Hey Everyone, I decided to discontinue Hawkeye Meets Snake, since it wasn't getting good reviews. I hope that this story is better and it catches your eye. Don't be afraid to tell me what I can improve on, because I'll need to know that type of stuff to make the story better. Please Enjoy. The Italian translations will appear at the end of the chapters.

These characters are sadly not mine, but Stephenie Meyer's. The story was influenced by Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married movie.

BPOV

Getting Ready

I was packing my last bag for our trip to Aspen for our couples retreat. Edward and I are going on a retreat with Alice and Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie, and Ben and Angela to come together, remember why we got married, and just relax.

Edward and I married two and a half years ago on a beach in Hawaii. I wore a beautiful beach wedding dress, and my brother's twin daughters were my flower girls. Every day I think about my wedding and wonder how the hell I ended up with the most beautiful man that God could have created.

Maybe I should tell you a little more about myself.

My name is Isabella Marie Gabriele Cullen; I am 22 years old, fully Italian, and have a twin older brother by 2 minutes named Cristiano, and another older brother who is 25 named Giovanni . My parents are Charlie and Renee Swan, who live in Forks, Washington running their business chain of Italian Restaurants all over the United States. Their restaurant was named in honor of my siblings and I "Piccoli Tesori" which is 'little darlings' in Italian. I am a photographer with my own well known business in upstate New York.

I am quite short for my age, coming to only 5'0 as Italian women are usually short. I have light tan skin, long, shiny mahogany hair that stops a little about my waste, and chocolate brown eyes.

"Baby are you ready yet, we have to get on the road in less than ten minutes if we want to get to the retreat on time, and please finish getting ready." my beautiful husband said as he sauntered into our bedroom.

My husband, Edward Anthony Cullen, is the sexiest man you will ever meet on the planet. His sculptured body was made by the hands of God himself, and his beautiful emerald green eyes bore into my soul every time I look into them. He has two older brothers Jasper and Emmett, who as you know will be at the retreat with my cousin Alice Chiara Cullen and best friend Rosalie Lilian Hale-Cullen. He is a pediatrician at New York United Medical Center, and one of the best.

"I'm coming let me just push…this…last…thing…into my bag!" I said trying to squeeze my last pair of boots into my shoes bag. I zipped it up with a big struggle and Edward grabbed it bringing it down stairs to put it into our 2010 black Lexus RX350.

I put on my cream colored turtle neck, short sleeved blouse, white trench coat, black skinny jeans, and black boots as it is only 20 degrees outside on this cold winter morning in New York. I left my hair down and decided to not put on any make up. I walked downstairs, cutting lights off on my way out and locked the door.

"Finally, we can hit the road." Edward said.

"Let's ride." was my reply.

Edward turned the heat on high so the car could warm up, and I took of my coat and shoes getting comfy.

"I'm gonna call Alice and Rosalie to see if they are on the road yet." I dialed Alice's number first.

"Hello?"

"Hey Ali, are you guys hitting the road yet?"

"We've been driving for about five minutes now, but we're stopping to get some coffee and a little something to eat. I already called Rose, their doing the same."

"Okay sounds good to me; I'll call you a little later to check up."

"Okay sounds good Bells, love you, bye!" she said with her soprano voice twinkling over the phone.

"Love you too, bye!" I hung up and turned to Edward.

"Okay baby, everyone is on the road and stopping to get something to eat, stop at Starbucks so we can do the same."

"Okay, there's one up ahead." He pulled into the Starbucks and got out, jogging to my side and opening my door to help me out.

"Be careful baby its slippery." He told me grabbing my hand after I finished buttoning my coat and helped me out not letting go of my hand.

We walked up to the counter and a tall strawberry blond with blue eyes turned around and stopped immediately after spotting my husband.

"Hello welcome to Starbucks, how may I help you?" she purred, I raised our hands, but she didn't even acknowledge me dangling our connected hands in her face so she can see he is mine. Bitch

"Yeah, I would like a caramel frappuccino, and he would like a large decaf coffee, with two blueberry scones, and if you don't stop ogling my husband, I'm going to gouge you eyes out and role like dice!" I yelled the last part. I ordered for both Edward and I since we've been getting the same thing from Starbucks for over three years.

"And who do you think you are?" she sneered at me with pure hatred in her eyes, that didn't scare me by the least since she has never seen a Rosalie death glare. I thrust Edwards and my wedding rings into her face and hissed with a deadly look in my eyes.

"He is my husband, and if you want to keep all that pretty little strawberry blond hair attached to you head, I'd advise you to back off, and get our order; NOW!" I yelled in her face as she was shocked and just stood there gaping at me with fear until I yelled in her face, and she scampered away getting our order."

