BELLA POV

I was not going soft. No way was i admitting that. Okay, so Edward wasn't as big of a jerk as i thought he was. Actually, i saw something in him (not admitting it). I would have made him watch the cow being picked up by the digger and put in the hole. Heck, i would have loved to see the cow get cut up into peices by the digger tool in front of him, but that morning, he had been nothing but nice to me. Well, he asked a lot of questions, i hoped he was trying.

I sung Jackson to bed again, this time in his room, and i knew that Edward was lingering outside the door. I honestly didn't mind. He had already heard me. He had actually given me a compliment. I was fine with him being here now.

But he wasn't my friend.

We climbed down the stairs to the deck the next afternoon, almost dark, and threw a pair of boots at him. He looked at me confused, and i laughed.

"Put them on." i laughed instructed at him, and he did. They were the perfect size.

Running behind the back of my house is a creek bed. It leads all the way to the Huon River, or thats what i thought. We were about fifteen minutes from our hometown, Huonville. It is a pretty boganish town, but the country side around here is amazing.

I climbed down onto one of the rocks that was surrounded by water and sat down.

"I want to show you something." i told him. "It's a pretty personal place. You can't tell anyone. I already showed Alice." that was a lie, but when i told Alice that i was taking him here, she offered to say that she had been there, on the account that she would get to go there before she left. I agreed.

He clapped his hands together. "How do we get there?"

I smiled and stood up, climbing over to another rock. "We walk." i smiled and offered him to go up ahead so i wouldn't loose him.

"Don't you have, like, horses to do this for you?" he asked as he stumbled over yet another rock.

I laughed. "Have you seen any horses on our block? No. We walk."

We made it there slower than i would have, but that was fine.

It was about half a kilometre up the creek, harder than it seems since you have to worry about not breaking your neck at every step.

We pushed through the last stretch of creek, i offered him to go before me, since i had gone faster than him. It was almost dark now, about eight pm. It didn't get pitch black until about nine thirty. Enough to get out of the creek and walk up the road and back home.

"Wow."

We were at this hole in the creek, perfect for swimming. It was beautiful at night, since the full moon hung over our heads without trees. The water's temperature was nothing new to our skin, since we were pretty much swimming in it in our boots. I sat on one of the near by rocks and looked at him, smiling at his reaction.

"This is amazing." he said, turning back to me.

I smiled. "You're welcome." i said cheerily, laughing as i moved up onto the bank. He followed me and we emptied out our boots.

He couldn't stop looking at the creek while we sat side by side. Sometimes we would see fish flicker in the water, and he would point it out in amazement, and sometimes he would look at me, like a thankyou. That was good enough for me.

"I can't believe i'm actually here." he told me suddenly. "Australia isn't what i thought it was."

I looked at him, and he was starring at me. If it was anyone else, i would have been offended. "What'd you think it was?" i whispered.

He took a deep breath, then laughed. "Red sand, people...living in among the trees. Eating grubs..." he laughed breathlessly. "Its pretty stupid."

I shook my head. "There are some places." i told him, and i knew he knew what i meant. There were some places that did that, just not Tasmania.

Our heads moved closer together, until my forehead was touching his. Our breathing was in time, both of us breathing in and out at the same time. We moved slowly, tilting our heads until...

"BELLA!" someone screamed, us jerking apart as if we didn't know what we were doing.

Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper walked through behind us from the road. I looked down at my hands.

"And of course, my best friends no where it is." i told him.

I looked back at them. "Hey guys."

Emmett grinned and sat next to Edward, Rosalie, his girlfriend, sitting beside him.

"Hey! You're that British dude!" he said with that grin growing bigger. "Hey i heard of you. The name's Emmett. This is my girlfriend, Rosalie, and that's my best mate, Jasper." he told him.

Edward, always polite, shook hands with everyone.

I was still running through my head what had almost happened between me and him. We had almost kissed, that was for sure. I was angry at my best friends, why? I didn't like him....did i?

In sudden realisation, i shuddered. God, i hadn't liked someone since third grade. And he was the biggest jerk a gal could get around here. Jack. I still growled at his name.

"So, what are we interrupting?" Emmett asked us.

We refused to look at each other, Edward and I.

"Nothing." i said curtly. "I was just showing him this place."

Jasper and Rosalie rolled their eyes. "Really? At quarter to nine?"

"We were just about to head back." i told them, standing up and stretching.

Edward followed me as we said goodbye to them.

"Aren't we going to walk down the creek?" he asked.

I laughed. "You can if you want too. I, personally, think its too dark. So i'm gonna take the road."

He stopped and looked at me. "Road?"

I laughed, taking his hand and pulling him up to the road. I let go of his hand, so that jolt of warmth didn't go through me whole body.

I looked sheepish. "Sorry. Its more fun to go up the creek."

He rolled his eyes and we made it up to the main road, going down it until we were at the front of my house.

"I can't believe you didn't tell me there was another option." he said.

I laughed. "Oh, where's the fun in that."

There was a scream from inside the house, coming from Alice. We looked at each other before we ran to her asstistance. I was first, sicne we both knew i would be better at solving this than he would.

Alice was standing on the staircase, half way down, looking at the wall that went along the stairs. She didn't want to go past it for some reason, so i ran up to her, scoffing at her when i saw what it was.

I looked at the wall, and there was a lizard sticking to it.

"Oh, C'mon." i laughed, tkaing the lizard in my hands, which bit me hard, but didn't hurt a lot.

I shook my head on the way back down and chucked the lizard outside.

"Ew." Alice said, coming down the stairs. "I was thinking that thing was going to eat me."

When i was at her side again, i held up my hand. Blood was trickling down my arm. He had bitten me more than once, and it was fairly big.

"Don't touch anything, meaning animals, up here." i told her, looking at her shocked face as i went to wash the blood off in the sink.

"Are you okay?" Edward's velvety voice came from behind me.

I wiped my arms off with paper towel and threw that in the bin.

"Never been better. Better me, who's used to it, than her, who's probably never even cut her knee."

"I have so." Alice scoffed.

I raised my eyebrows, looking around Edward, who moved out of my way, too look at her. "When, where and what."

"Last week at a bar on a peice of glass." she said proudly, lifting up her short's leg to show a almost healed scar. I guess it was a scratch.

I smiled at her anyway. "Good for you." i laughed.

She rolled her eyes and laughed.

Alice wished us a good night sleep and we stood there, awkwardly, in the kitchen.

"I guess we better go to sleep." i said slowly, looking at him, and walked past him.

He grabbed my arm, spinning me around, and crushed his lips to mine. My arms wrapped around his neck, pulling him closer too me.

I would sleep well tonight.

Yay! They're together! Woohoo!

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Lauren