A/N: I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in a while, and that this chapter is pretty much just fluff and nothing else but I hope I get some reviews or I'll postpone the next chapter for a bit...

And you won't get to know the big secret! So the more reviews, the earlier you'll get the chapter!

Chapter 11: I Really Really Really Don't Like You

BPOV

Alice and Rose were walking about two feet in front of me, discussing again something secretive and private. They stopped short right before we reached the table, causing me to crash into them.

After apologizing and scooting around them, I found the reason they had stopped. Edward was standing, even with Jasper. Both had their fists clenched and bright red faces.

Emmet was seated, looking down in embarrassment for some reason.

Edward looked over and caught my gaze. His eyes glistened with something I hadn't seen since the dance.

He did still care. I felt my heart raise ten inches, and life seemed a whole lot better.

He marched over to me and put his arm around my shoulders. I was about to ask about the sudden change in mood when he began literally pulling me out of the restaurant! Alice and Rose began to protest, but Jasper and Emmet silenced them with simple, piercing looks.

I began to become apprehensive. What if Edward, Jasper, and Emmet are playing a rude prank? What if he's drunk, and he tries something? What if…?

But when we reached the door to the restaurant, Edward let go of my shoulders and opened the door. I knew that if I wanted to, I could bolt back to the table and never speak to Edward again. Yet something held me back. I was curious about what Edward wanted.

I walked out the door and he followed, somberly and slowly, every ounce of anger gone. He motioned to a bench and I sat.

He started pacing in front of me, and I walked him move back and forth in the moonlight.

"So, what was that all about?" I asked, truly wanting to know.

He sighed, "Jasper and Emmet don't like you. They think you're still trying to play me, and that everything you've done is just a ploy."

Resentment reflected in his eyes, and tears in mine.

"Do… Do you think that about me? That I would still want to play you?" I questioned, hurt clouding my face. I couldn't believe that this sweet, sensitive, guy could really think that everything I'd done was all an act.

"I don't know. Everything you've done seems to rule against it, but…"

I shook my head. How could he agree with people who barely knew me? How could he think I was so incredibly conceited that all I wanted to do was get the guy?

"But what?!" I yelled, "Am I completely unable to change? Was I so… so vile that I could never turn my life around? Was I?"

"Bella, you don't understand-" He began. I shook my head in disgust and stood from the bench . I began to walk in the direction of Winston, not caring that I was freezing, seeing that I didn't have my jacket.

I'd rather spend quality time with a snake than with Edward Cullen., I thought.

"Bella, wait!" cried Edward, grabbing my wrist just like he did at the dance, making my heart stop beating. Making the tears come back into my eyes.

But I was too stubborn to give in. For all I knew, he was playing me.

"Why?" I spat, "You don't care, You don't even really know me, You don't…"

He took two long strides forward and took my hands in his. They felt like ice, but for some reason I never wanted to let them go.

"Bella, stop. I know that I don't know you, and that it looks like I don't care, and anything else you were about to say, but that doesn't mean I don't want to be with you. It's just that… well, it's complicated."

"I'm not as stupid as you think I am. I'm a big girl, I know that emc2 ." I was always terrible at holding a grudge.

Edward took a deep sigh. "I came to Winston because…"

APOV

"What was that?" asked Rose.

"Nothing" murmured Emmet.

"Jasper?" I inquired.

"Edward likes Bella." he mumbled.

Rose smiled wide and began bouncing on her toes.

"I knew it, Alice. I told you so!"

I frowned. I had noticed that Edward had taken a liking to Bella, but I knew he wasn't stable just yet.

I barely knew what happened to cause him coming here, and if Edward didn't want to talk about it, it must have been important.

Edward and I shared everything with each other

"Then why does he seem so mad?" I asked, ignoring Rose for the moment.

"Because Bella can't change, no matter what you say." whispered Jasper, " No matter how hard she tries, she will always end up breaking him. She will always be a player."

"You're wrong." I retorted, "I've seen it first hand. And if you can't handle Bella, then you can't handle me."

I said, turning my heel so that I wouldn't have to face him.

"Emmet?" asked Rose, "Do you agree with him?"

Emmet nodded. Rose shot him a glare, forcing his head down.

"I'm leaving." I noted, "Rose?"

She nodded solemnly, over her giddiness at being right.

We began to walk out of the building, but Rose turned back to say,

"Until you get over yourselves and your boundaries, don't bother talking to us."

A/N: I guess you now know why this chapter was nothing too inportant, besides the whole Edward about to unmask his secret thing, but whatever.

I've had the next chapter figured out for ages, and you might recongnize that most of it is modeled after a song.

But, here's a snippet (teaser) from the next chapter:

I had never realized just how much my former lifestyle could hurt someone. Edward had nearly taken his life, and the cause could have been me...