Gosh, why can't it stop? It's been going on for hours already! I tossed again in my bed trying to find comfort. It was raining again. Yea, something tells me that I'm never going to get use to this place. The sound of the rain hitting my window was very loud and I couldn't go to sleep. Lying on my bed I squeezed my eyes shut forcing myself to go to sleep. When that didn't work I decided to let my mind wonder until I was bored and sleep overtook me.

The first thing I thought about was Edward; the way he looks at me and how my heart just speeds up when I get close to him. His green eyes were always in my mind and I couldn't wait to see what his gift was to me. I just hope that he liked mine and he didn't spend a lot of money on mine.

After he had told me that he was going to give me my gift the next day I decided to wait too. Alice had helped me pick out his gift and I knew he was going to love it! I let out a frustrated sigh, this wasn't working instead of getting sleepy I was getting the opposite.

The rain had not slowed down and by the looks of it, it wasn't going to. May be I should count sheep? I mentally rolled my eyes, like that was going to work. After a while of listening to the pitter-patter of the rain I decided to give it a go.
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Whoa! Am I dreaming or what? Where was this sweet melody coming from? I lifted my head and looked out the window no sign of the rain form last night. My head turned towards the sound of the music. I walked into the piano room and found Edward playing his heart out on the piano in his PJ's!

I walked over and sat on the piano bench with him, on the music stand was a brand new piece I haven't seen him play before. On the title it read Bella's Lullaby. "What?" My eyes grew wide; he wrote this song for me!?

"Edward you didn't? How?" He chuckled and looked at me, "You inspired it Bella, the first day I met you I started writing this."

"It's sweet and beautiful, how could I inspire something like this?" I wasn't beautiful, I was plain, and normal he's got to be kidding me! His hands stopped playing abruptly, "Bella, you don't see yourself clearly. You're a strong and beautiful woman can't you see that?"

I shook my head, I didn't believe him. I looked directly into his eyes his intense gaze locking me into a trance. "Well I think you're absolutely beautiful." His lips grew closer and closer to mines and before I knew it we were kissing.

It was slow and gentle, very pleasant. My mind suddenly registered what I was doing and I pushed him away. This couldn't be happening. I ran to my room and slammed the door almost tripping when I did. I leaned against the door and slowly slid down.

"Bella? Bella? I'm so sorry that wasn't very gentleman of me please forgive me. I'm so sorry!" He was banging on my door and yelling.

My mind was running a mile a minute; thinking about the kiss and how great it his lips felt on mine. To be honest I enjoyed it. That thought made me smile, it was then I realized that I was falling for Edward, my brother. Well he wasn't really my brother so I could like him…right? But did he like me back. Edward continued pleading for me to open the door. I sighed and got up; I really needed to talk to him.

When I opened the door Edward's eyes grew big and he rushed over to me and started his string of apologies. I held up my hands to stop him, "Edward we need to talk." I said biting my lip. He let out a sigh, "Your right."

I pulled him to my room and sat crossed leg on my bed, Edward just stood there looking around nervously.

After a while of silence I decided to start, "Edward", "Bella" we both said at the same time. This caused both of us to burst out laughing. After settling down a bit Edward decided to start. "Ok Bella I you've heard all my apologies but to tell you the truth I enjoyed it…a lot."

He looked at me a blush evident on his face which caused me to blush. "Well so did I; Edward I like you a lot but I just don't know if you like me or not. Plus I don't even know if I'm ready."

He nodded in agreement, "Bella I like you…a lot and I understand that you're not ready." He took my hands in his, "What if we take it slow?" he saw the skeptical look on my face, "No really, real slow." He stretched out the word to emphasize his point.

I looked at him, big mistake. "Ok Edward, but let's not put a title on it."

"Ok Bella but why?" I glared at him and he shot up his hands in defense, "What? I just want to know!"

"I don't know, I guess since we're taking it slow we don't really need one?" I said with a shrug. There was silence and I was waiting for him to laugh at me and walk away. "I understand Bella."