We walked back to the car and got in with an amused Edward and a fuming me. He grabbed my hand and kissed it, placing it on his knees as we drove away.

"Not that I don't find your possessiveness sexy, but if you keep threatening women that try to flirt with me, you'll end up being sued for harassment." He said with a chuckle. I ranted, not even thinking about what he just said.

"Who does that bitch think she is flirting with you like I'm not even there? I was literally dangling our hands in her face,Edward, and she still didn't see it. That whore better be glad all she got was me threatening her, because it almost became a promise."

"Breathe Bella." He told me, and I finally noticed that I was so mad I was heaving for breaths. I took deep breaths and calmed down.

"You okay now baby?"

"Yeah I'm fine and I'm hungry." I grabbed my scone and started to eat it, followed by Edward doing the same. After I finished my breakfast and coffee, I took off my coat and shoes, and declined my chair.

"Wake me up around two so I can take over." Edward and I decided that we would switch off so he was able to get some sleep. He would have driven eleven hours and I would drive the remaining ten.

I saw him nod and turn on the soothing compositions of his piano playing from the CD he made me for one of my birthdays. It started with my lullaby lulling me into dream land before I knew it.

"Baby, Bella baby wake up." I could hear Edward waking me up. I sat up with a start getting ready to switch places with him.

"No baby, I just stopped at a rest stop so we can use the bathroom and get something to eat. I heard you stomach grumble while you were sleeping." I looked at the clock to see it was only ten in the morning, so he had three hours left before I took over.

"Oh, hmm I thought it was my turn for a minute there." I said while putting on my coat and boots. He smiled and kissed me once, twice, three times, before smiling and helping me out of my seat. We walked in and saw the big restroom sign in the corner. I found a stall and did my business, washed my hands and walked out of the restroom to see Edward leaning against the wall. He smiled my favorite crooked smile that made me melt and grabbed my hand, leading me to pizza hut.

We ordered a medium pepperoni pizza and two cokes.

"Bella go find a table for us to sit at before they are all taken."

"Okay." I chose the table by the window and about five minutes later Edward walked over to me with our food and drinks. I took the cup holder with our sodas and placed them on the table. We sat down and started to eat while making conversation.

"I can't wait until we can relax, sleep in, ski, go to the symphony, and anything else. Baby, we have waited so long to save up enough hours to be able to take this whole month off."

And save we did. We only took the day of thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years day off to save up our hours. Edward would fill in for anyone that would let him, not coming home until the evening of the next day sometimes. He would be so exhausted and I would let him sleep in, only waking him to eat. And though I own my business, I still put in more time than any of my employees to help them see that I would pull just as much weight of this business as they are. I put my good friend, Victoria, whom I known and trusted since tenth grade in charge.

Edward and I would be intimate, but not as intimate as a newlywed couple should be after the honeymoon, but we both agreed that in the end our hard work would pay off. Though I have to say, when we did finally have sex after a few weeks or so, we fucked liked to insatiable rabbits all over our house and didn't stop until our bodies were so tired we'd have to sleep on the floor until we gained our strength back.

"I know, but truthfully I can't wait until we get to relax in the Jacuzzi, and soak, and fu…"

"If you don't stop, I am going to jump your bombs in front of everyone, right here, right now." I whispered breathlessly. Edward started to run his hand up my thigh and to my aching center when he was describing what we would do in the Jacuzzi and I almost lost it.

He chuckled and withdrew his hand, picked up our trash to throw away and headed back to the SUV. I walked behind him, admiring his ass, and accidently moaned out loud. He looked over his shoulder to me and winked before turning back around. Fuck I think I just cumed.

We got in and in no time were back on the highway to Colorado. I picked up the phone and decided to call Rose and see how she and Emmett were doing. The phone rang twice before I heard Rosalie's loud voice on the other end.

"EMMETT, IF YOU DON'T STOP TALKING LIKE YOU ARE ON YOUR DAMN JOB, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE PROBLEMS. I WANT TO KNOW WHO THE HELL ANSWERED YOUR PHONE THE OTHER DAY. I KNOW IT WASN'T YOU, SO TELL ME! SPEAK THE HELL UP! I WANT TO KNOW WHO THIS BITCH IS!"

"DAMMIT ROSALIE FOR THE THOUSANTH TIME, I WASN'T CHEATING ON YOU. YOU NEED TO STOP BEING SO DAMN DELUSIONAL WOMAN! ...WHAT THE HELL ROSE, YOU THREW MY PHONE OUT THE WINDOW!"

