My first thought wasn't badly of Charlie, but of Frank.

"Frank?! What are you doing with strippers?!" He shifted some more in his seat,

"Well it wasn't for me, but for Charlie. See, a couple of the guys agreed Charlie needed some cheering up to do. I reckoned that we get his mind of girls, and the first thing that came to the guys mind was a strip club in Seattle."

"Oh, I bet this made him happy." I replied dryly.

"It didn't." Frank assured me.

"We tried to convince him at first that we were seeing a movie. He didn't seem too happy to see a movie either. He mentioned something of bad memories." Just then, a tall blonde approached. She was maybe an inch shorter than the moderately attractive Frank and first thing she did was wrap her arm around him. His arm slithered around her waist and that made me think of Edward. I had gone a lot of not seeing him lately.

"Hey babe." Coming from Frank that made me feel awkward, and it made my stomach hurt.

"This isn't awkward at all." Alice grumbled taking a step backwards. Frank wrinkled his nose and she kisses him on the cheek. I'm still confused as to where this girl even came from. She looks like she's younger than me.

"Er-Hi." I say. Trying to clear the air, and make her notice that I was standing there have a conversation with her Frank.

"Hi." Her voice is high-pitched and she seems like a hyper kind of girl. She kisses Frank's cheek and her leg pops up nearly kicking herself in the butt.

"Oh, uhhh." Frank blushes,

"Andrea, this is Bella." I offer my hand out to shake, but she acts like she doesn't even know what it is.

"Oh come on." She puts her hand on Frank's chest.

"We don't greet like that." She pulls herself away from Frank and lunges toward me.

"At least I don't. I hug!" She squeaks. She seems like the kind of person to put an exclamation point at the end of every sentence she writes. Wanting her to share the same amount of pain with me I say,

"This is Alice." I back away from the hug. Alice frowns at me, and her eyebrows go up in shyness.

"Aww, Hi Alice!" Andrea's shoulders go up and her hands hide in her sleeve. Alice reluctantly hugs back.

"Wow, you're cold!" She jumps back and then laughs it off. Way to state the obvious. Frank, laughing with Andrea, pulls her back to him and automatically his hand goes down to her waist.

"Yeahh so uhh… She's my wife." He looked up from the floor, she laughed, and my eyes widened towards his direction.

"Isn't it great?!" She stated, adding many unnecessary whimpers at the end. She looked like she had ADHD but really, she was just the kind of girl she was.

"Yup. Great." I tried to show some enthusiasm, but it really wasn't working out too well. Luckily, I still had my amazing acting skills, so it turned out alright. We stood there for about a minute looking at our feet, wracking our brain to say something. It was Alice who broke the silence.

"Anyways Frank we have to get going," Alice said. Thank you!

"Yeahh, we'll talk to you later about…… it." I winked. Such a peppy girl need not know anything about a cheating, stripper clubbing, couch potato such as Charlie.

"Uh! He is my man! You did not just flirt with him!" My eyes widened. What the? Something inside of me was making me go on 'major ADHD girly mode'

"Uh, no. I did NOT." I waved my finger in a circle and I heard Alice snicker behind me. Frank stepped back and pulled Andrea with him.

"Well, we'd better get going too…" She whipped her head back at him,

"Huhh?" She said loudly.

"So… stupid!" blurted rather loudly as I turned around to Alice. Her eyes widened as I could see from the corner of my eye, Andrea slowly turning around. I sighed a frustrated sigh and turn toward her.

"Okay, you may be jealous, but just get over it. He's mine."

"I'm not jealous." I half laughed and said irritated.

"Yeah, ya are. It would be better if you would just admit it and get it over with. You'd save yourself some embarrassment." She shook her head the opposite several times, her finger waved in the air, and I could have sworn I heard her call me a name under her breath.

"Okay…" I said. She smiled triumphantly as if she had won,

"I don't like Frank like that. That feels so much better. I'm glad I got it off my chest." I smiled,

"Let's go Alice." I couldn't remember the last time I had engaged in a girl fight. Had I ever? Where was this side of me even coming from?

We pulled into the driveway and I saw Edward's car. The best thing about Emo Charlie was that he didn't care what I did or who was here. He didn't even take notice. I raced up the stairs

"Hi Dad!" I said, my heart pumping. I rushed to my room door and flung it open

"Ed-! Huh?" I wasted all of this energy to run into my room and find Emmet. What was he even doing? He looked up from the bed. He was just sitting there. On my messy bed spread.

"Sorry." He bowed his head.

"I didn't know you would be home so early." He said. I was still looking around the room for Edward. No sign.

"What are you even doing here?" I asked. He shrugged.

"No really, what? Tell me." I was getting rather impatient with squirmy people. He uncovered the purple bedspread for show a collection of ninja turtles and Male Dolls layout out in a line.

"Sorry," He once more bowed his head.

"I needed a place to play with my friends where nobody would ridicule me…. Would you like to meet them?" I was still in shock of his collection.

"I…umm…?" My head turned from side to side.

"Sure??" I shrugged and sat next to him on the bed.

"This is O'brian." He covered the dolls ears,

"He is really a Ken-Doll-but shh! He doesn't know." He put O'brian down and moved on to the ninja turtle I had seen in the car.

"This… Is Frank. He's a Ninja TURTLE!!!" his voice boomed and he made the plastic leg kick by pressing a button on his back.

"And this is Lucy. Her boyfriend is O'brian, but she's secretly cheating on him. Shh!! That poor O'brian… he's had a bad life." He shakes his head in pitty. Life? Bad life? Oh my God, Emmet is more twisted than I thought.

"So that's all of them!" He smiled a big hearty smile. I must have faded out for the last 8 of the dolls.

"Oh well they're….. so cute?" I wasn't sure how he wanted me to respond.

"Cute?! What am I?! A five year old girl?! GOD!" he wrapped his arms around his dolls and jumped out the window. Alice was in the next room and came in snickering.

"Even I didn't know he had dolls, nice job!" She was more amused and I was more weirded out. There was a knock on the door,

"Bella?" It was Charlie,

"Wha?-Heyyy Dad." He had come in before I could get to the door. He clabbed his hands together,

"Soooooo, how'd it go?"

"It didn't." I bluffed.

"What? Then where did you go?"

"I went to the department to catch up with Frank. " He gave me an exasperated look,

"What?!" I said,

"I needed someone who was atleast somewhat close to you." I shrugged. He gave me a disgusted look as if he didn't approve of me,

"Well how do I know if I can trust you now?" He sighed,

"Well just when were you going to tell me about the strippers?"