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"What are you trying to say Bella?" Edward asked seriously, "That I suck?"

"Of course not! When did you ever hear me say that?" I defended.

"Well maybe you didn't exactly say it out loud, but I'm sure you were thinking it…"

"All I was suggesting, was that you should bend your knees a little more during free throws. That's all. At no point did I say or imply that you suck." I pointed out.

"I do bend my knees!!" he argued.

"I know! I said it might help to bend them more. Are you even listening to me?"

We were driving home after practice and I was just casually giving Edward a tip to improve his already amazing basketball skills and he took it the wrong way.

"Of course I'm listening!" he seemed annoyed.

"Then what did I just say?" I challenged, hoping to lighten the mood a little…

"To sum it all up, you basically said my free throws suck."

I groaned dramatically and let my head fall on the seat's headrest. "Your impossible."

He just huffed as we pulled up to my house. I sat there with my eyes closed, not noticing when Edward got out and came around to open my door.

He cleared his throat and my eyes shot open. I could definitely tell now that our little argument in the car made him annoyed with me.

I silently got out of the car and he walked me to my door. Even though we were in the middle of a little 'fight', if you could even call it that, I didn't want him leaving me just yet.

"I never said you sucked Edward." I said softly, but sternly.

He ran a hand through his hair and then leaned over to give me a kiss on the cheek. "I know…"

"So…are you gonna go home or do you want to stay for a little bit?" I asked carefully.

"You know I want to stay Bella." A small smile played at the corners of his lips.

"So…you're not mad at me?"

"I never was, I'm just so stressed from all the pressure coach is putting on us for tournaments and school and…ugh I'm sorry." He sighed, resting his head on my shoulder.

My hands absentmindedly ran through his hair and I heard him sigh again, "It's okay, I know it's stressful, but how about I take your mind off of things?"

I felt him nod, and we made our way inside. Seeing that no one was home, we grabbed as many pillows and blankets that we could find, piled them on the couch, snuggled in, and popped in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."

"That's just creepy…" Edward commented as Kate Hudson showed Matthew McConoughey their 'family album.'

"That's the point Edward." I laughed.

"Really?" he asked.

"Yes, she's trying to get the guy to dump her in 10 days."

"Oh, so she's doing all this on purpose?"

"Yes!" I laughed again.

"But wait…isn't the guy trying to get her to fall in love with him in 10 days?" he asked, slowly putting the pieces together.

"That's what the movie is about." I answered his question, biting back yet another laugh.

"Ohh! I get it now. That's kind of funny actually…" he chuckled.

I just shook my head and focused back on the movie.

Right as the credits started rolling, Renee walked in. "Hey kids! Edward, we're having chicken for supper tonight, would you like to stay?"

"I love chicken!" he called to her as she rummaged around in the kitchen.

"Well I'll take that as a yes then." Renee snickered.

After dinner, I reluctantly led Edward to his car to say goodnight. "You don't really have to leave do you?" I pouted.

"Unfortunately I do. I don't think our parents would be too wild about the idea of a sleepover in your room."

"Your parents and Renee wouldn't mind, it'd be Charlie we would have to convince." I joked.

"True." He smirked.

I latched my arms around his neck and he pulled me tighter into his chest. "Don't go." I whispered.

"Bella your making it entirely too hard for me to leave." He groaned.

"That's the point."

"Bella…" he sighed.

"Edward…" I mocked.

"You have to let go so I can go home."

"No, if you want to go home you'll just have to take me with you because I am not moving." I said confidently.

He chuckled and just held me for a few moments until…"Okay I really do need to go home now. Esme is going to call Renee any second now wondering what's taking so long."

"Ugh, fine. But my plan would have worked!"

"Sure, sure. No one would have asked any questions when I walked inside carrying you." He said sarcastically.

"No they wouldn't have because they would be totally confused as to why I was there in the first place." I laughed.

"Well we'll just have to try it out some other time then…" he whispered, inching closer and closer to me with each word.

Just as our lips brushed against each other's…"Edward? Are you still here?! Bella let the poor boy go home! Esme just called because he was supposed to be home ten minutes ago!" Renee hollered at us from the front door.

"I told you." Edward smirked.

"Yeah, yeah. Just go home." I grumbled.

He climbed in the driver's seat and started the car. He started to back out of the driveway, but right before he reached the street the car halted to a stop and he jumped out.

"I almost forgot something." He jogged over with a crooked grin on his face.

"What?"

"This." He dipped his head down and captured my bottom lip between his. I was caught off guard at first, but then I realized Edward had come back to give me a kiss.

Aw, how sweet is my boyfriend?

We finally broke apart and I smiled up at him. Then Renee came back outside. "Edward, you go home right now or I will ground Bella!" she threatened.

