Title: Benefits Of Being Friends

Rating: M

Pairing: Leah/Edward

Summary: Edward and Leah have been friends since childhood. When life starts to become to stressful they decide to start a friends with benefits and no strings attached relationship. Will they be able to remain friends through it all? AH.

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything from Twilight!

The airport was crowded with people having just gotten off the flight from Chicago to Seattle. A man with crazy bronze hair and bright green eyes stepped off of the plane and let out a sigh of relief. He had not been home for anything other than holidays or vacations for years. Coming home to stay brought him a feeling of peace. Even though Edward Cullen had loved living in Chicago, it would never feel completely like home. It just did not have some of the things Seattle could offer him.

A flash of copper skin pushed through the crowd and he couldn't hold back his lopsided smile. One thing that Seattle had to offer which Chicago did not was his best friend since four years old, Leah Clearwater. They had grown up together going to the same high school and they even went to the prom together as just friends. They had done everything together. People used to call them peanut butter and jelly or sometimes they were compared to the cat and dog movie Milo and Otis due to how different they were and at the same time they just fit so well. It is actually how they chose their nicknames for each other. Edward was known as Otis the dog who always saved the trouble making cat Milo who so obviously had been Leah.

To say that they had been simply best friends would be an understatement. They had been so much more than that. More than brother or sister, but never anything romantic. To Edward Leah was one of the guys and to Leah Edward was one of the girls. They just felt at ease with each other. Neither of them would ever change that for the world. Everyone always told the pair they would be perfect together and there reply always stayed the same. Why try to be something more when things were perfect just the way they were?

When Leah finally made it through the mass of people, Edward dropped his carryon bag and ran in her direction before wrapping his arms around her waist and lifting her in to the air as he spun her around. God he had missed her. "Milo! You have no idea how much I have missed you. It's so good to be home. Did you make anyone cry yet today or do I still have time to catch the show?"

"You know I don't make people cry before noon so you still have time." She replied with a laugh as he set her down on her feet. "What about you Otis? Have you broken anyone's heart so far today or have all the women on the planet learned to steer clear of you?"

Picking up his bag he slung it over his shoulder and shook his head with a laugh. "I have taken a break from women all together. After this whole mess with Bella I have given up on the dating scene. Besides I have you and you are the only woman I need in my life. Who needs relationships anyways? They come with to many complications."

Part of the reason Edward had moved home was because of his former relationship with one Isabella Swan. They had dated for almost a year until she accused him of being afraid of commitment. She proceeded to list all of his flaws and one of them being the fact he always seemed to put work ahead of her. They had been rocky for months and the final straw had come when he refused to quit his job and put her first. All because he wouldn't take her to some concert she desperately wanted to see. Edward was actually glad it was over even though he had loved her. Yet apparently love was not always enough and he needed to accept that.

Leah's relationship with Sam Uley had ended on a sour note a few weeks prior. He had failed to mention that she was not the only person he'd been dating. He had been seeing three other women behind her back and when she went to surprise him by bringing him lunch at work, she had been the one surprised when she found him already having been in the middle of eating. Only problem was he had not been eating food.

The Native American female nodded as they picked up the rest of his luggage. "I know right? I think love is a lie created by the Hallmark card company in order to sell cards and candy and shit. I have come to the point in my life where I see the truth. Fairytale endings are nothing other than a bunch of lies. Hey do you want go out and get drunk? We could celebrate your coming home by getting smashed."

"You just want to get thrashed." Her green eyed friend challenged with a raised eyebrow. "You think I don't know your game, but when are you going to realize I know you better than you know yourself? Any excuse you can use to go on a bender and you jump on it as fast as you can."

The stubborn Quilette female rolled her eyes before punching him in the arm. "You think you know me so well and yet you are so far off it is not even funny. I don't need an excuse to drink. That would mean that I care about what people think and since when have I ever cared about anything anyone has thought about me? That is what makes me oh so awesome!"

Edward snorted and held the door open for her as they got in to the cab. "And here I thought it was your sparkling personality. You are just so damn charming and I could never understand how anyone could ever resist you. Since you don't need an excuse to drink I say let us go get plastered. Oh thanks again for letting me stay at your place. I am hoping to find an apartment soon and I didn't want to crash at home since that would make me seem like some sort of loser."

"We wouldn't want to let the truth out then would we?" The russet skinned female stated with a laugh as she gave the cab driver directions to a bar she frequented quite often. "You know I'm really glad you are home. I've missed you a lot Otis."

"I've missed you to Milo." He placed a soft kiss on the top of her head. "Life has been boring without you. Now that I am back the world better watch out cause team trouble is back in action!"

TBC…

AN: So I know I should concentrate on my other stories, but this idea was eating away at my brain ever since I saw Friends with Benefits and I had to write it. The idea was so heavily on my mind that it was giving me writers block for other stories. So this is the introduction. I do hope that you all will like it and other chapters I plan to have longer, but this is the introduction and I wanted it kind of short. I wanted to show their friendship and I think I succeeded.

Please R&R like always!

Preview for the next chapter:

"What about her?"

"She's a six." "What about him?"

"Four."

"A four really? I would have given him a strong five at the very least."

"Well you're not me so it doesn't matter what you think." "What about her?"

"Strong eight." "I have to admit that not being with Bella I miss the sex."

"I miss sex to."