A/N You know the drill .. I dont own any of this i'm just taking them out for a ride.

And thank you for my very first reviews! I was really waiting on some hate mail :D And to all the people that added this story to favorites *Smoochies!*

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Bella felt like an ass .. No way around it she was a total shithead. She had been so sure once she had gotten even with Ben and Tanya that she had just simply moved on. Now thinking over her reaction to a simple email, yea not so much. Bella wasn't even sure why she felt the need to yell at the mystery man, she should of just ignored the damn email. She had always been a little too curious for her own good, now she was stuck trying to think of a good way to apologize to someone she didn't even know. What if he gets more pissed off at me? Then what? Is he going to hop through the damn screen and eat me? "Jesus" Bella muttered to herself.. I have been watching way too much freaking TV. What's the worst he can do really, he doesn't know me, so its not like he's going to show up at my door and do god knows what to me for being a nosy bitch.

Bella's cell phone ringing brought her out of her slightly delusional thoughts, with out bothering to check her caller ID first she picked up her phone

"Hello"

"Hello Bella Dear"

Bella's face paled at the voice of the caller on the other end.

"Renee… What the fuck do you want?"

"Now now is that any way to talk to your mother? You know the person that gave you life and took care of your whiney ass"

"You stopped being my mother a long time ago, You have to earn that right and you sure as shit haven't.. Now cut the crap what the fuck do you want"

Renee sneered in to the phone .. "You ungrateful little bitch! You owe me and I want what's mine!"

Bella couldn't help it, as much as she tried not to do it there really was nothing she could do to stop her reaction for her mothers cruel words… Bella snorted at first just a little snort. But that was soon followed by her gut wrenching laughter.

"Really Renee? I owe you for what? I don't owe you anything! Stay the hell out of my life!"

Bella hung up her phone still giggling to herself. She had long ago gotten over the fact that Renee would never change. She made sure Bella was miserable, there was no way in hell that Bella was going to lift a finger now to help that woman. Did Renee do anything when her sleazy boyfriends would grope on Bella as she walked in the door from school? Of course not she laughed. Or the few times she was slapped around by the random crack heads that Renee kept around. Either way she was done thinking about her mother, Life was too short to dwell on the bad things.

Deciding a shower and some food was a good idea, she headed back to her bedroom to find something to wear. Bella never really cared much for fashion, if she saw it and liked it that was what she was going to wear! It didn't matter if it was from Wal-Mart of some stupid expensive name brand place.. Clothes are just clothes. Docking her IPOD she set to work finding something to put on while listening to some Kings of Leon.

Exactly 2 minutes later Bella was stepping into her shower having grabbed the first thing her hands touched to wear today. Some comfy old ripped boot cut jeans and a snug fitting Hello Kitty T-shirt.. Hey dont judge, Hello Kitty is fuckawesome. After a quick wash down with her freesia body wash and a rinse and repeat with her strawberry shampoo. Bella set off to her least favorite shower activity… shaving! Ugh sometimes it just sucks being a girl. I mean really how fair is that we have to shave so much! After shaving and rinsing her conditioner out, Bella stepped out of the shower, Of course she had no choice but to look at herself in the mirror that hung on the back of the door.

She often found herself trying to figure her own self out by looking in mirrors.. Maybe if she stared long enough at her own eyes she could find answers to questions that had not yet been asked. Moving past her bambi eyes and shoulder length mahogany hair, she may have had low self esteem when she was younger, but her body was not one thing she was worried about.. Never had been. Bella had always been thin but curvy with perky breasts. Looking down at the green gem and steel bar that adorned her nipples she let out a little snort. It was odd how every time she looked at her nipples she thought of Alice. It was that crazy ass pixie's power of persuasion that got her to get her nips done in the first place, Or maybe it was the bottle of Tequila they drank.. Who knows! Shrugging her shoulders Bella slipped on some soft cotton boy short underwear and a black lace brace before throwing on her clothes and heading to the kitchen to find some food.

