BPOV

He slowly moved his hands from the center of my back down my sides and settled on my hips. Our eyes were fixed on each others, our heads were mere inches apart. Both breathing as heavily as each other, his left hand then slowly moved from my hip upwards, slightly grazing my left breast up past my collar bone and carried on until it was cupping my cheek, his thumb gently brushing it. He started to close the distance, I could feel my breathing increase and my body slightly wobble. Our lips were just in touching distance if either of us moved suddenly they would of connected. His eyes were still locked on mine, they were practically sparkling with excitement and want, he then closed them and the distance between our lips…………….

I bolted upright in bed, breathing heavily and covered in perspiration "Damn it, just a dream" I muttered to myself and then glanced at the clock on my desk across the room.

6.45AM

I decided to get up and go for a early run, even though I had a total of about 4 hours sleep seen as we didn't get back from the party till just after one but I needed to sweat the alcohol I had drunk last night out of my system.

I slowly got out of bed watching were I stepped not wanting to end up crashing into something and waking both Alice and Rosalie up in the process, plus a hung-over Rosalie was to be avoided at all costs, that I knew after sharing a dorm with her last year.

I changed into a pair of blue sweats and a NYU jumper , slipped on some running shoes and quietly opened and closed the apartment door clutching my ipod.

When I got back to the apartment a little over an hour later neither Alice nor Rosalie were up so I took the opportunity to jump into the shower while I could.

After my long hot shower I got dressed in a pair of black leggings and a comfy top, grabbed my laptop and made my self comfortable on my bed.

I loaded Google and typed in Coulrophobia and read the first article that came up

Coulrophobia is abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns. The term is common, but it does not appear to be used in psychology.[1] It is common among children, but is also sometimes found in teenagers and adults as well.[citation needed] Sufferers sometimes acquire a fear of clowns after having a bad experience with one personally, or seeing a sinister portrayal of one in the media. A design study carried out by the University of Sheffield found that children are frightened by clown-themed décor in hospitals.[2] Coulrophobia can also be said to extend to a fear of covering up one's face with paint—the idea of hiding recognizable features under a layer of facepaint can also unsettle coulrophobia sufferers

"Clowns?" I said out loud not meaning to.

Was Edward actually telling me that his brother had a fear of clowns?

I went over what he had said to me in my head last night again.

He removed his finger from my mouth leaving it with a tingling sensation and ran his hands threw his hands before he smiled and bent down and whispered in my ear " I've heard that Coulrophobia is a awful phobia to suffer from and although its most common in children it does effect some adults"

"Coulrophobia?" I muttered not really meaning for it to come out load " I don't understand, what do you mean?"

"Your a smart girl Bella" He tapped my temple with his finger "I'm sure you will work it out!" and then with that he turned around and disappeared into the sea of luminous bodies.

Now I just had to work out what to do with this!

Do I just pretend that he didn't tell me ?

I mean it could be a trick or something, but then again I didn't think Edward would do that.

I don't know why I thought that but he genuinely seemed to wanted this war as over as much as I did, even though it was fun planning and doing the stuff we had been doing, but still that doesn't help with what I should do now…..

Even if I decided to pull something on Fred to do with clowns how would I tell Alice and Rosalie how and why I came up with it, and its not like I could lie to them, I'm a terrible liar but still I felt like what happened between me and Edward last night shouldn't be shared with them just yet so I didn't know what to tell them.

I didn't even know what kind of a prank I could pull to do with clown's in the first place, what do I send a bunch of kids party clown's over and bribe them to push the way into the apartment and not leave for hours doing all sorts of party tricks, no way! errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggg

I must of fallen asleep again because the next thing I knew I felt my bed moved in a way that it does when someone gets on it, I opened one eye and saw Alice pulling the duvet over her tiny body.

Her face said a thousand words, she was hung-over and was in desperate need of quiet and properly coffee, I just smiled at her gave her a one armed hug and got up to make my little hung-over pixie some strong coffee.

We spent the rest of Sunday relaxing and catching up on some college work before going back tomorrow.

