Here is the next chapter, a little more action in this chapter, along with more explaining. I hope this clear a things up a little bit. Also, next chapter should be finally be the ball. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter and does not get too mad at me. Again, the characters to not belong to me, but the author. The only thing that belongs to me is the characters I came up with and the storyline.

Bella was too busy helping her mother fix the flowerpots outside of her father's office. Well her mother was painting the flowerpots and she was painting a stone goose, while Emmett and her father were hanging flower baskets and Rose was sitting beside her talking about anything that came to her mind and that happened to be how Emmett had pissed off that morning. Henri was with his grandparents that were helping out at the school. Also today marked the day when everyone that lived in town or had parents that lived in town, would move back to their houses or leave with their parents. Today was the beginning of founder's week and everyone began to set-up their booths and making their shops look nice. There was also a lot of people coming in to set-up the reenactment that went on in the park that is in the middle of the town. It was a big deal, everyone participated and people from other towns came to visit. Today was just set-up and the big ball that was tonight at her parent's house. She got Jacob to escort her to the ball, the Dwyer's had held this ball since 1862, the first founders week. The town got together and thought that it would be best to throw a huge celebration while the war was going on, it was supposed to help left the spirits of the towns people. The ball singled the beginning of founder's week and everything that would follow. The ball was huge and everyone got dressed in fancy clothes and the Dwyer's and Lockhart's performed certain set of dances at the beginning of the ball. She was not looking forward to that. Her whole family was scattered around town today, helping people out or making their own shops look nice. Bella had not told anyone that she had called James that night before; she had called him about getting her Porsche out of the airport parking lot. He kept telling her that he could bring it down himself but she told him that she did not want to him see. She just hoped that he would follow her directions and just send the car to her. Bella wiped her forehead; sweat was dripping down her nose. In the process of wiping the sweat away, she smeared paint across her forehead.

"Can you believe that man woke me up this morning…just so I could change Henri's butt." Rose gripped. She loved her husband but sometimes she could strangle him.

"Sorry Rose." Bella said while turning around to face Rose, who was fanning herself. Rose began to laugh at Bella, after seeing the orange paint smeared across Bella's forehead.

"What are you laughing at?" Bella asked Rose while whipping at her forehead again, smearing more paint on to her forehead, which caused to Rose to laugh more. "Okay…do I have something on my face?" Bella asked.

"Just look." Rose laughed more while handing Bella a compact mirror. Bella looked in the mirror and began to blush when she figured out why Rose was laughing.

"Crap." Bella laughed while bending over to grab a towel that she had brought with her. She began to wipe away at the paint that was on smeared on her forehead.

"So where have you have been these past couple of days…Alice was really pissed that you left?" Rose laughed.

"I was in London." Bella replied.

"You mean London…has in London, England?" Rose said while rubbing her stomach.

"Yeah." Bella said while just trying to get the paint off of her skin.

"Why where you there?" Rose asked.

"Rose…I can't tell you why." Bella said while dunking the towel in some water and rubbing at her forehead.

"I know for a fact that Jacob went with you…Alice wouldn't shut up about it…so why does he get to know and we don't?" Rose asked with a pointed look. Rose was someone you could not lie to and Bella was having a hard time lying to her.

"I lied to him." Bella said while raising her head to look at Rose.

"You know you can tell me." Rose said while looking back at Bella.

"I know but its something that could ruin my family."

"Like what?" Rose asked.

"You have to promise me that you won't tell anyone." Bella said while looking back up at Rose

"I promise." Bella could not believe that she was about to tell Rose of why she was really in London.

"I was there to meet my father." Bella said quietly.

"Your father." Rose whispered.

"Yeah…I learned my mother cheated on my dad and that he wasn't my real dad." Bella explained while biting her lip. She was really nervous about telling Rose part of the truth.

"What?" Rose shouted.