"SO WHAT EMMETT, WHAT ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, HUH? WHAT? YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT SPEAKING TO YOUR LITTLE HOES WHEN I'M NOT AROUND?"

"SEE WOMAN, YOU'RE SO DAMN EVIL!" that's when I decided to interrupt their fight.

"Hey you guys, how is your ride going?" I tried to lighten the mood a little, but was surprised at what Rosalie said to me.

"IS THAT SOME TYPE OF DAMN JOKE BELLS? HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK OUR TRIP IS GOING? ITS GOING SO FUCKING GOOD THAT I THINK I'LL HANG UP NOW SO I CAN TALK TO MY SWEET, LOVABLE, CHEATING, ASS HUSBAND!" she yelled, and hung up on me.

I stared at my phone, and looked at Edward to see he was shaking with silent laughter. I glared at him when he caught my eye.

"Sorry, but you should have known not to try to lighten the mood when they are like this."

Rosalie and Emmett always fight about Emmett supposedly cheating for four months now ever since Emmett got his new job at the sports table on ESPN for football. He used to be on the New York Giants team, but after he busted his knee up, he couldn't play anymore. The women flock to him, with his curly brown hair, dimples, and blue eyes from his father. Though they fight a lot now, it never takes them long to make up and well, 'take care of business' if you know what I mean.

"Whatever, they'll be back to normal in no time. I just wish Rose trusted him more, because Emmett would never cheat on her like that."

"I know, but sometimes women are blind to the truth in front of them." Excuse me?

"Women, Edward? What do you mean by women?"

"Uh, I just…well I didn't…it's just that…Ah hell I'm in trouble." I heard him mumble the last part to himself.

"I don't know, I think you just indicated that women can't tell when they have a faithful husband or a cheating one, as if our instincts are out of whack or something."

"Yeah, I never had that problem with you, because I know you wouldn't cheat, we've been dating since junior year of high school, and I was your first."

"Oh that's right, you did think you were my first, oh sorry." I chuckled and turned to face the window.

"Wait wha…what do you mean I did think I was your first. Baby? Baby com…" I didn't let him finish as I put my headphones in and turned on the music on my iPod that I got out of the glove compartment, and blasted it so I wouldn't hear him at all.

We drove until his time was up, and he pulled into a rest area to gas up and switch places with me. I put up my iPod and jumped over the console when he got out filling up the tank. After he was through we hit the road again, and listened to soft music for an hour before I got bored of it and switched CDs to rap. 'All I do is win by DJ Khaled' came on and I bounced to the song. I raped with the music, throwing my hands up when the song called for it.

"All I Do is win win win no matter what
got money on mind i can never get enough
and everytime I step up in the building
everybody hands go up
and they stay there
and they say yeah
and they stay there
Up down, up down
cause all I do is win win win
and if you goin' in put your hands in the air make em' stay there"

I raped with the CD and could hear my husband laughing at me in his seat, and I couldn't help as I smiled and raped the whole song from memory.

"Damn baby, I didn't know I had my own personal DJ Khaled."

I giggled and shook my head while continuing to drive and rap with the CD. Seven hours, three CDs, and two stops for gas later, we pulled into a McDonalds to grab a quick bite to eat. I was tired and ready to finally make it to Colorado, but I was seriously wondering to myself why I did not do the smart thing and book a plane ticket for us like Angela and Ben did.

My best friend Angela always knew when to choose the right thing to do and flying to Aspen was it. Angela used to be a 5'4, brown haired, brown eyed beauty with a coke bottle figure. But in the three years they were married, Angela went from a hundred and six pound woman to a hundred and ninety three pound woman. She is still beautiful, and lights up a room with her smile, but I can tell in her eyes that she is not happy and her marriage is suffering. I hope this retreat can bring her and Ben back together, because it would be devastating if they got a divorce.

"Hey, come back to me. What are you thinking over there Bella?"

"I was thinking about Ben and Angela and their relationship. Do you think they will make it?"

"To tell you the truth baby, I don't know. When they were first married, you could barely get them out of their rooms, now Ben rants about how he can't get out of the room fast enough."

I sighed. "I just want them to work it all out. They are a beautiful couple, and it would be a shame if something as trivial as Angela's weight breaks them up."

"I know baby, I know." He coed and grabbed my hand to squeeze. I felt like crying for Angela, but I knew she was strong, I knew that whatever happens, she will make it through.

"Bella, do you remember when I first asked you out on a date?"

"Do I remember? How can I forget?" I asked while giggling.

Flashback:

I was sitting with Rose, Alice, and Angela in the library when Rose tapped my shoulder, distracting me from my book and pointed behind me. I turned around to see Edward Cullen motioning for me to come up to him. I blushed and got up, walking over to him shakily while turning around to glare at my friends for giggling behind my back.

