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As always, thanks go to Angelnlove52 for sorting out my mess (it's gonna get worse with this Itty Bitty Lappy!!! lols) and for always inspiring me to write more.

Massive chapter for you from your good friend Gee!

Enjoy!

Edward POV

I followed her up the stairs to her brother's room. I followed and listened outside the door as she tried to explain to Nate why pissing Rosalie off was bad for his health. Not that I heard much. I wasn't there to listen though, I was there waiting for her, I just wanted a moment alone with her. Okay, I'm lying. I wanted more than a moment; I wanted a lifetime, an eternity, forever. I wanted her, wrapped around me, asleep, awake; it didn't matter so long as she was with me. I was left longing for her when we weren't together.

How corny am I? And talk about obsessive…

She was becoming my obsession, slowly but surely. The more time I spent with her, the more addicted I became to her. She was a drug and I was the addict that couldn't stop. I wondered vaguely if this addiction was as unhealthy for me as a drug addiction. I have never taken drugs, besides a few puffs of a joint as an adolescent, so I couldn't really say if the intensity I was feeling for this woman was the same craving addicts felt for their hits. I wouldn't dismiss the idea considering my physical reaction to her absence.

My stomach was fluttering, my chest felt tight, and I was nervous to have her out of my sight for even a second. I started pacing, feeling the pull of her on the other side of the door. Nothing could happen to her right now, it was ok. I needed to calm myself down; I was getting worked up over nothing. I forced myself to stop pacing and lean lazily against the wall facing the door. I waited patiently.

It didn't take long before I heard the door knob turn. I jumped up and stepped across the hall to the door before Bella had even emerged. She stepped out, closing the door behind her. Her head was still turned towards the room, talking to her brother when she ran into my chest. My hands reached down automatically, taking a hold of her shoulders to stop her from falling. I'd been around Bella long enough to know she is a walking disaster zone, a danger to herself and everyone around her.

I chuckled softly as she gasped in surprise, looking up and meeting my eyes. I grinned, her eyes mesmerised me and tingles spread through me from where her hands met my chest. I leaned down, taking a deep breath of her intoxicating scent and whispered in her ear.

"You look fucking hot Bella," my voice low and gritty with emotion. I took another deep breath, leaning the side of my face against her neck and closing my eyes in pleasure. My head turned by itself and my nose ran along her jaw line to her neck. I pressed my lips gently to her warm flesh, a bolt of hot desire flashing through me when she moaned softly.

I pulled back, realising Bella was leaning back against the door making some very inappropriate noises, but I couldn't take my hands off her. I ran my fingertips down her arms giving her goose bumps, looking her up and down appreciatively. The dress fit her perfectly. I could see the outline of her bikini clad breasts and couldn't help it when my hands moved from her arms to her sides, running up and down her waist. I hummed and decided we probably shouldn't stay here.

"We better move from in front of Nate's room before he comes out and catches us, love," I said tenderly, smirking as I pictured the scene that would result if he did walk out and see us like this. Bella looked a bit dazed. She shook her head somewhat and looked surprised to see herself pressed up against the door. She turned an endearing shade of pink and I snickered, taking her hand and dragging her, laughing down the stairs.

Bella stopped dead in the middle of the last flight of stairs. She tugged my hand and I turned to look at her questioningly. I had seen Rosalie at the bottom of the stairs but I was just going to ignore her, that's the way we worked normally. But it wasn't me she was after, it was Bella. I sighed internally in frustration; we really were never going to get a moment to ourselves. A smile covered the disappointment on my face.

Bella frowned slightly, pulling me into her roughly. "Come rescue me in ten minutes?" she said, almost begging me. I laughed again and kissed her on the cheek. I would never leave her alone with Rosalie for longer than that, I'm not stupid.

"You can count on it," I whispered and turned around glaring at Rose. She payed no attention to me, naturally, and stalked off with a timid Bella following in her wake.