"Mom, that is so unfair! It was Edward's fault, ground him!"

"Edward is not my child, however you are. And plus, it will punish both of you anyway seeing that you can't even spend a few measly hours away from each other."

"Goodnight Renee..." Edward laughed pulling my mother out of her rant.

"Goodnight Edward. Go home." She said before going back inside again.

"Go home before she really does ground me." I huffed.

"Bye." He said quickly and pecked my lips once more before driving off.

-:-:-

"Alright girls we have two days until tournaments. I think we can take first place this year, but I want you to know that no matter what we rank, I'm still proud of how far we've come. Now everyone go home and get a good night's rest. There will be no practice tomorrow, just as a thank you from me for working so hard this season." Our whole team burst into cheers at the thought of a running-free afternoon.

"But! I expect every one of you to come back Friday ready to work. Now go get showered, you smell!" Coach Clapp joked before retreating to her office.

"I don't know what I'll do with myself. We haven't had a free afternoon since…I don't know when exactly." Angela mused.

"I just hope the boys get tomorrow off too." I told her.

"Definitely."

I finished showering and headed over to the other gym to wait for Edward.

"Bella!" I turned around and saw Alice and Rosalie calling my name.

"What are you guys doing here so late?" School got out around three and practice didn't get finished until about six, sometimes six thirty, I had never seen Alice and Rosalie at the school after hours.

"Do you know how boring it is when eighty percent of your friends are at basketball practice? Of course not because you're one of them!" Rose huffed, answering her own question.

"Sorry?" It came out as more of a question. "But you don't have to worry because the season is over on Saturday, and Coach is giving us a day off tomorrow." I told them happily.

"Yay!" Alice squealed and pulled me into a hug, "I feel like I haven't hung out with you in forever!"

"Alice, we're with each other practically everyday."

"Yes, but that's just school it doesn't count. And on the weekends we all split off into couples." She pointed out.

"Wow." Rose and I said together.

It really has been a while since I've had quality time with my best friends just hanging out, besides the holidays.

"Well then tomorrow we are having an official 'hang out' day." Rosalie declared.

"Yay!" I squealed with Alice.

"Why are you three so happy?" Jasper asked as he and his brothers exited the gym.

"Well Bella doesn't have practice tomorrow so we get to-" Alice started to explain but then got cut off by Emmett.

"Wait, wait, wait. The girls don't have practice tomorrow?"

"No…Coach Clapp is giving us a day off." I explained.

"What. The. Crap!" Emmett reared, chucking his bag on the ground.

"Oh calm down Em, you're making a scene." Rosalie scolded him.

"Sorry…" I said softly. I hadn't intended on making anyone mad.

"Don't worry about him. Emmett's just crabby because he got yelled at a lot today during practice." Edward told me as laced our fingers together.

"What'd he get yelled at for?"

"Making jokes when we were supposed to be working on our shooting and dribbling. He had all the guys laughing so obviously they weren't getting anything done and Coach got mad."

-:-:-

The bell rang, signaling the end of classes. I jumped out of my desk and rushed towards Edward's locker.

"Hey." I smiled.

"Hey…" he breathed and pulled me into a bone-crushing hug.

"Miss me?" I teased.

"Yes." He mumbled into the crook of my neck. "Mrs. Hart decided to give us assigned seats and guess who I sit in front of?"

"Who?" I wondered, I couldn't think of anyone that really bugged Edward except for Jonathan and Tanya. Jonathan wasn't in any of Edward's classes and Tanya went to a different school…

"Lauren Mallory." He said flatly and I giggled.

I had forgotten about her. Lauren was in our grade and she was a friend of Tanya's when she still went to Forks High. It was just recently though that she developed a crush of my Edward. My poor, poor Edward.

It happened at lunch when Lauren accidentally dropped her napkin and Edward, being the gentleman that he is, picked it up for her and then flashed her his heartbreaking smile. She then developed a 'school girl' crush on him, you know where she writes 'Lauren Cullen' all over the front of her notebook and had pictures of him in her locker. I found it absolutely hilarious, Edward wasn't even mildly amused.

"Bella this is not funny!" he argued, still clutching me against him as my giggling transformed into full on laughter.

"Oh…but Edward…it so is!" I choked out between laughs.

He set me down and tried to look angry, "You try sitting in front of someone who you can feel staring at you and then whenever I say something she freaking sighs! What is up with that?! And I swear she tried to touch my hair!"

"Aw, poor baby. She didn't hurt you did she?"

A sly smile spread across his face, but he quickly masked it with a pout. "Actually I think she did. Can you kiss it better?"

"Of course." I was more than happy to oblige. "Where does it hurt?"

