A/N Thanks for the amazing response to the last chapter, and please let's keep it up, did I say please already? Please?

I have hairspray playing in my head- "Good morning Baltimore. Every night is a fantasy" Anyone who hasn't seen this movie, should watch it NOW! It's great. I can imagine myself living in 60's! And how great would it be if suddenly just everyone would start dancing and singing… Seaweed… "Ladies choooice!"

BPOV

The first thing I noticed when I woke up was a painful throbbing at the back of my head, and a hand stroking my cheek. I didn't want to open my eyes, thinking of the last time my head ached like this and I opened my eyes without checking first.

"Are the lights on?" I heard someone swear, and it sounded a lot like Jake, and then a crash. I presumed he dropped something.

"Give me some warning next time kid. Flutter your eyelids or something! Damn, that thing was expensive…fuck" I snorted but still didn't open my eyes. The person besides me hadn't spoken yet, but I couldn't help but hope it was Edward.

"Sure, I'll remember that for next time, but are the lights on?"

"Yeah… Why?" Jake sounded confused, and the hand stroking my face had stilled at my lower lip.

"Turn them off, please?" At this the person next to me chuckled, and I was sure it was Edward now, no one touched me like that except him… and I recognized his laugh. How pathetic is that?

"Sure…" he trailed off uncertainly and I could hear his heavy footsteps walking away before a distinct click and darkness behind my eye lids.

"You can open your eyes now Bella" Edward's voice was a quiet whisper in my ear, and I shivered when his breath blew across my neck. I opened my eyes slowly and was met by his green ones.

"Thank you" I smiled up at him and pecked his lips that were inches away from my face as he was leaning down, hovering over me. He smiled down at me and I got lost into his fiercely intense eyes. I felt like he was bearing himself to me and I wanted to see it all, bad and good. It didn't matter to me.

I don't know how long we sat there staring at each other when suddenly someone cleared their throat just besides us. I didn't jump or show any signs of hearing it and Edward didn't move one inch. I heard an annoyed sigh that I now recognized as Jake, and I moved my head to the right slightly and looked up at Jake, raising my eyebrow. I didn't interrupt his goo-goo moments with Leah either. He cringed at bit but didn't leave. Did my bitch brow need work?

"What?" it was clear he wasn't going to start even as he was the one who interrupted.

"Um… yeah- Are you alright?" I was confused for a second before the nights events brought themselves into focus. My body tensed as I remembered, and lying under Edward I could feel his arms tightening around me. I looked at him again and saw the concern in his eyes, and they flickered all over my face probably checking me for any signs of hurt. I smiled reassuringly before looking back at Jake.

"I'm fine." he was about to interrupt, knowing I was prone to not share when I was hurt " I truly am. My head hurts a bit, but that's it" he narrowed his eyes, and as I normally would have found that really annoying, I knew he had been really scared and concerned. I let him stare for a minute before he seemed satisfied. He smiled at me and glanced at Edward before sighing and walking away, to find Leah or whatever. He clicked on the light again as he left and I squinted for a moment but it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Edward wasn't paying attention to Jake at all, and I wondered how he was here, and how Jake hadn't said anything embarrassing yet.

"Are you alright?" his incredulous eyes shot to mine.

"Am I alright? I wasn't the one who got attacked, and knocked unconscious, again" I smiled at him as he ranted off, because he had been worried too.

"You were worried?" I cut him off and he narrowed his eyes at me. I tilted my head to the side and looked at him innocently. And he narrowed his eyes further and it almost looked like he wanted to yell.

"Of course I was worried! That bastard… he could have done anything to you-"

"The Edward Cullen, was worried about me?"

"Oh ha ha. Really funny, Swan. I'm terribly sorry for being worried about you" he huffed. I snickered and tilted my head up for an apology kiss, but he leaned away. I pouted and he narrowed his eyes.

"No kisses for you. Say sorry" he taunted me and it was my turn to narrow my eyes.

