Bella's POV

A couple of weeks later, I was in the kitchen making breakfast for myself and Charlie. Over the last couple of weeks, I had forced myself to pull myself back together, like I had months after Edward left. Only it was a bit different this time. I was making a much better effort to try to move on instead of just going through the motions for other people. I really did want to get over Edward and Jacob and stop hurting.

Leah and Seth had helped a lot with that. They were around all the time. Leah and/or Seth showed up almost every day to hang out with me. Leah had been a rock for me. She had become for me what Jacob had been not too long ago. Although, with Leah it was different. Jake had always tried to help me by distracting me from the pain with something else. Leah made me confront the pain. We talked about Edward and Jacob, and about Sam quite often. It actually wasn't so bad. Leah understood a lot of my pain so it was pretty easy to talk to her and it helped a lot more than I thought it would. That wasn't to say I wasn't still in pain though because I was. I missed Edward and Jacob so much and a part of me still felt that I did something to drive them away.

Seth had been great as well. He filled a different kind of role in my life. We would hang out and talk about everything besides my painful past. We talked about what we planned to do with our lives. Well, actually, we talked about what he wanted to do with his, as I didn't really know the answer. He encouraged me to figure it out though. We also talked about our families and how we grew up. I'd basically told him my life story one day. He was just the type of person that I could tell everything to. Well, almost everything. I obviously couldn't tell him everything about the Cullens.

I was soon pulled out of my thoughts when Charlie came into the room. "Morning, Bells."

"Morning. Breakfast will be done soon," I told him.

"Great. Uh, Harry's coming over in a few hours. We're watching the game," Charlie said.

I sighed. One turn of events that I didn't like was that Charlie had almost completely stopped talking to Billy because of my issues with Jacob. He didn't go to Billy's anymore to watch the game and they didn't go fishing together anymore. I didn't like it. I felt guilty that I had caused a rift between two lifelong friends. "Dad, stop this."

"Stop what?" Charlie asked feigning ignorance.

"You know what. You've almost always watched the game at Billy's. I don't want you letting what's going on between Jacob and me affect you and Billy," I told him as I shut the stove off and started piling bacon and eggs onto a couple of plates.

"Bella, Jacob left you alone on the beach in the middle of the rain. If it weren't for Seth, you would've been there for hours. I'm not going to hang around Billy and pretend that's alright and I'm not going go there, see the kid, and not say anything," Charlie said.

"Yeah, but you don't talk to Billy anymore," I argued. I walked over to the table and put a plate in front of Charlie before sitting down with my own plate.

"Thanks. That's not true. I have spoken with Billy. I talked to him about what Jacob did and he couldn't offer me any explanation for it, which would be fine, as it wasn't him that did it, but then he tried to excuse it by saying it's complicated. I don't care what the reason is, Jacob had no right doing that to you," Charlie said as began to eat.

I sighed and started eating myself. I didn't wanna argue anymore and it wouldn't do any good. Charlie was stubborn. When we were both done eating, I brought out dishes to the sink.

"Leave them in there, Bells. I'll do them. You cooked, so I can do the dishes," Charlie said.

Just then we both heard a knock at the door.

Charlie laughed. "I wonder who that could be. Is it Leah or Seth? I swear, I should just talk to Harry and sue about those two moving in."

I laughed. "It's Seth. We're gonna hang out today."

"Have a good time. See you later," Charlie said.

"Bye," I said before making my way towards the door. I grabbed my coat from the hook and opened the door to, unsurprisingly, find Seth. I immediately walked outside and shut the door. "Hi."

"Hey. Ready?"

"Yeah, let's go," I said before following him to his car. We both got in and he started driving. "So where are we off to?"

"I'm not sure. I figured we could just drive around for a while. I like to just drive sometimes. It's relaxing," Seth said.

"Okay," I said.

"So how have you been? I haven't seen you in a couple of days," he said.

"I saw, Leah just yesterday. I'm sure she told you that I was fine. Well, as fine as I'm capable of being lately. It's still kind of hard. I miss Edward and Jacob so much and when I think about them leaving me, I feel really low," I said sadly.

"You shouldn't. They're the problem, not you," Seth said firmly.

"Yeah, Leah says the same thing all the time, but sometimes it's hard to believe. I had two guys walk out of my life, you know? It almost seems like it has to be me," I told him. If it were just one of them, I would probably be more able to accept that it wasn't my fault, but two seemed to be more than a coincidence.

"No. You had the bad luck of attracting a couple of losers. There's nothing wrong with you, Bella. About the only thing you need to do different is to be more careful about who you choose to have in your life," Seth said.

"I'm trying to believe that. I want to believe that there's not something wrong with me. You and Leah make it easier. I know for a fact that Leah wouldn't bother if she thought I didn't deserve it," I said.

Seth laughed. "Yeah, Leah is very picky about who she deems worthy of her time."

"Leah's been great. You both have. I know it can't be easy. You go to school with Jake," I said.

"I guess so, but Black and I don't really run together. He hangs with Paul, Jared, and Embry. He doesn't even hang out with Quil anymore. Further evidence that this has nothing to do with you. Black's simply an asshole," Seth said.

I shook my head in disbelief. "Jake swore he would never let himself get caught up in Sam's cult. I really don't understand what happened."

"It doesn't really matter, Bella. Whatever happened, Black allowed it, which makes him nothing but a little bitch. Don't worry about him. Just forget about him. It's the best thing you can do for yourself."

"I'm trying. It's hard though. It's hard to just turn off friendship, though I guess it wasn't very hard for him," I said. The hurt was evident in my voice even though I tried to keep it out.

"You'll get through it. You've got me and Leah, plus your other friends. We'll show you real friendship," Seth said comfortingly.

"Thanks, Seth," I said before turning to look out my window. Nothing else was said for a while. We just enjoyed the drive.