Hey guys! I am so so so sorry for the delay, but I was busy, going through some crisis', and on top of that, I was sick for a while… so basically, my life has really sucked lately.

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Anyways, enough of my blabbering. Let's get to the good stuff… here you go everyone, Chapter 4. Enjoy!

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~Bella~

I couldn't help but smiling as I reached Rose's car in the school parking lot. I could feel something was starting with Edward, and the feeling in my stomach was telling me, it was a good thing. As I approached my sister's car, I could see Rose was lost in some deep thought, but she looked pissed. She out her head on the steering wheel and she actually looked like she might cry… I've never seen my sister cry… ever… what the hell?

I opened the passenger's door and Rose quickly sat up straight and cleared her throat. She started driving without a second thought. I watched her, but her face was blank as she drove. She showed no emotion. There wasn't even any music on… the car was filled with silence and awkwardness.

"Rose… I'm… umm, I'm sorry if you're mad at me… but err… I umm don't know why you hate Ed-" She cut me off with a whip of her head and she looked at me with such anger…almost…hate. Then she finally spoke.

"Bella… You don't fucking know anything. Tell me, what the fuck do you know about this asshole? That he's hot? That he's popular? That he has amazing emerald green eyes that make you want to drown in them? That his voice is the most amazing sound you've ever heard in you're life? Well guess what Bella, you're not the first one to have figured that out… it doesn't take Sherlock fuckin Holmes to realize that shit. I get all that shit, but fuck Bella, I thought you, you of all people would see right through his shit… but fuck me, was I wrong!"

Now, I wish she never had spoke… how the fuck do I respond to that… lie though my teeth and try to deny it all? Sure, that'd be great… if only I could lie! I'm the worst liar in the world and she'd be able to see right through me.

"Alright Rose, you're right, I do like him. Now, would you care to explain why the hell that's such a bad thing? Honestly, you make it seem as if I have a crush on a fuckin ex-convict. As far as I've heard, Edward just has a reputation to be a bit of a player…" I stuttered on that last part and rose flat out laughed a humorless chuckle.

"Bella, you're being a naïve little girl if you can honestly tell me that wasn't just the understatement of the world. The guy might as well be Hugh Heffner. He's slept with just about every girl in that school with the exception of the new Freshmen girls. Although, I'm sure he'll get right to that task. Fuck, he's already started. I'm sitting right next to his new mission!" Rosalie shook her head furiously and I was starting to get a little nervous being in the car with her while she was this mad.

How do I even respond to that? Is it true, had he really slept with that many girls? Surely, Rose had to be exaggerating…

"Bella, you're my sister and I love you so much." She said in a softer tone. She pulled into a parking spot on a busy street. She unbuckled her seatbelt so she was facing me and could look me straight in the eyes. "You're beautiful Bells, but you could do so much better than Edward douche bag Cullen. I mean, you and Jasper have been best friends forever. He's definitely in love with you, and you guys would make such a cute couple!" She gushed over the thought of me and Jasper, and I couldn't help but role my eyes.

I'd be lying if I said I never wanted to try dating Jasper. He was funny, gorgeous, smart, easy to talk to, and best of all, he was a true gentleman. If Jasper had asked me out sometime these couple of years, I probably would've said yes….but he didn't. Jasper never showed any interest in me. "Jasper has always seen me as a friend… nothing else, Rose." I said in a firm tone looking straight ahead at the road. The clouds were dark grey signaling a rainstorm was going to commence any minute now.

"Besides Rose, I never said I'm gunna marry this guy… what harm will it do if I go on a few dates with-"

"NO! Damn it Bella, no!" She cut me off yelling at me. I blushed. I hated being yelled at. I asked her the question that has been bothering me for over an hour now, "Why do you hate Edward so much? What could he have possibly done to you?" I mean Edward told me he didn't sleep with her… but what if he lied… I felt like gagging just at the thought of them together.

Rose glared at me and I tuned even more red under her stare. "It doesn't fucking matter, alright? He's an asshole and as your older sister I refuse to allow you to date him! End of discussion."

What the hell? Yes, she's my older sister, but she's never controlled my life before, and she wasn't about to start now. "Rose, if you can't give me a reason as to why I can't date this guy, then I will do whatever I want to do." I tried saying in a stern voice.

Rose continued to glare at me with her piercing blue eyes. Then she shook her head an turned to the steering wheel and started to drive again. The windshield showed that it had started to drizzle already. Rose muttered something under her breath that I could not manage to make out. Then she started off on a rampage.

"Fine then, fine Bella! Do whatever the fuck you want. Go ahead be one of his little sluts. Don't come crying to me when he breaks your heart, and expect me to care. God, I don't even know why the fuck he wants you! Actually, no, I do get it. He always goes for they shy, naïve pathetic girls. They're the one's he has the most fun with. Well then, fine Bella, go ahead! Go turn into his fucking whore just like the rest of you're type!" Rosalie screamed as we came to a stoplight.

