Author's Note: This is a reposting of a story from Shaps account. She seems a bit awol, and Edward asked me to take over. So any readers of the previous version, you know the drill. Edward and Bella will be fielding questions and responding to reviews, for those of you with no idea what I'm talking about.

One week. It had only been one week that we had been apart, and we had talked online every night. I closed my eyes and scooted slightly closer to her, so that my face was pressed against the crook of her neck. Her hair was spread out on the pillow under us, and I was totally surrounded by her. The slightly strawberry smell of her hair. The sound of her breathing. The smoothness of her skin under my lips. I felt her hand running through my hair.

"It's too short now," she said, sighing quietly.

"It was way too long before," I murmured into her. I had gone all last semester without getting it cut, and had spent the last month trying to keep it out of my eyes. I admit that I liked it long enough that she could tangle her fingers up in it, but I hated it when it got in my face. I'd finally gotten it cut over the break. Now her fingers slid right through it, even if she tried to twist them around.

She scooted down so that her face was level with mine, and I opened my eyes to meet her beautiful brown ones. I was never sure which part of her I liked best. Her eyes called to me, nobody saw them like I did, but I felt like her hair was actually the most beautiful part of her. And her neck was my favorite part to touch. It felt so intimate for some reason.

"I missed you, Bella" I said, laying one arm across her.

"I missed you too," she said, smiling at my admission. I closed my eyes again, hoping to drift off to sleep for a bit. I never slept well anymore unless I was around her, and I was exhausted from the week apart. Not that I wasn't exhausted most of the time.

I heard a buzzing from the desk that was at the foot of her bed. I growled a bit as she sat up, reaching for her cell phone. I propped myself up so that I could read the text message over her shoulder.

I'm in Tyler's room, it read.

I watched her type out and send her response. Why didn't you call me? Jerk. I'm in my room.

I sighed again after she folded the phone closed. She didn't say anything back to me. Just laid her head onto my chest, right over my heart. I put my arms around her as I lay back down on her bed. After a moment, she sat back up. I followed suit, and we each turned opposite ways on the bed, me toward the mini-fridge by the bay window in her room; her towards the door that feeds from her double into the hallway and the rest of our dorm, as the doorknob to her room turned.

"Hey Jake," Bella said, walking into her boyfriend's arms.

"Hey babe," he responded. He noticed me getting food out of the fridge. "Oh, hey Ed."

"Hey Jake," I said, picking out a cheese stick and tearing open the plastic. "How was your spring break?"

"It was pretty good. I just went back home and saw some old friends. How was yours?"

Let's see. I went home, because I just started speaking to my family again after about six months of refusing their calls. I spent most of it getting lectured about how I was screwing up my life. I finally stopped speaking to my depressed ex girlfriend of two years, who had been the total focus of my life for about five years. I didn't have any old friends to hang out with. And my plane was delayed both ways, resulting in me spending a fun night in an airport. Twice. "It was ok. Boring."

"Yeah, I know what you mean. There's only so much home I can take anymore," he said, keeping his arm around Bella's waist. She smiled up at him. They made a cute couple in their contrast. He was tall, brawny, and dark, while she was shorter, slim, and as pale as one would expect from someone who had just finished a winter in Chicago. Even though she had just got back from visiting her mother in Jacksonville.

I liked Jacob, he was a nice guy, and that was what she needed. A nice calm normal relationship. But I felt like it was really awkward when all three of us hung out, so...

"I'm gonna go check out who's in the lounge," I said, casually taking a bite out of my cheese stick. "See ya around."

They parted from where they had been standing in front of the door to let me pass, and I threw a smile back at them as I left. I was still smiling as I made my way through the concrete hallway of our dorm to the lounge, a huge common room that had a shared TV, couches and tables galore, and a kitchen are for everyone who lived on our floor. Bella really seemed happy with Jacob. I was glad that she had found someone she could be happy with, especially after her last boyfriend. I looked around the room. People were chatting with each other over what they had done during break, or playing games or working on chemistry together. I was the only one with nobody. I sighed. I needed more friends than just Bella and her roommate Alice, who wasn't back yet. I mean, I am happy that Bella found someone, but now I don't have anyone to hang out with.

Plus, I'm completely in love with her.