Two years earlier:

I was sitting in my room strumming on my guitar while my parents argued about something pointless downstairs. I usually do this to try to drown out the yelling but so far it hasn't really worked. I think this time they were arguing about the cable bill and how my dad needs to get out more.

"LOOK AT THIS!" my mom screamed. "500 DOLLARS IN WATCHING TV AND ORDERING SPORTS GAMES!" She slammed down what was probably the bill.

"WELL THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO DO! I NEVER GET TIME TO MYSELF." He yelled right back.

That's it I couldn't take it anymore. I set down my guitar and walked down the hall to my brother Emmett's room. When I reached the door I knocked softly.

"Come in!" he yelled over his Xbox. I opened the door to him playing a war game. So typical for a seventeen year old boy. He was two years older than me; hence, I'm fifteen.

"I'm going to Edward's I'll be back later." I said over the loud guns shooting.

He paused the game groaning. "What?" he said looking at me.

"I'm going over to the Cullen's I'll be back later." I said while turning to walk out of the door.

"Wait. I'll go with you." He said stopping me. I rolled my eyes and waited for him to put his sneakers on.

"Why did you have that on so loud?" I asked him when he was ready.

He nodded his head towards the yelling.

"Oh I see." I said. Then I raised my voice. "We are going next door if any of you care!" I shouted downstairs.

No answer. Just yelling.

"Ugh. We'll go the shortcut way." I said turning into my room.

"Good idea." Emmett said following me.

I walked across my room quickly and opened my window. I knocked on the window next door and waited for that familiar face with green eyes that always make me feel better to appear.

I could hear the piano in his room playing. His back was facing me so he couldn't see nor hear us knocking.

"Lemme do it." Emmett shoved me aside. He cracked his knuckles and then cracked his neck.

"Okay, I'm ready." He slowly reached across to the window and opened it rather than knocked.

"Great technique." I said while crawling out my window and into my best friend's room.

"You know how I do." He said behind me.

I giggled at Edward and how he was oblivious to his surroundings. He was playing the piano and couldn't even hear us walking towards him. I tip toed towards him and signaled Emmett to stop walking.

I snuck up behind Edward and reached out to squeeze his sides.

I was almost there when Edward stopped abruptly and turned and punched me in the gut. The impact was so shocking and painful that I immediately went down clutching my stomach.

Edward POV:

I gave Emmett my usual unexpected sucker punch right into the gut. I heard him grunt and went crashing to the floor. I laughing and grinned victoriously I was still facing the piano so I couldn't see Bella but I knew she was somewhere in here.

"High five Bella!" I said while turning around. I didn't see Bella's face I only saw Emmett's shocked one looking down at the floor. My smile fell from my face. He looked up at me with a blank expression and pointed to the floor.

"Pleaser tell me you are pointing at Jasper." I said quietly turning my body on the piano bench to see whom I had punched.

Bella came into view on the ground curled in a ball.

Screw my life.

"Bella!" I bolted to where she was on the ground. "I'm so sorry!" I said hovering over her. What was I supposed to do?

"Uhhh… ummmm…. Do you need an ice pack? Icy hot? A shoulder to cry on?" I said trying to help her.

All she did was groan. "Come closer." She whispered. I leaned in. "Closer." She said in a scratching voice.

I was millimeters from her face. She looked me in the eyes and then punched me in my manhood. I grunted so loud and rolled off her clutching it.

"Ouch!" I heard Emmett boomed while wincing.

"What's going on in here!" I heard Jasper open the door. He looked around the room at Bella still curled in a ball, Emmett snickering, and me rolling around on the floor clutching where Bella took her rage out on. "What is going on here?" he said a little more worried.

"Hey jazzy, lets go play some lax." Emmett said while walking out the door dragging Jasper leaving Bella and me alone and in pain.

After a few minutes Bella sat up and wrapped her hands around her knees. And my pain faded and I was lying on my back.

I was an awkward silence before I spoke up. "Sorry I punched you in the gut I thought you were Emmett." I said quietly.

"Sorry I punched you where it counts." She said soon after.

"Truce?" I asked. Sitting up holding out my hand.