After a quick breakfast, Bella headed to her laptop to get crackin on her new book. Well after she got around to making up for being an ass to Mr. Email-Dude. She still wasn't exactly sure what the hell to say to him but regardless she was going to apologize!

To: Green-Eye-Devil (at) mail (dot) com
From: Bookworm (at) mail (dot) com
Date: February 24, 2011 11:28am
Subject: Re: Oops

Dear Mystery Man

You probably think I'm totally freaking insane right about now eh? I swear I'm not usually a nut job… Well ok I might be slightly off in the head.. *rolls eyes*. Anyways! I'm sorta kind of really sorry for calling you a cheating asshole. But really look at that shit from my point of view, did that not look like an asshole move?

I rarely yell at strangers promise! You hit the nail on the head by guessing I had a whorebag shit sucking mother fucking cheating ex (excuse me if my language gets to you, I have no verbal filter most the time). His cheating was bad enough, the icing on the cake you ask? It was with a girl I had been friends with for almost 10 damn years! Now I didn't walk in on them like you, sorry about that by the way that's gotta suck. Anyways I have the pictures burned into my brain, I wonder if I dump bleach on my eyes if it will make the images go away? He is the reason you are now privileged to get my rant. Seriously before I was duped I tried to never judge a situation till I had all the facts.

Now as my last act of showing how sorry I am for yelling at you, I'm going to tell you 1 embarrassing thing about myself. When I was in high school I was rather clumsy. (I grew out of that just incase your wondering) I was walking out of my Spanish class and sneezed, now that should have been no big deal right, just a sneeze. Wrong! Said sneeze made me lose my balance and trip on well air .. That again wouldn't of been so bad if I wasn't walking towards a door. I bet your starting to get a better picture in your head now huh.. Yup I sneezed, tripped, fell and smacked my face on the door, breaking my nose in the process! And with that my apology and make an ass out of myself session is over! So again I am really sorry for yelling at you.

-B

Feeling much better about herself Bella sent off her email and grabbed her cell, checking her missed text messages.

Alice: Hey wanna hit up the club tonight? We are having a little welcome to the neighborhood party for Edward the new guy at the shop. *Giant pixie puppy dog pout*

Esme: I'm getting married! I would of called but I hear your working your book mojo again so I didn't want to bother you! Call me!

Alice: Stop ignoring me!

Alice: Bellllllllllllla I know your there

Alice: If you don't answer me soon I'm going to have to come over there and drag your skinny ass out of the house.

Alice: Last warning…..

Rolling her eyes Bella noticed the last message was sent 5 minutes ago, knowing Alice if she didn't call her back soon there would be no stopping her from doing exactly what she said.. Dragging a kicking screaming Bella out of her house for some torture, Or as Alice likes to call it shopping..

"Alice, really you act like it's the end of the world if I don't get back to you right away"

"Well excuse me for wanting to talk to my best friend!"

"Stop acting like a child and tell me what's so damn important that you have to annoy me with so many damn texts"

Alice narrowed her eyes at the phone, she knew if she could just get Bella to meet Edward they would click. She had a feeling about this one.

"I just want you to be there with us tonight, Edward doesn't know anyone from around here but his sister and her husband"

"Your not trying to set me up again are you Alice? I've already told you I'm not interested right now, I don't have time! Especially with me starting on Immortal Heart".

"I told you I wouldn't try to set you up for awhile" Alice tries to hold in her giggles, what Bella doesn't know wont hurt her!

Bella huffed, she really knew there was no getting out of this one. "Fine Alice I will go, but I swear to god the minute you start trying to play matchmaker I am out of there!"

"Alright Bella now we need to go g…."

"Hold that thought pix! I know what your going to say and I AM NOT GOING SHOPPING! I have too many damn clothes already no more! If you cant find me something to wear from my own closet then I guess I just wont go"

"But Bella…"

"No buts Alice that's my final offer"

Glaring down at her phone Alice relented. "Fine you win, I will be there by 8 tonight to get you ready, We are meeting Jazz, Edward, his brother-in-law and sister, also a few guys from the shop at Eclipse around 10"

"That works, love ya pix!"

"Love you too Belly!"