"Right here." He pointed to his left cheek and I placed a kiss on it, "And right here." He pointed to his right cheek and I placed a kiss there too.

"And here." he pointed to his lips before lifting my chin up so our lips could meet.

"Alright, enough with the PDA guys! We have to get to practice." Emmett grumbled.

"And we have a best friends day to attend to!" Alice said excitedly

-:-:-

After heading over to Wendy's (of course) and gossiping about all the rumors flying around school didn't know what we wanted to do next.

"Bella!" Rose yelled suddenly.

"Rose!" I mocked.

"What time do the boys' practice usually go to?"

"Around 6:15, after they've showered and everything. Why?"

She whipped her head around to look at the clock and then back to me, "We have exactly forty five minutes, so listen carefully." She beckoned us to come closer as we listened to her evil plan.

EPOV

"Five laps now!" Coach boomed at us right after we finished our one hundred crunches.

We found out at the beginning of practice that we were supposed to have today off like the girls, but since we were goofing around yesterday Coach decided to proceed with our regular schedule.

Thanks a lot Emmett.

Then on top of that, we had an all-conditioning practice today as a punishment, like having it in the first place wasn't enough.

When I wasn't cursing Emmett in my head, I kept wondering what Bella was doing on her time off and that led to what we could be doing if I hadn't had practice, which then led to more cursing of Emmett.

Stupid Emmett.

I finished my five laps, but when I thought I had a second to catch my breath…"50 pushups!"

I. Hate. Emmett.

Finally practice was over and I practically had to have Jasper drag me back to the locker room since my legs turned into goo.

I showered, purposely squirted soap into Emmett's eye for revenge, and was ready to go home.

I walked out to the parking lot and saw Alice casually leaned against the side of the building.

"Hey Alice, are you waiting on Jasper? He'll be out in a minute."

"Oh okay…" she seemed a little fidgety, "So, Edward how was practice?"

"Horrible." I answered simply.

"Oh that's too bad. Did you get in trouble because of Emmett?"

"Yeah." Speak of the devil. Emmett and Jasper came out of the gym. Jasper was leading the way as Emmett held onto his shoulder with the hand that wasn't over his eye.

"Edward! What was with the eye poisoning back there?" he asked angrily.

"You can't poison your eye Emmett." I scoffed.

"I don't care, it still hurts." He spat back.

"You'll be fine."

Jasper noticed Alice was there and ran over to her, leaving a partially blind Emmett by himself. I didn't think it was too hard to see out of just one eye, but apparently for Emmett it is since he turned to walk towards his car but ended up smacking into the gym doors.

I doubled over in laughter and heard two higher pitched giggles from behind me.

I spun around and saw Bella and Rosalie hysterically laughing at Emmett with empty cardboard tubes in their arms.

Rosalie gasped when she realized I saw them and tried to haul a still giggling Bella away.

"Alice! We've been seen! Come on!" Rose yelled.

Alice quickly peeled herself off of Jasper and sprinted for Rosalie's car.

All the girls jumped in and sped off.

"That was…" I began.

"…Odd." Jasper finished for me.

"Can someone help me?!" Emmett growled from the ground. He must have fallen over after he ran into the wall.

We helped him up and made our way over to where the Jeep was parked, since we all rode together today.

Once we got closer I saw that there was something wrapped around the outside of it.

Plastic Wrap.

Oh my god, the girls freaking saran wrapped the Jeep.

"How the-?" Jasper asked.

"I'm guessing Alice was the decoy and Rosalie and Bella did the wrapping." I answered.

"What? What's going on? I can't see anything!" Emmett yelled at us.

"Use your good eye genius." I watched him open his 'un-poisoned' eye and magically be able to see.

"What happened?!" he yelled as soon as he saw the damage.

"The girls." Jasper answered him.

"This is going to take forever. They must have used at least ten rolls." Emmett groaned.

"Anybody have scissors?" I asked, as I started searching my bag for something to cut it off with.

"I have some!" Jasper squealed enthusiastically.

Wow, hang around Alice much?

I cut through the plastic wrap in no time and we headed over to Bella's house first, figuring that's where they were hiding.

They weren't there so we went to Alice's next. Not there either. We tried Rosalie last and sure enough, we saw her red convertible parked in front.

I handed the plastic wrap that was around the Jeep and a roll of tape to Jasper as we made our way to the front door.

I called Bella so I could have the girls come to the door when we were ready.

"Hello?" she asked sweetly.

"Hello." I said in a very business-like manner.

"Are you done with practice yet?"

"Bella, you just saw me. Remember? You were running away."

"Huh? No…I've been at Rose's house all afternoon." She replied innocently.

"Are you still at Rosalie's?"

"Yes…why?"