"Tell me you're sorry" I tried bringing his head down with my arms around his neck but he wouldn't budge; only smirked at my futile efforts. I huffed and glared at him but it only seemed to amuse him further. It was clear both my pout and arms needed a workout. Ugh. I hated saying sorry, because that usually meant having done something wrong and I didn't like being wrong.

"Arrhg… okay, okay. Sorry. Happy now? Get down here and fucking kiss me already!" I think he raised his eyebrow but I couldn't be sure as I crashed his face into mine and glued my lips to his. The kiss was intense and passionate and we were both gasping when we broke away from each other.

"Why didn't you call?" he almost looked angry again but I couldn't really blame him.

"I don't know. It wasn't raining and it wouldn't have taken long to walk…" he didn't seem satisfied at my answer but he must have realized that was all he was going to get.

We looked up from each other when we heard someone clearing their throat, again. What was it with these people? I almost blushed when I noticed Jake, Leah, Ben and Angela standing there watching us, almost but I don't blush. I noticed Ben holding Angela's hand and gave myself a mental high-five.

"What?" Jake shook his head and Leah smirked at me with a knowing smirk. Angela and Ben seemed to be more focused on each other than the people around them, and I couldn't be happier for her.

"Ben?" he didn't hear me. "BEN" he jumped and his head turned around to look around at us before noticing our staring and he and Angela both blushed scarlet. I snickered into Edward's shirt before looking at them again.

"Can you give Angela a ride home? I'm going with Edward-"

"Yeah, I'd love to." he said that last part looking at Angela and I awed. He turned red again before turning around and leading Angela outside.

"Bye!" I yelled after them but heard no reply. I shook my head in mock sadness before pushing on Edward to make him move and help me off this couch I was laying down on. He complied quickly and helped me up before setting me down in his lap and bringing me close to his chest. It was incredible how close we had become in the last week and maybe things were moving too fast, way too fast, but it wasn't like were getting married anytime soon just because we were kissing a bit now. I was shocked at my thoughts. Married? I was thinking of getting married to Edward after a day of dating him? Was I dating him? I liked to think of him as my boyfriend, but did he feel the same? Everything was so intense and all my rules had been thrown away and been replaced with Edward. He better not mess this up!

"What are you thinking about that's got your pretty little face crunched up?" I stuck out my tongue at him and he chuckled into my hair. It was amazing how intimate and sweet he could be when he wanted to.

Jake cleared his throat again and I raised my eyebrow at him. Give me a break. I just found out I wanted to marry this guy? But of course he didn't know that…

"What?" why could he never start speaking? Was it really that hard?

"Nothing honey, I think Jake has the beginnings of a cold, nothing serious!" She hissed the last part at Jake and he covered away. Poor guy wouldn't be getting it up anytime soon; I recognized the look Leah was giving him. Edward snickered and Jake's eyes snapped to him and he shut up immediately. Have to try that one sometime.

"I think it's time for us to head back, don't you think so too Edward? I'm sure Esme is going to be really worried by now" he nodded quickly before standing up, careful not to drop me.

We said our hurried goodbyes to Jake and Leah before quickly disappearing behind the curtain. I was sure I heard a whimper before I rushed out. Edward led me to his car parked just outside the car shop and even held the door open for me. This was a new side to Edward the jackass Cullen, and I kind of liked it… Oh, who was I kidding? I contemplated marrying him.

We sat in silence, but this time it seemed a bit forced. I never really felt awkward with Edward so this was a first. It was something big.

"Just spit it out, Edward" he sighed before turning his head slightly to look at me. He seemed hesitant.

"Do they know? About… Charlie?" I narrowed my eyes at him. No. They didn't know. They knew things were bad, but not the full extent of it all and I had no intentions of telling them.

"No. Why?" He better not have said anything.

"Just wondering. Are you coming to our house?" I nodded. I had no energy for Charlie tonight. We stayed silent for the rest of the drive but it didn't seem as awkward as before.