"God I hate it when she calls me that." Bella said under her breath before grabbing her cell phone again to give Esme a call back.. After several rings she heard the click.

"Hey its Esme, I'm either too busy for you or ignoring you! Either way I may or may not call you back!"

"Esme! Congrats sweetie! I'm so happy for you and Carlisle! Hit me back with the details soon as you can! Love you."

Glimpsing over her shoulder checking the time Bella wondered what the hell she had done to pass so much time today, It was already almost 4! Deciding to get some work done before her torture session with Alice, she set about finishing up the chapter she had started on last night.

It wasn't her stiff back, or blurry eyes that pulled Bella away from her work. No it was the sound of Alice walking in like she owned the place, not even bothering to say hello to Bella before she went to work raiding Bella's closet.

Not really feeling like getting up just yet Bella yelled for Alice.. "Yes Alice I'm great.. Thanks for asking."

Alice didn't miss the sarcasm in her best friends voice, she only chose to ignore it.

"Glad to know your doing great, now get your ass in here"

Grumbling quietly to her self Bella heaved herself out of her chair and slowly made her way to her bedroom.. Or what should have been her bedroom it looked more like a hurricane went straight through a clothing store and spit it on her floor.

Spotting the pixie behind a mound of clothes she had to stifle a laugh picturing her friend as a puppy.. "Hmm I wonder if I throw that cute little top over there if Alice will play fetch with me" Bella mused to herself.

Alice peeked around the pile of close exasperated "There you are finally!"

Not bothering to give her a response Bella plopped down on the bed raising an expecting eyebrow at Alice.

"Here go put this on, then come back so I can fix that haystack on your head"

Looking down Bella was actually surprised she liked what Alice had given her to wear tonight. It was a cute bright pink and black striped sweater dress with a semi low cut neckline and a pair of stretchy black leggings. The best part? No heels tonight, but her favorite pair of low top pink and black chucks.

Two hours later after being poked, prodded, curled, and tweezed half to death, Alice and Bella were walking into Eclipse.

It wasn't long before they spotted Jasper, Alec, Demetri and Felix sitting at the bar nursing beers. Demetri , Alec and Felix were triplets who worked as tattoo artists at Jaspers shop "Civil War" cheesy I know right? Jaz always had a thing about war, so why not name his shop after it. The triplets looked very much alike from the short curly brown hair, all roughly 6' tall. The main difference comes when you get up close. Felix had dark brown eyes, Alec had Green and Demetri had blue eyes.

Bella always enjoyed talking to Demetri and Felix, it was Alec that gave her the creeps. He was always just abit too friendly for her liking and way to touchy feely with her. Deciding to just avoid him all together Bella made her way up to the bar to order a lemon drop.

None of the guys saw Alice and Bella approach, so Jasper was in for a big surprise when he felt someone jump on his back and wrap thin arms and legs around him. Before he had a chance to get pissed off she whispered into his ear.

"Hey there cowboy, wanna give me a ride?" right before she bit down on his ear and hopped off his back.

"Jesus B, are you trying to give me a fucking heart attack?"

"Aww lighten up Jazzy! I wanted a horsie ride"

Alice looked on with a content smile on her face, she was never worried about the fast friendship between her Jasper and Bella.

"Alright B, gimme my man back! I need some sugar before I drag you away to the dance floor!"

As Alice got reacquainted with Jaspers tonsils Bella made her way over to say hey to the triplets.

Nodding her head at them "Felix, Demetri, Alec" Bella became mortified all the sudden thinking she probably resembled a bobble head. Deciding head bobbing was no longer cool she shook it off and gave a quick hug to each instead, making sure to only half way touch Alec for his.

After downing her shot Bella started chatting with Felix and Demetri till she felt an arm snake around her waste, and hot breath on her neck.

"When you gonna stop playing hard to get and have some fun with me beautiful"

Forcing herself not to gag and quickly wiggling out of his grasp Bella turned around.

"When are you going to learn that I'm not playing hard to get with you Alec?"

He just raised an eyebrow at her with a sickening little smirk on his face.