"Shh." Bella said while playfully swatting at her. "Yeah…I was just surprised has you…but it explains some things…the reason why I don't look like either of my parents."

"Yeah but that could have been anything…you could have looked like an old relative or something." Rose said.

"Yeah but it explains everything…so I figured out where he lived and I went to find him…I found him alright." Bella paused. "He wanted nothing to do with me and basically told me to get." Bella knew she was lying about a few things, but the part about her father, she was happy to finally get it off of her chest. "No one but you, my mom and me know about this…you can't tell anyone…not even Alice and Jacob just thinks I was there for business and that I was fired."

"Yeah sure I won't tell anyone…I am sorry sweetie." Rose said while trying to smile at Bella.

"Whatever." Bella said while going back to trying to rub the paint off of her forehead. "Its his loss." She really thought that. Part of her wanted to know the man that shared part of he DNA with her, but the other part kept telling her that she already had a father and she did not need another.

"Hey Bella who is that your mother is staring at?" Rose asked.

"What are you talking about?" Bella said while quickly raising her head up, but in the process she knocked her head into the goose's peak. "Shit." Bella said while touching the top of her head. She was not bleeding and her head only hurt a bit, so she was thanking her lucky stars that she did not need to go see her uncle Carlisle.

"You beheaded the goose." Rose laughed while looking at the goose's head that was now laying on the ground. Bella looked down to where Rose was looking and cursed more.

"Well shit." Bella said while standing and picking up the goose's head and pacing it on the table beside the rest of the goose. When she stood, she noticed something that she thought she would never see again. It was Edward and Charlie; they were getting out of a shiny 2011 silver Volvo S60. She could not get over how handsome Edward looked getting out of the Volvo, he was dressed in a pair of jeans that hung low on his hips and black button up, with the sleeves rolled up. The shirt hugged his body nicely, showing off his lean body. She just stood there and stared at them. She could not believe that they were there.

"Who are they?" Rose asked while coming to stand behind her.

"You see the older man…he is my real father…the man I went to see." Bella said while never taking her eyes off of them has they walked towards them.

"What the fuck is he doing here?" Rose cussed. She was beyond pissed that Bella's real father had wanted nothing to do with her and now he was showing his face.

"I don't know." Bella said while walking towards her mother who was staring at them. She noticed that Edward had spotted them and began to talk to Charlie before continuing to walk towards them.

"Mom?" Bella said while looking at her mother. She was thanking her lucky stars that her dad had gone around back of the building. She did not need her father finding out anything. She could not bare him finding out that she was not his real daughter.

"I don't know Bella." Renée said while still staring at Charlie. She could not believe that she was seeing him again. He looked different, older but he was still her Charlie. She missed him so much and wished that she had some how contacted him when she had found out she had been pregnant, instead of running away.

"Renée." Charlie said while coming to stop in front of her. He smiled at her. He could not believe that he was standing in front of his mate. He had missed her so much and he felt so bad for treating their daughter the way he did. He wanted to change everything.

"Charlie." Renée whispered.

"Princess." Edward said while stepping closer to Bella who stepped back from him. She was still mad at him for leaving her and she was also mad at him for trying to make her forget everything they shared, along with everything he yelled at her. She knew that he had protected her but she did not know why he yelled those things at her.

"Edward you still look the same." Renée laughed.

"You look different." Edward laughed along with Renée.

"Your bad." Renée said while laughing.

"What are you doing here?" Bella asked while crossing her arms across her chest and staring at both Charlie and Edward. She wasn't going to be nice to them and she wanted answers. Edward smiled at her, he knew that she would not remember what had happened between them and he hated himself for that. He hoped that he could remind her.

"Bella…I don't think you know me." Charlie began. Bella laughed.

"I know you very well…the mind control thing you tried to do on me…did not work." Bella hissed.

"Isabella." Renée reprimanded. "Show Edward around and I will handle this."

