**Stephenie Meyer deserves to be bowed down to. **

A/N: Hi all, I am posting this just a little bit early. Tomorrow is Mother's Day so it's going to be a busy day! But I have a feeling no one will complain about an early post! LOL

Sorry about the cliffy, but like I said, it felt like the logical place to stop chapter 2. But I didn't leave you waiting too long.

Thank you to my Beta extraordinaire and collab partner CullenSweetheart. Two of the stories that we penned together are up for top ten favorite fics for April over at twifanfictionrecs . com.

Remind Me was our collab effort for the 2013 Lyrics 2 life contest – we didn't win anything with that entry, but we did expand the story just a little bit and we made it a two shot. Special thanks to Edwardrocksmysocks for her help with Jessica's POV in chapter 2!

Weight for Me was a story that was near and dear to both of our hearts – overweight Edward that trys to get his life back on track by getting healthy. It was our favorite to write. So please head over and cast your vote!

Now on with the story, lets see how Bella reacts to Edward's news.

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"Well… um. That is because I am Anthony Masen."

I just stared blankly at Edward. What The fuck? You could hear a pin drop.

I just sat there and stared at him for a moment before I composed myself and started giggling.

"Seriously Edward? That shit right there is too funny."

He kinda got a worried look on his face. "Bella, I am 100% serious. I am Anthony Masen. Anthony is my stage name. Well, it actually is a part of my name, but I do like some anonymity, so I used my two middle names as a stage name. My full name is Edward Anthony Masen Cullen."

I stared dumbfounded for what felt like a long time. My mind didn't want to wrap around the bit of information that Edward just shared with me. All I could think was, if this is true, why the hell is he here with me in my tiny apartment when he could be out wining and dining some model or actress? I'm just Bella Swan, aka Nobody in his world.

"Bella, please say something. Fuck, I knew this would scare you off!" He said with a groan.

I shook my head to try to calm my thoughts and looked at Edward. The look on his face was pain and worry. His eyes were pleading with me to say something.

"You're seriously Anthony Masen?" I asked with a small voice, not really trusting myself to talk just yet.

"Yeah I am, and I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, like when Alice said I looked like him. I just really like you, and didn't want to scare you off."

"Edward," I said as I took in a deep breath. "I'm not scared, just shocked is all, this is kind of hard for my mind to wrap around. Like seriously? You are seriously Anthony Masen? What the fuck do you want me for? You could have any fucking beauty queen or model you want. I am just plain Bella Swan from Forks, Washington. I am no one special. I was a geek in high school, glasses and all, I still wear them once in a while when my contacts bug me, and I read…."

"Bella, stop!" Edward said cutting off the incessant rambling from my brain trying to catch up to his news. "Bella, believe me when I tell you, from the moment I laid eyes on you, I didn't even think of all those beauty queens or models as you say. I see you. You don't see yourself very clearly. You're beautiful and smart, and funny and I want nothing more right now than to get to know you better and see where this leads. I feel like we have something special and I think it would kill me if we didn't at least try."

"Really? Me? You want me?" I asked again.

"Yes Bella, you." And then he leaned over and kissed me. As soon as his lips touched mine I was gone. I gasped but it only took a second and he was pulling away.

"Oh fuck, Bella, I am so sorry. Isn't that just what that asshole James did to you this afternoon? I am so sorry!" He said as he lowered his head and ran his hands roughly through his hair.

Oh no. I was NOT going to let Edward feel guilty over what was an amazing, albeit short kiss.

"Edward, sweetie. That was NOT what James did. He was forceful and mean, he was rough and not in a good nor welcome way. What you just did was nothing short of amazing, not long enough, but amazing and very very welcome."

He looked up at me with his panty dropping smile "Amazing huh?"

"Uh yeah, do you not know how good of a kisser you are? I mean, it was a short kiss, so it was hard to properly judge, but…" His lips touching mine cut me off again. A little bit harder than the last kiss, but just as welcome. I gasped again, but this time he took that as an opportunity to deepen the kiss, his tongue traced my upper lip as he ran his hand through my hair and cupped the back of my head pulling me closer to him. I sighed and deepened the kiss more as I pushed my tongue into his mouth. He tasted like beer and mint from the gum he had been chewing earlier. Before I knew it I was straddling him and we were making out like teenagers. We parted to take a breath and I leaned my forehead on his. Smiling he looked up at me.

"Wow Bella, that was just wow" he said with his voice almost sleepy.

"Yeah." I sighed.

He leaned in to kiss me again, but was interrupted by a knock at my bedroom door.

"Bella, it's just me." Alice called from the other side of the door.

"Come in Ali." I called.

The door creaked open and Alice poked her head in. I realized then that I was still straddling Edward and blushed when she took note of that.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't realize Edward was still here. I just wanted to know why you left me sleeping on the recliner? You know I hate that thing." She huffed.

"Sorry, Ali. Edward and I just came in here to talk so that we didn't wake you. I was going to get you up and to bed after he went home."

"And on that note, I should be heading home. I didn't realize how late it actually was." Edward said glancing at the clock on my nightstand.

"Oh, I was hoping to finish up what we were talking about. I wanted to clarify some things." I said hoping that he wouldn't go yet.

"Sure, I can do that if you want me to." He said with a soft smile.

"Um yeah. Ali, you heading to bed now or going to go back and watch more TV?"

"Bed. Night you two." Ali said with a knowing smile, if she really knew she wouldn't be wearing that smile. She would probably be freaking out.

I turned back to Edward and he smiled at me. "So, what did you want to clarify?"

"Well, first, I need to know what you mean by wanting to get to know me better. Does it mean friends, or dating, or more?" I was kinda shocked at how bold I was, but this was shit I needed to know, like NOW.

