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Disclaimer: so I realized that I forgot this in the last chapter so here goes. I do not own Twilight or anything associated with it as much as I wish I did.

Also just thought I should say that the inspiration for this story along with Hero of War is yes Dear John the book by Nicholas Sparks which is coming out as a movie in yes 5 days YAY! Don't forget to review by the way I LOVE those.


Chapter 2

The next morning I got woken up by a tiny, energetic, Alice bouncing at the end of my bed.

"Bella! Bella get up! The boys will be here soon!"

"Go away Alice." I tried to turn over and go back to sleep but instead got pinned as Alice launched herself on top of me.

"Oh no you don't. You. Up. Now!" I groaned, one word sentences from the over eager pixie meant you did what she said.

"Fine, I'm up. Happy?"

Alice grinned smugly, "Yes. We don't have time for sleep. There's so much to do today. There's breakfast with the boys, who by the way I already called and they said they'd take care of bringing food. We have to unpack and organize so it's ready for Rosalie tomorrow. We need to go grocery shopping….Oooooo and we should plan a shopping trip too! They'd better have good stores here, we'll all need new clothes and back to school stuff and…."

She was rambling now, as she left my room apparently satisfied that I was in a sitting position on the edge of my bed.

Sighing I launched myself up to a standing position and headed in the direction of the bathroom for a much desired shower. I was a much happier person in the morning once I had my shower.

Ahhhh… that was much better. The hot water fell over my face soothing me instantly. After a few minutes of warm showery goodness I turned off the water and wrapped myself in the towel I had found. Wrapping myself in it I bolted to the bedroom, just in case the boys had arrived while I was busy, but I didn't hear Emmett's loud voice so I assumed that they hadn't made it here yet.

Digging through my suitcase I found one of my favourite black band tees and pair of faded jean. Just as I finished getting dressed I heard a bang followed by a very loud voice,

"Ali, Bella! WE BROUGHT FOOD!" Oh Emmett.

My hair was still really wet but I just tossed it up in a messy bun anyways, I'll deal with it later.

Sniffing the air as I exited the bedroom the most wonderful smell hit me. Bacon! Emmett and Jasper had brought us BACON! So I had this slight obsession with this most wonderful of breakfast food, everyone had something right?

Excited now I rushed down the hall and would have run straight into the kitchen but I was stopped dead in my tracks as I took in the scene in my kitchen.

Emmett was setting food down on the table while Alice was digging through one of our boxes labelled KITCHEN for dishes and handing them to Jasper who had the water running and was apparently washing them. This was not what had stopped me in my tracks however, at this very moment I was staring at the most amazing thing I had set eyes on.

His back was turned towards me so I couldn't see his face but the boy was tall and lean, his skin was pale but it suited him and he had the most amazing bronze hair I had ever seen. It was sticking out in all directions but in the most perfect way. That was the moment that Alice saw me enter and let out a little squeal.

"Bella, look they brought us French toast for breakfast!"

"And bacon, I remembered your bacon! Aren't I the greatest!" Emmett piped up from the across the room.

All I could do was nod though because that was the moment the bronze haired boy turned to face me and everything else was irrelevant. I was gazing into the most captivating and gorgeous green eyes that I have ever laid eyes on and they gazed back at me with an intensity I had never seen before.

Beautiful. Amazing. Green.

Yes those were the words going through my head at the time.

It took a moment before I realized that someone was talking to me.

"Bella? Earth to Bella."

"Huh? Oh sorry what did you want Alice?" I tore my gaze away from the green orbs of amazingness sadly and looked at my friend who had an annoyingly knowing smile on her face.

"One or two?"

"What?" I was completely confused.

"One piece of toast or two." She giggled.

"Oh. Umm one."

She turned and I could see Jasper's shoulders shaking in quiet laughter, I could feel the heat of my frustrating blush come over my cheeks.

The amazing green eyed boy walked closer to me and I could feel myself stop breathing.

"Hi. I'm Edward. Jasper's brother." He was smiling at me, the most amazing crooked smile. Wait I how many times had I said amazing. Man even my vocabulary was stunned into repeating itself.

"Umm. Nice to meet you." Yup, that was all I could make come out of my mouth at the moment.

"Come on guys, you are taking forever. Lets eat." Emmett was standing at the table arms crossed and tapping his foot impatiently. Laughing we all went over and sat down. I somehow got shafted into sitting on a plastic tub as my chair since we only had four actual chairs and five of us eating. How that actually happened I'll never know I know I tried the reasoning of Alice being the smallest at one point but that obviously didn't work. We all dug into the food set before us and I demolished my first piece of yummy bacon, the bacon was forgotten however when I tried my first bite of the French toast. I literally moaned.

"Oh my gosh. This is amazing!"

"My specialty." Jasper beamed obviously pleased we liked it.

"But you like my bacon too, right Bella? I remembered it's your favourite." Emmett was actually pouting.

