"You know, I'm glad you two made it work." Emmett said after Edward left the booth for our second round. I nodded and took a long pull from my beer.

Rosalie and Emmett decided that after years of just being around each other and Emily, it was time for them to give up their recluse life style. We decided to get completely crazy and head out to a bar to get responsibly tipsy.

It was a wild night.

"Well, they owe it to you." Rose said to him with a shrug. "If you didn't go stealing their shit, Edward wouldn't have gotten off his ass." She flicked her hair over her shoulder and Jasper sent her an annoyed look that most likely looked like mine.

"It's true." Alice said, her elbows sticking out and jabbing both Jasper and I in the sides. "Those clothes lit a fire under his ass," Alice nodded towards Edward as he walked back to us. She wasn't really his biggest fan at this point, but she figured that if I was happy, everything would be fine.

And I was happy.

"Clothes?" I asked furrowing my eyebrows. Emmett palmed his forehead and I looked around the table in confusion. "What clothes."

"Remember the sweats that he took to you?" I lifted an eyebrow and shook my head no. "Well when Edward saw his he flipped a shit."

"I don't follow." I said taking the beer Edward slid toward me as he sat in the booth. "Thank you." He shook his head and tapped his cheek. I chuckled and pecked his cheek before leaning against him as he put an arm over my shoulders. I blushed as I looked around the table. All four of them stared at us and I sighed.

"What are you talking about?" Edward asked curiously, taking a sip of his beer.

"Nothing." I said quickly, not particularly caring to continue the conversation.

"Your breakup." Rose said nonchalantly, Emmett turned to her with wide eyes and she gave him a shrug.

"We didn't break up, Rose…" Edward groaned to his sister in law. "Must you meddle?" Rose scoffed and turned to Emmett who gave her a look that clearly said 'This is why we don't get invited places.'

"Emmett!" She huffed.

"I didn't say anything." He rolled his eyes and she got huffy again.

"Anyways, we're doing alright now, that's all that matters right?" Edward asked, easily overcoming his annoyance and relaxing next to me again. I couldn't shake my unease and he noticed. "Right, babe?" He asked trailing his fingers up the side of my arm.

"That's not the correct approach. Aversion is a defense mechanism." Rose said wagging a finger at us. Her therapist speak was quickly grating on my nerves and it seemed that after five years of cabin fever it was like she'd lost the little social etiquette she had before. I almost wished she'd go back to her cabin in the woods… Or her mansion in the burbs.

Same difference.

"As is projection, Rosalie. Is there something you want to tell us?" He asked lifting an eyebrow. I put a hand on his stomach and shook my head. He and Rose could bicker on like that for an hour and not get anywhere.

"Jazz and I are going to dance." Alice said slowly, the Cullen's making her feel a tad bit uncomfortable. She and her indifferent husband left the booth and headed down to the main floor which held the dance floor.

"Wait. What were you talking about, with the clothes?" Rose smirked and leaned forward, taking her drink with her.

"Emmett here was a little proactive." She said patting Emmett's thigh. My friend went red in the face and drank his beer, his eyes darting around the room nervously.

"I don't follow." Edward said furrowing his eyebrows, just as interested and confused as I was.

"He just gave you the little push you needed." She smirked, lifting the beer to her mouth. I groaned under my breath and tugged a hand through my hair, completely over Rose's shit.

"Stop being so damn vague, Rose. What the hell are you talking about?" Edward asked, his jaw ticking as he glared at her. I turned my gaze to the dance floor where Alice and Jasper were grinding to the beat. My eyes then turned to scan the bar. The table was quiet behind me before I heard Rose laugh coldly. I turned back to her with an irritated glare.

"Oh, I'm guessing this means you didn't know about Emmett's visit to Bella?" She asked with a mock pout. She tsk'ed at her husband, not breaking eye contact with Edward.

"That?" I asked with a roll of my eyes. Edward turned to me with his eyebrows knitted and I ignored him.

"What?" He asked.

"This is ridiculous." I rolled my eyes and looked to Edward. "Emmett just came by for a while, I have no clue why you're making such a big deal about this." I said with a shake of my head as I looked into Rose's stony gaze.

"Ugh." Em groaned. "I took your clothes from Edward's place while he was at work." Emmett said cutting Rose off as she opened her mouth. "I know you guys keep spare clothes at each other's houses or whatever, so I took his and told you he was giving them back. Remember?"

I nodded, "Of course I remember." Edward lifted an eyebrow.

"Then I took Edward's stuff from your place. And you know…"

"So you did know about Emmett's visit?" I asked in confusion looking at Edward.

