Chapter 2: Skinny Love What Happened Here

"I'm the one that should be apologizing," Rosalie turned to look at me. "It was probably rude of me to ask you to carry my things." I didn't bother to even respond to her, and returned to searching for a pencil in my backpack. It must have irritated her how I wasn't bothering to make small talk and she began taping her pencil on the desk, in an annoying manner. Without saying a word I reached over and put my hand over her hand that was taping the pencil, stopping it. I hadn't noticed that I probably kept my hand there, longer than necessary and retracted it. Her skin was smooth and soft and quite warm, which was very comfortable. But there was something else that I felt when our hands touched, and I wasn't sure what it was. It was like touching the water in a pool on a hot scorching day, to test the temperate and realizing its coolness made you shiver just a bit, but you wanted to feel that coolness all over your body.

I could feel her eyes watching me with curiosity. Had she felt that coolness just as I did?

"What is your problem? I didn't do anything to you, and you seem to hate me and we barely know each other?" She asked me, and I finally looked up into her eyes, her very blue deep eyes that felt like they could swallow me. For a second I lost what I was going to say, but then Mr. Billings quieted the classroom down so that he could lecture. Rosalie began writing in her notebook, and then ripped the paper out and slide it across the table.

Are you going to answer my question?

I debated if I should write her back. What was I going to say? I don't why I don't like you..hmm maybe it's because your annoyingly perfect. I scribbled down something I thought would be hilarious…well to me at least, and passed the paper back to her.

Why don't you just get over yourself Barbie?

Once she read what I had wrote her, the reaction on her face was priceless. She took the paper and crumbled it up, and then threw it at me. It wasn't a playful throw that you might expect from a girl like her, but it was hard and when I tried to dodge it I slipped off my seat. Luckily I had extremely good reflexes and caught myself on the desk edge, so I wouldn't end up falling on my rear. For my embarrassment, it didn't disrupt the classroom, and Bella hadn't noticed it at all. Rosalie just giggled at me, and returned to taking notes like nothing had ever happened.

Today had to be the day Mr. Billings finished his lesson early and gave us time to talk after. Just great. I slowly packed my belongings into my backpack, hoping Rosalie wouldn't try to talk to me as long as I looked busy. But of course Rosalie was becoming more and more unpredictable.

"So how long have you and Bella been going out?" She tapped my on the shoulder, and turned her seat so that her whole body was facing me.

"What's it to you?" I snapped back at her, and she rolled her eyes.

"Listen. I'm sorry for what I did earlier, and I bet you are too… look, Bella seems really sweet, and I like her and your friends."

"That doesn't mean we have to be friends." She rolled her eyes again, probably expecting me to make rude comments, and continued what she was saying, "Well anyways…you guys make a cute couple. I was just interested…" She turned away from me to grab her things, and then she started getting up to leave. I instinctively reached to grab her by the arm.

"A year," I muttered.

"A year what?" She asked, as she looked down at her arm that I was still holding. I had that same feeling I had when I touched her hand earlier. All I wanted to do was to be engulfed by her, hold her, love her…SHIT! What was I thinking? I quickly released the grip from her arm and folded my arms across my lap.

"Bella and I have been dating for about a year…" I muttered, while she sat back down.

"So you guys are pretty serious then right?"

"So?"

"Soooooo, never mind! I can see this is a dead cause with you."She said sharply, and got up from her seat, this time I didn't hold her back, and she left to talk with Bella and Mike. What did she mean it was a dead cause? And what was she trying to get at? This girl was starting to get on my nerves, but at the same time I was somewhat weirdly attracted to her, and the attraction grew more and more.

After the bell rang Bella and I walked to our next class alone. Emmett was at the door ready to take Rosalie the moment the bell rang, and she gladly went with him. Supposedly Rosalie told Bella that we 'made up' and everything was ok with us now, which was surprising because that's not what happened at all, and why would Rosalie lie? Anyways, Bella was really glad that everyone was getting along, and she seemed very taken to the Hale twins, as everyone else…

When school was over, we went about our usual routine of gathering around the vehicles and chatting, checking schedules to see if we could hang out after school. Emmett had a hockey tournament to go that night, so he left right after school, but of course he snagged a good bye hug from Rosalie. He wouldn't be returning for another day.

"I think I'm in love!" Alice sang, as she sat in the back seat of my Volvo. We were on our way to drop Bella off, before heading home ourselves. Alice was completely out of it, singing and humming, and then she proclaimed her love for Jasper Hale.

"Don't you think, that's a bit too much too soon?" Bella said.

"Oh, Bella, remember when you told me how you thought you loved Edward before you two became serious? I think this is real. I love him."

