Disownage.

Sorry for not updating quickly! My computer crashed on me :(

But i wrote this in 2 days! :)

I think this might be my longest chapter yet... (might have a few spelling mistakes tho :S)

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Chapter 7: The Great Escape

BPOV

"Let's ditch this dump." Edward said tugging me away from the rest of our group.

"Edward, we can't. You know I want to but Alice will kill us if we leave now. I don't want to be a dead ducky." I tried to compromise with him. I firmly planted myself on the nearest bench and crossed my arms.

We had been stuck going shopping with Alice and Rose, as they apparently needed some fashionable clothes from New York to flaunt around back at home to get people jealous. People were already jealous of their good looks though! I don't see why they had to make people even more jealous. They might give some unsuspecting person (most likely a man) a heart attack! We had all been sadly dragged into this, the boys as the bag holders and I got stuck as being the model for all the clothes they liked. Edward had been groaning and complaining the whole time and it was very amusing to see his face in a permanent pout the whole way round the mall.

"But, Bella!" Edward whined grabbing my shoulders and shaking me softly, causing little sparks to run through me from his casual touch. "I am bored out of my MIND!"

I giggled at his vulnerable expression and briefly questioned his sanity.

"Edw-ard." I complained as he started to pout again, sticking his bottom lip out. "Don't give me that look."

"Why?" He frowned and cocked his head to the side in confusion. Cute…

"Because it's too cute!" I grumbled and rolled my eyes at his little grin of triumph. "Don't let it go to your head. You don't need a bigger ego."

He just grinned at me happily. That smile brought all the memories of this morning flashing back.

FLASHBACK

I woke up to a bright light and a faint sound right near my ear. It was really annoying. Why couldn't it shut up?

Can't it see I was sleeping peacefully until now?


Ugh.

I stretched like a cat and whacked my hand wildly around the bed, trying to kill the source of the annoying noise. The noise got louder and I quickly slapped my hand to where I thought the sound was.

"OWWW!" It screeched and my eyes opened in a second. Damn. What had I done now?

My eyes widened as I saw the source of the noise.


"EDWARD!" I screamed hid underneath the covers in embarrassment.

"Are you okay?" I asked him meekly, slightly muffled from the covers. Hopefully I hadn't hurt him too bad.

I hope…

I could hear his musical chuckle and I wondered how I could have ever not recognised that sound earlier. Probably cause I was half-asleep.

"Good morning to you too, Bella." I could practically hear the smile in his voice. "I'm okay though, just a red hand shaped mark on my chest. No big deal." He said amused and I felt him shrug. I pulled the covers back quickly.

"I'm so sorry!" I gently stroked his chest with out thinking and cooed at it lovingly. I must have lost my mind, I'm petting Edward's chest…But nothing must be able to destroy its perfectness, including me.

"I think my chest is feeling better now." He smirked at me as I continued to caress his chest, mostly in pure admiration now though. "Do you want to kiss it better while you're at it?"

I blushed deeply and ducked my head into his chest.

"I'll take that as a no." He turned his face so he was looking at his body and patted his chest gently, "Sorry buddy, I don't think she wants to. It's okay, I still like you…"

I laughed loudly at his show of affection to his own body part.

He just beamed brightly at me and I could see all the happiness he felt radiating off of it.

END OF FLASHBACK

I knew earlier that I should have been wondering why I had been in his bed at all as I had no recollection of what happened after we left the club, but I didn't. I was that tired.

It felt too right waking up in the same bed as him and I didn't want to ruin the atmosphere and happy mood we had playfully created this morning.

Edward's hand waving in front of my face brought me back to the present.

"HELLOOOO? Anybody in there?" Wow. Edward is a lot louder than normal when he is bored.

"Sorry, I was thinking." I smiled at him and leaned into his body.

"What about?" He asked looking down at my face as he wrapped his arms around my body.

"Nothing of consequence." I smirked at him. He pouted once more but let it slide. "Where are the others?" We were just outside a bowling alley and I couldn't see that rest of the gang anywhere.

"Apparently, Emmett and Jasper had a sudden craving to go bowling." He rolled his eyes at this and pulled me towards the bowling alley. "They're booking a lane now."

We walked together towards the reception to find out where they were.

"Excuse me." Edward said politely, trying to get the lady's attention. And boy did he get it.

"Oh, hey there." She purred, but it sounded more like she had a peg on her nose. Could she not see me standing right here? Am I invisible?

"Err, hi. Do you know where our friends are? Huge guy, two blondes, short pixie?" He asked her, obviously unconsciously using the power of his eyes on her. How could she be so unaware of my evil glares towards her? I am mentally burning her alive with my eyes!

I felt a surge of rage as she leaned closer to my boyfr- Edward.

