Sooooo I know I haven't updated in a while, sorry about that. I've been really busy with games and summatives and on top of that, my internet has not been cooperating with me, but I finally managed to do this for all of ya'll.

And before I get on with the story, I would like to give a shout out to our Varsity Girls Flag Football team of 2011 for playing a great season. I had loads of fun playing alongside you girls and I wouldn't change the team for anything. Sure we had our problems, but we always managed to pull it together and play as a team.

I`m going to miss all you grade 12's who are graduating and you'll be missed on the team. But for the rest of you, I`m looking forward to playing with all of you again next year. Love you all, mwah.

Also, I hope you've all checked out my little one-shot, Elevator Music. If not, go check it outttttttttttt

Now, without further ado, here's chapter 25 of Aphrodite's Temptation.

Disclaimer: You've read it 24 times so I assume you know that Twilight doesn't belong to me.

Happy reading!

I awoke to a bright room. Blinking away the sleep in my eyes, I leaned up on one elbow and looked around my room.

With a small sigh, I dropped back down against my soft fluffy pillows and stared up at the ceiling.

"It's about time you finally woke up," said a voice and a grin appeared on my face before I even looked over at my door. When I did, the grin grew wider as I took in Alex leaning against my doorframe, shirtless.

With a grin of his own he pushed up and walked slowly towards my bed.

"You slept for ages, you know that?"

"It's only... 8 in the morning. I've been asleep for what, 6 hours?"

"Yeah, but it felt like forever," he complained as he walked up to the side of the bed then, without breaking stride, dropped down on it, laying himself along my body as he balanced his weight effortlessly on his elbows.

"That`s only because you don't sleep," I replied, still smiling, as I wrapped my arms around his neck.

"Probably," he agreed as he looked down at me, idly pulling at a stand of my hair. "Oh, I forgot something," he said suddenly.

"What?"

"Good morning." I laughed and enjoyed the smile that it brought to his handsome face.

"I forgot another thing too," he murmured softly.

"What's that?"

"This," he said then leaned down to rest his forehead lightly on mine.

"I love you," he whispered then brought his lips down on mine...

Chapter 25

"Oh..." Alice murmured softly as she took a small step back to break her contact with me. Almost instantly, the vision was gone and I was staring blankly down at her while she looked back at me.

"Um." She shot a quick look over to Alex before bringing her eyes back to mine.

"God," I whispered softly then took a deep breath before turning around to look at Alex over my shoulder. He met my gaze, but surprisingly didn't glare. He was simply looking at me with an unreadable, blank expression. Rosalie was standing next to him, looking worriedly back and forth between the two of us.

I opened my mouth to say something, anything, but I was interrupted by a male voice.

"Well, well, well, Alex. Hypocrite much?"

I turned to the source of the voice and saw a tall lanky man with bronze coloured hair walking towards us with a smirk.

"I have no idea what you're talking about Edward," said Alex, glaring, as he stepped forward.

"Sure you don't kiddo," said Edward with his patronizing smile still in place. It only seemed to irritate Alex even more because he narrowed his eyes. For a few long moments, neither man talked. They simply continued to stare at each other, and occasionally there would be a little change in either ones expression.

Confused, I looked back and forth between the two.

"Edward can read minds too," came the whisper from Jasper who had appeared at my side. "So they don't need to speak out loud to have a conversation."

Oh, well that made sense. I turned my head to look at Edward once again and was slightly startled to see him already looking at me.

"You must be the lucky girl," he said then stepped forward to take my hand in his.

"... I knew this would happen. And to think that he was the one making a big deal out of me and Bella a few years back. Karma's a bitch, Alex..."

Huh, he was right. Karma was a bitch.

I looked up to see his eyebrows furrow as he looked down at me confused.

"... can she hear me?"

"Yup," I thought back and his eyebrows rose to disappear in his mass of bronzed hair.

"Well then, how... intriguing."

"I bet."

At that he grinned then released my hand and looked over my shoulder at Alex.

"Well it's good to know that you at least know how to pick them," he said and Alex scowled first at him then at me. Like this was any of my fault.

"I have no idea what you're fucking talking about," Alex said through clenched teeth.

"Mmhmm," said Edward distractedly then turned to me.

"You can't hear me anymore."

"Nope."

"I see."

"Yup."

Edward grinned at me again and I could tell that Alex was still fuming. I was going to say something else, but was interrupted by a sneeze. I turned to the doorway to see the brunette standing there in jeans and a purple shirt, but she wasn't the one who'd sneezed.

In her arms she held a little girl who looked about seven. She was rubbing her nose slightly and when she caught my eye she immediately hid her face in the brunettes' long hair. So this must be Bella and Nettie.

"Nessie," corrected Edward and Alex simultaneously and I looked at them both.

Okay, Nessie.

"This is my wife Isabella and our daughter Renesmee, or Nessie," said Edward as he motioned for Bella to come to his side. After a brief hesitation, she appeared at his side and looked cautiously at me through large yellow eyes.

"Hi," I said with a smile, which she returned with a shy one of her own.

"Hey," she mumbled and shifted slightly as the child in her arms did.

"Nessie say hi," said Edward to his daughter who pulled back slightly to look wide eyed at her father. She then fixed her pretty brown eyes on me.

