"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft.


"Bella," Rosalie said suspiciously from behind me. "You know this man?"

I spun around to Rosalie and Alice, who were both standing next to each other, hands on their hips. I grinned sheepishly.

"This," I said, pointing to Emmett, who stood in the doorway appreciatively eyeing Rosalie I noticed, "is Emmett. Emmett, this is Alice and Rose."

Alice's face broke out into a grin.

"This is Emmett?"

I nodded.

"And Jasper."

I looked past Emmett to see Jasper's familiar face. I blushed as I remember how I had hit him in the knee on the plane.

Suddenly, Alice slammed the door shut in their faces and Rose pulled us back onto the double bed.

"AHHH!" they both managed to scream and whisper at the same time.

"Oh my god Bella!" Alice cried. "I so have dibs on Jasper."

"Emmett!" Rose whispered.

I chuckled. This was typical Rose and Alice.

"You might want to open the door again," I said, getting up and pulling the door open myself. Emmett and Jasper still stood there, looking puzzled, brows furrowed.

"You wanna come in?"

The both smiled at me and walked into our side of the bure. It was then that I felt as though I had just fallen from a very great height and winded myself, as well as having been slapped in the face and drowned in a very vast bath of pure heaven.

The third member of their party, who I deduced to be Edward, was standing hesitantly in front of the door. He had been standing behind Jasper, and I hadn't seen him until he moved. He was the most amazing thing I had ever seen in my life. He was not human, but an artwork. God's finest.

"Edward," I breathed.

His sharp, green eyes squinted slightly as his brow furrowed and his face showed confusion and slight amusement at my already knowing his name.

"Bella, right?" he said, stepping forward, his mouth curving upward in a crooked smile.

Oh my god. I thought franticly. I have to say something back!

I breathed out a massive amount of air. I realised I hadn't been breathing.

"I, um… er, y-yes."

"It's nice to meet you," he said, sincerely.

"Yeah," I said, still in awe as he raised a hand up to his bronze hair, running it through. "You too."

I heard Rose's laugh behind me. I had forgotten that they were also in the room. Rose was sitting on the couch at the front of the bure, chatting and laughing to Emmett who had taken a seat next to her. I turned to the back of the bure, where Alice and Jasper were leafing through a book of what appeared to be a list of things to do on the island.

"I heard about you on the plane," Edward was saying. I hadn't realised until now that he had the most pleasant voice I had ever heard. I had been too wrapped up in how breathtaking his face was. "From Jasper and Emmett, about all your escapades at the bathroom."

I spun back to face him, my face blushing red. He was still smiling at me, the crooked smile.

"Yeah," I croaked. "Who knew that bathrooms were great meeting spots?"

Edward chuckled; at my lame attempt at humour I was sure. What was I even worrying about? He surely had a girlfriend back home.

"How long are you staying here for?" he asked me, leaning against the doorframe.

"Um," I said, trying to remember. "Ten days."

"So you'll be here 'till next Monday?"

"Uh huh," I said nodding. "What about you? How long are you three here until?"

"Two weeks," he said. "Until the following Friday."

"Oh," I said. We'd be leaving before them.

"Hey guys!" Jasper called, Alice stood next to him, beaming. "Anyone up for some wind surfing?"


I found myself standing on the double bed, looking into the mirror, so I could see what the lower half of my body looked like in the bikini Alice and Rose had purchased for me, but had conveniently forgotten to give to me before we came away.

It was black and … bikini like. Which was exactly the problem.

"Hey," Alice said as I once again opened my mouth in protest. "I saw the way you were looking at Edward. You so want to get in his pants."

"And the best way to do that is to flaunt yourself a bit," Rosalie said in a knowing way. "When he sees you in that, and only that, he's going to go crazy!" Rose pronounced it 'kah-raze-ey', bumping hips with Alice and winking.

"Easy for you to say," I grumbled. "You have every single guy eating out of your hand. Rose, I'm not like that. I'm not confident. I'm not drop dead gorgeous. I'm just … not like that."

Both Alice and Rose stopped what they were doing and stared at me. I covered my stomach with my hands, suddenly feeling very self-conscious.

"Bella," Alice said softly. "But you are. You're all of those things."

"And more," Rose put in smiling at me. "When you're not freaked out, your know how to handle things on your own, and stick up for us, for yourself. You don't see it, I think maybe because you think to little of yourself, but guys … they follow you with their eyes."

"You're one of those girls who guys worry about approaching because they can sense that you're smart, and your not about to put up with any bullshit," Alice said.

I let their words sink into my brain. I looked up at them slowly.

"So, I should definitely wear this then?" I asked them timidly.

They both grinned at me and pulled me over to the mirror, talking animatedly.

"Here, let me do your hair," Rose said.

"Oh, and you'll need something to wear over the top of your bikini while we walk down there," Alice thought aloud, heading over to her suitcase and riffling through it.

"Don't forget to pack the camera. I'm not missing an opportunity to see Bella fall into the ocean and not have something to remember it by!" Rose laughed – evilly in my opinion.

"Hey!" I cried indignantly. "I'm not going windsurfing anyway."

"Why not?" Alice asked.

"I'll fall off," I said. "I think I'll just read my book on the beach."

"Here, hold this while I fix your hair."