I felt an ache in my chest. Her words stung me. I always knew I was shy. But naïve and pathetic? Those were new… and they hurt. Especially coming from my sister. Not to mention the fact that she was calling me a whore. I fought the sting in my eyes that threatened tears. I would not let her see me cry especially not after what she just did to me… but fuckkk I really had to cry. We were still sitting waiting for the light, and I reacted fast, I unlocked my seatbelt and threw open the door. I heard my sister scream my name as I ran as fast as possible.

I ran and ran and I had no idea where I was going. All I knew was that I wasn't going home and I was getting as far away from Rosalie as possible. As I ran the drizzle turned into an actual rainstorm. That didn't stop me though, if anything, it spiked my adrenaline even more. I continued running and by now I was crying but my tears were mixed with the rain drops.

By now, I was in a quiet street where there were only houses. As long as I wasn't on the main road I doubted Rosalie would find me, but I kept running anyway.

I don't know how long I ran, but I was surprised at how the running made me feel. I never really tried running because I was always so uncoordinated and I sucked at sports so I never even bothered trying to really run. I wasn't feeling cramped up or tired at all, my leg actually welcomed the feeling and speed of running.

The weight of my drenched clothes began to catch up with me and slowed me to a steady jog. I thought about the words my sister said to me. Classifying me as a type. Why would she say this stuff to me? She's never talked to me that way. Why does she hate Edward so much? She doesn't hate anyone! At least, not like this. What could he have possibly done to her?

I was so caught up with my internal questions that I didn't hear the car start to pull up behind me. I immediately started to run again, thinking it was Rose. Then I looked expecting to see her car, and was shocked when I saw a silver Volvo instead.

Who did I know that drove a silver Volvo? The rain made it difficult for me to see who was driving. Then he flashed his lights at me, but I wasn't about to get near an unknown car…

Then the door opened and shocked the life out of me… it was Edward, and he seemed… mad…

"Bella? What the fuck are you doing? It's pouring! You're gunna get sick, get in the car, now!" Edward screamed over the rain. Why the hell did everyone seem so mad today?

I debated getting in the car. I mean, she didn't want to seem like a damsel in distress…"Bella!" Edward's sharp tone made the decision for me. I hurried into the Volvo and opened the door. Right when I was about to get in, I hesitated. I really didn't want to get his car wet. Guys were crazy about their cars weren't they? Plus, this seemed like a nice car… "Bella, get in the fucking car now! I don't care if you get the seats wet. They'll dry." Edward pleaded for her not to argue with him. I decided to comply and got in, closing the door behind me.

Edward worked with the heat in his car to try and warm me up. That's when I realized how cold I was. Actually, I wasn't cold, I was freezing! I hadn't noticed while I was running, but holy fuck! My teeth chattered and I tried to make them stop but had no success.

"Jesus Bella! What were you doing jogging in the pouring rain! How long were you out there? You're lips are fucking blue!" He scolded me, and I winced. Why was everyone screaming at me today? "I'm f-f-fine. Justtt a a a little co-o-o-ld." I really tried to control my chattering but there was nothing I could do.

"Fuck… what do I do… should I take you home or to the hospital?" He asked while furrowing his eyebrows. His eyes showed deep concern and I can't deny that I melted into that stare. It took me a few seconds to recover and realize he had asked me a question.

"U-u-mmm, neither p-please." I said in such a low voice it was practically a whisper. When he didn't answer for a while I began to think he hadn't heard me, but then he responded.

"Well, I can't just let you freeze here. You could get sick. Why don't I just take you to my dad then? He's a doctor and he could just check and make sure you're alright." Right, Dr. Cullen. He actually knew me quite well already considering all the times I had to stop by his hospital from random accidents such as broken bones, sprained bones, stitches, concussions from getting hit with soccer balls in gym… you know, the usual.

"Edward, thanks f-f-or trying to help, but I'll b-b-e okay. I'm already feeling so much warmer, and it's only drizzling now. I could even walk home if you wa-"

"Are you kidding? First of all, you're house is actually far from here, second of all, I would never make you fucking walk when you're already in my car… not even if you lived on the other side of the street" He smiled at me and I couldn't fight the small grin that appeared on my face. Then I realized something he said confused me…

"How do you know where I live?" I questioned. I was even more confused with his puzzled face in return.

"Well, don't you live with your sister?" He asked.

"Well yeah…but why do you even know where she lives? What reason do you have to know where my sister lives? You told me nothing happened between you and my sister." I started getting irritated. I felt as if I had just caught him in a lie, and I don't like liars. Not one bit.