I sighed and joined Emmett in the lounge room; he was still playing the game Bella had bought him yesterday. I sat down on the floor with my back to the lounge and picked up a controller. Emmett tipped his head to the side in acknowledgement and continued playing.

The game looked like an extreme monster truck racing game. It was actually pretty cool. Emmett's car was getting some major air over some of the jumps and he was making car noises the whole time. I started laughing at him. His concentration was so intense that I don't think he even heard me, his car noises got louder though.

He was making squealing tire noises when I lost control of my laughter. I dropped my controller and clutched my stomach. Emmett pressed the pause button and looked at me like I was insane. He crooked an eyebrow at me and cleared his throat. I just laughed harder.

"What the hell is so funny?" he asked me, frustration sounding clear in his voice. I clutched my stomach more and tried to breathe.

"You," I puffed, still giggling. "Brrrroooooom!" And then I was rolling around on the floor. Emmett was still looking at me perplexed.

"What? The game?" he asked. I realised that he didn't even notice that he was making those noises and it just made me laugh harder. Emmett shrugged at my supposed craziness and went back to his game, shaking his head.

I learned to breathe again just as Emmett finished his round. He restarted, adding me in as a second player and began explaining the controls to me. Jasper walked in, still reading that damn book. Emmett and I were neck and neck in the race and Em was inching closer and closer to the TV, trying to block my view. I smirked to myself and knocked his truck off the track without losing my own position.

"Dude!" Emmett yelled, almost throwing his controller. "That was uncalled for!" He narrowed his eyes at me and I smirked. Emmett harrumphed and stormed into the kitchen, probably looking for some comfort food.

Gees, he's a bad loser.

Then I heard Rosalie. I jumped up, dropping my controller, completely forgetting about the race I was obviously winning, and spun around looking for Bella — she wasn't in the room. My stomach dropped thinking of the damage Rosalie could have inflicted on her. I moved from the room, down the hall to the study where I had seen Rose and Bella go. When I burst through the door, I saw Bella standing in the middle of the room staring at nothing with her mouth wide open.

Oh shit! I'm going to kill that hell-bitch if she broke my Bella!

I took Bella into my arms and held her tightly trying to make her feel secure.

"Oh, love," I murmured. I released her from my grasp to look into her eyes. "Did the wicked witch of the west hurt you?" Her expression hadn't changed and I was starting to panic. I had a hold of her shoulders, so I shook her gently. "Bella? Answer me." I could hear the worry in my voice.

Just as I was preparing to call Alice, Bella's head shook slowly and she spoke so softly I thought I had misheard her. I leaned my body closer to her.

"She said sorry," Bella's eyes met mine incredulously. "She actually said the words."

I felt my eyes grow wide and my mouth dropped open. I'm sure my expression was much the same as Bella's. Rosalie and Emmett have been together for five years, ever since we had pulled her out of that damp, dirty studio and I have never once heard her say the word 'sorry'.

"Holy crap!" My voice sounded squeaky with surprise. "How did you do that?"

I looked at the small brown haired woman in front of me in wonder. How someone her size and demeanour could ever intimidate Rosalie the ice witch, I would never know. Bella shrugged and laughed a little crazily, I couldn't blame her for being a little overwhelmed.

I twined my fingers with hers noticing how small and delicate her hands were compared to mine. She was small in general, small and delicate, needing my protection. I was sure that the James situation was just one of many. I was strategising in my head the best routes of self defence for her small frame when I heard noise of the others gathering in the hall and Bella's sigh. I glanced up at the woman my heart was becoming obsessed with and smiled shortly.

I would be here for her whenever I could. I would protect her with my life and if I wasn't available, I would make sure that she could defend herself. There was no way in hell that I was going to let someone like James ever be able to lay a hand on her again, not while I was around and if I could help it, I was going to be around for a long, long time.

