I hope it's not to hard to follow, I just had to set the scene a bit before I can start my ideas for the next chapter.

The Cullens are Stephanie Meyer's and I love her greatly.

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Chapter 10 – collage comes early

Edward's POV

When Bella had woken up I had finally finalised my plans. Alice had made varying snide remarks about my ideas but now she bounced into my room looking ecstatic.

"Oh, Edward! You couldn't have picked better, I can't see anything going wrong and..." she whizzed round the bed in large circles straight into Bella, and in chain reaction Bella hit her head on the bed post, "Oops, sorry Bella."

"I'm OK," sighed Bella, catching the trickle of blood of her forehead before it hit the pillows, "just a scratch."

I took her hand to the nearest bathroom where the cabinet had been pre-stocked with sticky plasters whilst Alice apologized, "I really am sorry Bella, I should have seen it coming, I was just so preoccupied with Edward's fault free planing that... Wait Edward!" she caught my hand and stopped me from sticking the plaster over the cut, "It go a really funny colour if you don't let it breath," look Edward, ew or what? she thought, then carried on aloud, "put some tape on it and it will be perfect very soon."

Bella's POV

I blanked out whilst Edward and Alice fussed over the little cut on my head. Suddenly her eyes blanked over,

"Bella," Alice said urgently, "Go get dressed. Rose will take you for a picnic or something."

"I'll what?" Shouted Rose from downstairs.

"Rose." Alice shouted back, "your sunglasses' lives depend on it."

Rose was there in a moment.

"Go Bella, go," said Alice.

"What no Barbie doll dressing today?" I asked mockingly.

"Just go, I need to talk to your boyfriend. Get Rose to help you," then Alice assessed Rose's half on jeans and Emmett's tank top from yesterday (backwards) "Well, do it yourself even, whilst Rose dresses, I'll get you something to take with you and munch, or something."

Whilst I was dressing Rose seemed to be filled in on the basics and ranted to me as we walked into the forest,

"I mean, I don't see why Em can't take you for breakfast, it doesn't involve him, or me actually, but I think I should know what's happening. Em doesn't care, and then to be honest it involves you more than either of us."

"But wait," I asked, "I thought Edward was just trying to get us to bond or whatever Esme said."

"Well funny way of showing it," Rose scoffed, "I think that was called getting you out the house as quickly as possible actually."

I stopped her, "What? So Edward's hiding stuff again?"

"No, don't worry Bella, I think they just wanted to get some stuff sorted before you got back, 'cause I think some guy from Dartmouth came on a surprise visit-" she started to explain but I turned on my heels, she caught me in a grip to keep from running back to the house, but I was walking to decidedly and she couldn't restrain me without hurting me.

"WHAT?" I screamed, knowing Edward and Alice would hear me.

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Edward's POV

Whilst Alice had been attacking Bella this morning she had been going through my plans for the day. A walk and a picnic, maybe a trip to the cinema, some volleyball on the lawn and general family activities that the Cullens never do. Then someone else changed their mind, and whoever it was had just ruined our day.

After Rose being extremely annoying in her self centred way and scarring us all for life with yet more images of her jeans half-on, Alice and I got Bella out the house. Now we were standing in the middle of the kitchen starting in horror at each other. In theory one of our feature Dartmouth lectures coming to meet us whilst he was in town with family shouldn't be so bad. But why does he have to come while Carlisle and Esme aren't here! This will be terrible... thought Alice in desperation. I imagined going back to the Volturi.

Alice managed a sly laugh, "Rose said you'd drive us suicidal!"

Emmett and Jasper walked in at that moment having heard the tyres turn in off the free way.

"Guys, you do realise you have an old man coming to visit you right?" Asked Emmett who was deeply amused by our panic.

"Yes, Emmett," answered Alice calmly, "Please act normal."

"Relax guys," grinned Jasper, "or do you want me to do that for you?"

Emmett didn't wait for a response, he lunged at me for a head lock, "Jasper says relax, or do you want me to make you?"

I couldn't get up from Emmett's sheer strength, at that moment Alice went into a full scale kiss with the not-so-currently-relaxed Jasper and Bella stormed in with Rose cautiously restraining her arms.

"WHAT?" she screamed again.

Split seconds later it would have been nice if the world could have ended, but instead there was a faint knock at the door and an old gentleman pushed the door open,

"Hello?" he asked feebly, "is this the Cullen residence? It's Mr Davis, your new college lecturer."

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Mr Davis' POV

I drove down the long drive, it was the normal drive for a student, after all the kids have to have a certain amount of money to pay for a place like Dartmouth. I could hear screaming coming from the house (which was also very big) and presumed the Cullens had younger siblings; it didn't say so on the files but their parents could have adopted again now their older children were leaving home.

I couldn't see any cars about so I hoped that pulling my classic Mercury wouldn't offend them. Then again, they might not be in so I should have just stayed with my sisters back at their home in Port Angles.

I got out my car cautious at the sudden silence. The door was left open, presumably from someone entering the house just a little while before me; I tapped on the door gently and went on in.

"Hello?" I asked nervously, "is this the Cullen residence? It's Mr Davis, your new college lecturer." I looked around the room.

In the corner nearest the kitchen there were two boys fighting – very violently; not far from where I was standing there was two girls, one restring the other and holding some untouched picnic breakfast, the one being restrained had a black eye and a cut down her forehead, the last two children were girl and boy, passionately kissing, it was really weird, like I could feel the love coming off them.

Eventually the youngest boy laughed, as if he could read my thoughts...