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The next two months Edward and I had gotten even closer our relationship grew as we spent the night at each others place almost every night. The closeness was increasing the sexual tension between us and I was becoming more than ready to take the next step and give myself to him. I could tell that it was affecting him too. Whenever we went to bed the last few nights he would tense and trying to hide his arousal toward me knowing that I wasn't quite ready. After much thought through my feelings for him and his respect for me in constantly keeping his hormones at bay, I had decided that we could take the next step. The problem was that I had no idea how to tell him that I was ready.

It was a week before Thanksgiving and we had tons of studying to do for our midterms we had the next few days and the stress was running high. Edward ended up having to go to a study group for his Biology class tonight and I decided to study in the campus library until he was done.

I had reviewed the material for my History and Psychology classes and began working on my English Lit when the chair next to me slid away from the table and someone sat down turning it in my direction. I glanced up the see that it was Mike from the Volterra restaurant who ended up being a student here as well. He was an obnoxious boy who constantly would turn up whenever Edward wasn't around. He obviously could never get a hint because no matter what I would do to show him I was not interested he would always turn up again. "Hi, beautiful," he said with a grin and a wink.

I narrowed my eyes at him, "Mike, I'm really busy and I really need to be alone, so could you please leave." I said leaking some acid in my voice.

"Oh, well… I'll be really silent. I have to study to," he said placing his book bag on the table.

I sighed exasperated looking at my watch. It was too early for Edward's study group to get out but I had to get away from Mike. "I need to go actually," I said packing up all my books quickly and throwing my bag over my shoulder.

I turned to leave when I heard him say, "Well hey, I'll walk you."

I quickly turned back around, "No!" I almost yelled and I was followed by a chorus of Shhh sounds. I quickly changed my tone into a forceful whisper, "I don't need any company, and you even said that you needed to study. Don't follow me!"

I turned on my heels and walked away praying that he finally got the hint. I exited the library and began to head down the path that led to the main square of the campus. In the center of the main square was a giant fountain and I took a seat on the outside edge to pass some of the time till Edward would be done.

I was lost in thought about what I had been just studying when I started to hear a conversation. "This is college! You are supposed to be partying and playing the field. Not tying yourself down," a girls voice argued.

"This may come as a shock to you Tanya but I like being tied down to her," a familiar velvety voice argued back. It sounded like Edward's voice but who is Tanya? I turned my head to look in their direction to see if it was actually him.

Edward was walking toward the path that would lead to the library with a beautiful strawberry blonde in a tight leather mini skirt and a top that dipped down so low that I was surprised that her boobs hadn't fallen out. She laughed, "That is just silly Edward."

"You can laugh all you want Tanya but I'm happy and if you can't accept it that's too bad," he said picking up his pace slightly.

"Oh come on," she pouted, "We could go see a movie," she suggested touching his hand, "I could show you a very good time." Her tone was extremely seductive.

"Hmm…" he paused, "tempting but…" Edward quickly pulled his hand away, "No," he said forcefully and started walking away even faster to the path that led to the library.

Tanya bounded around him placed her arms around his neck and kissed him and I gasped loudly. The kiss only lasted a couple seconds but it felt like a century. My chest felt heavy and it was as if someone had ripped my heart out. Who was this girl? Why hadn't I known about her? How long has she been after Edward? Had he been seeing her on the side when he said he had study group?

Edward had quickly pushed her off of him and wiped his mouth off with the back of his hand. "Don't you ever do that again!" he growled and started for the library again and was about to start to walk faster when Tanya turned my way and her expression turned mischievous, "Hi, Bella," she called waving at me in a dramatic way.

Edward heard that and turned around quickly to see me staring at them. I don't know what my face was showing but his face was shocked then quickly turned to pleading. "Bella!" he exclaimed and began to hurry towards me. I don't know what came over me but I dropped my book bag where I stood and took off running to my apartment hearing him yell after me. "Bella it's not what it looked like!"

How could this be happening? Who was Tanya? How did she know about me? Why hadn't Edward told me about her? What was he hiding from me? Why would he hide it from me?

I ran as fast as I could to my building reaching the elevator and getting on right away pressing the button for the top floor. I tried to calm down but I just felt the tears start to follow freely. I reached my floor and quickly opened the door and locked myself in my room.

A/N: I hope you liked the chapter. Just to give you all a heads up the next chapter is going to be in Edward's POV. This story was going to be all fro Bella's POV but this next part really demanded that it be from Edward's POV.

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Also I have another story Our Fate Has Brought Us Together which I am in the process of writing the last chapter. It might turn out to be 2 more chapters but I don't know. If you haven't read it you should check it out.