"Sure, Lane 22. Is there anything else, at all, that you need?" She batted her eyelashes crazily at him and I snapped.

"Is there something in your eye?" She glared at me and straightened up. "Thought not. Let's go, darling." Bitch.

I grabbed Edward's hand and strode of towards lane 22. I could hear his feet shuffle along behind me and I stopped so he could catch up.

"What was that, Bella?" He asked grabbing me around my waist before I could move again.

"I didn't like the way she was looking at you, she looked at you like you were a piece of meat." I fumed.

"It's okay. I like you being all protective and that." He smiled at me. "It's hot." He blurted out and a small hint of pink tinged his cheeks and I laughed nervously, my bad mood long forgotten.

His eyes widened with his remark and slowly moved forward again.

I stopped him and leaned up to whisper in his ear, "Thank you." And kissed him on his cheek before walking off again.

Ooh!!

I kissed Edward's cheek!

I did a mental happy dance and got a slight spring in my step as I walked through the bowling alley.

I remained elated at my small piece of news as I spotted our friends in lane 22.

And boy, did where they there.

The mountain of shopping bags were piled on one of the benches, nearly towering over Alice who was currently in a nice lip lock with Jasper. Emmett on the other hand…

"Emmett McCarty!" Rose screamed from the top of her lungs. "Put me down this instant, YOU BIG OAF!" She waved her hands wildly around in the air and kicked her legs against Emmett's strong hold.

Emmett, being the loveable guy, laughed at her.

"But you said you wanted to look at your name closer!" He said as though what he was doing was obviously helping her.

"I said I wanted to see my name better, not that I wanted my face stuffed into it!" She yelled and tried to push her face away from the bowling alley's game screen.

A small laugh escaped my lips and I grinned up at Edward. When will Emmett ever learn?

Our laughter alerted Alice and Jasper and they broke away only for Alice to glare at us.

"Hey! I was busy here and you ruined the mood!" Alice accused us and pointed one slender finger at us. Jasper slowly moved behind her and waved to us shyly. "Hi." He mouthed and smiled lovingly at Alice.

"Well? Do you have a perfectly good reason for destroying my happy moment?" She narrowed her eyes and stepped closer to us.

"We just came to find you guys. Calm down, dearie." I teased and sent a mocking smile in her direction.

"But that kiss was about to get somewhere! Then you had to go and ruin it." She frowned and stomped her foot. Did she seriously just do that? "Buzz kill."

"You are no bee, Alice." I mocked her and leant my head on Edward's chest. "Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not killing you or any bees either." This was too much fun.

I could hear Edward's musical chuckle around me as I teased her relentlessly. I loved Alice but it is so much fun to tease her every now and then. I have to take these opportunities when they come. Who knows when they will come around again?

I rolled my eyes and stared up into Edward's shining eyes, filled with pure joy. I smiled at him timidly as he gazed back into my brown eyes.

I don't know what, but something had changed between us. Earlier, when I kissed Edward's cheek, I believe that was the spark that set of the change, but it was a good type of change. And it made me want it all the more.

I let out a sigh of contentment and continued to get lost in his beautiful eyes. I felt a small tug of my hand. I smiled bigger as I latched onto his hand. His smile mirrored mine and he squeezed my hand lovingly. I never wanted to leave this moment.

Unfortunately for me, the moment came and went as quickly as it came.

"Bella? Edward?" I heard Alice call us. I will not answer. No. I am happy.

I frowned when Edward turned to the sound of his name being called. Although, my frowned loosened up a bit when I noticed he seemed a bit reluctant to move and that his hand was still tightly laced with mine.

"Yes, Alice?" He said, annoyance slipping a little bit into his voice.

"Oh, err, nothing." She seemed to think better of her comment and leaned into Jasper. "Just wanted to let you know that we can play now." She said innocently, too innocently.

"Oh, cool. So who is going first?"

"Me! ME! ME!" Emmett shouted and bounced up and down near the bowling balls. I laughed loudly as he skipped over to a big green ball and picked it up, not before kissing Rose goodbye though.

He did a few test swings, flexing his arm muscles at us. And then he let the ball fly.

Being Emmett, he got a strike. On his first turn no less.

The rest of us mere mortals had to work to get a good score. Edward was pretty good at it, but I couldn't help staring at the muscles in his arms whenever her would swing. Suprisingly, Alice was very good, you would think her being so small would mean she would have less strength, but I suppose all her energy really made that ball go. Jasper and Rose on the other hand, were like me. We didn't get the ball very far.

"What the hell! You can't just stop! Move!" Rose yelled at her bowling ball as it stopped half way down the bowling lane.

"You tell it, baby!" Emmett guffawed as he laughed along with the rest of us at her public display of frustration.

Rose spun round and glared at Emmett furiously. Even when she was angry she was still beautiful, life is unfair sometimes.

