Thanks for the reviews. This chapter is kind of a filler, but it's my favorite so far.

Reminders of What We Used to Be

We layed there for I don't even know how long, in each other's arms. And it felt nice. Really nice. Actually, it felt more than nice. It felt right. Yes, I know what you're thinking: this chick is bi-polar because a few hours ago, this chick has said that she'd hated Edward Cullen and now, she's getting all sappy talking about how it 'feels right to be in his arms'. Well you know what I say to you? Shut up. People are allowed to change their minds, okay? I'm a girl. It's what we do.

It was silent. And I liked it. It was a comfortable silence. And I of course had to ruin it when my stomach growled.

"Hungry?" Edward asked.

"Just a little," I mumbled against his shirt, as my stomach growled really loud.

He chuckled.

"Okay, a lot," I conceded, rolling over to my side, so that my leg was the only body part resting on him. "Do you have any food in this palace of yours?"

"Well we do have a kitchen and a fridge, so I assume there's something down there," Edward stated, getting up. "Let's go."

He held out his hand and I took it. I felt that familiar tingle in my hands, and I got butterflies in my stomach. Major butterflies. Correction: giant mothballs in my stomach going nuts. We stared at each other for a bit. I guess he felt it too?

I don't know how I did it, but I looked away somehow. "Lead the way," I squeaked. Wow. Congratu-freaking-lations, Bella. You've just won the award for sounding like a teenager who just hit puberty. Snaps and Claps for you. I think you deserve a cookie.

When we got down to the kitchen, Edward let go of my hand and walked over to the fridge. I noticed a picture hanging on the fridge and I stopped him from it. It was a picture of Edward and I taken the summer of Freshman year. It was Edward's birthday, and I wanted to suprise him by baking a cake and some cookies...

Flashback:
"Okay, so tell everyone to come over around 6 or something. He's coming over around 7. So it'll be a good a hour before he comes so we can suprise him, properly," I told Alice.

She pouted. "Alright, but I don't know why I can't help. Parties and celebrations are my thing."

"Well Edward, is my boyfriend. And besides, I want to do it all by myself."

"Fine," She huffed. "And thank God he's not my boyfriend. Incest is not really my thing," Alice joked.

I laughed. "Alright well I gotta go make a cake and some cookies--"

"Try not to burn down the kitchen."

I rolled my eyes. "I'll do my best," I said.

"Alright. Bye."

"Bye," I said, hanging up the phone.

I looked around the kitchen and found all my neccessary supplies and set them out on the counter. I read the directions. Brown sugar, chocolate chips, a couple of eggs..simple. For the cake I'd just have to add some oil, water, and some eggs. This was gonna be so simple, right?

WRONG! Totally wrong. God damn that freaking oven. It burns the damn cake everytime! It put it in for the exact time - 30 minutes for the whole thing like it said on the box. I mean so what if I'm baking it in layers! I thought, whilst washing the mountain of dishes when something started smelling really, really bad. And then the smoke detector went off. And just my luck...

"Bella!" I heard Edward shout as the front door slammed. "Bella?"

I threw the dish I was washing into the soapy water and ran as fast as I could over the oven. Bad idea. I slipped on some flour and fell flat on my ass.

"Argh!" I exclaimed, frustrated, wiping the flour off my butt, and getting up.

"Bella!" Edward said, opening the oven, as a whole bunch of smoke came out. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," I growled, grabbing an oven mit.

"What are you doing?" He asked, as I took out the cake and put it on the counter.

I took out the cookie sheet out, "Uhm. Baking cookies?" I sheepishly, stated as the smoke detector finally stopped beeping.

He looked at me with an amused expression.

"Cookie?" I asked, holding out the cookie sheet to him.

"Uh..sure," He stated, grabbing one.

I looked over at him expectantly. "Well?"

"There um...uh...lovely."

I could tell he was lying. "Don't lie to me. I want the truth."

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Are they that bad?" I asked, horrified.

"Well...yeah. Did you mistake the sugar for salt?"

I groaned, sinking down to the floor. "I suck at life."

"No, you don't," Edward said. "You just suck at baking." He gestured to the messy kitchen.

"Thanks. That make me feel a whole lot better," I stated, sarcastically.

"What were you trying to do anyway? Why were you baking?"

"I wanted to suprise you for your birthday, by baking you a cake and some cookies."

"Well you sure gave me a suprise," He laughed.

I rolled my eyes, standing up. "Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up, Cullen."

I glared at him. "Stop laughing. It's not funny."

"Yes it is," He gasped.

"Stop laughing, Edward." I was getting kinda mad.

"Ooh! You're so scary when you're mad, Bella," Edward teased.

I glared at him again and did what any normal person would've done. I grabbed a bowl filled with leftover cookie dough and threw a chunk of it at him. "Still funny, Edward?" I asked.

"I'll pretend you didn't do that," He stated.

"Oops! I think I just did," I said, throwing yet another chunk at him.

"Oh it so on!" He said, as he started chasing me around the kitchen.
End Flashback.

He noticed me looking at the photo, "Good times."

"Yeah," I replied. "I forget how we didn't hear Alice come in and take that photo anyway..."

"Well, with you squealing and screaming and Alice doing her whole crouching tiger hidden pixie thing...it's kind of inevitable."

I laughed. "Alright so what do you have in this big fridge of yours?" I mused, opening up the fridge. "...Besides, nothing?"

"I guess my Mom forgot to go shopping," Edward said.

"How do you know that?" I asked.

"There's a note on the counter that says 'Edward, Alice: I forgot to go shopping yesterday...' She wants me or Alice to go today after we come home from school."

"Oh," I said. "Well, let's raid your cabinets."

"Okay, well...we've got peanut butter, Cap 'n' Crunch, and...honey."

I went over to the fridge and opened, "Ooh! There's some milk."

"You might wanna check the expiration date."

"March 2, 2008. It's fine," I said, as he handed me a bowl and I poured some cereal into it.

"You know, I used to love eating Cap'n'Crunch, watching Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid," I stated, taking a bite.

"What was that, like a year ago?" Edward teased.

I finished eating when I felt him staring at me.

"What?" I asked. "Yes, I had a second bowl. I was hungry." I grinned.

"No, it's not that. I was just remembering."

"Remembering what?"

"Those earrings. You wore them on our first date."

"You remember the earrings I wore on our first date?" I asked, gesturing to my diamond studs my parents got me for my birthday a few years back.

"Yeah," He said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"What else do you remember?"

"That ugly ass thing you called a sweater that you wore."

I laughed. "Oh my god! Yes, everybody and their Mother has made their opinion on that item of clothing very clear. In fact, Alice burned it in that bonfire we had last summer. Poor Grandma, Ethel. She knit that thing forever. But anyway, tell me really. What else do you remember?"

"Well, um, let's see, your hair, you wore it that way the day I took you to my kid cousin's birthday party and you almost drowned in those balls at that Chuckie Cheese," We both laughed. "And those jeans, you wore them that day we went to the park when I tried to teach you how to shoot a basket, and we quit after you through the ball into that lake..."

"...And then we ended up falling asleep on that picnic table," I finished, looking at him amazed that he actually remembered such little things.

We looked at each other and he gave me that crooked grin again, "I remember more than you think."

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Summary for TSFSM: All human. Bella never came to Forks looking for love. Quite the opposite, actually. She had a boyfriend back in NYC - one who she was sure she was in love with. But times changed, and so had she. BxE.