Alice returned over to where Rose and I stood by the mirror, holding a white crochet shift dress, a tan belt and a matching leather tan oversized hangbag.

"Here," she said, handing them to me. "Bella! You're going to look so cute by the time we're done with you!"

"But aren't the guys waiting for us?" I asked, suddenly worried.

"I'm sure they'll understand."

"I really like Emmett," Rose said, suddenly looking dreamy. "I know I've only known him for like an hour, but he's so … so … Emmett?"

I grinned at her, while Alice nodded in agreement.

"And Jasper seems really nice too," I said slyly as Alice grinned and skipped off towards her bed, slipping a camera into her bag and walking over to the door.

"All done," Rose said. "You look great, Bella. Really."

I smiled at them both, thankful.

Slipping on the dress over the bikini, Alice put the belt around my waist as I put my book, sun cream and my towel into the bag she had handed me.

We walked out of the bure one by one and found the guys lazing on the hammocks just outside the bure.

"All ready?" Jasper said.

Alice, Rose and I all 'yep'-ed in response and we all headed towards the front of the island, near where we had arrived. I was surprised at how well all of us had melded together in the short time we had known each other.

Edward walked beside me, staring out over the ocean.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" I pointed out.

He turned to look at me, and it felt as though he was reading something in my eyes.

"So beautiful," he whispered, and I felt butterflies going crazy in my stomach.

"So," I cleared my throat. "Do you wind surf much?"

"I've been a few times. It's one of Jasper's all time favourites. Do you?"

"I've never been. I have no idea what to do."

"Do you want me to teach you?" Edward asked me, smiling that crooked smile, once again.

"Actually, I was planning on reading and watching all you guys," I explained. "I'm a bit of a klutz, and I'd just fall off. Probably before I even get in the water."

"Really?" Edward said, as if this piece of information was very amusing.

Edward and I stopped walking and put our things down on the beach where everyone else had just stopped. I pulled out my towel and spread it out on the sand and started to spread sun cream all over my legs and arms.

Rose pulled off her top and shorts and grabbed the sun cream, Alice soon following suit. Emmett sauntered over to Rose, taking the sun cream out of her hands.

"Need some help with your back?"

Rose rolled her eyes at him, but she was grinning like the Cheshire cat when she caught my eye. Jasper and Edward pulled of their tops and I sat on my towel, staring at Edward. Or, his chest. He wasn't as small as he looked, compared to Emmett. He definitely had lots of muscle, and his toned chest was making me lose all concentration.

When Alice and Rose were all sun creamed up, they went out to grab some of the windsurf boards. I opened my book and began reading, enjoying the feel of the sun's heat on my back.

I began to feel sleepy and my eyes kept drooping shut.


"Bella?" a musical voice called. "Bella!"

I opened my eyes slowly, blinking away the glare of the bright sun.

"Did I fall asleep?"

Edward squatted down next to me, grinning.

"Yeah, you did. The others are putting the boards back now, and we're going to go swimming, you wanna come?"

"Sure," I said, sitting up and putting my book into the bag Alice had leant me. I pulled off the belt and then slowly, very self consciously, pulled off the dress, revealing my revealing bathers. I usually wore one peices, or at least a bikini with board shorts.

I gulped as I watched Edward watching me. He grinned, grabbing my arm and running down the beach, pulling me along behind him.

We hit the water first. The others were still putting away the boards. The water was refreshing, and it hit my legs and I felt free. My spirit soared as I glanced over at Edward and noticed him watching me.

Maybe Rose and Alice were right.

"Oh," I said, stepping over to Edward. "You've got something on your arm."

He glanced down at his left arm, which I was looking at and I quickly reached up my hand and flicked him on the nose.

"Gotcha!" I cried before running out further into the water, laughing.

"I'm going to get you for that!" I heard him yell behind me. He was laughing too.

I kept going out further, but I could hear his splashes getting closer. The adrenaline of running away caught up with me and I fought hard to get further away from him.

Suddenly two hands wrapped around my waist pulling me down to my neck in the water.

"AHHH!" I screamed, giggling. He was laughing with me, and began splashing me with water.

"No!" I cried, before I began splashing him back.

Suddenly, I stopped, completely frozen.

Edward stopped too, worried.

"Bella, what's wrong?"

"Something touched my foot," I said, a note of panic rising through my voice.

I screamed as something tugged my ankle. Edward reached out to grab my hands, but they slipped through my own as the tugging pulled me under the water, dragging me away.


A/N: haha cliffhanger! i know you hate me :)

actually, i think you do. im so sorry about not updating, and i do kinda have an excuse, but its kind of a sob story and im pretty sure your not really interested. so the updates may start coming, or they may stay really super slow, and for that i appologise. i just dont have the drive to be writting fanfiction at the moment.

Just to clear up – I know some of you guys were a bit sceptical about the whole interlocking door thing, but I assure you that it's really true! When I went there with friends we had the two rooms because there were too many of us and we had an interlocking door, one for each bure. The bure's are set out as a bit hut and two room are in the one hut. You can google treasure island resort and there will be a map – it might help you picture the story better.

OH! ALSO THERE IS A LINK OF BELLA'S BIKINI ON MY PROFILE - WITHOUT THE LITTLE ROUND BLACK LACING THING ON THE TOP OF THE TOP PIECE.

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