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Thanks a lot for the reviews, you guys are great!!! This chapter is a little 'fluffy' at the end (very suggestive), so just be warned!!! I hope you like it:)

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Chapter Three "2008, You Better Be Great!"

"Oh my gosh … Oh my gosh … Oh my gosh … Oh my gosh … OH. MY. GOSH!"

"Okay, okay, we get it – you're shocked. You have been going at this for the past five minutes please flip to a new station." I almost screamed. Alice and Rosalie have been going back and forth with saying 'oh my gosh' for almost 6 minutes by my watch. One would say it, then the other would repeat and it would continue. It started to drive me nuts about 30 seconds in because it kept me from thinking, and thinking was absolutely necessary right now.

"Sorry Bella but…Oh, my gosh… I knew he liked you but I never thought he'd do that in the middle of a packed club…and in front of me for that matter." Alice said flabbergasted.

"Well you see how I feel right now." I said, sighing.

"Yeah, and we heard that moan too." Rosalie said, smiling brightly.

Now it was my turn… "Oh my gosh." I put my face in my hands on my lap. I felt the heat creeping up my neck and spreading on my face. I was completely and irrevocably embarrassed now.

"Well, Bella, just think of it as a Happy New Year's Eve present and a glimpse of what's possible if you gave him a shot." Rosalie said bouncing her eyebrows playfully.

"A present and glimpse that I was perfectly fine with not having. God, who hates me up there?" I said looking up at the ceiling. Everyone laughed at me.

"Stop being melodramatic, Bella. It is not that serious." Alice said rolling her eyes.

"Yes it is. It is very serious." I retorted.

"Whatever, Bella …" Alice started.

There was more that she wanted to say but the DJ's voice emanating from the speakers cut her off.

"What's up, what's up Club Jay Dubbers. How ya'll doin' tonight?" The crowd screamed with excitement. "Naw, naw, I can't hear ya. I said how ya'll doin' tonight?" The crowd screamed again, louder this time. "Now that's what I'm talking about. Iight everyone it is 11:55pm…" The ceiling over the dance floor, which I thought was just a large mirror, turn out to be a huge (big just didn't sound big enough…that sounds dirty somehow) flat screen monitor. '11:55pm' appeared on the screen above our heads and it was counting down. "…I want all ya'll to come down to the dance flo' fo' we can end this year right. Come on, come on." Thank Jasper's brain for thinking about making this dance floor gigantic because with all the people in the club right now, every inch would be needed. "Okay, here we go!"

The music started blaring in the speakers again. It was like a mix-tape of all the new songs that came out this year and there were snippets of all of them to one big up tempo beat that was easy to dance to.

By the time that song went off it was time to countdown to the New Year and the digital clock over our head was counting down with us.

"Ten … Nine … Eight … Seven … Six … Five … Four … Three … Two … ONE … HAPPY NEW YEAR'S!" We all screamed together. At the same time, the screen above our heads changed from a countdown clock to a bunch of virtual fireworks of various colors and there was confetti flying everywhere.

After the initial shock of how elaborately we brought in the New Year, everyone went to their respective date and gave and received their first kiss of the New Year. It just so happened that – from where I stood at least – everyone had someone else for the kiss. What should I do? I thought to myself. Should I just go sit down and wait for my friends or just wait her looking like a …

A pair of lips attached themselves to mine, cutting off my thoughts. That totally caught me off guard; I wasn't expecting anyone to be that bold. At least not anyone besides … Wait a minute. I pushed myself away from the person kissing me to see who it was…

"Jacob?" I was definitely not expecting it to be him. "Why did you do that?" I wasn't upset, just curious.

"Oh, I saw you standing here, looking lost, so I thought I'd help that situation." He grinned at me, which made me blush slightly.

"Oh…um…thank you." I said.

"You're welcome."

"Well, uh… I guess I should go find my friends. I'll see ya around." I started to turn to find Alice but I felt a tug on my wrist causing me to turn.

"Bella?"

"Yeah, Jacob?"

"Um…I was wondering if I could get your number so we can get together sometime."

I nodded my head at him, smiling. "Sure, why not." He handed me his cell phone and I gave him mine, and we put in our phone number. Maybe this will be a great year after all. I smiled at Jacob when he gave me back my phone. We hugged and said we see each other later and went our separate ways. Him going back to work and I went to find Alice and the group.

