I looked at Edward, just staring. He gazed back at me.

He said, 'I love you,' and I should be saying something back! He said 'I love you!' Bella, you stupid idiot, say something back! Don't hyperventilate!! Get out of your shock state!!

"Bella…?" Edward called.

I shook my head. "Eh…?"

"Are you okay…?" Edward asked. I grinned at him. Then I attacked him…by kissing.

"I" kiss "freaking" kiss "waited" kiss "for" kiss "you" kiss "to" kiss "say" kiss "that!" I exclaimed happily between kisses.

He laughed under my lips, which made me laugh too. I stopped kissing him.

"So…," I started, "…I guess you caved in…"

"Yeah," he answered. "Alice will be happy."

I giggled. "That's true! But then Emmett will be mad at you."

"I'll manage." He bent down and captured my lips.

We kept kissing, but then someone knocked. Edward growled under my lips.

"I don't have to get it," I mumbled under his lips. He started to kiss at my neck.

"Let's go with that then," he mumbled on my skin. My fingers were tangled in his hair, while his hands are tracing my face.

The door was banging now.

I let go of Edward with a groan. "Jeez, people! Can't we kiss in peace?!" I stomped towards the door and threw it open. It was Emmett, Alice, Jasper, and Rosalie.

"What?!" I asked irritated.

"Goodness, Bells," Emmett said. "Time of month, much?"

I growled at him. I felt warm, strong arms snake around my waist. I leaned back at his muscular chest. Edward put his chin on my right shoulder.

"What's wrong, love?" Edward asked lovingly. "Is the teddy bear irritating you?"

"Yes," I muttered. "Along with Tinkerbell and friends…"

Everyone laughed. All I did was blush. Gosh, I hate attention…

"So," Alice started saying, "my eyes are showing me that someone caved in first."

"Well?" Emmett urged. "Who was it?"

I didn't say anything. Let's torture them for a little while.

Alice glared at me. "Hello! Are you deaf?!"

Emmett groaned. "She's doing the silent-let's-torture-them…torture!" Then he sniffled. "She learned from the best!"

I rolled my eyes at him. "Edward caved in first." Emmett quickly became angry. "And you say I have my time of the month…," I muttered. Edward chuckled at that.

"You!" Emmett pointed a big finger accusingly at Edward. "You—you—you made me lose my 50 bucks to a pixie!!" Alice was doing a victory dance singing, "50 bucks!! Woo-hoo!!"

"Calm down," I said still irritated.

Then Emmett started to whine, "Man, Bella! Why didn't you cave in?!"

I replied simply, "Because I didn't want to."

"But—!" he started to protest.

"Shut up," I scolded. "Rosalie—control your boyfriend. He's irritating me to death!" Right on cue, Rosalie whacked him on the back of his head.

"Ow, Rose!" Emmett complained.

"Baby," she muttered. Alice suddenly came bouncing towards Edward and me. She hugged both of us really tight.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you…!" she kept saying.

"Alice! Can't…!" I tried to say.

"Alice, can you let go?" Edward asked in his sister's tight hug.

She let go. "Oops, sorry!"

"It's not fair, Bella!" Emmett whined once again. "I wanted 50 bucks!"

"Bite me, Emmett," I snapped.

"I would, but you might taste bad," Emmett teased.

"I'd gladly bite you," Edward whispered seductively in my ear. I blushed.

"What did Edward say that made you look like a tomato?" Rosalie asked, her voice teasing.

"Nah, I think she would put tomatoes to shame with a blush like that since she gets self-conscious all the time. She just gets redder and redder and redder…," Emmett joined in.

"Why does everybody like to tease me so much?" I asked myself.

"Because it's fun!" exclaimed the pixie—Alice.

"Guys—stop teasing her," Edward scolded.

"Yes," Jasper agreed, speaking for the first time, "let's tease Edward now."

Edward growled.

"You're not a mountain lion, Eddie," Emmett teased. "Just because it's one of your favorite animals doesn't mean you have to act like it!"

"Shut your dirty trap, Winnie the Pooh," Edward teased back.

"What did you say, Eddie?"

"Want me to repeat it, Care Bear?"

"I ain't scared of the king of the jungle!"

"Who says 'ain't' nowadays?"

"Who says 'nowadays'?"

"Apparently normal Americans, Little Bear."

