Ok guys, I have two chapters for you today. I know shocker - two chapters in a month rather than a chapter in every two months. The reason I have two is because I have been in a very typey mood. I would also like to say I am not too sure when the chapter after the next will be out; as I have exams coming up; quite a lot by the sounds of it so please be patient.

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Edward POV –

My heart was pounding in my ears, my heart was trying its dammed hardest to break free from my chest and all my muscles were aching from being in one position for so long. If I was being honest I should have seen this coming I mean I really should have tried to avoid it otherwise I wouldn't be in this mess right now away from everyone but I didn't avoid it and now I was going to die for it. I could only hope that Jasper would tell my parents how much I loved them and sorry for being such a stupid moron. Before anything could happen I sent a pray up to god and hoped he would save my soul as I knew I needed his forgiveness before I died to go to heaven. I expected a blow but nothing came, I expected to see my life flash showing me all my triumphs, all my failures and all the 'little' things that made up my life... but nothing. I opened my eyes and as luck would have it I was alive.

All of a sudden it or should I say she hit me. Then Bella began kissing me roughly most likely in return for when I surprised her and kissed her. The difference between me kissing her and her kissing me is that I actually kissed her back. I began smiling into the kiss as it was way better than anything I had dreamt about or experienced in the past.

Me kissing her had been a surprise to both of us – it had been a very spontaneous thing. One second we were yelling, screaming and Bella was even hitting me at some points. Then all of a sudden I had pushed her against the wall and kissed her. As an immediate reaction she shoved me away and that is when I became seriously concerned about my health, I mean she really hated me – or so I thought.

When I felt her lips against mine it was heaven, so soft and warm. Honestly the best kiss I have had in my 24 years of being alive.

When we finally broke away for the first time I looked at her and my heart felt light and she looked so content, I would go as far as say peaceful. Our breather didn't last very long – not long at all. It took a few seconds before our lips were together again. The cycle carried on for hours by the time we had finally finished, and we both got back inside everyone else had fallen asleep. Bella walked into the room everyone was sleeping in and lied down on the floor, I like the puppy I was I followed her and lied down next to her wrapping my arms around her. She stilled and I just about take my arms back from her when she shifted and put her arm over my stomach, putting her head on my shoulder.

"So what are we?" Bella whispered to me. This was the million dollar question. What were we? I thought about it for a second or two before replying to her.

"Well we are two young adults who have yet to be specific about there relationship but they are trying their hand at dating."

Bella smirked at me through the darkness.

"Is that your subtle way of asking me out on a date Edward?"

"Only if you say yes." Then I held my breathe hoping that she would in face say yes. I was really nervous as I have yet to meet a woman who could hold my attention as Bella managed to.

"Where would you take me? Hypothetically obviously."

This question took a little longer to answer but eventually I had come up with what I hoped would be the perfect date for Bella. Not that I would let her in the know.

"Well I would first take you in a really nice car, BMW or maybe a Mercedes. Then I would play soft music in the background as I drive you to a field late at night. Take a picnic with me and I would have set it out for you all romantic watching the stars and the moon until you fall asleep and then I'd carry you back to the car, all the way home then put you to bed. I would lie with you until morning." I told her.

"You're not serious." Bella exclaimed, horrified.

"Nah, I was just joking. You don't think I'd actually spoil the surprise. I guess you're going to have to trust me that I will look after you properly."

Bella didn't say anything after that; she just turned away from me. That made my heart crack a little. I hardly knew this women but she seemed to control everything I do which was the most annoying thing of all, my brain constantly thinking about Bella even if she's not even any where near me.

She then whispered into the darkness,

"I'm sorry I can't." I stilled.

"What do you mean Bella?" I whispered at her. She turned to me again; slowly she put her hand on my face.

"No, I mean its not that I don't want to. It's just we can't. There is no fraternising with in Espirit de corpse. Ever. No exceptions."

I nodded but didn't say anything and Bella removed her hand smiling sadly at me.

"So we wait." I stated. "However long it takes until we are out of Espirit de corpse."

Bella nodded; she then moved away from me and I took my arm back so I could get more comfortable.