As I was passing a table, a few feet away from Edward, my foot caught on one of the legs and I went falling forward. I threw my hands out and grabbed the closest thing to me which felt like some type of fabric to help me stop my fall, but I heard this weird ripping sound in the background. I fell flat on my face and instantly felt a huge weight on my back that made me uncomfortable. I turned my head to see Edward on top of me and his face in the tile. I rolled over, causing Edward to push up on his arms and sit on his knees quickly, looking me over for injuries. I immediately saw a huge rib in his shirt that went all the way down to his belly button.

I couldn't help but ogle at his well defined chest and abs. I could see his muscles contracting as he breathed heavily, trying to catch his breath as the fall knocked the wind right out of him.

"Are you okay Bella?" his question snapped me right out of my daze and I scarily realized what I had just done. I literally ripped the shirt off of one of the most popular guys in school, making a total fool of myself. I know my brother, Cristiano is also one of the most popular guys with Edward, but that does not make me popular in the least.

"I'm so sorry Edward, I can't believe I did that, please forgive me." I started to cry and looked down, too afraid to see the disgust in Edwards's eyes, and waited for him to get up and run out, spreading the word of how much of a freak I really am.

"No, Bella it's…"

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY BABY SISTER YOU JACKASS?" I heard Cris yell at Edward from behind me. He bent down and gathered me in his arms.

"It's okay Bella, I'll beat is ass for you, don't cry." He soothed.

"No, Cris you can't, it wasn't Edward's fault, it was mine. I fell and ripped his shirt when he called me over, and I don't even know why I'm crying! Please, don't hurt Edward." I looked over to see Edward with relief in his eyes as he eyed Cris. Cris was almost as big as Emmett, the star quarterback on the football team, so the fear that Edward held is understandable.

"Shh, sweetie your okay. And why were you calling my sister over to you Edward?" Cris interrogated, going back into protective brother mode.

"Well I just um…I…and…well…I just kind of wanted to ask her out on a date." I whipped my head up to his face to see him smiling softly down at me. I smiled back unable to contain the happiness I felt at hearing this news.

"You did?"

"Yeah" he whispered.

"Can we get cheesecake?"

End of Flashback.

"You asked for cheesecake."

"And you grabbed my hand, pulling me up and over to your table where you had your book bag, and pulled a container with a slice of Red Velvet Cheesecake out, since you heard it was my favorite desert."

I couldn't help but smile at the memory of how Edward continuously wooed me as we were dating, and still does. His distraction helped to ease some of the sadness I felt, but not enough. For now I'll just focus on the fun we are going to have at the retreat, and worry about Angela's marriage when we were all together.

It is kind of funny how we all live in New York, but don't see each other as much as we would like. With Emmett's new sports job, Rose's mechanic shop, Alice's boutique, Jasper's psychology job, Angela is a housewife, Ben with his business, Edward being at the hospital most of the time, and my business, we hardly saw each other much less talk on the phone. We really needed this trip to reconnect as a family.

"I cannot wait to see everyone. Baby, we all really need to catch up, reconnect, and just be a family. Then we need to visit your parents and mine, because I miss them, but we'll figure all of that out later."

"I agree, my mother was yelling at me for staying away for so long, and I forgot to tell you that mom said that you will get a tongue lashing as well, so don't even think about breathing a sigh of relief, because she's coming after you next."

"When did she call?"

"Yesterday." I gulped noticeably. A mad Esme is a scary Esme and I really don't want to pee my pants like I did the last time she went scary momma bear on me. I sent a pleading look to Edward to save me from this, but he just shook his head and said it was my turn to be yelled at. Bastard.

Edward reclined the chair and laid back to sleep for the rest of the ride. I turned on soothing music as to not disturb his sleep. I know my man is tired from driving all those hours, so he deserves to relax.

I drove all the way in silence, swaying to the music that played and just enjoying the silence before we arrived at the retreat, and had to deal with our loud, obnoxious, awesome friends and family. I drove the rest of the four hours to the resort, and finally pulled in to the Woodrun Palace and park in a parking spot near the front. I got my coat and boots from the backseat and put them on before waking up Edward.

"Edward, wake up we're here. Baby wake up!"

"Mmm…I'm up, I'm up." He groaned while getting out of the car. We stretched a little before grabbing each other's hands and headed for the entrance.

"Damn its cold" Edward said with a shiver. I let go of his hand and rubbed his arm to try and warm it, but I myself was freezing my ass off.