It didn't take very long before we arrived at the Cullen house, Edward drove like a maniac.

The house was dark and when I checked my watch I noticed how late it was. Everybody was probably already sleeping. Poor Esme, she must have been worried sick. I knew Edward noticed the time too as he checked around the house for any signs of life before opening the front door. He obviously believed Esme would still be up. We crept trough the house and into the kitchen. My head was still throbbing and I needed some painkillers.

The kitchen was dark too and I went to flip on the light so I would be able to see anything.

"Aaaaah- "someone clamped their hand over my mouth to stop my screaming. I stood there gasping with Edward behind me with his hand covering my mouth.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" I was too shocked to watch my mouth and Carlisle raised his eyebrow at me.

"Language Bella" I took a deep breath and shook my body from the shock before glancing back at Edward. He looked a bit apprehensive. I gave his hand a squeeze before walking over to the kitchen cabinet over the sink where I knew they stored all kinds of band aids and pills, cooking can be very dangerous you know, especially with me in the house.

"I had to force Esme to go to bed at midnight. Where have you been? And what's that bruise on your cheek Bella?" I looked at Edward and he looked down at the floor. Hmm. What did I look like? It was quite obvious that James's punch had left some kind of mark, the bruise Charlie left couldn't look pretty either.

"Nothing important-"

"Bella…"

"Alright…alright. Angle and I were walking over to the car shop when three guys came over to us. Nothing serious, I'm fine as you can see-"

"Have you seen yourself?" I shook my head but stopped when my head ached more. Carlisle must have noticed my grimace when he pushed me into a chair and began rummaging trough the cabinet before coming back with a Tylenol. I smiled at him before downing it with a glass of water. My lip stung but it was nothing I couldn't handle.

"We'll talk about this later; you two should get some sleep. I called Charlie but he didn't answer, call him in the morning" I swallowed the fury and nodded before dragging Edward's stiff form upstairs. I could hear Carlisle closing his and Esme's bedroom door and looked over at Edward.

"Is it okay if I sleep with you?"

"Yeah, of course. Come on, let's go" the medication was making me sleepy so I let Edward lead me trough the house towards his room. I didn't hesitate to take my jeans of and hop into the big bed and nestling myself under the thick duvet, and looked back at Edward who stood frozen in the door way.

"Tired?" he laughed before following my example and taking his pants off and hopping in besides me. It exited me more than it should, I admit it. He hesitated again when I snuggled closer to his side but when I put my arm around his stomach he lifted his arm behind my neck and let his fingers trail over my spine. I shivered and snuggled even closer. He kissed my forehead before burying his face into my hair and soon I could hear his light snores. It didn't take me long to drift off after that.

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When I woke up it was considerably lighter and I craned my neck to look out the window. It was cloudy as usual and it had to be somewhere around noon. I glanced down at Edward and decided not to wake him as he looked so peaceful and instead started the task of getting out of his arms without waking him. It took a while, and after some incoherent mumbling from Edward and turning his face into his pillow I was free. Not that I was complaining in the first place, it was just that my bladder was going to explode any second. I tiptoed as fast as I could to the bathroom and closed the door quietly before rushing to the toilet and doing my business. When I was done I walked over to the sink to wash my hands. I glanced up at the mirror and had to make a double take just to make sure. My lower lip had doubled from its normal size over the night and the bruise that Charlie left on my cheek now had a bigger and darker companion besides it. I groaned before splashing my face with some cold water and walking quietly out in the hallway. I contemplated waking up Edward, to have him with me to act like a buffer with Esme but I hardly think he would be able to help as Esme was just as mad at him as me… so as the very brave person I am, I trudged downstairs. I could hear voice's from Alice's room, and recognized them as Alice and Rosalie… I would steer clear from the second floor today.

I walked in to the kitchen but froze in the doorway.

No way… not today! Emmett and Jasper were sitting at the kitchen table both nursing a cup of coffee in their hands and staring wide eyed at me, I'm sure my eyes matched theirs.

