Edward

I woke up stiff and compacted in an awkward position on the downstairs floor and I slowly crept open my eyes to peek around. There were people covering the floor all asleep where they had fallen and they were draped over the furniture and up the stairs and I prayed for the safety of others that there wasn't anybody in my room. Last night had been crazy. Every one had enjoyed themselves. Even me; and that's what worried me maybe the most. Bella had completely blown my mind and I was now desperately trying to scrape the evidence from the walls. Speaking of Bella I was sure that she had fallen asleep next to me, in my arms on the softness of the sofa. I sat upright, strained my eyes over the many bodies now gathered in the house but she wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Bella?" I whispered as a hiss, and I kicked off my shoes and tiptoed off the couch and over the surrounding bodies. I strode over the people below me, barely recognising any of them. Unfortunately I did notice Alice and Jasper wrapped up together in a blanket on the hard floor. I craned my head around the walls of the house and I couldn't see her any where. I gave up and decided to go to the kitchen to soak up any left over alcohol. I reached the kitchen and I saw her outside in the surprisingly bright morning sunshine and she was lying down on the ground facing up and even from here I could see the large grin that covered her face. I grabbed a cup for her too and jogged out to her.

"Morning" I greeted taking a seat next to her and she got up sluggishly from her comfortable state.

"Morning" She grumbled looking curiously at the drink I was offering to her but she took it with a wary smile.

"What was wrong with the sofa?" I asked out of curiosity and she smiled broadly at me; she clearly thought that I missed her presence when I woke up in the morning. Yeah, she wishes…

"Nothing…" She toyed but continued, "I don't really sleep well away from home" She grumbled, "Plus, I love the sun" She added smiling up at the rarely seen sun beaming down upon us.

"Didn't you just move here?" I asked and I finally got to take in her fresh brown eyes that reflected the light brightly when she flashed them up to me but I smiled encouragingly at her.

"Yeah…" She answered warily but her hand found my hand and intertwined her fingers into mine and that made my smile grow and threw me a little of track for a while, I only came back when she shook our hands impatiently.

"Well, do you count Forks as your home yet? You've only been here like sixteen days at the most" I asked again and her expression changed.

"Phoenix didn't feel like home. I adapt well" She replied and tried to add humour to the end but it wasn't shining through like she wished it would.

"Why Forks?" I asked completely dumb founded, if she liked the sun and the heat so much why did she come to the most depressingly rainy place in the world?

"Because I don't have anywhere else to go, for f*** sake would you mind dropping the twenty questions" She answered quickly and harshly, getting bored of the conversation and bored of the questions.

"I'm sorry, please beat me down I only wanted to know you better" I retorted defensively.

"Well maybe you just shouldn't" She said angrily and flopped back down onto her back so she could take in the sun again, but she still had my hand tightly in hers, when she felt my fingers move she quickly tightened her grip even more and stroked tiny patterns onto my skin with her soft fingers. I fell back against the grass and lay staring up at the blank sky with her.

"You know what I'm going to interrupt this 'peacefulness'. It's bugging me anyway" I stated pulling her up with me and I turned to sit next to her.

"You can't blame me for not knowing something" I argued and she stared at me flabbergasted at my behaviour, she clearly thought when she said end of that that would be it. Nope, not with me.

"It's not something I want to talk about" She mumbled shyly and I thought about back-tracking, but didn't.

"Well how am I supposed to know that? We haven't said more than two words to each other. You can't just snap at me for trying to know you" I spoke angrily but it lost all power when she looked at me with her big eyes.

"Sorry" She mumbled and shuffled her head onto my shoulder, losing all energy to the argument.

"I'm sorry" She said again and she wrapped her free arm around my neck. I lifted her legs with my free arm and pulled them onto mine so she was sitting on my lap. I lost my anger and I started to stroke her hair soothingly.

"But you could tell me Bella, if you ever wanted to. I would listen" I whispered to her with a small smile. She smiled up at me warily but placed her head on my shoulder again. We sat in a now comfortable silence for a while.

"Did you end up enjoying the party?" She asked sleepily and I let out a breathe of laughter.

"Surprisingly yes, I mean it was a bit touch and go when you arrived" I joked and she 'battered' me very weakly with her hand and laughed lightly.

"I did have a good time" I told her honestly and she smiled brightly at me.