"Hi," she said in a cute little voice and I smiled despite myself. She was so adorable. I guess my smile put the girl at ease because she gave me a wide smile then leaned towards me with outstretched hands.

I looked quickly at Edward then at Bella before taking her. She shot me another smile as he settled in my arms then reached up to pat my face with her tiny hand. At first I had no idea what she was doing, but then images started to flash before my eyes.

They started off really blurry. I could barely make out the images of a little girl of about two being held by... Alex?

Before I could ponder over the images, they changed. This time Alex and the girl, now about four or five, were in a forest. Alex lifted the girl, whom in now noticed was Nessie, up over his head.

What caught my attention was the fact the Alex was laughing. Like actually laughing.

Wow.

The scene changed again and Alex and I stood in the center of the ballroom, gazing intently at each other. The looks on our faces had my stomach fluttering uncomfortably once again.

Then it all disappeared and I was looking down at Nessie's smiling face again.

"Well then," I said and cleared my throat. The girl in my arms twisted slightly to look over my shoulder at Alex.

"Yea, I saw," I heard him mutter darkly. Nessie then pushed out of my arms and ran over to Alex who didn't hesitate for a second before leaning over and pulling the girl into his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck and stared up into his eyes.

All of a sudden Edward broke out into loud peals of laughter and I looked over at Alex to see him scowling once again. I looked around the room and was glad to see that I wasn't the only clueless one standing here.

"You're right, baby," said Edward to his daughter. "That's exactly how it is."

Alex shot him a look but mellowed his expression significantly when he looked down at his niece.

"Not quite kiddo... no... not reall—Definitely not," Alex said, presumably answering the girls' thoughts.

"Sure," said Edward with a smirk.

"You shut—"

"Well, you know what we haven't done in a while? Dance. That`s what. Come on!" said Alice and disappeared. She was back a second later and slow music stared to fill the room. Before anyone could protest, she drifted forward and grabbed Edward. If this was her way of dismantling the situation, I really hope it works.

Edward shot me a look before he twirled Alice away and they moved gracefully through the ballroom to the music. All for keeping the peace, Esme pulled Carlisle into an embrace and the two of them also began to dance.

Emmett moved forward and took Nessie out of Alex's arms and began to spin with her in circles around the room. Her laughter rang out and I noticed Bella smiling at her daughter and Emmett. The five of us where left were just standing there for a moment before Alex started walking towards one of the exits.

"Oh no you don't," said Rosalie as she moved forward to grab his arm. Needless to say, Alex was no competition for Rosalie so with a roll of his eyes he let her pull him into the dance.

Now there were only three of us left. Bella looked from me to Jasper then to the other dancing couples then back to me with wide eyes before taking a frantic step back, almost colliding with Emmett and Nessie.

"You guys go right ahead," she said hurriedly turning away. "I um... I`m going to take pictures," she declared then pulled out a camera and snapped a random shot as if to assure us that she was indeed taking pictures.

Someone obviously disliked dancing.

I noticed someone step up behind me and I turned in time to see Jasper give me a small smile as he held one hand out to me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Alice looking intently at him. He caught her gaze and gave her a soft smile and shook his head slightly before turning to me again.

"Can I have this dance ma'am?" he asked with his southern twang and it brought a smile to my face.

"Of course you may," I replied with smile and caught Alice's grin as she and Edward passed by us. I put my hand in his and let him pull us into the embrace of dancers.

Truthfully, I`m not an amazing ballroom dancer. I could do ballet, break, contemporary, tap, and a bunch of others, but I could never master ballroom.

Hell, I could even tango, but other than that, I was pretty much incompetent. Luckily, I paid just enough attention at dance camp to grasp the general idea and feel of it. Jasper made up for everything else. He was a surprisingly good dancer.

I was just relaxing and getting into the dancing when I noticed that Jasper was staring at someone over the top of my head. When I looked, I saw Rosalie look away quickly and saw Alex look down at her with a confused look on his face.

I looked back up at Jasper and he smiled, and I instantly felt calmer, more reassured. It was probably nothing.

Sadly the calm didn't stay for long because before I knew it I was being shoved away from Jasper and was being pulled in a different direction. I nearly lost my footing and went crashing to the floor but was stopped by strong hands at my waist.

At first I thought I was back with Jasper, but I quickly realized that I wasn't. I looked up slowly and gazed into tawny eyes. I shot a quick look to my left to see Jasper and Rosalie dancing away with grins on their faces. In fact, I realized as I looked around, all of them were grinning.

What the hell.

I caught Edwards' eye over Alice's head as we danced by each other and he raised an eyebrow at me and looked pointedly between the two of us. I narrowed my eyes and turned away.

God, he was so annoying.

"Tell me about it," came Alex's voice in my head and I smirked and looked up at him.

"Brothers." I thought to him and he looked down at me with his own smirk as he shook his head slightly.

Without much notice that I was doing it, my arms slid up over his shoulders and locked behind his neck as we moved gracefully together. At the same time, his hands slid around my waist and came to rest at the small of my back.

Neither of us noticed the flashing camera's around us. We were both consumed by each other, and the thoughts of annoying brothers.

Hoped you liked the chapter. Sorry it was so short though. I'll try to make the next few longer.

Remember to read Elevator Music.

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