"Truce." She said with a breathtaking smile. Truth is I've always had a crush on Bella since 7th grade. We are both fifteen now and going into our sophomore year. She has never even thought of me that way though. I don't want to ruin our friendship so I've just kept it a secret.

"Good." I smiled back. "So what do you want to do?" I asked getting up and helping her up also.

"I don't know." She said. "How about some Rock Band?" she suggested.

"Kay, I'll ask Emmett and Jasper." I said walking out of the room. "So what made you come here today?" I asked walking down the stairs.

"Well you know, the parents were fighting and I just wanted to get away." She said behind me. Great, her parents are always fighting. We passed by the kitchen when my mom called for us.

"Edward?" she asked making me stop.

"What?" I asked in the doorway.

"What are you up to?" she asked while making lunch.

"Going to play rock band with Bella and Emmett." I said as I started walking away.

"Bella?" she asked.

"Yes?" Bella asked timidly.

"Hello sweetie!" she said walking over and giving Bella a welcoming hug. "What would you like for lunch?" she asked.

"Anything is fine really." Bella answered with a smile.

"Grilled cheese it is." Esme finalized.

"Okay, come on Bella." I said pulling her from the doorway. "I'll meet you in the basement." I said as we reached the front door. She turned for the basement door and walked downstairs.

"Hey we are playing Rock Band!" I shouted outside.

Jasper had just thrown the lacrosse ball in Emmett's direction and I distracted Emmett from watching the ball and it hit him in the head. I winced at the contact.

"Sorry bro." Jasper said.

"No blood, no foul." Emmett said smiling. Then they dropped their lacrosse sticks and walked inside.

"Need some ice?" I asked after they walked passed me.

"I'm fine." He said opening the basement door.

Bella was sitting on the couch reading one of the magazines we had on our coffee table. God she looked so cute when she was reading.

Jasper went and turned the Wii on while Emmett grabbed the drumsticks.

"I call drums!" Emmett said quickly.

"Bass!" Jasper said grabbing one guitar.

Bella and I looked at each other for a split second before dashing towards the last guitar. There was no way in hell I was singing.

I got to it first and held it up in victory.

"Aw man." Bella said reaching for the mic.

We all got in our ready positions and the song we decided on was "Don't Stop Believin'". The familiar piano beginning, which I could also play, started and you could tell Bella was nervous.

Soon Bella started singing and I almost missed my cue to start strumming. Since when can Bella sing? She was amazing. I kept missing beats because all I wanted to pay attention to was Bella's singing. By the time the song ended we all got our percentages.

It read:

Jasper- 87%

Emmett- 91%

Bella- 100%

Edward- 65%

"Dang, Eddie." Emmett started to say.

"Don't call me that." I cut him off before he said anything further.

"How come you did so bad?" he asked.

"I don't know I mean I guess I haven't played in a while." I lied.

Emmett just shrugged his shoulders and started searching through the songs.

"How about… "Living on a Prayer"?" he asked turning towards us.

"I don't care." I said.

"Sure." Bella said. "But I can't sing that song I don't know the words."

"They are on the screen." I pressed. I really wanted to hear her sing again.

"I'll sing it." Jasper offered.

"Okay, here you go." Bella handed him the mic and walked over to the bass.

"Ready?" Emmett asked.

"Yupp."

"Ready."

"Uh-huh." We all said at the same time.

"Okay." Emmett started the song.

We played it and got our percentages:

Jasper- 98%

Emmett- 98%

Bella- 91%

Edward- 97%

"Now how did that happen Edward?" Emmett asked.

"I just got used to it." I lied again. It's because Bella wasn't singing.

"Kids! Dinner is ready!" Esme called from upstairs. And we all went up for dinner. Dinner went by smoothly as usual. Emmett ate more than any of us combined, Esme offered to make more, we declined… it was a ritual for us that never got old.

"That was great Esme." Bella said politely. "Thanks!" she added as she got up to put her plate in the dishwasher.

"Yeah thanks so much Mrs. C." Emmett said after and following Bella to the dishwasher.

"Oh its always my pleasure." Esme replied.

"Well then I guess its time for us to go home." Bella said grabbing her stuff.

