"Then why don't you try to work things out with Emmett?"
"I can't, Sam, I don't trust him anymore. He's shown me that I am not the most important person to him and that is not the Lycan way. You'll have to understand that too when you turn. Your mate is everything, nothing and no one is above your mate."
"Maybe he didn't understand that at the time?" Samantha points out.
"Rosalie did, she put you above her family and that was the right thing to do."
"That's just Rose being selfish, she wants what she want, damn everyone else." Samantha says with a laugh.
Alexis smiles, "That's how mates are, you're lucky, Sammy"
"So what are you going to do?" Samantha asks.
"I don't know, I'll ask Ambrus see if he knows of a way to shut off these feeling I have so I can lead a semi- normal life. The worst part is that Alice insists that we are going to end up together anyway and I don't see that happening."
In the meantime Emmett and Rosalie are also on their way up to school, and Emmett is telling Rosalie about what Alice had told him and of his plan to ask Ambrus for help. He knows its a long shot but he has to try.
"Honestly, Em, I think it might work. Ambrus only wants to see Alexis happy and he already knows that you are her happiness. So he may be willing to get you some advice as to what to do to win her back."
"I hope so, Rose, because I'm lost. I don't know what to do to earn her trust back."
"We'll find a way." Rosalie assured him.
The next day when classes started Alexis sought out Ambrus.
"Why hello, Pup, did you have a nice Spring Break?"
Alexis gave him a strained smile, "It was fine, except for a few incidences."
Ambrus' brow furrowed, "What happened, Pup?"
"I'll tell you after class."
Their class seemed to drag on, but once it finally ended, Ambrus and Alexis bolted for the exit. The kept walking while Alexis kept ringing her hands. Ambrus watched her from the corner of his eye until he couldn't take it anymore.
"Pup, stop, what happened, it cannot possibly be that bad. Here sit down, gather your thoughts and tell me what happened."
Alexis sat down on the bench, and took a deep breath, then she launched into her explanation about what had happened that past weekend. That Edward was harassing Bella and that he attacked her. Upon hearing this, Ambrus growled menacingly.
"Oh you don't have to worry, Ambrus, I bit his arm off at the shoulder."
This caused Ambrus to laugh, "So what's the problem?" He asks.
The problem was I didn't get to finish the job because I was tackled by Emmett, we rolled down into a valley and he wouldn't let me get to Edward. Then it happened. He told me to kill him because he couldn't live without me anymore. Emmett got down on his knees and wait for me to tear him apart."
"So what did you do?"
"I left him there. I swear I had the perfect opportunity and I couldn't do it. My heart started to ache at the thought of his death and I realized that I'm still in love with him. I felt so much love and sorrow looking at him, Ambrus, that the only thought that occurred to me was to run. Emmett asked me to come back to him, but I can't. What am I going to do, Ambrus, help me!"
Ambrus sighs, he gives Alexis a hug and kisses he forehead, "I will do everything I can that is in your best interest, Pup. Sometimes you may not like it, but always remember that I am always looking out for you.
Meanwhile back in Forks:
Bella is at lunch with her friends, Mike, Jessica, Eric and Angela. She is laughing and having a great time, when the remaining Cullens walk in. The conversation at the table stops. Bella looks around to wonder what happened.
"What's going on?" She asks
"The Cullens are back," Jessica says as she watches Jasper, Alice and Edward walk towards their usual table.
"Oh yeah I know, Alice called me and told me they'd be back in school." Bella says nonchalantly.
"And you're not going to go join them?" Mike asks.
"No, why?"
"Well at the beginning of the year you were attached at the hip with Edward so I thought you'd join him."
"Well you thought wrong, Edward and I broke up, remember, Jes, I have nothing to do with him anymore."
"So then you wouldn't mind if someone else went after him?" Jessica asks slyly.
"Go for it."
Meanwhile at the Cullen table Edward is dying by what he can hear, she really doesn't care for him like she once did. She really has changed, from what he can tell in the minds of the others. Edward was definitely going to have do as Carlisle suggested and get to know her all over again.
Suddenly Alice stands up, "Come on."
"Come on where?" Jasper asks, while Edward shakes his head no.
"We need to start somewhere, Edward. Alice tells him, "So let's go sit with Bella."
Edward reluctantly gets up and follows Alice and Jasper."
"Hi, can we sit here?" Alice asks.
The group goes quiet for a moment until Angela speaks up, "Of course the more the merrier."
The group makes room for the Cullens and Edward goes to sit next to Bella but Alice beats him to it, leaving him to sit next to Mike. Bella hugs Alice and tells both Jasper and Alice she's glad their back, but she completely ignores Edward.
As lunch continues, Edward is staring at Bella until Alice tells him to knock it off it looks creepy. He gets angry but a wave of calm hit him. Instead Edward settles back and observes Bella's interaction with the rest of the group.
He finds that she's participates more and has more confidence in herself to voice her opinions, which is something that he finds very attractive.
'She's grown up.' Edward thinks.
In the short time that he was away she has definitely done a lot of growing, she's not the naive scared girl he met but a mature confident young woman. Edward can see that now. Suddenly he is brought out of his thought by Alice.
"Hey, why don't we all go to the movies together." She suggests.
The others hesitate at first but when Bella says she's in the others decide to join in too. They'll all go to Port Angeles to watch whatever is showing.
"And I'll call Jake to meet us there." Bella adds. Much to Alice's shock, but the others agree.
They had all gotten to know Jacob Black very well and liked him a lot. And since he was Bella's best friend they knew he would be coming along.
Things with Jacob and Bella were great, ever since New Years when Jake talked to Ambrus about being only friends with Bella things couldn't be better. There was no more tension between them now that Jacob had accepted that Bella was not his imprint and could accept her as she wanted him, as a best friend nothing more.
It was Edward who was going to have the hard time, he didn't trust the wolves to be around Bella, but he knew that if he interfered he would ruin his chances forever, so he would keep his thoughts and opinons to himself that night.
It turned out that Edward had nothing to worry about, that night he discovered that Jacob was over his little crush on Bella and only saw her as a sister, and that amazingly his time with Rosalie had changed his mind about the Cullens, well except him and Emmett, but that was to be expected. Overall they had a really nice time even though Edward was ignored by everyone except Jessica, who was trying subtly to get him to ask her out.
When Alice Jasper and Edward got home Alice turns to Edward, "There I've laid down the groundwork now it's up to you to get Bella to talk to you."
With that, her and Jasper went hunting.