AN: Thank you for all your reviews for the last chapter! I can't believe you all read my chapters so fast! I am trying to get a chapter up a day, so hopefully by February or at least March I will be able to start my sequel! I'm really happy, already I have had over 1,400 views for January alone (on all my stories) and yesterday I got almost 500! I have had 1,248 hits for this story in ten days too, it's awesome! This makes me slightly hyper, as you might have guessed! I think the Autumn Dance will be about Chapter 12 or 13, and thank you to Siriusly-LOLing and soxmuchxmorexx3 for inspriring this idea with their reviews, as I had a slight case of writer's block =[

"We need to talk." Was all he said. I looked at him. We did need to talk. I decided to tell him what my thoughts were before he could even open his mouth.

"Why are you so mad at me? Why is Mr. Cullen so mad at me? What have I done?" I begged. I wanted to know. I HAD to know. I hadn't done anything! Did they think it was my fault that James liked me too much? It wasn't my fault! It slightly was, as if I had gone back with Edward, none of this would have happened. But it was JAMES who had done this to me, it wasn't as if I had had a say in any of this!

"Oh Bella. Bella, Bella, Bella." I glanced at Edward. At least I now knew that he knew my name. "Bella, we aren't mad at you. Why would we be mad at you? I couldn't be mad at you! It's James we're all mad at, not you! You are just so… vulnerable. I don't ever want to see you hurt."

His words helped a bit, but his comment about me being vulnerable stung a bit. I could so take care of myself; I didn't need some perfect, bronze-haired, gorgeous, human version of Adonis to help me get through life! I didn't! Edward carried on with his little speech.

"Bella, do you realize how hard it was to stop myself from just killing James, there and then? He was standing right near the stairs, just one little push and it would all be over. No more James, no more worries. All that stopped me was the fact that I'd never see you again. You wouldn't want to be near some psycho murderer. Would you?"

I looked up into his startlingly beautiful emerald green eyes. He held my gaze and it was me who looked away first. I was no match for him. No match for anything. In looks, intelligence… nothing. Why he would even want to be around me, I had no idea. No idea whatsoever. I would want to be with Edward whether he was psycho murderer of not.

"You WOULD?" Edward asked incredulously. I looked up. I had said that out loud?! Oops.

"Yes…" I mumbled, trying to think of something witty and intelligent to say. As usual I had nothing. I looked down at the floor, trying to use my hair as a curtain to stop Edward from seeing the unavoidable blush flood my cheeks.

"Bella." Edward whispered my name and sat down next to me. He put his arm round my shoulders and I tried to control my breathing. My heart was erratic, beating ten to the dozen. He pulled me into a one-armed hug and I felt his lips touch my hair.

"Bella." He said again. I leaned into him, inhaling his fragrance. It was a mixture of Calvin Klein Eternity and well… Edward. Unlike most boys back home, he didn't smell of sweat or anything else similarly disgusting. He just smelt of… Edward. It was an indescribable fragrance, a personal perfume. I leant my head on his shoulder and he stroked my hair. His touch was soft. I closed my eyes, and my daydream began.

"Bella? Bella? Bella, wake up!" I opened my eyes and saw Alice and Rosalie standing over me. I was in my own bed. Unlike in my dream, I was alone. I should really have PG-13 dreams. Especially as I talk in my sleep.

"What time is it?" I mumbled, rather incoherently, pushing myself up onto my elbows. Rosalie obviously guessed what I was trying to say. She glanced at the digital clock by Alice bed (which was pink and lilac and had 'Prada' printed over it.

"Ten past three." She told me and my eyes widened,

"I didn't know I fell asleep…" I muttered and Alice snickered.

"Yeah, you did. On Edward's shoulder." I collapsed back down into my pillows and groaned.

"Oh, jeez. Is Mr. Cullen going to give me a detention?" I sighed. Charlie would be so disappointed with me. I hadn't even been at King's for a month yet!

"Not after he saw the video tapes. We got dad to install CCTV after someone stole the school trophy for a dare." I smiled weakly; we did have something on James after all. I was scared that they would just think that I was making it all up for attention or something. James always seemed to get his way. He got out of detentions with such transparent excuses that the teachers always fell for. It was like a talent.

"Tanya has already got statements from us but Edward told us all to leave you alone because you had had a hard time." Alice confessed. "James had to call his dearest mommy to get himself a lawyer! We could hear her screaming at him and it wasn't even on speakerphone."

I chuckled. I could totally imagine James' smug grin disappearing as he felt the full force of his mom's anger at him sexually harassing a girl and needing a lawyer as she was taking him to court for it. According to Alice, James' lawyer was a rather fat woman with a strong Texas drawl.

"Her hair is so flat, like someone has ironed her scalp. Except without the burn marks, obviously. It's black, and it's so obviously dyed! You can totally see her roots showing through. Her clothes are so out of fashion too! She was wearing a GOLD bomber jacket and khaki pants! How out of season!" I was trying not to laugh at Alice's complaints of James' lawyer's dress sense. While Alice was babbling on about how ugly the metallic bomber jacket was, I heard a knock on the door. I excused myself to leave Rosalie with Alice, and went over to open the door. It was Edward.

A/N: I am trying to write another chapter tonight! I honestly will try, but I don't know if I will have time as dinner is in twenty minutes, then I go to sleep at about 10:30pm which is only about four hours away! And I have homework =[ I hate school, it sucks! Please review and tell me what you think of this chapter!