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Chapter 12-

As I made my way into my apartment after Edward had walked me up to the door and we had said our goodbyes, I couldn't be any more happier.

That man was amazing. I was beginning to suspect that it was him and the guys that had given us our massages, but not sure, I decided to text Alice.

Hey! Sorry so late.

Did Jasper say anything about the massages today?

I have a sneaky suspicion!

Bella

Angela's bedroom door was shut and the light was off, so I made my way down to my room, and began changing into my pj's. My phone started beeping. Flipping it open, I read.

Hey I was up reading a fashion magazine.

I had so much fun this weekend.

Thanks for coming with us.

Alice

I was hoping that Alice would've just told me that yes Jasper did tell her he did her massage but she was totally avoiding the topic. So I decided to just drop it.

Yeah I had a great weekend.

Your family is great.

And my massage was wonderful.

We'll have to go back again and get the same guys.

Bella

I closed the phone and crawled into bed, pulling the covers over myself. My phone started beeping once again. Leaning over to grab the phone and flipping it open to see.

I totally agree.

We'll have to have Beth set it up again.

Alice

Yes we will! I thought to myself.

Well I work early

I'll talk to you later.

Have a great night.

Good night!

Bella

I was asleep shortly after sending her that message.

Waking up Monday morning, I found myself actually excited to go to work. I'd be seeing Edward today and I couldn't wait.

My happiness started to falter, when I realized that we'd have to be strictly friends while at work. It was going to be very hard to be around him, and not want to lean over and kiss him, or have him holding my hand, or his arm around me.

I got ready and walked into the kitchen. Angela was just finishing up her breakfast.

"Hey you went to bed early? I came home and your door was shut, and your lights were off."

She looked up from her cereal. "What time did you get home last night?"

"It was probably around eleven or so. Why?"

"Oh I wasn't home yet. Ben and I went out to dinner and watched movies back at his apartment. I got home after midnight."

I grabbed an apple out of the fridge and walked towards my purse. "Well when I get home from work, you've got lots to explain."

She just started to giggle. "Actually Ben is coming over after school. What day are you off this week?"

"I'm off tomorrow. And you?"

"I have a few classes in the morning tomorrow, so lets plan on hanging out tomorrow when I get home. We both have lots to tell."

We both looked at each other and started laughing. "Yes, we do. Have a great day, maybe I'll see you later tonight."

"Yeah, you have a great day at work. Bye"

I walked out the door and over to my car. There was a note on the windshield attached to another long stem rose. Grabbing them both and walking back into the apartment I added the rose to the vase with my other rose and made my way back to my car.

I climbed into my car and started it, before driving off I read the note.

Beautiful-

I had a great weekend.

The next two weeks are going to be HARD.

Dinner tonight?

See you at work.

Edward.

I drove to work smiling the whole way. How did I get so lucky. Edward was such a great guy. I was still in disbelief that he was giving his two week notice so that we could date. I was starting to see myself in a new light, but nothing worth quiting a job over.

I pulled into the parking lot and saw that Edward was already there. Parking next to his Volvo. I pulled out my cell phone and sent him a quick text.

Thank you for the surprise.

I'd love to do dinner.

Since I'm going to have a hard time today.

See ya around.

Bella

Our store hadn't opened yet, Cheryl was standing at the door letting all of the associates in.

"Good Morning Cheryl."

Cheryl looked up at me and with a quizzical look "Bella, good morning. Did you have a great day off?"

"Yes I did, thank you." My phone started beeping again.

"I'm going to go clock in, I'll see you around." I said grabbing my phone out of my purse.

"We aren't going to have a store meeting today. So just work on making shoes perfect."

"Sounds good, Bye." I walked into the elevator and pressed the button for floor two. I opened up my cell phone and read the text for Edward.

Good morning sunshine.

You look beautiful today.

This is going to be really hard,

because right now, I want to hold you in my arms.

Edward

The door opened and I walked out towards the team room. A huge smile was on my face. This man was perfect. Before I could send him my reply, my phone started beeping again.

That smile will be the death of me today.

Looking up towards the closest camera and smiling bigger. I hit reply and sent my response.

Thank you for the compliments.

