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Chapter 27

BPOV

I was standing there frozen with my hand still on midair reaching for the door knob. Victoria was the first to recover saying a very embarrassed and shy hay!

Really now? Since when was she being nice to me? I clearly remember the last time we met and let's just say it didn't go well.

When I was still unable to form any kind of coherent response she made an effort to communicate with me and break the ice. Yeah nice.

"So Ed's in the shower and I was about to leave. Do you want to come in and wait for him?"

Right on time a half naked Edward came out of the shower with a single towel around his waist and water dripping on the floor.

"Hey Vic do you wanna grab a coffee or something my head is about to exp- oh!" oh damn right. He was shocked to say the least, and I can give him every right to be. I was the last person he was expecting to see in his room after kicking him out yesterday. Okay not kicking him out but taking Adrian's side.

"Ugh I'm…I'm gonna go now..." I muttered and turned around when I remembered the coffee and the cupcakes I've been holding so I turned around once again to face the stunned Victoria. "Here I brought coffee and cupcakes. Bye now." I handed them quickly to her and literally run for the stairs. I heard Victoria calling after me but I never turned around. I kept running until I reached my car.

When I arrived home ten minutes later I found a visitor sitting on my kitchen counter smiling at me.

EPOV

I was standing there looking at her, running down the stairs running and away from me. Someone was yelling, but I couldn't understand who, because the only thing in my mind was "What the hell happened right now!"

Suddenly, Victoria was in front of me shooting right at my face.
"Edward, for God's sake snapped out of it! Edward!"

"What, did you say?" I asked her fazed.

"Ugh!" she threw her hands up in the air frustrating. "Are you going to stand here all day looking at the door or could you please come back to reality and save the day?" She was rumbling while pacing the room looking for her clothes.

"Wha...what did just happen...I...really?" I asked pointing at the opened door and then looking at Vicky, who'd just put her dress on.

"What just happened my dear Edward is that Bella came and saw me with nothing but your T-shirt and on top of that you came out of the bathroom looking like...like that!" she said pointing at me.

I looked down on me and assed the situation. It was pretty clear had Bella had thought catching us wearing almost nothing. "Shit...I should go find her...she should know..." I was heading to the door and after Bella when Vic blocked my way out.

"Hold it there tiger! First of all you should throw some clothes on, not that you're not a sight for sore eyes, but I don't think you want the whole town to see your butt." She said raising an eyebrow and checking me out. "And secondly, do you even know what to say to her?" she pointed the obvious, being the reasonable one here.

How did she manage to do that without coffee?

"I was going to explain to her that nothing happened between us, that...we...didn't...she should know that right?" I ran my hand through my hair really confused at the damn situation.

"Yeah right you sound very convincing. Go put some clothes on, we have a lot of shit to talk about." She told me throwing me my T-shirt she had been wearing.

I couldn't have agreed more with her. I opened my closet and grabbed the firth things my hands could catch and headed to the bathroom. When I came out fully clothed, Vic had made my bed and was putting her boots on.

"Before you ask, because I see it on your face Bella brought it, the coffee and the cupcakes." she handled me the mug with the cold now coffee. I sat on the edge of my bed facing her, I was still unable to swallow what had happened. Why was Bella here on the first place?

"Why do you think she came here after what happened yesterday? I thought she chose him over me." I asked finally out loud before I could stop myself.

"Really, Edward? Chose him over you? You men are so stupid sometimes. She didn't choose him Ed. Form what you've told me yesterday, she just asked you, her friend, to leave so she could talk to her boyfriend, who was pissed with you because he thought that his best friend, who is you again, was trying to steal his girlfriend and between us that's what you're..."

"I wasn't trying to steal her! I was trying to be her friend, because she needed it and because it's the only way for me to be around her!" I interrupted her.

"Subconsciously yes you were. You said it yourself that you changed for her and to answer your other question she came here to say she was sorry. But the right question is not why she came her first thing in the morning, but why did she run away like that." she smiled mischievously at me.

"I don't know…" it was the only thing that I could say as it seemed. I was so confused and frustrating looking at my back coffee like it was going to give me any answers. "I don't know what the hell truly happened yesterday or why she came or why she ran off like that" one thing I knew for sure, I was losing it.

"What I think is that you should go talk to her and tell her how you really feel...don't look at me so shocked, I am not referring about your feelings for her, but how you feel about what happened the other night." she looked at her watch "And with that I should go because it's almost noon and I've been out since yesterday afternoon." she got up and went to the door.

"Yeah, let me grab my keys and I'll give you a ride. I need to get some air too." I put my shoes on and we both went downstairs to the living-room.