Rosalie had joined me and Alice not long after I had started the coffee machine looking in better shape than Alice but still in need of a mega caffeine injection.

The week seemed to be flying by and it was already Wednesday, we hadn't heard anything or seen anything from apartment 12, but that didn't mean much because that had happened before and then my car was pimped up with pink spray paint and condoms! Thank god my car is in 'hiding' well so to speak.

Rosalie was busy prepping for her placement at a pre-school in a couple of weeks (seen as she was studying child development and eventually wanted to become a social worker) and Alice was busy making a dress for a competition for the chance to win VIP passes to an LA fashion show coming up and she wanted to win at all costs.

So I ended up sending a lot of my free time back at the apartment alone and trying to work out what to do about the whole clown phobia situation, and coming up blank.

I had however managed to come up with a few ideas for pranks involving other things if for the future if we needed them!

I was woken up Thursday morning by a scream soon followed by what sounded like something crashing.

I got out of bed quickly stumbling and banging my shin on my desk. ouch ouch ouch

I managed to hobble clutching my leg towards the lounge where I found Alice, standing in her pj's on top of the tiny round table that usually was home to the phone which was now sprawled across the floor.

She looked in completed and utter fear or shock clutching a frying pan with a half cooked pancake in her hand and a spatula in the other, her eyes where fixed on the kitchen doorway.

"what the hell is going on Alice?" I asked through a yawn.

"tarantella" she whispered, the girls lost her mind !

"what?" I asked her still clutching my leg which was now throbbing, defiantly going to have a bruise , great!

She turned to look at me with tears forming in her eyes "tarantella" she said again slowly.

"tarantella?" I asked her in confusion, to which she just nodded her head and pointed with the spatula towards the kitchen.

Okay she must be seeing things I mean why in the hell would there be a tarantella in our apartment in the middle of new york?

I carefully took a step towards the kitchen door and saw there on the kitchen worktop on the other side of the room a giant brown tarantella.

I felt my eyes and widen and I slowly backed away .

"I'm going to kill him!" Alice whispered to me but I was still focused on the huge brown hairy tarantella that was currently sat on my kitchen work top and I shuddered. Him? Of course Fred!!

"I'll be right back Alice, don't move!" I said as I quickly turned my back to her and opened the apartment door.

"WHAT?" she shrieked " your leaving me alone with THAT thing? Are you CRAZY ?" she then propelled herself from the table to the doorway dropping the pan and spatula in the process "go on then!" she said ushering me out of the door "I assume were going to get one of them to get rid of that THING ?" she said shuddering.

"oh yes!" I told her as we made our way up the stairs.

I knocked on the door loudly three times, and crossed my arms over my chest waiting for one of them to answer.

About 60 seconds later the door flew open and there stood Edward in all his glory, literally.

He was in just his boxers and socks and I found my eyes instantly going south, I forced myself to look at his face with great difficulty.

" what the hell do you guys want I was just getting a shower?" he asked sleepily running his hand threw his messy bed hair.oh god!

I didn't respond to him instead I grabbed his wrist and pulled him in the direction of the stairs and down to the apartment, he didn't put up a fight and I think he was trying to ask me what the hell was going on, but at this point I was starting to worry where the furry creature would get to and also we had left our apartment door wide open so any weirdo could just walk in.

"seriously what the hell!" he shouted pulling his wrist out of my grasp and stared at me obviously starting to get annoyed.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Alice shouted at him causing his gaze to go from me to her "WHAT THE HELL?" she repeated " why don't you explain why there is a tarantella a fucking tarantella in my kitchen huh?" she was getting really angry now.

"tarantella?" Edward asked not quiet believing what he was hearing and then ran both of his hands threw his hair " I told him not to fucking do this" he said shaking his head.

"WHAT? " I shouted at him "GET RID OF IT NOW EDWARD!"

I said glaring at him, trying my hardest not to think of the fact a very very very under dressed Edward was stood in my lounge with his perfectly chiseled chest and toned body and defiantly ensuring that I didn't look any lower than his chest cause I think, no I know that my legs would give in right about then, and I would die of embarrassment!