I want you to hold me in your arms.

Just so you know I think it is NO FAIR

that you get to watch me all day, and I don't get to see you!

Bella

I walked into the team room, and was putting my purse away when my phone started beeping again.

Oh it's totally FAIR!

The joys of my job for the next two weeks.

Don't worry I'll come see you.

Edward.

I quickly replied.

You better.

I'm going to go to work now.

Have a great day.

I put my phone in my purse and shut my locker, as I was walking out I saw Jason coming in.

"Hey Bella. Have a great day off?"

"Yeah I did actually. How about you?"

He started to laugh. "Not as good as you. You're practically glowing."

I nervously giggled "Yeah right, I'll see you down there."

Walking out the back door and going down to the shoe department.

Once in the shoe department I noticed that we had three racks of freight to work from Saturdays truck. Also mis-mates to look for.

Jason walked down a few minutes later. "Hey so, If you work on the mis-mates, I'll work on the freight, and we can both work on fill-in once we're done."

"Sounds good." Jason said as he walked in the stockroom door and grabbed the cart of mis-mates.

I followed behind him and grabbed a full cart of freight pushing it out to the sales floor.

I was kneeling in front of a fixture working some new program into it, while Jason started telling me about his day off yesterday. He had started dating this girl about a week ago, he was telling me what they had done and the stuff they'd planned.

"So Bella, what did you do yesterday that has you all chipper today?" Jason asked me after he had finished his stories.

I was still kneeling down working on another new program. "Well I went to The Queens Retreat yesterday. It was so relaxing!"

"WOW. That place is huge. It's where all of the celebs go. How did you get a spot in there?"

"Well like my dad says. 'It's not what you know it's who you know.' The lady that owns it, is one of my friends aunt."

"That's so cool."

"Yeah it was really awesome. The massage was my favorite part. It'll be hard to top."

I noticed someone walking towards me out of the side of my eye. Looking over I saw that it was Edward with that crooked smile that I love, but today it was from ear to ear.

Instantly my heart started to race, and I'm sure my face resembled his, mouthing a hi, and waving, he walked over and stood next to me. He bent down so he was at eye level with me.

"I'm sure I can top that massage." He whispered. I couldn't look away from his deep gorgeous green eyes.

"I wanted to send my girlfriend to the spa, she said she wanted to go to that one. You may have to see what your friend can do for me. Her birthday is coming up next month." Jason said as he continued looking for the mis-mates.

Not breaking my eye contact, I replied "yeah, I'll see what I can do." My voice came out a little shaky.

"Are you okay over there?" Jason asked

I broke my eye contact with Edward and began putting the shoes on the shelves. "Yeah I'm fine, almost done, and then I can help you."

"Okay, you just sounded weird."

I looked over at Edward and shot him a look, he was fighting the laughter that was taking him over. "Smooth move, your just lucky that Jason didn't come over here to check up on me." I whispered.

"I would've told him I was coming to ask your help with figuring some case out." He winked over at me and started to stand up.

"Sure, sure." I said rolling my eyes.

"I'll see you later beautiful." He said leaning down so that his face was inches away from mine.

"I'm sure you will. Have a great day watching me."

The smile that crept on his face made me chuckle. It was like I'd just given him the best idea ever.

He walked away, and I finished up with the carts of freight.

Once I was done, Jason and I started working on filling in any holes on the shelves. We opened shortly after that, and thankfully it was a really slow morning, and we didn't have many customers. When we finished filling in all of the holes it was ten "Hey Jason, I'm going to go take a break."

"Okay, I'll go when your back, have a good one."

I nodded and walked up towards the break room. When I got there Cheryl and a few of the other managers were also on break. Walking over to my locker, opening and grabbing my phone I walked over and sat on the couch.

I noticed that Cheryl was telling the other managers that Edward had given his two week notice. I flipped open and sent a text to Edward.

You're the talk of the break room.

I didn't know you did it already.

Bella

I started looking through a magazine that had been sitting on the couch when my phone started beeping.

Yeah I told her first thing this morning.

Who's all in there?

Edward

I was about to reply, when they started whispering quieter but I could still hear them.

"Yeah I heard he's quiting because he's dating someone here." my eyes started to bulge. We're so busted.