"Come, love, lets not keep the others waiting." I pulled her up so we were standing but Bella tripped on God knows what and lost her balance, crashing into my chest. I tried to hold in my laughter as my arms automatically wrapped around her waist to hold her up. She groaned and buried her face in my chest. I couldn't hold the chuckle back this time, stepping away and lifting her blushing face so that our eyes met.

As her eyes locked on mine, I was possessed by the intensity of the emotion that washed through me. It took my breath away and I just had to lean down and feel my lips touch her skin; her soft pink cheek, her cute little nose, the crease of skin on her forehead. My kisses fluttered over her skin until she was giggling uncontrollably and begging me to stop. I laughed with her, dragging her out to the hallway where the masses were gathered.

Emmett and Nate were in the doorway chatting animatedly, Rose and Alice were standing in the hall, hands on hips glaring at the door to the study. Bella and I both cringed at the looks and sidled over to where they were standing. Jasper was loitering out the front, tossing his keys around, waiting rather patiently.

I guess he would have to be used to it, what with Alice.

"Alright guys, listen up!" said pixie commanded the entire group of us to silence. "Nate, you will go with Rose and Emmett." I saw Bella cringe a little and Rosalie turned to glare at Alice, who shrugged slightly. "And Jaz and I will go with you and Bella." Alice turned to me and I nodded. "Alright, let's do this. Em, follow Edward. We all know how bad you are with directions."

"Hey," Emmett turned a disgruntled face to my tiny sister. "I know how to get places! Don't I baby?" Rose raised an eyebrow and Emmett huffed walking out the door, Nate trailing behind him like a mini-me. Rosalie followed them, throwing a wave over her shoulder as she left the house. Jasper had stopped throwing his keys around and gave us a questioning look that was clearly saying 'can we go now?'

I sighed and turned to Bella. "Are you ready, my love?" I asked, lifting her hand and kissing it. She smiled shyly at me, nodding and I heard Alice sigh before heading out the door towards Jasper.

Not too long after, we were all piled in our respective vehicles and heading a short distance out of the city to the water park Jasper had mentioned earlier. Alice and I used to come here all the time as children, our parents would sit on a blanket and let us run wild but it had been years since we had been back.

I parked next to Emmett in the humungous car park. Lucky for us, we were up early and had the pick of the best spots. Emmett was already out of the car, pulling bags out of the Jeep with enthusiasm and throwing them into Nate's waiting arms. They were making a game of it with Emmett changing aim, trying to catch Nate unawares. They were yelling boisterously at each other and I rolled my eyes imagining the day ahead of us with those two.

Bella was already out of the car and pulling stuff out of the trunk of the Volvo, Alice chatting animatedly in her ear as she piled poor Jaz with half the contents of her wardrobe.

I don't know why Alice feels the need to pack three bags just to go swimming…

I grinned at Jasper and stepped up behind Bella as she bent over to grab the last bag from the car. Enjoying the view of her arse, I bit my lip and suppressed a groan. Bella stood back up and turned to pass the last bag to Alice but came face to face with me instead, letting out a shriek of surprise. My grin widened and I reached behind her to close the trunk, making sure to press myself as close to her as possible in the process.

I pulled away, smirking at the blushing brunette in front of me, and locked the car. Taking the bag from Bella's hand, I started walking toward the entrance, glancing over my shoulder, and lifting an eyebrow.

"Are you coming? Or are you going to stand there all day like a stunned mullet?" I grinned and turned back, not waiting for her response. I slowed down as I felt a small hand worm its way into the back pocket of my jeans and squeeze my arse. I chuckled and put my free arm around her shoulders, leading her to the entrance gate. I ignored her when she protested about me paying for her ticket. I thanked the teller at the gate and dragged a stubborn Bella into the park.

Bella POV

I sulked as Edward chose a spot on the grass to set our stuff down. He glanced up at me and smirked.

Oh, he is so in trouble. Cocky bastard!

I narrowed my eyes, giving him my best death glare and crossed my arms over my chest. Yes, I know, it was kind of childish of me, but I am not going to let him think he can get away with paying for everything.

