tanya was too much like her mother. So was Alice, but Alice would never admit that.

"Mom…I am twenty-three going on twenty-four in December." Alice hissed. She had fought with her parents, since Bella could remember.

"I do not care how old you are young lady…you could be hundred and if I was still alive…you would still be my little girl." Sofia said calmly, it was the same thing that Bella had heard her own mother same millions of times.

"Listen to your mother Mary Alice." Ethan said to his daughter. Ethan was a tall man at 6ft 3inches with electric blue eyes and platinum blonde. He used to be the all American boy back in high school, the jock. Ethan is the high school football coach, along with being the high school math teacher. She remembered getting taught by him, Alice hated being taught by her father.

"Fine." Alice sighed. Bella could not stop laughing. "I see your liking the kayak now?" Alice said while trying to playfully glare at Bella, who just laughed.

"Oh yeah." Bella said laughing. Bella rowed on, catching up with Emmett and Jasper.

"Jasper…Jasper…dude…tell me your not asleep." Emmett shouted at Jasper. Jasper was kind of slumped over in his seat

"What's wrong?" Bella asked.

"I think Jasper is asleep." Emmett replied while scratching his head.

"Here let me see if he is a sleep…he really was up all last night." Alice explained. "Tanya see if he is a sleep." Alice told her sister.

"Fine." Tanya sighed, while Alice got the canoe close to the other canoe. Tanya took her paddle and tapped Jasper with it, which caused Jasper to jump and tip the canoe over.

"I told you to see if he was a wake…not to scare him." Alice shouted at Tanya.

"I did." Tanya said in a snotty way. Both Jasper and Emmett came up. Jasper was spitting water and trying to get his curly hair out of his eyes.

"Damn it…why were you asleep…if I can't sleep…you can't either." Emmett grumbled while flipping the canoe back over.

"Sorry man." Jasper said while getting back into the canoe and taking his shirt off.

"You guys okay?" Bella asked.

"Yeah…just wet." Jasper said laughing. Emmett tried to look like he was not too happy, but finally a smile creeped on to his face.

"Oh sweetie." Alice said while fusing over Jasper.

"Its okay Allie." Jasper said while trying to get Alice to quit fusing over him.

"Stop fusing over him Mary Alice." Tanya said in annoyed tone.

"Shut up Tanya." Alice said back. Tanya just glared at her sister.

"And I thought you guys were suppose to be watching me?" Bella laughed.

"Your so funny Bellie." Emmett said laughing. Bella stuck her tongue at him and began to row on.

"Now don't go too far head…or we won't be able to help you if anything happens." Emmett called to her. Bella just waved her hand at them in a dismissive move and kept on rowing.

"Don't worry I'll catch up to her." Jacob said.

"Yeah…like I trust you." Emmett bit back. Bella could hear them arguing about something, but finally was out of earshot that she could not hear anything.

Further down the river

Bella was further down the river and for some reason grabbed a leaf off of a tree branch that was hanging over the river. When she did not let go fast enough, her kayak flipped over and Bella slid out onto the rocks.

"Damn it." She cursed while running after her paddle. She did not want to pay the heavy fine for losing the paddle. Jumping she landed in the rocks that were the riverbed in this part of river. She sliced up her hip in the process but managed to grab her paddle and began to stand slowly. Her hip was screaming at her to stand still. She was in pain and did not what to see where the kayak was.

"Bells you okay." A worried voice asked. She already knew whose voice it was and did not want to turn around. She was embarrassed, she was soaking wet and there was mud and blood covering her. "Bells answer me." The voice said while approaching Bella and making her face them. When she came face to face with Jacob, she wanted to cry. He had been her tormentor back in high school, he helped Leah his girlfriend make her high school years hell and for some strange reason, she always had a crush on him. "Oh God Bells." He said while pulling her towards him and wrapping his arms around her tightly. She had not noticed that she was crying until she heard him say. "I think your going to flood the river if you keep crying." When she heard him say that, she pushed away from him and grabbed her kayak that had been flipped back over and drained of all the water and the paddle and began the rest of the river. "Bells wait…your bleeding."

