BPOV

I can't believe I actually managed to say that. I managed to actually repeat what he had said to me on that last day at Forks High. I know he has absolutely no idea who I am. But I don't think that's what is going through his mind at this particular moment. He seems to have some kind of game plan for me. I should imagine he was a bit of a player when he got old enough to actually appreciate women as sex objects. Little did he know I knew how to play this game too. I whispered the words worst nightmare in the most seductive voice I could manage. And it seemed to have the desired effect. He looked at me with what I think were lust filled eyes. Excellent.

The walk to the bar had been a little weird. I still didn't think I would be able to say anything to him, so I just said the bare minimum, hoping he wouldn't notice. The entire time I was just thinking back to my days at Forks High. It scared me that he didn't know who I was, when he finally found out, and he will, everything comes out in the end. What was he going to say?

Then when we finally got into the club and he pulled my face up to his in the same way he had when we were in the lot, I could feel his sweet breath fanning my face, and his eyes burning holes into mine. I told him that Rosalie had told me that I was his type and he made an awful joke about anything with a pulse and a pretty face, or as he put it 'looked after themselves' was his type. That made me laugh, definitely a player, but he's not going to play me. I'll knock him out of the park.

We stayed in the bar for ages and I managed to consume more alcohol than I had anticipated. We were all pretty smashed to be honest. Edward had been staring at me the entire evening while I spoke to Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and Alice, only adding in little comments every now and again when the conversation would turn to him. It was like he was trying to learn as much as he could about me to use in his game. When we decided to go Edward held out his hand to help me out of the booth, and I took it with a friendly smile. I was still as clumsy as ever, and this mixed with a ridiculous amount of alcohol was definitely not making things any better. When we got outside the bar, Alice and Rosalie wanted to go dancing, but I just knew that was not a good idea. Not for me anyway. So I made my excuses and turned to head home.

"Bella, wait!" I felt a hand on my shoulder, and turned around to see Edward, shivering with the cold. "I'll walk you back"

"No Edward, I'll be fine, thanks though" I said and turned again, only to have my wrist grabbed and my entire body spun round to face him.

"What kind of gentleman would I be if I let a poor defenceless girl walk home alone?" He grinned at me expectantly.

"Fine Edward, you can walk me back" I said and turned again. He grabbed my hand tightly as we were walking. It was a weird experience holding hands with Edward Cullen. Like my dreams that were all in that diary, but better, because I knew I was a better person to deal with him this time.

"And, like I said, I need to know where you are so I can come and find you"

"Why would you need to come and find me Edward?"

"Well, you know. I'll scratch your back you scratch mi-"

"I'm not scratching your anything Cullen!" I said my eyebrows raised and a sly grin on my face.

"Cullen?" He snapped his head to look at me properly. "You know my surname?"

Oh shit. This isn't going to work if I can't even make it through the first evening without making a mistake. "Yup, Rose and Alice must've said it. I'm not a mind reader you know!"

"Oh yeah I guess" he said with a shrug but still looking at me with those piercing green eyes. "Anyway, back to scratching..." He smiled and I laughed at his expression, which was a mixture of sexy and a boyish grin.

We got back to the door of my room, and I raked around in my purse for my key. "I know it's in here. I will find it!"

"Say if I were to find it...would you invite me in?" Edward asked suggestively as he leaned against the wall next to the door.

"I may let you cross the threshold yes!" I laughed and he pulled my keys from behind his back. "Well that's just cheating isn't it?" I rolled my eyes at him as he put the key in the door and opened it.

He leaned into my ear as I walked past him and into my room, whispering "Anything to get across that threshold sweetheart". I winced slightly as he called me sweetheart, not something I could get used to just yet.

He threw my keys on the side and walked around the room looking at the posters that Alice and Rosalie had put up. "They've decorated for you already then?" He said laughing at one of the numerous boy band posters that emblazoned our walls.

"Yup, all up before I got here unfortunately!"

"You could take them down?"

"Oh I couldn't do that to them. I don't mind too much anyway!" I said and turned to look at my laptop that was open on the desk, I checked my emails. One from Renee already, urgh, I'll have to read that later. I turned back around to find Edward right in front of me, his hands finding their way to my waist.

"Which one's your bed love?" he whispered, his lips ghosting my ear as said it.

"I don't think that's any of you business now Edward do you?" I whispered back.

"Well if you had another idea for it th-"

"Idea for what?" I asked, cocking an eyebrow in response.

"Don't pretend you don't know sweetheart" He said leaning in to kiss me, but I pulled back, my hands finding themselves on his shoulders, holding him away from me.