"Why are you teasing me with these—these bear comments?!"

"Because it's fun," Edward quoted Alice's statement earlier.

"You know what, Eddie?"

"What, Emmett?"

"I know what!" I exclaimed sarcastically. "Shut up! That's what! So you guys should just shut up!"

"You'll make Ms. Cope scold us for being loud!" Alice scolded. "And we're her favorite girls!"

"Do I still have to pay her 50 bucks?" Emmett asked.

"Yes!" we all said.

"Fine." He dug through his pockets and took out a crumpled 50 dollar bill. "Here," he said while holding it out. Alice happily grabbed it from his big hand.

"Hip, hip…," she exclaimed, waiting for us to say the next part. "You guys better say it," she threatened.

Nobody said anything.

"You guys better—"

I sighed. "Hurray," I said dully.

She clapped. "Congrats, Bells! You aren't going to be tortured, but you're going to help with my torture thingy. While the others"—she glared at Edward, Emmett, Rosalie, and her beloved boyfriend, Jasper—"are going to suffer."

"I get to torture people?" I asked. She nodded. "Hurray!" This time it wasn't fake.

Edward POV

"Oh, dang…," Emmett muttered. "I taught Bellsy everything I know about torture, and then Alice taught her more stuff about the torture life." He looked at me. "Let me tell you something, Edward—Bella can be more menacing than Alice and me combined. So…watch out."

I blinked. My Bella…? "What do you mean?"

"That if Bella is on the revenge rampage…she can really go overboard," he said seriously. I gulped. Great…I'm scared of my own innocent girlfriend…

Then Rosalie whined, "I don't want to be tortured!"

"Oh, quit your whining! That's Emmett's job!" Alice scolded.

"Can't we girls torture the boys?!" Rosalie suggested. Alice and Bella turned to Rosalie, grinning widely.

"Excellent," they both said. Rosalie sighed in relief and walked towards them.

"Aw, great, now Rosalie's in it, too!" Emmett complained. Jasper nodded in agreement.

"What can we say?" I said. "We're fools in love."

"Amen to that!" cried Emmett.

"Mm-hm," Jasper agreed.

"Oh, boys!" Alice sang. We all looked at her.

"What?" we all said.

"Let's play a game!"

"What kind of game?" I asked.

"It's called, 'I never,'" my angel told me.

"I love that game!" Emmett said.

"Then let's play," Jasper groaned; I did, too.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Emmett said. "Don't we need…booze?"

"Who says 'booze'?" I asked.

"No beer!" Bella announced. "Soda—good. Beer—bad! Charlie will be disappointed when he hears you actually suggest that!"

"No!" Emmett shouted. "Don't tell daddy!" I chuckled at his immatureness.

We all sat in a circle—the girls on one side, the guys on the other. Alice gave us three cans of Pepsi each.

"Why Pepsi?" Jasper asked.

"Because it's blue!" Bella cried. It always was her favorite color.

"Oh."

"I'm first!" Alice announced.

"Why you?" Emmett complained.

Alice sighed, "What is with people and these questions? Because!"

"Because what?"

"It's…because! Let's start!" she exclaimed. "Open it up!" We all opened it up. "Okay…I never…shop-lifted!"

Emmett drank.

"Emmett!" Rosalie said incredulous. "I never believed…"

"He wanted to try," Bella said curtly. "Idiot…" Rosalie nodded in agreement. "I'm next! I never…kissed someone of the same sex!"

Whoa…Bella…

Everybody stared at her with stricken expressions. She was usually so…innocent.

Nobody drank. Oh thank goodness!

"I'm n-next," Rosalie stammered, still shocked by Bella's…weird question. "I never…beat up anyone."

We all drank.

"Okay, now we have to explain who we beat up!" Alice explained. "Eddie—you first!"

I sighed. I looked at Bella, and smiled at her; she smiled back.

"It was in…senior year… Wait a minute, do we have to say how many people we beat up, too?" I asked.

"Yup!" Alice said.

"Um, okay… Senior year… This guy named Felix was talking vulgar things about Bella so I beat him up," I said.

"So that's why I haven't seen him in awhile…," Bella murmured to herself.

I chuckled. "Okay, next—"

"How many guys did you beat up?" Alice asked.

"Um…a lot…," I admitted. I hope Bella didn't think of me as a violent person.

"You lost count or something?" Bella asked.

