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!

EPOV

It had been a couple of weeks since the party and yet people were still talking about it. It's true when people say that people in small towns really don't get that much gossip. Back in Chicago, the party would have been forgotten already and there would have been many more since then.

I had thanked Jason over and over again for reconsidering having me move to another place, and he had told me each time that it was Alice that I had to thank.

I had thanked and repayed her by taking her on an all expenses paid shopping trip to Seattle. Jason hadn't been too thrilled with that idea, and he had sent members of the security team along to keep an eye out for trouble. They hadn't made themselves known, but I knew who they were. I couldn't and didn't hold it against Jason. He was still worried about my safety after all.

Let me tell you, I wouldn't be taking Alice out shopping again.

That was three days ago and my feet were still sore. Who knew that such a tiny girl could be such a whirlwind force when shopping. Bella had told me not to underestimate her when she got going and I certainly wouldn't be doing that again. All the girls that I had had to take out when back in Chicago put together still didn't compare to Alice in a mall.

I did have to admit she had good taste.

Bella and the others had come along as well, and Bella had been absolutely astounded at the totals in each shop, especially seeing as Alice had taken it upon herself to shop for everyone else as well. She had reasoned that while she had us all out in the city, she might as well shop for us.

Bella had insisted that I couldn't pay for everything, but I had reasoned that there was no shortage of money where I was concerned, that my father wouldn't care, that was if he noticed it was missing, and I had promised and 'all expenses paid' shopping trip for Alice. It didn't matter how much everything cost. It was all worth it.

At the moment, Bella was curled up next to me on the sofa and Alice and Rose were battling it out on DDR. It was quite amusing to watch. There was no shortage of cheating going on, and I know someone should have made sure it was a fair fight, no one did. It was too fun to watch.

I heard Bella sigh next to me and I looked down to see that she had her eyes closed and was wearing a big smile.

"What are you thinking?" I asked her and she opened her eyes lazily.

"Nothing really." She mumbled, nuzzling her head against my chest. "Just about how lucky we are."

"Hm?" I cocked my head to the side and she giggled.

"I mean, we are lucky." She sighed looking at our friends. Alice had narrowly beaten Rosalie on the dance mat and was doing a little happy dance in front of Jasper, while Rosalie sulked next to Emmett. I couldn't help but laugh at the scene. "Look at us all. I mean, we have our friends here, a great place to hang out." She grinned up at me. "And we have you."

"Okay, now you lost me." I turned back to look at her.

"Well, a couple of weeks ago, we could have lost you." She mumbled sadly, obviously thinking back to that day. "You could have been taken away from us and we wouldn't have been able to see you again. We're lucky that you're still here."

"I guess so." I sighed, pressing my lips to her forehead.

We were having yet another movie night tonight. It was the guys' turn to choose the movie. I didn't bother helping them pick one out, seeing as I had seen them all numerous times. What we watched didn't really matter to us.

"When's Jacob getting here?" Alice whined. She wanted to sit down and watch the movie already. Impatient pixie.

"He'll be here soon, don't worry Ali." Jasper reassured her, wrapping an arm around her waist and pulling her down onto his lap where she rested her head on his shoulder.

Jacob had been included in our movie nights for the past couple of weeks. We had gotten over the little disagreement we'd had when we first met, and he was a decent guy. He was melding into the group just like I had. I had the feeling that before he had just been Bella's friend and not really acquainted himself with the rest of the group. Lately, he seemed to have warmed up to them, just as they had to him.

He had also started seeing someone called Leah. He assured me that she didn't know anything about me, so we would have to be careful about what was said. We could all tell that he really liked her and that it was hard for him to keep something so huge from her, but he knew why he had to. I respected him for that.

Just then, the doorbell rang, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"I'll get it!" Alice practically shouted, jumping up off of Jasper's lap and running to the door. Now whether it was Jacob or the pizza that we'd ordered, remains to be seen.

"It's the pizza!" She called, sounding a little disappointed.

"Cash is on the side." I yelled back and she thanked me, paying the delivery guy.

"Oooh, and we have a Jacob and Leah as well." She said enthusiastically, walking back into the living room and setting the pile of pizzas down on the table in the centre, well, it wasn't really in the centre anymore, seeing as it had to be moved to make room for the DDR mat.

I heard the door close and someone giggle, before Jacob and Leah made themselves known.

"Hey guys." Jake called happily, grinning around at us all.

"Hey." We called back, all looking at Alice expectantly.

"We have a vegetarian." Bella and I raised our hands and she passed the box to us. "And another one." Again this one was ours, 'cause I'm telling you, she might not look like it, but she can sure pack a pizza away.

