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I, of course, hadn't told anyone about my escapade last Saturday. They had instilled in me that 'anonymity was key'. But let me tell you that it is not easy keeping a secret this big, especially now that I have best friends and a boyfriend. Although I hadn't heard anything from the League in over two weeks, when I'd attended the masked ball.

You'd think that after meeting them, the Twilight League would've given me a way to contact them… or at least instructions as to what I was supposed to do next. But no, they'd simply left me to wonder when and where they were going to be putting these 'tests' into actions.

One morning Alice and I awoke to go to our Art History 102 class, but due to severe snow storm warnings it was canceled. Unable to go back to sleep, we stayed up chatting just the two of us once again.

"So," She asked me, as we were each laying on our beds, "Have you found out anything new about your family?"

Regardless of how casual the question seemed, I froze a little inside. What could I really tell her without breaking my vow of secrecy to the League? "Um, just a few things…" I played for time.

Alice furrowed her eyebrows and looked over at me, "Such as…"

"Well, my grandmother was Summa Cum Laude of her graduating class," I said, remembering what I'd read about her in her yearbook. "And my grandfather was part of the Soccer Team back then also"

"Wow, just like you!" Alice exclaimed, "That's so cool, what else?"

I was quiet, "Not too much else, the yearbooks didn't really give away much about their lives." It wasn't a lie, not really anyway.

"I'm so sorry, Bella," She sounded so sincere; it made my insides fill with hot guilt. I'd never had anyone to confide in before. Now here I was, with a best friend, the first one I'd had since my mother, and I was lying to her.

I quickly changed the subject, not thinking I'd be able to lie to her any longer. "So do you think the snow storms are going to get as bad as they predict?"

"Definitely." She said, "I have a feeling we're going to be stranded here for a while. In fact, we should go stock up on supplies while we still have a chance to." There she was predicting the future again. I, however, had learned not to doubt her, she was very rarely wrong.

I got up out of bed and grabbed my phone, "I'll call Edward and Emmett, you call Rosalie and Jasper to see if they want anything while we're out." I said, already dialing.

We drove my SUV to the market, getting enough food to feed a small country. We'd also gone to the Target store in town to get supplies and, of course, Alice went a little crazy with the shopping. She had insisted on getting extra blankets, fleece pajamas for all of us (and, yes, I do mean all of us), thermals, candy, movies, candles and batteries in case the power went out.

Once again, though, Alice was right. There had been a very heavy snow fall that night and it continued into the next morning. Classes were canceled due to the massive amount of cold white snow on the ground and it didn't look like it would resume any time soon. I was stranded in my room with Alice and Jasper.

Poor Jasper had ventured through the freezing weather to come to our building and be with Alice during this time. Looking out through our window at the bitingly cold wind lashing the snow around violently as it fell, I figured his journey hadn't been an easy one.

"OK, so what do we want for dinner?" I said, checking our fully stocked mini fridge and other food supplies.

"Pizza!" Alice exclaimed from her bed. The heat in our room was turned up but it was still chilly, due to a small draft coming from the window. Alice was cuddle in bed with Jasper, both of whom starting to feel a little sick.

Edward would be down in a few minutes, I was sure, and he'd probably be hungry also. He'd gone upstairs to shower and change before coming back down to hang out with me.

I shook my head at Alice, "We can't keep eating frozen pizza. You're never going to get better if you just eat that."

Sure enough, while I was sifting through our great amount of food supplies, Edward walked in, came up behind me and pulled me into a hug.

I spun around in his arms and beamed at him. It didn't matter how much we'd been hanging out together, if he was gone, even for a few minutes, I missed him. I was so happy to be back in his arms. I got on my tip toes to kiss him, putting my lips gently to his and parting them with my own.

The kiss was soft and sweet, the bliss of reunion flooding both of us, making the moment even better. His hands ran down my back as mine wrapped around his neck, pulling myself closer to him, deepening our kiss…

"Eh-em!" Alice cleared her throat loudly.

I felt my face flush a deep red. Edward looked at his sister, grinning sheepishly. "Sorry," He said to her before kissing my forehead sweetly and loosening his grip on me.

Still lightheaded from the amazing kiss, I turned back to the food and tried to find something quick to whip up. Edward stopped me.

"How about you let me cook?" He smiled at me.

"You can cook?" I looked at him in surprise.

"Of course! I'm not Emmett."

Alice made a little noise, "You're making something for all of us right?" She asked in her sweetest don't-you-want-to-give-me-my-own-way-because-I'm-so-cute voice.