Cheryl heard this too. "Oh please Melanie, you're such the gossip queen. Knock it off, before it ruins someones life."

I looked over at Melanie, and her mouth was wide open in shock. "Okay I don't really know that, but lucky girl if it was true."

You're right lucky girl. I thought sending Edward another text.

OH MY GOSH!

Melanie almost blew our cover, and she doesn't even realize it.

I'll tell you the story tonight.

Bella

After sending the text to him, I started reading the magazine. Melanie turned around to face me. "Hey Bella, how was your day off yesterday?"

I looked up from the magazine. "It was really good."

She started to laugh. "Really good huh? Did you do anything?"

My phone started beeping and I looked down at it, while I told her. "Yeah me and some friends went to a spa. It was really relaxing."

I read Edwards text message.

You will so have to tell me the story.

Tell Melanie to mind her own business.

I know that's a stretch for her.

Edward

I started to laugh, he didn't know how right he was about it being a stretch for her. Melanie noticed that I was busy with my phone she turned back around starting to talk to her friends.

I started laughing at your text

and she turned around and left me alone.

You're my hero.

Bella

Shortly after sending that message, my phone started to ring. I looked down and Edward was calling me.

"Hello?" I asked

"Sorry to call, but I wanted to hear your voice, and your laugh."

I started to chuckle. "Oh yeah? Well you're going to have to work for the laugh."

He proceeded to remind me of our great bowling date, and their 'sweet bowling moves' after he was finished I started laughing.

"There is the laugh that I love to hear. Thank you."

I could feel the heat working its way up my neck " You're welcome. My break is almost over."

"Can we sneak off for lunch? Because I need to see you in person. This camera isn't doing you justice."

If I wasn't red before my whole face was definitely red now. Not wanting to give anyone in the break room an idea of what we were talking about I asked "What time?"

"Lets say twelve thirty. How does that sound?"

"That's perfect."

"Okay meet me out at my car."

"Sounds good. Well I better get going. I'll see you later."

"Bye beautiful."

There's the heat again. "Bye"

I quickly walked over to my purse, hung up the phone and placed it in my purse. Quickly walking out of the break room, so that I wouldn't have to answer anyone's questions.

I walked back down to the shoe department, and sent Jason on break.

While he was gone I rang up a few customers, and finished up working out the shoes that we had pulled.

When Jason came back from his break I asked. "Hey I'm going to go to lunch at twelve thirty. Is it okay if you go when I get back?"

He nodded "Yeah I was going to see if I could go around one thirty anyways."

We worked on displays and reorganizing until twelve twenty-five. I stood up and saw Edward walking towards the employee door. "Hey Jason, I'm going to lunch now. I'll be back."

He looked up from his project. "Sounds good, have a great lunch."

I walked over to the register, clocked out, and walked up to the break room. I opened my locker and took out my purse, and started walking towards the escalator.

Walking outside towards Edward's car I couldn't stop myself from looking around the parking lot, to make sure no one was out there.

He opened the door for me from the inside and I sat down in the passenger seat.

"So where are we going for lunch?" I asked putting on my seatbelt.

"I've got stuff for sandwiches at my house. Does that sound alright?"

I nodded and he started driving towards his house. Pulling into his driveway, he walked around and opened the door for me. Once I was out he pulled me into the biggest tightest hug.

"I've missed this." he murmured into my hair.

I pulled back, looking into his eyes "Me too."

He brought his lips down to mine kissing me urgently. I matched his lips move for move. Not wanting to let go of him or this moment, but knowing that we needed to eat lunch I pulled away.

"We need to go make lunch, we can continue this later." An evil grin spread across his face.

He pulled me into his kitchen while he made the sandwiches I pulled out two water bottles. "Do you have any chips?"

"Yep, in the cupboard to your far right." I walked over to the cupboard and grabbed a bag of potato chips bringing them and the bottled water over to the table.

He followed me in with two plates, each with a sandwich on it placed them down in front of us.

"Thank you for lunch." I said looking over at him.

"You're welcome. Like I said, I needed to see you."

I could feel the heat start to rise up my face. "Well I'm thankful for that also. Today has been hard."