"Mom?!" I called out waiting for an answer, but nothing. "Alice!?" again nothing. Where was everyone? I hadn't have the time to think more about it when I heard a grumble coming from the sofa.

"Emmett what are you doing still here?" there in our couch laid my brother fully dressed with his yesterday shirt and jeans, his arm thrown over his eyes.

"Could you, please, stop shooting! My head is about to explode!" he mumbled without opening his eyes.

"Right, you better find a very good excuse why you lost your flight to Boston, because mum is going to kill you when she finds out." I said half amused half concerned, but he made his bed, he should lie on it. "Oookay, let's go." I turned to Vicky when Emmett opened his eyes and looked at us.

"Oh, hey Vicky." she waved her hand at him smiling.

"Where are you two going?" he asked sitting up with difficulty.

"I am driving Vic home." I answer casually.

"Mmm...wait what are you doing here?" he asked Vicky and waited for answer with a raised eyebrow.

What's with the eyebrows today? Maybe we should name it an Eyebrow-national day. What bullshit am I thinking about? Gee I'm really loosing it!

"I asked the same question. Shouldn't you be at college?" I intervened saving Vicky from an awkward moment.
"I...I...had a...a thing to do, and that's none of your business!" he said defensively.

"Exactly!" I laughed at him. "I am going to find out Em and you know it" I sing-sang to him as me and Vicky got out of the house.

Ten minutes later we were parked outside her house. Vicky turned to look at me.

"Thanks Ed, for the ride and for yesterday" she grimaced at the last one.

"It's okay Vic." I reassured her touching her arm. She kissed my cheek and opened the door. As she was about to get out I remembered something.

"Vichy! He cares about you, you know, a lot. Even if he is a huuge jerk and doing stupid things all the time…He does care." I said to her not knowing if I was helping even in the slightest, she had caught him with another woman after all. But I knew James and I knew perfectly that they were meant for each other.

"Thanks Ed. I'm gonna be fine, really. It's not the first time anyway. See you." she gave me a sad smile and got out of the Volvo. Before she closed the door, turned and looked at me.

"You really have changed Edward." and with that she was gone. I smiled at that. It was a good thing to hear it from someone that knew your old and new self. In a moment I knew with whom I really needed to talk. I started the car and drove to the opposite direction.

La push in winter was so versatile. Even with the chaos taking place in my mind, I couldn't not notice how wild and at the same time calm the place looked. I reached Jake's house and he was already at the door with… Leah?! Huh that was new.

"Hey Ed, what's up?!" Jake greeted me with a full grin on his face.

"I thought we could hang out since I haven't been here in ages, if you're free of course." I added looking at him and Leah meaningfully.

"Oh sure, I have to go anyway! See you later, okay?" Leah said giving Jake a quick peck on the lips before turning to me, "Bye Edward."

"Bye…" it was all I managed to say standing there shocked. "What on earth is going on here?" I finally asked Jake who was looking at Leah starry eyed.

"Come in, I'm making coffee." He said motioning me inside.

"Okay spill!" I said when we were finally settled in his warm little kitchen.

"Haha, alright." he chuckled and took a sip of his coffee. "Actually there isn't much too tell, it's pretty simple."

"Are you kidding me? Leah just kissed you out there. And not just that she was actually nice with me!" I burst out. Was he nuts?

"Hey she's not that bad!"

"Last time I checked she wanted to feed my balls to the dogs." I said raising an eyebrow to him. There, I did it too!

"Alright I admit that she had her rough times, but now she's not like that. You saw it yourself." He pointed out. "Anyway about the kiss. Last night after Thanksgiving dinner and all, and after having spent my whole day thinking about her, I made the decision and went to find her." He explained as a matter of factly.

"Oh that simply. And now what?" I asked intrigued.

"Now we're together. I manned up got there and told her about my feelings for her. I risked it all because I had nothing to lose. And I got lucky in this." he said proudly.

"Oh man good for you!" I couldn't believe it but I was so proud of him and at the same time jealous. Jake had found the guts to talk to Leah and I was shitting my pants to confront Bella.

"I can see it in your face that hell broke loose again. What is it?" Jake asked me with a serious and concerned expression in his face.

Twenty minutes later we were still discussing about where I was standing with Bells at the moment. Jake had the same opinion with Vicky on the matter something that didn't help me at all.

My mind couldn't proceed on the fact that Bella was there to apologise, it had been really obvious the other night that Adrian was all that mattered to her.