"Yeah, but Alice…I knew Edward for more than day," Bella countered and Alice just pouted her lips, and acted like she didn't hear the last part.

(A year ago)

After spending the entire day with Edward I came home to see Alice…at my own house. She said she knew I had something to tell her, which was really weird because I did have something important to tell her. Alice could sense things, like having premonitions, but she dismissed whatever people would call it, because she said it was perfectly normally for people to have 'premonitions.' Unlike most people who do have premonitions, Alice could get an almost accurate vision before it happened…and that wasn't 'normal' in most people's books.

Alice had arrived a few minutes before I had. How convenient…

"Bella! So how was your day with my brother?" She asked, but I had a feeling she already knew the answer to that.

Earlier that day Edward had taken me on a 'short' hiking trip. He allowed me to drive half way there, and then we got out and hiked the rest. He wanted to share one of his places with me. It surprised me a bit that he would have a favorite place in the middle of a forest, when his family traveled and went on vacations all the time. I hadn't known the Cullens that long, since I moved to Forks a few weeks ago.

My mother had gotten remarried and was going to move to Florida for her new husband's occupation, so I decided it would be a good time to stay with my dad, since I hadn't seen him in a long time. At first my friends were people like Jessica and Mike…at the time I thought Alice was a bit strange and her older brother, Edward was too gorgeous to even speak to. But as time went on and Edward became my lab partner I had gotten over those prejudices.

Once Edward had asked me if I'd like to study for a chemistry test with him, it was more for my benefit than his, because he knew I struggling with the lesson and we both knew that he wasn't. That evening I went over to his house, completely shocked at their huge and beautiful estate. Edward had formerly introduced me to his family, Carlisle, Esme, and little sister Alice. It was funny how old fashioned he was, but it was cute. We spent about a few hours working on chemistry, and studying up the terms for the next day's test, until Alice came in and interrupted us.

That was the first time I had actually spoken to Alice, and I would never forget it. She asked if I could help her bake cookies. Completely random, but that was Alice and I couldn't refuse an offer from Alice, ever, especially when she used those big bright puppy dog eyes of hers. Edward had figure I had enough studying, and that if I tried to stuff anymore chemistry into my head it might explode and we would have to start from square one all over again, but I wouldn't have minded it just to spend some time with him, and he joked he wouldn't have minded it either.

I ended up staying later baking cookies with Alice, while Edward read a book at the kitchen table, watching us, but he acted like he was completely engulfed in his book otherwise. While the cookies were in the oven, Alice had put on her iPod and played music. She started dancing around the kitchen and singing, and somehow she got me to do the same. I had forgotten Edward was even in the room, and enjoyed my time with Alice. It was really fun, and I felt like I belonged with them, like a family almost. That's how Alice and I become best friends, and that was the start of my relationship with Edward.

Once Edward and I arrived at our destination, I realized why he treasured this place so much. It was a meadow in the middle of the forest. So beautiful and perfect. We walked to the middle of the meadow and sat down on a blanket Edward had brought. He had gotten a little hot, while hiking and decided to take his shirt off, which was quite a site to see. New barriers of our growing relationship were crossed, as I trailed my finger tips intimately across his perfect abs, around his arms, his hands, his face. He didn't seem to mind, it was like he was used to people just touching him, but I couldn't get over how beautiful he was. That was my first kiss, with Edward. It couldn't have been any perfect either.

"So Bella? How was it?" Alice asked again. I hadn't noticed how I zoned out on her.

"Umm…interesting. Sorry, I just feel weird talking to you about your brother this way.."

"You can tell me anything. It's not weird, you're my best friend and you know I won't tell him."

"Ok…well I think I love him. Like actually love him."

(Present)

"Alice you're so naïve sometimes," I told her. She was my little sister, and I felt I should be the one telling her things like this.

"Oh come on Edward, that's hardly fair. We're like the same age!"

"The same age, minus a year. Seriously you barely know the guy Al."

"You say that, but I feel like I know him. Like we've meet before, I don't know, but it's strange I can't describe it. I think he likes me back, I can feel it." She said, as almost a way of justifying her sudden love. Alice and Bella talked more about the topic of Jasper, and how perfect of a match he was for her until we dropped Bella off. I loved my sister, but once you got her talking about something it was almost impossible to get her to stop. When Bella got out the car, she got really silent for awhile.

"So what do you think about Rosalie?" she asked, and suddenly I felt a sudden sweat on my forehead.

"Uh, I don't know, what kind of question is that?"

"Well Bella told me how you guys kind of got off on the wrong foot, but then everything was ok. I was just wondering…"

"That's true."

"Edward…I have this weird feeling…never mind it's silly."

"What? What is it?"

