A/N: Chapter 4 of To hold and protect. This will be my late update for at least a week, just so you know.

Disclaimer: I don't own Edward Scissorhands, only Leah.

To hold and protect

Chapter four

"Leah Erica Travers, you are not wearing that on your date!" Leah's mother exclaimed as Leah walked down the stairs dressed in tan cargo pants and a black tank top.

"Why not?" she replied as she grabbed her jacket and put it on.

"You look like your just going to school. You're going on a date, you have to dress up,"

"I have dressed up," Leah said in her defence.

"Where?"

"I'm not wearing jeans, am I?"

Her mother was just about to answer when the doorbell rang. Leah opened it and smiled at David, who was standing on the other side of the door.

"Hi David,"

"Hi Leah, you look amazing. Are you ready to go?"

She nodded. "Sure. Bye mom," she shut the door behind her and followed David to his car. "What's this?" Leah asked when they were both seated and David handed her a piece of cloth.

"Blindfold. Our location is a surprise," he added when he saw Leah's look. After he got her permission he put the blindfold on her and then started to drive.

Leah was only a bit worried. She knew that David wouldn't do anything she didn't want to do, but she couldn't helo but to wonder where they were going and why it was a secret. She liked David as a friend, but that didn't meant that she trusted him. They only drove for a few minutes, and Leah noticed that most of that time was spent driving uphill.

"Here we are," David said as he pulled of the blindfold. Leah's eyes turned as big as saucers. They were parked outside the gates to the castle.

"Can't we go somewhere else? I don't wanna be here," she coaxed, but David shook her off.

"No, it's cool. Come on!" David stepped out of the car and Leah couldn't do much else than to follow him.

"Can't we please go somewhere else?" Leah practically begged, but David just shook his head.

"Let's go inside," he said after looking around the garden for a few minutes. Leah followed him anxiously, this was not a good idea. "This place is freaky." David chuckled as he walked through the front door.

"Please David, let's leave," Leah tried desperately to get them out of there, but to no avail.

"If you wanna be a big cry-baby and run home to mommy do that, but I'm not leaving," he spat at her, and Leah felt herself beginning to panic. "I wonder what's on the second floor..." he said to himself, looking up at the winding stairs.

'Edward's up in the attic!' Leah thought, now in full panic. "David, come and look at this!" she knew that the chance of him actually falling for that was slim, but it was the only thing she in her panic-stricken mind could come up with. Unbelievably, David turned around and walked up to her.

"What is it?" he asked, and Leah desperatley tried to come up with something. Then, a thin leather-clad figure appeared at the top of the stairs, draving Leah's attention to him. David, who saw that she wasn't looking at him anymore, started to turn his head. To Leah, what happened next went in slow motion. Seeing Edward seconds away from being discovered, she did the only thing she could think of. She grabbed David's head and pressed her mouth against his in a hard kiss. Hoping that Edward had gotten the message and disappeared upstairs, she opened her eyes.

When David started to french kiss her, he moved his head giving Leah a clear view of the stairs. Edward still stood on the top; now with a heart-breaking look on his face that made her wanna cry. Putting her arms up around David's shoulders, she gestured for Edward to leave. She kept her eyes focused on him until he had completely disappeared from her vision, and then broke off the kiss.

"What do you say we get out of here?" she said, not liking how seductive she sounded.

"That sounds like a good idea," he replied, and started to walk to the door. Leah followed him, and soon they were once again sitting in his car.

David started the car and Leah replied the smile he gave her with one of her own.

Looking up at the top floor, Leah was sure she saw Edward, standing looking at them through the window. 'I'm sorry Edward'

"Do you wanna go out some other time?" David asked when they were standing outside her front door.

"I dunno David," Leah said tentatively. "It's been great and all, but I like you more as a friend."

His face fell. "Oh, okay. Well, I hope that we can be friends,"

"I'd like that," she smiled. "I better go inside." With a last smile she went inside. The very second she stepped through the front door, her mother attached her with questions.

"Are you going to see him again?"

"No mom, I'm not. We decided we're better of as friends,"

Her mother looked shocked at her. "But you would be perfect for each other. He's so good looking, every girls dream,"

"Why don't you date him then mom?" Leah shot back before she rushed up the stairs and into her room, locking the door behind her. Emotionally drained, she slid down on the floor. She buried her face in her hands, feeling tears leak through her fingers. Then she started crying for real with hard sobs that shook her entire body.

'How could I be so stupid?', she thought. 'I could have done anything to lead of his attention. Did I have to kiss him? I have to make it up to Edward somehow. Why do I feel like I betrayed Edward by kissing another guy?'

After 10 minutes, Leah couldn't cry anymore. Instead she put on her pj:s and went to bed. Thinking about ways to make up her behaviour to Edward, she sat up with a bolt.

"I got it!" she said. "The halloween dance!"