I am a strong independent woman and the sooner he learns that, the better.

He completely ignored me, pulling a blanket out of the giant picnic basket that had magically materialised in Alice's hands and spread it out on the grass, half under the shade of a large oak tree. Alice skipped up behind me, patting me on the back.

"There, there Bells. Why so miserable?" she chirped way too happily for my liking. She followed my lazar eyes to her brother and raised an eyebrow at me. "Lovers tiff already?" I turned my glare from one sibling to the next.

"Alice," I hissed as Nate strolled up to the blanket dropping the pile of things in his arms and turning to me. "Keep that gremlin mouth closed around my brother."

"Why? I'm sure he's not as stupid as–"

Her comments were cut off by my hand clapping over her mouth, just in time too. Nate came bounding towards us bursting with excitement as his head flashed from side to side, trying to look at everything at once. I changed my glare into a grin to match his and listened with half an ear as he rambled on about what we were going to do first. I smiled and nodded until he moved to the next person, who happened to be Jasper.

I slid my hand off of Alice's mouth and rounded on her.

"Alice," I said as calmly as possible. "I haven't told Nate anything yet." Alice's mouth opened and I lifted a finger before she could start talking. "I will tell him but not yet. He's just got here yesterday and I only just broke up with James. He's not going to be happy that I went from one guy to another in the space of a day. Even if that guy is the most handsome, funny, perfect man I've ever met."

Alice smirked at me. "And what makes you think he hasn't figured it out on his own, huh? It's not like you guys are hiding it."

"He will figure it out eventually." I shrugged. "But not right now. He's still overwhelmed by all of you, and I plan to keep it like that, for a while anyway." Alice raised an eyebrow.

"Have you told Edward about this? He's not to like it." I shook my head and glanced at Edward. He was laughing and wrestling with Emmett. As I watched, Nate joined the fray, jumping on Edward's back. Jasper, who I assumed was umpiring the mock battle, yanked Nate off by his shirt and threw him to the ground shaking his finger at him light a naughty child. I laughed.

"I don't know Alice," I said, turning back to my tiny friend. "I just need some time to figure out where my head is at. I really think I could be happy with Edward and I'm going to take my time getting it right, okay? So please, just let me try this my way?" Alice shuddered dramatically and threw her arm around my waist.

"Ew, brother pictures! Bad, bad brother pictures, flashing through my brain!" She clutched her short, spiky hair before trying to claw her eyes out. I laughed and pulled her wrists away from her face. "Seriously, I don't know what I'm going to do with you all!" She rolled her eyes as we slowly walked closer to the rumbling boys.

Suddenly, Alice broke away from me, leaping on top of Emmett and poking him in the ribs. Emmett squealed like a little girl and dropped to the ground, hands in the air in surrender. Edward dropped to his knees and begged Alice not to turn on him next. Alice's foot was propped up on Emmett's chest and she was throwing her tiny fists in the air in victory. Rose and I cheered and hooted our congratulations before the whole group burst into laughter.

When we finally gathered our sanity, we discussed what we were going to do first. The park had a range of rides, slides and other forms of entertainment designed to tire the hell out of anyone. Well, anyone except maybe Nate and Emmett. I rolled my eyes at the two of them who were practically bouncing with impatience.

Rosalie volunteered to stay and look after all the stuff for an hour or so. She said it in a bored tone but I knew that she would much rather stay here than pelt all over the park after Emmett. She would wait until he settled down a little first. Plus I saw her eying off one of the fold out deck chairs we had brought with us, probably contemplating the awesome tan she could acquire in one hours basking time.

Rose lay down on the chair with a large straw hat over her face and Emmett took that as a sign that he was almost home free. He started poking Alice in the arm. Alice ignored him a lot longer than I thought even she could, organising times to change shift and meet back at the blanket. Finally though, she turned on him, glaring. He shrank back from her viscous look and asked meekly if he and Nate could take off.