The next morning I was awoken to a ruckus. Alice was yelling at people to get up, telling them breakfast is ready. It was ridiculas especially as Bella began to yell back at her saying Alice was being too loud. After this went on for about 5 minutes of trying to block out all the noise – I gave up. I opened my eyes, then I squinted my eyes trying to block out the sunlight which was rather difficult with the gigantic window.

I felt someone sit next to me then the same someone put a cookie on my stomach as well as balancing a hot coffee on their too. Luckily they didn't actually let go of the coffee otherwise it would have spilt all over my stomach; I seriously didn't need burns from coffee on my skin. I put my hand over the person holding the coffee on my stomach with simulatiously taking the cookie off me as well and then sat up.

I turned to the person who put them there and Alice smiled at me sweetly.

"Thanks." I said before eating the rather large cookie in two bites.

"I thought you'd need it." Alice said while I devoured my breakfast.

Emmett whooped when he saw how quickly I ate so I gave him the finger, before Emmett could tackle me Rosalie and Bella stood in front of us. Bella directly in front of Emmett, Rosalie standing in front of Bella and me but a least arms length away

"Not today." Rosalie commanded in her 'do not fuck with me this morning' tone. Emmett or I could easily by pass both women but we gave each other a look saying it wasn't over.

After the near fight this morning all the women made all us guy separate and we always had to be working with one of them. The first part I worked with Alice in buying a truck with a big bed to put stuff in but the cab could only fit two people – three at a push. When I pointed it out to Alice, she waved it off saying we would only need two people, if we did need more then they would have to sit in the bed, so we bought it.

When we got back to Rosalie's house everyone was outside, they also happened to have a well used note pad and all of a sudden I got the feeling today would be a long one. Bella who just happened to be facing me, starred at me until I looked at her. When our eyes met she smirked at me; to which I responded with a smirk of my own, remembering the night before and in vain hoping for a repeat which was unlikely to happen as Bella seemed to follow the rules that have 'no exception' at the end of them. Our eye contact and my reminiscing were brought to an end by Emmett who decided fixing and 'making pretty' Rosalie's house would be fun. So like the good little children Emmett, Jasper, Bella, Rosalie and me were put to work form Alice, using Rosalie's specifications and ideas she would and I quote:

"Create the best house for your future family to live in."

The first job I was set out to do was the boiler, it was my job to see if it is working and if not determine whether I will need to fix or replace, but with the house this old I had a feeling I would need to replace it.

Turns out that I was correct in my assumption, the boiler had rusty bits on the actual boiler as well as the pipes leading to and away from it and the main pipe was not only leaky but so badly crushed there wasn't a way for water to slip through the cracks easily. Lastly I noticed the heater at the bottom of the boiler that actually heats the water didn't seem to be working. So after talking to Rosalie about it she completely agreed it needed to be replaced along with a majority of the piping.

By the time we had found out everything that needed to be fixed we had to then write a list of equipment and materials needed to fix everything. The whole process took all day. The guys, me, Jasper and Emmett had spent the entire day running around the house finding what needed to be fixed while Bella and Rosalie noted it down. Alice did numerous designs for the house, as well as ever so helpfully got all the food. It happened to be fast food from the A&W restaurant. Although the food was high in fat the food was amazing. As being in the army you don't eat fast food – just pure healthy stuff because we had to keep our strength up, I mean dodging grenades and stuff is hard work.

"So how come you guys all follow each other?" Alice asked out of curiosity.

I looked up to see her head tilted at the side to gauge my reaction, I sat there thinking for a while to find a way of explaining why we did follow in each others footsteps. Before I could answer when I actually had one Alice started to ramble and I didn't stop her.

"It's ok if it's personal. You don't have to tell me. I was just wondering. Don't worry actually, its ok." I smiled at her before I started to speak.

"We all know what it's like to be by ourselves, and how hard it is to be great when there is not one person supporting you from the same place. I mean before Emmett was adopted and I met Jasper I was all by myself, no one liked me because I had been scrawny with glasses. It was silly really but when I met Em and Jasper we decided to stick it to the world together basically." Alice laughed at the last comment before saying while laughing.

"I can't ever imagine you scrawny." I didn't comment, but now it was my turn to ask a question.

