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First, let me say that I don't own Twilight, or the Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

This chapter gets the drama started, so I hope you like it!

BPOV-

A few days after Jacob arrived, I got to know him more. He liked hiking, and loved to take pictures of the beautiful sights as he did so. He had been raised by his father. His mother had died when he was 5. He had two sisters, Rachel and Rebecca, who I would meet at the wedding on the 30 day deadline two weeks before my coronation.

He seemed like a very sweet person. He had a funny sense of humor, and always looked happy and content. I didn't love him, and I didn't think I would ever be truly in love with him, but I liked him as a good friend. It didn't feel like enough to get married for, but what other choice did I have?

Then there was Edward. I was so frustrated with him. He wasn't really doing anything. I just couldn't focus on anything when he was there. His presence was so strong, and when it was combined with his godly good looks, he was the perfect distraction to me. I would only think of how much I wanted to be able to just brush his hand and feel the warmth that flooded me when we were close. I knew I shouldn't be thinking these things, since I was engaged to Jacob, even if I wasn't in love with him.

What made it even worse was that he wasn't just incredibly hot. He was so sweet and gentlemanly. My anger with him melted after just three days. How could I stay mad at him when he was perfectly sweet and polite whenever he spoke to me? He figured out after the first few hours how clumsy I was, and had made it his personal job to catch me whenever I tripped when he was there, which was most of the time.

I know. Swoon. He was so perfect, catching me, opening my door, pulling out my chair for me. I had to constantly remind myself that I was engaged. Regardless, I had a huge crush on him. I know that sounds high school, but it was so true. But I forced myself to ignore it. I was already set to be married in 27 days.

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I opened the door of my room hurriedly. I was a few minutes late for meeting Jacob to go to the park. As I stepped through the door and pushed it shut behind me, the door across the hallway opened. Edward stepped out and I had to look away quickly before I could start hyperventilating at the dark jeans and navy shirt he was wearing.

He closed the door softly, smiling when our eyes met.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"The park," I answered, suddenly remembering and starting to rush down the hall. Edward kept up easily beside me. I loved the feeling of his warm body walking close to me. Ugh, stop thinking about that Bella! I scolded myself.

"Why are you in such a rush?" he said.

"Why are you always so nosy?" I snapped back, not in a very good mood today. He just looked down at me with an expectant expression. I sighed and gave in, telling him,

"I'm supposed to meet Jacob in front of the palace so that we can meet my friends at the park. I'm a bit late."
Edwards face hardened slightly at the mention of Jacob and a quick flash of emotion swept through his eyes. He always did that when Jacob was mentioned for some reason. I didn't see why he seemed annoyed whenever I said Jacob's name. It was Edward's fault that I even knew him in the first place.

I wondered why he wanted to be king so much, as I had for most of the time since I met him, but I pushed it out of my mind.

"Mind if I come?" he asked lightly. I was surprised at this. Why would he want to come?

"What?" I said, just to make sure I heard right.

"Can I come?" he said slowly, making each sound distinct.

I rolled my eyes at his exaggeration, and he smiled. God, he was so gorgeous when he smiled that crooked smile. My goodness, he was making it hard to keep my self-control.

"Why would you want to come?" I asked, genuinely curious, but not exactly reluctant to have him with me. God, I sound so obsessive, I thought

"It seems like a good day to go to the park." He shrugged, being almost overly casual about it. I looked closely at him, but gave up quickly. He was really good at his poker face.

"Yeah it is," I agreed. It was pleasantly warm and sunny today. Perfect weather. "Sure," I said, "you can come if you want, but I must warn you my friends are…something else." He hadn't met them yet, and he needed to know what he was getting himself into. A day at the park with Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett was more like a circus.

"I'm sure they'll be fine," he said, and I took that he meant he was coming along.

We reached the main entrance out of the palace and walked to the gate, where Jacob waited, leaning on the limo.

"Do you have your own car?" Edward asked abruptly.

"Yeah," I said, surprised at his randomness.