"You do?" I asked shocked. He laughed at my expression, "Of course Bella." His fingers brushed my hair out of my eyes. I felt a surge of excitement jump through me. I pulled our lips close together and Edward closed the gap.

We heard a loud scream and broke apart. "Who? What? When? Where? WHY?" Edward kept on screaming and I was still in shock from what happened. "Alice what are you doing stop that screaming!" He went over and covered her mouth his hands.

I snapped back to reality when something hit me hard and squealing. "Oh my Bella, you and Edward! I totally saw; don't deny!" My shock, now turned into embarrassment caused me to blush furiously. "Alice enough hugging, I can't breathe!"

By this time everyone had heard Alice screams and was in my bedroom wandering what was going on. "Alice, Honey let Bella go you're hurting her." Esme's motherly voice giving me relief. "OK so Alice why are you screaming in Bella's room for no reason?" Rose said irritated.

"Um…" I felt panic seep through me and I looked at Alice pleading with my eyes to stay quiet. "Um…I was just waking her up, sorry guys." She said with a shrug trying to play it off as if it was nothing. Carlisle grumbled something to Alice about better ways to wake people up and left with Esme.

Rose watched as they both went down stairs and came over to us and say on my bed, "Alice I know for fact that that was not the reason you were screaming." She gave her a knowing look.

Alice smirked back and glanced at me, "Let's just say that I know something you don't know!" She jumped of my bed causing me to land flat on my face on my bed. "Oops sorry Bella." She pulled me up and gave me a wink. "I'll talk to you later Bella." She said while Rose dragged her out of my room demanding what that was all about.

I groaned into my pillow and shot straight up when I heard him chuckling. "It's not funny! Alice is going to torture me and we're not even really going out yet!"

"I'm sorry Bella I promise to save you whenever she tries to get info out of you deal?" I nodded and he gave me a hug and I felt my heart quicken at our proximity. Then I suddenly remembered, "Edward I forgot to give you your present, wait here." I went into my closet and got his gift out.

"Here you go Edward Happy belated birthday." I handed him my gift and he opened it. I heard his intake of breath as he processed what I had gotten him. I knew he would love it plus he's been whining about it for some time.

At first I wasn't sure what to get him but when we passed the music store in the mall I knew they would have what I wanted. I had gotten him a new blank music book with his name inscribed on it and the five new music pieces that he'd wanted to play. "Wow! Bella this is awesome! Thanks so much!" He took my hands in his and gave it a kiss.

"N- No problem, maybe you'll play the new pieces for me sometime." I said with a smile, glad that he appreciated my gift. "Definitely!"

"Good morning Bella, Edward" Carlisle acknowledged us as we walked in to kitchen to eat breakfast. "Good morning." I said not knowing if I should call him Carlisle or Mr. Cullen. I knew that I couldn't use dad but calling him or Esme formally is out of the question too because they want me to see them as their parents but they know I'm not too comfortable about that idea.

"Morning dad" Was Edward's response before he dug into some eggs and bacon that Esme had put on his plate. I sat down next to him and felt someone's gaze on me; reluctantly I turned to face Alice and Rose smiling like idiots and giggling occasionally. I tried to ignore them as I ate the food.

"So Bella how was your morning?" Carlisle asked putting down the news paper. I let out a huff, "Well it was interesting…" I glanced at Edward who only smiled and grabbed my hand under the table and gave it a squeeze. Next thing I knew I heard a metal hit the floor and Alice innocently asking Rose to help her find it under the table.

I quickly caught on to the plan and yanked my hands from his suddenly needing to take a drink of my orange juice. Edward rolled his but in his eyes were humor. "Alice, Rose I don't think it takes that long to get a fork from under the table." Esme said peeking down there to see what they were looking at.

"Sorry mom it's just that um…you know what never mind let's just pretend this never happened." Alice said struggling to find and excuse. "Esme dear, they're teens they do weird things like that." Carlisle said shooting a mocking look at Alice and she stuck her tongue out back at him. "Dad I bet you did weird things like that when you were young too." Alice shot back.

