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Chapter 10

Bella's PoV

Taking that I found myself in an alarmingly similar situation I had been only like a few weeks ago, I didn't even panic. When I opened my eyes in the morning I found myself in a strange bedroom next to sleeping Edward Cullen. Naked.

Maybe the reason why I managed to remain calm was that this time I could actually remember last night. Sure I had been drunk, but luckily not as drunk as at the first time. And there was one more difference to the first time.

This time I wouldn't have said no, even if I would have been sober as a… well, sober as the Bella I used to be.

I glanced at Edward who was sleeping next to me on the other side of the bed. He had pulled the cover up to his ears and he was sniffling just a little, like a baby. I realized that I was smiling, thinking how cute he looked. So sweet and innocent. Hah, that was just another proof that looks didn't show everything.

All of a sudden Edward opened his eyes, like he had sensed that I was looking at him. He fluttered his eyelashes for a while and then a grin appeared on his face.

"Good morning," he said. "Glad to see that you didn't run away this time."

"I didn't have time." I mumbled.

"Good." Edward murmured. He reached out his hand and was pulling me closer to him but I turned around to get out of his reach.

"What's the time?" I asked.

"Eleven thirty." Edward said coming closer to me and wrapping his arms around me.

"Oh shit!" I gasped trying to struggle away from his grip. "It's that late already? We're so late from school."

"So?" Edward said kissing my neck.

"Damn Edward, get off of me," I said. "We need to get out of here."

I finally managed to get away from him and jumped out of the bed taking the whole cover with me and wrapping it around my body.

"Come on , Bella," Edward laughed, "Like I haven't already seen you naked, like I haven't actually touched every –"

"Okay, okay I got it," I said my cheeks turning red. "I need to use the bathroom."

I stumbled to the door that luckily led straight to the bathroom, the cover wrapped around me like some kind of toga.

I closed the bathroom door and only then let the cover drop. I was about to wash my face with cold water, when I accidentally happened to look in the mirror. I gasped automatically stepping a step back.

I looked horrible.

My make up was scruffy around my eyes so that I looked more like a panda bear. My hair was sticking out in every possible direction. My eyes looked blurry and freaked out. I did freak myself out. I didn't even recognize me; I looked like a total stranger.

"Who are you?" I whispered to the mirror. The reflection just kept staring back at me.

I had changed so much. Too much.

I thought about the old Bella, the Bella who wore shaggy clothes and spent the evenings reading books at her room. That Bella wouldn't have liked the new Bella, the Bella who got drunk at parties and then screwed Edward Cullen even thought rationally she knew that Edward didn't want anything more than sex from her.

"What the hell am I doing?" I whispered. The reflection didn't have answer to that one either.

I only knew that I was in too deep. I didn't know how I was supposed to figure out this mess but I knew that I could never go back. I could never be the jeans-and-hoodie Bella anymore.

I washed my face, picked up the cover from the floor, took a deep breath and then went back to the bedroom where Edward was still waiting for me patiently on the bed.

I picked up my black mini dress from the floor silently. I dressed up and it looked ridiculous in the bright daylight.

Edward had already put on his black jeans and shirt.

"Edward what are we doing?" I asked sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Right now we're going home and then we're thinking of something to say to Alice when she asks why neither of us didn't show up at school."

I threw an annoyed look at him. "That's not what I meant."

Edward sat next to me. "Then what do you mean?"

"This whole thing," I said, "Us, I mean, where are we? What are we?"

"Bella…" Edward said frowning.

"What?"

"Do you really have to do this?"

"Do what?" I asked confused.

"Complicate things by talking too much," Edward sighed. "I don't know, Bella. I don't know any more than you do."

I looked him in the eyes. They were serious for once, still a little frown in his face he looked older than usually.

"What we are is… something", Edward continued. "Why can't we just see how it goes? Not make everything complicated by overanalyzing."

