DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM TWILIGHT. THEY ALL BELONG TO STEPHENIE MEYER. I'M JUST MANIPULATING THEM TO DO MY BIDDING!

I'm really sorry for not updating in a while. I've had this chapter and the next one written for a while, but I've just not got round to posting them yet. So here we are. I hope they're worth the wait.

EPOV

I spent most of the evening praying to whatever higher power was out there that my father's plan would work.

I knew that if I was going to stay hidden, I needed Victoria out of Forks.

If it worked, then Victoria should be out of Forks in two days time. She wouldn't essentially work out that my father had lied to her parents. She thought that everyone was in love with her, so that would work in my favour. Other than the part where she believed that I was in love with her. The thought made me shudder.

"You okay?" Bella mumbled gently from beside me. I looked down at her and I could see that there was worry in her eyes. She knew that I was stressing over the whole Victoria situation. She didn't like when I was worked up, especially since I was supposed to be taking it easy.

"Yes, love." I pressed a kiss to her forehead. "I'm fine."

"Liar." She whispered and I chuckled. Damn this girl. She was too perceptive for her own good. She'd make a good detective if she put her mind to it. But then again, that could come from her father being the police chief in Forks. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." I looked into her eyes and I could tell that she didn't believe me.

She stood up abruptly, taking me by surprise. She held out her hand, wanting me to take it and follow her wherever she wanted to go. I took her perfect hand in one of my own and stood up. The others were sitting on the floor and sofas in the room, not paying attention to us at all as we walked out of the room.

She led me out the back door and onto the porch. We walked over and sat down on the porch swing, wrapping our arms around each other, just enjoying being together.

"What's the matter?" She whispered, leaning her head on my shoulder. "Is it this whole thing with Victoria?"

I sighed, nuzzling my nose into her hair, inhaling her scent. "I guess so." I mumbled, resting my cheek on the top of her head. "I mean, if she sees me and figures out who I am, this whole thing is for nothing. My Dad will have me out of here faster than you can snap your fingers. It's all so frustrating."

"Well," She sighed gently. "Your Dad's got a plan in place. She'll be out of Forks soon enough."

She sounded so convinced but I couldn't share her certainty. "I hope so."

"What are you talking about?" She took her head off my shoulder and pulled back, not letting me go. She looked into my eyes and I felt myself getting lost within those beautiful chocolate orbs. "You said yourself she loves attention. So if there's a chance that she'll get it, don't you think that she'll jump at the chance?"

"I don't know." I said, my voice wavering slightly. I really didn't know what to expect. "I mean, Victoria isn't the type to just come out here for no reason." She looked as though she was going to say something but I carried on, not letting her speak. "I mean, I know she's supposed to be here visiting her cousin, but I don't get that. I mean, I've known, and been mildly disturbed by Victoria for a long time. She's not the type of person to leave the big city. Unless it's to go to a different big city." I sighed, looking out over my backyard. "I mean, I don't get it. Why would she come here, rather than flying her cousin out to Chicago? That's what I don't get."

"I don't know." Bella mumbled, resting her head back on my shoulder, inhaling deeply. "Maybe her parents wanted her to get out of the way for a while. Get her out of the limelight or something, especially with her lies about you."

I shook my head. "No." I sighed, looking back towards the house. "Her parents are worse than she is. Her mother is one of the biggest gold-diggers out there. She married big money, and now it's obvious she wants Victoria to marry even bigger money. Knowing her she's the one behind Victoria's story."

"You think so?" Bella sounded surprised at that thought.

"Wouldn't surprise me." I grumbled, knowing that it was probably true.

She looked up and me and I smiled down at her, relishing the closeness that the two of us were sharing. She sat up slightly and pressed her lips gently to mine. I deepened the kiss slightly and I heard a low moan escape her throat as her hands entangled themselves into my hair.

Her tongue darted out and flicked against my bottom lip and I parted my lips ever so slighty, her tongue instantly darting into my mouth. Tasting her was incredible. I loved the feeling of her tongue caressing mine. I could have stayed this way forever as I pulled her closer to me. She was pratically sitting in my lap as our bodies melded together as our kiss deepened, our tongues battling for supremacy.

"Hey guys!" I heard Alice cry through the door, not really giving a stuff about the intimate moment she had just interrupted.

We grudgingly broke apart and simulatneously scowled at the pixie standing in the doorway bouncing up and down in excitement.

"What?" Bella sounded pissed, and if she had been feeling the same way that I was during our kiss, then I could definitely say, I knew what she was thinking. Must. Murder. Pixie.

"I've just had the best idea." She squealed, still bouncing up and down. "Come on in and I'll tell you."

"Why can't you just tell us out here?" I asked her, confused as to why we should have to go inside.