"Why haven't I seen you driving it?"

He was right. I had an adorable blue, convertible smart car. (I love those cars!) I didn't really use it a whole lot, though. I made a mental note to drive it more.

I shrugged to answer his question, "I just happened to be using the limo lately."

He let it go as we got to the limo.

"Hey, Bella," said Jacob brightly.

"Hey, Jake." I smiled at his cheerfulness.

Edward simply nodded at him, and after looking puzzled for a few seconds at Edward's stiffness, Jacob said, "Which park are we going to?"

"The one just a few minutes away, Wolf Park."

"Isn't that a public park?"

"Yeah," I said, feeling puzzled about why he would worry about that.

"Oh," he said simply.

I frowned slightly. "Is there something wrong with that?"

"No, it's just…" he wrinkled his nose in slight distaste, "There are going to be a lot of people staring.

"Oh!" I exclaimed, just now realizing this. I hated when people stared at me. Even though I was princess and it was to be expected, I never really got used to having people staring at me. Having my fiancé and the second in line for the throne with me would just make more people stare.

"Well, I already told my friends we would meet there, so we can't change that."

"That's fine." Jacob was, as always, cheerful about everything. I really liked that about him. He was like the ever present sun with his bright joy.

Edward stayed quiet during the exchange. We climbed into the limo, and it sped off to the park. In a few minutes, we were there.

The park was, unfortunately, more full than usual. I wonder why that is? I thought sarcastically, as cameras were raised when the limo came into view.

We stepped out, and I silently thanked god that I always had to travel with at least 2 body guards. The body guards pushed the crowd back and kept them away when I stepped out, with Edward and Jacob right behind me.

I walked quickly through the aisle that the guards had made to where Alice, Jasper, Rose, and Emmett were waiting. They looked slightly overwhelmed at the crowd.

"Is it true you're getting married?" "Who are you getting married to?" "Is one of those two men you fiancé?"

Questions were hurled at me until I reached the safety of the space behind the body guards, at the picnic table where my friends were sitting.

"I'm guessing they found out about the engagement," said Emmett, stating the obvious as always.

"Hey guys," I said wearily, feeling worn out by the crown of people looking at us even now through the small spaces between guards.

"Hey," they all said back.

"Can you get the reporters to leave at the very least," I asked one of the guards.

He nodded sharply and began shooing away anyone with a camera, threatening fines and jail. I didn't think they would really get that for being here with camera, but it worked. The guards emptied most of the park, until just a few were remaining. The ones still there were the people that were here to actually hang out, not get a shot of the princess and her new 'hubby' as they were calling it, even though Jacob wasn't exactly my husband yet.

I sighed in relief at the quiet, a reaction that seemed to be mirrored by everyone else at the table.

Now that it was calm, my friends were looking curiously at Jacob and Edward.

"Oh," I remembered, "Guys, this is Jacob Black and this is Edward Cullen." I pointed them out in turn.

"Edward, Jacob, these are Alice Brandon, Emmett Brandon, Rosalie Hale, and Jasper Hale."

'Hi's and 'hello's rang for a few seconds, mixed in with' nice to meet you's.

Alice and Rose were looking closely at Jacob, giving me thumbs up to show they approved.

I plopped down at the table and Edward and Jacob took either side. I always seemed to be caught between them.

The girls looked like they were dying to talk boys, and they pushed Emmett and Jasper off the bench.

"Go, get some male bonding done," they said as they shoved, not really getting any progress done.

The boys shrugged and stood, looking expectantly and Edward and Jacob.

Jacob laughed at the crazy antics of my friends and Edward raised an amused eyebrow, but they both got up.

As soon as the guys were out of hearing range, Alice and Rose started squealing.

"Oh my god, Jacob is so hot!" said Alice.

"You sure know how to pick 'em" chimed in Rose.

"Edward is even hotter. I mean, seriously. Look at him. No wonder you were dazzled."

"I am officially jealous that you have two guys. Life is unfair."

I was laughing, but I stopped after Rose's comment.

