Always Were, Always Will Be

E POV

I threw my keys on the living room table as I made my way up the stairs to my bedroom when I heard Emmett talking a little too loudly with his eyes glued to the game him and Jasper were playing. "So Edward how was your lunch date? And why are you back so early? You have been gone for less than an hour."

I sighed walking down the stairs and took a seat next to Emmett. "Well Emmett, you and Jasper never fail to put me on dates with Seattle's worst. I left early because she talked too much."

Jasper paused the game and turned around to get a better look at me, "Dude make up your mind already! You complain about every girl you go on a date with. It is always either she talks too much or talks too little. I thought you like people who talk a lot."

"I do, but this one talked too much about boring things. The whole time we were there she talked about cosmetics," I said trying to defend myself.

"Wait, Edward you are too much of a gentleman to just end the date early. What did you say that made this girl run away screaming?" Emmett was now slowly turning red trying to hold in his laughter as long as possible.

"I just told her I had athletes foot," I shrugged.

Emmett finally let out his laugh which sounded like a bomb that just went off while Jasper let out the loudest snort I have ever heard. "Edward you are too much," Jasper laughed. "Last week you told Amanda you had warts in your genital area and now you tell Clair you have athletes foot?"

"There is no other way to get rid of them. Now if you guys are done making fun of me, I will be heading to my room," I punched Emmett on the shoulder as I got off the couch.

"Wait Edward," Emmett put his hand up to stop me as his other hand was wiping the tears off his eyes. "We are going to the girls' place for dinner, are you going to come along?"

I was about to say of course when I remembered I had a paper to write for class. I let out a groan, "Sorry guys but I need to finish my paper that's due tomorrow, but can you wait for a second I have something for you to give to Bella." I ran up to my room and took the ticket out of my drawer and ran back. "Here," I handed the ticket to Jasper. "I was going to ask one of you to come with, but I know you don't appreciate this type of music."

"Edward I am hurt," Emmett gasped as her put a hand to his heart. "We will let your lover know how much you think she appreciates music!" He yelled shutting the door before I can think of something witty to say back.

I slowly trudged up the stairs and made my way in to my room. Knowing that I had to focus, I quickly walked to my desk and opened up my laptop.

After twenty minutes of just staring at my half finished paper I got up and laid down on my bed, smiling at all the small memories that have their place in this room. I let out a soft chuckle remembering when the girls decided to redecorate this place.

"I am embarrassed to call you my friend!" Alice screeched as she stood open mouthed in the middle of my room.

I had to admit, the room was an eye sore. The walls were an off white color with plenty of stains on them because I was too lazy to paint over it. The carpet was a weird yellow color which I knew used to be white because some patches of where the old homeowner's furniture used to be were snow white. Boxes were everywhere due to the fact that I was too busy to unpack my clothes. My desk was black and my nightstand was brown – which did not match at all, and my comforter was a bright green.

"Um, Edward? Is this carpet supposed to be this color?" Bella was sitting cross-legged on the floor carefully inspecting it.

"Nope," I answered nonchalantly. Bella looked up at me wide eyed as her, Rosalie and Alice all jumped on my bed. I couldn't help but laugh.

"Edward this is really gross. Even Emmett's room is not this bad. I never knew you were this much of a pig," she smirked.

"That is it! As one of your best friends I can't let you do this to your self. We are going to redecorate your room!" Alice obviously had enough of this room after being in it for a full two minutes.

"You are not to step foot into this room until it is all done. All we need is your credit card and we will be set," she stuck out her hand.

"Of course that is the first thing you ask for Alice," I rolled my eyes handing the credit card to her. "Don't go too crazy and good luck."

After about a week of hearing "ewww" and "gross," the girls were finally finished. Alice came downstairs wearing shorts and one of Jaspers college shirts, "Edward Cullen, you are going to love this!" She was jumping up and down, pure excitement written all over her face. She pointed towards Emmett and Jasper who were busy watching COPS, "you two might want to see this also, if you think we did a good job then we can redecorate your rooms also."

"You already redecorated my room since you practically live there," Jasper mumbled, but he still got up to see what all the fuss was about.

I laughed having to agree with him. Alice had gone a little too overboard with his room. It was frilly and had lace all over because Jasper was smart enough to say "what ever is mine is yours, and so is this room."

When I opened my door I was shocked. The first thing I noticed were Bella and Rose lying on the bed obviously tired from all the hard work. I walked in a little more and took everything in. My walls were now a deep green color. I had a nice wooden floor with a round blue and green carpet in the middle. I had a four poster dark cherry bed that now matched with my nightstand and my desk. One side of my wall was dedicated completely to my DVDs and CDs with a plasma television right in the middle of them. I was impressed. I really had some awesome friends.

"Wow, thanks guys," I whispered still staring at my new room.

"You deserve it Edward. You are twenty one and you finally deserve a nice room. I mean, your old room at your parents' house was amazing but that was like five years ago, and we couldn't even step foot in your dorm room because it was so bad," Bella shrugged.

"Besides, we did what we thought was best for everyone. Alice wouldn't be able to keep her mouth shut if she came in here everyday knowing how bad your room is, and that would give everyone a headache," Rosalie laughed dodging a pillow that Alice threw at her. After about twenty minutes of us standing there everyone had walked out leaving me and Bella alone. She was now sitting up on my bed looking at a picture frame.

"What's that?" I sat down behind her looking over her shoulder. It was a picture of when we were ten years old. We were in the pool in my back yard and we were playing chicken. In the picture Rose was slowly sliding off of Emmett's shoulders, Alice was standing on Jasper's shoulders looking like she was about to jump off, and Bella was sitting on mine with her tiny fists in the air – proud of herself for winning chicken for the first time.

"It is a present for your new room. I have had this picture for the longest time and I thought I would make a copy and frame it for you. You know, for whenever you are feeling down you can look at this picture and know we will always be there for you, like we always have," she handed the picture to me and got up.

I was in awe by the words she had just said. I set down the picture and got up before she left my room. "Bella, wait. Thanks for being such an awesome friend, and thank you for helping out with my room when you could have been sitting at home relaxing after finally graduating from school…and thank you for this picture."

She slowly walked up to me and put her arms around my waist, "Edward, I already told you – you deserve it. We love you and of course I helped out with your room, you are my best friend. I'll see you downstairs." She gave me a light kiss on the cheek and walked out of the room.