"I'll walk you home." I offered.

"But its right next door." She pointed.

"You can never be too safe!" I said playfully.

She giggled. "Okay fine!" she turned to Emmett, "Are you coming Emmett?" she asked.

"Nah, I'll be home later I think Jasper and I are going to play some video games." He said walking downstairs into the basement.

"Kay!" she called. "Bye Esme!" she called.

"Bye hon!" she called back.

We walked out the door just when Carlisle was getting out of his car. He smiled and waved.

"Hey dad." I said.

"Hi Carlisle." Bella followed.

"Walking her home?" Carlisle asked.

"Yeah." I answered while shrugging my shoulders.

Carlisle looked over to Bella's house and back to me with a confused look on his face. Then just shook his head and walked into my house. Bella just laughed.

Bella's POV:

We walked to my porch. Some walk.

"Hey can I come in?" Edward asked.

"Um I don't think you can." I answered. I really didn't want him to hear my parents fighting.

"Why not?" he asked.

"Well… hang on." I said to him as I opened my front door and closed it. I listened for any signs of yelling.

None.

I opened the door to Edwards weird gaze.

"Okay you can come in!" I said happily.

"Can I talk to you?" he asked.

"Sure what's up?" I asked setting my stuff down.

"Alone?" he asked again.

"Sure…" I said back. Why did he want to talk alone?

We walked up to my room and I sat down on the bed.

"What's going on?" I asked cautiously.

"Is that yours?" he asked pointing to my guitar.

"Um yeah why?"

"Well do you write your own songs?"

"Um… yeah." I answered timidly.

"Play me something." He demanded.

"No!" I got up from my seat crossing my arms.

"C'mon!" he pleaded. "Just one song!" he said.

"No." I said looking him square in the eye.

"Fine.' He said walking over to my guitar. "Well then I guess I'll just…" he picked it up and held it out the window about to drop it. "Make you." He said with a toothy smile.

"You wouldn't." I said in disbelief.

"Really? Remember when we were 8 and Jasper wouldn't let me play with his Nintendo Game Cube and I threw it out the second story window and it broke?" I flashbacked to that memory, Jasper cried for days and Edward only got a timeout. Ah… it's sometimes really fun being the little one.

"Fine! But it won't be good I only have the first verse and the chorus done." I said grabbing my guitar from his grasp. I sat down and positioned the guitar and I tuned it.

"I don't mind." He said victoriously as he sat facing me.

"Okay here it goes." I said to him before I sang.

Turn it inside out so I can see
The part of you that's drifting over me
And when I wake you're never there
But when I sleep you're everywhere
You're everywhere

Just tell me how I got this far
Just tell me why you're here and who you are
'Cause every time I look
You're never there
And every time I sleep
You're always there

'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone

I stopped singing and looked at Edward. He had a look of astonishment on his face. Was I really that good? I really just wrote the song because I know if I ever get famous a lot of girls would relate but I got writers block after the chorus. Edward was just silent with his eyes wide and mouth open.

"That's all I have so far." I broke the silence and set my guitar down.

"Bella… that was… words cant explain how good that was!" he threw his hands in the air.

"Really?"

"It was absolutely amazing Bella." He said with a smile and hugged me.

"Thanks Edward I really appreciate it." I said to him and smiled.

"No problem, but I got to go I'll see you tomorrow at school." He said and climbed out of my window.

"Hey!" I called stopping him before he shut his window he looked at me.

I leaned out of mine and held my hand in a horizontal rock sign.

"Park it!" I said smiling. He smiled back and put his fist in between the two fingers and it looked as if he park a car.

"Catch it." He held up a cuffed hand.

"I threw my fist into it as if he caught a baseball."

"Peace…" We both put up peace signs with both hands.

"Love…" we crossed our arms over our chests.

"You." We both pointed to each other and smiled.

Yeah our handshake is pretty gay, but we made it up when we were little. Give us a break.

"Night.' He said closing his window.

"Sweet Dreams." I said closing mine.

A/N: okay I really hope you guys review because this chapter took a really long time to write and if you have questions about the hand shake then you can just ask in the review.

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