"What do you mean, two guys? I only have Jacob."

Rose rolled her eyes. "Yes, Bella," she said like she was talking to a two year old. "But if you haven't noticed, Edward follows you like a lost puppy."

"What!" I exclaimed, reflexively glancing at Edward. He was looking at me, but looked away when I caught his eye. Unless I was hallucinating, I would swear that he had a very faint blush in his pale skin.

"He does not follow me like a lost puppy," I protested to Rose. Unfortunately, Alice looked like she agreed.

Rosalie snorted. "Of course he does, or he most likely wouldn't have even met us until the garden party in two weeks. But he came today. I'm not going to flatter myself in saying he was here to meet us. He came because of you."

"But I've only known him for a week." I still didn't believe her.

"So? You know that Emmett and I knew each other for about three days before he asked me out."

That was true. They had been in their first year of college together, and after knowing her for three days, Emmett goes up to Rose and says "You're hot. Will you be my girlfriend?" Rose actually said yes and they had been dating since. That was honestly one of the weirdest things my friends did, which was big, considering the things they did on a daily basis.

"But Alice and Jasper knew each other for a year before they got together."

Rose raised her eyebrow. "Yeah, but only because it took them so long for Jasper to grow some balls and ask her out. I'm telling you, Edward has a little crushy on you." Now I felt like she was teasing me. She couldn't be serious.

"Rose! Edward Cullen does not like me!"

"Does too," jumped in Alice. "Come on, he looks at you like he worships the ground you walk on."

"No he doesn't!" I was feeling very annoyed and confused at this point. Edward couldn't like me. He was so spicy hot, and I was plain. He could have the most beautiful woman in the world in a heartbeat. I was getting kind of frustrated that they kept insisting that he could like me.

I glanced at Edward again. He was standing at the edge of the lake, slightly apart from the others, but still participating in the conversation.

Suddenly a blond slut walked up to him. She was wearing what looked like slivers of cloth, but were apparently supposed to be a skirt and tube top. She had on heels that looked ten feet high and highly uncomfortable. She got too close and trailed a hand down his arm. I felt anger and jealousy surge through me. I was vindictively pleased at the disgusted look on my Edward's face.

Hold on! My Edward? Where did that come from?

I stopped worrying when I saw the little whore lean in close and say something. He tried to back away, but the bitch kept coming.

I was up and halfway to him, seething in anger, before I fully realized I had even moved. I glared at the girl, running angrily toward her.

I heard her screechy, high pitched voice say in a poor attempt to be seductive, "So, babe, what's your name?"

She inched toward him, but before she got too close, I grabbed her arm and pulled her away from Edward.

"What do you think you're doing!" she screamed. I took Edward's arm and pulled him closer, feeling calmer with him close.

"Who is he? My sweet little whore, he is Edward Cullen. I'm guessing you know that he is the second in line? Well, I'd say that a king is a little out of league for a slutty prostitute like you. Now why don't you just go away before you embarrass yourself any more?"

"You bit-"she started.

"Bitch? You were going to call me a bitch? You realize I'm your princess, don't you? I will not be spoken to like that. If you even finish that sentence I will have you fined or jailed, and don't think I won't. Now go! Unless you were looking forward to sleeping with the entire prison population. I guess that's the best you could do."

The girl screamed, stomped her foot, and turned, yelling and kicking everything that was in her way.

Once she was out of sight, my mind cleared of the angry haze it was in. I froze, suddenly realizing what I had done.

I looked back and saw that everyone in the entire park had a shocked expression and Alice, Rose, Jazz, Em, Jake, and Edward all looked dumbstruck.

A paparazzi was jumping gleefully at the video he had just gotten.

Oh god. I am so screwed.

I need your opinion on something. This is going to be an Edward and Bella story, but I'm a little undecided on how I'm going to start it. Should they have an affair while Bella is still engaged, or should they wait until Bella ends up not getting married. I have a storyline for both, but I don't know which to do. Please give me your opinions in your review. Thank you!

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