"But that's not true, Edward", I whispered. "We're nothing. I'm just a girl you like to screw occasionally when you feel like it, right? And I don't want to be that."

"Bella don't be stupid." Edward said looking annoyed. This was probably a familiar situation to him, I found myself thinking. Just another clingy, desperate girl in his bed. And to be honest, I would have wanted to just let it be. Never really talk and let things go as they went. But I really needed to know where we were.

"Of course that's not true", Edward said shaking his head smiling. "It's more like I'm just a guy you like to screw when you feel like it."

I had to smile back at him. I didn't know why, maybe because the ridiculousness of this whole situation, or maybe just because his smile was so irresistible.

"Don't worry too much," Edward said looking at me with his whole expression saying that I was being silly and that he liked me. It surprised me how much I wanted it to be true. "You're such a worrier, Bella."

I shrugged. "Well someone has to be, since you don't worry about anything. You're such an unworrier." It looked like the serious part of our conversation was over.

"That's not even a word." Edward laughed and ruffled my hair so that it was even messier than before. He kissed me quickly on the lips and pulled me up from the bed. "I can drive you home."

When I got home I opened the front door of my house a little warily. I was pretty sure that no one would be home at this time of the day, but I really didn't want to bump into Charlie or Sue looking like this, dressed in my rumpled dress, my hair messy and still some remains of my mascara under my eyes.

I was right, the house was empty. After a long, hot shower, a change of clothes and a late breakfast I felt almost normal again.

There was no point going to school anymore so I just grabbed a book and went to the backyard to one of the easy chairs next to the pool.

Almost as soon as I had opened the book the doorbell rung. "Typical." I sighed and went to the door.

As soon as I opened the door a tiny tornado in the shape of Alice swept inside.

"Where were you?" Alice asked walking straight into the living room. "I was so worried when I didn't see you today at school I mean, you never ditch."

"Well I guess I just did", I shrugged.

"Why? What were you doing", Alice asked looking at my old sweatpants and t-shirt with a frown in her face.

"I was sleeping, Alice," I said rolling my eyes. "It was entirely you're fault for dragging me to that party at a schoolnight." And a little bit of Edward's fault too, but I didn't say that aloud.

"Oh," Alice said like she had thought about it just then. "You were sleeping."

"Yeah." I decided not to mention with whom.

Alice sighed giving in. "Fine then. Did you at least have fun yesterday?"

I shrugged again. "I guess so," I said. "Yeah, you could say that."

Alice sat on the couch and I sat beside her. "But how about you?" I asked. "You seemed to have fun with Jasper."

Alice blushed a little. That was kind of surprising because Alice never blushes. "Yeah, you could say that." she said smiling.

"Come on, Alice!" I said frustrated. "Tell me everything."

"There's not much to tell," Alice said smiling. "We just talked."

"You just talked." I said rising my eyebrows.

Alice nodded. "Jasper is nice."

"I know he is," I said meaningfully. "So what are you waiting for?"

Alice was quiet for a moment, like she was thinking what she would say. "You know what you said once, about not doing the relationship stuff?" Alice asked.

"Yeah?" I said wondering what this had to do with Jasper.

"Well I'm not sure I do that either," Alice explained. "I mean of course I had had guys, but not anything serious. And I can see that Jasper likes me. I just think that maybe he likes me too much. And I'm not sure if I'm ready for that."

"So let me get this clear." I said. It was so unlike to Alice, this uncertainty, usually she was so sure of everything. "You like Jasper but you think he likes you too much?"

Alice laughed a little looking down at her hands. "I know, it sounds stupid."

I smiled. "Don't worry, I think you're going to be just fine with him." I assured her.

"Anyway, have you heard anything from Edward?" Alice changed the subject suddenly. "I haven't seen him today either."

"No," I said quickly not meeting her eyes. "Why do you ask me?"

"Well I just thought that since neither of you two weren't at school today maybe you knew where he was or something." Alice said innocently but the way she looked at me suspiciously let me knew that she was wondering whether there was something going on between us.