We walked into the lobby and I had to stop and look around. The floors were marble that sparkled from the dim light that was set off by the three fireplaces. It was nice and warm in here, enough for me to stop shaking and continue to the front counter.

"Good afternoon, Welcome to Woodrun Palace, my name is Kate, how may I help you today."

"Hello, my wife and I booked a retreat with friends under the name Edward Cullen." She tapped a little on her computer before looking up with a smile.

"Yes Mr. Cullen, you all will be in Woodrun Palace number fifty nine. Here is your key, and please feel free to call the front desk for any help or to book activities, and have a glorious time at Woodrun Palace." She smiled at the both of us and we thanked her, walking back to the car and driving to the lodge that had a big fifty nine on the roof.

"We are finally here. I thought we would never arrive." Edward chuckled at my comment and got out. We grabbed bags and brought all of them to the front door so we wouldn't have to go back and forth to the car.

I opened the door and looked around from the threshold. The house was breath taking. The room had a woodsy feel to it as the colors were all neutral browns and dark oranges. Edward brought in the bags as I looked around. The kitchen was a dream. The counters were granite; there were mahogany cupboards that were fully stocked, and state of the art appliances. I knew I would be in the kitchen all the time cooking for everyone. I continued my adventure and come to find that we had a heated pool, whirlpool spa, gas fireplaces, steam shower, Jacuzzi bathtub, flatscreen TV's, and more.

I knew the men would have an exciting time with the TV's and games that were stocked in the entertainment system for the wii, and us women we were going to make good use of that spa and heated pool.

"BABY! THERE ARE FLATSCREEN TV'S, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT." I waited for three more seconds until, "AND A WII, WE HAVE A WII WITH GAMES ALREADY HERE! AHHHH!" I chuckled and shook my head, sometimes my husband can be a true big kid.

We put our stuff in the master bedroom upstairs seeing as the rule was first come first served. I was so tired that I plopped on the bed on my back and stared at the ceiling. I heard Edward walk into the room and laid on top of me and kissed my lips softly.

"This month is going to be wonderful." I sighed dreamily.

"I know, I'm really excited to get started, but before then I think we all need to rest and regain our strength from work so we won't get tired when we are doing whatever."

"I know baby, my body is so tired all the time, I just want to relax, and snuggle." I said kissing his lips again. I smiled into my lips and pushed away, staring into his eyes for, well I'm not sure for how long. It could have been minutes, hours, days, weeks, I truly wouldn't have noticed.

"You are so beautiful my love." He said with lust and love apparent in his eyes.

"You are beautiful too. I lose myself in your eyes, constantly forgetting my name and where I'm at." Then he made a total one eighty and bent down his head, nibbling his way up my neck and to my ear.

"You may have forgotten your name, but I'll make sure you scream mine until it's the only name you remember." He growled.

"God help me." I moaned.

"God can't help you now." He whispered and started to pull up my shirt when my phone rang interrupting our time. I groaned and sat up as Edward pushed himself off me. I could hear Edward cursing whoever it was that interrupted our intimate moment. I grabbed my phone out of my back pocket and looked at the caller ID to see that it was Alice.

"What?" I grumbled.

"Ooooh, did we interrupt something hot!"

"Yes, what do you want" I growled getting irritated by the little pixie.

"We are pulling up to the house, so put your clothes back on before we see something unappetizing."

"How did you know we were here?"

"Kate said that you guys had already arrived." She answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Okay, we'll see you when you get here."

"Okay, Rose said they are about another half an hour away. They stopped to 'make up' for the fight." I could practically see her shiver over the phone and I had to join in as well. Alice and I caught Rose and Emmett having 'fun sexy time' as our lovely Emmett likes to call it. Her legs were on his shoulders, and let's just say all we say of Emmett was his brown hair and the rest of his body. Ewww.

"Alright, see you when you get here, we'll come out and help you with your bags."

"Okay thank you, bye."

"Bye, Ali." I hung up and turned to Edward who was pinching the bridge of his nose to control his emotions. I know just what that emotion was seeing as he has a big tented problem in his pants.

"Don't worry love we'll finish what we started tonight." I reassured him.

"Oh you can believe we will be doing just that! Now let's go downstairs and wait for Alice and Jasper, so I can kill her for interrupting us." He growled and grabbed my hand pulling me behind him and down the stairs.

We waited for about two minutes until we heard a honk coming from the outside. We walked out to see Alice and Jasper getting out of their Silver Graphite 2010 Infiniti QX56.

"ALICE!" I squealed and ran to my cousin at full speed. She didn't expect me barreling into her, so she was caught off guard and we both ended up laying in the snow laughing and hugging one another.

"I missed you so much Bella."

