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A/N: So I left a really long gap between publishing the first chapter and adding this one! Sorry! I've had this chapter for a while but haven't had chance to upload it (I've been away). I hope you enjoy it, I have the next chapter completed so it shouldn't be too long before that one goes up as well!

He was even more beautiful up close, if possible. The eyelashes framing his vivid green eyes were long, and his lips were soft and pink. His gaze was still on me, and I felt my cheeks heating up again. I smiled, muttering a "hello" before dropping my eyes to my lap to break off the stare.

On the other side of the table, a tall blonde guy was sitting down next to Emmett, opposite Alice. He too was good looking, although I wasn't sure if the bronze haired god next to me had ruined just about every other guy on the planet for me just by letting me look at him.

"So, it's Bella, right?"

I turned my attention back to the bronze haired god – Jasper, Edward, whatever his name was.

"Yeah, sorry what was your name?" I asked, trying to avoid staring directly in to his eyes, scared that my tell-tale blush would appear again.

"Edward," he flashed me his crooked grin, holding his hand out to shake mine. "Nice to meet you Bella."

I held my hand out, feeling something equivalent to a static shock as we made contact. My hand felt small in Edward's.

"You too," I smiled.

I withdrew my hand, taking a drink from my beer to give myself something to do other than stare at Edward.

"So, where are you from?" He asked, taking a drink from his own beer.

"America," I answered. There was a bluish glow on Edward's face due to one of the coloured lanterns, and it made his skin look pale in the light, although he too was tanned, like Emmett and Rosalie.

Edward rolled his eyes, chuckling. "I guessed that, where in America?"

I bit my lip, trying not to giggle. His laugh was infectious. "Seattle in Washington."

Edward raised an eyebrow. "No way, I think I've been there before actually."

I smirked. "You think?"

Edward shrugged. "I was young, my dad had some business trip there so we just went for the day, but I'm pretty sure it was Seattle, it had that big tower?"

"The Space Needle," I laughed. "Yeah, that's Seattle."

"It rained all day too, if I remember correctly. I sulked the entire time." He flashed me a grin, taking another swig of his beer.

"Welcome to my life," I laughed. "When I move out of Seattle, I think I'll go somewhere that has the least rain in the world."

Edward raised an eyebrow, amused. "You might want to rethink that, otherwise you're going to end up in a desert somewhere."

I shrugged. "We'll see. Sand and camels are probably more exciting than Seattle."

He smirked. "You should try London."

"I will, me and Alice are going there at the end of our trip." I cast a glance around the table. Alice was absorbed in conversation with the blonde, who must be Jasper. Rosalie and Emmett had their heads together, giggling.

"Oh yeah? You'll have to come and see us, Rosalie and I will have our new flat by then," he grinned, looking excited.

I nodded. "She mentioned that actually, we have to fly back from London anyway but we were thinking of going for a week, maybe longer."

Edward raised an eyebrow, his expression teasing. "Oh I don't know, there's lots of rain in London too, how will you cope?"

I grinned. "You can buy me an umbrella as a souvenir."

He chuckled, running a hand through his hair. "I'm buying you gifts already, am I?"

I nodded seriously. "Otherwise I won't be going to London, and then I wouldn't make my flight home. It would be all your fault."

Edward shrugged, looking unconcerned. "I'd probably be doing you a favour, this side of the Atlantic is much better," he winked.

I raised an eyebrow. "Oh really? We'll see about that."

Our conversation carried on until I lost track of time. The crowd on the terrace begun to thin out, and eventually, much to my annoyance, I couldn't stifle my yawns. I didn't want to end my conversation with Edward.

"Tired?" He asked.

I nodded. "We got a night train here, I don't really sleep on them so well."

"You should get some sleep," he grinned. "You're not going to bed early if you come out with us tomorrow, not with Emmett around." He had evidently overheard Rosalie asking us about the pub crawl.

I raised my eyebrows as Emmett cut in to the conversation, shouting "Hell yeah!"

I laughed. "God help me."

Edward smirked. "I'll look after you."

I stood up, feeling my eyelids getting heavy. "I'll hold you to that." I turned to Alice, who was laughing at something Jasper was telling her.