"But mom…don't you remember what I told you." Bella said while looking at her mother.

"I do…and let me handle it." Renée said in a raised voice. "Show Edward around town…now."

"Fine…come along." Bella huffed while motioning for Edward to follow her.

"So you remember everything?" Edward asked while catching up to Bella.

"Yeah…I remember everything." Bella said while looking down at the ground. She could not face him.

"I am sorry about the things I said to you." Edward said while turning Bella to face him.

"Why did you say those things and just because we had sex doesn't mean that I can forgive you for leaving me." Bella's voice was breaking at the end.

"Bella." Edward said in calm voice. "I said those things because Charlie was standing there…I am sorry."

"I figured that…but I just wondered." Bella said.

"So what we shared was nothing?" Edward asked while placing both of his hands on the sides of her face.

"No…it meant something to me…but I don't want to be one of those girls that jumps into bed with a guy and then just forgives them…you left me when I needed you the most…I trusted only you then…and you left me to figure things out by myself." Bella said. Tears began to run down her cheeks. "I am getting tired of crying." He wiped away the tears and tried to smile at her. He kissed her forehead and pulled her closer to him.

"Bella…I couldn't come into this town." Edward tried to explain, while pulling her away from him, so he could see her face.

"You're here now." Bella said while pulling away from Edward.

"Yeah…because I am with Charlie…he plans on making a deal with the leader…it might not go over so well." Edward tried to laugh.

"Leader of what?" Bella asked. She was confused about he was talking about.

"Your whole town is full of lycans." Edward said.

"Werewolves." Bella said while trying not to laugh. "No…can't be." Bella said while shaking her head. "This is just a small country town." She did not want to believe that the town that she grew up in, had been home to lycans.

"It is true…your little friend…he is one." Edward said while looking at her. He could tell that she did not believe him.

"Jacob…now I know your lying." Bella said while biting her lip. "Jacob is not a werewolf…he doesn't have hairy palms." Bella laughed. She found everything Edward was saying to be funny. She could not understand why he would think that Jacob was a werewolf.

"Movie…you know movies lie about things." Edward laughed.

"So you're telling me Jacob is a werewolf." Bella said while staring at Edward.

"Well yeah…but he hasn't changed yet." Edward explained.

"What do you mean…he hasn't changed yet?" Bella asked. She was very confused.

"Lycan's don't change until they are twenty-five and they normally don't know they are lycan…it is kept from them, unlike vampires who know from birth…Lycan's find out when they are year from changing."

"Oh…wow." Bella whispered. She could not believe what she was hearing. "So you're telling me that Jacob doesn't know he is a lycan."

"I am actually not at liberty to be telling you this…because you are thought of has being human…but yeah…he doesn't know."

"Well I am not…so you shouldn't get in so much trouble." Bella tried to laugh. "That explains so much now…that's why you hate him and said he smelled horrible."

"Just act like you don't know." Edward said while smiling at her. Bella smiled back at him. "And yeah…that's the reason." Edward paused before whispering. "And because he was with you." Bella could barely hear him say that and she wasn't sure if she should say anything back or just act like she did not hear it.

"Bella who is this?" Tanya asked while coming to stand in front of them. Bella rolled her eyes at Tanya. Tanya was of course being her flirty self. She flipped her curly hair over one of her shoulders and smiled seductively at Edward. She was dressed in typical Tanya fashion in her white mini skirt and pink strapless top with a cute bow in middle and of course she was wearing a pair of white four inches peep toe pumps. Tanya somehow made the outfit look good and sluttish.

"This is Edward…he works for someone my mom is talking to right now." Bella said while pointing over shoulder to her mother and Charlie who look like they were in heated argument. She hoped that Charlie was not giving her mother too much of a hard time.

"Oh…hi my name is Tanya…I am Bella's cousin." Tanya said while smiling at Edward. He found her to be very pretty but she could not compete with his Bella. Bella could see Jacob motioning for her to come towards him.