But like they both insisted there was only a way for me to find out and that was to go by her place and talk to her. On the other side she was the one running out of my room this morning but I gave her every reason to. She had caught us nearly naked and it was very normal to jump into conclusions. I only had to go there and explain to her how things really were.

Maybe I couldn't compare to Adrian or make her see clearly that he wasn't good for her but I could always make her see who I really was and that I'd been always there for her.

I stayed in La Push almost till noon when I knew it was time to go find her. I had been a coward all day hiding down here but now I had to man up and clear out the situation.

I said my goodbyes to Jake and hit the road. Within twenty minutes I was standing in her front porch knocking at her door.

BPOV

"Alice what are you doing here?" I asked surprised. She didn't respond immediately and her smile fainted when she took a good look at my face.

"Ugh oh I know that look, what's wrong?" of course she knew, Alice could read me like an open book. I just shrugged and threw myself to the nearest chair. A chaos was taking place in my head, I couldn't put my feelings in order and there was something bigger than my break up with Adrian that was bothering me but I couldn't put my finger on it.

"That bad? What did I miss the last, what, twelve hours or so?" she asked really confused.

"Believe me a lot of things can happen in twelve hours." And take it from me sister. I added mentally.

"Right, stay where you are and I'm calling the rescue team." She said determined taking out her cellphone.

Within an hour Rose and Angela had arrived and we were all settled on my bedroom floor surrounded by a lot of junk food and coffee. Surprisingly I was feeling a lot more relieved and carefree having told them what had happened with Adrian the night before. I hadn't quite given them all the details about Edward and Victoria not that I'd told him to leave last night.

"And how are you feeling now? Do you miss him?" asked Angie hesitantly. I couldn't blame them, they were all afraid I was gonna flip like the time Adrian had left.

"Um with all honesty I feel kind of relieved and calm. This long distant relationship was having its toll on me after all. I love him yes, like a person that I spent some great months with and I'm definitely gonna miss him but that's it. We couldn't work it out anyway." They seemed pretty impressed and relieved hearing those words.

"Nice, good for you Bells. You took it really well." Encouraged me Rose.

"Yeah thanks. Well now, change of subject please! Tell me what did I miss?"

"Oh you're not gonna believe it! Yesterday night I was about to go to bed when I heard voices outside my window and guess what, Emmett was there with Ian by his side holding a guitar." She said half pissed half amused.

"What? No way? Emmett? As my brother Emmett?" Alice asked bewildered.

"And my brother, Ian?" I asked really surprised.

"Yes, and yes, but Ian seemed very uncomfortable and nervous. I bet Emmett drugged him there." She explained and I couldn't believe in my own ears. My tough, cynical brother and bear Emmett being oh so romantic was really hard for me to picture.

"Don't tell me he made a cantata?" Alice managed to say still shocked.

"Unfortunately yes!Because let me tell you I haven't heard anyone in my life singing that out of tune. He must have been totally wasted because he could barely stand." She continued with the events.

"What song was he trying to sing anyway?" asked Angie unable to hide her amusement.

"That's the part you're not gonna believe. If I remember correctly it was the soundtrack of a cheesy British chick-flick I once saw with my mother! Notting-something…"

"Oh, Notting Hill! Don't tell me he was singing "She"? exclaimed Alice her eyes almost popping out of their sockets. "How on earth did he even know that song?"

"Yes that was it! I don't know that song's ancient! In which century does your brother live in?" wandered Rose making a face.

"Oh that's so sweet I love that song." admitted Angela. It was well known that she was the romantic one here, she had seen that movie countless times and she knew the song by heart. Not much of my taste but who am I to judge?

"No! It was awful! Ian was standing there playing the guitar sheepishly while Emmett was killing the poor song. I threatened him that if he didn't leave right now I would go down there and smash the guitar to his head." She said as a matter of factly.

In truth we were all positive that Rose was capable of keeping her word and hopefully Emmett was aware of that too. Or else Ian's guitar was a nice collar on Emmett's neck right now.

"Poor Emmett." Angie said shaking his head with sympathy.

"Poor me that I had to listen to that! I don't know why he's still trying, I'm not gonna fall for his tricks, it's ridiculous!" huffed Rose crossing his arms on her chest.

"Rosie I don't think they're tricks, maybe you should give the poor guy a chance." I told her cautiously afraid of her reaction.

"Are you kidding me? We all know what Emmett really wants, to get in my pants. And that's not gonna happen. Not now not ever." she said determined.

"Aaalright… but take it from me that he's never done anything like those things for anyone else. He's obsessed with you Rose and if he tried to sing for you and sent you all those flowers then I really belief he's not trying to get you to bed." Alice said honestly, and I agreed with her. Emmett wasn't the type to play the romantic one to sleep with a girl.