"Ally, I'm going to bed. Are you staying up?"

She shook her head. "I'll come with, I'm tired."

We both said our goodnights, Rosalie getting up to hug us both, giving us her number so that if we didn't see each other tomorrow we could still meet up at night.

Eventually, Alice and I made it back up to our dorm.

"Why do I feel like English boys are going to be the death of me?" Alice groaned as we both crept over to our bunk bed, now in our pyjamas after brushing our teeth.

I giggled. "Me too, Al."

I climbed up on to top bunk, tucking myself in under the sheets. My head fell asleep as soon as it hit the pillow.

There wasn't the slightest trace of Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper or Edward the next morning, much to the disappointment of Alice and I. We even hung around on the upstairs terrace longer than necessary in hope that one of them might appear, although neither of us admitted that that was the reason we were dawdling. By half 12, we decided we shouldn't waste anymore of our day (we had slept in late) seeing as we weren't in Prague forever, and set off. Today we planned to dawdle back along Charles Bridge, browse the markets nearby and walk up to the Castle.

The number of tourists on Charles Bridge was beyond excessive, and I held my day bag close, remembering my Dad, Charlie, nagging me constantly about pickpockets before I left. The place was crowded, and it was difficult to walk three paces without colliding with someone else.

"Ugh, can we just go straight up to the Castle?" Alice groaned from next to me as a wide lady knocked heavily in to her shoulder, her camera flash almost blinding Alice in the process. Poor Alice, being so tiny, was getting knocked around like crazy.

I nodded. "Yeah sure, we can come back down here in the evening when it's quiet."

Once we had managed to squeeze our way through, we started the ascent which led in the direction of the Castle. The streets were cobbled, the buildings old and beautiful, and the last thing I could imagine whilst being in such a magical place was being back in rainy Seattle. I had only been away for two weeks, but I was desperate for the trip to never end.

It was quieter by the Castle when we got there, thankfully, and we were in time to catch the guard change, something I had been hoping to see. The men in their powder blue uniforms marched about the square, perfectly synchronised as they swapped places at the doors to the castle.

We took a tour around the inside of the Castle afterwards, and once that had finished, decided that we needed a drink. We wandered around aimlessly for fifteen minutes or so until we found somewhere nice to sit out on the street. The cobbled road was steep here, but the café had a level patio out front with round metal tables decorated with deep pink flowers.

We both ordered a lemonade whilst leaning back in our seats, happy to rest our feet.

I took a break from people watching, shooting a quick glance at Alice. She had a small smile on her face, gazing at nothing in particular.

"What are you smiling at over there?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

A look of surprise crossed Alice's features, before she shook her head, meeting my gaze. Her cheeks were slightly flushed. "Nothing."

I took a sip of my lemonade, smirking. "You can't lie to save your life, Ally."

We gazed at each other for a long moment, before we both laughed.

"Okay fine," Alice rolled her eyes. "I was excited about later."

I grinned. "The pub crawl?"

Alice nodded, sweeping a strand of hair behind her ear, her blue eyes darting along the street, before back to me. "Emmett was teasing me last night because I'm so small, saying he was going to get me really drunk because I'm probably a lightweight, and Jasper was all like 'Don't worry, I'll look out for you'".

I giggled. "Edward actually said the same thing to me."

Alice raised her eyebrows. "He did?"

I nodded.

Alice blushed again. "I feel like such a teenager, I spoke to Jasper for like half an hour last night and yet I think about him all morning."

I shrugged. "He's really hot, don't beat yourself up about it too much."

Alice laughed. "That's so typical of you Bella."

I winked, taking another sip of my lemonade. The icy cold temperature felt good in the 30 Celsius heat.

"'I'll look out for you'", Alice repeated. "Do you think that's like, an English pick up line or something? I mean, they both said it to us."

I rolled my eyes. "Alice!"

"What?!" She raised her arms in defence.

"Stop analysing everything already!" I laughed.

She rolled her eyes. "Fine." She was quiet for about two seconds, before: "So what are you going to wear later?"

"Alice!" I laughed again.