He wrapped his arm around my waist and brought me over till I was sitting on his lap. "I know what your saying."

We ate our lunch in silence. I was enjoying sitting on his lap, with his hand rubbing circles into my lower back.

Once we were done, we brought the plates into the kitchen and washed them. We still had a half hour before we needed to be back to work.

He pulled me over to the couch in the front room, laying down and pulling me down on top of him.

I laid my chin down on my arms that were crossed across his chest. Both of this hands were rubbing up and down my back.

"So what did Melanie say today that almost blew our cover?" he asked

Starting to laugh, he smiled.

I told him the story when recalling what Cheryl had said to Melanie, we both started laughing.

"Oh how right she is." he said.

He gently pulled me up, so that we were face to face. I closed my eyes, and brought my lips down on his. One of his hands slowly made its way down my back bringing it back around my waist, the other hand made its way up to face pulling me closer to him.

I pulled back and looked into his eyes. "I don't know how were going to make it the next two weeks."

He brought his lips up to mine. "We'll just have to sneak away a lot." he said in between kisses.

I smiled against his lips. "I like the sound of that."

"Me too."

Our lips crashed together once again, my hands found there way to his hair pulling him closer to me.

He pulled away, breathless he said. "We better get back to work."

I couldn't say anything just nodded.

He lifted us up off of the couch, and we walked towards the car.

The ride back to work started off quiet. " Do you work tomorrow?" I asked not being able to take the silence much longer.

"No, it's my day off. You?"

"Mine too."

"Lets do something tonight after work. I'll come over and meet you at your house at six?"

"Sounds good. I get off at four so that'll give me time to get ready."

He pulled into the parking lot, there was no one outside so we walked into work together.

He walked to the camera room, and I walked towards the Elevator.

The rest of the day I worked on different projects to keep my mind off of Edward, thankfully the time seemed to go by quickly, and before I knew it, it was four.

I said goodbye to my team, clocked out and made my way to my locker. Opening my purse and grabbing my cell phone, I had two messages.

First one was from Alice.

Hey I hear you and Edward are getting together tonight.

Can I come over and help you get ready?

I've got the perfect outfit for you to wear.

Alice

I replied to Alice's message before reading the next one.

Yeah we are.

I'd love your help.

I'm off right now.

Bella

Opening the other message I read that it was from Edward.

Hey beautiful.

I'll be by at six.

Dinner and a movie.

Edward

I walked down to my car and climbed in before replying to his text message.

I'll be ready.

See you at six.

Bella

Pulling into the driveway I noticed Alice's car was already there, parking next to it, and walking up to my apartment.

I opened my door, "Hey I'm home."

"Bella I'm back in your room." Alice said.

Walking back towards my room I could hear noise like something dropping to the floor. "Alice what are you doing?"

"Well I got here a while ago, so I let myself in and started going through your closet." she could see all of the worry that was apparent on my face. "Don't worry Bella, I brought you stuff to replace everything I'm taking out."

Looking over at the ten bags that were sitting on my floor full of clothes. "Alice you didn't have to get me all of this stuff."

"I know silly, but I wanted to. Go get in the shower, and when you come out, I'll have your closet organized and this mess cleaned up."

I just nodded my head in shock and walked into the bathroom. After showering, I wrapped a towel around myself and walked into my room, sure enough the closet was organized and all of the clothes that had been on the floor were now gone.

"Hey I set everything out for you on your bed. Change into that and then I'll come do your hair and makeup." Alice said from somewhere down the hall.

I followed her instructions and quickly got dressed.

Opening my bedroom door I yelled."Alice I'm ready."

After she finished my hair and makeup. She brought me over to the mirror. "Beautiful" she said looking at my reflection.

I turned around and wrapped my arms around her. "Thank you so much Alice."

She grabbed her bags and started making her way out of my apartment "Your welcome Bella, anything for my sister."

I was speechless, and nodded.

"Have a great night." She said right before she slid into her car.

I waved goodbye and walked back into my apartment, walking into my room to get my purse and cell phone when the doorbell rang.

Looking at the clock it was only five fifteen. I opened the door and instantly my breath hitched in my throat.

"Edward you're early."