At Thursday after school I got into Edward's car. We were going to Edward's place with Mike and Jessica to start our group project. The atmosphere was quite uneasy; I had the feeling that any of us wasn't really comfortable with this.

Edward drove us to his house in silence. When he pulled in a big, beautiful front yard I felt small butterflies in my stomach. That was the first time I would see Edward's house.

He got his keys and opened the big, white house and let us all in.

I stepped in after Edward and found myself in a big light hallway.

We all walked into the living room after Edward and I saw that he was looking my face to see my expression.

"Wow." I said looking around in the enormous room. I thought that by now I should have been used to these beautiful perfect houses, but Edward's home was gorgeous. Even though it was quite simple, each furniture, every piece of art, everything seemed just in place. "Your house is so beautiful."

Edward smiled. "My mom likes to decorate."

"She's good," I said smiling at him. "It's lovely." And oddly enough I felt at ease here. Despite all the expensive stuff this felt kind of home.

I realized that Jessica and Mike were both looking at us. Mike was looking sulky, probably because he saw how impressed I was by Edward's house. That was irritating, I didn't even get why Mike liked me.

Edward's parents weren't home and the house was empty so we sat at the living room couch and Edward turned on his laptop.

"So does anyone have any ideas?" Edward sighed looking already bored.

"No," Mike said.

"Nope," I shook my head.

"Well actually I think that we should do this kind of miniature model, I saw a really cool instruction online and then we could tell about each planet individually and then print a star chart from the internet and introduce it to everyone", Jessica said smiling at us as she stopped.

"That's all?" Edward asked rising his eyebrows sarcastically.

"No, I think we should also tell some basic information about solar system, just so that everyone can keep up, maybe we could make a some kind of wall poster about that", Jessica said smiling at Edward.

"Right," Edward said.

"I think that sounds good," Mike said smiling at Jessica.

Edward looked at me.

"Yeah, that's cool," I said nodding approvingly. To be honest, I didn't really care; I just wanted to get it done.

Mike and Jessica started tapping Edward's keyboard and chattering about the project and even though I tried to concentrate my thoughts kept drifting away. I glanced at Edward, who was sitting at the other end of the couch. Edward grinned at me and rolled his eyes over Jessica's head. Showing that he was just as interested as I was.

About half an hour later, Jessica and Mike had come up with an exact plan of what we were going to do.

"Okay, so now someone needs to go to the mall to pick up the stuff for the miniature model and then someone can start doing our PowerPoint show so we can get everything done quicker," Jessica said.

"Whatever," Edward said. At least I looked interested but he didn't even bother to pretend that he cared.

"I can do the shopping," Mike volunteered. "Bella, wanna come with me?"

"Yeah, so Edward and I can start the PowerPoint," Jessica said excited.

"Great," I said with a sarcastic fake-smile. Edward chuckled and winked at me over Jessica's head. Mike threw and irritated look at Edward and helped – or practically dragged – me out of the couch.

So I didn't have any other choice than going with Mike and leaving Jessica and Edward alone. Surprisingly it bothered me more than I would have thought. Edward with Jessica. Alone in his house. I felt something that took a while from me to recognize was jealousy. Hot burning jealousy that made me want to turn right up and tell Jessica that I didn't care about the stupid biology project and that Mike and Jessica could do it all alone because I was staying here with Edward.

But I didn't. I walked out of the door and to Mike's car with him. Edward isn't mine, I tried to tell myself silently. He's not mine; I don't get to be jealous.

"Bella, are you okay?" Mike said looking at me as we got in his car. "You got all silent suddenly." Like I wouldn't have been silent the whole time.

"No I was just thinking," I said.

"Thinking of what?" Mike asked.

"Nothing," I said quickly. "So tell me what we need?"