She gave me the evil eye. "Don't pretend you aren't going to ask for my help later anyway when you can't decide what to wear."

I rolled my eyes at her, although I felt my cheeks heat up slightly, because she was probably right.

We were both wearing shorts and cami's whilst walking around today, and most of the clothes I had brought with me were pretty casual anyway, seeing as my budget for the trip didn't allow me to go anywhere fancy that required me to wear something smart. I did, however, have a few nice dresses with me.

"What did you think of Edward, anyway?" She asked, eyeing me with interest.

I eyed the flower pot on the table, avoiding eye contact as I shrugged. "He was nice."

I didn't even have to look up to know Alice was raising her eyebrow at me in question, although a quick glance confirmed this.

"He's cute," I elaborated. "But, it's not like I'm planning on anything to happen, he probably spoke to about twenty other girls last night anyway, I mean look at him, he's probably fighting them off."

"No sane guy would fight you off Bella, I mean look at you," Alice shook her head.

I just rolled my eyes at her, looking away.

We finished the rest of our drinks before getting up to leave. It was nearly half 5 already, and we wanted to walk up to the top of the hill to see the view of the city before heading back to the hostel.

We were back at the hostel at half 8, having stopped to grab some dinner on the way back, and we immediately ran in to Rosalie at reception.

"Hey you two," she smiled widely, beckoning us over. "I was just buying a ticket for tonight, have you got one yet?"

We shook our heads, no, and decided to get ours with Rose, chatting about our day. Apparently Rosalie had been at the Castle with the boys today too, and I was secretly gutted that we had missed them.

"Can I come and get ready with you girls?" She asked as we made our way towards our dorm room. "The boys are sat upstairs already so we could just go up together…"

Alice and I both nodded. "Of course!"

"Great," she grinned. "I'll just go and grab my stuff from my dorm and meet you in the bathroom."

She danced off down the hallway and towards the stairs as Alice and I went in to our own dorm to find our wash bags and clothes for tonight.

I grabbed a pair of cut off Levi's and a sheer black Topshop camisole, picking up a short, heavy necklace to go with it.

We met Rosalie in the bathrooms, all three of us jumping in to separate shower rooms to wash before getting dressed and meeting by the mirrors to do make-up.

"So yeah, we're leaving tomorrow," Rosalie frowned in to the mirror as she applied lip balm. She had just been telling us about her trip previous to reaching Prague.

I fluffed my hair in the mirror as I nodded. "Me and Ally too, we're getting a night train to Krakow."

Rosalie turned around to stare at me, her expression excited. "No way! So are we, the 11PM?!"

My mouth fell open in surprise, before I nodded excitedly. "Yeah! That's so weird, wow."

Alice grinned next to me. "How long are you in Krakow for? We haven't booked a hostel yet, we were going to do that tomorrow morning."

Rosalie shook her head. "No, we haven't either. We were supposed to have booked already, but that's why you never leave anything to Emmett," she rolled her eyes. "We wanted to stay two nights though, I think."

I nodded. "Us too," I turned to face her. "Hey, we should book together, see if we can stay at the same one again."

Rosalie beamed. "Yes!"

We chatted excitedly about the prospect of doing the next leg of the journey together as we finished getting ready.

I had borrowed some of Rosalie's deep red lipstick to make my outfit look a bit more dressy, and I left my hair down and wavy – luckily it hadn't frizzed up in the heat today.

Both Alice and Rosalie were dressed in similar attire, keeping it casual. We all dashed back to our dorms once we were ready to put away our stuff and get money for the night. We had been given wrist bands at reception for the pub crawl, so we didn't have to take any kind of ticket.

We were up on the terrace at quarter to 10, fifteen minutes before the crawl left. I spotted the boys immediately – they were sat in the far right corner of the terrace, surrounded by a group of blondes.

"Bloody hell," Rosalie rolled her eyes next to me, grabbing my hand as I linked on to Ally, pulling us towards the table. We had already bought beers at the bar, and had a free shot courtesy of being on the pub crawl.

"Boys," Rosalie announced herself as we reached the table, and I didn't miss the eyebrow she raised at Emmett, then Edward, as if this was his fault.

