"Bella, it's your turn," Jacob smiled as he came in with the others laughing behind him.

"Alright, I'll do it; Emily, truth or dare," I questioned.

"Truth," she smirked.

"When are you going to find out if it's a boy or a girl," I replied as I was really curious.

"An alternative," she asked hesitantly.

"How is Sam in bed?" That made her absolutely pale, and I could tell that my plan had worked.

"I'm going to find out when the baby's born," she whispered.

"Seth, truth or dare," she asked.

"Truth," he sighed as he resigned to his fate.

"Give me a minute then, I got to think of something," Emily pondered on for a couple of minutes. "Who do you have a crush on?"

"I don't have a crush on anyone, really," he answered.

"That's ok, you'll find someone soon," she smiled before he continued.

"Jacob, truth or dare," he questioned.

"Dare," he smiled triumphantly as if it will be the easiest answer yet.

"You have to let me help you in the garage for a whole month," Seth stated.

"Really, just that," Jacob looked puzzled. "If you wanted to help, you could have just asked."

"Well, I didn't know if you'd be obsessed about it or not, and you take some questions like they were about to light you on fire," Seth scuffed.

"I wouldn't mind if you wanted to come help—it would actually make some of the stuff I got to do easier."

"Alright, do you want me to come over, say, tomorrow then, after school," he questioned.

"Sure, that'd work," he said giving Seth a fist pump before looking over at Rosalie. "Rose, truth or dare?"

"First, it's Rosalie; second, I'll take dare," she answered and then flipped her hair.

"You have to cheer for us in the next three games that we play against Forks," he smirked.

"Isn't there two left in the season," she inquired.

"We all know that we'll be going into the finals," he replied with a smirk.

"Fine," she sighed before giving Emmett a kiss and whispering in his ear. He just gave a smile that made me not want to know.

"Embry, truth or dare," she questioned after she was done whispering whatever she was.

"How about we play a different game," he inquired.

"I am getting bored of this one," Emmett stated. "It's not as fun as Cullen-Style."

"Fine, how about we go cliff diving," she suggested.

"NO," Jasper and Emmett yelled at the same time.

"Oh come on, guys, it's so much fun," I stated as I got up.

"Yeah, it is," Jacob grinned as the others rose as well.

"But baby, it looks unsafe," Emmett stated as Rosalie and I started prancing towards the door.

"Emmett, I have done it from the top of the cliff twice," she emphasized. "Do you think I would keep doing it if I didn't find it safe?"

"I guess not," he stated, "But I still don't want you to do it."

"Bella's crazier than me when she does it; I try and keep it as safe as I can, Emmett. I really do." He turned to glare at me, but I just shrugged.

"What do you do that makes it crazy," he questioned as he continued to glare at me.

"I kind of do a dive, but there's enough time for me to do some summersaults in the air, so there's no problem."

"Why couldn't you just take it easy and just let yourself do a pencil dive instead," he questioned.

"That's too boring. I mean that's where the excitement comes from, it comes from doing it dangerously," I answered with a grin as we reached the cliff.

"I don't like this," Jasper said as he looked down. He had never been the best with heights.

"Don't worry," Jacob replied with a smile. "You can either go down a little bit to make sure that you don't take such a high jump, or you can just go down to the beach if you want to. No one is going to force you to do something that you don't want to do. That's the difference before La Push and the Cullens, right Bells?"

"Jacob," I groaned as they all looked at me. It was like they wanted me to defend them and say that none of it was true, but in part it was. Alice would always make me go shopping, and Edward was the one that made me do whatever he said, with no exceptions. Emmett always seemed to want to do childish games, and I always found that I was pulled into that, but at the same time, I was fine with that. I needed it every once in a great while.

"I'll see you down there, guys," I replied as I noticed I was still getting stares, and they seemed heavier and heavier with each passing second. So I did a cannonball to escape. I was screaming with joy in my voice until I noticed I was close and I needed a breath. Then I crashed into the cold depths of the water. I started swimming to the surface, and I noticed I wasn't the only one. The other La Push boys had joined me. I looked up to see Jacob coming down. I started swimming toward the beach, when I heard Rosalie screaming with joy as well and I laughed. It was good to see Rosalie happy and calm around my friends as she was always uptight about anyone that wasn't in the group.

"Rose," I yelled as I waved my arms as she swam towards the surface. She giggled as she swam over to me, but she turned to see that Emmett and jumped as well. He had a huge grin on his face as he swam over to us.

"That was awesome," he yelled as we floated in a triangle. "No wonder you guys love it so much and used it as an escape route. That much adrenaline is amazing!" We laughed as you could see the tinkle in Emmett's eyes that told us that it won't be the only time that he'll do cliff diving. Then we heard someone screaming like a girl. We turned to see that it was Jasper as he splashed in the water. We erupted into another round of laughter as he rose from the water with the biggest grin I have ever seen on his face—besides when he's with Alice, of course and it's a private moment between the two.