Before she could smack the little shit upside his head she was being dragged away to the dance floor by Alice. Bella knew there was a reason she was friends with Alice!

Squeezing through the mass sweating gyrating bodies they managed to find an open spot.

Bella was able to totally lose herself in the music, it was one of the main things she loved about dancing. She was able to let go and just be. There were no deadlines, no cheating assholes, no backstabbing friends .. Just music.

After half an hour of shaking her ass off Bella felt like she might just shrivel up and die if she didn't get something to drink. As she turned to yell at Alice over the music to let her know she was headed to the bar, a flash of curly strawberry blonde hair caught her attention.

Bella stood frozen for a minute, hoping she was hallucination and that it wasn't really the evil harpy standing at the bar.

Closing her eyes and counting to ten, Bella opened her eyes once more praying this wasn't happening. Sure enough there sat Tanya at the bar draped over some frat boy.

The only thought going through Bella's head was escape. It wasn't that she was scared of Tanya or that she had nothing to say. She didn't trust herself and really was not in the mood to end up in jail for ripping the bitch's hair out.

Looking behind her Bella found Alice quick enough, she had to let her know she was leaving. As much as she wanted to leave this second, she wouldn't leave Alice to worry about her.

"Alice.." She got no reply as Alice happily dance with her arms over her head and eyes closed.

With a grunt Bella made her way over to Alice screaming in her ear. "ALICE"

With a jolt Alice opened her eyes then narrowed them at her friend.

"What the hell Bella!"

"Not now pix, I have to go like now"

"What why? Edward isn't even here yet" Alice was really hoping Bella wasn't on to her about trying to set them up.

"I don't give a rats ass about Edward" She yelled at her little infuriating friend.

Bella sighed, she knew it wasn't Alice's fault her mood had gone straight down the shitter. "Alice.. Look at the bar"

Frowning slightly Alice looked over to the bar, all the sudden her eyes got as big as saucers , she quickly whipped her head around to look at Bella.

"Now do you see why I want to go home?"

"Bella, are you going to let her run you our of here? Why cant you just ignore her?"

Bella shifted slightly balling her hands into little fists … Come on you can do this just count to 10 cool down explain then get the hell out of dodge before you do something stupid.

After her little pep talk Bella turned to Alice..

"Ali.. I cant just ignore her, If I stay here I am going to do something stupid and end up in jail, Do you want to explain that one to Charlie?"

Charlie had met Alice on his last trip from Forks to visit Bella.. She had the chief wrapped around her little fingers within 5 minutes, but that didn't mean he wouldn't be upset with her for letting Bella get out of hand.

"Do you want me to come with you? I can let Jazzy and the boys know."

"No no you stay and have fun, I'm just going to head home and force myself to sleep, so I don't end up coming back here and dragging skankzilla out by her extensions."

Alice nodded her head while giggling over her friends short temper, then again if she was in Bella's shoe's she would of probably already been over at the bar with her spiky heel in Tanya's eye already.

With a quick hug and kiss on the cheek Bella was headed for the door making sure to keep her head down and try to blend into the crowd. It was one thing to get out of here with out Tanya knowing she was here, because if Tanya saw her and came over all bets were off.

She had almost made it out the door when she ran smack dab into a wall .. A wall that smelled really fucking good that also happened to have arms and was talking..

"Whoa there lil bit, you alright?" came a velvety voice right in her ear.

Bella had the sudden urge to clamp her knee's together because she was picturing her panties crawling right down her legs to go introduce themselves to Mr. Sex voice.

If she wasn't in such a hurry to get out of there she may of stopped and did some good old fashion eye fucking to see if the man matched the voice. But alas that wasn't in the cards for tonight.

With out bothering to look up she pushed past him with a mumbled apology.

Edward stared at the retreating form of the little brunette who plowed into him, he had noticed her shortly after walking into the door of the bar. She looked so beautiful and carefree on the dance floor. Had he of not got sidetracked by his brother-in-law Emmett he would of made his way over to her.

Shaking it off Edward made his way over to his co-workers. He hadn't even had a chance to say anything before an irate looking Alice came storming over.