"Yes Emmett I love it, best bacon ever. You're wonderful big brother." He smiled again, easily pleased.

"Anytime little sis." We had been calling each other brother and sister almost immediately after meeting each other and I was glad, he really did feel like a brother to me.

We kept talking all through the meal, Emmett telling Alice and I about what he'd been up to since we'd seen him last, he had moved up here to Seattle for school three years ago taking Kinesiology or something like that. We also got to know more about Jasper and Edward (I paid lots of attention when we were talking about him) and told all of them about Alice and I. How Alice was in her last year of fashion design and doing amazing, top of her class, and how I was an English lit major.

Turns out that Jasper went to school as a psychology student as well and that seemed to suit him pretty well from what I know of him at least, he seemed very quiet and intuitive. Edward however it turned out did not go to school, he was in the army stationed somewhere in the middle-east. He only stayed with Jasper and Emmett during times like this when he was on leave. I would have questioned him about what it was like but I could tell he was uncomfortable talking about it and everyone else seemed to pick up on it too so the conversation changed to more trivial topics and we made plans for the boys to take us to pick up groceries and any other errands we needed to do.

The whole conversation I kept on sneaking glances across the table at Edward, this bronze haired, green eyed god of a man had me completely fascinated.

The rest of the day went by pretty quick.

After breakfast we all went out and the boys showed us around the neighborhood pointing out important places and telling us stories about escapades they had gotten into. When we had finished our errands the five of us carted bags full of groceries up the stairs and into our new apartment where we put it all away, correction, Alice directed us where to put things and we followed her directions. It was quite comical actually watching, Alice, standing on a chair hands on her hips and pointing all while giving directions and yelling at us when we didn't follow them.

I admit I pretended not to hear her sometime just to see if she'd catch it, and she always did. We didn't finish until suppertime and the group decision was to order pizza and watch tv. There was a brief argument between Emmett and Jasper on what type of pizza to order and we compromised by getting both.

Once it arrived we plopped ourselves in front of the tv in our living room. Alice and Jasper claimed the couch and I saw Alice slip ever so slightly closer to Jasper but he didn't seem to notice. I claimed my favourite chair, it was beige and soft and when Alice and I had found it I knew at once that I had to have it, it was like sinking into my own little piece of heaven. Edward claimed the bean bag chair we had stashed in the corner and moved it over so he was beside his brother and Emmett so nicely was condemned to the floor, which he didn't seem to mind as he plopped himself down in front of me and leaned on my legs.

We flipped through channels until we landed on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory and Emmett loudly expressed how much he loved the show and there it stayed. I had to admit it was a really funny show and we all laughed the whole time.

I had been watching Edward all day and I think I was starting to understand a bit more about him. He was a quiet person, but he also had a great sense of humour and his smile was breathtaking especially when directed towards me, wait, I digress.

He got along very easily with Alice and I, he was really easy to talk to, and he seemed to be pretty close with his brother and Emmett even, but I also noticed a couple of times during the day where he seemed to get all moody and brooding, but as soon as he thought someone was watching him he shook it off and was back to normal. I knew at that moment I wanted to know all about him and what made him tick.

After a little more tv and a lot more talking the boys decided to leave Alice and I so that we could do some packing on our own and have some space. The moment they left and Alice shut the door she turned to me and shrieked.

"Aren't they amazing! Its so great to be with Emmett again I missed him so much. Oh Bella, but Jasper is one remarkable hunk of man (that comment sent me into a fit of giggles) and he is so charming too. You should have heard him in the store it was so excellent. And his body, did you get a look at that chest and those eyes… and his cute curly hair."

"Ahem." I knew I had to interrupt her or she would go on forever.

"Oh. Right. Hey." She looked like she was just remembering something, "but wait. You (she pointed to me almost accusingly). Okay you spill now."

"What are you talking about?"

"I mean you and that other hunk of man Edward?"

Okay, cue the blush.

"There's nothing to spill. I don't know what you are talking about."

"Oh no, don't lie to me sister. I saw the looks you were giving each other all day. Now spill."

"Ok well yeah he's good looking, I mean REALLY good looking but-" wait did she just say what I think she said? "wait. What do you mean looks WE were giving each other?"

She just rolled her eyes and moved her hand in a way that implied it was obvious.

"Oh come on you were sneaking glances when you thought he wasn't looking and he was totally doing the same."

"Yeah right."

"Whatever Bella. I know what I saw." With that the conversation was over and we both started unpacking boxes, we decided to start with the kitchen and had actually gotten most of it done before we decided to call it a night and go to bed. We both got excited realizing that Rose was coming tomorrow and it would finally feel complete having our best friend with us. Crashing on my bed I decided to read a bit before falling asleep so I picked up my very worn copy of Wuthering Heights and got about another chapter in before falling asleep.

That was the first night I dreampt of Edward Cullen.

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