"I think you may have got the wrong idea here, sweetheart." I said slightly mockingly, with a small smile playing on my lips. "From what I remember, you insisted on walking me home, and then cheated your way into me letting you in"

"Bella I thought that y-"

"Oh I can see that you thinking may become a small problem Edward" I said with a small giggle. He looked at me with a look of desperation. "I think you better go, don't you?" I said as I lead him to the door. He stepped out of the room and looked at me, I leaned towards him and whispered in his ear, "Down boy" and shut the door behind me as I turned away from him. From my side of the door I heard a muffled "Shit" from the other side, as he turned and walked away, I giggled slightly to myself as I turned to get ready for bed.

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EPOV

Hard to get?! No way was she playing hard to get with me! I don't need to be doing this; I could just go back to that bar and find another girl. But I really want to break this one. I need to finish what I've started. I've never had to give up on a girl before, but none had ever been this difficult to read before, I can never tell what she's thinking, and it's holding my interest. For now at least.

What was that "Down boy" anyway? If anything it had the opposite affect! She knew what she was doing, and it was going to be the death of me. This is going to take my best work, and I was definitely up to the challenge. Who knew that college would be so interesting!

I hit the alarm clock the next morning. I turned over and saw Rosalie sleeping in Emmett's bed. But no Emmett. Weird. Then the door opened and in he walked in just a towel. "Em, please tell me you didn't do it right next to me last night", I groaned, throwing my arm over my eyes. I looked up for just a second to see him looking sheepish and so I rolled over, groaning again.

"You were asleep dude, you didn't even notice"

"Man, that's just disgusting!"

I got up to go to the bathroom and get ready for the day. I put on my dark wash jeans and a plain black t-shirt, no point in doing my hair; I went back into my room to see Emmett and Rosalie making out.

"No way guys, just stop it, jeez! Jazz, tell them to stop!" Jasper, who was still asleep turned over, noticed Emmett and Rosalie and turned over again.

"Fucking hell Emmett, communal space and all that?"

"Oh get lost, Edward's just jealous coz he didn't get anywhere with Bella last night". Bella. In my disgust at Emmett and Rosalie I had almost forgotten the beauty that was living just a few minutes away. I had to rethink my strategy, but first, to find my department get together.

It took me forever to find the right building. I walked around the campus 3 times before finally caving in and asking somebody, but finally I made it there just 10 minutes late. I opened the door to the room and poked my head around the door, "Hello, my name is Edward Cullen, I'm so sorry I'm late, I got lost!" I opened the door properly and walked into the room.

"No problem Edward, just find a seat" the teacher said, so I walked straight to the back and took one of the empty seats. The room was packed. And definitely full of some of America's finest women! I tried to concentrate on what the teacher was saying but it was so difficult when I was so easily distracted. I would find out my timetable when I got it right? As I was scanning the room for conquest number 2, number 1 was still in progress, I saw her. She was sitting there next to this guy, smiling, laughing, and joking like they had some kind of connection. Damn him! I didn't know who he was but I already knew I didn't like him. I was paying so much attention to them both. Literally staring at them for the rest of the session, and then we were all dismissed and I stood up and walked straight over to her. What was I doing? I don't chase girls, they chase me! This was completely wrong, but I couldn't seem to stop myself as I was walking to her.

As I got closer I saw her pull out her mobile and type something into it, and at the same time the guy she had been talking to did the same. They were swapping numbers! She hadn't asked for mine last night. I was feeling a new emotion I'd only ever felt once before, and that was when Jasper asked out Alice before I could get to her. I was jealous.

"Bella!" I caught her wrist gently as she turned to walk out of the door with the guy she'd just swapped numbers with.

"Oh! Edward, hey", she looked startled, but I couldn't blame her, I did come up on her from behind.

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you!"

"No worries. You ok? You look...Well actually I don't know how you look! Is everything ok?"

"Erm, yeah everything's fine thank you. Who was that guy?"

"Guy? Oh, you mean James? Yeah he's so nice, he just came up and sat with me" She smiled a smile that I never saw her smile last night while she was with me. Like she was just pretending last night or something.

"Oh, good for James" I mumbled to myself, before looking up at her with what I call my dazzling smile, it seemed to work, she stared at me for a second before looking away again. "What are you doing now? Going anywhere?"

"I er... I was going to go and grab some coffee actually; I'm free for the rest of the day." She didn't invite me to join her. I'm going to have to invite myself.

"Well, would you like some company? I seem to have found myself at a loose end!" She looked at me warily for a few seconds, not speaking.

"Yeah sure. If I said no I'm sure you would insist anyway!" She giggled slightly at the end of her sentence, it was kind of endearing. I had to stop thinking that way; this was a conquest not a relationship! I've never been in a relationship; I've never seen the point. Why tie yourself down to one girl when there was an entire country, an entire world to choose from?

"Well, like I said last night, anything to get across the threshold" I smiled again and we left the room.