"Hey babe," Emmett immediately wrapped his arms around Rosalie, pulling her on to his lap and kissing her cheek. She looked slightly mollified. "Hey girls," Emmett waved a hand up at us as Alice and I lingered at the table, unsure of where to sit as the three blonde girls were hovering around the table, blocking the seats.

"Bella!" My eyes darted up at the sound of his voice, making eye contact with Edward. He patted the space on the bench next to him.

I turned to Alice, making sure I wasn't going to be ditching her by sitting with Edward, to see that she had already disappeared, taking a seat next to Jasper. Gee thank, Ally.

I made my way around the table. "Excuse me," I smiled at the blonde girl stood nearest to Edward, trying to squeeze past.

"Oh, sorry," she spoke. She had a strong L.A accent.

I took a seat next to Edward, and he grinned at me immediately. "Thanks for saving me," he whispered, sneaking a glance at the girl who I had just side stepped.

"Saving you?" I raised an eyebrow, taking a drink from my beer.

Edward rolled his eyes. "That girl has just spent twenty minutes assuring me I'm really posh because of my accent, and asking me why I haven't got bad teeth," he spoke in a hushed voice, although he looked amused.

I laughed. "You know, that is how most American's stereotype you…"

"So I've heard…" he flashed me a crooked grin, trailing off. "Do you think I have a posh accent?"

The answer was yes, I did, but I humoured him, hesitating. I also thought he had a posh name. "Well…" I began, smirking.

Edward raised an eyebrow at me, nudging his arm against mine as he frowned at me in mock annoyance. I felt goose bumps erupting at the contact, but shrugged it off.

"You speak better than the other Brits I've met," I continued, biting my lip as I tried not to grin at him like an idiot.

His green eyes were fixated on me, and I noticed as his eyes slid down to my mouth quickly before sliding back up, a smug expression creeping across his face. "Are you saying you like my accent the best?"

He was leant forwards on the table now, and I was aware of how close our faces were. I felt myself blush, dropping my eyes at the intensity of the close proximity. "It's… nicer," I admitted, glancing up at him.

Edward just leant back, looking smug with himself.

"Not too posh though," I assured him. "Just… nice."

I gazed at Edward, and we smirked at each other before looking away.

He took a swig of his beer, and I looked away, feeling my cheeks cooling down. They were no doubt bright pink.

"Hey, Bella!" Emmett called across the table. "What's this about you going to Krakow tomorrow as well?"

Edward leant forward next to me so he could hear what Emmett was saying. "You are?"

I smiled, nodding. "Yeah, Rose said we're getting on the same night train?" It came out as a question.

Emmett and Edward grinned at each other. "Following us already are you?" Emmett teased as Edward chuckled next to me.

I rolled my eyes. "You wish."

Emmett raised an eyebrow. "Not me," he nodded his in Edward's direction, instead.

Edward laughed, shaking his head. "Fuck off, Em."

Emmett waggled both eyebrows at Edward as he just rolled his eyes before Rosalie cut in from her conversation with Jasper and Alice.

"God Emmett, stop antagonising him," she laughed.

"Yeah Emmett, listen to your woman," Edward teased.

Rosalie turned on Edward, smirking. "Watch it Cullen."

Edward held both of his hands up, grinning.

He turned to me to explain as Rosalie went back to her conversation with Jasper and Alice. "She hates it when I call her woman."

"That doesn't really surprise me," I said, taking another drink from my beer, which was almost empty.

Just then, a voice called across the terrace, announcing everyone going on the crawl should make their way outside on to the street.

"Party time!" Emmett grinned, holding up both of his arms as he hooted.

Rosalie laughed, hitting him in the stomach. "Shut up clown."

He raised his eyebrows at her, before standing up, picking her up by the waist and spinning her around. She squealed, hitting him on the chest, before demanding to be put down. Emmett obliged before kissing her on her forehead quickly. I looked away, not wanting to intrude on their moment.

We made our way outside as a group, and I linked arms with Alice once we got out on to the street. Edward emerged outside next to Jasper, the two of them speaking, their heads close together.

The L.A girls followed close behind them, and I hadn't even noticed that they had moved away from our table once Alice and I had sat down.