"Yeah right. Anyway change of subject again. Alice, how are things going with Jasper?" Rose tried to avoid the conversation about Emmett and turned to the other cute couple in town.

"Aww everything's great! He is so sweet and kind and always cares for me. I feel that he knows everything I want before I could even say it, it's like he can sense all my emotions and needs." Alice jumped into the conversation forgetting everything about Emmett.

"Is he a good kisser?" Angie asked daringly. She was always the shy one.

"He is the best! His lips are so soft and on the same time so hard and demanding and oops- sorry Bells. Is this a little awkward for you?" she asked me blushing slightly.

"What no! Not at all Al don't worry! He's just my cousin I know he's a man too. So go on." I smiled reassuringly at her. The truth was that I was more surprised and shocked at how the things had come but not uncomfortable. If they're happy I'm happy.

And so the day gone by and we talked about everything. Alice told us about Jaz and Angie about her oh so romantic and sweet relationship with Ben, and I couldn't help but wonder, why hadn't I felt all those things for Adrian?

We had our great moments yes but not that other half thing. I wasn't even able to say I love you when he told me. And I know that's normal but now I was realizing that maybe all we had was a nice teenage relationship full with romance and excitement. I was afraid that I had been so close to him that it was the first one to make me forget about Edward back then. And that was a terrible thing to feel.

Immediately shook that thought away. No it wasn't like that I was being dramatic. It's just Adrian wasn't the perfect match for me, that's all. Or maybe he was too much into me and that was keeping him for seeing clear.

Sometime around noon they were all gone and I was left alone again with my thoughts and Shakespeare. That dog was a big comfort. Without realizing it my thoughts were back on Edward and all the mess we've created the last two days. Thinking back to all those months and everything that happened I realized that all the mess had been created by my and Edward only. Even my breakup with Adrian was caused by my all new friendship thing with Edward.

Suddenly I felt sick and tired by all the drama in my life. I was in dire need of peace and quiet to find out what was going on in my life. I had to decide about college and life and all and the friendship and relationship drama was out of my life. There wasn't space for both. Now that I've broken up with Adrian I was ready to deal with my life. But to manage that I should took my space and put some distance between me and Edward. It's not that he was an obstacle or something but he's always a distraction. Even now with what had happened this morning I couldn't find my peace. I was more on edge about it than my own break up.

As I was pacing my room organizing my life the sound of the doorbell put me out of my phase.

I hurried downstairs and opened the door. And there was standing my biggest distraction of all.

Edward.

"Hey!" he muttered giving me a hesitant smile.

"Hey.." I trailed off. Now was the time to put your thoughts into action Bells. Remember you need your space.

"So how are you?" he made another effort to start a conversation.

"Good, you?" nice, in two years we'll have finished this one.

"All good….um I really wanted to apologise form this morning." He said fidgeting like crazy. He was kind of cute the way he was standing in the freezing wind apologizing like a child. Don't fall for that Bella!

"Don't worry about it, I shouldn't have come like that." I said determined and trying to keep any emotion out of my face. Why was he apologizing anyway? I didn't have the time to find out. I didn't care.

"Oh, okay then…" he muttered looking confused and a little embarrassed. He shouldn't be. It was his life and he was free to make his own choices. "But let me explain first." He said abruptly.

"Edward please. It's your life and your choices. If you want to sleep with your best friend's girl then go ahead do it. I'm not the one to judge you but I really thought you've changed. I don't have the time or the energy to deal with all this shit." The moment I said those words I realized what had been bothering me all day. It wasn't the thing that he had slept with bitch Victoria but the fact that he hadn't changed at all. I felt betrayed and upset. I've had enough!

"Wait what?" he asked surprised and a bit annoyed. I saw the furrow between his eyes. "That's what you think of me?" he asked upset.

"That's what you show me!" I was getting pissed too. I had caught him red handed right this morning and he was offended by me? I should have been offended.

"Okay, I think we're done here. Goodnight." It was all he said before he turned around and went to his car.

Gee it was a good one before he came here! I had the urge to scream all the tension out. This man was driving me nuts! I was keeping my distance and he could go and screw whoever he wanted, I was done here. Period.


Firstly don't hate me! Secondly I've arleady told you that this story is coming to an end soon so this bad timing with Edward and Bella isn't gonna last long. Only until they short things out with themselves!

The next chapter is the crucial one and I've already started writing it! I'm going to update faster and sooner so all of you that actually read the story leave me a review beacuse I want to know your opinion about how they are going to work things out between them!

Until next week! x0x0x0