SURPRISE!

I bet you weren't expecting this chapter to be up so soon, but as I was writing the AN and then uploading the last chapter, I realised that I knew exactly what was going to happen in this chapter.

May I just as that just because I updated twice, you don't not review the last chapter? That happened a few weeks ago and I was a little upset about that.

This is one of my favourite chapters. I hope you like it, too. See you down below!

"Ooh, Edward, let's go in there!" I said enthusiastically, pointing to the shop across the road. Edward and I had been since around four. It was now five, and in the past hour, we'd eaten and walked through a few shops. Edward had stopped in front of a jewellery store and I knew by the look on his face that he wanted to buy something in there, but I wasn't really comfortable with that.

He'd made me stop and tell him why. I'd shrugged and said that I felt that if he did that – if he bought me extravagant things – then I felt as though I'd have nothing to give back. After all, I was hardly the millionaire he was. He'd kissed every inch of my face, calling me his "sweet, silly girl" and just like that, it was forgotten.

Edward groaned. "Bella, why are you doing this to me?" I looked over my shoulder to see my loving boyfriend pouting at me and I laughed, my head thrown back.

"Edward, I am doing nothing to do," I said, trying to keep a straight face. "All I want is to go in just one little shop."

He raised an eyebrow, and I nearly lost it. However, he remained completely serious as he said, "One little shop, baby? That's not just "one little shop"… it's a lingerie store. You want to go into a lingerie store, try on god knows how many sexy, flimsy bits of silk and you honestly expect me to be able to keep my hands off you?"

I giggled. "I never said you had to keep your hands off me, baby. Whatever gave you that idea?"

He just groaned and I could hear a little want mixed in there, so I turned around and walked through the store. But then I heard a familiar laugh and after looking around, I saw the person standing there, completely unaware, metres from me.

I didn't realised I'd stopped until Edward walked into me. I nearly fell forward, but Edward caught me, spinning me around. He must've seen that something was wrong, off, because the next thing I knew, he was cupping my cheeks in both hands. "Baby, what is it, what's the matter?"

I looked up at him, unsure of what to say. Could I really tell him that in this very store was the woman I hated so much simply because the tabloids always made it look like she was after Edward? And could I really tell him the two reasons behind that hatred?

I opened my mouth, still looking into his thoroughly patient and concerned eyes and was about to say something when she spoke.

"Oh my god, look who it is," her fake, nasal voice made Edward and I both wince and stiffen. Edward seemed to understand that this was the source of my… whatever this feeling was… and his jaw clenched as he looked above my head just as the bitch continued speaking. "Eddie Masen."

He grunted. "Tanya," he nodded, his eyes flashing to her before returning to me.

"And who's this you have with you, Edward?" Tanya asked and in the next second I heard the sound of her Louis Vuitton's or whatever other expensive designer shoes she had on clicking against the ground as she walked toward us. I stiffened again, but Edward pulled me against him, his hand on the small of my back. I tucked the hair on the left side of my face behind my ear and steeled myself as I looked up at the strawberry blonde, blue eyed beauty.

She did not disappoint. Standing there in nice designer dark jeans and a revealing top that hugged her curves along with the black boots she was showing off – and I was right, they were designer, but that was beside the point… sort of – Tanya Denali was looking at Edward in lust and me in disgust and annoyance.

I glared back up at her, shocking her with the ferocity but her reaction was the most shocking of all. She ignored me and looked back at Edward with a falsely sincere smile. "Eddie, I didn't know you had a cousin."

Edward smiled politely, his thumb starting to rub circles against my hip as he gripped it and pulled me tighter against him. "That's because I don't. Tanya, meet my girlfriend Bella. Bella, this is Tanya Denali."

I nodded at her, trying to at least be polite – she was a celebrity after all – as I hid my anger and insecurity. She smiled down at me and that was just how it was; she was smiling down at me not just because she was taller, but because she thought me below her.

Which in some way, I guessed was true.

"Oh," she said, looking back up at Edward, effectively ignoring me again. "How nice," she said, smiling at us but again, it was all fake. "I didn't know you were… involved Edward."

He cleared his throat. "Well, I am."

She hummed, "yes, I can see that. What are you doing here?"

I raised an eyebrow, unable to help myself. "What do you think we're doing here? We're together, this is lingerie shop..." I trailed off suggestively with my eyebrow still cocked, smugly letting her do the mouth. I was sure I wasn't the only one who saw her jaw clench.

She shrugged me off, trying to appear undeterred. She leaned closer to Edward and it was my turn for my jaw to clench as she whispered, "Well, Edward… you have my number when you get over this… kid of a girlfriend. I'll be waiting."

She was about to lean back, but Edward leaned in. Tears welled in my eyes as I watched my boyfriend, wandering what the hell he was doing. But I smiled when I heard the words he whispered carefully to the whore in front of us. "I wouldn't be holding my breath if I was you, Tanya. I'm perfectly happy with Bella."

Tanya gasped and leaned away from us in shock before huffing. I very nearly laughed when she stomped her foot, snapped her fingers and was walking away with her two bimbo friends – Lauren and Jessica, from the look of things – scrambling behind her, trying to catch up.

"Well," Edward breathed. "That was… interesting."

I looked up at him and glared, taking him by surprise. I grabbed his shirt and leaned up on my tippy-toes, "Don't you ever do that to me again, Mister."

His eyes brightened with understanding, remorse soon replacing any emotion I could see in his eyes except for love. "Sorry, baby."

I shrugged. "Whatever. Now come on, let's go back to the hotel. I don't want to go shopping anymore. Seeing Tan-whore-ya and her bitches has dampened my mood for any naughty lingerie."

Edward smiled at me before leaning down to kiss me. After we were both slightly breathless, he said, "Just let me come with you next time, too."

I laughed, but nodded and with that, we quickly left the shops and walked back to the hotel.

Now that's done, next chapter we have Bella, Rose, Alice and Angela and the big talk about the ugly elephant in the room. *Pops bubblegum* That's gonna be a rollercoaster, for sure.

See you next week and please review BOTH chapters!

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