"How come you became an elite spy exactly?" This managed to sober Alice up really quickly; she had stopped laughing and starred at me for a moment before shrugging nonchalantly.

"I was running away." The answer was in a whisper and I barely caught it. I decided not to push and nodded.

"Thanks, it's a sore spot, I think for just about everyone."

Again I didn't push; I think everyone kind of figured there was something more to what the girls let on. It was then I heard the scream of pain

"Bella!" at first I couldn't who was the person screaming until I realised that everyone but Bella and Emmett were in the room.

I jumped up, and literally flew to the window to see Bella standing with two feet firmly on the floor. I looked up confused why Emmett had been screaming to see his shocked face starring at Bella.

Bella then just casually called up to him,

"Sorry if I gave you a fright!"

"A fright, are you fucking kidding me right now Bella, you jumped of a ROOF! A fucking ROOF." Bella smiled sweetly at him,

"Technically I tripped off the roof." She replied in the same casual tone as earlier.

"Technically that doesn't make me feel any better." Emmett was back to screaming at Bella, who either pretended not to notice that he was mad or really didn't give a shit as she was still using a casual tone she would most likely use to ask the time or someone's opinion on the latest weather.

"And how do you think I feel? I am the one who went off the roof."

Emmett couldn't really answer to that remark, he tried but ended up looking like a gaping fish. All the while everyone who had been in the house with me hadn't moved a millimetre because the exchange was like a train heading off a cliff – you didn't really want to look but you couldn't look away either.

After a few minutes Bella looked at me, a perplexed expression came across her face but before I could try to work out as to why she was giving me such an odd look it was gone and she marched past us back up to the roof when the yelling, screaming and cursing travelled down the stairs to us. But because we were about four floors away from them you couldn't really work out what was being said apart from the swearing as both Emmett and Bella's voices became louder and therefore more distinguishable when they said them. This latest a whole ten minutes before Alice muttered.

"If they weren't related I would of thought they were married." Then she sat back down to eat her lunch, the comment broke through the mindless starring at the ceiling trying to work out what was being said and we went to our own conversations.

*****************One week later************************

It took us this long and to my surprise all the hard graft was completed. Everything that needed to be fixed had been fixed – which as it turned out was a lot. We basically had to re wire and re plum the whole house and all the walls which needed to be taken out had been. So to say I was proud of all the work that had occurred would be an understatement, because it wasn't luck that had helped us – if fact I would say luck was trying to steer us in the other direction but with all six of us putting a whole shit load of effort in and working since 5 to midnight almost everyday we managed. No I am not joking about 5 to midnight either. So because of that I also hadn't had another chance to talk to Bella, especially since she gave me such a weird look from outside of the window when she fell off as its been bugging me. I honestly wanted to know what she was thinking but I doubted she would tell me since I accidently heard Rosalie asking her and she closed up tighter than a clam, telling Rose she had no idea what she was talking about. If she can't tell her best friend she certainly wouldn't tell me. So I carried on with my work, hoping she would want to talk but whenever I went into a room she managed to leave fairly soon after that and even then there was always another person in the room.

I tried ignoring the pangs in my chest but it honestly felt as if it was going to explode which I couldn't understand the feeling. I mean I have been interested in other women so I didn't get the feelings I have when she is around and of course it has to be with one of my best friends sister that I get these weird tingly feelings and my chest ache around so I can't even ask them – I did at one stage contemplate asking Jasper but thought better of it when I remembered what Bella said to me a week ago.

"There is no fraternising with in Espirit de corpse. Ever. No exceptions." By her expression afterward I think I could wait until judgement day and I would still have no chance with her. With a heavy heart I stayed starring out into nothingness – it was late and rationally I knew I had a busy day tomorrow with all the decorating that needed to be done.

Alice had said and I quote "Now you boys have had fun destroying the house and putting it back together again, its time to decorate." She left clapping her hands and jumping out the room looking more like a kangaroo/toddler on crack and energizer batteries.

I smiled at the thought, Alice was great. I honestly hope she stayed exactly how she was because she had raw passion for anything and everything rather and it was amazing to watch her find something she enjoyed.