I was almost back to the benches where we were seating earlier when I felt another sharp tug on my wrist. I was pulled to the right and back into another pair of lips. However, with this kiss, I felt a – as of recent – familiar current filling my body as we kissed. I knew exactly who this was, and I wasn't having it.

I pushed myself back. "Get off of me Edward!" I said, slapping him across the face and running off to the benches.

Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice were all sitting together now, chatting happily. I really was not in the mode to fake happiness or be asked what was wrong so I walked over to them and picked my clutch up from the under the bench and turned to go to the bathroom.

"A, Bella, everything alright?" Emmett said.

I turned to him, trying to smile. "Yeah, everything's good. I just need to run to the ladies' room, I'll be back."

That was sufficient enough for Emmett. "Okay." With that, I turned to go to the bathroom as he turned to continue talking to the group.

I walked into the bathroom and stepped into one the individual stalls, locking the door behind me and turning to lean on the side of the stall. All my emotions went haywire right at that moment. I broke into silent sobs as I slid down the wall. When my bottom finally connected with the floor, I buried my face into my knees. At this moment, I could care less about how dirty the floor probably was or what could have possibly happened in this stall over the course of the evening. All that mattered to me was why my life had to become so complicated all of a sudden. I did not want to get into another relationship right now. I can't go through that again. It always turned out horribly for me.

Tears continued to fall down my cheeks as the sobs ripped through me. My throat welled up from the need to cry out that I held in. I do not know how long I was sitting there, but after a while I heard the faint sound of the restroom door opening and the sound of two pairs of heels clicking on the ground. I thought that maybe it was some more women coming in to check themselves in the mirror until I heard them approach my stall door. I was going to say that it was occupied but then I looked down and saw the familiar pair of black strappy stilettos Alice wore tonight. Then I heard her voice.

"Bella?" Concern was dripping from her voice. I was going to ignore her but I knew she wouldn't go away until she checked on me.

I stood up from where I was sitting – my legs stiff – and opened the stall door. When Alice and Rosalie saw me they both gasped. Probably from all the makeup that was smeared on my face. Rosalie was about to speak but Alice immediately cut her off.

"Hold that thought Rose." She sprinted out of the bathroom. A couple minutes later she walked back in; Rosalie and I were seated on the sofa in the lounge of the bathroom. I glanced at her quizzically.

"I told Jasper to put up a sign that this bathroom was 'out of order'." She turned back around and locked the door. I would have laughed in any other circumstance but I just couldn't make myself do it.

"Oh. Okay." I said.

"Bella, what happened?" Rosalie questioned me first.

I didn't really know how to answer the question because nothing really happened. So that was what I said. "Nothing really happened, I am just having some horrible flash backs that I don't want to have."

"Flash backs?" Alice asked now.

"Yeah."

"What kind of flash backs?" Alice asked.

"Mike." I said softly. From the look on her face, I could tell that she knew exactly what I was talking about.

"Mike?" Rosalie was lost. I met Rose after the whole Mike fiasco, so she wouldn't know.

Mike Newton – the love of my life. At least he was four years ago. He was similar to Edward in some ways. One of those ways was the fact that he too was a ladies' man. When I met him, he was very charming and made me feel loved, so I gave him a chance even though I knew he was normally with a different girl every week. I, for some foolish reason, thought that I would be the one to change his ways. Well, in my defense, he did change. For a little bit anyways. He stopped talking to all the woman he usually conversed with while he was with me. However, 7 months after we were together I found out that he got someone pregnant. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was my then friend, Jessica Stanley. I stopped trusting men who were always surrounded by females. I can't change that decision now… Can I?

Alice shook her head at Rosalie, telling her 'don't ask' without using words. She wrapped her arm around me, pulling me to lean on her shoulder, trying to console me. I let my tears fall again. Rosalie – not knowing what the heck was going on – just sat beside me rubbing my back while I leaned on Alice's shoulder.

"Bella, it won't be like that. They are two different people. I know Edward can be a ladies' man but he is not a pig. Mike was just a complete and utter jerk. You can not compare the two." I knew Alice was right about them being different but I just couldn't separate the two.