Edward rolled his eyes at his sister, "OK, sure" he said to her, "Any requests?"

Alice thought for a moment of two, "Tomato soup and grilled cheese."

"That's not cooking Alice, that's barely heating things up."

"Edward pleeeeeeaaase!" She whined.

Edward groaned, "Fine."

--

That night I was lying in bed next to Edward, wide awake. Alice and Jasper were loudly coughing up a storm in the next bed and I couldn't fall asleep.

I heard Edward groan next to me, "That's enough. Let's go." I guess he couldn't sleep either.

I sat up, "Go where?"

"My room. It'll be a lot quieter." He whispered as he hopped off the bed.

I followed his lead, but not before taking a box of tissues, a bottle of cold medicine and two bottles of water next right on Alice's bedside table. I took a post-it note and wrote her a little message telling her to feel better and that I'd be upstairs with Edward should she need anything.

Edward and I sleepily made our way upstairs and into his empty room which he usually shared with Emmett. It was set up almost exactly like mine and Alice's room, except the color scheme was mainly dark blue and gray with a few football and music posters up. Edward's extensive music collection was neatly organized on his side of the room on a very large CD rack.

"Wow," I said, going over to admire it. It might seem strange but all this time I'd never been up in Edward's room. He usually always came down to mine. The one thing that was very similar to our room was the way the window seat was set up, looking extremely cozy with a few throw pillows and a dark caramel colored blanket thrown over it.

He chuckled, "That's not even half of my music collection. You should see all the CDs I have at home."

"How did you choose which ones to bring?"

He shrugged, "I only brought my favorite CDs." He walked over to one of the two laptops sitting on his desk. The one was dark blue and set up with speakers attached to it, "I copied all my CDs to my music laptop in mp3 form… It's much easier that way."

"Cool," I said, with a yawn.

He smiled and came over to me, kissing me out of the blue. "Ready for bed?"

"Mmm hmm," I mumbled, still dazed from his surprising kiss.

He climbed into his bed and held his arms out open to me, inviting me to join him. My heart fluttered at his sweet gesture and I smiled, happily joining him. Once I was securely cuddled up against him, he pulled to covers over us and wrapped his arms around me. I responded my hugging him close to me, leaning my lips into the side of his face and placing gentle kisses along his jaw, making my way to his ear.

I heard Edward let out a sharp breath followed by a slow whisper, "Bella…"

Smiling to myself, I continued the kisses, taking his earlobe into my mouth lightly and running my hands down his muscled back. Suddenly he gripped my waist and pulled me even closer to him with one hand while the other brought my lips back to his. He kissed me passionately; I responded immediately, kissing him back with an instinctive urgency.

Not knowing what came over me, I pushed him onto his back, rolling with him so that I was on top of him, our lips still locked together. His hands ran down my back, barely stopping at the small of my back. He brought his hands up once more, resting them right under my head, tilting it upward so he had easier access to my neck. He placed intense, lingering kisses along my throat, making me moan with pleasure. My legs split apart and were now on either side of him. His lips were soon moving along my collar bone, moaning my name during the very few times they weren't pressed against my skin.

He moved one hand slowly down my side, over my shoulder, down my rib cage, to my waist, over my hip and to my thigh, gripping it and hiking it up suddenly to his hip. At this point I completely lost control. I could feel my body temperature rising. I was so dizzy from his intoxicating scent and my panting, but it didn't matter. I was lost in him.

I moved my hands under his shirt, feeling his perfectly sculpted torso. My God! He was incredible. He growled softly as I moved on top of him, kissing his neck and making my way down to his chest…

But before I could go any further, Edward lifted me up off him and placed me on the bed, at a distance from him. He had his eyes closed and tried to steady his breathing. I didn't understand why he stopped.

"Edward…?" I was confused, "Don't you want to…?" My face flushed a deep red. I didn't even know what I was asking him. Was I ready for that?

His eyes remained closed, "No."

Oh.

My heart dropped at his answer... humiliation and rejection making their way through me slowly. Of course he doesn't want me, I thought, How could I have been such an idiot? To my further mortification, I felt my eyes start to water. I stifled a sob.

Unfortunately he caught that.

"Bella, did I offend you?" Edward asked me, his face contorted into a look of pure shock and confusion.

I didn't answer; instead I made to turn away from him. But he stopped me before I could and pulled me into a secure and reassuring hug, squeezing me tight.