"I missed you too Alicat." We got up and brushed the snow off of each other and took a good look at what had changed about each other since the last time we met up together.

Nothing at all had changed about my dear cousin. She was still the 4'9 pixie with black, short, spikey hair, light brown eyes, and light tan skin. We greeted each other the way we did every time we see each other since we were little girls. I put my finger on the birth mark above her right eye brow, and she put her finger on the birth mark above my right eye brow. We giggled at each other and could hear our husband chuckling behind us.

Alice was my cousin on my mom's side. She was my mom's twin sister's daughter, or to put it in simpler terms my Auntie Gianna's daughter. We grew up going to Italian school together to learn how to speak fluent Italian for when we visit our family during the summer in Italy, and became not only cousins, but best friends. The weirdest thing is she is a year older than me, but we share the same birthday, which makes me the baby of the family.

"Come on, let's get your bags out of the back, so we can get out of this cold." Edward said, and we all started grabbing bags and bring them inside. Alice picked the second biggest room and we moved their stuff in. After they were settled the men went into the living room to watch television, and Alice and I went into the kitchen to catch up.

"Oh Bella, this place is absolutely beautiful. I can't wait for Rose and Angie to get here, and then we can all catch up."

"I know, I have missed you all so much. Tell me how is your boutique going?" Alice owned her own boutique that featured not only the clothes she designs, but also others such as DKNY. She named it 'Ecstasy', seeing as everyone who's ever been there keeps going back as if they were addicted to the shop.

"It's going beautifully Bella. Before we left, I got an order from Cameron Diez to pick out a couple of outfits for her, because she was meeting her new boyfriend's parents and needed the perfect outfit. How is your photography business, I know you just photographed Alyssa Milano's wedding a week ago?"

"Yeah, that was so exciting. The business is doing really well, I just hired three more employees, since all of the others are booked and the requests for us to be the photographers keep coming in nonstop. Its hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything." I said with a dreamy smile on my face.

I opened my business a year after I got out of college. I named it 'Little Memories', since pictures are basically that. My business was small at first, just being run out of Edward and I's apartment, but after I photographed Emmett when he was still a player in the New York Giants right after he won them the Super Bowl, my business boomed. Now, getting requests from celebrities to be the photographer for their wedding or for family portraits is all in a day's work. Alice broke me out of my reverie with a grim voice that I haven't heard since the time she thought Jasper would never ask her to marry her seeing as Rose, Angie, and I were already married.

"Bella, I don't think Angie and Ben are doing too hot. I have a 'feeling' that something is really wrong, and…and…they might not make it out together." Alice whispered the last part. I knew to take this situation much more seriously since Alice said she had a 'feeling' about this. Alice's feelings were freakily accurate, and all of us knew not to bet against Alice.

"I know Ali, but what do we do? What can we do? Everything has changed between them, and I get phone calls at night from a crying, heartbroken Angela telling me Ben hasn't come home in how ever many days. She's hurting, but she won't let me help her."

"She won't let Rose or I help her either. She says that they are fine, but I know they aren't. Everything is always fine between those two and if she doesn't tell us what is really going on then we won't know."

"I know." I whisper, trying to hold in the tears that were threatening to fall and I could see Alice was trying to do the same. We heard laughing from our men coming closer, so we quickly wiped our eyes.

"Hey girls what are you up to? Bella come give me a hug, you completely ignored me, I'm so hurt." Jasper said, putting his hand on his heart. I laughed and shook my head at his antics.

"I'm so sorry I hurt your wittle feelings." I said with a baby voice and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. He kissed my forehead and assured me he was fine. I turned back to Alice, to see her trying to collect herself.

"Parleremo dopo." I told Alice in Italian, so the men wouldn't know what we were talking about.

"Sì, finiremo questo dopo." she agreed, and we nodded our heads, before turning back to our husbands. They both held confused expressions that said 'I don't think I want to know'.

"Sometimes I wish I knew how to speak Italian, but not knowing what she is saying is sexy, especially when we…OW!" I didn't let Edward finish, but punched him in the gut to make sure he didn't finish that statement. He grunted and playfully glared at me. I blew him a kiss and winked before turning back to Alice.

"I don't feel like cooking tonight, maybe we should go and eat at one of the restaurants in the lobby. What do you guys think?" I got mumbled agreements of 'sounds good to me' and 'sure'.

"Let's call Rose and see where they are at. I wish we could call Angie, but being on a plan and all, that's not possible right now." Alice suggested.

"They should be getting here in couple of hours. Their flight was about four hours ago anyway, so let's call Rose." I agreed

The phone rang twice before a deep voice that was most definitely not Rose's answered.

