Hey guys! Yes I am back. I know it's been a little more than a month I believe since I have last updated. I am extremely sorry for the delay in getting this chapter out there. I really am, guys. You have no idea how hard I have been trying to crank out this for you. It was only today that I got the time since my exams finished only yesterday. Thank you to everyone who left a review for me! You guys lit up my days in the darkest moments of studying. Twelve exams. Exhausting stuff. But nothing to stop me from updating. :D. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. I personally find it a bit slow since nothing much really happens because it's mostly filler but it is desperately needed. I'm trying my hardest to make this story the best one out of the two that I have already written. So thank you to everyone who's been reading so far. You have no idea how gratified I feel that you're reading my story. Thank you so much! :D. Okay I'll stop my chit chat and let you get on with it…

And so the story shall continue…*JAI HO!*

Disclaimer: Okay. So I don't own Twilight. I'm not gonna cry over it. I AM NOT GOING TO CRY. *Burst into tears* Dang. I'm crying. Well, it's not MY fault Stephenie Meyer owns it. My name is Stephanie too; why can't I own it? Life is unfair.

"You are the reason that I breathe,

You are the reason that I still believe,

You are my destiny…."

-Jai ho by A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls

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Chapter Four

Edward POV

"So it all started back in middle school…." Alice began turning to the back seat where Emmett and I sat to face us. I could feel my hands starting to quiver as I re-thought all that had happened minutes before.

My blood was boiling after seeing Jacob Black. I hated that guy with all my guts but now, after ten years, it seemed to be magnified by a tenfold. What was it about Jacob that bugged me so much? Maybe it was the way he had treated Bella. He disgusted me when he looked her like she was a piece of meat. You could practically see all the awful things he thought of doing to her in his black beady eyes. Just thinking about made me want to vomit. I was damn glad that Bella had stood up for herself against that butt hole but something inside of me still wanted to rip every limb off of the irritating mutt.

Emmett nudged me out of my thoughts and I snapped back to see Alice looking at me curiously. I nodded for her to continue.

She looked at me for a moment before continuing. "So as I was saying, it began in middle school as soon as we hit the golden age of fourteen."

"Alice, must you make it sound so much like some bad afternoon special?" Bella complained.

"Well, Bella, with all due respect, it kinda was." Bella poked out her tongue at Alice through the glass.

"Will everyone please stop interrupting the story?" Emmett exclaimed impatiently.

Alice grinned, "Don't blame me. I'm the one who keeps getting interrupted."

"Yeah, well, everyone, just shut the hell up and let Alice talk."

She giggled before continuing, "Well anyway, as soon as we hit fourteen, everyone started to change. Especially Jacob. You guys should have seen him. He grew as tall as a lamp post and buff too. Because of his 'oh so charming' good looks," Alice said rolling her eyes, "all the girls just kept on falling for him. He became something of a player at that time. No girl could resist him."

She glanced at Bella who said with a weary look in her eyes, "Except me."

"Well, duh," Alice chirped. "OMG, you should have seen Bella when she was that age. She was like the tom boy with the hot body type. She played soccer and volley ball and if you guys had only see the looks on the guys' face every time on of them walked by." She giggled. "Instant and major drool."

That wasn't very hard to believe after seeing her. Bella was one seriously beautiful girl. I still had trouble thinking that this was the same girl that I'd known all my life. She seemed unaware of it though by the way she was looking embarrassed by everything Alice said.

"Um, Alice," Bella said uncomfortably. "If you're gonna tell the story at least tell it right without exaggerating."

"Wait, you say Bella was the only one resisting Jacob?" Emmett asked skeptical at the thought of Alice actually liking Jacob.

"Well no there was me too. But thankfully, Mr. Black believes I am unimportant. Ugh. Whatever. I consider myself blessed that I can stay away from him." She sighed. "Wait why is it that I am getting interrupted again?" She gave Emmett the evil eye.