After about twenty minutes of wandering around the supermarket's crafts department our basket was full of Styrofoam balls, different color cardboards, tape, crayons, string and other stuff Jessica had told us to pick up and we were ready to head to the cash desk.

We got several suspicious looks from mothers that were struggling with their children and shopping carts full of groceries. I guess we did look a little out of picture; two teenagers with a basket full of all kind of weird craft stuff.

Mike tried to keep up the small talk all the way to his car but I was just answering with one-syllable words. He reminded me of a puppy too eager to please and it was starting to irritate me.

When we were back to his car Mike started to drive back to Edward's place and now we were both quiet.

"So Bella, I was just wondering…" Mike started but then stopped like he didn't know what to say.

"Wondering what?" I asked hoping that he wouldn't ask me to go out with him again. I was totally going to have to ask Alice and Rosalie how to turn down a guy properly.

"About you and Edward?" Mike said his cheeks turning red. "I mean… is there something going on between you too?"

I bit my lip and felt my cheeks turning red as well trying to make up and answer. I really didn't know what I should have said to that so finally I told him the thing that was at least true. "Mike, it's really none of your business," I sighed.

He shrugged, his expression maybe a little hurt. "Well if you don't already know, I just thought that I should warn you – "

"Mike, I know," I interrupted him, finally turning my face to look at him. "I really do know."

"Then why?" Mike asked quietly, looking at me. "What is it that you see in him? What does everyone see in him?"

I looked at him guessing that it wasn't the first time he lost a girl for Edward. "I really don't know."

Then we were both silent and I thought that he'd already let the subject drop but after a while he opened his mouth again. "You know he'll break your heart."

I shrugged. I knew it, he probably would. I could try to deny it all I wanted but the truth was, that even thought I didn't know what I felt for him it was already more than what he felt for me.

"Don't say I didn't warn you," Mike said a little bitterly.

"I won't," I promised.

After that we didn't talk anything before we were back to Edward's house with him and Jessica. Jessica didn't seem too pleased when we got back; bet she would have wanted to spend some more one-on-one time with Edward.

I was pleased to notice that Edward however seemed relieved that we were back.

We spent the rest of the afternoon searching information from the internet, or trying to figure out how to make the model out of all the weird crafts stuff.

After couple of hours there was glue and tape all over my hands and the whole floor was covered with small pieces of paper and cardboard and tape and various other stuff.

Edward pulled a tape out of my hair laughing.

"Well I never claimed to be good in this," I said sourly. "And besides it was Jessica's idea."

"Don't worry, darling, you look great with glue all over your face," Edward flashed me a flirtatious smile.

"It was a good idea," Jessica said rolling her eyes, probably just to draw Edward's attention away from me. She was so obvious.

"Anyway, it's quite late already," Mike said. "Maybe we should finish some other time."

"Yeah," Jessica said and stood up from the couch. "Yeah, I should go too. But we have still over a week to get this done so we have plenty of time."

"True," Mike said. "Bella, are you coming? I could drive you home."

"Oh," I said looking around. "I think I should help Edward with cleaning."

Mike looked unhappy. "But you don't have your own car with you, how are you going to get home."

"I'll drive her," Edward said looking at Mike not so friendly.

Mike looked at Edward then me and then back to Edward. "Whatever," he said then rolling his eyes.

"See you tomorrow at school then," Jessica said to both of us, but she was looking directly at Edward.

"Yeah," Edward mumbled. We walked Mike and Jessica to the front door. Edward sighed deeply when they had gone. "Finally got away from those two," he smiled at me.

They way he did it, like we had a secret that they didn't know, like we had something special, it made me feel warm inside.

"We should probably start cleaning, we made quite a mess", I said walking back to the living room floor.

"Bella," Edward said and suddenly he was right behind me, so close. "You don't have to clean up, after all you are a guest here", he said wrapping his arms around me.

"Oh come on, stop being such a gentleman, it doesn't suit you," I said. It was so confusing, the way he could be a complete gentleman in one moment and then an asshole in another. Maybe he had a split personality.