"I will be right back." Bella said to them before walking over to Jacob. It took all Edward had not to growl at Jacob. He was hoping when he told her that Jacob was a lycan, she would not want anything to do with him, but it was like she could careless that he was werewolf.

"Jacob." She said smiling.

"Hey." He said while smiling at her. "What's he doing here?"

"It's not important…so what did you need?" Bella asked. She really did not want to explain why Edward was here, or more like lying why Edward was here.

"I was just wondering what the color of your dress was so I can pick out my suit and if you knew what dance we had to do." Jacob smiled.

"Well has far has I know…I am wearing a bronze colored dress…so best if you just wear all black and it's the Wescott dance." Bella said smiling. The Wescott dance was something that was created in Wescott during the Civil War era. It was always performed only during this specific ball. She could feel Edward staring at her. Edward hated her talking to him and could hear everything they were talking about. "It should be himself escorting her to the ball, not Jacob," Edward thought.

"Great…I hope I remember it." Jacob laughed. He remembered Bella and him being taught that dance when they were younger.

"You should…we had to practice it enough when we were little." Bella laughed. Remembering the many times that had been taught the dance.

"Yeah and you had two left feet." Jacob said while laughing and smiling at Bella. "You kept stepping on my feet." Bella just shook her hand at him and tried not to laugh.

"Oh shut up." Bella laughed while playfully hitting. "Well I will see ya at eight…I need to get back over there before Tanya does something stupid." Bella said before she walked back over to Edward. Bella walked up to Edward and Tanya and smiled. "So what did I miss?" Bella asked.

"You missed Edward accepting to escort me to the ball tonight." Tanya said while smiling up at Edward. Edward had accepted because he wanted to be closer to Bella and figured maybe it would piss her off a little bit. He was hoping it would. He was not happy that Jacob was escorting his mate to the ball. He wished that he could make her realize that he was her mate, but with her being only human at that point, she had no clue what was going on between them. He knew part of her body realized that he was her mate, but the human part was overriding it.

"So does my mom know about this?" Bella asked. She was not too happy about Edward escorting Tanya, but she had Jacob to escort her tonight and she would just have to deal with it. Edward could tell that she was not happy about, which made him smile.

"No…but my escort for tonight canceled and I don't think she will mind." Tanya said while smiling and curling a piece of her blonde hair around one of her fingers. "You do know how to do the Virginia reel…right?" Tanya asked.

"Yeah…its not that hard." Edward laughed. He had to learn many dances being in the company of Charlie.

"Then it should be fine…see no problems Bella." Tanya smirked at her. Bella just rolled her eyes at her. "Well I will see ya later." Tanya said while smiling before she left.

"I hope you know what you go yourself into." Bella laughed.

"She seems nice." Edward said while smiling. He could tell that she was not happy about him escorting Tanya to the ball and the monster inside of him was happy about that.

"Then you do not know her." Bella laughed more while showing Edward more of the town and getting closer to where Alice was.

"She's your cousin." Edward said.

"Yes…and her own sister get's annoyed with her." Bella laughed more; thinking of the many times Alice and Tanya would get into a screaming match at each other. Bella could see Alice coming towards them. "And here is her sister now." Bella said while motioning towards Alice.

"What are we talking about?" Alice smiled.

"Just your sister." Bella laughed.

"Oh dear…what has she done again?" Alice asked. She knew how annoying her baby sister could be.

"Nothing actually…your sister is sweet and she asked me if I would like to escort her to." Edward explained.

"Oh really now." Alice laughed.

"I said that too." Bella laughed also.

"What is wrong with her?" Edward asked. He could tell that Tanya was a little flirty but nothing overly horrible about her.

"My sister is my sister and she…how do I explain it…it's all about her and no one else." Alice explained. "I never did get your name."

