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Previously on Camera. Set. Action

She's slowing down...

She's staring at them...

She recognizes them...

"What the hell are you doing here?!" she yelled.

To: Emmett
From: Alice
Uh, hey I'm leaving. Bella looks pissed; I do not want to get yelled at by her. Peacee. Good luck.

I called a cab and went home, a delicate smile on my face at the new turn of events.


Chapter Seven

An Unexpected Arrival

I sighed as I stared out of the window. I was currently sitting in my seat on a plane to Paris. To say that my past few days with Edward were interesting would have been an understatement.

Flashback

"What the hell are you doing here?!" I yelled. I spotted Edward and Emmett sitting in a nearby booth staring at Mike intently. They jumped once they heard my voice, their eyes now wide.

"It was his idea!" Emmett said pointing at Edward. I would have laughed at Emmett's childish ways if I had not been so frustrated at them.

"I, I – uh... sorry?" Edward stuttered. I stared at his face for a short length of time and saw that he was truly sorry. Regardless, it doesn't change the predicament that I am in.

"Why are you spying on me?" I looked at Emmett first, expecting an answer.

"I thought it would be fun" He said giving me an innocent smile. I snorted at that. I immediately forgave him because well, it's Emmett and he can be such a child sometimes.

"And you?"I crossed my arms and turned to Edward.

"I don't trust him." He said simply. "I wanted to make sure that my friend was okay." He accentuated the word friend.

I would have melted at his words but instead it only hurt me. Of course he would only see me as nothing else but a friend.

"Thank you, I appreciate it very much but I would have called one of you if things became unbearable." I sighed.

"Oh, so things are going good?" Edward asked, sounding a tad disappointed.

"Bella!" I flinched slightly as I heard Mike call. "Who are you talking to?" The pounding of his footsteps were quickly approaching. "Who the hell... Cullen! Can't you just leave us alone?" He growled.

"No" He muttered. He stood up and moved out of the booth. "Listen Mike, I just came to see if you were treating Bella like a gentlemen should. I have yet to see that." He gave Mike a pointed look.

"What are you trying to imply? That I'm a bad date?!" He almost screamed.

"Yes!" The whole restaurant answered including Edward, Emmett, and I.

"I wasn't asking you!"He then turned towards me, "Bella?"

"Mike... you are the worst." I told him honestly.

"Why?!"

"You have treated me like dirt. You're an asshole, I can't believe how much you have changed"

"But Bella, I only acted like that because I thought you like the 'bad boy' type" He seemed to be completely confused.

"Are you stupid? Why the hell would I want that at all?"

"Well you're obviously after Cullen and everyone knows that he is the typical 'bad boy' in Hollywood, I thought you liked that."

My eyes grew wide, and my cheeks became red. I didn't respond. I peeked at Edward from the corner of my eye and saw his eyes also wide but confused.

"So... this is awkward." Emmett said. We all nodded in agreement.

"Mike, I'm going to go home with them."

"No Bella please, I promise I won't act like that again" Mike pleaded.

Emmett walked out the exit, I'm assuming to get the car while Edward stood near the door waiting for me.

"Sorry Mike" I proceeded to walk towards Edward when Mike roughly pulled me back by my hand. "Ow!" I screamed as I clutched my hand that I had burned earlier today.

I saw Edward spring towards Mike and grabbed him, pulling him towards the exit. A few seconds later Edward came back in alone, looking disheveled and angry. He walked towards me and bent down to look into my eyes.

"Are you okay?" He asked gently. He lifted my hand and examined it.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks." I sniffed.

Emmett was outside in the car waiting, and rushed out as soon as he saw Edward with his arm around me while I held onto my hand.

"What happened?" He asked.

"She tried to leave but Mike pulled her back. Guess which hand he grabbed." Edward answered.

"That little ass...I hope you took care of him." Emmett growled.

"Yeah, sure did, although he deserves worse."

End Flashback

I found out that Alice was also part of their plan when I found her scarf in Edward's car. I questioned him about it and he cracked. Emmett eventually ratted her out and told me where she went.

I would have forgiven her if she stayed, but since she didn't, I took her key to her car, including all the spares. I would have gave it to her in a week or so, but since I would be in Paris already I instructed Emmett to keep them for me until further notice. Knowing him, he'll surely keep them away.

"Penny for your thoughts?" I was broken out of my memories by none other than Edward. He was in the seat beside me holding out a penny, a small smile on his face.

I smiled at him and took the coin. "I was just thinking about Mike."

Edward's face grew dark, "Why would you be thinking about him?"

"Well I wasn't thinking about just him, I was just thinking about that whole night." I stared into his eyes awaiting his reaction.

"Oh," He sighed. He relaxed into his chair, leaning his head back and closing his eyes. I couldn't help but stare at him and wonder how someone could be as beautiful as him.

"I know I have told you this before but I'm so sorry about that night, about spying on you and everything else that happened with Mike," guilt was seeping into his voice.

I lifted my knees onto my seat and leaned my back against the window so that I would be facing him. "It's not your fault you know. I don't blame you for anything that happened to me and Mike. Now that I think about it, I'm actually glad that you guys came."

"Yes but if I had been a better friend then I would have been able to prevent Mike from hurting you. I would have been able to stop him from grabbing your hand if I was standing beside you and not next to the exit." He breathed slowly, and continued. "Hell, I could have tried more from leaving the house."