"Because I want everyone to find out at the same time." She retorted as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. She motioned for us to follow her before bouncing back into the house. "Come on!" I looked at Bella and smiled slightly, pressing my lips to hers gently. She interlaced her fingers behind my head and pulled me in, deepening our embrace. "Now!"

Breaking the kiss I looked at Bella and we both sighed at the same time. "Do you mind if I murder her?" I asked as we stood up.

"Get in line." Bella grumbled as I chuckled, wrapped my arm around her waist and led her back into the house.

We walked into the living room to see Alice sitting next to Jasper on the sofa, bouncing up and down, looking slightly impatient at the length of time Bella and I were taking.

"Let me guess." Emmett said grinning at Bella and myself as we sat down, still scowling at Alice. "Alice interrupted some fun time, huh?"

"Not that it's any of your business, but yes, she did." Bella replied, still scowling at her devlish pixie friend. I couldn't help but laugh at her logic.

"So then, short stuff." I remarked. "What's this amazing idea of yours then?"

"First, don't call me short stuff. You know how much I hate it." She smiled at me.

"Almost as much as we hate interruptions." Bella shot back, clearly irritated. I hoped I could snap her out of this mood soon. "But then, nothing really seems to work out the way we want it to does it?" She smiled sweetly at Alice. "So live with it."

"Moody." Alice grinned back, knowing that she'd achieved some sort of goal. What it was I don't know. I wasn't sure I wanted to know either. "Anyway, I think that we should have……"

"What?" Rosalie was getting impatient now, but I think I had it figured out. Please don't let her be thinking what I think she's thinking. "What do you think we should have Alice?"

"A party!" NO!!!! Some part of me had known she was thinking that.

"I don't know, Alice." I shook my head at her. Having a party could be dangerous.

"Oh come on!" She whined. "It'll be fun! No one in Forks has had a decent party in ages. And…if we have it here, then there's plenty of space, we don't have to worry about waking up neighbours, because…well, Edward doesn't have any, and we won't have to worry about explaining to our parents where we are, seeing as we all stay over here so much anyway."

"Your logic is infallible, Alice." Bella remarked sarcastically and I couldn't help but grin. "Are you forgetting one major thing?"

"What?" Alice looked genuinely confused.

"Oh, I don't know." Bella mocked her and everyone in the room, apart from Alice was grinning. "How about the fact that one of us is supposed to be in hiding?"

"Oh come off it Bella." Alice moaned, dismissing her worry with a wave of her hand. "It'll be fine. If they haven't figured out who he is by now they never will. Well, they probably will when he goes back to Chicago but not before then. People in this town aren't notorious for being too intelligent."

I was slightly put out by how casually Alice had included me moving back to Chicago. It wasn't going to be easy for me to do that. I knew it was coming, but I didn't want to think about it. "Alice, are you forgetting that there are clues all around here to who I really am?"

"We can hide them." She grinned at me.

"I don't know, Alice." I repeated and she pouted at me. I was so glad that I wasn't pulled in by the Alice pout. "I'll think about it."

"Yay!" She bounced again and clapped her hands together.

"That wasn't a yes, by the way." I raised my eyebrows letting her know that.

"For now." She sat back, picking up a magazine and began flicking through it.

I shook my head at her and sighed, wrapping my arms around Bella again.

"Come on," She whispered in my ear. She stood up again and we walked up to my room, hand in hand.

"I really hope that she doesn't go through with this party idea." I moaned, flopping down on my bed while Bella sat down next to me.

"Oh, you know she's going to." She rested her head on the pillow next to me.

I rolled over onto my side, facing her. "I know." I sighed, taking her hand in mine and tracing delicated patterns on the back of her hand with my thumb. "I just……I don't know."

"I know." She smiled at me, pressing her lips to mine.

She placed a hand on my shoulder and gently pushed me so I was lying on my back. She pulled herself up so that she had her arms on either side of my head, without breaking our kiss. She was resting most of her weight on top of me but I didn't care. I welcomed it.

She removed her lips from mine and trailed kisses down my jawline, before she grabbed my earlobe between her teeth and bit down gently, gaining a small moan from me. Damn this girl and her teasing. I could feel her smiling as she sucked and nibbled on my earlobe, seeming to enjoy the moans and increase in breathing that she was earning from me.

I placed my hands on her waist but that caused her to release my earlobe and look at me, taking my hands in her own and holding them down next to my head. She lifted her leg and straddled me, an evil glint in her eye as she shook her head.

"No touching." She whispered, causing me to gulp slightly. I could feel myself becoming hard underneath her and I knew that she was going to be death of me. She grinned at me, knowing what she was doing to me. She took my earlobe in her mouth again, biting down harder than she had before, causing my breath to hitch and making me moan.