"What are you doing here?" Emmett and I asked at the same time. I raised an eyebrow.

"I asked first" Jasper snorted and Emmett smiled slightly.

"Rosalie and Alice wanted to hang out, and Alice is grounded so… we came here" he shrugged and I cursed. Maybe it wasn't that good that Alice was grounded after all.

"Your turn" I scowled at the both of them.

"None of your fucking business. There's more coffee?" they stared at me quite shocked. Had I ever talked to them before? I knew my mouth wasn't the cleanest out there, but c'mon it wasn't that bad. It was early morning and I just woke up, okay late noon and I just woke up.

"What happened to your face?" Jasper actually sounded quite sincere, and I studied them both for a long moment before opening my mouth to answer them, but I didn't get far before Edward walked into the kitchen and froze in the doorway at the sight of Emmett and Jasper.

"What are you doing here?"

"Good morning to you too Edward, so nice to see you. Slept well?" they thought they were so sneaky, casting glances at each other and then between us. I rolled my eyes before taking my cup of coffee and walking out of the kitchen, kissing Edward's cheek on the way out.

EPOV

She threw me to the wolfs when she left the kitchen like that, hips swaying and hair blowing out after her. I rubbed my cheek and looked over at the guys. Jasper and Emmett were speechlessly staring after her before turning their eyes my way. They blinked in unison and I rolled my eyes before going to the coffee pot. I was still tired but I had woken up when I noticed Bella wasn't in bed with me anymore. I figured she had gone down for breakfast and here I find her with these two idiots. The only good thing in this was that I knew they were on my side.

I wondered where Esme was. I had thought she would have been home to scold us and then cook us some big breakfast. Or I had hoped.

"Where's Esme?" they were still staring at me and I had to wait for one of them to snap out of it. No surprise Jasper was first.

"She said something about some errands to run and Carlisle is at work. We passed them when we came here" I nodded and opened the fridge. No Esme's breakfast and I was starving. The fridge was practically empty and I hoped the errands Esme was running included grocery shopping. I grabbed myself and apple before closing the fridge and walking over to the table and sat down besides Jasper. Emmett still looked a little dazed and I wondered what he was thinking, or on a second thought I really didn't want to know.

"Has she always been so…so…? I don't know? Cool?" I chuckled and thought back to the day behind the gym.

"Yeah, we just never knew"

"I like Bella" Emmett said matter-of-factly before he too stood and raided our fridge. Jasper at least had some kind of manners, not that I cared.

"What happened to her face? That bruise looked nasty" I scowled at the memory of yesterday. I still wanted to kill that man but I knew nothing about that bastard. I couldn't find him even as I wanted to; I didn't even know his name.

"She was attacked yesterday." I wanted to mention Charlie too, but I wouldn't do it, Bella didn't know them and didn't know how great they were, even as they acted like idiots most of the time, everyone has flaws. "Three men, she and Angela were walking back to Jake's car shop" Jasper looked confused but nodded. Oh, they didn't know about Jake and Leah, or the fact that we were in Port Angeles yesterday. Emmett looked quite livid. He was always very protective and protected everyone he cared about, and now Bella was too.

"I can see that you got closer since last time. She your girlfriend?" Emmett, always straight to the point. It threw me of the loop for a minute. I hadn't thought about it that way. It just was. I didn't need a label, but I could see how they thought she was my girlfriend, and I couldn't deny I kind of liked it.

"Yeah, I guess" I shrugged, but Jasper perked up.

"She's been here yesterday?"

"Yeah…"

"She was the one who destroyed Alice's closet?" I nodded slowly, not sure where he was going with this. Emmett's eyes widened again. Yeah, I know she is awesome.

"She did?" I nodded again.

"I'm… speechless" Jasper looked dumbstruck.

"Her closet… she's so freaking pissed. It was awesome" he looked the way Bella had disappeared in awe.

"I fucking love her" at this my ears perked up and I glared at the back of his head. The rational part of my brain knew he was joking and that he loved Alice, but the other one, the possessive jealous one wanted to beat him into a pulp. I took a deep breath and tried calming down.

