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Bella POV

I groaned and rolled back towards Edward burying my face in his shoulder. "How bad is it?"

"She's not very happy but seems content on blaming my vampire charm more so than your human…tendencies."

I laughed out loud, "So I get a free pass based on the fact that I can't control my hormones?"

"Seems like the situation. By the way you did not tell me your roommate could see through walls…" he raised his eye brows probably thinking about the images that ran through Sadie's mind. I blushed immediately; it wasn't often that Sadie saw me in lingerie.

"I guess I should go talk to her. And maybe put some clothes on first," I added as a second thought as I looked down at my body.

"I wish you wouldn't," Edward whispered into ear while his left arm tightened around my waist, his right propping himself up on my pillow. He looked so beautiful there, so at ease. I tried to slow my heart; it felt like it may burst open at any moment.

"Bella! You do know I can hear and see how slow you are moving!" Sadie screamed.

I jumped out of bed as Edward covered his laugh with a pillow. I pulled on a pair of gray sweats and a Dartmouth t-shirt. I saw Edward peak from under the pillow and smile.

"You know I may prefer this to the lingerie." He states simply.

"I know you mean that to flatter me but it really just makes me feel like I look horrible naked." I scoffed.

Edward looked at me seductively, "Well I've never seen you completely naked so really I couldn't judge…"

"Edward Anthony Cullen, since when were you the one with the advances?" I was surprised with how forward he was, though last night he had surprised me more than once.

"Since last night." He winked at me and my knees buckled. I sighed and took one more look at him before leaving the room. He smiled again and I could tell what he was trying to say…he didn't have to be able to read my mind to tell me what I needed to hear, "I'm not leaving Bella, go talk to her."

I let out my breath and opened the bedroom door to face my furious roommate.

She was pacing back and forth in front of me so quickly that I was surprised she hadn't run a hole into our hardwood floors. "Bella, what are you thinking? Spending the night with him? Letting him back in so easily? Do you not remember what you've been through the past year? How he hurt you?" He tone was sympathetic, soft, much softer than I expected. She wasn't angry, she was worried.

"I know Sadie, I do but it was a misunderstanding." She stopped pacing and looked at me.

"A misunderstanding that had him tell you those horrible things and then leave you alone for months on end? He chalked this up to a misunderstanding? Bella seriously do we have to see He's Just Not That Into You again?" I couldn't hold back a laugh.

"Sadie, you know everything about my life, you're really comparing the two? Edward left to protect me," she looked even less convinced, "I know it's ridiculous but he didn't want me to be involved in the immortal world. It's dangerous. You know that just as well as I do." She still seemed hesitant.

"I don't know Bella…"

"You have to meet him Sadie. You'll know after just spending a day with him. Everything he says is true. You know I wouldn't put my heart out so vulnerably if I didn't believe him 100%." That wasn't completely true. Even if Edward told me he would leave me heartbroken again in a year, a month, a week, I would still give in to every one of his requests. But I knew in his eyes that wasn't the case.

She sighed, "Fine, he can come out and convince me himself. It was hard to even get a good look at him with those covers and I was way too afraid to look through that layer too." She smiled at me and I sighed also. It was always a relief to calm down a vampire.

Of course Edward heard the entire conversation and emerged from the room wearing his clothes from the previous day looking as stunning as ever. Before he could even say a word I heard Sadie's voice. She gasped, "Edward Masen!" I've never used that surname, not even just moments ago in the bedroom. Edward looked just as confused as I did.

Edward POV

"I'm sorry, have we met?" This girl did not look familiar, her scent brought back no memories yet in her head was the perfect image of me. Wait, it was different. Not only my hair, but my skin had a touch of bronze, and my eyes…they were emerald. She knew me from my human years.

"Of course, I can't expect you to remember as vividly, I replay my human years in my head every day." As she spoke I saw a young man's face flood her brain, I knew his name, Jonathon. This stimulated more of my own memories, Jonathon Steel and Sadie Marx. I couldn't believe it.

"Okay, I'm lost, just please don't tell me you two used to date," Bella's voice broke my concentration and I smiled.

"Of course not love," I kissed her head, "Sadie and Jonathon were my best-friends." I saw Sadie's eyes cast downward at the mention of Jonathon's name, I took the three steps between us and embraced her, all my human memories flooding my mind as they did hers. I remembered it so vividly now, every summer, every school day, every moment then I was struck with a feeling of grief, I missed Jonathon suddenly and intensely even though I had only been reminded of him now.

I reached for Bella's hand and gently tugged her to the couch where we both sat and Sadie sat in the chair perpendicular to us. "We thought you were dead. Jonathon was an absolute wreck. I had never seen him like that, even when the flu claimed his own brother's life."

I saw flashes of my funeral in her head and tightened my grip on Bella's hand. I was buried next to my parents and my funeral had a poor attendance. Just Sadie and Jonathon. The rest of my family was already dead and the town was tired of burying people. I was surprised I even had a headstone. Sadie and Jonathon were holding each other tightly, crying uncontrollably.

"Carlisle, my father for all intents and purposes, changed me hours before I would have died. I'm so sorry but I let my human memories fade. It was easier. But now, now I remember everything. What happened to you? To Jonathon?"

"I don't even know who changed me, just wrong place wrong time. It was two years after you I guess? I came back when I could…control myself…but Jonathon had…he was gone. I could never bring myself to ask how. So, here I am. Quite a coincidence." He voice was laced with agony and I felt sorry for even asking.

