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The rest of the school week went by quickly enough, and to my displeasure I realized that Mike Newton was also in my English class, and Jessica Stanley appeared in my Trig class on the second day of school. Things with Edward had gotten better, but still slightly awkward. We were friends, but sometimes he seemed a tad bit uncomfortable around me, while other times he was fine. Now it was already Saturday, and I had spent the greater part of the day shopping with Alice and Rosalie. Rosalie had offered to come along, not because she needed to go shopping, but to keep me sane.

After finally convincing Alice enough was enough, we headed to the Cullen house to relax and have a girl's afternoon. We laid around in the living room, painting each other's nails, and watching girly shows, which really did not keep my interest one bit, but I kept a smile on for the two of them. My mind kept returning to Edward, and I was over analyzing everything. Like how in biology on Friday, he tilted his chair far away from me, how he fumbled with his words, or didn't speak at all. Yet other times, he was talking up a storm, trying to tickle me, which had become his new thing.

"Bella" Alice's voice finally broke through my thoughts.

"Hmm?" I looked at her.

"I've been trying to get your attention for two minutes!" she had to be exaggerating, I wouldn't daze out for two minutes, would I? "I was asking if you if you like this color?" she held up a bottom of pale purple for herself.

"Oh" I nodded "it's fine"

"What were you thinking about Bella?" Rosalie's face held a smirk like she knew something, and apparently she did. "Edward perhaps?"

"Why would I be thinking about Edward?" I shot a look at Alice.

She smiled innocent "why are you looking at me like that? I didn't do anything"

"Mary Alice" I hissed.

"So then's it's true!" Rosalie chuckled.

"What's true?" I looked at her confused.

"You do like Edward. I wasn't sure at first, but now I defiantly can see it"

I rolled my eyes and turned my attention back to the tv "I haven't the slightest clue about what you are talking about"

"Keep telling yourself that" I heard both of them snicker.

"Well" Alice started with the biggest grin on her face "I believe that Edward may fancy you"

"And what makes you say that?" I tried to sound less interested then I was.

"Haven't you noticed his behavior? He's defiantly been playing the whole hot and cold game, like he's trying to figure something out" she smiled "I mean he acts like himself one minute, and then he's all awkward the next, are you telling me you haven't noticed it?"

I had, but I didn't know anyone else had "Uh.. I don't know, guess I wasn't paying much attention"

"Well don't worry, Emmett and Jasper are completely clueless" Rosalie added, I hadn't actually thought about my brother's thoughts or feelings if he knew I perhaps had feelings for one of his best friends. "I mean just if you were wondering"

"Well I wasn't" I shot at them, probably more intense then I meant "I mean, I don't really care, he's just my friend"

"Sure" Alice rolled her eyes with a smile, then went back to painting her toe nails. "Well incase you were interested, him, Jasper and Emmett are going to be coming over here in a few"

"And why would they do that?" I knew she had told them too.

"Well Edward does live here"

"Really?" I smirked "I hadn't the slightest idea, I thought he lived in the Oz" I rolled my eyes and started to flip through the channels on the tv, hoping to find something good. Then my phone started to vibrate, I went to grab it but Alice got to it first.

"It's from Edward!" she smiled brightly holding the phone away from me "He wants to know how shopping went with his annoying sister" she frowned and crossed her arms "hey!"

"I didn't say it, he did. Now please give me back my phone" I tried to grab it from her, but she was too fast in moving it away from me. "This isn't funny Alice, please can I have my phone back"

Rosalie just laughed at the scene in front of her eyes, Alice was standing on the very top of the couch holding my phone in the air, and I was trying to jump on the cushion to reach it. Finally I knocked it on the floor and fell off the couch. "And you're safe"

I rolled my eyes and picked up my phone, I wrote a text back to Edward and hit send 'It was fine, Alice was very upset that you called her annoying lol'

Not even a minute later my phone vibrated from a response 'You told I said that!'

'No lol, she took my phone and saw it. She wouldn't give it back, I had to jump on the couch and ended up falling' when I looked up, I saw Alice and Rosalie grinning at me, "what?"

"You're blushing as you text" Rosalie pointed out the obvious.

I felt the warmth of my cheeks, I had indeed been blushing "It's just warm in here"

Before any of them could respond, Esme's voice was heard through the house "Alice?" she called before entering the living room "there you are.." She then noticed me and Rosalie sitting there and began to smile "Bella, Rosalie! So good to see you girls"

"Hello Mrs. Cullen" I smiled sweetly at her, she was a stunning woman, very young looking, defiantly didn't look like someone who would have two teenagers.

"Bella, I've told you to call me Esme please" she smiled sweetly at me then looked at Alice "where's your brother?"

Alice shook her head "he's out with Jasper and Emmett. Mom, can Bella and Rose stay for dinner?"

"Of course! The more the merrier" Edward had told me once that his mother loved cooking huge dinners for people. "Bella, invite Charlie!"

"He would love that, but he's working late tonight"

"Too bad, well I'll be in the kitchen. Alice, your father will be home shortly" Esme smiled at us once again before walking out of the room and heading to the kitchen.