"You like her because she cut Alice's closet to pieces?"

"It was time for her to come back to reality, and as I'm pretty fond of the night activities, I didn't know how to tell her…" he just didn't know when to shut up. First he loves my girlfriend and then he talks about how he fucks my baby sister, granted we were twins and I was livid with her, but c'mon!

"That's my sister you know. But you're right, she's changed" So maybe this was a good thing. I was still going to avoid Alice some time longer, she was obviously still pissed about her clothes. I just hoped they wouldn't find out Bella was in the house again, it wouldn't end pretty with both Alice and Rosalie here.

"What are we doing today?" they both shrugged.

"We're just here because they're here. We thought we would hang out with you" they shrugged again.

"As much as that's flattering, I don't know what Bella-"

"Yeah, sure. No problem. You play nice, I play nice" We all turned around and noticed Bella standing in the doorway with her arms crossed and a raised eyebrow. She looked kind of mad but still really amused. Emmett and Jasper flinched and she smirked. I shrugged and walked up to her.

"Watch a movie or something?" she nodded and led the way to the living room, and we all followed like little lost puppies. I think I heard Emmett couching 'whipped' behind my back, I jabbed him with my elbow.

"You can choose Emmett" Bella said walking over to the loveseat and dragging me with her. She pushed me down and sat down on my lap, I wrapped my arms around her and brought her closer, still cautious with her ribs. She rolled her eyes at Emmett and Jasper who were again exchanging glances.

"Well? Choose something"

We ended up watching some kind of horror, and let me say it was shit. Why did we even have this movie? But Bella laughed at every head blown off and dead twitching corpse. I hadn't seen her this happy ever, and she never laughed this much. I kissed her neck and she wriggled her ass in my lap, I stilled her with my hands on her hips not wanting to have to sit trough the rest of the movie with a boner. She smirked at me over her shoulder and I narrowed my eyes at her. Half way trough the movie we could hear footsteps coming down the stairs the same time we could hear a car coming up the driveway. Alice and Rosalie emerged into the living room at the same time as the front door opened and Esme came inside. They glowered at Bella darkly before smiling sweetly Esme's way.

"Hello girls. You kids hungry at all? I could make-"

"No thank you Esme. We were just going to come and take Jasper and Emmett upstairs." Rosalie smiled before sinking her nails into Emmett's arm. I could actually see him wince and he was dragged upstairs. Alice glared at me and Bella before she too dragged Jasper upstairs.

"Hello Esme" Bella stopped the movie and walked after Esme into the kitchen. I followed quietly not wanting to draw attention to myself. I could see Esme was building it up.

"Where were you? No call, no text? Right after the accident too. No one knew where you were or when you were coming home! Bella I know I'm not your mother, but please don't make me go trough something like that again. I love you and I don't want to see you hurt" I could see tears in Bella's eyes. I knew it meant a lot to her. But now Esme was rounding on me. I gulped but before she could begin Bella had pounced on her and wrapped her arms around her. Esme's eyes softened and she stroked Bella's hair whispering in her hair. Her gaze landed on me and her eyes told me this was not over. I nodded sheepishly and backed out of the kitchen.

On my way upstairs I ran into Carlisle, and he looked really bad. His lip was busted and his hair was dishevelled. I had never seen my dad like this.

"What happened to you?" his eyes snapped to me and smiled reassuringly.

"Nothing too important. But would you have time to talk to me for a minute?" I nodded and followed him upstairs. He led me into his study and sat down behind the desk and motioned for me to take a seat. I frowned but complied quietly.

"Edward…" he hesitated, and I wondered what could be this important.

"Edward, do you know anything about Charlie, Bella's father?" I froze and my eyes widened.

He knew.

A/N okay, so what you think? I'm pretty happy with it… Leave a comment or flame. And for god sake's watch Hairspray! You think we could make it to two hundred?