It was dark outside now, the orange glow of lights from the buildings reflecting on everyone's faces.

The crawl guide explained that we would only be heading out five minutes away, to where all the bars were on the water front.

"We'll finish up in one of the clubs at the end," he finished, before turning to answer a question from one of the girls stood nearby him.

"Drink?"

I jumped slightly as Emmett appeared from right behind me, waving a glass bottle in my face, filled with green liquid.

I took the bottle from him, unscrewing the cap as the crowd of people started walking towards the end of the street. Emmett fell in to step beside me as we followed, and I sniffed the green liquor inside the bottle.

"Fuck, that's strong," I winced, before tipping the bottle bag and taking a quick shot. I scrunched my eyes up as the liquor slid down my throat, burning as it went.

Emmett chuckled, taking a drink from the bottle too, before passing it back.

"Again?!" I raised my eyebrows in surprise.

He smirked. "No one goes out with me and stays sober."

I rolled my eyes, taking another drink before passing the bottle back to him.

"I'd watch out with that if I were you," a voice spoke from next to me. Emmett was already passing the bottle to him, and I turned to see Jasper walking beside me, looking amused.

I hadn't spoken to Jasper yet, but he too was good looking, especially up close. His eyes were bright blue, his blonde hair slightly scruffy.

"Why's that?" I raised an eyebrow.

He smirked, turning the bottle around once he had taken a shot. "Because it's 70%," he tapped the number at the base of the bottle.

My mouth fell open as I rounded on Emmett. "Emmett!" I nudged his arm with my elbow, hard.

Jasper chuckled.

"It's nice to know someone's got my back," I frowned as Emmett just laughed. "Thank you Jasper," I smiled at him, before turning back to glare at Emmett again.

"Not a problem," he grinned.

We reached the first bar, and there was a free shot there. I was feeling drunk already, and decided against having a free shot at the next bar, at least until I sobered up a bit. I didn't want to be a mess.

"Bathroom break," Rosalie grabbed my arm, pulling me towards the ladies.

I waited outside as Rosalie used the toilet, before she came out, applying lipstick.

"Here," she traced the lipstick along my lips too, seeing as the colour had started to fade.

"Thanks," I grinned.

I pushed my hair to the side, playing with it to see how it looked.

"You look hot, Bella," Rosalie rolled her eyes, observing me.

I shot her a look in disbelief. "Says the model over there."

Rosalie shook her head. "I'm serious, you're gorgeous. No wonder E-" She cut herself off.

"No wonder what?" I asked, confused.

She shook her head again. "Nothing, come on, let's go back out."

I nodded, following her out of the bathroom and towards the bar, where everyone else was hanging.

We stayed in the bar for just over forty minutes, before the crawl guide moved us on to the next place.

By the time we reached the club, I was fucked. After watching Emmett and Edward have a 'shot-off', as they called it, Emmett had then challenged me.

"I'll go easy on you," he insisted. "We'll use vodka instead of Absinthe."

I all but snorted. "That sounds way easier," I said sarcastically.

I had bailed after three shots.

Edward had insisted that I still did great, but gave me a 'consolation hug' anyway. I didn't take his words of encouragement too seriously, because he was clearly wasted. I did, however, enjoy the feeling of being wrapped up in his arms.

"Where's my hug for winning, Edward?" Emmett demanded from next to us.

"You don't get one," Edward grumbled, his chin resting on top of my head. "Loser's only."

"Hey," I frowned, my head against his chest.

There was some sort of commotion that I didn't manage to process in my inebriated state, and I was suddenly being tugged away from Edward, Alice and Rosalie dragging me off towards where everyone was dancing.

"Cosy," Alice giggled in my ear, and I just rolled my eyes at her.

She wrapped her arms around my waist, engulfing me in a hug. "If Edward gets a hug, I want one too."

I smiled at Rosalie, who was stood behind Alice. She grinned back, before beginning to dance, her eyes closing as she swayed to the music.

"Love you Ally," I squeezed Alice.

"You too," she squeezed back.

A/N: Thanks for reading! Any reviews would be hugely appreciated, so let me know what you think! Should I continue?

Anna

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