Chapter Four - Surprise Guest

JPOV

"You know what Edward, fine. Deal. And when I get her, you will never utter another word to either of us ever again." I caved, and I could see the pure elation pour from Edward from his victory in getting me to do so.

Part of me immediately regretted agreeing to this, but another part saw it as a opportunity to settle this once and for all. Either way I'm not backing down now, I will fight him till the end win or lose. This was more that just about Bella, this was for the years and years I've spent being harassed and taunted by Edward. This was for all the others like me at school that he's done the same things to. The guys that he manipulated their girls into leaving for him, and those girls who's hearts he then broke. Of anyone here I was possibly the only one that had enough pent up anger as well determination to put Edward in his place.

At this point we were basically finished with the two hours of detention and were just waiting for the teacher to return to the room and dismiss us. Edward and I didn't say another word to each other, like some kind of unspoken understanding was reached between us. There had been enough bickering and name calling for one day. I wasn't gonna be holding my breath anytime soon though. I knew I was in for it, expecting all the stops to be pulled by Edward. I knew his style, and I knew nothing was too far for him and that mercy was not in his vocabulary.

While I was preparing myself mentally for what lies ahead, the teacher came in and said we could leave. By now it was around 5 o'clock, I was starving and in no mood to wait around to see if Edward had more to say. I was in my car and heading home in what seemed like seconds.

EPOV

As I was making my way to my car I couldn't help but be surprised. I knew what I had said would get his attention, but I wasn't sure that it was enough to get him to agree to the bet. Thrilled he had agreed, I started going over in my mind what angle to play with Bella, what I was gonna do next. This is what I lived for, the challenge and in the end the victory. The whole way home was like this, plotting and envisioning the coming days and weeks.

Alice was busy in the kitchen when I walked in the door, and the smell of Italian food was in the air. Jasper was to my right in the living room watching some football game on the flatscreen, barley looking away to say 'hi' to me.

"Eddie, can you come here real fast?" She called out for me.

"What ya need?" I asked once I reached her.

"Help." She laughed. "Stir that for me and then if you could start a salad? I tried to get Jazzy to help, but I can't pry him away from the tv." She again was chuckling while racing around the kitchen.

It seemed like she was in a good mood. Id help her all she wanted to get back on her good side, I hated having her mad at me. We really were best friends, no matter how we acted sometimes. Of anyone in the whole world, it was only her that I cared about how I treated. We knew each other better than anyone else did, and were more alike than anyone would like to admit. How we acted in front of people and what we did in public was vastly different from how we were just one of one at home.

People would get up enough courage every once in a while to mess with me, but no one was stupid enough to try anything with Alice. First off, she was no picnic to deal with if you've wronged her, she could defiantly hold her own. If that wasn't enough of a deterrent, second would be the all out dedicated enemy with unwavering revenge on his mind that I would become. As long as I'm around, she would be the little sister that I would do anything for.

It was Alice that the fight I got in trouble for last year was all about. Some sorely unaware and poorly misguided punk decided it would be fun to give Alice a hard time on her way home from shopping one night last summer. He followed her in his car and harassed her for many blocks before she mouthed off to him, which then made him mad so he pulled over and got out. Something about Alice is that shes blissfully unaware of her own safety, and how that mouth on her can get her into heaps of trouble. Luckily I was already on my way to pick her up when she texted me about what was happening. I pulled up right as the jackass had gotten out of his car and started to push her up against it. Unlucky for him was the fact that I pulled up just in time to see him get out of his car and push her against it. He didn't see me come up from behind him and take him out with a punch square to the side of his face. There was no need to ask questions after what I had seen. I had him on the ground, bloody and unconscious when the cops pulled up. I only reason I got out of any charges was partly because of who our father was and because it had been in defence. The guy recovered from his injuries, and I have never seen him again since.

JPOV

I was only home for a hour or so when, while I was watching 'Fight Club' there was a knock at the door. I just figured it was Embry or someone and was down right shocked to find it was actually Bella.

"Hey, I'm sorry to just show up like this and all, but I wasn't patient enough to wait the two weeks for your detention to end. I was wondering if you wanna hang out or something?" She seemed so nervous and I hated seeing her like that. If only she knew how ecstatic seeing her at my front door made me.