"Alice, you don't know that. You are only saying that because he is your cousin." I guess that last part upset her a little because she gripped my arms pushing me back so that she could look directly into my eyes when she spoke.

"Isabella Marie Swan." Oops, I knew I was in trouble now. "Do you really think that little of me that I would pawn you off like your nothing just because my cousin likes you?" She didn't wait for my response before continuing. "I would never do that. He may be my cousin, but you are like my sister. Of course, I would look out for your well being. I know for a fact Edward would never do something like what Mike did to you. Trust me."

I could hear and see the sincerity radiating from her, but I just was not in the right state to try and understand it all. So I decided to just drop it for the night and just try to salvage whatever fun I can have for the rest of the night.

"I believe you, Alice." I paused, gathering myself together. "How about we go back out and join the boys and do our best to have fun for the next few hours." I smiled. I could tell it didn't reach my eyes, but that was enough for Alice.

We walked out and did just as I suggested. We drank, ate, danced, and just had fun. Edward even joined in the fun. I put everything I had into ignoring him while he was around. And it worked. Let's just hope I can ignore the feelings bubbling on the inside.

'2008 you better be great.'

-oxXOXxo-

- - Edward's PoV - -

I was completely stunned by the fact Bella had actually slapped me; I couldn't get myself to leave the spot where she left me standing on the dance floor. I have never had that type of reaction from a female I was interested in.

Well, it is quite obvious she is definitely unlike the girls I am used to.

Maybe…maybe I overstepped my boundaries by kissing her again tonight, but I just could not resist the urge. She was everything I've ever wanted and looked for in a girl. And her feistiness was a major turn on. Whenever I was around her I felt alive; I always had to stay on my toes because I never knew what she would do or say next. I only ever wanted her to see me the way I saw her. Now I think I messed up all chances of that ever happening. Dang, Edward. Why do you always have to be so impulsive? I thought to myself. Life would be ten times better if you would just think things through first.

Well I guess now would be the best time to start learning how to 'think things through'. I need to figure out how to fix this whole situation.

Once, I came to that conclusion, I was able to put movement back into my body. I walked off the dance floor and headed in the direction of where I saw everyone sitting earlier today. Unfortunately, when I got there no was there except for Jasper and Emmett. I sat down across from Jasper on the bench.

"Where are the girls?" I asked no one in particular. Jasper was the one to answer though.

"They are in the bathroom with Bella. She looked kind of pissed earlier. For some reason Alice told me to put up a 'bathroom out of order' sign."

The last part confused me a little bit, but I ignored that. I breathed a heavy sigh turned and leaned back on the bench, putting my arm over my eye. "I think I know what has Bella upset." I said softly, loud enough for Emmett and Jasper to hear me.

"You think?" Emmett asked sardonically. I saw his eyebrow was raised when I glanced at him from under my arm.

"Okay, I guess I know why Bella is mad."

"Would you like to elaborate?" Emmett's amusement was clear in his voice.

"Well, I kind of kissed Bella again after the countdown." I paused for a second. "She wasn't too happy about that. She pushed away from me then slapped me."

That made Emmett double over in laughter, succeeding in making me angry. I sat back up and glared at him. "It is not that funny Emmett."

He sat back up too, wiping his eyes of the tears that fell while he laughed. "I'm sorry man, but it's funny that the one girl that you really like is the one that doesn't want you." He started laughing again, clutching his stomach. I rolled my eyes at him.

Emmett had just stopped laughing when the girls came back. When they sat down Rosalie sat in between Emmett and I, Alice sat across from me, next to Jasper, and Bella sat in between Emmett and Jasper so that she did not have to be near me or look at me.

She ignored me the rest of the time we were at the club. No matter how many times I walked in her direction, she would find some way to get away. I just decided it wasn't the time and left her alone. But fate (Alice) had other plans.

-oxXOXxo-

"Edward can you take Bella home? I think she drank too much, she looks kind of out of it." Alice asked.

I glanced over to where Bella was lying on the bench. She did look semi-unconscious, it might be best that she go home. "Why can't you take her home?" It wasn't that I didn't want to be the one to take her home, I just didn't think it was the best of ideas seeing as she was ticked off with me at the moment. But as usual Alice had an air-tight excuse for everything.