"It's nothing. So did you know the Hales are having this open house kind of party tonight. It's just for adults, well because Jasper and Rosalie don't know any students yet…but yeah Jasper said we could come, since our parents were going anyways." Alice went on talking about what outfit she should wear tonight, since this was last minute, she couldn't go shopping. All I could think of was that I was going to spend tonight with the Hales…Rosalie Hale to be exact. And Alice said she had a funny feeling about the situation between us, which wasn't silly. Alice's 'feelings' were usually accurate to the truth of things, and she was about to tell me about it and I wish she had. If I tried to ask her about it now, she would think something was definitely up, but nothing was. Right?

We pulled up to the Hale estate, which might have been bigger than our place. It was very similar to ours though, with white siding, huge windows, and a perfectly manicured lawn. I found that Carlisle would have taken us along to the Hale open house, regardless, because he wanted to be polite and let his old friend meet his whole family.

When we entered the foyer, Mr. and Mrs. Hale greeted us with warm hugs, something I didn't expect from parents of Rosalie. Mr. Hale was your usual workaholic dad, clean shaven, designer slacks and button up shirt, and Mrs. Hale was a petite women, with blonde hair and a breathtaking smile; you could tell were Rosalie got her looks from.

"Nice to finally meet the whole Cullen clan!" Mrs. Hale laughed at the catchy name she just gave us. They were truly nice parents, and I wondered how Rosalie fit into the Hale family. She must be the odd ball of the family. I didn't see her anywhere and Jasper showed up without her.

"Is this the girl you were talking about earlier son?" Mr. Hale pointed to Alice with his wine glass. Jasper's faced turned a shade red, and simply nodded at his father. Alice's eyes light up and smiled from ear to ear. She was rarely wrong about anything…and sometimes it worried me.

Once we were done with the formal greetings and chit chat, Jasper invited Alice on a tour of their place and both our parents went off to mingle with the other guests. I spent my time walking around the huge house. It was definitely bigger than ours, and it had an indoor pool, and movie theater room. I wondered what their mother did for a living, or maybe their father was just a really good doctor. Either way, they were a very materialistic family, something my family wasn't keen on, except Alice.

I hadn't seen Rosalie at all during the evening, which I didn't mind, but my own personal tour of their house became a search for her. I hadn't checked the upstairs of their house yet, so I guessed she was up there, and she was…in her room.

I opened the door slowly, into a big room with pale white walls, just like the rest of the house, and our house. One side of the room was all window, and the bed sat on the wall perpendicular to the window wall. It was mainly empty with boxes scattered throughout.

"What are you doing, Edward?" I heard her voice from behind me. She was sitting at a desk on her computer, back faced to me.

"I was just…"

"Spying." She said, as I walked closer to check out what she was doing on her computer, but she quickly exited out.

"You have a twitter?"

"Yes so?"

"Nothing…I just didn't take you as someone who kept up with that kind of stuff," I said as I walked over towards the boxes. They were filled up with CDs and books. One particular book caught my eye, and I picked it up.

"I use it to keep up with my friends from New York," she explained and turned around to see me touching her stuff, which seemed to annoy her, a lot. "What are you doing, put that back!" She rushed over to me and handed out her hand, expecting me to give it back to her.

"I didn't know you even read books. Not even stuff like 'Twilight.' Isn't it about a vampire family called the VonDullens, and one of the sons fall in love with a human girl, Saraphina?"

"Yes, now hand it back!" she demanded. I guess now wouldn't be the time to make her angry, especially when our parents were close. I slowly gave over the book to her, and again when our hands slightly touched I got that feeling again. This time I knew she felt it too, because she jumped a little.

"Did you feel that?" I asked. A part of me wanted her to, but the other part was screaming at me like I was insane.

"Feel what Edward?" She asked as if nothing happened, which was getting on my nerves now, because she always brushed things off.

"Don't act dumb, please just answer my question."

"All I felt was that you shocked me. It was nothing, people get electric shots all the time." Again she brushed it off, but this time it was the way she said it, like I was the dumb one.

"Why do you always act like that?" I slight shouted, trying to keep my voice down.

"Like what? Like I don't like you, because I don't, and I know you hate me, so there."

"I only hate you because you're so impossible to deal with!" That was it, I was shouting and I didn't care if anyone heard.

"Oh please Edward, we barely know each other and I can't believe you want to argue about how impossible I am. If you didn't notice, it's only you who thinks that, so it must be you causing that behavior from me!"

"Fuck Rosalie, can't you see!" I grabbed her hand, holding it tight. That cursed feeling appeared, and it was so much stronger that I was actually holding her hand.

"Edward? Let go." She whispered and I let go of her hand. We were so close to each other now, and I felt like I was being pulled to her.