"Well Jasper, Emmett, and I are outside of Rose's house right now and we knocked but no one answered."

"Oh! Uhm…we didn't…hear you. Coming!" she said quickly before hanging up.

The door flung open revealing our three very shocked girlfriends.

We had taken the saran wrap and taped it around the Hales' door so there was no way of getting out the front door from the inside.

"Better luck next time girls." Emmett snickered as we all ran back to the Jeep.

"EMMETT CULLEN YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!" Rosalie hollered as we drove away.

-:-:-

After our mini saran wrap war last night we all had a good laugh and came back to help the girls take it down before Rose's parents got home. Then we had another good laugh about Emmett's eye problems. It was a pretty funny night.

School was pretty uneventful, except for the fact that it was Friday and the school was buzzing about the tournament tomorrow.

We didn't know what practice would be today but Coach told us we would have a fairly easy since he didn't want anyone getting injured the day before we had to compete.

I walked into the gym and saw Bella sitting on the bleachers talking to Angela. I started walking over to her and she noticed when I was about half way there and ran over to me.

"Hey! Did you hear? We're scrimmaging with you guys today." She said excitedly.

"Really?"

"Really, really." She smiled.

"How are they splitting up teams?"

"Emmett and Ashley called captains so I guess they're just picking." She shrugged.

We got called over so the coaches could go over rules and blah, blah, blah. Then Emmett and Ashley went up to the front to pick their teams.

Emmett went first, "I get Bella! Mine!" he yelled quickly. Bella blushed and went to stand by him.

They went back and forth until no one was left. I was a little mad that I didn't get on Emmett's team. He had Bella, Angela, and Jasper along with some other good girls' and boys' players.

Our team wasn't that good, considering Ashley only picked her friends and guys she liked. Bella snorted when I was picked first for her team. But Ben Cheney got on my team so at least we actually had one other person who knew what they were doing.

Ben and Jasper tipped off and Ben immediately got possession of the ball. He dribbled down court and lined up for a shot when out of nowhere Angela swooped by and stole it, taking it to the other side of the court.

We kept running up and down the court making shots and switching between who was in the lead. When it was our turn to sit out, Ben formed a plan. He was going to guard Bella and I would guard Angela, then we would switch to throw them off…hopefully.

We were called back into the game and I immediately blocked Angela off as Jasper tried to throw her the ball. We played like this for a little bit before I got 'the nod' from Ben and we switched right as Bella got possession of the ball.

"Hey." I breathed out. I hoped it sounded more distracting than just gasping for air.

"Don't." she said quickly. I flashed her her favorite crooked grin of mine and she rolled her eyes.

She was on to me and our plan definitely didn't interfere with her playing ability because as I was keeping her from passing the ball to any other teammates she couldn't find anyone open and just decided to shoot from where she was standing. Which I might add was well past the free throw line. She sunk it and winked at me before heading down to the other end of the court.

I had to admit, my girlfriend had some serious skills.

Inevitably, our team lost and we were free to go after our cool-down run.

"Good game." Bella nudged me.

"You too." I nudged back.

"Eww! Don't rub your sweat all over me!" She complained.

"You're all sweaty too."

"Yeah but girl sweat is different than guy sweat. It doesn't smell as bad."

"Oh please. Girls smell just as bad as guys after they sweat."

"Not true. Angela?" she called over her shoulder where Angela and Ben were walking behind us.

"She's right. Girls just don't stink like guys do." She shrugged.

"I find that hard to believe. Sweat is sweat." I said wiping the perspiration off of my forehead and onto her arm.

"Edward!"

"Okay, let's settle this. Come here." I said motioning for her to stand beside me along with Ben and Angela.

"Emmett! Jasper! I need your help!" I called over to my brothers.

"Ya?" Jasper asked.

"I need you to smell all four of us, the girls first, then Ben and me." I explained.

"No way man." Jasper said shaking his head.

"I'll do it." Emmett said casually.

"Okay, now smell Bella and Angela." He did, "What do they smell like?"

"Well Bella smells like sweat covered strawberries and Angela smells like a bunch of flowers and sweat." He concluded.

"Now smell Ben and me."

"Ugh. You both smell like sweat and…dirt."

"See!" Bella yelled sticking her tongue out at me.

"Yeah well guys are supposed to smell like dirt. It's…manly." I concluded.

"Well, I think it's manly when boys take showers." Bella laughed, "Now go wash up, you stink." She teased while plugging her nose.

A/N: Soo? Hit or Miss?

There is one more chapter left and an epilogue...then onto the sequel!

I'm pretty excited for the epilogue of this story, it goes with the theme of the sequel and i plan on it being pretty funny :P i haven't actually written it yet, but i've been thinking about it!

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