"I don't want to go home right now." She whined. Okay, I was lying about her having a great excuse. "It's only 2 in the morning, I wanna parrrrrta." She said swinging her hips like she was on the dance floor. I rolled my eyes at her.

"Okay Alice, but I will make sure to let Bella know that her 'best' friend wasn't willing to take her home when she was close to blacking out."

"Edward, grow up."

"It seems like a lot of people are telling me that lately."

"Because you need to. Besides, you know you can use that time to apologize for your antics earlier." I looked down at the floor…

Why is it hurting me so much that I upset Bella? Normally that wouldn't matter to me, I would just move on. What makes Bella so different? Why do I feel the need to make her happy all the time?

"You're right, I guess."I glanced at Bella, still lying on the benches, and then I looked at Alice. "Where does she stay?" Alice gave me all the information that I needed and then we went to go get Bella.

- - Bella's PoV - -

"Bella, Bella…" Someone shook me. I looked up at them and saw what looked like Alice standing by some gorgeous green eyed guy. "[blank, is here, he is going to take you [blank." My ears felt a little foggy so I couldn't hear everything she said.

"Who he? He who? He, he who, who? Who, who ha, ha? He, he?" I started giggling at how weird those combinations sounded.

I looked back up at them when I stopped giggling. They had a smile on their face for some reason. I looked at the guy; all I could see was the green color of his eyes and his pearly white teeth. Other than that I couldn't see anything that would make him familiar to me.

"You have shiny teeth." I stated randomly to him. He chuckled, and then the blur that looked like Alice started talking again.

"It's Edward; he is going to take you home." She started pulling me up off of the bench to stand on my feet. When I got all the way up she put my arm around her shoulder and one of her arms behind my back, to steady me I guess. Edward? Hmmmm…I know an Edward. Oh yeah, that's right. I looked at the green-eyed guy…Edward, and looked him start in the eyes.

"You kissed me tonight, right?" He looked at me shocked at first then he nodded at me once. I replayed the little bit I could remember of it in my head. "It felt nice…" Then I turned to him and hit him on the arm. "But don't do that when I am not expecting it."

"Okay, Bella, what ever you say." He said, smiling, showing his bright white teeth again. His voice was so velvety. I wouldn't mind listening to him talk forever.

I felt them lead me out of a pair of doors. When some cold air hit my skin, some of my fogginess and sleepiness was swept away with it. I shivered from the coldness on my bare arms and legs. A few minutes later I felt a jacket being placed on my arms. I didn't say anything to the person who put it there, but I smelt it. It smelt really good. We kept walking, the now recognizable Alice still holding my arm over her shoulder. I giggled at the sight of her small body supporting mine.

A few minutes later, I was crawling into the back of a limo. As soon as I got in I crawled over to the long side of the limo and laid down. My head was still buzzing a bit so sitting up was completely out of the question. I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I felt was myself being carried into what looked to be my apartment building. I looked up to see who was carrying me and saw that it was Edward. Looking up made my head start pounding so I rested my head back down on his shoulder and let him continue carrying me. Normally I would scream and argue about being carried around, but the pain in my head was telling me to just shut up and use all the help I could get. I obeyed. We eventually came to a stop. Glancing over I saw that we were in front of my door.

"Bella, you'll need to give me the key so that I can open the door." I looked back at him, and then reality hit me. Well as much of reality that was let through the fog in my brain.

"Oh…" I moved to get out of his arms. Seeing what I wanted, he allowed me to be put back on my own two feet. Thankfully, he stayed close by because as soon as he released me I started swaying. He instantly came over and caught me before I could fall down. I looked at him sheepishly. "Thank you. I think I might have drunk too much tonight."

"I can tell." He chuckled while he set me back up, but made sure to keep one hand on the small of my back. I eventually gave the key to Edward, after several attempts of matching the key to the hole. I just could not get my brain to tell my hand the proper directions.

When we entered the apartment and closed the door, Edward helped guide me towards my oversized sofa. As soon as I sat down I leaned back and laid down, my feet still on the floor and the back of my head against the armrest. Edward sat on the opposite end of the sofa. I began to close my eyes when I heard Edward say my name.

(A/N: I'm putting a warning now for the fluffiness coming!)

