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Chapter 2

The bell finally rung ending last period. I quickly got up from my seat and head straight to my locker. I opened the heavy metal door hearing it crash against the other lockers. I placed my books on the top shelf. Thinking of what I needed to take home with me for the day. Unexpectedly I felt a pair of hands tickling me up and down my sides. I jumped letting out a high pitch scream. I turned around knowing it was Edward. He chuckled at my reaction.

"Edward! Why!" I yelled at him.

"Did I startle you?"

"No..." My voice changed pitch using sarcasm. "My heart just stopped beating for no reason." He then bent down laying his ear close to my chest.

"Thank god I can hear it now." I rolled my eyes at him smiling. I closed my locker and started walking with him towards the car. He opened the door for me to get in the passengers seat. Edward got in on the other side once I got in closing the door. Usually on the way back home we would talk about our day. But today I decided to turn on the radio and listen to the music quietly. I sang quietly to myself. The music filled the silence between us. Only sometimes I looked over to Edward, he had one hand on the steering wheel and the other on tapping the beat of the music on his leg. He looked like he was in deep thought. I looked out the window for the remainder of the trip. Then he parked the car outside of my house cutting off the music. I looked at him still sitting in the same position as if he were driving.

I leaned over kissing his lips. He kissed me back gently. Moving closer to him then started to lean hovering over him now wrapping my arms around his neck. Instantly his lips stopped kissing mine. I could tell he was trying not to hurt my feelings, he slowly pushed me away from him and looked up at me. I tried to hide my upset face.

"Bella, we need to get in the house," He caressed my cheek, putting one strand of hair behind my ear as he said said his an excuse to me. I sighed nodding agreeing. He smiled weakly and got out waiting for me. I grabbed the bronze mental key and opened the door to the house. Edward took his seat at the table as usual. I started getting all the food, and pans I need to cook dinner for my parents.

Edward already started on his homework. I started the water boiling for pasta. Putting the stove on and a tin of a gallon of water. Then walked behind Edward wrapping my arms around his neck. I pulled him close to my body letting and leaned around and kissed his cheek. His cheek bones rose up as his lips curved into a smile and his hands covering mine.

"Are you still coming over to my house for dinner tonight with the family?" He asked. All of a sudden I tensed up frozen forgetting about tonight.

"Oh, um right of course I am," My guilty voice answered him. I felt his shoulder move up and down as he chuckled.

"You didn't ask your parents did you?" He turned around and looked up at me a little hurt.

"Edward, I'm sorry. I'll leave a note for them so when they come back they know where I am." He let out a deep sigh letting his hands drop from holding mine.

"Something is boiling," He pointed to the tin. The water was boiling at the top with bubbles popping splattering everywhere.

"Shit!" I rushed over turning the stove off. I sighed pretending to wipe sweat off my forehead. "You saved me from cleaning a mess."

"What can I say? I'm a hero." He shrugged and winked at me.

"You're my hero," I smiled finishing the dinner. I put the pasta in the tin of water then steered up the sauce heating it up. After I took a seat across from Edward getting out my twenty pounds of homework on the table. I pulled out my heavy books with my weak muscles on the table plopping them down making the table shake. Edward didn't seem to have even noticed, I struggled with it all.

I sat there thinking hard, while Edward was doing homework. I finally got the courage to go up to him and kiss him as deeply as I could. Taken a back by the kiss, it gave him a few seconds to catch his breath and kiss me back. Surprisingly Edward pulled me down into his lap running his hands up my sides from my hips to my neck. His fingers traces the hem line of my shirt. I pushed his lips with a little urgency of wanting more. Wrapping my arms around his neck with my fingers knotting in his hair. He pushed back against my lips while his hands cupped my face on both sides. Then after a few seconds he slowly pulled away pecking my lips once before speaking.

"Bella..." His voice trailed off. I sighed my face expression giving it away. "What is this? What's gotten into you?" He placed his hands on my waist.

I shook my head, "I just..." I stopped myself before hurting his feelings. "Nothing." I said looking away.

"Bella you can tell me anything you know that."

"It's just feel like all we do is kiss. We've been dating almost three years now, we don't touch, or anything like that, " Looking down playing with my hands trying to avoid eye contact.

He let out a deep sigh, "I didn't know you wanted to go that far." He said trying not to hurt my feelings as usual.

"Edward, come on I know you can lie well, but that was the worst one you ever said. You make me sound like some sort of villain trying to steal your virtue. " I laughed a little while confronting him, getting off his lap.

"Bella, there's a reason, I've avoided being intimate with you." I raised my eyebrow at him. "You know Rosalie, my sister and her son Zack and her husband Emmet?"

"Of course," I nodded the one that doesn't like me I thought.

"Well, Emmet is not Zack's biological dad..." My eyes widen hear of this news, but letting him continue. "You see when Rosalie October senior year, she and her boyfriend Royce, had sex together. Couple weeks later she found out she was pregnant with Zack, told Royce. Next day Royce was no where to be found. He left her, pregnant and alone." I bit my bottom lip feeling bad for Rosalie.

"Rosalie was so ashamed and embarrassed to go back to school. She had everything going for her. Captain or cheer leading squad, popular, good grades, and a scholarship to college. All that vanished when she then dropped out. She was home schooled had the baby with my parents. She took a year off of school to be with Zack. But She didn't want to be apart from the family or Zack so when she went back she went to community college."

"But she seems happy now, she has Emmet,"

"She is, Emmet became such a help and accepted her past. But Bella," He took my hands into his and looked straight into my eyes. "She can never get those years she lost back. She loves Zack, but she wishes she went to college, all that was taken away from her because of getting pregnant. I hope you see why I don't want to take any of that away from you,"

I saw the worry in his face, and hurt he felt for his sister in his face. I leaned down and gently kissed his lips. His lips were soft against mine pulling away.

"Edward... We would use protection. Plus I know you would never do what Royce did. And no offense to Rosalie, but I'm not her. I don't mind community college if it comes down to it. Everything worked out in the end for Rosalie." He frowned at my response.

"Bella, you're not getting the big picture. My point is that I won't take away your human experiences for sexual desires. I don't get why you want to rush it."

"Because, we don't know what the future holds. I know your family wants you to go to Standford with the scholarship you have there. I'll be lucky if I can afford University of Washington, or Seattle University. Senior year goes by fast. We could be split apart..." My eyes watered from the thought of it. Edward used his thumb to catch the tear before escaping my left eye. "Plus I want my first to be with you, I love you, and only you, I just want to show you that,"

He smiled listening to me speak. "We'll see love, I'll think about it. Please don't get upset." I looked at him, feeling like an idiot. I pressed my lips to his feeling the the tension of this conversation was not over.

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Preview: "Rosalie?" I asked confused as she appeared in the door way of Edward's room. "What are you doing here?"

"Edward, told me you about what happened this afternoon before you came here." She tilted her head resting on the frame of the door. I nodded. "He told me to talk to you, to try to change your mind." Of course he did, I thought. "But to start I bet he didn't tell you the truth in the beginning."

"What truth?"