"Let's go again," he yelled with gleam and we all swam to the shore, laughing and talking about the great time we had. We were met up by the La Push boys, who thought it would be better to just meet us at the beach instead of having everyone trying to swim to shore when they would be splashing around like they always do.

"Have fun, guys," Paul questioned as we all came out of the water. Emily came over to us to give us towels, and Rosalie and I smiled at her in thanks as we listened to the guys set up another time that we would all be able to do it again. Unfortunately for us, the weather seemed to be taking a turn for the worst, and if we didn't get inside soon, we might be soaked not only from the sea.

"Come on, boys," Sam called. "We gotta get these fine ladies to the house before they make us go out and get clothes for them when it rains." We all agreed, and we made our way toward Emily's house once again. He wrapped an arm around Emily as we walked, all of us talking just about normal stuff. Rosalie and Emily had launched themselves into a conversation about the baby. Rosalie had always wanted one—she knew she wasn't ready for that step yet—but someday, she and Emmett would decide it's their time to bring another being into the world. Jasper and Paul were talking about the pros and cons about war. Jasper was always a war maniac, especially about the Civil War. He would go so in depth about it whenever he had the chance. Emmett and Jacob were talking on about which car was better, and I have no doubt that if Rose was paying attention to it, she would have been putting her two-cents into the argument as well. She absolutely loved cars—they were her babies, for now anyways.

"Hey," Seth came up behind me. I jumped a bit as I was still in my thoughts. "Sorry about that." He smiled sheepishly at me.

"No, it was my fault; I was just consumed in my thoughts, that I hadn't even noticed you until you said something," I laughed and he joined me as well.

"I'm also sorry about setting you up for the blind date," he replied.

"Don't worry about it; if you hadn't met Alice, then I wouldn't have had such a great weekend," I smiled at him to show him that I was ok with it.

"Yeah, except for the part where your friend drove off on you." My smile dropped.

"It's not anyone's fault but his; let's just say that it had been a long time coming really. He doesn't know when he over steps his bounds and he needs to learn that he can't control everything about the world around him. He's always been jealous that he may lose one of us for some reason. I think it had to do with the fact that he doesn't try and make new friends. He likes the group he's in—even if he fought against just about everyone that is in said group when they decided to become a part of it. I think I'm the only one that didn't have to fight. Alice, Emmett, they had to wait until I had knocked some sense into him about what he could and could not do. It's nobody's fault but his own really. I can't always be there to yell at him for his mistakes and I'm tired of doing it too. Someone's got to let go first, I mean, soon we'll be graduated, and then we'll all spread to different parts of the country. I don't know their plans, but I know that I'll probably go somewhere, I just gotta find the right place for me."

"You'll find it, Bella, I know you will," Seth smiled at me, and then he walked into the house. I hadn't even realized that we had reached the house and that everyone had gone inside. I guess I was so zoned in on what I was saying.

"You need to tell him." I looked up to see Jasper had come back outside, alone, and I knew he had wanted to talk to me before, but I've been backing away from the thought of it.

"How long have you known," I questioned.

"Not very long," he replied. "I guess that I was so into thinking about Alice before we hooked up that I didn't even realize that there was a relationship that was on hold because of the man's poor excuse of a relationship. It's not going to last, Bella. Everyone except them knows it. Soon, Tanya will get bored with him, and she'll move on to the next peace of good-looking ass that she sees."

"Jasper, it's more complicated than that," I sighed.

"Explain," he said as he sat down. I sat next to him.

"She knows that I like him. She knows that fact, and she's playing a sick demented game that has me stuck in a hole, while Edward is blind and oblivious that he is dating the devil." Jasper chuckled at what I had called her, but he waited for me to explain more. "She's playing him like a violin, and when she sees that her audience is gone, she's going to put him down in the cruelest way possible. Then he'll have no one to comfort him. Edward will finally realize what had happened, but he'll never be able to repair the damage that she had caused. She couldn't care less. Rosalie's known all along, but she can't do anything to help as that would only increase the fire of Tanya's determination. There's only one solution: I have to forget about Edward, and only then will he know what he has done to himself."

"No," Jasper stated. "There's other ways then defeat, Bella."

"Jasper, there is no other way. Just forget about it—it will eventually happen, before or after graduation. She will create a scene that no one would be able to repair. Now, I know Emily will need help, so I'm going to go inside and we are going to have one great dinner before we all go to sleep." I got up and started walking up the stairs, but Jasper grabbed my arms before I could continue anymore.

"She's not going to win, Bella, I'll make sure of that," he stated with emphasis as he also stood.

"She already did," I sighed as I pulled away my arm as I opened the door to enter the room. Jasper didn't speak to me again that night. He continued to stare, but I knew that he wasn't going to say anything. Then meal was great, as well as the conversations, but it wasn't what I wanted. I wanted to sleep and forget all about Edward and the chaos that comes with his name. Everyone changed and said goodnight after dinner, and then I was back in the bedroom, falling asleep against the pillow.

"Don't give up just yet, Bells," I heard Jasper whisper. "He needs you, no matter if he knows it or not. Don't give in to the devil's plan."