A/N: Soooo has everyone finished BD

A/N: Soooo has everyone finished BD? How could you not! I hardly slept until I did haha.

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Chapter 9

I used my key to open the door of my house. Edward and I had nowhere to go since we were skipping class. We decided that we would only miss this period and then show up again for third.

"Should I give the grand tour?" I asked. Edward laughed. "Sure," he replied.

I showed him the living room.

"This is where my dad fulfills all of his manly sports needs." I joked.

Next was the kitchen. "This kitchen pretty much belongs to me. I always cook for Charlie."

"Always?" Edward asked.

"Yeah. I'm like a housedaughter," I joked. "I cook and clean. It's been like this since my mom died."

"I'm sorry. Alice told me that she passed away."

"Thanks. It's been pretty hard on us, but it's better now. I think my dad still hurts a lot though. They were so in love… sometimes I worry about him."

I thought about what I would do if I lost Edward and frowned.

"Hey, if he's got you, I'm sure he'll be fine." Edward said, comforting me.

I smiled. "Don't get all serious on me. Let's finish the tour. We have one last stop."

I took him to my room. "And here is my room." I said, gesturing like Vanna White as I opened the door.

I kicked off my shoes and sat on my bed. Edward followed. He picked up my blue Beanie Baby bear and held it up to his face, posing with it.

"What do you think? Am I a good model?" he asked jokingly.

I held my hands in front of my face as if I were holding a camera. "Hmm, I don't know. Give me sorrow!"

Edward looked at the bear and stuck his lower lip out. "That's what I'm talking about! Give me… sexy!"

He squinted his eyes and made a kissy face, sucking his cheeks in. I dropped my hands and we both burst out laughing. I rolled my eyes, still smiling, and took the stuffed animal.

We settled down and sat in silence for a minute. Then Edward took my hand and absently started tracing patterns on it. I stared at out intertwined fingers and thought about the reason we were here. Had we really just declared ourselves? It seemed so surreal that this could happen already, and that somebody as gorgeous as Edward could fall for someone so plain.

"Edward? Can I ask you something?"

"Anything you want," he said.

"How come earlier, when you said you… loved me… Well, why exactly did you start apologizing?" This was the something that had utterly confused me.

Edward laughed. "Oh, Bella. I know what you were thinking when I did that, which is why I said it again."

"Well then thank god you can read my mind because my heart just about crumpled when you did."

"I can't read your mind. I could just tell. And I'm sorry."

"You were forgiven when you kissed me. But that still doesn't answer my question." I reminded him.

"Okay, okay. I guess distracting you won't work. See, I'm new to this. I've never been in a relationship before and that day when I was about to kiss you, Emmett harassed me into admitting that I loved you. And yes, I did love you back within ten seconds after you left the house.

"Anyway, Emmett said not to tell you how I felt using the "L" word. He said it turned girls off."

"Oh, I get it!" I said. "So when you said it, you thought that I wouldn't feel the same way, so you tried to take it back?" I tried not to laugh.

"That's it. It wasn't supposed to happen, not that I'm complaining about the outcome…. But it felt so natural, as if I'd said it every day of my life."

"I know what you mean. I was about to say it right back without hesitation until I saw the look on your face."

"Well, we can't object now, can we?" He kissed my forehead.

"I'm sure not. There's another thing I'm not complaining about, either." I said.

"And what is that?"

"You have some serious skills in the make out department there, Cullen. There is no way that you've never done this before."

Edward raised an eyebrow and grinned at me. "I'm that good, huh?"

I rolled my eyes. "Now, now, let's not get a big head!" I teased.

"Hmm, well it seems that we'll have to work on your skills then." He joked back.

"Are you challenging me?" I asked.

"No, no. No need for that. I know I have the upper hand here. There's no need for false hope."

My mind raced and my heart went along with it. "Edward, where did we leave off back at the school?" I asked sweetly.

A devilish grin spread across his face, but before he could act, I turned so that I was straddling him.

"Well, hello there," he said, eyebrows raised. We both burst out laughing and I turned again so that I was off of Edward, now laying where I was sitting next to him before.

"You know, you can continue if you'd like." Edward said, patting his lap. I rolled my eyes.

"Slow down there, speedy." I said.

"Oh, I can be slow." Edward said, leaning towards me. He softly kissed me lips, much like our first kiss. He pulled back and our eyes locked. Again, he kissed me, more lingering this time, but incredibly dawdlingly. I wrapped my arms around Edward's neck, trying to deepen the kiss.

Edward wasn't having it.

He pulled away yet again. This time, the corners of his mouth were tugging upwards.

"Ah, ah, ah. You wanted it slow, remember?"

I sighed. "Edward, we've already played tonsil hockey. Remember earlier at school?"

"Shhh…" he said, lightly putting his lips on mine, finally letting his tongue poke out and lick my lips. As soon as our tongues touched, he withdrew. I got ready to complain again when he started to softly suck at my collarbone.

I was liking this.

I let out a sigh of bliss. This got Edward's attention back. He stared intently into my eyes, as if trying to figure out a difficult equation. Suddenly, he was everywhere.

His mouth assaulted mine, our tongues dancing, fighting for control. When he felt like he had triumphed me, he pulled back.

"Upper hand every time." He said in between the parade of kissed he was leading down my jaw to my collarbone again.

I wanted to prove him wrong. I entwined my finger in his bronze hair and pulled his mouth back up to mine. I traced his mouth with my tongue until I felt that I could make a map of it. Edward was all hands, running up and down my body, becoming familiar.

"What happened to slow?" I panted as we broke apart briefly.

"I decided to accelerate." He said, trying to catch his breath, too. We went back to devouring each other. Before I knew it, my shirt was being lifted off my head. Startled, I looked down at myself in my black pushup. This was all going so fast. Too fast, I decided as Edward sucked my collarbone again, swiftly making his way down…

I gently pushed him away. He looked up at me, eyed smoldering.

"We have to stop." I whispered. I waited for the fire in his eyes slowly fade.

"You're right. I'm sorry." He said, though his eyes looked over my topless torso, appraisingly. "But if you really want me to stop, you should probably put your shirt back on."

I flushed and did just that. We sat a moment in awkward silence.

"So, what do you want to do?" Edward asked. I glanced around my room, in search of entertainment. I did double take when I saw the time on my alarm clock.

"Edward! It's almost the end of third period!"

"What? Shit! What are we supposed to do now?"

"I don't know! We were supposed to be back nearly an hour ago!"

"It's okay. We're already here, so let's just stay here. If we go back now, it will be obvious to the people in our classes that we left."

I agreed. We ended up laying on the couch in the living room, watching Last Tango in Paris. I lay there in Edward's arms, completely content.

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