"Bella, I can promise you that nothing ever happened between me and Rosalie Swan. The only reason I know where she lives is because she's Rosalie Swan…she's the most popular girl in school. Everyone knows where she lives. Not to mention you're father is the chief of police. Everyone wants to make sure they don't egg the wrong house on cabbage night." He said while laughing a little on that last part. Now I felt like a jealous idiot. It's fucking Forks, everyone knows where people live.

"Right, sorry I didn't mean to get defensive. It's just… I'm really starting to get paranoid over this whole feud between you and my sister. It's kind of the reason why I was running right now. I got into this fight with my sister while she was driving, and I got angry so I ran out of the car…" Now that I said this, I felt like my actions had been kind of childish. I probably shouldn't have just ran away like that…

"So…you ran out of a moving car because you had a fight with your sister?" He questioned with an amused face.

"The car wasn't moving. It was at a stop light, and I just couldn't be in the same car with her at that moment. So I ran." I told him

He didn't say anything for a few seconds, but then he burst into laughter. His laugh was beautiful. It almost sounded musical… Shit what was wrong with me and this guy?

"I'm sorry Bella, I don't mean to be rude, but I would've just loved to see your sister's face. I can't say I blame you. I'd jump out of a moving vehicle just to get away from her sometimes." I got an image of this and couldn't help but giggle a bit and shake my head.

"Okay Edward, enough is enough. I would really appreciate it if you would tell me exactly what happened between you and my sister? What's with all the hate between you two?" I asked. I really hoped he would answer me. I was already annoyed with this mystery.

He looked at me for a few seconds. Looked straight into my eyes, and seemed to look for something. Finally he sighed, and looked down at his hands for a bit. Then he looked up.

"Fine, I'll tell you the story but first you gotta get outta that soaking shirt and into something dry. You're gunna freeze if you don't." I was about to argue before he gave me a look that basically said, Don't even try. So I didn't He checked the backseats of his car and reached out for a Forks Football Sweater. Tossing me the sweater, he explained, "Alright I'm going to step out of the car and turn the other way while you put on the sweater. Ok?" He asked and I nodded.

He stepped out, and I quickly got out of my soaked brown shirt but kept my bra on. Thank God, I didn't choose to wear a white shirt today… how embarrassing would it have been if Edward saw through my shirt. I was beyond blushing at the thought that I was getting undressed in Edward's car, but ignored it and hurried up putting on Edward's sweater. As I pulled the hood over my head I got hit by his scent. God he smelt amazing. I really hope he wouldn't make me give back his sweater… When I was all ready, I knocked on the window where Edward's back was. He turned around and got back in the car.

He turned so that he was facing me and looked down at his sweater. It was a bit big for me, but I could care less. It was EDWARD CULLEN'S for crying out loud. Plus, I was about a hundred times warmer already. He smiled at me. "You look beautiful in that sweater." I blushed and thanked him. I stood quite staring at him waiting for him to begin the story. He caught on to what I was doing. He straightened up a bit and began.

"Okay, basically there's two parts of this story. Let's see, I guess I should probably start off with Lauren…" He muttered. Lauren… why did that name sound so familiar…

"Alright well it all started freshman year. It was the beginning of the year and we had all started freshman year. Lauren, Rosalie, and I were in the same grade. Rosalie and Lauren were practically best friends. You probably knew Lauren, right?" He questioned.

Of course, that's why the name sounded so familiar. Wow, I hadn't seen Lauren in years. Now that I thought about it… it's been about three years since I last saw her… "Yeah, I remember her. She used to come over the house to hang out with Rosalie. I haven't seen her in a while though…"

"Yeah well, umm, I can kinda explain why. Just listen… so in freshman year, Rose and I use to be much more civil. I mean we weren't exactly close friends, but we definitely weren't enemies. But like I said, me and rose were never into each other. So Rose ended up setting me up with Lauren. We went on a few dates, and she was a cool girl. I felt like she was easy to talk to, but we never declared ourselves boyfriend and girlfriend because I never really liked her that much. So we stopped dating and I didn't really think much of it until she started popping up at my house unexpectedly. She'd literally show up out of no where. Even at school, she'd wait outside for me after class or wait by my locker, and at the end of the day she'd walk home with me. I insisted she'd stop considering she lived all the way on the other side of town, but she didn't seem to care. Everyday I felt like she'd follow me everywhere. I couldn't even hang out with my friends without her popping up. Anyways, I tried avoiding her as much as possible, but nothing worked. I tried telling her I wasn't interested, but she acted as if I said nothing. Finally, after this process went on for about a month I told her straight up that she was starting to freak me out and if she didn't stop following me, I would go to the police.

I started dating other girls, and every time Lauren found out about these girls, she'd flip out on them. She'd cause a scene in front of the whole school calling them sluts for messing with her boyfriend." He stopped to take a breath and shook his head before continuing.