"Yeah, well I couldn't stay away any longer, Bella, you look radiant." He said as he brought his face down to mine, so our lips were only about an inch apart.

"Thank you. All of this is the work of Alice." I said, bringing my lips up to meet his.

"I'll have to thank that sister of mine." he said as he pulled away looking into my eyes.

I started to blush. "Where are we going tonight?"

"It's a surprise. Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah just let me write a note for Angela. She didn't know I was going out tonight."

I scribbled out a note and left it on the kitchen counter.

As we walked out to his car, I laced my arm into his, he pulled me closer to his side.

He drove to a park that was on the side of the mountain with a look out of Peachville. When he pulled into a parking spot, he leaned over towards me. "We're here."

He got out and came around opening the door for me. He opened the trunk and pulled out two blankets and a basket.

"What can I help carry?"

"If you'll take the blankets, I'll get the rest." he said as he handed me the two blankets.

After unloading the trunk, he led us over to a pretty spot under a tree. I laid out one of the blankets and he placed the basket and bags down on an edge. He sat down, pulling me down with him.

"I brought us a little picnic, I also brought a frisbee and football, are you hungry or do you want to play for a while?"

"Well I have a mean spiral, so lets play with the football for a while."

He started to laugh reaching over to get the football out of the bag.

"So you think your good huh?"

I chuckled. "I don't think, I know."

He stood up and pulled me up with him. He wrapped me in his arms. "Quite confident, Ms. Swan?"

I nodded my head and unwound myself from his arms walking across the field so he could throw me the ball.

The first couple of throws were clearly warm ups, but once in the groove, I was throwing perfect spirals to him.

We had a lot of fun throwing the ball back and forth laughing and joking around.

The sun started to set lower in the sky, "Hey should we eat before it gets too dark?"

He threw the ball on last time, I looked up watching the ball getting ready to catch it, when I was tackled down to the ground.

Landing on the ground wrapped up in Edward's arms. "You do have a great spiral."

"You're not so bad yourself." he smiled down at me and pulled my back up to my feet.

We walked back to the blanket hand in hand I sat down as he pulled out the food he had put together.

The food was wonderful and so was the atmosphere. We were just about to finish when the sunset crossed the sky.

"This is beautiful." I whispered staring at the colors of the sunset. Closest to the horizon was a bright yellow color, that worked its way into pinks and followed by a light shade of purple.

I felt Edward wrap his arms around my waist pulling me closer to him. "Not as beautiful as my girlfriend."

Looking over at him, "Oh the flattery." I said sarcastically.

He just smiled and gently pressed his lips down on mine.

We sat there him holding me, until the sun had set completely.

"Do you want to come back to my place and watch a movie?" he asked with hope in his voice.

"Well... since I don't have to work tomorrow. Yes lets watch a movie."

We packed up the picnic and blankets and walked back to the car.

"This was wonderful. It's nice being able to see you and actually hold your hand, or kiss you." I said as he opened the passenger side door for me.

"I'd agree with you there. Today was really hard, but I did enjoy lunch."He smirked, probably remembering us on the couch.

We drove back to his house and unloaded the car.

"Go ahead and sit down, I'll get the food in the fridge and be right out. Do you want something to drink?"

"I'll take a water."

"Okay, sounds good. I'll bring it out in a minute."

I sat down on the couch and started looking through the Car and Driver magazine.

He walked in with two water bottles and placed them on the coffee table. "I'm going to run up to my room real quick. Go ahead and pick out a movie. I'll be right down."

Standing up and walking over to the shelves of movies. I found three that I really liked that were all in different categories. Placing them on the coffee table I'd make Edward choose between them.

A minute later I heard footsteps walking into the front room. "Bella this was on my bed, it has your name on it."

He handed me the bag and I looked at the tag.

Bella-

Go up to the bathroom, and open me.

Alice

I looked over at him. "Did you know about this?"

He shook his head and sat down on the couch. "Those are the three movies I picked. You have to decide from there. I'll be back in a minute."

I stood up and walked to the bathroom. Opening the bag there was a box with another note attached.

Bella-

Here is a little present from me.

Have a great night!

Alice

I opened the box, looking inside at what Alice had put in there.

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