"Bella…" I opened my eyes and looked at him. He was looking down at the floor. "…I'm sorry about what happened tonight. I…" His voice seemed to trail off into background noise as my thoughts began to take over my ears.

He is so adorable. Look at his lips! They look so soft…so inviting. I wonder why today, or rather yesterday, was the first time I've ever kissed him? It didn't seem like he had a problem with me when he was nibbling on my ear. Why did I have such a problem with him? Oh my, the way his hair is falling over is eyes a little, and his body from what I can see with his clothes on, is sooooooo... there are no words to describe it! After what I felt from one kiss, I wonder…

I couldn't take just lying there and thinking about him any more. I felt something pulling at the back of my mind, but my body was telling me what it wanted, and my brain was not in the best of services to deny it.

I sat up, folding one of my legs up on the sofa as I did. Edward continued talking, not really paying attention to my movements. I moved up to be a little closer to him. When I was close enough, I spoke.

"Edward…" He turned his face towards me; I could hear the huskiness in my voice. I looked into his eyes, sliding my hand up his arm, over his shoulder, and let it rest at the back of his neck, playing with the hair there. It was soft and silky. His eyes remained looked with mine as I leaned closer to him, closing the small unwanted space we had between us.

"Bella…" He said softly before I pressed my lips to his. The same feeling I felt earlier, rushed through my body as soon as our lips made contact. He was still at first, but eventually his lips started to move with mine. I took that as my sign to continue my adventure.

I sat up on the knee that I had on the sofa and lifted my other leg off of the floor, straddling Edward with my legs on either side of him. My hands automatically found their home tangled in his soft, bronze hair. I felt his arms wrap around my waist, pulling me tighter to his body. The sensation that ran though me suddenly, made me shiver in pleasure and a moan escaped my lips. I pressed myself more into him, sighing, swiping my tongue over his bottom lip, asking for entrance. He obliged, opening his mouth to let me explore.

I got so lost in our battle for control, that I did not notice that Edward had moved us so that I was lying completely on the sofa and he was on top of me, until I felt his body against every inch of my own. I lowered my hands to his back, allowing one of my hands to slide under the back of his shirt to touch his skin.

- - Edward's PoV - -

As soon as Bella's skin touched mine, my thoughts regrouped, letting me know what was going on. I jumped up, lifting myself up on my arms and away from her soft mouth. She glanced up at me, confused by why I broke away from her so suddenly. I looked down into her beautiful brown eyes.

"What's wrong?" She asked. The confused look on her face was so adorable, I chuckled softly.

"Bella, I don't think it would be prudent for us to do this." I looked into her eyes.

"Well, I think it is, why wouldn't it be?" Obviously she wasn't looking for a response because as soon as she finished her question, she wrapped her arms around my neck again, pulling me back down to her lips.

The feel of her body against me and her soft, full lips moving with mine was intoxicating. I was so close to letting my inner desire take control, but something in me knew that Bella would regret it if I let this continue. Reluctantly, I pulled myself away from her once again.

She groaned. "Why do you keep doing that?" She threw here arms up over her face, exasperated.

"Bella…because your drunk and you're not thinking clearly. You don't really want to do this."

She slowly removed her arms from over face, a seductive smile plastered to her face. My heart accelerated just from that look.

"Yes, I do." She smirked at me.

"Bella, I don't think you really do."

"Yes, I do."

"No, you don't."

"Yes, I do!" She was completely frustrated now.

"Maybe, I should just go." I made a move to extract myself away from her, but before I could, Bella did something I was not expecting.

Bella wrapped her arms around my neck, pulling down to her once again. Her lips crashed into my own, moving aggressively. That was all quite innocent compared to what she did next. She wrapped her legs around my waist firmly, closing any possible gap we could have had previously. I was getting ready to move away from her again when I felt her ground her hips into mine, her back arched causing her chest to brush against mine.

All rational thought was swept away by that one little movement. I knew I should have stopped but my body had completely surrendered to her commands. We shared a lot more than we had expected to that evening.

Eventually we both fell asleep – Bella with her back to the back of the sofa, her face snuggled against my chest, and I just held her. One thought ran through my mind before I drifted off into unconsciousness. Tomorrow morning will definitely not be pleasant.

Author's Note:

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