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When we got sick of watching television and waiting for the boy's to arrive, we decided to give Esme a hand in the kitchen. For dinner we were having Chicken Parmigiana, spaghetti, meatballs, salad and Italian bread. And I wouldn't be lying if I said it smelt absolutely fabulous. I was given salad duty, and I knew my salad would be no where as good as Esme's cooking, and I was a pretty decent cook.

"Hey, where is everyone?" Carlisle asked as he came into the kitchen, a smile instantly showing up on his features "Hello ladies"

"Hi!" we all said at the same time making him chuckle.

Carlisle walked over to Esme and sweetly kissed her. After all these years they were still so much in love, and I wished to have that one day. "Dinner smells fantastic girls, keep up the good work" he tried to steal a bite of chicken, but Esme smacked his hand away. "Not until the boys get here"

"Where are they anyway?"

"Right here dad" I turned to see Edward, Emmett and Jasper waltz into the kitchen. Emmett and Jasper went and kissed their respected girlfriends. Edward just looked at me with a smile, which caused me to blush. So I quickly turned back to my salad hoping he didn't see. I peeked over my shoulder pretending I had an itch, and he was starting at me.

"So when's dinner gonna be ready? I'm starving?" Emmett asked as he patted his stomach.

"You're always hungry" Jasper laughed "You ate so much food today"

"You boys' already ate?" Esme asked with sadness in her tone.

"Just a little bit" Edward said as he walked closer to her "but we could always eat more, we are going boys. Especially when you cook mom"

Esme patted his face "You boys are too good to me"

He leaned in and kissed her on the cheek before heading my way "need some extra hands?" he asked me before rolling up his sleeves.

"So how was your male bonding day?" I teased him as he started cutting up tomatoes.

"Funny" he smirked at me "We just did the same normal stuff we always do"

That's when I heard my brother's whispers, which were defiantly not meant for my ears "I missed our Saturday morning" he was whispering into Rosalie's ear, she blushed and started to giggle.

"Ew" I said under my breath.

"What's wrong?" Edward whispered into my own ear, his hot breath on my neck giving me goose bumps.

I took a deep breath trying to compose myself "Emmet, he's talking to Rosalie about..."

Edward moved his head closer to them then started to laugh "okay gross" I joined in.

"What is so funny?" Emmett asked, obviously confused.

"Oh nothing" Edward smirked nudging me with his hip, causing me to smile. "I love your smile"

I started blushing "You're just saying that"

He shook his head and leaned into me "No I'm not.."

"You're in a better mood tonight" I pointed out, his expression saddening for a moment.

"You've noticed that?"

"Yeah" I nodded "You seemed off, everything okay now?"

"Yeah, everything is perfect" he smiled crookedly "I finally figured out what I wanted, and I don't care what happens"

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Dinner with the Cullen's always made me feel part of a huge family, and I loved it. After we ate, we retired to the living room to watch a movie, since it was the guy's pick a scary movie was chosen. I wanted to protest, since scary movies and me often didn't go well together, but I just stayed quiet. Due to Rosalie and Alice's scheming, I ended up sitting next to Edward, which I really didn't mean. Although, not even five minutes into the movie I had my head buried into his arm, which caused him to laugh, but he didn't tell me to move.

"It's not so bad" he whispered into my hair.

I looked up to only bury my head back into a second later "yes it is!"

He put one arm around me and started to slowly rub my back, then took my other hand in his. "Well I'll protect you" he smirked against my hair, then spoke almost huskily "Can I drive you home tonight?" I just nodded, not knowing what else to say. I just started to think about how nice it felt to be close to him, and how I would love to kiss him, but that was crazy! . I couldn't like him any more than I already did, I couldn't put myself through all that again.

Before I knew it the movie was over and the lights were back on. I looked up to see Emmett stretching in front of me "Ready to head out Bella?"

"Actually Em," Edward started "I offered to drive her home, so you and Rose can spend some time together"

Emmett didn't seem to think anything into it "oh alright, well I'll see you guys Monday, have fun hiking tomorrow" I had almost forgotten that Edward and Alice weren't even going to be around tomorrow, they were going hiking with their parents.

After staying our goodbyes, Edward and I headed outside and got into his car. The first half of the ride was pretty silent, I asked a couple questions about his pending hike, but that was about it. When we pulled up in front of my house, he parked the car and shut it off. "Did you enjoy your first week?"

I knew he was referring to school "Yeah, classes weren't too bad. Mike Newton is a little annoying thought"

"I could get him to back off if you want"

"You don't have to do that"

"I want to" He reached out and pushed a strand of hair behind my ear, his fingers lingering longer than I expected "Besides, if I don't, Emmett may kill him"

I just nodded "I probably should get inside"

He nodded "you probably should, but I want to give you something" he reached into his jean pocket and pulled out a small folded piece of paper and put it into my hand "Promise me you won't read it till you get into your room"

"Okay" I looked down the paper than back up into his stunning green eyes "Have fun tomorrow, night Edward" I opened the door and started to climb out.

"Goodnight Isabella" He watched me as I walked to my front door and opened it, then he drove away.

I waited till the car was out if sight, then headed inside. I darted up the stairs to my room, almost tripping twice. I threw the light on and slowly started to unfold the piece of paper. On it was written the words.

'I'm falling for you'

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