"Hello, the sexiest man in the world speaking."

"Emmett where is Rose? And who said you were the sexiest man, I think my Jazzy takes that position."

"You're string bean husband could never be the sexiest man, and Rose is driving." I decided to cut in before Emmett lists the reasons why he is sexy again.

"Okay, how far away are you two?"

"About five minutes away. We'll honk when we are outside so the guys can help me bring in the bags."

"Okay, see you guys when you get here."

"Okay, bye." He hung up and I closed my phone.

"Go take a look around Ali, you only saw the scenery from when you were walking to your room, but you didn't see everything else."

"Okay, I'll go grab Jazz and we'll tour the house." We walked back into the kitchen to see our men snacking on Apples. I took the apple out of Edward's hand and took a bite before giving it back to him.

"Yes sweetie, you may have a bite of my apple."

"Oh thank you, I appreciate it." I said with a shit eating grin on my face. He grumbled with a small smile on his face, but continued to eat his apple.

"Come on Jazzy, let's go tour the rest of the house." Alice said dragging him off with her without letting him give an answer. When they were out of the kitchen Edward turned towards me with determination shining in his eyes.

"So what were you and Alice talking about before Jazz and I walked in?" I turned to him and put an innocent look upon my face.

"Just girl stuff, Why?"

"Well, girl stuff usually doesn't make you cry with a defeated look on your face, so I ask again, what were you talking about?"

"It was nothing, I promise."

"Baby, I could see that you were hurting, and I just want to help you, so please?" He whispered while looking at me from under his lashes, giving me a pout that made me wet and melt at the same time.

"Okay, Alice and I were talking about Angie and Ben. She said she had a 'feeling' that something is really wrong and that they may not make it." I whispered. I could never imagine Angie and Ben apart, but how do you continue to imagine inseparable couples, when there is no love between them. Edward just gathered me into his arms and kissed my forehead, unable to say any words that could possibly console me.

I kissed his cheek and walked away into the living room leaving him to finish his apple. I laid on the couch, and tried to collect my thoughts. Whatever is happening between them can be helped if Angie would just admit that they were not fine.

I must have dozed off, because I felt someone shaking my shoulders. I opened my eyes to see Rose standing over me, and it took me two seconds to process that she was actually here.

"ROSE!" I squealed and launched myself at her, making us both fall to the ground as she was not expecting my response. Alice walked by and saw us on the floor with me on top of Rose; she shook her head with a smile and walked away mumbling 'Yep, she did that to me too.'

"BELLA!" she squealed, and we got up off the floor to truly embrace. We hugged and pulled away from each other after whispering how much we missed one another. I took one look at Rose, and my breath caught, she was even more beautiful than I remembered, but I could see a little guilt hidden within her eyes. I was confused, but I would leave that conversation for later when we are alone.

Rosalie had long blonde hair that went past her shoulders. She was a tall, Amazon like woman with sky blue eyes and a heart shaped face. Her coke bottle figure only enhanced her beauty along with her pearly white smile.

I met Rose my sophomore year in high school. She was the popular cheerleader, while I was the bookworm that was not antisocial, but tended to stay with my kind. I was unfortunately well known, because my brother was on the football team and Alice was also on the cheerleading squad. I wasn't popular, but I wasn't bullied like the other bookworms were. Rose and Alice may have been on the same team, but they didn't talk to each other much. I introduced them when Rose and I became good friends after I found out her secret of working after school in the mechanic shop. She didn't want anyone to know and I promised to keep her secret, after that we got to know each other and found out that we had a lot in common. I introduced Angie and Alice to Rose and they all hit it off. After that, we have been inseparable, even when Alice went to college.

"Bella, you look so beautiful, look at you."

"Are you kidding me, Rose look at you, you look absolutely breath taking." We giggled, knowing if we didn't stop now the compliments were never going to end.

We sat on the couch and started to catch up with each other. I have learned that Rose is going back to school to learn how to fix classic cars. I also learned that Emmett and Rose were arguing more than they ever have, and I couldn't wait for later to figure out why, I could see Rose was hurting and I wanted to help.

"Rose, why are you two fighting so much?"

"Because Bells, something is going on with Emmett. I called him once and a woman answered the phone. When I asked who it was they hung up immediately. I tried to look through his phone, but he has a password to lock it and he won't give it to me. Do you have Edward's password?"