"So, before someone else interrupts me again, and whoever does will have to fend for their lives, I will go on! Now, Bella was this major hottie in middle school so naturally Jacob wanted her. He seemed to forget all about hating her since the day he was born. Thank the heavens Bella did not forget either else I'd have lost her to the dark side. Anyway, so lil Ms. Bells and I found out about this so together we created this wonderful little scheme. The next day Jacob asked Bella out I had to practically force her to say yes. She put up one huge fight but in the end the temptation of ruining our favorite Quileute was too much. So the date was set in this little quaint restaurant in La Push where Jacob is notorious for taking his girls and getting into their pants. So Bella brilliantly plays along to the tune of lovesick girl and gets Jacob along. I was hiding close by. So Jacob starts talking all lovey dovey and leads her to the property garden. Then he pledges his undying love for her." Bella snorted at this and Alice chuckled.

"That guy needed a clue so badly that I almost kicked him," Bella said making a face.

"He said and I quote, 'To consummate our love under the new moon'," Alice broke down into a fit of giggles.

"Frankly I was surprised he knew so many big words," Bella commented dryly. Meanwhile I could feel my blood boiling as I thought of Jacob touching Bella. I didn't know what was going on with me. Why was I feeling so protective over Bella?

"Anyway," Alice continued, tears streaming down her face from her giggling fit, "as per our plan, Bella got him all undressed and lying down in the grass to get laid. So we gathered all his clothes in a garbage bag, poured some honey over him to 'make it even sweeter' and then left him right there!"

"Poor Jacob's never been able to get over it since," Alice said shaking her head. "He still however loves Bella even more since then. I don't get why since we both humiliated him. I think he blames me more than Bella."

"And," Bella added miserably, "no matter how hard I try now, Black doesn't want to leave me the hell alone! He seems to think that Alice was playing a trick on us both. He's delusional if he thinks I ever want to be within a foot of him let alone in his bed!"

Emmett was laughing all this while. "Good one! I wish I was there to help you guys. I love to beat that little punk to a pulp if Charlie would let me," he said wistfully.

My hands were practically vibrating now as I envisioned it all. I could not get a hold on my emotions.

"Edward, dude, you look pooped," Emmett commented as we pulled up into Bella's drive way. Bella shot me a curious look as we got out. Our parents were all already there waiting for our arrival.

"All right, people," Charlie called, "So Edward and Emmett will be in our house in the guest bedroom and Carlisle and Esme in Elizabeth's house, 'kay?" We nodded our assent. I was thinking that I would be right down the hall from Bella's room.

Aw man what kind of sick pervert am I? I thought. And shouldn't I be excited that I am meeting Alice? I mean here I am next to the girl I've been in love with since as long as I could remember and all I am thinking about is her best friend who is like her sister and also used to be my best friend too. Good God. This is all so confusing.

Ugh. Male hormones are the worst.

Bella POV

I blushed as I heard my dad's orders. Edward would not be that far away from me. I didn't know why this thought occurred to me but I knew it was wrong. Besides, Edward didn't care about me. No, he seemed perfectly content at his place next to Alice.

I was trying my hardest not to pay attention to the constant glances that Alice was shooting Edward.

I painted the biggest fake smile on my face that I could muster. "Come on guys," I said to the Cullen brothers, "I'll direct you there myself."

"Good service," Emmett joked. Hmm…trust Emmett to come up with a joking remark when he knew exactly how tense I was feeling.

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah well you're staying at ma maison so obviously you'd be treated well." I shot him a look covertly that clearly said, "Shut the hell up, idiot."

"Ma maison huh?" Emmett commented, "Since when did you get so frenchie? Have you been French kissing a certain somebody lately or something of that kind Ms. Bella?"

"Um Emmett?"

"Yes ma belle?"

"Shut up you dork."

"Yes ma'am."

Edward grinned at the two of us. "Nice to know things haven't really changed."

Emmett and I rolled our eyes at him. "You know, sometimes I feel sorry for him Bella."

"Why, Em?"

"He's got no one to argue with. Which makes him terribly boring. No spunk whatsoever."

"Hey!" Edward protested. "I have plenty of spunk."

