A/N: Sorry for the delay, I've been trying to update as many of my stories as possible. Here's the next chapter.

Chapter 11

Bella POV

After Bridget, Lex and I had formed a plan with Clay, Lee and their VP's, Bridget and I were sitting outside. "Lex wants me to be her VP." I said.

"What did you tell her?" Bridget asked.

"That I needed to think about it." I said, taking a drink of my beer.

"And have you?" She asked.

I shrugged. "Hap wants me home." I said.

"What are you going to do?" She asked me.

I shrugged. "I don't know. I told Hap that I needed a break from Forks, but I don't know if Lex is gonna understand that." I said.

Bridget put an arm around my shoulders. "Bells, Lex is probably the most understanding person that I know besides you. Just explain to her that you need a break for a while and that you need to be with Hap. I'm sure that she'll understand." She said.

"I hope that your right." I said.

The next morning, we got up and I headed towards Forks. Lex and I figured that Edward and his crew were probably waiting for me so I headed to the apartment to see if we were right. Even though I'd only been gone for a couple of days, the apartment didn't feel like home anymore. My home was back in Charming with Hap. "I was wondering if you were going to show." Edward said walking out of my kitchen.

I turned to look at him. "So what's the plan?" I asked him.

"Jane wants to talk to you." He said.

I crossed my arms in front of my chest. "And what if I don't want to talk to her?" I asked him.

He rolled his eyes. "You don't exactly have a choice Bella. Did you really think that we weren't going to figure out who you were? Who your family was?" He said. My face must have said it all. "Shocked? You really shouldn't be…with the resources we have it didn't take no time at all really."

"What do you think is gonna happen if I meet with her? I mean, you really think that they let me come here and not follow me? You don't really know anything do you? Do you have any idea what my brother and my Old Man are gonna do to you when they finally get their hands on you?" I said to him.

He leaned against the wall behind him. "I look forward to it. I'll be in touch." He said before walking out the front door.

When I made it back to my car, I pulled my phone out and called Lex. She answered on the second ring. "We have a problem." I said.

"What kind of problem?" She asked me. I sighed. I quickly told her that Edward had been waiting on me and told her about the conversation that we'd had. "What do you think that Jane wants with you?" She asked me.

"I honestly don't know. Part of me thinks that she just wants to kill me." I told her.

I heard her sigh. "Alright get back here and we'll deal with it. Your boys aren't gonna be happy about this new development." She said.

"I know. Does this change our plan?" I asked.

"I don't know. We'll have to talk with the boys and see." She said.

"Alright. I'll see you in a couple of hours." I said and hung up. I stuck my phone in my cup holder and pulled out of the parking lot, making my way back towards SAMTAC.

Lex POV

I closed my phone and laid it back on the nightstand. "Everything okay?" I heard Jax ask me.

I turned over and looked at him. "Not really. That punk was waiting at the apartment for her." I told her. He instantly looked worried. "She's okay. She said that he just wanted to talk to her…but either way it isn't good. She's on her way back now." I told him.

I laid back down and snuggled into his side. "Hap isn't gonna like this. Not the fact that she went up there on her own or the fact that douche was basically lying in wait." Jax said.

"I know. I don't think that she's gonna take the VP gig, I offered her." I told him.

"Why?"

"I don't know. Just a feeling. She told me that she needed to think about it. But I've been watching her and Hap since we arrived in Charming. Even though neither will probably admit it, he needs her just as much as she needs him." I told him.

"Maybe. But at the same time, I've watched her around you. She likes what she does and she doesn't want to disappoint you." He said.

I looked up at him. "She could never disappoint me…whether that means she becomes my VP or she decides to return to Charming with Hap. All I want is for her to be happy." I told him before I laid my head back on his chest. "You know, that day that I met her and Bridget, she looked so miserable. She was so angry. It took a while before she'd tell me anything. In the beginning, I thought that she might have still been angry from when your father died… but after a while she finally told me that it was because she'd fallen in love and that he'd agreed with you and Clay that the best thing was to get her out of town. Her and Bridget both thought that she'd be safe but then everything happened with that Edward punk. It only got worse when she'd joined me. I never intended for her to get hurt. But your right about one thing…" I said. He raised an eyebrow at me. "She loves what she does. Maybe that's why her and Hap are so good together." I told him.

"Maybe…I'm still not sure how I feel about that situation. Haven't really had time to think about it, I guess." He said, pulling me tighter into his side.

"Let me guess…part of you wants to be excited that she found someone that's just as crazy as her but at the same time you wanna beat the crap out of him because they kept it secret?" I asked him.

"How did you…?" He trailed off.

"I get it. I do. When I first started the club, my first VP Jessica… she was my best friend. She fell in love with this guy from a rival club…La Push…Anyway, after about six months, she came to me. Told me she was leaving the club. I was stunned…shocked even. I didn't see it coming. That was when she'd told me the whole story. I hadn't even known that they were together. Through me for a loop. Like I said part of me wanted to be happy for her… but the other part of me wanted to beat the shit out of her for lying and keeping it a secret." I said.

"So what'd you end up doing?" He asked me.

I sighed. "Well, first the anger set in, but once I'd calmed down I knew that I couldn't hold it against her. I'd been in love once myself. Ended badly but all the same I hoped that it wouldn't end badly for her. So I told her that I understood and that if at any time she wanted to come back that she could. I'll do the same for Bells, if that's what she decides." I said.

"I just don't understand. Why did she feel that she had to keep it a secret? I mean, Bells knows how much we all love her." He said, questioning things.

"I can't answer that. Maybe it's something you and her should sit down and talk about at some point." I told him.

Hap POV

Lex and Jax had told me that Bells was on her way back. I couldn't believe that she'd left early this morning and that she'd gone to Forks by herself. It was completely reckless. I mean I knew that she could handle herself… she always could. I couldn't help but think about the day that I'd finally told her how I felt about her.

***Flashback***

I'd been teaching Bells how to box. Clay thought with the Mayan war starting that it would be a good idea for Bells to know how to fight in case anything happened and none of the guys were around. She'd been doing good once she found her footing. She'd been holding her own. When we were done, I'd given her a ride back to the house. We'd just walked inside the house. Fortunately, no one was home. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to tell her with anyone else around. "Bells?" I said and she turned from the fridge and looked at me. "I love you." I said. She looked shocked. "I don't know when it happened, honestly. All I know is that lately I can't get you out of my head. Your all I think about and it's getting harder for me to be around your brother when you're in my head." I said, knowing that I probably wasn't making any sense.

She closed the fridge and walked over to me. She wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me. "You're an idiot. You know that?" I looked at her confused. "I've been in love with you for a while. I've just been waiting on you to say something." She said with a smile.

God I loved her! I pulled her back in for a kiss. "So does that mean your mine?" I asked her.

"What do you think?"

***End Flashback***

That had been a great day. It had also been the first time that we'd slept together. I was pulled from my thoughts when I heard the crunching of gravel and then I saw her car. I agreed with Bells. I was definitely ready for all of this to be over. Then we could go home and start building a normal life…whatever that was.