"Edward you wouldn't have been able to predict anything that happened and you could have tried to stop me but I still would have gone." I laughed to lighten the mood. "So please stop blaming yourself, it's giving me a headache."

"Right, sorry." He said sheepishly. A few moments later his breathing had slowed and became even, he had fallen asleep.

I looked at the time on the screen in front of me, 4 more hours and 13 minutes to go.

--

"Bella, wake up. We're here." I felt someone shaking me from my slumber. I moaned in annoyance and swatted at the pest. It chuckled lightly and continued to shake me. Very slowly, I opened an eye and jumped in surprise.

"Well, good morning sunshine" Edward chuckled lightly.

"Hi" I squeaked. I slowly slid out of my seat and noticed that the plane was nearly empty. Edward had gotten my bags and so we made our way out of the terminal.

We made it out of airport security quickly. I heard a loud buzzing noise of a large crowd waiting.

I looked at Edward questioningly. "Fans" he said simply, giving a sheepish smile. We continued walking.

"Edward!"

"Edward!" another voice said.

"Is this Miss Isabella Swan?!" came another.

My eyes were frantic as I looked left and right. Paparazzi were screaming questions at us. Fans were shoving pens and paper towards us to sign.

I couldn't think.

I was blind, blinded by the flashing lights coming from all around me.

But worst of all, I couldn't breathe.

--

An irritating beeping woke me up. It was familiar, very familiar. I had heard it plenty of times before.

Hospital. Hospital. Hospital.

Oh boy.

"Is she going to be alright?" I heard an unfamiliar voice say.

"I sure hope so, Chevalier's going to have my head if he finds out that one: she fainted AND two: she hit her head against the ground." a velvety voice replied.

I loud groan echoed through my ears. It took me a few moments to realize that it had come from me. I began to gain control of my body. My arms moving towards my head, blocking the blinding light from my eyes.

"Hey, hey Edward. Look, she's waking up." The southern voice said.

I felt the bed dip to my left as Edward sat down. I opened my eyes fully and stared directly at him. "What happened?" I asked, dazed.

"You tell me. We were just walking out of the terminal and..." He continued to talk as my memory came back. We were walking out of the terminal like he had said, and then we were bombarded by the swarm of paparazzi and fans.

"I hyperventilated." I said simply.

"What?" Edward said confused.

"I think what the little lady is trying to say is that too many people came at her at once." said the accented voice.

"Yeah that's right, I guess I fell in the process" I said sheepishly. I looked over to the man sitting it those uncomfortable hospital couches. He looked oddly familiar but unknown at the same time. He was dashingly handsome, blond hair in disarray, a built that would make you swoon, and deep blue eyes that you could get lost in. Although he was stunning, he still wasn't as beautiful as Edward.

Edward answered his phone as it began to ring. "Hello? Yes, yes, yeah she's here. No. Hey! It's not my fault, there were too many people surrounding her she was overwhelmed." He looked at me and mouthed 'sorry'.

"Excuse me sir?" a nurse said as her head peeped in between the door, "cell phone are not allowed to be used in a hospital. Could you please take your call outside?" She said timidly. I don't blame her, having to scold a stranger is bad. But having to scold a famous celebrity, especially one like Edward, now that's just a nightmare.

He apologized and made his way out the door.

"Hello Bella." The blond man greeted me as he began to stand up out of his chair and towards me.

"Hi..." I said slowly. "Do I know you?" I decided to ask after a few moments of pondering who he is.

"Why yes you do. I'm actually not surprised you don't remember me, it has been well, 15 years since we last saw each other."

I tried to think 15 years ago, my memories from back then were forgotten. "I'm drawing up a blank here. Help me out please?" I said in a small voice.

"Think. Little boy, around age 5 with blond hair, and blue eyes, the playground around your house in Forks..."

"Jasper!" I gasped in shock.

I remembered how we had met. I was visiting Charlie as I have done every summer. There was a small playground near my house that consisted of three swings, and only one slide. Charlie had taken me there and that is where I had met Jasper Whitlock. He and his parents were also there to enjoy the playground. Being the shy girl that I was didn't have the courage to go up to him and ask him to play. But a few minutes in, he had come up to me and invited me to play on the slide with him. We had become friends since.

I spent a majority of that summer and the next four summers with him. Unfortunately when we were 10 years old, his family had informed us that they were moving late into the current summer. I spent as much time with them as possible until I had to watch them get into their car and leave Forks. I had their phone number to their new house of course, but it eventually got lost from all the packing and unpacking I had done.

"Oh my god Jasper I can't believe it!" I squealed. He just merely chuckled and said, "Haha, I knew you would remember."

"Well come here and give me a hug!"I practically screamed as I opened my arms wide. He stepped forward and gave me the biggest hug that could rival Emmett's.

The door opened, and Edward strolled in. "Hey so that was Jack-o-latern.... what's going on here?" Edward said accusingly.

"Nothing, we're just old friends reuniting." Jasper replied.

"You two know each other?" He arched an eyebrow in confusion. As I was about to answer, the door opened behind Edward.

"Oh Eddie-kins!" Came a shrilly voice that could only belong to one person.


Hey everyone, sorry this took 3-4 months to post. I've just been ridiculously busy, life gets in the way unfortunately. And helping to plan a wedding is a lot of work :O

I'm not quitting on you. I don't know when the next update is because of several reasons right now, but hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review.

Question: For those of you on summer vacation, how's it going so far?