"Ah, yes, but not as much as our loveliest Bella here. At least she can keep up with me. Unlike some people we know."

"Emmett?"

"Yes oh brother dear?"

"Shut the hell up you idiot."

"Wow, two "Shut up, Emmett"'s in the last-what like ten seconds? I'm on a role today!" he crowed joyfully.

"Again, dude, you need to STOP talking once in a while you know," I said as we approached their room.

"Aw, but then that'd make me no fun. And besides, we need at least one Cullen boy with a sense of humor around here. Admit it, Bells, without me here, you people would be stark raving mad. No sense of humor at all."

"Naw," I teased him some more, "I think Eddie boy's got plenty humor in him."

"Yeah humor in his pants maybe," Emmett muttered as he ducked a blow from a very vehement Edward.

Edward glowered at him. "Emmett! You know how much I despise that name. Eddie boy.

"And you'd rather be SilverVolvoKindOfGuy78?" I asked skeptically only to realize I wasn't supposed to know his IM name seeing as how "Alice" is the one who was talking to him all the time. Thankfully he didn't notice anything amiss and seemed completely normal as he spoke.

"Well that's different. I love my Volvo and I am indeed a silver Volvo kind of guy." He grinned crookedly, a sight that almost knocked the living bejesus out of me. "Eddie boy, however." He said the name with utter contempt. "It sounds so…ugh….Emmett-like. It reminds of something you'd name your pet grizzly bear."

"Well Emmett would love that wouldn't you Em? A pet grizzly?" I asked him. He nodded enthusiastically.

"Yeah I'll work on that one for Christmas 'kay?"

"Only Emmett would want a grizzly," Edward scoffed, "only he'd be that cuckoo."

"As cuckoo as a cuckoo clock," I agreed.

"Don't forget cuckoo for cocoa puffs," he winked at me referring to when we were younger. Cocoa puffs and Lucky Charms were our survival foods on the weekends. We never ate anything but cereal. It was sort of a ritual. We would have gotten up in the morning watching cartoons mixing the cereals with some milk and that would be our breakfast, brunch, lunch, snack and dinner.

Emmett backed up holding up his hands in a sign of surrender. "Okay, okay, jeez, no need to gang up on a guy. I swear you two are worse than Sherlock and that dude he's always with."

"Watson?" Edward asked curiously.

"Yeah that dude."

"What in the world do detectives have to do with this?" I asked incredulously.

"Do with what?" Emmett asked, confused.

Edward and I looked each other absolutely bewildered. "How can you two even be related?"

"Sometimes I think he was adopted. I mean we do look nothing alike. It's either Esme had an affair or Carlisle had a secret lover and decided to take in his mistress' baby after she died during childbirth."

"Both of which can be classified in the cuckoo section as well."

"True but sometimes one does wonder."

"Okay stop talking both of you," Emmett commanded, "You guys make my head hurt. I can't follow a single conversation. You know, what you two continue with your little love fest but I am off to shower. Good day!" With that he stormed off for dramatic effect only for the effect to be ruined when he tripped on the rug. He spluttered as he inhaled the dust, coughing as he struggled to get up.

"You know I think he may be related to you instead."

"Edward I believe you're right."

We watched as Emmett tried Take 2 of his dramatic exit and succeeded. Then into an awkward silence we fell. It was the first time we'd been left alone since Edward had found out who I was at the airport.

"So…that was fun," he started off lightly. I chuckled in response.

"Do you want help packing?"

"Sure."

We began packing his clothes into the closet and cupboard. The guest room was fairly big with a king size bed and a huge couch to the side. Edward had graciously decided to take the couch since Emmett apparently rolled like a tree trunk at night.

We worked in silence, neatly arranging his clothes. Suddenly his whole posture was rigid as he looked at me curiously. I shifted uncomfortably under his unwavering gaze.

"What?"

"Earlier, when you said my IM name was SilverVolvoKindOfGuy78….how did you know that?" His hypnotic green stare seemed to bore into my chocolate brown eyes.

Oh. Crap.

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