"Yea your father was a weirdo back then!" Esme said laughing. "Yea but I didn't drop my fork on the ground to see my best friend holding hands with some guy." Carlisle teased her back and got a confused look on his face.

"Wait didn't Alice and Rosalie just do that?" He and Esme exchanged looks. My face immediately turned red; I didn't want Esme and Carlisle to know yet besides what would they think? I shot a glare at Alice and Rose who looked like they were about to burst out laughing.

"Dad! I just needed to say something to Rose…under the table, no big deal." Alice said trying to cover up; I just hope that they bought it.

"Um-hum, whatever" The he went back to reading the newspaper. I sighed in relief and continued eating, ignoring Edward as he stared at me.

"So Bella are you going to try out your new car?" Rose said changing the subject. "Yea, Edward offered to teach me then I can go take the test." The excitement was evident in my voice. I couldn't wait to get started.

"Well that's wonderful Bella! You know he thought Alice how to drive after your father gave up on her." Esme said shaking her head but clearly amused. "Really, wow I'm having a hard time picturing that!" "Ha ha very funny Bella" Alice rolled her eyes.

Alice and Rose were standing outside wanting to whiteness me backing out of the garage in my new car. I was a nervous wreck. My fear of crashing and dying were evident on my face. "Bella just start the car I promise you nothing bad will happen." He tried to reassure me over and over again.

"Yea I've heard that one before!" I said twitching just a bit. When he saw that his soothing weren't working he tried a different approach. He got quiet and I looked at him to make sure he hadn't slipped into a coma of something…what? It could happen!

My eyes met his green one and I melted. I lost my train of thought, most importantly I lost all my fear of driving…and crashing and dying. My mind was completely blanked as his lips met mine for a split second. It took a while but I regained my train of thoughts and my ability to speak.

"Wow...Um...that worked."

He shrugged, "Eh, ya gotta do what ya gotta do" We both burst out laughing and my tense shoulders relaxed.

"Ok, ok seriously Bella we've been in the same spot for what? 20 minutes? Start the car, adjust the mirror and start to back out slowly out of the driveway ok?"

I gulped, "Uh-huh, sounds simple enough." I shot him a frightened look.

Look Bella nothing bad is going to happen, trust me. Don't you trust me?" He furrowed his eyebrows and gazed at me. I reluctantly nodded and sucked in a deep breath, I could do this; it wasn't the end of the world.

"Ok this time for real." I looked checked the mirrors put the car in drive and began to back out. I was holding my breath he whole time as I did this. As I drove backwards and I could finally see Alice and Rose looking really bored and when they saw my car appear from the garage they started laughing.

I rolled my eyes and stuck out my tongue out at them. Alice just blew me a kiss and Rose gave me a thumb up. "Bella focus!" Edward said, "When you're driving you need to be completely alert and don't get distracted."

"Got it."

Edward really was a great driving teacher. He explained everything to me and answered every question I had. "We'd been driving around town for about two hours and I felt confident; all my fears had completely gone away and I was cruising peacefully on the roads.

"Bella you're doing really great, you're a fast learner." Edward complemented me which made me lose my focus for a second. "Edward stop it!"

"Stop what?" He asked taken back at my random outburst. "You're…never mind." I drove to an ice cream parlor and parked there needing to clear my mind. "Bella what it is? What's bothering you?"

I looked up at him shyly, "Well you…dazzle me sometimes." He smirked at me and inched closer to my face. "Dazzle eh? Am I dazzling you now?" His lips were inches from my face and I stopped breathing.

Yea I know bad place to end but sorry the long wait! :( FORGIVE ME PLEASE? Don't worry guys I won't give up on this story! Yay! Ok so I updated because today is my BIRTHDAY! Who wants to guess how old I am? Haha also all you American idol watchers guess who is singing at the elimination on wed? DAVID ARCHULETA! Yay! He was my fav! Who else likes him? Anyways next chap shouldn't take as long as this one took please review! :) thanks!