Just Friends?

Hey Guys

This is my first attempt at writing a Twilight Fanfiction...
I've read so many of them and have decided to write one of my own. I know the whole Edward and Bella start as friends and fall in love has been done so many times before but I hope that mine will be different from the rest with me putting my special twist on it.
Anyways, hope you enjoy it, after all I am writing it for you!

BPOV

I remember the first time I met the Cullen's. It was a bright summer day so my dad decided to take me to the park. Even as a little kid I knew that sun was a rare thing in the rainy town of Forks. He had left me playing in the sandbox and was sitting on a bench with the parents of the two kids that were playing in the sandbox when we arrived. We were playing happily in the sandbox when I took Edwards bucket. He got really mad at me because it was green, his favourite colour, and he didn't want to have to use the yellow one that his sister had discarded. He hit me over the head with his matching plastic green shovel until I gave the bucket back to him. His sister Alice stood up for me, dumping a bucket of sand on his head. He cried and Alice and I have been best friends ever since. To this day we still make fun of him for crying.

All my elementary school memories involve Alice and Edward. He was a year older then we were and we spent most of our recess time following him around and being a general annoyance. I remember the day I realised Edward couldn't control his temper. He was in the 7th grade playing basketball with his friends, I guess 7 years of us following him around without major consequences finally caught up with us. Alice hadn't even finished asking him if we could play before he hurled the ball at her face giving her a bloody nose and landing him in detention for the week. To this day he uses that as a warning when he decides hes had enough of us.

By the time high school rolled around we became pretty good friends. Alice cut most of her hair off with the reasoning that she could get an extra hour of sleep if she didn't have to deal with it every morning. Edward morphed from Alice's annoying brother to some godlike human being. It seemed like it happened over night. All of a sudden he grew to over 6 feet, he somehow managed to make his unruly messy hair into something other guys tried to achieve but failed miserably, and his body developed heavenly muscles from all the sports he played. I just stayed the same plain old Bella, not growing an inch in height, and was still trying to make it through a day without falling. Sadly I am still trying to achieve that goal.

Edward became incredibly popular getting Alice and I into all the parties and introduced us to a bunch of new people. That's how we met Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett. Alice says it was love at first sight with Jasper, but it took a little while longer for him to see it. Edward and Rose dated for a while, but just like every other girl she couldn't hold his interest for more than a couple of weeks. She found out it was over when he stood her up and was seen the next day at school making out with Jessica. I don't think Rosalie has ever forgiven him.

The day Rose and Edward left for university was horrible. We had gone through the same thing with Emmett the year before but he went to a school that was just a 2 hour drive from Forks. That's where Rosalie was going off to. Edward was going off to some big fancy school with an amazing medical program. There would be no seeing him on weekends like we could do with Em and Rose. Which is why I am sitting here now, waiting for 4pm to come around so I can finally talk to Edward, it would be 7pm his time as he was god knows where on the east coast. I looked at my watch, 3:58pm. God I hated waiting.

Cullen: Hey B!

Bells: Hey Edward. How was practice?

Cullen: meh. Coach was pissed, it was freezing so he kept is on the weight room the whole time... it hurts to type :(

Bells: aww poor baby lol, so are you excited to come home for Christmas, Alice wont stop talking about it

Cullen: yea I guess. I mean it will suck living at home and having to follow rules for a month. Plus I'll miss my friends that I have to leave here

I had to stop myself from laughing out loud. I had never known Edward to be a rule follower. With all the underage drinking, drugs, and staying out past curfew almost every night I'm surprised he wasn't grounded for life

Bells: and how many times did you make it home before curfew?

Cullen: haha very funny

Cullen: sorry B, I gotta cut this short tonight. I'll see you Friday night k

Bells: K bye

Cullen has left the chat.

I couldn't believe it. In the three months he had been gone we had always talked for at least an hour and today it was under twenty minutes. I sighed, shut my lap top down and called Alice.

"Hey Bella." Hep peppy voice answered.