"I'm sorry," I said as I looked at her face, and she was crying. "I didn't mean to.."

"No I'm sorry, I just cry whenever I get upset…it's nothing." She looked down so I couldn't see her face or her tears anymore. I wanted to comfort her, but that other side of me was screaming not to. I shut that other out and did what felt like was right. I slowly lifted my hand to her to wipe away the tears, and she didn't stop me. She looked up at me, with an expression like she felt it too. This feeling, this warmth, it was like a drug to me, I needed more of it and so did she. I wasn't paying attention to how much closer we getting, and soon the space between our faces was gone. Our lips rested on each other, for awhile till the feeling was all too great and I kissed her. Her lips were so soft and just plain perfect. Kissing her felt like pure ecstasy, and I wondered if only kissing her made me feel this way, what would…

"Edward," Rosalie said softly, and backed away, ending the kiss before it got even deeper.

"Shit…I shouldn't have," I said as I hurried out of the room. I had completely crossed the line, and Bella. Crap. This was just awful. I hurried down the hall, and down the steps till I was stopped my Jasper and Alice.

"Hey Edward. Have you seen Rosalie," Jasper asked.

"Uh yeah…she's in her room."

"Still? That's unlike her…well anyways thanks Edward hope you having a good time," Jasper smiled at me, and so did Alice as they left up the stairs.

RPOV

I wasn't sure what had just happened, and I also wasn't sure if it even happened. But I kissed Edward, or he kissed me. Maybe we both kissed each other. The odd thing is that I actually really, really enjoyed it. I would have never kissed a guy when I only knew him for a day, and especially if I didn't like him. This was too confusing, but it felt so right. Like we were two beings destined to be together, but couldn't accept that fact. And plus Edward had a girlfriend already so it was wrong, definitely wrong.

I couldn't stop thinking about Edward, and how good he made me feel for those short seconds. He was gorgeous, and just so perfect it was hard to describe. I wondered if he felt the same way towards me. He had said he felt something but still he acted like he hated me, and then suddenly he wanted to kiss me, and I sure if I hadn't stopped it, came back to reality, a lot more than kissing might have occurred. That feeling was so strong and I was pulled to him like a magnet

I still doubted if he felt the same way. I knew boys and how they acted around pretty girls, such as me, but it felt so much more than lust. These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die like fire and powder which, as they kiss, consume.

"Knock knock," Alice said as she came in my room, followed by Jasper.

"You never came down stairs?" Jasper eyed me, and I knew that he knew something was up. Party's were my specialty.

"Uh…yeah I was just talking to some friends from back home," I said. I hoped my voice wasn't too shaky from the crying still, and I sure hoped my face wasn't flushed, that would have given everything away.

"And Edward?" Alice asked which completely shocked me, and I froze. Did she know? Had Edward told her? "Well he just told us you were up here, so I guessed he had talked to you."

"Oh yeah…we did talk." I stopped myself from saying anymore. I would have gone off babbling about how we talked, argued, kissed. Just thinking about it made me flutter.

"So when are you planning on making an appearance at the party?" My brother asked me. Jasper was very sensitive to others feelings, especially mine, but I guess it was just a twin thing.

"Um..Yeah, let's go now. Oh wait a second." I went into my bathroom to apply more powder on my face, and luckily my eye make up was water proof, so one could even tell I had been crying. Thank God.

"Are you going to talk about it?" I screamed and jumped away. Jasper had appeared at the door unexpectedly. I looked around and Alice wasn't there. "She went downstairs."

"Oh…talk about what Jasper?" I asked as innocent as possible.

"What ever is going on between you and Edward. And there's definitely something going on, you both had the same look. Alice told me about earlier today…how you guys weren't getting along."

"It's nothing Jasper. Edward and I got into an argument, that was it." I told him, once again cutting myself off, before I said something I'd regret. I hated lying to my brother, but I felt I should be talking to Edward about it, before I told anyone.

"An argument?" He asked and I simply nodded. "Alright then..lets go." I followed him out the room, through my bedroom and down the hall and steps to a bunch of guests, anxious to see me. I knew Jasper knew I was keeping something from him, but he didn't push it.

I wanted to talk to Edward, but I couldn't find him anywhere. So I put on my happy face and talked among the adults, and hung out with Alice. She was really enjoyable company, and completely honest. She even told me her intentions with my brother, which surprised me. Edward was nothing like the rest of his family, he must be the old ball.

A/N: I would just like to say I love all you people who enjoy Edward/Rosalie pairing! And I'm so glad people like this story! You won't be disappointed, in the outcome! Promise you! I would also like to thank those that review, and let me know people are actually reading it! Makes my day so much better when I receive a review, and it encourages me to write chapters faster! :)