"Me too, surprisingly" She mumbled happily.

"You really didn't sleep well did you" I commented, stroking the hair down her partially bare back.

"I was enjoying being awake" She grumbled into my chest.

"You won't enjoy being awake so much when Alice wakes up" I warned her and she raised her eyebrows cautiously, waiting for me to continue.

"We can't keep not telling her" I said

"Yeah but what aren't we telling her. I have a clue, do you?" She rambled but she made the most sense that she had made all last night. I didn't have any idea what we were doing. I didn't think it mattered as long as we both knew that whatever it was that we both wanted it.

"But we could just tell her that there isn't anything to tell so she could just calm the crap down" I said with a humour and she laughed along too.

"Come on Ali is your sister; you should know that she would never calm down" Bella spoke cheerfully when talking about Alice and it made me slightly jealous that she hadn't spoken about me like that or that she knew my sister probably better than I did.

"You call her Ali?" I asked in disbelief,

"Yeah she calls me Bells too" She said happily.

"I didn't think that you two knew each other that well" I kind-of moped as I stroked her back protectively.

"We just clicked I guess" She mumbled looking into my eyes happily but she was trying to find the emotion that attached to the end of my voice. I hoped that she wouldn't. We sat there in silence again when neither of us knew what to say.

"Right, do you want to sleep somewhere nice for a while?" I asked when her sleepy heavy head fell against my shoulder again.

"Maybe for a little while" She whispered and she started to struggle to get up. I helped her with a steadying hand on her arm and leading her towards the house. She was stumbling in her heels and I was impressed that she still had them on. I spotted some aimless people racing from the house to get back home before their parents noticed and the squeal of tires as they drove quickly from the house. They always happened to leave before they could be roped in to help tidy up the state that our lovely house was always left in.

I led Bella to my room, which sounds a little bit brutish and dangerous but I knew that nobody ever went into my room…Except Bella, and I had the softest bed in the house, there wasn't any competition. The walk up to my room however was treacherous, there was just about everything everywhere. People had dispersed slowly but there were still a lot of people hanging around, luckily Alice or "Ali" and Jasper were still soundly asleep.

"I can't sleep in here Edward" She complained whilst snuggling under the thin blanket.

"Yeah you can" I encouraged going over to collect my iPod and I lay down next to her but not underneath the covers. I had slept plenty enough, even though when we eventually fell asleep I hadn't wanted to I had slept like a baby, or even better than a baby.

"But" She started to argue but I covered her mouth with my hand and shook my head.

"Shush Bella" I told her firmly and she nodded obediently and she kissed the inside of my palm before rolling over and falling to sleep. I listened as her breathing slowed and she stretched out slowly. I turned my iPod on and gave my brain a chance to process. The tiniest little kiss on the inside of my hand sent electricity running through my veins and I wanted to feel the same energy run through me again but she was dead asleep so I closed my eyes and let my imagination run as it wanted to.

Bella

I happily fell asleep on top of his large and very soft bed. Normally I struggle to get to sleep as I did last night, or this morning if you want to be technical. I was now in a light sleep but I didn't want to wake up properly because I felt Edward's still presence next to me or very close at the least. I decided not to ruin it because like all the times before I was unaware as to how long it would last.

"Edward?!" I heard Alice screech up the stairs but I didn't hear Edward move the slightest. I opened one of my eyes to look around cautiously and I had gotten a lot closer to Edward than I thought. I was basically lying on him and cradled into his side. He had his arm laying on the pillow above my head because I had shuffled down, we weren't touching but I argued internally whether to inch forward so I could lay with him. I slammed my eyes shut as I heard Alice's frantic steps running up the stairs. I steadied my breathing and reached out my hand to touch Edward's t-shirt, I tangled my fingers in it and his hand found mine, detangled my fingers and twined his into mine.

"Edward?" Alice shouted but with a little more gentility as she swung the door open and came stomping in. But I heard her stop and gasp.

"For f*** sake" She moaned,

"Hey Jazz, come look" She called and I heard Jasper's obedient footsteps follow up the stairs where she had just been. He stomped up to Edward's room and repeated the exact same gasp that Alice had just delivered.

"Wow, does this mean Edward is like nice now or something?" Jasper sound completely astounded.

"I don't know" Alice said still utterly confused.

