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"Did you had fun at my birfday party?" The morning after the big event, Eli was busy chattering away to Esme while I got caffeine in my system.

"Why yes I did Eli, did you have fun?" Instead of using his words Eli opted to let out a squeal of joy.

"Well it certainly sounds like you did." Around Eli, Esme seemed to have this lightness about her. She seemed genuinely happy to just be in his presence even when he was squealing at seven in the morning.

As for gifts, Carlisle and Esme had brought Eli some clothes designed by Alice, a Cowboys jersey and about two dozen assorted toys including an entire collection of Leap Frog items and a play doctor set. The gift I was most excited about was the membership to an indoor play area that boasted about having a trampoline covered room. Carlisle and Esme had promised that they would take Eli to check it out today, thus why we were all awake so early.

"Here you go Eli." Esme had made a smiley face pancake for him as well as one in the shape of an E. As soon as everyone was done eating we all packed into my S.U.V. and drove to the play zone with me entering first.

"Good morning my name is Isabella Swan; I believe you're expecting us." The employee at the front stared at me speechless for a moment before she gathered her wits.

"Yes Ms. Swan, your family wanted some privacy in the trampoline room, correct?" I nodded before adding onto her statement.

"I was told you could turn the security cameras off in that room, my son's image is not be recorded."

"Of course Ms. Swan." I watched the employee turn off the camera before I signaled for Carlisle and Esme to bring over Eli.

"Are you excited to do some jumping Eli?" Carlisle asked him as we made our way over to the room.

"Yes, I be just like Superman!"

You'd think that you'd eventually run out of ways to entertain yourself in a room like the trampoline room but Eli was able to keep busy for three and a half hours. There was plenty of chasing, jumping and superhero posing as he ran wild around the room with all of us trying to keep up with him.

"This was the best day, thanks Grandma and Grandpa!" Every time Eli used the G words, Carlisle and Esme would both beam for the next couple of hours.
"When you gon' visit next?" Eli asked curiously, neither of them seemed to know what to say so I took it upon myself to answer the question.

"Well Eli, in a couple of months when we go to visit Popo I was thinking we could visit them as well." Eli seemed mystified.

"You mean they live near Popo?" Carlisle nodded bringing on another question from my little Superman.
"Do you know my Popo? He's the bestest police man ever." Carlisle spent the rest of the ride attempting to explain how he had met Charlie to Eli as well as how a police force worked.

"Wowee!" Eli exclaimed as we were pulling into the driveway.
"You mean Popo isn't the only police man in Washing? How many mo' are there?"

Esme and Carlisle left the next day after each receiving a dozen hugs from Eli. I had just sent him off with Angela so I could reorganize and regroup when I received a phone call.

"Hello."

"Don't spare me the niceties; get your ass on twitter right now. There's something you need to explain." Mike was obviously upset by something and I went through my mind trying to figure out what as I got onto twitter.

"What do you want me to look at Mike?" I asked him before clueing into the fact that Jacob had directed a tweet at me.
"Oh fuck!" I groaned, rereading the message to make sure I had read it correctly. Clear as day Jacob had posted 'I used to be a beast but you've changed me into a prince #forevermore' along with a photo of the two of us cuddling that Angela had taken.

"What the hell is that?" Mike roared on the other end, reminding me he was on the phone.

"I was going to tell you eventually Mike; I didn't think Jake would pull shit like this."

"Tyler is even more upset, there's no way he can cover over this." He referenced my publicist.

"At least it was Jacob and not the paparazzi Michael."

"This still looks bad though. He introduced the relationship, not you, which makes you look weak. No tattooed model gets photo shoots because people think she's weak." Michael had a point, I didn't want to look weak to the media but I had to hear from Jacob before I even considered siding with Mike.

"I'll talk to Jacob, you and Tyler better not do anything drastic." I made reference to Mike's best friend and my publicist.

"If you don't call me back within the hour, I might just kill myself." I rolled my eyes at his over dramatics before hanging up.

Jacob was out front of my garage cleaning his bike when I stormed up to him.

"Really a Disney reference Jake? You tell the world about our relationship, without my consent by the way, using a Disney reference?"