"He didn't give me my clothes back." He shook his head. "They were just on my bed, Mum said you dropped them off." I shook my head. Emmett smirked and sat back, folding his arms over his chest.

"Nah, I've gotten really good at forging Mum's signature and handwriting. It's a talent of mine." He shrugged and Edward let out a loud huff. "Look, I was getting tired of you moping. And if you were moping you know damn well she was too." He jerked a thumb at me and I rubbed my temples, not caring to hear any more about those terrible few weeks. Edward's thumb ran circles on my hip as we listened; I put my hand on his thigh.

"What does this have to do with us getting back together?"

"We told you earlier." Rose rolled her eyes. "Edward saw the sweatpants, cried for three hours-"

"Oh please." Edward scoffed at her, before turning to me. "I love you, baby, but I don't cry." He shook his head. "Don't exaggerate, Rose. Actually, why don't you just stop talking?" He asked.

"Well that set his ass into gear. He saw them and the next day he was heading to your place." She said with a shrug. It sounded just like something that would set Edward off, the clothes. So I guess I did owe Emmett a thank you.

Later.

"Wait as second." I said, widening my eyes as I looked at Emmett. "You went through my drawers?!"

"Kinda, not really. I mean, I stayed away from your underwear drawer." He shrugged.

"How do you know which one is my underwear drawer?" I asked, my eye twitching.

"Everyone's top drawer is their underwear drawer, Bella." Rose said rolling her eyes. Edward was franticly moving next to me and I turned to see him shaking his head and putting his first finger to his lips, shushing her.

"Mine isn't." I said, elbowing Edward in the side. "So you did go through my underwear drawer?"

"No, I didn't." He rolled his eyes and Edward was back to shushing him.

"Then how'd you know which one to avoid?" I asked.

He gave a nonchalant shrug, "You've had the same dresser since high school." Edward smacked his palm against his forehead, squeezing his eyes shut. Anger bubbled in my stomach as I turned to Emmett who pointed at Edward.

"Why the hell were you in my drawers in high school?!" I asked, my voice so high it sounded squeaky.

"Edward." I turned to Edward who stopped shushing his brother long enough to give me a sheepish smile.

"Hey, I was a teenage boy. I was interested." He shrugged, I slapped his thigh and he blushed.

"Anyway," Rose said. "What happened between you two?" She asked leaning forward as Alice and Jazz returned to the booth, sliding in next to me.

"Oh god." Alice huffed. "Is your life really so boring that you need to drudge up shit everyone wants to move past? Good god." I smiled over at Alice and she patted my knee.

"Am I not allowed to care about the lives of my family… whoever you are?" Rose asked furrowing her eyebrows, trying to pull off innocent.

Alice ignored her and turned to me. "You're coming to the new casino with me tonight." I lifted an eyebrow, trying to keep up with everything happening around me.

"Um, okay."

"Good. We'll head out and spend the night at my parents place, down there." She turned back to the table. "We'll drive back early tomorrow. Rosalie, you're coming with us. Because, frankly, I feel bad for you." She said, giving her a pity glance.

"Thanks," Rose sneered, and my hopes immediately rose, hoping she wouldn't come. "But I need to get back to Emily."

"Emily's at our parent's place, Rose." Emmett sighed, rubbing Rose's shoulder. "Go have fun." He obviously saw the same thing in her that Alice did. That or he wanted to be rid of his wife for a night. If I were him, it'd definitely be that latter.

"Fine."

Damn.

I forced a smile and turned towards Edward. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do." He grinned before kissing my forehead. I chuckled and kissed the corner of his mouth.

"See you tomorrow, love you."

"Love you more."

"Don't ever go through my drawers again." I said waving my finger between him and his brother. They both nodded and Rose and Alice laughed as they slid from the booth.

"What was that about?" Alice asked as we fell in step, behind Rosalie.

"You don't want to know." I rolled my eyes.

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The next morning I walked through my front door with little to know memory of what happened the night before. I had a slight hangover, but it wasn't head splitting. I was immediately put on high alert as I heard shuffling around coming from inside.

"Bella?" Edward called from my bedroom. I bit my lip and took a breath. I went towards his voice and he continued to yell, not helping my growing headache at all. "How was your night?"

"Fun, I guess." I liked Rose a lot more when I woke up, so I guess some good shit happened. "We ended up gambling just a bit and then went back to Alice's parent's place… That's all I remember." He let out a deep bell like chuckle that made me cringe at it's volume.

"Sounds fun."

"What's all of this?" I ask as I enter the bedroom to see my room a mess as Edward sticks my clothes in luggage.

He looks up at me with a smile, pulling one from me automatically.