"Yes, yes it is. Well I guess I couldn't ask for a better person for Bella to become best friends with than my own best friend right?" I smiled brightly, I had Bella's hand in mine and I was connecting with a life I though I had left behind. It couldn't have been better.

Well, it could have been for someone. Sadie's thoughts were difficult to bare. She was conflicted with being happy to see me, to know I was alive, and with being devastated that Jonathon wasn't. Though she always thought of him, to have me here, to hear my voice, to see my face just made his that more painful. "I'm sorry Sadie."

She exhaled loudly, "Mind reading huh? I'm going to have to learn to block you out aren't I Masen? Oh, I'm sorry, Cullen now right?"

I laughed at the nickname I hadn't heard in years, "Yes, Cullen please. Too bad you couldn't switch minds with Bella here, I'd give anything to hear her every thought." I turned to her and pulled her closer.

"And I'd give anything to retain the ability to block you out." She said as she rolled her eyes. God, I missed her.

"Well it seems you're winning that battle." She smiled smugly. My cell phone obnoxiously cut into the comfortable silence. "Alice, of course."

"Take it!" Bella exclaimed.

"Hello sister." I said preparing to be yelled at.

"Edward, you know very well I am not good at keeping secrets, especially of this magnitude! But when I see the vision of Emmet's reaction…well I very well want to witness that in person. But I can't hold out on Jasper much longer…he's freaking out because of the emotions I'm giving off…get her over here!"

She was speaking much louder than necessary and I could tell Bella could hear every word because she began to blush just at the mention of her presence causing such a commotion.

"We'll be there soon Alice, how did you know I was coming? I don't even know where you guys are living right now, just that you're somewhere in the north east."

I could see Bella's confusion. I had yet to admit to her that I had been ignoring my family's pleas for me to come home for months, that I did not even know where they were. Alice of course always knew where I was though. She was the only call I ever answered. I could not bear to talk to Carlisle, I was too ashamed. Same with Esme.

Rosalie had no desire to speak to me and Jasper was still guilt ridden, no matter how many times I told him that it was unnecessary. And Emmet, well Emmet sent a few texts but he was definitely too afraid for Rose to hear him, she was still pissed. She and Emmet had moved back in with the family to help them deal with my absence and they had to go back to being teenagers and she was forced to forfeit her engagement and wedding ring. She was not pleased.

"Edward, you really don't know me at all do you? I saw you as soon as you made a decision to visit Bella and I saw how it would all unfold. I had to forward some parts…you are my brother after all…ew. Sometimes these visions are mentally scarring."

"You don't have to see the thoughts that run through Emmet and Rosalie's heads Alice…" I still wasn't sure how this had anything to do with their current location.

"I rented a house twenty minutes from Dartmouth's campus a week ago. I wasn't sure how things would play out then but I knew you were going and I needed to be prepared of course. We've been here since Monday." How did I not know earlier? This was Alice.

"Of course you did. Address?" she proceeded to tell me how to get there and added a few more threats and deadlines of when I had to have Bella there by. She was short and petite but I definitely did not want her angry with me. She was an expert at blocking her thoughts and out fights were very evenly matched; especially since Jasper always jumped in if I was getting too close.

Bella and Sadie had engaged in their own conversation and it only took me a minute to realize it was bad. Sadie was telling Bella about the first time I 'experimented' with alcohol.

"Sadie, stop where you are," I warned.

She eyed me up and down and shook her head, "Anyways, he and Jonathon finished the entire bottle of scotch. They walked…or stumbled…back to the farm with me. While I spent the night in my comfortable bed…Edward and Jonathon were not as lucky..." She seemed to speak his name with much more ease as she recalled the memory.

I groaned. I knew where this was going. "The next morning I walked to the market and low and behold, my two best friends dressed in nothing but their knickers, passed out in front of the bar. Apparently they thought it was a good idea to have another drink, and passed out."

Bella laughed obviously imagining the scene, "Wait, I don't understand how they lost their clothes…or do I not want to understand?" She eyed me curiously. Sadie laughed gleefully, obviously enjoying, much to my dismay, my embarrassment.

"No that's the best part. Three days later we were on the same street and Edward being the generous gentleman he was tossed two bums some change. But Jonathon turned back and realized the clothes the guys were wearing were THEIR clothes. So he said..." She hesitated.

I finished the memory, seeing in Sadie's mind it was going to be difficult to repeat his exact words, "With all do respect gentlemen since we gave you our ensembles, we're going to have to take back our change to buy another bottle of scotch and erase the memory of the violation. We hope you understand."

Sadie smiled at me thankfully. I nodded, acknowledging her appreciation. The memory faded in her mind and she thought exclusively of Jonathon. The pain she felt everyday was comparable with how I felt when I was away from Bella. I never knew anyone could feel that besides me. And yet she endured it for what, 80 years? It didn't seem fair. But then again what about eternal damnation was?

Then I saw Bella rise from the couch, her brown curls framing her perfect face. She kissed me gently on the cheek and told me she was going to need a few human moments before going to the house. I nodded and she headed towards the bathroom. Then I realized it was fair when you got to spend forever with the one you loved. Cause really, what else in life even mattered? You didn't need your soul if you had your heart with you, and Bella held mine and I held her…so really, I had nothing to complain about.

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