I tuned Alice out as she carried on handing out the pizzas. It turned out that everyone had one each and there was one cheese and tomato left over for anyone who wanted it. I called dibs on it before anyone else had even taken in a breath. Emmett and Jake scowled at me and I laughed.

"Not fast enough." I shrugged, taking the extra pizza box from Alice and putting it on the floor away from the two bottomless pits.

"No, you're just a cheater." Emmett whined.

"Whatever." I shrugged. "Still mine." I smiled at him smugly.

"How did he cheat?" Bella asked, staring over at Emmett confused.

"I don't know." He mumbled, his mouth full of pizza. "He just did."

"Well, technically since he paid for it, it's his anyway." Alice backed me up and I became very childish and stuck my tongue out at the two of them.

"Good thing you called us ahead of time." Jake commented, finishing off a slice. "There wouldn't have been any left for us if you hadn't."

I nodded, taking a bite. I had called Jake to find out whether he and Leah would want any pizza when they got here as soon as Alice mentioned it. I knew that there wouldn't be any left if I hadn't.

"Yes, thank you for that, Edward." Leah said grinning as she took a bite of her pizza.

"You're welcome." I smiled back and Bella giggled. "What?"

"Nothing." She tried to look innocent as she picked up another slice of pizza. I didn't buy it though and resolved myself into getting it out of her later, as she wouldn't now. I would get it out of her. Sooner or later.

"Right." Rosalie called above the chatter. "Why don't you guys go and choose a movie and I'll go and get some drinks."

The guys nodded at this and Rosalie got up off of the sofa, heading into the kitchen.

"I'm gonna go give her a hand." I told Bella, kissing her on the cheek, leaving a smudge of tomato there as I got up.

"Edward!" She moaned, wiping it off with her sleeve. I chuckled at her and made my way into the kitchen.

"Hey, Rose." I said walking up behind her as she looked in the fridge. "You want some help?"

"Actually, yes please." She looked around at me, her expression confused. "Do you have something that I can put a load of cans in?"

"Ummm……" I looked around, thinking. "Ah." I walked over to the cupboard by the sink. I opened it and pulled out the cooler that was nestled in there, showing it to Rosalie as if I was modelling it on the home shopping channel, earning myself a giggle. "We can fill it with ice and load it up."

"It'll be just like we having a picnic." She laughed and I couldn't help but chuckle. I opened the freezer and pulled open one of the trays. It was filled with literally just ice. I had no idea why. And they were all there for a reason, because they were all nice, neat little blocks. There were a couple of these trays at the bottom of the freezer. Mental note. Ask Marie about trays of ice. I pulled out one of the trays and emptied it into the cooler and Rosalie started putting cans into it. I waited until she'd put in a fair amount of cans before I emptied the next tray into it and put it back into the freezer, closing the door.

"That enough?" I asked her and she nodded.

"Looks like it." She smiled at me. "Nice work partner."

"You too." I picked up the cooler and followed her back into the living room. The guys had just finished picking out a film and were putting it into the DVD player. "What d'you choose?"

"Saw." Bella grumbled as I put the cooler down in the middle of the room, grabbing a couple of cokes for Bella and myself.

Bella was not a fan of scary movies. She absolutely despised them. Normally, I didn't mind them. They didn't scare me at all. I mean, I laughed all the way through Hannibal so, yeah, scary movies, not a problem for me. I'd enjoyed them all the more since I met Bella. Her obvious dislike of them caused her to cuddle into me whenever she got scared. Not something I was complaining about.

I picked up another slice of pizza as the film started. Still hot. That was good. I would have thought that it would have cooled down by now. At least a little.

"How can you eat knowing what's going to be on the screen in a few minutes?" Bella asked me as the opening credits came on the screen.

"Because one) I know what happens. I have seen it numerous times and two) I know it's not real." I stuck my tongue out at her and was caught by surprise when she snapped her head up and grabbed my tongue between her teeth.

She tugged on my tongue gently and she crushed her lips to mine, her tongue massaging mine fiercely.

"Aren't you supposed to wait until it gets to the scary parts to start that?" Emmett joked and when we broke apart I saw that Bella was blushing a deep shade of red.

"Sorry." I mumbled. "Got a bit carried away."

"I see that." He mumbled, wrapping an arm around Rosalie as she curled up into his side.

I sat and watched the film, smiling as everyone else either recoiled from either being scared or just the 'ick' factor. I had seen the film so many times that neither of them really bothered me anymore.

I smiled as Bella hid her face in my chest for the umpteenth time in the last ten minutes.

"What is so funny?" She hissed at me and I looked down to see her glaring at me in the darkness.

"You are." I replied honestly.

"How?" She looked confused.