"At…I think, at about 10," I answered.

"Let me guess—it all involved sick, perverted guys saying disgusting stuff about little Bella over here, am I right?" Alice smirked.

"Some of it…," I muttered, blushing a little.

"Since it's a lot you beat up, you can just say…um…two, perhaps?" she asked.

"Sure…," I said. "Anyways, so yeah Felix… Next is Eric—he's really good at drawing Star War kinds of characters, and he drew Bella as a Star War character."

"How do you know?" Jasper asked.

"He sits next to me in first period." I grimaced. "So he drew Bella, but he drew her in"—I clenched my teeth—"obscene clothing."

Bella blushed. Emmett growled.

"Ew," everyone else said.

"Remind me to pay him a little visit," Emmett said between his teeth.

"I'll join," I said.

"Me, too," Jasper joined.

"Definitely us!" Rosalie and Alice shouted.

"Yeah…," Bella said. "Let's make him wish his parent never met…" Emmett was right—Bella can be menacing.

"Okay, since this might take long, we'll only do one person," Alice announced. "Bella—you're next."

"Um…" She blushed. "Well…it was… I beat up about 15 guys and 4 girls…"

We all gasped.

"I'll tell you the worst one," she began. "It was this guy—I think, his name was Trenton—he kept bothering me. It was junior year. I was sitting outside on the benches. Suddenly, he came up to me and started calling me names, like 'Sexy Mama' and 'Hot Stuff.' He started touching me in…"—she shuddered—"places… I got really mad, and I started to punch him in a lot of places. But worse…I kicked him really hard in…a special…place…"

It was silent.

And as usual, Emmett broke the silence, "That's my little sis'!!" Everyone was like, 'I'll never make you mad again.'

"Oh…my…," I said. Everyone looked at me. "I love you… God, I love you…"

Bella smiled and replied, "I love you, too." Everyone 'awed.'

Alice wiped a tear from her cheek. "My big brother…"—she sniffled—"…isn't afraid to say 'I love you' in public, unlike some people!!"

Rosalie sniffled, "Yeah…I agree with Alice… You're so romantic, Edward!"

I grinned.

"No wonder why they call him 'Mr. Perfectionist…," Emmett mumbled.

"So that's why girls like him so much…," Jasper mumbled.

"You're so sweet, Edward," Bella whispered lovingly. "I think it's time to tell them their torture, girls."

"Yeah you're right…," Alice agreed. She cleared her throat. "You're torture is to not touch us at all!"

My jaw dropped.

"That's pure torture!" Emmett cried.

"No, duh," Rosalie said.

I looked at Bella. "Was this your idea?"

She shook her head. "I may be menacing, but I can't even suggest that." She smiled apologetically.

"Hugs?" I asked.

"Nope."

"Kisses?"

"Nuh-uh."

"Cuddling?"

"Nothing that involves physical contact, Edward. I can't even poke you, let alone punch you!"

I sighed. This is pure torture.

"But," I said. "I just admitted that I love you! You can't…"

"Sorry…," she apologized.

"Rosie, please!" Emmett pleaded.

"Don't you call me that!" Rosalie snapped. "No means no!"

"Alice, honey, why?" Jasper asked. He started to pout.

"Because we want to, that's why!" Alice said.

This is madness!

I stood up and walked over to Bella, towering over her, since she's still sitting cross-legged. I knelt in front of her.

"Why, why, why?!" I asked. "This…is unacceptable!"

"I'm sorry, Edward," she said again. "Alice threatened me."

"But, but, but!" I shouted. "I—we—you—love—huh?!" What can I do…? Oh yeah! I forgot!

"Edward…"

I pouted and looked deeply into her eyes. "Please, Bella?" She stopped breathing. I almost grinned.

"S-sorry…"

Almost got it…

"Don't you love me?" I asked, smoldering her.

"O-of course, I—I d-do…," she stammered.

"Please," I pleaded again.

"Fine," she sighed. She leaned towards me.

Close…

Close…

Her hot breath was fanning my face, our lips almost touching; (A/N: Sound familiar?) her eyes gazing in mine… Her lips opening to—

"Sorry, Edward." She smirked.

I sighed. Guess I'll have to persuade her. I looked at Emmet and Jasper; they were smirking. They're thinking the same thing.

We all looked at each other and smirked.

Let it begin…

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