"Like you care." She yelled back, without looking back at him. She could hear Emmett and Jasper talking with Jacob has she paddled away. She could hear them arguing about what happened. Emmett did not sound pleased or that he believed Jacob had nothing to do with her flipping her kayak over. Emmett knew that Jacob use to let his girlfriend be mean to her. Bella continued to paddle down the river until the river started moving more swiftly. She began to paddle harder because she was beginning to have trouble with getting the kayak around a brush pile. Bella cursed and gave up trying to fight the kayak and let the kayak do its own thing. Which might have been the worse thing to do, because the kayak went sideways and ran right into the brush pile, making the kayak flip over. The kayak flipped over and Bella went under, the whole kayak was upside down. Bella began to swim but she was not reaching anything, it was like a black abyss. She finally figured out that her legs were caught in the kayak, she wriggled free of the kayak and kept swimming, but she was reaching nothing. "I know what is under brush pile," Bella thought has she tried to swim more. The thought creeped her out. Everything was dark and cold around her. Her lungs were starting to burn from lack of oxygen. She was beginning to panic, thinking someone was drowning her again. "Where is the pearly gates…where is God…where is my grandfather…they should be waiting for me," Bella thought when she began to feel tried. Her eyes were closing when she felt someone grab her around her the waist and pull her out of the water. She began to kick and hit anything she could. She was scared senseless, she had almost been drowned before and she was not letting someone get the upper hand this time.

"Bells…your okay." Jacob said in a soothing voice. "You will be fine…come on breath." He said while laying her down on the shoreline. She gasped for air. "Oh thank God." He said while smiling at her. "You are still has clumsy has ever." He laughed.

"Thank you." She said while trying to sit-up, but her head was pounding. She placed her head in her hands and sighed.

"Here let me help you." He said while helping her stand. "How are you feeling?"

"Better…my ankle kind of hurts." She said while holding her ankle because there was a pain shooting through her leg.

"Here let me help you…you can ride in my kayak with me." He said while tying her kayak to his and placing her paddle in the kayak.

"Wait…I am not riding in the same kayak has you." Bella shouted. "Why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?" He asked while looking back at her.

"Helping me."

"Because your hurt." He said while coming closer to her. He stopped a few feet in front of her.

"Yeah right…are you doing to make friends with Emmett?" She asked harshly.

"No." He could not understand her.

"Or are you doing this for your wife…make friendly with me and you two can relieve your high school days?" Bella hissed. "Let me tell you something…it was hell for me…I will not let you guys do that again." Bella said, she wanted to cry so badly, but she would not let him see her cry. He moved closer to her.

"I am not married." He said while moving closer to her.

"Then your girlfriend." Bella said through clenched teeth, she could not understand what he was doing and she was planning on not trusting him. She stepped back from him.

"I am not dating anyone…nor am I getting married." He shouted. He was getting annoyed with her, the only thing he wanted to do was show her that he had changed. That he was the same little boy who had been friends with her since birth, not the monster that he became during their high school years. "Leah and me broke up when I caught her cheating on me with Sam."

"What?" Bella said a little surprised that he would say something like that. Leah had been his girlfriend, while Sam had been his best friend back in high school.

"Leah and Paul were having an affair during our freshman year of college…I went to Miami University…while they went to Bowling Green State University…they shared the same dorm building and I guess they thought it would be fun to hook up."He sounded annoyed.

"Oh…sorry." Bella said while looking down. "Cheating sucks."

"What you cheated on someone before."

"How would cheating suck…if I was the cheater…I would never cheat on someone." Bella said through clenched teeth and crossing her arms around chest and glaring at him.

"Sorry…I don't know why I said that…what happened?" He asked.

"Sure…your just trying to make me trust you." Bella said while turning around and facing the river.