"Alice this is Edward…he works for a guy that my mom is doing business with right now…we actually went to school together." Bella lied. She hated lying to Alice but she knew it was best. "And Edward this Alice…my cousin and best friend."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Edward said while sticking his hand out for Alice to shake it.

"Bella did not tell me she knew someone has gorgeous has you." Alice laughed and smiled while shaking Edward's hand, who grinned back. "Why didn't you tell me about him?" Alice asked. Bella was beginning to blush badly.

"Yes Bella…why didn't you tell her about me…we spent a lot of time together on campus." Edward said laughing. Bella knew that Edward was lying for her, but did he have to make her blush and make Alice ask questions. "He was playing evil," Bella thought.

"Nothing to talk about…I almost actually forgot about you." Bella smirked at Edward.

"You wound me." Edward said while placing hand over his heart and pouting. She found him pouting to be very sexy, she wanted to bang her head up against a wall for thinking that. She wanted to be mad at him for leaving her the first time.

"She was probably too busy being around James." Alice said with an evil smile.

"Who's James?" Edward asked. Bella wanted to herself. She knew that Alice would figure something was wrong, just by Edward not knowing who James was.

"Jazz please help." Bella yelled. She could Jasper coming down the sidewalk towards them with his hand in his pockets. He was dressed in a white t-shirt and blue jeans. Jasper began to grin at Bella has he came to a halt beside his wife. He knew his wife could be annoying sometimes and how much she loved to get on Bella's nerves.

"What did the pixy do this time?" Jasper asked while looking down at his beautiful wife. He loved his wife to death and would do anything for her. Alice glared at him and he just laughed.

"She is torturing me." Bella said.

"Torturing you Bella…really." Alice laughed while shaking her head. "If I was torturing you…like you always say I would be doing your make-up." Bella glared at her.

"So who's this?" Jasper asked.

"This is Bella's friend from college." Alice smiled at her husband.

"Edward Masen." Edward said while shaking Jasper's hand.

"Nice to meet ya." Jasper said, his southern accent coming out. "Allie…we need to get back the school...your mothers having a fit that you and Tanya have disappeared."

"Okay…fine." Alice sighed and rolled her eyes. "I suppose I need to get back the school…it was nice meeting you Edward and Bella remember we have to get to begin getting ready around five."

"Yes Alice…I know." Bella smiled at her cousin. She did not want to play Bella Barbie but she knew that Alice would make her and there was no way of getting out of it.

"You should come to the ball tonight." Jasper told Edward. Both of the girls looked each other and began to laugh. "What…what's so funny?" Jasper asked.

"I am escorting Tanya." Edward explained. He loved seeing Bella with her family. He could tell how close she was with her cousin and how much she loved her family and even how close she was to her cousin's husband.

"Oh man." Jasper said while trying not to laugh. "She's a handful."

"She seemed nice when I was talking to her."

"Yeah because she thinks you're hot." Bella snorted, which made Alice laugh more.

"There you are Alice…your father needs are help and your busy talking." Bella could Alice's mother say from distance. She looked up to see her aunt Sofia down the sidewalk a ways.

"That's my cue to leave." Alice smiled. "See ya later Bells." Alice said over her shoulder while wrapping her one of her hands around her husbands and walking towards her mother. Bella smiled at her cousin.

"They seem nice." Edward said with a smile.

"They are…I love Allie." Bella said while looking over to her mother. They were directly across the street from where her mother was still talking to Charlie, but this time Billy Black was there. "That's odd…what is Mr. Black doing...that is Jacob's father."

"Go figure…your friend is the son of the leader."

"What are you talking about?" Bella asked while turning back around to face him.

"Alphas having something about them…that you can tell…even from this far away." Edward explained. "It's a way from other packs to know who they have to deal with and who they can actually take over."

"Oh." Bella said while biting her lip. She was still not getting over the fact that Jacob was a werewolf.

"But its surprising seeing has he is in a wheel chair…normally in packs…the betas will normally try to take over if their alphas are hurt."