Rosalie was great too; her honesty about everything was also amazing but her tactic of expressing her honesty could be improved upon but I guess it is each to their own in my personal opinion and I had no right to interfere with that because I wouldn't want people to annoy me with everything they though about me, I doubt I would be able to take all of the criticism nor would I actually care.

I was brought back to reality by the last person I thought I would ever speak to again this century.

"Can I sit out here with you?" The voice was tentative and I assumed to be unsure. I didn't look at her but did move up for her to sit; I figured that she probably needed fresh air before she went to sleep too, it had been an extremely long day and I am fairly certain that we were al living off coffee, energy drinks and Carbohydrates from pastries as well as Mc Donald's which was only down the road.

I went back looking into the black space for a while and we were in silence. Neither of us moved or spoke, for some of the time I contemplated not breathing to reduce the sound I was making but I thought that in itself was a stupid idea.

The silence continued to stretch and I tried my hardest not to acknowledge her but it was becoming increasingly difficult. Luckily for me she broke the silence before I did.

"You did an amazing job with all the plumbing and wiring. Where did you three learn to do it?"

I smiled remembering the whole summer my dad took out from work to teach Me, Emmett and Jasper to do the plumbing and wiring in the house, insisting it was a lot more important than to play basketball or whatever we did when we were eleven. It took my dad the whole summer but not once did he give up, now I was thankful for that otherwise Rosalie would of had to pay a fortune to each the electrician and plumber to fix the whole house, something I am sure she wouldn't want to do. It was then I realised I had yet to actually answer her – especially since – as far as I was aware Bella couldn't read my mind.

"My father taught us when we were eleven."

"Eleven? How can you remember something you learnt thirteen years ago?" the pure curiosity was amusing.

"Its like riding a bike." I commented.

Bella smiled but didn't add anything and the silence fell between us again. Usually I would either try to avoid in the silence or I would bask in it but at the minute I couldn't do either but that's because the odd mixture of silence and chatter reminded of my first girlfriend Kayleigh who used to cheat on me and then do the same weird combination to relieve the guilt she had but this wasn't like that at all. I knew Bella wasn't talking to me because of her feeling guilty; she had no reason to be guilty about anything. The sudden remind of Kayleigh reminded me of the one time the whole family went back to New York to visit old friends and we bumped into her. It was a shame she never learnt that all the nervous energy she had and the guilty she had was trying to tell her not to sleep with everyone and thing possible but she didn't. Even after she got married to a guy named Mitch and she knew I knew she was married, she still prepositioned me to sleep with her. In her dreams that would happen. I was also glad I had never slept with her since I would more likely than not of got something rather nasty from her – which is probably the reason Mitch was asking for a divorce.

Not exactly the best way to find out your wife who unfortunately he loved gave him about 3 different STD's which from the 5 years of marriage he knew she didn't have in the beginning of the marriage. I actually felt sorry for the guy, I guess it was lucky that none of the STD's she had given him were untreatable, that really would have been a massive slap in the face.

"What you thinking about?" Bella asked me.

I turned to look at her. She looked really nervous as if I would suddenly turn on her and beat her or something. I just smiled and said

"Nothing of importance, you?" I asked out of both curiosity and to keep the conversation going.

"About everything." There was a pause which I thought she'd leave hanging but then she decided against it.

"I am sorry about last week." This time she didn't continue.

"The kiss you mean." I stated for her but she shook her head adamantly.

"No, I am sorry about the rules I have to follow. I am sorry you can't be honest with your own parents. I am sorry for the reason you will put your life in danger for the next six months minimum. I am sorry you won't be able to have a proper relationship with anyone. I am ..." I cut her off there.

"Who says I care about those things?" I questioned. It wasn't that I didn't want those things because I did. Very much. I hated lying to my parents and I hated that my friends and family were putting their lives in danger. Some of whom didn't even know they were doing it like my parents. I also wanted to have a proper relationship with Bella, going out on proper dates – the whole shebang basically which we couldn't do right now but I hoped one day.

"It is what anyone would want." The reply was automatic and certain in a way which told me it was something she was included in when she said anyone.

"So we have to wait." I stated because I refused to go out on a date with anyone until I've had a date with Bella – at least one.

Shaking her head again began to both annoy me and confuse me. I mean seriously how hard would it be to just agree to go out with me?