"You silly beautiful oversensitive girl!" He said placing sweet kisses on my forehead. "You know that I want to."

"Do you?"

"Of course I do!"

"Then what's the problem?" I mumbled tearily into his chest.

He hesitated.

His silence did nothing to soothe my distress. "Is it me?"

"No, Bella, of course not." He assured me, "Believe me, I want you. My GOD how I want you." He paused again, resting his chin on the top of my head, "I just… I don't know… I just don't want to rush it… I wouldn't want you to think …"

Once again, he hesitated.

I pulled my face away from his chest, only just far enough to look into his eyes, "What is it?"

His eyes closed and he sighed in defeat, "I wouldn't want you to think that I was using you."

"Oh, Edward," I hugged him tight, "I trust you… more than I've ever trusted anyone before. I know now you won't hurt me."

He looked into my eyes, "I won't Bella, I swear. I'll never hurt you. I just wouldn't want you to ever doubt that… I think it would be best if we took things slow."

I nodded my head. I trusted him with everything I had, but it seems that Edward didn't trust himself yet. If time was what he needed to prove to himself that he has changed, then I would wait for him. "Kay," I said to him, rubbing his back in support, assuring him silently, like a good girlfriend should.

My heart filled as he smiled at me, dazzling me once again with his killer grin. "I don't know what I did to deserve you, Bella Swan."

I kissed him sweetly on the lips and snuggled once again into him. Soon we both fell asleep in each other's arms.

--

Mmmm….

Bliss.

I didn't dare open my eyes, not wanting to move from this heavenly spot I was in. I was warm and cozy, cuddled against Edward, whose arms were wrapped securely around me still.

Against my better judgment, I finally opened my eyes, only to find a pair of beautiful bright green eyes staring back at me intently. The emotion behind them hit me like an electric shock, but I could place it. Could it be love?

Edward smiled at me, "Good morning."

I smiled back at him, "Good morning," I murmured sleepily.

He leaned over to kiss my forehead.

"How long have you been awake?" I asked him.

"Not long. You look really peaceful when you sleep."

"You watched me sleep?" I raised one eyebrow at him.

He nodded. "I didn't want to wake you. Besides, you're so cute, I couldn't look away."

I shook my head, but I couldn't help blushing furiously as my heart fluttered.

"So what would you like to do today?" He asked, pulling me closer and murmuring against my ear.

I chuckled happily as his breath tickled me. "This is pretty perfect actually."

"Hmm…" He rolled me onto my back and brought his lips to my neck, "Sounds good to me."

--

It was almost noon by the time I'd made my way back to my room to shower and change. The snow outside was still coming down… we were up to at least two full feet of it on the ground. In other words, we were all still stranded in the dormitory.

Alice and Jasper weren't in bed but I heard the shower running so I figured Alice was in there. I went to my wardrobe to pick out a warm, comfortable and cute outfit to wear for today. But before I reached it, I saw a familiar parchment envelope sitting on my desk.

How do they keep getting in here? I asked myself as I went over to pick it up.

This one was much different than the other. The crisp folded-up parchment paper inside held a poem this time instead of a letter.

It read:

A long day comes, at end we go

Back to a place we do well know.

But to grant access, we all must pass

A small object of little Mass.

-

For on this quest a catch you'll find

And only with this item will it unbind

To reveal future details vital to your coming journey of mind.

-

To begin your search, start to the south

And take heed clues from word of mouth.

Up in a room where none enter

It is here that you will find her.

A small little thing which looks quite trivial

But to your journey it will be essential

-

So on you go, so long, take care!

But know that the clock is being watched somewhere.

When it strikes One on morning of the day of rest

You have until then to complete this first daring test.

If exceed, do you, this given time,

This critical item will no longer be there to find.

-

Good Luck, Isabella,

-Ť£-

-

What the hell? It wasn't a poem, it was a riddle. And I had to figure out what it meant and where I was supposed to find … whatever it was… before 'the day of rest'.

Oh crap.

I sighed, sat down at my desk and read over the poem one more time, trying to figure out what I was looking for, how I was going to look for it and what I was supposed to do with it. The clues were all in the riddle. I just had to find it.

OK, I know its confusing, but can anyone figure out what the riddle is? I'll give you a clue. She has to find something, but can you figure out what it is? It took me a while to get the wording right on the poem, but I assure you, all the clues are there. If you're into riddles, then enjoy! If not, the answers will be revealed in the next chapter :)