"Because of your reactions to something that's clearly not real." I reasoned and proving my point she buried her head into my side yet again.

"That's not fair." She whispered, glaring at me quickly before covering her eyes again.

"Come on." I whispered, lifting her up off of the couch. "Bella's too scared."

"Awww, bitty baby Bella." Emmett teased her and she scowled at him.

"I don't care." She mumbled into my chest. "I don't care what he says. I don't want to watch it anymore."

"Then you don't have to." I smiled at her as I walked out of the room.

"Thank you." She whispered as I walked up the stairs.

"What for?" I asked confused, concentrating with each step I took.

"Even though you were making fun of me, you saw that I was scared, and…" She trailed off as I reached my bedroom door.

I placed her down on the floor as I opened the door and she walked into my room. I followed closely behind her closing the door behind me. As I turned around she crushed her lips to mine pinning me to the door.

She flicked her tongue along my bottom lip and I parted my lips to allow her access. Her tongue slipped effortlessly into my mouth and our tongues danced around each other, moving in complete synchronicity.

I heard the lock click behind me and I pulled away to see her grinning at me wickedly. She grabbed the front of my shirt and pushed me towards the bed. Unfortunately, I tripped on the edge of the thick rug in the middle of my floor and fell flat on my back. Bella didn't seem to mind though because she climbed on top of me, straddling my hips as she leaned down pressing her lips against mine feverishly.

"Bella." I gasped out when she finally let me breath. Were we about to do what I think we were about to do?

"Yes?" She smiled sweetly at me acting as if she had no idea what she was doing to me. Though I knew that she knew exactly what she was doing to me.

"Are you sure about this?" I asked her, looking directly into her eyes. I could see nothing but want, need and lust in her eyes. I didn't want her to regret anything.

Then she did something I didn't expect her to. She reached into her back pocket and pulled out a string of condoms. "What do you think?"

"Um…" I didn't have time to answer before she crushed her lips back to onto mine, grinding herself up against me as she did so. I moaned into her mouth as the hardness in my jeans became almost unbearable.

I placed my hands on her hips, fingers skimming just underneath her blouse. Her hands grabbed my wrists and she placed my hands above my head, smiling at me sweetly, shaking her head.

"No touch." She whispered.

"Are you trying to kill me?" I moaned, shifting underneath her, trying to relieve come of the tension building up. It was useless. No matter what position I was in, it was still fucking painful.

"Nope." She grinned. "I just want to have some fun."

"Just so you know I don't think I can control myself if you keep this up." I replied as she kissed her way along my jaw.

I felt my breath hitch as she bit down gently on my earlobe and I felt her smile against my skin as she made her way down my neck, unbuttoning my shirt slowly.

She slid my shirt off of my shoulders and I slipped my arms out of the sleeves. She threw my shirt across the room somewhere and began to place hot, open-mouthed kissed on my shoulders. She ran a finger over where I knew the bite mark was on my shoulder.

"I really am sorry about this, you know?" She mumbled against my skin, pressing tiny kisses onto it as she slid her hand down my chest and stomach. Her hand slid down and unbuttoned my pants, slowly sliding down the zipper.

"I don't mind." I gasped as her other hand joined the first one in tormenting my groin. I couldn't escape the moan that escaped my throat as her hand ghosted over the bulge in my trousers.

"Like that do we?" She whispered in my ear.

I felt her thumbs hook underneath the waistband to my jeans and my boxers sliding them down as she crushed her lips back to mine. I lfted my hips off of the floor and she slid my jeans all the way off of me.

"You know this isn't really fair." I commented and she cocked her head to the side, looking down at me. "I mean, I'm completely naked and you're still fully clothed. I don't see the fairness in that."

"Mmmm…" She pressed her lips to mine. "I see your point." She mumbled against my skin before sitting up and looking down at me. She slowly, and when I say slowly, I mean agonisingly slowly, reached down and pulled on the hem of her shirt, pulling it over her head and dropping it on the floor next to us, revealing a midnight blue lacy bra. If I was turned on before that was nothing compared to what I was feeling now.

She reached behind her back and unclasped her bra, even more slowly than she had taken off her shirt. She was tormenting me and she knew it. She slid it off and dropped it on the floor along with her shirt. I couldn't do anything but stare at her. She was perfect.

"I'm sorry." I whispered.

Her expression grew worried. "What for?"

Before she could register what I was doing I had sat up, wrapped my arms around her waist, one of my hands resting between her shoulderblades and taken one of her breasts into my mouth. She gasped and arched into my me as I licked and gently bit down on her hard nipple.

"You're beautiful." I mumbled against her skin, placing kisses up and down the soft valley in between her breasts before taking the opposite one in her mouth. She moaned at the contact and I couldn't help but smile at the reaction I was getting from her.