"Son of a mother fucking goat whore sleaze bag!"

Unable to stop himself Edward threw his head back and let out a loud belly laugh. He had met Alice a few times, knew she was a little feisty, but never once had he heard anything close to what was spewing out of her mouth.

Alice turning her tiny body around to glare at Edward shut him up immediately.

Jasper sensing something was definitely amiss looked around for Bella. Curious as to why she wasn't here and why Alice was looking like her head might explode.

"Darlin'? What's got ya so fussed up, and where is Bella?"

"Damnit Jasper! That fucking skank bag home wrecking bitch from hell"

Now Edward had heard all about the "Wonderful Bella" and not once had he heard a bad thing about her. Now here he sat listening to Alice call her every name under the sun he was abit confused.

Jasper cocked an eyebrow at his tiny girlfriend knowing damn well she wasn't talking about Bella.

Grabbing Jaspers head Alice turned him to face the bar.

Edward watched on amused as Alice manhandled her boyfriend. Until he noticed the look on Jaspers face.. His jaw was tightly clenched , Back ram rod straight. Confused Edward turn his attention to the bar where Jasper was glaring.

"Mother fucker!" Jasper was pissed that was obvious.

Emmett never had been one for tact decided to get to the bottom of this instead of just gaping at the bar.

"Yo what's the issue here? Some one piss in your beer?" Emmett being Emmett totally missed the glare from Alice and Jasper.

Alice was fuming, pointing her finger towards the bar "That skanky bitch over there with the dress that looks like she got in the fucking toddler department is my fucking problem"

Alice went back to muttering words under her breath. Edward couldn't make out exactly what she was saying just bits and pieces of "skankzilla" "fucking friend my ass" "stupid 2-bit crab infested she beast." He gave up trying to figure it out and turned expectantly to Jasper for an explanation.

Jasper blew out a quick breath turning away from the bar.

"That skanky bitch would be Tanya Denali.. She used to be a friend of Bella's…" He just trailed off there getting himself worked up again thinking of what she had done to Bella, and had not felt an ounce of guilt over it.

Edward waited…

Alice took over for him..

"Bella and Tanya met in high school and became fast friends when Bella starting hanging around with Esme and her boyfriend Carlisle. Carlisle is Tanya's cousin. Anyways long story short 6 months ago Bella found out that Tanya had been fucking her boyfriend Ben."

Edward slowly looked back over to the bar where Tanya sat.. He didn't see the appeal at all.. She looked like she just came in from the nearest street corner. The red dress she was wearing barely covered her ass and was obscenely low in the front. Shaking his head and turning back to the conversation in front of him Edward couldn't help but wonder…

"So Bella couldn't handle to see her again?"

That did it.. Alice dropped her glare and busted up laughing, wiping her tears away she snorted one more time.

"Umm no Edward, you see Bella has a little bit of a temper problem" At this everyone around the table that knew Bella snorted at the term "little".

Demetri decided it was time to speak up .. "Let me guess, our little rocky had to leave before she killed a bitch?"

Alice shook her head laughing "Exactly"

Turning her head to look at Edward she really hated that he didn't get the chance to meet Bella.

"Edward you are going to love Bella when you actually get to meet her I promise!"

Alec decided to pipe in and add his 2 cents "Man why did she have to leave, I was hoping to take her home with me tonight, I know she's into me and that little pink and black dress she was wearing would of looked great on my bedroom floor"

SMACK….

Rubbing his head Alec glared at Alice "What the fuck!"

"You piece of shit! Leave her the fuck alone you know damn well she doesn't was shit to do with you and your man whoring creeper ways"

Storming off Alec went to find a warm body to fill his time till he could get his Bella.

Now Edward was seeing red and he wasn't sure why. He didn't know Bella, but he sure as hell didn't like hearing someone talk about her that way.. He let himself believe he would feel the same about any female being talked about that way. Then something clicked in his head.

"Wait I'm pretty sure I got up close and personal with Bella before I came out here"

Alice just blinked at him..