"I couldn't hide it anymore Bells, what can I say?" He didn't even look away from his bike.

"So you just decided to tell the world without consulting me, doesn't that defeat the meaning of the word relationship?" Jacob finally looked up from his cleaning, standing up to his full height.

"He called me Daddy Bella; you heard it as well as I did. I'm just doing what feels right."

"Parenting isn't about doing what feels right for you though Jake, it's not about acting impulsively. If you want to help me raise Eli then we have to do things as a team, God damnit, and teams don't throw their team mates under the bus!"

"Are you upset about this because of Mike? Just hire a new manager."

"That's only part of it Jacob, you did this without my permission. If we'd announced this together it would look much better." His eyes flared with rage.

"So that's it, you're just upset because you don't think the public is going to see you in the right light."

"Does it matter why I'm upset?"

"Yes it does, if you're upset because of how you think you are being portrayed then that's bullshit, something I'd expect from a media whore not from you." I could tell I was on the brink of losing it, I guess Jacob could tell as well because his face softened ever so slightly.

"Bella I didn't mean-" I didn't hear him finish the sentence; I was too busy storming into the garage. Jacob didn't catch onto what I was doing until my keys were already turning and the ignition in my S.U.V. was igniting. He tried to stop me, tried to get me to slow down the vehicle, but it was too late and I was already barreling down my driveway.

I stewed for over 20 minutes, venting silent about what Jacob had just said to me before my phone started to ring. Realizing Mike was probably calling to see how successful I was with handling Jake, I pulled over to the side of the road so I could pick up my phone.

"Is it handled?" Mike was always straight to the point, usually I loved that about him but today I wanted to just punch him out.

"Mike I-" "Mike I-" I heard the squeal of the breaks behind me too late to steer out of the way.

And then there was nothing.

JPOV

Of course I fucked up talking to Bella, I had planned some super romantic statement in my head but when she came at me I got flustered.

"Jacob." Angela interrupted my thoughts as she entered the room, an upset look on her face.

"What is it Ang?" Angela never gets upset so I knew something had to be off.

"Michael Newton is at the door, he needs to talk to you."

"Fuck that, I don't want to talk-" She cut me off, a desperate look on her face.

"Yes you do Jake; this is something you need to hear." With that she rushed back to the play room where Eli was. I decided to take my sweet time making my way over to see Michael, hoping to make him sweat a little. When I finally did reach the door however, I was shocked with what I saw. Mike looked raw, his whole face was red and his frame was shaking with silent sobs. Behind him stood a stoic police officer who had absolutely no emotion on his face.

"Jake, its bad… really bad." Mike could barely manage that short sentence that left my imagination trying to piece together what he meant. Finally he gestured for the police man to break whatever news he couldn't.

"Mr. Black, there's been an accident." My mind reeled at what could have happened to get Mike upset like this. The only explanation I could think of was that something happened to my father or Charlie and Bells was still too upset to talk to me.

"What? Who was involved, is Bella already on her way to the airport. I've fucked up badly and I need to make things right." Angela interrupted before I could start rambling some more.

"Bella was in the accident Jake; someone hit her as she was pulling over to talk on her phone."

"Wait, what?" Surely Angela was wrong but then again Mike hadn't stopped sobbing.

"Mr. Newton wanted me to pick you up before I drove him over to the hospital. He thought you'd be upset if he arrived first." The police officer spoke but his words didn't make sense to me.

"What?"

"We've contacted Ms. Swan's father, he's catching the first flight possible."

"Charlie doesn't like to miss work. He didn't even miss it for Eli's birthday." I told Angela hoping she'd reveal everything was all a ruse. She wrapped her arms around me instead.

"I'm sorry Jake but it will all be alright, it always turns out alright."

"What?" I still couldn't understand her words and that's when it hit me all at once. Bella was hit, she was hurt. Hurt enough that Charlie was willing to miss work for her.

"He's going to faint." I heard Angela shout before my knees buckled.

I'm sorry Bella, I'm so fucking sorry.

Next up: We find out more of the Bella/Jacob back story.