Edward laughed softly in my ear and it got harder and harder to resist him but I struggled away from him and started gathering our stuff together in one place.

After a while I noticed that Edward was still standing at the same place looking at me.

"What now?" I said.

"Nothing," Edward said smiling. "You're just so sexy when you're cleaning up."

"Oh come on," I said blushing however.

"What come on?" Edward said walking closer to me with a grin on his face.

"Why can't you ever take anything seriously?" I said and stood up putting the tape and the papers to the couch table.

"Yeah, because cleaning up is so serious business," Edward said.

"That's not what I meant," I said little sourly.

"Then what did you mean," he said and suddenly, before I even noticed what happened I was in his arms again, his face just inches from mine.

"Actually I don't remember anymore," I breathed.

Edward laughed and kissed my neck.

"Edward, I don't think that we should – " I started quickly.

"I don't really care what we should or shouldn't do", he said and with that his lips were on mine and before I knew it I was ripping his clothes of off him so fast that it was a miracle I didn't tear anything apart.

After about half an hour we were laying on the coach and our clothes were pretty much around the room. How did we end up from an innocent homework to this?

We didn't say anything but the silence felt comfortable. Edward had wrapped his arms around me tightly and pressed his lips on my shoulder. The way he was holding me, it was something I had never had before. It was scary how much I liked it, just the way he wrapped his arms around me, like I meant something. It was dangerous to like so much about something you would surely lose at some point.

We both jumped about half a foot in the air when suddenly we heard a car pulling up to the front yard.

"Shit!" Edward said sitting up. "My parents."

"Fuck, fuck, fuck," I whispered running around the room trying to put on at least some clothes I could find.

Edward was running around pretty much like me and we had both got most of our clothes on us at the same moment the front door opened.

"Edward?" I heard a woman's voice and a moment later the living room's door opened and his parents stepped in.

Edward's dad was blond and tall and still pretty good-looking. His mother was brunette and absolutely beautiful and I saw that he had got his gorgeous green eyes from her. They were both looking at me curiously.

I was perfectly aware of my messy hair that stuck out at every direction and my blushed face. I slipped my knickers to my jeans pocket as invisibly as I could.

"Mom, dad, this is my friend Bella," Edward said taking a deep breath. "We were doing… a school project."

For a moment we were all staring at each other. Then his father stepped forward and shook my hand. "Doctor Carlisle Cullen," he said smiling politely. "Nice to meet you, Bella."

"Esme Cullen," his mother said then smiling as politely as her husband as she took my hand in hers. "It's always nice to meet Edward's friends."

I blushed even more and mumbled "nice to meet you too", not looking at their eyes.

"Would you like to have some tee?" Esme asked smiling. "Or you could stay for dinner?"

Edward coughed. "Actually, Bella was just leaving. I'm driving her home."

I nodded quickly. "Yeah, I have to get home."

"Okay, some other time then," Esme said.

"Sure," I said with a wide smile on my face.

"See you, Bella," Carlisle said.

"See you," I mumbled as Edward led me out of the front door.

"Oh God!" I groaned when we were finally at his car. "That was so embarrassing." I said burying my face in his chest.

Edward laughed a little. "Well yeah, it was a little."

"A little?" I said rolling my eyes. "I'll never be able to come to your place anymore. Do you think they guessed?"

Edward shrugged. "Well it was pretty obvious."

"Oh God," I said again my face still red.

Edward laughed quietly.

"That was so not funny." I said.

"Well it was a little," Edward grinned. "You should have seen your face."

"Oh no." I said horrified. I couldn't understand how he could take it so calmly. If those were Charlie and Sue I would have died.

"Come on, don't take it so seriously, it's no big deal." he said opening his car door.

"No big deal?" I said rising my eyebrows. "That happens a lot to you?"

"Don't be silly." He said and hopped into the car.