Her hands unlatched themselves from my wrists and they made their way to my shirt. I felt her hands undoing the buttons on my shirt as she began trailing kisses down my throat and I could feel her smiling against my skin. "Like that do we?" She pushed my shirt off of my shoulders and halfway down my arms, not relinquishing her assualt on my throat.

She made her way down my throat before she suddenly bit down on my shoulder. I let out a hiss that was a mixture of pain and pleasure. I clenched my hands into fists to keep myself from grabbing her.

She pulled back and looked at me, smiling evilly at me. She attacked my lips with hers holding my arms down again. She and I both knew that I could overpower her if I wanted to, but I didn't. I was enjoying this too much for her to stop now.

She began sucking, licking and nibbling on my throat again, to the point where it was becoming painful. But in a good way. I didn't want her to stop doing what she was doing, but I knew that if she didn't soon, I was going to have an extreme problem to take care of. Hell, I already had an extreme problem that needed taking care of.

This is gonna leave a mark. I thought, closing my eyes tightly, trying to get my breathing under control and trying to ignore my erratic heartbeat. I heard her giggle against my throat before sucking on my skin again.

"You're gonna kill me." I moaned, shifting slightly, trying to make the situation down south a little easier to bear. No luck. It was starting to become painful now.

"Not really the idea, but hey," She looked at me and shrugged her shoulders slightly, smiling. "I'll take what I can get."

"Evil…" I shifted underneath her again and she raised her eyebrows, her eyes flicking down to where she was sitting.

She started trailing kisses down my chest, sliding further and further down my torso. I didn't know how long I was going to be able to control myself. If she kept this up, I was going to have to take her then and there.

I jumped a little when her tongue flicked out and buried itself in my naval. She giggled at my reaction as she lifted her head and blew on my stomach gently. She looked at me grinning and I scowled at her as she ran her two index fingers lightly along the v-shaped muscles on my stomach.

She placed kisses all over my stomach, making her way slowly lower and lower until she reached the waistband of my jeans. I closed my arms and moaned low in my throat in anticipation. Was she really going to do what I think she was going to do?

She looked up at me as she slowly unbuttoned my jeans and pulled the zippers down. She was going to slowly it was painful. And something told me that she knew what she was doing. She knew she was tormenting me. And something inside my head told me she was enjoying it.

Just as she slid her fingers underneath the waistband of my jeans and began to pull them down there was a deafening banging on my door.

"I don't know what you two are doing in there! And I don't want to know! But you better get your asses out here right now, or we're all coming in!" Alice's voice shrieked from the other side of the door.

I swear that pixie has the worst timing.

My head flopped back down onto my pillows and my hands unclenched as I tried to calm my heart-rate and breathing. "Can I murder her now?" I asked breathlessly.

"Get in line." She growled sitting up and looking at me longingly. I knew how she felt. "Come on, I think we'd better get downstairs before her head flies off."

I pushed myself up onto my elbows and looked at her as she sat there on top of me. "Um, you go. I'll be down in a minute." She raised her eyebrows at me and giggled. "Yes. Very funny. Ha ha!"

She leaned down and kissed me again. "I'll see you downstairs." She pressed her lips to mine and climbed off me, backing towards the door, her eyes on my obvious arousal.

"Get lost." I threw a pillow at her which she dodged before running out of the door and downstairs.

I stood up and grabbed a towel out of my cupboard, before turning on the shower. I turned the temperature right down before climbing in and taking care of my, um, "problem".

Must.

Murder.

Alice.

That was my new mission.

I climbed out of the shower and towelled myself dry before throwing on a clean set of clothes and running downstairs.

"Heard Alice interrupted something upstairs huh?" Jasper asked as I walked into the kitchen to get a drink.

"Um, yeah, she kinda did." I grabbed a soda out of the fridge and popped it open turning to face Jasper. "Question. How attached to Alice are you?"

"Um, relatively." He nodded. "I am quite fond of her, you know?"

"Damn." I scowled playfully and he grinned at me. "Okay, next time Bella and I disappear off somewhere, get her to leave us alone."

"Done." He grinned at me as we walked into the living room. Emmett grinned at me as I sat down, but I ignored him.

"Okay now that Edward's here." Alice grinned at me as though she hadn't done anything wrong. "We can discuss party plans."

"Uh, Alice I didn't say yes." I lifted a finger and pointed at her. "And after what happened a few minutes ago, I'm very loathe to let it happen."

"Oh come on Edward." She whined, trying to unleash her puppy pout on me. She knew it didn't work, but it didn't stop her from trying.

"You know she's not going to quit whining until you relent." Bella moaned, leaning her head on my shoulder.

"I know." I whispered, kissing her forehead.

"YAY!" Alice shrieked jumping up and down. I rolled my eyes, not really having the energy to fight her. She quickly launched into her plans for the party she wanted to have.

I tuned it out pretty quickly and focused on Bella and how I was going to get her back for the teasing session upstairs.

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