"First off, I'm glad you're inpatient, because I didn't know how I was going to make it the two weeks either. Second off yes, absolutely yes, I'd love to do something. Come on in so we can think about it." I laughed and tried to explain to her in hopes of making her feel more comfortable about coming over.

As soon as she got into the living room I asked her how she had known where I lived. She explain how her dad was Charlie, who just happened to be one of my dads best friends. I couldn't believe what a small world it was. We both were surprised, then Billy came in to say 'Hi' and was equally shocked to hear it as well. Once my dad left the room and we started to talk again she noticed what movie I was watching.

"That's such a great movie." She commented.

"No way, I never pictured you being a fan of a movie that all about beating people to a pulp."

"Guess there's plenty to learn about each other." She said as we both sat down.

Before I knew it, we had watched the whole movie, talking the entire time about all sorts of stuff. Just learning more about each other. Both of us were surprised multiple times hearing certain things about the other. From the kinds of music she liked and the fact that she watched sports, we ended up having so much in common. The night made me feel 100 times better about taking the bet Edward made. I was now more determined than ever, not to win the bet, but just to keep him as far away as possible from her. For him this was just a game, and she was the toy he was playing for. But now that I had gotten to spend time with her, I knew liked her, and I knew she was worth the fight.

We had completely lost track of time, it wasn't till Billy came out around nine that she realised she had to go. She said good bye to my dad and I walked her out to her car. When she got in and started up the car I saw that one of her tail lights were broken.

"Hey Bella, did you know about that brake light?"

"Ya, it blew out the other day."

"Bring it back here tomorrow or the next day and I can fix it for you."

"Wow, really. That would be great. My dad is just so busy, he wasn't gonna be able to fix it till this weekend."

"Well there you go, car gets fixed and I get an excuse to see you again." I told her closing the door to her car.

"See ya at school tomorrow Jake."

"Later."

EPOV

By now the game was over and Jasper was bugging us in the kitchen, practically drooling waiting for the food to be done. We finished up the Chicken Parmesan and a Cesar salad, and all sat down at the table with our plates. Alice made everything she did special, but tonight she explained was the first day back to school dinner.

Even thought Jasper wasn't perfect, evident in his lack of help with dinner, he was completely wrapped around Alice's little finger. All through dinner he was complimenting her on it, and even got up multiple times to get her something to drink or a second helping of food. Those two had been inseparable since they were both 13, and I was pretty sure they would end up getting married. If there was ever a couple out there that would wind up in a house with a picket fence it was them. It made things alot easier that he was my best friend before he was her boyfriend. I didn't even give him any trouble for going out with her because of how well I already had known him. Looking at them now, I have no worries that he'd ever break her heart.

We all ended up talking about what had happen today. From the cafeteria incident to my arrangement with Edward, which Alice didn't seem thrilled to hear.

"I'm not going to tell you what to do anymore Edward, I know I wont get anywhere and would be wasting my breath."

Even though I'm the older brother here, it's Alice that takes on the older, more mature Mothering roll half the time. I've gotten longer and worse lectures from her than Esme and Carlisle put together.

"Alice don't say that, you know I care about what you think. This is just a different situation."

"Edward, you're so damn smart but you do the stupidest things, you know that?"

"Yes Alice, I do know that. You tell me often." I laughed, and she finally smiled a little.

"Well, that's all I can do short of pounding it into that head of yours."

After dinner we had all gone to the living room and started watching some chick flick Alice had picked out. I felt like I was yet again on her better side, so I decided to yet again push my luck with her.

"Hey Alice. I think there's something you could do for me."

"Whats that?"

"Well, get to know Isabella yourself." I was scared for her reaction.

"Oh no. I am so not getting in the middle of this."

"You wouldn't be. It would just be you trying to befriend the new girl. It would only be a coincidence that you're my sister. Take her shopping or something." Along with knowing what to say to Jacob to get him to cave, I also knew what would work on Alice. Credit cards and clothing filled days were like crack to her.

"Well when you manipulate it into sounding like that, it doesn't come off sounding half bad." She grinned.

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