"Well, honestly, I would love to be able to call you my girlfriend. But that I am leaving up to you."

"I could do girlfriend, but that would mean you would have to be my boyfriend."

"Well that is usually how that works." He smirked, but then a frown marred his pretty face. "I just need you to know that your life could change by being my girlfriend. I hate to say this, not to sound conceited, cause right now it's just the truth, I'm kind of a hot commodity in Hollywood right now, and I haven't been linked to anyone romantically since my career took off. If the paparazzi find out who you are, you could lose you privacy. I don't want you to lose that, especially while you are in school. You only have 6 weeks left. You don't need that drama."

"So, how can we keep the news of us away from them?"

"Well the good news is that this is Calgary. Thankfully not a lot of paps here. I see one or two once in a while, but nothing like in LA or New York. So aside from making out in public or stuff like that, we should be good. But, if even one of those vultures gets an inkling of you in my life, your life will change."

"Okay, we've established that my life will change once the public knows about us. I am okay with that. Honestly. I am more concerned about what my friends will do or say once they find out about what you do for a living. Alice especially."

"You're really okay with that?"

"Yes, Edward. I feel something here, I am not sure what it is yet, but I do feel it. I don't want to risk something amazing because I am scared of some pictures being taken of me. Like I said, I'm more worried about Alice. I need to figure out what to tell her and she has to be told like yesterday, because she is a freak and will know something is up even if I say or do nothing."

"Okay, so we tell her together tomorrow. At least you don't have to tell Emmett." He said with a laugh.

"Oh, yeah, I would think that he already knows that his cousin is fuckhot actor Anthony Masen. I guess he failed to mention that to me. Alice is going to be SO mad at him. Ohhh I can't wait, can we go wake her and tell her now? I can't wait to watch her make Em squirm!" I said gleefully.

"You are a little sadistic there you know." Edward said laughing,

"Only when it comes to Emmett in pain. That is probably the most fun I could possibly have!" I said with conviction and an evil laugh.

"So you really don't mind that your personal life could just go poof? Gone in a second?"

"We don't know yet if that will actually happen. How about we just see what happens and go from there?"

"I think that is a great idea. So, Girlfriend, do you have plans tomorrow?"

"Well, Boyfriend, I think I do now." We both had silly grins on our face when Edwards broke with a huge yawn.

"Wow, sorry. I didn't think I was that tired."

I glanced at the clock and saw that it was going on 2 am. Which meant that Edward had been awake almost 20 hours. "And so you should be, it's pretty late, or early depending on how you look at it. What area of the city do you live in? You know, if you live too far, there is no way I am letting you drive there. I wouldn't want my boyfriend falling asleep at the wheel."

"I live in the Deep South; Silverado to be exact. At this time of night, should take me about half an hour."

"And that half hour could be spent snuggled up under my quilt fast asleep. You're staying here. "

"You're sure? I don't want you to be uncomfortable." He said with another yawn.

"Edward, I'm sure. You won't make feel uncomfortable. I am going to get ready for bed. I have a new toothbrush in the hall closet if you need one." He nodded as I slipped out of the room.

Once I was locked in the bathroom, I quickly brushed my teeth, pulled my hair into a ponytail and washed my face. I sat there for a moment thinking over the last few hours and what Edward had told me. I was still having a hard time believing that he was actually Anthony Masen. I mean yeah, when I saw his movie the night before, I couldn't deny that they looked so much alike. I still couldn't wrap my whole brain around the fact that he was in my bedroom, and he wanted me. I quickly changed into the shorts and tank that I used for sleep, tossed my dirty clothes in the laundry basket, grabbed the toothbrush for Edward and made my way back to my room.

Edward was sitting on the side of my bed wearing a black wife-beater that must have been under his t-shirt and dark grey boxer briefs that showed off the muscles in his thighs very nicely. I was ogling his arms when he glanced up and noticed that I was staring.

"Like what you see, Miss Swan?" He asked with a lopsided grin.

I recovered quickly. "What's not to like? You know how hot you are." I said as a blush ran up my cheeks.

"Oh yeah? Well it 's nice to hear from my beautiful girlfriend." I smiled at that

"Here's the toothbrush. Washroom is the door at the end of the hall."

"Thanks." He grabbed it from me, gave me a small peck on the lips and slipped out to the bathroom.

I crawled into bed, fluffed up the pillows and made room for Edward. Five minutes later he came back all minty fresh. I patted the spot beside me and he crawled in and pulled me to him spooning me, my back to his front.

"Goodnight Bella, thanks for letting me stay." He whispered in my ear and kissed me lightly underneath my ear. I shivered and sighed.

"No problem. I just wanted you safe."

He hummed contentedly and a few minutes later his breathing evened out and he was asleep. I was close behind.

My dreams that night were again about two pairs of green eyes, this time, they blurred together.

A/N: See, nothing to worry about! But seriously, would you care if you found out you were dating someone like that? I sure as hell wouldn't care! LOL

Story recs:

Shamrocks and Shenanigans by Mathisson (and it's sequel Claddagh and Chaos) I love the way she shares EPOV in most of the chapters! And the end of the sequel had my crying like a baby! I'm don't usually read Mob stories (not a big fan of that kind of story) but I've read almost everything else that Mathisson has written and had to give it a shot. I was glad I did!

When it all Changes by RvrSong Bella is in her late 20's and ends a 10 year marriage to Jacob after finding out that he was cheating on her. She moves to Jacksonville to live with her Mom and Step-Father. Edward is a tattoo artist with a sad past that he has had trouble moving on from. Bella helps him do just that. A big angsty, but overall a great read.

See you again on Wednesday!