"you--want--me-- to g-et rid-- o-f IT?" he stuttered in a shocked voice.

I just nodded my head and pointed to the kitchen.

"what did you think we wanted you here for, to take a picture of us with it?" Alice acidly spat at him and I had to suppress a giggle.

"well do you at least have something for me to put it in?" he asked with a look of sheer panic on his face that he was trying to make it look like wasn't there.

Alice then stormed past us both and went into her room shouting "when its gone tell me so I can come out!" from behind her door.

I turned back to face Edward who was still standing there with a look on his face that he didn't want to go anywhere near the thing as much as neither of us did.

"today Edward!" I said trying to hind my smirk "go on!" I said pointing to the kitchen again " I don't care what you use just get that thing out of here and far far far away!" he took a deep breath followed by a step inside the kitchen closing the door behind him, obviously not wanting me to see him dealing with the situation. ha

I couldn't help but let out a low giggle while I picked up the frying pan and pancake that was now splattered on the rug up and put the phone back in its original location.

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EPOV

Its just a spider I was telling myself over and over in my head while I stood with my back as close to the door as I could without being on the other side of it.

I saw it move and I flinched, its just a really big creepy hairy massive moving spider.

I then saw a Tupperware box on the draining board with a lid, score.

I crept over to the box that was going to be the new home for this little stunt of Emmett's ensuring not to make any sudden movements and also not taking my eyes of it.

I turned the box upside box ready to drop on the brown beast as I slowly got closer I think I'm going to throw up.

I slowly positioned the box about a foot above it getting ready to trap it when all of a sudden it moved , no not moved it jumped FUCKING jumped!

I couldn't help it I let out a scream and knocked into a chair causing a screeching sound and there's no way that Bella didn't hear that from the lounge, yes I'm ashamed to admit it Edward Cullen was bloody scared of this spider, well all spiders actually ever since Emmett made me watch that stupid film when we were younger! Emmett!

"Are you ok?" I heard Bella ask from he other side of the door, but I didn't trust my voice enough to answer her without embarrassing myself even more than being in her kitchen in my boxers screaming because a tarantella just jumped across the work surface.

So I took a deep breath and quickly dropped the Tupperware box onto the spider letting out a sigh of relief as it was finally captured, all I had to do now was get the lid on it, somehow.

I stood there for a moment trying to work out how the hell I was going to do this when I heard the kitchen door open and Bella pocked her head around the corner " you didn't answer me, I wanted to check it hadn't eaten you or something!" she said in a timid voice but still sarcastically.

"nope, I have managed to get it secured but I don't now how to even get the lid on to get it out of here!" I admitted.

She thought for a moment "animal control" she muttered and then walked out of the kitchen, yet again leaving me alone with the tarantella.

She came back a few minutes later with phone in hand smiling with relief " animal control are coming to get it!" she said with a look of disgust "please tell me there's only one?" .

"well considering I didn't even know Emmett had even got this one I would assume there's only one!" I told her as I grabbed the fruit bowl of the kitchen table and placed it on top of the box making sure it couldn't escape again.

"thanks" Bella said sounding slightly relieved, I turned to look at her and she was smiling at me " even though it was your brothers fault!"

I couldn't deny it, it was Emmett fault " I don't know what to say Bella, I told him not to, but its Emmett you tell him no somehow his brain makes it sound like a yes when it comes to this kind of stuff!"

I honestly told her shaking my head thinking off all the times he would do stupid stuff and I would end up cleaning the mess that was left behind back in Chicago.

"yea well thanks anyway, but you should of said you where as scared of them as us I would of asked James or Laurent from next door to get it" she said look with an apologetic look.

"well the point is its somewhat captured!" I told her and she nodded back at me, we kind of just stood there in a awkward silence neither of really knowing what to say to each other " are you okay if I go back to mine, it just I have class soon?" what why did i just say that?

