Disclaimer to Stephenie Meyer and Tomoko Hayakawa.

THIRD TIME TODAY (in British time of course).

Enjoy this.

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"Its s-so cold," Edward shivered. Edward was wearing a woolly hat, his face was half-covered in a scarf and he was wearing a coat so thick it could have been a woolly mammoth to a person who had forgotten to wear their glasses. He and Bella were shopping in the local market. They had just gotten off the bus. Jasper, Emmett and Carlisle had taken the Volvo to Auntie's restaurant to tell them that they accept the offer.

"This markets just the same as the others I've seen," Edward told Bella.

"They have the same thing in common, they're all markets," Bella replied.

"That's true."

There was a pause.

"Do you think because of the cold that it'll snow?" Edward said softly.

"Maybe."

Bella walked to the grocer's first.

"Oh, hello." The grocer's wife greeted Bella, he then instructed her husband to turn the lights on, because the scary girl was there. She then realised that they didn't need the lights on, because of Edward.

"Oh my, aren't you handsome," she told Edward. Edward blushed slightly. Her husband walked out, and his eyes looked at Bella, then onto Edward and then onto Bella again.

"Oh, we're so happy for you, scary girl!" the grocer and his wife exclaimed.

"Can we go someplace else?" Edward mumbled.

"No, it's cheap here." Bella muttered back. They composed their faced.

"We never thought you'd find such a good-looking boyfriend!" the grocer and his wife exclaimed.

"Boyfriend?" Edward and Bella said together, their jaws dropping.

"No, he's not my..." Bella began, before a load of vegetables were shoved into her arms.

"Don't worry, looks don't matter, it's the personality that counts," the grocer said patting on Edward's arm. Edward looked uncomfortable with the kind gesture. Edward ushered Bella away before more was said.

As they walked on. Edward was attracting a lot of attention. Attention that Bella had never gotten before. Bella had always attracted attention, no matter where she went. It was the 'scared of her' attention. This type of attention was 'aw, isn't that cute?' type of attention.

They thought Edward was her boyfriend.

And because of that, they all felt the need to congratulate Bella and give her free stuff.

The news spread like wildfire.

"What do you do here?" Edward asked Bella worriedly as people felt the need to walk to Bella and applaud Bella.

"I just buy groceries here!" Bella said. Bella and Edward were dumbfounded with the people's reaction.

Bella dumped all the groceries on Edward and she ran away to hide.

Bella ran to the nearest alley and hid. She didn't want people wanting to know that she was associated with the 'handsome boy'. She reluctantly came here with him. She could have brought a pot and groceries home, no problem. She was attracting too much attention for her liking. She would have to go to the Forks Supermarket for a while, whilst it died down. No one knew her there, and it was something that haunted her for a while. She had never been, and she wondered if things were as cheap there as it said on adverts.

"I heard you're having some kind of seafood hot pot?" a seafood stall owner asked Edward.

"No, we're just having a hotpot," Edward said smiling.

"Would you like some seafood?" the owner said, smiling cunningly.

Edward sampled some crab meat and scallops, which he liked. He bought lots of them; he walked past an alley where Bella was hiding.

"Oh, we're going," Bella said happily, she then looked suspiciously at the extra bag.

"What did you buy?" Bella said slowly.

"Crab meat, King Prawns and Scallops," Edward said cheerily showing her the bag. Bella tentatively took her purse out of Edward's pocket. She opened it and saw that they only had enough for a bus fare home.

"H-How m-much d-d-did you spend?!" Bella spluttered. Edward looked into the purse and saw the mistake that he had made.

"We're going home," Bella said in a small but angry voice.

"But we haven't got the pot yet," Edward said in a bored voice.

"Whose fault is that?"

Edward didn't reply. A fleck of snow had dropped onto his nose.

"Ken, we have to get home it's snowing!" a mother said pulling her child along.

"When is daddy coming home?" the little child asked his mother. Edward smiled faintly.

"That kind of thing is sure nice," Edward said softly.

"What is?" Bella asked Edward. Edward was too immersed in his thoughts.

"It's Edward!" a girl screamed. Bella didn't get away fast enough, and she was thrown around like tennis ball in the crowd of Edward's fan girls. The groceries had the same kind of treatment. Edward stood in the middle, trying to push them away. Bella sighed and braved the crowd. He slapped Edward's money for the bus and then she left. She didn't have time to listen to girls awe over Edward, like looks absolutely mattered. Like, because Edward was absolutely god-like, his other flaws didn't matter as well. Bella snorted. Bella knew Edward more than those girls.

"Leave me alone!" Edward yelled. They kept pushing closer to him. He glared at one girl and they flinched and retreated. He tried it on another girl, who went away crying.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Edward roared at them all. Soon, little by little the crowd dissolved and disappeared. Edward inhaled deeply. If only he had learned how to do that a long time ago.

"Bad day, Edward?" someone asked him. Edward sat on the wet floor, regardless of the snow and stuff on the ground. Edward didn't reply.

"Where's the scary girl?" the person persisted.

"Home. She gave up on me," Edward replied dryly, "We ran out of money, so..."

"That crowd did that much, eh?"

"You have no idea how much they do."

Edward looked up at the person he was talking to. It was a man.

"Who are you?"

"Tom, you can call me Tom."

"Oh."

No more was said for a few minutes. Edward stayed in the falling snow. He held back tears. Memories haunted him like nightmares that wouldn't go away.