"Yes, but just because I have his doesn't mean you need to go demand for Emmett's. Rose, you are letting you insecurities take over your better judgment. Deep down inside you know Emmett would never cheat on you, he loves you. I see it, Edward sees it, and Alice and Jasper see it, now it's your turn to see it. Don't doubt Emmett's love for you, because you have a problem. Talk to him instead of yelling at him, because if you continue down the road that you started, you're going to push him away to the point where he won't come home to you anymore." Rose looked thoughtful about the advice I gave her, so I kissed her cheek and walked away to the kitchen, so she can think about what I just said.

I could hear laughing and talking coming from the kitchen along with Emmett's obnoxiously loud voice. I walked into the kitchen and was bombarded by my huge teddy bear of a brother-in-law.

"BELLA I MISSED YOU!" he yelled gather me into his arms and picking me up to twirl me around. I laughed and wrapped my arms around his neck.

"I missed you to Emmy bear, now put me down before I get sick all over you shirt and hair." He quickly released me after my warning and pushed me away at arm's length to get a good look at me.

I decided to take a good look at Emmett as well. He was tall at 6'3, with me barely reaching his chest. His dimples showed as he smiled a huge smile at me. Emmett was extremely buff and fit. He prides himself on his muscles and ability to play pro-football.

"Damn Bella you are hot. Do I need to be worried about other men trying to take you away from my little bro?" he asked with a shit eating grin. I laughed and shook my head.

"I don't want anyone else other than my husband." I said while turning my head to blow a kiss at Edward. He smiled and blew one back at me. I turned back to Emmett with mischief shining in my eyes.

"Unless Dwayne 'the rock' Johnson asked me to run away with him, then I would drop your brother like he just attracted genital herpes." Everyone cracked up at that, and Edward just shook his head and smiled at me. I walked over to him and kissed him passionately.

"I'm only kidding baby." I assured him.

"I know, as if I would let Dwayne come in and steal my woman, I'd have to lay the smack down on his candy ass if he tried." He said while giving a high fived to Jasper and Emmett who were cheering and agreeing. I rolled my eyes and walked over to Alice, who was eating a bag of Salsa Sun Chips.

"Can you believe these men?" she asked as she offered some of her chips. I took a few in my hands and shook my head.

"No, but you got to admit they are quite sexy in their cavemen mode, don't you think?" I asked as I watched my man and his brothers beat their chest like they were tarzan.

"I do agree." she purred, and we giggled walking away to find Rose and leaving the men to play Tarzan.

We walked into the living room to see Rose watching 'What Not to Wear' on television. We sat down with her and watched, commenting on the horrid styles of the women that appeared on the show. We watch about two episodes, before the men came in and stole the TV, switching it to a football game. We continued to watch the game, yelling at the TV when a player did something wrong, or the ref called a stupid play, until we heard a door open and someone yell.

"Hey, where are you guys?" we heard Ben yell.

"BEN!" we all yelled and jumped up to run to the door. The men continued, but we ladies stopped when we saw that Angie was not with him.

"Ben, where is Angie?" Alice asked with confusion written all over her face, just like ours.

"She's driving. They made her get off the plane, because a woman her size has to have two seats, and none were left." He said nonchalantly. As if he did not just say that his wife is driving cross country alone, and we didn't know anything about it.

"WHAT?" Alice yelled.

"WHAT THE HELL?" yelled Rose with fury burning in her eyes.

"YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS." I yelled seeing nothing but red.

"Serves her right, maybe she should lose some weight." He chuckled and continued to bring in his bags from the front door. All of our jaws dropped, I can't believe he just said that.

"Man, that is uncalled for." said Edward seriously. I started to pull my hair in a ponytail, getting ready to fight this mother fucker who let his wife drive all the way over here alone.

"Calm down love." Edward whispered. I rolled my eyes and walked back into the living room, while everyone else followed.

"What? You guys know it's true, she needs to lose fifty pounds, and maybe her fat ass won't be kicked off of planes." Emmett was holding Rosalie back, while Edward just picked me up to stop me from struggling against him. I was about to castrate this mother…

"Hey, anyone here?" we heard a feminine voice call out, who was definitely not Angela's. A tall, platinum blonde, hazel eyed woman walked in and grabbed onto Ben's arm.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" Alice, Rose, and I yelled at the same time.

"I'm Irina, Angela invited me." My jaw dropped along with everyone else's except for Ben and Irina's. Alice, Rose, and I shared a knowing look.

This was going to be a fucked up retreat.

Oh a cliff hanger. Who is Irina? Where is Angela and how will the girls contact her to make sure she is alright? What are they going to do with Ben? Find out in the next chapter.

"Parleremo dopo": "We will talk later."

"Si, finiremo questo dopo." : "Yes, we will finish this later."

Music by DJ Khaled featuring Ludacris, Rick Ross, and Snoop Dog 'All I Do Is Win'