She had a kind of panicked look on her face " I can stay if you want, until animal control come? I don't mind!" I told her kind of hoping she would say yes even though I was only in my boxers and really did need to started to get ready for class , but the chance to spend some time with Bella was a more interesting option for me right now.

"oh god no, you have to go to class I don't want to get the blame for you failing or something" she said.

" I hardly think missing one class on the human anatomy would cause me to fail Bella!" I told her with a smile.

"Human anatomy?" she asked me while taking a seat on one of the kitchen chairs " what are you training to be a doctor?" she asked, I think trying to be funny.

"funnily enough yea!" I told her and she looked and me with an expression I couldn't make out.

"well then go to class!" she said seriously " I don't want to be at fault for ruining your medical career and depriving your future patients!".

I didn't quiet understand what she meant by that last comment but I let it go.

"are you sure your alright with that?" I pointed to the Tupperware box.

"I'll be fine Edward, now go to class!" I just smiled and made my way out of the kitchen and heard her shout " thanks again Edward!" I smiled to myself and went back to my apartment thinking of all the cruel ways to punish my brother for what I had to just do!

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BPOV

Animal control came over 4 hours later causing me to miss my classes and Alice too who refused to come out of her room until that 'thing' as she kept calling it from behind her bedroom door was gone!

Once It was safely gone and the fat, sweaty and frankly stinky guy from animal control who spent more time staring at me and making inappropriate comments than sorting out the issue at hand had searched the apartment and laid a few traps in case there where anymore in the apartment had gone it was early afternoon and I was starving after not feeling like actually eating anything from the kitchen, after not knowing where the tarantella had been and not been, me and Alice decided to go out for lunch while she made some calls for someone to come and clean the apartment to get rid of any traces of our little morning guest as neither of us could face doing it.

"we have to get him back!" Alice said while biting into her sandwich.

"I know Alice, trust me I've been trying to work out what I can do about clowns!" I said instantly realizing my mistake. crap

"clowns?" she asked me with raised eyebrows.

"yea well Edward kind of said that he felt bad for what Fred had been doing and happened to mention that he had a huge phobia to clowns!" I honestly told her, I just didn't tell her that it was on Saturday night, almost a week ago.

She looked at me and you could almost see the cogs going around in her brain.

"I just can't think of something to do that would scare him enough" I honestly told her " I keep coming up a blank or just stupid ideas!" I sighed and took a bite of my lunch while Alice still had that look of concentration on her face.

"how about" she said after about ten minutes of silence " how about we just do something simple and subtle to kind of freak him out, not go for something big, he'll be expecting that!" she nodded at her own comment.

" What are you thinking Brandon?" I asked her while a huge smile crossed her face.

" were going to need Rosalie!" she stated and then rose from her seat not bothering to tell me of her plan and dragged me out of the cafe towards some vintage shops.

"I can't believe it!" Rosalie sneered as she sunk into the sofa " I can't believe they changed the lock!"

"I suppose we should of expected it though!" Alice said sounding as deflated as me and Rosalie, we just silently agreed with a nod.

"What do we do now?" I asked them " I mean we've got a bunch of the creepiest ever looking clown ornaments I have ever seen and no way of getting them into the apartment!"

We all continued to sit in silence trying to think of something .

"What about Edward?" Rosalie said " you said he felt bad about his brother and this morning, maybe he would give us a key or maybe do it for us!" she said sounding excited " plus he has a obvious crush on you Bella so I'm sure he would" Rosalie added causing me to flush bright red. Obvious? Crush?

"No, I don't think so Rose, even though he does have a crush on you Bella. I don't think we could trust him enough to do something for us I mean it is his brother after all and I don't think he'd give us a key after what we have done in the past to the apartment!" she had a point, a couple in fact.

"How about we wait for them all to go out, ask Edward whatever!" Rosalie said " and set all of those ornaments up on the hallway, glue them or something and set it up so he comes home first and is faced with them?" maybe she has something.

"Again we can't ask Edward" Alice said "were just going to have to wait for them to all go out and hope that they get a kick out of freaking Fred out as much as they did with the whole song at the party and don't move them before he sees them!"