"Em! You've gotta come see this" Jasper yelled down the stairs but released a 'humph' of air when I guessed that Alice elbowed him in the stomach or something.

"They can wake up, and then I don't think he will feel so calm" Alice warned as Emmett and I guess Rosalie thundered up the stairs and reached the door because they gasped as the other two had done. Although I thought I had been asleep for plenty long enough I was growing tired of being the entertainment this morning.

"Wow" Rosalie gasped,

"This has shocked me so much I don't have anything funny to add" Emmett sulked and everyone started laughing but then stopped suddenly when Edward shifted our weight, he pulled us slightly towards them and I was dragged onto his chest and I rested my head comfortably there, his other arm curled around my back and held me to his side.

"N'aww" I heard Alice release and I could basically hear the confused faces and raised eyebrows that everybody was surely giving her.

"Guys, we better go – this is pretty rude" Jasper urged and I prayed that they would listen to him. I heard them shuffle away 'quietly' and laughing at themselves along with several shushes from various members of my new friends. I smiled at the thought.

"I thought they would never leave" Edward mumbled opening his eyes and his voice shot mine open and I stared up at him mystified.

"You were awake?" I asked dumbly, shuffling up so I was closer to his face.

"Yep" He said proudly, rolling us back over so we were both laid down on our sides facing each other.

"Huh" I mumbled and looked down awkwardly.

"Hey, hey what is it?" He asked with his voice full of panic, he tilted my chin up gently with one of his long strong fingers.

"Nothing" I answered honestly but I couldn't help my eyes flicker to his lips. I wanted them to be on mine, just to see. I didn't know why, he irritated me to no end but there was an energy between us that I could no longer ignore. It wouldn't be sensible.

"Just to see?" He asked carefully, tilting his head downwards towards mine.

"But what if it's not what we want it to be?" I blurted as he neared my lips.

"What do you want it to be?" He asked quickly and his eyes bored into mine but to know avail, I wasn't keeping an answer I just genuinely didn't know it.

"What do you want it to be?" I asked sneakily, avoiding my answer and going straight for his. He smiled at my mischievousness.

"I'm not going all crazy about it" He argued playfully

"I'm not going crazy" I argued back

"Yeah, you clearly have been for a long time" He laughed manically to himself and I scowled at him. I crossed my arms sulkily across my chest and he laughed more.

"No, come on Bella" He tried to unwrap my arms but I kept them tight.

"Bella" He moaned again and tugged hard on my arms.

"Hey, that hurt!" I complained pulling away from him again.

"Oh shush you, no it didn't" He said now growing impatient he flopped onto his back and stared up at the ceiling.

"For f*** sake, of course I was going crazy about it. We can't say anything without annoying each other!" I argued but his stare never came back to mine, he was staring at the ceiling still.

"I know that" He said calmly, "I was thinking that maybe it was more than that" He said running his hands through his hair and gripping his hair loosely. I was lost at how to reply to that.

"I don't even know what 'it' is" I complained, shredding his blanket and getting out of the comfortable warmth of his bed and stood expectantly at the end.

"Neither do I" He shrugged sitting upright but his shoulders were heavy and sunken, looking at me only out of the corners of his eyes.

"Then maybe there isn't an 'it' here" I pointed between the both of us, it made sense what I was saying but I didn't feel it was true and I knew the rejection would sting if he agreed.

"Maybe not" He mumbled not lifting his eyes to me. He gripped the bridge of his nose tightly.

"So I should just leave then?" I asked carefully, I didn't want him to say yes. I could feel my eyes shimmer over and even though I didn't want to leave I knew I had to.

"No" he said coldly but he got up and walked to me and wrapped his arms around my waist. He finally lifted his eyes and they widened in shock when he saw mine, tears threatening to spill over. He crawled on hand up to my neck and pulled me in gently. Without a second warning he closed the gap between us and we were kissing. His lips were soft and smooth and it was innocent but pure. I could feel that this wasn't a path that my brain wanted to follow but my body and my heart would be damned if I said no.

He pulled away and left my lips wanting his again, my mouth fell into a smile and my hands were clutching at his arms that were holding me so close to him at my neck, his eyes were still closed and his smile was large like mine.

"There 'it' is" He laughed lightly and he pressed his lips back against mine.