"Don't. Say. Another. Word. Emmett McCarty." She spat and got another ball so it could, hopefully, hit the other one.

Jasper snickered at Emmett and pointed at him, "You're in the dog house!" He sang and smiled smugly at him.

Emmett growled at him and said, "I've got my eyes on you, pansy boy." And he made the classic fore finger and pinky up and the rest of his fingers down, like a phone, shape, then proceeded to motion them to his eyes and Jasper.

Luckily, most of the game when without a hitch. Rose was still losing pretty badly, Jasper couldn't really get the hang of it either, he either swung it too hard or too slow. I was getting the hang of it slowly. When I say slowly, I mean by half way through the game I just got how to throw it properly.

Edward was, obviously, perfect at it. Alice was only a little bit better than Edward, which of course made her happy as she got to gloat about being better than 'Perfect Boy' (aka. Edward). Although, I did agree with her nickname, he was perfect. Perfect hair, perfect face, perfect body, perfect voice, perfect eyes… I could go on forever.

Sadly for us, Emmett was the best. And Emmett, being one of those competitive people, loved to brag about his a-m-a-z-i-n-g strikes. Every time he scored he did a happy dance and poked a finger into each of our faces and shouted numerous brags, for example, "Eat my DUST!" or the ever so polite, "Suck THAT!" or the really weird, "Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!" I still didn't really get that one…

Overall, he was pretty competitive. Only a little bit…

We danced to all of the songs that were played on the speakers wildly. I think that Hot 'n' cold was my favorite though, I was nearly pissing my self in laughter!

'Cause you're hot then you're cold

You're yes then you're no

You're in and you're out

You're up and you're down

You're wrong when it's right

It's black and it's white

We fight, we break up

We kiss, we make up

The boys had jumped up and stood in front of us. They all had mischievous grins on their faces and started to move their hips to the beat. The boys had all gotten their phones from their pockets of their jeans and put them to their mouths as they all sung in a fake high pitched girlie voice. They sounded like a cat dying

You, you don't really wanna stay, no

You, but you don't really wanna go, oh

They jigged up and down with their fake microphones and bumped their hips together.

'Cause you're hot then you're cold

You're yes then you're no

You're in and you're out

You're up and you're down

They bounced up and down and Emmett picked Jasper up bridal style and swung him around, whilst Edward pretended to take pictures of the happy couple. I don't think I had ever laughter so loudly in my whole life. I suppose that's what being friends with the boys does to you.

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It was our last go each and Emmett decided that for his last go, he needed to have a really strong swing. And a strong swing needs a strong ball. With his new found theory, he set of into the wild wilderness of the bowling alley in search of a very heavy ball.

Five or ten minutes later, Emmett graced us with his presence and showed us his super ball.

"Ladies and gentleman, I give you," He pulled the ball from behind his back and held it out in front of him in his two hands. "THE SUPER DUPER TROOPER BALL!" He grinned cheekily showing his pearly teeth to us.

We just stared at the ball, wide eyed. I cannot believe he found a ball like that…

"Emmie…" Rose started, "Why does your ball have Playboy girls on it?"

"Because it's the SUPER DUPER TROOPER BALL!" Emmett explained, still grinning.

We must have looked really confused as he launched into his story about his search for the 'perfect' ball.

"Well, I was walking around, as you know, searching for a super ball but it had to be the best of the best. I only take the best." He puffed his chest proudly and continued, "I couldn't find any after a few minutes so I went up to the guy at the reception and I said 'Sir, I am looking for a super ball so I can obliterate my friends.' He, of course, agreed to find one for me. We searched around but he couldn't find any good ones out. So, he walked to the back of the building to the stock room where they kept some of the balls that they didn't have room for. In there he had a big box of balls. Super balls. Well, that's what it said on the side of the box… Anyway, he pulled out many balls but none of them looked right. Then, he pulled out this beauty. I immediately fell in love with it and he said it would help me paste you guys even more! He also said it was named the SUPER DUPER TROOPER BALL, and the name sounded just fitting to me!"

He was met with astounded silence and he took this as his queue to have his go.

"Now I am going to show you guys how a real bowling master does it." He bounded over to the bowling lane, unfazed by our muffled hysterics from his story.

He flexed his muscles one more time and swung his arm back. He let go of the ball and I doubt he was prepared for what happened next.

"BLOODY HELL!" He screamed in a fake British accent. I suppose I would react that way too if it happened to me.

What would you do if your SUPER DUPER TROOPER BALL just got stuck in the ceiling above your head?

Personally, I would run for my life.

Emmett however, shouted profanities from the top of his voice.

"OH MY GOD! My BALL! I'm so sorry Mr. Ball! I'll try and get you down!" It was kind of strange the way that he was more concerned about his playboy ball instead of the ceiling and getting fined.