Alice growled at him and shooed them away. Nate jumped up and whooped in excitement both of them taking off at a run, after Emmett had kissed Rosalie goodbye of course, and I noticed when Alice turned back to us she had a giant grin on her face.

What a softy!

I chuckled to myself and Alice's hawk eyes zeroed in on my face. I immediately put on an innocent mask and smiled sweetly. Alice put her finger down her throat and pretended to puke, obviously knowing me better than to think I was so innocent. I chuckled.

"So Bella," Alice started. "You'll be coming with me and the boys can go have a bit of fun by themselves."

"Wait, what?" I exclaimed looking frantically at Edward. His shoulders moved slightly in a shrug and his face said he didn't like this idea either but what can you do against Alice. I turned on her. "Alice," I whined. She smirked at me and continued.

"And then we will meet back here in an hour when Jaz will take over from Rose. All good?" She didn't even wait for our answers before continuing on. "Alright! Bye boys!" She grabbed my arm and dragged me away from her devastatingly hot brother for the second time that morning.

She is surprisingly strong for someone so small.

I craned my neck over our shoulders looking at Edward longingly until Alice dragged us out of sight around the corner of a rock wall.

"Ouch Alice! Jesus!" She let me go and I rubbed the spot where her tiny fingers had dug into my arm. Her arms flung around me in an enthusiastic hug. "Ok. Your mood swings are starting to scare me," I gasped. "You're not pregnant are you?!"

Alice laughed taking hold of my hand a little more gently that before and leading me to god knows where.

"No, my silly besty. At least, not yet." She waggled her eyebrows at me suggestively. "So, what should we do first? Wet or dry?"

"Excuse me?" We both dissolved into giggles at her innuendo. "Uh, dry. I want to save the wet for your brother." Now it was my turn to waggle the eyebrows. Alice looked at me in disgust, pointing to herself.

"Brother, as in my brother and that's just gross!" She shuddered delicately and I sighed dramatically.

"So, I guess you don't want to know the goss then?" I said airily and started walking toward the nearest line which just so happened to be for the chair lift. Perfect, I could get a good look at the rest of the park from up there. Alice caught up with me bubbling with excitement.

"What goss Bella? You know you can't not tell me! I'm your best friend, that's what I'm for!" She was so excited that she was blabbering.

"Oh, but Alice," I said innocently. "It's about your brother and I thought you didn't want to know about those kinds of things." I grinned triumphantly as her eyes narrowed at me. She huffed and caved in.

"Ok, whatever. I'll just pretend you're talking about Orlando Bloom or something. Just spill it already will you?" She tugged on my arm like a little girl, jumping up and down in excitement.

So as we waited in line, I told Alice all that had transpired between Edward and me. By the time I finished, we were at the front being seated in the chair lift and I thought briefly that maybe Alice's jaw had become unhinged from the rest of her skull. Her eyes were pretty out there as well. I looked at her worriedly.

"Are you ok Al?" I asked. She shook her head quickly before reverting back to the Alice I knew and loved.

"Oh my freaking god!" she squealed. "If we weren't strapped to this thing right now, I would so jump on you."

I laughed. "I know. I planned it that way." She slapped me on the arm.

"You so did not," she giggled. "Hey look, there's Rosalie. Rose! Rosalie!"

We were just passing over our picnic spot and Rosalie was still in the same position we left her in. We were both yelling when she took the hat off her head but she was looking left and right, not up. As she was giving up, she lay back down and was about to put the hat back on when she saw us. We waved like maniacs, making the whole wire jump up and down wildly. Rose gave us the finger and put the hat back over her face.

"Spoil sport!" I yelled when she rolled over so she was on her stomach. "Hey look!"

I pointed to the roller coaster not too far away. The Dragon's Loop it said across the top. As we watched a train-like group of red coaster cars in the shape of a dragon, climbed up the first hill to coast along the flat in front of the sign before dropping down the slope on the other side. We could hear the screams from here.