"Okay we are going to need more creepy looking clown ornaments and some super glue girls, lets go!"

We stood, all three of us at the window on Friday evening waiting for the guys from apartment 12 to leave the building, well hoping more because we didn't know if they were going out we just hoped they were as they seemed to every other Friday night.

"Another hour and I give up!" Rosalie complained as she filed her nails and stared outside.

We where just about ready to give in and call it a day at 10.30 when I caught a flash of that unmistakable golden brown hair on the sidewalk, I elbowed Alice in her side and she looked down following my gaze.

" we have lift off!" she said clapping her hands as we watched the three of them get into a cab that drove off into the night " lets go ,quickly!!"

We had managed to get just under 70 of the creepiest clown ornaments you had ever seen in your life!

We had also found a bunch of creepy clown masks as well that we planned to glue around and on their door.

Once we had glued all of the masks and ornaments in place Alice hid a wireless webcam behind one of the masks eye holes so we could see the look on Fred's face and not just hear him.

"we should of totally done that when we pranked the apartment!" Rosalie said sounding disappointed.

" Oh please you only want to see Fred in the buff Rose!" Alice said giving her a knowing look.

"wait" I said " Rose, do you have a crush on Fred?" she flushed red, and I knew oh my god

" He's got a hot body, that's all!" she said, but Alice looked at me as if to say 'yea she has a crush on Fred Flintstone!'

We went back to our apartment and made ourselves comfortable on the sofa with snacks and drinks in front of the laptop waiting for the boys to return from wherever it was that they had gone.

It was close to two am and both Alice and Rosalie where both falling asleep when I heard muffled voices coming up the stairs and one I instantly recognized as Edward's.

I elbowed both of the sleeping beauties in their sides and pointed to the laptop screen.

We all sat staring, none of us breathing until we caught a glimpse of movement on this screen.

Fred was at the front and his face was priceless as was the scream that came down the stairs and hallway followed by him jumping backwards on top of both of his roommates and ended up what looked like falling down the stairs, the three of us burst into hysterics but I clamped my hands over Alice and Roses mouths signally with my head that they could hear us if they had fallen down the stair's and they instantly fell silent again, waiting to see if we could hear anything from the hallway or see anything on the laptop.

That's when we could hear shouting , we knew It was Fred so we ran to the front door and pushed our ears against it trying to hear what he was saying.

" no way Edward, no fucking way eh eh eh I am NOT going back up there until they are GONE!"

"there just ornaments Emm geez!" that must have been Jasper

"no way!" Emmett replied to him.

"dude are you crying?" that same voice asked again, that was it we were done for the three of us burst into laughter and then next thing we knew there was someone pounding on our door, of course causing us to laugh even harder.

"Emmett come one lets just go to the apartment!" Edward said trying to calm down his brother who was still pounding on our door when I heard Laurent from next door say " dude what the hell, were trying to sleep in here!" and then a door slammed shut.

"Emmett come on!" Edward said again, obviously getting annoyed at this point, we had managed to stop laughing, well out loud at least and all had our ears pressed up against the door again.

"Edward no!" he shot back.

"Well what are you going to do Emm just sit here and wait for them to come out, curl up on the floor like a dog and go to sleep?" that other voice I assumed was Jasper asked him.

"Jazz just go and move those ornaments!" We heard footsteps and then nothing, then footsteps again but they didn't come as close to the apartment door as they had once been.

" Errrm Ed, no go on the removal!" he said one of them must of given him a 'explain' look because he continued to say " they glued them down, hard! All of them!" We heard Emmett groan and what sounded like Edward snicker, I chanced a look out of the peephole and sure enough Edward had his back to Emmett and his shoulders where shaking from trying to hide his laughter.

Me , Alice and Rosalie then backed up from the door and got back onto the sofa watching the laptop to see what they would do next all the while still laughing at the fact that he had cried. Priceless

A/N

What do you think they'll do next?????

This was originally one and a half chapters but i decided it went better to rearrange it!

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