"Shit that didn't come out right" with a nervous chuckled Edward explained.. "I was coming this way with Em when she ran smack into me, gave a quick apology and she was gone before I could really make sure she was ok"

Alice grinned at him "Sounds like Bella, I'm sure she had her head down counting to 10 trying to force herself away from the bar and out the door."

After settling down they were able to enjoy a nice time chatting and getting to know each other, Edward had never really gotten close to people he worked with before. He preferred to go in get his job done and get out. Jasper was different though, it was impossible to not like him.

After an hour of drinks and laughs, Edward was getting tired but gave in and decided to head to the bar for one last drink.

Tanya had been keeping a close eye on the man talking with Alice all night. If she knew Alice as well as she thought she did then she knew Alice would be sniffing around him for Bella. There was no way in hell she was letting Bella get her grubby little hooks into this sex god. She had spent most the night rubbing all over some random frat guy she met that night. When he took her into the bathroom and bent her over the sink she was picturing a different man.. A very different man one with wild bronze sex hair and a body that could make a nun need to hit confession.

Tanya had been watching and waiting.. She just needed a few minutes of him away from Alice and she could get her claws into that yummyness.. No one ever turned down Tanya Denali.

When she noticed him approach she quickly pushed frat boy away and crossed her legs, feeling them slide abit. She wasn't sure if she was so wet from getting a close up look at this god, or from the juices still running down her thighs from her bathroom romp with frat boy.

Tapping the bar waiting for his beer Edward was clueless to the dangers coming his way.

Tanya licked her lips, swaying her hips while she approached Mr. Yummy .. Trailing her bright red fingernails down his tattooed arm Tanya purred .. "Well hello there …" she waited hoping he would take it from there.

Edward gaped at her for a minute, now he was raised a gentleman so he couldn't just out right ignore her, as much as he really wanted to.

"Edward" he replied curtly.

Ignoring his tone Tanya began to trail her fingers down her own chest trying to get him to look at her. She just needed him to see how hot she was, then he would be all hers, she just knew it.

On his end of things Edward was doing his best to not gag, He may of puked a little in his mouth though.

"Well Edward, I'm Tanya and I am here to make all your little fantasies come true"

Edward laughed.. Not just a slight chuckle oh no this was all out fall off your stool hit the floor belly laughs. He couldn't believe this woman, did lines like that actually work?

Once he settled down Edward turned to Tanya leaning over and getting right next to her ear.

By this point Tanya was panting and pretty sure the juices from frat boy plus her new wetness were forming a little puddle at her feet. She couldn't wait to have him bend her over and pound into her from behind.

Edward smirked, he had her right where he wanted her.. Making sure to drop his voice to a low seductive murmur "Sweetheart, if I had fantasies about catching crabs, I would visit the ocean" With that he turned away from her grabbed his beer and walked away leaving a fuming Tanya behind.

Tanya was irate for all of 2 seconds before she realized he must not of wanted Alice to catch on that he wanted her. It was the only logical answer as to why he didn't take her like she knew he wanted to. She just had to wait a little longer, she was sure he would come around again and then she would take her prize.

After rejoining the table and giving them all a good laugh over his encounter with Tanya he finished off his beer said his goodbye's with a promise to call Angie and Em tomorrow, Edward was out the door.

Later that night as Edward laid in bed thinking about his day he couldn't hide the grin on his face. He wasn't thinking about Jasper or any of the guys from the shop. Nor was he thinking about Alice or Tanya, hell he wasn't even thinking about the cute little brunette that plowed into him that night. No the grin on Edward Masen's face was caused by one person only..

His little cheater hating Bookworm… He wondered what she would think of his little encounter tonight at the bar. Not wanting to give her the wrong impression of himself he decided that was a story best saved for a later time. For there was no doubt in his mind that he would be contacting her again in the morning to reply to her latest email.

Little side A/N .. The bit about the sneeze broken nose bit? Yea thats actually a true story lol .. Thank god it didnt happen to me, but it did happen to my 9th grade spanish teacher! I'm pretty sure I would of found a new place to teach after that one.