"Bella…come on." Jacob said while trying to get her to turn around.

"No…does Emily know?" Emily had been Sam's girlfriend through out high school and Leah's cousin.

"No…Sam and Emily are married with a little girl now…I never really talk to them anymore…but why does that married?" He sounded confused.

"Why does it matter…I really don't believe you to begin with…Sam always acted like he loved Emily…and Emily...she was such a sweet girl…nothing like Leah." Bella said while trying to figure everything out. Emily had been one of her friends back in high school.

"Bella come on…lets get moving…Sam and Leah stopped their affair shortly after I found out…Sam came to me to apologize and told me that he had quit things with Leah."

"I am still not riding in the same kayak with you." Bella huffed.

"That's the only way your getting down this river…stop being so stubborn." He sighed.

"No." Bella huffed.

"Bella…lets not do this." He said while coming closer to her. She had not noticed what he had been wearing until now. He was wearing a pair of black swimming trunks and no t-shirt, which showed off his amazing body. He had board shoulders and an eight pack that she wanted to lick, and the V that leads to every woman's wet dreams. She was too busy staring at him until she heard him chuckle. "If your done staring at me…can we get down the river." Bella started to blush, which just made him laugh more.

"Shut up…and I will not be going down that river in the same kayak has you." Bella hissed.

"The hell your not." He said while stopping in front of her. "What are you doing?" She gasped when he threw her over his shoulder and started walking towards the kayaks. "Put me down." She said while hitting him on his back. He placed her in the kayak and slid in behind her. They sat there for a few minutes not talking or moving, Bella was blushing so bad and she wanted to run away. Bella had managed to sit all the way up front in the kayak, trying to stay has far away from him. "Your going to have to move closer to me…so I can paddle." Bella turned around from where she was sitting and stared at him. "It will make it easier Bells."

"Why do you keep calling me that?" She asked.

"That's the name I have called you since we were little kids." He said, he was confused to what she meant. "Remember…we use to make mud pies together." He laughed.

"Whatever." Bella said in annoyed tone. She did not want to walk down memory lane.

"Okay…now can you move closer?" Bella moved a bit, but not much. "Closer Bells." He laughed at her childish behavior.

"What…Why?" Bella stuttered.

"Because I still can't paddle." He laughed again. He found her blush to be very pretty. He wanted to make her blush all the time and it made him smile that she was blushing just because she was near him.

"Oh." Bella said while biting her lip, she still did not move.

"I am not going to bite you." He whispered in her ear. "Gulp…where was Emmett…he said he would be right behind me," Bella thought. "Come on." He said while motioning with his head for her to move. "You're going to have sit between my legs." Bella just sat there feeling like a little schoolgirl. When she did not move, Jacob placed both of his hands on the sides of her hip and pulled her against him. Bella could not believe how nice his body felt against hers and she still could not stop blushing. "Back in high school, I would have been so giddy for something like this to happen," Bella thought while cursing herself. They did not talk the whole way down the river. While coming up to the end point, Jacob pulled the kayak to the bank has the person at the lift was helping another couple. Bella stepped out of the kayak, placing her feet on the ground when she felt a little shock wave run up her right leg from her ankle.

"Ow." Bella whispered to herself, trying not to draw attention to herself, but that did not work.

"You okay Bells." Jacob asked while coming to her side.

"Yeah…just my ankle hurts a little bit." Bella said while hopping on one foot.

"Come on…lets go sit down and wait for everyone else." He said while picking her up bridal style and carrying her over to a bench. Bella propped her foot up and he sat down beside her and wrapped an arm around her, moving her closer to him. Bella was cursing herself when she rested her head on his shoulder, but he did not seem to mind. So she was not going to make it a big deal. "You sure your ankle is okay?" He was worried about her.

"Yeah…I think I just twisted it a little bit…that's all." She said while moving her head so she could look up at him. He smiled down at her. He was happy to see her showing him that she trusted him.