"Emmett McCarty! What did you do that for?!" Alice shrieked and slapped his arm. "We might be banned forever from this place! I want to come back and now I might not be able to! How could you be so careless!"

"Alice, honey, calm down. Take a deep breath-" Jasper stopped as Alice let out sound of disapproval.

"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN TILL WE GET THAT FLIPPIN' BALL OUT OF THE CEILING!"

I just stood wide-eyed at our friends and replayed the events that lead to such trouble in my head. Once you look back at it, you could really start to see the humour in the situation. I think I was the only one though as everyone stared at me like I had 3 heads.

"Why are you laughing, Bella?" Edward asked me, even though I could hear the frustration from the situation getting into his voice.

"Don't you see the humour in this problem or is it just me?"

"Just you." They all replied and put on a small smile at my lame attempt to lighten up the situation.

Emmett looked devastated as his new favourite ball was currently stuck in the roof. He must have gotten very attached to it in the ten minutes they knew each other for.

In about half an hour, we stopped trying and called the staff for some help. Let's just say we had to get out of the area so they could get it down or in their words: Leave, now.

So as we grudginly left the Bowling Alley and wandered around the mall aimlessly.

"Thanks a lot, Emmett." Alice had been holding a grudge ever since the incident and obviously she is still angry.

"I said I was sorry!" He exclaimed.

"Sorry isn't good enough! Now we are probably banned from the Bowling Alley forever! You know I didn't want that!" Alice shouted at him. I have a feeling this is going to get bad…

"Do you think we should make our great escape now?" I heard Edward whisper as his warm breath tickled my ear. I shivered.

"I think now might be a good time, they won't even notice were gone." I agreed and clasped my hand around Edward's. "Let's go."

Stealthily, he pulled me with him as the warm air hit our faces as we ran. Away from our friends. Away from the anger. Away from the world. Edward and I. Together.

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"Do you think they have noticed that we have gone yet?" Edward asked as he sat down at a booth in Starbucks.

We had run all the way to the other side of the mall to the Starbucks there as I always love a good cup of coffee, and apparently Edward did too. I hope I always find a new bit of information I don't know about him everyday. I love knowing Edward.

"Maybe, but they might not even think about it." I replied.

"Yeah. Anyway, I'll go order. What would you like?" He asked me politely as he stood back up.

"Cappuccino, please." He nodded and went over to the counter to order.

I wonder if he knows he is inhumanly beautiful. How can he not? Woman, occasionally men, fawn over him everyday! How can he not see the effect he has on people?

He could be flirting with some stunning woman right now, someone perfect like him. Yet, he sits here and talks to me. Why? I am plain, boring, not got a very interesting past and blushes too much. So why would he waste his time with me?

"The waiter will bring our drinks over in a second." I jumped, startled by his voice. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

I laughed shakily and twisted my hands nervously in my lap.

"So…" I started lamely.

"So…" He mocked me.

I rolled my eyes and gazed out the window. I looked at passing couples and familys and wondered if I would ever get that happy ending one day. Someone who loved me, took me for who I was and would be there for me whenever I needed them. I smiled gently. The only person I wanted a happy ending with was Edward.

Suddenly, I was cut of from my thoughts when Edward spoke.

"Bella, I wanted-no, need to tell you something." He started. I turned to face him only to see his eyes burning with something I couldn't quite recognise.

"Yes?" I said nervously. Does he want to leave? Does he think I'm boring? Is he going to tell me he has a wife and 3 kids who he loves terribly? I continued to think of all of the possible worst case scenarios until he spoke again.

"Don't worry, it's not bad." He must have seen the look of terror on my face, "Actually it's very, very good…" He trailed off for a second, probably thinking of how he was going to word it.

"Bella, I have been thinking about this for a long time. Ever since I met you my life has changed. Jasper and Emmett have noticed on how I have changed since we came to New York and I believe that was because of you." He said it so sweetly I felt my eyes begin to tear up. He brushed the tears away with his finger and dropped his hand again. My cheek burned from his touch. "You are extremely beautiful and I love the way you are so oblivious to the effect you have on practically every man you meet. I don't know how to say this but… Bella, I think…no-I know that I really, really lik-"

Edward was cut of by the waiter placing our drinks on the table.

It didn't take long for me to get very angry.

Couldn't he see we were having an important conversation! I wanted to know what Edward said and he went and blew it! Why do we keep on having so many interruptions! Ugh!

"Here are your drinks." The waiter said as he gave Edward his coffee. Wait, why does that voice sound so familiar…

I swirled round and gasped.

"Mike?"

Ooh! Yes, MIKIE BOY!

I like Mike :) He is so weird and so infatuated by Bella it is funny. XD

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