"Edward." She gasped as my hand travelled from her waist round to the front of her jeans where I deftly popped the button open. I continued to tease her nipple with my tongue as I eased her jeans down exposing her to me. "Edward."

I loved hearing her say my name under normal circumstances, but hearing her say it like she was almost drove me into a frenzy. I had a hard time – no pun intended – controlling myself at the moment.

She quickly slipped out of her jeans and underwear before straddling my lap again. She leaned back and looked at me, her eyes filled with lust and need, mirroring what mine must look like.

"Are you sure?" I asked her, making sure that this was what she wanted.

She pressed her lips to mine and gently pushed me back onto the floor. "Absolutely." She whispered, ripping a condom off the strip she had taken from her pocket.

"Where did you get those?" I asked her and she grinned at me.

"That's my secret." She answered me cryptically and I decided I didn't want to know.

The next thing I knew, the condom was open and I was fully sheathed with Bella pressing her lips to mine yet again. I grasped her around her waist and rolled us over gently, so that I was now on top. She smiled me and I pressed a my lips to hers.

"This is going to hurt." I whispered and she nodded.

"I don't care." She whispered back, placing a kiss on my neck before biting down on it. She bit down harder than she had when she had marked me, and that one had hurt. And so did this one. A lot. She laid her head back down with a smile playing on her lips. "See, I hurt you first."

"It's not the same thing." I countered and she shook her head.

"I don't care." She repeated. "I need you, Edward."

I positioned myself at her entrance and eased myself into her slowly, letting out a hiss of pleasure as I felt her walls surrounding me. I stopped when I reached her barrier, looking into her eyes for permission. She nodded and I pressed a kiss to her temple.

"I'm sorry." I whispered before I broke through her barrier.

She let out a soft whimper and I saw tears welling up in her eyes, but she wasn't letting them fall. I didn't move, letting her become accustomed the feeling of me being inside her.

"Are you okay?" I whispered, pressing a kiss to her lips and she nodded.

"Yes." She mumbled against my lips. "Yes."

I began to move, slowly moving in and out of her, not wanting to hurt her any more. I couldn't stand that she was in pain, and I knew that she was no matter how much she said she wasn't.

"Harder." She mumbled, wrapping her legs around my waist as I moved in and out of her. I could feel the pleasure and pressure building within me. I couldn't help the moans that escaped me and was only spurred on when I was answered by Bella's own moans.

Just when I thought I couldn't hold on any longer I felt her walls clench around me and she shuddered beneath me, her back arching, pushing herself into me. I quickly joined her in my own climax, my whole body shuddering as I we rode out our orgasms together.

She relaxed beneath me and I collapsed on top of her, still supporting most of my weight on my arms. I kissed her neck and forehead tenderly before I slid out of her and rolled off of her. I missed the contact immediately, wanting to stay close to her. I got up off of the floor, and lifted her onto the bed, placing her gently down on the pillows before I disposed of the condom. We both crawled underneath the duvet and she wrapped her arms around my waist as we both drifted off to sleep.

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I awoke a little while later, suddenly feeling very hungry. It was still dark and I looked at my clock to see that it was a little past 2:30AM.

I wrapped Bella's arms from around my waist, kissing my angel's forehead before I slipped out of the bed. I pulled on my sweats and a t-shirt before I quiety walked across the bedroom and opened the door.

I quietly made my way down the stairs and stopped when I saw the light from the TV flickering in from the living room. I padded over to the room quietly and peered around in there. They had all fallen asleep in there. Each couple was curled up on the sofa that they had fallen asleep on. I walked over to the sofa that Bella and I had been on and saw that the pizza box was still on the floor where I had left it. I picked it up quietly and opened it, and was surprised to see that the pizza had gone untouched. I didn't think that Emmett and Jacob would have been able to resist. Obviously Rosalie and Leah had reprimanded them for thinking about it.

I took the pizza box into the kitchen and dropped it on the breakfast bar. I didn't care that it was cold. Still tasted good and I wasn't looking for a gourmet meal at the moment. All I wanted was something to ease the hunger I felt.

I had eaten about half a slice when I sensed something moving behind me. I thought that maybe it was one of the guys having woken up and was joining me in an early morning snack.

Suddenly, a hand clamped over my mouth and before I could do anything in retaliation the hand disappeared and something was shooting an electric current through my body. I knew that it couldn't have lasted for more than a couple of seconds but it felt like an eternity.

I don't know how he managed to get in the house, especially with all of my friends asleep downstairs, or maybe he had something to do with that.

All I knew was that my thoughts were of Bella as a sinister laugh echoed through my ears as I fell into darkness at the hands of this man, for the second time.

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