"Holy crap, yes! Look at that triple loop! How awesome is that?" Alice was bouncing in her seat making the wire bounce with her. "We are doing that next," she said with finality. I nodded quickly.

"Most definitely!"

We grinned at each other briefly before we reached the end of the chair lift. We jumped off giggling like schoolgirls and ran to where we had seen the roller coaster. Nate and Emmett were in the line, of course, and we yelled hello to each other before naughtily cutting the line to join them. Nate grabbed me in a headlock and rubbed his knuckles on my head.

"Hey Bells, didn't think you would be into something like this!" Emmett boomed, making himself and Nate laugh loudly and clap each other on the back. Alice saw the disbelief on my face and we both rolled our eyes in sync before bursting into more giggles.

I swear I have never laughed so much in one day!

It didn't take long for us to reach the front of the line and we eagerly piled into the roller coaster cars. Alice and I were lucky enough to get the front with Emmett and Nate behind us. There was quite a lot of room between me and Alice, seeing as we are both so small so I locked my legs in the bars to stop myself from flinging all over the place and saw that Alice did the same.

Then we were on the way up, up, up. I love roller coasters and the adrenaline rush that accompanies them. I grinned at Alice who looked as comfortable as a cat but I could see the telltale white knuckles that said she was anything but. Just as we got to the top and were coasting along the flat I turned in my seat to grin at my brother. His grin matched mine. He was used to this. Every roller coaster I saw, I dragged him on with me and I'm pretty sure he loved them as much as I did.

I turned back to face the front just as we tipped over the precipice and gravity caught us. I threw my hands in the air and whooped. It was almost like flying. Too soon, we hit the bottom and were flung into the first of the three loop-da-loops. I left my arms flung up and didn't have to look to know Nate was doing the same. Alice was screaming and I turned slightly to look at her face. Her eyes were wide and her mouth open but I quickly realised no noise was coming out of her mouth. I laughed then, knowing it was Emmett screaming like a girl.

It was happening so fast, as most roller coasters do, and we had already exited the second loop and were on a relative flat. We went through two sharp corners before dipping back down shortly and hitting the last loop. Hands still in the air, as was our tradition, we turned the last corner and slammed to a stop.

I whooped one last time, punching the air with my fist and then turning around to high five my brother. Someone came and unhooked us and I jumped out, leaping on Nate laughing. He spun me around and we raced back to the line. I looked around realising that Alice and Emmett had disappeared. Alice had gotten out shakily and Emmett hadn't moved. He was gripping the bars holding him in so tightly that the guy undoing them couldn't get his off. Alice put a hand on Emmett's and spoke quietly to him before he managed to let go and get out. He leant on Alice the whole way back to the gate, which in itself was hilarious enough.

"Naw, Emmy. Was that too scary for you?" I cooed at him like he was a child. He scowled at me, straightening up defiantly.

"No, that was awesome!"

"Liar, liar, pants on fire," Nate sang. "Want to go again?" Emmett blanched and had to sit down on a nearby park bench. Nate and I laughed and joined the line to go again.

We had a couple more goes on the ride before Alice decided it was time to head back to the blanket and relieve Rosalie and have a snack. I raced Nate back, losing of course and finally collapsed on the blanket in a sweaty panting mess.

Ahh, fun times. There's only one thing missing…

As if I had summoned him, a shadow fell over me and I looked up into the smiling green eyes of the man I wanted to see the most.

I just wanted to say, to those who have read this from the start, sorry about the writing style change. It's me getting better, or so I like to think...

Fun times arent over yet, though there is some actual plot coming sometime soon. Chapters might continue to be long, that would be nice wouldn't it? Posting is still going to be sparodic until after the new year, got soooo many things happening!

I am reading:

Angelnlove52 - Cimmerion at the Aurora

KiyaRaven - The Screamers

And very soon: TwilightCullrnLvr9's Penthouse in Paradise

All of these and more in my favourites, so have a look! They are all Fab!

-Gee