"Hey Alice, wanna get together a little early? Edward had to leave early today" I asked, trying to push the sadness out of my voice.

"Sure, I'll be there in a couple of minutes." She giggled, a little too happily.

I heard a knock on the door, "Alice, are you already here?"

"Well ya, I'm coming in so don't bother coming down"

I turned my phone off when I heard her coming up the stairs. I jumped onto my bed knowing that was where he would launch herself when she came through the door.

"Bella!" she squealed, jumping onto the bed and pulling me into a hug. "Oh my god I'm so excited, Edward comes home the day after tomorrow and the Rose and Em come home on Saturday. The whole gang will be back together again."

"Whoa Alice, slow down." I laughed, "How's Jasper?"

"We need a big bucket of popcorn if we're going to talk about him."

And with that we spent the night laughing and eating popcorn. I don't know how that became our ritual when things went wrong. One night Alice had a horrible date and we put a chick flick on, made a big bowl of popcorn and she vented to me about how horrible her date was. Ever since then every problem from failed tests to broken hearts had been dealt with a big bowl of popcorn and a chick flick. I kicked Alice out around 1 am because we had school tomorrow and I needed some sleep to be able to function throughout the day.

The school day was uneventful. Nobody could pay attention due to the upcoming break for holidays. Nobody was planning on going to school tomorrow so Alice and I planned to spend the day making cookies at her house and then picking Edward up from the airport with her parents.

I woke up early Friday morning, pulled on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and drove to Alice's house. I sent her a text on the way saying I would pick up coffee on my way, hers of course would be decaf. I saw Esme when I was driving up their driveway. She waved to me in passing, looking much more tired than usual. I let myself into the house yelling Alice's name on my way to the kitchen.

"Not so loud! We have to be quiet." She whisper-yelled at me.

"Why?" I asked, hopping up onto the counter.

"Well Edward's home." She mumbled, looking at the ground.

"Why are you just telling me this now?" I exclaimed, jumping off the counter and starting towards Edward's wing of the house, "I would have brought him a coffee so he could get his but out of bed and help us."

"I would have told you but I didn't know he was home, Mom just told me while she was leaving. Apparently he called last night and said he got an early flight, and then she told me to leave him alone and that he probably would spend most of his day either in his room or upstairs." She stopped when we got to the stairs, "Look if you want to go and wake a very grumpy Edward you can, but I'm not going to. I'll just start getting stuff ready for the cookies."

I laughed at her and ran up the stairs. I loved Edward's wing of the house. It had its own hall leading to a separate staircase. The only other way to get into his wing was through the balcony which had stairs leading to the pool. When I got to the top I smiled to myself, it just smelled like him, and it was practically his own little house. He had a bathroom, living room, guest bedroom and of course his bedroom. Alice had tried to take over the space when Edward left for school but Carlsile said Edward would always need his own space when he came home from school, so it would always be his.

I ran down the hall to his bedroom door and went to open the door but it was locked. I knocked quietly and when all I heard was a grumbled 'go away', I knocked a little harder and with more conviction. I smiled to myself when I heard the sound of feet coming to the door. But my happiness quickly turned to shock as the door opened revealing a tall gorgeous red head wearing a pair of Edwards boxers and one of his old baseball shirts. I pushed the door open a little more to see Edward quickly pulling a sweatshirt over his head, and readjusting himself.

Up to this point I had always laughed it off when Alice asked me if I liked her brother, but now it wasn't funny. I stood rooted in place, using the door for support, my mouth hanging open, just staring at him.

"Hey B." He laughed nervously.

After what felt like hours of pleading with my feet to move they finally decided to listen. I made my way down to the kitchen, leaving Edward and that slut to get dressed. I couldn't wrap my head around it, I felt like I wanted to burst into tears but didn't know why. I mean Edward and I were nothing, so what if he had a girlfriend. I mean I didn't even want to date Edward... right?

OK that's all for today. I'm not sure if I will do short chapters like this one and update more often or do longer chapters with more time between updates. Let me know what you prefer.

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