"Yeah…him and his wife got into accident when me and Jacob were only seven…Sarah did not make it and Billy was left in wheelchair…Jake and his twin sister actually came to stay with us for a month because Billy just up and disappeared…mom said it was because he couldn't handle losing his wife." Bella remembered Jake clinging to her and never letting her leave his sight. The part of her that remembers the little boy after his mother passed away, that part of her wanted to give him another chance.

"It's still surprising…the pack must really respect him." Edward said while shaking his head. He did not feel safe being in a town crawling with lycans. It was a death wish for any vampire and if wasn't for his mate, he would not be here.

"I wonder why mom is talking to him." Bella said. She was really confused about what was going on.

"Charlie's probably trying to ask for permission to be in their territory." Edward tried to explain. It pissed him off knowing that the mutt was the next alpha. What pissed him off more was that he knew that the mutt was in love with his mate and that lycans could marry humans, unlike vampires.

"Bella…dear come over here." Renée called over to them. They walked over to them. The first thing Bella noticed was now Billy had positioned himself almost between her mother and Charlie and how it was pissing Charlie off.

"So did we get permission?" Edward asked Charlie, who smiled back.

"Yes…Mr. Black has been kind enough to let us stay…but only if we go by there rules…but I agreed to it and he promised to tell the rest of his pack that we were here in peace." Charlie explained. "Mr. Black…this Edward, His Royal Highness, The King of The American Coven." Charlie motioned back to Edward. Bella gasped to herself, she had not realized that Edward was a king in his own right. She remembered hearing about it, but nothing seemed to click until now. "And Edward…this is Mr. Black…the Alpha of the River Pack."

"Welcome…like your High Prince has explained…if you do not make any trouble…neither will we…he has explained why you guys are here and I am more than happy to pledge my allegiance to the cause and my son will also…has soon has he turns." Billy said while shaking Edward's hand.

"Glad to hear it." Edward said while pulling his hand back and placing it on the small of Bella's back. He could feel her stiffen up, so he slowly removed his hand. She did not know why Edward had placed his hand on her back, but it sent a electrical current up her spine.

"I have known for a while what miss Bella actually was." Billy said while smiling. "Her mother found what I was and asked if I would protect her…I have been protecting her since she was…my wife Sarah was helping until she passed away." Bella was surprised to hear that Billy had protected her since she had been born and that her mother knew how along what Billy was. "Why do you think…you and Jacob are such good friends?" He smiled. She wondered if Jacob knew all along what she was or if it was like what Edward said, that he did not know yet. "Don't worry Bells…he doesn't know anything…not yet" Billy said while smiling at Bella. He had watched Bella grow up into a beautiful young woman. He may not what his son with her, but he did not mind them being friends. He was one of the reason for Jacob and Leah dating, but he had no idea what had happened. Bella tried to smile. She took a deep breath of air and tried to smile again. "Well better be off…Rebecca is waiting for me at the bank…I was only suppose to have step out for a few minutes." He smiled. "Remember what we talked about it." He said towards Charlie, who just nodded his head yes. "And it was good seeing you Renée." He smiled at her before leaving.

"Mom?" Bella questioned. She wanted to know everything.

"Not now Bella…show Charlie and Edward back to are house…I will get them rooms set-up later and then we will talk…but not now…we still have the ball tonight." Renée said calmly, she was not having ruining her ball tonight. Bella sighed before showing the guys over to her 1965 blue Mustang. She could hear Edward whistle when he saw the car; she turned her head to look at him.

"Why don't you guys get your car and meet me here…and then I will show to my house." She could see that Charlie was over beside the Volvo.

"Nice car…this was my second choice if I couldn't get the Camaro." Edward said while trailing a finger down the side of the car.

"It was my mothers when she was younger."

"Doesn't surprise me." Edward said before walking back to his Volvo.