"Lauren was out of control and I couldn't take it anymore. I sat her down and basically screamed at her called her shit that I probably shouldn't have called her, and well I basically made it clear to everyone in the middle of the cafeteria that she was not my girlfriend and that she was just some crazy stalker who needed to get over me." He scratched his head a little in an uncomfortable manner. "I mean, I was an asshole, but I was young and I just wanted the girl off my back…" he said in a low voice.

"Anyways, Lauren became a mess after that incident and pretty much became the outcast of the school. She got into drugs and drinking and basically didn't give a shit about anyone anymore. But Rosalie was the one that suffered the most because Lauren blamed Rosalie for everything since she was the one who set them up to begin with. Rosalie tried to bring her back to her old fun and healthy self, but Lauren wanted nothing to do with her anymore. She hated Rosalie and treated her like shit. Rosalie blames me for having had destroyed her best friend…" He fidgeted with his fingers and looked at me. His face showed something of fear or nervousness. He patiently waited for me to answer him.

"Wow… I guess that explains why I haven't seen Lauren in so long." I stated. "Also explains Rosalie's hatred towards you…but I gotta say… I'm kinda relieved that you guys hate each other for this reason and not because you have any history." I felt bad for saying this but it was true. If Rose and Edward ever had anything, I would never be able to eve attempt something with Edward.

Edward made a face of disgust and laughed, "Bella, you're sister is very pretty, but I think of her more like a sister…that I also happen to hate." I laughed at this and then remembered…

"Isn't there more to the story? Didn't you say there were two parts to the story?" I questioned.

He laughed nervously. "Nothing gets by you, does it?" He shook his head. "Do we have to get into that now? Can't we do that part some other time. I mean that story was long enough, don't you think?" He asked with a pleading voice to move on.

I considered this. I mean, I didn't want to scare him away either. I would have to be patient. I could do that. We'd save that talk for another time. The thought of seeing Edward again made me all giddy inside. "Fine, we'll save the second part of the story for another time." I resolved. Edward smiled at me and reached his hand out to touch my hair which was now drying in it's natural disarray of curls.

Edward played with one curl and bounced it in his finger as he leaned closer to me. "I like your hair in curls." He whispered to me. His face was now inches away from mine and I could smell his mint breath and his hypnotizing cologne. His nose touched mine and his hand reached to cup my face. I leaned into his warm touch. It all felt so right. He whispered again, "Bella, I want to kiss you… is that okay?" How could I refuse? I nodded, and he closed his eyes as I quickly followed. First, I felt his lips softly kiss my lips once, twice, and thrice. Then he took in my bottom lip in between his lips. I felt as if I was in heaven… but I wanted more. I opened my mouth more letting him take in more of my bottom lip. This still wasn't enough, I still wanted more. I sighed a little moan and he cupped my cheek harder and groaned. Edward flicked his tongue between my lips, asking for permission. Eagerly, I let him in. Our tongues danced around and it was an indescribable feeling. Literally, the closest I've ever felt to heaven. My heaven lasted for about a minute longer before Edward brought me down my slowly ending our kiss. He kissed my lips one final time and then made his way up to my nose, and then finally kissed my forehead, making me feel like the most cherished person in the world.

I opened my eyes to find him smiling down at my face and I couldn't fight the smile and blush that made it's way to my face. Edward smiled wider, "I don't know what I like more about you… you're blush or your smile…" He wondered out loud. This caused me to blush even more and look slightly away. He pulled me by my chin to look at him, "I think the blush is my favorite…" he said and with that he pulled away and put on his seatbelt. I did the same as he started to drive.

The drive went relatively quiet and I realized he really did know how to get to my house. I also realized how far I had ran and was shocked by that to say the least. We arrived at my house after about ten minutes and he pulled up to my house. He shut off the engine and got out of his car. I was confused by this, and started to unbuckle my seatbelt when I realized what he was doing… he was being a gentleman and opening my door.

I smiled up at him and he returned the smile while holding out his hand to help me out of his car. We made our way up to my porch hand in hand. I reached in my pockets to get my keys and then looked up at him. What now?

I started, "Well, thank you Edward… I don't know what I would've done if it wasn't for you. I really really appreciate everything." He smiled down at me.

"It was my pleasure Bella. I'll be here for you whenever you need me. Good luck with your sister." He said in a sympathetic tone. I had forgotten all about our fight…joy…now I had to deal with Rosalie. I was about to start getting nervous about this when Edward bent down and kissed my forehead. I melted into his lips.

"Goodnight Bella. I'll see you tomorrow morning." And with that final sentence, he left.

I watched him walk up to his car and get in. He turned n his car and with one final smile and wave he drove off. I smiled to myself and leaned against the door. I didn't really care what happened with Rosalie right now…for once in my life…I really enjoyed my first day of school.

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