"What?" I ask.

"We, my dear," he closed the suitcase and quickly zipped it before crossing the room. "Are going away." He wrapped an arm around me, pulling my shoulder into his chest as he kissed my cheek.

"And where exactly would we be going?" I ask, craning my neck to see his face. He pecked my lips and shook his head before letting me go and heading into the living room, dropping my luggage by the door.

"You'll see when we get there."

"Oh god, are we running from something?" I asked, with wide eyes.

"What? No..." He furrowed his eyebrows and cocked his head to the side. "This isn't some mafia novel, babe." He said with a smirk, teasing me about the book I'd just finished. "Can't I do something romantic for my girlfriend? I think I kind of owe you, you deserve a getaway."

"Edward, you don't have to-" I whispered.

"Shh, let me do something for you. Let me romance you, darling." He slipped back into his native accent

"I'd think your type of romance would be more of the paddling down a river in a boat before falling in and having wild river sex." He pursed his lips, trying to hide his smirk.

"If you're talking about The Notebook, that doesn't happen. You think you'd know that, as many times as we've watched it." He shook his head and I giggled.

"I know what happens but I was trying to make it a mashup- half you, half the movie. You were the sex part." I informed, walking further into my room.

"Oh really?!" He asked sarcastically. I nodded and bit my lip as I pulled open one of my drawers, looking for his hoodie. I lifted an eyebrow at the empty drawer.

"Baby?" I called over my shoulder, pulling open another drawer.

"Yeah?" He yelled back, sounding like his mouth was full. I winced once more at the noise as I stared into my drawers.

"Didn't we have a conversation about my drawers?"

"Sorry, honey. I was in a rush. I didn't go through them, I just put them into the suitcase.."

"Did you pack my entire wardrobe?" I asked heading to my closet.

"Uh... Yeah." I turned around, my hands on my hips.

"Why?" I wasn't mad, nor was I surprised, that was just an Edward thing to do.

"That's how we pack for trips back in England?" His voice held question.

I lifted my eyebrows and shook my head, "You haven't been to England in twenty years. How would you know how they pack?"

"It's in my blood." He shrugged, going back to eating a Hostess cupcake.

"Where in the world did you get that?" I asked, pointing at the snack. He crammed the rest of it into his mouth and wiped his hands clean.

"eBay." He said around his mouthful. I shook my head at his generosity.

"Where'd you say we were going again?" I asked hoping he wouldn't remember that he hadn't told me.

"I didn't say." He smirked, leaning against the doorframe, looking like a J. Crew model.

"Oh..." I said clearly caught. "Yeah..." He shook his head.

"Good try." He laughed watching me flit around the room. "Now you come here, I missed you." I wasn't positive as to whether or not he was talking about our split, so I just went to him, resting my head on his chest.

"We're really leaving?" I asked fingering the fabric of his shirt.

"Oh yeah, we're getting out of here." He said hugging me tightly. "Actually," he looked down at his watch. "Our plane leaves in three hours."

"Edward!" I pulled away. "We're leaving today?!"

"Yup." He popped the 'p' and I looked at him with wide eyes. "Actually we should get going." He tapped my ass and moved away, heading to the door and pulling on his coat.

"I can't just leave like this, Edward..."

"Yes, you can. Spontaneity!" He zipped his zipper up until it could zip no further. I frowned, looking back at my room.

"Edward..."

"Bella." He wrapped his arms around me from behind and nuzzled my neck. "There is nothing to do besides be excited for this, Bella. Just a small amount of work, we can sleep in late, and together." He kissed my neck, "Think of all the sex, love." He nipped at my collar bone and I smiled.

"I guess..." I nodded and turned in his arms.

"Oh, woah, babe! Please try to contain your excitement!" He said backing away and holding up his hands.

"I'm excited, I just- you can't spring big stuff like this on me... A whole weekend away is..." I raised my eyebrows and bit my lip. "It's a lot." I turned to see him guiltily looking off to the side.

"I guess this isn't a good time to tell you it's a week-long thing then, huh?" I almost choked at his words. "I was still thinking about you though, I wasn't just trying to give this a more attractive name, it's still a vacation. The conference is one day at the end of vacation." He frowned and rubbed my back. "We don't have to go, well, I will be sitting through that conference there... But I thought that you could help personally assist me with that."

"No, no, I want to go!" I said softly before leaning up to kiss his pouty lips. "I just need more warning next time." I rubbed up his arm and gave him a smile.

"Great!" He clapped and a large smile overtook the pout. His eyes were bright and excited as he slung two duffel bags over his shoulders. "Let's go." He grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the door.

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